Round 5: 90's-10's
Woooooo!!! After the last round where scores dipped a little you guys all roared back in a big way. I've been jamming pretty good the past few days with these songs. Some higher scores for some really nice songs. Good job!
Evermind
Seventh Wonder - The Black Parade (7.5)
Instant headbang! Very nice start and strong vocals. Really like the atmospheric keys and the guitar playing here is quite nice all over.
Nekov
The Pineapple Thief - 3000 Days (8.0)
BAM! Easily grabbed me with the beginning of the song. It's such a strong entrance that vocally it's a bit hard for the singer to really fill in over the music but maybe that comes with listening to the band more? Regardless I'm loving this musically, very powerful and a bit off-kilter at times which keeps me interested.
senecadawg2
Agalloch - Limbs (7.5)
Powerful, slow building song. Strangely (to me) combines Post Rock, Folk Metal, Black Metal sounds which is pretty cool. Like most metal bands of this nature I REALLY dig them musically, but I struggle coming around to the vocals. If it was used to accentuate a particular part of the song I think I'd be more accepting. Still a strong tune.
Big Hath
Karnivool - Themata (8.0)
Absolutely feeling the riffs and groove in the song and definitely get the Tool vibe because of that. I'm sure it's just in the interest of giving the song a different feel, but I like the vocals much better when he's singing instead of almost rapping the lyrics out.
Dr. DTVT
IQ - The Seventh House (7.5)
Whoa 14 min song... and this one absolutely carries you on a journey. Can certainly feel the "story" of the song. I was wondering with how slow it starts out, how it would progress but it picks up and has numerous varied parts that keep it from getting too daunting at its length. Really pretty song overall with some very nice melody.
lonestar
Destrage - Destroy Create Transform Sublimate (9.0)
Holy crap! The music here was just straight up killer! The vocals were so crazy but right about at my perfect growl, clean, scream ratio. Sometimes I have issue with more free-form lyrics (where not a lot rhymes) but this just works so well. There's so much here... melody, guitar, wackiness, etc. I like it! I like it!
jingle.boy
Kiss - You Wanted the Best (7.0)
Ok, clearly I'm familiar with Kiss. I'm accepting this submission because I barely had any plays on my last.fm and I haven't really heard any material from the band past "Revenge"; so for me I can accept it just to see what they've done past that album.
I don't think the harmony vocals are bad, but I think I'd have preferred to hear a newer song with just Paul or Gene taking the lead instead of so much switching off here but I get what they were going for considering the song kind of points to all of them. The music is cool but what I really like here is the guitar solo!
Ultimetalhead
Dir en Grey - Different Sense (7.5)
Ok I'll admit I was a bit hesitant with Ulti's description he gave ahead of time. I hear all the things he talked about in the song. I really enjoyed the melodies, the music and the acrobatic vocals. The craziness, music and hectic pace is similar in some aspects of the song I gave a 9.0 to above from Destrage.
The only real issues I have with the song is some of the growls are just not my thing and the fact that the song is in Japanese. So basically if I was smarter and understood the language the song would probably score much higher.
Current standings after round 5:
1.Big Hath: (8.0) + (8.0) = 16
2.lonestar: (6.0) + (9.0) = 15
3.Ultimetalhead: (7.5) + (7.5) = 15
4.Nekov: (6.5) + (8.0) = 14.5
5.Dr. DTVT: (6.5) + (7.5) = 14
6.Evermind: (6.5) + (7.5) = 14
7.jingle.boy: (7.0) + (7.0) = 14
8.senecadawg2: (5.5) + (7.5) = 13
Next up is a Free Round, so you all send some of your best as it's also an elimination round! Scores will also reset afterwards once more for the final four rounds of throwdown!