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I got my sound working eventually by giving up on the front panel. And the speakers have been getting a fair bit of use as I reacquaint myself with the entire collection of music that I've been missing for so long.
I was given a large amount of music by my brother Richard, who looks like he has just stepped out of a tacky romance novel. He wasn't into music for ages, but now regularly phones me up to ask if I've heard about Hansi-Hansen Küstnersielck joining GammaFall or StratoRay or any of the other bands that I got into a number of years ago. Among these was Sonata Arctica's "Ecliptica", their first album.
What was most apparent when listening to it all was that after listening to their latest album, I'd forgotten the songwriting tactic they had early on (go as fast as possible). Most of them are based on a very simple (and I don't know whether I dare say this - pop-like) melody each, and yet their songs don't sound quite as similar as Dragonforce's do.
Moving on, I've just realized what it is that bothers me about the title of Helloween's King for a 1000 Years. Read it again. Yes, it reads as "King for a one thousand years". Admittedly this does make grammatical sense in German, but I knew something was wrong with the title, and there it is. Despite that, it's growing more and more on me - regardless of your musical taste or what you think of Andreas Deris' voice, if the high notes at the finale don't impress you, you're probably dead. I still don't know what the "Reich of Gold" is meant to be or indeed what any of the lyrics are supposed to mean, but that's never been an obstacle with the band before.
I also have to question their decision to name a song "Sun 4 The World". They're meant to be the premier power metal band in Germany, not S Club 7. It just gives me dreadful images of a Matt Smith-like "trendy, eh?" sort of idea.
I was given a large amount of music by my brother Richard, who looks like he has just stepped out of a tacky romance novel. He wasn't into music for ages, but now regularly phones me up to ask if I've heard about Hansi-Hansen Küstnersielck joining GammaFall or StratoRay or any of the other bands that I got into a number of years ago. Among these was Sonata Arctica's "Ecliptica", their first album.
What was most apparent when listening to it all was that after listening to their latest album, I'd forgotten the songwriting tactic they had early on (go as fast as possible). Most of them are based on a very simple (and I don't know whether I dare say this - pop-like) melody each, and yet their songs don't sound quite as similar as Dragonforce's do.
Moving on, I've just realized what it is that bothers me about the title of Helloween's King for a 1000 Years. Read it again. Yes, it reads as "King for a one thousand years". Admittedly this does make grammatical sense in German, but I knew something was wrong with the title, and there it is. Despite that, it's growing more and more on me - regardless of your musical taste or what you think of Andreas Deris' voice, if the high notes at the finale don't impress you, you're probably dead. I still don't know what the "Reich of Gold" is meant to be or indeed what any of the lyrics are supposed to mean, but that's never been an obstacle with the band before.
I also have to question their decision to name a song "Sun 4 The World". They're meant to be the premier power metal band in Germany, not S Club 7. It just gives me dreadful images of a Matt Smith-like "trendy, eh?" sort of idea.
