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Edit: Undibs, taking to long to download. It's ETA is like 5 hours or something.

you have to check the songs I listed, if the links don't work, then download them off Soulseek.

I called dibs and then reviewed on the last one, so f[B]u[/B]cking go by the songs I posted.

[SIZE=4]The choices are:[/SIZE]

Grey Daze - What's In The Eyes (Rock)
Simplistic. - High (Alternative)
Beck - Where It's At (Alternative)

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[b]Beck - Where It's At[/b]

Smooth funky intro, a bit hip hop, a bit Sublime.. pretty laid back

Hey... "Two turntables and a microphone..." I've heard this song once before on the radio.
The chourus is a bunch of people saying "where it's at" then the above line. The same drumbeat remains but there is industrial screeches and stuff along with it.

An 80's electronic bit breaks up the funky bit, for just one bar.
Then some strange samples including "that was a good drum break"

It does the same things again, not in any particular order, but flowing well all the same. Lots of random humourous samples.

In the middle theres a quieting, with a sax solo. Flanged vocals and just a drum beat.

Then a section for solos, theres a guitar, an organ, then another guitar going randomcore. All over this laid back beat. And it fades out on that loop with the random solo.


The genre mixing was pretty good as the flow between everything was done well.
I haven't heard very much Beck yet, I've read that he mixes all sorts of stuff well, and so far I can only agree with that. It was good, laid back, and I do like the genre mixing. Some of the random bits get to me, but not very much. Nothing really super special going for it.
8.5/10

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[b]Eluveitie - Lament[/b] - celtic metal, you could get Orô too, it’s the intro piece to Lament, but Lament works as a standalone song

[b]Alarum - Reconditioned[/b] - technical jazz/death metal (search on [url]www.mp3.com.au[/url])

[b]Gordian Knot - Sing Deep Mountain[/b] - instrumental melodic technical metal. 9 mins

[b]The Cruel Sea - Better Get A Lawyer[/b] - blues rock

[b]Wumpscut - Black Death (French Concept)[/b] - heavy industrial/ambient techno

the return of the elitist *******:

dibs :evil:

going to have to un dibs it here a bit, cant get any song to download completely that i do not already know without someone signing off on me on soulseek. ill keep at it though, and redibs if a song finishes

song is just about done downloading, dibs

[b]Eluveitie - [i]Lament[/i][/b]

Starts out fast with celtic instruments. A bit intersting, and the vocals come in clean shortly thereafter, and quickly change to harsh. The clean vocals were a bit on the lame side, but the harsh ones are not bad.

Slows down a bit, with a fiddle part, speeds back up into another verse after a few measures. It reminds me a bit of at the gates with celtic instruments up to this point.

The slowed down fiddle part returns, which I am assuming now is the chorus of the song, although there are no words for it. This time it is accompanied by some sort of flute halfway through it.

The song breaks down after this with bass, fiddle, drums, and flute. As the flute stops, the guitar comes back in with a neat little lead, and is that slap bass i hear in the background? yes it is.

Another verse follows, but this time the second half gets blasted, which is a nice touch, it keeps the song from getting repetative. Although the transition into the chorus from the blast beat just doesnt sound right in my head. After this time around, the song ends.

Verdict: 7.5/10

It isn't a bad song at all, but in my opinion more could have been done with it. There are a few things in the song which irk me just slightly, but I will definitely give this band more of a listen to because the song drew my intrested in. Not the best song i have ever heard, but pretty solid all around.

For anyone interested, i suggest:
Enslaved - "Bounded by Allegiance" (Minimalist Post Black metal, from the new album Isa)
Age of Silence - "90 Degree Angles" (Avante-Garde metal)
Depresy - "Lunar Spell" (Melodic Death Metal)
Wintersun - "Winter Madness" (Black Metal influenced power metal with harsh vocals)

dibsizzle

still doing that?

i think he may have forgotten /shrug

Oh yeah, forgot to undibs, cause I couldn't find the songs, my bad :upset:

ok, im up for a new one d--s

[b]Enslaved - Bounded By Allegiance[/b]

The quick description alone was pretty interesting.

