You guys know numbers 5 and 1, right? Well, I'm not going deep in
(no one sees what I do here) to details with them, at least for now.
5.
Queensr˙che - Promised Land
1.9:28 AM
2.I Am I
3.Damaged
4.Out of Mind
5.Bridge
6.Promised Land
7.Dis Con Nec Ted
8.Lady Jane
9.My Global Mind
10.One More Time
11.Someone Else?
What, PL over Mindcrime? Definately. Dark, slow masterpiece. After Empire's hard rock band turned towards progressive rock and here's the result.
4.
Ministry - Filth Pig
1.Reload
2.Filth Pig
3.Lava
4.Crumbs
5.Useless
6.Dead Guy
7.Game Show
8.The Fall
9.Lay Lady Lay (Bob Dylan cover)
10.Brick Windows
This album is just... interesting. I love all songs, that's why it is so high.
Ministry is an industrial metal band. Its members were on Filth Pig Al Jourgensen (guitars, vocals, programming, mandolin, harmonica, piano) and Paul Barker (bass, vocals, programming). Also there were a lot of studio musicians, I remember now Mike Scaccia (guitars) and William Rieflin (drums).
Some might know them from hits "Jesus Built My Hotrod", "N.W.O." and "Just One Fix". They are on
Psalm 69: The Way to Succeed and the Way to Suck Eggs, which is their most popular album.
But I still love Filth Pig more.
The opening track Reload is the heaviest song on the album. Everything is distorted; guitars, bass, vocals and drums. Very brutal song. Extra points from the mandolin solo: my 5th and 4th favourite albums have both mandolin.
The second track Filth Pig is a chill out song, based on Barker's bass line. Tempo is slow, guitars play only power chords there and there. It has my favourite lyrics on the album. Very catchy. Jourgensen plays a harmonica solo here.
Lava is industrial song and based on very heavy guitar riff. Jourgensen growls and I don't find accurate lyrics from anywhere: no one has heard what he is singing
, Maybe the lyrics aren't the main point here. To soft the heaviness a little, there's a little sample, where woman (?) sings lava. It is looped many times and sounds good. Chorus is very catchy. Fade out ending is great, the only imaginable way to end a song like this.
Crumbs is maybe my second favourite. It has some shaky groove and headbang riffing. The groove is the key word. It's just
. The last half of the song is instrumental and contains the only movie samples on the album and wacky lead from Scaccia.
Useless is a slow song. Paul Barker sings it, and his performance is top notch. It has quite dark mood.
Dead Guy is my least favourite. It has nice bass lines and good guitar riffs, but it's too repetitive.
Game Show is a masterpiece. The build-up to the chorus riff is just perfect music. Lots of feedback guitars, the best vocals on the album and
drumming. Bass lines are great... wait, every song has great bass lines.
The Fall is a flashback from The Mind Is a Terrible Thing to Taste. That album has heavy guitar riffs over electronic drum beats. This song just doesn't have guitar riffs. It has multi-layered electronic drum beat and power chords, which changes with the bars. The best thing in the song is piano, which kicks in half way the song. It brings beautiful, sad mood to the song.
Lay Lady Lay is straightforward, at least when compared to other songs. It is uplifting. I don't know the original version, but I don't think it Bob Dylan used distorted bass or distorted slide guitar. The chorus is just awesome, I love that guitar melody.
Brick Windows is musically uplifting, but I don't know about the lyrics, are they serious or what. They make crack every time. Driving electronic drum beat continues throughout the song. The time signature is a bit strange, I don't know if it is 5/4 or 5/8 (help me ->
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtFefQIgTPw).
Sorry my repetitive English.
3.
Animal Alpha - You Pay for the Whole Seat, But You'll Only Need the EdgeSorry, if I try to get the artwork, it gives just a big bunch of url. Here, have a photo of Agnete from the tour:
1.Pin You All
2.Master of Disguise
3.Fire! Fire! Fire!
4.Alarm
5.Breed Again
6.In the Barn
7.Even When I'm Wrong, I'm Right
8.Tricky Threesome
The heavier AA album. Brutal energy and some soft ballads to calm down the fury.
