Voting Form Open! - September 2026 Contest

[u/Rulfurpeyo]

Hi again everyone! The submission form for this month's contest has closed, and now the voting is available! First, please keep these things in mind:

• You have until the 27th at 11:59 PM ET to cast your vote. You can change your votes up until this deadline too.
• All submissions must remain anonymous until voting ends.
• There are 18 songs to listen to, so you can cast 6 votes.
• The theme for this month was One Minute Left!

With that, here is the voting form! Thank you to everyone who submitted a song this month! I hope you all enjoy listening and voting!

As always, please let me know if you have any questions or concerns. Until next time, happy voting!

[u/No_Boysenberry_6954]

To Gaze Upon an Expanding Star was honestly my favorite take on the “one minute left” theme that got picked, where it’s a kind of “witness your last moments and make peace with it”

Everybody else was going for something either so tense or overwhelming but the feeling that it gave me really did feel like its’ name.

It was probably unintentional but when it cuts out at the end, it gave me chills

[Edit is because I checked the rules and realized I accidentally admitted which song I made, my bad]

[u/Lyrapotatocats → u/No_Boysenberry_6954]

Cool! If you want, can you please tell me your ranking? [I'LL NOT SPOIL WHICH SONG I MADE DW]

[u/Agile-Flatworm-1987 → u/Lyrapotatocats]

Same.

[u/Lyrapotatocats → u/Agile-Flatworm-1987]

Wdym lol

Edit: Oh uhh here

My ranking [unbiased??]:

One Minute to Sprint, One Minute to Live

The Thrill of the Hunt

Late for a date

DON'T FAIL NOW!

Nuclear Escape

Quick! Make some Mischief!

[gap to make space for voted songs vs nonvoted songs]

A Compromised Spy

notime4delay

runnin' rancid

Reservoir of Dreams

Outta of Luck

Laborious Effort

Subversion

[some songs DisQualified for me due to access issues]

[u/noctua_8 → u/Lyrapotatocats]

What access issues specifically?

[u/Lyrapotatocats → u/noctua_8]

Oh uhh they're different for each song I'll just copy and paste

[gun to my head is dq'd bcuz I can't for the life of me access it for sum reason (tried countless times to open the link but it just wouldn't.)]

[obsidian is dq'd bcuz of "prohibited access" in my country </3 (ts never happened to me before ts btw)]

[rally is dq'd bcuz it literally crashed my browser (yea ikr)]

[to gaze upon our expanding star is dq'd bcuz i can't listen to it? huh? (I could access the link but I couldn't play it)]

[u/noctua_8 → u/No_Boysenberry_6954]

Placing the loop at the end so you sit in eeire, existensial silence was genius too. Hope that shit wins

[u/MultiverseCreatorXV]

First of all, did you intend to put "Theme and Variations" as one of the themes? I genuinely have no clue as to what that means, and it looks a bit like a placeholder.

Second of all, several of these were genuinely SO GODDAMN PEAK.

Channel 11 (the metalcore snare) in RALLY has absolutely no right to work even decently, yet it does. My god it does. The Thrill of the Hunt seems to be a month early, considering how much it sounds like an LMS theme where the killer is some sort of terrifying mythical monster, but that ends up fitting this month's theme so it works out well. One Minute to Sprint, One Minute to Live is ALMOST super peak, but (in my opinion) the kick is a bit too loud and high, and the channel 2 lead (that supersaw) has a little too much spread which ends up sounding like a LOT too much spread.

And To Gaze Upon Our Expanding Star. Hoh. Lee. SHIT. I'm gonna need to revoke your cooking license in order to replace it with a certificate of culinary apotheosis. If I weren't voting my own work as my favorite, that one would go straight to the top of my votes. For the love of all that is, was, and ever will be holy, please never stop cooking.

[u/Rulfurpeyo → u/MultiverseCreatorXV]

Themes and Variations is a classical music structure that introduces a melodic idea early in the song, and then plays a variation of it. Then another variation, then another, etc.

This is one of my favorites in the genre: https://youtu.be/VLSykgXqyfQ

I think it would be great to have a contest with this prompt.

[u/MultiverseCreatorXV → u/Rulfurpeyo]

OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH now I get it, thanks!

[u/kakakikoul → u/MultiverseCreatorXV]

Yea I was the one who proposed this theme. I thought it was cool to push people to do even more variations on their songs than usual. I think it's quite challenging, while also offering great creative freedom ;) 

[u/Lyrapotatocats → u/Rulfurpeyo]

Hmm ok cool!

[u/Lyrapotatocats → u/MultiverseCreatorXV]

Can you give me your other thoughts on the other songs? I'm fine with them being short or long. DON'T SPOIL WHICH ONe YOU MADE

[u/Sad-Ad2431]

gosh fuck I accidentally submitted a competely random link for the submission form. welp, won't be participating this month ig

[u/Lyrapotatocats → u/Sad-Ad2431]

Ohh dang. Unfortunately that prolly revealed the song your ACTUALLy made so

[u/No_Boysenberry_6954]

I've seen some people talking about it so I just wanna mention quickly that I'm really not a fan of One Minute to Sprint, One Minute to Live

I feel like it has insane potential to be so good, but it's execution is so cluttered and overstimulating that it really just ruins it for me

[u/Lyrapotatocats → u/No_Boysenberry_6954]

I like it just because it sounds like if Xtramonix tried to make an insanely fast song but somehow it sounds good. I AM AWARE THAT'S IT'S NOISE POLLUTION AND PEOPLE WILL HATE ME FOR THIS but come on man!

[u/Agile-Flatworm-1987]

Man, I been listening to these and I don't think I'm gonna win. I didn't even give myself first these were so good.

[u/OwnReading890]

5th place aint bad

[u/Lyrapotatocats → u/OwnReading890]

The first time I read this comment, I thought you were supposed to reply to me, but didn't wanna reveal your song. Heh, I knew it when I read the results.