ariich’s inclusive roulette (v6) – EPic final results!

[The Walrus]

Well, that's very kind Alex, but really I meant that I win the biggest prize which is discovering all this amazing music.

I am really looking forward to the end of my roulette

Tell me about it.

You know I didn't even ask you to listen to every round right? You put it on yourself. You can literally stop whenever you want and let someone who actually appreciates music enjoy them! 

[Shadow Ninja 2.0]

[ariich]

EP tops and bottoms
This excludes any short intro/interlude tracks, or ones treated as such because of being banned artists.
A couple of these have short tracks that segue together counted as a single song.

Buddy
Most best: King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard – Crumbling Castle
Least best: Psychedelic Porn Crumpets – Denmark / Van Gogh & Gone

Cyril
Most best: Mac Miller – Good News
Least best: Bad Company – Shooting Star

Elite
Most best: Obsidian Kingdom – Oncoming Dark / Through the Glass / Cinnamon Balls
Least best: Hamferð – Frosthvarv

Evermind
Most best: Sunburst – Remedy of My Heart
Least best: Lee Abraham – Realisation

Indi
Most best: Wuthering Heights – The Mad Sailor
Least best: Jason Robert Brown – On the Deck of a Spanish Sailing Ship 1492

jingle
Most best: Epysode – Forgotten Symphony
Least best: Epysode – Invisible Nations

Katt
Most best: Aquaria – Judgement Day
Least best: Twilight Force – Flight of the Sapphire Dragon

king
Most best: Cellar Noise – Nautilus
Least best: Hemina – Flat

Lethean
Most best: Pantheon I – Ascending
Least best: Diabolical Masquerade – The Enemy Is the Earth / Recall / All Exits Blocked / The Memory Is Weak Struck at Random/Outermost Fear / Sparks of Childhood Coming Back

lonestar
Most best: Kingcrow – Night's Descending
Least best: Secret Sphere – Portrait of a Dying Heart

LordCost
Most best: Norma Jean – Hive Minds
Least best: Car Bomb – Gratitude

Luoto
Most best: Häive – Lapin Kouta
Least best: Wormwood – I bottenlös ävja

Nekov
Most best: Lucy Rose – Be Alright
Least best: As Tall As Lions – You Can't Take It With You

Puppies
Most best: Vektor – Recharging the Void
Least best: Warbringer – Outer Reaches

romdrums
Most best: Living Colour – Which Way to America
Least best: Fishbone – Servitude

Sacul
Most best: Ed Harrison – Tachi
Least best: Boards of Canada – Dayvan Cowboy

Shadow
Most best: Novo Amor – Birthplace
Least best: Kishi Bashi – Philosophize In It! Chemicalize With It!

Stadler
Most best: Sammy Hagar – Psycho Vertigo
Least best: Van Halen – In a Simple Rhythm

TAC
Most best: Enshine – Dual Existence
Least best: Darkaeon – Ark Of the Universe Pt.1

Tomi
Most best: Daughter – Youth
Least best: Sharon Van Etten – Seventeen

Train
Most best: Mutoid Man – Bridge Burner
Least best: Raketkanon – Fons

wolfking
Most best: Amon Amarth – War of the Gods
Least best: Swashbuckle – Cruise Ship Terror

[Buddyhunter1]

I prefer Dislocated myself but I won't complain about the longest song on the EP being your favorite

Also Tetrastructural Minds > Recharging The Void

[Puppies_On_Acid]

Shooting Star, least best? Does not compute...

[ariich]

Also Tetrastructural Minds > Recharging The Void

I mean, it was a toss-up between the two really, I'm just preferring the latter so far.

[Buddyhunter1]

Vektor was one of the bands I was maaaybe thinking of sending you but I figured they were pretty risky so they were quite low on the list. I'm not super into their two most recent albums as a whole (both of which are covered by those two songs) but their first album Black Future is    

[Nekov]

Not surprised that ATAL is your least favorite as I also think it was the weakest, but I am surprised that you like Lucy Rose the best. I would have placed my bet on one of the Gordi songs

[Evermind]

Evermind
Most best: Sunburst – Remedy of My Heart
Least best: Lee Abraham – Realisation

Yeah that tracks, the longest track is your favourite and the shortest which is meant to introduce the story is your least favourite, so far so good

I really hope the thing I was going for worked which was something like "do a very intense and powerful second track like on Avantasia's The Scarecrow and then try to keep the listener interested for the rest of the record"

lonestar
Most best: Kingcrow – Night's Descending
Least best: Secret Sphere – Portrait of a Dying Heart

This also tracks, this Kingcrow song is fantastic and I'm ambivalent about Secret Sphere

[Shadow Ninja 2.0]

Interesting, I would have expected the Landon Tewers tracks to be the most likely to not be hits, which I guess means you're enjoying them all pretty well. 

[Indiscipline]

I would have guesses the exact opposite 

[Puppies_On_Acid]

Vektor was one of the bands I was maaaybe thinking of sending you but I figured they were pretty risky so they were quite low on the list. I'm not super into their two most recent albums as a whole (both of which are covered by those two songs) but their first album Black Future is    

I wanted to send something from Black Future, but nothing fit my story unfortunately.

