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failsafeman
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PostPosted: Wed Nov 28, 2007 1:03 am 
 
droneriot wrote:
Perhaps modding you wasn't as terrible an idea as I thought.


Now that's just crazy talk, of course it was a terrible idea.
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PostPosted: Wed Nov 28, 2007 1:51 am 
 
Nightgaunt wrote:
Deleted. Whined too much.

You can always tell a band has hit it big (or is about to) relative to its niche when saying something less than glowing about them immediately has many people squirming like small, sickly children with smaller, sicklier bladders after a tour of the Kool-Aid factory, as though one had loudly cracked a dead baby joke in the waiting room of an abortion clinic.

Yes very strange. It's as if the guy was worried that the review could diminish the band's album sales.
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droneriot
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PostPosted: Fri Nov 30, 2007 1:20 am 
 
http://www.metal-archives.com/review.ph ... 6238#99317

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Badly produced mediocre black metal. - 41%
Written by Narath on November 29th, 2007

Revelations defiantly has its moments, it’s even quite catchy in some parts. But overall this album is just another failed attempt at recreating Burzum. It begins with ‘I Rise’ which I find to be the worst track on the album – the harsh whispering vocals accompanied by the whispering death metal vocals just fails miserably. There’s no harmony there – don’t confuse me, I’m not a melodic death metal fag who likes everything to be perfectly harmonized, but seriously… these vocals just absolutely ruin Shores of Sheol.

King of the Olden Domain is quite catchy, I enjoy the opening riff and the mixing is much better than the mixing in I Rise – I can hear the vocals AND the music. It sounds like it’s going to be a decent track but then the death metal vocals show up – and kill it, just like they killed I Rise and just like they are going to kill Revalations!

Apart from the vocals, I found this to be a decent track – sure it’s nothing overly great, but I am seeing some potential in Shores of Sheol. Maybe if the demo had three tracks like this we’d be looking at a score above 50 – who knows.

The main problem I have with this album isn’t so much the vocals as it is the mixing – the vocals are way over the top of the music, if they were lowered this demo wouldv’e become substantially better. The drums are another main issue, they may not be as severe as the mixing but they defiantly ruin the atmosphere of the music Shores of Sheol is trying to create.

Shores of Sheol - learn how to mix the music properly and consider a new drum program. That’s my two cents anyway – there’s a long way to go, but Shores of Sheol shows a speckle of potential.

That damned demo defying us by having its moments and ruining the atmosphere!
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PostPosted: Fri Nov 30, 2007 4:39 am 
 
I don't really think it's fair nuking it just because of two spelling mistakes. I'm a big fan of the 'delete but send it back to the guy with suggestions' approach
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The_Saberfool
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PostPosted: Fri Nov 30, 2007 8:33 am 
 
http://www.metal-archives.com/review.ph ... 3716#82673

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Same Old From Sweden's Most Boring - 55%
Written by Cretaceous_Bob on June 14th, 2007

After the rave reviews, you'd think something changed in between this and Character/Damage Done. Such is not the case. The same level of mediocrity; the same amount of boring guitars masked by airy keyboards.

The production is shit. Damage Done's was better, but Fiction retains Character's cruddy production. The drums are very average, but the poor production makes them annoying. The useless keyboards are same as ever, and are, as usual, the only guide to what song you are listening to. Metal's most crucial element, the guitars, are left to wander around in the mix, which is a good reflection of the level of attention paid to the riffs. And the vocals are crappy, just every album with this loser on it. And there really isn't much to this album beyond that. Average playing skills, poor songwriting, and poor production.

While Fiction is, just like Damage Done and Character, better than the awful Projector, it is still a vicious insult to the old Dark Tranquillity.


This is very short and barely touches on anything aside from production. It relies entirely on familiarity with DT's previous work to describe the sound. For an album with sixteen reviews, I don't think that this one is worth keeping.
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PostPosted: Fri Nov 30, 2007 10:14 am 
 
droneriot wrote:
http://www.metal-archives.com/review.php?id=136238#99317

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Badly produced mediocre black metal. - 41%
Written by Narath on November 29th, 2007

Revelations defiantly has its moments, it’s even quite catchy in some parts. But overall this album is just another failed attempt at recreating Burzum. It begins with ‘I Rise’ which I find to be the worst track on the album – the harsh whispering vocals accompanied by the whispering death metal vocals just fails miserably. There’s no harmony there – don’t confuse me, I’m not a melodic death metal fag who likes everything to be perfectly harmonized, but seriously… these vocals just absolutely ruin Shores of Sheol.

