10-12-2016, 01:18
Oceansoul Wrote:I've listened mainly to Nightfall and At The Edge Of Time. I'll check out A Night At The Opera, it sounds like something I would enjoy, and Imaginations From The Other Side.
At the Edge of Time is great. It was their most recent release when I became a fan of them and remains a favourite of mine. The bookending tracks on it are particularly awesome.
As for ANatO, while it's epic and varied like those two tracks I named from NiMe, it mostly isn't as somber as those NiMe tracks except parts of Age of False Innocence, maybe. If you like ANatO you should try Beyond the Red Mirror next, which is like ANatO plus AtEoT. BtRM has a weak opener and weak ballad in "Miracle Machine," but all the other tracks are golden to me, though things start to get going really well after the second track.
As for IftOS, it's a decent bit more varied than those NiMe tracks, actually, but it's easily in the realm of normal power metal whereas ANatO is really epic. If you like it, try Somewhere Far Beyond next, which is less varied, more standard power metal, but the quality is still very high and it's still really epic like most power metal.
A Twist in the Myth is also worth checking out. It keeps that happy, folksy, epic layered harmonies, and kind of prog rock like atmosphere and general epicness of ANatO, but fits it into smaller, more straightforward and fun songs. The only detractor is that the production makes some things have an odd tone to them, but it isn't too noticable too much of the time.