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Forever Underground
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PostPosted: Sat Apr 24, 2021 8:23 am 
 

https://www.metal-archives.com/reviews/ ... rtal/73868


It's a nine-line review that only complains about whether the content of the album should be considered music or not.
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Gas_Snake
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PostPosted: Wed May 05, 2021 11:00 pm 
 

https://www.metal-archives.com/reviews/ ... rap/736025

I'm an idiot, that review is fine. It simply didn't load all the way thanks to connection bullshit (the site is still blocked for me, I use a VPN which can be wonky with things like that).
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thrashmaniac87
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PostPosted: Tue May 11, 2021 7:58 pm 
 

Should this still be here? I can't imagine it would be approved nowadays.

https://www.metal-archives.com/reviews/ ... cat/223660

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PostPosted: Tue May 11, 2021 9:18 pm 
 

Good catch. Removed.
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PaganiusI
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PostPosted: Sat May 22, 2021 1:49 pm 
 

Not a review mod, so...
Bit barebones on the description, no? Also the review he keeps referring to has been deleted, I guess?
https://www.metal-archives.com/reviews/ ... wkMoon/170
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PostPosted: Sat May 22, 2021 2:01 pm 
 

Dealt with!
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PostPosted: Sat May 29, 2021 12:57 am 
 

https://www.metal-archives.com/reviews/ ... eam/654740

For a review complaining about pretentiousness this is a lot, a lot, a lot of very pretentious namedropping to cover up the fact there's like two-three actual sentences of musical description here alongside statements that are objectively wildly incorrect ("amped-up prog rock"? All mid-tempo? Dragonforce is more death metal?). This is actually a review of half a paragraph bloated by amazing amounts of hyper-edgy rambling.

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Metantoine
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PostPosted: Sat May 29, 2021 10:34 am 
 

Death By Wall of Text wrote:
https://www.metal-archives.com/reviews/Opeth/Blackwater_Park/130/FacUtGaudeam/654740

For a review complaining about pretentiousness this is a lot, a lot, a lot of very pretentious namedropping to cover up the fact there's like two-three actual sentences of musical description here alongside statements that are objectively wildly incorrect ("amped-up prog rock"? All mid-tempo? Dragonforce is more death metal?). This is actually a review of half a paragraph bloated by amazing amounts of hyper-edgy rambling.

Yikes. Dealt with.
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PostPosted: Sat May 29, 2021 11:36 am 
 

Hello.
I'm not sure if I've already mentioned this review for deletion, but anyway, here is it:
https://www.metal-archives.com/reviews/ ... Fields/318

This review is just a small paragraph and the user's point of view clearly isn't developed on it. There's really nothing elucidative here. It's more like a comment for a blog post than an actual review.
By the way, the cover is pretty NSFW.

This one looks very mediocre too, starts with a track by track rhetoric that eventually leads to a very basic rant about the band's music, without it being descriptive at all. It's also flooded with many grammatical errors.
https://www.metal-archives.com/reviews/ ... dant/46538

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PostPosted: Sun May 30, 2021 4:04 am 
 

https://www.metal-archives.com/reviews/ ... all/216687

This could be for almost any album by The Crown (or any similar band) and has no specifics whatsoever.
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Slater922
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PostPosted: Sun May 30, 2021 12:58 pm 
 

https://www.metal-archives.com/reviews/ ... ld/1014942

The review is okay, but all of that bold text strained my eyes, and those huge spaces gaps in the third paragraph was ridiculous. It should at least be sent back so that Hames can fix the formatting.
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EzraBlumenfeld
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PostPosted: Fri Jun 04, 2021 1:30 pm 
 

Only ten sentences long, barely descriptive enough in my opinion:

https://www.metal-archives.com/reviews/ ... atrix/4221
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Napalm_Satan
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PostPosted: Sun Jun 06, 2021 6:56 pm 
 

https://www.metal-archives.com/reviews/Napalm_Death/Enemy_of_the_Music_Business/963/firebee1/23657

firebee has come up a few times in this thread and I can see why. This review blows; most of it is literally spent on the first two songs and all of four lines are reserved for describing the album generally. What they say of the rest of the album is blunt I guess, but it's not remotely specific and listening to the album doesn't really help me understand their complaints better. Better reviews have been rejected, I reckon.
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TheBurningOfSodom
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PostPosted: Sun Jun 13, 2021 2:02 pm 
 

https://www.metal-archives.com/reviews/ ... 69_/481697

Yeah, I got it, the album is not so bad as the others said... you basically repeated it for the entire review.
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PostPosted: Mon Jun 21, 2021 9:12 pm 
 

https://www.metal-archives.com/reviews/ ... udeguy/396

I'm pretty sure this site could do without this relic of the past. He immediately starts the review with "Don't trust the reviews below this, this is a worthless song by a worthless band.", which goes against the rule of not mentioning other reviews. His descriptions of the song are also him either calling it "mallcore" or throwing in some ad hominem attacks against James Hetfield and other bands members. He even refers to Lars as "Lar$", which is so cringy, it's facepalm worthy :durr: :nono:
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PostPosted: Wed Jul 21, 2021 6:02 pm 
 

https://www.metal-archives.com/reviews/ ... 999/274514
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Kreator is one of those thrash bands still keeping thrash alive after all these years. This time they strike with a new single, "Phantom Antichrist", and a cover song of Iron Maiden's "The Number of the Beast".

