Greetings DTFers, and welcome to my third roulette. All are welcome, first seven people to jump in will be accepted, and Chad is already in cause he talked me into doing this silliness. I'll take anyone but appreciate people who are active and responsible in sending songs, I hate to wait. As for my half, the speed of this will depend on how my work goes, but I would like to get one to two rounds down a week. There will be no to little writeups, I will more or less just shit talk songs or give them brief praise. Here's the 411.....
RULES
Eight players, eight rounds, one person will be eliminated each round. I will announce at random intervals throughout the week whose safe from elimination until only two people are left, then the elimination will be made. For the first four rounds, their will also be a golden ticket given away that will provide immunity from elimination to the best song. Additional rule: because of the addition of the tenth person, I am adding a "Floating cut", this will be one elimination made at any time, in any round, for any reason. I will try to make it about the music, but it may also be just because you're a Dodger fan.
ROUNDS 1 through 4---- 7 minute maximum song length, NO EXCEPTIONS!!!
ROUND 5- 10 minute song length
ROUND 6- two songs from same artist, one must be an instrumental. 15 minute max
ROUND 7- Two consecutive songs from the same artist, songflow will count heavily. 20 minutes max
ROUND 8- Send me an album
FORMAT
All submissions will be PM’d to me for ease and convenience, and except in very special circumstances, I will insist on Spotify links (so I can make a playlist with each round to listen to on my commute) exceptions may be made but please make this easy on me. Once an artists is submitted, they are banned, I don't want competing songs from the same artists.
ME AND MY TASTES…
So I was turned on to prog at a very young age, having older brothers who were cranking Yes when I was a wee lad of 7ish. By age ten I was intimitaly familiar with the likes of Yes, The Who, Rush, Triumph, Pink Floyd and The Kinks. In high school my one brother and I set ourselves a bit apart when we discovered Marillion and through them my favorite band IQ. A few years later I made my first great discovery on my own when I heard Pull Me Under come on the radio. Marriage, fatherhood, divorce, and chronic alcoholism set in, and I found no new music for the next fifteen years. Then came the mutual discoveries of sobriety, DTF, and Lady Obscure Music Magazine. My new drug was music, and I craved all sorts. Mainly found by artists submissions to the webzine or by random searches on Bandcamp (and their mutual user suggestions, a brilliant tool for finding new stuff) I quickly amassed a sizeable library, but I’m always willing for more, hence this roulette. Another thing, there's a good deal of more well known artists I have missed, to the quick and attentive go these spoils.
I like rock, hard rock, metal, and some punk. Prog is my first love, and with that comes prog
metal. Power and symphonic metal will usually play well, but I can be finicky about it. I really love good d'jent, and I mean good, there's a lot of stuff that's being produced in garages and basements across the world that is very sub par, but hidden among it are some real miracles. Growl vocals are cool, but must be done...tastefully. As you can see from my banned list, I am all over the place but have given some markers as to what I really dig.
THE BANNED LIST
Here goes, and I know I missed some things since this is just copied off my phone. Artist with one or two stars are liked and loved by me a lot, and get tons of play time. Artists with three stars are all time favorites. Also note, pretty much anything that appears on American classic rock radio (Kansas, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Pat Benatar for example, pretty much everything from the seventies and eighties) is also banned. Submit if you think it’ll slide by, but I doubt it.
