Originally Posted by: MikeFairbrotherI do not mean to get too far off topic here, but wow, Nocturnus... now, that is a band a have not listened to in a long time. I actually traded my copy of their [U]Thresholds[/U] album for a cheap classical guitar that fell apart on me. Bad trade. Anyway, I like your list of influences... great music! :)

Nocturnus is still one of my favourite bands, its really wierd that Thresholds didn't become one of the biggest DM albums ever, it was way ahead of anything released at the time and still musically ahead of 99% of bands since - like a death metal version of Dream Theatre crossed with Symphony X. I liked The Key too but it was a few rungs down in terms of lyrical content, production, song structure, composition and over all guitar skills - but still a damn good album. Check out the mini realse after Thresholds (can't think of the name), production is worse than Thresholds but there are some good songs on it too.