dibs.

[B]Isis - Garden of Light[/B]

I've always wanted to check out some post metal/rock (especially Isis + Neurosis) and this was my first experience with this band, and the genre in whole, and it was a welcome surprise.

The song starts off excellently, a slow, dreamy rhythm led by the drums and a great melody. The keyboards are done very well, and it draws you in, I'm not sure what I expected, but this wasn't it, relaxing, soothing and pleasantly simple. In fact, it's not until half way through the second minute when the distorted guitars kick in, followed by some chanting style vocals being slightly drowned by the heaviness of it all. From then on, there is a noticeable change in the atmosphere, the next section is much more menacing, and a lot less relaxing, the distortion stays, and for the first time you get treated to the powerful roar of the singer.

This, I feel, suits the heavier parts much better, the growling and the powerful guitars give the music a heavy, exciting edge while the haunting, melodic parts make it more serene and beautiful. A mix that when talked about, shouldn't really work, but it does, and Isis pull it off effortlessly, I am definitely going to get more work by this band, and hope it is of the same quality as this song.

[B]Grade: 9/10[/B]

Songs:

Edge of Sanity - Twilight (melodic death metal)
A Perfect Circle - The Outsider (alternative metal/rock)
Thurisaz - Circadian Rhythm (atmospheric metal)

you can find all of these on their myspaces :)

dibs

Actually i withdraw dibs.... when I drew it some friends turned up and I went out drinking, pretty f'cked right now.

[b]Thurisaz - Circadian Rhythm[/b]

It starts with a dark deep synth buzz. Soon this is joined by some simple acoustic guitar, which builds into 3 layers of guitar, each more complex.

With the intro over, it bursts into some melodic death metal with black metal vocals. Synth hangs around in the background adding chords to match the guitars. It goes through a few different sections, repeating a few, but seemingly changing key between a few of them.

At 3 minutes is a completely new section, which features some clean vocals and even more synth. A guitar solo of sorts comes in the latter part of this, not bad but not at the usual technical level of prog metal.

Acoustic guitar middle section, they have completely replaced the electric guitars and done it seamlessly.. it's actually a bit reminiscent of Opeth in structure, but I find this more interesting. A bit of acoustic soloing too, before returning to the heaviness of before.

After this... well it keeps going some more, heavy melodic metal synthed up to the eyeballs. Well, I can't talk about every new section that comes up or it will be too much to read. It is pretty easy to listen to, probably a good transition song for someone looking to try heavier music.

8 minutes is long enough for me, I stopped taking so much notice after about 5 mins and let the rest play on... it's epic. The ending was a bit weak, but for a mid-album song, that might be ok.

It's a fairly good song, easy to listen to. Too much synth for my liking, and I usually like it. I would get more of this band, but probably wouldn't pay full attention to the longer songs.
7.5/10


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[b]Azure Ray - Sea Of Doubts[/b] .. dreamy ambient indie
[b]Deadsoul Tribe - In A Garden Made Of Stones [/b] .. hard rock
[b]The Mayan Factor - Self Storage [/b] .. rock
[b]Deftones - Knife Party [/b] .. experimental nu-metal
[b]{miocene} - A Message From Our Sponsors[/b] .. a heatbutt to the face
[b]Dead Letter Circus - Alien [/b] .. new wave of aus rock

[QUOTE=blueyxd;15555336]I would get more of this band, but probably wouldn't pay full attention to the longer songs. [/QUOTE]
That is the longest song off their latest album :)

dibs

[b]azure ray - seas of doubts[/b]

First thing I pick up listening to this is that it is a very piano driven song musically. This is based entirely around a piano melody, with various arrangements working it's way around. It is moody and sad, a kind of melancholic beauty exists throughout. A female vocal sings, and she has a very nice voice.

I'm finding it difficult to find anything to discuss about this song, as i've pretty much summed it in it's entirety. It's nicely arranged musically, but very simple. It's good, and something I wouldn't mind hearing every now and then but as for something unique this is not that. It is good though.

7/10

[B]Songs[/B]

Danzig - How The Gods Kill (Hard Rock)
Return To Forever - After The Cosmic Rain (Jazz Fusion)
Tom Waits - Small Change (Avant Garde/Jazz/Beat)
PJ Harvey - To Bring You My Love (Indie/Rock)
Link Wray - The Swag (Rockabilly)

[b]Danzig - How The Gods Kill[/b]

Danzig is a name I've seen for years and yet I've never heard them.

