yeah its fine if you like the album but 100% for any album is rediculous dont you think?? isnt it just plane stupidity to put any album ever at 100%

Absolutely "rediculous" to think there could ever be a good album, yes. Certainly a telltale sign of unintelligent air traffic vehicles.

A bit strange review...

"Still Generic, but have potential - 90%
Written by Immolation

After listening to King Of All Kings, you can probably say that Hate Eternal has released yet another generic Death Metal album. Standard Death Metal riffing fills the songs, but I do like The Obscure Terror track's riffs. With a couple of cool solos, Hate Eternal shows that not every single second of every track is completely generic. I believe that their is hope for the band, and hopefully they use their potential to release a good album.

If theres one thing not generic about this album, I'd say its the sound of the drums from Derek Roddy. Sure, blastbeats are abundant, but he still makes the drumming of bands like Cannibal Corpse look bad. In Rising Legions of Black, he definetely shows impressive work on the kit. Hopefully the rest of the band will rise up to Roddy's level, have better songwriting, and release a great CD next time around."

So it's completely generic, not a good or great album, and yet he gives it a 90%? Has potential? Did he give it 90% on mostly potential? Potential doesn't really mean anything. Boring bands like Papa Roach and Linkin Park may have potential to release the next Darkness Descends or Pleasure to Kill, but it's probably not going to happen.

Give this man an amusing title. Do we currently have a Village Idiot?

I think the_count is the current village idiot, but there's no reason why we couldn't have another one.

Factor in, he claims he's training to be a doctor. I foresee a plethora of malpractice suits on the horizon.

I love guys that give huge ratings for album that are usually considered really shitty, and vice versa, even if they sometimes happen to go overboard. Maybe it's because I have a hard on for controversy, but every time somebody complains about Tepes, I just laugh. Same deal with the newest St. Anger review. Some people can get their panties twisted up so easily nowadays.

I think we should call them jolly trolls.

That grimdoom guy has like 60 reviews and 29 of them are 100%.

And who keeps saying hells unicorn gives out high ratings often?

an odd thing from Grimdoom's profile:

Uhhhhhhhh.

How about some sources? Or ... something. lolwtf...

The man's obviously an idiot.

That's what I thought. You can still buy vinyls ffs.

Heh! Made me laugh.

haha ok u got me there mate, and rightly so. I still belive 100% is a REDICULOUS rating for anything.

Of all the reviews I submit, there will only be one 100%, and only one 0%.

No wonder you named yourself that way and got that title...

Anyway, why is it RIDICULOUS to give a 100% to an album? 100% doesn't mean always mean "absolutely perfect and flawless." It could just be the best album, or one of the best albums, the reviewer has ever heard.

Thats just my opinion.....Am I allowed to say that I think its rediculous that somthing gets 100% on this website? Or is it just too offensive? I understand the spelling mistakes and how you guys dont enjoy it like my father didnt when I was in grade 4, but that statement there really isnt to much wrong with saying it.

It's not offensive, it's just strange and outlandish, and you barely even back it up with anything to convince us.

Get off it, I would think its pretty self-explanitory. But if you must, I was just stating that IMO 100% for any piece of art (especially a review of a piece) can never be percieved 100% by a large population. Therefore it is extremely misleading to give such a percenage to the thousands of people who will read such a thing.

Also, the fact that I didnt back up a statement like that up on a msg board is "strange" and "outlandish" seems a bit over the top. To me the words "strange" and "outlandish" would be someone sitting at their computer and racking up almost 6000 posts in just over 2 years...

However I will make recognition to your point in relation to the reviewer listening to one of the best albums a reviewer has ever herd. I understan some people feel such a a need to rubber stamp somthing with a special 100% as they feel it gives them some form of credibility but I dont agree.

Even if you give a 90%, it will not be perceived as deserving of a 90% by a large population. The same is true of any given score. What's the point?

Well yeah a lot of the population wouldn't perceive most of the stuff we like to be worthy of high scores, so that's a moot point. If you don't agree, so be it, but giving a 100% to something usually just means that the particular reviewer can find little enough wrong with it (or nothing at all) to award it such.

Misleading? Maybe, but in that case, all reviews are to some extent or another. They are simply editorial-like commentaries to cater to those who happen to share the taste of the reviewer in question, and to assist people looking for a broad guideline.

This is not the place for this discussion.

From Dolf9271986's recent Seven Churches review:

"This is pump music. It's the type of music that makes you wanna down a keg of beer and jump off buildings. It's party music."

Not any party I've ever been to, but I'd be kinda impressed if someone threw it on.

Death Metal parties sound like they would be pretty fun. You get really trashed in a graveyard and then sodomize corpses.

This is actually true. I think Seven Churches sounds evil but kind of happy, for lack of a better term, at the same time.

The way it starts and ends makes Kishmakay's review of Evoken - Quietus one of the most disturbing reviews I've come across.

"Energetic" is the appropriate word, I think. "Spirited" might work as well.

Given their themes, I think this could be taken as a double-entendre. Besides, Spirited Death Metal has a nice ring to it!

I didn't think about that, but that is indeed a very good play on words!

Thanks , also:


I like how he adds poop for no reason.

This Review is for the One Disc Set Only - 45%
Written by pinpals on October 12th, 2005

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Black Label Society is one of the few bands that plays real metal (as opposed to the likes of Limp Bizkit or Linkin Park), and they've put out so many great songs. But while the songs on here are good, they missed some of BLS's greatest songs like "Stoned and Drunk" and "All for You." Of course, if you are getting into BLS, this is a decent place to start, just know that there are great songs that were left off of here as well (motivation to pick up the individual albums). The two new tracks are pretty good, but people that already own the majority of the songs on here need not pick this up just for those two songs. This is just one of those albums that comes out after a record company loses a band, and release a (usually terribly put together) greatest hits package to take as much money from the band's fans as possible.

Reviews such as this are not always let through are they?

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This Review is for the One Disc Set Only - 45%
Written by pinpals on October 12th, 2005


Black Label Society is one of the few bands that plays real metal (as opposed to the likes of Limp Bizkit or Linkin Park), and they've put out so many great songs. But while the songs on here are good, they missed some of BLS's greatest songs like "Stoned and Drunk" and "All for You." Of course, if you are getting into BLS, this is a decent place to start, just know that there are great songs that were left off of here as well (motivation to pick up the individual albums). The two new tracks are pretty good, but people that already own the majority of the songs on here need not pick this up just for those two songs. This is just one of those albums that comes out after a record company loses a band, and release a (usually terribly put together) greatest hits package to take as much money from the band's fans as possible.

Reviews of this quality are not always allowed are they??

^^^

Wrong thread. Oven Fodder is the place to post this.

Worst of all he posted it twice, idioteque indeed.

Brutal

I laughed when I read that.

I read that several times and I don't quite understand what it means.

He was impressed by the speed, but the drummer needs to cheat to achieve it live? I'm not up on drum technical terms, but that's my best guess.

The song has a 310 bpm blast section but live the drummer has to two hand it. Seems pretty simple to me.