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Re: Puppies Crazy Album Roulette (Send them to the gallows!)
« Reply #560 on: October 29, 2018, 08:35:12 AM »
I had no idea we had other people who liked RHCP on this forum.  :metal While I consider By the Way to be their masterpiece, One Hot Minute, Mothers Milk, and Blood Sugar Sex Magic are all right up there. Californication was a mixed bag.
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Re: Puppies Crazy Album Roulette (Round 3 Listening)
« Reply #561 on: October 29, 2018, 08:37:05 AM »
And here's the completed hangmememes, since no one was guessing  :P

Ariich: Amendfoil – Empyrean and Ophidian
Sacul: Refused – The Shape of Punk to Come A Chimerical Bombination In 12 Bursts
Kattelox: Zeirler – ESC
Evermind: Wolverine – Communication Lost
Stadler: Deconstruction – Deconstruction
Indiscipline: Jonus Hellborg and Shawn Lane – Personae
Elite: Foscor – Les Irreals Visions
Romdrums: VOLA – Inmazes
Jingle: Lost in Thought – Opus Arise
TAC: Agrimonia – Awaken
Parama: The Receiving End of Sirens – The Earth Sings Mi Fa Mi
Lethean: Solefald – Norron Livskunst
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Re: Puppies Crazy Album Roulette (Round 3 Listening)
« Reply #562 on: October 29, 2018, 09:27:06 AM »
Yup, definitely a whole lot of "who the hell is this?" in this round  :lol
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Re: Puppies Crazy Album Roulette (Round 3 Listening)
« Reply #563 on: October 29, 2018, 09:52:19 AM »
Yup, definitely a whole lot of "who the hell is this?" in this round  :lol

Man, you're on a Kelly Carpenter stint, aren't ya?  What's next, Darkology?
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Re: Puppies Crazy Album Roulette (Round 3 Listening)
« Reply #564 on: October 29, 2018, 09:53:59 AM »
Yup, definitely a whole lot of "who the hell is this?" in this round  :lol

Man, you're on a Kelly Carpenter stint, aren't ya?  What's next, Darkology?

I'm not even that big a fan - for example, never heard of Darkology  :rollin
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Re: Puppies Crazy Album Roulette (Round 3 Listening)
« Reply #565 on: October 29, 2018, 12:33:15 PM »
Yeah, six of the bands sent this round I had never heard of before.
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Re: Puppies Crazy Album Roulette (Round 3 Listening)
« Reply #566 on: October 29, 2018, 06:42:59 PM »
A few more impressions to keep y'all sated.

- Sort of lighter, softer, more mid to slower paced, but it is emotionally gripping.
- Fairly diverse, considering the genre's involved.
- This kind of leaves me cold, with no emotional attachment to the music.
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Re: Puppies Crazy Album Roulette (Round 3 Listening)
« Reply #567 on: October 30, 2018, 03:25:55 AM »
third one :metal
Hey dude slow the fuck down so we can finish together at the same time.  :biggrin:
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Re: Puppies Crazy Album Roulette (Round 3 Listening)
« Reply #568 on: October 31, 2018, 12:01:20 AM »
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Re: Puppies Crazy Album Roulette (Round 3 Listening)
« Reply #569 on: October 31, 2018, 12:04:45 AM »
sure hope that isn't mine since the emotional attachment is a big part of why the album rules  :metal

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Re: Puppies Crazy Album Roulette (Round 3 Listening)
« Reply #570 on: October 31, 2018, 05:43:47 PM »
sure hope that isn't mine since the emotional attachment is a big part of why the album rules  :metal
It could be :neverusethis:

Here's the rest of the snippets.

- This is more unique and better played than I thought it would be.
- I really like this vocalist in another band I'm familiar with. I'm confused as to why they picked who they did for backing/secondary vocals and not his other skills....
- This is not what I was expecting from this band based on the genre.
- What if Alice in Chains, Mastodon, Alter Bridge, and Mudvayne decided to collaborate on an album, but not sound like any of their bands.
- This album hits me in a very peculiar way. It's a good way, just....peculiar. It's like a standard prog metal band being directed by Deafheaven or something.
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Re: Puppies Crazy Album Roulette (Round 3 Listening)
« Reply #571 on: October 31, 2018, 05:52:40 PM »
I have no idea which mine is  :lol :2metal:
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Re: Puppies Crazy Album Roulette (Round 3 Listening)
« Reply #572 on: October 31, 2018, 06:01:55 PM »
If the second one is about TREOS, Casey isn't on that album at all  :P

