a few more suggestions wud be nice..i'#ve heard that.

I want someone to review that one, I want to see what people think of it. Next time I'll put more choices.

dibs then

Thrice - A subtle dagger

Starts fast, with everything guitars, drums and bass. I like the guitars. Some screaming follows shortly. I don't like his voice. Then it goes over to a melodic riff, followed by a pretty cool chorus. Then a verse again, with the screaming, I'm actually starting to like it. Back to the chorus again, which I dig.

Now comes a mini solo, pretty melodic, but it ends to fast. Back to some screaming, with the guitars "screaming" with him. Then it ends. Whew that was short.

Meh, it was okay. Nothing stood out as particularly good. My favourite part was the chorus, where the vocalist actually sang.

5/10

Sinergy - Swarmed(Melodic Metal)
Dragonforce - My spirit will go on(Power metal)
Focus - Hocus Pocus (Metal - but this is a funny song:))

bump

dibs

Oh man, that Focus - Hocus Pocus is [i]incredible[/i]. I need to hear more of their stuff.

Focus-Hocus Pocus
nice laid back guitar intro, joined by harmonizing bass and drums. then YODELING! good god i love it. back to melody. nice drum bridge, more yodeling! excellant guiar solo that really fits in with the rest of the song, something you dont get much nowadays. drum bridge, some crazy skat, then more melody. more yodeling. that guy really can hit the high notes. another guitar solo, this ones faster but not as good. some pan pipe going on, very nice. another melody thing, holy ****, its an accordian. Another solo, as good as the first, nice drum fill, yodeling, then the yodeler laughing. more melody. the tempo slows and the song ends.

A alltogether decent song, very frenetic with the yodelling, pan pipe, whistling, and harmonica. a very good flow
8/10



The Who-Boris The Spider (rock, kinda strange)
Exit English-Blaze (scream emo, but still good)
Orgy-Blue Monday (techno rock)

Dibs.

Well, Strike Anywhere have an album called Exit English, with a song called Blaze on it. I assumed that's what you meant.
[b]Strike Anywhere - Blaze[/b] - 2:02

Starts off with what might be an interesting riff, but it soon (like, 2 seconds in) becomes really bland and inoffensive. At the start of the verse, the vocals have a slight edge to them, but that too instantly disappears, so we're left with unimpressive, slightly whiny vocals.

His voice regains a little of that edge (literally for around a quarter of a second) at the start of the next verse, before becoming bland again.

I don't know what to do with this, the song is giving me nothing to work with. The instruments aren't changing from a constant drum beat, and the inoffensive guitar. The vocals still have that little edge every now and then, but somehow that just makes it worse that they are most often not like that.

The instruments had no variation, and the thing they weren't varying from wasn't any good to start with. I also don't really see how that was screamo; any scream the vocalist has tapers off after half a second. It ended up sounding like punk, maybe even bordering on pop punk. Substandard pop-punk, at that.

2/10. Very poor.

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

Songs:
Arghoslent - The Purging Fires of War or Incorrigible Bigotry (instrumental) (melodic death metal)
Blue Öyster Cult - Golden Age of Leather (Classic rock)
Cryptopsy - Orgiastic Disembowelment (brutal death, with an Ash quote at the end)
Mannhai - [i]Spender[/i] (stoner rock)

revoked, I can't find any except for Golden Age, and that won't let me download.

I think we need some more choices. I can't find any of those that will download.

Spastic Ink - [i]To Counter and Groove in E Minor[/i] (technical instrumental metal)
The Beta Band - [i]Dry the Rain[/i] (alt. rock/folk - Beck fans apply here)
Manowar - [i]The Gods Made Heavy Metal[/i] (heavy metal - take it with a grain of salt, and listen to the lyrics)

There you go, try those.

Bump.

can i still dibs the original songs?

Yup, those are in addition to, not in replacement of.

alright then dibs

[B]Blue Oyster Cult-Golden Age Of Leather[/B]

The intro is that opera like singing. reminds me alot of queen's bohemian rhapsody.its a great way to start off a song. after this it comes in with a nice riff and the song starts to really pick up.

in a little while they change it up a bit and his voices starts to change a tad and gets rather deeper. and another great riff breaks in. accompanied with a nice solo which fits in quite nicely with the song.he continues to stick with the deeper voice which gives the song a bit of an edge.

next the songs tempo changes to a bit slower. but then it changes again to back to the faster pace. i noticed it does this a couple more times as well before the song ends. and it goes back to the opera style singing as heard in the intro. after this the song ends.

8.5/10 i really liked this song especially the singing and guitar work. i may check some more stuff out by these guys.


Faith no more - a small victory (funk-metal)
fu manchu- evil eye (sludge/stoner rock)
string cheese incident-100 year flood (jam band/bluegrass-rock)
black sabbath-supernaut (metal)

I'd recommend the entire Spectres album, if you're going to check them out further.

This isn't a dibs, it's getting too late.

i'll dibs

Bump. I've heard all but one, and the one won't download.

Hoorah, found a source. Dibs.

[b]String Cheese Incident - 100 Years Flood[/b] - 3:00

Starts off light and fun, with a burst of a fairly good voice, and quite a few instruments. There's a piano in there, which I like, but other than that I'm almost a minute in and nothing particularly good's happening so far.

Around 1:40 what I think is a violin comes in, and that's pretty good. It doesn't stay long though, and the song moves on to some so-so guitar picking, and then further on to some piano.

