Story about Nightwish and other stuff
I bet it was intentional the way the guitars are mostly used for the rhythm and don't have much leads, bands do it but it's something I'm more used to in like shoegaze or something where they literally just slam powerchords most of the time. I don't have anything against it though it just caught my attention and it's something that has put me off with other bands, had no problem with it here.
Well, Train, now I feel a bit bad for calling you simply abysmal in the Iron Maiden survivor thread! 
Though not really because you called my two favorite songs the two worst songs left. But you liked The Poet and the Pendulum! So that earns you major points, since I love it.
I have missed that entirely!
I don't visit the IM survivors much after I voted, but yeah over it's all in jest, when I say shit like "Battery is obviously way worse than Orion and anyone that doesn't agree with me is wrong" it's just the P/S attitude, everyone likes voicing their opinion in the worst way possible and it's pretty funny.
jakepriest and Dream Team know what's up.
I'll post the remaining 5 writeups right now, because I had been working on them yesterday aswell when their respective songs came up and actually just held on to them because I said I would.
Round 7 results part 2Elite: Have a Nice Life – There Is No FoodI have seen this band and album up on your top 50 albums list pretty high and I know you’ve taken an appeal towards this over the years but before going into this I must say that I still have my doubts about ambient in general.
My first thoughts on this are that it sounds like a deep sea journey or something, I always have get that deep sea feeling from very distant ambient music but I can never quite put into words how I feel about it. But the overall vibe,
man this gives me chills, I’m still not completely sold but ambient as a whole is starting to intrigue me more.
Listening to this, after it’s over I start to ask myself what’s so good about it, but then realize that there’s no need for that. I mean, I like what I’m hearing so why question it? This sure has started to grow on me and I feel like the lack of a really big climax is fine, that’s overly predictable and not suited for this song. Going into this I didn’t expect to like it more than the This Will Destroy You tune because that was already pretty good but yeah this has definitely convinced me to check out some more ambient.
8.0 (+ 1.0) = 9.0/10
Scorpion: Nevermore – Deconstruction
This is not really doing much for me, sounds like very standard metal riffage with some good-but-not-great vocals. The vocals in the verses remind me of Devin Townsend, they’re pretty enjoyable and add a very ominous vibe throughout that I like, but most of this songs riffs and vocal melodies just bore me.
I have no idea what the consensus is about this band, I’ve seen their name around quite often but I feel like this is the type of music I’ve moved past a couple of years ago and would’ve liked a lot more back then. Straightforward heavy metal riffage and fun yet deep-on-a-certain-level lyrics that are fun to sing along to. But I don’t feel that way anymore, sadly a song I felt like just skipping when it came up numerous times. The saving grace of this story has to be the acoustic guitar passage. Whenever something like that comes up, for instance on Mabool they made tons of use of it and all of it was spectacular (yeah I checked it out on my vacation and I fucking loved all of it), it always reminds me of the Sidewinder outro by Avenged Sevenfold, I’m sure you know it. I’m a sucker for those world-music acoustics, in this case with a latino vibe.
Fuck, I’m starting to meander around the facts. I wish I liked this a bit more because I can usually really dig your songs, but this has to be my least favorite submission by you so far. The Sigh track had very cool moments which, despite the weirder-than-Devil Doll vocals, was a pretty enjoyable listen. Since you’ve been doing very good the entire time you’re still in it, but not by much to my surprise. Stuff like Nevermore will not cut it in the finals!
6.5/10
Bolsters: Gallowbraid – Stone of Remembrance
For whatever reason I expected something similar to Caladan Brood. Oh that’s right, you explicitly mentioned sending this because I liked Caladan Brood. For that reason, this was probably one of the safest entries of the whole roulette, based on that band, because it has some very similar elements. It shares about the same cold black metal harsh vocals-clean chants balance and it’s one I’m falling in love with. From the start I get this winter-y vibe that maybe doesn’t fit as well in this time of year but no matter what the weather looks like, I always like my black metal very cold and raw sounding.
For a song like this, they sure have some unusual guitar grooves going on at certain points, something I personally really dig but wouldn’t expect from a band like this. I’m used to the continuous powerchords a-la shoegaze with a few leads thrown in every so often but this at least sounds like a very innovative step in the black metal genre that I could get used to.
