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Live Review: Dream Theater @ Brisbane Convention Centre 3 December 2009 with Pain of Salvation

By: Hannah Collins
With the Majesty symbol out in force, The Brisbane convention centre slowly begins to fill as fans old and new await a set of mammoth proportions.

The venue is still relatively empty as support act, Pain Of Salvation (Sweden) begin to play. The 5 piece, consisting of Daniel Gildenlöw (vocals/guitar), John Hallgren (Backing vocals/Guitar) , Fredrik Hermansson (synthesizers) Léo Margarit (drums/backing vocals) and Per Schelander (bass guitar/backing vocals) announce themselves as “A Swedish band, with a French drummer… somewhat like Meshugga, but with notes”… an interesting analogy.

Their sound comprises of powerfully accentuated guitar work, progressive yet full, with a large and differential vocal range, being contributed to by the excessive use of backing vocals from three different members of the band. Although submitting to be a backup vocalist only, Hallgren seems to have a larger more substantial vocal sound, not only contributing to backup but taking whole sections of songs to claim as his own with his husky larger than life undertones.....

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Recommended Songs (sorted by most recommended songs)

Wasteland : 10 Years (Score = 709.15)
Momma Sed : Puscifer (Score = 675.89)
Colors : Crossfade (Score = 595.39)
Cold (But I'm Still Here) : Evans Blue (Score = 540.4)
Open Your Eyes : Guano Apes (Score = 527.25)
Paralyzer : Finger Eleven (Score = 525.43)
Blurry : Puddle of Mudd (Score = 512.19)
Breathe into me : Red (Score = 502.61)
Getting Away With Murder : Papa Roach (Score = 500.66)
Crawling In The Dark : Hoobastank (Score = 496.34)
The Way You Like It : Adema (Score = 493.34)
Wasting My Time : Default (Score = 482.92)
Bad Girlfriend : Theory of a Deadman (Score = 461.96)
Sillyworld : Stone Sour (Score = 444.84)
Hemorrhage (In My Hands) : Fuel (Score = 441.08)
Blackest Eyes : Porcupine Tree (Score = 434.78)
Broken : 12 Stones (Score = 421.15)
45 : Shinedown (Score = 421)
Poem : Taproot (Score = 396.55)
Whispers In The Dark : Skillet (Score = 367.65)
Wait : Earshot (Score = 361.93)
Giving In : Adema (Score = 355.84)
The Pretender : Foo Fighters (Score = 354.38)
Calling : Taproot (Score = 350.89)
Closure : Opeth (Score = 345.5)
Comatose : Skillet (Score = 340.94)
Out Of Control : Hoobastank (Score = 330.97)
Scars : Papa Roach (Score = 326.06)
She Hates Me : Puddle of Mudd (Score = 320.63)
Stand Up : Trapt (Score = 320.46)
It's Not Over : Daughtry (Score = 319.28)
Lords of the Boards : Guano Apes (Score = 315.54)
One Last Breath : Creed (Score = 304.55)
Deny : Default (Score = 303.04)
Open Your Eyes : Alter Bridge (Score = 302)
So Happy : Theory of a Deadman (Score = 301.66)
Forever Can Be : ASHES dIVIDE (Score = 300.56)
Kryptonite : 3 Doors Down (Score = 299.62)
Death of Me : Red (Score = 295.8)
Pull Me Under : Dream Theater (Score = 293.12)
Devour : Shinedown (Score = 292.4)
So Far Away : Crossfade (Score = 290.96)
Slither : Velvet Revolver (Score = 285.85)
Freaks &Amp; Animals : Rishloo (Score = 285.17)
Pardon Me : Incubus (Score = 280.54)
Halo : SOiL (Score = 280.1)
Ghost of Karelia : Mastodon (Score = 275.65)
When I'm Gone : 3 Doors Down (Score = 272.58)
Suffocate : Cold (Score = 268.78)
Over : Evans Blue (Score = 268.47)
Smooth Criminal : Alien Ant Farm (Score = 266.91)
Sorry : Buckcherry (Score = 263.66)
Finding Myself : Smile Empty Soul (Score = 261.24)
Don't Stop The Music : Rihanna (Score = 260.2)
Hollow : Submersed (Score = 258.39)
Mudshovel : Staind (Score = 257.24)
Lie To Me : 12 Stones (Score = 256.08)
Move : Thousand Foot Krutch (Score = 246.06)
Bug Eyes : dredg (Score = 243.25)
Epic : Faith No More (Score = 240.9)
Rise Today : Alter Bridge (Score = 239.33)
Out of Myself : Riverside (Score = 237.98)
With Arms Wide Open : Creed (Score = 231.57)
Stripped Away : ASHES dIVIDE (Score = 231.36)
Fall to Pieces : Velvet Revolver (Score = 230.64)
Oblivion : Mastodon (Score = 227.65)
Hanging By A Moment : Lifehouse (Score = 227.13)
Dulcinea : Isis (Score = 225.61)
Falling On : Finger Eleven (Score = 222.95)
My World : Sick Puppies (Score = 216.92)
When I Grow Up : The Pussycat Dolls (Score = 216.61)
Movies : Alien Ant Farm (Score = 215.79)
Change (In the House of Flies) : Deftones (Score = 215.57)
Fragile Dreams : Anathema (Score = 215.24)
Testify : Rage Against the Machine (Score = 213.8)
Spasm : Peach (Score = 209.92)
Caught In The Rain : Revis (Score = 209.24)
Windowpane : Opeth (Score = 208.98)
Silhouettes : Smile Empty Soul (Score = 208.54)
Say It Right : Nelly Furtado (Score = 208.34)
Still Frame : Trapt (Score = 208.05)
Inertiatic ESP : The Mars Volta (Score = 205.88)
Eidolon Alpha : Rishloo (Score = 205.19)
Dumb : Nirvana (Score = 204.84)
Higher : Creed (Score = 204.49)
Not Meant To Be : Theory of a Deadman (Score = 204.49)
Second Chance : Shinedown (Score = 204.07)
Numb/Encore : Jay-Z and Linkin Park (Score = 203.13)
Better Think Again : Submersed (Score = 203.12)
More Than A Feeling : Boston (Score = 203.1)
Falls Apart : Hurt (Score = 200.84)
Fly From the Inside : Shinedown (Score = 200.76)
Shine : Imogen Heap (Score = 200)
Trains : Porcupine Tree (Score = 198.81)
Undertow : Pain of Salvation (Score = 198.79)
Hold The Line : Toto (Score = 198.53)
Black Hole Sun : Soundgarden (Score = 197.82)
Crazy Bitch : Buckcherry (Score = 196.7)
ATTACK : 30 Seconds to Mars (Score = 196.5)
Hate Me : Blue October (Score = 196.12)

