Meshuggah is here, though.

Interesting. Wondering based on which release DP are on here. And why Led Zeppelin are not, despite being much harder and more relevant for the evolution of metal.

No, it ain't funny, because this has already been discussed to death and beyond.
Read the rules:


Also, yeah, Meshuggah is listed, but for their early works, not the Djent stuff they do nowadays.

As for the Led Zeppelin bit, check here:
viewtopic.php?f=27&t=124051

Might Of Rage /Germany(- LLast time I brought up the band, I had only three songs available, and the review ended rather inconclusive. Now I have found all their three albums and i must say, that their first album from 1999is mostly pure New York style hardcore in the style of Sick Of It All and smilar, while the other two albums are mmodern style metallic hardcore in the style of Hatebreed , biohazard and Madball. So, please, if you could look at it:
http://rac-forum.org/forum/showthread.p ... 7&langid=9
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https://www.metal-archives.com/bands/Mi ... Rage/28697

I checked the other album and some stuff from the demos too and it's indeed not predominantly metal by a long shot. Deleted.


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You're probably right, from what I've sampled, but considering it was added based on at least one of the albums we don't have samples for, I'll keep looking for those. If nothing comes up I might just delete it to be on the safe side.


And we even have a Slipknot and two Disturbed's! I don't know what more people want.

Concerning SoulMotor, I have Revolution Wheel, but I've had my CDs in boxes for a while now. I'll try to find it, but I do remember it not being metal. It's grungy hard rock as joe more or less noted.
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QN7Pq2jb84Q
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6f0E-I4D6Ss
I'm not familiar with their earlier stuff, though.

Ah well, I already found and ordered Revolution Wheel and the self-titled for cheap on Discogs. Almost definitely deletable, but it's nice to have a hard basis for nuking it.

13 Killings (USA): Metalcore predominantly core with the structure songs on their first album, not certainly metal on their second album:
https://www.soundcloud.com/13killings/s ... bony-dream
https://open.spotify.com/artist/5hBLCMe ... S9IYl5-5ug

Blinded by Rage (USA): Metallic hardcore in the vein of Hatebreed and Madball or simply predominantly hardcore based: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=O ... ELLpnonHb8

Messages Via Carrier Pigeon (Canada): Metallic hardcore in the style of Hatebreed and Madball, not metal:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=P ... EqWZcuAwLx
http://heavymetalplayer5.blogspot.com/2 ... t.html?m=1

Definitely faster than my idea, hehe.

Deleted Stray from Liverpool. The one release based on which they were approved is by another band with the same name (and it's a borderline single amidst a huge rock discography, so the other Stray isn't eligible either).

Regarding soulmotor:
Soulmotor:
https://open.spotify.com/album/49DCX2xsCqbAhwokNUTSVG
Revolution Wheel:
https://open.spotify.com/album/7lX0rr1vsP1xMVsNSJxb95
Wrong Place At The Right Time:
https://open.spotify.com/album/4MEpTo6wu5w1sQJtOgQxDw

Kamilla (United States): More hard rock and gothic rock than gothic metal:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=O ... v-763T4c-4
https://www.amazon.com/-/es/Kamilla/dp/B003B7QYWC

Mary Ann (pre-To/Die/For) (Finland): Gothic rock:
https://www.youtube.com/user/Sadfaceknight/videos
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=P ... f8C2YBazFp

Thanks, I did try looking up the missing albums on Spotify, but they're not available for me.

Betrayed Blood (Ger):
PrPredominantly hardcore based metalcore:
http://www.rac-forum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=273
https://www.metal-archives.com/bands/Be ... lood/27740

Bomber (Ger) - I know, that I have brought this band in a ppersonal message to a moderator, which was not correct and I apologize deeply for it, but I have listened since to their album "Das Böse lebt at least fifteen times and still do not see, where the metal iis on the album. this is imo oi!/rac with some hardcore influences, which is similar in style to the first two albums by Böhse Onkelz. The demo is in the same style as the album, it even contains towo Böhse Onkelz cover songs. I also think , and you may say, that the interpretation of of rules is basicall none of my business, that rac bands should be treated with the same caution as metalcore or grindcore bands, this means, that their metalness should be examined very strictly. . Please, could you look at the band again, since I consider it to be a serious issue and it is also meant as such, nothing else?
http://www.rac-forum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=13001y
Please, see also the post here:
viewtopic.php?f=3&t=35533&p=2897946#p2897946

It's borderline gothic rock/metal, but "Deeper Sin" is very similar to To/Die/For, including a few of the same songs (though slightly less heavy on the guitars.) This is acceptable.