13 Tries
81db
A Sount of Thunder
Abandoned Stars
Abnormal Thought Patterns
*Absolute Priority
Aching Beauty
Aeon Zen
After Forever
Alek Darson
Altair
***Anathema
**Anciients
Angra
ANthriel
Anubis Gate
AnCision
Aoria
Apocalupse
Arjen (and all related projects)
Astra
Astrakhan
At Vance
Atma Weapon
AudioPlastik
Avantasia
Ayreon
Balance of Power
Baroness
Battlestations
Beautiful Sin
*Between the Buried and Me
**Beyond the Bridge
Black Sabbath
Black Tide
Blackfield
Blacklands
Blind Melon
Boil
*Boston
Brand New Machine
Cea Serin
*Circus Maximus
Clearlight
Cloudmachine
*Cloudscape
Coheed & Cambria
Control
Corelia
Craving Lucy
Day Six
**Deadly Circus Fire
DeeExpus
Delta
Demon
*Destrage
Devin Townsend (and all projects)
DIsperse
Dream the Electric Sleep
***Dream Theater (all musicians related projects as well, if it has a DT member, it’s not allowed (We’ll call thist the Chad rule)
Eagleheart
Easy Sleezy
Eden’s Curse
Edguy
Edison’s Children
Enceladus
*Enchant
Envinya
*Epica
Epysode
Eternal Tears of Sorrow
Evasive
Eviscerated
Exivious
Fanticide
Fates Warning
***Fish
Fishbone
**Flaming Row
Flying Colors
Forester’s Cadet
**Frost*
Goodthink
***Grateful Dead
***Haken
Hammers of Misfortune
Harpies
Hatriot
**Headspace
Helicopria
Holy Grail
Huntress
Icycore
Illusion Suite
Incura
Infinita Symphonia
Intervals
Intronaut
Involved
***IQ
Iron Maiden
Jadis
Jeff Loomis
Jolly
Joseph Magazine
Kaipa
Kamelot
Katatonia
Kettlespider
Kindler
**Kingcrow
Lalu
Led Zeppelin
Linkin Park
Little Zombie
Living Sacrifice
Lonely Robot
Long DIstance Calling
*Maestrick
Magick
*Mandroid Echostar
***Marillion
Masquerade
Mastodon
*Mechanical Poet
Mehida
Memento Waltz
Metallica
Mind Key
Mind Odyssey
Mindgames
MindMaze
Monuments
Moonloop
Mukagee
My Soliloquy
Myrath
Nation Beyond
Neal Morse
Need
**Nightwish
Obsidian Kingdom
Ocean Architecture
Octopus
Odd Dimention
OmnisighT
Otep
Paul Wardingham
Pellek
***Periphery
Personal Grata
Pervy Perkin
***Pete Townshend
***Peter Gabriel
Pilotless Drone
***Pink Floyd
Pinnacle
Pomegranate Tiger
***Porcupine Tree
Postures
Profusion
Project Viremia
**Prospekt
Protean Collecrtive
**Protest the Hero
*Pyramid Theorem
***Queen
Rage Against the Machine
Red Rose
*Redemption
*Riverside
Rizengard
***Rod Stewart (anyone laughing is immediatly kicked out of the roulette)
Roger Waters
Royal Hunt
***Rush
Saffire
Sandstone
Saviour Machine
Scale the Summit
Scorpion Child
Scorpions
*Secret Sphere
Serdce
*Seventh Wonder
Shadow Eden
Shaft of Steel
**Shattered Skies
Shear
**Shineback (and anything else Simon Godfrey)
**Silent Memorial
Six Gun Saints
Skinner
Soul Cycle
Soul of Steel
Soul Secret
**Speaking to Stones
Spheric Universe Experience
Spiritual Beggars
**Spock’s Beard
St. Sleep
Stanima
**Stargate
Steamforged
Stephan Forte
Steve howe
Steve Rothery
***Steve Wilson(all projects)
*Styx
Suicidal Tendencies
*Sun Caged
Suncrown
Sunpocrisy
Supertramp
Symphony X
Synaesthesia
Tears of Anger
Telergy
Tellus Requiem
Teramaze
Terracide
***Tesla
***Tesseract
The Anabasis
The Beatles
The Ben Cameron Project
The Chant
The Commitments
*The Deadstation
The Discovery
The Doctrine of Ethos
The Doobie Brothers
The Edgar Winter Group
The Helix Nebula
The Hive Mind
***The Kinks
The Mascaron
*The Mystery
*The Omega Experiment
The Psychadelic Ensemble
The Ralph
The Safety Fire
The THinking Principle
***The Who
*Thought Chamber
*Thoughts Factory
*Threshold
tide/edit
Timeshift
***Tool
Train
Trans Siberian Orchestra
Transatlantic
Transcend
***Triumph
Twelfth Gate
U2
UFO
Until Rain
Vanden Plas
Vandroya
Vanishing Point
Vision Divine
Visions of Tragedy
Vitriol
**Voices from the Fuselage
Watchtower
While Heaven Wept
Withem
Witherscape
Wolfspring
Woven Distortion
***Yes
Yossi Sassi
Zeiler
Zero Hour