Post a link to a song that is metal, or at least fairly similar to metal. I will listen to it, rate it, and (very) briefly explain why I gave it the rating I did. This is my genre of choice, so really the point is that I'm curious as to what board 8's taste in metal is, assuming there's any fans here at all. I reserve the right to not listen to an entire song if the first minute or so is unbearably bad, and also to disqualify any songs by Pantera on the grounds that I hate them and their similarity to my username.
One song per user please, once I review yours feel free to suggest another though.
Let's go!
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Panthera posted... This is my genre of choice, so really the point is that I'm curious as to what board 8's taste in metal is, assuming there's any fans here at all.
From: OctilIery | #002 No link while I'm on my iPhone, but
Cormorant - Uneasy Lies the Head
Good thing you don't need a link for a guy from 235 to be able to hear Cormorant, got that covered on my own bases!
Anyway, the song. It's good. Loses points for being a little unfocused at times, the solo at just past the 2 minute mark in particular feels really out of place. So it's not the most coherent song ever, but at the same time it has good riffs and I do enjoy the vocals here, even if I think I like what I've heard from the upcoming album more (on that note, people should be seeking out info on the next Cormorant album, due out in early December, called Dwellings, two songs available so far are pretty great!). Not my favourite Cormorant track (that would be either Ronin or Junta) but a solid one, and damn this write up is bigger than I was going to do originally.
That list hurts me <_< Okay it's not that bad, I counted about 20 bands that are pretty good (and can already see where my own votes fell with Gorguts and Immolation), with Queensryche being a bit shaky in terms of whether I want to pretend their lengthy time of sucking balances out the excellence of Operation: Mindcrime (and Rage for Order to a lesser extent).
The song. Eh. Kind of catchy, nothing else really sticks out about it to me, and something about the vocals sounds strained in a way I don't like. This is hard to explain, because sometimes strained vocals end up sounding really genuine, sometimes they bug me, and I can't really define the difference. Energetic if nothing else, enjoyable to listen to overall.
4/10
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From: Hydrowhat | #005 Any particular genres you hate?
In general, European power metal and prog metal in general. There's exceptions, since not every European power metal band plays the "flower metal" style, and there's a few good prog bands, but those genres are not my cup of tea as a rule. Not huge on most melodic death metal, at least not the style that's just "harsh vocals over third rate Iron Maiden worship", stuff like Deathevokation is spiffy. Not fond of most attempts to make death metal into something less extreme (like the whole "beauty and the beast" vocal approach) really, usually just means sacrificing everything good about the genre and not adding anything back to the mix.
From: Hydrowhat | #006 also Gordian Knot - Muttersprache
So basically this isn't my thing <_< The softer sections actually are kind of decent, it's pretty much every time it starts going a bit heavier that it makes me zone out at how pointless it sounds. Also, a bit unfocused, too many different elements that don't gel together making it feel kind of cluttered and lacking direction.
3/10
Huh, I apparently have a really big gap in my mind between a 3/10 song and a 4/10 song. Oh well.
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From: Psycho_Kenshin | #008 Motörhead - Killed By Death
For some reason songs whose titles feel awkward always get themselves some leniency in my book <_<
I'm not a huge Motorhead fan but I do enjoy them from time to time, can always count on them for some straight forward fun songs, and that's what this is. Hey, do I hear a guitar solo that doesn't feel out of place? Why yes, I do. Clearly I've listened to Slayer recently when a guitar solo that was written rather than produced by a violent muscle spasm actually surprises me.
6/10
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From: Psycho_Kenshin | #010 Sinergy - Spit On Your Grave
This is basically a concise summary of everything I dislike about the stereotypical power/prog sound, and the first song in this topic I just can't bring myself to finish.
1.5/10
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It's the Bodom guy and originally also In Flames guy, and Dimmu chick doing kinda 80s throwback speed-metal with the style of some melo-death riff action thrown in. Power, sure, prog I don't think so.
Ha, but yeah I know we have very different taste, and personally I can't stand the metal board, since they troll every post on bands they don't consider cool.
