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hakarl
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PostPosted: Sat Jan 07, 2012 11:23 am 
 

I have a few ideas for a genre. We should make a poll of sorts though I think.

- Atmospheric death metal
- Black Sabbath worship
- Doomy thrash
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kingnuuuur
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PostPosted: Thu Jan 12, 2012 3:18 am 
 

Ilwhyan may I suggest that you make a new thread, whatever the theme may be, and go from there because otherwise I'm sure nothing will come to fruition.
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hakarl
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PostPosted: Thu Jan 12, 2012 5:49 am 
 

Further discussion of the upcoming February 2012 songwriting challenge will take place in this thread.
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PostPosted: Mon Mar 05, 2012 3:05 pm 
 

The contest has ended. We're now moving to the results & reviews phase. Outsiders are welcome to write reviews aswell.

Here's the thread: viewtopic.php?f=8&t=88779
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PostPosted: Mon Apr 02, 2012 1:27 pm 
 

So when's the next one?
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hakarl
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PostPosted: Mon Apr 02, 2012 1:48 pm 
 

I won't have time to host it, and I'll only participate if our band is going to record at the time anyway.

Could you, SLK, perhaps, host the new challenge? For May or June?
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PostPosted: Mon Apr 02, 2012 7:19 pm 
 

I'll be happy to host, but not sure what the challenge should be.
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PostPosted: Tue Apr 03, 2012 6:31 am 
 

If you value solidarity and want to ensure maximal participation, you can make a poll (start a thread). Alternatively you can make it whatever you want it to be and take the risk of alienating some potential participants.
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I vote power metal
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PostPosted: Tue Jul 17, 2012 4:58 am 
 

If anyone has any ideas for the next songwriting challenge, feel free to discuss.

Or, we can skip it and go straight for the annual Doom Metal Challenge in November. :D
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PostPosted: Tue Jul 17, 2012 7:07 am 
 

at our going rate we might as well announce we are starting the doom metal challenge that way by Nov. it'll actually be completed at the end of the month... haha.
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PostPosted: Wed Aug 01, 2012 1:36 am 
 

Doooooooooooooooooom, I would like to host it with you, kingnuuuuuuuuur. Maybe with a special theme, contraints, etc..
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PostPosted: Wed Aug 01, 2012 6:22 am 
 

Sounds like a plan. I was thinking of having the leftovers from VI as themes, but I'm sure someone else can come up with a better idea.
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PostPosted: Tue Aug 07, 2012 9:37 am 
 

I like the idea of doing the leftovers from VI again like kingnuuuur mentioned. It gives people a lot of freedom and I think it went over well the first time through.

I also had an idea where one person can submit a riff, something that is relatively simple, and then tab out the riff. Then, all the participants must write a song in which they somehow incorporate that riff (or a play upon that riff) at least once. It would be interesting to hear what sort of different types of metal we can all come up with from the same riff. This might be real difficult to pull off,because the submitted riff would have to be easy enough for all to play and flexible enough to fit into different types of metal, but it's something different.

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kingnuuuur
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PostPosted: Sun Aug 12, 2012 8:58 am 
 

Actually, I was suggesting that we have VI's leftover themes for the doom metal challenge, not that we redo VI all over again. (though that's not suggesting that it won't happen in the future)

By the way, good to have you back GeoCO3.
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ShaolinLambKiller
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PostPosted: Sun Aug 12, 2012 9:03 am 
 

that could work for me... So I would say go ahead and announce it and get shit rolling... maybe if you start it in sept officially then maybe in Nov we will actually have all the submissions....lol.
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PostPosted: Sun Aug 12, 2012 2:06 pm 
 

kingnuuuur wrote:
Actually, I was suggesting that we have VI's leftover themes for the doom metal challenge, not that we redo VI all over again.


That get's my vote. People can go a lot of different directions with doom and having a randomly assigned theme is good for pushing creativity.

And yeah, september would probably be a decent time for it.

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hakarl
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PostPosted: Sun Aug 12, 2012 2:11 pm 
 

Since our band is finally getting its shit in order again, I might contribute. Unless I can inspire the band to write a song with me, I'll still be offering guitar and vocal contributions.
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Grave_Wyrm
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PostPosted: Sun Sep 02, 2012 7:09 pm 
 

dammit .. i want to contribute, but my bass is broken. :(
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PostPosted: Mon Sep 03, 2012 8:58 pm 
 

So, should we get this going? Doom challenge with randomly distributed lyrical themes?

Kingnuuuur, you've done a bang up job hosting but if you need a hand or would like to take a break on this one I'd be happy to help out.

