this is first time on this thread so sry if i get wrong but

Backmask - Pride

go to
[url]www.backmask.com[/url] then click on the CD on in the top right you can dowload them there.

[QUOTE=NEVRMORE2]this is first time on this thread so sry if i get wrong but

Backmask - Pride

go to
[url]www.backmask.com[/url] then click on the CD on in the top right you can dowload them there.[/QUOTE]

There's rules for this thread on the first page, it'll tell you everything you need to know ;)

The Forced Listening is where someone will dibs songs, and review them, then they will post their recommendations for other members to dibs (meaning the one who places dibs is the one who reviews the next song). After you review one of the songs posted before, then you can continue on and post your recommendations :thumb:

Get it??

[QUOTE=Animosity]There's rules for this thread on the first page, it'll tell you everything you need to know ;)

The Forced Listening is where someone will dibs songs, and review them, then they will post their recommendations for other members to dibs (meaning the one who places dibs is the one who reviews the next song). After you review one of the songs posted before, then you can continue on and post your recommendations :thumb:

Get it??[/QUOTE]
darn......yeha i get it though

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:eek: a bumb in the road

!sbid!

[B]Solefald - The Death of Father[/B]
I have all the Solefald album on my computer and own [I]In Harmonia Universali [/I] but I don't listen to [I]Pills Against the Ageless [/I] [I]Ills [/I] very often so I figure this is OK.

Begins with those distinct Solefald vocals and a cool chord progression. Shaping up to be another ace Solefald song. Then way the riff is broken in half by those staccato notes is really cool. Then the same riff plays but with harsh vocals and heavier drums. A cool way to use the same melody twice. Then we get into the palm muted chords and vocals. Solefald is one of the only bands to really use palm muted chords well because there is always something else going on and they use discretion. Somebands just do palm muted power chords through half of every song they right and it sounds like crap, but Solefald has it down.

This song gets to the halfway point then changes it's sound with organs and a very methodical sounding rhythm. I like it. It contrasts nicely with the first half. Eww... there is a drum stick click to get back into the first theme. That is ugly and annoying and should have been left out. This is a fairly boring Solefald song. I've always thought this album was generally more boring than In Harmonia Universali but this is just not cool. The song never really does anything spectacular at all. Oh well.

6.5/10

hxxp://s60.yousendit.com/d.php?id=1RT5898QERB44UVP7DLAVH9W8 - Between the Buried and Me - Backwards Marathon (from the new album Alaska. This song will blow you away. 8:27)
hxxp://s60.yousendit.com/d.php?id=3GCZXHLNX88WK3D89A0930FC4S - Sol Invictus - December Song (a weird sort of avant garde acoustic type band. Very distinct sound. Only do this if you've already heard the new BTBAM)

Replace the x's with t's

rebumop

pretty cool thread here, i just found it. can you get these songs on SoulSeek...with dial-up?

They're on yousendit that's what the links are for.

[QUOTE=Dancin' Man]They're on yousendit that's what the links are for.[/QUOTE]


i see...im such a dumbass. lol :upset:

well dibs on invictis if i can get it.

undibs, its not happenin

Ok, please post if you can't :)
I wouldn't mind doing some Forced Listening again, very good idea :thumb:

Dibs on BTBM.

[I][B]Backwards Marathon[/B][/I]
[B]Between The Buried And Me[/B]

The song starts off immediately with the vocalist growling and the guitar playing a sweet technical riff. It catches me off guard. After this comes a kick-*** fast part. The vocals speed up as well. I'm diggin' this. Next is slower part, with the guitarists still shredding like whoa. The next little bit interchanges between fast parts and slow parts, with hardly any breaks for the vocalist. At about 2:00 they switch to this really smoooooth riff. I'm soooo diggin' this. The next part is my favourite part in the whole song. It slows down (a lot). Everything is clam. The bassist plays a simple bassline. The drummer comes in, with soft distorted guitar (awesome touch). The vocalist sings calmly "it's raining" over and over. In the background you can hear some rain and thunder. This is mezmerising. Two minutes later it's still raining, but I'm not complaining. Soon the lyrics deviate. The vocalist's voice is still calm. The guitar in the background is still setting an awesome atmosphere. The drummer is hitting the high hat more often now. The vocals are overlapping. The guitar takes the foreground now, and soon they break into a calm but faster part. The drummer is "double-bassing". The vocalist is calm. He cries out three more "it's raining", the third time going quite high on the "raining". Back to the intro again. It variates from the intro, eventually ending with nothing but rain.

