The Greatest Metal Song Cup - Part II, Round 4, Matches 82-87

What is your favourite song in each match? Vote in all six matchups!

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To be specific the initials stand for National Socialist Black Metal, “Nazi” of course being derived from “national socialism”.
Appreciate the info. I guess this makes me appreciate regular non-Nazi black metal more, as I take comfort in knowing that the forest-dwelling, face-painted creatures behind every screech and pot bang are… not Nazis.
 
It has finally happened. King Diamond faces off against a vocalist that sounds even worse, even more ridiculous than him. Overkill is absolute trash thanks to the vocals. King manages to sound decent throughout this song, which also has music I far prefer.

Manowar suck and this song is no exception. Horrible guitar solo, too. Children of the Sun is fine enough to beat those dorks.

Over the Mountain is so ridiculously cheesy. Beyond the awesome drum intro and main riff it’s just a clusterfuck of noises - horrible vibraphone keyboards, random guitar solos, and a big shiny pop chorus. It’s catchy, I guess? Speticflesh has a lot more to like for me, but the clean vocals are not good and there’s nothing catchy about it. Ugh. Ozzy.

Bathory sounds like something that heavily inspired the first Opeth album, so for that reason, it’s alright. A bit too much of the same for such a long track, but decent black metal with not horrific production values. Lorelai is so damn monotonous, I turned it off after three minutes and the 18th chorus repetition.

The only good thing about Raining Blood is that riff. Gangland is more enjoyable throughout.

Hahahahahahahahahahahahhahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahshshahshshshshshdhdidnsh DIO.
 
The only good thing about Raining Blood is that riff. Gangland is more enjoyable throughout.
You're on fuckin' shrooms. I expect this from Jer. I expect this from Kalata. I did not expect this from You. What a catastrophe this game has been. Et tu, Brute? These knives hurt my soul more than they hurt my skin. The only blood that rains must be my own, sliced clean open to tear my trust right out from under these coarse and cracked ribs. Oh King, save me! what has this world left for me now? All these prayers become like dust, mingling in the sewers where tears are drawn from. What bitter oaths we shared in the Symphony X thread are left in tatters, words float into the gutter like some sort of sacrilegious testament to our triumphs and tragedies. Somebody kill me now before I see the utter horrors that lay in store for me. Merciful Heaven, when will you remove all the pain from my soul? This burden of always having the right opinions has left me a wretch in a world full of Knicks and Beaus, who blind my eyes and give me woes, and tell me black is really white and rain is worse than gangland's fright... oh it's Heaven and Hell indeed.
 
I expect this from Jer. I expect this from Kalata.
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You're on fuckin' shrooms. I expect this from Jer. I expect this from Kalata. I did not expect this from You. What a catastrophe this game has been. Et tu, Brute? These knives hurt my soul more than they hurt my skin. The only blood that rains must be my own, sliced clean open to tear my trust right out from under these coarse and cracked ribs. Oh King, save me! what has this world left for me now? All these prayers become like dust, mingling in the sewers where tears are drawn from. What bitter oaths we shared in the Symphony X thread are left in tatters, words float into the gutter like some sort of sacrilegious testament to our triumphs and tragedies. Somebody kill me now before I see the utter horrors that lay in store for me. Merciful Heaven, when will you remove all the pain from my soul? This burden of always having the right opinions has left me a wretch in a world full of Knicks and Beaus, who blind my eyes and give me woes, and tell me black is really white and rain is worse than gangland's fright... oh it's Heaven and Hell indeed.
It is what it is, innit?
 
Rainbow in the Dark is one of the dumbest songs to appear in this game by a serious artist. So plodding, so repetitive, like a song Dio farted out because his record company wanted a big single. Easy vote for Love Bites there.
Honestly! I thought it was some dumb Jump clone.
 
Is it blasphemy to say the Holy Diver album pisses all over the other stuff Dio did? (Included his work with Sabbath)
'Heaven And Hell' and 'Rising' are very great albums by Black Sabbath and Rainbow including Dio as the singer. So, yeah, it would be a blasphemy, imho. But, you can say that towards records by Elf, for example, that were shitty. ;)
 
Is it blasphemy to say the Holy Diver album pisses all over the other stuff Dio did? (Included his work with Sabbath)
Pisses all over is maybe going a bit too far, but Holy Diver is a classic up there with albums like The Number of the Beast. Rising is my favorite album with Dio on vocals though.
 
Nah, that’s the best song of Dio's solo career.
For me, ''Rainbow In The Dark'', ''Holy Diver'', ''The Last In Line'', ''Don't Talk To Strangers'' and ''We Rock'' - are all untouchable.
Is it blasphemy to say the Holy Diver album pisses all over the other stuff Dio did? (Included his work with Sabbath)
I think his first 2 solo albums are stronger as a whole piece than all of his other work. Part of the big classics in metal!

Edit: Sacred Heart and Dream Evil are not that far off.
 
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Is it blasphemy to say the Holy Diver album pisses all over the other stuff Dio did? (Included his work with Sabbath)
Almost. My take: Dio's (the band) overall output is very, very good, and Holy Diver is probably the best of the bunch, but it's still not quite as good as any of the albums he did with Rainbow or Sabbath. Yes, that includes Dehumanizer.
 
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