MrKnickerbocker
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Xanadu is great, but for some reason I’m not feeling it in this matchup. Pity vote for God of the Sun.
Definitely Rush in the second.
Definitely Rush in the second.
THE CRUSADE OF EPICS: Results -> A Change Of Seasons wins!
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MindRuler
Ancient Mariner
Results of Round 88:
Arch/Matheos - Kindred Spirits
Rush - Xanadu
Rush - La Villa Strangiato
Dream Theater - A Change Of Seasons (Nominated by @The Dissident, @Collin)
Rush - 2112 (Nominated by @The Dissident, @LooseCannon)
Helloween - Keeper Of The Seven Keys (Nominated by @Black Wizard)
Metallica - ...And Justice For All (Nominated by @Midnight)
All my nominees have been eliminated. This game has no value to me anymore, I'll just vote. I won't have any feelings towards it. It's done.
MrKnickerbocker
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ACOS and ‘tallica
Jer
A window to the west, a blazing star above
Easy vote for ACOS, as “2112” has some noticeably weaker sections that ACOS just doesn’t have. Winner: Dream Theater
Similar situation with “Justice” vs. “Keeper Of The Seven Keys”, though in this case both songs have some noticeable flaws, but the Helloween track’s flaws are much more frequent and egregious. Winner: Metallica
Similar situation with “Justice” vs. “Keeper Of The Seven Keys”, though in this case both songs have some noticeable flaws, but the Helloween track’s flaws are much more frequent and egregious. Winner: Metallica
Voted against Rush and for Helloween. Anyone gonna break the tie in the 2nd match?
Results of Round 89:
Helloween - Keeper Of The Seven Keys
Dream Theater - A Change Of Seasons
Metallica - ...And Justice For All
Opeth - The Moor (Nominated by @Collin, @Midnight)
Savatage - Morphine Child (Nominated by @Black Wizard)
Nightwish - Ghost Love Score (Nominated by @Diesel 11, @MrKnickerbocker, @Wogmidget, @LooseCannon)
Opeth - Blackwater Park (Nominated by @The Flash)
2x Opeth. Don't care for that Savatage song, and Ghost Love Score is only great with Floor, and we're counting studio versions here.
MrKnickerbocker
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As much as I hate to admit, you are correct. Dos Opeth
If we were comparing the Wacken 2013 version of Ghost Love Score, it’d still be close, but I’d vote for it over BWP.
Jer
A window to the west, a blazing star above
Not really a fan of any of these songs when taken in total. The Opeth tracks have excellent music with awful extreme vocals, while the other tracks are generally pretty good, but have some quirks and weaknesses. I could really flip a coin for both of these, but instead I’ll split the difference and take the more consistent clean vocal song and the more consistent excellent music song.
Winner #1: Savatage - “Morphine Child”
Winner #2: Opeth - “Blackwater Park”
Winner #1: Savatage - “Morphine Child”
Winner #2: Opeth - “Blackwater Park”
Detective Beauregard
Leviathan of Doggerland
I love Morphine Child, but its theatrical broadwayness doesn't match the grim grittiness of The Moor (even if I consider it to be one of Opeth's most overrated songs). The second match is so insanely tough because the emotion in Ghost Love Score is unparalleled, whereas Blackwater Park is the soundtrack to walking through a rainy forest at night while running from pitchfork-wielding swamp lepers - a situation we've surely all found ourselves in. These are my favorite songs by each band, and answering this question has killed me a little bit inside. But... Blackwater Park. I have a hankering to listen to it more often than Ghost Love Score because I think it's simply a more unique piece of music.
MrKnickerbocker
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It’s getting down to the heart of these common emotional truths that make Mikael Akerfeldt the quintessential songwriter for the everyman.
Detective Beauregard
Leviathan of Doggerland
I wish this was Savatage vs. Nightwish and Opeth vs. Opeth. It’d make it a lot easier.
