BravePicks 2015 - SYMPHONY X' Underworld #21

December 11, 2015, 8 years ago

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BravePicks 2015 - SYMPHONY X' Underworld #21

All the votes are in and the compiling is done after days and countless hours of digging through all the piles of molten metal from 2015! So who will be #1? You’ll find out as we count down to the BravePick Of 2015 throughout December! And once again our devout scribes put their collective metal minds together to build the ultimate lists including individual Top 20s (new studio albums ONLY),  Top 5 Brave Embarrassments, Top 3 Concerts, What/Who Needs To Stop In 2016? and Metal Predictions For 2016. All will be showcased come the New Year!

Tis the season to commence the good, bad and ugly of 2015! Let’s rock!

BravePicks 2015

21) SYMPHONY X - Underworld (Nuclear Blast) 

New Jersey’s progressive metal masters, Symphony X, just released their new masterpiece, Underworld, was released in July and  guitarist Michael Romeo told BraveWords that his mission is about the songs as a whole, not the flash inside them.

"We were talking about doing different things after eight albums," he says. "The Rush album Moving Pictures came up a lot in conversation because every song on that record is great. Yeah, there's some progressive stuff on Underworld but in the end there are just great songs on the record. The only thing we were really thinking about was trying to not to repeat something we've done. We wanted to do something a little bit different but have the elements of what people know from Symphony X." 

"The goal was for things to be cohesive and to the point, and if the songs catch people off guard, cool. Yeah, we're a progressive band, so there's nothing wrong with putting some measures in 7 somewhere, but we do it without taking away from the songs."

"With every album we do there's tons of stuff left over," Romeo adds. "There's a fucking pile of riffs, melodies and ideas, and at the end I'm saying 'I'll save this stuff for next time and get a head start...' but I've never used the leftovers (laughs). It's because that music was written at a certain time for an album, and Underworld is totally different. Those unused ideas will sit there until the end of time. Underworld has a different feel lyrically and conceptually, there's a different theme, so the music had to be written specifically with that in mind. It would be the easy way out, to rummage through the unused material, but that's cheap."

Read more at BraveWords.

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21) SYMPHONY X - Underworld (Nuclear Blast) 
22) HELLOWEEN - My God-Given Right (Nuclear Blast)
23) MICHAEL SCHENKER’S TEMPLE OF ROCK – Spirit On A Mission (Inakustik)
24) SAXON - Battering Ram (UDR)
25) KAMELOT - Haven (Napalm Records)
26) VENOM - From The Very Depths (Spinefarm)
27) CHILDREN OF BODOM - I Worship Chaos (Nuclear Blast)
28) KATAKLYSM - Of Ghosts And Gods (Nuclear Blast)
29) EUROPE - War Of Kings (UDR)
30) MY DYING BRIDE - Feel The Misery (Peaceville)

 



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