News: Video of online chat between fans and members of Dream Theater:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sx8cLlXnHpA&feature=youtu.be (*no chickens were harmed during the filming of this chat)

Welcome! Without further ado, let’s get to the rules and other bits and pieces of useful information.

Participants:
- Cyril (artist formerly known as Parama)
- Kattelox
- Sacul
- Puppies_On_Acid
- TAC
- Lethean
- senecadawg2
- Stadler
- Train of Naught
- MoraWintersoul

Rounds:
There are eight rounds, each with a theme. I’m not giving the themes in advance, but they should be quite easy. I think lot of themes from my first roulette worked pretty well, so most of them are going to appear again.

After the fourth round, the bottom two players will be eliminated. In case of a tie, the player with the best score for an individual submission stays. If both players have exactly same scores, there will be a quick tiebreaker round. Similarly, if two or more players are tied at the top at the end, the winner is decided with a tiebreaker.

Scoring:
I felt even during the last roulette that my scoring system was quite unfair, so this time I’m going for tiered system.

If there’s ten players: 10-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1
If there’s eight players: 10-8-6-5-4-3-2-1

Banned list

Note: the list is slightly different than the one I sent to roulette tracker thread. Some artists will be banned during the roulette, but I'll make a clear note of them.

Submitting songs:
Please send your submissions via PM. I’m using Spotify so basically the artist and the song name are sufficient. If the song in question is not on Spotify, that’s fine too if you provide another way to listen to your song (e.g. YouTube link).

I'll probably wait for one day in case someone wants to take the the open participant spot and then start the first round. If there's anything you want to know, please don't hesitate to ask.

Alright, let's get this show on the road!

This will be fun. Looking forward to discovering your musical taste

Quote from: Kattelox on April 13, 2019, 06:22:51 AM

This will be fun. Looking forward to discovering your musical taste

That reminds me. I heard there’s a new Game Of Thrones character being unveiled. Assimus  Kissimus.

Only so much ass kissing can save me from my own music. 

Do you have enough players already? I'll join if you'll have me!

Too bad we don't live in a world where you can have more than one email address.

yeah well, i'm lazy 

Hey guys! I’m announcing the round 1 theme on behalf of Ruba

You can send ANY song as long as the song in question is featured on the latest Sons of Apollo album!

Technically yes, TesseracT is not banned!

Also one point I forgot to mention:

I reserve the right to be a complete dick and reject a submission if I think I know the song well enough. Case in point: Van Halen is not among the banned bands, but if you send me Jump, I'll ask you to send something else. Any other Van Halen song would probably do though. I will not exert this rule lightly and I doubt I'll even need to, but I thought you should know.

That's actually called "to be a reasonable person" but whatever floats your boat.

Technically yes, TesseracT is not banned!

hell yes brb nosediving

I was asked about my tastes in the roulette tracker thread and I'm reposting it here.

My top 100 Spotify songs 2017
My top 100 Spotify songs 2018

My tastes... they probably differ somewhat of an average DTFer. I do like prog and prog metal, but it depends on the artist a lot. Good melodies are more important to me than incessant noodling.

Genres I tend to like:
- industrial
- post-hardcore
- alternative rock/metal, especially from the 90s
- doom/sludge/stoner metal

I usually don't like (there might be exceptions)
- black metal
- hair/glam metal
- pop music made after the 1980s
- rap/hip hop

The banned list should give you a rough idea. It has almost exclusively artists I like, I left out some artists I'm not so keen on so that somebody can try to prove I've been wrong about them.

-- Death metal --

I do enjoy some death metal from time to time, but some of it I find just a bit unmemorable. I might enjoy some song, but not remember how it went five minutes later.

Vocalist also matters a great deal. As a rule of thumb, I'd like to be able to make out at least some of the words (s)he is singing.

Melodeath and technical death are also ok.

Few more notes:

- Sending a song over 10 minutes long is a risky move.
- I'm not too big a fan of instrumental music.
- I like 90s and 00s music, and some 80s too.
- I slightly prefer British music over American.

and Puppies could go either way.   

That sounds about right. It really just depends on how much I feel like shooting myself in the foot.

Oh, most of the sign-ups were taken in the Roulettes tracker thread. Sneaky

Oh, most of the sign-ups were taken in the Roulettes tracker thread. Sneaky

I'm sorry, I just read from the OP that it is recommendable to have the participants ready when your turn is up. I would've loved to have a fellow Finn on board.

I am not going to do well.

Don't be selling yourself short, Tim.

As I said, the themes won't be too difficult but since I got all the participants ready, here comes round one:

ARE YOU READY TO ROCK?
Since this is the opening round of the roulette, I want something appropriate for the occasion. Send me an opening track of an album. As you know, a good opener sets the tone for the entire album, so send something you feel is a good song for opening a roulette.

And don't take the title to the heart. If you want to send something more chill, go for it.

You got exactly three days from this post to submit. Any late submission will get -1 points.

Genres I tend to like:
- industrial
- post-hardcore
- alternative rock/metal, especially from the 90s
- doom/sludge/stoner metal


- I like 90s and 00s music, and some 80s too.

Hell yeah

putting together a list of artists to pull from
even avoiding most of the heavier metal acts i've still scoped out 36 artists I'd really wanna send in this roulette 

basically; be prepared for some post-roulette bonus songs

For my first two roulettes, I used this theme for the opening round. Gotta find a song now. Don't have much (actually nothing) for 90's rock. 

For my first two roulettes, I used this theme for the opening round. Gotta find a song now. Don't have much (actually nothing) for 90's rock. 

Tim, it doesn't have to be. I like many different kinds of music, sometimes from rather unexpected genres.

Don't know if you remember but I got Killer by Alice Cooper because you had recommended it. It's been some time I've listened to it though, but it's really solid record.