AkumajoBelmont Posted September 3, 2010 Share Posted September 3, 2010 So first online review of Kamelots' new album 'Poetry for the Poisoned' is up... and has received a perfect 20 out of 20. http://www.spirit-of-metal.com/album-groupe-Kamelot-nom_album-Poetry_for_the_Poisoned-l-en.html The album is available through the usual channels also... but this is an absolute day one-no brainer purchase for me. I own all their albums up till now too, but I'll be acquiring the album before then because the wait will be just too unbearable. As soon as I've got it, and given it a couple of listens, I'll chime in with my thoughts. Man, soooooo excited Anyone else pumped to all hell? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Schwaltzvald Posted September 3, 2010 Share Posted September 3, 2010 Would have helped if you had posted a sample or something. That said... Samples A Samples B I'm hearing a lot of ballads and relatively slow songs in the new album. Not an entirely bad thing considering it with other .May want... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bahamut Posted September 3, 2010 Share Posted September 3, 2010 I've been listening to the album for the past few days - definitely liking it a lot, but it hasn't clicked fully yet with me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AkumajoBelmont Posted September 3, 2010 Author Share Posted September 3, 2010 Listened to half of the album so far, and I'm completely rapt. Poetry for the Poisoned is fantastic, as is the everything up to House on a Hill... listening to that track at the moment. Simone Simons always impresses. I'm definitely loving it so far... I don't know if I'd say that there's a LOT of ballads... there's more mid-tempo numbers that's for sure, but Kamelot have always been different to their peers. You take them as they are, and they've always stood out to me as beyond their 'genre'. The Great Pandemonium seems like a very natural progression for them. Calling upon many a sound they have delivered in the past, yet sounding very, very different whilst doing so. And Khan's voice is, once again, superb. I'm glad that he's hitting the higher registers more often than he did on Ghost Opera... his falsetto is second to none, and some of vocal stylings really take me back to Karma and Epica. Ok, just listened to Necropolis and My Train of Thoughts... wow. I'm putting this up there with The Black Halo. Lyrically, this is quite a step above Ghost Opera. I love that album dearly, but I don't feel lyrically it was as strong as what had come before. This remedies that and then some. Colour me impressed. In my eyes, they still stand heads and shoulders above the rest. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OceansAndrew Posted September 3, 2010 Share Posted September 3, 2010 Jon Oliva cameo? Awesome! - I've only heard a few Kamelot songs, but i'll probably check this out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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