Ah, finally when I intend to contribute to a review challenge, I actually do.

I want to partake but I'm so unsure of myself.

Well, you're supposed to review an album, not yourself.

Stop thinking, just do it, ksevile.

That puts it in a whole different light. I actually got a wild hair not too long ago and decided to review an album out of the blue with no forethought and it turned out a better overall piece than I usually expect out of me.

Edit: Lich... Oh no... here we go. I'm being asked to step out on a limb. Defense mechanism time. However, encouraged by your approbation, I could attempt to do so I think!

But they are virgin albums he thinks to himself. But he's running out of time, he thinks to himself. But he's making excuses not to, he thinks to himself.

It's review time!

EDIT:


All the more reasons to do it. Break the psychological barrier.
Review a virgin and you'll be a 'deflowerer.' Review more and you'll be a conqueror. Review them all and you'll be a god.

EDIT2:

I guess I clicked the "Quote" button instead of "Edit". Sorry for the double post.

Deep breaths, guys.

Not much time today ... will write one or two tomorrow.

Was feeling nostalgic today and decided to tag the new Last In Line album with a review despite someone else already doing it. I'm probably going to do the same thing with the Iron Savior album since it was on my short-list and I have a somewhat different take on it than the two reviews it received yesterday.

I'm working my way through a familiar stream of unreviewed stuff - band submissions to this site. After an unsuccessful attempt in which I must've rejected two dozen bands, I accepted one and reviewed it. Then I went back to previously approved stuff I had listened to and started writing. Don't mind my crappy short reviews of demos, there simply isn't as much stuff to be said than there is about that "thrash metal rock opera."

No worries from my end, the only thing might be the overt negativity of the vast majority of your output, but if I was disposed to just picking random bands to review rather than sticking to stuff I've been listening to for at least the past couple months in most cases, I'd probably be trashing a lot of stuff too and doing it in as few of words as possible while meeting a bare description threshold.

I also noticed my overt negativity, but that's also a result of drawing entirely from the band queue. I've gone through two months of bands I've approved, and I can honestly say there's not a single one I'd recommend to anyone else. I enjoy the site work enough that I didn't even realize it's been over two months since I approved a good band. It took an audit! I feel like I need to dig into the archives to find something that'll remind me how to say good things about music.

I had originally planned to do some stuff outside of my more prolific sub-genres, and though I will get to some of it later this week, for some reason I can't get myself into the right mood to review it. Consequently, my scores and my general review tone tends to be skewed in the positive direction, I guess that comes with playing it safe with what I'm reviewing. I have several obscure black metal albums and one or two sludge albums that I plan to hit before the challenge is over, but it looks like once again I'll be mostly dealing in power and thrash metal.

One of these days I might trying doing what you're doing, if only to see if I can find something that truly rubs me the wrong way musically. lol

I didn't want to participate in this, but somehow I just got two reviews done. Must be muscle memory...

Sorry for the delay with the tally. I'll be doing yesterday's and today's shortly.

I did a Velnias review, accidentally participating.

I finally managed to write something. Being busy here, folks. But I've done my part on every challenge so far, so I have that going for me, at least.

It's cool still having you along for the ride, even if it's only for 1 or 2 reviews. I've been feeling a tiny bit nostalgic for the good old days when this review challenge thing first took off and most of the original contributors aren't around this site much at all, let alone participating.

P.S. - Just put up my review for the latest Iron Savior, I know everyone's going to rag on me for being Mr. Positive, but I can't in good conscience allow a cumulative score for said band under 80% to stand (kidding). I also hit the latest Brymir release, I had a very different take on it than Diamhea, which was a bit of a surprise to me as he and I had almost the exact same take on both Frosttide albums.

Not a lot of comments here, not too many reviews either, the daily tallies are three days late and the approval of the reviews takes more time than usually... What's going on?

hells_unicorn probably won't like what I have to say about that Iron Savior album much. Good review from him anyway though...

All right, I've already broken my record. I'm sitting on, like, 22 or 23 in total right now, something like that - some haven't been submitted. I'm going to take a little break tonight, go to the bar, and get fucked up. But tomorrow and Sunday, I'm going to pound town on my other virgins.

I've been ridiculously busy all week. Just sorta bad timing I had no way of foreseeing. I'll make time to get my Secret Satan done either tomorrow or the last day because I'm a man of my word but probably won't get much else.

This sounds like my story this time as well. I didn't think I was going to throw something in, but I looked back and thought I'd might as well finish this Vindland review.

I'm resuming tallies today. Unfortunately I got really busy over the last few days, but that's easing up now (done my internship!).

Might even do a review!