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Re: Puppies Crazy Album Roulette (Round 3 Listening)
« Reply #573 on: October 31, 2018, 06:05:05 PM »
If the second one is about TREOS, Casey isn't on that album at all  :P
Yeah, I'm aware he isn't on that album.
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Re: Puppies Crazy Album Roulette (Round 3 Listening)
« Reply #574 on: October 31, 2018, 06:08:47 PM »
And I have successfully confirmed that snippet is not about my album  :metal

Second to last one is probanly Amendfoil also
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Re: Puppies Crazy Album Roulette (Round 3 Listening)
« Reply #575 on: October 31, 2018, 06:11:53 PM »
And I have successfully confirmed that snippet is not about my album  :metal
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By the way, I've decided there will be 3 eliminations after the EP Round and again after the Greatest Hits round.
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Re: Puppies Crazy Album Roulette (Round 3 Listening)
« Reply #576 on: November 02, 2018, 05:06:12 AM »
don't eliminate me pls
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Re: Puppies Crazy Album Roulette (Round 3 Listening)
« Reply #577 on: November 02, 2018, 08:36:10 AM »
don't eliminate me pls
Well you are currently in the lead, so you would have to royally screw up to get eliminated. Although I wouldn't put it past you  :lol My last roulette you sent either awesome songs or terrible songs.

Anyway, results should start popping up here in the next 10-12 hours. I can say this round has 5 really good albums, 6 decent albums, and 1 that just doesn't work for me.
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Re: Puppies Crazy Album Roulette (Round 3 Listening)
« Reply #578 on: November 02, 2018, 08:37:56 AM »
Oh yeah. I forgot  :lol I also did well in 425's roulette but just got eliminated haha
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Re: Puppies Crazy Album Roulette (Round 3 Listening)
« Reply #579 on: November 02, 2018, 08:44:43 AM »
So there's hope for you yet! :neverusethis:
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Re: Puppies Crazy Album Roulette (Round 3 Listening)
« Reply #580 on: November 02, 2018, 11:27:58 AM »
Calling dibs on the one that doesn't work!

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Re: Puppies Crazy Album Roulette (Round 3 Listening)
« Reply #581 on: November 02, 2018, 12:01:31 PM »
Calling dibs on the one that doesn't work!

It's all yours, bruh.
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Re: Puppies Crazy Album Roulette (Round 3 results filtering in)
« Reply #582 on: November 02, 2018, 07:15:00 PM »
OK, you will get 4 randomly chosen writeups now and then the rest tomorrow and/or Sunday.

Round 3 Results

Solefald - Norrøn livskunst
Lethean
Avant-Garde Metal
Norway


First Impression - This album is just silly

This album is nuts. At first it started out all serious with a great folky metal song with great use of various vocal styles. Then the title track comes in with some pretty intense black metal vocals. I was expecting it, considering the band, I was just lulled in to a false sense of security with the relative lightness of the opening song. The use of the black metal vocals is used well though.
Tittentattenteksti is where the album goes off the rails a bit (a lot). The clean vocals are fine, but what are those harsh vocals? It's either The Chipmunks trying to do black metal vocals or a witch being boiled in oil.... It made me laugh really. I'm sure there's a good song here somewhere, but I couldn't stop laughing long enough to find it. Blackabilly-Stridsljod is just weird. Is this hillbilly black metal? Is this what those guys from Duck Dynasty would listen to if they were in to metal? I guess with a song name like Blackabilly I should have expected this. There are short bursts of brilliance in this song, just not enough to make it more enjoyable than weird.

Now Eukalyptustreet is where the album really shifts gears. This is something entirely different from everything that preceded it and I like it, a lot! It has this jazzy noire sound with this sexy saxophone sprinkled throughout. There's some great use of varying vocal styles to set the different moods of the song and some nice piano to accompany the sax. The rest of the album doesn't really reach the same levels of brilliance of this song, but there are some highlights. For instance, the third part of their Icelandic Odyssey, which is much more familiar to me. About 10 years ago I used to listen to a quite a bit of Solefald with their Red for Fire and Black for Death albums, which are the first 2 parts of their Icelandic Odyssey. I hadn't listened to those albums in quite a few years, but this song brought back some memories of those albums.

Overall this album is quite the mixed bag. There are parts that are fantastically brilliant and parts that made me laugh, and parts that were more just un-listenable.