Anyway, muted distorted guitars open it, it sounds like its going to be a 7/8 intro, but it refills the bar to a 4/4.. then overfills it to a 5/4, interesting. Rudiment style drums come in, theres also ambient kebyoard in there. The drumming changes to a double-kick based pattern.

About 1:35, it all stops but a distorted guitar is playing a new part, its melodic and simpler in the rhythm. Drums come back in normal 4/4, not fast, there's also some deep choir vocals that sound good but are too quiet. Sounds a bit like Maynard from Tool actually.

Chorus now? We have death vocals and double kick and faster feel, and a rising chord progression that sounds tense. The vocals are still too low in the mix (it's not even like the usual black metal production either, much cleaner and balanced). The vocals are set out - 4 bars with, 4 bars without.

After this, it drops into 6/8, with just guitar and buzzing synth. Drums add a simple 1212 thing over the top, then it goes suddenly back to the deep choir bit. Some high guitar with some effect that reminds me of Korn (not a bad thing), just using a major key.

Another new bit follows this and it's still melodic, more like some viking metal I've heard, a guitar solo comes in after a bit, sounds pretty easy actually.. heh mid-guitar solo theres a big growl, and double kick returns. The one guitar riff keeps repeating, but the drums keep changing, getting faster and faster.

7.5/10
And there I end the review as suddenly as the song ended, maybe it flows to the next track... Anyway, they had a good powerful melodic sound and good variety in the music. I do think the song structure needs work though, especially with the cohesion.


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[b]Alchemist - Worlds Within Worlds[/b] - really weird metal. music to play Descent to... close to 8 minutes

[b]Gordian Knot - Sing Deep Mountain[/b] - instrumental melodic technical metal

[b]Weddings Parties Anything - A Tale They Won't Believe[/b] - punkish sea-shanty about cannibalism. 7 mins

[b]Mogwai - Dial: Revenge[/b] - atmospheric/acoustic indie rock

Dibs.

Don't know if anyone's said this one yet...
Not the most technical breakdown of a song ever...but it'll do I guess
[b]Nile- Unas Slayer of the Gods[/b]

Starts out with a riff Karl Sanders admitted was identical to the Candlemass riff on the 'Nightfall' album. The song then continues with a death metal variation of that riff. Until the 5 minute mark, where it fades away and a horn is blazing with the drums following leads the song further. Tony Lauerano presents some truly amazing drum work with a double bass riff showing dedication to the Egyptian theme of the song. It doesn't end there, with another 3 minutes of awesome guitar solos over the main theme of the song. What follows is an acoustic passage in which the legend Unas (last pharoah of the 5th dynasty) is told by dark whispers. Finally the song ends after an epic 11 minutes with a monstrous riff. Aren't all death metal songs meant to be 5 minutes or less?

[u]Others[/u]
Emperor- I Am the Black Wizards. One of the best black metal songs ever. Most recommended.

Opeth- The Drapery Falls. Beautiful song. Good use of clean vocals and acoustic guitars.

Dimmu Borgir- Kings of the Carnival Creation. Complex, with good use of riff repitition and a bit of clean voice, courtesy of the master Vortex. Would have been hard as hell putting it together.

Mayhem- Pagan Fears. One of the best opening riffs of all time, IMO. One of the better songs on the 'De Mysteriis...' album. Atilla does a good job on the vocals here, too.

That's not how the thread works.

Meh...I was just making a suggestion. Bite me.

Alright then.

Ok im not entirelly sure how this works but i'll say:

My Generation - The Who

[QUOTE=appreciate_it]Ok im not entirelly sure how this works but i'll say:

My Generation - The Who[/QUOTE]

*sigh*


Do you still have dibs, Bartender?

Yeah, sorry, I've got the song downloaded, just need to review it. Getting to it now.

This'll be my first time listening to Mogwai, though I know vaguely what sort of band they're supposed to be.
[b]Mogwai - Dial:Revenge[/b] - 3:28

Before I start, I'll just say I was surprised with the length of the song. From what I've heard of Mogwai, I expected very long songs.

Anyway, starts off with just acoustic guitar, then some soft, reptitive vocals come in in the background, along with more guitar/bass, I think. It all swells up to the first verse very nicely.