King of the Olden Domain is quite catchy, I enjoy the opening riff and the mixing is much better than the mixing in I Rise – I can hear the vocals AND the music. It sounds like it’s going to be a decent track but then the death metal vocals show up – and kill it, just like they killed I Rise and just like they are going to kill Revalations!

Apart from the vocals, I found this to be a decent track – sure it’s nothing overly great, but I am seeing some potential in Shores of Sheol. Maybe if the demo had three tracks like this we’d be looking at a score above 50 – who knows.

The main problem I have with this album isn’t so much the vocals as it is the mixing – the vocals are way over the top of the music, if they were lowered this demo wouldv’e become substantially better. The drums are another main issue, they may not be as severe as the mixing but they defiantly ruin the atmosphere of the music Shores of Sheol is trying to create.

Shores of Sheol - learn how to mix the music properly and consider a new drum program. That’s my two cents anyway – there’s a long way to go, but Shores of Sheol shows a speckle of potential.

That damned demo defying us by having its moments and ruining the atmosphere!


I actually sent this back to the author once asking him if he really meant 'defiantly' or if he was mistaking it for 'definitely'. Someone else must have accepted his resubmission.
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PostPosted: Fri Nov 30, 2007 8:31 pm 
 
This review for Go Off has lots of errors and some bad formatting, but not sure if it's exactly deletable.

Hesperus wrote:
t's difficoult to say what is the best between the two album of Cacophony;
I think they are at the same level: '80 Metal Masterpiece;
Go off has a better sound but the track are more songs than symphonies (as in the previous album);
Compositions are more direct and near to pefection, veri fluent: a Power/Thrash riffing (Priest /Accept influences more than bay area sound), meet the Cacophony's usual Multi-solos Armonic Composition more baroque than neoclassical, and always with an epic atmosphere; infact in Cacophony'S sound there aren't only a solo guitar like in Malmsteen but many and multiple guitar phrases that make a majestic armony togheter, as an Orchestra.
The classical and armonic scales unite with strange, oriental and exotic ones, and in Black Cat there's also an ambient intro;
There only an istrumental (except the outro final composition), the title track, in which the lead guitars became very very fluids and elastic;
The sword of the warrior, maybe has the more epic solos parts,
The outro music "Images" is introduced by armonic notes that create a chinese-like music and than became calssical-baroque.
The voice is filtered and cuts as an razor (An Halford, more powerful on bass tones), a real metal screaming voice.

This is not only an accademic tecnical & virtuous album: this is a Metal Masterpiece, the natural Evolution of The metal sound of the first '80: Judas Priest, Accept, Malmsteen and also Iron Maiden (for the lexon about the guitar's orchestral armony );
Togeter with their first album, this work is very often forgotten by the Metallic People;
The listening of them is a duty and an obligation for a Metaller.


www.metal-archives.com/review.php?id=2128 (Not sure how to link to exact reviews, but it's the earliest one)
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PostPosted: Fri Nov 30, 2007 10:25 pm 
 
Looks pretty deletable to me. I think we should show some understanding for people who don't have English as their first language, but this review is pretty close to unreadable.
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Nightgaunt
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PostPosted: Sat Dec 01, 2007 1:55 am 
 
Deleted pieces by Hesperus and Narath. I've told the latter countless times that the word he's looking for is "definitely" (in other reviews he's done, the context is less ambiguous), but he simply won't listen. Hence, I simply won't allow the reviews.
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PostPosted: Sun Dec 02, 2007 8:52 pm 
 
This might be minor, but this (first one) review contains factual inaccuracies, namely, attributing the bass work to Alex Webster, when in fact it was Jared Anderson.

