Not exactly a deep cut but Testament is a band that I kind of glossed over growing up, to my own detriment.
On the other hand, I was one of those weirdos who really got behind John Bush (Armored Saint) joining Anthrax. Dude is in my top 5 metal vocalists.
It’s very inconsistent in my experience. Sometimes tilting to landscape and back makes the UI shrink. Sometimes it doesn’t. Sometimes posting/commenting removes the toolbar at the bottom. Sometimes it doesn’t.
Bonus cover version by The Black Mages, Uematsu’s rock band:
I just checked. Upvotes take a long time but do load, just a few days out of date. Downvotes aren’t loading. Pretty sure I’ve gotten them to load in the past, but as with the upvotes it was out of date. Never knew if that was an app, instance, or Lemmy issue.
7 was the first and last version of Windows that I didn’t immediately despise.
pops a ceiling tile and pulls a box fan over the gap to help exhaust hot air
How the others fired Tarja had tarnished the band for me, so I lost interest in their albums after that.
They kind of fell off my radar for a bit (real life etc) right around Century Child, so I missed both rounds of singer drama. But I am with you 100%. Disgraceful. It was a lot to take in when I picked up the band again. But the upshot to missing it in real time is seeing how things improved. Bye Bye Beautiful and Master Passion Greed are permanently retired. Tuomas stopped writing borderline creeper unrequited love songs and has leaned more into a naturalist/humanist approach. They seem to treat Floor well. I can only hope the maturation on display has been internalized.
But then Marko up and quit, so… who knows. (._.)
I’ll be honest, I kinda dropped this band when Dark Passion Play came around. I was immediately drawn to the band with Tarja as vocalist
Big same. I wasn’t following closely (or at all, really) and missed the Tarja drama. So I was very confused when I first heard Amaranth. I never really gave the songs a chance since Tarja’s sound was a big part of what appealed to me about Nightwish. Anette’s style really wasn’t my thing.
I didn’t realize they had gotten a new vocalist until after Endless Forms came out. Finally gave it a try, and… yeah. Floor is basically perfect for the band. I don’t think she’s in the same class as Tarja when it comes to operatic/classical vocals - she just doesn’t have the fullness or tone. But she can still pull it off decently. Where she really shines with the back catalog is where she makes the songs her own. You’ve already been turned on to GLS. Check out Dark Chest of Wonders from the same set (or any live performance really). Romanticide. Slaying the Dreamer. Devil and the Deep Dark Ocean. All great renditions.
For Floor-original studio tracks, Weak Fantasy, My Walden, Noise, Shoemaker, Pan are some of my favorites. I haven’t really been able to spend much time with Yesterwynde (2024 album), been slacking I guess since 2025 is almost over lol.
Going back to live stuff… if you want to cry, check out Poet and the Pendulum from Vehicle of Spirit (Wembley 2015). Just… wow.
This issue sounds rather… universal.
Obligatory fuck daylight savings clock shenanigans.
If it’s good enough for COBOL…
These things happen when a skinflint company contracts out network setup for a decade, gets acquired by another skinflint company who axes the contractors and doesn’t hire on-site network personnel, gradually builds out infra on top of the unsupported foundation, and then hires c suite buddies who want to bring in their own people to further muddy the waters.
If I had a nickel for every time clearing the ARP tables fixed a problem, I’d have a shitload of nickels.
Me: tries to share meme over Signal
Same, it was like stepping through a time portal. Definitely !antiquememesroadshow@lemmy.world material.
smh. That’s supposed to go in cell A1.
I find the retro vibe on this album charming. And then I remember that if it was made today it would be harkening back to the bygone days of the 90s.
My back hurts.