And then an electric guitar! Certainly a good variety here. Vocals restart around 3:15. After they finish around 4:15, the song just leads out on lots of instrumental messing around, mostly on guitar and electric guitar, though I noticed the drums as well.

That was alright..I'm slowly getting into this kind of thing, but this is probably the least good of the songs I've heard so far. The vocals, and their lyrics and rhythm, didn't do anything for me, and the instruments were only good, not great.

6/10

[b]Would I listen to more of the same band?[/b] Not based on this song.

Arghoslent - [i]The Purging Fires of War[/i] or [i]Incorrigible Bigotry (instrumental)[/i] (melodic death metal)
Cryptopsy - [i]Orgiastic Disembowelment[/i] (brutal death, with an Ash quote at the end)
Mannhai - [i]Spender[/i] (stoner rock)
Spastic Ink - [i]To Counter and Groove in E Minor[/i] (technical instrumental metal)
The Beta Band - [i]Dry the Rain[/i] (alt. rock/folk - Beck fans apply here)
Manowar - [i]The Gods Made Heavy Metal[/i] (Manowar)

All available on Soulseek.

Dibs. I got cut off just as my download finished, so I couldn't review it. Oh well. The Fu Manchu song: 8/10. Didn't like the wah thing, but the rest was excellent.

[i]Spastic Ink - To Counter and Groove in E Minor[/i]

This is an interesting listen. The guitar (with an odd tone, that I am not sure whether I like or dislike) starts soloing, and then the bass starts soloing, and it somehow molds together. I like the bass tone, however. Then a cool drum and bass thing starts to happen, with an excellent groove. You will be nodding your head to the beat in no time. And the guitar does all this crazy stuff whenever he wants. Then the guitar starts playing a little riff, which sounds almost reggae-is, but heavily distorted. Then there is more bass and guitar soloing, this time with a drum beat. Then a cool riff up high, which is harmonised with another guitar soon after. Soon after than, a cool bass solo, which is great. It is basically scale runs, but sounds excellent. Then another fast guitar riff, probably the best one in the song. it does some other stuff after this, then does the cool harmonised riff, and then a little shredding thing out. A great song.

9/10.

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Lykathea Aflame - Land Where Sympathy is Air (Technical Death/Grind)
Yes - Roundabout (Progressive rock)
Kreator - Agents of Brutality (Thrash)

My dibs.
Say, why only one can take a dibs on the last post if you recommend more than one song?

Because it's supposed to stay linear, one to one to one, and so on, rather than spreading out. More than one song is recommended in case the others have been heard/can't be found.

/steals dibs

You took too long. :evil:

[QUOTE=Mekkalayakay]Wow. I never knew NIN did stuff like that. All I had previously heard was March of the Pigs and Closer. If NIN has done other previous work like La Mer, I could definately get into them.[/QUOTE]
Them=Him
just so you know.
;)

I revoke for now. Download failed at 93% and I'm going to bed. :(

dibs

Revoked. I got one of the songs, and I like it, but I have no time to do the review. :(

Dibs Biotch!

Yes - Roundabout

I've never actually listened to any Yes. Let's see how it goes.

Based on first listen, this song is tight. Some parts in there I wasn't digging quite as much (the really classic rock sounding bits) but some parts.....They are HOT. The intro and the bit where the lyrics are "...roundabout...". The acoustic guitar parts are really awesome. I also like the keys. They have that 70's spaceage feel. It's like Bowie backing classical guitar. The flutes are another favorite part. That part reminds me of The Who meets The Doors.

As far as musicians go, the bassist strikes me as the best at his game. All of them are exceptional but the bassist is the standout. The singer is decent but not up to par with the restof the band. The guitarist is also very impressive especially when he busts out the classicalness. The drums don't really jump out at me but I thin that has more to do with the mix than anything else.

Difinitive prog right here. I don't know if I'll go out of my way to listen to it as I don't like classic rock and this has a lot of that in it but it is very well done.

8.75/10

Sloth - Someday (nu-metal)
Shinedown - 45 (nu-metal)
Linkin Park - Forgotten (nu-metal/rap metal)

Take the nu-ness! bitc[b][i][/b][/i]hes!

I guess I could use some nu-metal. So dibs

Sweet a fast download.
Sloth- Someday
Can't say I've ever heard of them.
Starts with a little guitar ditty then the drums come in picking up pace. Then everything comes in. The song is like a tug of war between the cool heavy parts and the crappy wimpy parts. The singer is also like the rest of the songs torn between sounding cool and whinning. He matches the music. The heavy parts kick in every so often enough to kinda keep my attention. This is one of those songs that if they did the heavy part the whole time it would rock, but the soft part sucks to much for it to be a really good song. Also it seems like the chorus is repeated for the whole song, the lyrics lack any substance. It could have been a good song, but I don't think it is so I won't be looking for anymore of their stuff.
I give the song a 3/10 just for the harder parts of the song.

Venom-In League with Satan (old school Black Metal)
Dream Theater- Pull me Under (Rock)
As I Lay Dying- Forever (Metal)
Death- The Crystal Mountain (Metal, might qualify for black metal)
Black Label Society- Life/Birth/Blood/Doom

Revoked. Sorry... :upset:

You have a sweet avatar Evil Clown. AoD is an awesome movie.

Those are some good suggestions MikeNeasy, its too bad i know them all, or else i'd call dibs

Just for the record, Death [i]IS[/i] Death metal :thumb:

Bump. I'm too busy right now.