New album. I've already heard samples (in my head). Several songs start with: "ROUW! Uiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii!"

"I Will Feaiiiiiiiiiiiir No Man… eh … For I Am A GOUWD! … ROUW!"

Don't know if there's much to look forward to after the weird and disappointing "Seven Devils Moonshine" but we'll see.

New album. I've already heard samples (in my head). Several songs start with: "ROUW! Uiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii!"

"I Will Feaiiiiiiiiiiiir No Man… eh … For I Am A GOUWD! … ROUW!"

I'm probably the only one who deems "Visions of Eden" his best album (because it sounds as if it was written on the piano: piano metal, that's something new, isn't it?) and who thinks that "The Black Light Bacchanalia" and "Nocturnes of Hellfire & Damnation" are more interesting than "Invictus" and "The House of Atreus". I actually like his flawed homerecorded one man shows since they are so different from what bands usually put out. They kind of defy the listener to imagine how the tracks would sound in a band context, i.e. there's room for the inclined listener to get creative, dream up stuff and add to the picture.

Don't know if there's much to look forward to after the weird and disappointing "Seven Devils Moonshine" but we'll see.

If that's the best track on the album or an indicator to the quality of the rest of the album then I just dunno if I can be bothered getting it.
Sure he's toned down those shitty squeals and whatnot but that absolutely terrible production and all those layered vocals were doing my head in. It's like he can do all these different vocals but can't decide which one to use so he uses them all, it's fuckin nuts.
I guess it coulda been worse but it shoulda been coulda been so much better.

Thanks for offering the worst thing I've heard this year. I mean, how can you seriously release something like this with such a back catalog? Isn't he ashamed, at least a little?

So between Manowar and Virgin Steele, who do you think has the least amount of self awareness?

Had to listen to Invictus again because of this. GOD how good they were in the 90s.

This article shows nothing but pathetic, pseudo-witted and premissive hostility towards a great artist. Also a total lack of understanding and respect about his will to do things in old school, bare-boned visual ways. Same goes with all of you "fans" out there who think you own him in any ways: if he for example wishes to create more bluesy or theatrical stuff, that's a major musical innovation and an expansion of Virgin Steele's vast arsenal of repertuare - not a "pissing on his glorious legacy", although your narrow scopes of artistical sense might say otherwise.

The above is a comment after a truly dimwitted and dismissive article by MetalSucks on VS' videos;

https://www.metalsucks.net/2020/04/17/g ... vie-maker/

...and I'm kinda quoting it for truth in the very general point it's making.

a) DeFeis is not ruining his legacy as the old albums will always exist and you can simply stick with those as a fan

b)artists are gonna artist....i.e, they should be allowed to grow and experiment as they see fit. This isn't saying we shouldn't critique but more like saying dude isn't going to reasonably speaking, make Invictus again and that should be okay. The critique should elevate beyond "how could he do this to his fans" and "surely he's lost his marbles" as if he exists as an artist solely to please his stuck in 1998 fans.

That said, I didn't like the new song lol.

I am however charmed by elements of it as I was by Ghost Harvest...and this seems stylistically in that vein. The production is what ultimately prevents me from fully enjoying it. Still, not as bad as I may have been led to believe.

Atreus II is really very good. I never gave it as much attention but it's pretty much the same league as the others before it... well done, textured, epic music.

It's probably my favorite from the classic era (although they're mostly interchangeable, and my opinion usually changes to whichever one I'm currently listening to).