Note to Bartender: "Korrozia Metalla" is a russian punk-rock group that I personally hate...
Anyways, how come you even know about the band? You russian or something?

Yeah, I know; Russian, used to play thrash, now play a weird combination of several things. NS themes in later years as well, I think.

I'm not Russian, I just heard about them somewhere and downloaded a few songs. Why do you hate them?

[B]Farmakon - Loosely of Amoebas[/B]

Songs starts off fast, typical Gothenburg type of stuff. Nothing really special here, the guitars are a bit above averages, that's about it.

0:49 A huge dive bomb that leads into a thrashy riff.

01:06 the music gets a little 'softer' along with clean vocals and a lead solo that accompanies the clean vocals. I like this part alot.

At about 01:35 the music stops, it's just clean vocals and drums, the vocals are very hard to hear. Then in comes some progressive/jazz/funk riff out of seemingly nowhere. Along with an odd jazz solo (guitar).

At 2:22 the song returns to the opening riff, this time along with vocals from the start.

At 3:06 more jazz along with Distortion guitar interludes. I like this part alot.

At 3:45, there is a solo with just chords behind it. The chords actually remind me of some catchy metalcore song. Soon clean vocals come in along with the guitar solo still in the background.

I give this song a 7/10. I liked the jazz/clean parts alot, but i didn't much like that opening riff. It felt like there was just something missing, i would look for more stuff by them though.

Songs...
Vintersorg - Om Regnbågen Materialiserades (Progressive folk black metal-ish)
Persuader - The Hunter (Awesome Power Metal)

Both of them are readily available on my soulseek, (Per Ardua Ad Astra)

I wish i had come earlier so I could have reviewed the kickass band Burzum.

dibs


Last Ditch Effort, you are only supposed to review songs and bands you haven't heard.


Per Ardua, get on Soulseek. :evil: (can't find songs)

Revoked. I don't have time. :(

Oh... I'm sorry, I forgot the magic foun in punctuation... I meant - ... A russian punk-rock group, that I personally hate...
I meant I hate russian punk, it's nothing personal with Metal Corosion... But, well, if you understood the words, and/or listened to more classic russian rock bands, I think you would understand me... Not mentioning the fact I badly detaste punk whatsoever...

Anyways, I would dibs, but I'll be here only tomorrow afternoon, so I guess it would be stolen anyways...

EDIT: Scratch that, found a source. Dibs.

Never heard or heard of the band before, except for Per Ardua's frequent mentioning of them.
[b]Vintersorg - Om Regnbågen Materialiserades[/b] - 5:00

Starts off with a pretty cool, slow intro, plenty of crashing cymbals. Regular drum beat comes in around 0:23.

0:40 or so - vocals come in, clean and male. Sounds like he's speaking a language that I don't, but he's pretty good.

A chorus maybe, at abour 1:30. The instruments are definitely playing slightly differently anyway. Some backing vocals at about 1:55; I like the main riff of this song.

Around 2:10, there's a calmer mid-section; prettily picked guitar, very nice. Vocals come in, slightly more of a singing voice than before. The language sounds like Polish, though I can only guess that because I know some Polish people.

3:25, the calmer section finishes properly, and there's some multiple person, almost chanted vocals, followed by a very nice solo (high pitched and dramatic).

The calmer section vocals and guitar picking return after this, and this is rather unexpectedly what the song finishes on. Wasn't expecting that, but it was a decent ending.

8.5/10 I liked the guys voice in particular.

[b]Would I listen to more of the same band?[/b] Yup.

Songs:
Arghoslent - [i]The Purging Fires of War[/i] (melodic death metal)
Mannhai - [i]Spender[/i] (stoner rock)
Ben Harper - [i]When it's Good[/i] (blues/jam)
Blues Traveler - [i]Optimistic Thought[/i] (blues/rock)
Winds - [i]What is Beauty?[/i] (symphonic metal, plenty of strings)
Immolation - [i]Those Left Behind[/i] (technical/brutal death metal)
Kalmah - [i]Heros to Us[/i] (CoB-esque metal)
Pestilence - [i]Twisted Truth[/i] (technical death)
Axis of Perdition - [i]Ruined Nation Awakens[/i] or [i]To Walk the Corridors of Hell[/i] (black metal, with techno/electronic influence)
Thirst - [i]State of High Piss Off[/i] (surprisingly enjoyable hard rock)

All available from me via Soulseek or MSN.

Dibs
By the way, Vintersorg is Sweden, he's singing in Swedish. His voice is quite good isn't it? :)

[QUOTE=Per Ardua Ad Astra]Dibs
By the way, Vintersorg is Sweden, he's singing in Swedish. His voice is quite good isn't it? :)[/QUOTE]

I like Mr. V's newer style of vocals rather than the deeper voicings he did in the swedish lyrical era of the band. Very excellent vocalist though.

The song Bartender reviewed was from 'Cosmic Genesis.' On this album he's sort of in a transition between his swedish era and his newer stuff. Only a few songs off 'Cosmic Genesis' are in Swedish.

I know what album it was on. I consider that part of the old vintersorg era: he still had a decent amount of stuff in swedish, still used a drum machine, and wasn't too too prog yet.

I suppose I'm only used to hearing Swedish growled and yelled at me, and yeah, he's got a good voice.

Recommended album please, either of you?

All of them...
'Tjill Falls' and 'Cosmic Genesis' are both excellent, i hear the new album 'The Focusing Blur' is excellent as well, but i haven't yet had a chance to hear it.

The Focusing Blur is hands down my favorite album that Vintersorg has sung on, followed closely by Borknagar's Epic

[B]Axis of Perdition - Ruined Nation Awakens[/B]

Starts off with a clip from the Matrix. 'It was us that scorched the sky'
This is followed by blasting guitars along with drums, and a nice scream.

