Nope, I've listened to the full album and the blacklist is on point.

This is very based on Metalcore (to be specific: the unacceptable kind of Metalcore) + Nu-Metal (early Papa Roach perhaps) with some post-hardcore influence and very scarce metal riffs which are such a minority on the whole album that the band itself can't be considered "metal".


This site has rules. A band needs to have a single unambiguously metal album to be accepted on this site. And we, -staff members of the site- make our own judgment about the music.

About Soundgarden: The Stoner/Heavy Metal side comes from the pre-Superunknown albums. [1], [2], [3]

Blacklist stays.

Derigin, my post was in no way meant as a personal attack towards Paganiusi. But since I am not a mind reader, I could not see , if the post was not reviewed by multiple moderators or just him, and his second sentencesuggested, that there was still some evaluation in the going. In fact, I highly value his help in the "possible Nobody answered me about it, insted I was told to stop. That's partially why I made my suggestion. Of course I disagree with the result, but if it is really a decision of mltiple mods, there is hardly anything I can dot about it
But my complaint about the speed of aanswering questioncomes from more than just the case of this band, but from an experience in this thrad, which lasts longer than one year. I had to repost every second band multiple times, before the answer came. all that wile cclinging to the weekly periodicity, but when I allow myself, taught by this experience, to bump a band sooner than in a week, there is suddenly an uuproar? Think a bit about it. To it cones , that a user active in this thrad recently asked me, what I think about the speed of answering questions and work in the queue as a former moderator . I was careful in my response, but I decided to ask about it on the forum, sooner or later. Theat was another motivation abehind my question. It is exactly because I was also a moderator in the past and know the system behind the site, that it find it double frustrating, that I would probably do.
The users, aside from the minority of label representatives, are also mainly unpaid volunteers, fir which band submissions are a hodbby and who dedicate their free time in hhelping to improve the site. every coin has two sides.
But seeing as you bring up the phrases like_volunteering" , "we know best, what we do" " we cannot be servants to our userrs" , it is really questionableif it has any sense to complaint here about anything. You either will make it a personal attack against some staff member, or use the custom tactics for getting a user , who brings up unpleasant or annoing questions silenced. A tactics , which will never fail, since you are in a position of an advantage, since you are in the position of powr and can easily ban me, if you want to. But the problems , which I have addressed , wil not disappear, even if you will stop or silence me by whichever method you choose. You once told me , that the site has improved. In regards to ppoliteness of the staff, largely yes. In the cooperation of the mods, also. But in the stubborness of the staff and some of its prejudices, no way.
for the record, I an not religious at all , I listen to the christian metal bands solely for their music. But , as wassaid on this forum , ideology shuld not matter and the band is musically certainly not shittymbut a good eighties sounding melodic metal/hard rock. band, their ideology fully aside. I culd also complain about shitty nsbm and dubious borderline rac "metal" bands staining the facade of the database for hours, but do you see me doiding that aside from this post? Please be reasonable
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[puts on bad cop hat]

Am I seeing this right? The ex-staff member most notorious for being among the rudest we've had back then, is complaining about staff attitude because we don't respond to his endlessly entitled complaining? Complaints that hardly anyone else is making lately?

Yeah, no. Enough.

The only thing I'll suggest is that mods can probably edit answered posts with a link to their replies (maybe make it in brightly coloured font or something), or perhaps a sub-forum dedicated to appeals, making it easier for other mods to see what was answered and which queries are still pending. But honestly, the reason why your queries may fall through the cracks isn't so much due to a systemic problem with staff, but simply because, as Derigin said, no one cares that much about re-evaluating the 23th Stryper clone, let alone deal with more pushback when they do respond.

Now that's enough about this subject of the appeals queue. Consider this "silencing" if you will, but I will call it what it is, which is: get back on topic, or else.

Why Ærekær from Denmark is blacklisted? The first album is more dungeon-synth oriented but the second one is Atmospheric Black Metal

https://aerekaer.bandcamp.com/album/avindskjold

Thanks!

For those reasons and because the new album just came out yesterday so you're the first person to ask about it. My personal feelings is that this still doesn't make the cut, but seeing as how I'm not the best with fuzz/noise black metal I'm gonna white list this and let the queue decide. Go ahead and resubmit.

Thanks!

