OSI - 01 The Escape Artist

[Vinterless]

Great song.. I like kevin's voice, but he could sing for a few minutes instead of "talking" through the whole thing. I think that would give more dynamics to the full piece.

[TheVrominator]

This is so awesome......

[anthrmthrfckr]

Techno solo FTW!

[theinaereproject]

everything is perfect in this song.. kevin is a genius

[Plaswuff]

This album is perfect in its tastefulness, its lack of overindulgence (which could happen, given the ability of the guys involved) and the exquisite production. Can't wait for number four.

[Santaslave666]

I love Moore's calm voice on this.

[TheEmergeance]

what a riff! love all the electronic textural stuff aswell, i think these bands are pretty much the future of metal and nothing less! tube and a half!

[benno491]

this is proper metal

[Ghostman4891]

One of the best songs ever made in my opinion.

[coldlife192606]

Just Perfect!

[toolfan92]

Gavin Harrison.

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[1980Davor]

So fuckin good chorus

[UndeadxWarrior]

Holy crap! Kevin's voice is so effin' awesome.

[Hidalgos81]

I love this song

[mustakrakish53]

BANG !!!!!!!!!!  3:36

[Rav3ngr]

vampiroangelico youll tell us that friedman is a bad guitarist.come on man.music is not only technique but and the music you write.master of puppets is very low in technique in comparison with scenes of a memory but is far better album.by the way mine favourite album is opeth's still life which is a metal album but with technique.so dont say all metal bands dont have technique.

[hadd13]

great song even a better album

[jordantessier25]

this band is intense now. I love portnoy but something tells me that gavin harrison just fits in better.. I don't know if anyone else agrees lol...

[HumanLarva]

@jordantessier25 actually ironically enough the only drummer I don't mind replacing Portnoy in any project would probably be Gavin. He's a phenomenal drummer on a very different end of the progressive spectrum.

[EttoreFerretti]

Gavin !!!

[Mebert78]

If you like Kevin Moore, feel free to visit my fan website: The Mooreatorium. Search for it on Google.

[kEny0n7]

I never before heard better song !!!!! <3

[pianoprog]

This is root music ... totally rockin ... progressive rules ... Kevin follwed his own original way after DT and personally I'm happy he did it ..

[sk8rboi678]

i think that osi's hard side is just sick... kevin moore's voice totally fits the music too... i don't like their light side for that very reason

[divyx]

Well you know that Kevin abandoned commercialism damn long ago. Artists like him deserve to do the album just like they want to, like it should be for any serious artist out there. Thumbs up!!!!!!!!!!!

[janidesmiranda]

lets be honest, this albm is sheet if compared with kavin moore's work dream theater, in all aspects. The album is very predictable, nothing new, nothing interesting, just a normal music that you can listen on your car that will make no difference in your life. Compare it to metropolis, omg, i really dont get it. The worst of all is that, in my opinion, after KM, DT clearly decreased its musical quality, i wish he've never left, it will be better for the world.

[Gorrillaknuckles]

janidesmiranda, please fuck off.

[TheSodaCanCreeper]

UR A BAD PERSON.

[kikozup]

Awesome song! Awesome band and Awesome fucking song!

[vampiroangelico]

Eh! Too heavy metal for me!

In this new OSI cd I was hoping for an influence closer to Oceansize's style, which is closer to OSI's first cd.

I love Moore from DT's Images & Words, and I LOOOOVE Matheos' acoustic cds and his stuff in FW from Perfect Simmetry, but this is just too much silly metal....not enough beauty, textures and intelligence.

[rodrigomacias]

but this is just the first song, you have to listen the whole album.

And actually in their first album they have songs like this one

[Ollievarium]

I see you've got a few thumbs down but I don't think this is a bad comment, a bad comment would be 'This is shit fag retard' or some bollocks like that. This is the first OSI song I've heard and with the exeption of your words on oceansize and OSI's first album, you took the words right out of my mouth. Of course, I'll be sure to check out the whole album.

[vampiroangelico]

Thank you for being fair to me.

The thumbs down don't mean anything, really. I've learned to ignore them.

