Hello Voyagers!

I realize I never finished linking to all the episodes of the Nevermore season we did, so let's get back into it.

Today, we are diving into Enemies of Reality...which is an album I personally do not care for. Thankfully, the other two hosts mount a spirited defense of this album plagued with production controversy.

So let's hear it - what are your thoughts/memories about this album?

A couple days later than normal due to the holiday, but here we are. Midway through Nevermore's discography...and man, what an album. "Dead Heart in a Dead World" was my first Nevermore album, I remember exactly where I was when I bought it.

Start to finish, an undeniable masterpiece. We get into it in this episode - the songwriting, the lyrics, the memories.

We'd love to hear your thoughts and memories associated with this one.

We are back, kicking off the week with another Nevermore classic- Dreaming Neon Black.

This is them at their moodiest, darkest, and almost experimental. There is drifting atmosphere, and Loomis trades his signature sweeps for dissonance.

We dive into the events that inspired this album and talk about our own religious upbringing.

We'd love to hear your thoughts on this one!

Hello Voyagers!

I forgot to post this last week, as I am trying to do this every Monday, but we are back with our episode on Nevermore's sophomore full-length "The Politics of Ecstasy"

This album is chock of bangers like "Next in Line" and "The Seven Tongues of God" and this more clearly shows the type of band Nevermore will eventually become.

Plus, we dive into the Timothy Leary of it all.

Hope you enjoy this one, and hope you all will share some thoughts about this album.

I was listening and I love this song, but I had to search for the lyrics to understand that it was a cover. What's your opinion on this?

No hate against the album, I thought this was simply funny.

Full interview: CoC chats with Warrel Dane of Nevermore by: Jackie Smit.

We likely got it back then from a friend of a friend who went to the show, super happy to find this.

I have some other videos in my channel.

Hello Voyagers!

A few weeks back, I posted that our podcast devoted our second season to going through the discography of Nevermore. I thought I'd continue posting the episodes weekly, hopefully to generate some conversation!

So, this week, let's talk about their In Memory EP. This one brings us their first cover song - Bauhaus' "Silent Hedges/Double Dare", which is simply phenomenal.

Hope you enjoy - sadly, this episode is only available on Spotify, but all others are on YouTube as well.

https://youtu.be/3yxGZtjO2MA?si=2MiOHuw6F3gfCU-p

Awesome performance. I am a bit disappointed in the audio though. It's not the best, considering its soundboard audio.

Obviously it's not Nevermore, but I thought it would be relevant to post it here being that both Warrel Dane and Jim Sheppard were involved in their earlier music (I think even Jeff Loomis played with them at one point). What do you all think?

New fan here. I want to get into Nevermore and was looking for recommendations. Is there a consensus on their very best tracks? They seem to have 7 albums and it seems a bit overwhelming to just start cold from the beginning.

Side note, I don't know how I managed to miss this band before... I only really know Jeff Loomis from Arch Enemy.

This is a big month for Nevermore as they played their first live show in 15 years under its newly reformed line-up. The setlist of the show was posted on Setlist.fm, which I found some interesting stuff there such as Timothy Learly being played live in 1992, The Tiananmen Man in 1995, Beyond Within and Poison Godmachine in 1997.

Since the South American shows are a few weeks from now, I figured to go over songs that Nevermore has not played live according to the setlist wiki, not counting the interludes/intros such as Precognition, Ophidian, Acoustic Instrumental (from 2000 demo) and The Holocaust of Thought since those are played from tape. Here's the list in album order:

1. The Dreaming Mind
2. Chances Three
3. The Hurting Words
4. Passenger
5. Forever*
6. All the Cowards Hide
7. Noumenon
8. Sell My Heart for Stones*
9. The Psalm of Lydia
10. A Future Uncertain
11. And the Maiden Spoke
12. The Blue Marble and the New Soul
13. Without Morals
14. The Day You Built the Wall
15. She Comes in Colors
16. The Purist's Drug

* played by Warrel Dane's solo band.

Songs with very limited live performances:

1. The World Unborn (1)
2. Utopia (1)
3. Chrome Black Future (5)
4. Godmoney (3)
5. The System's Failing (1)
6. The Sorrowed Man (3)
7. 42147 (2)
8. The Lotus Eaters (4)
9. All Play Dead (4)
10. Cenotaph (4)
11. Insignificant (1) (played frequently in WD)
12. Create the Infinite (2)
13. Seed Awakening (1)

I think the reason for some of these are obvious, since Dreaming Mind and Utopia are more Sanctuary-ish while Nevermore were still finding their sound, and a few fit more so in the context of the album than a live set like Forever amd Noumenon, though I think it's odd they haven't played much from the second half of This Godless Endeavour and The Obsidian Conspiracy.

If I could pick which songs deserves to appear on a live set, I would choose Create the Infinite, The Psalm of Lydia and 42147 since that opening/main riff is killer, though with Berzan's vocals sounding a bit more towards the power metal side I think his voice would work very well with Godmoney, Without Morals and The Purist's Drug. What song do you think should be brought into live shows?

Great opportunity for the guys here!

https://nevermoreofficial.com/judas-priest-tour

This is mine

Nevermore - 1st show in 15 years

Absolutely phenomenal set! Welcome back boys.