How odd. I take it he must have had some problem with things around here? He seemed like a nice enough guy to me. Oh well.

Seconded. How this review got through is beyond me. No description at all. To top all that, there are already a huge number of reviews for the album before this. At least the christian review backed the weird talk with some arguments of merit and brought a new idea on the table. This one is just plain bad and shouldnt even have been accepted for a release with 2-3 reviews.

Well, he had a pension to act as a "mini moderator" which seemed to turn off some users. He was a little dramatic too...I think he even deleted his last fm page. No biggie.

I dont think the review is written badly. But as you yourself said, its a bare bones review. Do we really need a review of this sort after the huge number of reviews already written for this album just because the reviewer used a program to shorten the song lengths?

That means I can add a few acoustic passages to the album, say that it improves the overall sound by making the album more progressive and get my review selected without mentioning anything else about the album.
Whatever happened to the reviews being selected on a quality curve based on previous reviews? Arent reviews supposed to touch on more than just 2-3 aspects of a release?

Ofcourse, its not an issue with the rating. There are reviews with lower ratings for the album. No one has raised a voice about them.

You are the mod. Your decision. But I request that you think about it once more.

Death Doom Brilliance - 96%
Written by Skyklad on March 26th, 2004

The beginning of this album from Australian Death Doomsters PARAMAECIUM is breathtaking. It starts out with female vocals and then plunges into a repetative, crunching guitar and matching drumming. It then works its way to the "meat" of the song by continuously building and adding more drum beats and riff changes. This song, which is 17 minutes long, is the most amazing one on the album. A flute is even employed at one point... talk about really adding to the atmosphere ! Despite only having six songs, the album as a whole is very long. The reason being attributed to each song spanning a time longer than six minutes. Usually I wouldn´t use the term epic when it came to a band of this style but that first song surely could be labeled as epic ! I highly recommend anyone who loves Death Doom to check this sadly underrated band and album out right away !

Short review, and only really describes the first song. A lot of the user's other reviews are also quite short, judging from a short skimming over them, though some are for albums without any other reviews.

http://www.metal-archives.com/review.php?id=114#76307

Just a mishap: Evilspeak's review has the same text pasted twice in the review's body.

http://www.metal-archives.com/review.php?id=235418#65857 - the album isn't out yet.

Zorc's review

It isn't poorly written or anything, but his main point of contention (and overwhelming majority of the review) is that The Shattered Fortress reuses parts from other DT songs. I hate to be a pretentious asshole, but that just isn't fair to the record. The entire point of the song and all the other ones he bitches about was that they were supposed to be connected as one huge suite. It's like watching The Bourne Ultimatum and complaining that it resembled the first two movies and used flashbacks. I don't know if cluelessness is grounds for nuking, but I recommend axing this one if it is.

In case anyone wonders about it, I just cleaned the Altars of Madness a bit. No, OzzyApu's opinion is still there, you may still point fingers and laugh.

http://www.metal-archives.com/review.php?id=3626#66546

Angel Witch debut review by grimdoom. He gives it a 99%, says it's one of the best metal albums ever, but says that the vocals suck and they get tiring, and also that the bass is "uninspired." I don't think this review gives an accurate picture of the album in question and there are other reviews under it, and overall the review is just really retarded.

Before the masses were exposed to TBDM with the 2003 release of Unhallowed, the underground hardcore/metalcore scene was lucky enough to hear from a talented new band back in 2001 when the fusion of death metal with metalcore was on the rise, made popular by groups like Red Sky and Prayer for Cleansing.

After a short, mellow intro, the fury that is The Black Dahlia Murder slowly unravels over a 6-track demo, which takes its name from the NES game Castlevania 2. Fusing the brutality of death metal with the melodic passages and vocals of metalcore, What a Horrible Night to Have a Curse is sure to get you thrashing, headbanging, and bleeding as you hack yourself up in sheer excitment.

http://www.metal-archives.com/review.php?id=233202#99317

1/3 of the text is about other famous black metal bands, about how young their main members were when their first ever demos/EPs were released to the world.
The remaining first and third paragraphs are about how unoriginal and cliched this is compared even to the likes of "Zarach 'Baal' Tharagh". He never really talks about what he heard or what it sounds like, like the other two reviewers did. He only babbles about how much he hates it. It's like the guy never actually listened to the songs.
I find his review quite useless for people who might be looking for information about the music.

Damn dude, this is the third time you've called for this review to be deleted. Combined with the fact that you admit you are in the band if you keep this up they'll keep the review on the site just to spite you.

Hmm, sounds fair. The only reason I have posted it again was because that no one really replied about it except one guy. No one said anything like: "okay, your right, we are going to delete this one" or "this review isn't as bad as you make it out to be and we're gonna keep it". I felt ignored and that's why i posted it more times. But it doesn't matter anymore, I won't be posting it again.

http://www.metal-archives.com/review.php?id=326#147

Don't really need this.

He said he won't be posting IT again. He figured it was being ignored, he got an answer about it, and he won't post the link anymore. That's all.

Thanks, Bastard. I missed the "it" part somehow.

It's not that my "feelings" were hurt, but like you said I already posted IT 3 fucking times already. No one really seemed to care about IT, until now that is:D...
Thanks for wanting to read it and give me your objective opinion:)

Well, I did read it and I deleted Narath's review. Little to no focus on the music other than "it's fucking shit" a couple times. I really liked the "foreigner whispered vocals" part...everyone is a foreigner to someone on this site.

It's gone.

Finnish admins don't know how to pay attention...