P.S. yeah, obviously I wouldn't report it if I didn't disagree so much with the score, but hey, rules are rules... if it helps any, this guy also gave the Dethalbum a 90%. o_O
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PostPosted: Mon Dec 03, 2007 6:51 pm 
 
http://www.metal-archives.com/review.php?id=58507#20814

This review describes the album as "pure grind", when in fact it's actually a really slow and heavy sludge metal album with a couple of tracks on the CD version with bonus tracks that speed up a bit but are still far from "grindcore". I realize it has only one review, but come on...
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OzzyApu
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PostPosted: Mon Dec 03, 2007 9:09 pm 
 
Alright this review really pisses me off for some reason. I know it's faggy to get up an mighty with sand in my vagina, all for an Arch Enemy album, but honestly, I get next to nothing with this guy's reviews except that it's boring.

Unless you want to keep it for the structure, 1/5 of the review barely desribing the music, and 4/5 of the review describing the guy's life and how he hates how boring the record is, then by all means keep it.

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Dodsmetall for Dummies - 35%
Written by centrifuge on October 12th, 2006

About a month after this album came out, a friend of mine who ran his own mail order pressed a copy of the CD on me, insisting that if I gave it enough plays the penny would surely drop. "You're the only person I know who doesn't like this album" he said uncomprehendingly. All I could do was shrug.

My complaint at the time was simple: I thought it was boring, very boring, and listening to it again now I see no reason to revise my initial opinion. On paper, Arch Enemy looked good enough. Michael Amott, one of the elder statesmen of Swedish death metal, and young prodigy Daniel Erlandsson on drums (who didn't seem intimidated by following in older brother Adrian's footsteps, and who had already impressed me with his work in Eucharist)... the chances seemed good that the mix would ignite. But for me it just never did, and for the life of me, to this day I can't understand why so many people rave about this completely uninspired, tedious and formulaic recording.

Let me clarify something at this point. I see that most (all?) of the previous reviewers are a lot younger than me, too young to have heard the album when it was released and certainly not old enough to remember the context, or the history of Swedish death metal up till then. Some of you are possibly under the impression that this was a groundbreaking recording, that if it sounds familiar now it's because so many other bands have ripped AE off? This is emphatically not the case. As early as 1992 the Scandinavian scene was swamped with teenagers trying to copy Entombed and Dismember, and for every creative band (and there were a lot of those) there was about ten copyists. By 1996 this sound was already very old and familiar, and had been showcased on hundreds of different recordings. There is nothing new or fresh about this album whatsoever.

And that's about the size of it, really... from first note to last, it sounds to me as if they were learning it from a textbook. There is not one original riff on the album, everything is entirely predictable throughout. "Cosmic Retribution" and "Transmigration Macabre" do stand out slightly as being the most committed and intense performances, but even then the music is just totally recycled. The acoustic break in "Retribution" is all very tasteful, but it doesn't seem to grow organically out of what precedes it - and on the other hand it's nowhere near unexpected enough to have the quality of a surprise. You just knew that there was gonna be a break like that sooner or later. I think the whole album can be summed up by the opener "Bury Me an Angel". It's a by-the-numbers mid-tempo thrasher, heavy Stockholm chords overlaid with occasional flashes of Gothenburg harmony, but a couple of minutes in, there's a bluesy guitar break. It has no musical logic of its own at all, says nothing and goes nowhere - there's not even a blues feeling to it. It's as if the riffs were constructed as shapes on the fretboard rather than sounds in the ear.

[In fact, now that I come to think of it... what's Michael Amott ever done that I truly like? His arrival in Carcass coincided with that band's heading downhill as far as I'm concerned (fans of the band tend to divide militantly into "early" or "late" - I'm firmly in the former category; and let me say also that when bands talk about being "influenced by Carcass", as literally thousands are, they're talking about the OLD sound). It's true that I love the early Carnage demos, but that's more a question of raw power and viciousness than of the music, which is pretty basic stuff; even the Carnage album Dark Recollections, which was put together after the band was already a historical project, is pretty dull and repetitive - except for "Gentle Exhuming" which is simply two early songs stitched together. Dismember, which was basically the same band minus Amott, already sounded stronger. Clearly the guy has something going for him because so many people love his music - but I don't hear it. Admittedly I've never listened to Spiritual Beggars, but you can see why I haven't got round to it.]

