Deleted Trust Rocks (Ger) - minor name change from Trust, which was added onto the site first.

Deleted Frozen Sun (Netherlands) - Grunge/Progressive/Alternative rock.

Thanks a lot.

Deleted Éla (Italy) - full album not yet released, only a few singles downloadable without artwork unique to each song.

Deleted Shiptarian Darkness - very little evidence of valid distribution, almost certainly a troll project.

Deleted Proxess (France) - minor name change from Process to Proxess.

I wasn't sure here, some parts are definitely rock, but also lots of faster, more metallic Motörhead-y stuff. I asked another mod and they said the band should stay. I've changed the genre, though.


Since the band was added based on their first album, I'd definitely want to listen to it before doing anything.


Deleted.


Definitely not just death metal as the entry claims. I'm leaning towards deleting them based on the available album, but I'll try and find the rest of the material first.


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I'll have to check Panic Idols some other time.

Deleted Metal Maniacs (Ger). I'd added them a couple weeks ago, but after giving their demo another listen I think it is more hard rock than metal.

Report for Dimensao Atroz:
https://www.metal-archives.com/report/v ... 2/show/all
The sample song really sounds like hardcore punk. The guy, who repoeted it, probably owns the whole tape.

Deleted.

Thanks a lot, Azmodes.

Überzeugungstäter - The first two albums are mostly rac and the third album has more hatecore elements mmixed with the rac, but still only minimal metal influences.
https://rac-forum.org/forum/showthread.php?p=369376
https://www.metal-archives.com/bands/%C ... 3540467548
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2URHU ... C62ZuNjwfJ

Deleted Worship the Infinite (France) - Duplicate entry.

Tormenta (Esp)
The ffirst demo is flok rock, the album EL fin.. upon which it was apparently accepted, is only about half metal, since only five songs on it are really heavy metal, the rest is Oi!rac. The rest of their catalogue is neo-folk
https://www.metal-archives.com/report/view/id/751610
https://rac-forum.org/forum/showthread.php?p=81716
https://open.spotify.com/album/2ZhohTfhzoY6q2ogPoaS8H

We've had other close calls in the past be accepted by a marginal amount of Metal on one release only: The Blood, Seraiah, Jinrai, Troopers, Strong Style to name a few.

Tormenta might be acceptable since the Metal tracks are pure Metal. It's a real case of 55/45.

In order to be accepted , a band has to have an album that's predominantly metal, not only marginally or partially metal. From that difinition it is clear, that more than half of the album has to be metal. In this case, only five of the songs are predominatly metal, five of tthen. The slightly metal influenced oi song doesN't count. As for Jin Rai, a moderator ssaid , tha they album wwas found to be predominantly metal. You don not to have to confuse your own subjective opinion with the view of the staff. I think, that nobody of them said, that any bands of those, which you have mentioned , was accepted just for being marginally metal. If you think, that any of the bands you have mentioned, idoes not have a predominantly metal album, then you can present it here. It is also interesting, that you give an answer, like you were part of the stastaff and knew exactly , why those bands were accepted. I am of course waiting for an official reaction.

Except I'm not claiming to be staff nor am I pretending my opinion is even close to final. It is ultimately just an independent assessment. I'm citing previous cases where bands were accepted on account of one release with just enough material to warrant inclusion, particularly those others believed were a close call. We can also include The Hunt which Azmodes himself deemed the sole Metal release the "bareliest of barelies". I may disagree with opinions periodically, but I've always been deferential to the staff. You certainly haven't forgotten your time as staff and seem eager to flex on others whenever the opportunity presents itself.

And by the way, I did make that report, didn't I? Why shouldn't I be invested in how this is decided? I did say "might be acceptable" which leaves plenty of room for doubt and ultimately moderator discretion which matters most.

