Themed Mixtape Game

[no country for old wainds]

ATHEIST – FIRE – there are valid reasons to not like this but “wanky” and “improvisational” are not among them except for maybe the jazz leads towards the end

i'll concede that improvisational was a pretty lazy way to describe that song

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

I'm not sure how someone can praise that Atheist song and yet rip hard on that Exmortus song

Because you're truly a moron. What the fuck do those two songs have in common outside of the fact that "technical" is used to describe both of them?

DARK ANGEL - PERISH IN FLAMES – weakest song on the album

 

[Krow]

I dont have a horse in the race but fuck it.

HELL - PLAGUE AND FYRE
9/10.

OGRE - WOMAN ON FIRE
5.5/10. A band I should like on paper (or computer screen I guess) but they just never click. I own two of their albums and never listen to them.

DEEP PURPLE - BURN
7/10. I actually prefer Riot's cover of this to the original.

FLAMES OF HELL - FIRE AND STEEL
6/10. Ridiculous and kind of shitty but fun.

ATHEIST - FIRE
5/10. Eh song from my least favorite Atheist album.

IMMOLATION - CLOSE TO A WORLD BELOW
8/10. Rock solid, if a tad lazy choice

DARK ANGEL - PERISH IN FLAMES
8/10.

DEATHHAMMER - SEDUCED BY THE FLAMES
9.5/10. Great high energy riff fest and I always appreciate when we dont do the standard big bands from every fucking genre.

BRUCE DICKINSON - THE ALCHEMIST
4/10. Yuck

BATHORY - ENTER THE ETERNAL FIRE
10/10. Epic, Evil. Hell.

SAVAGE GRACE - INTO THE FIRE
8/10. Been meaning to buy something by these guys. cool stuff.

POSSESSED - BURNING IN HELL
8.5/10.

EXMORTUS - IN HATRED'S FLAME
4/10. Kind of junky compared to Deathhammer, Dark Angel, and Possessed in this list.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

Which would you pick? It's still a very good song, but all the others are better.

Title track obviously doesn't need to be defended.

The Burning of Sodom is the fastest and most intense on the album.

Hunger of the Undead is sometimes a little hot-or-cold for me; it's a bit more repetitive and the riffing on its own merits isn't the best in the world, but it's got a great subtle hypnotic quality that really works when I'm in the mood.

Merciless Death is similar to Perish in Flames, but since the former was written first and since it has a more classic chorus, I give the nod to it.

Death is Certain (Life is Not) doesn't need to be defended.

Black Prophecies is perhaps a little overlong, perhaps just the right length for a galloping mid-tempo epic. Has its own place on the album though, always look forward to hearing it.

That leaves Perish in Flames as the weak link.

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

there are no bad tracks on the album, but leave it to you to single out one of the top 3 songs there as the weakest link.

Black Prophecies is a 3-1/2 track and the clear weak link on the album, that's almost universally agreed upon. Death is Certain is *4 stars and the rest are all near perfect tracks.

I think we did some kind of song game/thread for this album a while ago.

9.5/10....I always appreciate when we dont do the standard big bands from every fucking genre.

i love the way you vote bruh.

oh and lol @ "deathammer, dark angel and POSSESSED". That Possessed track is 100% OSDM.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

Death is Certain is 3 stars

The best song in their discography is 3 stars, sure thing brah

 

[Vegard Pompey]

I'M NOT SURE WHY WE'RE ALL CAPITALIZING THE BAND NAMES AND SONG TITLES BUT I SHALL PLAY ALONG

HELL - PLAGUE AND FYRE
What a suitably hellish intro, I can already tell this playlist is going to be a fantastic one. This song's a bit too clean-sounding and anthemic for the atmosphere it's going for but still great and a perfect start to the mixtape.
8/10

OGRE - WOMAN ON FIRE
This is exactly how I don't want doom to sound, and it goes on for seven minutes. Some of the guitarwork was cool so I can't hate this entirely but on the whole it was an endurance test.
3/10

DEEP PURPLE - BURN
Metal enough for me. Deep Purple would've been one of my favorite bands if only they'd ever been able to manifest their incredible potential into a single album I like from start to finish ("The Book of Taliesyn" comes close I guess, but it's also rather far removed from their signature sound) because they peak so fucking high when they want to. This is a good one, might not make a DP top 10 were I to make one but it's pretty great. I've always loved those instrumental sections that sound like proto-video game music.
8/10

FLAMES OF HELL - FIRE AND STEEL
The only parts of the lyrics I can make out are "FIRE!", "FLAAAAAMMMESSSSS OOOOOOVVVVV HELLLLLLLLLL" and "FIRE AND STEEL!" so I definitely think this is the most sophisticated pick of the round, and I applaud the considerable intellect of whoever picked it.
10/10

ATHEIST - FIRE
Tbh this doesn't sound that improvisational to me, actually sounds pretty cohesive and logically structured for how unabashedly progressive it is. Still not exactly peak Atheist to me, but a good song and an almost comically literal take on the theme.
6/10

IMMOLATION - CLOSE TO A WORLD BELOW
This incinerates obviously, I'm not even a fan of this album particularly but this song is fucking amazing. It's also stupidly obvious, real stretch of the imagination there. I'm going to dock 3 points 2 points, that may be harsh but when I compiled the mixtape history a few pages back it became apparent to me that canonical picks like these win most of the time (also consider Immolation have already won this game in the past) and I think that's really boring.
7/10