Current tally, in a less than derigin-esque fashion:
stainedclass2112: Enough reviews that you can't fit that many pieces of KFC chicken into a bucket.
Zodijackyl: Roughly chicken nuggets in a fat person portion, but not as good as chicken nuggets. Needs some sauce to ingest.
hells_unicorn: Wrote a lotta reviews, ain't no spring chicken when it comes to this.
kluseba: Going strong and ain't gonna quit cold turkey!
televiper: Writes reviews with no chicken analogy.
Metantoine: Jesus Christ, at least they're not snack reviews.
Everyone else: I can't count.

I would be nice though if half of the challenge weren't just Buckethead reviews.

Yeah this kinda happened to me as well, had to deal with a shit ton of divorce/house stuff that was supposed to be done last month and then work/life. But I managed to get two done and I'll finally knock out my secret satan today as well. Shame as I've got a pile of stuff that'll probably never see a review and I seriously lack motivation until challenge time. Then I just seem to lack actual time.

There, just submitted my last one for the challenge. I would've liked to do a lot more, but, you know, life and whatnot.

First backlog of tallies finished. Again, sorry for the delay on this. The rest are coming tomorrow morning.

Daily Tally for June 21st 2016
Total Reviews: 59 / 132
Total Virgin Reviews: 57 / 120
Percentage (VIRGINS/TOTAL): 97% / 91%

Participant List for June 21st 2016
Total Participants: 23 / 37
Today's Totals per Individual:


Not participating today:



Daily Tally for June 22nd 2016
Total Reviews: 63 / 195
Total Virgin Reviews: 57 / 177
Percentage (VIRGINS/TOTAL): 90% / 91%

Participant List for June 22nd 2016
Total Participants: 26 / 45
Today's Totals per Individual:


Not participating today:

I'm probably going to end up with slightly less reviews than I did last challenge. I hit a pretty good stride earlier in the week, but Friday night I basically expended almost all of my energy into playing a local gig in North Philly banging out Iron Maiden covers with Mindmaze doing an opening slot for us and I spent all of Saturday recuperating. Still, it's nice that everybody managed to put a little something in this time around.

Do the reviews count for the day they're submitted or accepted?

The acceptance date. Also remember the site is based in EST so depending on what time zone you're in things may pop up differently for you.

Folks, Gunther is tapping out. I shattered my record (12) by submitting 27 fucking reviews, including 7 today, holy shit. This has easily been my best showing in terms of quality, I think. Just thought I'd toot my horn here now that I'm a part of the big boys' club.

I actually read a lot of your reviews that were submitted during the challenge, they were great reads! Especially since I had never heard of any of the artists.

You definitely had a solid showing this time around, including the quality of what you put forth. You and I are probably going to tie as I have several albums left that I could potentially hit but I don't think I'll be doing more than 2 more before the buzzer. This was a pretty good run, and I definitely plan to read more of the reviews that were submitted this week over the next couple days.

I wasn't feeling like reviewing this week, it was fucking hot haha. I'll do the Secret Satan I was given at a later date Congrats to everyone who wrote something!

Okay, now I'm officially spent. Managed to put up a larger number of reviews than I originally thought and managed to put up 9 today for a grand total of 29, which was actually 2 more than I did last time and 1 less than the time before that. I kind of played it safe this time around and didn't really end up reviewing much outside of my usual trifecta of power, symphonic and thrash metal. Next time around I definitely plan on mixing things up a bit more, I just need to plan my pre-challenge listening sessions a little better.

I didn't even get to my Secret Satan Yeah it wound up just being unfortunate timing for me. The next review I do will be my Secret Satan, but I bring great shame on my family.

Excellent job on everybody who did the opposite of me and wreaked havoc this challenge. You're all wonderful, welcome contributors.

Daily Tally for June 23rd 2016
Total Reviews: 44 / 239
Total Virgin Reviews: 37 / 214
Percentage (VIRGINS/TOTAL): 84% / 89.5%

Participant List for June 23rd 2016
Total Participants: 18 / 49
Today's Totals per Individual:


Not participating today:



Daily Tally for June 24th 2016
Total Reviews: 55 / 294
Total Virgin Reviews: 50 / 264
Percentage (VIRGINS/TOTAL): 91% / 90%

Participant List for June 24th 2016
Total Participants: 18 / 54
Today's Totals per Individual:


Not participating today:



Daily Tally for June 25th 2016
Total Reviews: 33 / 327
Total Virgin Reviews: 31 / 295
Percentage (VIRGINS/TOTAL): 94% / 90%

Participant List for June 25th 2016
Total Participants: 11 / 55
Today's Totals per Individual:


Not participating today:



Daily Tally for June 26th 2016
Total Reviews: 58 / 385
Total Virgin Reviews: 52 / 347
Percentage (VIRGINS/TOTAL): 90% / 90%

Participant List for June 26th 2016
Total Participants: 20 / 58
Today's Totals per Individual:


Not participating today: