Deleted Knuckles Revenge (Peru) - 1 digital single that is short of 5 minutes. Must have been accepted by mistake.

Report for Blues Funeral:
https://www.metal-archives.com/report/v ... 1/show/all

About Mindlink, I'm still not sure after checking the full-length, but more on yes now.


Doesn't seem like metal is dominant here. Deleted.

Borderline, but the debut sounds potentially metal enough.

The Last Season (USA): Mathcore:
https://www.metal-archives.com/bands/Th ... ason/41654
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8RwKgDPXqk
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=O ... -DrkZ5k_ho

Xenon (USA): Predominantly hard rock:
https://www.metal-archives.com/bands/Xenon/118802
https://open.spotify.com/album/5agxkiiC ... yYQBqt18rw
https://open.spotify.com/album/792KFlyA ... kOgGjx1TDQ

Survivor (USA): Predominantly hard rock:
https://www.metal-archives.com/bands/Su ... 3540288336
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2gLIUPeN2g8

Zero Hora (Brazil): Progressive hard rock:
https://www.metal-archives.com/bands/Zero_Hora/66496
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pC17aIL ... e=youtu.be

Deleted Vulagris (United Kingdom) - already on the site with correct spelling, Vulgaris.

I came here to ask about this one, but it seems it's already been brought up. Apparently the band was accepted based on their 2006 album, but neither of them sound predominantly metal to me. More like punk with some metallic moments. Their first album sounds more metallic to me, but if it is metal enough I think it would be by a pretty thin margin. Did these ever get reevaluated?

https://www.metal-archives.com/bands/%E ... 3540470828

Deleted Entité Inconnue (Can). Their sole release is a demo stolen in full from Vemmelig.

Forgive my protestations, but I sincerely believe a consensus should be reached on this band or perhaps an explanation of where the Metal moments on those albums are strongest. I don't understand how 仁籟 is anymore metallic than 鎧 [Yoroi] or 嵬峨 [Kaiga], neither of which were accepted.

Hmmm. I have some big doubts about this one. There are too many chugs and breakdowns going on here for a groove/thrash metal. https://www.metal-archives.com/bands/Se ... 3540281520

Maybe it is just due to a wrong genre being listed since the EP might be acceptable groovy metalcore, but the album sounds like a djenty core. So best to leave it here for a closer look.

EP:
https://youtu.be/i3URUpWGlKs
https://youtu.be/Jbgx10yZ1IU
https://youtu.be/O4eoC9ZVYpI
https://youtu.be/PuXaCu9Yg2o
https://youtu.be/SVoZjMfi_uA

Album:
https://youtu.be/hn8CQdXry44
https://youtu.be/sX2igkHbl30
https://youtu.be/bMuIe-ElLgY
https://youtu.be/VO1OXmX-NjU
https://youtu.be/RUoGa1kfOh8
https://youtu.be/cV93EJsdmuU
https://youtu.be/RvNIpbozzE0
https://youtu.be/27gXEJKZf7o
https://youtu.be/dRxiXwM19o4

The Last Season (US) - Musically sounds okay to me, but the vocals give it that core sound that seeps onto the site far too often. Depends on how much the vocals vs. music are taken into consideration in a final determination.
Xenon (US) - Rock - should definitely be deleted from the site.
Survivor (US) - Good rock album with some Thin Lizzy influence. Winterhawk is definitely more metal, to compare a case with a band that stylistically isn't that far off, but it was determined that they're more rock than metal.
Zero Hora (Brazil) - Sounds fine, should stay on the site in my opinion. The energy and tones really just sound like early heavy metal to me.
Jinrai [仁籟] (Japan) - kind of borderline, but a lot of it sounds like metal to me. Alternative rock usually has a much more controlled, 'safe' sound than this. This has heavy guitars. At times I heard a Motorhead influence. I can hear how some of the songwriting has a skate punk influence, but this is heavier and not watered down like bands that play in that style. There are some really questionable moments along the way, though. Personally leaning towards it being okay to stay, but is somewhat borderline. More opinions would be helpful.
Set on End (New Zealand) - Didn't listen to all of it, but skimming through it for a few minutes, there is a lot of core sound in there, and that sound that Testament and Slayer were going for in the late '90s. For sure borderline, leaning towards deletion based on what I heard but could use more opinions and don't feel too strongly one way or the other.

Deleted Tirhä - misspelling of Trhä, which already exists in the database.

Deleted Xenon (US) and Survivor (US) - rock. The Last Season, Jinrai [仁籟], and Set on End need another opinion still.

Newdawn is ten times more metallic than Jinrai is. They're what would happen if Iron Maiden started covering Angelic Upstarts. The sophomore album 暮秋ノ回帰船 is even more metallic than the first.

AS I have already said, while Ne Dawn have melodic metal style soling, it llacks for me convincing metal riffs in the strophes. I also disagree about Jin Rai, but I am nnot about reevaluatioof multiple samurai spirit oi! bands, including Jin Raii, but excluding Sledgehammer, since their album Japnese Wolves is convincingly metal , compeltely different from their othe r releases. You also seem to change opinion pretty quckly, since new Dawn were one of the bands, with whose addition you have cvocally ddisagreed in the past, togtogether with the inclusion of Jin Rai and strong Style. It¨s compicated for me to qqquote it, but it was in this and the Potentioal Additions thread last year. ionce again, the addition can get reconsidered, I have noproblem with it, but such contests about whose band is less metal and abrupt opinion shifts leave me entirely cold.n

My main objections were to Strong Style and Jinrai.

