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OzzyApu
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PostPosted: Wed Aug 01, 2007 9:34 am 
 

requiem99 wrote:
No, seriously, WHAT IS THAT?

Edit: Seriously someone clean that guy's reviews out of here. He has a lot. Somehow. HOW?

What's wrong with the review? Besides the fact that it has a lot of unnecessary shit like the last paragraph. I haven't read his other reviews, but point out their flaws and I'll see if I can back you up.
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requiem99
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PostPosted: Wed Aug 01, 2007 9:51 am 
 

No way if you can't see it I cannot possibly help you.

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failsafeman
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PostPosted: Wed Aug 01, 2007 11:10 am 
 

requiem99 wrote:
No way if you can't see it I cannot possibly help you.


I too have no idea (?) why you might not like (!) that review (really), you must be stupid (unless of course you're talking about his consistent and annoying habit of using parenthesis at every possible interval with long obnoxious interjections, by why that would annoy you is beyond me, I just post here and don't know anything why would you think that).
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Sean16
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PostPosted: Wed Aug 01, 2007 12:58 pm 
 

It's just that this review is devoid of any real content, musical description and the likes, in addition of the fact it overall looks utterly stupid.

Reminded me of MettleAngel, though in a different register.
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Bash
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PostPosted: Wed Aug 01, 2007 1:32 pm 
 

That's just awful, and seeing as how the one who wrote that review was banned for trolling on the forum (or so I recall) I think it's blatantly obvious the review is just an elaborate troll. I am stunned that it didn't get caught earlier.

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PostPosted: Wed Aug 01, 2007 3:02 pm 
 

Gone.
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PostPosted: Wed Aug 01, 2007 5:49 pm 
 

Aw I wanted to see it :(
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OzzyApu
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PostPosted: Wed Aug 01, 2007 8:23 pm 
 

The_Boss wrote:
Aw I wanted to see it :(

Does anyone remember the reviewer's name? Cause I wanna read the rest of his reviews so that we can start a petition to get rid of him.
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DrOctavia
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PostPosted: Wed Aug 01, 2007 8:42 pm 
 

OzzyApu wrote:
The_Boss wrote:
Aw I wanted to see it :(

Does anyone remember the reviewer's name? Cause I wanna read the rest of his reviews so that we can start a petition to get rid of him.

I think it was he who goes by the brilliant moniker of "Invaginator". Actually, I've scanned a couple of his other reviews and they don't seem to be too bad or at least not on the same level as that Deicide review. Makes me think might have been sloshed when he penned that gem.
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PostPosted: Wed Aug 01, 2007 8:43 pm 
 

I could've sworn he was the one who plagiarized a bunch of reviews from some magazine or something, a few weeks ago...
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OzzyApu
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PostPosted: Wed Aug 01, 2007 8:52 pm 
 

Empyreal wrote:
I could've sworn he was the one who plagiarized a bunch of reviews from some magazine or something, a few weeks ago...

I remember there was a hobo on this website that did the same thing, and I love to see those guys get their reviews erased and banned hehehe.

DrOctavia wrote:
I think it was he who goes by the brilliant moniker of "Invaginator". Actually, I've scanned a couple of his other reviews and they don't seem to be too bad or at least not on the same level as that Deicide review. Makes me think might have been sloshed when he penned that gem.

I see, but I think I'll search him up again. Thanks Doc Oc.
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cinedracusio
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PostPosted: Thu Aug 02, 2007 1:31 am 
 

The latest review might be okay, but to me it sounds oddly similar in statements with corviderrant's review, without renewing anything.
http://www.metal-archives.com/review.php?id=2306

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DrOctavia
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PostPosted: Thu Aug 02, 2007 6:19 am 
 

OzzyApu wrote:
Thanks Doc Oc.

