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

What exactly does two handing mean?

Thanks for the very detailed description of the term, that's what I imagined it would be, but I couldn't imagine any drummer actually doing that. Unrelated to the review, that's fucking cheap. I just lost a little respect from the drummer if he actually doesn't play the song the way it's meant to be played live.

Don't know where to post this. I think it's been mentioned before, but Grimdoom gives out 100s at disturbing frequency. I have given half a dozen 100s myself, so I suppose I am myself too liberal with 100d. But when I check his reviews list, I see a few 90s among many many 100s across genres and bands. A man who writes movie reviews for a tabloid I read describes 5 stars as "Citizen Kane!!!". Aside from debates about how good that movie is, a similar benchmark is in order for 100s, correct me if I am wrong. There simply aren't so many Citizen Kane equivalents in the metal world, perish the thought.

hells_unicorn has about 52, but still...

No problem man. I can definitely agree with what you said.

I had a buddy who was complaining about a local band. They would use double bass every time they blasted to cover up that he couldn't do it at the same speed single footed on the bass drum. He was more upset than I would have been, because really fast single foot is hard to do haha. If it wasn't a local band and it didn't translate live to what their album was, I would have probably been upset with that.

Unable to contact either Phil Collins or Lars Ulrich in sufficient time, Quorthon decided he would not be able to have a sufficiently evil drummer and as such simply got some fellow to go BISH BOSH BISH BOSH at varying tempos (often when he wasn’t supposed to be varying the tempos at all).

True, Deep Purple isn't very popular here (at least compared to its overall popularity), but it's only natural because it's more hard rock than metal, and even so, it is hardly underrated.

Actually the reviews for most hard-rockish bands listed here are far less than those for well-known thrash/power/prog bands. I suppose we should then say Hysteria is underrated compared to Images and Words.

Ha, I've got to say this passage in that same review made me burst out in unexpected laughter:

Not only lower rating, but far fewer reviews. Just four reviews for Hysteria. You would think it was a lost death metal classic going by that.

Ha, I've got to say this passage in that same review made me burst out in unexpected laughter:

Let's say Paradise Lost is a single room apartment. We look into that apartment now and what do we see? Light shining through stain glass windows; lively roses set and arranged neatly on a table covered in white lace; a wine bottle and half full wine glass before an empty polished table. Spiders crawl across dustless walls. A raven is perched in a gold cage in the right hand corner of the room. There's darkness here but it contrasts well with the other things in the room. The spiders glistening bodies hardly seem menacing in the daylight. The raven's cage is kept clean; the bird sits quiet, composed and noble.

The room is very much different than it was when Holmes and Co. first opened its door. What they found in Lost Paradise was a room thick covered in layers of black dust. The light was deadened by hanging rags riddled with moth-eaten holes. The flowers were withered and crisp brown petals covered the dirty, white lace. The wine was tipped over and pouring over the table; the glass was shattered; flies swarmed and ate the decaying liquid. The raven's cage was tarnished and its insides were covered in the bird's feathers and waste. The raven was still alive, it was howling mad and rushed the bars of its prison as Holmes approached it. And the spider's were still there. They were larger, hairier, blacker. Their webs covered every corner of darkened room. They were joined by friends: roaches that emerged from shadows and hissed at intruders.

The rooms are the same beast split in two; light and shadow to one another. One is pleasant and does nothing to scare away those who find themselves within it. The other is uncomfortable to say the least. But doom metal was never meant to be found in the first room. Doom metal, like mold, was meant to be grown in the dark, in the dank and dirty.

So, why an 85? The school I attend has an 85% being an average grade; this is what the album is, average. Almost pathetically so, but not quite.

From the recently submitted review on Temnozor's "Folkstorm of the Azure Nights" by MaDTransilvanian:



1. It's Kaldrad, not Kalderad.
2. He isn't the founder of the band! He joined before the second album. The band was founded by Leshiy, Tuur and Wuulko. Others joined later.

Now that's all fine and dandy, however, as you may have noticed, my rating for this album isn't actually fifty percent. Indeed, I had to reduce it by fifteen percent. Why? Petty as it may sound to some of you, it's simply because quite frankly, the title simply offends me. It's a bit as if Metallica released an album called "Return of the Four Horsemen" and it ended up sounding like "Master of Puppets" with the production of the black album, or as if Sodom released an album called "The Final Sign of Evil" and... oh crap, nevermind, forget about that one.

hells_unicorn on some random deathcore album;

'Every single album in this fucking genre is loaded with pointless blast beat and drum fill showboating that make Mastodon’s drummer sound like Phil Rudd'

I like the AC/DC references. Phil Rudd has always been one of my favourite drummers, but more importantly this passage effectively (and rather humourously) hightlights the ridiculous over-emphasis on drums that some modern 'metal' bands have.

Also my hats off to hells_unicorn for actually having the tolerance to sit through a deathcore album! Astounding!

hells_unicorn on some random deathcore album;

'Every single album in this fucking genre is loaded with pointless blast beat and drum fill showboating that make Mastodon’s drummer sound like Phil Rudd'

I like the AC/DC references. Phil Rudd has always been one of my favourite drummers, but more importantly this passage effectively (and rather humourously) hightlights the ridiculous over-emphasis on drums that some modern 'metal' bands have.

Also my hats off to hells_unicorn for actually having the tolerance to sit through a deathcore album! Astounding!

That was the new Cryptopsy, many of us have sat through that deathcore album

I'm currently listening to their older material with Lord Worm, quite frankly it's not that amazing

I'll fight you.

Nah, I can see why some people don't like it. It's certainly not as brutal as what many people build it up to be, but I think it's very memorable catchy stuff, and damn technical and brutal considering how catchy and memorable it is, however the first one isn't really all that technical.

I'm listening to "Blasphemy Made Flesh" and the demo, so maybe I'll be more impressed with their middle works.

I'm listening to "Blasphemy Made Flesh" and the demo, so maybe I'll be more impressed with their middle works.

What about None So Vile?

None So Vile is crap, see my review.