[eelblack2]

Originally Posted by zimbloth

Eh. I'm not nuts, if you like that style so be it, that's cool. I just think all those singers sound the same, and lame. I wish bands with great guitarists like a lot of power/prog/etc metal acts do, would pick a singer that wasn't exactly the same as every other band. I didn't watch that video, but I have the newest Outworld disc and I can't stand the vocals. All those bands have cheeseball singers like that, just ruins it for me. I wish it was instrumental.

Just my opinion. For me, so many of those power metal/prog metal type bands have insane guitarists, and settle for the typical falsetto cheeseballs, I just hate it. The Dream Theatre guy bothers me the most.

Warrell Dane, Rob Halford, etc those guys have high voices but a distinct cool sound, with a lot of character. I could name about 100 bands that all sound like they have the same singer. I understand you could say the same thing about death metal growler types, but that stuff isn't so overbearing that I can choose to ignore it if need be. I'm just tired of the fact every time a badass guitar master type gets a band, he brings some cornball Rhapsody-type wuss with him to sing.

Agree to disagree i guess.

Im not into that style of singing either. If your gonna sing extremely high or low, please mix it up a bit and give it personality.

[TonyFlyingSquirrel]

It reminded me of Judas Priest Painkiller era, & even Children of Bodom, of Lamb of God. It's a modern metal musical approach with an older metal singing style.

I honestly have to admit, the songwriting was actually better than I expected. Usually players of his type write songs around guitar solos, he held out for just the solo.

I would have very much liked to have heard the vocals & keys mixed a bit more up front in the mix. I felt they were buried in the rest of the band. That singer sounded more like Rob Halford than the lesser makeup-infected glam singers that called themselves metal in the 80's.

I'd be interested to hear more. It definitely has some promise. I'd like to hear Rusty play more melodically, & less acrobatics, he kinda leaves less to be desired for throwing it all out there at once instead of using melody & phrasing to build up to a final phrase full of lick frenzy for the final bit of it. It's like the whole solo was the climax instead of telling a story within the solo to get to one.

[guitarplayerone]

Originally Posted by Jongpil Yun

IMO the best solo on the Outworld album is the solo from Riders. None of the rest of the solos are actually that good.

I Thanatos has one of the evil solos ive ever heard...
im pretty sure its in Lydian

if it is... thats got to be the most evil thing ive ever heard in that mode.

Originally Posted by Adam

To each his own I guess

i mean its the same guitar as the Ibanez J Custom RG 8327
same wood
same pups
same price (now that its on sale)

different neck (RG is like UV)
and different cutout and paintjob...

this makes life difficult lol