425's Roulette v5: Short break

[425]

Alright, I'll post impressions once I'm off work.

[LithoJazzoSphere]

Soupytwist - Seven Spires?
vmadera00 - The Cyberiam?
Elite - King Crimson?

[425]

Yep.

Complete set of submissions, reorganized by pool:

Pool A:
Lethean: Katatonia - Evidence / Lacquer / Neon Epitaph
Sacul: Deftones - Swerve City / Entombed / Pompeji
senecadawg2: The Killers - West Hills / Runaway Horses / In the Car Outside

Pool B:
Reaper KK: Ola Englund - Balegmah / Sun and the Moon
twosuitsluke: King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard - Robot Stop / Magenta Mountain / Slow Jam 1
wolfking: Angel Dust - Bleed / Cross of Hatred / Freedom Awaits

Pool C:
Elite: King Crimson - Fallen Angel (Live 2017) / Epitaph (Live 2017)
Buddyhunter1: VOLA - Applause of a Distant Crowd / Smartfriend / Inside Your Fur
HOF: Sweet Billy Pilgrim - Kalypso / We Are the Bright Carvers

Pool D:
kingshmegland: Mile Marker Zero - The Architect / 2020 / Propaganda
Stadler: Concrete Blonde - Joey / Little Wing / Lullabye
Vmadera00: The Cyberiam - In SaN1tY / The Moral Landscape

Pool E:
LithoJazzoSphere: Autumn - Altitude / Old Fuel
soupytwist: Seven Spires - This God Is Dead / Bury You
Tomislav95: Dead Letter Circus - The Mile / Here We Divide / This is the Warning

Pool F:
Cyril: CHVRCHES - Leave a Trace / Science/Visions / How Not to Drown
romdrums: Toto - Better World / Jake to the Bone
TAC: Lost Domain - Silent Cry / Rise of Isolash

[TAC]

Interesting batch of tracks.

I'm already third in my pool.

[Crow]

and each pool's letter is indicative of the score it's getting

[TAC]

Then I'm really F'd.

[425]

Interesting batch of tracks.

I'm already third in my pool.

I listed them alphabetically (except for Pool C where I messed up), so that's really your fault for not changing your name to Austin or Aaron.

[King Postwhore]

Vmadera00, I'm always chatting with Frank Lucas on Facebook.  He's awesome.

[TAC]

Who is Frank Lucas?

[LithoJazzoSphere]

Frank Lucas, wow, another name I haven't heard in forever.  He used to post on the Jordan Rudess forum.  I see he's the keyboardist in The Cyberiam now. 

At least I'm not in pool C or F.  But I might come out last anyway, two of those DLC tracks are killer, and Seven Spires is growing on me.  Risky pick though. 

[Lonk]

Vmadera00, I'm always chatting with Frank Lucas on Facebook.  He's awesome.

That's cool!

I didn't know about them until a few months ago when Keith Semple opened for Riverside. He played stripped down versions of their songs. I checked out the studio stuff and was really impressed. Good stuff 

[LithoJazzoSphere]

We have a winner!

Not a band I know much (re : anything about).  As you are in my group and therefore one of my mortal enemies for at least a couple of weeks, I hope they suck 

They might, but I'm hoping he hates the growls and blasts in Seven Spires. 

[Buddyhunter1]

I'm hoping Epitaph is too depressing for 425 

[LithoJazzoSphere]

In round A I'm obviously rooting for Katatonia, even though they don't completely fit his criteria.  Deftones have some outstanding tracks, though the selected ones aren't really favorites of mine.  The Killers aren't my sort of thing, though the guitar arpeggios on "Mr. Brightside" are beautiful and fun to play (but that song isn't in the pool). 

[King Postwhore]

Vmadera00, I'm always chatting with Frank Lucas on Facebook.  He's awesome.

That's cool!

I didn't know about them until a few months ago when Keith Semple opened for Riverside. He played stripped down versions of their songs. I checked out the studio stuff and was really impressed. Good stuff 

I saw them at Progstock in 2018.  They were fantastic live.

[Crow]

i hope 425 likes chvrches 

[Lethean]

In round A I'm obviously rooting for Katatonia, even though they don't completely fit his criteria. 

Obviously.

[LithoJazzoSphere]

i hope 425 likes chvrches 

They're a really curious phenomenon.  They don't really have anything to do with the prog world, but a lot of prog fans eat them up.  Of all the different synth/electropop groups, I'm not sure why them and not others, but their first and latest albums are fantastic. 

[Crow]

the joke is i know 425 likes chvrches and i'm surprised (but not disappointed) they weren't banned 
i like all their albums except the one nobody likes tho

[LithoJazzoSphere]

"Deliverance" is an amazing song, but I haven't had the motivation to go back to the rest of Love Is Dead in quite awhile.  I also want to revisit Every Open Eye again sometime.  I listened to it a number of times when it came out, but it just didn't click with me like it did with others. 

[soupytwist]

We have a winner!

Not a band I know much (re : anything about).  As you are in my group and therefore one of my mortal enemies for at least a couple of weeks, I hope they suck 

They might, but I'm hoping he hates the growls and blasts in Seven Spires. 

I don't know 425 at all, aside from the Kamelot avatar, so my first pick has Roy Khan as guest vocalist - I'm hoping that is more or a positive than the growls are a negative, or I'm screwed!!

