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Romanelli
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Location: Broomfield, Colorado 
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- #1
- Posted: 10/02/2024 18:05
- Post subject: The EP: Less Than 5 tracks & Less Than 20 Minutes
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Let's try this again.
Less Than 5 tracks & Less Than 20 Minutes. That's one of very few ways that an album can be refused entry on BEA. I know that there are several that fall into this category that people have tried to have included here, only to have those attempts fail.
So, here's a thread for those EP's, if you will, that don't qualify for inclusion here. This is a place where you can give us your favorite 3 tracks, 18 minute gems, or however much it falls short by. Just because they can't be added on BEA, doesn't mean that they should be completely hidden from view. So, recommend away!
*****PLEASE NOTE*****
The BEA rule (Less Than 5 tracks & Less Than 20 Minutes) has been hashed over a trillion times. It's not going to change, and this thread is not meant to be a place to argue that. Please don't use this thread to campaign for the rule change...it's not going to happen.
Also...there are millions of single releases. Either single song or two song singles. This is an album site, not a singles site...let's keep it to those short albums that just don't qualify.
To clarify...if you don't understand the BEA rule, anything with 5 or more tracks, regardless of length, is eligible for inclusion on the site. Anything less than 5 tracks, but over 20 minutes in length, is also eligible. Less than 5 tracks AND less than 20 minutes is not. That's what this thread is for...EP's that do not meet the BEA requirement, but that you would like to recommend.
Let's see the best of those!
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workd my but just to not know what to name my rank
Age: 100
Location: Questionmarkland. You ask: "Where is that land?" There is no answer. Only a ? 
- #2
- Posted: 10/02/2024 20:02
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Thank you for posting this thread Romanelli! It's a great idea!  
I like EPs a lot, because they take way less time to listen as many times as possible to finish them and remember all the melodies.
The biggest downside of EPs is that if even one of the tracks is weak, it can affect the whole experience of listening the whole EP, since there are usually not many tracks, but if all the tracks are good, then the EP can be a perfect release, and I would consider it as one of my favorite releases ever, along with LPs (which have more tracks and the effect of one or two weak tracks can possibly be less prominent).
Therefore, I would first share my first favorite release, which is in fact not an EP, but a single, because its two only tracks haven't been released in any other format:
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Elysion - Sword of Justice
It's the latest release of the Japanese power-metal musical project after a 20-year long career of Toshinori Hiramatsu (the main artist of project, who debuted in 2002). I usually only listen to singles if they've never been released in an EP, an LP, or even a compilation. And since both two tracks have the best sounding production in any Sword of Justice song, I think no other single can top this as my favorite single of all time! The sounds, melodies & solos in each song are very rich, beautiful and consonant it's so unreal! They're definitely two of the best Sword of Justice tracks ever made!
Sword of Justice's music has everything I like in music: Beautiful complex consonant guitar sounds, melodies and solos and beautiful full-voice female vocals (in case the track is not an instrumental, since most of my favorite music is instrumental).
Sword of Justice songs are probably the most beautiful sounding metal I've ever heard, and I believe it is the most accessible metal music for non-metal listeners, because of these female vocals, and the guitar sound being not too heavy or loud.
If you've seen me in the forums, you probably know I've been hyping Hiramatsu-san several times, and the reason is that he is the artist I'm the most comfortable feeling to hype in the forums like that  , so I guess he's my favorite artist of all time! At least for the last several months.
And that means II'm going to share with you my favorite EP of all time!:
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Silver Wings - Sword of Justice
| Romanelli wrote: | | This is a place where you can give us your favorite 3 tracks, 18 minute gems |
This specific example exactly fits this EP! So there you have it! 
All the tracks are great too. I personally like tracks 2-3 the most: For the power-metal standards, track 2 is unique by being more beautifully soft-sounding synth-based, slower paced and in C Minor key (which gives a very magically mysterious feeling to the track), and track 3 is like if Comfortably Numb's solo was a 6-minute instrumental track without its reverb but sounds more dramatic and melancholic which is very awesome to me! Track 1 is great in my opinion, maybe it is kinda slow but it's fun to listen and has great melodies and solo. Tracks 2-3 are two of the best Sword of Justice tracks too, and if this EP could be on BEA, I would give it a 100/100 rating or at least 95/100, so this is definitely my favorite EP of all time!
Thank you for reading my post! Any may everyone share some amazing EPs here!
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