6.6/10


The Receiving End of Sirens - The Earth Sings Mi Fa Mi
Parama
Alternative Rock
United States

(bonus point band)

First Impression - Interesting mixture of various styles in a relatively basic framework

I am of course somewhat familiar with TREoS, being the band where Casey Crescenzo got his start before leaving to form The Dear Hunter. I only ever listened to their debut album though. Mostly because my wife told me that this album wasn't anywhere close to as good. I wouldn't say it's not as good though (I actually like it slightly more), but it is a bit different stylistically. I'm not sure if the band went in this direction because Casey Crescenzo left or if Casey Crescenzo left because of the direction the band wanted to go. Which is interesting to me, because Casey would go on to explore a lot of the sounds and styles that are present on this album. Although to me Casey has done a better job when exploring these styles in The Dear Hunter. The album definitely isn't bad though, but it does get a little long winded, both in length of the album and length of some of the songs and the vocals tend to lean more towards the standard emo style than I would like. They seem to make the most of the shorter songs. For example, Saturnus is a really really good song clocking in at less than 4 minutes with great hooks, guitar leads, and vocal melodies that aren't too emo. They seem to get in their own way with some of the longer songs. Like The Salesman, The Husband, The Lover; it gets too repetitive. This is also a problem on Wanderers and Pale Blue Dot, but to a lesser extent. The Heir of Empty Breath is really the only longer song that works 100% for me. The only other issue I have with the album

This album has definitely benefited and grown on me with more listens. It has a lot of layers to the music that isn't immediately easy to pick out. It has the depth that I like in music. I could see it growing on me more in the future possibly. If 8-10 minutes were cut from the album and a few of the songs were reworked this could be a 9/10 album, but as is, not so much. Unfortunately I will have to deny you of your bonus points. Nice effort though.

7.7/10 (-1) = 6.7/10 Total Score


Lost in Thought - Opus Arise
Jingle
Progressive Metal
Wales


First Impression - This is just Vanden Plas with Derek Sherinian on keyboards in disguise, right?

So this is a band consisting of Andy Kuntz's brother Dusty Kuntz on vocals, Jeff Loomis' Evil Twin on guitar, Mike Portnoy's younger cousin from the UK on drums, some guy trying to channel Geddy Lee and the bassist from Korn on Bass, and a guy that is obviously Derek Sherinian on keys. Did I get that all right?

Anyway, this band really isn't afraid to wear their influences on their sleeves proudly. They aren't blatantly copying the bands they are emulating and do have their own sound, so it's not a problem.  I Just cant help but notice the obvious Vanden Plas and Derek Sherinian Influences. The vocalist sounds almost exactly like Andy Kuntz at times. I also here bits of Empty Tremor occasionally. The music is mostly good. Lots of cool things to pick out. Like that really cool section about halfway through Blood Red Diamond starting around 2:50 with that really growly/dirty bass tone and the double bass. I Really like the bass tone and how it's mixed in the music throughout the album, but it can get a little repetitive in some songs. The first 4 songs are all pretty bitchin, as well as the last 2. The problems arise with New Times Awaken. It's poorly constructed. The melodies don't work, the vocal lines are awkward, it's disjointed. I just don't like it and it feels super out of place. Then the beginning of Delusional Abyss almost sounds like a remixed version of New Times Awaken, I had to do a double take to make sure I wasn't listening to the same song again. Fortunately it changed up after a bit. The song actually gets really good at about the halfway point. It's just the first half of it didn't sit well with me. The last track Assimulate, Destroy is quite a bit different from the rest of the album. I quite like it, especially to close out the album. It actually feels like a finisher.

This album only has a couple of bad spots. Overall its a solid Progressive Metal release with lots of familiarity to latch on to without being a copycat band.

8/10


Agrimonia - Awaken
TAC
Atmospheric Sludge Metal
Sweden


First Impression - This album has me excited like the first time I heard Moonsorrow. I feel like this is going to be a huge grower.

