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Esoteric - The Maniacal Vale (Best UK Rock Album This Year?)

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http://www.esotericuk.net/disc_subpages/maniacal.html

It's true. Awesome album. Anyone else a fan?

― Herman G. Neuname, Saturday, 26 July 2008 15:01 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.myspace.com/esotericuk

― Herman G. Neuname, Saturday, 26 July 2008 15:02 (eighteen years ago)

Louis you will love this.

― Herman G. Neuname, Saturday, 26 July 2008 15:16 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.last.fm/music/Esoteric

― Herman G. Neuname, Saturday, 26 July 2008 15:34 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.thelaunderground.com/images/Music/Various/7L-Esoteric-Speaking-Real-Words-225.jpg

― and what, Saturday, 26 July 2008 16:07 (eighteen years ago)

Listening now and the first track is kicking my ass big-style.

― Just got offed, Saturday, 26 July 2008 16:53 (eighteen years ago)

What do you think of the rest of it?

― Herman G. Neuname, Saturday, 26 July 2008 18:43 (eighteen years ago)

Obviously he enjoyed it so much it knocked him out literally. (Or he's writing a 100,000 word dissertation on how Oceansize or Youthmovies made the best UK Rock Music this year.)

― Herman G. Neuname, Sunday, 27 July 2008 12:49 (eighteen years ago)

I wonder if that 10 lp Box Set of all the Esoteric albums will ever come out.

― Herman G. Neuname, Monday, 28 July 2008 15:40 (eighteen years ago)

two months pass...

So did anyone else ever pick this up?

― Pfunkboy Formerly Known As... (Herman G. Neuname), Friday, 17 October 2008 18:33 (eighteen years ago)

http://img357.imageshack.us/img357/4207/1eso4jz.jpg

― and what, Friday, 17 October 2008 18:35 (eighteen years ago)

This album is pretty awesome, if incredibly depressing to the point where I'm not sure how often I'll pull it out. But when I do pull it out, it's great.

― An American Werewolf in London Calling (J3ff T.), Friday, 17 October 2008 19:10 (eighteen years ago)

Is it in your top albums of the year list?

― Pfunkboy Formerly Known As... (Herman G. Neuname), Friday, 17 October 2008 19:12 (eighteen years ago)

This album is some genuine cosmic horror shit. Still haven't made it to disc 2.

― ChuckStewart(no relation) (BigLurks), Friday, 17 October 2008 20:11 (eighteen years ago)

1st track is so good sometimes I gotta play it again before i make it onto the rest of the album.

― Pfunkboy Formerly Known As... (Herman G. Neuname), Friday, 17 October 2008 20:13 (eighteen years ago)

I'm afraid it's gonna suck me into the artwork.

― ChuckStewart(no relation) (BigLurks), Friday, 17 October 2008 20:15 (eighteen years ago)

Cthulthu is watching, BL!

― An American Werewolf in London Calling (J3ff T.), Friday, 17 October 2008 20:22 (eighteen years ago)

Listening now and the first track is kicking my ass big-style.

― Just got offed, Saturday, 26 July 2008 16:53 (2 months ago) Bookmark

― 100 tons of hardrofl beyond zings (Just got offed), Friday, 17 October 2008 20:23 (eighteen years ago)

2 months later and LJ still hasn't got to the rest of the cd? ;)

― Pfunkboy Formerly Known As... (Herman G. Neuname), Friday, 17 October 2008 20:24 (eighteen years ago)

It's just so uh moresome

― 100 tons of hardrofl beyond zings (Just got offed), Friday, 17 October 2008 20:26 (eighteen years ago)

J3ff- Cthulu's watching is coming from inside my eyes.

For a second I thought HGM was accusing me of being an LJ sock puppet.

Anyway, isn't the pre-Subconcious Dissolution... stuff supposed to a lot different? What's it like? I'm imagining it as sounding like the Dead C as envisioned by a heavy metal Alejandro Jodorowsky, all drugged out lo-fi surreal wtf-ness. Worth tracking down?

― ChuckStewart(no relation) (BigLurks), Friday, 17 October 2008 21:04 (eighteen years ago)

"a heavy metal Alejandro Jodorowsky, all drugged out lo-fi surreal wtf-ness." If you can track that down, color me sold.

― Soukesian, Friday, 17 October 2008 21:30 (eighteen years ago)

i liked the glasvegas album a lot the first time i heard it. it hasnt held up as well to repeat listens, though.

― Kevin Keller, Friday, 17 October 2008 21:37 (eighteen years ago)

"silence" is pretty damn good too, it's probably the best opening track (albeit of side 2) called "silence" released this year

― 100 tons of hardrofl beyond zings (Just got offed), Friday, 17 October 2008 21:44 (eighteen years ago)

four weeks pass...

I've decided this is my album of the year. Still haven't got bored with it. Much better than the overrated Metallica album and it's a pity Esoteric will be ignored by Kerrang for that in end of year polls.

― Pfunkboy Formerly Known As... (Herman G. Neuname), Friday, 14 November 2008 18:17 (seventeen years ago)

Scott did you ever get this? You would love it I'm sure. I even got Jeff into it!

― Pfunkboy Formerly Known As... (Herman G. Neuname), Friday, 14 November 2008 18:40 (seventeen years ago)

I finally got a used copy of this from AQ and I must say I really like it. A lot more than anything else I've heard by them.

― disco balls (rockapads), Saturday, 15 November 2008 00:53 (seventeen years ago)

Awesome. Glad you like it. I really wish more people would check it out.

― Pfunkboy Formerly Known As... (Herman G. Neuname), Saturday, 15 November 2008 00:56 (seventeen years ago)

I like it a lot too - a couple of tracks are really monstrous.

― Marco Damiani, Sunday, 16 November 2008 14:13 (seventeen years ago)

one month passes...

In my heart of hearts I know I'll never truly get beyond the first track. "Circle" must be some kind of all-time high for this sort of music.

― baby got bahn (country matters), Thursday, 25 December 2008 18:58 (seventeen years ago)

I still haven't heard this. Sorry, Kerr. I will.

― grimly fiendish, Thursday, 25 December 2008 19:05 (seventeen years ago)

Damn you.

― Pfunkboy Formerly Known As... (Herman G. Neuname), Friday, 26 December 2008 00:08 (seventeen years ago)

Quickening is a wonderful track too. The whole album is brilliant. Glad to see it made the Terrorizer list.

― Pfunkboy Formerly Known As... (Herman G. Neuname), Thursday, 1 January 2009 00:19 (seventeen years ago)

one year passes...

Love this

Just got a copy of Metamorphogenesis today - am I going to be disappointed?

― If Assholes Could Fly This Place Would Be An Airport, Monday, 6 December 2010 02:20 (fifteen years ago)

no

― Algerian Goalkeeper, Monday, 6 December 2010 02:25 (fifteen years ago)

three years pass...

yeah srsly 'Circle' is one of the killingest metal songs ever written. wonder if there's anything else that's comparable

― imago, Thursday, 20 February 2014 21:30 (twelve years ago)

ten years pass...

Somehow let this lot pass me by. 'Circle' has absolutely killed me today. What a band.

― I would prefer not to. (Chinaski), Sunday, 29 December 2024 18:00 (one year ago)


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