I am yet again removing votes. In this case @TheMercenary voted twice in one matchup. Please stop doing this. Vote in all six matchups or not at all. No outcomes were changed.
BTW, if someone doesn't vote in all matches
by mistake (which almost happened to me once), do you go with the "mistakes are permanent" or "removing votes" route?
(I'd say that a misclick resulting in eliminating
all votes is kinda detrimental to both the voter and you)
Anyway
Yngwie needs more love. People keep singling him out as the "boring, stupid shredder", but man has some actual talent and variety. Not really sure if on this track, though. Still, my primary bias would be going with him as the basic choice, I usually find him rather interesting.
I was really hoping the Bloodbound song intro would turn into a murderous doom track, would make me vote for it by default; this NWOBHM-manneristic approach wasn't what I'd prefer at first, but I admit, derivative or not, the song fucking rules.
Bloodbound.
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Next match: what I said
I have a literal physical reaction to the opening lines of Tom Sawyer, the combination of the synthy sounds and Geddy singing those lines in that swagger manner, I just literally shudder with revulsion.
Really, I will vote for Dragostea Din Tei before Tom Sawyer.
I haven't heard
Descanting the Insalubrious (and how many non-native speakers can spell that without looking it up, ha? HA?
) in about twenty years and I admit I have rarely even felt the urge, even in my death metal moods, rare as they are. But still, the
riff, the
relative catchiness, the vigour. Would probably vote for
Carcass even if the opposing song wasn't
"mean, mean pride"
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The Demon track is actually rather good. Very old-school, which is a plus, rather catchy. They're one of the bands I feel the need to check out sometime, feeling like I've neglected them a bit. Still, Hansen's I Want Out is - to me at least - better in all regards, the energy, the catchiness, the... well, feel. It's one of those songs you never really shake off - as proved by Hansen himself, who has tried to recreate it himself, most prominently probably under the title Send Me a Sign - but well, so what. I love Sign, I love I Want Out, anyway, even a lesser track off
Keepers would probably get my vote until the very last rounds, let alone a bona fide classic.
Helloween, of course. (but with my apology towards
Perun, like I said, I really liked your song, would vote for it against a less magnificent track)
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I used to be very much interested in Cult of Luna some ten years ago and if I were to pick something back then for this cup, I guess I'd also pick something off
Salvation. Still, I have a hard time going back to that mood, listening to The Cure today in care, I feel like my post-rock/post-punk
tendencies are more then satisfied already. But I'm glad to see this picked by the forum's resident Anaal Nathrakh fan.
Kansas are not metal, but I'm kinda inclined to vote for them anyway, both because of my desire to troll the purists, because my boomer tendencies and tastes, because the rednecky spiritualism must be getting on many a man's nerves, because it's infectious as the clap and because I never before noticed Ehart drums and I find those particularly juicy today. Also, quite untrivial for a radio staple.
Kansas it is, the Boomer Hammer has fallen down.
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NIGHTWISH.
Actually, Limelight is still one of my favourite Rush tracks and I'd probably vote for it, if it wasn't against my Top 5 band doing a really nice and emotional track from the era I miss almost as much as the Tarja-era. No, I won't be sitting down and thinking what previous Tuomas' song it regurgitates. Doesn't matter.
I vote for it even despite the fact it's one of the first harbingers of the current era's obnoxious "preachy Tuomas" tendencies.
"Once upon a night we'll wake to the carnival of life
The beauty of this ride ahead, such an incredible high
It's hard to light a candle, easy to curse the dark instead
This moment, the dawn of humanity
The last ride of the day"
Oh fuck, how well this fits in Floor's mouth live, between the drivel from EFMB and the bunny album. A match made in hell.
And even despite that, I'm voting for it, because until
Imaginaerum, Tuomas was pretty much untouchable. I get goosebumps from the fucking intro alone. Like I said, one of
my bands.
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If Malmsteen needs more love around here,
SOAD definitely do. As I've said before
Unfairly thrown into the "nu metal" bag, their weird mixture of almost Zappaesque craziness and contrasts, with tempo and loudness switching on a whim, much like the sardonic mixes with cheesily sentimental and wackily humorous in their work, with punkish shouts and Oriental tinge, yet it always feels structured and immensely catchy. They have been very influential in my own personal music taste and I will never forget that. And I absolutely love Tankian - a powerful, immediately recognisable voice that is just as fitting as the muezzin calling out for salat from the mosque as a jovial wacky weirdo that's probably molesting five-year olds... or at least pretends to in order to troll you.
That means, SOAD for me, definitely. Even a worse song of theirs would get my vote.
- thanks Kalata
) - maybe it's time to revisit them as well.
