I was again listening to Devin Townsend's Biomech album and still finding it fresh and full of energy.
I also tried a new band who should have been right up my street. I enjoy movie soundtracks, and especially game soundtracks. I heard of a band called The Black Mages who are a Japanese rock band who play Final Fantasy music in the style of power/progressive rock metal. They have released three albums and a live DVD/CD which I have as well. I enjoy the soundtrack to the Metroid Prime games on the GameCube/Nintendo Wii and have both on CD as well. Metroid Metal is the name of the band, and they play heavy metal versions of Metroid game soundtracks. I got their third album and began to listen to it. I was disappointed for several reasons.
(a) I know the original music very well, and the tracks they covered on this album I could not recognise.
(b) There was none of the energy and beautiful etherealism that was in the music that was present in the game soundtrack, i.e. the cover versions added nothing to the music at all.
If I stumbled across their first two albums I may accidentally buy them, but I wont be expecting much.
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