There's always a first time. I've done a top 50 Dream Theater songs, a top 50 albums and now it's time to embrace another one of these DTF traditions: the roulette.
This is so exiting. I'm a guy that doesn't actively search for new music, I just let things go naturally, if you know what I mean. I'm also younger than a lot of you guys, and so naturally I know less stuff than most of you, so I'm extremely pumped for this roulette.
As far as my tastes go, I think I'm really able to like anything. There are two or three things that I just can't stand:
- House music. Kill it with fire.
- Poppy love songs. Can't stand them anymore. My dad listens to the radio all the time, and every SONG IS A GODDAMN LOVE SONG. There are good love songs around, and I think that the best ones are the ones that take the concept of love and kind of expand it through the instrumentation (example: Anathema, Devin Townsend's Epicloud) or just love songs that make you think.
- Extremely extreme death metal. Not a big fan of the mess in this genre. Too much stuff going on, too much aggression and often I don't find any sense in this type of music.
"Now MikeMangioy, do you like growls?"
Yes, I do enjoy harsh vocals. But once again, they have to have sense in the context of the song, otherwise they sound just out of place to me.
-- Alright, now that I've gotten that out of the way, let's see how this roulette will work:
Eight contestants will fight each other for eight rounds of doom and hatred and war. Only one will win though. 5 of the eight rounds will be themed, and three of them will be open. EXCEPT that two of them will be open.
Indeed, Evermind won a bonus because he guessed right my #1 album in the top 50, and his bonus is: you can turn an open round into a themed round, and you can decide the theme. Cool, huh? Evermind, just PM me when you want to use your bonus.
After the last round there will be one extra round, which will consist in a 1 vs 1 round, within the two contestants with most points. Also, themed.
The songs will be rated with a minimum of 2 and a maximum of 10 points. Hey, you might even get extra points because you sent a song by an artist that I don't particularly dig.
And of course, here is the infamous and mandatory banned artists list:
AC/DC
Alestorm
Alter Bridge
Anathema (Weather Systems only)
Anthrax
Arjen Lucassen (Ayreon, Star One, The Gentle Storm and solo albums)
Avenged Sevenfold
Ben Levin Group
Bent Knee
Between The Buried And Me
Beyond The Bridge
Black Sabbath
Caparezza
Coldplay
Deep Purple
Destrage
Devin Townsend (incl. Strapping Young Lad)
Dream Theater
Eminem
Evile
Exodus
Foo Fighters (incl. Sound City Record)
Genesis
Ghost
Gojira
Green Day
Guns N’ Roses
Haken
Iron Maiden
James LaBrie
John Petrucci
Jordan Rudess
Judas Priest
Korpiklaani
Leprous
Led Zeppelin
Liquid Tension Experiment
Mastodon
Megadeth
Metallica
Michael Jackson
Municipal Waste
Muse
Nevermore
Nine Inch Nails
Nirvana
Opeth
Ozzy Osbourne
Pantera
Periphery
Pink Floyd
Porcupine Tree
Pushmonkey (Self titled only)
Queen
Rage Against The Machine
Rainbow (Rising only)
Rammstein
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Rush
Sabaton
Seventh Wonder (The Great Escape only)
Slayer
Slipknot
Steven Wilson
Storm Corrosion
System Of A Down
Symphony X
Tenacious D
Testament
The Beatles
The Winery Dogs
The Mars Volta (De-Loused In The Comatorium only)
The Winery Dogs
Transatlantic
Trivium
Twenty One Pilots (Blurryface only)
U2
Yes
Little piece of advise: you should always ask me before sending, If I've listened to that song or not, even if it's not from the banned artists.
(Every artist sent is automatically banned for the next rounds)
---
So, everything's set, I just need YOU people to sign up.
1.
Evermind2.
Sacul3.
Nekov4.
Sneakyblueberry5.
WebRaider6.
Scorpion7.
Shadowninja8.
Elite---
To send the song just send me a Youtube link. Even Spotify is ok.
Have fun! If there's any question, feel free to ask.
Contestant tunes ranking (special thanks to
Buddyhunter for inventing this in his roulette)
Evermind:
1. Imaginations From The Other Side
2. Saviour In The Clockwork
3. Pictured Within
4. Brass Goggles
5. Halloween
6. Carnivore
7. Fear Of The Night
8. King Of Errors
Sacul:
1. White Foxes
2. Mbinguni Amina
3. Hybrid Times
4. Lunacy
5. Love Song
6. Anarchy X/Revolution Calling
7. Babylon
8. All Is One
Nekov:
1. Hyperventilate
2. Starless
3. Summer's Glory
4. Dr. Fluffels
5. Puddles For Oceans
6. Still I Believe
7. God's Equation
8. New Day Rising
Sneakyblueberry:
1. Marvelous Things
2. All Men Play On Ten
3. Excerpt from 6.000.000.000 Miles Before The First Or The Revisitation Of The Blue Ghost
4. Limb From Limb
5. Sleep And Dream
6. Clara
7. Regular Frontier
8. Dream Brother
WebRaider
1. The Pattern
2. Forget Not
3. Continuum
4. Widower
5. Voice Of The Soul
6. Glass Faces
7. Through The Ticket... Across Endless Mountains
8. March Of Mephisto
Scorpion
1. Rage Of Despair
2. The Temple Of Hate
3. The Illusionist
4. The Morning Never Came
5. Snowfall
6. Shellmounds
7. Silent Film
8. Finality
Shadowninja
1. Varúð
2. The Frame
3. Katy's Song
4. The Ghost Of Icarus
5. You Won't Know
6. Dance Of The Manatee
7. A Tapdancer's Dilemma
8. Carne Vale
Elite
1. Suicide Penguin
2. The Canyon Behind Her
3. Ars Moriendi
4. Street Spirit (Fade Out)
5. New Day
6. White Shadow
7. Used
8. Destination Unknown