Tastes/bonus systemThis is a little something I thought of when I was writing a "My tastes"/"My history with music" kinda topic, in the end I decided against it, I wanted to do this in a different way.
This is kind of what I’ve been building the roulette around, apart from the standard format. Bonus rounds include rewards related to this system, but not exclusively.
First off, this has nothing to do with the bonus points you can get from using the themes, this bonus system will not award you any actual points.
Instead, I was thinking of an unlocking system, but I wanted to keep the competition as balanced as possible, so I completely ruled out awarding bonus points for the challenges you’re going to face. Instead of handing out free points, you can earn bonuses that allow you to unlock one of the topics listed below of which I’ve written some (useful?) information about my experience/tastes with that topic. For instance, there’s one topic, “Growls“, which has me talking about all sorts of different types of growls and in what context I like them etc. I think it could be very helpful in finding something good, but it doesn’t directly give you any point advantage, so I thought that was pretty neat.
Obviously, not every topic is going to be as valuable to every single participant, so you’ll have to pick carefully. But to kind of try and balance it out, everything provides roughly the same amount of insight and explanations. I didn’t want to make it so that one or two of these topics are clearly more valuable, from a neutral point of view I can say they look roughly equally useful. So with a topic like “Djent“, things are obviously a little more in depth, and I don’t just talk about palm muting
I could be telling you something about my thoughts on certain types of vocals, musical arrangements, you know, things that could be used very well outside of those topics too.
I don’t want to give you any concrete info on any of these though, so without further ado:
At the start of the roulette, you all get to choose two of the topics listed below. Just PM me which ones you’d like and I will reply to you with my walls of text. You can expect a roughly 500-800 words text discussing different subtopics, along the way I’ve listed song examples with timestamps between brackets in case I wanted to show a certain moment of that song, to clarify what I’m talking about. For example:
I can be very picky with my vocalists, I absolutely hate when bands have boring whiny vocalists (Dream Theater - Forsaken) Disclaimer: I like ForsakenThe 500-800 word estimation is including the songs+timestamps.
The links are all youtube links, so if it’s not available in your country you’ll have to look them up yourself. Useful tip: if the link doesn’t work and I linked a specific timestamp, you can quote my message and copy the link, or if you want to perhaps look it up on spotify or something, the timestamp is at the end of the url, marked with “#t=(minutes)m(seconds)s“ or just “#t=(seconds)“ if it’s in the first minute.
Here are the topics you can choose from:
• Traditional rock/metal (the classics) + modern rock
• Growls
• Atmospheric music
• Prog in general
• Djent
• Electronic
• Doom/Black metalSome (maybe) obvious ommisions on the list of topics to choose from, but that’s because I only wanted to cover the topics that cover a big part of my music, or things that I can atleast explain the best. Meaning that if I would include, for example, powermetal, it would be more of a trap than actual help, like I would bait Evermind into picking power metal, only to find out that I literally have nothing to say about the genre.
To put it in perspective, the two articles with the most words (they exceeded my estimated words mark) includes the one about djent, so I wouldn’t judge the topics too much by how broad they are, but rather by how well they could help you in sending good stuff.
BANNED LISTA.C.T
Absolute Priority
AC/DC
Aeon Zen
Arcane
Alcest
Alter Bridge
Amon Amarth
Anathema
Apocalyptica
Arctic Monkeys
Arkentype
Avantasia
Avenged Sevenfold
Ayreon
Beardfish
Bent Knee
Between the Buried and Me
Billy Talent
Blackmill
Bon Iver
Bon Jovi
Brand New
Brookes Brothers
Bruce Dickinson
Bulb
Bullet for my Valentine
Caligula’s Horse
Chaosbay
Children of Bodom
Children of Nova
CHON
Circus Maximus
Closure In Moscow
Coheed and Cambria
Coldplay
Cult of Luna
David Gilmour
David Maxim Micic
Deadly Circus Fire
Deep Purple
Deftones
Destrage
Device
Devil Doll
Devin Townsend (including the related projects)
Diablo Swing Orchestra
Dire Straits
Disclosure
Distorted Harmony
Disturbed
Dream Theater
Dredg
Drowning Pool
Earthside
Eau Rouge
Eminem
Envy on the Coast
Fates Warning
Five Finger Death Punch
Foals
Foo Fighters
Frost*
Fun.
