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Not Great but Not Too Bad... - 70%
Written by DawnDeparted on May 27th, 2003

When I first heard this CD I thought it completely sucked. I mean it just didn't live up to their other albums. I was highly pissed off when I bought it. I listened to it for a few more times and realized I can't take this shit anymore. If I rated it when I first heard it I would have gave it a 0, that's how bad I thought it was. Then I took a break from it for a while and I gave it a spin one day and it started to sound a lot better to me. Now I give it a much higher rating than a 0 as you can see. I don't know why I was so harsh on it to begin with but it's overly not too bad. It's not their greatest work but if you're a Six Feet Under fan you should buy it.

Feel free to do just that. This thread has been neglegted too long, in my case due to chronic lack of time, but I'll try to pay more attention in the future. Reading 20+ reviews is still a major operation for your truly, but a bunch of pre-sorted garbage can always be incinerated.

And yeah, I've noticed SFU page is full of poop. I considered buying one of their albums, surfed here on my mobile, and left the CD in the store...

Sex! War! Goats! Gasmasks! - 100%
Written by HellPatrol on May 28th, 2005

Sex, war, goats, gasmasks and much perversion perfectly define the spirit of Impaled Nazarene, that now bring us this masterpiece! Black metal live recordings are not very common, but one more time Impaled Nazarene distinguishes from the others, leading all the perversion and niilism to the stage. We have 26 songs in this album that consists in a set list of all the career of these Finnish insanes, Approximately 1 hour and 8 minutes of pure "goat black metal assault"! Or "nuclear metal", defined for themselves, that count on sounds since its first EP "Goat Perversion" until its last full lenght "All That You Fear". Precision and speed are characteristics that contribute for a concise noise and that makes to perceive the force and the energy of the band alive. The highest point is exactly the precision that the songs are played, demonstrated ins songs as "Condemned to Hell", "The Horny and the Horned", "Sadhu Satana", "War Total", "Let's Fucking Die", true hymns for black metal, fact, however, that it does not erase the quality of the more recent songs. With all these characteristics this live album becomes an obligatoriness for fans of the band and an excellent recommendation for that they appreciate the metal in its more immoral way.

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery - 50%
Written by Hail_Satan on August 14th, 2002

Primal Fear is Painkiller-era Judas Priest worship done right.

Frontman Ralf Scheepers wails like a banshee over speedy heavy metal riffs and pounding double bass -- you could swear this is 1990 all over again. While not original in the least, it's done with conviction and technique, which elevates Primal Fear over a lot of the power metal heap. The standout track is "Eye of an Eagle", a rousing good time that puts a smile on your face.

Honestly, if you have Painkiller, you know everything about this record already. But I can make room for a copycat band if they're this talented and satisfying.

3/5 = 50%

Possessed.. possessed.. possessed by evil! - 90%
Written by HawkMoon on July 6th, 2003

Mosh til death! This is a killer disc, believe me. Ok it doesn't sound very different than most of the german thrash metal from the 80's, and the production is very "dirty" but hey.. first of all, this is kids under 18 and it's a demo. Besides, how much can you renew thrash metal nowadays? The important thing is that it's full of aggression and speed, and no lack of that here. 5 asskicking thrash killers + an intro that has the most evil name ever, get this now or suffer the shotgun death!

Hehe just kidding but seriously this is awesome. Revelation of rage is even a bit technical, just listen to that drum part towards the end. Pretty stunning huh? Don't need to guess twice which is my fave track here

Really hope these guys get signed, they kick major ass. Now place an order for this demo cd.

Great EP - 90%
Written by bigphilly86 on September 15th, 2004

This was one of those unexpected bargain cds u buy i got it for about $10 aussie and eps are usually rare. Well anyway the ep has a good positive start with Its Coming down a nice hard hitting energetic rock peice i was feel that the 1st song on an album is the first impression and u need a good opener to get into the album and this did the job. Trouble was also a great track which i got into almost immediatly but to me the song which for me makes this album a winner is the beautifully live Performance of Sistinas give me the shivers so romantic and as far away from metal as possible it was like a 70's style rock n roll song and it is a wonderous composition i find this amazing how Danzig can switch from a heavy metal assault like Am I Demon to this classical rock ballad back to the good old fashioned rock like Mother this guy is definatly underrated.