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PostPosted: Tue Sep 04, 2012 12:33 pm 
 

Please sign me up. I'll do what I can about the bass part. I'll feel like a total tool if I don't try this.
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PostPosted: Tue Sep 04, 2012 3:46 pm 
 

CorpseFister wrote:
So, should we get this going? Doom challenge with randomly distributed lyrical themes?

Kingnuuuur, you've done a bang up job hosting but if you need a hand or would like to take a break on this one I'd be happy to help out.

Thanks. :) I think I'll take a break this time. I've been a little bit pissed off with myself failing to submit anything for the last couple of challenges. :grumble:
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PostPosted: Tue Sep 04, 2012 8:32 pm 
 

well get it up and running!!
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PostPosted: Wed Sep 05, 2012 7:57 pm 
 

Yeah, I'd like to get something going and unless anyone else is particularly keen I'll host. It did occur to me that this is back to school season and I know there are a number of students on here so how about we wait a week or so to start it up, let everybody get settled back into their routine.

Also, the doom challenge went pretty well last year and I think having randomly distributed themes will help mix things up, but if anyone has any other thoughts on theme or timeline speak up! This is a great collaborative project and I want to make sure we can get as many people in as possible.

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ShaolinLambKiller
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PostPosted: Wed Sep 05, 2012 10:01 pm 
 

And I think we might as well have this as a 2 month long challenge cause it seems that a month with the added week to 2 week grace period is still not long enough for the people who do sign up. lol.
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PostPosted: Thu Sep 06, 2012 10:22 am 
 

Good idea, SLK. A 2 month challenge will allows us to be less lenient with timelines and keep these challenges from dragging on.

Corpse - randomly assigned themes sounds fun to me and should add a bit of variability to the challenge, too.

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PostPosted: Sat Sep 08, 2012 6:18 am 
 

Yea cause they are pratically getting to be 2 month challenges anyway. At least this way when it's the end we can all just go piss on it.. it's the end if you couldn't do it in that 2 months it just was never going to happen. And with 2 months for me I can always do thrice the work if I feel like adding to it... like in Feb's challenge where I wrote, recorded, did all the art and layout for an album and released it within the month.
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PostPosted: Sun Sep 09, 2012 12:25 pm 
 

That's because you are a beast, my friend. :)
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PostPosted: Sun Sep 09, 2012 1:00 pm 
 

Why thank you kindly! That's glowing praise. What I've always aimmed to be.
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PostPosted: Sun Sep 09, 2012 9:30 pm 
 

You work hard, man. And the product is strong. SOLID!
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PostPosted: Sun Sep 09, 2012 10:04 pm 
 

thanks! I hope you think so of all the other upcoming endevors I have schedueled ahead of me.
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Make them, and we'll talk. :)
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The gauntlet has been thrown down!

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Arkhane
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PostPosted: Thu Sep 20, 2012 2:02 pm 
 

after the doom challenge going on right now, i have an interesting idea for another challenge. Contestants write an instrumental song, and one of these submitted songs are chosen at random for people to write their own lyrics to and interpret it the way they want to. it doesn't have to be this particular set of rules, but the idea is to see how people interpret a certain song or set of lyrics and see how their creations would differ from everyone elses. kind of like seeing creativity at the same level as everyone else and seeing how much it can expand for each person. (sorry if i explained it a little confusing)
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PostPosted: Sun Sep 23, 2012 7:40 pm 
 

There was somethign in one of these challenges that Rexx wrote. I thought it was awesome....but I have absolutely no idea when this was.

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PostPosted: Sun Sep 23, 2012 9:53 pm 
 

Arkhane really don't like the whole idea of working on someone else's song also hate the idea that there is some sort of vote of picking a 'winner' for us to work on. that defeats the entire purpose of why we started this back up to begin with. There shouldn't be any sort of judgement like that, just a plain review from each person on their impressions on the work the others had created be it positive or negative. I know I wouldn't even bother with that challenge at all.


rabidmadman it was challenge 3 I believe.
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PostPosted: Mon Sep 24, 2012 11:20 pm 
 

Got it, and I was thinking of something else I guess. What I heard could have fit on the cosmic atrophy album.

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ShaolinLambKiller
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PostPosted: Fri Sep 28, 2012 10:00 pm 
 

Well that's the only one he participated in that I know of. Unless you might be thinking of Demenese that never happened.
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[quote="ShaolinLambKiller"]Arkhane really don't like the whole idea of working on someone else's song also hate the idea that there is some sort of vote of picking a 'winner' for us to work on. that defeats the entire purpose of why we started this back up to begin with. There shouldn't be any sort of judgement like that, just a plain review from each person on their impressions on the work the others had created be it positive or negative. I know I wouldn't even bother with that challenge at all. quote]
thought it would have sparked some ideas for new challenges, the way i described it didn't have to pertain the same rules, know what i mean?
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Didn't like any aspect of your idea.
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