Okay man, give me a few days, and i will have a review for your demo. Thanks.

Same here. Thank you too.

Wolves in the Throne Room seem to be getting a lot of good press of late... call me a massive cynic but... well it's USBM, most USBM bands are, frankly, crap and even the best rated ones tend to be over-hyped due to some stupid, non-musical gimmik associated with the band. Both albums have 4 reviews and well over a 90% average but every review paints them to be a typical USBM band: Gimmik, "traditional yet progressive" spin (ie. they're slightly technical but lo-fi) and absolutely no explanation as to why this sounds different from any other BM band in the last 20 years...

If someone equally cynical could tell the rest of us whether this is another USBM flash in the pan or actually something solid from the US it'd be appreciated.

I don't listen to them (have heard some stuff), but I can say its cause they live in the woods. That fascinates us city slickers.

Sadly, noone of those to whom I send the Zlo stuff was able to motivate himself to write a review .

I would love to see another positive review for Cephalotripsy - Uterovaginal Insertion of Extirpated Anomalies.

Also anyone wish to take up Guttural Secrete's - Reek of Pubescent Despoilment? I'd like to see a review that isn't a track by track on there.

We're Sabretung, a thrash metal band from Australia and we only have one review up on metal archives. Who else wants to say their two cents?

All the tracks from our debut EP "The Price is Pain" can be heard and downloaded via our myspace www.myspacecom/sabretung

Stay heavy

I'd like to see a review of "The Beauty of Reason" by Astomatous. Some damn fine experimental death metal if you ask me. But I can't write an unbiased review since I contributed to the recording (although just as a session guitarist; I didn't write any of the music except for a few solos).

All of the tracks can be found at http://podsafeaudio.com/jamroom/bands/417/music.php. The tracks are listed on the page in the order in which they appear on the album.

any takers?

Can someone please review Blut Aus Nord's latest album?

More people need to review Die Saat and Mjölnir. Great bands.

The lack of negative reviews for Maudlin of the Well and Ulver's black metal albums is astounding. Anyone willing to take a stab at them? (I read that Cheeses_priced doesn't care for Ulver; I'd like to see his take on them)

I don't mind Ulver's Bergtatt, but if I write a review people will assume I'm just being an elitist prick who doesn't like black metal. I'll give it a shot after I'm done bashing Unexpect's "In a Flesh Aquarium" I suppose.

Who the hell are Maudlin of the Well? I've heard their name tossed around a bit, but never really bothered to make an effort to look into them.

Not really. This is kind of like saying "The lack of negative 'Number of the Beast' reviews (assuming there aren't any) is astounding". They're classics, so a vast majority of metal fans enjoy them. Why is that surprising?

Hypocrisy's "Virus"
Finntroll's new album
Aeon's new album

Come on, guys... it's a whole album for free, with a great production, recorded/mixed/mastered by Colin Marston (Behold the Arctopus), so it's not some lo-fi recorded in a basement crap. Lots of really interesting and original passages, technical and brutal without sounding like other technical/brutal bands. Downloading this is a win-or-don't-lose.

These guys need more exposure; this album would probably (and will hopefully one day) be considered a classic if it were more well known.

Someone must be at least slightly interested.

I am, but every time I look at this thread and reminded of it I'm at work.

I would not call them classics in the same way that almost every other album that emerged from the second wave of black metal is. The albums are popular, largely among neophytes due to their accessibility, much like Opeth in that respect, but I do not see that as enough to designate them as "classics". Nattens Madrigal especially, that album just took standard "Norse" aesthetics and made it into ear candy. Little more.

Oh, and zeingard, looking forward to your review.

Actually, judging from your reply, you don't seem to be all that bad at writing yourself. Why don't you do your own dirty work?

Thanks. I've thought about that (taking some of the "quick reviews" I've made over at Rate Your Music and fleshing them out a bit), though writing full reviews is not something I have a particularly natural knack for. I suppose I'll put the effort into one eventually once I'm in the right mind for it.

Maybe I can ignore the fact that I don't agree with you (assuming there's any way to know what "standard Norse aesthetics" are, I doubt that they would include brutal ear-piercing black metal). But seeing Nattens Madrigal described as "ear candy" is just too much. What kind of candy do you eat, scrap metal?

