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Porcupine Tree - Arriving Somewhere

Exceptionally well done song with every possible musical element that pleases me. Though, it's quite easy to fit a lot of different stuff in a 12 minute track, but to make progressive rock with an ambient feeling to it, that's something different. This is definitely one of their best songs.

9.5/10
 
Yuki Kajiura - Fake Wings

After watching .hack//sign, which was amazing btw. I immediately felt the need to download its soundtrack, which is equaly amazing. This is a very gentle track, like the character it refers to, Subaru. It features a slow played acoustic guitar and ethereal echoing vocals. This is one of the tracks that made me download the OST
 
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Porcupine Tree - Arriving Somewhere

Exceptionally well done song with every possible musical element that pleases me. Though, it's quite easy to fit a lot of different stuff in a 12 minute track, but to make progressive rock with an ambient feeling to it, that's something different. This is definitely one of their best songs.

9.5/10
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That song rules.

Blind Guardian - Turn The Page

Power metal with a folk influence, and some of the best vocals in the style. Really catchy as well!

9.5/10
 
Modest Mouse - 3rd Planet

I have a tendency to always enjoy the opening tracks for albums, and this holds true. This is probably one of my favorite songs by this band because it combines their raw rock sound of their early days and their newer, poppier sound to make a very catchy, very enjoyable song. The chorus is amazing, to take a few lines from it:

outside naked, shiverin' looking blue
from the cold sunlight that’s reflected off the moon
baby cum angels fly around you
reminding you we used to be three and not two
and that's how the world began
and that's how the world will end

No matter what kind of Modest Mouse listener you are, this is one of the best songs by them and you owe it to yourself to give it a listen. It's also a really good way to get into the band if you haven't already. My only qualm is that it ends rather abruptly.

9.5/10
 
Hawthorne Heights - Niki FM
Yes, I know it's emo, but it's a good song. 8.5/10
Favourite Lyrics:
Silence in black and white.
Falling forwards as she walks towards the light.
 
Ohio is for lovers - Hawthrorne Hei....just kidding xD

Cozy Powell - Dance With The Devil

This song is awesome! There was an advert on TV with a really old chinese guy playing the drums for this, I forgot what it was for, maybe Jameson Irish Whiskey or something like that...but he fucking owned that drum kit!

8/10
 
Muse - Plug In Baby

Origin of Symmetry's finest, this song has a powerful guitar, with a kickass bass, as well Matt's vocals, which are emphasized in this song because they are just unbelievably amazing.

My plug in baby
Crucifies my enemies
When I'm tired of giving

10/10
 
Dead Prez - Hip Hop

Not everybody's taste, and there are better lyrics out there, but its lyrics are still pretty good and the beat is sick.

9/10
 
Perfection Through Silence - Finch

Recently been listening a lot to Finch, I didn't give them enough time when I first heard them and left them alone for a long time. Coming back and listening to songs like this make me wish I gave them more of a chance!

7/10
 
Sigur Rós - Popplagið


One of the reasons why ( ) is my favourite Sigur Rós album. There's nothing bad about this twelve minute song sung entirely in hopelandic. Very guitar based, it serves a great purpouse during the climax with Jónsi's distorted vocals.
 
Bad Religion - Los Angeles Is Burning

My new favorite track from The Empire Strikes First. Quite basic, but the chorus is definately awesome and catchy. Not to mention that the lyrics are quality stuff, like usually.

8.5/10
 
Symphony X - The Eyes of Medusa

band absolutely fucking rules. think Dream Theater mixed with Pantera and Dark Moor. symphonic/neoclassical, proggy, and heavy as well. fucking awesome. Romeo keeps doing that squeal thing.

9/10
 
Dont Look Back - Dark Mobson

It took me quite a long time to really notice this song, seeing the melody and instrumentalism are nothing spectacular. What really makes this song really stellar are the vocals and something I never pay attention to: lyrics. In this case however, they add a great effect to the track with the constant repetition of "With your eyes".

