SABATON SURVIVOR 2013: Results -> Primo Victoria wins!

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I'm not participating in this survivor becuase I've only listened to one album which is The Art of War. I'm very surprised to see that 40:1 and Cliffs of Gallipoli are gone. I thought both of them were awesome songs. Price of a Mile or Ghost Division deserves to win this survivor.
 
This round only four songs. I like this album better than the previous.

Sad to see Saboteurs and Wehrmacht going so soon. The melodies are among my favourites the band did on both this and previous album.
 
I'm voting for:

Saboteurs - utterly forgettable, except for how wrong the lyrics are.
Wehrmacht - some nice melodies, but really, really bad lyrics and absolutely uninspired solo work and singing. I find it to be such a mixed bag it's not really worth listening to much.
Metal Ripper - boring, boring boring. Cheesy, yeah, and kinda fun, but then you get bored with it, and it's just time to move on.
Nuclear Attack - I can't say I enjoy this song so much as others. It is a nice, fast attack song, but not to the quality of others they've done since.
Panzerkampf - A few months ago I got stuck on this song because it has a nice beat to walk to, but I can't say it's any more than mediocre nowadays.

On this, my fourth or fifth listen to Coat of Arms I found myself noticing a lot more songs as standing out than before. So many that I'm actually voting for some "older" songs I hadn't expected to vote for. Sabaton makes really, really strong albums.
 
A really, really strong album while at the same time you use terms like "utterly forgettable" , "uninspired", " boring" and "mediocre".
You're quite happy with an album with such (and many) negative qualifications. :)
 
Coat of Arms is one of my more listened to albums, the title track and Final Solution being the ones that stuck quickest. Aces in Exile/Screaming Eagles for whatever reason I noticed more when listening to the live album, and so now stick out more when I listen back to the studio.

I forgot to select Nuclear Attack, as I don't find it to be anything special.
 
Forostar said:
A really, really strong album while at the same time you use terms like "utterly forgettable" , "uninspired", " boring" and "mediocre".
You're quite happy with an album with such (and many) negative qualifications. :)
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Yes, until the last three songs, it's a spectacular album. One can be happy with the sum but not pleased with the individual parts quite easily.
 
Collin said:
I'm very surprised to see that 40:1 and Cliffs of Gallipoli are gone. I thought both of them were awesome songs. Price of a Mile or Ghost Division deserves to win this survivor.
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I have no idea why Gallipoli is gone; it's generally regarded as one of the band's strongest songs (and it's definitely in my top five). Ghost Division is great - I really like the beat and the synth bridge. Not a huge fan of Price (a bit too repetitive) and 40:1 (too happy-sounding), though.

LooseCannon said:
Wehrmacht - some nice melodies, but really, really bad lyrics and absolutely uninspired solo work and singing. I find it to be such a mixed bag it's not really worth listening to much.
Panzerkampf - A few months ago I got stuck on this song because it has a nice beat to walk to, but I can't say it's any more than mediocre nowadays.
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These two songs I find to be quite similar. Lately I haven't been able to stop listening to Wehrmacht; the music is just unbelievably catchy. That main riff/chorus is amazing, and that bridge (in 5/4) is probably my favorite "bad ass" Sabaton moment. Love the harmonized solo, too. The only weak part to me is that "What about the men executing orders" line. It's too rushed, and while I understand the emotional vibe they were going for with the line (many Nazi soldiers not actually knowing what was really going on), it doesn't fit the tone of the song.

Panzerkampf is great, too, and I especially love it due to my obsession with Russian stuff. Musically I think Wehrmacht is stronger, but the chorus and "Mother Russia" bridge are some of Sabaton's strongest moments in my mind.

I'm glad there's no votes against White Death. I find the rather happy, upbeat tone of that song hilarious considering the subject matter. Simo Hayha was one bad ass dude.
 
I kinda regret my Wehrmacht vote, though it doesn't really change anything; it's going out either way.
 
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Eliminated:
Metal Ripper - 8 votes
Wehrmacht - 6 votes
Saboteurs - 5 votes
Aces In Exile - 4 votes
Panzerkampf - 3 votes
Midway - 3 votes
 
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