No problem, Ozzy ol' boy. ;)

cinedracusio wrote:
The latest review might be okay, but to me it sounds oddly similar in statements with corviderrant's review, without renewing anything.
http://www.metal-archives.com/review.php?id=2306

It does seem quite "samey" overall, and parts of it look like he just reworded corviderrant's review.
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PostPosted: Thu Aug 02, 2007 5:49 pm 
 

http://metal-archives.com/review.php?id=93755#47836
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I first heard Sleep Terror in early 2005 when they had a jam room they rented at Studio 7. First door on the right. I remember Dougie from Barefoot Barnacle was like, "you have to hear this band!" So we walked across the hall into their jam room and there was Luke and Dave (old drummer) chilling. I had no idea what to expect, I was just like "WHOA a 2 piece!" sarcastically like it wasn't going to be anything special. As soon as they started playing I wanted to cry; I wanted to rip my eyelids off; I almost fainted; luke's fingers moved so fast and dave was the best drummer I have ever seen in front of me. FUCKING A. SOOOO BADASS. I have seen them live once at the martha lake community center in bothell w/ a bunch of emo bands and they destroyed everyone and had their mouf's to DA GROUND> haha. After they moved to cali, they came back to studio 7 in august to play a show and there were probably 300-400? people there. Myspace helped those guys take off for sure. They are perfect live. Make sure to keep an eye on future projects that dave does even though he's not in sleep terror anymore he is an amazing drummer. I will always be a loyal fan of sleep terror, unless they actually become real terrorists. As long as luke keeps playing his lighting blazing arpeggios and badass riffs I will like them. I think alot of people agree this is the best and most original band to come out in a lonnngggg lonnngg while.

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PostPosted: Thu Aug 02, 2007 7:08 pm 
 

http://www.metal-archives.com/review.php?id=161876
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Very Solid EP - 80%
Written by DYNAROUGE on July 25th, 2007

The first release from a soon-to-be legendary porngrind/death metal band, Cock And Ball Torture (or CnBT, for short). This 1998 EP is a great introduction to CnBT and contains some short, sweet and brutally arousing grindcore. And while no particular track 'stands out' on this release, as a whole it is a violent, face-melting experience that is worth picking up.

Sure, there are other releases by CnBT that are more brutal sounding (such as the 2000 release Opus(sy) IV), but as far as solid releases go, Cocktales is probably the best in terms of initial releases for a band that I have ever heard. And while not perfect, clearly good enough that they were able to launch a career from it.


There's only one line that describes the music, and not very good at it either.
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cinedracusio
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PostPosted: Fri Aug 03, 2007 3:10 am 
 

This bunch of reviews:
http://www.metal-archives.com/review.php?id=1037
Maybe one should clean up some of them. Too many telling the same story. For example, Cheeses_Priced's review is too damn simple for all those before it, and one of his weakest... Langstondrive also pulled out of his pocket a pretty weak review. :p

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cinedracusio
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PostPosted: Fri Aug 03, 2007 7:59 am 
 

What the fuck are these?
http://www.metal-archives.com/review.php?id=15636
http://www.metal-archives.com/review.php?id=19138
As far as I can see, mutiilator is a really big Vrolok fan. :drool:

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DrOctavia
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PostPosted: Sat Aug 04, 2007 2:34 am 
 

http://www.metal-archives.com/review.php?id=12105#1421
The title is fairly accurate. Raw and sloppy, especially if her profile is accurate.
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requiem99
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PostPosted: Mon Aug 06, 2007 9:24 am 
 

This guy just signed up and started with Root reviews, but he can't write. At all. Who accepts this garbage?

http://www.metal-archives.com/review.ph ... 901#119282

His other Root review is worthless too, also on the front page as of this writing.

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OzzyApu
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PostPosted: Mon Aug 06, 2007 9:28 am 
 

requiem99 wrote:
This guy just signed up and started with Root reviews, but he can't write. At all. Who accepts this garbage?

http://www.metal-archives.com/review.ph ... 901#119282

His other Root review is worthless too, also on the front page as of this writing.

Saw them earlier and agree, he can't write worth a dime.
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requiem99
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PostPosted: Mon Aug 06, 2007 9:54 am 
 

OzzyApu wrote:
requiem99 wrote:
This guy just signed up and started with Root reviews, but he can't write. At all. Who accepts this garbage?

http://www.metal-archives.com/review.ph ... 901#119282

His other Root review is worthless too, also on the front page as of this writing.

Saw them earlier and agree, he can't write worth a dime.


For the love of... he even refers to Root as "authors" of music.