I am nearer 40 than 30, have been married for ten years, and don't listen exclusively to metal - so I no longer ask it to meet all my spiritual and emotional needs. Metal doesn't necessarily have to be immaculately produced or brilliantly played (which this isn't, by the way - it's perfectly competent without ever being out of the ordinary) to please me. But it DOES have to hit me in the guts, make me FEEL something, and the one fault which I won't overlook is that it should be boring. This album is really fucking boring! It's safe to say that most of you disagree with me and that newcomers are probably better off reading the preceding reviews, since apparently I just hear music differently from the rest of the metal world and am therefore not to be trusted. But it remains the case that metal is very close to my heart, and it remains the case that this album most certainly isn't.
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PostPosted: Mon Dec 03, 2007 10:57 pm 
 
http://www.metal-archives.com/review.php?id=6283

I posted this a while back and I didn't get an answer, so I'll post it again just in case it got overlooked the first time.
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PostPosted: Mon Dec 03, 2007 10:58 pm 
 
ThrashingMad wrote:
http://www.metal-archives.com/review.php?id=6283

I posted this a while back and I didn't get an answer, so I'll post it again just in case it got overlooked the first time.

That review isn't really interesting either.
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SupremeAbstract
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PostPosted: Mon Dec 03, 2007 11:48 pm 
 
http://www.metal-archives.com/review.php?id=54510

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Terrible - 5%
Written by KlausBarbie on December 23rd, 2004


This album is a disgrace to the death metal scene. The band seems to think that it is all just a big joke, and it is as if they are mocking the rest of the bands out there. Ordering this album was the biggest waste of my time, ever. On their website, they claim to not know how to play their instruments. Well, no shit. They don't have to tell you that for you to realise it. I have heard people complain about bands like Marduk and other bands of the sort to just sound like blastbeating and not creating anything listenable. Well, once you hear anything from "AAAAARGH! Bloody 2-Handed Chainaxe Blow" (terrible band name), any other band will seem talented as hell. This includes the likes of Slipknot and Limp Bizkit.


Could of at least said something about the music...

EDIT: This band name rules.
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Muloc7253
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PostPosted: Tue Dec 04, 2007 8:45 pm 
 
http://www.metal-archives.com/review.php?id=134500

See the first review.

While this pay be picky and opinionated, I don't think it would be a stretch to call this a factual error - "Blood in our Wells was ugly, raw BM"
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PostPosted: Tue Dec 04, 2007 9:26 pm 
 
Deleted pieces for Dystopia and Aaaargghhh. Will contact the author of the Hate Eternal piece about fixing the small error. The other pieces posted will stay.
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PostPosted: Thu Dec 06, 2007 3:51 pm 
 
http://www.metal-archives.com/review.ph ... 3344#15695

This could be talking about any number of Black Metal albums.

EDIT: typos
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PostPosted: Fri Dec 07, 2007 12:40 am 
 
Never has so much said so little.

http://www.metal-archives.com/review.php?id=122193
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PostPosted: Fri Dec 07, 2007 1:14 am 
 
Baletempest wrote:
http://www.metal-archives.com/review.php?id=153344#15695

This could be talking about any number of Black Metal albums.

EDIT: typos

I actually skimmed that band a couple days back to check whether I should have downloaded that album or not. I ended up not doing it because of that review, typos and ill-description of the music let me down to download Nokturnal Mortum's Lunar Poetry.
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PostPosted: Fri Dec 07, 2007 1:21 am 
 
Noktorn wrote:
Never has so much said so little.

http://www.metal-archives.com/review.php?id=122193

That's not true; apparently it "reminds the listener of the perfect balance between technicality and catchy riffs." It doesn't actually have these qualities, of course, but it reminds you of them.
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PostPosted: Fri Dec 07, 2007 3:00 pm 
 
Whoever accepted this didn't read it very carefully, because it doesn't talk about the music at all.

http://www.metal-archives.com/review.php?id=152879
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PostPosted: Fri Dec 07, 2007 3:22 pm 
 
Noktorn wrote:
Whoever accepted this didn't read it very carefully, because it doesn't talk about the music at all.

http://www.metal-archives.com/review.php?id=152879


It's not good, I'll grant you that, but it does describe the music and it's the only review for the split. A bare 3-pointer, in my opinion.
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PostPosted: Fri Dec 07, 2007 4:23 pm 
 
I think that, once again, some of you are getting a bit too impetuous. Remember, this is a gimp hunt, not a quest for transcendent purity.
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PostPosted: Sat Dec 08, 2007 2:54 am 
 
Why was Ultraboris' review for Sacrifice - Forward to Termination removed? This could have been done long ago as I haven't checked that page in a while.
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PostPosted: Sat Dec 08, 2007 4:00 am 
 
http://www.metal-archives.com/review.php?id=20093
User mud's review is pretty muddy in my humble opinion.
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PostPosted: Sat Dec 08, 2007 11:59 am 
 
cinedracusio wrote:
http://www.metal-archives.com/review.php?id=20093
User mud's review is pretty muddy in my humble opinion.