The intro is a rather quiet guitar picking on power chords. Some male soft calls of "Oohhh". Soon it becomes ominous with reverb drums and some descending lead-ish guitar. Soft male vocals, they sound familiar somehow. The music is fairly pushed back, so I guess the vocals words the most here, but I'm not a big take-notice-of-lyrics person. The singing and drum continue as the guitar goes back to the first riff again. It's a little simple, but not bad.

There it is... power up at 2:45, though not as hard as I thought it might be, but that southern slowness.. nice. The lead guitar is translated to the lower strings with distortion and feedback. The swing-rhythm becomes very clear now. It has strong tinges of classic rock, like a cross between Creedence Clearwater Revival, The Tea Party and Down. It's good hard head-nodding/foot-tapping music.

It quietens down after a short while, back to the very first guitar picking and some singing, though the drums keep going with power.

Back to the hard bit.. nice, I like this bit. Ooh slight variation in the guitaring, with some delay it sounds even better. This doesn't last long before going back to the first riff again to finish.


Well.. it was kind of simple but still quite good. I wouldn't have minded a bit more variation, especially with that intro picking they kept going back to. The harder bit was really good, pity they didn't use it more in the song. I would get more Danzig based on this song.

8/10

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D-theme

[b]Damien Rice - 9 Crimes[/b] .. v soft
[b]Dead Letter Circus - Alien[/b] .. new wave of aus rock
[b]Deadsoul Tribe - In A Garden Made Of Stones[/b] .. hard rock
[b]Deftones - Knife Party[/b] .. experimental nu-metal
[b]Delerium - Silence[/b] .. trip hop
[b]Down - Stone The Crow[/b] .. southern rock

[B]Dead Letter Circus - Alien [/B]

The song starts out with an almost "spacey" feeling with a touch of electronic. After about a minute, the song busts in, the lead guitar is quickly strumming octaves, giving a hint of post rock. Things mellow out for the verse. I can't decide if I like the vocals or not... he is a good singer, but I don't really like the tone of his voice. The bass plays some neat fills and the drummer keeps the pace going with his hi-hat.
The chorus feels a bit anti-climatic, the verse felt a little more interesting to me. After an instrumental break and a cool transition it busts into a progressive sounding bridge section. One layered guitar picks some dissonant notes and I dig the drums. The song starts to slowly break apart and fade out.

I don't really know what else to say. For the most part the song rode at the same momentum throughout. Even though it tried, I didn't really feel like there was a whole lot of dynamics, which is crucial for this type of music, I think. With that said, though, I did find myself coming around to the vocals by the end of the song. The bass hook throughout was cool, and I dug a lot of the stuff the drums and guitars where doing. All in all, definitely not a bad song, unfortunately I didn't find it very memorable.

6/10



Polkadot Cadaver - Any song (who know's what you'll get)
Here's a couple:
Sole Survivor (Rock)
[url]http://media.putfile.com/Polkadot-Cadaver---Soul-Survivor[/url]
Brainwash
[url]http://media.putfile.com/Polkadot-Cadaver---Brainwash[/url]

Ideamen - Know the Dance (Rock with a touch of Salsa)
[url]http://media.putfile.com/Ideamen---Know-the-Dance[/url]

Hatrix - Status (Thrashy/Metal)

Down - On March the Saints

crunk

I call dibs, but I won't get it done in a good hour or so.

But if you could link it to the Hatrix song that would be cool. :)

[url]http://media.putfile.com/Hatrix---Status[/url]

try that, the website seems to be a bit iffy

if not, check your rep in a few minutes

Yeah it keeps buffering and never stops, I don't know if it's my internets' fault or the sites but yeah.

given out too much rep

**** it

[url]http://www.sendspace.com/file/evwhx2[/url]

[QUOTE=Dand;15638718]Polkadot Cadaver - Any song (who know's what you'll get)
Here's a couple:
Sole Survivor (Rock)
[url]http://media.putfile.com/Polkadot-Cadaver---Soul-Survivor[/url]
Brainwash
[url]http://media.putfile.com/Polkadot-Cadaver---Brainwash[/url]

Ideamen - Know the Dance (Rock with a touch of Salsa)
[url]http://media.putfile.com/Ideamen---Know-the-Dance[/url]

Hatrix - Status (Thrashy/Metal)

Down - On March the Saints[/QUOTE]

bump

Holy shi[I]t[/I] i completely forgot I was gonna do this, sorry, I'll get to it tonight, promise. >_<

Tried to download his file and the link expired, forgot to mention that when i tried awhile ago haha.

