Quote Originally Posted by ForeverAutumn
How's the new Chain disk? How does it compare to Reconstruct? I'm very interested to hear your opinion. Also, IZZ came out with a new one a couple of month ago now. Ampersand. I was actually going to email you this week to see if you've heard it yet and whether it was worth ordering. But I'll take your post as being a "no".
The new Chain is quite good. Matt Cash sings the majority of the vocals but there are other guest vocalists including some femme vox which may not be to your liking. The femme vocals were used sparingly but tastefully. The opening track, Cities, is a 38 minute piece broken into 7 movements and features a mix of hard and soft passages, femme and male vox. Even a saxophone solo thrown in for good measure. It's really a very good piece.

Mike Keneally displays his virtuoso guitar abilities on the final track Last Chance To See and also contributes vocals.

Track 11, Hot To Cold, is a real turd though. Cheesy rendition of 80's hair metal. I'm disappointed in you Henning for including such a stinker. It's really awful and is completely out of step with the rest of the music on this album.

Despite that I like Exe. I'm not going to say it was better than Reconstruct because I don't believe it was. It was however a pretty good sophmore effort and something I think you'd like. Just fast-forward past track 11 and you'll be happy. Who knows, you might like that track.

That new Izz album appears to be a collection of unreleased tracks from the I Move sessions and some live stuff. So I don't know if I'm gonna go for it. I'll put it on the back-burner for now.