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[b]Banits of the Acoustic Revolution - Here's to Life[/b]
I have no idea what 3rd wave ska is opposed to ska ska.

Begins with an acoustic guitar and maybe a bass back there somewhere. Pretty cool riff. Then we get the drums and horns. It sounds like a polka. The singer has that voice. I really like these punk singer voices lately. There is a better horn section when the vocals drop out. I really like these ones.

I think there's a cello in there too. The drummer...are there two maybe? The song doesn't seem to match the title. It isn't as happy go-lucky as I'd hoped.

It really does sound like a polka. There are a bunch of little breaks for horns and that cello. I think it's a cello. Maybe it's some horn I didn't know existed. There's also a piano part in the middle. I like that this song is long but has tons of variation.

8/10
I liked it but it seemed to be lacking something.

Furia - Un Lac De Larmes Et De Sang
Vanden Plas - The Sun
Dead Soul Tribe - Sirens
Therion - Cold Seed
Iniquity - Tides of Vengance
Age of Silence - A Song for D Incorporated

slsk-Fast Fingers
AIM - Viking Vs Pirate

dibs

Well he downloaded the song off of me on slsk so says my uploads (I assume. Most people don't download just one Age of Silence song if they do at all) but he has waited 5:30 to do it. This is a bump.

sorry bout not doing the fl, im grounded fromthe internet for a month

Bump, unless you can email me a song?

What's your Email. I know we both have Gmail so that isn't a problem. Maybe I should give mine in case you don't want yours out there. [email]Peter.mchugh@gmail.com[/email]

Mine's [email]eruantien@gmail.com[/email]. It's in my profile, so I'm not that bothered about handing it out :)

Scent.

Okay, it's downloading, dibs. Thanks.

Never heard, or heard of, these guys before.
[b]Furia - Un Lac De Larmes Et De Sang[/b] - 4:47

Starts off with some church organs playing what seems like it's supposed to be a haunting tone. Soon joined by (slightly buried) church bells, and (male, I think) choral non-lyrical vocals. Around 0:26, the 'normal' instruments come in, the drums doing some very dramatic sounding pounding, which is pretty cool. I like this so far, it's reminding me a little of some Hollenthon (on Domus Mundi) stuff, except that so far, there isn't much of a hint, and certainly no guarantee, that it'll contain metal.

Oh, now this is weird. Guitars playing a reasonably simple metal riff, and there's some weird, pulsing electronic noises going on (vocals, maybe?). More conventional harsh vocals come in now. Sounds like two vocalists, though it could just be the one guy with two styles. The guitar and drums are both pretty good, so far, and various effects and stuff are still going on in the background.

This bit I like a lot. Around 2:00, there's all kinds of good stuff going on. The song's tune is now excellent, and the guitar is doing some very cool things.

It's basically carrying on in this 'awesome' vein for now. Around 2:40, I think, some kind of annoying synths or keyboards or something some in for a short while, but they're not awful, so I don't mind.

Slower bit now, more chugging, still liking it.

Hurrah, the awesome melody bit happens again just before 4:00. Song finishes on a prolonged vocal yell.

9/10 That was excellent, apart from a few occasionally annoying electronic noises or synths.

[b]Songs;[/b]
Mastodon - [i]Blood And Thunder[/i] (metal - unsure further than that)
Refused - [i]New Noise[/i] (hardcore)
Olivia Tremor Control - [i]A Sunshine Fix[/i] (lo-fi)
Hollenthon - [i]Lure [Palladia Mors][/i] ('world-music metal')
Nonpoint - [i]Double Stakked[/i] (nu metal)
boyhitscar (or Boy Hits Car) - [i]As I Watch the Sun Fu[color=white]u[/color]k the Ocean[/i] (Jane's Addiction-worshipping rock)

Dibs

Refused - New Noise (5:08)
 

I had never heard the Refused but always wanted to get around to it so I thought I would use this opportunity to listen to a song.

0:00 to 0:09 - Very nice first guitar riff, that riff got me digging this song almost straight away.

0:10 to 0:19 - The guitar riff keeps going with some help from a hi-hat (I think), really builds up and then delivers.

0:20 to 0:37 - The drums really come into play in this section and they are playing really nicely too.

0:38 to 0:46 - All instruments kick in and they start to make some noise.

0:47 to 1:08 - Some weird synthesizer thing hits in, only bad part of the song.

1:09 to 3:04 - The vocals hit and are aided by some pretty heavy banging and crashing. I'm liking the who's and there's even bits of the first g-tar riff with some talking over the top.

3:05 to 3:25 - I'd almost call this a breakdown. Good stuff this.