i dont think this one is on par with the reviews surrounding it

http://www.metal-archives.com/review.php?id=840

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Not a thrash album, but a HEAVY METAL one!!!!!! - 92%
Written by skolnick on February 10th, 2003

Metallica’s first release of the 90’s couldn’t be better...or in other ways, i guess it could be, but i have no major complaints about this album. “Metallica” was the very first superbly produced and complete album from the San Francisco ex- Thrashers. They have made an important transition in their sound that wasn’t accepted very well by the hardcore fans and it’s still not accepted today by some of them…I just cannot comprehend this… I prefer the thrash Metallica, and of course, when I say that in other ways this could be better, I just think that they shouldn’t have stepped completely aside from their thrash roots, still, this is a HEAVY METAL album, no one can deny it, and although not being thrash, it’s heavier than hell.
Then, one thing that really pisses me off about this is the fact the some may consider them some sellouts just for having two fuckin ballads on the record. This is pathetic and hilarious. In fact, hearing it very well, it will make everyone realise that this is one of the albums where Metallica has the thickest and heaviest guitar sound…the other one only managed to have this kind of sound was “Ride the Lightning”. “…and Justice for All” had some really aggressive guitars, but in comparison to this, it just doesn’t sound as powerful as “The Black Album” ’s riffage, and I’m not talking about speed, but power!!!

The production made by Bob Rock is perfect, this was a really good work made by him at a time when he has still far from ruining Metallica’s soul and heavy spirit…Good sound coming from all of the instruments and really good voice from James Hetfield. Kirk’s solos are also hyperactive and technically amazing and the really big step on this one is the presence of the bass guitar by Newsted, something that we were unable to hear in their previous album due to mastering problems…

In this metal masterpiece we have some of their best classics, and some really great songs. Songs like “Enter Sandman”, “Holier than Thou”, “Wherever I May Roam”, “Don’t Tread on Me”, “Through The Never” and “The Struggle Within” are really excellent stuff by them, being some good and interesting headbanging experiences, and the perfect reminders that Metallica, although not practising thrash any longer, were still there to kick some serious ass…well, at least for the next four years…
We also have two ballads (??…Metallica making ballads in a few years??…NAH!!!), and even before you just start swearing about these songs, just give yourself the time to try to understand and enjoy them. “The Unforgiven” is really great…combines some cool acoustic guitar melodies with some good aggressive parts and is just responsible for having one of Kirk Hammett’s best solos IN his entire career. “Nothing Else Matters” is the other ballad, and might I say what a beautiful one…This one, more than a song, is a lesson on how to live…
We have then the “musically grown up” Metallica songs. Something really different from what they’ve been practising in the years before this. Tunes like “Sad But True”, “Of Wolf And Man”, the excellent “The God that Failed” and the angry “My Friend of Misery” only proved that the guys were really open minded about something else going out there and made these ones an essential listening on this one.

Everyone just blames this album for being the first step for Metallica’s spirit and heaviness decadence. There’s something really important that I think Metallica fans should know…changing your ideas or getting some new perspectives from each subject doesn’t mean you are a non-personality man or a big motherfuckin sellout… It’s true that Metallica got weaker in the years that came (that’s another story…) but I can only blame one single guy for that: BOB ROCK. This change of musical attitude didn’t made any harm to their spirit at this time, a time when they still had control of their musical direction…So, if you wanna tear apart “Load” or “Reload” or even spell a curse on Bob Rock’s “bon jovi ass”, fine…but you cannot do that to “Metallica”. This is in my perspective an excellent album and showed us a heavy and renewed
Metallica that had two ways they could be following in the future. Unfortunately we already know which one they did take…

possesses a lot of these *...* , not to mention it kinda has this weird spacing on the page...

Thanks Mr. "I'm 35 now"

Murdergoat/Drunemeton/Aryanas - 30%
Written by Satanic_Warmonger on September 9th, 2006

I feel the need to review this awful garbage of a split for no reason other than wanting to warn others against it rather than ignite further flames between the 3 bands on the split. But I probably will because this stuff is outright awful so whatever.

Murdergoat - The first track is a recording of a German anthem/battle song with added singing to the song in German. This is really not that impressive. It just gives you the hope that this will be a good opening to the Murdergoat portion. Track 2 comes on, your hopes are high, BUT... Well, its really a disappointing moment for ANYONE who has ever listened to Spear of Longinus before, I say this because its a total copy of "Nazi Occult Metal" riffs and drums and even the sound clips. You can even tell that this stuff wasnt recorded the whole way thru, its actually looped! Yes, LOOPED! The chorus riff is recorded, the bridge, etc, and each part is then looped, do I need to say more?

