For the record, my latest submission reviewed by Byrain was "Goddess of Confusion" by Turbo (if neither of us cite the name, later readers might be... confused). 
I'm reposting this without the spoiler thingy for all to read. Thanks in advance: Abominatrix wrote: just a reminder that people shouldn't post the names of the artists or songs they're putting up, just the link. Post the name of the previous one only, the one you're reviewing.
Yes, please. Also, not micro-reviewing your own submission in the very post you're submitting it in would be advisable as well. Only a few posts are guilty of doing this so far, but I'd rather the trend didn't catch on.
Now, comments:
@grauer_mausling:
Thanks for these precisions. I'll definitely look further into this band's discography. Pretty refreshing sound, really. I'm glad you helped me notice it!
@Byrain:
Glad you liked it, and Overkill's "Feel the Fire" as well. Your reaction to "The Wrecking Crew" was similar to mine, so I thought you'd likely prefer the debut, which to me is their masterpiece. The next 2-3 albums all have excellent moments, but 'Feel the Fire' is insane! I'm not big on later Overkill, especially not a fan of 'The Years of Decay', but for 'Feel the Fire' alone Overkill's place in thrash pantheon is quite secure in my book.
@triggerhappy:
triggerhappy wrote: Hey now! The Beast of the Apocalypse isn't fantastic by any means, but it's good for what it is: fuzzy Portal-ish kind of worship. I think the guitar tone is pretty clear too. Duuude! Even vocals and drums are distorted, here; this is enough for me to actually wonder if this is the deliberate result of the production job, or just a badly compressed mp3 posted on YouTube. As I said, material aside: I'm not utterly convinced by the song itself (too repetitive and a bit cliché), but I find it okay (good atmosphere and decent, albeit basic, riffs); it's really the sound that's hurting my ears. On a side note, I don't know that your dislike of Synesthesia can be explained by your dislike of melodeath. I'm a big fan of melodeath, and I found Synesthesia's track a chore to sit through (it's the flowery sections I was disappointed in the most, though).
@Amerigo:
Amerigo wrote: Path Of Debris - Destiny [...] I'm a little confused as to how they get listed as death metal on here though! Not familiar with the term melodeath, are you? That's odd, since you correctly cited Sentenced as another example. Unless you meant "why not melodic death metal", of course. At any rate, we had an interesting thread on the topic about a year ago, which you might be interested in checking out: MeloDeath - Subgenre We Love to Hate.
Hmm, please don't take this the wrong way, but I found the two mini-reviews above my post to be pretty thin. "interesting but I'm not interested"; and "Terrible.", really? It's quite fine to either skip a track you're not inspired to review, or actually explain your beef with it if you think it's crap, you know. No offense meant. For instance, it could have been like this:
"Virus"- Strange Calm
An instrumental consisting of almost 9 fucking minutes of the same few dissonant, jazzy arpeggios looped at the same half-assed pace of "faster than a crawl, but not quite mid-paced either", backed up by a competent if a bit repetitive rythm section. Harmless, impressively boring and barely registering as metal in my book. No thanks. Also, I bloody hate it when uneducated and/or arrogant youngsters assume a legendary name is up for the taking just because the band is inactive. Virus is this, fuck you very much, kiddoes.
Elvenking - The Scythe
How can this only be 5 minutes long, when I feel I've lost 5 years of lifetime biting my tongue through it? This is clearly a competent and finely produced band playing particularly flowery EuroPM with marginal and mind-bogglingly misplaced groove/nu/chugga-chugga-graaowl influences, and this "song" is a thorough demonstration of how vague and superficial their grasp of the style they play in is, as well as how bad they need someone with at least basic songwriting chops. Also, shut the fuck up with the fake-sounding pretentious speeches as intro and outro already! I'd pick recent Iron Savior over this any day, even their softest, cutest chorus.
Okay Brendan, let's see what you brought us, here...
Lord_Brendan wrote:
Not my cup of tea by any stretch of the imagination, but nicely done nonetheless. This is powerful EuroPM with strong arena rock leanings and a folk metal dressing, highlighted by happy happy sing-along melodies delivered by a decent clean singer, a nice back-up choir and a wildly out-of-place growl here and there. The production is very clean, musicianship is good and the riffs and chants are quite catchy albeit rather stock for the genre. Not a fan of the many, many breaks and effects, especially not the arpeggios which are neutral at their core, but performed and presented as if they were epic and full of emotions. "Meh" out of 10.
And now, my turn is up! 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7rBLCVzR08
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