And on the 149th day, the thread was revived!

[b]Polkadot Cadaver - Brainwash[/b]

Oh man, boy band... or so it sounds at the start, but I've heard about this band, so it shouldn't be too bad. It has a bit of a laid back pop/rnb beat, sensual bass and high-soft male vocals. Theres a chorus with synth plucked strings and piano. Lyrics seem to be about a girl that makes the guys stop thinking, probably hence brainwash.

Another rnb verse and chorus go by and I'm really starting to think it'll stay like this the whole way through. Luckily, it's not bad and definitely not radio material, it just emulates that sound. It has a bit of a Mike Patton feel about it, and I wouldn't be surprised if he was somehow connected to the band.

Almost 2 minutes in, the rnb suddenly gives in to some straightforward hard rock guitar and drums for a new chorus. The transition from the rnb is surprisingly smooth, it has basically the same chord progression, which helps. Then after the chorus it gets a bit creepy. The anxiety level builds up very high due to the frequent snare activity. Probably representing that this guy has snapped out of his brainwash for a bit.

He's getting angry at this girl.. she never loved him or something, amd he wants revenge while he has the chance. There's a little bit of higher guitar notes that add to the building power. It reaches an almost metal level of heaviness for a few bars.. but then the rnb sneaks back in. Not for too long, though. The hard rock mode comes back and pretty much ends the song after a few repeats.


Not bad, not great. There were some interesting transitions between contrasting musical styles, but they were done in a very safe manner. I could listen to this easily, but passively - I wouldn't take that much notice of it when it came on.
7.5/10

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[b]A Wilhelm Scream - Dreaming Of Throwing Up[/b] .. technical punk
[b]Down - Jail[/b] .. trippy southern acoustic
[b]Gory Blister - The Soul-Slitters[/b] .. technical death metal
[b]Hanh Nguyen - Loi Ru Cua Me[/b] .. Vietnamese folk/chillout
[b]Horse The Band - Octopus On Fire[/b] .. experimental synthy hardcore
[b]Ne Obliviscaris - As Icicles Fall[/b] .. progressive black/classical/folk metal
[b]Orphaned Land - Birth Of The Three (The Unification)[/b] .. awesome prog folk/death metal
[b]Röyksopp - A Higher Place[/b] .. mellow electronic
[b]The Hold Steady - Party Pit[/b] .. fun alt country-ish rock

Now!

dibs on the Ne Obliviscaris

0:00 Introduction So far so good. Great melodic rhythm section and great guitars

0:35 Oh crap. Not what I expected at all. Very generic whiny vocals. I wonder when they will end? I can;t understand a word he is saying at all.

1:39 Chorus Great bass lines, great guitar, I am finally starting to feel the vocals

1:57 tremolo guitar sounds great

2:26 same generic vocals but great screaming vocals over it, nice little mini guitar solo in the middle here

3:05-3:21 great tapping guitar

3:22 finally some death growl screaming followed up by more high pitch screams which sound great

4:10 violin solo Not really sure how a violin solo goes over this deathish blackish metal though i am not sure what to call it, just isn't working out for me, the violin solo is a little overpowering here
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5:34 finally the violin solo is over and the guitar solo starts, great solo, not much to say about this, pretty self explanatory

lasts until about 6:25

after 6:25 mostly lead guitars over death growls, still can't hardly understand a word

at about 7:05 great the violin is back

through to 7:40 plus is death growls over a violin solo

at 8:08 is a dual violin solo which actually sounds pretty good

at 8:35 is more rhythm violin along with more death vocals, pretty lame and repetitive

9:00 outro, same as the intro for the most part
ends 9:27
Still very repetitive, some good aspects such as the guitar taps and the violin solos, the violin interlude actually takes aaway from the song in my opinion, the vocals towards the beginning were rather generic and not too impressive while the high pitch screams were great and perfectly positioned. the death vocals were also great but used rather unsparingly and seemed to appear quite to often throughout the jist of the song.