Not an album I ever would have expected TAC to send me in a roulette. But it seems TAC is paying really close attention to my tastes and music I have been gravitating to lately. This is another in the Atmospheric metal arena with heavy spacey riffs and awesome female vocals/screams/growls. Very similar in style to stuff like Obscure Sphinx, Dreadnought, and Oathbreaker. This though seems to be way more about the incredible and hypnotic guitar riffs that continually drive the music forward. The opening track is riddled with awesome riffs. Then Astray is moved from section to section with what sounds like late nineties post grunge riffs in an early Deafheaven-like atmospheric metal structure. If that sounds weird to you, it is, but it really works. I kept thinking I'd heard similar riffing before, but I couldn't pinpoint the metal band that these riffs were seemingly inspired by. Then it hit me, these aren't metal riffs, these are riffs similar to what bands like Dishwalla, Our Lady Peace, and Candlebox used in their heyday. I digress though, because it's really towards the middle of this song where it gets really good. The rest of the album follows a lot of the same structure, but is varied enough to not become repetitive. Plus there are a lot of subtle nuances throughout the album that you don't immediately pick up on in the first couple listens. This is where the Moonsorrow similarity comes in. These two bands don't really sound alike, but the music of both is very layered with lots of cool little flares to pick out everywhere. I could see me coming back to this album again and again. I'm curious if this is an album you actually really like or if it's something you sent because you knew it would appeal to my tastes or both. Either way it gets high praise and a high score from me!

9.1/10
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Re: Puppies Crazy Album Roulette (Round 3 results filtering in)
« Reply #583 on: November 02, 2018, 07:17:47 PM »
.3 points shy of getting a decent score aww yeah  :metal
salesman is the best song btw

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Re: Puppies Crazy Album Roulette (Round 3 results filtering in)
« Reply #584 on: November 02, 2018, 07:31:25 PM »
Yay!  I'll take it.  Bonus points for accurately picking out my snippet?  mmmmm??  MMMMMM?? ??

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Re: Puppies Crazy Album Roulette (Round 3 results filtering in)
« Reply #585 on: November 02, 2018, 08:24:57 PM »
Praying Zierler gets that upper 8 it deserves or better
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Re: Puppies Crazy Album Roulette (Round 3 results filtering in)
« Reply #586 on: November 03, 2018, 01:05:18 PM »
Yay!  I'll take it.  Bonus points for accurately picking out my snippet?  mmmmm??  MMMMMM?? ??


Your snippet was pretty obvious  :lol

Here's a couple more randomly chosen results!

Jonas Hellborg & Shawn Lane - Personae
Indiscipline
Jazz Rock
United States


First Impression - This kind of leaves me cold, with no emotional attachment to the music

Unlike the previous two instrumental albums you sent me so far, this one leaves me feeling pretty much nothing. Sure the music is technically very good and I can appreciate what each member is doing here, but in the end, once the album is over, I have no desire to really go back and listen to it again. I'm not sure how much of this is improvised, to me it sounds about half and half. There are obvious sections that are improvised because they don't come together very well. At times it feels quite disjointed. I feel like this is an album that sacrifices good melodies and song writing for pure wankery. I do really enjoy some of the stuff that each person is doing here. Some of the guitar solos are really fantastic, I love the bass tone and the slap bass technique that's used occasionally, and the drummer is very impressive throughout. I would love to see what they could come up with if they were to focus more on solid song writing.

This was kind of a swing and a miss for you. Better luck next time.

5.8/10


VOLA - Inmazes
Romdrums
Djenty Progressive Metal
Denmark


First Impression - Fairly diverse, considering the genre's involved.

This may sound weird, but I hear influences of stuff like Frost*(The Frost* sound really comes through in the keyboards), Arena, and Mew along with the obvious influences of Leprous and Meshuggah. I think I has something to do with the melodies in the music and vocals. And what great melodies they are. I think this has the best melodies of any Djent album ever made (or at least of the ones I've heard (and I've heard a lot)), but that isn't really saying much since most Djent doesn't focus on melody. Having said that, the melodies here are super good. I think I've said the word melody enough now....Lots of memorable stuff. Like the keyboards in Stray the Skies mixed with those vocals, it's just heavenly. There's even a touch of Depeche Mode in there too, but that may be reaching a bit. Typically Djent doesn't really have much that is memorable, you know something that you could hum or sing to yourself, but this has been invading my brain with it's infectious music all week. I think this is all helped because the djenty grooves that are the back bone of this album are also pulled off with great skill and attention to detail as far as song writing goes. It all blends together so well that, even though they pulled from so many styles of music, it doesn't sound disjointed or contrived. It may be the first Djent album that I could call beautiful.

Now on to the bad. The vocals at times are annoying. Specifically in Owls, although the piano melody in this song is absolutely beautiful. Also there are fade outs all over this album. I hate fade outs. Just finish the damn song! Not too many bad things all said and done. This may be my new favorite Djent album and I can see me listening to this for a while.

