Madness?!? This is RC!

[Reign in Acai]

Anybody here wish to brainstorm for ideas to keep the March Madness tournament alive? Volunteers to spearhead the thing? Erik? Lurch? Greg? Dorian?*

2005 Best Band
Bathory

Runner up
Agalloch


2006 Best Band
Iron Maiden

Runner Up
Destroyer 666

2007
Best album post 2000

Agalloch - The Mantle

Runner Up

Destroyer 666 - Phoenix Rising


2008 Best of the 90's Tournament

Death Metal
At the Gates - The Red in the Sky is Ours

Black Metal
Emperor - In the Nightside Eclipse

Doom Metal
Skepticism - Stormcrowfleet


Suggestions for another round?

*

 

[einride]

no way but it's so fucking true that bathory is the best band, and tritsio is the best death metal album, that i'm honestly quite impressed

 

[swizzlenuts]

Best 80s band this time?

 

[Reign in Acai]

Given that Bathory started in the 80's, it would be predetermined.


Best 1 off album?
Best discography (omitting favored bands)
Best song? (With accompany mp3s of all entries)


I dunno.

 

[lurch70]

Best song? (With accompany mp3s of all entries)

i like this idea as it will be toughest and most interactive

 

[J.]

best debut?
most pinkage band?

i like the one off album thing, but it might prove difficult.

 

[Krilons Resa]

Most metuhl?

 

[Reign in Acai]

Most metuhl?

This is actually an interesting concept. What would be the criteria?! Music, quality of live performance, image, amount of faggots murdered?

 

[einride]

doesn't matter because the answer is d666

 

[Reign in Acai]

Let's do best debut by a band that turned pink.

Now for the participants... Suggestions?

Potential entries

Therion - Of Darkness
Tiamat - Sumerian Cry
My Dying Bride - As the Flower Withers
The Gathering - Always
Amon Amarth - Once Sent from the Golden Hall

Once we've decided on the contenders, I'll upload a rar packet with an mp3 sample from each of the participants. (Limit 32)

 

[einride]

oh man there are so many contenders for this dubious throne

anathema "serenades"
paradise lost "lost paradise"
bethlehem "dark metal"
blind guardian "battalions of fear"
cemetary "an evil shade of grey"
in flames "lunar strain"
dimmu borgir "for all tid"
moonspell "under the moonspell" (although moonspell successfully un-pinkified themselves recently and are quite good, if a little sterile, now)

 

[EricT]

Amorphis - The Karelian Isthmus
Green Carnation - Journey To The End Of Night
Helloween - Walls of Jericho
Katatonia - Dance of December Souls

That's all I have... for now.

 

[Krilons Resa]

...i think we're on to something here.

 

[Hell Mike]

Let's do best debut by a band that turned pink.

Now for the participants... Suggestions?

Does it have to be pink or do we count all kinds of non-satan metal asskick?
Ulver for example, or Vintersorg, or Beherit, would they count?

 

[General Zod]

I like best debut or best song.

Zod

 

[einride]

Does it have to be pink or do we count all kinds of non-satan metal asskick?
Ulver for example, or Vintersorg, or Beherit, would they count?

i, for one, only counted bands that turned BAD and PINK

like for instance i don't like new vintersorg but i can acknowledge that it is not poor quality music per se and that he hasn't wussed out as such, just changed


EDIT: while i'm in this thread let me just point out that "always" by the gathering is REALLY SHITTY and VERY PINK right from the start

 

[Plastic Nathrakh]

Amorphis - The Karelian Isthmus

I like all of the pink records too...So talented.

 

[Plastic Nathrakh]

2008 Best of the 90's Tournament

Death Metal
Morbid Angel - Covenant /Deicide - s/t /Dismember - Indecent & Obscene /Incantation - Onward to Golgotha /Monstrosity - Imperial Doom /Pestilence - Testimony of the Ancients /Suffocation - Pierced from Within /Malevolent Creation - The Ten Commandments /Death - Individual Thought Patterns /Immolation - Here in After

...not sure. So many greats. 'The Red in the Sky Is Ours' is wonderful, but I don't think it could contend with any of those.

Black Metal
Emperor - In the Nightside Eclipse < Anthems

Neither of those though....maybe:
Judas Iscariot - Distant in Solitary Night -or-
Enslaved - Frost
Both are great.

Doom Metal
Don't listen to this genre.

 

[Reign in Acai]

 

[Anom@nder Rake]

some more bands that went pink....

Atrocity - Hallucinations
Belial - Never Again
Celestial Season - Forever Scarlett Passion
Sentenced - Shadows of the Past