13 because that's unusual. I've seen this clever app in other journals, and decided to give it a try. Actually, it's hell surprising. I think checking my artists stats at my library would give more real view on my musical taste. Also, sometimes i'm writing about music in my blog, give it a try if you want.

1. Spheric Universe Experience - Anima (352) 2. Diablo Swing Orchestra - The Butcher's Ballroom (337) 3. Rancid - Let The Dominoes Fall (324) 4. Neal Morse - One (313) 5. Apocalyptica - Worlds Collide (300) 6. Rammstein - Reise Reise (299) 7. The Devin Townsend Band - Synchestra (283) 8. Seven Tears - In Every Frozen Tear (282) 9. Pain of Salvation - BE (275) 10. Tokyo Ska Paradise Orchestra - Stompin' on Down Beat Alley (269) 11. Macskanadrág - Modern szerenád (268) 12. Ленинград - Хлеб (267) 13. Ленинград - Аврора (264)

Alright, as we near the end of this first Y2K decade, it's time to take a look back at all the best Albums that have been released in the last 40 years.

I'll start off this extensive research with 2000, up until 2009. I'll then go back to 1980, all the way up to 1999, to then wrap things up with the 70s and before.

I'll be choosing my Top 25 Albums for each year; an ordered Top 10, and ~15 others worth mentioning. I'm also considering the live albums and EPs (~5), but they have their own section since songs on these have usually been released on official releases. The final result will be a Top 1000 for Official Albums, and Top ~250 for Live/EP albums.