God Is An Astronaut
Gojira
Gramatik
Green Carnation
Guilt Machine
Hacride
Haken
Headspace
I Am Abomination
Iced Earth
Ihsahn
In the Silence
Incubus
Infected Mushroom
Iron Maiden
James Blake
James Labrie
Jeff Buckley
John Coffey
John Petrucci
Jolly
Judas Priest
Justin Carter
Karnivool
Katatonia
Kauan
King Diamond
Kingcrow
Korn
Kyuss
Lacuna Coil
Lamb of God
Last Chance to Reason
Lechuga
Led Zeppelin
Lemâitre
Leprous
Like Thieves
Linkin Park
Liquid Tension Experiment
Long Distance Calling
Lorde
Lower Definition
Machine Head
Major Parkinson
Mandroid Echostar
Manowar
Mastodon
Megadeth
Metallica
Monuments
Moron Police
Motörhead
Moving Atlas
Muro
Muse
Mutoid Man
Myrath
Native Construct
Ne Obliviscaris
Noisia
Novembre
One Day As A Lion
Opeth
Overkill
Ozzy Osbourne
Pantera
Pearl Jam
Pendulum
Periphery
Plini
Pomegranate Tiger
Porcupine Tree
Projected Twin
Protest the Hero
Pyramid Theorem
Queensrÿche
Rage Against the Machine
Rick Astley
Rise Against
Rishloo
Rival Sons
Riverside
Royal Blood
Scar Symmetry
Sean Ashe
Seether
Serj Tankian
Seventh Wonder
Shattered Skies
Shinedown
SikTh
Skyharbor
Silver Fist
Slash (ft. Myles Kennedy and The Conspirators)
Slice The Cake
Slipknot
Soen
Soilwork
Solution .45
Soundgarden
Steven Wilson
Stone Sour
Sum41
Suspyre
Symphony X
System of a Down
Teramaze
Tesseract
Tetrafusion
Textures
Thank You Scientist
The Antlers
The Dear Hunter
The Dillinger Escape Plan
The Great Discord
The Human Abstract
The Mars Volta
The Ocean
The Offspring
The Pineapple Thief
The Reign of Kindo
Three Days Grace
Thrice
Tool
Transatlantic
Tremonti
Trivium
Twelve Foot Ninja
Two Steps From Hell
Vanden Plas
Van Halen
Voices from the Fuselage
VOLA
Waken Eyes
Wax Tailor
Wolfmother
Xerath
Yes
Yossi Sassi
Banned during rouletteRound 1:CHVRCHES
The Fall Of Troy
Maybeshewill
Portishead
Afro Celt Sound System
Woods Of Ypres
Arstidir
Clint Mansell
Thy Catafalque
Round 2:Death Cab For Cutie
Wilderun
Obsidian Kingdom
Being
Chicago
Moonsorrow
Frightened Rabbit
Rainbow
Oceansize
Round 3:Dir En Grey
BT
Anciients
The Hirsch Effekt
Slowdive
The Flower Kings
Paradise Lost
Fair To Midland
Ulver
Oceans Of Slumber
Round 4:Susanne Sundfor
Eluveite
Kashiwa Daisuke
Blue Stahli
Mew
In Flames
Sonata Arctica
Agent Fresco
Schizoid Lloyd
Pure Reason Revolution
Round 5:Sigh
Zardonic
Chthonic
Scorpions
maudlin of the Well
Dark Tranquility
Amorphis
Hybrid
Rush
Rosetta
Nothing More
ReVamp
Round 6:This Will Destroy You
Capdown
Orphaned Land
Pain Of Salvation
Pink Floyd
Caladan Brood
Joseph Magazine
Hypocrisy
Sergey Golovin
Blackfield
Round 7:Nightwish
Stratovarius
múm
Dimmu Borgir
Sigur Ros
iamthemorning
Okkervil River
Solstafir
Have a Nice Life
Gallowbraid
Round 8:Modest Mouse
Jorn Lande & Trond Holter
Rendezvous Point
Witherscape
Round 9:Progenie Terrestre Pura
Mr. Bungle
Magnus Karlsson's Free Fall
Daughter
Persefone
Here’s some general info that might help to read into my tastes if you don’t really know me:
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Last.fm•
List of banned artists•
Top 50 albums•
First rouletteWouldn’t say these are all extremely helpful at figuring out my tastes, but this should atleast give you a rough sketch of what bands I like.
Victims Participants- Parama: W/B/S, Foreign lyrics, Instrumental
- Bolsters: World music, Instrumental, W/B/S
- Sacul: World music, 2016, Instrumental
- Elite: 2016, Cover, Instrumental
- twosuitsluke: Instrumental, 2016, World music
- Evermind: Foreign lyrics, W/B/S, Instrumental
- Scorpion: Instrumental, Foreign lyrics, World music
- Tomislav95: Foreign lyrics, World music, W/B/S
- 425: 2016, Instrumental, W/B/S
- splent: W/B/S, Cover, Instrumental
- Shadow Ninja 2.0: Instrumental, W/B/S, Foreign lyrics
- home: Instrumental, Cover, W/B/S