3 Inches of Blood - Deadly Sinners
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From: Psycho_Kenshin | #012 It's the Bodom guy and originally also In Flames guy, and Dimmu chick doing kinda 80s throwback speed-metal with the style of some melo-death riff action thrown in. Power, sure, prog I don't think so.
Ha, but yeah I know we have very different taste, and personally I can't stand the metal board, since they troll every post on bands they don't consider cool.
3 Inches of Blood - Deadly Sinners
It's the general sound of power/prog bands, even if they themselves aren't strictly prog they're going for the same kind of feel as actual power/prog bands like...Pagan's Mind I think is who I'm thinking of. On the subject of 235, it's a good place. The hostility isn't really a big deal if you don't take "this band sucks" as a personal attack, because it's generally not meant as one and if you don't get pissed off you fit in fine. Great place for finding out about stuff.
Anyway, 3 Inches of Blood. For some reason whenever someone suggests this band to me, it's ALWAYS this song. It's energetic and catchy, vocals are too shrill to have much impact, it's okay enough.
5/10
From: paerarru | #013 Gojira no good then?
Not a fan. Kind of plods along with nothing going for it, then we get an instrumental break that is just awkward as hell, repeat process, halfway through the song we hit a ridiculous chugging section that makes me decide I've had enough.
3/10
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Panthera posted... The hostility isn't really a big deal if you don't take "this band sucks" as a personal attack, because it's generally not meant as one and if you don't get pissed off you fit in fine. Great place for finding out about stuff.
I'm talking about actual trolling, I don't care if they think bands I like sucks. For example, one time I posted about an excellent Eluveitie (with 3 Inches of Blood and Holy Grail) concert I went to. The trolls who frequent the board decided to hijack the thread and make it a post what car you drive thread. Which you participated in by the way. Just one example. Long story short, garbage board, I don't post there.
Overkill - Elimination
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From: Psycho_Kenshin | #015 I'm talking about actual trolling, I don't care if they think bands I like sucks. For example, one time I posted about an excellent Eluveitie (with 3 Inches of Blood and Holy Grail) concert I went to. The trolls who frequent the board decided to hijack the thread and make it a post what car you drive thread. Which you participated in by the way. Just one example. Long story short, garbage board, I don't post there.
Overkill - Elimination
I participated in a thread about what car I drive when I don't drive a car, huh. Now I'm very curious as to what I might have been talking about. Alas, searching "show", "concert" and "Eluveitie" don't show anything archived that I saw so I can't check that out. Long story short, great board, responsible for getting me into a ****ton of great music, glad I post there.
Overkill is a band I really don't pay as much attention to as I probably should, not as familiar with them as I am most bands of equal status. Solid song.
6/10
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It was quite a while ago. I mean you were talking with the trolls in the derailed thread, and not responding to my posts like the rest of 'em. "Fit in" indeed.
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From: Psycho_Kenshin | #019 I get that you want to keep saying its a "great board", and sure it is from your perspective. But it's a cesspool.
Enforcer - Roll The Dice
I get that you want to keep saying its a "cesspool", and sure it is from your perspective. But it's a great board.
Alright, we're getting silly here <_<
Enforcer is great, Diamonds is one of the several really good traditional heavy metal releases to come in the past couple of years. Doesn't quite match up to Zuul's Out of Time or Christian Mistress' Agony & Opium, but still very good. Good riffs, vocals are a tad on the cheesy side for me but still pretty solid overall, this is a fun song.
7/10
From: paerarru | #020 Hmm. Post a song you consider at least an 8 or above?
Sepultura:
I'm going to listen to the studio version instead just because I hate listening to live songs unless I'm already very familiar with them. Hope that's not too big a problem for you. Unfortunately, this song doesn't do much for me. Feels very bland. Much prefer their earlier stuff.
3.5/10
Songs I'd put at 8 or above?