Murdergoat summary:
1. A Intro that isnt that bad.
2. Total rip-off of Spear of Longinus track, "Nazi Occult Metal", not to mention you can tell its looped.

TOTAL DISGRACE!

Drunemeton (WMSD at this time) - Since I am the sole creator of all Drunemeton music I really shouldnt say much about my portion of the split, thats just silly. I will however give my feelings about that time. Each track is quite simple, done only with a distorted 4 string bass, tuned to standard E and amplified by a poor sounding 20 watt Hartke bass amp, and a drum machine done manually rather than programmed ahead of time. So you can tell that during this time I really did not have the correct funding but I did have quite a bit of inspiration, apparently enough to record more original tracks than Murdergoat's rip-off of Spear of Longinus. So anyways, in my opinion my tracks were decent and a highlight of the split, not a highlight in the sense that, "Oh wow, this guy is a genius.", but more in the sense of, "Its original but not impressive.". My tracks on this have a really thin sound, the riffs did not undergo a long writing process, in fact, the main riff is the only thing written, and even then there really isn't much of a main riff, the rest is just improvised and later drums put to it. The Von cover is a decent one, I would prefer it re-done however, but at the time none of this mattered.

Drunemeton summary:
1. Original but at the same time, a hint of Von, Mayhem, and Bathory.
2. Not much for instruments, just a distorted bass along with a drum machine.

Aryanas - This portion of the split has some rather good music, a bit too happy and folkish for my liking, not the way I would do NSBM but whatever. Lets just say the music is good, even better if you are into folkish NSBM with corny lyrics. The only thing I can say that is bad about this part of the split was the vocals, they are seriously annoying and are more along the lines of a Oi, Hatecore, RAC type of band rather than what Aryanas actually plays. So it is better to talk about the music more, especially in terms of instruments, Aryanas it seems went to great lengths to use some interesting instruments, some sort of whistle thing, a tin whistle I think I remember him saying, it comes in during one of the intros, the second track I believe, its really nice and pretty sounding. Aside from my own stuff on this split, Aryanas is also worth checking out, its not that original but its the kind that will make you think, "He has a good idea about how music is made." Just keep in mind that the vocals are quite annoying and really ruin the music.

Aryanas summary:
1. Annoying vocals
2. Nice sounding music with some folkish type sounds going on.

Right after the split we all came to hate each other very quickly, about 2 days afterwards. Stay away from this split, its not worth getting, it practically has a curse on it.

Get Me Out Of This Dark Place (Leave Me) - 85%
Written by StandStillMovement on December 31st, 2004

To begin, let me say this, RAW PRODUCTION, AS IN BASEMENT OF A BASEMENT. Now that it's said, this cd is a combo of demos, 'Bloody Ritual' and 'Gestapo of Satan' to be exact. Surprisingly on my side of the deal, Gestapo 666 was so ugly and disgustingly listen-able that all three songs captured the essence of being in desolate darkness. Wavy tortured vokills plow through tracks one through three along with 'hidden' cult melodies (I say hidden because there is nearly no melody lol). As for Satanic Warmaster, I believe this is done without Lord War Torech, but Werewulf Tyrant takes up for the abscence. There Seems to be a shitload of what sounds like intros on Bloody Ritual (Outro in the case of Vlad's castle). This music is obviously what adds up to be Strength and Honor, What lets you know it's demo material is songs like 'Nacht Der Vampir' and 'Book Of Human Skin' ( 1;11, 0;57 ), which capture the brutality but drops you quickly in change for the next track. All in all, This is essential EARLY Satanic Warmaster, and Gestapo 666 is a welcome sound, worthy of the cult title.

Author:	requiem99 [ Sat Dec 16, 2006 9:48 am ]
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I rarely post anymore, but I'm personally offended that this kind of worthlessness is still, to this day, being approved into MA: http://www.metal-archives.com/review.php?id=128797

Author:	DeathForBlitzkrieg [ Sat Dec 16, 2006 12:49 pm ]
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Where are the executors? Amon Amarth - Fate of Norns http://www.metal-archives.com/review.php?id=49215#12599

Author:	Napero [ Sat Dec 16, 2006 4:34 pm ]
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The big clean-up has been finished; killed most, left some. Sorry for the delay. We've all been too busy, I guess.

