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\nIt\u2019s time TMD announces the 5 bands that received the highest point totals among the online judges. Thanks again to all the participants in the first \u2018Battle of Unsigned Death Metal\u2019 online contest!
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\nJudging for the final round was based on live performance video.
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\n2nd round \u2013 Scoring for VIDEO OF LIVE PERFORMANCE (1-10) is based on 3 separate criteria:<\/p>\n
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The overall top scoring band of both combined Semi and Final rounds is crowned winner of the online contest and receives a 3 month publicity deal with THE METAL DEN (Value $2,250). 2nd place wins 1 month of unlimited press releases and 1 interview published at TMD’s acclaimed site. 3rd place wins 2 weeks of unlimited press releases. 4th & 5th place each wins 1 press release announcement. Creator\/Editor-In-Chief of THE METAL DEN <\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It\u2019s time TMD announces the 5 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-37083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37083","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=37083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37083\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\nRandy \u201cRocket\u201d Cody<\/p>\n
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\nHope Cody, THE METAL DEN (USA)<\/strong>
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\nJB Griffin, Outwest Entertainment (USA)<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n
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\n1. BEYOND THE GALLOWS<\/strong> (Columbia, SC USA) (169 points)
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\nhttps:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Beyondthegallowsofficial<\/a>
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\n2. AFTERBLOOD<\/strong> (Athens, Greece) (164 points)
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\nhttp:\/\/www.afterblood.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a>
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\n3. MESMERA <\/strong>(Croatia) (160 points)
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\nhttp:\/\/www.reverbnation.com\/mesmera<\/a><\/p>\n
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\n4. AGONICA <\/strong> (Vigo, Spain) (154 points)
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\nhttp:\/\/www.reverbnation.com\/agonicadeath<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a>
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\n5. ADRENOCHROME<\/strong> (Blackstone Valley, RI USA) (149 points)
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\nhttp:\/\/www.reverbnation.com\/adrenochrome<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a>
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