I’m not in to playl but I find it interesting you’ve banned Absent Hearts but not Voyager. Those two are super related.
Yeah, so that's because on
August Earth the vocalist is Daniel Tompkins, one of my favorites. I guess technically someone could send their next one, which I believe has a different singer, but Dan's involvement was my main reason for liking them. And I've heard a few songs from Voyager, but no full albums yet, so they're on the table.
Also, I've scanned your banned list and Mastodon aren't there?! Are there going to be lots of other glaring omissions? I'm assuming there will be.
I'm sure there will be, but that's not really one of them, Vmad has found the key...
Though he does have 5 Mastodon albums on his RYM
To get a fuller picture, you have to combine the soft ban list with my RYM. I've heard enough Mastodon to know what they're about, but I haven't really been fully onboard with them yet. Their latest was the first album of theirs I thoroughly enjoyed, but even then I'm not super familiar with it. I like Brann's drumming, he's probably my favorite vocalist of them, I recognize their talent, and I like a couple songs, but on the whole they haven't hit for me. So they're up for grabs, as someone could potentially find a song(s) that connects with me, but they are a bit risky. Hardcore-derived bands in general to be that way for me, I'm more selective about them.
I think I'll post the first two mystery songs tomorrow evening.
So if I have this straight, you'll send two mystery songs, and then we send a song in a similar style?
I'm leaning towards sending two songs in the rock/metal-oriented rounds, and three in the other rounds, since they will be further out from standard DTF tastes and will give people more optionality (and me more songs/artists to recommend). So you listen to those, and send one song back. Doesn't necessarily have to be in the same genre, some of you probably won't have extensive libraries of those particular styles, but ideally I should be able to hear something in it that connects back to one of the songs I sent.