Ruba's Slow Roulette! Final standings!

[Ruba]

Results coming later today, stay tuned!

E: All judging done, but I don't have time to publish the results now.

[Ruba]

RESULTS: ROUND 1!

lonestar - Mechanical Poet - Handmade Essence

You send me something from Russia? Get out!

Nah, as long as Vladimir Putin doesn't play in it, it's alright. Cool prog/power metal song, which has many things stuffed in a little under 4 minutes, it never gets boring. Nice vocalist, he sounds a bit like Michael Kiske.

8,8

Scorpion - Agalloch - Limbs

You said this one is a grower, and it might still grow, but at this moment I'm not giving a higher score. The intro was good, but seemed to be a bit out-of-place, because it didn't fit the mood of the rest of the song. The middle-section was my favourite, it has many catchy melodies. Powerful outro. The song has a feel of forest in winter, which a like, but I cannot fully emphatize to it, because it's full spring here  . Pretty weird opener, but a decent song nevertheless.

7

? - Verenpisara - Tie

I remember you mentioning this band in "I'm the only fan of this band in DTF"-topic. Well, I don't think you're alone anymore. Mostly based on one good chord progression, the variety comes from different melodies. Really tasty guitar work overall and my favourite guitar solo of any submissions. The most listener-friendly song I recieved, and it's not bad thing at all.

9

obscure - Circa Survive - The Birth of Economic Hit Man

And the award of the best song title of this round goes to... This really grew on me, after the first listen I would have given a half of the final points. Pretty melancholic and dark piece. One of the best bass tones I have ever heard. At first I couldn't stand the vocalist, but now I like him. The last three minutes of the song are just phenomenal.

9,4

Nekov - Riverside - Beyond the Eyelids

I like the groove in this track. Proggy, but not too proggy, the instrumentation is top notch. The bass riff at around 2:10 and the manic riffing after it is my favourite part. However, I didn't like the chorus being repeated twice, they should've put something between them. Nice slowly diminishing outro.

8,1

WindMaster - Brand New - Sowing Season (Yeah)

I had previously heard one song from this band (The Archers' Bows Have Broken), and I somewhat liked it, though not really the vocalist. How wrong was I?! He does fantastic work in this song. Clean intro builds slowly up and then bursts into great guitar melody and heavy power chords. The snare drum is being used an unorthodox way. And the chorus is MASSIVE! I'm so going to learn to play this song by guitar. Excellent submission!

9,6

MoraWintersoul - Dark Tranquillity - Wonders at Your Feet

I have never really liked melodic death metal. But I had to listen to this song twice on the first listening spree, because I didn't really knew what just struck me! The shortest song I recieved, clocking only slightly over three minutes, and it really packs a punch. I love the chord progression, and the vocalist is nice, sorta sounds like Al Jourgensen. I was giving 0,1 lower score at first, but the guitar and keyboard solos changed my mind, so you are now tied with Austin.

9,6

Lolzeez - Haken - The Point of No Return

Ookkay... The first WTF moment was at half minutes, when it turned to some strange circus music. The song indeed took many unexpected turns, into circus music, doom metal, jazz... Maybe a little too messy song. The first four minutes didn't really do anything to me. Instrumental section was, however, really fun, especially the guitar/keyboard/bass/drums-tradeoff solo. Nice epic finish. I also like the vocalist quite a bit.

6,8

Standings:
WindMaster 9,6
MoraWintersoul 9,6
obscure 9,4
? 9
lonestar 8,8
Nekov 8,1
Scorpion 7
Lolzeez 6,8







Thank you, this was a great round!

The next one is probably the trickiest one, but I think you can manage.

Round 2 - Ethnopop

Send me something with some ethnic elements. It can be some more rare instrument, a feel or whatever you like. But I want also the song to be popular music (which is rather loose theme, just don't send fully folk music). And I want the ethnicity really to be present.

Deadline May 2nd

[Nekov]

[MoraWintersoul]

Popular music could be rock or metal I guess?

[Ruba]

Popular music could be rock or metal I guess?

Rock, metal, pop, jazz, hip-hop, pretty much anything.

[obscure]

 

So glad you liked Circa Survive... That is exactly how I feel about the song.. phenomenal 

[WindMaster]

Awesome! I'll be sure to send when I get home.

[Nekov]

I totally got ninja'd by the results back there  . Well, I was expecting you to like it so I'm glad you did.

This round is tough. Let's see if I have something like that in my library. Does it matter if it's not in english?

[lonestar]

Right on man, glad you liked it. 

[Ruba]

This round is tough. Let's see if I have something like that in my library. Does it matter if it's not in english?

No, I'm perfectly OK with that.

