http://www.metal-archives.com/review.php?id=230469

The top one - basically for all the inaccuracies. He talks about how bad the keyboard sound imitating the violin on one song is, when it is in fact a real violin. Same with him saying "why don't they get real instrumentalists in?" when in fact they have. Also, no matter how much you dislike a band, saying they can't play their instruments when clearly they can and you just don't like the sound they are producing has no place in a decent review.

I hadn't even bothered to read Tymell's review because I assumed it would be chock full of idiotic statements, but I concur that blaring inaccuracies like this, at the very least, should be corrected. Perhaps someone could email Tymell and tell him to fix those statements. The review itself is a borderline 3 pointer, but I wouldn't call for nuking it until we get a few more up there. Having said that, I wouldn't mind it if all of Tymell's shitty reviews got nuked on general principle, they are absolutely annoying to read and often a total eyesore.

Not Tymell, the review I was talking about seems to have been deleted already. Hooray!

Also, no matter how much you dislike a band, saying they can't play their instruments when clearly they can and you just don't like the sound they are producing has no place in a decent review.

Not Tymell, the review I was talking about seems to have been deleted already. Hooray!

No, it wasn't. I edited it to fix a few typoes I spotted, and it needs to get accepted again.

And so you say that there are actual violinists there. Well, funny thing, I can't see them mentioned either on their Myspace, or here on their metal-archives profile, nor at the album's page. I can't see anyone with any violins in the Keelhauled video either.



Huh? The keyboards sound so godawful that I can't quite tell if the keyboardist can 'play them'. Drums are for the most part so irrelevant that putting a monkey behind the drumkit would probably have a similar effect. If I completely don't like the band's sound, and that's not because it's a genre I don't like, but because the very musicianship is both bland AND horrible, I can safely assume that their skills with instruments equal shit.

So because there are no violinists in the music video that means they aren't playing on the song?

I guess the album's inlay must be misprinted then...Tell you what, I'll update the archives page for the album soon, just for you.

And now it's gone from "they can't play their instruments" to "I can't tell/don't care if they can play their instruments?" Says more about you than the band, I think.

colin040's review of To Mega Therion is the worst I've seen in a while. He doesn't bother to argue any of his claims and ends up casually dismissing an important album in only four paragraphs. It reads like something you'd find on a mp3 blog.

http://metal-archives.com/review.php?id=1524

That review is god awful. It's a crappy, "baby's first review" pseudo track-by-track that only goes through three before just giving up and saying the rest of the album isn't very good. No real reasons why, just a lame shrugging off of everything after that with only a brief mention of the last track in what seems to be some vain attempt at making it sound like he heard the whole thing.

Looking at some of his other reviews, they all seem pretty bad, and most of them are recent

colin040's review of To Mega Therion is the worst I've seen in a while. He doesn't bother to argue any of his claims and ends up casually dismissing an important album in only four paragraphs. It reads like something you'd find on a mp3 blog.

http://metal-archives.com/review.php?id=1524

Agreed. When a review is shorter than Snxke's review for the same album it can't be a good thing, but I haven't found anything scandalous in it either. There are only 5 reviews for this album after all, and none of outstanding quality, so I don't see any need for nuking this particular one. Maybe if someone could eventually come with a decent review this would be another matter.

Let the children come to them! - 59%
Written by Freezerator on July 26th, 2009

I’ll write my review as briefly as I can, so that I won’t bore anyone else with unnecessary details. This is the pinnacle of their decadence. It can’t go any worse than that.

After their pretty much successful “Matase alba”, Iris released “Maxima” three years later. I have to mention that “4 Motion” is not a full length album, but a compilation. It comprises 4 discs, each disc dedicated to every member of the band. The one who submitted the band should make this change as soon as possible, so that there won’t be any misunderstandings. Let’s come back to “Maxima”. Don’t get fooled by the title, it is not Iris at their Maximum, on the contrary, it’s the other way round.

