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| 02.25.04 .::Antonio's
Top 10 Albums of 2003 DJ_WaRm Radio Show 1. Dead Soul Tribe - A Murder of Crows (Devon Graves ex-Psychotic Waltz singer has hit the jackpot with this album! My album of the year! GET IT!) 2. Adagio - Underworld (what can I say about this band...incredible neo-classical progressive melodic metal with sweeping guitars and keyboards and a singer who can actually sing! Besides, the guys thanked me on this album so how can I not pick it? :P ) 3. Alex Skolnick Trio - Goodbye To Romance: Standards For A New Generation (and can you believe this guitarist once played for the metal band Testament!!! Incredible jazz music of classic metal songs such as War Pigs, Blackout, Dream On and Detroit Rock City...besides I saw them live and they put one hell of a show) 4. Evanescence - Fallen (OK so shoot me, a major breakthrough for this band...put aside the Daredevil theme song and listen to the rest of the album. Singer Amy Lee has one of the purest/haunting voices I have heard since Tori Amos...even if I think they are a Lacuna Coil rip off band! ;) ) 5. Opeth - Damnation (one of the very few bands with growling vocals that I will listen to because they are great musicians, this album however is so subtle and ethereal and yes folks not one growl can be found...Mikael can sing after all! ;) ) 6. Mechanical Poet - Handmade Essence (not many bands from Russia that I know, Aria is one (and no I am not thinking of Gorky Park as the other) and now this band came out of nowhere and just dropped kicked my ass all the way to Leningrad... and they did this with just a 6 song EP...highly recommend! http://glazemaker.musica.mustdie.ru/ ) 7. OSI - Office of Strategic Influence (Kevin Moore ex-Dream Theater/Chromakey, Steve Wilson Porcupine Tree, Jim Matheos Fates Warning and Mike Portnoy Dream Theater put out one hell of an interesting album that must be heard!) 8. Nightingale - Alive Again: the Breathing Shadow Part IV (Dan Swano can sing, play music, compose and can do it in just about any genre he picks, he is that versatile! This album is melodic metal with just enough crunch to make you bang your head and add a few stitches) 9. Amaran - Pristine in Bondage (I don't think I have ever had 3 female fronted bands in my top 10 ever but here is #2! Hard enough, melodic enough and with some attitude!) 10. The Gathering - Souvenirs (Female fronted band #3, this band transformed greatly when Anneke the lead singer came and joined them. Great Dutch band, great album very progressive and Radiohead fans might dig it)  Christina Scabbia (Lacuna Coil singer) and the beast!:)  Me and Fish hanging out after the show |
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