[Crow]

Cyril
Most best: Mac Miller – Good News
Least best: Bad Company – Shooting Star

Well this is interesting. I didn't expect Good News to be your favorite but I'm not complaining either, haha. It is very good. Brother's Blood or Scorpion Hill are probably my favorites though.
I hope that's a least best in the sense of "still quite good" because if not then 

[The Walrus]

Katt
Most best: Aquaria – Judgement Day
Least best: Twilight Force – Flight of the Sapphire Dragon

Wow, legitimately surprised by this one. Would have figured exactly the opposite, what with that super falsetto Andre Matos-ish midsection of Judgement Day. Results on this are gonna be interesting for sure.

[Evermind]

Katt
Most best: Aquaria – Judgement Day
Least best: Twilight Force – Flight of the Sapphire Dragon

Wow, legitimately surprised by this one. Would have figured exactly the opposite, what with that super falsetto Andre Matos-ish midsection of Judgement Day. Results on this are gonna be interesting for sure.

I like how we sent music we like and how different it is, I mean it's all still rock/metal, but I essentially sent The Big Sad which you're often so disdainful of and you sent a bunch of happy over the top power metal which I'm often so disdainful of

[Elite]

Elite
Most best: Obsidian Kingdom – Oncoming Dark / Through the Glass / Cinnamon Balls
Least best: Hamferð – Frosthvarv

Okay. Kind of makes sense, but you're also cheating for lumping those three tracks together (though to be fair, I have sent those three as a trio myself occasionally ). The entire album they come from segues as if it's one long piece.

Poor Frosthvarv though all the build-up for nothing. (Unless 'least best' still is 'quite awesome'). Now I wonder how the rest ranks, but I'm feeling your ranking is going to be like this:

1. The three Obsidian Kingdom tracks
2. Alsaela
3. Last of the Light
4. Hon Syndrast
5. The impossible Icelandic title
6. Frosthvarv

[Crow]

i dunno what ariich's ranking of my EP is gonna be but here's mine

1. Brother's Blood
2. Scorpion Hill
3. Good News
4. Ladies and Gentlemen, We are Floating in Space
5. Shooting Star
6. The Killing Moon
7. In the Ghetto

i like them all a lot tho but In the Ghetto is the one I did replace on my director's cut of the EP lol
maybe my chances of a better score would've gone up with the original EP i had before i changed the theme but idc i like the theme on mine a lot

[TAC]

Shooting Star, least best? Does not compute...

Sent by Cyril. That does not compute. ..

[Sacul]

Hell yeah, knew you'd dig the Ed Harrison track

According to these rankings, you could say my EP goes downhill after the first track

[Train of Naught]

Crap! Raketkanon (and ESPECIALLY the song Fons) is sooo love or hate. The fact that you like that one least (easily my favourite of my EP) tells me you hate it 

And bridge burner your favourite, but the fact you didn't like Cave In much tells me that's also maybe a bit meh.. hmmm

[Evermind]

Man I'm really hyped that you thought my Lee Abraham track was the weakest because it's mostly just a transitional piece/opening and while I think it's excellent I do think it's the weakest of the four. Because of that I think my EP might've worked exactly as I thought it would which makes me giddy as hell

[The Walrus]

Katt
Most best: Aquaria – Judgement Day
Least best: Twilight Force – Flight of the Sapphire Dragon

Wow, legitimately surprised by this one. Would have figured exactly the opposite, what with that super falsetto Andre Matos-ish midsection of Judgement Day. Results on this are gonna be interesting for sure.

I like how we sent music we like and how different it is, I mean it's all still rock/metal, but I essentially sent The Big Sad which you're often so disdainful of and you sent a bunch of happy over the top power metal which I'm often so disdainful of

That is pretty funny. Although I can't think of a lot of 'sad' power metal. The only 'big sad' I'm so disdainful of is a certain sect of prog music which just seems to wallow in angst and self-deprecating misery. Some of my favorite music ever is extremely sad!

[Evermind]

Katt
Most best: Aquaria – Judgement Day
Least best: Twilight Force – Flight of the Sapphire Dragon

Wow, legitimately surprised by this one. Would have figured exactly the opposite, what with that super falsetto Andre Matos-ish midsection of Judgement Day. Results on this are gonna be interesting for sure.

I like how we sent music we like and how different it is, I mean it's all still rock/metal, but I essentially sent The Big Sad which you're often so disdainful of and you sent a bunch of happy over the top power metal which I'm often so disdainful of

That is pretty funny. Although I can't think of a lot of 'sad' power metal. The only 'big sad' I'm so disdainful of is a certain sect of prog music which just seems to wallow in angst and self-deprecating misery. Some of my favorite music ever is extremely sad!

I saw you post The Big Sad thing about Green Carnation on FB (which I obviously disagree with) and then I realized that my EP is exactly like that

[ariich]

I can confirm that Ruslan's EP is pretty damn miserable and Mike's is pretty damn upbeat.

