Yes, but Urinefestival is (on my opinion) more death-metal-based then punk-influenced.

I added WolfKrieger(mex) and I recieved a rejection stating they had no discography. Here are two links stating this band exists and has a release;

http://www.spirit-of-metal.com/album-gr ... -l-en.html

http://www.myspace.com/wolfkrieger

Can someone explain why it was rejected. Thank you.

There's a famous hungarian band called Edda, which is primarily known for it's 80's hard rock, which was kinda like Deep Purple in style. They were very popular in the 80's but they seem to have flirted with metal on their lesser known later albums.

Here are samples from what is their most metal album in my opinion:
http://www.edda.hu/html/alb_resz.php?albazon=17

It reminds of those crappy bands from japan, where the crappy keyboards drown the riffs. Even though not every song is metal, the album sounds predominantly melodic metal. I was surprised to hear a power metal song too. So is the band acceptable?

You need a proof of physical release. Myspace alone does not prove anything and Spirit of metal accept everything without distinction and our strict rules. Read the rules on how to provide physical release proof.

Okay, so you didn't notice the riffs in:

The Lone Gunman at 0:43, and 2:01
Communicator at 0:35, 1:16, and 1:29
AWOL at 0:30
Magic Bullet Theory at 1:30
All of Slave Driver

Not to mention those are mostly the main themes of the songs, that appear multiple times enough for it to qualify as metal. Yes you've got Baghdad, Bourbon St, Utopian Trip, and Waiting On A Call but those are generally shorter tracks. The rest is no less metal then a band like Tygers Of Pang Tang. Who let's face it has more rock riffs then metal a lot of the time.

I don't see how it doesn't qualify as metal, except maybe that a lot of the album experiments in other areas which I guess is a fairly valid point.

I repeat, the album is not predominantly metal. Occasional riffs will not save it.

Now, if you think this thread is for endless arguing, you are wrong. That ids not its purpose. You can ask here and will get an answer. When a moderator gives you his deciosion based on the music, then you have to accept it and stop trying. Nothing what you say will change it.

The purpose of this thread is to provide needed proof, to learn how to do it or to present less known or atypical material for band, that was rejected based their non-metal releases.


Simply NOT to argue when material for decision is readily available. That goes for all today's users with their ambient/grindcore/hard rock whatever projects.

Electric Sun. Not technically sure it was ever rejected as such, but I figure it must have been submitted or discussed by now. It's Uli Jon Roth's band after he left the Scorpions. It pretty much sounds like progressified 70s Scorpions. They've got three albums, and the second one, Fire Wind, is the heavier one IMO.

Well I respect you're opinion, and I'm not going to try to change your mind. But I should point out that I wasn't simply mentioning "occasional riffs" but rather riffs that served as the basis of the song.

Now, I understand this thread isn't for arguing, but that wasn't what I was doing, or at least not intentionally. All I did was what the 3rd paragraph your post said. I provided proof as to why it was metal, and you didn't think it was metal. End of story, I don't see why you consider that endless arguing, but as I said I am not going to try to change your opinion.

They have previously been deemed not metal enough.

The official myspace site has music samples:

http://www.myspace.com/thealoneofficial

Not metal, basically new wave/british alternative scene rock with sreamed vocals.

Reject the band this entry: Enochian (SPA)

http://www.myspace.com/enochianisback

For the reason that they have no recording. They have a demo recorded in 1996, and is even available for download.

On his myspace you can hear his songs.


Greetings,

Download is not a physical release.

You can need a photo of their demo?

Yes, that would help.

Anyone?

Yes, there is one fast Power/speed song, but the rest is still quite borderline hard rock.

Ok,

Here you have





The Myspace:

http://www.myspace.com/enochianisback

You can resubmit Enochian, but please include either a link to those pictures or a reference to this thread with your submission.

Please, listen again, so i can make a profile for the band again without the fear, that it'll be deleted afterwards...
It's not really ("pure") Death Metal but even less Punk or can you find a blastbeat in Hardcore Punk?

http://www.myspace.com/urinefestival

I've tried to submit Doomsday Cult from Russia, but it has been rejected. If you need proof links, here is their once EP:
http://letitbit.net/download/6184.6f380 ... _.rar.html
http://depositfiles.com/ru/files/scth1way2

I have told you, that it is not enough death metal based. There is nothing to be solved. The band was blacklisted and so you cannot submit it anymore.

Oh, and blastbeats do not make a band metal , nor they are exclusively a metal technique - read:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blast_beat

Thanks.

Ok, made.

I'm just curious as to why Herrenvolk was deleted.

You probably mean this:
http://209.85.229.132/search?q=cache:Zb ... clnk&gl=fr

Not metal.

Yup, thats it. Thanks for the speedy response.

submitted a band called The Unavowed and they were rejected because they didn't have releases.

Well, just to let you know, they have two EPs out. a live one and a studio one.

http://www.theunavowed.com/music.html

I know that they're physical releases because I happen to own the live one

You know, but the mods don't.

If you could take a photo of the CD and/or whatever it may be packaged in (or any audio release from the band that exists in the physical world and was distributed to a considerable/sufficient extent to pass as a legitimate physical release) and upload it to a website such as http://www.imageshack.us and post the link here, that should be sufficient enough as physical proof.

^^ Another recurring piece of advice that could very well be part of the submission page. (Along with the bit about allowing links for proof in the additional notes.)

Can I submit Doomsday Cult now? Read my post above

Those links arent enough !! mp3's bands arent allowed here , you need to give a proof that this ep indeed been released physically .
Try to read this thread
http://www.metal-archives.com/guidelines.php#bands , check rule 7 .

I can't speak for the live release, but the EP does have a physical release. See here:
http://www.theunavowed.com/creatingEP03.html

There's no link at the top of the official site because they are sold out according to a recent news post, but a merch page linked to from an old news post listed the EP for sale:
http://www.theunavowed.com/merch.html

Resubmit with those links or a reference to this thread.

Hi again!

Hephesstus (Argentina) was rejected for the following reason:

"The picture you posted doesn't really prove a physical release. It only shows the front cover of the CD. Here is a good example of a proper proof of physical release: http://s2.subirimagenes.com/privadas/pr ... ndemo2.jpg If you can take a picture like that then please include it with your resubmission. Thanks."

Well it's a photo of their EP, maybe it isn't proper enough but it's the better I could find. Anyway, I found something in their MySpace that could be useful. It's a notice about the band in question, from the local journal "El Chubut": http://viewmorepics.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=viewImage&friendID=485333912&albumID=175082&imageID=12751647



This a part of the pic below:



The line that I highlighted in red (El EP se encuentra a la venta en la disquería Imperio Musical), says that the EP is on sale at the record store Imperio Musical (Google Translation), in the province of Chubut. I hope that this is enough for you, to proof that the release is physical and it is avalaible for sale.

http://www.myspace.com/hephesstus

Cheers and thanks for your attention.

Resubmit.

Son of Aurelius (Santa Cruz, CA) was rejected for being "predominantly not metal". I'd like to dispute this.

http://www.myspace.com/sonofaurelius

It has already been discussed in this thread before.

Thanks! Done.

my band (Hypnotica) www.myspace.com.*hypnoticabr was rejected!

No physical release. The "new merchandise" leads to nothing.