With your eyes,
With your eyes of checoslovakia taken by robots,
With your eyes going to pain class at night
With your eyes when your pancreas is removed
With your eyes,
With your death in the flowers,
With your chin of Trotsky and the Spanish War
With your eyes of a starving indian

Just some examples of the lyrics. Though some are funny, the song doesn't have anything hillarious about it.
 
Testament - Ride

Ride is the second last track on the album Low, which is mostly a heavy metal album, but Ride is straight thrash, fast paced drumming with kicks and guitar with plenty of grunt, Chuck Billy's strong vocals and occasional growl complete the song.

8/10
 
Dredg - Eighteen People Living in Harmony

This is a beautiful song, managing to be dense, yet easy to listen to; progressive, yet concise (4.5 minutes long). A stacatto riff leads to walls of sound of the chorus and the cello of the interlude. I feel like the singer said just as much in one verse as Steven Wilson did on the entire Fear of a Blank Planet album, but making it feel a lot more heartfelt and honest.

a one-track mind in a one-way town
let's go ahead and gentrify
we let art die with robot minds
steal the brush and paint boundary lines
a stale kind the people we'll find
walking in single file line

dredg fucking rules.

10/10
 
Agreeing with havoc. dredg - El Cielo album rules.

Symphony X - The Odyssey

Good prog metal epic. If you like stuff like Dream Theater, Pain of Salvation, you'll like this.

8/10
 
New London Fire - Someone Like You

One of the best songs off of the 'I Sing the Body Holographic' album, which is also now one of my favourite albums.

Brilliant use of alternating male / female vocals for the verses, while they both come together for the bridge and last chorus. Also has really great lyrics in my opinion.

Girl, I won't leave you lonely
my heart beats for you only
at night I call your name...

... Boy, I reached out to no one
but inside I knew that someone
would see just who I am.

10 / 10
 
Leatherface - Ba Ba Ba Ba Boo

This song makes me laugh so hard because the vocals sound like some kind of muppet is singing or something. And theres like elevator music jazz going on in the background.

Lol/10
 
Minus The Bear - Lotus

Outstanding track from their newest album, Planet Of Ice. The nearly 9-minute song features almost everything you would be looking for in a Minus The Bear song. In my opinion, it's a bit too long to suit them perfectly and seems it like in the end the song just fills blanks instead of developing and keeping the listener's attention.

Nonetheless, the catchy parts and great lyrics make this song one of their best, with songs like Pachuca Sunrise or Absinthe Party. The length also adds a somewhat progressive feeling to the song, and it's cool to see that the band is doing stuff that wouldn't be expected from them.

9.5/10
 
Reuben - Three Hail Marys

I'm not actually going to post my review here - Instead, I'm going to review this whole album since I have been listening to it pretty much non-stop ever since I got it! Watch out for In Nothing We Trust in the Reviews section :)
 
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Yuki Kajiura - Fake Wings

After watching .hack//sign, which was amazing btw. I immediately felt the need to download its soundtrack, which is equaly amazing. This is a very gentle track, like the character it refers to, Subaru. It features a slow played acoustic guitar and ethereal echoing vocals. This is one of the tracks that made me download the OST
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Moonshield - In Flames

The most beautiful song ever released in the history of metal, IMO. Not much different than the other songs on its album, the Jester Race, but then again, it is a MASTERPIECE. (Hence why the Japanese release of the album, with all the shit I have to go find off Limewire like a fool, is my avatar.) Deep acoustics, wonderful blending of the bass and rhytmic guitars, and of course Anders' growling vocals somehow mixed in to a nice effect all make the album awesome, and Moonshield is no exception. My only critique on this song is that acoustic solo in the middle drags on for way too long, and I usually just skips over it. The song's awesome live, and I even have some kid's piano version of it. Stunning, beautiful, awesome.

9.7/10
 
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