My doctor says we're suffering from an (Executive Disorder reviews)

[Pigfarmer Jr]

Promise
Another empty promise
Another empty threat, oh yeah, I'll bet your life is falling apart
Order
Executive disorder
Executive disorder on your part and now I wanna break your heart

Lyrics go here: viewtopic.php?t=12846

[Lunkhead]

Songs posted!

[AJOwens]

Beast Needs Beast : Not a lot of lyrical content, but the angry delivery makes up for it. The music is rhythmically powerful and harmonically uncomplicated, as appropriate for the genre. Played with intensity, mixed and recorded with crisp clarity, and featuring regular changes of arrangement, it holds interest for the full two minutes. There's nothing outstanding or unusual about it, but it's well done.

Everybody Hurts : With its haunting open arrangement, full of cavernous hollows and spooky musical twists and turns, this entry stands out texturally and compositionally. I have trouble making out the words, but the first verse seems rich in imagery. The rest of the lyrics are repetitive, not helped by the flat chorus melody. The guitar tuning sounds like it's open, adding a refreshing difference. A potential vote for the imaginative arrangements and subtle emotional nuances of the verse.

Freddie Wilson Overpass: The lyrics poured out of me in about five minutes. McHaggis suggested the basic chord patterns (though their treatment evolved to be unrecognizable), sent in a great drum track, and offered much-appreciated support, advice, and additional lyrical inspiration. Unfortunately the song seems to be in the wrong fight compositionally, attitudinally, and in terms of recording volume. I kept it under 6 dB and used compression only on the vocal -- a mistake in this punky, angry, ear-bleeding collection.

IXTXI: This is an exciting track, with lots of unusual happenings, and yet by 1:33 it wears me out. It sounds clear, but leaves a feeling of subliminal muddiness. Are there subsonics lurking in the tracks? I can't always make out the lyrics, but I don't think I'm missing anything spectacular. The "What was I thinking" interlude is fun but also a bit distracting. Overall, highly vivid and expressive, with a great vocal for the genre, but it leaves a static impression.

Johnny Cashpoint: The vocals are muddy, which is too bad because the lyrics are more articulate than many of the others in this fight. But you've posted them to the lyrics forum, so good. The emergency-siren guitar at the start is evocative, and the mid-song lead work really adds to the composition. I love the controlled/uncontrolled chaos of the second half. The closing statement could be subtler and doesn't feel like it belongs with the rest of the song, but to vote I would just have to overlook that, and I guess the quality of the vocal recording.

Pigfarmer Jr: Not what I expected from you, but it suits this fight very well, and it's great. Solid lyrics -- are they actual Shelley, modified Shelley, or just in the style of Shelley? Reciting rather than singing them is a good choice, although the delivery is a little light (I'd love to hear ixtxi doing them). The mob-like chorus is sufficiently anarchic. I could vote for this.

Zealous Noise: I'm not the only one who forgot to peg the meters. That's OK, I'll just turn up to the normal listening position. The hard-left vocals with a hard-right bounce are a little weird, I don't know if that works or not, but the delivery is engaging. Expressive lyrics, rich in imagery, but more thrown-together than calculated in the story they tell. The music is interesting enough, nothing too fancy: unison playing, hard-hitting drums, occasional breakdowns and rhythmic variety. The change of intensity at about 2 minutes is welcome (just in time, actually), and the build back up is promising, but for the last minute the song settles in to where it was in the first minute, which makes it feel just a bit long.

[Pigfarmer Jr]

Pigfarmer Jr: are they actual Shelley, modified Shelley, or just in the style of Shelley?

Actual Shelley but the lines were selectively stolen borrowed from the poem "War."
https://www.simple-poetry.com/poems/war-55560456884

[AJOwens]

Are all the songs posted? There are lyrics for Zinkline in the lyrics thread, but no song to go with them.

[Lunkhead]

That song just got submitted late, around when the lyrics got posted, and I haven't added it to the fight yet

[AJOwens]

That song just got submitted late, around when the lyrics got posted, and I haven't added it to the fight yet

Ah! Looking forward to it. I’ll add it to my reviews.

[Lunkhead]

I'm adding the late Zinkline song now. Should be done uploading soon.

[ken]

Just a little info on the Zinkline track. Glennny (guitar), Martyr (bass), the Prisoner (drums), and I (guitar/vocals) got together and jammed out this track. We ran late and had laptop issues. I recorded a single take on my phone of everyone playing together and that mono track ended up as the basis of this song, mostly for the bass and drums. Glennny and I rerecorded our parts and those are panned left and right. There is a low synth accenting the bass as I was worried there wouldn't be enough bass coming from the overcompressed mono track. I then recorded all the vocals. I think the lyrics are better than usual on this track.

[AJOwens]

Zinkline -- A late entry with a bright, energetic instrumental hook and a stately grandeur in the patterns and long tones, driven by intense Who-style drums. Nice harmonic additions and developments as the song progresses, a solid guitar solo, steady and clear vocal performance. And yes, cogent and pointed lyrics. The recording is heavily distorted but the strength of the song comes through. In terms of voting, it's a great entry, but it's not exactly radio-ready and it came in after the fight was posted. But then there were equipment problems, so we have to make allowances for that. What to do, what to do. I dunno. Maybe if someone in the band reviews this fight, that might sway me.

[AJOwens]

Pigfarmer Jr: are they actual Shelley, modified Shelley, or just in the style of Shelley?

Actual Shelley but the lines were selectively stolen borrowed from the poem "War."
https://www.simple-poetry.com/poems/war-55560456884

They are apropos. And they work with the music, which is pretty wild.

[V4nnim3l]

Beast Needs Beast: Wow, metal! I like the pauses in the first section, definitely a headbanger, and the repeated lyrics really get drilled into the brain.

Everybody Hurts: This one's very disorienting, I like the instrumentation although the vocals are a bit buried in the mix, though that may be intentional.

Freddie Wilson Overpass: very unsettling melody, sounds like the different bits are in different keys, which is cool, although I might be wrong there.

IXTXI: Another Heavy one, I love the siren-y thing with the guitars, and the gang vocals make it feel full.

Johnny Cashpoint: Love the guitar sound here! The whole track sounds angry, especially the bit near the end with the yells and the nest of distorted guitars.

Pigfarmer Jr: Nu Metal? a lot of these entries are very headbangy and this is no different, like IXTXI's track, the gang vocals are great here.

Zealous Noise: The vocal effect are great, And the half time in the second section is cool too. Also a big fan of all the muted strums. wasn't expecting the middle bit where it goes down in energy then builds back up but that's brilliant.

Zinkline: It sounds a bit over compressed (just read your thing, It actually sounds really good considering), but nonetheless a great track. The guitar line is catchy, and I'm enjoying the more laid back attitude (compared to the others at least).

[Smalltown Mike]

Beast — great tune, voted. I think the vocals could come up slightly, maybe doubled once in a while, maybe with a bit of saturation. But great sounding tune.

[AJOwens]

Freddie Wilson Overpass: very unsettling melody, sounds like the different bits are in different keys, which is cool, although I might be wrong there.

Thanks, I hoped the melody would suggest a disorder. And you're right, the song moves between Dm and Bm.