9.5/10 - Amazing song. I loved the middle. A 10 would've been achieved if more there were a little more fast paced parts (similar to the prat after 0:30) at the end.

Cynicon - Momentary
[url]http://s5.ultrashare.net/hosting/fs/120ed624049527fb/[/url]
(Cyber metal)

Dibs :)
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Cynicon: Momentary

Starts off slow, with some atmosphere, then everything stops, the drums roll, and it kicks in, after the guitar goes through some riffing the vocalist kicks in, sounds to me like a Power Metal vocalist growling, kinda cool, he does some high scream (Or maybe that's a back-up vocalist), the guitar's doing some sick riffing here, sounds similar to Meshuggah imo, but I don't know much about either band, I like it.
There's a cool echo sound to the vocalist, I guess it's a back-up singer, but to me it does sound like it could be some delayed layering, either way it is very cool. It comes in with the drums doing a repetative dum-dum-dum-dum, which I think is boring, but since he only does it for a short while, I can forgive him :p, the drummer stops for a little bit, but then starts again going off on his snare(?), it's a cool rhythm, and it slowly builds, then the singer breaks into it, and the guitar starts going strong again, all the time this atmospheric 'mist' is playing, I don't know what creates the sound, maybe a keyboard... Everything just kinda builds up and then stops...

It's pretty cool, I would have liked the guitar to keep going the whole way through, but we don't always get what we want...
Pretty sloppy review from me.. I'd say probably a 6/10...

Songs:
[url=http://s2.ultrashare.net/hosting/fs/b15388648879b079/]Baterz - Zombie Girl[/url] (Australian Folk Music, I guess..)

That's all I have really, I can upload more, so if this song doesn't interest anyone, just say so and I will upload something else :thumb:

Dibosaurus.

[B]Zombie Girl
[I]Baterz[/B][/I]

Starts off with some accoustic strumming. The bass comes in. I'm dancing in my chair. In comes the vocals. Can't say I'm a big fan of the singer. A second guitar comes in with an accoustic lead. After that a bongo comes in. The song, minus the vocals, has a really cool vibe. There isn't much more to say about this song because it's fairly short and there isn't much variation.

5/10 - It just lacked something, and the vocals brought it down.

Time to crank up the poppy screamo! I actually love these songs quite a lot... strange, because I strongly dislike TBS.

[B]From First To Last - Note To Self[/B]
[SIZE=1]http://s5.ultrashare.net/hosting/fs/34c7ea28732fa46f/[/SIZE]

[B]Taking Back Sunday - Cute Without the E[/B]
[SIZE=1]http://s1.ultrashare.net/hosting/fs/aebf98afea331fc5/[/SIZE]

And if you're feeling brave, some real screamo!

[B]Love Lost But Not Forgotten - Drown[/B]
[SIZE=1]http://s5.ultrashare.net/hosting/fs/16b4e9f243648663/[/SIZE]

okk

[QUOTE=tycoon531]i am the law- anthrax (light 80s thrash)[/QUOTE]
Read the thread rules on page 1 please.

[b]From First To Last - Note To Self[/b]

A melodic intro in 6/4, sounds a bit emo/punk... yes it is, the vocals more than confirm that. I don't go for this type of music, but that's beside the point. These vocals are harmonized, quite strained, some bits slightly screamed, a bit like power-metal vocals. The drums are going through bursts of double kick every now and then.

The music playing is decent, nothing too special, but the melodic structuring is done well. But these vocalists are the main focus, and their voices are quickly getting on my nerves.

A quieter middle section with lots of tom drums, the singers now sound more like Blink 182. "I miss you terribly... Come back to me"... Is this really the most common lyrical theme in this type of music?

It progresses a bit, I'm sure I havent heard these parts before, but they are incredibly melodic and sound pretty similar. There is one bit that just sounds chunky-heavy, playing on one chord, it's a good break, except the singers are being as melodic as ever..

Then it just changes to the outro - a reversed guitar bit, sounds decent, but it doesnt really feel like an ending.