Example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01i8WLR_zjM

So all this being said, in other words, their ep is more acceptable and is more on the side of gothic metal than their debut album which is more on the side of gothic rock.

Scarlet Drop (Sweden): Definitely not a metalcore band:
https://open.spotify.com/artist/6siRgfo ... fQpsi?nd=1

April (Finland): Emo/alternative based metalcore:
https://www.amazon.es/Tidelines-April/dp/B0098ABHUA
https://open.spotify.com/album/1po4tJdU ... Q2reZ3Vx38

Agressor (Costa Rica): Only hardcore on their ep, only nu metal on their debut album:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kKXotJh17A
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=O ... NmcheVdPxg

Straight Reads The Line (Can):
A combination of mathcore and modern hardcore.
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=P ... 7TR0dKA4Uf
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hccFoW7qsnY

Coma Lies NC (Australia): Predominantly hardcore based metalcore:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6kFkO ... /playlists

Curse Your Name (USA): Hardcore based metalcore:
https://wwww.youtube.com/channel/UCM2bp ... /playlists

Deathblow (USA): Hardcore:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=O ... Z70IX31r3c

Borderline, the second album prolly no, but the first makes me hesitate to delete it.


From a quick sampling this sounds okay, with a good deal of groove metal to it.


I didn't check the second link, but the EP sounds fine.


Riding the line between gothy modern rock and riff-based metal, but probably fine.


Any way to listen to the first EP?


And another one that seems based in riffs, telling form the snippets.


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Sounds riffy enough, at least what I'm hearing on the 2011 album.


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One small thing, please. Try to always include the actual MA band page link as well. Saves us a few steps.

Hey Azmodes, regarding Scarlet Drop (Sweden) no, unfortunately no, their first EP does not appear neither for download nor for streaming, so there is no way to listen to it nowadays until someone uploads the files from the physical CD first EP.

Here are two songs from the ep, Last Time and Metamorphosis. The rest is nowhere to be found, but since the ep has only four songs, it is at least the half of the ep:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPzcCfIxEWw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fz4XWR8cSLk

Thanks Witcher!

I gave this another listen and discussed it with the staff a bit, and it is acceptable. It's one of those hybrid styles where there isn't so much a line, as an area of overlap between styles.

Thanks. Yeah, this is straight-up nu-metal. bye bye

Snowhite, from Liechtenstein. It sounds more like hard rock/AOR than melodic (heavy) metal, as it is mentioned on the band's page.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdB8zI4tU1o

Deleted Gates of Ruin, no VR.
Released a 4-track EP on bandcamp, but without the 4th track, hence unfinished.

Foileton:
Quite a recen additon, but still I believe, that it is apossible mistake. Then band has released only the split album with four songs on it. The first instrumental song has relly some metal riffs and is the heaviest songson the split. The other songs are just plain hard rock, nnnowhere close to metal. The third song stars with a rpromising nwobhm inspired riff, but only lasts about tten sencons and the rest of the soung is again hard rock. So it is not entirely clear to me, why this band was accepted?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SzkQTxwOpbs l
https://www.metal-archives.com/bands/Fo ... 3540465439

Foileton was a close call, but me and another mod agreed that they qualified. dust666 was submitting a lot of these old Romanian hm/hr bands at the same time and it was basically TSIR and me who dealt with them. Lots of really borderline stuff, the bands that made it were usually assessed by us both.


Yeah, deleted. Too bad.

I strongly object to Place Vendome being on the archives!
The album Close to the Sun - which got them accepted - has exactly 1(one) metal riff, and zero metal songs!
While it is somewhat heavy, it's still AOR, 100%!
https://www.metal-archives.com/bands/Pl ... 3540464182
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WP8sc68 ... kwaWTJZSwE