Round 7 Results!LieLowTheWantedMan: The Angelic Process - The Promise Of SnakesHoly fucking shit. This felt like being crushed in the bottom of the ocean. And it was beautiful. You know for a drone metal song,this is just some of the prettiest stuff i’ve ever heard. I’m already excited about metal again!
10/10Zantera: Birds In Row - Lovers Have Their SayAnother Drone-y Metal song! This time it’s from a Hardcore Punk/Metalcore band from Deathwish. I did have high expectations from this and yeah the song was really damn good. The wall of noise was quite simply excellent and quite simply a nice closer to this round. However I had one problem with the song and it was that the vocals were a bit too low on the mix for me. Besides that the song was quite nice if not a bit of a pain to listen to more than twice.
Still,really really good.
9/10Sacul: Destrage - Are You Kidding Me? No.This was pretty damn chaotic in a Mr Bungle way. Like I’ve said before,i do enjoy Mr. Bungle here and there but too much chaos just bores me. This was one of those cases. The song was a bit too overblown which was a shame cuz the instrumentation is really damn good. But eh,I forgot about the song completely seconds after it was done.
5/10Scorpion: Ihsahn - A Grave InversedI do like Emperor here and there and I’ve been meaning to check out Ihsahn’s work for a while. But holy shit this is good. The saxaphone is very King Crimson-ish and not out of place at all. The vocals are just as good as I expected and the song ended just where it needed to. The solos were just straight up “\m/“ and the rest of the instrumentation was just excellent. Damn,my favorite song of the round right here even though LieLow’s track was amazing.
10/10Tyrias: Nightwish - RomanticideBleh,I never saw the appeal of Power Metal. I mean sure it’s “epic” with deep “stories” and “epic” solos and everything but to me Power Metal just sounds dime a dozen no matter which band. Sure there are couple tracks people can toss at me and that I can enjoy but I can’t listen to one full album of Power Metal. I just can’t. So yeah,my thoughts on this song are just as you people would have predicted them. Bleh.
4/10Onno: Strapping Young Lad - SkeksisYeah I always get one SYL track per roulette and quite enjoy it and never return to the band ever again. I think the last song was “Love?” and i remember liking it. So here’s Skeksis. Just a ton of riffage combined with insane drumming and Devin’s insane vocals. It does get kinda stale around the end but I did enjoy it. Let’s see if I will like a complete album from SYL…
7.5/10Rattlehead: Havok - The ClericThere’s some damn good melodies here. Surprisingly melodic for a thrash metal track but the vocals just keep it average for me. Eh.
6/10Tom Bombadil: Thoughts Factory - No Way OutOkay,these guys are a DT clone. Pure and simple. They do have okay melodies and all and that keyboard solo wasn’t horrible,but I got nothing out of this song. Also holy crap that vocalist looks awkward in the clip. Think they were on tour with Haken though,good for them. I would see them as an opening act though,this is better than the horrible local black metal band opening for Karnivool. (Fuck that was a horrible gig…)
6/10Lucien: Rob Evan/Sebastian Bach - The World Has Gone InsaneEh,it’s a musical and I’m not huge on musicals. The singing is well done though and the guitar work is pretty good. Just not my taste but yeah I would have loved this couple years ago. This is cheesy and all but it’s on the good side of cheesy so I’ll give it more points than expected. I mean I could listen to it 5 times,that’s an accomplishment right there!
7/10Rankings!
LieLowTheWantedMan - 60
Zantera - 59
Onno - 51
Scorpion - 50
Tyrias - 48
Lucien - 46.5
Rattlehead - 45.5
Sacul - 41.5
Tom Bombadil - 40
FINAL ROUND!Alright guys,this shall be the final round since I’m sure you’re mostly pretty bored of this by now. This is going to be an open round but there’s a catch. Since there’s a huge gap between the last place and the first,I’m going to add in a really dumb rule. For this round, You can send me TWO tracks. And you will be scored out of 20. BUT HERE’S A CATCH. If you send me a song that receives a perfect score,you get 5 bonus points each,making it 30 points in total if you send me 2 perfect tracks. Thus,anyone has a chance to win. Anyways,let’s go!