[b]Wolverine - Toward Loss[/b]

It fades in... for some reason, seems like it's mid song already. Sounds very cool though, the music definately "pumps" with the drums, technical riffage and organ-y keyboard, it's quite melodic.

Growled vocals come in and they're pretty loud, it overpowers the music. He goes away quickly and there's some cleaner, slighly power metal vocals replacing, which suits the song much better. Some nice vocal harmonies too. The clean guitar drops in to settle it down a bit, which is nice I guess, but this song isn't that heavy.

What the song needs is to lose those growls, or halve the volume of them. They are in the way of the goings on behind it. The music gets a bit more power along with the growls, and the normal singer is singing as well.

Another section comes in, 6/4 time now, but as pumping as ever. It leads into a very aesthetically pleasing syncopated keyboard/guitar interplay. A guitar solo follows this, also pretty nice.

After this, two vocal lines take on the syncopated rhythm of before, in a very staccato manner. I'm liking it for the most part, but the stupid thing suddenly fades out mid song.

Hmm, I've done this much, so.. I guess I'll stick with it. I did like the music, it was technical, but had a raw simplicity about it, mainly the rhythm I guess. But it was also good to hear some changes in the rhythm as well. The only thing I didn't like was the growls, which only appeard twice in this mp3.
For this section of the song, I'd give it 8/10. I want to hear the rest of it now.

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[b][url=http://www.comcen.com.au/~caracarol/The%20Red%20Paintings%20-%20Walls%20-%2002%20-%20The%20Streets%20Fell%20Into%20My%20Window.mp3]The Red Paintings - The Streets Fell Into My Window[/url][/b] - very art rock

ah crap I uploaded the wrong version, I have one which was a taster I got ages ago from a site, I had forgot it wasn't the same as the CD version.

I can re-upload the better version for you.

EDIT: Not a dibs.

EDIT2: Link - [url]http://s41.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=1EC0XD2GPGL7I1XG4MZY4G7DYV[/url]

Deebs.

Never heard of this guy before, but I decided to take this one since I'd heard a Marvelous 3 song before.
[b]Josh Todd - Burn[/b] - 3:08

Starts out with some simple enough, nice, clear-sounding chords, before something of a roar announces the arrival of the vocalist and the rest of the band, most of which seems to be concentrated in riff form. The riff is alright, but I don't like the tone of the guitar much. It just sounds kind of..depressed. The vocalist yells a couple of more times over the top of the music leading up to the first verse. I quite like the rhythm of the lyrics in the verse.

The chorus I like less. It's alright - other voices (maybe double-tracked lead vocalist) join him for it - but it's kind of a let down, I think. The verse repeats, and then the chorus. Ah now this part I like. The guitars slow down (around 1:50), and the tone isn't so much of a problem any more. It sounds really cool. This whole bit's really good, though; the slower, almost spoken vocals, the drumming, the slower and kinda heavier guitar. Pretty good. And then it goes back into a chorus, maybe with a little variation on before, before the song ends.

8.5/10, I think. The review was written listening through it for the first time; the rating after listening to it a couple of more times. It's really quite good, despite an average first impression. The guy's voice is good, has a bit of character, and there's quite a bit of variety (the intro chords, the verse, the chorus, the cool bit after the second verse, etc) for a three minute rock song, and it bears repeated listening.

[b]Songs;[/b]
[url=http://s11.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=12FN2G6EG1SZ105UTEN9OKX38S]Bolt Thrower - IVth Crusade[/url] (death metal/grind)
[url=http://s11.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=3R9O2V65K98WJ1H0WQZ8JI6LB7]Bolt Thrower - Icon[/url] (death metal/grind)
[url=http://s11.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=2S3MGQRWZT58B3UXLSMO7V8RL8]Mr Bungle - Golem II: The Bionic Vapour Boy[/url] (genre? Mr Bungle? hahahahhaha)
[url=http://s19.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=313V84HPRGE2U3QDIU508P3X1I]Mr Bungle - Retrovertigo[/url] (ahahahahahahah)
[url=http://s19.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=1PQB2V1UQYYP624FR36405164S]Mr Bungle - Vanity Fair[/url] (...)
[url=http://s19.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=0NTWVUYCP8YA60P9SZDXMH1Q4Y]Murder By Death - You Are the Last Dragon[/url] (alt/indie fodder, with violins and pianos and things)

[QUOTE=Grateful Dead]Unfortunately, the mp3 seems to skip quite a bit in this part[/QUOTE]
****, the file was fine on my computer... this is not the first time I've had mp3's go skippy either... maybe I need a new ftp program.

[QUOTE=Grateful Dead]10/10, saynomore.[/QUOTE]
:D This made it all better. But I'll try and get a good version up.

