Hello, I tried to submit the project of a friend of mine, SILENT SOUL, but the site tells me it has been blacklisted. Could you please explain ?
Gryp of LITANIE/KVESTE sent me the links to the physical releases and photos, as well as material listenable online.

Not sure when, the blacklist entry is very old, but it says it was not metal. Can you post the samples here for us to listen to please.

Requiem For The deads:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KhvSpNVMUYU
Split with Hecatombe:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5lAA2zP ... dex=3&t=0s
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC91YcL ... RFU7rp8vFQ

Well, someone has already posted the links. Nevertheless, I'm waiting for your approval to submit it ! Thanks.

Probably fine. Whitelisted for re-eval.

Hello, I have seen that Silent Soul has been rejected for the following reasons : "There are samples for releases with suboptimal VR, and VR for releases with no samples. We need to hear some more tracks from the releases with definitive VR to determine if they belong."

Could you please explain me what VR and suboptimal VR means ? I don't understand the decision. Thanks.

There's proof for a valid release for "Embyent" and "Life of Spectrum", since they are available to buy from Depressive Illusions Records. One of which is tagged as "Dark Ambient" in the shop, the other is "Dark Ambient / Black Metal", so can't really approve that since they might be pre-dominantly ambient releases.

The samples you included are, however, for "Requiem for Deads" and that split with Hecatombe.
The split has a valid release (Bandcamp download), but given the size of the band's cataloge, 1 song that seems a bit borderline on a split doesn't seem enough to base the inclusion solely on that.
As for "Requiem for Deads", it's metal, but there's isn't really prove that it was released as a download or physical item. The band has mockup-entries on their bandcamp page, but those are all empty/blank tracks with no audio, no option to buy things and no samples.
They claim that they were released in limited quantities on CD on various labels, but we can't take their word for it, so we need proof that those CD releases actually happened.

Thank You for this answer, I get it now. I will contact Gryp from Silent Soul/Litanie/Wintermoon to ask for the "Requiem" album to be available on Bandcamp et some photos from the CD.