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cinedracusio
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PostPosted: Mon Aug 06, 2007 10:06 am 
 

requiem99 wrote:
This guy just signed up and started with Root reviews, but he can't write. At all. Who accepts this garbage?

http://www.metal-archives.com/review.ph ... 901#119282

His other Root review is worthless too, also on the front page as of this writing.

Damn, I just entered and was planning to throw shit at his review too.

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PostPosted: Mon Aug 06, 2007 10:07 am 
 

cinedracusio wrote:
What the fuck are these?
http://www.metal-archives.com/review.php?id=15636
http://www.metal-archives.com/review.php?id=19138
As far as I can see, mutiilator is a really big Vrolok fan. :drool:


You know, I honestly don't mind those ones. The second one is way too brief, sure.. But you still know what the music is going to sound like. I think you'd see this in magazines. It's very concise and straight to the point- not a work of art, but they aren't that bad.

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PostPosted: Mon Aug 06, 2007 10:09 am 
 

cinedracusio wrote:
requiem99 wrote:
This guy just signed up and started with Root reviews, but he can't write. At all. Who accepts this garbage?

http://www.metal-archives.com/review.ph ... 901#119282

His other Root review is worthless too, also on the front page as of this writing.

Damn, I just entered and was planning to throw shit at his review too.


I agree with this one though. It's terrible. THere's no musical description at all.

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Baletempest
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PostPosted: Mon Aug 06, 2007 10:14 am 
 

cinedracusio wrote:
requiem99 wrote:
This guy just signed up and started with Root reviews, but he can't write. At all. Who accepts this garbage?

http://www.metal-archives.com/review.ph ... 901#119282

His other Root review is worthless too, also on the front page as of this writing.

Damn, I just entered and was planning to throw shit at his review too.


So did I. I'd struggle to call that a review, it's more like a statement. The other one is scarcely better with only very merger description of the music, most of which you can probably glean from their encyclopaedia genre entry.

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PostPosted: Tue Aug 07, 2007 1:23 am 
 

How do xtheblademaster's reviews keep getting accepted? While they're not as laughably bad as some of the reviews here, they're still quite lacking and pretty offensive to the eyes, particularly for albums that already have a couple of reviews.
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PostPosted: Tue Aug 07, 2007 4:44 am 
 

http://www.metal-archives.com/review.php?id=87825#70081
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I agree 100% with the first reviewer. Between The Buried and Me's Alaska is a record that shows a great deal of growth and promise but sometimes loses itself and feels self-indulgent simply for the sake of being self-indulgent.

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PostPosted: Tue Aug 07, 2007 4:51 am 
 

oneyoudontknow wrote:
http://www.metal-archives.com/review.php?id=87825#70081
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I agree 100% with the first reviewer. Between The Buried and Me's Alaska is a record that shows a great deal of growth and promise but sometimes loses itself and feels self-indulgent simply for the sake of being self-indulgent.

Is this allowed?


That's mild/brief enough that it's not a problem.
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PostPosted: Tue Aug 07, 2007 7:56 am 
 

oneyoudontknow wrote:
http://www.metal-archives.com/review.php?id=87825#70081
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I agree 100% with the first reviewer. Between The Buried and Me's Alaska is a record that shows a great deal of growth and promise but sometimes loses itself and feels self-indulgent simply for the sake of being self-indulgent.

Is this allowed?


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PostPosted: Tue Aug 07, 2007 12:01 pm 
 

I can't find the link for the review page address in firefox.

Anyway, the new Deathspell Omega review obviously wasn't read by whoever allowed it, because its large paragraph is repeated in the review twice. One after another.

It isn't a pleasant read.

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requiem99
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PostPosted: Tue Aug 07, 2007 12:34 pm 
 

http://www.metal-archives.com/review.ph ... 7375#68812

It just proves there is at least one mod who does not read what he/she approves.


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Sheer brilliance - 97%
Written by StainedClass on August 6th, 2007

Deathspell Omega are back with their first full-length album in over 3 years. I had been looking forward to this album. I had enjoyed their early albums but I loved Si Monumentum Requires, Circumspice. I was so surprised at first listen of that one, as it sounds so unlike most black metal. So with this album, I was expecting something great. My expectations were actually exceeded.

