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Psiogen:
Har har.
Mockery:
Ayreon - Day Twelve: Trauma
Well, for a 15MB download, it wasn't actually a complete waste of traffic usage. Although it's not my usual niche, I'm impressed by this song. It has quite good vocals, powerful atmosphere in places and it's actually intelligible.
I'll say 7/10.
I meant no offense by not reviewing the Edge of Sanity track, I just somehow found myself unable to comment. Too long without sleep i suppose. Now I hear it again, the music is pretty solid, but I don't find it anything amazing, and I'm a bit turned off by the whole 'metal voice becos it's metal' thang.
Another comment: this seems to be a fairly binary thread, alternating between metal fans who find the other stuff too light, and fans of the lighter stuff, who are a bit scared by the metal. I think if you're going to dish out a low score because a track resembles nothing else in your collection, perhaps you should leave it for someone who might appreciate it a bit more...
I'm not saying everyone's doing it, but i think it's happened a couple of times, so don't go jumping down my throat (I am a tiger after all)
For my next trick, I mean track:
A Melbourne band, fairly new
67 Special - Hey There Bomb (5.3MB wma)
Robbo:
Oh, and if you want to know the vocalists on the track:
Eric Clayton (Saviour Machine) as Reason
Mikael Åkerfeldt (Opeth) as Fear
Devon Graves (Dead Soul Tribe, Aslan) as Agony
Irene Jansen (Karma) as Passion
Magnus Ekwall (The Quill) as Pride
Mikael as always brings the greatness in both clean and Death vox.
As for Metal fans finding stuff to light comment, I disagree, it's more a case of them showing no of the instrument focused playing that Metal is about in large.
And this is a forced listening thread, to be listening to stuff you dont know and normally wouldn't. It even workds sometimes. But yes, doing a mass of reviews and calling things total shit is bit a pointless.
Robbo:
--- Quote from: Mockery ---
I meant no offense by not reviewing the Edge of Sanity track, I just somehow found myself unable to comment. Too long without sleep i suppose. Now I hear it again, the music is pretty solid, but I don't find it anything amazing, and I'm a bit turned off by the whole 'metal voice becos it's metal' thang.
--- End quote ---
Didnt notice this last part before. But the Death vocals, they need to be there. Because it's Death Metal and one of the key points that draws Death apart from Thrash and other things is the vocals. Without it, it's not Death. They're a well practiced art and in some cases should just be looked at as an insturment (see Lord Worm and people like him). Also, I invite you to do a two hour show with those vocals for 15 years or so and still be able to speak.
But certainly, there's no set clean vocal style for Metal, some people and great clean vocals, some point. Some people some much, much better doing extreme vox. For Dan, his Death vox is solid and mid range, though not amazingly deep or distorted as great Death vocals are, but his clean vocals are amazin buy any standards.
KharBevNor:
The intro got me into a good mood. The guitars are nice and rockish. The vocalist not quite my thing, but not appaling either. Not very sure about the keyboards, but the bits where it starts rocking harder are pretty damn nice actually. Bit repetitive but it doesn't really show up.
7.8/10. Nice track.
Now, let's just have a nice, safe, all-female band.
Matriarch - Black Apples
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