Special review 1: Banelings – HuskyStarcraft / Happy Thanksgiving!

     Hello everyone! Happy Thanksgiving and I hope your turkey was absolutely delicious. I know mine was. Since today is a special day, I decided I’d not do a review of an entire album, but of one song in particular. This song is a parody of “Baby” by Justin Bieber.

     Now to start, I was iffy on even listening to it because I despise Bieber and his lack of talent. But because HuskyStarcraft is awesome I watched it anyways. Now if you don’t play Starcraft Two, this song will confuse you immensely. That’s not a great thing, but you can look up all of the terms and such. Now this song is VERY enjoyable.  The lyrics are hilarious and the music video just adds to the hilarity. There’s nothing funnier than a nerd humping a Lamborghini. Much less RAPING. Anyways, the original song’s beat sucked. It still does. Can’t change it. My only complaint is the ending lyrics “Now I’m Terran” because I don’t understand them perfectly but my assumption is that the main singer of the video switches his race and stuff you probably don’t care about.

     Overall the song gets a 9/10 the only reason it’s not a 10/10 is that they picked the WORST possible song to parody, and in all honesty they made it almost epic.

     On a last note I encourage you all to go on Itunes and buy this video because the proceeds are going to a charity. Below is a link to the music video, and that link contains a link to buying it on Itunes. I also recommend you subscribe and watch all of Husky's videos.

Happy Turkey Day and stay safe,

- Midnight
Music Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzMhh8zhTiY

Album 2: I Am Ghost

Band name:  I Am Ghost

Album name: Those We Leave Behind

Track Count: 14

     When you hear this album’s intro it sends chills down your spine. Seriously, this band’s always been FANTASTIC with its imagery.  Not that you’ve probably heard any of their music before, because like To-Mera they’re an underground band. But all of that aside besides the note about the intro… The songs transition very well, but the problem is that they’re all alike in sense of the lyrical content. No it’s not about vampires and such, but in the fact each song is literally a short story.  The short intro songs (tracks 1 and 9) are both absolutely relevant to the following songs and it’s amazing. I will say not all the songs are good. Track twelve is just slow and disgustingly modified vocal wise. But as for specific tracks to talk about I’d like to touch on the one called “Smile Of A Jesus Freak” which is more than likely to offend someone who has never listened to this song, but honestly if you listen to it you’ll understand it easily. Be prepared for a pretty angry album. It’s got a very high energetic feel to it.

Overall: 7/10 my reasoning being the fact all of the songs have similar (but oddly different) lyrical content, well done vocals and the fact not all the tracks are great.

Tracks I recommend: 5 and 7 if you’re into harder songs, 6 and 13 if you like less heavy songs.


Please excuse the less through review, I'm quite tired and really wanted to put something new up for you. I may edit this in the future.

Album 1: To-Mera – Transcendental

Since this is the first review please bear with me on the format. It's in the works. Occasionally it will start similar to this one with side commentary before the review it's self. In these cases I will bold the following format so you can skip to the review if you wish: "REVIEW # BAND NAME - ALBUM NAME"

     Many of you, like me, have wide views of what you would consider a “good” album/band/artist. When I am listening to album I do not keep a score sheet, or a specific guideline. I go with what I can enjoy. But with entertainment value I do think of each instrument as one instrument and then overall. I will think things along the lines of: “the vocalist needs to stop screaming, he sucks.” To things such as: “wow this song is hard to imagine on the guitar.” With this short introduction to how I think of albums, I see it only an opportunity to do my first review.

REVIEW 1: To-Mera – Transcendental

Band name: To-Mera
Album name: Transcendental
Genre: Gothic Progressive Metal
Track count: 8

     This album starts off with an absolutely creepy dark tone. But it slowly adds in the guitar and sends you into the feel that you’re on a journey, also: cue piano. Then the first song with actual lyrics comes in and darn is it interesting. This song (titled "Blood") not only starts off quiet and gets louder, it smacks you in the face with the fact some of the words you will think to be random gibberish, in reality it’s the Hungarian language. The songs are very difficult to understand from one listen, not only in terms of figuring some of them out, but in trying to know the meaning. We’re not even to the second song, Dreadful Angel, which just keeps aggressively pounding you in the face, and then slows down at points. It’s amazing work. The lyrics are phenomenal.

      Now after the first three songs you’ve seen most of the aggressive nature of this band and this album. The rest of the songs start slower and quieter just to go to the aggressive nature you saw in the first songs. The album as a whole I would say is almost perfect. My only concern is that they did put most of their power into the first few songs. The songs are amazing and sometimes insane. But overall, if you like out of the norm underground music that’s very difficult to find, you will enjoy most if not all of this album.

Overall: This album get’s a 9/10. The songs are great, but I think maybe one more fast paced song somewhere on the album (preferably the end of it) would have been great.

Suggested songs: Blood, Dreadful Angel. 

Additional information about this album and the band can be found:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transcendental_(album)

http://s298973778.websitehome.co.uk/

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Who am I: My name is Austin Larson. Most people think of me as an absolute elitist that hates everything. Hopefully this blog proves that this is not completely true. I'm new to the idea of blogging, and new to this website. Please bear with me as I attempt to make this blog to my liking and keeping neat.

Goal: To review music in a manner in which isn’t overtly technical. This is more words means that I’m reviewing music by the album. I’m not going to go into whether the song is written badly in terms of the notes and scales and such.  I want to review the album mostly as a whole, but occasionally I will try to single out songs so that you can listen to what I think is the best songs on the album.

Disclaimer: I lack any professional experience. This is something I want to do because I enjoy commenting on things. Take what I say with a fine grain of sand.

Music I review: I will review almost anything. But being the somewhat elitist people claim me to be I cannot eliminate all bias. So I ask that you avoid the following bands in suggesting music because I cannot eliminate my bias on them.

Coldplay

Nickelback

Hannah Montana / Miely Cyrus

Justin Bieber

Lady Gaga

The Beatles

Coldplay

Request: That some of you post the name of a band and the name of an album you would like reviewed. If you wish to add or discuss something I post in a future review, offer critique of my review, please do. This is for you not for me. I know what I think, and it's not always going to be straight forward.

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The format: This is so subject to change within the first few times that I cannot provide a good one outside a basic outline. It also varies based off if I want to banter on about genre or something else.

Final notes: I won’t always review music. I might also post little things about how I think of it. Such as how I classify my genres, what makes a good album to me, occasionally a picture, anything almost. I’d love any feedback or discussion as like I said this for you, not me. Reviews will be posted at random and in random amounts per day. So please check back frequently.