Newdawn was mentioned in passing in my appeal for Growl Strike, but compared to those other two, that band is far more metallic than either Strong Style or Jinrai. At that time, I felt Growl Strike was more metallic than any of those but their work has been decisively deemed not so. I have since backed off on Strong Style after a closer listen (although yeah, it is pretty Punk), but Jinrai's inclusion is just baffling hence my objections.

In any case, I feel Newdawn is predominantly Metal but with side influences from Oi!, Hard Rock and even Melodic Hardcore which probably explains my initial comparison of Growl Strike being more Metal. Growl Strike is, in my opinion, an even blend of Metal and Hardcore Punk, but sadly, not enough Metal for this site.

Kontra (Chile) "Kontramundo" sounds like the 'more metal' of the 2 releases here for streaming, but not a very obvious case of a band that plays metal. It's in there somewhat, but maybe not enough. The other release is far from it. Overall opinion leans towards Kontra being deleted, but could go either way.

The other bands still in question:
The Last Season (US) - Musically sounds okay to me, but the vocals give it that core sound that seeps onto the site far too often. Depends on how much the vocals vs. music are taken into consideration in a final determination.
Jinrai [仁籟] (Japan) - kind of borderline, but a lot of it sounds like metal to me. Alternative rock usually has a much more controlled, 'safe' sound than this. This has heavy guitars. At times I heard a Motorhead influence. I can hear how some of the songwriting has a skate punk influence, but this is heavier and not watered down like bands that play in that style. There are some really questionable moments along the way, though. Personally leaning towards it being okay to stay, but is somewhat borderline. More opinions would be helpful.
Set on End (New Zealand) - Listened a little bit more, and lean towards deletion. A lot of horrible breakdowns and modern rock influence. Some of the riffs have a crunch to them, and can see why someone would think of them as a metal band. There is probably 30% actual metal involved in their sound.

Hi guys, I'm quite sure that recently added https://www.metal-archives.com/bands/Drug_Addicted/3540487738 it is actually this band (added by me, btw ): https://www.metal-archives.com/bands/Drugaddicted/97778.

Deleted.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3Ff3cIEya8

Here is a youtube stream for those of you who don't want to use Portal-Disc.

Just to get some clarity:

https://www.metal-archives.com/bands/Kr ... iscography

The band was submitted today; their debut album will be released digitally and on CD on the 7th of May. Two digital singles from the album have been published for downloading some time earlier, each having a different cover (different from the album as well). Do those singles still make the band fully acceptable for submission?

If they have individual covers yes and the way I see it they do. The requirement for digital singles is 5 minutes or more and that requirement is met. So there's nothing wrong here.

Firedown (Belgium)
Upon closer inspection of this band, I have severe doubts that this is actually a metal band. https://www.metal-archives.com/bands/Fi ... 3540350784
Both of their EPs can be streamed here and they sound predominantly core to me. https://soundcloud.com/firedownofficial
I'm not sure about their demo based on which they were accepted since I can't find any samples of it, but "Thrash/Groove Metal with Hardcore influences" gives severe doubts whether this is actually a metal band.
I found some recordings from their early live concerts, the songs there sound a bit riffier but still very borderline.
https://youtu.be/9FfOcYyuDkk
https://youtu.be/UmFu_1McxXc

Report for Khofnak (Itan):
https://www.metal-archives.com/report/v ... 0/show/all

Deleted Corrupt (US) - need more verifiable proof of releases. Adding to research thread.

Deleted Grimlot (Russia) - Their only discography so far is a digitally downloadable track that is 1:43, and digital re-releases of the 2 EPs that had come out under their former name, Ripsaw.

Deleted Nietzschean Reprisal (Canada) -their only release was a cassette reissue of a recording originally released under their former name, which is listed on the site.

Deleted Divine Side (France). Under the name Divine they released one demo, and the rest of the discography came after a minor name change to Divine Side. Kept the one that was added onto the site first.

Deleted Dark-N (France). A minor name change had taken place from Darken to Dark-N. Kept the one that was added onto the site first.

These two are the same band:
https://www.metal-archives.com/bands/Gr ... 3540487539
https://www.metal-archives.com/bands/So ... 3540482199
Grey Sun's sole EP is a re-release of Soleil Gris EP of the same name with the only difference being that on Soleil Gris version there is a one 27 minute song while on the Grey Sun version that same song (the exact same recording) is divided into three parts with some segments cut out.
So the question is now whether this is enough for Grey Sun to have its own entry, should Grey Sun be removed, or the entries should maybe be merged since Grey Sun is literally a translation of Soleil Gris?

The band Murderous Ideology should probably be checked. They claim to be "black/death metal" but there are no real discernible metal riffs anywhere I can find.

https://murderousideology.bandcamp.com/music
https://www.reverbnation.com/murderousideology/songs

Deleted Sol Anahata - duplicate entry of Anahata.

Deleted Gypsy (United Kingdom) - they were added, and shortly afterward discovered to be the same UK band that already exists.