Round 3 – DangerSacul: Saviour Machine – Carnival of Souls
A long time ago, on a prog message board long since deceased, I heard of this band, and was told by someone that I would probably like this band except for its Christian message. I was more militant in my beliefs back then, and now consider bands like Affector and Theocracy important parts of my collection because musically they are so good, without getting overly evangelical. I don’t know if I’m getting a lot of Christian influence in this, but I am hearing a lot of good stuff. Sonically, this reminds me a little bit of Type O Negative, which makes me think I should pull out my Type O Negative again. This was a very strong song in a very strong round, but pretty different from the other 6 point song this round.
6/8TAC: Reverence – When Darkness Calls
TAC must have dug deep for these guys, because their official youtube video has a lot of home photographs of the band because they still have the datestamp on them
The amateur video production aside, these guys showed that amateur hour was long gone when they pick up their instruments. This had a nice old school metal sound without sounding dated and old, probably due to the high register vocals. This almost got into the 6, and probably would have in a previous round.
5/8Obfuscation: Dead Congregation - Nigredo
This song was the heaviest and most brutal this round, possibly of the roulette so far. Like others, this song suffers from being in a strong round, but I think the biggest difference between this song, and the two best of the round, are the quality of the harsh vocals. If there was a best riff or solo parameter this round, this song might have won that. Despite the low score, I’d still go out and see this band live and give their stuff a try.
2/8senecadawg2: Dysrhythmia – Nutritional Facelift
The cool thing about instrumental songs is you can for the most part name them whatever you want. This song built up some tension early on by not resolving to tonic, and ended with an angry flourish. Lots of punch in this short little number. Senecadawg has no fucks to give when given handicaps, apparently, because he isn’t letting them slow his pimp game. This song just had the misfortune of running into some very stiff competition this round, as it was the strongest round yet overall. This might have been a 5 or 6 in some of the earlier rounds.
3/8Nekov: Dragonland – Supernova
This song was originally rated low by me, but by the time I got around to scoring and trying to place parameters, I realized that original “meh” I gave this was no longer an appropriate grade. With a name like “Dragonland”, I was fully expecting youtube to open up and show me pictures of giant wheels of cheese. Or dragons. Or knights. Or wizards. But this song was about as anti-dragons as you could get. Maybe Dragonland was destroyed by the Supernova in the song, because the song was about a supernova – a man made one by detonating the sun according to the lyrics. So, after I divorced my expectation of hearing a very bad Rhapsody of Fire knockoff, I found a fun, playful power metal song.
4/8lonestar: Incura – Turning Blue
This song was more annoying than it was enjoyable. I didn’t care much for the vocal style, and it was too repetitive. The songs over reliance on some of the lyrics just got old really fast. It was the first song to get a grade of “meh - -“. Probably the biggest detraction about it was that I think it actually affected how I felt about the next song I listened to negatively.
1/8jingle.boy: Presto Ballet – The Chemical Age
Well, here is another song to add to my “Chemistry” playlist, and yes I have a playlist of songs that are all related to chemistry. This song was solid. Nothing too flashy or big about this song, just a plain ol’ prog song that kept grabbing my attention without being flashy. This song is like girl that know she’s good looking, but doesn’t go around flaunting it. Easy to overlook, but once it has your attention it sticks around in your head.
6/8Scorpion: Sigh – Amnesia
The bad news is that Scorp took a bit to send. At least the song was worth the wait. This was dark and jazzy, kind of like a toned down Ihsahn. The instrumental part at the end was great, as it builds up layers and then starts to strip them away until the song slows down until ending with some random noise. The harsh vocals weren’t too overpowering or over the top. There were so many different parts to this song, but it still managed to be cohesive and not meandering all over the place.
8/8Dark Castle: Gorod – 5000 at the Funeral
This song started out very mellow and minimalist, before kicking into the neck breaking part of the song. The one thing that really stood out was how crisp the tone and drums were. Because I am not listening to the source material on youtube, grooveshark, and the like, I don’t dock ratings for what might be poor production because it could be compression caused by the rip, but it is real nice when you know that the artist didn’t brickwall the sound because the rip isn’t. I really loved the tone of this song. I liked that it mellowed out some of the harshness with airy instrumental parts. This, as well as the Sigh song, is the type of song I would use to show someone that extreme metal isn’t all “RO-RO-ROOOOOOOOOOO”. Good stuff, mang.
7/8Round theme winner: Obfuscation
HANDICAPSSenecadawg2, for the next round, you must send me songs less than 4 minutes
TAC, for the next TWO rounds, your song must be from a band that begins with one of these letters: J, K, Q, X, or Z.
Dark Castle, for the next TWO rounds your song must be from an album released in 2013, and for the next round your song must be from a band that begins with one of these letters: G, H, L, U, or V
Public standings:
Dark Castle - 21
TAC - 18
Senecadawg2 - 18
Scorpion - 16
jingle.boy - 14
Nekov - 11
Obfuscation - 11
Sacul - 10
lonestar - 7
There is still plenty of time to catch up, all it takes is a slip up by the leader to fall quickly. Also, the complete standings look pretty different.
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