Themed Mixtape Game

[Serjeant Grumbles]

Apocrypha - Penance (Keep The Faith)
7.5/10

CAULDRON BORN - Crusader
7/10

Sadus - Oracle of Obmission
2.5/10
This could be about any religion at all, so it's blatantly off theme.

Messiah - The Choice
4.5/10
Too insipid, preachy, and saccharine.

Forsaken - Via Crucis (The Way of the Cross)
8.5/10

Manilla Road - Divine Victim
8.5/10

Trouble - Run to the Light
7.5/10

October 31 - The Verdict
7.5/10

Saracen - Horsemen of the apocalypse
8/10

Icecross - Jesus Freaks
8/10

Tristitia - Christianic Indulgence
9/10

Tourniquet - Ruminating Virulence
6.5/10

W.A.S.P. - Babylon's Burning
7.5/10

Immolation - Nailed to Gold
8/10

 

[Vilden]

Thankfully some of you guys finally ranked my pick accordingly, after the first couple of ratings I thought I had to rage quit from this board because of your questionable tastes.

 

[CiG]

Did I?

 

[Vilden]

You got it right!

 

[Talos of Atmora]

I honestly feel kind of guilty by burdening you guys with my pick. I don't even like the band, I just thought, "How literal should I get with this theme?"

 

[CiG]

You got it right!

 

[Krow]

Thankfully some of you guys finally ranked my pick accordingly, after the first couple of ratings I thought I had to rage quite from this board because of your questionable tastes.

Pretty well positive on what I think you picked. Fairly sure you recommended them to me years ago.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

I honestly feel kind of guilty by burdening you guys with my pick. I don't even like the band, I just thought, "How literal should I get with this theme?"

It wasn't a 15 minute Reverend Bizarre song, so don't sweat it brah

 

[EspaDa]

Divine Victim is a great track, but don't want Manilla Road to win again.

 

[Elric of Melniboné]

Did Manilla Road win before?

 

[Serjeant Grumbles]

I don't believe it has. It's never been able to survive HBB's downrating. Bathory won once in the very first round, only because he neglected to rate.

 

[EspaDa]

I mean all the mixtape games, not this particular one..

 

[The Ozzman]

never been able to survive HBB's downrating.

Rightfully so

 

[Elric of Melniboné]

I mean all the mixtape games, not this particular one..

What game did Manilla Road win?

 

[HamburgerBoy]

I don't believe it has. It's never been able to survive HBB's downrating. Bathory won once in the very first round, only because he neglected to rate.

I gave a Manilla Road song an 8 the previous round, and iirc I've given another one a 5-6 or so. I'm not the only one that thinks they're shit brah

 

[CiG]

You actually think they're shit or exaggeration?

 

[HamburgerBoy]

I think many of their songs of terrible, almost childish writing. Wouldn't be an exaggeration to say that at least a third of what I've heard sounds like total shit, and another third just scraping mediocrity. An album with my very favorite Manilla Road songs would probably be an 8/10 album though.

 

[CiG]

Not enough bouncy groove riffs and shitty typewriter drums for you?

 

[HamburgerBoy]

What do I listen to that you think has typewriter drums?

The problem with Manilla Road is that half of his vocal melodies sound like literal nursery rhymes and that the guitar melodies/riffs often do nothing but follow said nursery rhyme or play out some dull power chord progression. The average Manilla Road verse riff repeats itself dozens and dozens of times with no attempt at any kind of interesting development. If it wasn't for Randy Foxe, those 80s albums would be mechanical as fuck. Every once in a while he'll buck tradition and do something totally awesome and left-field like The Fires of Mars, but generally they're a lazy shit band.

 

[Elric of Melniboné]

It almost sounds like you've heard "Feeling Free Again" and "Necropolis" but not many other songs based on that description. Even those songs aren't really any more simplistic than the commercial songs by most metal bands anyway.