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http://metal-archives.com/review.php?id=244607

Reading through the Human666 review that fell through the cracks, the thought that comes to my mind is "Somebody listened to the first song and decided to bull shit the rest of the album"

There seem to be two adjectives used to describe the music, "Bad" and "Bland". If I were to describe the review using the same language this reviewer used, I'd have to knock myself over the head with a sledge hammer after downing a fifth of whiskey to lower my brain performance to the sufficient level where I even misspell "United Abominations" and forget random but critical placings of the word "of". Ahh well, here goes:

this reveiw are bad and bland doenst descrieb music at all or anything.

So I exaggerated a bit there, but the point is this review does not seem to describe the music that well and has more than its fair share of annoying typographical errors. There is even more content in the review the user gor did for Motorhead's Hammered: http://metal-archives.com/review.php?id=954

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Godspeed to the back of my closet... - 65%
Written by Metz on October 30th, 2008

.. but not as far back as Nymphetamine or Thornography.

This is the first review I have written, btu I felt like I had to share my thoughts on this album. Cradle of Filth's big new release sort of crept up on me. I was aware that something was coming, but I only heard about it's release date a mere week before it hot the shelves.

I'm not going to give much of a song-by-song rundown because, frankly, all the songs seem to sound about the same. Old Cradle of Filth is much superior to the new Cradle, but I guess it was too much to hope that they would produce something as dark and wholesome as the old stuff, just because they said they would. Nevertheless, 'Godspeed on the Devil's Thunder' is a step back in the right direction, just not far enough of one.

-Now lets see, typical Cradle instrumental songs, those are okay.

-'Shat out of Hell' is a song that kind of stood out to me. After hearing Dani's screams in the first few lines, I thought that he almost had his good scream back (but he managed to disproved that over the course of the album). I'll give them credit for writing good music though, some of the riffs almost feel just a little bit like black metal if I dare say.

-Next was 'The Death of Love'.. here we see that Cradle is still wasting their talent with their new inferior sound. This 7-minute.. thing.. that made me want to turn off my speakers reminded me of their 'Temptation' cover shit-song. Well editing, I might add that songs like this and 'Temptation' make Cradle seem like weak fuckin' pussies. (Excuse the immature words, but it pisses me off to see so many sweet bands go so soft. Oh well.. still got Gorgoroth and Darkthrone (mostly) ,,/)

A couple more mediocre tracks and we come to 'Honey and Sulphur'. This track stood out to me as well, only because it reminded me of what Dimmu Borgir are doing these days. The little attempt at an epic feeling would have better served as a little attempt at making some truly macabre-sounding song such as off of Dusk or Cruelty. Ah how I miss the good old days when they didn't use whole orchestras.. and when they used 100+ gallons of blood in a music video shoot..

A few songs later brings us to the title track. This and 'Shat out of Hell' are the two songs that I might listen to for entertaining purposes. Nice little solo, some thrashy riffs, Dani plays around with his voice a little bit in a good way. Not many complaints here; could do without the bell clanging at the end though.

To sum up 'Godspeed on the Devil's Thunder':
It is an improvement over the last few albums, but certainly not what they keep promising to us. It is nice to see Paul soloing more these days though. Also, the lyrics in this album are darker and better represent the reputation Cradle used to have than the lyrics in the other recent albums. I'll give this album a 65%, because it seems like they are really trying, but it is almost as if they have forgotten how to write like they did in the past. 65% for effort, guys.

I don't think Cradle will ever give me what I'm hoping for again, so I'm just gonna pop in their demo tapes and reminisce while the dust collects on this disc.

http://metal-archives.com/review.php?id=212528#155185

Mostly just a dull track by track, not written very eloquently, and rather lacking in musical description.

This demo is death metal pure and simple. It's a lo-fi recording with nothing but blastbeats and deep guttoral vocals. Like so many other black metal bands, in the days of recording demos they played death metal, and they played it bad. It sounds like Immortal's "Suffocation" demo, or Darkthrone's "Land of Frost" instead of Dissection's "Into Infinite Obscurity" or Windir's "Sogneriket" demo like it should. This is nothing like the symphonic black metal that is Obtained Enslavement, and will probably only disappoint fans looking for obscure black metal releases.

Goatfangs wrote:

Terrible misspellings, awful grammar interspersed with Engrish, and various other cringe-worthy moments make this one of the worst reviews I've ever read. The reviewer obviously didn't put much thought into writing it, and likely didn't even listen to the whole thing.

"Fail," indeed.

goddamn, it's taken me over two years to write a release for this, so in that meantime the album has passed from its new excitement to its medium exposure to its maturity of mediocrity... right?

wrong - it still kicks my fucking face in, every time I pull it up.

now I am proudly biased, born in '81 and caught up all the catching up I had to do, and I love me some Kill and any new release they make, I will give it a fair shot ... and I gave this one a fair shot, and another fair shot, and it ended up with far too many whiskey-soaked intervals of having nothing to listen to as the desperation of existence clawed at my throat ... and that's when you gotta realize, your life may be a fecal pile of wastes, but god damn, Overkill is there for you, to fail to disappoint!

it's not an album to be heard for the single tracks ... not one to think: oh hey! the highlights! the one burst of three minute brilliance that overshadows (see: Queen of the Reich) the rest of the forty-minute interval that the band seeks to express. Nah, this is an "all or nothing" album - if you like one song, say the first one, which of course comes in like a raging wave of a thousand motherfuckers - you will goddamn like them all.

This is not a place to find your #1 hit singles. This is a place to thrash the goddamn fuck out for 40 minutes straight.

