© 1999-2009 Shopping.com, Inc. This feed is subject to our terms of use: http://www.epinions.com/help/rss_terms http://www.epinions.com/user-major7th Recent reviews written by member major7th en-us 121 37 http://www.epinions.com/ http://img.epinions.com/images/epi_images/logos/epinions_121.gif http://www.epinions.com/content_441875402372?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author major7th - For a long time, Sepultura had always been one of those bands whose name I heard occasionally but I’d never really bothered to check out their music. Fortunately, iTunes now has a feature that allows you to browse the libraries of any other iTunes user... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~441875402372 Wed, 20 Aug 2008 15:45:47 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_441875402372?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_441053253252?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author major7th - I’ll admit that I tend to throw around words and phrases like “awesome,” “incredible,” and “Sweet God this is the greatest thing I’ve ever heard” a lot more than most people, so the effect is probably dulled somewhat when I refer to Atheist’s... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~441053253252 Wed, 13 Aug 2008 22:25:04 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_441053253252?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_437422558852?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author major7th - Generally speaking, death metal is not supposed to be catchy. If we ignore the whole “melo-death” strain of At The Gates imitators (and frankly, I don’t see much reason not to), the idea of an instantly memorable, almost sing-along melody coming from a... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~437422558852 Tue, 15 Jul 2008 21:55:42 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_437422558852?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_435951799940?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author major7th - Back in the day (like, around middle school age I think), I used to like Genesis. Then for several years I stopped listening to them, as throughout high school I went through a rather regrettable period of listening to nothing but modern rock (the very... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~435951799940 Thu, 3 Jul 2008 21:39:23 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_435951799940?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_434332208772?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author major7th - Sometimes I feel like I almost owe my existence to internet message boards, because that’s where I discover nearly all music these days. I certainly never would have found out about Anata, a group that sort of fell into my lap by accident while I was... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~434332208772 Thu, 19 Jun 2008 23:02:05 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_434332208772?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_433625009796?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author major7th - Every once in a while, the world of music experiences a sudden surge, as if some great force has come in and made the overall quality of music in general experience a noticeable increase. Not coincidentally, these moments tend to correspond directly with... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~433625009796 Fri, 13 Jun 2008 19:14:16 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_433625009796?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_432836284036?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author major7th - It was very hard for me to review this album. No, not because I wasn&#146t sure whether I like it or not, that was pretty clear from day 1. In fact, I bought this the day it was released and listened to it in its entirety every day for the next two... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~432836284036 Fri, 6 Jun 2008 17:54:39 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_432836284036?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_432645181060?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author major7th - I guess I’m kind of one of the lucky ones who didn’t find out about Enslaved until after this was released, and as a result Ruun was actually the first album of theirs I ever heard. Apparently, some time ago they made the time-honored decision to... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~432645181060 Wed, 4 Jun 2008 22:12:05 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_432645181060?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_426188377732?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author major7th - Author&#146s Note: normally, college life tends to prevent me from doing that many reviews during the academic year. However, on this particular occasion I opted to schlep my oversized laptop to class, and ended up writing the following review during... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~426188377732 Mon, 14 Apr 2008 21:41:35 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_426188377732?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_409812307588?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author major7th - I could probably save myself a lot of time by just using the phrase "standard Scandinavian Tech-Death," since that pretty much sums up what Spawn of Possession has going on (that and some pretty cool cover art). So if you're a fan of "tech" metal at all,... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~409812307588 Thu, 6 Dec 2007 17:44:32 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_409812307588?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_402838818436?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author major7th - The following review was originally written for The Cut, a student-run music magazine that I write for &#147The body of Christ&#133the body of Christ&#133the body of Christ&#133&#148 This bit of spoken narration is the only introduction that... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~402838818436 Mon, 10 Sep 2007 01:53:58 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_402838818436?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_400236252804?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author major7th - Borknagar&#146s single greatest contribution to the world of extreme metal, and certainly Quintessence&#146s biggest claim to fame, can be summed up in one word: Colossus. It&#146s a masterpiece, the video is probably on YouTube somewhere, I would... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~400236252804 Wed, 8 Aug 2007 16:12:54 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_400236252804?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_392394149508?