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PostPosted: Sat Dec 08, 2007 10:43 pm 
 
Dude Nightgaunt check out the other reviews for that Moonspell CD that was in cinedracusio's link.

The first review by Mr. Brownstone is atrocious - doesn't describe anything too deep at all and is pretty gimp if you ask me. Take a look at it.

http://www.metal-archives.com/review.php?id=20093
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PostPosted: Wed Dec 12, 2007 2:22 am 
 
review is ok, but do we need another track-by-track for Powerslave....I would rather he also talked more about the album's sound and influence rather than describe each song in two lines:

http://www.metal-archives.com/review.php?id=77#15788
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PostPosted: Wed Dec 12, 2007 5:34 am 
 
http://www.metal-archives.com/review.php?id=2160

No musical description other than a few complaints - I have no way of knowing what style/genre this is.
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PostPosted: Wed Dec 12, 2007 10:10 am 
 
saintinhell wrote:
review is ok, but do we need another track-by-track for Powerslave....I would rather he also talked more about the album's sound and influence rather than describe each song in two lines:

http://www.metal-archives.com/review.php?id=77#15788


I was kinda on the fence with this one, but despite the goofed formatting and more or less track by track engine, it was at least worth 3 points (though I don't remember what I awarded him). It's also along similar lines of his other IM reviews that have been accepted w/o much complaint.
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PostPosted: Fri Dec 14, 2007 2:41 am 
 
This one isn't that bad a review, but he spends most of it describing it as a middle of the road album, and then gives it 95%.. wtf?

http://www.metal-archives.com/review.ph ... 081#101344

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Dimmu Borgir - In Sorte Diaboli - 95%
Written by _DooM_ on July 6th, 2007

I'm always disappointed by new Dimmu Borgir albums. Not because they're particularly poorly written, played or produced albums. Ironically, it's because they never live up to the titillating negative press I read about them before I listen to them. I'm always expecting a bombastic black metal circus with all the unnecessary and over the top trimmings. But, what do I get? I get a solid, but pretty underwhelming blackened/melodic death metal album with some clean vocals and a few keyboard parts. As outrageous as people make these guys out to be, I always find their albums to be pretty tame, middle of the road affairs. In Sorte Diaboli is really no different. Again I was hoping a new Dimmu Borgir release would serve as a decadent and raucous guilty pleasure, and again me and my short memory are served up a workmanlike and unspectacular album that doesn't pack nearly as much audacious punch as I hoped it would.

Opener “The Serpentine Offering” begins with a brief Romantic orchestral march before giving way to triggered double bass and machine-like power chords. Not surprisingly, Dimmu Borgir put their best foot forward, as “The Serpentine Offering” is probably the best and most diverse track on the album. There's a break that features some actual black metal riffing and a welcome clean chorus by the regrettably under utilized ICS Vortex. “The Chosen Legacy,” “The Conspiracy Unfolds,” “The Sinister Awakening,” and “The Fundamental Alienation,” are mid paced, melodic, and unspectacular. Sadly, these tracks betray Dimmu Borgir as a painfully average group big on budget but short on inspiration. Elsewhere, “The Sacrilegious Scorn,” and “The Invaluable Darkness,” break the monotony with some satisfying crooning by Vortex, but still come up short in the riff and melody department. For a band so endlessly panned for being pompous, there's very little pomp or excitement to any of these songs.

In Sorte Diaboli is a well produced album, but the band has written so few heavy parts that their potential to truly crush the listener is never fulfilled. I've heard groups with a lot less money sound a lot heavier purely on the strength of their material.

Dimmu Borgir will undoubtedly move units. Likewise, the elite metal crowd will always consider them a joke. I find this pardigm kind of baffling, as every Dimmu Borgir album I've heard has sounded neither particularly marketable nor slag-worthy. In Sorte Diaboli is no exception. Despite my expectations for something more, for better or worse, this is just an average and pretty typical sounding album.

