Themed Mixtape Game

[CiG]

Type O Negative - Unsuccessfully Coping with the Natural Beauty of Infidelity 9/10
Arguably their best album. Arguably their best song. Conveys the mixed emotions of love pretty well.

Titan Force - Lord of Desire 6.5/10
Musically not half bad. Kinky love is awesome.

Ava Inferi - The Living End 6/10
Cool song, has a sort of goth vibe. Questionable as to whether this particular song is metal, but it had some nice melodic leads I guess.

Savatage - Out On The Streets 6.5/10
Super cheesy metal ballad.

Slauter Xstroyes - No Idea 7.5/10
This is pretty amazing, I need this album.

Slayer - Necrophiliac 7.5/10
I feel sorry for the significant other of whoever submitted this. But if Sami Hynninen can write a song about love via getting pissed on, Kerry King can write this.

Gehennah - We Love Alcohol 8/10
The only love that counts.

Secrecy - A New Beginning 6.5/10
Couldn't quite work out what the lyrics were about, but it's a cool song.

Converge - Heaven in her Arms 4/10
Questionable whether this is even metal. Points for theme and for not being terrible.

Amon Goeth - In Love With Satan 6.5/10
No lyrics are available, so I am going off the trust of the song title. I was hoping someone posted something to do with Satanic love, never heard of this band before. Pretty cool.

Motorhead - Love Me Like a Reptile 10/10
Meant to be live? Either way, fucking classic song. Brings back great bedroom memories.

Danzig - Girl 7.5/10
Always was unsure about the drum sound on this album, but it still rules.

Miasma - Love Song (To a Lost Girl) 6.5/10
Never heard of this band before, but this is pretty cool, the lyrics were hilarious to read along with.

Love song to a lost little arg.

Night Conquers Day - Banished from My Eyes 9/10
This is quite epic. This kind of black metal usually isn't to my taste, but I found myself not wanting this to end so soon.

Thin Lizzy - Wild One 9/10
Fucking amazing song. Such a magical album too. Points for dancing in that blurred area between hard rock and heavy metal though.



I'm actually surprised nobody submitted Darkthrone's "Natassja In Eternal Sleep" to be honest. It was my first thought when I saw the theme.

 

[Serjeant Grumbles]

I'm giving this playlist a preliminary run, and I've noticed that the Ava Inferi song is not available. That must be rectified forthwith.

By the way, I'll definitely be downrating any attempts to shoehorn in an extreme metal choice that doesn't even fit. If it's genuinely apropos, more power to you.

I'm actually surprised nobody submitted Darkthrone's "Natassja In Eternal Sleep" to be honest. It was my first thought when I saw the theme.

Yeah, same here.

 

[CiG]

By the way, I'll definitely be downrating any attempts to shoehorn in an extreme metal choice that doesn't even fit.

Why did you specifically single out "extreme metal" though?

 

[Serjeant Grumbles]

It's just that, when it comes to that subject matter, you'll have slimmer pickings going with extreme metal than more traditional styles, although legit examples certainly exist from the former, like the aforementioned "Natassja In Eternal Sleep." Let me just put it this way: if you're gonna post a song about fucking a corpse, it had better be clear that it's the corpse of a loved one.

 

[CiG]

Okay I follow you now!

 

[no country for old wainds]

congrats on somehow formatting that post even more hideously than usual.

 

[Krow]

I'm mildly drunk and dont feel like writing reviews so deal.

Type O Negatives - Unsuccessfully Coping with the Natural Beauty of Infidelity
7.5/10. Cant listen to this without singing along. That being said I bumped a point off for this song being more about betrayal than love.

Titan Force - Lord of Desire
5.5/10. Okay but forgettable.

Ava Inferi - The Living End
3.5/10

Savatage - Out On The Streets
5/10. whatever.

Slauter Xstroyes - No Idea
5/10.

Slayer - Necrophiliac
4/10. Hurr durr this stretches the topic.

Gehennah - We Love Alcohol
7/10 I like these guys but the more I hear them, they're just second rate Motorhead.

Secrecy - A New Beginning
4/10. What the fuck ever

Converge - Heaven in her Arms
4/10. non metul

Amon Goeth - In Love With Satan
2.5/10 In love with your mom. fcuk this.

Motorhead - Love Me Like a Reptile
10/10.

Danzig - Girl
5/10. Lame Danzig.

Miasma - Love Song (To a Lost Girl)
3.5/10. Massively overrated obscure in crowd death metal.

Night Conquers Day - Banished from My Eyes
4.5/10

Thin Lizzy - Wild One
8.5/10.

 

[Omni]

Savage ratings. You're a mean drunk.

 

[Krow]

maybe I'll read this later and remember sober to replay some of the songs I rated really low...

 

[HamburgerBoy]

Type O Negative - Unsuccessfully Coping with the Natural Beauty of Infidelity – 7/10

Never listened to anything off of this Type O album iirc, sounds a lot more like Carnivore than I expected. The extra cash to get an actual female to make sex noises clearly paid off. The “I know you’re fucking someone eeeeh-helse” part with the backing keyboards and more upbeat riffing made me laugh, in a good way. Still a bit too long but whatevs, this was fun.