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author major7th - Let me just start by saying this is a "write off." In this case, that means that on one side there's me, whose idea of "easy listening" is some AC/DC or Black Sabbath. On the other, a guy (probably way more well-known on this site than I am) whose... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~392394149508 Tue, 17 Jul 2007 12:17:13 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_392394149508?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_373307182724?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author major7th - Let me start by saying that there&#146s nothing inherently bad about &#147Epic.&#148 Certainly, the band hasn&#146t lost anything; most of the material is still delivered with the familiar complex layers of guitar and keyboard arrangements, and the... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~373307182724 Fri, 8 Jun 2007 13:08:19 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_373307182724?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_370037198468?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author major7th - Opener &#147The Eye of Odin&#148 gets going right away without wasting any time on an introduction, almost sounding like it&#146s starting up in the middle of an idea (which is why I&#146m doing the same thing with my review). With these eight tracks... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~370037198468 Fri, 1 Jun 2007 14:49:13 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_370037198468?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_369091055236?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author major7th - Author's Note: Last semester I took a screenwriting class, so I thought I'd try embedding my review for this album within a short "screenplay" depicting a possible scenario for how it was recorded. The relevant information is therefore written in... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~369091055236 Wed, 30 May 2007 14:08:51 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_369091055236?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_312979656324?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author major7th - Maynard James Keenan obviously wasn’t looking to make a band that sounded like Tool with his side project, A Perfect Circle. But that makes sense: if he wanted to write Tool songs, he would’ve done them with Tool. Instead, “Thirteenth Step” is a... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~312979656324 Tue, 30 Jan 2007 00:22:27 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_312979656324?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_311997206148?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author major7th - I want to believe that it's all Virgin Records' fault, because I can't believe that any band would willingly do this to themselves. For those who don't know, this band's(five star worthy) self titled debut was released under Immortal records, and... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~311997206148 Sat, 27 Jan 2007 20:27:32 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_311997206148?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_248838983300?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author major7th - Scar Symmetry stepped in around 2005 to fill the void in that area somewhere between death metal and metalcore that was previously occupied by In Flames and Soilwork before both bands took a stylistic nosedive. Listening to "Symmetric in Design," heavy... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~248838983300 Thu, 17 Aug 2006 14:53:25 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_248838983300?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_247069904516?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author major7th - I've been meaning to write a review of this for quite a while now (hence the title). The reason being that even when I first got this album at somewhere around age 14, even then I couldn't figure out what the big deal was about this band, or why so many... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~247069904516 Tue, 8 Aug 2006 15:34:19 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_247069904516?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_244511903364?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author major7th - As everyone ought to know by now, Opeth is the greatest band in the entire history of any genre, ever. As such, giving any of their albums anything less than five stars is an offence punishable by an untimely smiting from the gods of metal. This is why I... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~244511903364 Wed, 26 Jul 2006 16:59:22 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_244511903364?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_242871471748?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author major7th - My first exposure to Necrophagist was when the satellite radio station "Hard Attack" played their song "Mutilate the Stillborn" off their album Onset of Putrification. While I was a little underwhelmed, I was intrigued enough to want to hear more... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~242871471748 Tue, 18 Jul 2006 12:26:55 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_242871471748?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_239201193604?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author major7th - I would love to meet Tommy Rogers in person. Between the stuff he's come up with over the years, and some of the things I've read about the guy that suggest that he might be a little "off" in the head, he seems like a fascinating character. But mostly I... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~239201193604 Thu, 29 Jun 2006 12:03:45 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_239201193604?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_238070500996?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author major7th - Trivium is probably the best thing to happen to the metalcore scene since, well, ever. This, and they aren't even really a metalcore band. They're really more of a progressive technical/thrash metal band with a more modern, updated sound (From now on... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~238070500996 Fri, 23 Jun 2006 11:54:20 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_238070500996?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_236822302340?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author major7th - I am a college student, and my current life often involves large amounts of unpleasant homework. Occasionally I would try making the drudgery a bit easier by watching TV, etc, but it didn't do much good. Then, about midway through my second semester I... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~236822302340 Fri, 16 Jun 2006 16:38:22 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_236822302340?linkin_id=8003929