The clean vocal melodies here are not as great and singable as the ones in the Caladan Brood song but they’re still fine. It’s just that with that song it is what made me absolutely love it and here I’m missing that tiny bit of magic that makes it as good, but it was a very high standard to live up to because I love that song and this is not even too far behind it. Of course you’re still in the competition and I look forward to seeing you back in the finals. 
8.5/10
Parama: Solstafir – Djakninn
My bet is also on Solstafir's, that's an amazing song, wow!
yes, yes it is
I think I’ve seen lots of mediocre scores whenever you sent this band? You suffer, but why, this is a fantastic song. All kinds of paramacore came my way in the first 6 rounds and this is like a combination of various elements of things I’ve come to expect of you. I guess some would argue that it goes on for too long, but no way man, it’s perfect the way it is. I think the drums are especially awesome, in their simplicity they’re one of the most ‘emotional‘ drums (never thought I would say that about drums) I’ve ever heard.
I’m not exactly sure how and why it happened but after my first listen this song hit me so hard emotionally and it’s the best thing this roulette has offered so far!Come on, how can I not love this song. The vocals sure are an acquired taste, I’ll give you that, and I’ll be the first to admit I don’t find them spectacular by any means, but it’s only such a small section of the song and despite the overall tone of them not being my thing, the delivery still makes them pretty great. But when we get into the second half of the song, with the extended instrumental jam, I become speechless. You can already feel the tension building up during the vocals section with the slowly growing intensity of the guitars and from there (
Óttinn boðar sortans endalok) it’s just epic all the way through. The simple chord-progression is solid, I would never have expected to like it so much as it doesn’t change much, but what wins me over are those drums, wow, they’re not even special, but they just work perfectly. Can’t really describe it with words but you sure delivered. So with this, obviously you’re in for the finals, cya in round 8 m8.
9.75/10Tomislav95: Okkervil River – So Come Back, I Am WaitingSo instead of bringing it home with a secure solid r7 song - which seems but an effort for you – you go with something different entirely; I like it.
The song starts off very intimately with some great guitars and the first line gives me a Pink Floyd-like feeling. It’s not half bad, this song. The slow brass instrumentation has a very strong Antlers vibe indeed, and the overall chill/mellow-ness of the song makes it pretty neat. For this same reason I wish the song would remain calm, no need for those heavier sections at all.
That makes me feel that this song is a bit unbalanced, the overall mellow atmosphere is ruined by those slim heavy sections. I don’t think this will become one of my favorites, but rather a pretty solid song that could’ve been
so much better.
I don’t know about the first impression thing here, it’s still rubbing me the wrong way a bit but it’s not
that out of place, it fits pretty neatly. It doesn’t make me enjoy the song way more but it does cause it to make more sense. It has its moments for sure and the overall chill vibe is what makes me like this track, but with reservations to the (very few) heavy sections. Good thing you had such a good lead to begin with because there’s still no danger whatsoever of you falling behind. Now it’s time to end the roulette with a bang!
7.25 (+ 1.0) = 8.25/10So right now this is what the standings look like for just the 5 of you, full standings will be updated in the OP
Standings1: Tomislav95: 52.5 + 8.25 = 60.75
2: Parama: 50.25 + 9.75 = 60
3: Bolsters: 50.0 + 8.5 = 58.5
4: Scorpion: 51.75 + 6.5 = 58.25
5: Elite: 49.25 + 9.0 = 58.25
Schedule for next roundWe're heading into the final stages of the roulette and things have started to get a little more tight, Parama pulls back with the best song of the roulette after Tomislav has finally used his final bonus point and now only has a .75 point lead over him, with a total difference of 2.5 points between first and last.
Round 8 and 9 will be a little different. In reality, round 8 will just be another open round, but I will rate your song out of 5 instead of 10 points, so in the grand scheme of things it will make less of a difference than it normally would, use that info however you like.
For round 9 you can choose between two things:
1: You can send me two songs entirely separate from eachother, this could be two songs from the same band or two songs from different bands entirely, whatever, but in this case I would rate both songs out of 5 points and add up the scores for your total.
2: Send me two songs that follow up eachother, let me know if this is the case because if you do, I will rate the whole on a scale of 10 points, BUT this will include flow, so they have to be a smooth combination of songs, so either two songs that are on the same album played after eachother or two songs from the same band that you feel connect with eachother properly.
No short intro/outro tracks, I want 2 full songs
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