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\nIt\u2019s time TMD announces the 10 bands that received the highest point totals among the online judges in the first round of voting. Thanks again to all the participants in the first \u2018Battle of Unsigned Prog Metal\u2019 online contest! Good luck to the TOP 10 in the final round on October 31!!<\/p>\n
Judging for the Semi-Final round was based on the most current studio recording and the finals are based on video of live performance. Here is the basic breakdown on exactly how the scoring process works:<\/p>\n 1st round (Semi-Finals)- Scoring for STUDIO RECORDING (1-10 point scale) is based on 3 separate criteria:<\/p>\n 1. Production Quality 1. Production Quality The overall top scoring band of both combined Semi and Finals round will be crowned winner of the online contest and receive a 3 month publicity deal with THE METAL DEN (Value $2,250). <\/strong>Prizes to be announced for the other top finalists once the champion is crowned on Oct 31!!!<\/em> Creator\/Editor-In-Chief of THE METAL DEN, \n Hope Cody, THE METAL DEN (USA)<\/strong><\/p>\n \n Ingrid Newton, METAL MASTER KINGDOM (Canada)<\/strong><\/p>\n http:\/\/www.metalmasterkingdom.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \nhttp:\/\/themetaldenrecords.com\/<\/a> <\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It\u2019s time TMD announces the 10 bands that received the highest point totals among the…<\/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-36079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36079","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=36079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36079\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\n2nd round (Finals) \u2013 Scoring for VIDEO OF LIVE PERFORMANCE (1-10) is based on 3 separate criteria:<\/p>\n
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\nRandy “Rocket” Cody<\/p>\n
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\nMAHOGANY HEAD GRENADE (Dallas, TX USA) (73 points)<\/strong>
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\nProduced by Sterling Winfield (Pantera fame)
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\nhttp:\/\/www.reverbnation.com\/mahoganyheadgrenade<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a>
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\nKLEHMA (Overland Park, KS USA) (69 points)<\/strong>
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\nhttps:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Klehma<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a>
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\nOCEANBORN (Chicago, IL USA) (66 points)<\/strong>
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\nhttp:\/\/www.reverbnation.com\/oceanborn<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a>
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\nNEXILVA (Sunderland, UK) (62 points)<\/strong>
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\nhttps:\/\/www.facebook.com\/nexilva<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a>
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\nMACHINES OF MAN (Salt Lake City, UT USA) (60 points)<\/strong>
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\nhttps:\/\/www.facebook.com\/machinesofman<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a>
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\nSAVE US FROM THE ARCHON (Southwestern Pennsylvania USA) (60 points)<\/strong>
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\nhttps:\/\/www.facebook.com\/suftapa<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a>
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\nSCIENTIC (Denmark\/Sweden) (56 points)<\/strong>
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\nhttps:\/\/www.facebook.com\/scienticmusic<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a>
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\nTHIRA (Minneapolis, MN USA) (56 points)<\/strong>
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\nhttp:\/\/www.reverbnation.com\/thira#<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a>
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\nCORDURA (Slovenia) (56 points)<\/strong>
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\nhttps:\/\/www.facebook.com\/CorduraOfficial<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a>
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\nUNMANIFEST (Oxford, Mississippi USA) (55 points)<\/strong>
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\nhttps:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Unmanifestofficial<\/a>
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