Find all the previously held Metal Archives Songwriting Challenges below. Names in gold are challenge winners (winners were so far only decided for the first couple challenges).

I
The first Metal Archives songwriting challenge --- Hosted by Noktorn.
Metal Archives songwriting challenge #1: Results!
Recovered entries: invoked, mattp, Traver
Missing entries: alexaons, AppleQueso, death_headj, FirebathDan, PedigreeButchery
Download compilation HERE.

II
Shall we try the MA Songwriting Contest, pt. II once more? --- Hosted by fetalfeast.
Recovered entries: caspian, Leechmaster
Missing entries: Malacoda, matrixmetal, nex666, wight_ghoul, overkill666
Download compilation HERE.

III
September Song Writing Challenge ROUND 1 - 2010 --- Hosted by KvltLord (MIA). Picked up by nex666.
Download compilation HERE.

IV
November - 30 Day - 2 Song challenge --- Hosted by ShaolinLambKiller.
Download compilation HERE.

V
2011 Jan - February Song Writing Challenge - Round 3 --- Hosted by ChantingOfThePriests (MIA). Picked up by ShaolinLambKiller.
RESULTS==: 2011 Jan - February Song- Round 3: ==REVIEWS
Download compilation HERE.

VI
SONGWRITING CHALLENGE: March/April 2011 --- Hosted by kingnuuuur.
SONGWRITING CHALLENGE: March/April 2011 [RESULTS & REVIEWS]
Download compilation HERE.
YouTube videos HERE.

VII
SONGWRITING CHALLENGE: June/July 2011 --- Hosted by GeoCO3.
SONGWRITING CHALLENGE: June/July 2011 *RESULTS*
Download compilation HERE.
YouTube videos HERE.

VIII
Doom Metal Challenge (Nov./Dec. '11) --- Hosted by kingnuuuur.
Doom Metal Challenge (Nov./Dec. '11) [RESULTS & REVIEWS]
Download compilation HERE.

IX
Black Metal Blackout - One-day songwriting challenge! --- Hosted by Zodijackyl.
Download compilation HERE.

X
M-A songwriting challenge - Death metal with a twist! --- Hosted by Ilwhyan.
February 2012 songwriting challenge *RESULTS & REVIEWS*
Download compilation HERE.

XI
SONGWRITING CHALLENGE: Artwork-based (June/July '12) --- Hosted by kingnuuuur.
Songwriting Challenge: June/July '12 [RESULTS & REVIEWS]
Download compilation HERE.

XII
SONGWRITING CHALLENGE: DOOM (Fall ’12) --- Hosted by CorpseFister.
RESULTS AND REVIEWS - SONGWRITING CHALLENGE DOOM ’12
Download compilation HERE.

XIII
January 2013 songwriting challenge: Grindcore! --- Hosted by infinitenexus.
Grindcore challenge results
Download compilation HERE.

XIV - Ongoing
MA Songwriting Challenge - MAY/JUNE 2013 --- Hosted by PinePHresh.


If you have the missing tracks for the first two challenges, you can PM me the links and I will update the compilations accordingly.

I remember some old songwriting challenge, I think it would have been in 2008, in which the task was to make a song that was 20 minutes long? Some Australian guy hosted it I believe. I've still got my song, it's kinda cool.

Shall I just pm you with my missing entry or something?

Awesome, post it.

I haven't come across that one. Post your song and a link to the thread if you find it.


Nah. Just download the thing, put yours in, reupload it and pass me the link.

I'll try and find the missing entries from my songwriting contest, but no guarantees. Good thread kingnuuuuur

Thanks, please do! (sent you a PM btw)

Also, you can pester the mods to sticky the thread HERE.

Awesome! Odinallfather and I have been secretly working on our song from the the Fifth Chapter of Song Challengedum, so hell if we finish it ever, we'll upload it.

Damn, I just missed the most recent one, right when I'm starting to play/write/sing again. (Though my vocals are not quite up to their former level.)

Three quick questions:

1) I've seen that people are allowed help from people off the site. What I'm wondering, is would it be possible for me to work with the people I normally work with, although we are technically more than one band? (Yeah, that's confusing. Think of a heavy metal version of the Elephant 6 collective, we play in each other's bands and there are different names for different styles/projects.)

2) If I write/arrange/design/ the solos (if any) and drums, but someone else plays them, is that acceptable? (Someone off the site, I would want to use the main lead guitarists from my two main projects (one is more death/black/grunge/Melvins (yeah, from my original everything heavy from the 90's melted band) the other is more death/grind/groove/Dimebag type)

3) Would I be able to later re-release the songs I do for it on my own? (Obviously with the permission of anyone on the board I would collaborate with.)

Thanks

There are normally no restrictions for those sorts of things.

Blah. I had a submission for the second music competition but the download link for my file doesn't work anymore. Song lost.