"Phantom Antichrist" is a straight Kreator song with a lot of aggressive riffs. The song goes hard all the time. The drums and guitar are brutal, yet creative. Melodies are changing all the time, which in my opinion is a good thing. The single also includes a demo version of the song. The other song is Maiden's "The Number of the Beast". The song is a good cover, yet it just doesn't give you the feeling of the original song. It's heavier than original with a awesome solo performance.

Kreator proves once more what they are capable of. This is what thrash is all about.

Short and shallow.

https://www.metal-archives.com/reviews/ ... 999/274514
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Here we have the thrash/speed metal band Paradox. Many of you would think that this is just another lazy thrash band with an usual album cover from the '80s. Wrong. Paradox is an awesome melodic speed metal band that touches thrash. The whole album includes riffs, riffs, riffs, solos, and more riffs. I could never come up with a riff like that, since there are a lot of very creative riffs and solos.

The vocals are more in a high-pitched sense than the usual thrashy, aggressive style. Otherwise, they end up just great along with the music. The drums are one of many proofs that this is also a thrash band. They are very loud and at some point very fast. The tracks on the album usually go deep, but some are pretty badass. There are also a couple of really fast speed metal classics.

Highlight songs:

One of the most catchy tracks is "Product of Imagination". It's a powerful song with a great acoustic intro performance. The next song, "Mystery", is a nice track with good riffs and a nice solo. The chorus of the song sounds like the vocalist is actually saying 'Misery...'. "Beyond Space" is a fast track with more good riffs, a nice solo, and a great vocal delivery.

Of course, all the songs on the album are worth checking out. "Product of Imagination" is a long story short, a speed/thrash album with its own style....and a lot of riffs.

Thrash; lotsa riffs; nice solos; aggressive/loud... that's all this manages to say.
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Gas_Snake
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PostPosted: Fri Aug 06, 2021 10:59 pm 
 

https://www.metal-archives.com/reviews/ ... racker/674

This is not a review, it's a knee-jerk response to another (negative) review that does nothing to describe the music aside from saying "they're not as heavy now". Reads like it was written in like 3 minutes on impulse.
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PostPosted: Wed Aug 11, 2021 1:40 pm 
 

https://www.metal-archives.com/reviews/ ... ler/43613/

This is an old track-by-track review, written in suboptimal English, and kind of superficial, not really rationalizing the score of 100%.

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Gas_Snake
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PostPosted: Sat Aug 14, 2021 4:15 am 
 

User whiplash50 has five barebones reviews, dated 2005-2007:

https://www.metal-archives.com/reviews/ ... sh50/24616
https://www.metal-archives.com/reviews/ ... sh50/24616
https://www.metal-archives.com/reviews/ ... sh50/24616
https://www.metal-archives.com/reviews/ ... sh50/24616
https://www.metal-archives.com/reviews/ ... sh50/24616

All of these reviews have very little musical description and numerous language errors (capitalization, punctuation). All except the Juggernaut one are also single paragraph reviews, and that one outright namedrops another reviewer and offtopic executive meddling, while relegating the musical description to literally one sentence. Please wipe these.
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PostPosted: Tue Aug 24, 2021 3:54 pm 
 

https://www.metal-archives.com/reviews/ ... ria/35725/

Rather brief, hardly descriptive. Also, ''I wrote this while listening to it''. :lol:

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Lane
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PostPosted: Thu Aug 26, 2021 2:34 pm 
 

colin040 wrote:
https://www.metal-archives.com/reviews/Etnocidio/Miseria/35725/

Rather brief, hardly descriptive. Also, ''I wrote this while listening to it''. :lol:


Also, "...I'm giving it a 80%."

Gets 90% from the reviewer anyway!
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PostPosted: Thu Aug 26, 2021 2:42 pm 
 

Lane wrote:
colin040 wrote:
https://www.metal-archives.com/reviews/Etnocidio/Miseria/35725/

Rather brief, hardly descriptive. Also, ''I wrote this while listening to it''. :lol:


Also, "...I'm giving it a 80%."

Gets 90% from the reviewer anyway!


