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Beardfish - Seventeen Again
A new Beardfish album dropped today, so I’ve been giving it a few listens. I feel like their guitar work has become even more aggressive, and they’ve both scaled back their vocals and learned to sing a bit better. That’s the direction in which I’ve been wanting them to go for years, so this is probably going to end up being one of my favourites from them.
It’s always hard to decide what to post off a Beardfish record, because I want to show off that hardened guitar edge, but I also want to trumpet their weird carnival prog sound which made me fall in love with them in the first place; however, the two don’t overlap all that often. This song, Seventeen Again, is mostly their carnival act but towards the end fuzzes up.
Beardfish - Green Waves
I finally got around to grabbing the new Beardfish album, Mammoth. It’s fairly obvious that the time they spent touring with Pain of Salvation has rubbed a lot more metal into their sound, which I think is a little unfortunate. In some of the songs they include a few too many back-to-back guitar solos for my taste; it comes off as a bit derivative of the big progressive metal acts of the early-to-mid-2000s, like Opeth or, well, Pain of Salvation. Those bands just simply have more talented soloists.
On the other hand, I think that their guitar and keyboard tones/effects sound better than ever, and they’ve included a lot of subtle vocal harmony that helps make up for Rikar Sjöblom’s sometimes awful crooning. That’s a lesson Dream Theater never learned, so props. I’m looking forward to spending some more time with this record over the coming weeks.