Overall 6.5/10

My suggestions:

Vaakevandring ~ Fader Vaar white metal
Same artist ~ Someday
Same artist ~ to find eternal peace
shadows fall ~ eternity is within NWOAHM or whatever it's called
toto ~ rosanna old 80's rock
petra ~ it is finished 80's christian rock
same artist ~ computer brains
peasant ~ the arm of barlow metal
a theory on conquest ~ false prophet metal
diesel ~ blood is bond
legions will fall ~ to stain my hands
the aftermath ~ just like you
jacknife ~ tears fall endless
dead industry ~ falling down
weaken the adversary ~ Ashes of the Dawn
forever mourne ~ abyrinth of shadows

all metal basically except those labeled as other than metal

thought I'd throw some dallas bands in there

last 9 can be found at [url]http://www.xtremedfw.com[/url] just click listen

dibs

jacknife ~ tears fall endless

Dun dun -rifriffriff-riffriff

I'm getting the chopper out for this one
Harmonized solo comes in, badass
Verse is pretty cool, vocals are nothing special. I thought I heard an epic chorus coming in, but it's kind of a letdown.
The melodies are all standard metal fare. The guitarist is good enough, but nothing inventive.
This whole experience has been enjoyable, but nothing special thus far. The chorus is even disappointing.
There are some sung vocals hidden in the mix, but only for a second.
Yeah, overall, this was pretty boring. The dynamic never really changed and the song never really felt like it went anywhere. It was tight, but none of the players really stuck out to me. It's easy to find a guitarist that can shred in harmonic minor and a drummer with a galloping double bass.
I will say, I want to ride motorcycles to this, but only for one song at a time.
Fans of Dead to Fall would like this I think.
4/10

Achilles - Dear Old Tyger That Sleeps (hardcore) [url]http://www(dot)mediafire.com/?dej3inyvozz[/url]
Able Baker Fox - October (rock) [url]http://www(dot)mediafire.com/?dzdjbcobjn4[/url]
The Environment - Bloom (mathrock) [url]http://www(dot)mediafire.com/?0v5mwxlcd4v[/url]
links coming...

Oops. There we go, it was the jacknife song. Now dibs. Not me dibs, you dibs. I can't dibs.
No dibs.

[QUOTE=Dancin' Man;16350204]
Achilles - Dear Old Tyger That Sleeps (hardcore) [url]http://www(dot)mediafire.com/?dej3inyvozz[/url]
Able Baker Fox - October (rock) [url]http://www(dot)mediafire.com/?dzdjbcobjn4[/url]
The Environment - Bloom (mathrock) [url]http://www(dot)mediafire.com/?0v5mwxlcd4v[/url]
links coming...[/QUOTE]

BUMP hey hay

This was a four-staring cool thread back in the day. we should get it going again

sequential postcount four thee whine

dibs


Achilles-Dear Old Tyger That Sleeps
Songs starts of with a pretty good melodic intro, then from this transitions into a heavier section. Overall its a hardcore with a good sense of melody. The vocals are just an average hardocore shout. The song would be better but it's too short and about a halfway begins to ditch the melody, and the song gets boring.
6/10

Nehemiah-The King's Collapse

Racetraitor-Suffocation

ps. both songs are on the band's myspaces

[QUOTE=thomasj12e34;17235535]dibs


Achilles-Dear Old Tyger That Sleeps
Songs starts of with a pretty good melodic intro, then from this transitions into a heavier section. Overall its a hardcore with a good sense of melody. The vocals are just an average hardocore shout. The song would be better but it's too short and about a halfway begins to ditch the melody, and the song gets boring.
6/10

Nehemiah-The King's Collapse

[B]Racetraitor-Suffocation[/B]

ps. both songs are on the band's myspaces[/QUOTE]
dibs.

very intense but not a fan of the vocals. the drums are also very obviously fake, but that's alright, they aren't bad. it's very converge-y in nature. could see this growing on me. very short, but intense song... as of now i'd say 6/10.

my forced rec:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FqFX6QC8HcU