I actually missed that. :lol:

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colin040
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PostPosted: Fri Sep 03, 2021 5:49 am 
 

https://www.metal-archives.com/reviews/ ... ce/889229/

I know that it's an EP, but this reviewer isn't saying much.

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swine_brothers
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PostPosted: Fri Sep 03, 2021 7:02 am 
 

https://www.metal-archives.com/reviews/ ... vers/62167

Terribly written, clearly is attempting to be controversial despite what the review says, extremely bad attempts at humor, and gets basic music theory facts wrong.

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thrashmaniac87
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PostPosted: Sun Sep 19, 2021 9:05 pm 
 

https://www.metal-archives.com/reviews/ ... al666/1413

Barebones review that doesn't describe what the album sounds like.
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colin040
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PostPosted: Mon Sep 27, 2021 4:31 am 
 

https://www.metal-archives.com/reviews/ ... rCR/322490

Guy gave it a 0%, yet claims:

Quote:
The musicianship in the album is good, they know how to play their instruments, the production is not cristal clear but better produced than Mgla’s raw discography, that is everything good I have to say about this record. The album is not by any means bad, it is regular, it has its moments, but every time the song starts to build up momentum it feels more and more like plagiarism than anything else. The song Thanatos is the prime example of this, that song is shameless ripping Exercises in Futility I off, the riff, arrangements are the same. The drum arrangements feel awfully lame, don't get me wrong, the dude can play, but when you are trying to impersonate a drummer like Darkside if you are not better than him you will come across as a dumbass who can't play as good as he.


Makes no sense to me whatsoever.

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PostPosted: Mon Sep 27, 2021 10:54 am 
 

Also, this one is brief and hardly descriptive: https://www.metal-archives.com/reviews/ ... .../73672/

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PostPosted: Tue Sep 28, 2021 2:35 pm 
 

colin040 wrote:
https://www.metal-archives.com/reviews/Groza/Unified_in_Void/732726/NoisegrinderCR/322490

Guy gave it a 0%, yet claims:

Quote:
The musicianship in the album is good, they know how to play their instruments, the production is not cristal clear but better produced than Mgla’s raw discography, that is everything good I have to say about this record. The album is not by any means bad, it is regular, it has its moments, but every time the song starts to build up momentum it feels more and more like plagiarism than anything else. The song Thanatos is the prime example of this, that song is shameless ripping Exercises in Futility I off, the riff, arrangements are the same. The drum arrangements feel awfully lame, don't get me wrong, the dude can play, but when you are trying to impersonate a drummer like Darkside if you are not better than him you will come across as a dumbass who can't play as good as he.


Makes no sense to me whatsoever.

I hate when the text of a review doesn't match the score. Like, how hard is that?

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PostPosted: Wed Sep 29, 2021 6:50 am 
 

I understand him, in a certain sense. I don't know the band and I'm not so obsessed with Mgla to be able to find their riffs in other bands, but if he has found several instances of blatant copying, then shameless plagiarism always has to be condemned, regardless of how well you play your instruments. The other two reviewers giving it a 0% as well, and (especially Cosmic Mystery) making similar points, kinda support my/his theory. It's the same accusation thrown at Gruesome, with the partially redeeming factor that at the very least they're copying a defunct band (in their former style, no less). The fact that Mgla are, instead, still around makes Groza (EDIT: at least regarding that album, don't know about the 2nd) totally worthless imo. I doubt this review will get taken down and I think it has every right to stay (my two cents of course).
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colin040
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PostPosted: Thu Sep 30, 2021 7:52 am 
 

Reviewer titles the review as ''Beautifully delivered, but ultimately boring'' - yet gives it a 77%. Again, this makes no sense to me either!

https://www.metal-archives.com/reviews/ ... its/298148

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PostPosted: Thu Sep 30, 2021 10:12 am 
 

Gas_Snake wrote:
User whiplash50 has five barebones reviews, dated 2005-2007:

https://www.metal-archives.com/reviews/ ... sh50/24616
https://www.metal-archives.com/reviews/ ... sh50/24616
https://www.metal-archives.com/reviews/ ... sh50/24616
https://www.metal-archives.com/reviews/ ... sh50/24616
https://www.metal-archives.com/reviews/ ... sh50/24616

All of these reviews have very little musical description and numerous language errors (capitalization, punctuation). All except the Juggernaut one are also single paragraph reviews, and that one outright namedrops another reviewer and offtopic executive meddling, while relegating the musical description to literally one sentence. Please wipe these.


