Themed Mixtape Game

[EternalMetal]

Rainbow - Gates of Babylon - 8/10
Tyrant - Babylon - 7.5/10
Nile - Lashed to the Slave Stick - 6/10
Iron Maiden - Powerslave - 8/10
Magister Templi - Horus the Avenger - 8/10
Arghoslent - The Nubian Archer - 8/10
Zemial - Ή Ταν Ή Επί Τας - 7/10
Adramelch - Zephirus - 8.5/10
Macabre Omen - An Ode to Rhode - 9/10
Ares Kingdom - Descent of Man - 8/10
Meads of Asphodel - My Psychotic Sand Deity - 4/10 - "Kill all the shit stabbing fagots, hang the sodomites and arse fuckers" - LOL
Yngwie J. Malmsteen - Dark Ages - 6.5/10
Manilla Road - Rome - 7.5/10
Doomsword - Varusschlacht (Varus Battle) - 5.5/10
Slough Feg - Hiberno-Latin Invasion - 7/10
Primordial - As Rome Burns - 8.5/10
Reverend Bizarre - Caesar Forever - 9.5/10

 

[CiG]

Best lyrics!

 

[Carpe Mortem]

Alright now let's announce the damn winner so we can clack mugs and I can get my pick in on a day I'm not working till 10pm

 

[Vegard Pompey]

As determined by 18 sets of ratings, the winner of this round is... Omni with Rainbow - Gates of Babylon!

Full score table:

1. Rainbow - Gates of Babylon (@Omni) - 9.11
2. Reverend Bizarre - Caesar Forever (@Vilden) - 8.55
3. Iron Maiden - Powerslave (@Phylactery) - 8.32
4. Magister Templi - Horus the Avenger (@Krow) - 7.83
5. Tyrant - Babylon (@no country for old wainds) - 7.67
6. Adramelch - Zephirus (@HamburgerBoy) - 7.63
7. Primordial - As Rome Burns (@TechnicalBarbarity) - 7.57
8. Slough Feg - Hiberno-Latin Invasion (@CASSETTEISGOD) - 7.49
9. Manilla Road - Rome (@mutantllama) - 7.47
10. Zemial - Ή Ταν Ή Επί Τας (@Slayed Necros) - 7.43
11. Macabre Omen - An Ode to Rhode (@Master_Yoda77) - 7.26
12. Doomsword - Varusschlagt (@Serjeant Grumbles) - 7.01
13. Yngwie J. Malmsteen - Dark Ages (@Baroque) - 6.79
14. Ares Kingdom - Descent of Man (@EternalMetal) - 6.69
15. Nile - Lashed to the Slave Stick (@EspaDa) - 6.60
16. Arghoslent - The Nubian Archer (@The Butt) - 6.14
17. Meads of Asphodel - My Psychotic Sand Deity (@Sirjack) - 4.44

Only one person gave Rainbow less than an 8.

And jeez, what's up with the Nile hate? I legitimately thought that was one of the top 3 songs on this playlist. Now that the round is over, I'm actually going to post my own ratings on this playlist in a moment...

 

[Vegard Pompey]

These are my personal ratings, which were not included in the averages posted above.

Rainbow - Gates of Babylon - 8/10
Tyrant - Babylon - 8/10
Nile - Lashed to the Slave Stick - 10/10
Iron Maiden - Powerslave - 9/10
Magister Templi - Horus the Avenger - 9/10
Arghoslent - The Nubian Archer - 7/10
Zemial - Ή Ταν Ή Επί Τας - 10/10
Adramelch - Zephirus - 10/10
Macabre Omen - An Ode to Rhode - 7/10
Ares Kingdom - Descent of Man - 6/10
Meads of Asphodel - My Psychotic Sand Deity - 5/10
Yngwie J. Malmsteen - Dark Ages - 9/10
Manilla Road - Rome - 9/10
Doomsword - Varusschlacht (Varus Battle) - 9/10
Slough Feg - Hiberno-Latin Invasion - 9/10
Primordial - As Rome Burns - 9/10
Reverend Bizarre - Caesar Forever - 10/10

As I said before, I fucking love this playlist. It was everything I could've hoped for when I picked this theme. Even the Meads of Asphodel was pretty decent for an obviously-worst song.

 

[Omni]

I'll post a theme shortly. I have a couple of ideas and just need to decide which is best.

 

[Vilden]

How you know it is a high quality playlist, my pick got better score than the best score out of all other playlists (Scald with 8.38) and it still only got second!

 

[Vegard Pompey]

Yeah, shame that Rainbow song had to be in this round huh?

I was rooting for Caesar actually. I might be in the minority based on the comments I've seen but I don't like that Rainbow song as much as Kill the King or the best three songs on Rising.

 

[CiG]

Omni you scoundrel.

 

[Omni]

The new theme is:

Songs with Prominent Guest Appearances

Prominent means that you know they're making an appearance. They should have a big role in the song, rather than basically being some glorified session musician.

Send them in!

 

[Mort Divine]

have a pretty solid one for this actually

 

[Carpe Mortem]

Awesome fucking theme idea

 

[Omni]

I got 10 submissions. Too lazy to PM anyone who I didn't need anything from. If I didn't PM you, you got your choice.

 

[no country for old wainds]

i sent one but it's probably taken, let me know. thinking of a backup atm

 

[no country for old wainds]

btw feel free to ignore this but you might consider allowing more than one song from the same band in this case as long as it's a different guest appearance. not sure if that's actually likely to come up, just a suggestion

 

[Vegard Pompey]

^Good idea. Let's fill up this mixtape with Ayreon songs.

 

[Omni]

^Good idea. Let's fill up this mixtape with Ayreon songs.

This is why I don't want to do that. People have sent 13 songs so far without duplicating artists. I know several more that are still available in a wide range of metal.

Anyway, no duplicate songs yet.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

Oh I should have done that Ayreon song with Bruce Dickinson singing, forgot all about that band.

Outside of a dozen Kai Hansen guest appearances and a couple kind of average token ones here and there, I wasn't able to come up with much for this theme, so I just went with a favorite that I think will almost certainly do poorly this round.

 

[no country for old wainds]

i've enjoyed your choices so far hamburgayboy. we don't always see eye to eye but you're probably the person most likely to pick great stuff i've never even heard of, or at least something that stands out.

 

[Omni]

Due to the volume of submissions, I will have to close this soon. If anyone wants to get in on this or change their submissions, do it now.

I can't keep it open much longer if this keeps up.