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#287: Bring Me the Horison ft. BABYMETAL - Kingslayer (3:41):
https://youtu.be/fKyXvNkGQKc

Nominator: Metalmind [14/25 Remaining]

Initial Score: 68.00
Revised Score: 93.3333
Final Score: 68.00

(First Reaction: [BONUS UNRELATED RANKING: Whenever I try to open this song, it plays "SSGKobe - Caddy (Official Video)" as an ad and somehow whenever I try to copy the YouTube link of Kingslayer, it keeps copying the link to the ad--to a point that I actually thought for a moment that you posted the wrong link, but no, it's just my absolute failure at copying things and YouTube making things harder than it needs to be. *coughs*

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zdcptpz-Pg

So... I can't say I care about any of the lyrics in Caddy, at all, but I dig the sound. Leaning towards 64 points for the song? I actually like it a fair amount, though it's definitely something where I'd make a deliberate point of not paying attention to the lyrics and just enjoying the vibes. Okay, back to the song we're talking about after I manage to get the correct link copied...:)

Kingslayer was not part of last year's ranking, though it was one of the extra songs that was listened to and given a preliminary thought on:

An unexpected collaboration and I prefer BMtHs singer when hes not trying to do metal yelling, but i like this. At least 65 points-ish, with more interest in hearing it again at a later date than that score implies.

So, I was kinda setting up for this to be nominated, seeing as I practically asked to hear it again. I'm impressed by how natural Su-metal's English vocals are and how she can switch between English & Japanese effortlessly, I'd say she's easily the best part of this song, Going to raise the score a bit from my very early prediction, take it up to 68 points even.)

!How in the world was this song ever so low?? BMtH is my current favorite band and I'm on a pretty big metalcore kick at the moment... this may not be my favorite song of theirs*, but a second-rate BMtH song is still something I totally love. And I'm way, way more in the mood for angered yelling and screaming, so I think picking a track with more "metal yelling" was ultimately a good idea in the long run.... not quite at the time you actually nominated it, but by the time we got further into the ranking and my tastes shifted to actively wanting more of this.

Babymetal's performance here is fine. They're not exactly the group I'm here for, but they do a fine job and I have no complaints about their half of the song.

*Not sure what my favorite BMtH song is, to be quite honest. Doomed & Happy Song are way up there, but I also got into Avalanche earlier this year (in spite of it having a rather low score at the ranking because it wasn't what I wanted at the time) and I've been playing 1x1 on an endless loop for a while... so quite a few good options for best song.

[Final Thoughts: This is something that I absolutely love when I'm in the mood for it... I'm just not always in the mood for it. Like now, for instance.]

[Later: Sorry; this song was at the top of the list during a period where my playlist was all yelling all the time, but it's a bit harsher than I'm looking for at this exact moment.]

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#286: FireFallsMusic (arr. Yourvinished) - Through the Malachite Forest (2:37):
https://youtu.be/7nNcXWBYDGw

Nominator: NFUN: [9/31 Remaining]

Initial Score: 63.47
Revised Score: 63.47
Final Score: 63.47 [Upgraded to 68.03]

(First Reaction: It's a very nice song (yes, I've said that way too often this ranking, I'll worry about getting a more robust vocabulary another day) and I'm just going to leave this at that for tonight.)

!To no one's surprise, I'll probably leave it at that forever. Still a very nice song though.

[Final Thoughts: Nice, relaxing "mild adventure" theme. Not very exciting, but I don't do excitement.[

[Later: Ooh, I like this one quite a bit today. Moving this up four and a half points-ish.]

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