These are general rankings of how I see them today, and based on my Last.FM songs playcounts (2005-now) put through the formula:

Total Sum of each Album's Song's (running time X playcount)
DIVIDED BY
Album's Total Running Time

Thanks to MediaMonkey and its amazing scripting abilities, that formula gives an Album's REAL playcount, taking into consideration every song's lenght & playcount in relation to the overall album's lenght and # of songs on it.
You'll see the result (# of times I've really listened to an album since 2005) besides each, along with my 10* Rating. (x/x)
Besides each Year, you get the Total of all Albums' Playcounts and the average of all Albums' Ratings. (x / %)

Note that I haven't necessarily discovered and enjoyed all these albums on their released years, some I discovered years later. So these are also based on how important (to me) some of these albums were at the time.

(**) are the complete albums I was into at that time;
(*) are albums that contained only a few song(s) I was into or listened to at that time;
and those without (*) are albums I discovered years later.

=======================
Favorite albums (1970-1979)
Favorite albums (1980-1989)
Favorite albums (1990-1999)
=======================

2000 (~140 / 81%)



1) Furnished Souls for Rent (48/10) (**)
2) The Screen Behind The Mirror (9/9) (**)
3) Universe (6/9) (**)
4) Dead Soul Men (6/9)
5) undefined (1/9)
6) A New Day Yesterday (1/9)
7) CAB (4/9)
8) Another Spin Around The Sun (5/8) (*)
9) Origin (9/8)
10) Stiff Upper Lip (1/8)

Live/EP:

-) S&M (-/10)
-) Is There Anybody Out There? The Wall Live (-/10)
-) Half the World Is Watching Me (-/9)
-) Earth, Sky and Everything in Between (-/9)
-) Spirit of Live (-/8)
-) Not Enough Shouting (-/8)

worth mentioning:

-) Awake (3/8)
-) The Perfect Element, Part I (1/8)
-) SMPTe (3/8) (*)
-) Don't Give Me Names (1/8)
-) if_then_else (2/8)
-) You Go Now (6/8)
-) Rated R (6/8)
-) Outbound (1/8)
-) Brave New World (1/8)
-) Flamenco.A.Go.Go (1/8)
-) The Sickness (4/7)
-) Lightbulb Sun (3/7)
-) Shuttlecock (2/7)
-) Mer De Noms (3/7) (*)
-) My Favorite Headache (2/7)
-) Crush (9/7) (*)
-) Crack a Smile... and More (1994 album w/ Blues Saraceno) (1/7)




2001 (~100 / 84%)



1) Leitmotif (23/10)
2) Alive in an Ultra World (8/10) (**)
3) The Pleasure and the Greed (10/10) (**)
4) Amélie (3/10)
5) Huron Street (6/9)
6) Toxicity (3/9)
7) Contact (2/9)
8) Emalgamation (1/9)
9) Days of the New III (4/9)
10) Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (2/9) (**)

Live:

-) Live Scenes From New York (-/10) (**)
-) One Wild Night (-/10) (*)
-) Half Life (-/9)
-) Live at the Baked Potato (-/9)
-) The Deep End (-/8)
-) Live Frogs (-/7)

worth mentioning:

-) Lateralus (7/8)
-) Everyday (2/8)
-) Inertia (6/8) (*)
-) Manic Moonlight (1/8)
-) Feeding the Wheel (3/8) (*)
-) Bridge Across Forever (1/8)
-) Origin Of Symmetry (3/8)
-) Tantric (1/8)
-) Almost Heathen (3/8)
-) Invincible (1/8)
-) Unleashed Memories (1/8)
-) 2 (2/8) (*)
-) 10 000 Hz Legend (1/8)
-) The Interzone Mantras (1/7)
-) The Idiot King (2/7)
-) Buck Fever (1/7)
-) Book M (1/7)




2002 (~270 / 85%)



1) Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence (25/10) (**)
2) Population 1 (36/10) (**)
3) Moon Babies (15/10) (**)
4) Songs For The Deaf (21/9)
5) 67 (28/9) (**)
6) Move (12/9)
7) In Absentia (11/9) (*)
8) Freak Guitar (3/9)
9) Saturate (25/9)
10) El Cielo (13/9)

Live/EP:

-) Live From Oz (-/10) (*)
-) Stolen Babies EP (-/9)
-) And All That Could Have Been (-/9)
-) Not for Your Ears (-/8)
-) Boozed, Broozed & Broken-Boned (-/7)

worth mentioning:

-) Bounce (4/9) (*)
-) X (13/8) (**)
-) By the Way (2/8) (*)
-) Exit Elvis (11/8) (**)
-) Weight of the World (3/8)
-) Steal This Album! (3/8)
-) So, It's Like That (1/8)
-) Remedy Lane (2/8)
-) Diorama (4/8)
-) Audioslave (6/8) (*)
-) Vapor Trails (7/8) (*)
-) From One (4/8)
-) Dead Soul Tribe (1/8)
-) Star Wars: Episode II: Attack of the Clones (3/7) (**)
-) Independent (3/7)
-) Believe (4/7)




2003 (~240 / 90%)



1) Train of Thought (41/10) (**)
2) The Quicksilver Meat Dream (35/10) (**)
3) Office of Strategic Influence (38/10) (*)
4) Frengers (24/10)
5) The Moon is Falling (3/10)
6) Robot Monster (10/10) (**)
7) Re-Foc (12/9)
8) Summercamp Nightmare (2/9)
9) Good Bye Lenin! (1/9)
10) Absolution (14/9) (*)

Live:

-) Live at the Astoria (-/10) (**)
-) Rush in Rio (-/10) (**)
-) This Left Feels Right (-/8) (*)
-) 10 anos ao vivo (-/8)
-) Spatial/Design (-/8)
-) Animals Should Not Try To Act Like People (-/7)

worth mentioning:

-) Faceless (4/8)
-) Souvenirs (2/8)
-) Black Utopia (4/8)
-) In Lake 'ch (2/8)
-) Black Like Sunday (1/8)
-) Blues Deluxe (8) (*)
-) Little Worlds (1/8)
-) Jeff (1/8)
-) A Murder of Crows (1/8)
-) Walking on a Thin Line (1/8)
-) A Natural Disaster (2/8)
-) Fallen (21/8) (*)
-) St Anger (7/7) (*)
-) Quadropus (1/7)
-) Emergent (1/7)
-) Voyageur (4/7)
-) Thirteenth Step (2/7)




2004 (~160 / 83%)



1) We Are Not Alone (33/10)
2) Come Again (24/9) (**)
3) Mythology (10/9)
4) Live Manchester And Dublin (16/9)
5) Wake Pig (4/9)
6) Dreamcatcher (3/9)
7) The Big Eyeball in the Sky (1/8)
8) Time (1/8)
9) Rhythm of Time (2/8)
10) Fraktal (1/8)

Live/EP:

-) Live At Budokan (-/10) (**)
-) Hallucino-Genetics (-/10) (**)
-) Cloon Demo (29/9)
-) Live In Hyde Park (-/9)
-) Live All Over the Place (-/9)
-) 12:5 (-/9)
-) Anywhere But Home (-/9) (*)
-) Sessions From Room 4 (23/8) (**)
-) The Other Side (-/8)
-) Sleepy Buildings (-/8)
-) Southside Double-Wide: Acoustic Live (-/8)
-) Feedback (1/7)

worth mentioning:

-) The January Tree (1/8)
-) Wheel of Life (1/8)
-) Kallocain (3/8)
-) After We Go (2/8)
-) Legs to Make Us Longer (2/8) (*)
-) Seven Circles (2/8)
-) One Day Remains (3/8)
-) Talkie Walkie (3/8)
-) Blackfield (1/8)
-) Had to Cry Today (1/8)
-) Is There Love in Space? (1/8)
-) Passion for Life (1/8)
-) Amplifier (1/8)
-) Out of Myself (3/7)
-) Graveyard Mountain Home (3/7)
-) This Type of Thinking (Could Do Us In) (4/7)
-) Perpetual (3/7)




2005 (~310 / 84%)



1) Love (76/10) (**)
2) Octavarium (62/10) (**)
3) Panzerballett (7/10)
4) Deadwing (30/9) (*)
5) Freak Guitar: The Road Less Traveled (7/9) (*)
6) Suspended Animation (17/9) (**)
7) Real Illusions: Reflections (11/8) (*)
8) Mesmerize (17/9) (*) & Hypnotize (1/8)
9) S.U.S.A.R. (8/8)
10) Catch Without Arms (9/8)

Live:

