Metal Academy Radio Playlist Suggestions - The Gateway Edition
One of my recent reviews mentioning Coldrain gave me an idea for a suggestion for the August Gateway playlist, so here it is:
Coldrain - "Revolution" (from The Side Effects, 2019)
August suggestion:
Angela Martyr - On the Edge of Next Time from The November Harvest (2016)
September
Staind - Something to Remind You from Staind (2011)
Here's my one submission for September's Gateway playlist:
Dir En Grey - "The Final" (from Withering to Death, 2005)
October
Living Colour - Information Overload from Time's Up (1990)
Here's my one submission for October's Gateway playlist:
Katatonia - "Behind the Blood" (from City Burials, 2020)
I'm still keeping the amount of Gateway suggestions from me slightly low because while I'm glad to join the Gateway, I'm new to the clan and want my alt-metal taste to build gradually before going all in with my suggestions. My number of Gateway suggestions will increase by 1 until I get to a set maximum of, say, 8. With that, here are what I'm submitting for November's Gateway playlist (I'll make sure any multi-clan suggestions fit well with the playlist I'm submitting to):
Disturbed - "A Reason to Fight" (4:44) from Evolution (2018)
Green Carnation - "The Quiet Offspring" (4:05) from The Quiet Offspring (2005)
Lacuna Coil - "Closer" (3:02) from Karmacode (2006)
Linkin Park - "Pushing Me Away" (3:11) from Hybrid Theory (2000)
While She Sleeps - "Anti-Social" (4:14) from So What? (2019)
Total length: 19:16
Here's my track nomination for the November playlist:
Linkin Park - "Drawbar" (from "The Hunting Party", 2014)
Here are my submissions for the December Gateway playlist (still slowly expanding my number of Gateway suggestions, now at 6 of them):
Breaking Benjamin - "So Cold" (4:33) from We Are Not Alone (2004)
Coldrain - "Die Tomorrow" (3:06) from Nothing Lasts Forever (2010)
Dir En Grey - "Dozing Green" (4:05) from Uroboros (2008)
Katatonia - "Deliberation" (4:00) from The Great Cold Distance (2006)
Lacuna Coil - "Delirium" (3:16) from Delirium (2016)
We Came as Romans - "Who Will Pray?" (3:23) from We Came as Romans (2015)
Total length: 22:23
Saxy has kindly agreed to give the management of the monthly Metal Academy Radio "The Gateway" Spotify playlist a crack on top of his existing engagement with The Infinite playlist. This pleases me greatly as I think Saxy is the most qualified of our contributing members for the task.
I think we might close out the option for non-clan member submissions on The Gateway playlists now that we have two members contributing to the tracklisting.
I'm gonna be honest here: putting the Gateway playlist together is a lot more challenging than the Infinite. With the larger pool of songs to pull from, I found myself pulling more random tracks than I feel comfortable with. And even then, in making the final cuts for the list, I had to cut at least three tunes because of duplicates that are less than six months old. So I am in favour of keeping submissions around for all members. Any extra help I can get will help!
I'll try to include fewer duplicates in subsequent lists, but this months is mostly personal favourites to get them out of the way early.
The clan has spoken! Feel free to carry on taking submissions then. Just an idea but perhaps the guidelines could be that non-clan members can submit multiple tracks as long as they've genuinely listened to those records during the month prior? Otherwise they get just the one.
Spiritbox - "Sun Killer" (from "Eternal Blue", 2021)
My suggestion for January:
Tool - Triad (6:35) from Lateralus
January;
Life of Agony - "This Time" (from River Runs Red, 1993)
Here are my submissions for the January Gateway playlist (still slowly expanding my number of Gateway suggestions, now at 7 of them (I'd probably have to shorten the track length average when I reach 8 suggestions)):
Avatar - "New Land" (4:31) from Feathers & Flesh (2016)
Bad Wolves - "On the Case" (3:27) from Dear Monsters (2021)
Bullet for My Valentine - "Rainbow Veins" (4:58) from Bullet for My Valentine (2021) (I've already sent the new BFMV album to the Hall to be removed from The Gateway, but this song is one of only very few in the album to have an alt-metal sound, so I'll still submit it)
Dir En Grey - "艶かしき安息、躊躇いに微笑み (NAMAMEKASHIKI ANSOKU, TAMERAI NI HOHOEMI)" (4:38) from The Marrow of a Bone (2007)
Linkin Park - "Faint" (2:42) from Meteora (2003)
Machinae Supremacy - "Sid Icarus" (3:58) from Overworld (2008)
Type O Negative - "I Don't Wanna Be Me" (5:09) from Life is Killing Me (2003)
Total length: 29:23
Here's my submission for the February 2022 playlist Saxy:
Bad Wolves - "Springfield Summer" (from "Dear Monsters", 2021)
Feb 22:
Sevendust - "All I Really Know" (from "Blood & Stone", 2021)
Here are my submissions for the February Gateway playlist (I'm gonna keep it at 7 of them until I can shorten the track length average to 8 suggestions):
Breaking Benjamin - "Torn in Two" (4:17) from Ember (2018)
Bullet for My Valentine - "Piece of Me" (3:26) from Gravity (2018)
Dir En Grey - "輪郭 (Rinkaku)" (5:43) from Arche (2014)
Linkin Park - "Krwlng" (5:40) from Reanimation (2002)
Machinae Supremacy - "A View from the End of the World" (3:52) from A View from the End of the World (2010)
Motionless in White - "Another Life" (3:25) from Disguise (2019)
While She Sleeps - "Division Street" (3:34) from Sleeps Society (2021)
Total length: 29:57
Here's my March submission:
Karnivool - "Synops" (from "Themata", 2005)
Here are my submissions for the March Gateway playlist (finally reached the 8 limit!):
Attila - "Day Drinking" (3:27) from Closure (2021)
Chevelle - "The Red" (3:58) from Wonder What's Next (2002)
Dir En Grey - "The IIID Empire" (3:03) from Vulgar (2003)
Escape the Fate - "Issues" (2:42) from Escape the Fate (2010)
Lacuna Coil - "Our Truth" (4:03) from Karmacode (2006)
Mark Morton - "Cross Off" (4:14) from Anesthetic (2019)
Memphis May Fire - "The Old Me" (3:09) from Broken (2018)
Wage War - "Grave" (3:14) from Pressure (2019)
Total length: 27:50
Here's my submission for the April playlist Saxy:
Chevelle - "Family System" (from "Wonder What's Next", 2002)
Here are my submissions for the April Gateway playlist:
Breaking Benjamin - "The Diary of Jane" (3:20) from Phobia (2006)
Demon Hunter - "Infected" (3:08) from Demon Hunter (2002)
Dir En Grey - "Unraveling" (4:42) from Unraveling (2013)
Evanescence - "Use My Voice" (4:01) from The Bitter Truth (2021)
In Flames - "I, the Mask" (3:41) from I, the Mask (2019)
Lacuna Coil - "Blood, Tears Dust" (3:55) from Delirium (2016)
Linkin Park - "Session" (2:23) from Meteora (2003) (a different interlude to break things up a bit)
Machine Supremacy - "Gimme More (SID)" (3:32) from Overworld (2008)
Total length: 28:42