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Vote for your LEAST favourite!

Darkest Light
6 (42.9%)
Earthlings
2 (14.3%)
Crystallised
6 (42.9%)

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Voting closed: December 12, 2016, 01:50:17 PM

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The HAKEN Survivor 2016 - Restoration (EP): Round 1!
« on: December 11, 2016, 01:50:17 PM »
Results from last round:

Falling Back to Earth 7 (50%)
Pareidolia 7 (50%)

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The Mountain Results:

1. Falling Back to Earth
    Pareidolia

3. Atlas Stone
4. Cockroach King
5. In Memoriam
6. Because It's There
7. As Death Embraces
8. Somebody
9. The Path

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Restoration EP Results:

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Haken Survivor Main Thread

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That's funny! The Mountain's final round ended in a tie. Both songs earn the #1 spot (with FBTE getting slightly more attention by being at the top, for receiving far less votes overall), as I won't bother to do a tie-breaker round, since both songs are in the Finals regardless.

Here we arrive at the band's 2014 EP, 'Restoration', a tribute to their early demos. All songs are reworked versions from songs on that demo. Darkest Light is a revamped version from Blind, Earthlings is Black Seed renewed and Crystallised is a drawn-out version from Snow. While initial reception of this EP was fairly positive, there were some people that thought the band could have better left the demos untouched and write something new altogether. At times on this EP, the songs feel disjointed, or made to fit their own 'progressive' mould, and while there are some good ideas on this album, I'm personally not too fond of it as a whole and consider it to be the band's worst official release. Even though the songs are reworked to the extent that they fit the band's modern style, some of the stuff just isn't up to par with their other material (but I'm sure a bunch of people will disagree with me for saying this). All-in-all though, it's a pretty fun release for what it's worth and it's certainly an interesting experiment for a band to rework their old demos.

From this album 1 song will go the Finals, and one will go to Consolation rounds. This means the song voted off now will leave the tournament, while the other two stay in for at least one more round (other than this EP's final round).

My vote goes to Crystallised (yes, I'm serious. Fight me).

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Re: The HAKEN Survivor 2016 - Restoration (EP): Round 1!
« Reply #1 on: December 11, 2016, 01:52:36 PM »
I'll join that Crystallized vote. Way too long for it's own good.

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Re: The HAKEN Survivor 2016 - Restoration (EP): Round 1!
« Reply #2 on: December 11, 2016, 02:01:35 PM »
I'll join that Crystallized vote. Way too long for it's own good.
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Re: The HAKEN Survivor 2016 - Restoration (EP): Round 1!
« Reply #3 on: December 11, 2016, 02:02:11 PM »
i mean, i don't want crystallised in the finals, but i also don't want any of these in the finals since none of them are particularly good

but darkest light is objectively inferior to the demo it's based off of so  :lol

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Re: The HAKEN Survivor 2016 - Restoration (EP): Round 1!
« Reply #4 on: December 11, 2016, 11:17:43 PM »
Snow > Crystallized, so I vote that one. The other two are great alternative versions of Blind and Black Seed. Earthlings is probably my number 1 over Darkest Light, but I still don't know for sure.

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Re: The HAKEN Survivor 2016 - Restoration (EP): Round 1!
« Reply #5 on: December 12, 2016, 01:00:41 AM »
I basically love all three tracks here.

Darkest Light.

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Re: The HAKEN Survivor 2016 - Restoration (EP): Round 1!
« Reply #6 on: December 12, 2016, 02:29:08 AM »
Darkest Light is the only one that leaves me a little cold here
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Re: The HAKEN Survivor 2016 - Restoration (EP): Round 1!
« Reply #7 on: December 12, 2016, 09:24:49 AM »
Yeah, I agree with Parama here.

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Re: The HAKEN Survivor 2016 - Restoration (EP): Round 1!
« Reply #8 on: December 12, 2016, 09:50:39 AM »
Yeah, I agree with Parama here.
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