Heavy, fast and chaotic, this is unlike any other black metal band out there. Imagine Gorguts-style riffing combined with the atmosphere and ideals of traditional black metal and put the two in a blender. Now speed it up and you’re probably half-way there. Yes, this album is chaotic and insane, but it is also very atmospheric and creates a great mood while listening to it. The album makes you forget about all the crappy black metal bands who do little more than rip off Burzum and call themselves “ambient” out there. The chaos is often broken up with slow, clean sections. Often, breaks like this with clean guitars seem to just extend the song lengths, as opposed to being used to create a good atmosphere and break up the brutality and chaos. HeDeathspell Omega are back with their first full-length album in over 3 years. I had been looking forward to this album. I had enjoyed their early albums but I loved Si Monumentum Requires, Circumspice. I was so surprised at first listen of that one, as it sounds so unlike most black metal. So with this album, I was expecting something great. My expectations were actually exceeded.

Heavy, fast and chaotic, this is unlike any other black metal band out there. Imagine Gorguts-style riffing combined with the atmosphere and ideals of traditional black metal and put the two in a blender. Now speed it up and you’re probably half-way there. Yes, this album is chaotic and insane, but it is also very atmospheric and creates a great mood while listening to it. The album makes you forget about all the crappy black metal bands who do little more than rip off Burzum and call themselves “ambient” out there. The chaos is often broken up with slow, clean sections. Often, breaks like this with clean guitars seem to just extend the song lengths, as opposed to being used to create a good atmosphere and break up the brutality and chaos. Here, the breaks are all justified and all succeed in serving a purpose, just as the fast heavy sections succeed. Save for the intro and the outro tracks (both entitled Obombration, possibly to imply that the album is to be listened to in a cycle, though I’m not entirely sure), all the songs exceed 7 minutes in length, two of which being over 10 minutes, one being very close. The songs avoid the trap of becoming boring due to the variation shown with all the different sections.

However, the music is not the only area where the album shines. Lyrically, the album is brilliant, as well. Yes, the lyrics are about Satanism, like many other black metal bands. Yes, it may seem like there isn’t much there before reading them. However, the minute you read the lyrics, you notice how well-educated the lyrics are. They have a poetic quality to them that most lyrics lack. They create as much of a mood as the music itself does and reading them is actually as interesting as listening to the music itself. It makes the over-all experience of the album that much better. There is a lot of thought in these lyrics, and it is very clear that the band wrote them for a reason.

With this album, DSO have not only lived up to all the hype and expectations following the excellent SMRC, but have actually gone above and beyond what they’ve done in the past. With all the disappointing releases that have been put out this year, not to mention all the sub-par black metal out there, this is one album that simply must be heard. I can easily recommend this album for anyone who wants black metal that isn’t just a band trying to recreate styles used by older bands. Easily one of my top 5 albums of the year.

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I don't know about anybody else but I thought that this was a little hard to read.

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Whores To OBLIVION!! - 92%
Written by charun on April 14th, 2004

this album is truely awesome, i bought this album after hearing the unnatural world (differnent album i know) and my metal stockest recommended this album and he was not wrong! if you love the doomish slow sound you will love this album, it is very dark and pretty damn heavy for something as slow as it is. one special feature to note of the album is at the end of the track whores to oblivion which is an awesome song in itself, we have the strangest sound effect i have heard on a cd. basically it sounds like your speakers are being destroyed, it is truely awesome take to a hi-fi store and ask if you can test there speakers with the sort of music you listen to and put this track on. watch the slaes persons face as the sound of tthe apocalpyse is being played through tope of the range speakers. that aside this is the only cathedral album i own and i assure you that will soon change this is an awesome album with an awesome sound what more could you want? the destruction of the world captured on cd too? well you've got it in this album!


http://www.metal-archives.com/review.php?id=3521#8552

Just kind of messy to read and the non-capitalization is annoying.