3:26 to 3:32 - Goes to silence and then some weird track :confused:

3:33 - 5:08 - Bass drum hits and it goes back to normal for a big closing. Some bass solo's and stuff are nice before the volume gets turned way up and goes back to the formula for the ending of the song.

All in all, I loved this song, apart from the two synthesized bits it was brilliant. Great screaming, great g-tar, great bass, great drums. I'm loving this!
Does anyone know if there's anyways this weird synthesizer parts in Refused songs or just sometimes because I think I'll download some more of this band!

Rating 8/10 :thumb:

Songs To Review:

Nirvana - Radio Friendly Unit Shifter (Grunge/Nirvana style, lol)
or
Poison The Well - Ghost Chant (Hardcore)
or
Killswitch Engage - A Bid Farewell (Hardcore/Metal)

If these songs have already been done that's my bad but I'm too lazy to read through all the pages :p

You didn't rate the song you reviewed.

I'm gonna dibs and do Killswitch and see if their any good to as people say.

I doubt it, but it's worth a try

Hurry and revoke this, I want to do the Nirvana song (hasn't heard any Nirvana in at least a year, maybe more)

[U][B]Killswith Engage - A Bid Farwell[/B][/U]


0:00 - 0:46... Good beginning, don't appeal to the singers scream at the beggining though, and I have a feeling he'll do more of it in this song

0:47 - 1:28... The Verse and Chorus are here, singer isn't bad when he does his usually voice, but he his scream isn't all that great, and he's brutal at singing soft, it just ruins the song. There's a pretty cool Melodic Part at the chorus too.

1:29 - 2:28... Same thing happens here as in the 0:47 - 1:28 mark, just a bit longer.

2:29 - 3:11... The bridge of the song. I like the guitar here.

3:12 - 3:55 (end)... The song stops for about 2 seconds, then goes back into the chorus.


Overall, decent for a Hardcore band, I keep on tryin, but I still haven't found a Hardcore band I enjoy a lot, and I don't know if I will. I also just realized that this is the band who does "Rose of Sharyn", which isn't all that bad of a song itself.

7/10


[U][I]Recommendations:[/I][/U]

[B]Amorphis - Into Hiding[/B] (Death/Doom metal, slow and very creative and artsy)
[B]Rage - Solitary Man[/B] (No, not RATM, it's the band Rage from Germany. Power/Speed Metal, very very cool babd that I'd like to see get recognized more)
[B]Dimmu Borgir - In Death's Embrace[/B] (Older Dimmu from '97. Symphonic Death Metal, more keyboard influenced than their newer stuff, and probably not as heavy)
[B]Anata - Under the Debris[/B] (Swedish Death Metal. Great band all around, great singer, bassist, guitarists and drummer)

Dibs.

I'll dib that Age of Silence one if you recommend it this time FF

[b]Dimmu Borgir - In Death's Embrace[/b]
I've heard some single of their's and remember it being pretty good, especially for an MTV band.

Begins very well with some great drums and a blended guitar and then the keyboard. The keyboard is killer. They don't sound cheesy, they sound like a real piano. The intro repeats many times but it's fast and good so I don't mind. The vocals come in when the keyboards go out. I like the voice.

There is a slower section with a very classical piano sounding part with a guitar solo too. Shame the guitarist isn't really tearing away. I wish more blackmetal were more guitar heavy in the mix.

Then there is a synth part with no drums and a badly mastered bass.

Every part in this song is very enjoyable. There also isn't a lot of repetition in terms of hearing the same part many times. The song ends really well too, no fade-out crap.

Basically, this song is awesome. I am definitely looking into the guys some more. I have no complaints. The synths were used well and weren't cheesy, the vocals were good, the drummer was always doing his thing well, there was a guitar solo, not a great guitar solo, but it was there, and the song wasn't boring.

9/10

Porcupine Tree - Baby Dream in Cellophane
Amorphis - Veil of Sin
Watch Me Fall - Silent Aeons
And the Age of Silence one for Blue.

Slsk: Fast Fingers
AIM: Viking Vs Pirate

[b]Age Of Silence - A Song For D. Incorporated[/b]

I've heard one song before, Auditorium Of Modern Movements, and it's grown on me quite a bit. Time to hear some more.

It opens with some bass and electronic drums, but thats not important. The melodic singing and music that sounds like Arcturus, there is some melodic synth stuff in music to fill up the silence. The singer isnt harmonizing very much like in the other song I heard. That is a good thing.