Suffocation - Liege of Inveracity (AKA the best death metal song ever)
Slough Feg - Hardworlder
Beherit - Gate of Nanna (AKA song from the best black metal album ever)
Znowhite - To The Last Breath
Iron Maiden - Killers
I'm tempted to give Liege of Inveracity a 10/10, although I usually reserve that for one song only (King Crimson - Starless), so let's say 9.5. The others...eh, ranging somewhere in the 8, 8.5 and 9 range, not going to work out my exact preference at the moment <_<
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It's a terrible board. Those trolls even trolled my b8 wikia pages before. It's by far the worst board on Gamefaqs. Just by mentioning it in board 8 you've endangered us all =P
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From: Psycho_Kenshin | #022 It's a terrible board. Those trolls even trolled my b8 wikia pages before. It's by far the worst board on Gamefaqs. Just by mentioning it in board 8 you've endangered us all =P
Just by mentioning it on board 8 I've risked us getting yet another invasion like we get from various boards several times a year =P
Song is...song? I'm too sleepy to describe it better than that right now, maybe if the mood strikes I'll provide something non-stupid when I resume this topic tomorrow <_<
Tentative 3.5/10
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Nothing wrong with the metal board. Just take criticism in stride and ask for recommendations when they blast your music and they seem like a fun loving bunch of helpful folk~
I don't really have anything in mind-- just felt like it'd give more credibility for an outsider to speak for the metal board.
(I'd be more interested in your tastes in non metal as for the most part the only metal I like is more melodic stuff or things from guys like Dissection and Bathory that practically everyone likes over there.)
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Why not? Might as well post music you like, unless getting a 10 means you win some cash money or something. =P Actually that would be pretty rad.
Well because TC said he wasn't a fan of melo-death, or at least all of it. On one hand I don't want to have someone listen to something they're likely to not enjoy. On the other hand however, once you posted that list & I looked at it, the lack of Black Dahlia Murder at all made me so goddamn sad. I was compelled to post them.
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From: PepsiPlunge | #025 The Black Dahlia Murder - Moonlight Equilibrium
Hey it's another song I've been suggested before. And yeah, as you expected...not a fan. Riffs are kind of dull and I don't like this guitar tone much when it's getting way too squeaky. This type of higher pitched vocals don't work for this kind of music really, the deeper vocals at least don't bother me. Breakdownish section in the middle bugs me, I think that's about all I can specifically say.
3/10
From: Psycho_Kenshin | #027 Why not? Might as well post music you like, unless getting a 10 means you win some cash money or something. =P Actually that would be pretty rad.
Within Temptation - A Demon's Fate
Getting a 10 would be kind of tough, given that the only two songs I'd give that rating to are ones I've already mentioned :)
Cheesy keyboard stuff and really dull guitars, you're throwing out stuff solely to provoke me now, aren't you? >_> I feel like this singer could probably be good if she were in a band that didn't suck, she has a fairly nice voice even if I dislike what she's doing with it here.
2/10
From: Lopen | #028 Nothing wrong with the metal board. Just take criticism in stride and ask for recommendations when they blast your music and they seem like a fun loving bunch of helpful folk~
I don't really have anything in mind-- just felt like it'd give more credibility for an outsider to speak for the metal board.
(I'd be more interested in your tastes in non metal as for the most part the only metal I like is more melodic stuff or things from guys like Dissection and Bathory that practically everyone likes over there.)
I'm more a metal guy than anything else, next biggest thing for me is prog rock, Rush and King Crimson being my favourites. In general I enjoy listening to a lot of music but it's rare I feel myself compelled to actually seek out or remember stuff that's not metal or older prog rock.
From: Giggsalot | #029 Skepticism - The Gallant Crow
Drags on. And on. And on. Kind of nice for a little while but it just never ever goes anywhere. There's repetition that builds something, and then there's repetition that makes me wonder if I'm stuck in a time loop. At least it's a fairly pleasant shade of boring.