DARK ANGEL - PERISH IN FLAMES
6/10

DEATHHAMMER - SEDUCED BY THE FLAMES
These riffs, these vocals, holy fuck, I'm in love. I didn't think thrash made in 2012 could sound this badass. This is legitimately some of the best thrash I've ever heard in my life. This is also how you play the mixtape game properly. It would be a damn shame if this ends up losing to something obvious like one of the previous two songs.
10/10

BRUCE DICKINSON - THE ALCHEMIST
Great song but it doesn't seem to have all that much to do with fire. But then again Bruce's lyrics have often gone over my head. If someone explains I'll rate this higher because it is a pretty fantastic song.
7/10

BATHORY - ENTER THE ETERNAL FIRE
What a huge and sinister sound, perfect marriage of black, heavy and doom metal sensibilities.
8/10

SAVAGE GRACE - INTO THE FIRE
Mostly makes up for how archetypal it is with raw energy. Mostly.
7/10

POSSESSED - BURNING IN HELL
Never liked this album. Sorry.
5/10

EXMORTUS - IN HATRED'S FLAME
You can definitely hear melodeath in this but I don't have an aversion to that style. In fact there was an Exmortus song in a previous mixtape that I loved (something off Slave to the Sword). This one isn't doing very much for me, but the hate it's getting seems undeserved.
6/10

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

The best song in their discography is 3 stars, sure thing brah

I meant 4 stars. Which is clearly why i referred to the 3.5 star Black Prophecies as their weakest link. I know you're slow, but you cant be that slow. Clearly it was a typo.

and their best song?

You can definitely hear melodeath in this

You hear melody there, not "melodeath".

 

[HamburgerBoy]

I meant 4 stars. Which is clearly why i referred to the 3.5 star Black Prophecies as their weakest link. I know you're slow, but you cant be that slow. Clearly it was a typo.

and their best song? .

Yeah cuz the typos you make on a daily basis couldn't have been saying "the weakest link" rather than "a weakest link". Learn to not operate a keyboard like an epileptic Parkinson's sufferer and maybe I'll put effort into deducing what you're attempting to say.

It's almost a reversal of thrash metal songwriting, steady rhythm guitar backing complex, choppy bass drums up front, one of the coolest things thrash has drum-wise at least.

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

what the fuck is "a weakest link"? I think one of your bruncles might have bounced on your head a few too many times when you were little.

 

[The Ozzman]

Why does every thread with a TB/HBB conversation degenerate into an autistic novella?

 

[HamburgerBoy]

what the fuck is "a weakest link"? I think one of your bruncles might have bounced on your head a few too many times when you were little.

Good question. In fact, a greatest question, right behind "What the fuck is a bruncle?"

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

and whats even funnier is you referred to one of their most universally loved tracks as their weakest song on that album? what a joke

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

Why does every thread with a TB/HBB conversation degenerate into an autistic novella?

 

[The Ozzman]

Good question. In fact, a greatest question, right behind "What the fuck is a bruncle?"

A brother/uncle?

 

[Phylactery]

I admit my Immolation pick was an obvious one, but I'm not aware of any song that embodies this theme more. It's the sonic equivalent of a baptism in fire. Insanely dark, foreboding and Hellish and it's one of the best death metal songs ever.

 

[Vegard Pompey]

I admit my Immolation pick was an obvious one, but I'm not aware of any song that embodies this theme more. It's the sonic equivalent of a baptism in fire. Insanely dark, foreboding and Hellish and it's one of the best death metal songs ever.

I agree with those things and I feel a bit bad about downrating it knowing it was your submission, because you don't seem like one of the people who are playing to win. Oh well.

Tell me you're gonna rate this one, it's a really good playlist and there are some songs I'm curious to read your thoughts on.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

and whats even funnier is you referred to one of their most universally loved tracks as their weakest song on that album? what a joke

I'm seeing a 0.3 point difference on RYM. The album is usually considered fairly consistent afaik

 

[RadicalThrasher]

I got to know for future reference, is this downrating an obvious ( ? subjective ) band/song a rule to the game? Just curious here because when I pick something I just try to pick something on theme and that I think is worthwhile or kicks ass.....regardless of how well known it is. And even then I'm not sure exactly what other people think is obvious? I've picked more obscure stuff like Witchhammer and Messiah Force to something like Demolition Hammer......which I didn't know when I picked it, but it was flagged for being obvious? Will effect how I play the game in the future if that's the case or standard. So is that the main thought ? More obscure, demo stuff = the way to play the game?

 

[Vegard Pompey]

I got to know for future reference, is this downrating an obvious ( ? subjective ) band/song a rule to the game? Just curious here because when I pick something I just try to pick something on theme and that I think is worthwhile or kicks ass.....regardless of how well known it is. And even then I'm not sure exactly what other people think is obvious? I've picked more obscure stuff like Witchhammer and Messiah Force to something like Demolition Hammer......which I didn't know when I picked it, but it was flagged for being obvious? Will effect how I play the game in the future if that's the case or standard. So is that the main thought ? More obscure, demo stuff = the way to play the game?

Downrating obvious things isn't a rule, it's just a thing some users like me do to incentivize picking more obscure stuff. The way I see it, the purpose of a game like this is primarily to introduce people to new music, so picking songs that 95% of the regulars here will have heard seems counter-productive.

I'm very surprised you got criticized for submitting Demolition Hammer, that is not something I ever would've considered 'obvious' but then again I'm not exactly a thrash-head.