From: Psycho_Kenshin | #187
Elvenking - Another Awful Hobs Tales
A song by Elvenking, with the word "awful" in the title. They're doing my work for me here! This is pretty bad, the singer has no power or emotion or anything, the music is bland (although not THAT awful really), there's not much to appeal here. This interlude at 2:00 sounds like I've heard it before in something else, though I can't place where or why. What's with the silence at the end of the video? Shouldn't complain I guess, it's the highlight of the song!
2.5/10
From: Psycho_Kenshin | #188
Powerglove - Mario Minor
Eh, I really don't know how to handle things like this. It's especially hard to try to write a comedic write up of a song that's already totally goofy. I guess I'll say that this gimmick doesn't really work for me here - Mario is *not* one of those video game franchises whose music sounds particularly great on electric guitar. Also, what's with the random addition of something else at the end? Why do all these videos end so weird?!
4/10
From: Black_Hydras | #189
Cormorant - Unearthly Dreamings
>.>
:)
Yeah Cormorant is great, Dwellings was probably my favourite 2011 album. Unearthly Dreamings is not my favourite on the album (10 imaginary points to whoever can guess what is!) but it's still very good. After a solid beginning that sets the tone for what's to come, the section beginning at 2:30 is killer and is the moment where you realize this song kicks ass, because it's pretty much all good from there on. Okay the clean vocal section before the five minute mark isn't that special, but it serves a great lead in to the next part ("burn, burn the ties that bind") which is great as a sort of fake climax, since the song is by no means over yet. I'm kind of in "this part is great" mode for everything that remains now; in fact, paying close enough attention to this song to write about it is actually making me realize it's even better than I gave it credit for. It may have just jumped up to 2nd place on the album. This is getting long so I'll sum it all up by saying this song is great, a strong example of how to do long "epic" metal songs the right way, and anyone who hasn't should be checking out Dwellings right now, very good album by a band that deserves support.
8.5/10
From: LolMyAlt | #190
Dio - Stand Up and Shout
I'm running out of space in this post so I'm going to be brief and say that if you haven't figured out that Dio is god and Holy Diver is a great album yet, you haven't been into metal very long or your brain may be seriously flawed.
7.5/10
From: pxlated | #191
Slice the Cake - Of Gallows
worst band name ever
best deathcore ever (maybe)
Slice the Cake. I like that name. This intro actually starts off pretty good, although it gets worse as it goes and...dear god this is torturous. Whose bright idea was leaving that keyboard in the background anyway, without it this would merely be mediocre...oh, there's the more standard deathcore elements. Painful clean vocals are when I tune out.
1.5/10
From: pxlated | #192
...sorry
What is this I don't even
2/10
--
Mistake you're making - overlooking the fact that we might not want to be saved.