Dr. DTVT's Roulette of Death v.3 Rules and sign-up

[Dr. DTVT]

If you've been around, I run my roulettes different than most people.  Like the last one, this is a roulette that everyone is welcome to join in initially, and people get weeded out as things move along until one person is standing...literally.

This roulette is going to have a new twist thrown in.  Each participant is locked into one band the entire roulette.  Read the rules first very carefully:

BANDS CLAIMED
lonestar - Karyna
wolfking - Lord
elite - Darkwater
nekov - Von Hertzen Brothers
kingshmegland - I Mother Earth
Dark Castle - A Life Once Lost
? - Paradise Lost
Morawintersoul - Subsignal
Lolzeez - Genesis
Onno - System of a Down
Scorpion - Buckethead
Orthogonal - Serenity
jingle.boy - Consortium Project
PuffyPat - The Mars Volta
sigz - Estradasphere (if all the songs are about Eric Estrada this wins by default)
DebraKadabra - Floater
Ultimetalhead - Frank Zappa
Mystery Participant - Section A
WindMaster - Mumford and Sons
Tyrias - Kamelot
Perpetual Change - Bob Dylan



1. Request a band by posting in this thread.  PMs not accepted.  Bribes probably not accepted 

2. Requesting a band is not necessarily first come-first serve for the sake of fairness.  If someone else requested a band and you think you can do a better job with it, request it as well.  Signups will be done in 48 hour sections according to timestamp.  If no one else requests the band in that period, it is yours.  If two or more people sign up for the same band in the same section, if I know one person is an expert on that band, that person gets it - example that won't happen: If lonestar and Nick both chose IQ (banned list anyway), lonestar would get it because I consider lonestar the resident IQ expert.  If I don't know which one is the expert, I'll ask the people to try to settle between them, or play as a team (agreeing on the song to send), or allow both to play the same band if there is enough of a back catalog (sending the same song in a round would be ok, but no repeats from previous rounds), or if all that fails - the person with senority based on the number of posts they have in the GMD forum gets the band.

3. Do not request a back-up band.  If you don't get your choice, submit a new request in the next block.

4. When you get your band choice, it's yours for good.  No trades, no switches.  Stay out of the thread and don't gum it up with spam.  I will start a new thread for the actual roulette.

5. There are going to be eight rounds, so make sure your band has at least eight songs.

6. The banned and partially banned list is subject to additions.  I went through my iPod, but there are things I don't own because I'm already familiar (radio hits from the 70s-mid 90s, for example) - or maybe just missed by accident.  There are also bands from previous roulettes I want to get into but haven't been able to track down albums.  Those are out of the running as well, since I know I'll probably like them.  If you request something I reject, you may submit a replacement artist in the same 48 hour block.

7. Each round, a number of players will be eliminated depending on the number of participants.  No scoring, it's a pass fail system.

Some of the partial banned artists are ones I just don't have a complete discography for.  Others are by choice.  Be wary if you decide to go down that road.  There are a ton of banned artists, but there are also some big names available.