-) R30 (*) (-/10)
-) Montreal (-/9)
-) Jagged Little Pill Acoustic (-/9)
-) Gluttons for Punishment: Live in '05 (-/8)
-) Over the Years and Through the Woods (-/8)

worth mentioning:

-) Star Wars: Episode III: Revenge of the Sith (8/8) (**)
-) Art of Motion (3/8)
-) Organic (2/8)
-) 44 (2/8)
-) The Art of Navigating by the Stars (1/8)
-) And The Glass Handed Kites (6/8)
-) riddle (1/8)
-) Ten Thousand Fists (7/8)
-) Second Life Syndrome (1/8)
-) Leva-me P'ra casa (17/8) (*)
-) Ogre Tones (1/8)
-) Stand Up (1/8)
-) Elements of Persuasion (6/8) (*)
-) Lullabies To Paralyze (2/8) (*)
-) Duality (2/7)
-) Out of Exile (5/7) (*)
-) World Play (1/7)




Coming up next: 2006



Artists List

3, 7for4, A Perfect Circle, AC/DC, Air, Alanis Morissette, Alter Bridge, Amplifier, Anathema, Andy McKee, Attention Deficit, Audioslave, Béla Fleck and the Flecktones, Big Wreck, Black Label Society, Blackfield, Blues Saraceno, Bon Jovi, Breaking Benjamin, CAB, Canvas Solaris, Chevelle, Chroma Key, Cloon, Colonel Claypool's Bucket of Bernie Brains, Cosmosquad, Counter-World Experience, Dave Matthews Band, Days of the New, Deadsoul Tribe, Def Leppard, Derek Sherinian, Disturbed, Don Ross, Dr Sin, DramaGods, Dream Theater, dredg, Edwin, Enigma, Estradasphere, Evanescence, Freak Kitchen, Geddy Lee, Godsmack, Gordian Knot, Gov't Mule, Guano Apes, Harem Scarem, I Mother Earth, Indukti, Iron Maiden, James LaBrie, Jeff Beck, Jesse Cook, Joe Bonamassa, Joe Satriani, Joel Hoekstra, John Petrucci, John Williams, Jordan Rudess, Kaki King, Karma to Burn, Karmakanic, King's X, Kingdom Come, Lacuna Coil, Lucia Moniz, Mattias IA Eklundh, Metallica, Mew, Michael Jackson, Mourning Widows, MullMuzzler, Muse, Nine Inch Nails, Nuno Bettencourt, OSI, Paatos, Pain of Salvation, Panzerballett, Pink Floyd, Planet X, Poison, Population 1, Porcupine Tree, Primus, Queens of the Stone Age, Ra, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Riverside, Rodrigo y Gabriela, Rush, Sam Aliano, Secret Chiefs 3, Sevendust, Sieges Even, Silverchair, Soul SirkUS, Spock's Beard, Steve Stevens, Steve Vai, Stolen Babies, Super TransAtlantic, System of a Down, Tantric, The Gathering, The Les Claypool Frog Brigade, The Mayan Factor, The Tea Party, Thomas Leeb, Thornley, Tool, Transatlantic, Tribe of Judah, Wolfstone, Yann Tiersen.

I've had a long list of artists I need to listen to or need to listen to more of sometime for some time now and felt I should put it up on Last.fm incase anyone is willing to suggest me tracks or albums for the listed artists. Forgive me if any of the artist have been placed under the wrong genres. Most of these artist are there for me to refer to sometime in the future whenever I'm wanting to listen to more of a certain genre.

black metal

1349
Abaddon Incarnate
Agatus
Bal-Sagoth
Belphegor
Blut aus Nord
Dark Funeral
Darkthrone
Dragonlord
Graveworm
Hellhammer
Immortal
Leviathan
Mercyful Fate
Negurã Bunget
Primordial
Rotting Christ
Summoning
Ulver
Vintersorg

death metal (including melodic death metal)

Atheist
Dark Tranquillity
Gojira
Kalmah
Mael Mordha
Necrophagist
Norther
Obituary
Vader

doom metal

Aarni
Accept Death
Bongzilla
Buried at Sea
Burning Witch
Cathedral
Cirith Ungol
Daylight Dies
Doomsword
Grand Magus
Grief
HeavyLord
High on Fire
Hooded Menace
Iron Monkey
Lazarus Blackstar
Mammatus
My Dying Bride
Neurosis
OM
Pentagram
Place of Skulls
Reverend Bizarre
Rwake
Saint Vitus
Solitude Aeturnus
Spirit Caravan
The Hidden Hand
Trouble
Ufomammut
Umbra Nihil
Void of Silence
Warning
Weedeater
Yearning

folk metal

Alkonost
Bucovina
Cruachan
Equilibrium
Odroerir
Scald
Skyclad
Svartby
Waylander

traditional metal/hard rock/misc.