Animal Alpha was on this album Agnete Maria Kjolsrud (vocals), Christian Wibe (lead guitar), Christer Andre Cederberg (rhythm guitar), Lars Imre Bidtnes (bass) and Kenneth Kapstad (drums).
Pin You All starts with hi-hat clicks and "PIN YOU ALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL"-scream. This track has a lot of screaming. Riffwork is fucking heavy. From heavy verses the song goes to slower chorus with very high vocals. Bridge is awesome and well done in the music video. The "I WANT THE NAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAMMMMMEEEES"-scream after the last chorus is the best scream I've ever heard
. When I'm singing this, I don't get even close. Oxygen runs thin.
Master of Disguise has a proggy intro (some strange time signature?), which is repeated as a instrumental section. The heavy songs here are not tinkering, they're agressive. When it sounds good and makes you mosh, it is good. The verses are awesome and the choruses are slightly different, the first and the last explode to your face after soft start and the second continues from the verse. A great chorus. Outro has 14 step jump in vocals (Maaa-STEERR of disguuuiiiiiiseeee). The ending whisper is cool.
Fire! Fire! Fire! is another heavy song. Fucking heavy intro with awesome lead (this is also repeated later), lighter verses and fucking heavy choruses.
FIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIREEEEEEEEEEEEE!
Instrumental section has awesome screams. The other chorus (You'll standing...) has one of the highest Agnete vocals ever. Blastbeat ending!
Alarm is by now my favourite Animal Alpha ballad. It's their heaviest ballad. Beautiful verses, and choruses are heavier, but Agnete sings them cleanly also. Bridge is fucking
. It has heavier vocals and great drumming. Drumming is overall great, maybe Kenneth Kapstad is better drummer than Thomas Emil Jacobsen (Pheromones, Animal Alpha EP), but the difference isn't big. The last chorus is lovely.
Breed Again is my least favourite, but still 5/5. VERY HEAVY riffing, there's some prog metal there. Solo just kicks ass. Chorus kicks ass. Kickass song. Verses are kinda oriental and have beautiful singing, when elsewhere she sings heavily.
In the Barn seems to be a harmless little ballad with awesome guitar riff, but there are horrible things underneath. Singing is clean throughout, but creepy guitars come in second verses, and the sad mood turns into scary. The bridge (He rolled over...) is very scary. And the build-up to the last chorus. I don't know have I ever had that bad shivers I once had. The mood is perfectly in lyrics, also.
Even When I'm Wrong, I'm Right has a heavy beat and fucking heavy guitar riffing (quite many songs have fucking heavy riffs). Agnete sings mysteriously in the verses and throws in
screaming in choruses. Awesome solo here. I don't get the lyrics the slightest, but they're badass.
Tricky Threesome is the only mid-tempo song, not exactly heavy, but not a ballad. The most Pheromones-ish song on the album. Many stylistic changes and the best of Agnete of the album here. The song has the only "real" guitar solo of the album, between the first chorus and the second verse. Great intrumental section and very beautiful chorus.
More adult album than Pheromones. Everything is top notch in this album, and the best thing is, that they've done something even better...
2.
Animal Alpha - Pheromones
1.Billy Bob Jackson
2.I.R.W.Y.T.D.
3.Bundy
4.Most Wanted Cowboy
5.Catch Me
6.101 Ways
7.Deep In
8.My Droogies
9.Bend Over
10.Remember the Day
Their debut, rockier and more experimental. Lots of cool songs.
Thomas Emil Jacobsen plays the drums on this album.
Billy Bob Jackson is kinda introduce song. Verses don't have vocal melodies, it's just like... melodic speaking. Or shouting. Heavy song, but differently than the heavy songs on the next album. Tempo is quite slow and riffs pound. One of my favourite AA guitar songs. Chorus is one of their best, and it has VERY high vocals. Nice solo and after solo-section is one of the crazy moments on the album.
I.R.W.Y.T.D. (it took me a month to solve the acronym) is "happier" song. Drum-based intro, and then in kicks
. Jazz. Very low vocals and after that in kicks screaming I can't do (I do sing these songs. Some of them sound quite awful then.). Melodic catchy chorus with again, VERY high vocals. Nice instrumental section, and three guitar solos. Nice outro chorus and and strange ending. This song is less than 3 minutes long and is still deeper than any of the Iron Maiden's 00's "epics".
