{"id":9144,"date":"2014-09-29T15:00:09","date_gmt":"2014-09-29T20:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toiletovhell.com\/?p=9144"},"modified":"2014-09-28T17:48:30","modified_gmt":"2014-09-28T22:48:30","slug":"the-porcelain-throne-pain-of-salvation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toiletovhell.com\/the-porcelain-throne-pain-of-salvation\/","title":{"rendered":"The Porcelain Throne: Pain of Salvation"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Porcelain Throne is a column that discusses the bands you put on a pedestal, specifically, a water-filled ceramic-based pedestal. What is the Toilet of Hell if not a place to dump your passions and leave for the next guy to flush? <\/em><\/p>\n

Everyone has those bands that they love from years past, but as your tastes evolve and music libraries grow, you push them to the side.\u00a0 Bring out your obsessions, your secret pleasures, your comfort food bands, and deliver them to the Toilet of Hell for all to see.<\/em><\/p>\n

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To start this column off, I am going to write about a band that will surely encourage you to write your own, if only to dig this column out of the gutter. I apologize in advance to you listeners who can\u2019t tolerate a little bit of cheese, pretentiousness, and random high-pitched squeals in your music, for the first band on the throne is my beloved Pain of Salvation.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The progressive rock\/metal band from Sweden released their first album in 1997, but wouldn\u2019t enter my life for another ten years after that and 7 full concept albums later. Good music was very new to me at that point in my life, so when something as conceptually complicated and emotional as Pain of Salvation hit my disc-man, I had no choice but to study it to no end. I could bore you to tears with my lyrical analysis of each concept album, but let\u2019s focus on what matters: the music. \u00a0I will suggest a starting point in some songs that I find interesting, but if you have the time, feel free to start everything from the beginning.<\/p>\n


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Entropia<\/em> (1997) and One Hour by the Concrete Lake<\/em> (1998)<\/p>\n

Musically, I find these albums are the most similar so I am going to group them together. I find that these albums are more enjoyable once you are already a fan of their style, so I will leave most of the discussion to the songs that might catch your attention.\u00a0 If anything, these albums are a raw sample of the style they pivot off for the rest of their work. (Start 2:39)<\/p>\n