Titan Force - Lord of Desire – 8/10

This song might epitomize the Titan Force sound to me more than any other. Hyper-melodic harmonized riffing everywhere, but still playful. I never really paid attention to the lyrics on this album (the ones on the second album are slightly more comprehensible but also generally crappy), but I’m actually surprised at how well they work here, like how he does that kind of pretentious rolled-R “With r-r-ravenous fur-r-rry”, I always thought it was kind of neat, but I didn’t think it was possible to do a kind of S&M theme in metal with class and a medieval atmosphere. Giving this an extra point for newfound appreciation of a song I’ve always enjoyed.

Ava Inferi - The Living End – 5/10

Eh, it sounds neat sonically but this barely registers as metal, and the lyrics mean nothing to me.

Savatage - Out On The Streets – 7/10

Eh, aside from Twisted Little Sister, the weakest song on a mostly amazing album. Has its moments and better than many other ballads from the early 80s, but still.

Slauter Xstroyes - No Idea – 8/10

Still a great song, but I think their ballads are among their weakest.

Slayer – Necrophiliac – 10/10

On a given day could be my favorite Slayer song. The bridge section particularly is amazing.

Gehennah - We Love Alcohol – 4/10

Yeah we know.

Secrecy - A New Beginning – 10/10

Secrecy is the most moe metal band in existence. Forget women, forget all that other shit, just give me cute German prog metal about platonic love and nostalgia for early childhood.

Converge - Heaven in her Arms – 5/10

There was a time where I thought Converge would be one of my branches outside of usual metal realms but I got sick of them pretty quickly and hearing this again now hasn’t changed anything. It’s not bad at all, but I dunno, somehow for all the intensity it still comes off as boring. Lyrics are pretty gay too.

Amon Goeth - In Love With Satan – 1/10

Really long and pointless intro. The main riff is generic as fuck, reject Motorhead stuffs. How is this even considered black metal? It’s basically slightly slow punky speed metal. Eight more minutes? Ugh. And of course the lyrics aren’t available, obviously this is high art and reading the lyrics rather than naturally taking in this minimalist, atmospheric performance would be a waste.

Motorhead - Love Me Like a Reptile – 7/10

Classic Motorhead, not my favorite thing but this is still a strong song, nothing more to say.

Danzig – Girl – 4/10

Kinda boring and sounds like hard rock to me anyways.

Miasma - Love Song (To a Lost Girl) – 7/10

This shit is weird. Really murky production but a number of the riffs resemble swinging bluesy trad doom, and those lyrics holy shit. I won’t say that this song was amazing, but it was interesting enough that I’m going to listen to their album once I’m finished with the playlist.

Night Conquers Day - Banished from My Eyes – 5/10

Totally tuned out on this one. Not bad, sort of pleasant sound-wise, but not slightly interesting.

Thin Lizzy - Wild One – 6/10

I’ve never listened to Fighting. This was pleasant, but a bit below later Thin Lizzy at least on first impression. Pretty harmonies though.

 

[Funerary_Doom]

Missed this but I'll listen to this. I probably won't rate cause I didn't submit anything.

 

[Phylactery]

"How is this even considered black metal?", how often do you say this?

Anyway, that Amon Goeth song is awesome and indeed better than anything by Testament

 

[HamburgerBoy]

Spoken like a tr00 in-crowd tard. Aside from "The Ballad" I'm not sure they have anything as terrible as that song.

 

[no country for old wainds]

so tired of all these metal hipsters with their amon goeth tshirts

 

[Omni]

Phylactery just got here and I doubt anyone has even mentioned Amon Goeth since he joined. Believe it or not, some people just like certain music. I don't think it's about following a crowd, especially since Testament is clearly more liked (including on this website) than Amon Goeth, so they would be the in-crowd band.

 

[Omni]

so tired of all these metal hipsters with their amon goeth tshirts

 

[HamburgerBoy]

Phylactery just got here and I doubt anyone has even mentioned Amon Goeth since he joined. Believe it or not, some people just like certain music. I don't think it's about following a crowd, especially since Testament is clearly more liked (including on this website) than Amon Goeth, so they would be the in-crowd band.

Being popular =/= being in-crowd. It has to be popular WITH the in-crowd to be in-crowd. Testament is like the anti-in-crowd thrash metal band. In-crowd people consider Heathen albums to be the very best thrash metal ever made, all the while claiming to have never heard a single Testament album.

 

[Omni]

Actually, the "in-crowd" thinks that early Slayer is the best thrash metal ever made. This is based off of my own opinion and the opinions of other purported members of this club, including Phylactery.

If you want to claim that there is a special club with predictable opinions, you should be able to get their opinions right at the very least.

Oh, and I have never heard a Testament album. That's actually true. You'll notice that I didn't claim to know what their music sounds like and stated that I actually don't.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

You put Breaking the Silence in your top 3, didn't you? Heathen also has a much higher M-A average than Testament, and all the complaints of generic music applied to the latter (thanks to UltraBoris worshipers) are avoided for the former (again, thanks to UltraBoris worshipers).

 

[Omni]

There's no reason why I can't put a Heathen album in my top 3 favorite thrash albums. That has nothing to do with Testament and isn't a common opinion among people on this site that you claim are "in-crowd" members.

I don't know who UltraBoris is. Is that someone who used to post here?

I've never expressed an unwillingness to listen to Testament. You could easily recommend an album by them like a normal person, but it's clear that you'd rather try to argue about irrelevant bullshit and invent conspiracies against Testament.