Author:	GVOLTT [ Sun Dec 17, 2006 12:32 am ]
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Six Feet Under's True Carnage: Quote: Not Great but Not Too Bad... - 70% Written by DawnDeparted on May 27th, 2003 When I first heard this CD I thought it completely sucked. I mean it just didn't live up to their other albums. I was highly pissed off when I bought it. I listened to it for a few more times and realized I can't take this shit anymore. If I rated it when I first heard it I would have gave it a 0, that's how bad I thought it was. Then I took a break from it for a while and I gave it a spin one day and it started to sound a lot better to me. Now I give it a much higher rating than a 0 as you can see. I don't know why I was so harsh on it to begin with but it's overly not too bad. It's not their greatest work but if you're a Six Feet Under fan you should buy it. http://www.metal-archives.com/review.php?id=3666#1716 Doesn't describe the music at all.

Author:	Napero [ Sun Dec 17, 2006 3:17 am ]
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Gone.

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Author:	droneriot [ Sun Dec 17, 2006 3:24 am ]
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That's all? "Gone."? You didn't notice that the whole Six Feet Under page was full of garbage? Oh well, let me look through the whole thing tomorrow and post everything that should be deleted.

Author:	Napero [ Sun Dec 17, 2006 3:48 am ]
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Feel free to do just that. This thread has been neglegted too long, in my case due to chronic lack of time, but I'll try to pay more attention in the future. Reading 20+ reviews is still a major operation for your truly, but a bunch of pre-sorted garbage can always be incinerated. And yeah, I've noticed SFU page is full of poop. I considered buying one of their albums, surfed here on my mobile, and left the CD in the store...

Author:	droneriot [ Sun Dec 17, 2006 4:05 am ]
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Napero wrote: Feel free to do just that. This thread has been neglegted too long, in my case due to chronic lack of time, but I'll try to pay more attention in the future. Reading 20+ reviews is still a major operation for your truly, but a bunch of pre-sorted garbage can always be incinerated. And yeah, I've noticed SFU page is full of poop. I considered buying one of their albums, surfed here on my mobile, and left the CD in the store... I've neglected this thread due to being forced to neglect this forum, but I've discovered a lot of horror on the site during the time I was banned from here, prepare for some of the most awful 2003-2004 reviews you have ever seen the next few days (not today and tomorrow because I just got my money and am partying with a few friends who also just got their money).

Author:	Napero [ Sun Dec 17, 2006 4:19 am ]
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I'll sharpen the tools to be ready tomorrow, then. The hoe, the scythe and my trusty mallet... And yeah, welcome back.

Author:	GVOLTT [ Mon Dec 18, 2006 9:27 pm ]
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For Impaled Nazarene's "Death Comes In 26 Carefully Selected Pieces" Quote: Sex! War! Goats! Gasmasks! - 100% Written by HellPatrol on May 28th, 2005 Sex, war, goats, gasmasks and much perversion perfectly define the spirit of Impaled Nazarene, that now bring us this masterpiece! Black metal live recordings are not very common, but one more time Impaled Nazarene distinguishes from the others, leading all the perversion and niilism to the stage. We have 26 songs in this album that consists in a set list of all the career of these Finnish insanes, Approximately 1 hour and 8 minutes of pure "goat black metal assault"! Or "nuclear metal", defined for themselves, that count on sounds since its first EP "Goat Perversion" until its last full lenght "All That You Fear". Precision and speed are characteristics that contribute for a concise noise and that makes to perceive the force and the energy of the band alive. The highest point is exactly the precision that the songs are played, demonstrated ins songs as "Condemned to Hell", "The Horny and the Horned", "Sadhu Satana", "War Total", "Let's Fucking Die", true hymns for black metal, fact, however, that it does not erase the quality of the more recent songs. With all these characteristics this live album becomes an obligatoriness for fans of the band and an excellent recommendation for that they appreciate the metal in its more immoral way. http://www.metal-archives.com/review.php?id=73418#810 Only one line really describes good qualities this album has, with only the sentence afterword for emphasis on precision. Uses a run-on sentence that gets confusing, and has a spelling error or two.

