Vaenyr
Ancient Mariner
@Siddharth is having too much fun with this. It's hilarious lol
Best Metal Song Tournament (Round 10)
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MindRuler
The Grey
The fact it rhymes makes it even funnier.
Azas
Waiting for the Barbarians
1 Running Wild - Riding The Storm +1
1 Black Sabbath - Children Of The Sea
2 Rotting Christ - ... Pir Threontai +1
0 Immortal Bird - Avolition
2 Nightwish - Ghost Love Score +1
0 Savatage - Morphine Child
1 Coheed And Cambria - In Keeping Secrets Of Silent Earth: 3 +1
1 Alter Bridge - Waters Rising
Black Sabbath's Children of the Sea sounds a little uninspired to me. A “going through the motions,” “more of the same” kind of track, whereas Running Wild's Riding the Storm offers adventure and some action. I'll take it.
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Rotting Christ's song was very pleasant-sounding, almost hypnotic. I loved those drum burps - I don't know what to call them. A drum-pattern-led track, or whatever. After that, Immortal Bird's song felt too chaotic and neurotic, ha.
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Savatage's Morphine Child was nice, but to me, it can't beat one of Nightwish's very best songs, Ghost Love Score. It's simply outstanding!
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I don't listen to either band in the last matchup, so after a quick glance at Wikipedia, I learned that Coheed and Cambria are true nerds who write songs about their own imagined universe. Alter Bridge, on the other hand, gives zero fucks about stage personas.
I voted for In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3 because the music was nice and engaging. The vocals are certainly not metal, but they suited the song. Alter Bridge sounded too mainstream to me, like just another rock song on the radio. I'll go with the nerds - I felt they were much more passionate about their song.
1 Black Sabbath - Children Of The Sea
2 Rotting Christ - ... Pir Threontai +1
0 Immortal Bird - Avolition
2 Nightwish - Ghost Love Score +1
0 Savatage - Morphine Child
1 Coheed And Cambria - In Keeping Secrets Of Silent Earth: 3 +1
1 Alter Bridge - Waters Rising
Black Sabbath's Children of the Sea sounds a little uninspired to me. A “going through the motions,” “more of the same” kind of track, whereas Running Wild's Riding the Storm offers adventure and some action. I'll take it.
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Rotting Christ's song was very pleasant-sounding, almost hypnotic. I loved those drum burps - I don't know what to call them. A drum-pattern-led track, or whatever. After that, Immortal Bird's song felt too chaotic and neurotic, ha.
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Savatage's Morphine Child was nice, but to me, it can't beat one of Nightwish's very best songs, Ghost Love Score. It's simply outstanding!
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I don't listen to either band in the last matchup, so after a quick glance at Wikipedia, I learned that Coheed and Cambria are true nerds who write songs about their own imagined universe. Alter Bridge, on the other hand, gives zero fucks about stage personas.
I voted for In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3 because the music was nice and engaging. The vocals are certainly not metal, but they suited the song. Alter Bridge sounded too mainstream to me, like just another rock song on the radio. I'll go with the nerds - I felt they were much more passionate about their song.
Cat Milk Supreme
Ancient Mariner
Oh fuck, I thought it was Children of the Grave, pfffft, no chance I'm voting for Children of the Sea over Riding the Storm, fuck no
Cat Milk Supreme
Ancient Mariner
It's a banger.
Diesel 11
As you scream into the web of silence...
Well clearly you’ve never felt the mountains shake with laughter as they played.
Cat Milk Supreme
Ancient Mariner
I have not but I have seen the flashlights and heard the thunder as the rain prattered on the hull. It was loooovely.
MrK
clap hands
2 Black Sabbath - Children Of The Sea +1
1 Running Wild - Riding The Storm
3 Rotting Christ - ... Pir Threontai +1
0 Immortal Bird - Avolition
3 Nightwish - Ghost Love Score +1
0 Savatage - Morphine Child
2 Coheed And Cambria - In Keeping Secrets Of Silent Earth: 3 +1
1 Alter Bridge - Waters Rising
Children of the Sea is a top tier, perfect Dio Sabbath song. The intro is magical and when the whole band kicks in it is some of the most powerful playing I've ever heard. Geezer's bass is incredible! The ending is equally as powerful and one of my favorite Dio moments of all time. Riding the Storm is a great song with cool riffing and all, but I'll be doing the demon dance and rushing to nevermore, myself. LOOK OUT!
Rotting Christ feels like power metal as played by Meshuggah, which is very interesting. It's very, very cool and the guitar playing is just awesome. I knew from the first second of blast beats that I would not be voting for Immortal Bird.
Morphine Child is one of the only Savatage songs with which I am familiar and it's really awesome, but, come on, we're talking about Ghost Love Score here. It's the single greatest symphonic metal song of all time and it was somehow made even better by Floor at Wacken 2013.
