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Battle Of The Bands [part 5]

Round 5 of 18. Cannibal Corpse took the last round. Here is a big round that many people have been looking forward too. Enjoy! Here are the rules again. - Each round there will be three bands - The band who receives the most votes (via comments) moves on to the next round. - Each round lasts 24 hours. - Only one vote each round per member. - These are the preliminary rounds, then there are also quarter-finals, semi-finals, and finals - In the event of a tie, a faceoff will occur between the disputed albums. - The final two will be an EPIC SHOWDOWN! So, let's get started: NOTE: The 'average sputnik rating' I get by adding all of the bands album ratings together and averaging them out.
1Miles Davis

Latest album: In Person Saturday Night at the Blackhawk / Average Sputnik rating: 3.73 / Miles Davis is, and was, the greatest innovator in jazz. Before him came Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington, and a few others of note, but, though they started it, none of them made an impact on jazz such as Miles did. Beginning under the wing of Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker, Miles felt he needed to branch off on his own and discover his own style, rather than to continue trying to unsuccessflly imitate Dizzy's loud, well, dizzy bebop style. He accomplished this on his first album, "The Birth of the Cool," which had a nine-piece ensemble under the coleadership of master jazz orchestrator Gil Evans. This is the album that invented cool jazz, a style which was far more subdued than bebop, yet left lots of room for improvisation.
2Opeth

Latest album: Burden / Average Sputnik score: 3.65 / Ask any metal fan in the world and they'll tell you there's no band quite like Opeth. Since 1990, Opeth (Stockholm, Sweden) has been writing some of the most unique and extreme progressive metal ever created. With roots spanning from death metal to jazz and 70's progressive, Opeth is an extreme act like no other. Mikael Akerfeldt's voice shifts between the most soothing clean singing ever heard and the most menacing death metal growls this side of the threshold of hell. With him and Peter Lindgren making up the guitar arsenal, their riffs flow with atmosphere as well as a beautiful acoustic side and blues-influenced metal solos. The rhythm section is near perfect with Mendez and Axenrot providing the clean, subtle basslines and jazz/Latin-influenced drums. Despite the unusual influences for a band such as this, Opeth blends their distinct influences into an undeniably progressive metal sound.
3Thrice

Latest album: Beggars / Average Sputnik score: 3.76 /The California-based quartet, who?ve also been busy of late making high-profile main stage appearances at the Coachella, Reading & Leeds and Bamboozle festivals, have followed the New Pantheon Award-nominated Vheissu?s radical metamorphosis with The Alchemy Index, a four-volume collection spread between two releases comprised of four EPs, each devoted to one of the classical elements in nature?fire, water, earth and air?with each EP sonically and thematically tailored to evoke the atmosphere inherent in its corresponding element. This fall marks the release of the first two volumes of the series?Fire & Water?while Earth & Air are scheduled for a spring debut. For Thrice, it?s the realization of a year-long process of writing and recording, which was done primarily in the band?s own studio and engineered by guitarist Teppei Teranishi, without the assistance of an outside producer.
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