Here are 6 of the Challenge VII submissions I uploaded to youtube. I'm going to wait till vocals are done on mine to upload that, and I would like to wait for trigger to have someone redo his song, or redo it himself. Not trying to be a dick, I just want to represent you better since I know your songwriting and playing ability is great but the quality is just unbearable, for me at least.

Frostbitten Basement: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxCShnGjsZM

Theoria: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yACSgb_ozco

54RtestKp3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQl7er48uwA

Swords Tale: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNR_QGsYrVs

Thrashstruck: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=grQR4fRfMvI

The Wizard Rides to King's Cross: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_oM7hkkVKY

Everything went better than expected.

Uploaded a provisional compilation for the latest challenge.

Alright everyone, I'd like to voulnteer to host the next song challenge. I'll try really hard to get a song recorded. A new studio opened up in my town, so I might just bite the bullet and pay to have it recorded. Oh well. Anyone have ideas for a new challenge?

I kind of want to do something like Challenge VI again...

another lyrics switcheroo?

If we did another lyrics switch I would definitely join in. That contest seemed like a lot of fun.

Yeah, this last one was cool too, but I want to try the lyrics switch again.

My song for VII is still shelved. We can do the VI one again with the leftover themes...

There's an Idea! that leaves:
Suicide
Drugs
Corruption & Greed
Religion [your choice, pro & anti]
Nature
Mythologies [your choice]
Social Isolation
Rebellion & Revolution
Macabre & Horror
Loss & Bereavement
Dreams & Reality
Revenge
Eschatology
Historical Events [your choice]
Occultism
Lovecraft Mythos
Tolkien Legendarium
Romance & Tragedies
Pride
Violence, Gore & Anatomy
Traveling & Places [real & sci-fi]
Literature & Paintings [your choice, excluding Lovecraft & Tolkien]

Right?

Actually it leaves:

Social Isolation
Mythologies [your choice]
Traveling & Places [real & sci-fi]
Nature
Suicide
Historical Events [your choice]
Lycanthropy
Dreams & Reality
Religion [your choice, pro & anti]
Tolkien Legendarium
Macabre & Horror
Pride
Occultism

Plus these, if we count the no-shows:

Civilizations & Cultures
Corruption & Greed
Drugs
Eschatology
Lovecraft Mythos
Revenge

Legit, I'd be down for this once more

It's kinda sad that VII didn't get nearly as much attention as VI though.

I Agree. I feel like shit for not getting my song done. I'll do my very best this time, even if I have to pay for it!

I think it's a great idea, using the leftovers.

The leftovers idea is cool, but when do you think we should hold it? I think that we should wait for a few weeks and maybe start in late August/early September to allow for some time between challenges.

September or October*. Having challenges too often can make things go really stale. They should be treated like special events IMO.

By the way, here's another suggestion for the next challenge: Write the most epic music you can.

*Actually, once per trimester sounds cool to me.

I'll be joining the challenge again next time. Sorry, been too busy with my own projects and stuff. Really wanted to join VII, though....

i'll hop in whatever is posted up for the challenge.

I'm up for something, haven't done music in a while so a challenge would be fun, but I'm not a fan of doing conventional stuff

Alrighty fellows, September is coming around the corner, so lets get some stuff figured out.
1. Have we decided on the random theme/lyrics?
2. Should we submit a few more lyrical ideas?
3. Do we want to ad any other plot twists into the challenge?
4. Do we want to scrap this one and start anew?

Hey guys:

I wasn't 100% satisfied with the finished product of the song "Thrashtruck" I wrote for the last challenge, so I recorded some gang shouts and reiter/RageW wrote and recorded some legit solos for it.

Listen here: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/10777784/thrashtruck_final.mp3

Download here: http://www.mediafire.com/?hx4frb20l6krvmb

I don't know if I'll have time to participate, but that challenge produced a lot of really interesting, unexpected and collaborative results, so I think it's worth doing again.

I really don't care what format we do. If I'm interested I'll do it up, if not I'll back out.

Cool, will check it out.

I think I'm game for a new challenge. I need to compensate for my last no-show. Though hopefully with some death metal.

Hey, about the sixth Challenge from March/April, hosted by kingnuuuuuuuuur... To those who participated and/or listened to the results and enjoyed the submission by Devirginizer and me (Irrelevant, lyrics by guitartheist), and, last but not least, to those, if anyone, who care: more material has been written in the meantime and we named the project Omninihilist. Just to wear out the I in your keyboard. We're recording currently.

Cool, I'm looking forward to hearing it! That tune was cool and had me excited to hear more.

Do we have any ideas on when the next challenge might start?

I won't be able to be in this one until I stop working 10 hrs a day.

Nice! It'll be released on a split tape with Evagatio Mentis, which basically is the funeral doom version of Omninihilist. It's not as sinister though, and much more elaborate in terms of instrumentation.