Author:	Visionary [ Mon Dec 18, 2006 9:56 pm ]
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Short, not to mention he never leaned math in school. Quote: Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery - 50% Written by Hail_Satan on August 14th, 2002 Primal Fear is Painkiller-era Judas Priest worship done right. Frontman Ralf Scheepers wails like a banshee over speedy heavy metal riffs and pounding double bass -- you could swear this is 1990 all over again. While not original in the least, it's done with conviction and technique, which elevates Primal Fear over a lot of the power metal heap. The standout track is "Eye of an Eagle", a rousing good time that puts a smile on your face. Honestly, if you have Painkiller, you know everything about this record already. But I can make room for a copycat band if they're this talented and satisfying. 3/5 = 50% http://www.metal-archives.com/review.php?id=3127#147

Author:	droneriot [ Mon Dec 18, 2006 9:58 pm ]
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Hahaha that's pretty awful.

Author:	Nightgaunt [ Tue Dec 19, 2006 1:26 am ]
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The last two have felt the scythe.

Author:	Visionary [ Tue Dec 19, 2006 4:13 pm ]
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Quote: Possessed.. possessed.. possessed by evil! - 90% Written by HawkMoon on July 6th, 2003 Mosh til death! This is a killer disc, believe me. Ok it doesn't sound very different than most of the german thrash metal from the 80's, and the production is very "dirty" but hey.. first of all, this is kids under 18 and it's a demo. Besides, how much can you renew thrash metal nowadays? The important thing is that it's full of aggression and speed, and no lack of that here. 5 asskicking thrash killers + an intro that has the most evil name ever, get this now or suffer the shotgun death! Hehe just kidding but seriously this is awesome. Revelation of rage is even a bit technical, just listen to that drum part towards the end. Pretty stunning huh? Don't need to guess twice which is my fave track here Really hope these guys get signed, they kick major ass. Now place an order for this demo cd. http://www.metal-archives.com/review.php?id=23137 Not the worst review but this could describe most thrash releases and there are 2 other reviews for the release.

Author:	Nargodath [ Thu Dec 21, 2006 1:08 am ]
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Bunch of Track-by-tracks here: http://metal-archives.com/review.php?id=370

Author:	~Guest 3496 [ Sun Dec 24, 2006 2:13 pm ]
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Deleted both.

Author:	Radagast [ Wed Dec 27, 2006 6:40 am ]
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Halford - Crucible http://www.metal-archives.com/review.php?id=2142 Most of the reviews are pretty weak.

Author:	Napero [ Wed Dec 27, 2006 9:00 am ]
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Many bad ones indeed. I deleted the reviews by maidenpriest87 (stereotypical track-by-track), Ayeka (minimal and superficial), FatalStrike (a badly formatted track-by-track) and Nightcrawler (track-by-track with light-weight contents compared to its length).

Author:	Napero [ Tue Dec 19, 2006 5:12 pm ]
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Dead and buried.

Author:	Lokar [ Wed Dec 20, 2006 4:45 am ]
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I think all the reviews for this album need some purging... http://www.metal-archives.com/release.php?id=39930

Author:	Napero [ Wed Dec 20, 2006 5:06 am ]
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Done. I left the newest one, its contents are good. The two others were indeed sucky.

Author:	Radagast [ Wed Dec 20, 2006 9:01 am ]
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Strangely, the two most recently accepted reviews for Abigail are the track-by-tracks. And they both bite. http://www.metal-archives.com/review.php?id=1176

Author:	Napero [ Wed Dec 20, 2006 9:27 am ]
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They were by koonze and fear_the_riffer, and they were bad. Both are gone now. Now the newest Abigail review is from 2003. Is anyone from our board elite, the best of the best of the best (i.e. those who read this...), willing to correct the situation?

Author:	GVOLTT [ Thu Dec 21, 2006 6:24 pm ]
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for Danzig's Thrall-Demonsweatlive: http://metal-archives.com/review.php?id=7975#16008 Quote: Great EP - 90% Written by bigphilly86 on September 15th, 2004 This was one of those unexpected bargain cds u buy i got it for about $10 aussie and eps are usually rare. Well anyway the ep has a good positive start with Its Coming down a nice hard hitting energetic rock peice i was feel that the 1st song on an album is the first impression and u need a good opener to get into the album and this did the job. Trouble was also a great track which i got into almost immediatly but to me the song which for me makes this album a winner is the beautifully live Performance of Sistinas give me the shivers so romantic and as far away from metal as possible it was like a 70's style rock n roll song and it is a wonderous composition i find this amazing how Danzig can switch from a heavy metal assault like Am I Demon to this classical rock ballad back to the good old fashioned rock like Mother this guy is definatly underrated. Lack of periods [which makes it a long run-on sentence], and uses "u" instead of "you". A few other spelling and grammar errors also exist. I'm not sure about a few of the other Danzig reviews either - I'm not good at picking out bad reviews (for any band), unless it's clearly noticeable.