And I really doubt that Nattens Madrigal is "accessible to neophytes." I don't really think most people could stomach that album unless they were already well-acquainted with black metal. It's far more inaccessible than Burzum or Darkthrone IMO.

OK, I will try to explain myself a bit better: it seems to me that Ulver, with Nattens Madrigal, set out to take the aesthetic qualities that by that point had become hallmarks of Norse black metal (raw production values, blastbeats, trebly tremolo riffing, screeching vocals...), and paint it over music driven almost completely by overt melody. Now, I don't have a problem with melody (otherwise I would not like most black metal), but there is little in the way of subtlety with Ulver's approach to melody, which seems to serve little purpose but hook the listener (to be immediately pleasing to the ears, hence my "ear candy" statement). Strip away the qualities that make it a black metal album, and at its core you'd have a mainstream rock album.

As for its accessibility, yes it is more aggressive than either Burzum or Darkthrone, but the latter two bands are far more minimalistic and subtle in their compositional appraches, so they are not as likely to be immediately gratifying as Ulver is. Sure, Nattens Madrigal may be far less accessible than, say, Dimmu Borgir or Cradle of Filth (and I'd certainly rather listen to NM than those two bands any day of the week), but it is still far from a stretch to consider it very much a "gateway" album at best.

I don't want to derail this thread further, so I'll just stop here.

If you'd like, you can review our first demo. Keep in mind it was recorded on shitty eight track in a few days. Thanks. Listen to all four songs here: myspace.com/Horrifier

Black September (US)

raveneyeslikemirrors' Velvet Cacoon review is excellent.

Wrong thread.

Plus, that review sucked. Since when is "mediocre" a justification for 0%? When I see a 0% review I want to see some honest spite, not some shy and friendly "hmm, I guess I didn't quite enjoy this."

Nahemah (Esp). The Second Philosophy was a masterpiece IMO.

somebody can pliz review wyrd-rota? (or any else album by them?)

could somebody review Waking the Cadaver - Perverse Recollections of a Necromangler, the demo was total shit i wanna know what the album is like

Will someone post review for ''Space Eater''?

I'm not gonna review it, but judging from what I've heard (both musically and word-of-mouth wise) it's total shit. You don't need an excuse not to buy anything by that band.

Anthems Of Gomorrah - Gebrechlichkeit

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=03CGD9TW

Review if you can, the author wants feedback.

Anyone with spare time care to review Sepultura's album 'Schizophrenia'?

Thanks in advance

Curious to see if anyone would like to review material from Ancient Reign i think i put most of the mp3s on Last.FM, the link is on the archive page..Thanks

If I can find their stuff I'll review them.



Last.FM samples are not of a great quality most of the time. I have problems downloading from there too. If you could upload them in a file hoster it would be easier for me to DL them and review them. I'll review some stuff though cause I like both Black and Folk Metal.



That's something I will review gladly.

I might...depends..seeing as the album has enough reviews - IMO - I need to see if I can add something else before I review it. Secondly, reviewing Debodified's only album is high on my agenda right now.

Anyone feel like reviewing Blut Aus Nord's Odinist? I'd like to know where it falls on the scale of their earlier work vs the later stuff like TWWTG and Mort. (I'm more a fan of the early stuff)

I was wondering if anyone will fill the spot. I've heard from people that Odinist still sounds like the industrial crap they've been releasing since over 7 years ago. If only they can literally just cut the drone/industrial mess and go straight back to the ultimate riffs of old, then I'd buy back into them. The first two albums can only hold you over for so long!

Just for this I'm gonna go listen to "The Last Journey Of Ringhorn"

I haven't reviewd it, but I do have it, and it is the same industrial shit. But, the catch is, it's not anything like the wankfest that was MoRT. The sound they went for is basically the same as on TWWTG. Almost like a sequel, although, I'd rather them make a second part to Fathers Of The Icy Ages like it's mentioned in the booklet of the re-release.

I'm surprised I haven't said this before: I'd pay to see Cheeses_Priced review a Slough Feg album.

Pay him, then.

I'd love to read what Olympic Sharpshooter has to say about old Scorpions...he has mentioned obliquely in some Scorpions review that he is an old Scorpions fan but surprisingly has never reviewed any of the Roth-era albums..and certainly, In Trance could do with a better review than what we already have.