Why was it uncalled for? He gave a short review that gave a poor description of the music.

The problem I have with Tepes' review is that while it is technically good enough to remain on the site, it is about as helpful as kidney stones. Is there any discussion of the individual songs? Any description of what the vocals sound like? Any comparison with similar bands? Nope. "It's pop, it's commercial, it sucks." And I'm not even saying that because I'm a fan of the band...

http://www.metal-archives.com/review.php?id=9829#93199
this review could have been written, without ever having listened to the other three tracks on the album, as their is no decription of them at all; except for some bashing. Pretty thin review.

I can't say after reading the review I know jack shit more about what the band sounds like.

Yea, honestly, I have to agree. He doesn't mention any of the songs, doesn't cite any examples, doesn't make any comparisons aside from the DragonForce one, which was more for comedic effect than anything else. The bit about the ideology was helpful, though, but I can't say after reading the review I know jack shit more about what the band sounds like.

So, is it staying or what?

I wonder why Dimmu Borgir makes albums. You could listen to the first three songs and get an idea of what the rest of the album will sound like. There's really no point in listening to a whole hour of this senseless, baseless crap, because listening to the first three songs will give you the same sensation that listening to the whole album would, and that sensation would be something like "Man, this is boring, why have I been listening to this for so many hours?", followed by an irritated glance at the timer on the CD player or MP3 timer, whereupon you see that you are only two minutes into "Blessings Upon the Throne of Tyranny."

Everything about this band is completely lame, sterilized and unintentionally hilarious. I mean, look at the song titles, and see awful puns like "IndoctriNation" and terrible, intentional misspellings like "Sympozium" and especially the brainless inanity of "Absolute Sole Right" and "Perfection or Vanity." Look at the band themselves, dressed in their faggottastic corpse paint, ever the evil metal warriors of the new millennium, poised for their next melted butter lathering orgy. Of course, that has no bearing on the music, but what else am I supposed to focus on? The music? This is so overloaded with keyboard trills and blastbeats and "beautiful" symphonics and heavy arena metal riffs that it's completely bloated. The vocals are a horrible blackened screech that sometimes go into a robotic sort of drone, and although I just reviewed Cynic's Focus and said that these were well done there, here it doesn't fit at all. There are clean vocals, too, and while they aren't as bad as they could be, they don't help this mess at all. This is just TOO MUCH. Dimmu Borgir know no restraint or shame as they shamble through each painful, self-indulgent pile of piss that they called a song, and it's all so gratuitously wrong that you want to slap them upside the collective head and knock some sense into their stark-white corpse paint clad heads. And it is wrong, being generally unappealing and abrasive on all accounts, and not really being marketed to anyone with the right amount of chromosomes. It won't sell to Black Metal fans because it's really, really gay shit, and it won't sell to fans of more melodic Metal because it's too harsh and blasting for their ears to handle, but people are eating this up like chicken wings anyway, so I guess that leaves something to be said about the mainstream's taste in music.

Even more ludicrous are the claims that this is Black Metal, because this is the silliest, most pompous, overblown crap I've ever heard. Dimmu Borgir try so hard to come off as evil - you can just hear it; it bleeds from their music like pus from a fresh wound - but really, go listen to Ninnghizhidda if you want evil with symphonics and class.

As for this? Well, I'm going to go back to pretending I never heard this abomination. Avoid this if you have any semblance of good taste at all, for it is the embodiment of everything wrong with the modern extreme metal scene.

While well written, the latest one on Dimmu Borgir's "Puritanical Euphoric Misanthropia" is pretty poor content-wise.

http://metal-archives.com/review.php?id=200#92

Short, brief and pointless considering how many other ones there are of this album.

Yep, I just checked, they are all the same. Mods, please just delete all of this:

http://www.metal-archives.com/userrevie ... name=David

All taken care of.

Cheers.

And kudos to Catachthonian for spotting him.

All the bad reviewers... Beware! Catachthonian will get all of you

Dear Catachthonian, please don't overdo it. The stuff you post for nuking may be valid for removal, but making a MA career out of huge nuke-lists is not perhaps the best of options in the long run. It's better done slowly and with careful consideration, so that we won't throw the baby out with the bathwater.

Also, please add the reviewer's username next to the link, so that it's obvious which one you mean. Makes our life easier, in case several mods work on them simultaneously.

Edited my last nuke list. Removed links to David's reviews (all are gone). Added usernames after all links. All reviews in the list are still waiting to be dealt with.

All taken care of except the review by Brainsmasher. I'll let another mod judge that one. I don't have a huge issue with it, because its for a compilation (a pointless one at that, like all Peaceville compilations) and it does its job (dissuading the reader from wasting his/her money on it. It could use a bit more content and polish though, I'll admit.

Yep, it's rather a rant than a review. Unorthodox's review is more than enough IMO.

... and email him telling him to research the band and then fix his mistakes?

This and the one beneath UltraBoris' needs to go, maybe Boris' needs to go too but it describes the music. Then again there's already lots of good reviews for that one.

You realize that review is 4 years old?

Doesn't matter how old the review is if it has blatant errors in it that need to be changed.