Bumping these because they are horrible.
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PostPosted: Tue Oct 05, 2021 7:03 am 
 

https://www.metal-archives.com/reviews/ ... ym/1062891

Another look at this wouldn't hurt - the language doesn't exactly welcome you, but I really didn't understand anything about the album and, most of all, he spents the major part of his 97% review telling how he didn't like the album at first and how the band got worse, just to throw a "huh, but now I love it, so whatever"-like sentence at the end without really explaining why it's an "unappreciated [with an 88% average, by who?!] work of art"...
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colin040
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PostPosted: Tue Oct 19, 2021 9:26 am 
 

https://www.metal-archives.com/reviews/ ... land/6969/

Extremely brief and unclear to me.

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PostPosted: Sat Oct 23, 2021 2:46 pm 
 

https://www.metal-archives.com/reviews/ ... pe/1369865

Glad to see another positive review for Sentenced's North from Here, but using the word ''melodies'' 10 times really isn't gonna help. The paragraph about the songwriting looks rather vague as well. I mean, how the hell is this actually descriptive enough?

Quote:
In the end of the day, this album wouldn't be anything without the song-writing it has. I mean, it has so many great pieces in it but the way these pieces have been put together is the actual reason why I truly love this album. The overall filthiness is mixed extremely well to the melodies; the melodies aren't mellow and soft but dark and evil. There are lots of faster parts that are compensated by the various slower parts that give you some time to breathe. Just overall the song-writing is beautiful here and the best trait of this album. It might be the thing that takes the most to appreciate (because on first listens it probably isn't the thing you focus on) but once you 'see it' there, you'll figure out how important it's to the album - I mean, song-writing is always important but here it just has somewhat exceptional meaning for the music. The music itself is also really atmospheric that not only comes from the dark melodies but also thanks to the song-writing.

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PostPosted: Sun Oct 24, 2021 6:24 am 
 

Another exremely brief one

https://www.metal-archives.com/reviews/ ... ytorr/4825

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1992's The Unholy One, the only album from Brazilian deathgrinders Expulser, is an amalgamation of extreme metal of the period. The grindcore of England, 80's speed metal, the evil melodic sense of Floridian Death Metal, and the Satanic deathfuckthrash of Sarcofago are the primary building blocks for this bands not so unique, but not entirely derivative sound. They stay original by interpreting their influences in a way unlike others had done. This was only possible in a time period before there were 20,000 bands and all possible innovation was exausted.

The production is too thin, marginalizing the guitar riffs. The leads are typical and not very impressive, though not overtly terrible. The band really hits their stride when they revert to a full force speed-grind fury, which thankfully occupies most of the albums playtime. Not a Death Metal classic, but still worth buying or downloading.

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PostPosted: Mon Oct 25, 2021 5:04 pm 
 

https://www.metal-archives.com/reviews/ ... ime/287820

Reviewer says that this would get a 90% if this was a new Sepultura album, but since it isn't, decides to give it a 25% score instead...very smart. :lol:

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So let's talk about the riffage. If I didn't know this band was called Grave Desecrator, I would have thought that Sepultura kicked Derrick out (finally) and Max and Igor returned and continued with the series of great albums like "Morbid Visions", "Schizophrenia", and so on. What I mean by this is that is the whole song making thing with this band is absolutely patterned. It's like you took samples from different Sepultura songs and stitched them together so you would get this. Vocals are standard, nothing to it. Lyrics are also standard. Drumming is basic blasting and bass lines are as same as the riffage. So there's nothing more to say about this band. They need a lot of work on their sound, and not, with all due respect, "steal" stuff from before and being mediocre. So all of this gets a 25% rating for being PURE mediocre. If I was reviewing this as the new Sepultura album, it would get 90%, but since this isn't Sepultura...sorry.

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PostPosted: Fri Oct 29, 2021 7:37 am 
 

These two reviews by bathoryfc aren't saying much.

https://www.metal-archives.com/reviews/ ... oryfc/2062

https://www.metal-archives.com/reviews/ ... oryfc/2062

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PostPosted: Wed Nov 03, 2021 1:38 pm 
 

colin040 wrote:
https://www.metal-archives.com/reviews/Necromancer/Demo_I/49465/bathoryfc/2062

bathoryfc wrote:
Aggressive, fast and obscure are the three best verbs that define this demo.

Ahem, not exactly, sir. :lol:
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Big, juicy, veiny, throbbing hard riffs. Big heavy knuckle dragging, cock swaddling compositions for those in fear of soap/bathing. Listen at your own risk. No signs of intelligent life.

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PostPosted: Sat Nov 06, 2021 1:38 pm 
 

I think this review needs to go. It's only one paragraph, and he doesn't really say much about it besides it being "shit and garbage" and how he can't believe Euronymous would waste his money releasing it.
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PostPosted: Mon Nov 08, 2021 6:54 pm 
 

https://www.metal-archives.com/user-rev ... ors_Of_Ice - this old user's 4 reviews are very short and, despite some actual (but vague) musical description, loaded with typos and missing too many commas.

Maybe also this might be worth another look? Though his other writings are fine, I think.
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