Themed Mixtape Game

[Omni]

Possessed - The Exorcist 8.5/10

Awesome classic song.

Boba Fett - Zombie Holocaust 3/10

This is not for me.

Dokken - Dream Warriors 4/10

@H.P. Lovecraft probably submitted this. Boring.

Reverend Bizarre - Blood on Satan's Claw 9/10

My personal favorite Reverend Bizarre song.

Hexx - Sardonicus 5/10

Okay.

Crydebris - Mononoke Picture 1/10

I like the movie but this song is bad.

Death - Evil Dead 7/10

Solid.

Godflesh - Dream Long Dead 8/10

Heavy.

Satan's Host - Strongest of the Night 9/10

@no country for old wainds would probably submit this if he wasn't hosting.

Blood Freak - Gobble Up Your Guts Part 2 Revenge Of The Turkey Monster 3/10

Ugh.

Blood Farmers - Headless Eyes 9/10

Awesome.

Blind Guardian - Time What Is Time 6/10

Okay.

Deicide - Dead By Dawn 7/10

Good.

Witchfinder General - Witchfinder General 8/10

I love these dudes.

Iced Earth - Damien 2/10

Bad.

Short reviews because I'm at work.

 

[Vegard Pompey]

Sorry about my delayed ratings, I've been ill. Will try to rate the rest of these, as well as the non-metal mixtape game, within the next day. This was a really fun theme that forced participants to dig a little deeper, much like the previous extraterrestrial or guest artists themes. And I'd say you did well because I enjoyed this playlist a lot.

Possessed - The Exorcist
Sorry about the lukewarm rating, I understand that this is pretty great but I'm just not that into OSDM. This is actually one of the songs I like the most on this album, that tremolo riff is especially sweet. I also don't know how you can deduct points from this for being based on a book when it opens with the THEME FROM THE FUCKING MOVIE.
7/10

Boba Fett - Zombie Holocaust
Fun.
6/10

Dokken - Dream Warriors
Pretty cheesy, but I'll give it a bonus point because Elm Street 3 is the BEST SLASHER MOVIE EVER.
7/10

Reverend Bizarre - Blood on Satan's Claw
This fucking owns, nice to hear some uptempo Rev Biz for a change.
8/10

Hexx - Sardonicus
Maybe if I had more time with this it would start to sound like something more than fairly unremarkable thrash, but right now it's not doing all that much for me.
5/10

Crydebris - Mononoke Picture
This song addresses its own downraters; TRY JUST ONCE TO SEE LIFE, UNCLOUDED BY HATE... and genre definitions. (Marginally metal but what's the big deal, we've had hard rock and ambient tracks in this game previously. I think people are just especially ticked off because it's -core) Admittedly, I can totally see how the wimpy vocals especially would offend trve metalheads, and I'm not a huge fan of them either, but the riffing is too fucking gorgeous and jubilant for me to care much. Oh and btw... I feel like I've been giving out 10s too easily so I'm rating a bit more harshly than I have in the past. Meaning this song would've been a *9* if I was being consistent with my previous ratings... And so would that Rev Biz song have been.
8/10

Death - Evil Dead
I love Scream Bloody Gore (even though I mentioned above that I'm not a huge fan of OSDM, I just really love the sound of this album) but I'm not sure this is one of the better songs, it kind of peaks with that sinister intro and then the rest of the song is just kinda cool. I'd have picked Zombie Ritual over this since it's inspired by Zombi 2.
6/10

Godflesh - Dream Long Dead
Not really my thing. Too unfamiliar with the genre to really say if it's doing its thing right. I don't really have much of an opinion on this. EDIT: I use the word really too much.
5/10

I got interrupted and will rate the second half later.

 

[Omni]

I would seriously call into question anyone who was sucked in by the Godflesh song enough to give it a near perfect rating, and then deem something like a good Dokken song "boring".

How can I continue living while your opinion of my music preferences hangs in the balance?

 

[Omni]

Actually, they spend the next five episodes talking about power levels.

 

[Baroque]

Oh shit, I didn't rate this one yet? Been really busy, but I'll get right on that. I know you're all waiting with bated breath.

 

[Phylactery]

I'm not going to have time to rate this even though I've submitted a song. Should have enough reviews anyway soon.

 

[no country for old wainds]

i'd like more ratings before i close it

 

[Baroque]

Possessed - 7/10 I like a lot of early death metal, and this is good but not great, the riffs are severely lacking compared to say Death. I'll give it a 7 because it's impressive for 1985.

Zombie Holocaust - 7/10 This is pretty entertaining tbh. "Boba Fett He's fucking rad, he's fucking sick, he's Boba Fett" - best line. Feels like something my band would have created in high school.

Dokken - 4/10 Wrong mixtape. Shitty chorus. Guitar riffs are okay. Annoying that the film clips are audible at times.

Rev Biz - 5/10 Ok that's enough now. I'm going to start downrating this band along with SV and Carnivore. Show me some new or at least different music or get downrated.

Hexx - 8/10 Damn the first song on this was killer. Took awhile for me to realize we're only listening to the 2nd song. It's decent as well. Never heard this EP before, Thanks.

Crydebris - 6/10 Emo Anime Metalcore? OK, well at least it's different. Being generous here.

Death - 9/10 Yesss. Why aren't they in the Hall of Fame yet? I need to get that going for this month.

Godflesh - 3/10 Meh. This song could work as an intro if it was like 30 seconds long or less.

