Why is PoS so unpopular? (Read first post)

The Block wrote: MAVIIIVAM wrote: But on the way to the last Iron Maiden show, my friend played for 4 of us "Road Salt II" <<<<GOOFED and we were all blown away-because he basically re-invented the band, but I do understand its not for everyone. Road Salt II came out?

OOPS!

Meant "Road Salt ( I )" . . .
"Linoleum" EP is the one before it . . .  I goofed .

The Block wrote: They better tour in America soon, they said they would a little while ago for a RS1 tour but they never did!

What I understood-why that happened was their Visa's were not up to snuff (I believe their was a hightened
security alert here at that time), go figure . . . See! Daniel Jinxed it! (Wasnt it for Prog Nation II?).

Well pOs and the fans that be . . .
When I worked for Tower Records in Santa Monica, I had made a Display for DT's "Six Degree's..." and I put
under it as many Prog and Prog Metal CD's as I could find, and we had ALL the pOs albums up to that time.

Years later, was amazed to find like-minded Fans at the Internet Station "Progged Radio" (now long gone)
and then its successor PrOgulus.com . . . we all were HUGE fans (well their were some that were annoyed
by Daniel's singing, just a few ). And we all had a thing to say about why pOs did not come to America
to tour (Hmmm, Daniel singing about topical subjects and hope for mankind, yet he "Boycots" us individual
FEW Americans who know who they actually are . . . shoots his own foot).

"One Hour by the Concrete Lake" was my 1st, and loved every album. "Scarsick" had to grow on me as the
stronger songs are really good.  "Road Salt I" the EP was like Queensryche going Grunge when grunge was
WAAAAY over .  But on the way to the last Iron Maiden show, my friend played for 4 of us "Road Salt II"
and we were all blown away-because he basically re-invented the band, but I do understand its not for
everyone.

I guess I am lucky that Los Angeles still has a few great Record Stores left and are well stocked with pOs
albums.  And I notice Tour Shirts at Metal and Prog shows here .

I guess he hasn't embargoed CDs coming to America, but I certainly think he has a smaller market here. The thing is there are plenty of bands who IMO seem more unknown than PoS, and I see plenty of those kinds of albums in my local record stores.

Maybe Gildenlow hasn't realized his potential appeal. Maybe if he sold a few more records in America he'd have a huge market, like DT and Opeth have.

Of course.It's logical.In Spitfall,Gildenlow makes fun of popular american rappers like Eminem and 50 cent.That's why he raps in it. 

I highly doubt anti-American lyrics would prevent record sales here. Cause, you know...



Anyway, I bet the embargo on touring America had something to do it. But do they embargo their albums to?

^ Hmm, actually I think that R&B is influenced by gospel...  anyway, he's definitely taking inspiration from the current USA music scene.  Yes, the live performance of "BE" is something between a theatrical performance and a music concert.

^ Err, I'm not sure about Spice girls - that might be a slight exaggeration, but there does seem to be some Gospel and R&B creeping in

Prog Geo wrote: I don't believe that Pain of salvation are so unpopular.Here in Greece are favorable.But ok,it's prog metal.Don't expect to be very famous.

I don't know so many people in Greece who have even heard of PoS, as is the case with most non-mainstream prog bands, though the last time I went shopping in Athens I picked up a copy of "BE" which I consider to be their best album.  It's hardly surprising that they aren't popular in the USA.  The album "Scarsick" in particular has very anti-USA lyrics which many Americans find offensive.  One should be free to express one's opinion, but of course this is going to affect sales in this country.
The other thing is that they seem to have moved away from metal to a more softer approach in their more recent album, taking on influences ironically from the USA music scene in the form of, among other things,  Gospel.  This is kind of a weird mixture which probably doesn't appeal to old-school types.

The Block wrote: They better tour in America soon, they said they would a little while ago for a RS1 tour but they never did!

Patience, Brian. They only have one festival announced from now until late June... I have a feeling we'll be hearing about a U.S. tour shortly.

http://painofsalvation.com/

Colt wrote: Maybe they realised this and reached out to the wider masses with RS1.   They even hoped to represent Sweden at the Eurovision song contest.   Now in England being part of Eurovision is about as low as you can go musically   Personally, I preferred them pre RS1/Eurovision. If RS2 is the same I may just cut my wrists   I yearn for another early noughtie album