Satan Reunion Album SONG SURVIVOR Round 1

[HamburgerBoy]

I just listened to all three so I'm ready, and I feel like trying something different with these survivor polls. They just released a new album, and all three seem roughly equally praised, so I think some people here should be familiar enough, and certainly they're all stylistically similar and nearly interchangeable, so it feels like a fair fight to me. I'll keep the thread open for however long it takes.

Time to Die
Twenty Twenty Five
Cenotaph
Siege Mentality
Incantations
Testimony
Tears of Blood
Life Sentence
Personal Demons
Another Universe
Farewell Evolution
Fallen Saviour
Ruination
The Devil's Infantry
Atom by Atom
In Contempt
My Own God
Ahriman
Bound in Enmity
The Fall of Persephone
Into the Mouth of Eternity
Cruel Magic
The Doomsday Clock
Legions Hellbound
Ophidian
My Prophetic Soul
Death Knell for a King
Who Among Us
Ghosts of Monongah
Mortality

Vote for the SIX weakest songs. The poll doesn't support more than 10 options so I'll tally votes by hands until we reach that amount. The six with the most votes, or the greatest number of songs tied with the most votes will be eliminated.

 

[Phylactery]

Which is your favourite overall out of the three?

 

[HamburgerBoy]

1st > 2nd > 3rd imo but they're all very good.

 

[no country for old wainds]

i’ll def do this but i need to spend more time with the second album first

 

[Vegard Pompey]

Not really familiar with the first two so I'm not sure I'll participate (maybe in later rounds) but I approve of the idea of doing a multi-album song survivor like this.

 

[Krow]

I'm kind of weary of the song survivors at this point so I'm going to pass on this.

after reunion rankings though
1st>3rd>2nd

 

[HamburgerBoy]

If @Somethingface has heard these albums I give him permission to vote

 

[no country for old wainds]

lol i completely forgot about this

 

[HamburgerBoy]

So did I.

I'm voting for

Tears of Blood - by a decent margin the worst song, the 9/11 theme plus simplistic lead melody plus robotic drumming all make it pretty damn corny, 5/10
Who Among Us - some bits recycled and overall kinda deliberate, they throw in a bunch of different parts so it's not exactly 6 minutes by sheer padding but it comes off as unnecessary, like even the solo how it tries to incorporate other parts of the song into a neat climax feels fake, 6/10
Farewell Evolution - not a fan of that descending tremolo progression, otherwise just another good speedy Satan song, 6.5/10
Into the Mouth of Eternity - love those leads that build after the choruses and promise a journey but they ultimately never go some place new, I like the chuggy main riff in a Mercyful Fate/Exodus kind of way but it alone doesn't support the song length, and that snare-snare-snarekick-snarekick pattern (which gets used a lot and is the single weakest aspect of their entire reunion discography) is really prominent here, 6.5/10
Atom by Atom - very weak chorus, sounds like something from a bad 70s pop rock song, shame because the rest is very good, 6.5/10
Personal Demons - no real criticisms but I think it's the weak link remaining, 7/10

 

[Somethingface]

If @Somethingface has heard these albums I give him permission to vote

Cheers for the offer mate, but I might respectfully decline, it wasn't my intention to cause any problems by participating in the forum polls.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

Cheers for the offer mate, but I might respectfully decline, it wasn't my intention to cause any problems by participating in the forum polls.

I was being genuine with my offer, the "new members not allowed to participate in forum polls" thing isn't a universal rule here and is largely the effort of one or two overzealous members. And even if you are an alt account it doesn't matter because no one else has voted yet.

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

"new user", lol.

EDIT: "Joins the forum" and goes directly to the 1990 thread and the polls. Says "hes not familiar with this place and doesn't know how this forum works" in one message, and then says he was here years ago and was banned in another one. You are also the only person on this forum who has said numerous times they have no problems with alts posting or participating in these threads..

 

[no country for old wainds]

hes vesupria/thamuz and is genuinely a former poster here (also has a rym account in the former name), but yeah i’m fine with people needing a certain amount of posts before their votes count. he probably only rejoined to troll anyway lol

 

[Somethingface]

hes vesupria/thamuz and is genuinely a former poster here (also has a rym account in the former name),

He won't recognise either of those names - he wasn't here back then unless he had another account (haha) and he most likely was not active on RYM, Metal-archives and where ever else when I was much more active. It's a shame guys like MacabreEnd, (name on RYM) and zealot (I think?) don't seem to be around here any more, I knew those guys.

 

[CiG]

MacabreEnd is still around. @Slayed Necros

 

[HamburgerBoy]

Vesupria vaguely rings a bell to me though it might be a similar name or someone from another forum I'm thinking of.

 

[Slayed Necros]

It's a shame guys like MacabreEnd, (name on RYM) and zealot (I think?) don't seem to be around here any more, I knew those guys.

Yeah I'm still here, just not very active. Ages since we last spoke man, I still remember discovering loads of obscure (at the time) OSDM with you over MSN years ago.

 

[Somethingface]

Yeah I'm still here, just not very active. Ages since we last spoke man, I still remember discovering loads of obscure (at the time) OSDM with you over MSN years ago.

Hell yeah, back when a lot of those out-of-print CDs were relatively cheap too.

 

[Somethingface]

I was being genuine with my offer, the "new members not allowed to participate in forum polls" thing isn't a universal rule here and is largely the effort of one or two overzealous members. And even if you are an alt account it doesn't matter because no one else has voted yet.

I might actually take you up on the offer.... working on listening to these during the week. Hopefully have the six up by the end of the week if that is OK.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

Current deadline is before I leave the basement, so you're probably fine.