Author:	Nightgaunt [ Thu Dec 21, 2006 7:14 pm ]
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Done.

Author:	erickg13 [ Thu Dec 21, 2006 9:07 pm ]
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erickg13 wrote: i dont think this one is on par with the reviews surrounding it http://www.metal-archives.com/review.php?id=840 Quote: Not a thrash album, but a HEAVY METAL one!!!!!! - 92% Written by skolnick on February 10th, 2003 Metallica’s first release of the 90’s couldn’t be better...or in other ways, i guess it could be, but i have no major complaints about this album. “Metallica” was the very first superbly produced and complete album from the San Francisco ex- Thrashers. They have made an important transition in their sound that wasn’t accepted very well by the hardcore fans and it’s still not accepted today by some of them…I just cannot comprehend this… I prefer the thrash Metallica, and of course, when I say that in other ways this could be better, I just think that they shouldn’t have stepped completely aside from their thrash roots, still, this is a HEAVY METAL album, no one can deny it, and although not being thrash, it’s heavier than hell. Then, one thing that really pisses me off about this is the fact the some may consider them some sellouts just for having two fuckin ballads on the record. This is pathetic and hilarious. In fact, hearing it very well, it will make everyone realise that this is one of the albums where Metallica has the thickest and heaviest guitar sound…the other one only managed to have this kind of sound was “Ride the Lightning”. “…and Justice for All” had some really aggressive guitars, but in comparison to this, it just doesn’t sound as powerful as “The Black Album” ’s riffage, and I’m not talking about speed, but power!!! The production made by Bob Rock is perfect, this was a really good work made by him at a time when he has still far from ruining Metallica’s soul and heavy spirit…Good sound coming from all of the instruments and really good voice from James Hetfield. Kirk’s solos are also hyperactive and technically amazing and the really big step on this one is the presence of the bass guitar by Newsted, something that we were unable to hear in their previous album due to mastering problems… In this metal masterpiece we have some of their best classics, and some really great songs. Songs like “Enter Sandman”, “Holier than Thou”, “Wherever I May Roam”, “Don’t Tread on Me”, “Through The Never” and “The Struggle Within” are really excellent stuff by them, being some good and interesting headbanging experiences, and the perfect reminders that Metallica, although not practising thrash any longer, were still there to kick some serious ass…well, at least for the next four years… We also have two ballads (??…Metallica making ballads in a few years??…NAH!!!), and even before you just start swearing about these songs, just give yourself the time to try to understand and enjoy them. “The Unforgiven” is really great…combines some cool acoustic guitar melodies with some good aggressive parts and is just responsible for having one of Kirk Hammett’s best solos IN his entire career. “Nothing Else Matters” is the other ballad, and might I say what a beautiful one…This one, more than a song, is a lesson on how to live… We have then the “musically grown up” Metallica songs. Something really different from what they’ve been practising in the years before this. Tunes like “Sad But True”, “Of Wolf And Man”, the excellent “The God that Failed” and the angry “My Friend of Misery” only proved that the guys were really open minded about something else going out there and made these ones an essential listening on this one. Everyone just blames this album for being the first step for Metallica’s spirit and heaviness decadence. There’s something really important that I think Metallica fans should know…changing your ideas or getting some new perspectives from each subject doesn’t mean you are a non-personality man or a big motherfuckin sellout… It’s true that Metallica got weaker in the years that came (that’s another story…) but I can only blame one single guy for that: BOB ROCK. This change of musical attitude didn’t made any harm to their spirit at this time, a time when they still had control of their musical direction…So, if you wanna tear apart “Load” or “Reload” or even spell a curse on Bob Rock’s “bon jovi ass”, fine…but you cannot do that to “Metallica”. This is in my perspective an excellent album and showed us a heavy and renewed Metallica that had two ways they could be following in the future. Unfortunately we already know which one they did take… possesses a lot of these ... , not to mention it kinda has this weird spacing on the page... any thoughts? (i think i posted this a while back, but it was while no mods were around, and because it was on a previous page it was overlooked)

