READ THE OP!! It's finally here...WHO'S THE BEST THEM?!?!? Round 1

[Elite]

Picked dredg, Haken and Shadow Gallery, but really, there is too much choice..

[?]

Amorphis, Katatonia and Sonata Arctica (had to leave Anathema out, unfortunately)

[black_biff_stadler]

Oh shit I didn't see that Thundersword was an option! :O

I picked Rush, PT, and Coheed.  Predictable me, I know.

Fuck, didn't see Thundersword!

Just below the end of the list, there's a "REMOVE VOTE" option. Do that, then you can change your vote

[wolfking]

King Diamond
Judas Priest
Iron Maiden

[Fnejk]

Devin Townsend
Opeth
Metallica

[mizzl]

Wtf why is Godspeed You! Black Emperor not on here?

[YtseBitsySpider]

Lots of work for a very predictable outcome.
I sincerely wish you good luck on this Floyd.

[RoeDent]

Porcupine Tree
Spock's Beard
Supertramp

[ZKX-2099]

Avenged Sevenfold
Between the Buried and Me
Devin Townsend

I'm pretty sure we should be best friends.

OMG I THOUGHT THE SAME WHEN I SAW YOURS

Also. This poll left out somebody...

[splent]

Rush
Genesis
IQ

Where is Jan Terri?

[ReaperKK]

dredg
PT
Incubus

[pogoowner]

Kansas
Alice in Chains
Opeth

[petrucci07]

Pain of Salvation
Porcupine Tree
Thrice

[Dr. DTVT]

Lots of work for a very predictable outcome.
I sincerely wish you good luck on this Floyd.

This.  I would have been lazy and made a threshold of needing X votes to even get a spot in the first round.  Without pissing on anyones leg, we can all pick out the bands that don't have a chance in the world.  Hell, many of them are going to lose to a band that doesn't even exist (that would be Thundersword).

[Arch Benemy]

BTBAM
Devin Townsend
Gojira

[73109]

Metallica
Devin Townsend
Alice in Chains

[black_biff_stadler]

Lots of work for a very predictable outcome.
I sincerely wish you good luck on this Floyd.

This.  I would have been lazy and made a threshold of needing X votes to even get a spot in the first round.  Without pissing on anyones leg, we can all pick out the bands that don't have a chance in the world.  Hell, many of them are going to lose to a band that doesn't even exist (that would be Thundersword).

I just want everyone to have fun. It's quite easier for you to spend 3-5 minutes looking through a conveniently alphabetized list of 207 bands than it is for me to spend 8 hours compiling the first round roster for this thing (4 hours tabulating the original list for this thing, 2 hours typing in all the bands for this thing into the OP followed by checking to make sure that I had no repeats/missed bands only to have my computer randomly power off when I was 80% of the way through my proofreading pass, then an additional 90-120 minutes to retype that OP from scratch except for the miraculous auto-save that made the first 99 out of the 207 bands pop up after only typing their first letter into each option box on the retype pass.)

There is literally no way I could possibly do this that would satisfy everyone so I really have virtually no tolerance for anyone griping about something I've done in the most thorough, please-everyone way I could possibly imagine. Seriously, there are like 785,866 other threads out there for people to pick apart if you're looking for something to gripe about.

[Nic35]

Transatlantic
A7X
Pink Floyd

[Dr. DTVT]

I wasn't griping, just commenting on the number of bands that are going to lose to a band that doesn't even exist.  It was more of a compliment disguised as a post

[black_biff_stadler]

10-4 good buddy

[Sir GuitarCozmo]

Journey
Kiss
Zep

[DebraKadabra]

Frank Zappa
NIN
Tool

[YtseBitsySpider]

10-4 good buddy

ya..I wasn't griping either, I was simply saying for the amount of work you're going to put in calculating all this....I could save you the trouble and give you the final five now with about 99.9% certainty.

[Edan the Man]

Devin Townsend
Cynic
THUNDERSWORD

[obscure]

10-4 good buddy

ya..I wasn't griping either, I was simply saying for the amount of work you're going to put in calculating all this....I could save you the trouble and give you the final five now with about 99.9% certainty.

damn right

Do it... I'm intrigued.

[ZirconBlue]

Type O Negative
Faith No More
Chroma Key

[wkiml]

3
Overkill
Type O Negative

Not than any will advance

Why not just cut to the chase and put RUSH/PT/OPETH/PF and any other prog related bands right into the semis

[Metal]

Frank Zappa
NIN
Tool

Nice!

NIN
Tool
Devin Townsend

Also, I would be happy to help, Floyd.

[NocturnalConspiracy]

Hi guys this is my first post here. This is a pretty cool idea for a poll.

I went with Haken, Riverside, and Porcupine Tree!

[Juular]

Devin Townsend
Frank Zappa
King Crimson

[Obfuscation]

Animals As Leaders
Between the Buried and Me
Devin Townsend

[chknptpie]

Pretty hard to select from that big list!

I choose:

Foo Fighters
Pink Floyd
The Who

[alirocker08]

Voted ^^

[black_biff_stadler]

Also, I would be happy to help, Floyd.

Thanks a bunch dude! I'm going hop in the shower in a minute but after that I'll post a list of all the members we need to contact and we'll go from there.

Hi guys this is my first post here. This is a pretty cool idea for a poll.

I went with Haken, Riverside, and Porcupine Tree!

Welcome aboard dude! Glad to have you on the forums and I hope you enjoy your stay

10-4 good buddy

ya..I wasn't griping either, I was simply saying for the amount of work you're going to put in calculating all this....I could save you the trouble and give you the final five now with about 99.9% certainty.

Why not just cut to the chase and put RUSH/PT/OPETH/PF and any other prog related bands right into the semis

Actually, what led to me doing this thing on such a big scale was people taking such exception to me trying to do it in the exact same, more streamlined way y'all were suggesting in the first place so I definitely agree with y'all to a substantial extent Last year I made a poll that included this lineup I think:

Porcupine Tree
Opeth
Rush
Pink Floyd
Led Zeppelin
Metallica
Iron Maiden
Symphony X

and maybe a couple others that I can't remember at this moment but we weren't even five replies in before vitriolic falcons descended upon the thread with some very critical reactions to having "such a limited" list of bands and the whole wave of "OHMYFUKEENGAWD!!!! WHY AINT DEEZ GAIZ AWN TEH LIST?!?!?!?!ÅJERWGAR56486E"-type posts piled up pretty quickly which led me to build the entire thing from the ground up. I held polls for at least two days each for folks to decide on the following factors:

*How many bands each member could nominate

*How long each round would last

*How many bands each member could vote for in a given round

and there may have been another poll or two that I can't recall as of now. Basically, my prevailing sentiment was that if people had a problem with how I was doing it then I'd put the people in charge and let democracy reign supreme. I look back on some of my posts in here and realize I may have gotten a tad defensive about things but I just wanted to set the record straight and wanted people to realize that my hands were somewhat tied by the inescapable reality that there's no possible way that the 100+ members participating in this thing could ever reach unanimity on even one detail let alone even reach something like an 80% majority on all the involved details so I just really would feel much better if everyone could understand this and realize there is virtually no more I possibly could've done to honor everyone's wishes. And that last sentence is in general as I know ytse and killer kimland were only looking out to save me trouble.

 

[ResultsMayVary]

Animals As Leaders
Explosions In The Sky
The Human Abstract