I dont know what its about but the singer sings a phone number and the music changes to a more stampy beat, theres flutes and other wind instruments in the background, but none of the synth that filled in every single gap before. It seems to be about some company that is annoying the singer. The normal band instruemnts are simple compared to Arcturus, but the others, like flutes and horns etc are rather complex. It's very melodic

It goes back to the first "verse" and there are some vocal interplays

The phone number is said again, and it goes in to a new bit with piano and some polyrhythms. Singing has the harmonizations again, they sound good as they are used more sparingly.

Theres a short fast keyboard solo. Then a strange bit with singing again. After that theres a piano section, and it sounds like real piano. Vocals come back again for 2 lines and it ends.

It's strange, not because of the music, that is unusual, but it's got heaviness all the way through and it doesnt seem very heavy at all.
I guess the orchestral instruemnts and vocals add so much melody that it is softened, and the flowing nature of the music seems could help too somehow.

The music is progressive, moreso than the other song I heard, and more interesting, but it seemed harder to listen to, I'm sure it will grow on me soon enough. It's good to see music appearing in such strange forms and combinations. Even if theres so much crap out there, I'm still all for the future of music after I hear something like this.

9/10

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Listed by priority (high-low)

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

[b]Darren Hanlon - Falling Aeroplanes[/b] - acoustic.. folk?

[b]TISM - The Last Australian Guitar Hero[/b] - comedy irony alt-pop? - language warning if anyone cares

[b]Atheist - Water[/b] - technical, jazzy, death metal

[b]Wumpscut - Black Death[/b] - heavy industrial/ambient techno

[b]Nokturnl - Haterz[/b] - well-riffed nu metal

very sorry for the last dib thing. i had something on and could not post, even though i dlded the song. dibs.

[b]Atheist - Elements - "Water"[/b] (4:28)

wastes no time in the intro, starts imediately, with a very "chaotic" mix of guitar bass and drums. a really complicated intro, at 0:27, a lead guitar part comes in, it fits in quite well. The vocalist isn't that strong, not impactful enough. At 0:54, a "spanish like guitar solo" comes in. a great one. then it returns to the "chaos".

indeed very technical song, with lead guitars littered all over, different stlyes (jazz, a little touch of spanish, chaotic death metal type) the guitarists are great, the bass is really pumping. i personally don't like the vocals, it needs to be more impactful.

Sonata arctica - full moon (super melodic power metal)
avenged sevenfold - unholy confessions (punk+melodeath+metalcore/whatever)

I "love" the random quotes "this" guy uses.

[QUOTE=LordDargon]I "love" the random quotes "this" guy uses.[/QUOTE]

Heh, me too. "Dibs"

[b]Avenged Sevenfold - Unholy Confessions[/b]

I think I heard a single by them once and wasn't impressed.

Song begins with a very metal core riff and it is good. Then drums come in and the guitars double. I like this but it has that sound of a song that might not get any better. It basically sounds identical to the KsE I've heard which isn't bad but does not bode well for me becoming a fan of the genre.

Then vocals. He's singing and has a decent voice. The lyrics seem kind of emo. Then he does the ugliest harsh vocals. Like gollum. They suck. Fortunately he goes back to cleaner vocals but his voice sounds less good this time. He sounds like the singer of Saliva. Then the chorus. I like this. It's one of those great metalcore super melodic choruses. I wish the guitars did something cool here though. It's just power chords. After the chrorus though, the guitars play an awesome riff. Jazz influenced. It's not fast but musically it is awesome.

The guitarists sound like they are better than what they do with this band. The drummer does nothing truly impressive. Some double bass but other than that he plays really easy sounding stuff.

I hate the prechorus with the Saliva vocals. The guitars are killer there but the vocals just screw it all up. There should be truly harsh vocals there. The chorus I really like as far as vocals go but the guitars are too simple.

This band seems afraid to show what they are capable of. I think I'll check more out in hope of hearing them play good stuff the whole way through a song without trying to balance it out with crap or mediocrity.

7/10

Watch Me Fall - Silent Aeons
Katatonia - Will I Arrive
Between the Buried and Me - Arsonist
Vader - Choices
Borknagar - Ad Noctum

Slsk: Fast Fingers
AIM: Viking Vs Pirate

I call

i mean dibs

give me a rough idea as to what each song is like

Melodic Death metal
Progressive Metal/rock
Technical death/emo
Death metal
Progressive black metal

In order of songs listed.

Ya should've went with Insomniac... or The Sea Came in at Last... or Out From the Deep for Vader.

And you gotta start adding genre tags BEFORE people ask!

Meh, I just shuffled my entire playlist and those were thee first 5 to come up (excluding Watch Me Fall because people should hear that song)

not much luck finding any of the tracks listed, where can i get them?