Author:	Nahsil [ Thu Dec 21, 2006 11:34 pm ]
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what about this one? http://metal-archives.com/review.php?id=110717#61056 I Don't Like This Change. - 67% Written by Cuntaminated on September 15th, 2006 Out of all the Black Metal bands that I enjoy myself, I'd say Keep Of Kalessin is on my top 10. That's how good they are... but with this release, I have my doubts. Keep Of Kalessin is too good of a band to be heading on this direction, and yes I'm somewhat disappointed. Now, there is some positive aspects on this album, considering that this is still Black Metal material. There are several attempts on this album that do sound alot thrashy, and melodic! I can't say it's all that bad. I also think its safe to say that some of the parts remind me of Emperors old sound. Just listen to the new clean vocals that's been added, combining them with the harsh vocals... which is not so bad as well. That's just a very small detail that I noticed, yet I do acknowledge that this is far from being similar to Emperor ... So how exactly is Keep Of Kalessin sounding nowadays? I have come to the sad conclusion that this reminds me alot of Dimmu Borgirs new stuff. Yep! disagree with me or not, but the riffs do tend to clone Dimmu Borgirs newer stuff. Whether it was cloned or not meant to be cloned, It doesn't really matter because Keep Of Kalessin doesn't manage to keep nothing too original on this album. But at the same time, it doesn't entirely sound like Dimmu Borgir! Considering that 1) Armada does not consist of symphonic sessions, and 2) We're talking about Keep Of Kalessin! so this obviously has far more balls than Dimmu shitty Borgir. To conclude: this lacks atmosphere, originality, and just that touch of uniqueness like Keep Of Kalessins old material. This is a bad album, coming from a very astonishing band! not to mention that Agnen: A Journey Through the Dark is one of my favorite Black Metal albums of all times. --------------------- didn't get a whole lot out of it... didn't describe the music, other than the Emperor and Dimmu comparisons. There's also a smiley! Not trying to be an asshole, I just wasn't impressed.

Author:	immortalshadow666 [ Sun Dec 24, 2006 4:26 am ]
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http://www.metal-archives.com/review.php?id=1006#14151 Painkiller_2142's review of "Down To Earth" is not a good one. No description of the music other than a track by track review, of which almost every single track is "nothing special". The only one that's even close to a description of the music is one thats "a ballad".

Author:	balder [ Sun Dec 24, 2006 2:09 pm ]
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http://metal-archives.com/review.php?id=823#30 This review by ironasinmaiden for Accept's Restless And Wild seems a bit out of date. It doesn't say very much about the music at all. http://metal-archives.com/review.php?id=823#504 KRS's review for the same album seems a little sparse, too. It's mainly just a weak track-by-track. Both of these seem like they might not be up to today's standards. What does everyone think?

Author:	immortalshadow666 [ Mon Dec 25, 2006 7:40 am ]
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http://www.metal-archives.com/review.php?id=5976#58204 Abraxus - Deicide: In Torment, In Hell Why the hell was this accepted in 2006?

Author:	Napero [ Mon Dec 25, 2006 8:54 am ]
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Gone

Author:	immortalshadow666 [ Mon Jan 01, 2007 12:00 pm ]
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http://www.metal-archives.com/review.php?id=14928#5804 Heavymetalvixen's review of "Damnation" contains no description of the music other than that it's a "mellow acoustic album".

Author:	Napero [ Mon Jan 01, 2007 4:58 pm ]
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Poof.

Author:	immortalshadow666 [ Tue Jan 02, 2007 10:11 am ]
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Thanks Mr. "I'm 35 now"

Author:	Napero [ Tue Jan 02, 2007 10:23 am ]
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immortalshadow666 wrote: Thanks Mr. "I'm 35 now" ...pfft... youngsters. Get off my lawn! ...blablabla... and the Russians kept coming over the field, and perkele, we shot them there by the dozens... I like the porridge here, not too salty... blaaablabla... I'd like to have my colostomy bag changed now. Nurse! Nurse? ...The damn youngsters emptied the tires of my wheelchair, and Edgar died yesterday, or was it the day before that?...

