It's not about saying "since Throdown or Suffokate are on here X should be on here"

It's me saying that Violent Insight's "-core" influences (the few there are) are far less than Throwdown's of Suffokates'

Both of these bands ARE Hardcore, it's not about influence in instrumentation.

Both have more breakdowns and Dave Peters of Throwdown uses blatantly hardcore lyrics and vocals.

What about Violent Insight's instrumentation scream "Hardcore"?

Is it the blast beats? The Death Metal Vocals? The Solos? The Gothenburg type harmony riffs?

I don't see it...

As for what I meant by the Malevolent Creation reference:

Of course I'm not saying: "they named themselves after a Death Metal band, let them on here!" That would be stupid.

What I was trying to do was show you the spirit behind the band, they have always been one which supports Death Metal and old school metal.

I feel like you guys are missing the point here and fact is there's almost nothing "Hardcore" about them.

Hear hear.

I'v tried to submit my own band 2 times. Rejected i guess.

We play experimental black metal. We can also prove that we have a lable and u can now preorder our full length album.

I dare to say the we are metal enough!

I've also checked my hotmail spam. No rejection mail there.

I feel neglected=P
Please help.

Check it out. What is your verdict?
http://www.myspace.com/kraakermusic
http://www.myspace.com/finalearthbeatprod

Neither of those links has an actual release date for tha album available. I'd assume that "preorder" means orders made before the actual release date, so please wait until the albums actually ship, so that you can say the album has been factually, without doubt, released to the public.

I mean, for Lemmy's sake, your "label website" is a crappy MySpace page, and clicking the "releases" or "bands" banners takes me to the Imageshack page where the banner is stored and not any page with, you know, releases or bands. If that's the level of professionalism, I assume and hope the staff here will expect more proof of physical releases before your band will get approved.

Can't listen to the band at work, so no comment on the metalness yet. But you need a real, physical release in any case.

Ok.

I know the label seems a bit crappy. They just started up and it's all work in progress.

I'll just have to wait until you can actually buy the album then.

Thanks

Btw.

This is another page for further "proof" http://www.elegymusic.it/mailorder/
The gif in the upper right corner.

Yeahyeah.

I'll wait then...

Can a mod tell me whether Demetrius Grave is on the rejected list? I would like to see an opinion on their latest output -- has not been discussed so far -- but my rip is 400 MB, so I would like to know first before I upload this thing.
http://www.myspace.com/demetriusgrave2000
-> latest release: The City Is So Big
http://www.discogs.com/Demetrius-Grave- ... se/1855817

It is.

Hm ... I suspected as much. Well, as I do not want to post the upload, it would be neat to have a mod who wants to take on this band/release.

Same here;



Thanks

My band (Destrudo) is still waiting...

I submitted Funeral (Brazil) and it was rejected under the explanation that there is no proof that their demo was officially released.

Of course it wasn't, it was a recording of one of their shows. This was 1988, people traded tapes in letters, they sent hundreds of copies all over Brazil and a few countries in South America.

But the band did exist, I even included a myspace.com link where there are pictures, a bio, and the songs on their tape are there for everyone to listen.

I dare you to tell me there aren't ANY other bands in this same situation on your website.

Sorry if I seem to be a bit pissed but that's because I am. I rarely participate, I'm not, what do you call it? "Whoring for points", I didn't even know there was such a thing as a ranking until a few months ago. I'm 39 fucking years old and I'm no mall-kiddy trying to be accepted by my peers or any retarded bullshit like that.

I just thought I could help preserve the memory of the underground scene in my town, that's all...

I can not understand why THE METAL ARCHIVES include bands like MORTIIS, VOND, NEPTUNE TOWERS but excludes bands like ANAL CUNT, ROT, LED ZEPPELIN.

Anyone can explain?

http://metal-archives.com/guidelines.php
Read 5).

I submiited Ophelia, a progressive/thrash metal band from UK.
today i recieved a mail saying it's not metal.
it dosn't sound as if it's not metal.
i think their has a been a mistake.
here's the link:
http://www.myspace.com/opheliaband1

I wanted to submit Blessing Sins but it seems to be on the rejected list

http://www.myspace.com/blessingsins

Is it considered too core? Their style is described as Swedish DM with deathcore influences

I'm not much into deathcore so its always difficult for me to judge

I'm not the one who rejected it, but I was hesitant to accept it for the same reason: not metal. The band sounds like a metalcore band, leaning toward the -core side rather than the metal side. The band is hardly even progressive or thrash. You seem to have described the band based on the genres they list on their MySpace page; bands don't always list their correct genres on MySpace. I mean, My Chemical Romance lists themselves as metal on their MySpace page. Are they metal? Not even close.

