Ikimashou

Music/Video

Full Metal Alchemist Brotherhood — 5/4. The track is decent, but the video, like always with these kinds of openings, is incomprehensible.

Secret Daybreak — 4/5. The video doesn't have much meaning (at least for me), but the girls are cute. The track itself is a bit dull, especially the vocals.

Starlight Brigade — 5/5. The vocals initially seemed as dull as in the previous track, but then it got better. The video is slightly more interesting than in Alchemist.

Röyksopp — 8/8. You can think I'm perverse, but I liked this the most. The atmosphere in both the track and the video is amazing. Maybe the video lacks a bit of dynamics, and the track could use a slightly more aggressive vocal to be exactly to my taste.

Ａｅｓｔｈｅｔｉｃ　Ｈｉｔｌｅｒ — 5/4. It's okay, but not particularly noteworthy music. The video is... well, it's amusing at first.

Blue Moon — 7/6. "And Bruce Willis laughs: yaba-daba-doo!" I still remember that commercial after so many years. The song is good, and even the trumpet player doesn't ruin it too much. The video is just pleasant.

Muse — 6/8. I didn't like the animation at first, but the video is actually very cute. I'll rate it the same as The Rainmakers, even though they are completely different. The music is good.

Coldplay — 6/6. I didn't like the clip very much, but it's well-made. The song is just okay, it slightly reminded me of Porcupine Tree (I don't listen to Coldplay).

Rammstein — 8/7. I'll rate this track the same as The Rainmakers. I agree that it's not their best song. And not their best video, although I'll give it a like for the funny references and Hetfield's face.

Tribe Society — 7/6. Well, it's clear: Jewish Freemason reptilians, and all that. The video seems relevant and socially conscious, but it didn't really grab me. The song seems generic at first glance, but it has a very good sound, which I like.

DELAIN — I thought for a long time about which video to send, this one or this one. I think it would have received higher ratings for the video — it has some kind of plot + it's relevant and socially conscious. But here, the song is quite generic: a typical symphonic metal song, into which they unnecessarily crammed a 7-string guitar and added extreme vocals, which many people don't like. And the song I sent, in my opinion, is one of the best by the band, if not the best.

Tik — 5/5. When this song was popular, it annoyed me a bit (unlike "Deer," which I even played on guitar — I could have given it a 7 out of nostalgia). But now it's okay. The video is funny, but mediocre.

Added 8 minutes ago

somewhere there is a rather interesting instrumental part, but the vocals are generally so-so

And I, on the contrary, enjoy the vocals the most in this track. Charlotte seems to have finally found her style, and she stands out very favorably against the background of most other symphonic metal vocalists who are clones of Tarja Turunen. That's probably why I like this band in its current form, even though I haven't actively listened to the genre for a long time.