Hm, it's just not to my taste, the ever-melodic sound reminds me of that time I ate a heap of these lollies, then I just felt so sick I coudln't eat anymore, even many months after that... yeah. The music was alright though, not something I could listen to for very long, the vocalists should have taken more breaks.
Ok, but this hasn't inspired me want to look for similar stuff. 6.5/10

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[b][url=http://www.comcen.com.au/~caracarol/Rumors%20Of%20The%20Big%20Wave%20-%20Burning%20Times.mp3]Rumors Of The Big Wave - Burning Times[/url][/b] - pagan

Mr Bumpalina

Mr. Bumpalina's wife is Mrs. Dibs :)

[B]Rumours Of The Big Wave - Burning Times[/B]

I had never even heard of these guys before doing this to be honest so I had no idea what to expect. The song starts out with some soothing yet mysterious synth. The synth changes to a noise similar sort of to a guitar and then the singing starts. Oh dear lord this singing annoys me, its got emotion it it but it he is trying to be back quiet and calme and it just annoys me. The synth stops at about 2 minutes and just a very slow drum and bass beat. The drums then speed up and the bass plays a different melody. Then everything stops at about 3:15 and all there is is the singer, an occasional bass note and some odd noises in the background here and there. The is then a strum of a guitar and the bass and drums come in again with some perculiar jungle like music in the background. The singer then comes back in at 5:20 and then it stops.

I really didn't like this song, everything in it was bland and the singing annoyed the hell out of me. The noises in the background on the synth were quite interesting at times. The bass wasn't that bad either and had some interesting riff changes, except for that it was a bland and boring song. [B]4/10[/B]


[B]Recommendations:[/B]
[URL=http://rapidshare.de/files/4105046/03_-_Dillinger_Escape_Plan_-_Highway_Robbery.mp3.html]Dillinger Escape Plan - Highway Robbery[/URL] (Technical Grindcore)
[URL=http://www.megaupload.com/?d=29LO64HG]Necrophagist - Advanced Corpse Tumour[/URL] (Death Metal)
[URL= http://rapidshare.de/files/4105398/03_-_Set_the_Controls_for_the_Heart_of_the_Sun.mp3.html]Pink Floyd - Set The Control for the Heart of the Sun (Live)[/URL] (Classic Rock)

[B]Dillinger Escape Plan - Highway Robbery[/B]

I've only listened to DEP's album "Calculating Infinity" so I picked this song to get an idea of their newer material. It was a pleasant surprise to immediately find out that they got a new vocalist since my biggest objection were the irritating and dull screamo vocals. Sure the new vocalist has a screamo-ish edge but his vocals are far more strong flexible and listenable and his passages from one style to another far more interesting and memorable.

After getting used to the new and imrpoved vocal style I focused onto the music. It is typical DEP, mixing a wide variety of genres on a harcore formula, often incorporating both meticulous yet forced sounding at times (like the quiet break in the middle which at least is not too mellow) technical parts (that can be heard in a typical technical metal band) and odd crisp rhythm-ed (start/stop riffage) that meets with their -core influences.

This song, compared to their earlier material, sounds way less technical to me and it seems that it has and intense alternative and commercial touch, meaning that its composers mostly wanted to make a catchy and solid song rather an incredibly technical and difficult to grasp one.

An interesting listen in overall, although nothing extremely mind blowing or totally fresh sounding compared to what I'm already familiar with.

[B]8.5/10[/B]
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[I]Recommendations[/I]

[B]Slough Feg - High Passage/Low Passage [/B] hxxp://rapidshare.de/files/4109387/highlow.mp3.html
epic heavy/power with doom and folk influences

[B]Gory Blister - Art Bleeds[/B]
hxxp://rapidshare.de/files/4109625/Gory_Blister_-_Art_Bleeds.mp3.html
technical death metal ala death

[B]Origin - Reciprocal[/B]
hxxp://rapidshare.de/files/4109816/OriginReciprocal.mp3.html
brutal technical death/grind

dibs

Gory Blister - Art Bleeds 4/5
As much as i listen to death metal, I have never heard of Gory Blister. But, I looked into them so i could put a good description.

