Themed Mixtape Game

Dio - Lock Up the Wolves 6.5/10

This is perfectly fine. It's got a lot of Manowar going on in it and that main riff is fucking awesome.

Summoning - Rotting Horse on Deadly Ground 7/10

What a great fucking band. Silenius sounds like a fucking madman on this song and the layers are just wonderful. Dat melody is great too.

Slauter Xstroyes - Winter Kill 8.5/10

Chicago classic! I've seen these goofy fucks live too. Great fucking song. It's so damn goofy but awesome.

Virgin Steele - The Raven Song 7.5/10

I've actually never heard the first part of the Marriage of Heaven and Hell so this is pretty fresh. David's the fucking man and this has everything that makes Virgin Steele that awesome.

Helloween - Eagle Fly Free 6/10

Not sure if this album was actually recorded so thin or if it's just a shitty upload but I've heard better sound albums recorded with a fucking rockband microphone and audacity. The music is fine but for whatever reason I cannot get into Helloween.

Forest of Harambe - I am the Harambe 10/10

Harambe died for this. But seriously, this is actually impressive sounding. It sounds like it was recorded in some junkie's unfinished basement in some bullshit town in Norway. This is more kvlt sounding than Fullmoon. I love this.

King's Ransom - Caged Animals 7/10

What the fuck is this? Crazy obscure shit from Texas? I'm interested. Weird sounding and those fucking animal sounds are hilarious sounding, but I dig it.

Bathory - The Stallion 8/10

Fucking legendary band. Blood on the Ice never gets enough spins from me compared to Hammerheart, Under the Sign, or The Return but it's a damn fine album. You can hear Quorthon's vocals improving which helps but it loses some of the charm in the process.

Skepticism - The Gallant Crow 6/10

I'm a sucker for super huge keys in my music but I've never really been into Skepticism. This is cool though, might have to check this one out.

Exodus - Piranha 4/10

Exodus are definitely one of the worst thrash bands of the big names. Big fucking meh here.

Gaza - Mostly Hair and Bones Now 3/10

This is some of that real lame angry man/tough guy shit. Hatebreed, Lamb of God, etc. At least it's short.

The Obsessed - Sodden Jackal 9/10

It's pretty hard to believe that something this heavy was probably written in the 70s. Brilliant riffs, a nasty ass solo, and some of The Obsessed's darkest lyrics. Love it.

Obliteration - Goat Skull Crown 6.5/10

I'm still pretty disinterested in death metal these days but this is pretty damn solid stuff. I especially like when it slows down. More of that.

Destroyer 666 - Unchain the Wolves 8/10

I don't get the hate here. D666 is fucking legendary and Keith's onstage and offstage antics are fucking hilarious. There's a few better tracks on this album (Genesis to Genocide is particularly amazing) but this is a good one. Not much more to say. Fucking Unchain the Wolves!
 
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Dio - Lock Up the Wolves - 10
Summoning - The Rotten Horse on the Deadly Ground - 7
Slauter Xstroyes - Winter Kill - 4
Virgin Steele - The Raven Song - 8
Helloween - Eagle Fly Free - 6
Forest of Harambe - I Am Harambe - 8
King's Ransom - Caged Animals - 4
Bathory - The Stallion - 5
Skepticism - The Gallant Crow - 6
Exodus - Piranha - 8
Gaza - Mostly Hair and Bones Now - 2
The Obsessed - Sodden Jackal - 1
Obliteration - Goat Skull Crown - 7
Destroyer 666 - Unchain the Wolves - 6
 
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Dio - Lock Up the Wolves
oh hey it's basically just a middling manowar song and the people who shit on manowar are praising it how surprising 5/10

Summoning - The Rotten Horse on the Deadly Ground
it's hard to explain why i like some summoning songs a lot more than others, but i guess it's 'cause they straddle the line between bedroom casio cheeseball nerdage and evocative, gorgeously textured soundscapes i can get lost in. this one's kind of in the middle for me - it's definitely a bad youtube but the mixing on that album is weird anyway, kinda more suited to industrial metal. i prefer more meat to the guitars with this band (hence my being a DOL GULDUR fanboy) 6/10

Slauter Xstroyes - Winter Kill
i first heard this album on the same day i first heard METAL FROM HELL, TITAN FORCE and MASTER CONTROL, that was a good day i can tell you. this one's messy as hell but ecstatic in its best moments and it sucks you into its weird ass narrative, so a typical xstroyes song basically. 8/10

Virgin Steele - The Raven Song
this double concept album is only occasionally spectacular, but the fact that it manages to stay reasonably consistent despite being extremely long and multi-faceted is admirable. how many times do such ventures veer into disjointedness and pomposity? these guys avoid those pitfalls, and they have just the right combination of earnest emotion, propulsive force and compositional savvy to go down nicely. i haven't heard anything beyond this two-parter though, should i? 7/10

Helloween - Eagle Fly Free
this makes me happy. 8/10

Forest of Harambe - I Am Harambe
united apean evil. 6/10

King's Ransom - Caged Animals
might normally be a bit pantomime for me but there's a unity of theme and sound here i enjoy. also it's super weird and anxious in that way only bargain bin '80s prog metal can be. 7.5/10

Bathory - The Stallion
a shame this album wasn't released when it was recorded, doesn't get nearly enough love. 7.5/10

Skepticism - The Gallant Crow
grand, aching music; a sound sculpted from earth, oak and sky. food for the soul. 10/10

Exodus - Piranha
i don't get why people paint them as being purely meatheaded anthemic fare when their sound is so fucking alien and menacing. 'tis gleeful b-movie fun too, of course. 10/10

Gaza - Mostly Hair and Bones Now
6.5/10

The Obsessed - Sodden Jackal
almost an icecross vibe to this one, along with sabbath 'n early pentagram obviously. all over the place with an annoyingly trebly sound but still very cool. 7/10

Obliteration - Goat Skull Crown
obliteration rules. 8/10

Destroyer 666 - Unchain the Wolves
whatever i won't bother downrating this as i'm sure it won't win. tbh i haven't paid that much attention to what was or wasn't on theme this round but most of it seemed fine? 8/10

fun list. for once i have no idea what's gonna win this round offhand.
 
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yeah but if i recall the reason it wasn't completed is he was worried about the change in direction alienating his fanbase or w/e. shouldda just rolled with it! i'm not sure exactly which parts were written when though.
 
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I don't think that he made new recordings. I'm pretty sure that he just finished editing it and remastered the existing recordings to make sure that they sounded up to par. It's a great album.
 
I looked it up and he apparently did some new recordings in 1995. It's unclear how much was new though. I would imagine that the original recordings probably weren't taken care of well since it was originally scrapped, so that makes a lot of sense.

Now that we hear about all kinds of new remasteded reissues of old music, the quality of the old master tapes is often why some albums remain out of print. Sometimes they're just too damaged for the endeavor to be successful.

We're almost fully in the digital recording age now, so I'd imagine that will become less of an issue when reissues of much newer albums are in demand.
 
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