Only people who are incapable of being articulate and objective, hard core OSI fans or people who only listen to metal and nothing else, would give thumbs down to a comment like mine, which is based upon my own experience as a music listener (and I refuse to listen to only metal) and on my 30 years experience as a progressive musician.

[Iakyaa]

Yeah definitely check out the whole album as it far from constant hard driving metal. While I prefer the harder style I think the whole album is very balanced. Also this song as the first track is perfect in my opinion because if the album had started with a song like Terminal, I think I might have been very underwhelmed with it. But on the other hand, that could have suited someones elses musical tastes perfectly so its hard to judge without personal bias.

[vampiroangelico]

I did hear the whole album, but in my humble opinion the metal moments are far too many. Far more than needed to be able to make an album of intelligent, thoughtful music.

There's nothing bad necessarily about having a personal bias when commenting on albums, since we all come from different backgrounds, but just as long as we respect each other's opinion and avoid the belittling and the cheap insults.

:-)

[Iakyaa]

to each his own :P but i completely agree about commenting on albums, different backgrounds even as artists makes music so diverse :D

[vampiroangelico]

Exactly, and we're talking about a good album, I want you to know.

Matter of fact, although my favorite moments are "terminal", "we come undone" and "radiologue", I'm going to get the whole album, with bonus tracks too!

[aSpoonfedTribe]

@vampiroangelico Metal is intelligent, thoughtful music.

[vampiroangelico]

@aSpoonfedTribe LOL that in itself was not a very intelligent comment.

[aSpoonfedTribe]

@vampiroangelico It was a statement in response to yours. Metal IS intelligent, thoughtful music. Mastodon's Crack the Skye, Baroness' Blue Record, anything by Fate's Warning... that's some intelligent, thoughtful music.

[vampiroangelico]

@aSpoonfedTribe Metal in itself is not intelligent, thoughtful music.

If you wish to hear intelligent, thoughtful music, try Genesis, Yes, Marillion, Pendragon, Spock's Beard, Flower Kings, and as much as I love Fates Warning, I only liked them between their "No Exit" and "Inside Out" period. I cannot listen to bands that are too enslaved by the obsession of having to use 100% distortion all the time and loud drums all the time, and very few dynamic changes, if any at all....

[aSpoonfedTribe]

@vampiroangelico Megadeth's Rust in Peace, Metallica's AJFA, Anthrax's Persistence of Time are some rad progressive metal albums (not literal progressive metal, but progressive and metal)... who cares if they use distortion? Why's that a bad thing? If they were masking their lack of skill it would be problematic, but the distorted guitarists and "loud" drummers often have higher skill levels than the aforementioned Genesis and Yes.

[vampiroangelico]

@aSpoonfedTribe Why is it a bad thing to have distortion? I didnt say it's a bd thing to use distortion, but it is to use it all the time, because in heavy distortion it becomes far too easy to hide mistakes and your lack of technical skills, and when you use distortion all the time, everything starts becoming like a bumblebee buzzing, and you lose the musicality of your compositions.

[vampiroangelico]

@aSpoonfedTribe I can tell you're not a musician, or not a very articulate one, if you claim distorted guitarists and loud drummers have higher skills than musicians like Genesis and Yes.

No one in the metal world can touch the knowledge of people like Phil Collins, Al Morse, Nick D.Virgilio, Steve Hackett, Steve Howe, Nick Barrett....

[aSpoonfedTribe]

@vampiroangelico Dave Mustaine from Megadeth can play circles around any guitarist you like, and Nick Menza can play circles around any drummer you like. Your bands, if attempting Megadeth's songs, would fail miserably. I'm sure Megadeth could do Genesis and Yes songs, however.

[vampiroangelico]

@aSpoonfedTribe I can tell your views are very restricted, and you're being quite enslaved and locked in that silly heavy metal cage you built around yourself.

Nick Menza, funny you say that, is actually quite sloppy, without even mentioning the fact that Dave Mustaine only knows pentatonic/chromatic scales. I myself learned how to play his solos when I was 20, when the records by you mentioned were popular. He was not what I call challenging.