Dibs

[b]Murder by Death - You Are the Last Dragon[/b]
Never heard anything by this band before.

Begins with a very cool piano and guitar duet. Very melodic with jazzy elements. Violin and cymbals add in. Sounds very awesome. Then a cool rhythmic guitar part enters with distortion and gets the song cooking. The guitar is a little loud in the mix. THere is a violin in there which is nice and everything sounds very well thought out. I like this. A lot. There is a lot of emotion in the music without the vocals being some annoying whiny moan. He is singing and not forcing anything and the vocals are hardly the focal point of the music.

This is excellent. Lots of little bridges and interludes and dynamic shifts. I like this a ton. The violin is an excellent touch although I think it's a viola. Maybe not but it sounds too low for violin but not like a cello. Woah! a very cool synth part ends the song. I wish it were longer. I wish this song were 10 minutes long. It is so well done and everything is just so good.

Give me the name of the album this is off of. I may even buy it I liked this song so much. My only complaint is the guitar mix. Just a little too loud and the distortion interferes with the drum mix. The song writing is perfect. Nothing cheesy or overdone, all very thought out and well arranged. I loved it.

9.999/10

[url=http://s49.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=2LGOR26XFGWGQ2PZUOYFTPNH2T]Mare - Sun for Miles[/url]post metal with a little bit of awesome
[url=http://s49.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=3774IJKPZTH6Z0P372WSGBFT0E]Blut Aus Nord - Metamorphosis[/url]Black metal with something else
[url=http://s49.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=0ETXIDLXJWZNF0YMR9U961VT60]Corpus Mortale - Mass Funeral Pyre[/url]Technical death metal

links as soon as they finish uploading.

The album is called [i]Like the Exorcist, But More Breakdancing[/i]. It's an excellent album, as is their other one ([i]Who Will Survive, and What Will Be Left of Them[/i]).

What release is that Blut Aus Nord song from? If it's their later stuff, I might do it (or at least download it), as all I have is one of their earlier, more pure black metal releases, and I hear they've gotten very interesting recently.

It's from their 2003 album [I]The Work Which Transforms God[/I] it's not straight black metal.

Alright then, dibs.

Sorry, revoked. Unbelievably, something has come up in my life :)

just as well I decided to download one of those anyway.

coach z style deioghrbs

That was the most creative dibs I've ever seen.

[b]Mare - Sun For Miles[/b]

A big scream ends the last song I guess, it just happens to be on this track.

Ah, now a choir, very calm, this must be the song. The choir consits of 3 or 4 voices singing "Ahh" as chord, and another vocalist or 2 sings falsetto melody. This goes on a while. Different chords and lines are sung, but I don't know what's being sung.

After a while it gets high and sounds like the beach boys harmonies. It's getting a bit tedious.. no sign of the forcefulness that opened the track.
Some darker, deeper sounding chants come next, some of the backing chorusers shift notes a bit more, adding a bit of variation.

Oh wait.. 3:15 minutes in it fires up, a slow drum beat and sludgy guitar chords. There's some various screams.. but I still have no idea what it's about. And on that, it's pretty much over.


Well, I honsetly didn't find much enjoyment in there. The choral part was nice, but then it kept going, even with the changes it was tedious. Then the heavy bit.. too little (or too much), too late. It made me wish the whole thing was just choir.
Nah, definitely not something I go for. 4/10


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I'm not able to upload anything at the moment, so you have heaps of choices.

[b][url=http://s48.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=393CIQWCOLCWQ0OB03ZFYK4LOT]Goldie Lookin' Chain - Half Man/Half Machine[/url][/b] - comedy rap

[b][url=http://mp301.epitonic.com/files/reg/songs/mp3/20_Minute_Loop-Jubilation.mp3]20 Minute Loop - Jubilation[/url][/b] - dirty alt-rock/country

[b]Fagan - Slight Return[/b] - trip-hop [url]http://www.fagan.com.au/mp3/slight%20return.mp3[/url]

[b]Breakeven - En Vogue[/b] - ska hardcore - [url]http://files.mp3.com.au/MP3/Breakeven/Breakeven-None-En%20Vogue.mp3[/url]

[b]Goldie Lookin' Chain - Soap Bar[/b] - comedy rap

[b]The Cranberries - Ode To My Family[/b] - soft rock

[b]XTC - Greenman[/b] - pagan pop-rock

[b]Rumors Of The Big Wave - Nightmare[/b] - prog pop-rock

[b]Decoder Ring - Collapse Coming On[/b] - like Mogwai on speed (still not too fast)

[b]A Chorus Line (the musical) - At The Ballet[/b] - jazzy + lots more

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

[QUOTE=Dancin' Man]That was the most creative dibs I've ever seen.[/QUOTE]

I still consider [url=http://www.musicianforums.com/forums/showpost.php?p=5493465&postcount=671]this[/url] the best dibs ever. blue's the master of the creative dib.