Yes it doesn't seem as if its thrash or progressive but i think it has enuf metal influence.

What you say?

I'm in agreement with GVOLTT. This is definitely more based on -core than it is on metal. Please be careful with what genre you label your submissions.

I hear some definite similarities with bands like Nevermore and Holy Terror. OK the singing is more Core (and not my cup of tea) but the guitar-riffing surely is Metal to me!
Too bad for you I am not a mod!

No problem Brother.
If Mods don't agree than who am I to argue.
But,as you said it's metal enough!

Okay. Marya Roxx got rejected mostly for lack of information. Marya Roxx has released an EP:

It says <u><i><b>If you can get a copy of her '21?!' EP</u></i></b>

I submitted Petrychor: http://www.myspace.com/petrychor
or
http://petrychor.bandcamp.com/

I was told there was no proof of a discography. I put in the comments of my submission that the demo has been released and sent to labels and friends. I have also linked to mp3s of the demo. How can I provide more proof that it exists? I'm not trying to be a dick, I just want to know so I can get my submission approved. Thanks

Mostly? Not really no. Not metal.

I'm still waiting...

http://www.metal-archives.com/band.php?id=3540300603

The band must have a physical release. See rule #7.

<b>I didnt get any feedback on this, so Im reposting</b>

I recently posted the "Misty Forest" project.. its no 3minute one song shit, but a 5song half an hour of play..

20 selfproduced cds were made and given to people who had the interrest in this black ambient metal project.

pic of the first cd which I kept is here, and yes the cover is supposed to be UG black and white
http://usr.bandzone.cz/band/mi/mistyfor ... 437112.jpg

I dont know how else to proof.. have a nice day

Sounds suspect.. Do you have a link to the music? If there's more ambient then there is metal (happens often enough) then maybe that's why the band's not on here.

The demo exists in physical form. Should I scan a copy of the actual disc itself when I get it in the mail in addition to the cover?

A photo if you can.

And because it says female rock artist means she isn't metal? Hey, people confuse metal for rock all the time. Click here, here, or here. Is that not not metal?

Its not about that , when i saw it in the waiting queue i laughed hard , cause man , its like your going to add Vanilla Ninja to the archives , the band has nothing to do with metal . in Estonia she is pretty famous and if you ask someone there if marya roxx its metal he gonna make fun of you . I dont have no idea if your doing that for fun or either you never know what is metal and what is not , seriously .. and im not surprised since you tried to submitt ektomorf recently too ...
Try to check the FAQ and rules sections .

well, hi to everybody, i am posting this here because i think this band was rejected a long time ago , in some part of this forum was discussed the fact on why Lacrimosa is not in Metal Archives , somebody said " because it is not metal " , Then , why is this band " Dargaard " ( http://www.metal-archives.com/band.php?id=4051 ) here , and other with the same style ? ,they don´t play with guitars , therefore they can´t absolutely be " metal " as it seems the main requirement here is .I think lacrimosa should be in the list of bands , or all non-metal bands must be deleted .
believe it or not !!

Dargaard is here because of the side project rule (see the guidelines section, rule number 5).

Lacrimosa is clearly gothic rock and are no where near gothic metal, therefore they do not belong here.

Hi, just tried to submit Pallid Flesh and it's rejected apparently.

Gareth Murdock from Waylander used to play in it. It's standard death metal.

Their 2002 demo is reviewed on Metal-observer:
http://www.metal-observer.com/articles. ... =6&id=4266

Just wondering why as I'm not sure how it infringes on the rules?

No, the problem was to give a proof of physical release... And I think I gave a good proof, but didnt get any reply from anyone

Why was the band Guttural Decay rejected? I submitted it correctly, they're slamming brutal death metal, and have a demo out.

What did the message say?

Not sure, what'd you write?

Their album is upcoming. As for the demo, I'm not sure. It seems to me that it's a promo intended for labels and not available to the public. Unless you can prove me wrong.