All in all this is good album.


Perhaps he meant to type 75% or something? It's pretty strange, really.
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PostPosted: Sat Dec 15, 2007 5:10 am 
 
http://www.metal-archives.com/review.php?id=11663

The Imperialism of the White Man Has Just Begun - 98%
Written by Vulture on May 24th, 2005

Much better than some would see... - 93%
Written by The_Ghost_of_Room237 on February 23rd, 2004

Black metal for aryan souls - 80%
Written by Wolfgard on November 10th, 2003

I don't really disagree with anything these reviewers are saying, but not one of them talks about the music for more than one or two sentences in the whole review.
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PostPosted: Sun Dec 16, 2007 8:01 am 
 
http://www.metal-archives.com/review.php?id=157375

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Genre Bending Black Metal.. - 100%
Written by The_Cry_Of_Mankind on December 3rd, 2007

Simply put, a band like Deathspell Omega obviously would not care what anyone thinks about the music they create. For obvious reasons being that they dont play live, have no photos, play on no gimmicks and just play music they want to hear. This music is chaotic black metal at its best. Technical metal as a whole is a genre that will never make its way to the top and only to a certain percentage of the underground will it ever grab, and its for obvious reasons. We are fed up hearing weird time patterns and fed up hearing how many notes can be played at the one time, however Deathspell Omega's latest offering is far beyond the ordinary. They create jazzy technical moments, and moments of noise and ambience to add to the atmosphere, and it works like a devilish charm. Its a pleasure to listen to black metal that was created in the past decade and actualy remember tracks and parts of the songs. Gorgoroth released a new one, remember what it sounds like? same as Satyricon and Dark Funeral? I checked out all those albums but it is infact less of the same in that aspect to black metal as generic wank with no experimentation. It has suddenly become cool to be at a black metal show, so bands tend to release bollocks, go on tour, dress up in drag and spit fire and get a nice green note, well balls to that with Deathspell Omega because with whatever little money this band make, they will make it through quality music, and thats what this is.

The shirne of Mad Laughter would be the first real track here, and it sounds like Ved Buens Ende meets Cryptopsy meets dark ambient noise makers, all bundled up in an almost 10 minute stormer of a track- this song made me want to buy the album without hearing anything else before hand and that happens rarely, its just that good with low gutteral vocals, storming drums and great and sinister guitar work. One thing I have noticed is that the music is very inspired by the Avant Garde metal scene relatively know well in Norway as there are moments that are reminiscent to Virus and Code, due to the twisted riffs, but without the humourus antics of bands mentioned before that. To put it blunty a fan sleepytime gorilla museum could appreciate this without even having interest in black metal, thats how well together the music is blended. Bread of Bitterness gets straight into music that is just like Kenose, fast hard hitting with its moments of slow bliss, suck as a very different breakdown in the middle that almost sounds like the band is jamming, which is quite different to Kenose on so many levels.

Im not going to go track by track even though I may of left out so many great parts, this is just simply something anyfan of black metal who aint fourteen and taking pictures of themselves looking like Dani Filth for their Vampire Freaks profile can appreciate, like it or not, Deathspell Omega are the true essence of black metal at this period of time and are a prime example of why people must dig deeper than what they hear so much about to find complete gems, and this band made me learn that lesson a long time ago. And as for sounding like Opeth? for fucks sake clean your ears out, I cant even find a tiny thing about this band that sound like Opeth. Ah well cant win them all even if they are retarded.

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PostPosted: Sun Dec 16, 2007 8:15 am 
 
^^^ I don't think that's oven fodder. It's certainly not great, and he misses apostrophes. He also commits the cardinal sin of using "of" instead of "have". He gives his opinion relatively clearly though. Perhaps the issue is that you disagree with the review?