The record starts with a song dedicated to fans. It seems that Minculescu ran out of ideas, as this theme had already been exhausted by this band in the past. But, let’s go further. Love, love, love….I’m sure Paul Mc Cartney will be more than pleased to have the lyrics of this album translated to him. Loads of love everywhere… Not only teenagers do fall for this trick anymore, so why don’t you try to volunteer into programmes helping blind people, if you have so many love energies left inside? Kindergarten shitheads, however, do fall for this one. Surprisingly, we can hear a children choir on this album, making me thing of the following question: What the fuck is happening? I guess, Minculescu & CO. wanted to become grandfathers all of a sudden.

Best tracks? I can’t answer to that question, but I surely can say what the worst songs of the album are: “Omul care imi aduce ploaia” (The man who brings me the rain), “Nu te mai cred” (I don’t believe you anymore) and “Vals fara de sfarsit” (Never ending waltz). The latter is some kind of a prologue, but its theme is already included in “Vals” (Waltz). The rest is pop rock shit, with its catchiness and softness.

As a conclusion, there is only one thing left to say. Little girls, if you already have premonitions about sucking a man’s cock, than listen to this album right away and your premonitions will be thrown away by the never ending power of love. Or, you should better listen to Devourment’s “Serial cocksucker”. May the power of innocence protect you all!

PURE LUMINOUS BLACK METAL. - 100%
Written by Iaida on March 14th, 2008

The vocals are sharp and distorted as is the music. Every track is uniquely dark in their own way. "The great batallion" is just weird dark ambience, which conpliments the album very well. The firth track "deep nostalgia" is the best on eyet. It shows deep dark tones taht i havent heard before. The vocals compliment this song rather well. Extremely dark but without being heavy in parts, just dart tranqual portion after portion. I believe these tracks are made up of the two demos before it along with the self-titled track "mortuus caelum". This is a great album to know about if your just getting into black metal. This is a perfect exhample of what black metal is and should be about, raw darkness. The riffs are so amzing in this. The next track is holocaust divine.This track, as teh next few are quick but agressive, really extreme. Any fan of extreme metal should get this. This is raw, pure darkness. Track nine, burning the astral winds, is as good as deep nostalgia, maybe even better. The entire album has been so dark and extreme, one of the best black metal albums in my collection. The last track is desecration of liminance. This one starts off heavy and ends heavy, a true masterpiece of black metal.

Deleted the review by Acherontic (as well as a positive review in the same style by GrippingBeast, which you conspicuously failed to mention). As for the other one, I think it's pretty damn glib of you to try and claim that you're only trying to have it removed on technical grounds, and not because it offends your polite-society sense of decorum. Because we've been cleaning the pages for well-known groups for several years now and standards have gradually increased, this seems to be becoming more and more common in this thread. Perhaps I need to think of some sort of minor punishment to preclude it.

colin040's review of To Mega Therion is the worst I've seen in a while. He doesn't bother to argue any of his claims and ends up casually dismissing an important album in only four paragraphs. It reads like something you'd find on a mp3 blog.

http://metal-archives.com/review.php?id=1524

Arckanum don't play a depressive suicidal black metal, but a mixture between black and thrash that recalls the eighties (defined by their leader Shamaatae the period "when the music was good"). That means we're not in front of a blast beat supported buzz, but a thrash fast tempos supported buzz, exactly àla Bathory of the first period, even if we must add the eighties roots are also witnessed by a certain structural variety, that does not refuse any brighter break and some more doomish song (doomish, not suicidal black).

http://www.metal-archives.com/review.php?id=116755

What is this site's policy on incomplete reviews? In this review of an interactive CD-rom, the reviewer admits to never playing the games or watching the videos. I could understand if these were just extras, but this was a digital experience specifically marketed as such.

Just wondering for future reference if I come across something like this, it is indeed okay, right?