Author:	pinpals [ Tue Jan 02, 2007 3:59 pm ]
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Pretty much all of the Death albums need a haircut, but I found Symbolic to be the worst: http://www.metal-archives.com/review.php?id=616 Too many fanboy reviews and a couple of track-by-tracks as well. Don't get me wrong, I love the album, I'm listening to it now, but the reviews weren't very helpful when I was deciding whether to buy the album or not.

Author:	requiem99 [ Tue Jan 02, 2007 5:18 pm ]
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http://www.metal-archives.com/review.php?id=22 Look at the first review (at the bottom, not the top). How the hell has this lasted so long? The obvious "skillness" of the reviewer aside, he is calling too much attention with this "look me, I'm a good reviewer" crap, and his review lacks having success very much. Ok? Thanks.

Author:	parasite_lost [ Wed Jan 03, 2007 1:37 pm ]
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Quote: Murdergoat/Drunemeton/Aryanas - 30% Written by Satanic_Warmonger on September 9th, 2006 I feel the need to review this awful garbage of a split for no reason other than wanting to warn others against it rather than ignite further flames between the 3 bands on the split. But I probably will because this stuff is outright awful so whatever. Murdergoat - The first track is a recording of a German anthem/battle song with added singing to the song in German. This is really not that impressive. It just gives you the hope that this will be a good opening to the Murdergoat portion. Track 2 comes on, your hopes are high, BUT... Well, its really a disappointing moment for ANYONE who has ever listened to Spear of Longinus before, I say this because its a total copy of "Nazi Occult Metal" riffs and drums and even the sound clips. You can even tell that this stuff wasnt recorded the whole way thru, its actually looped! Yes, LOOPED! The chorus riff is recorded, the bridge, etc, and each part is then looped, do I need to say more? Murdergoat summary: 1. A Intro that isnt that bad. 2. Total rip-off of Spear of Longinus track, "Nazi Occult Metal", not to mention you can tell its looped. TOTAL DISGRACE! Drunemeton (WMSD at this time) - Since I am the sole creator of all Drunemeton music I really shouldnt say much about my portion of the split, thats just silly. I will however give my feelings about that time. Each track is quite simple, done only with a distorted 4 string bass, tuned to standard E and amplified by a poor sounding 20 watt Hartke bass amp, and a drum machine done manually rather than programmed ahead of time. So you can tell that during this time I really did not have the correct funding but I did have quite a bit of inspiration, apparently enough to record more original tracks than Murdergoat's rip-off of Spear of Longinus. So anyways, in my opinion my tracks were decent and a highlight of the split, not a highlight in the sense that, "Oh wow, this guy is a genius.", but more in the sense of, "Its original but not impressive.". My tracks on this have a really thin sound, the riffs did not undergo a long writing process, in fact, the main riff is the only thing written, and even then there really isn't much of a main riff, the rest is just improvised and later drums put to it. The Von cover is a decent one, I would prefer it re-done however, but at the time none of this mattered. Drunemeton summary: 1. Original but at the same time, a hint of Von, Mayhem, and Bathory. 2. Not much for instruments, just a distorted bass along with a drum machine. Aryanas - This portion of the split has some rather good music, a bit too happy and folkish for my liking, not the way I would do NSBM but whatever. Lets just say the music is good, even better if you are into folkish NSBM with corny lyrics. The only thing I can say that is bad about this part of the split was the vocals, they are seriously annoying and are more along the lines of a Oi, Hatecore, RAC type of band rather than what Aryanas actually plays. So it is better to talk about the music more, especially in terms of instruments, Aryanas it seems went to great lengths to use some interesting instruments, some sort of whistle thing, a tin whistle I think I remember him saying, it comes in during one of the intros, the second track I believe, its really nice and pretty sounding. Aside from my own stuff on this split, Aryanas is also worth checking out, its not that original but its the kind that will make you think, "He has a good idea about how music is made." Just keep in mind that the vocals are quite annoying and really ruin the music. Aryanas summary: 1. Annoying vocals 2. Nice sounding music with some folkish type sounds going on. Right after the split we all came to hate each other very quickly, about 2 days afterwards. Stay away from this split, its not worth getting, it practically has a curse on it. http://www.metal-archives.com/review.php?id=109695 long story short: i'm not friends with these guys anymore so i'll say they're shit. no explanation as to why he released a split with bands who's music he hates in the first place. notice how he is positive about his own band which is frankly a joke anyway. he spent more time changing the info on his metal archives page than he did on his actual music.