Oh, and he said "suck as" instead of "such as". LOL he's saying the song sucks. Actually the more I read it the more I think he's a bit of an idiot. Still, all opinions are valid so long as they meet the criteria.
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PostPosted: Sun Dec 16, 2007 8:30 am 
 
It has nothing to do with me disagreeing with him. It's very poorly written, terrible grammar and spelling, and the music description he gives doesn't come near justifying its stay on the website. As we all should know by now, the standards for releases with a large amount of reviews are much higher than releases with a small amount (or none), especially when the rest of the reviews on the page are very detailed and very well-written.
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PostPosted: Sun Dec 16, 2007 8:36 am 
 
Now that I've checked out the other reviews I see what you mean.
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PostPosted: Sun Dec 16, 2007 8:52 am 
 
I'm going to nominate this review for the same reason:

http://www.metal-archives.com/review.php?id=474#119916

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40 minutes of pure Awesome! - 97%
Written by Damnation_Terminated on December 15th, 2007

Right from the start of this masterpiece, you know you are in for something spectacular. And not once in the entire 40 minutes does it let you down! As soon as you hear the yell of "Another Sky is Young..." your blood is racing, your head is banging and you are ready for one of the most awesome progressive death metal albums ever!

Crimson has everything a good progressive album should do - unexpected musical twists and turns, ranging from the heavy and brutal to the slow and almost mellow, and back again! It has a wonderfully crafted story, told both in the recognisable growling vocals of Dan Swano, and also softer lighter vocals with the legendary Mikeal Akerfeldt (Opeth) lending his distinctive voice to the sound. It has a grand, epic feel (helped out of course by the fact that it is 40 mins long) and this sense of the epic leads the listener on a great journey. It has clever musical genius, with soaring guitar and keys melodies, combined with heavy head banging riffs, to create a unique yet

There isn't really much more to say - this album has everything! From the heavy, fast paced intensity to the slower, calmer "eye of the storm" moments, this album will make you want to listen again and again, and I would recommend that doing so is a good course of action!

Vague description of sound and structure, and he obviously missed this huge bit in the middle! Also there are plenty of better reviews of the album.
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PostPosted: Sun Dec 16, 2007 3:15 pm 
 
Sadly, it's the only negative review for this album. But it's just a big rant about real doom metal with no musical description.

http://www.metal-archives.com/review.php?id=31545#1218

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Fails to justify the hype. - 34%
Written by DarkSoul175 on July 25th, 2004

Ugh, this album is such a disgrace to doom metal. It’s so damn tame, safe, in a word: CALCULATED! It’s labeled as doom – yet it completely defeats the purpose of doom, which is to create a dark and depressing atmosphere with ultraslow, heavy music! I downloaded this album (thank God I didn’t waste my money on it) expecting some memorable, emotional music, but what awaited me instead was a load of bubblegum fake shit. It’s not even mediocre; it is a complete atrocity and probably the single worst thing to ever happen to the doom metal genre. On a strictly musical level, it’s not bad at all, though. If you’re looking for a decent metal album with some good riffs and catchy melodies, you will like this. But if you listen to this knowing it’s supposed to be a doom metal album, let alone something remotely emotional, you will be terribly disappointed. On an artistic level, this isn’t worth shit; it has already been done to death before by much better bands. It adds absolutely nothing new to the genre, it is by no means groundbreaking, and more importantly, there is nothing behind the music; just a bunch of guys playing doom metal for the hell of it, instead of trying to be unique and creating music that has a soul behind it. It is 100% generic from beginning to end, and thus may probably be seen, in a couple of years, as one of the albums that killed doom metal.

Technically, they did invent a new subgenre, I call it Fake Doom Metal, and Swallow the Sun are most definitely pioneers in that area. So, Swallow the Sun, take notes: first, never try to be “extreme” like Esoteric or Thergothon, because that is the recipe for failure. Instead, make some cheesy bubblegum “doom” that will sell well in the metal community. Eventually make a strong name for yourselves and become a legendary cult band that will influence hundreds, if not thousands of unoriginal crappy bands in the future that will all sound the same because they will be following the stupid trend that you have started and all have the same personality behind them. Those with basically no creative ideas will thus be able to copy and clone at will and yet succeed in the music industry. Oh dear, I so wish someone could kill all the members in StS...

As a conclusion, if Swallow the Sun tried playing melodic death metal instead, they would be far from a horrible band (although not great by any means). But sadly, as a doom metal album, The Morning Never Came is an awful piece of crap that suffers from a COMPLETE lack of real substance. I cannot hear anything remotely human behind the music; there are no emotions, no desires, no fears. Burzum, this is not. If you like doom metal at all, do yourself a favor and stay very far away from this.
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