What is the problem with Lice? I dont see any other submission of the band in the queue. And it hasnt been accepted either, so I'm pretty confused.

The other submission got rejected because the band is post-rock/blackgaze, not predominantly metal

Post-rock? Have you guys listened to the entire thing at least? There are 4 clear black metal cuts on there. I agree the 2 closing tracks are pretty experimental and not wholly metal, but geez, just listen to Level Below or Towards Reality. Black metal fury with eerie journeys into the unknown.

I just listened to the full album, I can hear some metal riffs, but it is like what you said: they are just black metal cuts. As a whole, it is more post-rock than metal.

I want to make a complaint about the fact that every single Deathcore band I submit gets rejected because they are "not metal enough" but when I look up bands like Thy Art Is Murder, Whitechapel, Carnifex and Within Destruction they are on her? I don't know but that's Deathcore in its purest form. I wanna know why those bands got accepted on this site but all the others I tried not. I tried a band called Monochromatic Black and they define themselves as Prog Death, but according to the moderators it's Hardcore? I don't know, but that can't be right. Can someone explain to me why certain Deathcore bands get accepted and others not.
Thanks in advance

Sam

So MA's take is that deathcore is a mix of death metal (a metal genre) and metalcore/hardcore punk (predominantly punk genres). We want to include deathcore bands that we evaluate to be more metal than punk, while excluding those that are more -core than metal - not because we don't like them, but to keep the content of the database cohesive.

Aside from Within Destruction, whom I'm not familiar with and can't speak to, those deathcore bands you mention are all only on the website for specific releases which may not be what they are most well known for. Thy Art Is Murder is only accepted because of The Adversary, Whitechapel is primarily listed because of The Somatic Defilement, and Carnifex is mostly only on the website for their material on Hell Chose Me and onward. By our standards, those bands' other albums aren't predominantly metal. Because of this, it's not advisable to use an entire band entry to assume that a band will be acceptable. Monochromatic Black are progressive deathcore, yes (perhaps listing "hardcore" first in the rejection message was a bit misleading, for that I apologize), but to me and the other mod who evaluated them, they sounded much more like later Whitechapel and not based in metal riffs. Regarding their self-description, bands may not always describe their genres accurately, or describe them in ways that align with our definitions on this site. Hope this makes sense.

What does Marginal (Belgium) blacklist note says?

https://marginalcrust.bandcamp.com/albu ... core-crust

More grind crust-punk sided than metal? Cheers

I'd like to ask to reconsider the Alien Weaponry ban: judging from this video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5kwIkF6LFDc
I think they have earned a place here; also, they are releasing the second album so...

Blacklist note says "Crustcore", the new albums seems to be in the same vein as the old stuff and sounds quite punky. Blacklist stays


Sounds pretty rock based and the blacklist note says "More rock than metal". Probably the same band and doesn't sound acceptable. Maybe 3 or max. 4 metal songs.


nah, still groovy Hardcore.

Have you any notes on why Sacred Grizzly Struggle and Hernia_44 (both Japan) were rejected please?

Not a complaint or appeal, just wanted to try and improve my musical classification and I'm not really sure what you think they actually are, other than 'not metal'.

"Modern hard rock/core" and "industrial nu-metal", respectively.

Dear Azmodes and co.,
there is a link for video from Apathy again
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRsnmKVNCF4

there is an info link for something like bandcamp with music samples etc.
https://bandzone.cz/apathyagain
https://hardmusicbase.cz/index.php?stra ... pina=17818

and as an example there is a review of our record
http://www.echoes-zine.cz/recenze/apathy-again-mechanic


and some TV things here
https://www.tvrebel.cz/archiv/czechpara ... 15-2-2019/

With best regards
Slanic from Apathy again (Czech republic)

The post I made was a complete dog poop, so I'm making it again, sorry. Is there a possibility that this atmospheric ambient-black metal with REALLY post and -corish influences called Illyria may get accepted based on their new album?

Easiest way to proof a CD exists is a photo and info on how to order it.
Just like this:
https://www.facebook.com/ApathyAgain/ph ... =3&theater
Include that facebook link and samples and resubmit.


Fuzzy guitars don't make a black metal band. This still sounds like Shoegaze/Post-Hardcore with black metal-ish vocals.