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<\/a><\/p>\nToday is the day TMD announces the top 20 participants in the first ‘Battle of Unsigned Thrash’ online contest! Thanks to the hundreds of bands from all over the globe that submitted their music for consideration. Today is the day TMD announces the top 20 participants in the first ‘Battle of…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_mo_disable_npp":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34523\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\nJudging for the semi-final round will be based on the most current studio recording and the finals are based on video of live performance loaded to YouTube.<\/em> Here is the basic breakdown on exactly how the scoring process works:
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\n1st round (Semi-Finals)- Scoring for STUDIO RECORDING (1-10 point scale) is based on 3 separate criteria:
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\n2nd round (Finals) – Scoring for VIDEO OF LIVE PERFORMANCE (1-10) is based on 3 separate criteria:
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\nThe semi final round happens on July 22nd, 2013, wherein all 20 bands will receive official scoring from three judges (identity of each judge will be announced on that date) and those bands with the top 10 overall scores will move on to the final round on July 25th.
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\nThe winner of the final round will receive a label representation deal with THE METAL DEN RECORDS (Value $3,000).<\/strong> Prizes to be announced for the other top 5 finalists once the champion is crowned!!!
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\nTEMPESTORA (Gloucester, UK)<\/strong>
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\nhttp:\/\/www.reverbnation.com\/tempestora<\/a>
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\nFINAL CURSE (Charlotte, NC USA)<\/strong>
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\nCONCEALED (San Francisco, CA USA)<\/strong>
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\nhttp:\/\/www.reverbnation.com\/concealed#<\/a>
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\nTHE KING MUST DIE (Sonoma County, CA USA)<\/strong>
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\nhttp:\/\/www.facebook.com\/TKMDband<\/a>
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\nSILVER TONGUE DEVIL (Dallas, TX USA) <\/strong>
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\nhttp:\/\/www.reverbnation.com\/silvertonguedevil666<\/a>
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\nRELAYER (Texas USA)<\/strong>
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\nTOECUTTER (Australia)<\/strong>
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\nORPHIUM (Phoenix, Arizona USA)<\/strong>
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\nhttp:\/\/www.facebook.com\/orphiumthrash<\/a>
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\nPROSODY (Wilkes Barre, PA USA)<\/strong>
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\nhttp:\/\/www.reverbnation.com\/prosodymetal<\/a>
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\nT-MULE (Padova, Italy)<\/strong>
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\nKILL THE KLOWN (Padova\/Vicenza, Italy)<\/strong>
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\nA CALL TO ARMS (Saint Paul, MN USA)<\/strong>
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\nhttp:\/\/www.reverbnation.com\/acta<\/a>
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\nC.O.Y.A. (North West Houston, TX USA)<\/strong>
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\nSCREAM AT THE SUN (Minneapolis, MN USA)<\/strong>
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\nIRREVERENCE (Milano, Italy)<\/strong>
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\nSLASHER (Itapira – S\u00e3o Paulo, Brazil)<\/strong>
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\nCRITICAL ASSEMBLY (Austin, TX USA)<\/strong>
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\nSKULLPIN (Tucson, Arizona USA)<\/strong>
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\nONE OF THE FALLEN (Knoxville, TN USA)<\/strong>
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\nMORIA (Ukraine)<\/strong>
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