What I am stating, is somply, that an album , of which only the half of songs is metal, is not a predominantly album by ethe site standrds. Oof ccourse,it is up to the moderators, if the would evaulate and album as such, notw genrally speaking, but if it so , it does ot get aaccepted. Iit's ssimple logic, half/half does not equal predomiantely. You have already given your opnion about the music in the report, what you were doing here eas trtraing to convince me of your own interpretatiion of the deciding system. and the moderator's decisions, which is highly subjective and in my own experience , quite incorrect. I was not picking on you, I stated, that i am not interested in your own subjective assumptions , If someone states, that the band barely made it, it certainly does not meam, that the album has only some metal songs and the majority of it is not metal or that it is only half metal.

Deleted Dracane (Russia) - duplicate entry (see Дракайна).

Don't have much, but it's a start...
https://www.metal-archives.com/bands/Mindlink/3904

Three songs:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pizq7llNZw

Doesn't sound like tech thrash at all. (Below) average 90s groovy funk metal stuff. I think we'll need the two demos in this case, and not their last release, but the genre should probably be changed in the meantime.

Mindlink - have changed the genre to Progressive Groove Metal/Hard Rock.

Deleted Holy Tyrant (US) - Duplicate entry.

Deleted Tormenta. I wasn't at all impressed by the debut album as far as metallic RAC goes.

Überzeugungstäter was reviewed based on Entscheidungsträger by at least two mods last year, I see no reason to overturn the decision.


Listening to those three tracks as well as looking at the submitter/year of addition, I have a feeling that this might need the hammer. I'll get a copy of the album on Discogs to check, though.

Deleted Sagenkraft (Italy) - entry was misspelled in a 'zine. Their name is Sagenhaft, a dungeon synth band.

Mass Hypnosis might be worth a re-evaluation. They are listed as industrial/death metal but that is not even remotely accurate. Their first album Disin4mation is a mixture of metalcore and AtG-style melodic DM. They do have a fair amount of metal riffs but there is quite a bit of the album that is definitely on the non-metallic side of metalcore. It's very borderline IMO. Their second album Sanctimonius is more akin to djent or some type of progressive -core music than death metal. They have several EPs as well but they are mostly comprised of songs that were on their full-length albums with a couple of exceptions.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=O ... 0jyfSD6Zjs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xR7UQO6RIvo

Yeah. To me personally, their debut sounds passable but their genre tag definitely needs some corrections. Something like Industrial Metalcore or something.

I am leaning yes in that first Mass Hypnosis album, but the genre definitely needs some correcting here.


Tough one, methinks, but the first demo does seem more metal than not. Again, I'll see about the genre.

Deleted Sent Men Revolt (Bangladesh) - their discography consists entirely of compilation tracks that were entered in as digital singles (artwork not unique to their songs).

Deleted Disciple (Tennessee, US - Alternative rock / rap-metal / watered-down rock throughout entire activity period), Minority (Canada - nu metal), Sickspeed (US - nu-metal, watered-down modern rock of early 2000s sound).

Norden Light - mostly hard rock.
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=P ... NGnq7KPg_W
https://www.metal-archives.com/bands/No ... ght/129366

Norden Light is fairly similar to Tony Martin-era Sabbath, with some tracks having an AOR sound, but is more metal than not. Thanks for the suggestion.

Deleted Devastation Inc. (US) - minor name change from Devastation.

https://www.metal-archives.com/bands/Empylver/41555

https://dew11.bandcamp.com/album/wood-woud-would

A lot of ambient. The three tracks from the debut ep are also there.

Deleted Cadaver (Norway) - minor temporary name change from Cadaver to Cadaver Inc. Deleted the more recent entry of the 2.

I'm not sure that Kontra from Chile should be on M-A. I wouldn't call this groove metal, but some kind of hard rock/heavy rock.

https://www.metal-archives.com/bands/Kontra/65531

Listen here:
https://portaldisc.com/gratis_player.php?id=27992
https://portaldisc.com/gratis_player.php?id=28003
You can do full album downloads from this page too.

Deleted Warptime (Austria) - released one downloadable track that was under 5 min. Submission mentioned that another track was once downloadable as well, but per a message from the person who maintains their Facebook page that isn't the case.

Deleted Avalancha (Spain) - minor name change to Avalanch. Merged Avalancha discography to Avalanch page (the earlier listing of the two).