Mixtape Game ExTreME EdiTiON!

I actually agree with HB. Hating on St. Anger is the hip thing. It's got a few aight tracks; just cut the shit and leave the 3-4 decent songs and you're good.
 

Cathedral - Ashes You Leave - 6
i can tell this is good doom but im not a doomhead

Limelight - Ashes to Ashes - 7
id rate this higher but the singer could be better

Megadeth - Ashes in Your Mouth - 7
see above

God Macabre - Ashes Of Mourning Life - 6
sounds pretty upbeat considering the title

In This Moment - Ashes - 10
very melodic and headbangable. love her vocals in the refrain

Revelation - Ashes - 2
song is long and slow, depressing riffs, nasal singer. recipe for an unhappy aug

Ulysses Siren - Above the Ashes - 8
production sucks and the vocals could be more brutal but song still manages to kick ass

Exiled Force - Axiz to Ashes - 8
very decent but if youre gonna have some chugging parts it better be amazing otherwise just keep thrashing

Suicidal Winds - Ashes From a Past Life - 10
oh shit this is fucking great. did not see that one coming. this is what bm should sound like

Dark Millennium - Of Sceptre Their Ashes May Be - 6
ok

Symphony X - Out Of The Ashes - 9
sweet
 
Cathedral - 8 Good doom
Limelight - 5 Belongs in Non-metal mixtape
Megadeth - 7 Not their best
God Macabre - 8 Pretty good
In This Moment - 6 I like her harsh vocals for a female, some parts are annoying though
Revelation - 4 boring
Ulysses Siren - 9 Solid
Exiled Force - 7 cookie cutter underground thrash, some cool moments
Suicidal Winds - 7 good pace, some guitar riffs are too simple
Dark Millenium - 9 Great band
Symphony X - 9 I really shouldn't like this, but the neoclassicism is still spectacular. Symphony X was one of my first metal bands. This song is like Queen in metal form.
 
Cathedral - Ashes You Leave

Intro sounds ripped off from Falling off the Edge of the World or some other Dio-era Sabbath song or something. This is still alright, a thousand times better than the horrible stoner rock on the next album, but Cathedral beyond Forest of Equilibrium still doesn’t do much for me. Actually, some of the stuff towards last third was pretty nice, I guess I like aggressive Cathedral a lot more than lackadaisical Cathedral. 6/10.

Limelight - Ashes to Ashes

Never heard these guys, nice melodic stuff. 7/10.

Megadeth - Ashes in Your Mouth

This is a pretty decent song that shows he still had some great riffs left in him, but at the same time it also tends to sound like a vastly inferior rewrite of Holy Wars. Takes about 2 minutes for the song to really get good, although it does feel overlong. 7/10.

God Macabre - Ashes Of Mourning Life

Like all the other retro-OSSDM I’ve heard, very nice and vintage production, boring song. Oh wait, this is 1993? Lol, for some reason the cover art looked a little too clean and the sound a little too powerful to be vintage. Doesn’t change my rating. 4/10.

In This Moment – Ashes

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Lol, yeah this sounds like MySpace metal. Listenable tbh though, female vocals work surprisingly well, makes me a tad nostalgic even though I didn't even listen to this kind of shit back then. 5/10.

Revelation – Ashes

Wow this was generic. Riffs repeat themselves forever, arrangement is uninspired, singer is a poor Ozzy knock-off. The faster portion of the solo was the only saving grace. 3/10.

Ulysses Siren - Above the Ashes

This is pretty much a top 10 thrash album for me, a massive shame they wrote so little. A perfect fusion of choppy buzzsaw thrash aggression, boisterous USPM melody, and technical musicianship. I get chills every time just hearing the intro to this song. 10/10.

Exiled Force - Axiz to Ashes

Nice contrast to show the difference between 80s thrash songwriting and 2000s thrash song writing. 3/10.

Suicidal Winds - Ashes From a Past Life

Getting those blackened surf rock vibes already, liking this. Aw, only the intro/outro. Not bad for black/thrash though, good performance even though the riffing is pretty generic. 6/10.

Dark Millennium - Of Sceptre Their Ashes May Be

One of the better songs on the album, although definitely still a step down from the first one. Still some weird songwriting for what is basically doom metal. 7/10.

Symphony X - Out Of The Ashes

That twinkly Warcraft 2 intro made me laugh. I don’t like very much Symphony X outside of Paradise Lost, but this song was nice, short but still managed to showcase the speed metal, Euro power style, and groovy prog metal sounds of the band all in one sub-4 minute jam. 7/10.
 
Cathedral - 8/10 Good heavy stuff but could be shorter

Limelight - 7.5/10 Barely metal but I would rate it much higher if so

Megadeth - 8/10 Classic Megadeth, not their best but still great

God Macabre - 7.5/10 Really nice tune

In This Moment - 4/10 Strange

Revelation - 3/10 Bored me to death

Ulysses Siren - Good riffs 7/10

Exiled Force - Fairly good but overlong 6/10

Suicidal Winds - Decent 5/10

Dark Millennium -

Symphony X - Not bad man I liked it 7.5/10
 
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