Satan's Host - 6/10 It's okay. I like the effort of the vocalist, and some of the bass lines. Feels try-hardy/wannabe though. Having "Satan" in your name doesn't automatically make you legit like some seem to think. -1 point for that really gay "oohooohoohhh" Iron Maiden/Power Metal part.

Blood Freak - 7/10 Haven't seen any grindcore on here in awhile. The genre has enough in common with crossover/thrash to be somewhat interesting to me. The guitar is pretty repetitive here though, and the vocals aren't my favorite. Actually ends too quickly imo.

Blood Farmers - 5/10 This is the boring kind of doom metal. At least stoner has that experimental/trippy aspect, or for example Black Sabbath and Trouble have some faster parts mixed in. This is like, the guitarist took a bunch of sedatives and wants to go to sleep, but is trying to stay awake and play guitar. And the band is babying him. Only made it through 4 minutes, yawn.

Blind Guardian - 6/10 The first 1 minute was great actually. Annnd it's all downhill from there. Really gay singalong to the chorus power metal bs. +1 point for the intro.

Deicide - 8/10 This was overall really fucking cool death metal. -1 point for the weird/distracting backup vocalist. Capable musicians.

Witchfinder General - 8/10 I dig this actually. Good speed for doom metal, good vocalist. Not too much focus on the chorus. Solid guitar solo and riffs throughout. Good variety, not too long. Thumbs up!

Iced Earth - 6/10 Intro was cool. I have a hard time getting into this band outside of their debut.

 

[CiG]

Reverend Bizarre - Blood on Satan's Claw 9/10

My personal favorite Reverend Bizarre song.

Interesting!

 

[Vegard Pompey]

ratings pt. 2:

Satan's Host - Strongest of the Night
It's not peak Satan's Host, but it is Satan's Host. +1 point for that really heterosexual "oohooohoohhh" Iron Maiden/Power Metal part.
8/10

Blood Freak - Gobble Up Your Guts
Not something I'd normally listen to but I quite like this. These badass, simplistic riffs remind me of Barathrum, though the bands are otherwise dissimilar.
7/10

Blood Farmers - Headless Eyes
Haven't heard this before but I was really glad it was 11 minutes long. Sinister as fuck.
8/10

Blind Guardian - Time What is Time
6/10

Deicide - Dead By Dawn
I had no idea death metal could be this death metal
9/10

Witchfinder General - Witchfinder General
8/10

Iced Earth - Damien
Maybe it's temporary brain damage, but I'm fucking loving this song right now. It's been a while since I saw the movie but going by my memories I feel like this is a perfect adaptation, badass, campy, sinister and full of gravitas all at once. If I was the antichrist I would be proud to adopt this as my personal leitmotif. And I love the lyrics, I just get such a huge boner when anything is anchored to the past or to mythology, I wish every metal song had jews returning to Zion and comets filling the sky and roman empires rising. Barlow's sounding fucking amazing here too.
EDIT: I'm bumping this up to a 10 because it's also incredibly on-theme I fucking want to.
10/10

 

[Satanstoenail]

I'd be putting my ratings in right now if I wasn't on my way to see Black Sabbath. Will do tomorrow if there's still time. Have listened to playlist.

 

[CiG]

I almost bought tickets to that.

 

[CiG]

Just didn't care enough to justify the cost.

 

[Baroque]

I bought 4 tickets and resold 3, easily paid for my ticket and then some.

 

[Carpe Mortem]

No country and I still going strong as the official mixtape cheerleaders, making everyone feel special when they get that little red box in the corner saying their shit's been 'liked'.

I totally mean it. Great reviews, everyone. Total superstars.

 

[CiG]

I'm very cynical I guess. Had the chance to see ACDC too and passed on it.

 

[Krow]

I'd only see AC/DC if it was <$25 per ticket. Sabbath or Priest, thats different... especially now that times pretty well running out.

 

[CiG]

I grew up on ACDC and they're an Australian staple, don't expect you to understand.

 

[Satanstoenail]

Possessed - The Exorcist
Better than I remember them being. Tremolo picked parts were cool. Would headbang 7/10

Boba Fett - Zombie Holocaust
Pretty shitty crossover. 4/10

Dokken - Dream Warriors
I'll be entertained easily by some cheesy 80s rock usually, but this was just pedestrian and boring 3/10

Reverend Bizarre - Blood on Satan's Claw
Haven't heard anything from these guys so far that justifies the group jizzfest. Still way too long also. 4/10

Hexx - Sardonicus (no youtube of the song, only the EP - click the timestamp in the video info)
Not bad, liked the first song better though 6.5/10

Crydebris - Mononoke Picture
B-grade feels metal is a no 2/10

Death - Evil Dead
Not one of the better songs on the album. 6/10

Godflesh - Dream Long Dead
Classic early industrial 8/10

Satan's Host - Strongest of the Night
Terrible vocals, production, musicianship and songwriting. Wow 2/10

Blood Freak - Gobble Up Your Guts Part 2 Revenge Of The Turkey Monster
This was fun 8/10

Blood Farmers - Headless Eyes
Pretty cool Sabbathy doom 7/10

Blind Guardian - Time What Is Time
A couple of cool riffs in here but mostly cheese hell 4/10

Deicide - Dead By Dawn
Devastating as the day it came out 10/10

Witchfinder General - Witchfinder General
Horrible. 2/10

Iced Earth - Damien
Bad. 3/10

 

[Satanstoenail]

I almost bought tickets to that.

You should have. It was fucking awesome.