[LithoJazzoSphere]

I was wondering whether that's the only extreme metal track Khan has done, but I notice he's worked with Crest of Darkness, so no. 

[soupytwist]

I was wondering whether that's the only extreme metal track Khan has done, but I notice he's worked with Crest of Darkness, so no.

Kamelot themselves have the odd growl (like liar, liar) but I think they are all in the Tommy era.

[TAC]

the joke is i know 425 likes chvrches and i'm surprised (but not disappointed) they weren't banned 
i like all their albums except the one nobody likes tho

Then whoever the hell sent me a CHVRCHES song must be from that album because it might've been the worst thing I've ever been sent in a roulette.

[Lethean]

I was wondering whether that's the only extreme metal track Khan has done, but I notice he's worked with Crest of Darkness, so no.

Kamelot themselves have the odd growl (liar, liar) but I think they are all in the Tommy era.

Noooo...  March of Mephisto should never be forgotten.

[Crow]

the joke is i know 425 likes chvrches and i'm surprised (but not disappointed) they weren't banned 
i like all their albums except the one nobody likes tho

Then whoever the hell sent me a CHVRCHES song must be from that album because it might've been the worst thing I've ever been sent in a roulette.

nah that's just a side-effect of you being an old man
i have no clue what song was sent i'm just gonna assume it was a good one

[TAC]

the joke is i know 425 likes chvrches and i'm surprised (but not disappointed) they weren't banned 
i like all their albums except the one nobody likes tho

Then whoever the hell sent me a CHVRCHES song must be from that album because it might've been the worst thing I've ever been sent in a roulette.

nah that's just a side-effect of you being an old man
i have no clue what song was sent i'm just gonna assume it was a good one

Going through my documents, it wasn't sent to me, but it was during K-lox's roulette's (which I apparently replaced you halfway through) second round by these two:

Bolsters: CHVRCHES
1. The Mother We Share
2. Gun
3. Graffiti
4. Wonderland
5. Never Say Die

Shadow Ninja 2.0: CHVRCHES
1. The Mother We Share
2. Lies
3. Clearest Blue
4. Leave a Trace


These were my two Cat-pressions for these songs.


CHVCHES



CHVCHES 2

[425]

I was wondering whether that's the only extreme metal track Khan has done, but I notice he's worked with Crest of Darkness, so no.

Kamelot themselves have the odd growl (liar, liar) but I think they are all in the Tommy era.

Noooo...  March of Mephisto should never be forgotten.

Seriously, I'm almost convinced to put soupytwist last just for forgetting March of Mephisto and Memento Mori.

Growls aren't automatically a negative, folks. They often will be, but they can be a positive.

[soupytwist]

I was wondering whether that's the only extreme metal track Khan has done, but I notice he's worked with Crest of Darkness, so no.

Kamelot themselves have the odd growl (liar, liar) but I think they are all in the Tommy era.

Noooo...  March of Mephisto should never be forgotten.

Seriously, I'm almost convinced to put soupytwist last just for forgetting March of Mephisto and Memento Mori.

Growls aren't automatically a negative, folks. They often will be, but they can be a positive.

Lol.  Fair point!.....and if you rank me last because of it i'm sure I'll not be bitter and send you the worst music I can find for rounds 2 & 3 - knowing you'll have to listen to it at least three times ☺️

[Crow]

bolsters did actually send quite a lot of love is dead, but both of them sent the best chvrches song so 
i think SN wins that matchup by default tho bcuz i do not know love is dead very well

[LithoJazzoSphere]

Hmm, I had forgotten about those songs, but I'm a pretty casual Kamelot fan.  "When the Lights Are Down" is always the song I come back to from TBH.  "March of Mephisto" is cool as well, another nice Johansson solo I hadn't remembered, but Shagrath's vocals are kind of buried on the track, so no wonder I didn't recall them. 

"The Mother We Share" is one of my favorite CHVRCHES tracks.  "Lies" is great too.  "Gun" took awhile to grow on me, but I like it now.  The others are just ok for me, they have many others I prefer. 

[Elite]

I'm hoping Epitaph is too depressing for 425 

I actually went with the live versions (go listen to those, they're on the 'Meltdown' album) for that reason. Really cool versions of both tracks. There's a bunch of awesome renditions of King Crimson tunes on that one, but I could only do 15 minutes, which was roughly these two tracks combined.

[425]

Alright, here's one set of impressions. I'm trying to balance being too vague and being too specific. I figure I'll do these in batches of six. Note that there's just one impression for each submission. Sometimes this will focus on a specific song, sometimes on the submission as a whole.

Also, I haven't kept up with what best practices are for impressions: Do people like it when the host confirms guesses as correct or incorrect, or is it better to leave it a mystery?

First six below.


They clearly have their own distinct sound, but not sure I like the vocals enough for them to stand out within this genre.

Songs of this particular type can struggle to be memorable to me, but these songs caught my interest right off the bat.

This is definitely the best foot forward of a band that I’ve had mixed feelings about. Not sure it'll be enough.

This has the sound I sort of expect to hear submitted by this person, but with a proggy slant I quite like.

I like this singer a lot. Her performance hits all the right emotional beats.

Much more sedate and melody-focused than I remembered this artist being, which is tentatively a good thing.

[Sacul]

I hope you like Deftones' singer a lot

[Tomislav95]

the joke is i know 425 likes chvrches and i'm surprised (but not disappointed) they weren't banned 
i like all their albums except the one nobody likes tho

I like Love is dead