Angel Witch
Anvil
Armored Saint
Battlelore
Blue Öyster Cult
Brocas Helm
Budgie
Def Leppard
Dokken
Grim Reaper
Hawkwind
Iron Butterfly
King Diamond
Nevermore
Omen
Samson
Scorpions
Satan
Thin Lizzy

industrial metal

KMFDM
Ministry
Mnemic

power metal

3 Inches of Blood
Axenstar
Brainstorm
Circle II Circle
Dark Moor
Dragonland
Dream Evil
Firewind
Freedom Call
Heavenly
Jag Panzer
Kamelot
Machine Men
Magica
Majesty
Pagan's Mind
Power Quest
Primal Fear
Pyramaze
Rage
Skylark
Stormwarrior
X JAPAN

progressive metal

Age of Nemesis
Ayreon
Blotted Science
Communic
Dysrhythmia
Evergrey
Gordian Knot
James LaBrie
John Petrucci
King's X
Pain of Salvation
Planet X
Platypus
Psychotic Waltz
Spastic Ink
Threshold
Vanden Plas
Zero Hour

progressive rock

Genesis
Jethro Tull
Spock's Beard
Tool

speed metal

Animetal
Exciter

symphonic metal

Epica
Haggard
Therion
Trans-Siberian Orchestra

thrash metal

Annihilator
Destruction
Die Apokalyptischen Reiter
Evile
Exhorder
Testament

All recommendations are appreciated.

Just a li'l list for me. Interesting albums to be released in 2010. Will hopefully update as more information surface.

Orphaned Land - The Never Ending Way Of ORwarriOR (January)
Nevermore - The Obsidian Conspiracy (January)
Kamelot (early 2010)
Pain of Salvation - Road Salt (April and September)
Avantasia - The Wicked Symphony & Angel of Babylon
Seventh Wonder
Symphony X
Lunatic Soul

Mantilio's top albums (overall)
1. Il Teatro Degli Orrori - Dell'impero delle tenebre (135) 2. Pain of Salvation - Entropia (124) 3. Blackfield - Blackfield II (121) 4. Porcupine Tree - In Absentia (118) 5. Pain of Salvation - Remedy Lane (115) 6. Porcupine Tree - The Incident (113) 7. Isis - In the Absence of Truth (112) 8. Blackfield - Blackfield (110) 9. Pain of Salvation - The Perfect Element (107) 10. Riverside - Rapid Eye Movement (105) 11. Porcupine Tree - On the Sunday of Life (102) 12. Pain of Salvation - One Hour by the Concrete Lake (101) 13. Riverside - Second Life Syndrome (100) 14. Pain of Salvation - BE (99) 15. Il Teatro Degli Orrori - A Sangue Freddo (98)

USA [19]
Nine Inch Nails
Isis
Tool
Metallica
The Dillinger Escape Plan
Dream Theater
A Perfect Circle
Cynic
OSI
Rishloo
Deftones
Thursday
Misery Index
Marilyn Manson
Mastodon
At the Drive-In
Baroness
WHY?
Neurosis

UK [9]
Anathema
Porcupine Tree
Antimatter
Mogwai
Archive
Radiohead
Frank Turner
65daysofstatic
Muse

France [6]
Nihil
Empyr
Saez
Year of No Light
Mihai Edrisch
Noir Désir

Japan [6]
Dir en grey
Motoi Sakuraba
Envy
Heaven In Her Arms
MUCC
Akira Yamaoka

Sweden [5]
Opeth
Katatonia
Cult of Luna
Pain of Salvation
Draconian

Poland [3]
Riverside
Indukti
Lunatic Soul

Canada [2]
Alpha Galates
Harmonium