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blindsuperhero:
--- Quote from: KharBevNor ---But it's a tortuously clever song about people who sell drugs to children! Can you not even appreciate the word-play, the internal rhymes, the cadences and alliterations? This is clever bloody stuff, and relevant too.
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It doesn't seem at all great to me. If you want to read and example of how word-play, internal rhymes, blah is done properly I suggest reading The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock by T. S. Eliot
KharBevNor:
--- Quote from: ironoxide887 ---I think that word play should be just that, play. If you want to play with words, don't make it about killing little kids.
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It's not exactly about killing little kids.
What you're saying is you would like the whole world sugar coated? Ah well. I'll wait for a bit before posting another of their songs, next time from the era when they got really heavy on the fiddle.
Absolutely nothing beats a guitar vs fiddle duelling solo.
And duh, I'm an english student, I've read shiteloads of Elliot. He's ok.
I prefer Walkyier, tbh. Not on the page maybe, but definitely when it's sung. It just comes so alive.
La Creme:
I really think this was very VERY good metal. Heavy, lyrical, had some major chords (fuck metal bands that don't have the occasional harmonious major tone, like most hardcore bands, though they're not metal). I liked it a lot and will be checking out much more of Skyclad's stuff.
Madrugada - Yoshida Brothers
Though this was trying a bit too hard to be funky, it was still pretty awesome. I liked the use of that traditional-asian instrument sounding thing in place of a guitar or sax. Very chill. The drumming was really sterotypical and boring for a funk, unfortunately. The part that starts just before the 3-minute mark, where most of the instruments drop out was pretty nice. The instrument wasn't too fit for improv-soloing, but that's ok because it was a decent solo.
Meh. 7/10
Now, a fusion explolsion of awesome straight from the bad-ass bronx:
Break You Ankle Punk
by Mephiskapheles
http://s30.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=3B5J21B8V3WPL2YR20JA1JTS1S
(The singer isn't great, but he's very Bronx, and he keeps up their Satanic-Ska image very well. He looks like a crack-head-Ethiopian on a pen-knife killing spree. And he screams like crazy on some of the tracks...)
KharBevNor:
--- Quote from: La Creme ---I really think this was very VERY good metal. Heavy, lyrical, had some major chords (fuck metal bands that don't have the occasional harmonious major tone, like most hardcore bands, though they're not metal). I liked it a lot and will be checking out much more of Skyclad's stuff.
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Skyclad are very upbeat, musically. If you want some serious guitar goodness, check out their first album, 'Wayward Sons of Mother Earth'. The kind of thrash you'd expect from what basically started out as the British Thrash supergroup: ex members of Sabbat, Satan and Pariah = goodness.
Later on they get more folky, with the fiddle and all, then achieve a more even metal/folk split by the last album they did with Walkyier, Folkemon, though their later albums draw a much heavier influence from NWOBHM and earlier proto-metal/hard rock stuff. A Semblance of Normality is more heavy folk rock, but still okay, though the lyrics aren't as good.
*downloads your track*
KharBevNor:
Hmmm, didn't quite know what to make of this one. Kind of twinkly little intro, then a horn section. I don't really like ska, but this wasn't too infernally annoying. The groove did not make me want to move I must say. What was this a fusion of exactly, apart from ska-punk? Actually, I did kind of hear some record scratches in the background?
Er, 4/10. tbh. Not my cup of tea and whatnot.
Now, this is a long one, but very awesome. One of the bands that it makes me sad went crap:
Cradle of Filth - Queen of Winter, Throned
Cradle of Filth at their best, epic, cold, and just the right side of cheesy, inventing every cliche.
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