Okay - you voted for them and here they are. I have arranged the 64 songs into four brackets, each numbered 1 through 16. The first-round match-ups will be 1 vs. 16, 2 vs. 15 etc. The format of the bracket ensures that 1 and 2 in each bracket cannot meet until the final. Also, none of the first round matches (and most of the potential second round matches) involve songs from the same album. I tried to balance the albums as well.
If you actually want to see this instead of trying to make sense of my ramblings, please send me an email at wallinwj@hotmail.com and I will send you a copy of the Microsoft Excel file that I have laboriously created (complete with pictures!)
Now - onto the official rankings. Again - YOU GUYS CHOSE THESE. I just arranged them. If you don't like something, I fault your choices! However, if their is major concensus that something is amiss, I may make the change.
Without further ado...
LINDGREN BRACKET
1. Bleak
2. Black Rose Immortal
3. Godhead's Lament
4. A Fair Judgement
5. The Baying Of The Hounds
6. Master's Apprentices
7. White Cluster
8. The Amen Corner
9. Dirge For November
10. The Apostle In Triumph
11. To Rid The Disease
12. Patterns In The Ivy II
13. Nectar
14. Ending Credits
15. Circle Of The Tyrants
16. Into The Frost Of Winter
LOPEZ BRACKET
1. When
2. The Moor
3. The Drapery Falls
4. In The Mist She Was Standing
5. To Bid You Farewell
6. Face Of Melinda
7. The Twilight Is My Robe
8. Hope Leaves
9. Epilogue
10. Beneath The Mire
11. In My Time Of Need
12. Still Day Beneath The Sun
13. Hours Of Wealth
14. For Absent Friends
15. Remember Tomorrow
16. Eternal Soul Torture
MENDEZ BRACKET
1. Ghost Of Perdition
2. Demon Of The Fall
3. Advent
4. The Leper Affinity
5. Moonlapse Vertigo
6. Closure
7. Wreath
8. Forest Of October
9. The Funeral Portrait
10. The Grand Conjuration
11. By The Pain I See In Others
12. Credence
13. Atonement
14. Benighted
15. Requiem
16. Prologue
WIBERG BRACKET
1. Deliverance
2. April Ethereal
3. Blackwater Park
4. Reverie/Harelquin Forest
5. Windowpane
6. The Night And The Silent Water
7. Serenity Painted Death
8. Karma
9. Harvest
10. Death Whispered A Lullaby
11. Isolation Years
12. Under The Weeping Moon
13. Patterns In The Ivy
14. Silhouette
15. Weakness
16. Madrigal
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Each bracket will have 1 winner (after the paistaking voting process) and these four highly awesome songs will face-off in the AKERFELDT FINAL FOUR.
So, before I figure out exactly how I'm going to extract your votes from your greasy little fingertips, I'll give you one last chance - until Saturday (on the East coast of the US) to complain about these rankings. I'll also use this time to email out copies of the brackets. Then, on Saturday, it will begin.
Cheers!
If you actually want to see this instead of trying to make sense of my ramblings, please send me an email at wallinwj@hotmail.com and I will send you a copy of the Microsoft Excel file that I have laboriously created (complete with pictures!)
Now - onto the official rankings. Again - YOU GUYS CHOSE THESE. I just arranged them. If you don't like something, I fault your choices! However, if their is major concensus that something is amiss, I may make the change.
Without further ado...
LINDGREN BRACKET
1. Bleak
2. Black Rose Immortal
3. Godhead's Lament
4. A Fair Judgement
5. The Baying Of The Hounds
6. Master's Apprentices
7. White Cluster
8. The Amen Corner
9. Dirge For November
10. The Apostle In Triumph
11. To Rid The Disease
12. Patterns In The Ivy II
13. Nectar
14. Ending Credits
15. Circle Of The Tyrants
16. Into The Frost Of Winter
LOPEZ BRACKET
1. When
2. The Moor
3. The Drapery Falls
4. In The Mist She Was Standing
5. To Bid You Farewell
6. Face Of Melinda
7. The Twilight Is My Robe
8. Hope Leaves
9. Epilogue
10. Beneath The Mire
11. In My Time Of Need
12. Still Day Beneath The Sun
13. Hours Of Wealth
14. For Absent Friends
15. Remember Tomorrow
16. Eternal Soul Torture
MENDEZ BRACKET
1. Ghost Of Perdition
2. Demon Of The Fall
3. Advent
4. The Leper Affinity
5. Moonlapse Vertigo
6. Closure
7. Wreath
8. Forest Of October
9. The Funeral Portrait
10. The Grand Conjuration
11. By The Pain I See In Others
12. Credence
13. Atonement
14. Benighted
15. Requiem
16. Prologue
WIBERG BRACKET
1. Deliverance
2. April Ethereal
3. Blackwater Park
4. Reverie/Harelquin Forest
5. Windowpane
6. The Night And The Silent Water
7. Serenity Painted Death
8. Karma
9. Harvest
10. Death Whispered A Lullaby
11. Isolation Years
12. Under The Weeping Moon
13. Patterns In The Ivy
14. Silhouette
15. Weakness
16. Madrigal
************************************
Each bracket will have 1 winner (after the paistaking voting process) and these four highly awesome songs will face-off in the AKERFELDT FINAL FOUR.
So, before I figure out exactly how I'm going to extract your votes from your greasy little fingertips, I'll give you one last chance - until Saturday (on the East coast of the US) to complain about these rankings. I'll also use this time to email out copies of the brackets. Then, on Saturday, it will begin.
Cheers!