3.5/10
From: SSBDarren64 | #030 Equilibrium - Snuffel
I feel like this is a cheesy folk metal band, wonder how close my memory comes to the truth...okay, I was pretty on the money, expected the melodic death metal with an "epic" chorus style and that's what I got. Anything close to folk metal that isn't Skyclad or Primordial is not getting the band on my Christmas list. Not that I have a Christmas list, and if I did it's not like I'd be sending cards to random bands whose members I don't personally know, but you get what I mean, I hope.
The first few seconds piss me off for some reason I can't put my finger on <_< Then we get into some solid old school heavy metal and I'm happy, although I'm not fond of this chorus.
6/10
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From: Black_Hydras | #034 Axemaster - Slave to the Blade
Best video ever
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Sounds a bit muffled (there is something about the production here that is bugging me and I can't quite narrow it down) but otherwise it's pretty fun, if a bit redundant. Love the random screaming near the end, totally silly and amusing.
6/10
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From: MycroProcessor | #036 Oh so you like prog rock, and metal, but generally don't like prog metal? That's interesting, though I can definitely see how that might turn out to be someone's preferences.
I get the sense that for metal what I would suggest you wouldn't like given what you've stated though, since most of the metal I like is prog metal.
Yeah, prog metal just has a tendency to go off into realms of the bad kind of cheesiness and excessive wank and usually doesn't have much real energy, also too often overproduced or overly sterile in production, which I dislike. The prog metal I do like is basically...early Queensryche and Fates Warning. And feel free to post something, it's not like I've been shying away from rating stuff that's not to my preference at all!
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From: Punch_Sideiron | #037 Darkthrone - Hanging Out In Haiger
I much prefer early Darkthrone to mid/late Darkthrone, but they've managed to still be at least decently enjoyable over the years. No St Anger/Unspoken King/Illud Divinum Insanus from these guys, thankfully!
5/10
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Let's see if I can survive even one minute of Sonata Arctica.
Barely! Man when the awful verse consisting of crappy chugging and crummy singing is the highlight of the first 60 seconds, something has gone wrong.
1.5/10
From: FL81 | #041 Gamma Ray - Land of the Free
Well this is less **** than what I just listened to, but that only goes so far. The hushed/whispered vocal sections really don't work, we've got standard flower metal cheese going on, gave up about a minute and a half in.
2/10
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From: Ace_Killjoy | #043 Bah! Then let's try this:
Dream Evil - The Chosen Ones
This intro would actually be kind of good but it's got some production issues going on that obscures it and makes it sound kind of bleh. Vocals hit and I'm scared and oh god overdone backing vocals. Did I just hear a line about riding through thunder? I feel like this should Rickroll me now, only with some Dragonforce song instead because I'd actually enjoy Never Gonna Give You Up. Anyway, this is pretty silly and lacking anything that appeals to me, but it's not actually making me want to kill myself unlike that Sonata Arctica one, so we're definitely moving up in the world here! Now that I say that someone is going to link me to Radikult or something.
2.5/10
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Panthera posted... This intro would actually be kind of good but it's got some production issues going on that obscures it and makes it sound kind of bleh. Vocals hit and I'm scared and oh god overdone backing vocals. Did I just hear a line about riding through thunder? I feel like this should Rickroll me now, only with some Dragonforce song instead because I'd actually enjoy Never Gonna Give You Up. Anyway, this is pretty silly and lacking anything that appeals to me, but it's not actually making me want to kill myself unlike that Sonata Arctica one, so we're definitely moving up in the world here! Now that I say that someone is going to link me to Radikult or something.
2.5/10
Don't you dare talk smack about Rick Astley!
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Why is that songs with the word "kingdom" in their title are always cheesy power metal? Okay, there's Conqueror's Kingdom Against Kingdom which is the complete opposite and I'm sure I could think of more examples if I scoured my music collection, but the point is when I see "kingdom" in a song title, I cringe.
And it's well deserved because if you asked me "Hey Panthera, what do you think a song called The New Kingdom would sound like?", my answer would first be "what a weird ****ing question" but then I'd reply "exactly like this song I'm listening to right now".
2/10
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