F O U R T H E Y E

Sprout wrote: ↑Wed Aug 14, 2019 3:29 am That Kerrang interview is actually worth reading.

xZ1mM3r wrote: ↑Tue Aug 13, 2019 8:33 pmIt should be noted that the interludes on track 3, 5 and 10 will not be on the physical CD and will only be listenable on the digital version of the album.

hellboy wrote: ↑Wed Aug 14, 2019 5:38 am Another one on Metal Sucks. Interesting to read one from a perspective that isn't just full of superlatives: https://www.metalsucks.net/2019/08/14/w ... unds-like/

A repeated chant of “All Hail” eventually gives way to a section...

hellboy wrote: ↑Wed Aug 14, 2019 5:38 am Another one on Metal Sucks. Interesting to read one from a perspective that isn't just full of superlatives: https://www.metalsucks.net/2019/08/14/w ... unds-like/

St. Troy wrote: ↑Wed Aug 14, 2019 5:43 am

xZ1mM3r wrote: ↑Tue Aug 13, 2019 8:33 pmIt should be noted that the interludes on track 3, 5 and 10 will not be on the physical CD and will only be listenable on the digital version of the album.

I haven't concerned myself with the download card until now because I didn't/couldn't take seriously the notion that the band would release a CD containing only part of the album, but since it now appears that they have taken this moronic and indefensible step, I have some questions:

Does the "digital download card" have files on it, or does it grant access to something online from which you download the files?

Amazon describes it as an "MP3 download card," whereas the toolband.com August newsletter describes it as a "digital download card" - do we know if these files will be MP3, or something else?

Will the sound quality differ between those two sources (CD and the download files)? It sure as hell will reek if 3 tracks are noticeably weaker in quality (I worry that MP3 files - if that's what they are - can't be as high quality as the CD tracks, although I have very little experience with MP3 files), and if they differ, no way in hell would I just listen to the whole thing on MP3 for the sake of uniformity.

When I ask if the sound quality will differ, I should point out that I don't have audiophile speakers or headphones; mine is not a situation where I can say (as some have) things like "when I tried it out on my Klipsch system, the individual toms occupied different points in space, and I can hear Danny's stool creak when he leans in." I don't have the ability to find or hear sonic fingerprints, but if it's a meaningful difference, I will hear it, and I will be pissed.

Further background of my music process - what I do and why:

I only listen to music through my iPhone (home and vehicle are out of the question for various reasons), which means everything first gets loaded into iTunes on my laptop, and from there copied to my iPhone. When I receive my physical copy of FI, I will first copy the CD tracks to iTunes/laptop, and then the download files for the 3 tracks left off the CD. I will combine the two sources so that it all appears as one continuous album in iTunes (with proper running order etc.), and from there put it on my iPhone. If there were an option to download some kind of "super HD tracks" that aren't compatible with iTunes, they would be of no use to me.

hellboy wrote: ↑Wed Aug 14, 2019 3:45 am

Sprout wrote: ↑Wed Aug 14, 2019 3:29 am That Kerrang interview is actually worth reading.

Agreed, my favorite so far.

Danny wrote: ↑Wed Aug 14, 2019 8:14 amI took a detour on my way home and got some Mdma, tomorrow is a holiday here( the assumption of Mary) so i’m gonna listen to FI and some other Tool and Floyd, i’m gonna trip my chocolate chips off.

St. Troy wrote: ↑Wed Aug 14, 2019 5:43 am
I only listen to music through my iPhone (home and vehicle are out of the question for various reasons), which means everything first gets loaded into iTunes on my laptop, and from there copied to my iPhone. When I receive my physical copy of FI, I will first copy the CD tracks to iTunes/laptop, and then the download files for the 3 tracks left off the CD. I will combine the two sources so that it all appears as one continuous album in iTunes (with proper running order etc.), and from there put it on my iPhone. If there were an option to download some kind of "super HD tracks" that aren't compatible with iTunes, they would be of no use to me.

the chill wrote: ↑Wed Aug 14, 2019 8:20 amI am going to guess that the digital download will be all of the tracks in FI in great digital quality and you will be able to easily download them to your computer and throw them on iTunes. You won’t have to worry about ripping the CD on iTunes. I obliviously don’t know, but think it will be like a digital download that a lot of new vinyls include, so you can have the whole album digitally.

Shed523 wrote: ↑Wed Aug 14, 2019 8:39 am So Litanie contre la Peur translates to "Litany against Fear" but also seams to directly relate to "Dune" which appears to be a French novel or series of novels Written by Frank Herbert. I remember seeing in one of the snapshots from the recently released mags a mention of "Dune" being some sort of influence.