Sunday, May 23, 2010

Amberian Dawn rules!

This week we had a shortened session due to Phoenix having a back injury and being on medication. He played bass, while Raikan moved to drums and Bongoo did voxtar (Sylvie was away again). We only played the new DLC, plus we tried to improve on our 2 worst songs by rank.

We are now only about 12M points behind 11th place "Ride Sally Ride" in the "All Songs" Leaderboards). Our average score per song decreased by 3K to 991K, but we'll make that up and more next week when we improve on our worst songs.

The new songs were fun overall, but "He Sleeps in a Grove" by Amberian Dawn was easily the best of the week. It's refreshing to finally have some symphonic metal in Rock Band. I'll have more info about this song in my top 3 DLC of the week in the next post.

Highlights:
- Stars breakdown for the 15 songs: Gold stars (2), 5 stars (7), 4 stars (6)
- Raikan was the "Top Performer" for the most songs (9), followed by Bongoo (5) and Phoenix (2)
- Bongoo was the "Worst Performer" for the most songs (12), followed by Phoenix (3) and Raikan (1)
- There were no FCs this week
- Raikan's funniest wah-wah bass moment was during "Bat Country"
- It was quite a challenge for Bongoo to sightread the faster Grateful Dead songs on voxtar

2 comments:

Unknown said...

I really enjoyed singing the Amberian Dawn but I have to be warmed up completely to do it well.

The operatic stuff is a lot of fun though! :)

Hope you PS3'ers get "Valkyries" soon!

Bongoo said...

Yes, I hope Amberian Dawn will be one of the 1st RBN bands to have 2 songs on the PS3! :)