Songs currently kicking your ass.

[Baroque]

 

[Phylactery]

WOOOOOOOOORRRRLLLLLLLDDDDDDD EEEAAAAAATTTTTTAAAAAGHHHHHH

Top YouTube comment sums this up almost perfectly: "The intro is like a giant death machine chugging along."

 

[Talos of Atmora]

So, I was listening to Crimson Glory's self-titled again. Honestly, I don't listen to it as much as other albums because eventually I end up running into this one. It's not because I think it's a bad track. It isn't. It's mostly due to the fact that it is one of the darkest, most harrowing and depressing songs in this entire genre. Really, it's this track that absolutely cemented the entire album as a fine work of art. You would have required balls of steel to bookend an album like this one with this song. Midnight's vocals are some of the best I've heard here. There are very few vocalists who are this refined in technique but can display this much raw emotion. His death makes it even harder to listen to because it only reinforces that he died far too soon. Very few like him come along.

Also, I don't really cry to songs like some other people I know but back in 2010, after his death...I just could not keep myself from doing so. It felt like a sledgehammer to the stomach every time I heard the first few notes play.

 

[no country for old wainds]

nice tribute to a band and song i love greatly, thanks.

 

[Talos of Atmora]

nice tribute to a band and song i love greatly, thanks.

You're welcome. Ah, shit. Now I have to listen to some Bolt Thrower to shake off this major case of DA FEELZ.

 

[Elric of Melniboné]

I also love Crimson Glory. Midnight rules forever.

 

[Elric of Melniboné]

 

[Vegard Pompey]

I generally prefer Blind Guardian's early material to their later, more saccharine stuff like this. But god that chorus is so fucking sweet. I want to read the Silmarillion just to have context for this.

 

[Talos of Atmora]

I generally prefer Blind Guardian's early material to their later, more saccharine stuff like this. But god that chorus is so fucking sweet. I want to read the Silmarillion just to have context for this entire album.

Do it!

 

[no country for old wainds]

I generally prefer Blind Guardian's early material to their later, more saccharine stuff like this. But god that chorus is so fucking sweet. I want to read the Silmarillion just to have context for this.

literally the first power metal song i ever heard.

 

[Vegard Pompey]

I assume it formed your lifelong love of the genre.

 

[no country for old wainds]

i did like it plenty actually haha. fair to say nosferatu was what got the ball rolling though.

 

[Talos of Atmora]

One of the best title tracks ever.

 

[Elric of Melniboné]

 

[nizzon]

 

[Sonic Titan]

Here's a personal fave from 1937 taken from the classic Pioneers of the Jazz Guitar comp. It's admirable how skillful and talented those old-time guitarists were that they could create and record music that would still sound great nearly a century later.

John Cali and Tony Guttuso - "Hittin' on All Six"

 

[Elric of Melniboné]

 

[CiG]

I used to consider her a decent singer, but this one is really pretty bad actually.

 

[nizzon]

I love that song, there is something raw about it, not so polished. The rest of the album is meh.

 

[Elric of Melniboné]