I'm not entirely sure what the vocalist is going on about; I can't really hear the words clearly over the music (which may now (1:15 or so) include some strings) anyway, and there's some hard, almost Welsh-sounding sounds in what I can hear that makes me think he's not speaking English.

The voice is not intrusive at all, though, and doesn't detract from the music at all. And the music is just great. There's not much to say about it really - gentle percussion, and lots of acoustic strings all over the place - but it's really quite beautiful.

The voice is now, I'm fairly sure, completely non-lyrical. Just noises, in an almost Sigur Ros-esque way. That doesn't last long though, as the song fades out rather soon after.

8.5/10, I think. The only thing I found wanting was the length - it's the kind of song I'd like to drift off into, and it wasn't long enough to really get that happening.

[b]Songs;[/b]
Canvas Solaris - [i]When Solar Winds Collide[/i] (very technical instrumental metal)
Cruachan - [i]Sunday Bloody Sunday[/i] (Irish metal)
Circle Takes the Square - [i]Non-Objective Portrait of Karma[/i] (emo)
Phlebotomized - [i]Mellow Are the Reverberations[/i] (epic death metal)
Birdsongs of the Mesozoic - [i]This Way Out[/i] (progressive rock)
The Flamings Lips - [i]Race For the Prize[/i] (vaguely psychedelic rock)
The Levellers - [i]Dog Train[/i] (folky rock)
The Wildhearts - [i]Geordie in Wonderland[/i] (this probably won't work too well if you're not English, or familiar with England)

yep, Dial: Revenge is in Welsh, and also it's one of their short songs

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Circle Takes The Square - Non-Objective Portrait Of Karma (emo/screamo/metal)

I just downloaded this off my friend last night, and didn't get to listen to it, but I like most of the CTTS that I've heard, so here comes the review.

The song starts out with a high pitched reverberating sound, that goes into a nice little melody, good intro, different from most of their stuff I heard. A little bit into the intro the drummer plays the symbols quitely every 5 seconds or so. Then the guitar kicks in about 1/3 of the way and disapeers, then comes back in for the whole thing. then about 1/2 way the bass joins in, it's really nice sounding. Then it quiets down a little, into another nice melody, the singer joins in with some nice strangled singing, I can't really understand him because he's singing quitely. Then he starts screaming, good heavy, more screamo than emo, but the good oldschool style, not the ****ty waaah you ruined my life stuff. Then he screams THE PORTRAIT OF KARMA and then the music gets more metal, and at this point a second singer joins in, and it keeps getting heavier and slower. It's the extreme opposite of reppetativeness (except for the intro. Then they go back to a quiet part, and it fades into a gregorian chant, with the screaming over it.

The song was kinda weird, not like any of their songs I heard before (I only heard two of them and they were rap-metal). Overall I'd say about a 7/10.

Choices are:

Korn - Camel Song (Funk/Nu-Metal)
Taproot - Justice Is Blindfolded (Nu-Metal)
In Flames - The Quiet Place (Nu-Metal)

[QUOTE=Eleventeen]The song was kinda weird, not like any of their songs I heard before (I only heard two of them and they were rap-metal).
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Which songs were they?

I will review The Quiet Place by In Flames, i have ot in my list, so it´s easier...

The music starts with some atmospheric keyboards and effects (-1 for the effects). Then comes the downtuned guitar and more effects.
The highlight of the music, maybe of In Flames, is Anders, he change from the scream to clean vocals all the time, which isn´t bad. The other members aren´t so impressive, maybe this is a consequence of the eletronic effects in the whole the music.
The drum work is very simple, very straight, the way this song stars it ends, nothing of changes...
This is a very catchy music, that kind that stay in your mind for hours. The chorus is sung by Anders and a choir, really catchy.
But it´s nothing special, i used to like In Flames till R2R...
6/10.

The songs:
Morgana Lefay - Red Moon (Heavy Metal)
Avec Tristesse - Angel After Dark (Dark Metal)
Bolt Thrower - Inside the Wire (Death Metal)

[QUOTE=Bartender]Which songs were they?[/QUOTE]

Come on, I really wanna know this.

Dibs.

Never mind, not going to happen soon.