There's no way for the contestants to know about ANY judges scoring criteria though atm. Not unless Niv wants to post something on the main Nur Ein site when the first challenge goes up. 1 judge may hate soft rock, another might be anti uke, it's just part of the luck factor. Hey everyone, good to ...

Welcome to Round Seven of Nur Ein XIII

Title: The End
Challenge: Bring Your A Game

Songs are Due on: Sunday, June 24th @ 11:59 PM Eastern
Send your MP3 to nurein.sidefight@gmail.com

NUR EIN!!!!!!

There is no definition of “hazardous waste” under the Waste Reduction and Recycling Act 2011 or the Environmental Protection Regulation 2008. Can we change the title to “Regulated Waste”? Thanks. The EPA has defined 'hazardous waste" under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (known as &...

Good news for Vom Vorton who has won the week: you now have the chance to attempt back to back wins as there is no more immunity!

Nick Soma, Inflatable Vegetables, Matchy Matchy and Cavedwellers (see Roymond's post for explanation of how we handled the tie) have been eliminated. Tschüss!

Judges experiencing technical difficulties...please stand by for scores. I promise, we have not abandoned you.

My idea of a household item is something that is reasonably accepted as found and used in a home that is not primarily used to make music with.

My esteemed fellow judges may choose to agree, disagree and/or further opine on the topic.

Thoughts on Round One songs from a Nur Ein judge who may or may not be bitter, disgruntled and totally unaccountable. ;) Seriously though, as I already said, this was a good round and I liked several songs more than their rankings really indicate because the competition is so stiff. BMac - This is a...

Great round everyone! Again it was very hard for me to score and the lower end of my rankings will not reflect how much I actually liked those songs. I’m still listening to them today and there isn’t one I want to skip past, so congratulations all of you!

Just wanted to give a heads-up: I'm dropping out. I was already massively stretched for time, and when I was singing late last night I managed to injure myself, so I'm rocking a down-deep vocal cord pain that kept me up and hasn't faded much today. Better to give it up than to cause myself more inj...

Overall, I really enjoyed the songs for round zero and so even though a song may have ranked on the lower end of the scale doesn't mean I didn't enjoy it. Actually, this was a round where I listened to the songs in repeat succession for a couple of days whenever I was in my office and I am pleased a...

You all made this a difficult round to score - thank you! I've been listening to the round zero tunes non-stop for the last day and a half and I'm still enjoying them. Well done!

I'm excited to be back as a judge and happy to help out with the social media Niv - text me what you need me to do because I suck at remembering to check the boards until we are in full competition mode.

Great round everyone! This was insanely hard to judge because I honestly liked every song and really hated having to rank songs I liked for potential elimination. You've created some amazing music here, thanks! I look forward to seeing what next week brings.

I thought this was a round full of above-average songs, to the point where I wound up giving low scores to songs I actually liked just because of how many other songs this week I liked more. Excellent work from everyone this week. I wanted to call out to Chocolate Chips, Rabid G, Levittdown, and BY...

A well-deserved congratulations to those who have continued on to the next round. I look forward to hearing what else you produce in this contest. But a personal request regarding reviews of the BYD song: I know it's not the best (mostly my fault), but please keep the comments on the song itself an...

Sorry I didn’t finish these earlier in the week, but here are my comments regarding the Round Zero entries. I sometimes feel like I am at a disadvantage not knowing all the competitors to the same degree most of the other judges do but I recognize this is also an advantage as I have no preconceived ...

I think its awesome that you are choosing to still participate in this manner. I'll offer my comments as well, but please know that no matter if I liked your song(s) or not, I deeply appreciate what it takes to create something and respect your entry regardless of my personal taste. I've listened to...

Niveous wrote:Mysteria: Has never competed in a Songfight. Been trying to convince her to play bass on my songs for years.

Baby steps Niv. You've got me here poking around and now writing again. I'm sure I'll stop using the bass as an additional closet shelf eventually.

Well said Niveous!

My own two cents as far as what I will consider "metal" is anything that strikes me as metal. There's a wide range there and I love having more to choose from.

Niveous wrote:

Eric Y. wrote: http://www.metal-archives.com/content/rules#tab_metal

wow.
I disagree.
a lot.

I'm with you Niv. I count several of those sub-genres as forms of metal.

My apologies that I have not been more timely in submitting my reviews. We've had a few family emergencies to deal with and I have fallen behind in some things. I have been writing notes with each round and will try to finish getting caught up this week. Please note my standard disclaimer when it co...

Okay, so here's my two cents. I take reviews with a grain of salt and fully expect mine to be taken the same way so if you agree or find a gem of wisdom here, awesome, and if you think I'm full of flannel, cool deal... Adam Adamant – creative use of gunfire as percussion – really enjoyed the contrad...