Banned:
Aeon Zen
Affector
Agalloch
Alcest
Alice In Chains
Allen-Lande
Altura
Amaran’s Plight
Amaranthe
Amber Asylum
Amesoeurs
Amorphis
The Anabasis
Animals As Leaders
Arch / Matheos
Arcturus
Arena
Ascension Theory
Avantasia
Ayreon
Baroness
Battle Of Mice
Beardfish
Ben Folds
Ben Folds Five
Between The Buried And Me
Beyond Fear
Beyond The Bridge
Big Ass Truck
Bigelf
Black Country Communion
Black Sabbath
Blackfield
Blind Guardian
Bozzio, Levins, Stevens
Bruce Dickenson
Burning Point
Cairo
Cake
Chain
Charred Walls of the Damned
Children of Bodom
Chroma Key
Circle II Circle
Circus Maximus
Clive Nolan & Oliver Wakeman
Clockwork
Cloudkicker
Cloudscape
Communic
Cornerstone
Cynic
Cynthesis
D.C. Cooper
Dali’s Dilemma
Dan Swano
Darwin’s Radio
Dead Heroes Club
The Dear Hunter
Dec Burke
Demons & Wizards
Dethklok
Devin Townsend
Devin Townsend Project
Dimension Act
Dimmu Borgir
Dominici
Dominium
Dorian Gray
Dream Theater
Eden’s Curse
Edison’s Children
 Effloresce
Enchant
Enslaved
Epica
Eternity X
Eumeria
Evergrey
Explorer’s Club
Factory of Dreams
Fair to Midland
Fairyland
Faith No More
Falconer
Fates Warning
Filter
Firewind
Fish
Flaming Row
Flying Colors
Foo Fighters
Frameshift
Frost*
Fu Manchu
Fulflej
Fun Lovin’ Criminals
Gazpacho
Ghost
Giant Squid
Gojira
Gordian Knot
Grayceon
Green Carnation
Haggard
Haken
Hammers of Misfortune
Hasse Froberg
Headspace
Henning Pauly
Ice Age
Iced Earth
In Flames
Into Eternity
Intronaut
IQ
Iron Maiden
It Bites
James LaBrie
Jeff Loomis
Jerry Cantrell
John Arch
John Petrucci
John Petrucci & Jordan Rudess
The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion
Jupiter Society
Kaddisfly
Karmakanic
Karnivool
Kevin Gilbert (or any of his projects)
Kino
Kvelertak
Kylesa
Kypck
Lemur Voice
Leprous
Liquid Tension Experiment / Trio
Live
Local H
Magellan
Magnitude 9
Marillion
maudlin of the Well
Mayan
Mechanical Poet
Megadeth
Metallica
Mike Rood
MindMaze
Moon Safari
Moonspell
Mouth of the Architect
Mullmuzzler
Muse
My Soliloquy
Myrath
Mystery
Nick D’Virgilio
Ne Obliviscaris
Nevermore
Nightwish
The Ocean
Oceans of Sadness
Odin’s Court
Of Two Minds
Opeth
Orphaned Land
OSI
Ozzy Osborne
Pagan’s Mind
Pain of Salvation
Pantera
Pearl Jam
Pendragon
Persona Non Grata
Peter Gabriel
Pinnacle
Phideaux
Planet P Project
Platypus
Power of Omens
Powerworld
Prymary
Psychic For Radio
Punky Bruster
Pyramid Theorem
Queensryche
REM
Red Fang
Redemption
ReVamp
Reverend Horton Heat
Rhapsody/Rhapsody of Fire
Riverside
Rollins Band
Roswell Six
Royal Hunt
Rush
Savatage
Scale The Summit
Scar Symmetry
Seventh Wonder
Shadow’s Mignon
Shadow Circus
Shadow Gallery
Silent Force
Skeletonwitch
Sleep
Slough Feg
Soilwork
Solution .45
Sonata Arctica
Soul Secret
Soundgarden
Speaking To Stones
Spiral Architect
Spock’s Beard
Stabbing Westward
Star One
Steven Wilson
Stiletto Formal
Stolen Babies
Storm Corrosion
Strapping Young Lad
Stratovarius
Superior
Suspyre
Swallow The Sun
Symphony X
The Tangent
Tarja
Tetrafusion
Theocracy
Therion
Thomas Giles
Thought Chamber
Threshold
Tiles
Tim “Ripper” Owens
Time Machine
Tony MacAlpine
Tool
Toy Matinee
Transatlantic
Trivium
Turisas
The Urbane
Vanishing Point
Vonassi
Warrel Dane
Watain
White Zombie
Winds
Winter Rose
Wintersun
Withoutending
Wolverine
Wolves In The Throne Room
Worlds
Wuthering Heights
Xen
Zero Hour
41Point9

ANY Hard rock and Heavy metal radio/MTV hits from the late 60s-1997.  I’ve heard them already.

Partially banned (disallowed albums in parenthesis):
Angra (Holy Land)
Chimaira (Resurrection)
Darkane (Demonic Art)
Death (Individual Thought Patterns)
Dredg (Catch Without Arms, The Pariah…)
Edguy (Theater of Tragedy, Mandrake)
Emilie Autumn (Opheliac)
Eternal Tears of Sorrow (Children of the Dark Waters)
Mind Key (Pulse For A Graveheart)
Neal Morse (self-titled)
Porcupine Tree (Lightbulb Sun, In Absentia, Deadwing, FoaBP, The Incident)
Protest The Hero (Fortress, Kezia)
RPWL (Beyond Man and Time)
Sleepytime Gorilla Museum (In Glorious Times)
Thrice (Vheissu)
Type O Negative (October Rust)
Unexpect (In A Flesh Aquarium)
3 (The End is Begun, Revisions, Wake Pig)


Signup block 1 ends at 6pm Eastern on Tuesday (48.5 hours from this original post).

GO!

[lonestar]

I'm in,and I request Karnya.

[wolfking]

I'm in, and I request Lord.

