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Old 08-07-2010, 03:11 PM   #4 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Unknown Soldier View Post
Personally, I think Jared Leto should stick with acting.

From a musical perspective, their brand of proggy/alt metal with its heavily tinged sci-fi lyrics are at best quite average. Sure...there are some nice touches here and there and some decent songs as well. I`ve only listened to the S/T debut and A Beautiful Lie and they`re albums that as you say, put ambience over instrumentation.

If I want to listen to an ambient or prog metal band, then bands like Anathema and especially Pain of Salvation do the whole thing so much better.
I'll have to check those out.

So you're saying in the scheme of things they don't have anything thats standout, they just happen to be the most popular of the acts that are doing this sound, not necessarily the best?

I feel like they're close to these two songs, and I've always been looking for an act that can capture this sound well for an entire album:



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