Bundy was the song, that made me a fan. It wasn't BOOM like it was with DT and Pull Me Under, but I like this song more than PMU ever. PMU has some magic wibe, but this song is a) scary b) sexy c) hard-rocking. Athmospheric bass-driven intro and then comes a part I cannot describe. Then fucking main riff comes. Verse is nice, but after that comes a part, which made this non-radio-friendly (this was in two Electronic Arts games and is their biggest hit). The radio pop fans would crap their pants when the music stops and she starts to scream "SHUT YOUR FACE". Chorus is just perfect. As perfect as chorus can be
(again no one sees what I do here). But those letters. The screaming part and the second verse are quite scary. Chorus is scary AND sexy. The "I'm coming to get you"-part is scary AND sexy. Geez, I don't wanna know, what she wanna do to the one for whom this song tells about. Music video is flawless, as is the song.
Most Wanted Cowboy is a rock song with very melancholy mood. Chorus is
, many great vocal melodies. I don't exactly get the lyrics, but it's a love triangle in Wild West. In first verse sings the other man, in second verse sings another man and both in the chorus. As a rock version (music video) the song is great, but what it misses, is the slow, jazzy part. Other instruments fade after angry "Shoot me"-part, drums start play jazz comp and Agnete starts her moaning as a woman, who cannot decide between two men. After that comes a cool build-up, which goes to slow, short "Bartender..."-part. Build-up starts again and there comes the exploding "BAAAAAAAAARTEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEENDEEEEEEEER, SHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOT MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE" and my all-time favourite guitar solo. Last awesome chorus, intro riff getting slower (what was it?) and there it is. A perfect rock song.
Catch Me is a straightforward rock song.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQwh9p4b8yM101 Ways is another total jewel. Very beautiful singing and dark verses. The thing is, what she is singing about. To sing about murdering her husband/boyfriend (or girlfriend, as well as I know their lyrics, it might be) that beautifully, there's some deranged beauty. Chorus is great. Outro is my favourite AA outro, the chorus theme and the
La la la
La la la la la la la
is just so beautiful.
Deep In is the weakest song on the album, but still 5/5. Heavy mid-tempo song with dark riffing, verse with low vocals and great chorus with VERY high vocals (have I wrote this sometimes earlier?).
My Droogies is the most insane song here. It's just crazy. You go crazy when you listen it. Drum intro, in comes guitars with power chords. Agnete asks "Have you seen my boys?". Verses are great, especially the second half (what a riff, what singing!). It has multiple parts. My favourite part comes in the middle:
Duh, you know who I'm talking about, when I say four guys in tuxedos and one dog in tue tue
Duh, you know who I'm talking about, when I say four guys in tuxedos and one dog in tue tue
You are
Yes you are
You are my vulva
You are
Yes you are
You are
My
Vul-vahh
You can guess has this part ruined sentences beginnining "You are" for me
. Just crazy.
Bend Over, I wouldn't recommend this song for people under 15 (Violet, close your eyes). Very effective riffing, and then Agnete comes screaming distorted "Bend over, let me slap your pretty and fat ass" (don't worry people with tiny ass, your turn comes also). Very catchy chorus. After second chorus comes some blues guitar and then FUCKING. BRUTAL. SCREAMING. And the scream that ends the blues part, be careful if you try it, your head might explode. Drums get faster, and we get to the outro. I move very strongly in this part. The rhythm, riff, vocals and the "Bend me over"-background vocals just make dance.
Remember the Day is very sad
. When they play usually very loud, this song is very quiet. Agnete sings very beautifully. Background is very small, there are only a couple of sad guitars and a little keyboard. Lyrics are the best ever.
1.
Metallica - Master of Puppets
1.Battery
2.Master of Puppets
3.The Thing That Should Not Be
4.Welcome Home (Sanitarium)
5.Disposable Heroes
6.Leper Messiah
7.Orion
8.Damage inc.
A band with medium musical talent used it all and made the best album ever. Different kinds of songs and heavy.
The top three has only 5/5 songs. I'd like also include Animal Alpha EP, but it has only 4 songs and is 16 minutes long.
I'll write more later.
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