Heavy Metal Eurovision - internet contest organized by www.esckaz.com
Permanent adress: http://metal.esckaz.com/
Heavy Metal Eurovision - 1st edition (June -
July 2005) - Contest completed
The Final Results are available (scroll down). Congratulations
to the winners, thanks to the voters and see you soon in the 2nd edition of the contest.
Featuring:
List of participants:
New: Read lyrics of participating entries
(please send us missing ones if you have them)
New: More pictures of the participating bands added (please
send us missing ones if you have them)
Rules:
Latest news: Voting deadline is set at midnight of 24th of
July 2005, and results will be revealed afterwards. You still have chance to cast your
vote and change result in your favour as it is really really close with up to 8 bands
still fighting for the first place. Remember that you should rank ALL entries in your vote
from 1 to 10, but there is no limits to 10th or 1th or whatever mark you're giving. 0s are
not accepted, all bands should get at least 1 point from you. Votes should be sent at metal@esckaz.com
We're now discussing the second edition concept. Possibly it will start soon after
the end of this edition, so stay tuned!
It seems that we will accept some new countries in the game and eliminate some
countries, exact decision was not yet taken. Also we will try to ensure there is not so
many of such a undisputable bands like Iron Maiden or Stratovarius for ex. in the running,
thus giving attention to less known bands from the biggest countries.
Additional clarification: Ladies and Gentlemen! We once again
underline that this contest is FAN BASED and UNOFFICIAL. It is organized
within the regular frames of such type of contests. There are dozens if not hundreds such
contests in the other musical styles, and it seems as this is first event in heavy metal
style, it is rather new for the audience, and we need to clarify and emphasize on the fact
that participating bands are NOT INVOLVED in the contest. Some of them
are not even informed about their participation, and result in this fan contest can not
affect them at all. It is simple GAME, the one you can play, or can
ignore, or can invent your own one with your favourite bands and different rules. Stay
metal!
Additional important information: at this point the main
voting is done by judging all participating songs on 1-10 scale and
sending the votes to metal@esckaz.com . Please keep
votes coming! Vote sheet should include your name, city and country you're voting from.
You're also welcomed to write reviews for the competing songs, which will be
published later. If you're reviewing in Russian - feel free to post your preview to this topic at MB. All
reviews are representing the opinions of authors and should be regarded only as such.
Voting is planned to last during 2 months - June and July. The end of voting will
be announced one week in advance. No preliminary results will be published ever not to
affect further votes.
If you will notice broken links, or will need better quality files of participating
entries, or full mp3s of those entries presented at the list by samples - write to us and
we will try to help you when possible.
Attention - couple of files may require preregistration at the servers they are
located at, it is very simple procedure, but alternatively we can send this files via
e-mail.
We recommend you to use SoulSeek
software for mp3 files search, but please try to download official mp3s linked in the list
where possible, or buy original CDs when available.
Main rules:
Participating countries - ESC participating countries + Italy and Kazakhstan as
special guests = 41 country. The possibility to add and eliminate countries in next
editions is still being discussed. However no more wildcards will be given if contest
stays European only and all continents will have equal rights in case World concept will
be accepted.
Requirements for participating bands: page at www.metal-archives.com, official website with mp3
files available for download in decent quality. Priority is given to active power metal
and prog metal bands with experience.
Preselection: Big 8 countries (UK, Germany, Sweden, Finland, Italy, Denmark,
Netherlands, Russia) representatives are selected via internet voting, participants from
the rest of 33 countries are selected internally by organizers. However organizers are
accepting suggestions which will be properly considered.
Nominations for the big 8 countries and suggestions for the other countries
should be sent to organizers at metal@esckaz.com or published at the discussion board
which is located at Metalism records messageboard.
Voter can nominate only one band (not song) for each of 8 countries. The band getting most
nominations occupies country spot in the current edition of the contest.
The main voting is done with judging all participating songs in 1-10 scale
and votes should be sent to organizers at metal@esckaz.com
or published at the discussion board which is located at Metalism records messageboard. Before the voting you
should download and listen properly to all of the participating entries. For voters
residing in Almaty, Kazakhstan all entries can be given out on mp3 CD if requested. In
case download link fails to function and no alternative will be available - organizers
will take the decision whether to upload file themselves or to disqualify the entry. To
get better quality mp3 - buy original CDs and if they are not available use sharing
programs as E-Mule & Soulseek. We have checked - all songs are available through this
software.
Deadlines for voting are set by the organizers, in general nominations
period takes one week and voting period - one month. Contest is scheduled to run twice a
year if other schedules permit.
Participation in nominations and the main voting is open for everyone, but
voter should mention his name, e-mail and city of residence when voting. One can vote for
his own country, but all votes will be checked to prevent multiply voting. Only
correspondence in English or in Russian will be accepted. Attention: No mp3s to be sent
via e-mail!
Disclaimer: Heavy Metal Eurovision is not real life contest, it is fan based
event taking place in the internet. Purpose of it is to promote heavy metal bands from
different European countries. Data and recordings used in this contest remain property of
the bands and other copyright holders and are used by the organizers for the promotion
purposes only. Heavy Metal Eurovision is not associated with Eurovision Song Contest which
is registered trademark of European Broadcasting Union.
Organizers hold the right to change the rules at any point of the competition or to
cease the event completely.
special thanks to www.metal-archives.com
and http://metalism.fastbb.ru/
We also kindly thank following band representatives for their interest in the
project and wish them good luck in the contest and success in the future: Altair,
Armageddon, Desert, Distant Light, Dyslesia, Emerald, Holy Dragons, Offertorium,
Persefone, Rosebourg, VII Gates, Symbolic.