Not a dibs, I have to go to sleep soon.

Heh, I like that dib.

/nota dib wrong omputer justa bump bad stickykeyboard

Dibs.

Never heard/heard of.
[b]20 Minute Loop - Jubilation[/b] - 4:54

Starts off with a bit of noise, sounds like it's probably the end of the last track. The song proper, I'm assuming, starts with some slow, kinda ominous bass, with a rising guitar tone in the background. Pretty cool way to start the song. The guitar crashes in with some very prominent drums - not overly prominent in a bad way though, just nice and strong, and "da-da-da" female vocals, I think. They sound kinda like they're mixed with a trumpet, imitating them. Sounds very rough and ready.

Vocalist singing now, and most of the instruments keep it down to being in the background to let him have his say. He's got a decent voice; not doing anything special. Joined by the female vocalist just before 1:00, and the interplay between them's pretty cool.

All the music fades out, leaving just the voices for a few seconds around 1:35, before everything starts up in the same way it started after the introduction earlier. Extra bits joining in and dropping out, for variation; a little extra electric guitar in the background, for example.

Everything slows down again, and some acoustic stringed instrument - possibly a guitar, though I wouldn't put too much faith in that - plays for a while, before we go back to the verse. A little bit concentrates on the vocals after this, before a short guitar solo.

Well barring something drastic happening in the next half a minute or so, I think the song's going to pretty much go out like this. And it's great. Just a mightily fun song, great play between the two vocalists, lost of variation in the instrumentation to keep it interesting. Very good.

9/10

[b]Songs;[/b]
[url=http://s11.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=12FN2G6EG1SZ105UTEN9OKX38S]Bolt Thrower - IVth Crusade[/url] (death metal/grind)
[url=http://s11.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=3R9O2V65K98WJ1H0WQZ8JI6LB7]Bolt Thrower - Icon[/url] (death metal/grind)
[url=http://s11.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=2S3MGQRWZT58B3UXLSMO7V8RL8]Mr Bungle - Golem II: The Bionic Vapour Boy[/url] (genre? Mr Bungle? hahahahhaha)
[url=http://s19.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=313V84HPRGE2U3QDIU508P3X1I]Mr Bungle - Retrovertigo[/url] (ahahahahahahah)
[url=http://s19.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=1PQB2V1UQYYP624FR36405164S]Mr Bungle - Vanity Fair[/url] (...)
[url=http://s19.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=0NTWVUYCP8YA60P9SZDXMH1Q4Y]Murder By Death - You Are the Last Dragon[/url] (alt/indie fodder, with violins and pianos and things)

I'd just like to say Grateful Dead's review of The Red Paintings - The Streets Fell Into My Window was top notch.
I actually downloaded the song because I thought the review was so good.

^Is that the guy who just randomly comments on reviews?

Dibs

[QUOTE=Dancin' Man]^Is that the guy who just randomly comments on reviews?[/QUOTE]
Yes :cool:

Edit: I'd do my own review, I have reviewed The Summoning - In Hollow Halls Beneath The Fells, earlier in the thread, but I just feel I wouldn't be doing justice to the song, so it's best left to someone who is in the know.

[b]Bolt Thrower - Icon[/b]

Heard a bit of Bolt Thrower before. I liked it.

Begins with a pounding but pretty simple riff which is joined by a doubling instrument. Then the drums. I like this. Galloping with lots of tom. Then the drum part changes into some cymbal work. It's kinda laid back soudning drumming. Then the riff changes.

This is getting boring. There is a solo that is really low in the mix at about 1:05. Then the riff finally changes again. The vocals enter but it's too little too ate. Especially when that intro riff comes back again. This song is boring. The solo can't save it and it sounds too thin anyway. I much prefer the songs off of War Master. This is just not as exciting. Too much repetition. The second solo is equally thin and makes me not like it. The ending is cool how it all ju8st dies and you hear reverb.

4/10

[url=http://s49.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=2LGOR26XFGWGQ2PZUOYFTPNH2T]Mare - Sun for Miles[/url] post metal with a little bit of awesome
[url=http://s49.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=3774IJKPZTH6Z0P372WSGBFT0E]Blut Aus Nord - Metamorphosis[/url] Black metal with something else
[url=http://s49.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=0ETXIDLXJWZNF0YMR9U961VT60]Corpus Mortale - Mass Funeral Pyre[/url] Technical death metal

Dibs.

Still dibsed or did you forget 'Tender?

MX death and other things slowed me down.