00:51 is when i believe the verse starts, a guitar riff that is sort of drowned out by the vocals and the extremely loud drums.

At about 1:15 the vocalist puts a weird effect on his voice, i dig it.
At about 1:45 there is a short solo, followed by a slower riff with screams over it.
This slow riff does not last long as it is bombarded by speed, with drums full of crashes and guitars.

2:32 the vocalist puts the weird swell effect on his voice again, i'm thinking this part is the chorus. This is followed by the short solo.

At 3:09 the music stops and a clip comes in (i don't know what the clip is from) it is extremely short. The music stays slow for a while.

At about 3:30 the music becomes a bit more industrial, with screams and blaring double bass.

At 3:56 another clip, I don't know what this clip is from but it fits perfectly with the music. "I'm getting strange readings in here."

I give this song a 7/10. It was utter chaos, but i enjoyed it. The vocals were good, the guitar riffs were good, but the drums were a little loud. I would check out more songs by Axis of Perdition


[B]Songs...[/B]
Enslaved - 'As fire swept clean the earth' or 'The Dead Stare' (Viking metal with progressive elements)
Persuader - The Hunter (Awesome Power Metal)
Arcturus - Alone (Avant garde metal)

Dibs

Axis of Perdition are only two guys, and neither of them is a drummer, so the drums are programmed, which is probably why they sound a little loud. I'm hoping they get the mix right for the future though.

Interesting Arcturus choice Per Ardua

Arcturus - Alone

Starts out epic kind of, but 5 seconds in everything explodes, running double bass pedal everything

15 seconds in the drummer starts to do a really really fast punk riff, but it's so fast it's not punk

25 seconds in the vocals come in, there not bad, reminds me of a circus for some reason:confused: Everything is more soft now.

Around 55 seconds in a piano I think starts to play and it makes the overall sound softer.

1:18 the guitars start going fast again along with the drumming, the drummmer is continuely gunning on his double.

2:08 a little solo comes in for the guitar, it's nifty, the lyrics are a little softer. Its a good solo as I listen to it more.

2:53 everything seems to quiet down except for the bass guitar and drums and you can hear the electric in the backround. This reminds for a sort of "build up" type tune

The song continues like it did before, and it just ends with the singer saying a phrase

It is 4:44 long

I would give a 6/10 and I probably won't be downloading more songs from them, I didn't like the vocals all that much

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Haste the Day - American Love (hardcore, some good breakdowns and an awesome singing voice)

On Broken Wings - A Lazarus Envy (Metalcore, with a weird sounding breakdown)

Underoath - When the Sun Still Sleeps (I don't what category, probably hardcore/emo, good singing voice)

Bump, come on guys/girls

I would take dibs, but i know all of those songs, and on some personal advise, id suggest checking out more arcturus, i know you said you didnt like the signer much, but all in all he is one of the most talented singers out there, that song just didn't show it so much.

Edit: the big stupid post was deleted, so the first few sentences of my post were also deleted.

[QUOTE=X12ouncesofhateX]I would take dibs, but i know all of those songs, and on some personal advise, id suggest checking out more arcturus, i know you said you didnt like the signer much, but all in all he is one of the most talented singers out there, that song just didn't show it so much.

Edit: the big stupid post was deleted, so the first few sentences of my post were also deleted.[/QUOTE]

Exactly, the song didn't show it, I am only reviewing that song, not the whole artist. In that song, I didn't like it. He probably is a good singer in other songs, but not that one IMO.

[QUOTE=iliketoplaydrums10111]Exactly, the song didn't show it, I am only reviewing that song, not the whole artist. In that song, I didn't like it. He probably is a good singer in other songs, but not that one IMO.[/QUOTE]

I know, but thats why i suggested you delve a little deeper into the band :thumb:

[QUOTE=X12ouncesofhateX]I know, but thats why i suggested you delve a little deeper into the band :thumb:[/QUOTE]

Thanks for the advice. I would have..maybe but I couldn't get any other song from Arcturus and that song took a half hour to download when normally it takes 30 seconds.

O well, thanks for the advice though

dibs

Underoath - When the Sun Sleeps

Starts off with calm guitars and some weird spacy effect in the background. Drums enter, I'm liking this a lot. Violins too. Awesome intro.

The guy starts screaming and singing, like a little screaming and then a little singing. I love his singing voice, but I'm not too big of a fan of the screaming. Distorted riff, while the chorus comes in. The guy is a really talented singer, if he would just lay off the screaming.

New riff, pretty good, melodic and slow. The guitars sound really good, they mix between clean and distorted and form a cool melody. The violins in the background really makes the song stand out.

Chorus again, still good. The vocalist holds a tone for a pretty long time while the song calms down. This part is very cool, because now he's just singing with drums and muted guitars in the background. Here we come towards a climax, the guitars are building up and we enter the chorus yet again.

He sings a duet with himself with screaming and regular vocals which I found pretty cool. The screaming reminds me of early In Flames, like Lunar Strain. I'm getting kinda used to it now. We go towards the end which fades out with violins and guitar.

Very good song, much better then I expected. I will probably look out for more of their songs because they have a very talented vocalist
8/10

In Flames - Man Made God
In Flames - Zombie Inc
Children of Bodom - Touch Like Angel of Death Tokyo Live

dibs

COB - Touch like the Angel of Death


My first thoghts about his song is that at the start it sounds more like a ballad which I ofund strange for a COB song, but soon we are into the fast guitars and catchy tune that we all no and love.

The solos in this song are mindblowing and really get the atmosphere going. The corwd are really into the song and you can tell they are loving every minute. And teh interaction with the audience is great aswell.


overall 7/10

Vehemence - Darkness is Comfort
Dark At Dawn - Maid of Stone