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Round Four is underway

Title: Down to Under
Non Optional Challenge: Metal
Songs are due on Monday, May 20th @ 12:01 AM EDT
Send your MP3 to nurein.sidefight@gmail.com

4 bands will be eliminated.

Round four, where stuff gets real!

For the purposes of judging, is antimony metallic enough to be considered a metal? Or are metalloids specifically excluded?

Optional challenge: only use xylophone

metal xylophone that is

Manhattan Glutton wrote:Optional challenge: only use xylophone

metal xylophone that is

That would be a marimba. By definition, a xylophone is made of wood.

Wow, this seems like a new level in terms of the challenges being prescriptive. I think y'all should just give up this round though, here's why:

http://www.songfight.org/music/commitme ... ia_cas.mp3
http://www.songfight.org/music/are_you_ ... y_ayhf.mp3

Generic wrote:

Manhattan Glutton wrote:Optional challenge: only use xylophone

metal xylophone that is

That would be a marimba. By definition, a xylophone is made of wood.

So is a marimba isn't it?

Don't you mean glockenspiel?

Generic wrote:

Manhattan Glutton wrote:Optional challenge: only use xylophone

metal xylophone that is

That would be a marimba. By definition, a xylophone is made of wood.

Are you thinking of a vibraphone?

That's part of the challenge. It's up to the judges to decide whether you interpret it correctly.

Lunkhead wrote:Wow, this seems like a new level in terms of the challenges being prescriptive.

It is. A lower one.

j$ wrote:

Lunkhead wrote:Wow, this seems like a new level in terms of the challenges being prescriptive.

It is. A lower one.

I like the challenge. A lot.

You are the best judges we have ever had.

Truly

But the title is crap.

Ironically, you partly inspired the choice of title. Don't shoot the messengers.

Yeah but who says Down to Under? The 'to' makes it sound retarded.

Challenge is wicked. This is going to be awesome.

Who says it? Everyone who is left in the competition some time in the next few days.

Who still says "retarded"? Are you 12?

Caravan Ray wrote:But the title is crap.

j$ wrote:you partly inspired the choice of title

skypup wrote:makes it sound retarded.

Caravan Ray wrote: You are the best judges we have ever had.

Truly

I couldn't agree more. ....well, I could, but it wouldn't make it any more relevant.
The judging is very well rounded and seems to be judging unbiased. I love that the songs are being judged as overall songs incorporating the challenge and not judged by who uses the most challenge. Nothing worse than a steaming pile of crap getting the highest ranking because they whores the challenge to the max. It makes me happy to see Nur Ein returning to it's awesome original concept.
NUR EIN!!!!!!!!

I too found the title awkward but I liked it for that reason, I can't wait to see what kind of metal you guys come up with...

Billy's Little Trip wrote: Nothing worse than a steaming pile of crap getting the highest ranking because they whores the challenge to the max.

Wait... When has that ever happened?

I still use the word radical whenever I can. My opinions should clearly be taken very seriously. And I'm sure my opinion will change after hearing 12 kick-ass metal songs with that title. Everyone left in the competition is amazing and I can't wait to hear what they come up with.

I'm kinda flummoxed here.
Not with the title or challenge, but statistically I'm fucked this round.
I desperately need to find some way of turning around this inexorable doom.

Now where did I put that box of riffs?

There is a simple mantra for this round:

WWIMD?

What would Iron Maiden do?