I have one of their earlier, pure black metal, releases. I'm interested to hear something from [i]The Work Which Transforms God[/i] onwards though, as I hear they've gotten plenty interesting recently.
[b]Blut Aus Nord - Metamorphosis[/b] - 5:22

A few seconds of silence before the song starts, and when it starts, it's a bit of a surprise - the drums aren't pounding relentlessly! The guitars have some dynamic going for them! Unlike anything I've heard by them so far, and as much as I like the constant assault of [i]The Mystical Beast of Rebellion[/i], I think I prefer this so far. The productions slightly better - clearer - here too.

The vocals sounds very strained, took me a few moments to get used to them. That might be because prior to this I was sitting here in zen melancholia listening to Solomon Burke (an album by whom I'm starting to rank very highly indeed). He's a very cool guy, Solomon Burke; about sixty years old, something of a soul legend ("the king of rock'n'soul"), he has 20-something kids and leads his own church as a bishop. And he makes great music. How much more awesome does one man need to be?

Anyway, Blut Aus Nord. A nice drum roll thing around 1:25, and then there's a very uneasy sounding riff. Not sure how to describe it; it just sounds kind of ill. Slight choral "ahh"s in the background now, which sound very cool with the vocalist straining away, the drums pounding sporadically, and the guitar putting out these rather tortured-sounding riffs. Some ambience-filled moments for a short while, and then another really swift, very cool, drum roll came in. It got me excited actually, I thought the song was going to end racing off into the distance with a big, galloping riff. But it didn't, it just kind of went back to the queasy guitar lurchings and one-armed drumming from before. This is not necessarily a bad thing, just a little disappointing after my momentary visions of a Charge-of-the-Light-Brigade ending to the song.

And the song just kind of slowly draws to a stop doing what it's doing. That was a strange one. I started off being interested because it didn't sound like previous Blut Aus Nord, and ended up slightly disappointed because I'd found myself wishing it'd gone back to previous Blut Aus Nord, at least in part. A little more dynamic, in the form of a simple enough fast-slow, would've been nice. I suppose it works better in the context of an album. Coming, as it did, straight after some very smooth soul, made it somewhat off-putting too.

A cautious 8/10 for now. That'd probably go up in the context of the album/with repeated listening/in an extreme metal mood (not hot on the tail of Solomon Burke).

[b]Songs;[/b]
[url=http://s11.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=12FN2G6EG1SZ105UTEN9OKX38S]Bolt Thrower - IVth Crusade[/url] (death metal/grind)
[url=http://s11.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=3R9O2V65K98WJ1H0WQZ8JI6LB7]Bolt Thrower - Icon[/url] (death metal/grind)
[url=http://s11.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=2S3MGQRWZT58B3UXLSMO7V8RL8]Mr Bungle - Golem II: The Bionic Vapour Boy[/url] (genre? Mr Bungle? hahahahhaha)
[url=http://s19.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=313V84HPRGE2U3QDIU508P3X1I]Mr Bungle - Retrovertigo[/url] (ahahahahahahah)
[url=http://s19.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=1PQB2V1UQYYP624FR36405164S]Mr Bungle - Vanity Fair[/url] (...)
[url=http://s19.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=0NTWVUYCP8YA60P9SZDXMH1Q4Y]Murder By Death - You Are the Last Dragon[/url] (alt/indie fodder, with violins and pianos and things)

[QUOTE=Bartender]
[b]Songs;[/b]
[url=http://s11.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=2S3MGQRWZT58B3UXLSMO7V8RL8]Mr Bungle - Golem II: The Bionic Vapour Boy[/url] (genre? Mr Bungle? hahahahhaha)
[url=http://s19.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=313V84HPRGE2U3QDIU508P3X1I]Mr Bungle - Retrovertigo[/url] (ahahahahahahah)
[url=http://s19.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=1PQB2V1UQYYP624FR36405164S]Mr Bungle - Vanity Fair[/url] (...)[/QUOTE]

For some reason that made me laugh a lot.


I know sad... :upset:

Dibs.

[B]Murder by Death - You Are the Last Dragon[/B]

I've heard a lot about this band, but never before today had I heard their material.

I must say that I picked a great day to wander onto Forced Listening and find this song.

The song starts off with wonderful piano work, accompanied perfectly by guitar. After the intro, everything is silent until a "chunky" guitar comes in and plays a simple riff. Next come the drums and everything else, including the piano. The vocals come in next, and it first I had to get a little used to them. Now they've grown on me greatly. Throughout the whole song the strings are wonderful, and the piano is absolutely beautiful. These two aspects really make this song (and band) stick out when compared to other bands of this genre.

9.5/10 - The .5 is lost because of bad quality.

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Collide - Halo
[url]http://s48.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=2E3CE82JGANII0K3NOLP3RF8WB[/url]
Female fronted electronica/industrial act.

And I'd dibs but Grateful Dead has forgotten how this thread works.

Congrats to 'Tender and dibs.