Thanks jingle
I'm actually learning a lot from this since it's my first roulette and already have plans to do things differently for the second when that far-off day arrives. Like having themed rounds (to make it easier on you and myself), eliminations (to force participants to think each and every round carefully), and even doing scoring differently (big changes there that I've been thinking about a lot, if anything I've been both lenient and generous with some of the lower scoring ones here).
The only bands I've written off from ever looking into again are Thy Catafalque, Moonsorrow, and Tool (and I already had prior experiences with two of those bands anyway). Literally every other artist is something I'd be willing to look up again - even Pain of Salvation, Need, Redemption, hell even Brand New, since a song that popped on after The Devil/God... actually sounded pretty cool.
Out of 60+ submissions, writing off only 3 is damn good.