Gory Blister hail from Italy and were originally formed in 1991. They recorded a few demos and did a few shows here and there but they wanted more. But due to their roster troubles, this was going to be hard. They eventually released their first album, 'Cognitive Synergy' which quickly became a cult classic. After yet another lineup change, Gory Blister was back in the studio to record their newest release, 'Art Bleeds'. Which brings me to the song review of the title track off 'Art Bleeds.'


The song has sort of a progressive feel to it with palm-muted power chords and short bursts of double bass. You can tell this is talented band. This track really doesn't have a very heavy feel to it, which I don't mind. The screaming is fairly original sounding and doesn't growl like a lot of death metal vocalists do. In fact, I would probably call them Technical black metal. A great song though.

My Reccomendations:
The Haunted - Who Will Decide
Darkthrone - Sin Origin
Six Feet Under - Deathklaat
Akercocke - Nadja
Hellhammer - Revelations Of Doom

[b]Hellhammer - Revelations Of Doom[/b]

I think I got a demo version, it was the only one available. the Id3 tag says it's from 1983

Theres a funny echoing "OW!!" at the start reminds me of strongbad/limozeen.

It sounds very raw and simple, not what I was expecting going by the recent Hellhammer projects. The drums are so simple, and s[b][i][/b][/i]hitty... its the same pattern almost the whole way through the song, and that pattern consists of 2 beats. 1 is the bass drum, 2 is the snare and a cymbal.

Imagine this :
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The guitar is very simple too.. man this is pretty bad. I surely hope this is the demo version, it sounds like it. I don't really mind the raw sound, but I hope they changed the music and drum pattern for later versions.

The "vocalist" is speaking more than anything, but with force, a slight growl, and lots of echo. Very hard to hear what is being said, but with better production, I'm sure I would be able to figure the lyrics out. He is doing the best bit of this song.

It's 3 minutes of mostly the same thing.
If I can find another version, I will review it and replace the current review. This one is just plain bad.

1/10

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[b][url=http://www.comcen.com.au/~caracarol/Brace%20-%20Break%20From%20Fear.mp3]Brace - Break From Fear[/url][/b] - power nu-metal... ?

[b][url=http://www.comcen.com.au/~caracarol/Goldie%20Lookin'%20Chain%20-%20Monkey%20Love.mp3]Goldie Lookin' Chain - Monkey Love[/url][/b] - R&B/pop parody

Is it only Rock songs?

Jason Mraz - Geek In The Pink (3:55)
 

[b]Jason Mraz - Geek In The Pink (3:55)[/b]

[i]I chose this because this guy has the same first name as me. Jason Ist Krieg![/i]

Well, this song starts out with your standard sampling sequence, with some "studio chat", i.e. "Yo, you ready man?" etc. Then we launch into a groovy drum'n'bass tune, with some inventive sampling and a vocal harmony thrown in for good measure. Almost immediately, the singing begins in earnest. I'm liking this guy's voice, it's fairly standard pop fare, but it's very sharp and clear.

The lyrics make this song good, and the timing of the vocals, combined with the afore mentioned beat make for a rather pleasant song. The structure doesn't really change, and the verses and choruses are actually suprisingly similar in sound.

Around 2:20, the song turns to a bridge, which is actually my favourite part of this song. Very poppy, but it's a nice change. Then we launch into the familar verse/chorus sound we've had for the rest of the song. Ending on a similar melody to the intro, with the addition of some repeated lines "Geek in the Pink, yo".

Overall, I give this a solid 6/10. It was a pleasant song, fairly standard pop fare, but still enjoyable. If it was slightly less repetitive, I'd have given it higher.

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My picks are:

The Cat Empire - Hello {HipHop/Rock band with a jazzy sound}
[i]hxxp://s31.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=036Z7ST32JGL20NFN160NHKU44[/i]

Bifrost - You Fear My Kind (The Truth Divine) {Epic Thrash}
[i]hxxp://s31.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=2T4WRL15BKQ0G0MSBFA4M33SY2[/i]

Lux Occulta - Architecture {Avant Garde Black Metal with Jazz influences}
[i]hxxp://s31.yousendit.com/[d.aspx?id=01TLASR9H65BQ1X07YBQ483ACS[/i]

very off topic:

Riva, is Lux Occulta any good?
reviews on metal archives concerning there 2 laterst albums are 34% and 60% :confused:

so I'm wondering are they worth checking out?
and which album would you suggest?