The songs below are from Capital High School’s School of Rock students
The Details
- The Prompt: Everything Has A Cost
- AMES Itch Showcase Page
- AMES.team website
- Vote for the Top 6 Songs to Represent CHS at the 2025 AMES Song Showcase
- Contest Rubric
- Contest Rules
- Audio Files are linked in the class Project Tracking Sheet
Top Student Picks to Represent CHS at 2026 AMES
- Gilded Words
- But It Cost Everything
- Kitchen Sink
- Snow from March
- Poets Go to War
- Spiraling Out Into Despair
Entries
But It Cost Everything
A long build-up to a climactic moment that’s meant to symbolize loss.
By any Means Necessary
Experimental Hip-Hop beat type thing
Spiraling Out Into Despair
See 1225; “House of Leaves,” 2000, Mark. Z. Danielewski
Gilded Words
An upbeat Midwest emo song about people and relationships changing. Inspired by Backseat Lovers and American Football
Poets Go to War
Grunge-Bluegrass protest song
Snow from March
A jazz-hop song inspired by Nujabes uses samples from Hizuru-浮花 (Floating Flowers). Hizuru-浮花 is an avant-garde jazz project that uses traditional Japanese instruments.
Falling to an End
Progressive deathcore of heavy riffs with a shredding solo and heavy breakdown
Diazepam/P.B. Tulpa
Lo-fi Indie Rock song
wip1071956
The main part is a high-toned guitar, with a lower background guitar. Drums are only symbol rolls. Bass is a super low, single note strum.
Basement Stairs
Random bass strums, fast-paced drums, and deep but bouncy-sounding piano. It’s changed to sound deep and dark while also leaving anticipation
Kitchen Sink
Chaotic, aggressive track about frustration and self-inflicted mistakes.