[Lolzeez]

Starting out bad,doing a small comeback but f-ing up right at the final round. That's who I am. 

Man,I don't have too many ideas for this one. Besides a huge ass risk. I don't feel like taking that risk though. Ah well,I'll send you something sometime tonight or tomorrow.

[Scorpion]

I had thought you'd like this one more, but maybe that wasn't the best choice, as it needed several weeks to properly grow on me. I'm not making that mistake again!

That means, sent.

[obscure]

I've got tons to chose from as I am particularly interested in this area myself and have been collecting tunes.... it doesn't make my job any easier though..... I'm a gemini...   

[Elite]

HALF the submissions scoring a 9 or higher? Really!?

That said, Haken receiving anything less than that is a disgrace.

[Ruba]

HALF the submissions scoring a 9 or higher? Really!?

Tell them to send worse songs  .

[Elite]

What I'm saying is that you're most likely basing your scoring on a scale from 0 to 10, where 10 would be a 'perfect' song. Such a song doesn't exist in my opinion, although some stuff comes damn close. Anyway; you score FOUR songs above 9 and two of them with only a .4 difference of being a 'perfect' song. There's just no way you can justify these insane scores. People tend to score songs ridiculously highly and this is just another example of that.

Excuse my rant.

[Nekov]

HALF the submissions scoring a 9 or higher? Really!?

That said, Haken receiving anything less than that is a disgrace.

To be fair with him I thought of sending that song but went another way because I don't think Point of no Return is a good introduction to Haken.

What I'm saying is that you're most likely basing your scoring on a scale from 0 to 10, where 10 would be a 'perfect' song. Such a song doesn't exist in my opinion, although some stuff comes damn close. Anyway; you score FOUR songs above 9 and two of them with only a .4 difference of being a 'perfect' song. There's just no way you can justify these insane scores. People tend to score songs ridiculously highly and this is just another example of that.

Excuse my rant.

  I agree a bit with this but people score whatever they feel like though this kind of scoring make people in my roulette complain for the low scores they get 

[Ruba]

What I'm saying is that you're most likely basing your scoring on a scale from 0 to 10, where 10 would be a 'perfect' song. Such a song doesn't exist in my opinion, although some stuff comes damn close. Anyway; you score FOUR songs above 9 and two of them with only a .4 difference of being a 'perfect' song. There's just no way you can justify these insane scores. People tend to score songs ridiculously highly and this is just another example of that.

Excuse my rant.

  I agree a bit with this but people score whatever they feel like though this kind of scoring make people in my roulette complain for the low scores they get 

I actually do think that there are perfect songs (yes, many, though not in the way "OK, no one will make better song ever, the music is over, go home"), so I have no problem giving high score if I like the song.

[Nekov]

By the way, I do think there are perfect songs, I've handed the highest score in my roulette a couple of times 

[jingle.boy]

Nekov: Picking up the bitching baton right from where I dropped it in obscure's roulette.

[Nekov]

 

[obscure]

 

[jingle.boy]

[lonestar]

Sent yo..

[?]

? - Verenpisara - Tie

I remember you mentioning this band in "I'm the only fan of this band in DTF"-topic. Well, I don't think you're alone anymore.

Great to hear that you liked it! Which solo are you're referring to as the best: the one after the second chorus or the one at the end? Either way, Tomi Koivusaari's lead work is tasteful indeed, although he's better known as a rhythm guitarist.

Looks like I wouldn't have needed to ask the theme in advance, but I would've sent the same song anyway, so it doesn't matter.

[MoraWintersoul]

Sent, dear

[obscure]

Ethnic song sent...

along with the belly-dancing video

[Lolzeez]

Sent some jazz fusion with "ethnic" stuff. Hope you enjoy.

[WindMaster]

Sent last night.

[lonestar]

Ethnic song sent...

along with the belly-dancing video

Oh yeah, I can send one of those too....

[obscure]

Let's face it..... you and I can never beat king on that 


*sees teh famous picture in her head*

[lonestar]

The king belly dancing.......


*takes motion sickness pill*

[Ruba]

? - Verenpisara - Tie

I remember you mentioning this band in "I'm the only fan of this band in DTF"-topic. Well, I don't think you're alone anymore.

Great to hear that you liked it! Which solo are you're referring to as the best: the one after the second chorus or the one at the end? Either way, Tomi Koivusaari's lead work is tasteful indeed, although he's better known as a rhythm guitarist.

The one after second chorus. 

Don't know if I have time to listen the submissions today, but tomorrow I'll have.

Ethnic song sent...

along with the belly-dancing video

Oh yeah, I can send one of those too....

[obscure]

 

[Nekov]