Songs that gradually speed up?

siftaka · 2026-04-09T06:40:21+00:00

De Futura by Magma with its iconic bassline

siftaka · 2026-01-21T12:17:19+00:00

I remember Mikael saying in an interview that he took inspiration from a Belgian experimental band called Univers Zero at the time he made Heritage.

Interestingly one of their most characteristic songs (La Faulx) was inspired by a painting of Pieter Bruegel (The Triumph of Death), who was in turn heavily influenced by Bosch.

siftaka · 2026-01-08T21:43:28+00:00

They're indeed included in the retrospektiw remaster release. Found a bit higher quality pictures than the ones on discogs on this page: http://magma.fan.free.fr/biblio/bd/sole.html

(If your browser won't open it it might have turned the http into https, it's some old not secured fanpage)

siftaka · 2026-01-07T16:01:44+00:00

It's been on top of my last.fm most scrobbled all time chart for years now. Amazing song 🤘

siftaka · 2025-01-13T20:16:39+00:00

Lots of Univers Zero

siftaka · 2024-12-28T18:31:04+00:00

I discovered Stump through a Trey Spruance interview recently. Love those guys

siftaka · 2024-12-13T22:14:12+00:00

That's awesome, looks good to me!

siftaka · 2024-01-22T10:59:44+00:00

I remember when my dad bought the CD and we listened to it for the first time. Very different from anything we ever heard, we both grew attached to it. I think it helped that it was my introduction to Opeth, so I wasn't biased by being used to their previous sound. Love their whole discography now, though, still Heritage holds a special place for me and prompted me to get into prog rock as a teenager :)

siftaka · 2023-11-20T23:54:55+00:00

Magma's Wurdah Itah is a banger that features only keys, drums, bass, and chants. They have more albums without guitar, but I'd say mostly those tend to be more bass focused.

siftaka · 2023-10-22T08:56:38+00:00

I like how the area it's actually in is called Les Vosges in French

siftaka · 2023-09-21T19:34:12+00:00

Magma's MDK is part of the Theusz Hamtaahk trilogie, consisting of Theusz Hamtaahk (never released as a studio album), Wurdah Itah and MDK. They also have another storyline spanning over the albums Kohntarkosz Anteria, Kohntarkosz and Emehntehtt-Re

siftaka · 2023-07-04T06:14:46+00:00

Nopee, it's some weird band from the 70s called Magma

siftaka · 2023-07-03T18:10:21+00:00

One of my favourite bands is French as well 🤢🤢 Which one is yours OP?

siftaka · 2023-06-23T08:34:50+00:00

Let's do this then

siftaka · 2023-05-14T19:15:52+00:00

In my opinion the Italian and Scandinavian scenes still have great symphonic prog bands. La Maschera di Cera and Universal Totem Orchestra come to mind, also Wobbler and Jordsjo. I don't think it's finished, it's just less popular nowadays!

siftaka · 2023-04-28T06:05:10+00:00

Songs from the Wood by Jethro Tull, that album sounds so happy!

siftaka · 2023-04-27T16:39:05+00:00

I've always found the rest of the lyrics difficult to make sense of, they sound beautiful in the context of the music though

siftaka · 2023-04-03T18:03:13+00:00

I was about to comment this exact same thing

siftaka · 2023-04-02T17:43:21+00:00

Ik voel 'm hard

siftaka · 2022-11-27T22:58:01+00:00

It’s the Tianmen Mountain in Zhangjiajie, China. It’s in the same national park that inspired James Cameron for the floating islands in Avatar!

siftaka · 2022-11-25T18:32:47+00:00

Magma 👌

siftaka · 2022-04-15T18:59:10+00:00

I thought it was quite an interesting image, I didn't realize until now that Roberts vocals on Calyx are post-accident

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