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Deleted the last two.
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PostPosted: Tue Aug 07, 2007 11:40 pm 
 

GVOLTT wrote:
http://www.metal-archives.com/review.php?id=161876
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Very Solid EP - 80%
Written by DYNAROUGE on July 25th, 2007

The first release from a soon-to-be legendary porngrind/death metal band, Cock And Ball Torture (or CnBT, for short). This 1998 EP is a great introduction to CnBT and contains some short, sweet and brutally arousing grindcore. And while no particular track 'stands out' on this release, as a whole it is a violent, face-melting experience that is worth picking up.

Sure, there are other releases by CnBT that are more brutal sounding (such as the 2000 release Opus(sy) IV), but as far as solid releases go, Cocktales is probably the best in terms of initial releases for a band that I have ever heard. And while not perfect, clearly good enough that they were able to launch a career from it.


There's only one line that describes the music, and not very good at it either.


Also this, which was missed earlier.
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PostPosted: Wed Aug 08, 2007 6:54 am 
 

One Promissing Band - 95%
Written by Geri on July 15th, 2004

This album is great, everytime you listen to it you recognize influences of old Dimmu Borgir and Satyricon's Shadowthrone times but they are different: The keyboards aren't boring, gay and repetitive like some Symphonic Black Metal bands out there, quality riffs are easily seen and the drumming fits perfectily on every music. Departure For The Cosmic Twilight is a album that every adept of good Symphonic Black Metal must have. Zargof is certainly a promissing brazilian band.

A Mighty Album! - 100%
Written by Geri on August 8th, 2004

The last reviewer says it all, it's a pitty that Kyprian's Circle disapeared after this EP because a band with this magnificece must be known. This is not a Pure Black Metal band, they mix melody with harsh vocals that makes it extreme and at the same time sad, this is the kind of music that you listen and feel what the band members wanted to express. Nazgul is an expert musician and shurely the central pillar of the band, I think thats why they did this great work. Noitatulen Vartija will be in my cd player for weaks, be shure of that, buy this album is what I say, you will be sorry if you miss this album.

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Dexter
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Joined: Fri Nov 03, 2006 11:01 am
Posts: 626
Location: Denmark
PostPosted: Wed Aug 08, 2007 1:40 pm 
 

Band: Prion (Arg)
User: BARRIONUEVO
Band's bass player: Walter Barrionuevo

Basically, this is not only a poor review (as well as his other review) but it was also reviewed by a member of the band, so what's the point?

http://www.metal-archives.com/review.php?id=29227

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Nightgaunt
I'll Swallow Your Soul

Joined: Sat Mar 06, 2004 9:50 pm
Posts: 2922
PostPosted: Wed Aug 08, 2007 11:15 pm 
 

Deleted reviews by Geri and BARRIONUEVO. The latter was not actually written by the bassist. He copied it from somewhere else, as is fairly common with band members unfamiliar with the site's rules.
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cinedracusio
Metal newbie

Joined: Thu May 26, 2005 7:59 am
Posts: 169
Location: Romania
PostPosted: Thu Aug 09, 2007 10:06 am 
 

Behe113's review for Morbid Saint's Destruction System suffers from the Devy Townsend syndrome. Usually, using some serious fucks and fuckings is for spicing the review, or enhancing a comical remark, but one fuck per paragraph gets too fucking pointless.
http://www.metal-archives.com/review.php?id=74482
Maybe I'm a pretentious asshole, but, geez, this aspect got me really annoyed.

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Dexter
Metalhead

Joined: Fri Nov 03, 2006 11:01 am
Posts: 626
Location: Denmark
PostPosted: Thu Aug 09, 2007 2:35 pm 
 

band: The Duskfall
Album: Frailty

I think the first review (72% by Xelper) is vague and very short, not fully descriptive, for a full lenght album. The review consists basically on his opinion, but he does not describe the music, instruments, production, etc, he only says a bit of these in the first 2 lines... This is probably because it is one of his first reviews and because it dates back to 2003, anyway it doesn't seem to fit the standars for reviews nowadays demanded on MA.

http://www.metal-archives.com/review.php?id=11612

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Baletempest
Metal newbie

Joined: Sun May 23, 2004 12:19 pm
Posts: 35
Location: United Kingdom
PostPosted: Sun Aug 12, 2007 2:19 pm 
 

http://www.metal-archives.com/review.php?id=20924

The first and third review are far too short, the second isn't that great but you at least get the point.

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