[Elite]

I'm in, and I request Darkwater.

[Nekov]

I'm in. I request Von Hertzen Brothers

[King Postwhore]

I'm in and request I Mother Earth.

[Dark Castle]

I'm in, and I'll request A Life Once Lost

[Onno]

I'm in, requesting Diablo Swing Orchestra.

[?]

I'm in, I request Paradise Lost.

[Scorpion]

Damn you Onno!

I'm in, I request Sentenced.

[MoraWintersoul]

In, requesting Subsignal.

[Lolzeez]

Genesis please.

[Dr. DTVT]

Scorpion, I said it was not first come first serve.  You could have requested the same band.  And seeing that I got Diablo Swing Orchestra in my last two roulettes and liked them I'm going to add them to the banned list.

Genesis will work, but they have two banned songs: Land of Confusion and I Can't Dance

[Onno]

System of a Down then?

[Scorpion]

Scorpion, I said it was not first come first serve.  You could have requested the same band.

Right! I had forgotten that, but no matter. I'll stick with Sentenced. I'd contest Onno on SOAD, but I don't really think you'd like them, quite frankly, so I'm happy.

[Orthogonal]

I'll give it a whirl. I request Serenity

[Lolzeez]

Scorpion, I said it was not first come first serve.  You could have requested the same band.  And seeing that I got Diablo Swing Orchestra in my last two roulettes and liked them I'm going to add them to the banned list.

Genesis will work, but they have two banned songs: Land of Confusion and I Can't Dance

Love LoC and hate ICD.

[jingle.boy]

Thanks for the heads up, Dr. Buttmunch!     Good thing it's an especially special day around here, and I stopped by to start an important thread.  Almost missed this one as I took a quick glance in here.

Consortium Project is mine.  Not like I had to worry about anyone else claiming them.

Oh, and when you dust me off, you owe me a better death this time around.  None of this shit this time.

[Dr. DTVT]

Wow...not a lot of sign-ups.  Is it the format?

[Elite]

I can imagine that. There's a LOT of bands on your list and I can also imagine someone not being confident enough with whatever obscure band or band you haven't listed to actually participate.

[Dr. DTVT]

There are plenty of well known bands out there available.  If I can't get at least 16 people I'll probably take out the band requirement.

[Elite]

I know, but there are also plenty of well known bands available of which I know beforehand that you won't like them.

[PuffyPat]

Let me get The Mars Volta.

[Nekov]

Or we could go with 2 bands each. Would that work for you?

[Tyrias]

I'd like to participate, problem is I'm going to be without internet connection for a week during the easter holidays (which are in two weeks). If that's okay, I'll post a band .

[lonestar]

Or we could go with 2 bands each. Would that work for you?

This.

[Sigz]

I'll sign up with Estradasphere. This should be interesting.

[Nekov]

Or we could go with 2 bands each. Would that work for you?

This.

You also have another band you think is perfect but didn't chose because you had a better one? 

[Scorpion]

Mason, can I still switch (the 48 hours aren't over yet, I think)? If yes, then I'll go with Buckethead. If not, no biggie either.

[DebraKadabra]

I've been toying with posting in this thread for the last 2 days.  I haven't participated in any roulettes (declined one invite last month), but screw it.  I want in on this one.  I shall choose... Floater.

[Ultimetalhead]

I've been toying with posting in this thread for the last 2 days.  I haven't participated in any roulettes (declined one invite last month), but screw it.  I want in on this one.  I shall choose... Floater.

Good choice. I had it narrowed down to two options, and I know I could still theoretically do Floater, but I think you'd do a better job with them.

I'd like to select Frank Zappa, if I could.

[Dr. DTVT]

Since there were no contests, everyone above this post got their band.  Second 48 hour period ends Thursday at 6 pm Eastern.

[WindMaster]

I'm in. Mumford & Sons.

[wolfking]

Mason, I probably should have asked this before selecting the band but Lord was initially called Dungeon back in the day and released quite a few albums back in the day.  They finished that band, or really just changed the band name and went under as Lord.  The mastermind of both bands is the same and their sound is the same.  Even though the name was changed the style didn't change at all.  Lord also still play Dungeon songs live.

Am I able to send songs from both Dungeon and Lord since they are basically the same band?  If not, that's cool.  I understand the rules just thought I'd ask.

[Dr. DTVT]

@wolfking - yeah, since I was already aware of that.  As long as it is only one member or the name was changed for legal reasons (Rhapsody/Rhapsody of Fire) and it can be confirmed, I'll accept it.