The results are in!!!
Round 1:
Best:True Death of Life-
Iced Earth-Melancholy-So, maybe it wasn’t such a good idea to have this chick in this. Because if she keeps sending me songs like this, you guys are fucked. Now, I can just hear everyone saying “Yeah, what the fuck do you expect, its his fucking girlfriend, of course he needs to suck up.” Not true. This song is just fucking awesome (hey sarah, maybe you need to send me some PT to even the awesomeness out, eh? You need to be last in at least one round for me to retain any credit I may have
) SEE THE SADNESS IN THEIR EYES!!! This sounded like Iron Maiden on steroids, it was great. One thing I loved about this was subtle backing vocals in the chorus. It was just fucking epic. LOOK AT THE PAIN AROUND ME!!! THIS IS WHAT I DIE FOR!!!! This song left me with 4 words. Holy shit and more please? And I mean it. Any body who is into these dudes, can I get some suggestions because I’ve heard other Iced Earth songs and they weren’t nearly as epic as this. Keep up the good work.
Medium Best:Genowyn-
Ootsuki Kenji-
Kuusou Rumba: Dude…What. The. Fuck. So, I saw what you said and though “big risk? Ok, its probably some death metal, ya know! Opeth or something like that” but no! It is some fucking weird ass Chinese(?) dude singing with another Chinese(?) chick and I thought to myself “well, at least I know who is coming in last in this round.” Well, I was wrong. This is one of the two songs I mentioned that I thought I wouldn’t like, but I most certainly did. I was sitting there reading the lyrics and nearly shitting my pants from laughter, and I started to notice something…I started to notice that I was bouncing in my chair, before long, I was fucking rocking out in my chair. This song is just so fun and danceable, I can’t explain it. Everyone needs to listen to this. It was a big risk and it paid off. Will it in the future? That’s your decision. Ps. RUMBA RUMBA RUMBA RUMBA!!!!
zxlkho-
Prototype-
The Way It Ends-All I can say about this song is that it is pretty fucking good. I had trouble deciding what was better, this or Ytse’s, While Ytse’s had higher highs, this song never got suckish. It really is great through and through. The dudes voice is just high enough to be cool but not horribly annoying. This reminds me of a good Coheed and Cambria (I dislike them.) YOU WRITE THE BOOK ON THE WAY IT ALL ENDS!!! Good tune and keep it up.
Medium:YtseBitsySpider-
Soilwork-
Exile: So, this is an overall pretty good tune. Nice guitar work. Very in your face. If there was one thing I can complain about, it would be the verse. When the dude wasn’t screaming, it was monotonous and meh, and when he was screaming, it was neither good nor bad. But what made this song was the chorus. It was amazing, Very, very emotional. FAITHLESS!!!! ON MY WAY!!! Great fucking chorus. Another thing I need to mention about this song is its solo. It was great, albeit a little short. (that is not a bad thing, I’m just making a statement. Don’t send me songs with 5 minute solos. Please!) Perfect blend of metal and melody. If I ever call a “solo” round (cough cough) you guys might want to look into this song. Great tune dude. WON’T YOU BE…HEARTLESS!!!!
Marvelous G-
ZZ Top-
Cheap Sunglasses: So, what to say? Um…I’m pretty much on the middle of the road with this one. The song is most certainly not bad, but even liking all the ZZ Top songs I’ve heard, this is by far my least favorite of their “hits.” Not bad, but not great either. I like where you went though with the classic rock. I said it before and I will say it again. Classic rock has some, if not most, of the best music ever. Not a bad place to start and I know you will be giving me cool stuff in the future.
orcus116-
Testament-
Return to Serenity: I completely agree with your view on Testament, the Big Four, and Alex Skolnick. Now, the thing is, I know most of the songs off The Ritual, but this is one I have not heard of. I got to say, it wasn’t bad, but it wasn’t all that good. I love the Ritual in that it was a departure from thrash and went to more of a heavy metal style, but that is exactly what it should be, heavy metal. My favorite song of The Ritual is the title track just because it is a ballad but it builds to kick you in your face, (Just like most Metallica ballads) I hope you know the part I’m talking about. I was waiting for it to kick in, but it never really did. It works well as a ballad, but not as a Testament ballad if you get me?
Cthrubuoy-
Opeth-
Serenity Painted Death: Let me preface everything by saying this was one of the two songs that was better than I thought it would be. Now, if you are asking why I thought it was better than what I thought but it is still so low, I’ll tell you. I expected this to be a generic Opeth song, cool, eerie guitars, long drawn out growls switching to nice soft acoustic guitars and then Mikaels(sp) orgasmic voice. While it definitely had that, it had something different. During the 2 straight verses of “White faced/haggard grin” Mikael did something I have not heard him do. He abandoned his long drawn out growl and changed into something more of a shout/growl and the fact that the lyrics rhymed there made his shout/growling sound even better to my ear. I’m weird, what more can I say?
Medium Worst:DTVT-
Circle II Circle-
Heal You: There really is not much to say about the song. The singer is great. The chorus is pretty good. The instrumentation is simple but it works. (save for the solo, that shit is insane, but very good) It is generally a very decent song. Nothing really stands out. I do have to admit it could be because this is the last song I’ve listened to and I’m just writing this and I want to get the results out quickly. I can assure you though, it would not change the placement of the song. It is very middle of the road and maybe below it. I see you doing well in the future.
Birch Boy-
Children of Bodom-
Needled 24/7: What the fuck, bro!?!?!? I came into this thinking you were going to own this. Dude, this sucked. It was bad. It reminded me of the few Trivium songs that I’ve heard that were good, gone horribly bad. Shit vocal production over shitty and whiney screams. To be honest, the chorus stopped me from giving it a personal rating of 1, and even with that, it just got a 3. The chorus did remind me of some of Trivium’s stuff which is good, but even at that bro… I know you can do better, so start showing me that you can!
Worst:LieLowTheWantedMan-
Pain of Salvation-
Idioglossia: So, what to say about this? Not much really to say. I don’t dig Pain of Salvation’s style. I’ve tried getting into them and they just never clicked to me. The instrumentation is a bit annoying here and I hate Gildenlow rapping. It’s just, bad. It was better when he sung, but not by much. Plus, it’s long which makes the bad just go on longer. I didn’t like Pain of Salvation before and I still don’t. In fact, that actually worsened my opinion of them. Harsh? Yes. Honest? Most definitely. Will you do better? Probably. Also, I plan on getting flamed for saying how much I didn’t like this song.
So, the rankings has of now are:
1. True Death of Life-5 points
2. Genowyn and zxlhko-4 points
3.YtseBitseySpider, Marvelous G, Orcus116, and Cthrubuoy-3 points
4. DTVT and Birchboy-2 points
5. LieLowTheWantedMan-1 point
PS. I am very sorry to Ytse and DTVT. You guys were so close to being in the catagory above the one you are, I just almost couldn't decide. It really was what my gut was feeling during my last listen of each song.
NEXT ROUND... The key word for next round is "classic." Take that whichever way you want. You guys have 48 hours. Good luck.
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