8.7/10
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Re: Puppies Crazy Album Roulette (Round 3 results filtering in)
« Reply #587 on: November 03, 2018, 08:02:39 PM »

Agrimonia - Awaken
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First Impression - This album has me excited like the first time I heard Moonsorrow. I feel like this is going to be a huge grower.

Not an album I ever would have expected TAC to send me in a roulette. But it seems TAC is paying really close attention to my tastes and music I have been gravitating to lately. This is another in the Atmospheric metal arena with heavy spacey riffs and awesome female vocals/screams/growls. Very similar in style to stuff like Obscure Sphinx, Dreadnought, and Oathbreaker. This though seems to be way more about the incredible and hypnotic guitar riffs that continually drive the music forward. The opening track is riddled with awesome riffs. Then Astray is moved from section to section with what sounds like late nineties post grunge riffs in an early Deafheaven-like atmospheric metal structure. If that sounds weird to you, it is, but it really works. I kept thinking I'd heard similar riffing before, but I couldn't pinpoint the metal band that these riffs were seemingly inspired by. Then it hit me, these aren't metal riffs, these are riffs similar to what bands like Dishwalla, Our Lady Peace, and Candlebox used in their heyday. I digress though, because it's really towards the middle of this song where it gets really good. The rest of the album follows a lot of the same structure, but is varied enough to not become repetitive. Plus there are a lot of subtle nuances throughout the album that you don't immediately pick up on in the first couple listens. This is where the Moonsorrow similarity comes in. These two bands don't really sound alike, but the music of both is very layered with lots of cool little flares to pick out everywhere. I could see me coming back to this album again and again. I'm curious if this is an album you actually really like or if it's something you sent because you knew it would appeal to my tastes or both. Either way it gets high praise and a high score from me!

9.1/10

Glad you liked it, Pup!

To answer your question, this album is amazing. It came up on my new album feed a while back and I saved it on Spotify. I ended up buying the CD proper (only $8.91) on Amazon.

I didn't think you were that crazy about growls, but I've been noticing what you've been sending lately. Musically this is such a great album, I figured what the hell. Learning to at least tolerate the vocals has really unearthed some great bands.
would have thought the same thing but seeing the OP was TAC i immediately thought Maiden or DT related
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TAC got a higher score than me in the electronic round? Honestly, can I just drop out now? :lol

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Re: Puppies Crazy Album Roulette (Round 3 results filtering in)
« Reply #588 on: November 04, 2018, 12:22:34 AM »
Yeah, three of my top five albums of all time are almost entirely harsh vocals.
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Re: Puppies Crazy Album Roulette (Round 3 results filtering in)
« Reply #589 on: November 04, 2018, 12:33:08 AM »
what albums  :corn

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Re: Puppies Crazy Album Roulette (Round 3 results filtering in)
« Reply #590 on: November 04, 2018, 12:43:42 AM »
Moonsorrow's Verisakeet sits at number 2. Agalloch's Ashes Against the Grain is at number 4. BtBaM's The Great Misdirect is at number 5.
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Re: Puppies Crazy Album Roulette (Round 3 results filtering in)
« Reply #591 on: November 04, 2018, 12:44:36 AM »
TGM is  :metal
what are the other two in the top 5 though  :lol

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Re: Puppies Crazy Album Roulette (Round 3 results filtering in)
« Reply #592 on: November 04, 2018, 12:47:51 AM »
Marillion's Marbles (the 2 cd version, I don't know why the single disc version is a thing) is number 1 and Tool's Lateralus is number 3.
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Re: Puppies Crazy Album Roulette (Round 3 results filtering in)
« Reply #593 on: November 04, 2018, 01:22:26 AM »
TGM is  :metal
what are the other two in the top 5 though  :lol

AAtG is amazing. Might not be quite as high for me, but definitely Top 10 as well, or juuuust outside it.

In conclusion: your music taste is bad and you're bad.  :millahhhh

Marillion's Marbles (the 2 cd version, I don't know why the single disc version is a thing) is number 1

A-fucking-men. "Yeah, let's leave out the best song on the record on a single disc version, that sounds like a good idea." What
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Re: Puppies Crazy Album Roulette (Round 3 results filtering in)
« Reply #594 on: November 04, 2018, 09:11:08 AM »
TGM is  :metal
what are the other two in the top 5 though  :lol

AAtG is amazing. Might not be quite as high for me, but definitely Top 10 as well, or juuuust outside it.

In conclusion: your music taste is bad and you're bad.  :millahhhh

:lol

Also, everyone can start sending for round 4 if you haven't already. I'll have the rest of the round 3 results up at some point today.
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