notes: metal hammer 338 megamix
mimi and i are trying to get back into music we actually liked instead of just looping carly rae jepsen blankly, so here's what we tried from the metal hammer sampler megamix playlist you can find on spotify.
stop the bleeding, machine head — sure. it's a whole lot of nothing. i cannot help but feel like we give mediocre music a pass if the lyrics are anti-nazi but this is just sound to me.
sun of war, black crown initiate — this had a really fun melodic intro that became a pretty fun melodic intro that became an "is this the whole song" melodic intro right up until the point where a second, worse, song began playing every riff it knew about in alphabetical order over the top.
deeper, vulture industries — first song on this where i've understood why the people who like it do so. not for me, though. very very german. melodic lines are coherent but the drum and guitar lines hit. the german accent is growing on me as they camp it up.
i am the hurricane, dee snider — the intro made my wife so mad she almost ran a red light complaining to me about it. i didn't hear the rest of the song over her yelling SORRY at the cop car next to us until they just drove off. i don't think i missed anything.
fuck modi-shah, heathen beast — sounded like a cicada dying in a cardboard box. not for me. technically proficient? i'm struggling.
unsainted, slipknot — this came on and i fullbody cringed at the idea of my first "okay this is pretty good" being slipknot. unfortunately i am who i am and who i am is someone who got into metal because i liked the atreyu song on the underworld movies soundtrack. this could have been on one of the underworld movies soundtracks. i did skip it at the midpoint break down though because it didn't stand out to me.
into the light, parkrest — i liked the single bar of him squealgling his guitar. this sounds like an opener act in a basement and i do mean that as a compliment. shit song to hear the studio album recording of, though.
anubis, septicflesh — the opening had me and mimi both murmuring ...okay... and i'm not retracting that. coherent ideas, really good guitar work, i did feel like the melody integrated well into the full song without dragging out too long. i love the like wet gurgle reverb on their vocal distortion and i think it really suits the song.
we gave up at this point and listened to a sampler by septicflesh and then generic other playlists on the way home from ikea.