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Battle Of The Genres- Part 18

BATTLE OF THE GENRES - PART EIGHTEEN /// Beethoven won by one vote over Mozart and Bach. This is the last round of the preliminaries, featuring eight different bands from seven different genres (due to the tie for ambient in the last round). YOU CAN ONLY VOTE FOR ONE BAND. Repeat: YOU CAN ONLY VOTE FOR ONE BAND. Here we go... /// Streetlight Manifesto, despite being added late to the competition, managed to win by a staggering 20 votes over Sublime and Operation Ivy. They move on to the next round, as will one of the bands below... /// DESC RIPTION - Vote for a band that you would like to represent each genre. There are eighteen genres in total, which means eighteen preliminary rounds. Then the representatives from each genre will face off. Which genre/band will win? /// RULES - One vote per member per day (each round lasts 24 hours) - In the event of a tie, a faceoff will occur between the disputed bands - Let's get started
1Isis

REPRESENTING POST-METAL ///
Highest-rated album: Panopticon (4.3 avg. rating) /// "Isis are a metal band from Boston that create incredibly dense music. While their influence is mainly extreme music (metal, hardcore), their music has just as much ambience and atmosphere to it as it does raw aggression and complexity. The band layer different types of sounds into their music to create the thick signature sound that is their own. Isis' vocals are a mix of shouting, screaming and singing. The easiest and most obvious band to compare Isis to is Neurosis."
2Deftones

REPRESENTING NU-METAL ///
Highest-rated album: White Pony (4.3 avg. rating) /// "Masterfully intertwining heavy guitar riffs, whisper-to-scream vocals, and a pounding rhythm section with textural sound effects and keyboards, Deftones' sound is unique and fresh, constantly expanding amongst the stagnant world of their peers."
3Led Zeppelin

REPRESENTING HARD ROCK ///
Highest-rated album: Led Zeppelin IV (4.5 avg. rating) /// "Almost everybody has heard of Led Zeppelin. They might not have heard their music, but they'll know the name. And probably the name of a certain song (you know the one). This is because Led Zeppelin are singly one of the most influential, groundbreaking, and iconic musical ensembles of modern times, and have had a lasting impact on the development of Rock, Hard Rock, and Metal (in particular, drummer John Bonham has been highly instrumental in the development of rock drumming), and their record sales in the US alone number at around 300 milion, placing them second in line in popularity only to the Beatles. "
4The Clash

REPRESENTING OLD-SCHOOL PUNK ///
Highest-rated album: London Calling (4.5 avg. rating) /// "The Clash are often claimed to be one of the greatest rock/punk bands of all time. They formed in 1976, after Joe Strummer left the R&B pub-rock band the 101'ers to join Mick Jones, formerly of the proto-punk band London SS with Paul Simonon."
5Eluvium

REPRESENTING AMBIENT ///
Highest-rated album: Copia (4 avg. rating) /// "Eluvium is the stage name of recording artist Matthew Cooper. He makes a combination of post rock, shoegazer, minimalist, electronic, and piano music."
6Stars Of The Lid

ALSO REPRESENTING AMBIENT ///
Highest-rated album: Carte-De-Visite (4.3 avg. rating) /// "Stars of the Lid is a duo specializing in drone-based ambient music. Their songs are largely beatless soundscapes, composed of droning, effects-treated guitars along with piano, strings, and horns; volume swells and feedback fill the gap of rhythmic instruments, providing dynamic movement within the songs."
7Michael Jackson

REPRESENTING POP ///
Highest-rated album: Thriller (4.3 avg. rating) /// "Alternately known as 'The King of Pop' and 'Wacko Jacko,' few have done more, or had more done to them, to destroy their own legacy. Almost universally acknowledged as a musical genius, Jackson has been dogged in recent years by criticism of his own eccentricity (possibly mental disorder,) reports of extensive plastic surgery and recent allegations of child abuse, of which he was tried and acquitted in 2005."
8Pink Floyd

USER'S CHOICE ///
REPRESENTING PROGRESSIVE ///
Highest-rated album: Wish You Were Here (4.6 avg. rating) /// "Pink Floyd can safely be tagged as one of the most sucessful bands of all time, and even now, some forty years after their debut, they are still loved the world over. They were one of the most important and influentual British progressive rock acts of the seventies (along with Genesis and Yes), and were instrumental in defining the "Space Rock" subgenre of the progressive movement. Worldwide album sales are estimated between 175 and 200 million."
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