As usual, Alter Bridge is pleasant and manages to avoid being lumped in with pure butt rock because of Tremonti's guitar skills and Myles Kennedy great voice, but this band just doesn't move me in any way. IKSOSE: 3 is nowhere near my favorite Coheed song (I prefer the few albums directly after this one), it is still an all-time classic from an underrated band that is definitely more metal than Alter Bridge. MAN YOUR OWN JACKHAMMER!
1 Running Wild - Riding The Storm
3 Rotting Christ - ... Pir Threontai +1
0 Immortal Bird - Avolition
3 Nightwish - Ghost Love Score +1
0 Savatage - Morphine Child
2 Coheed And Cambria - In Keeping Secrets Of Silent Earth: 3 +1
1 Alter Bridge - Waters Rising
Children of the Sea is a top tier, perfect Dio Sabbath song. The intro is magical and when the whole band kicks in it is some of the most powerful playing I've ever heard. Geezer's bass is incredible! The ending is equally as powerful and one of my favorite Dio moments of all time. Riding the Storm is a great song with cool riffing and all, but I'll be doing the demon dance and rushing to nevermore, myself. LOOK OUT!
Rotting Christ feels like power metal as played by Meshuggah, which is very interesting. It's very, very cool and the guitar playing is just awesome. I knew from the first second of blast beats that I would not be voting for Immortal Bird.
Morphine Child is one of the only Savatage songs with which I am familiar and it's really awesome, but, come on, we're talking about Ghost Love Score here. It's the single greatest symphonic metal song of all time and it was somehow made even better by Floor at Wacken 2013.
As usual, Alter Bridge is pleasant and manages to avoid being lumped in with pure butt rock because of Tremonti's guitar skills and Myles Kennedy great voice, but this band just doesn't move me in any way. IKSOSE: 3 is nowhere near my favorite Coheed song (I prefer the few albums directly after this one), it is still an all-time classic from an underrated band that is definitely more metal than Alter Bridge. MAN YOUR OWN JACKHAMMER!
Vaenyr
Ancient Mariner
If you haven't listened to the whole Poets And Madmen album, give a listen to Comissar. It takes a bit until it gets going, but there's a really cool synth/guitar combo riff in there around the 2 minute mark.
Diesel 11
As you scream into the web of silence...
3 Black Sabbath - Children Of The Sea +1
1 Running Wild - Riding The Storm
3 Rotting Christ - ... Pir Threontai
1 Immortal Bird - Avolition +1
4 Nightwish - Ghost Love Score +1
0 Savatage - Morphine Child
3 Coheed And Cambria - In Keeping Secrets Of Silent Earth: 3 +1
1 Alter Bridge - Waters Rising
"Riding the Storm" is solid power metal, "Children of the Sea" is a classic. Love the way Iommi's guitar sounds.
"...Pir Threontai" didn't do a whole lot for me. I jived with it more towards the end but it still didn't fully grab me. I feel like that Viking guitar lead would've sounded better in a dual harmony. Immortal Bird's track is by far the best black metal song we've had so far, and man it started to even break through the confines of its genre by the end. Proggy, dynamic, killer stuff! You guys are once again cracked.
"Morphine Child" was pretty good (definitely see more of their influence on Sabaton), but "Ghost Love Score" is just something else. I still get fucking chills as they build into the final chorus.
Final match-up was two solid metal-adjacent songs against each other. "Waters Rising" had better guitar work, IKSOSE3 was more interesting overall and gets the nod from me.
1 Running Wild - Riding The Storm
3 Rotting Christ - ... Pir Threontai
1 Immortal Bird - Avolition +1
4 Nightwish - Ghost Love Score +1
0 Savatage - Morphine Child
3 Coheed And Cambria - In Keeping Secrets Of Silent Earth: 3 +1
1 Alter Bridge - Waters Rising
"Riding the Storm" is solid power metal, "Children of the Sea" is a classic. Love the way Iommi's guitar sounds.
"...Pir Threontai" didn't do a whole lot for me. I jived with it more towards the end but it still didn't fully grab me. I feel like that Viking guitar lead would've sounded better in a dual harmony. Immortal Bird's track is by far the best black metal song we've had so far, and man it started to even break through the confines of its genre by the end. Proggy, dynamic, killer stuff! You guys are once again cracked.
"Morphine Child" was pretty good (definitely see more of their influence on Sabaton), but "Ghost Love Score" is just something else. I still get fucking chills as they build into the final chorus.
Final match-up was two solid metal-adjacent songs against each other. "Waters Rising" had better guitar work, IKSOSE3 was more interesting overall and gets the nod from me.
Cat Milk Supreme
Ancient Mariner
Another slap in the tits for old Cat Milk. Bastards.