I'm also quite enjoying all the speculation in here.

[The Walrus]

 

Part of that is just me giving all my prog and power metal friends shit. I troll 'em both. Although I do like to roast prog bands a lot. 

Don't disappoint me, Rich. Although you kind of already have saying Flight of the Sapphire Dragon is the weakest song. That song is just too majestic for thee Plaaay it again, til you love the whole thing~ and then, listen to the album~

[ariich]

Don't disappoint me, Rich. Although you kind of already have saying Flight of the Sapphire Dragon is the weakest song. That song is just too majestic for thee

I'm intrigued - which song should I have found the weakest, in your opinion?

[Evermind]

Part of that is just me giving all my prog and power metal friends shit. I troll 'em both. Although I do like to roast prog bands a lot. 

Don't disappoint me, Rich. Although you kind of already have saying Flight of the Sapphire Dragon is the weakest song. That song is just too majestic for thee Plaaay it again, til you love the whole thing~ and then, listen to the album~

I mean I have the new Conception featured on my EP which I think you liked? I don't want your pheromones though

I can confirm that Ruslan's EP is pretty damn miserable and Mike's is pretty damn upbeat.

It's funny because honestly the only miserable song from my EP is the Oceans of Slumber one. Well, that one and the outro. Remedy of My Heart has those miserable undertones but it could be easily put into a happier story, and Feather Moves is outright uplifting actually. But yeah, since the story was intended to be gloomy from the beginning, it pretty much pushes you to regard the songs in this way.

For my next EP, I think I should do something happier for a change.

[The Walrus]

Part of that is just me giving all my prog and power metal friends shit. I troll 'em both. Although I do like to roast prog bands a lot. 

Don't disappoint me, Rich. Although you kind of already have saying Flight of the Sapphire Dragon is the weakest song. That song is just too majestic for thee Plaaay it again, til you love the whole thing~ and then, listen to the album~

I mean I have the new Conception featured on my EP which I think you liked? I don't want your pheromones though

HAHA I do quite enjoy the new Conception but I certainly wouldn't consider that Sad Boi Prog like I do Evergrey or Katatonia I don't like old Conception though but that's for other reasons.

Don't disappoint me, Rich. Although you kind of already have saying Flight of the Sapphire Dragon is the weakest song. That song is just too majestic for thee

I'm intrigued - which song should I have found the weakest, in your opinion?

Well I said it earlier but I was expecting Judgement Day to be the weak link due to the soft abrupt middle section with the falsetto that almost all but the most diehard of power metal fans (and/or Andre-era Angra worshippers) would tolerate. Or, barring that, There And Back Again for the sheer maximum power metal cheese and wizard narration 

[Evermind]

Part of that is just me giving all my prog and power metal friends shit. I troll 'em both. Although I do like to roast prog bands a lot. 

Don't disappoint me, Rich. Although you kind of already have saying Flight of the Sapphire Dragon is the weakest song. That song is just too majestic for thee Plaaay it again, til you love the whole thing~ and then, listen to the album~

I mean I have the new Conception featured on my EP which I think you liked? I don't want your pheromones though

HAHA I do quite enjoy the new Conception but I certainly wouldn't consider that Sad Boi Prog like I do Evergrey or Katatonia I don't like old Conception though but that's for other reasons.

It's basically the most uplifting song on my EP and it was the spark which started the whole story, except it represents the man who has recently died leaving his family behind and he's just flying like a discarded leaf on the wind with no purpose and no concerns before he has his final moment of consciousness ("who are you?" at the end of the song begins that sequence) where he sees his wife saying goodbye to him at his funeral

I think it would be fair to say I took some non Sad Boi Prog songs and turned them into the Sad Boi Prog songs

[TAC]

I can confirm that Ruslan's EP is pretty damn miserable emotional and Mike's is pretty damn upbeat cheesey.

[Indiscipline]

I can confirm that Ruslan's EP is pretty damn miserable and Mike's is pretty damn upbeat.

The many moods of metal

[Evermind]

It is fair though, it's pretty miserable and emotional. Tragedy usually makes for a good story.

Artwork:



I'll probably never top the concept album I sent to Tim but I think this was a valiant effort.

[Buddyhunter1]

The many moods of metal

Where's all of this scary prog metal I've been missing out on?

[Indiscipline]

The guy is not scared, he's overwhelmed and intimidated 

[ariich]

It's funny because honestly the only miserable song from my EP is the Oceans of Slumber one. Well, that one and the outro. Remedy of My Heart has those miserable undertones but it could be easily put into a happier story, and Feather Moves is outright uplifting actually. But yeah, since the story was intended to be gloomy from the beginning, it pretty much pushes you to regard the songs in this way.

Yeah in itself Feather Moves is upbeat, but what it represents in the story and what comes after is definitely miserable.

The many moods of metal

I love this, partly because music can be amazing from all sorts of different moods and styles, but also because Inside Out is one of my absolute favourite movies.