September '09 Metal iMix

This month’s Metal iMix is up! There was really no rhyme or reason to the songs we picked this time. We just tried to find a bunch of bands that we haven’t put on previous playlists, but they have a good mix of our influences.

Dark New Day and Soilwork both have strong, melodic choruses like we try to write, and Sinergy has the heavy palm muted verses just like most of our songs do. Shadows Fall’s “Another Hero Lost” is an awesome ballad with a cool arrangement. Everything through the first pre-chorus is just vocals and acoustic guitar. Then instead of going right into the chorus from the pre-chorus, they go into a guitar solo and back into the verse. The guitar solo/interlude part is also when the drums come in, but they still leave out the bass. After the second verse the drums pick up with the side-stick on the snare for every beat in the second pre-chorus. This starts building up for the chorus, and then the bass comes in during the second half of the pre-chorus, which makes the build-up twice as huge. Staggering the entrance of the drums and bass like that leaves room in the arrangement, and each time you add a new instrument it brings up the energy another level.

Here’s the Metal iMix for September ’09 – Enjoy!

[EDIT: No idea why there are the white outlines in the iMixes, tried to get them to go away but they won't...sorry!]