[aSpoonfedTribe]

@vampiroangelico I'm not even a metalhead. Haha. I like playing metal songs because they're challenging, but I vastly prefer classic rock and hip hop. Regardless, you're wrong. His solos are more challenging than anything I've ever heard from Genesis. Genesis has some awesome solos, but in sheer technicality they don't hold a candle to, say, Bad Omen.

[Spotfarm666]

@aSpoonfedTribe Tbf i like both the bands you mentioned like Megadeth and such, and the aforementioned bands such as Genisis and Yes. But ialthough I take your side that Mustaines a good guitarist, i have to agree more so with the other dude. The drummers of such bands shit int he eys of metaldrummers, metal drummers rely on speed to make them sound good, when a metal drummer can play a complicated as fuck but relativly slow drum fill, they acheive more than a fast ass fill.

[ueatmenforbreakfast]

@vampiroangelico i concur

[Ollievarium]

We're quite alike you and I! About 9 years I've been a musician although I'm only 19 (the first few years were a tad slow). I do love metal, but more technical, polyrhythmic metal gets my true respect. Everything seems to have been done already when it comes to the simplistic mainstream types. I wish I listened to more jazz, because it's clearly the king of genres. I checked out a few more OSI songs but I found them a bit boring for what I'd expected of such talented musicians-Keep proggin!

[vampiroangelico]

I love jazz and fusion myself, Pat Metheny is one of my biggest favorites, along with David Gilmour, Steve Rothery (Marillion), Robert Smith (The Cure), Larry Carlton, Gary Moore and John Sykes.

But you know what? There's good and bad music in every genre.

Keep your mind open, remember, the mind is like a parachute, it only works when it's open!

;-)

[Ollievarium]

When it comes to jazz, I don't know many musicians by name. I like improv jazz and all the music theory behind it, it's a bit of a mind bender at times. But man, you know I've got an open mind; As much as I love my Sikth and Between the Buried and Me, I have 2 RHCP tattoos, love Infected Mushroom, Funkadelic, Gentle Giant, Mike Oldfield, FFAF, InMe, Wheatus, Planet X and the list goes ever on... That's a fun metaphor by the way!

[DeHa1980]

Third, best album of this supergroup. When I heard the Head work for the first time, from first album, I knew that the rock hadn't died. OSI is ruling, and Gavin far better he integrated than Portnoy himself into the weather of the music of the group, although I respect this drummer.

[zeroxrubio]

4:31 - 5:22

just superb!

[WilczekToJa]

WOW... kick ass song!

[mdrumjack]

Gavin Harrison, perfect sound at a perfect time!!!!

[Electriccastle]

im late ! i need to buy this album ! because its kicking ass !

[GazellePearl]

it's never late! and yeah you just gotto buy it! it's awesome.

[SHR3DD3Rx]

I am very happy there are no idiots comin' here to say that OSI sucks. That always ruins listening to the song for me.

OSI RULES!

[drunkhas]

So d yourself the favor and don't read comments.

No rude sound in there pal.

[SHR3DD3Rx]

That is logical. I suppose I may take that into consideration.

[usmcsdi69]

OSI is bad ass. To go from MP on drums to GH is not losing a beat. PUN INTENDED!

[usmcsdi69]

GREAT SONG!

[hahahahva]

This album is a proud member of my CD collection. I love Kevin Moore so very very much.

I can't even decide on which song I like the most.

[sophiastoianova]

love kevin`s voice:)

[psychofunksoldier02]

Sadly I think that's the weakest component of OSI's music IMHO.

[caniportnoy]

tremendooo!!

[Estefano80]

Podes crer!!

[rodrigomacias]

de lo mejor

[Optimus182]

Definitely liking this album more than Free don't know if it tops OSI yet

[psychofunksoldier02]

Ditto!

[Uziel126]

love the guitar on this, Be the Hero and False Start.

[disgruntalbaboon]

hot damn the grove at 3:45 is why Gavin Harrison is my favorite

[GazellePearl]

you act mysterious, but you speak in gibberish!

[Angelofcyclones]

Great song, where can I download it?

[Iakyaa]

I downloaded the album off Itunes, but im sure its available on other places like amazon or their website maybe

[soultaker87]

@Angelofcyclones Buy it...

[vivace679]

yea this one is great!

[justaprogressiveone]

FFFFFuck!  I love this song :D