Do I gotta name some song titles? Do I gotta name some riffs? Nah, it all blasts together ... "Devils in the Mist" has a great intro, and "Walk Through Fire" has that vocal fist-fuck of a chorus that demands you headbang upon pain of death, and "Skull and Bones" features the shrieking vocals of the guy from Lamb of God to complement Bobby Blitz, and it all works out great ... and it all marches on for the duration of the album.

Special mention must be made to "Overkill Part V" - wherein they implicitly acknowledge that Evil Never Dies from 1989's Years of Decay was "Overkill Part IV", and, more obviously, note that the classic thrash sound of years gone by is the sound to hear (crystal clear!) - they get it fucking right. It's not quite Overkill Part II with its spine-defecating fury of a riff, but it comes in as the second-best of the Overkill ... uhm, extended trilogy? Pentagram? Whatever it is that is in five parts. It is clearly a song that takes its place among the classics like "riding the wind on a stormy night" Overkill, to "money hungry power thirsting fear inflicting..." of Overkill IV (Evil Never Dies) - it stands all among those as a classic of the old school.

and, in fact, that is what Immortalis does best: it is a classic of the old school. Overkill, been rocking since 1980 and they know how to get it right. Here, they provide another insane headbanging number, the sort that they have been delivering since 1983... they sure damn did get this one right.

The nightmare continues ....

http://metal-archives.com/review.php?id=222321

The review by Artemus_Cain is a waste of space. He starts off by saying that he doesn't like sludge metal, fer chrissakes. His only reference points seem to be Down and Raging Speedhorn, the British hard rock band described in one review as "Corby, Northamptonshire's own Slipknot" and so metal they aren't even included in the database! Surely one needs to know what sludge metal is before one attempts to review an album in the genre?

Marduk is legendary in the black metal scene for releasing some of the most ground-breaking black metal of its time. Records like Panzer Division Marduk and especially Heaven Shall Burn… When We Are Gathered considered two of the finest black metal albums ever released; the former having been likened to Slayer’s magnum opus Reign in Blood in reference to how it changed black metal by upping the ante.

http://www.metal-archives.com/review.php?id=1437

Mostly dialog, all it really says is fuck John Petrucci

No mercy, indeed - 83%
Written by colin040 on October 4th, 2009

Tom Araya's vocals are really, well, balanced sounding. He doesn't sound too crazy such as on ''Angel of Death'', but rather sings in a semi raspy/clean vocal style, that actually fits without sounding akward. (''Silent Scream'', anyone?)

Guitarwork is really good here. Again, not too aggressive, but just like Arya's vocals, very balanced. Some songs got typical thrash metal riffage going along all the time, while others sound more NWOBHM influenced. Even the guitar solo's will shock you if you're new to Slayer.

Drumming is well done and good for the pace. The faster paced parts never sounds too rushed due to a forced drumming, but always sound focused. Even on mid paced moments, such as the ending of ''Fight Till Death'' there's some nice drumming around.

''Evil Has No Boundaries'' is a straight out of hell thrasher that for 1983 sounded pretty damn heavy I suppose, which is one of the highlights. ''The Antichrist'' is more mid paced, but still manages to sound pretty damn wicked. ''Black Magic'' has to be one of the heaviest songs Slayer ever put out, while ''Tormentor'' for example, sounds really different.

Well, what I didn't like was "Ain't my Bitch". The song sucks, the live version doesn't do anything to help it out of that misery.

Why did 'United Abominations' lost '3' reviews?... owned '26' reviews a few weeks ago...
Same is happening with other records.

Author:	MercyfulSatyr [ Mon Sep 21, 2009 3:51 pm ]
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Goatfangs wrote: http://metal-archives.com/review.php?id=244607 Reading through the Human666 review that fell through the cracks, the thought that comes to my mind is "Somebody listened to the first song and decided to bull shit the rest of the album" There seem to be two adjectives used to describe the music, "Bad" and "Bland". If I were to describe the review using the same language this reviewer used, I'd have to knock myself over the head with a sledge hammer after downing a fifth of whiskey to lower my brain performance to the sufficient level where I even misspell "United Abominations" and forget random but critical placings of the word "of". Ahh well, here goes: this reveiw are bad and bland doenst descrieb music at all or anything. So I exaggerated a bit there, but the point is this review does not seem to describe the music that well and has more than its fair share of annoying typographical errors. There is even more content in the review the user gor did for Motorhead's Hammered: http://metal-archives.com/review.php?id=954 Terrible misspellings, awful grammar interspersed with Engrish, and various other cringe-worthy moments make this one of the worst reviews I've ever read. The reviewer obviously didn't put much thought into writing it, and likely didn't even listen to the whole thing. "Fail," indeed.

Author:	OzzyApu [ Mon Sep 21, 2009 6:22 pm ]
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The first review from MacMoney - http://www.metal-archives.com/review.php?id=1771 He just compares it to Dimmu Borgir and doesn't go any further than that. It's uninteresting and the album doesn't sound much like EDT (I have the album and have heard it). Doesn't describe the guitars well, or the vocals, or the keyboards, and doesn't even mention the bass or drums. It's terrible, and I'll be submitting a review shortly for that album, making his review unnecessary.

Author:	Visionary [ Mon Sep 21, 2009 7:28 pm ]
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This was missed for being the bottom of the page I think. Visionary wrote: Quote: Godspeed to the back of my closet... - 65% Written by Metz on October 30th, 2008 .. but not as far back as Nymphetamine or Thornography. This is the first review I have written, btu I felt like I had to share my thoughts on this album. Cradle of Filth's big new release sort of crept up on me. I was aware that something was coming, but I only heard about it's release date a mere week before it hot the shelves. I'm not going to give much of a song-by-song rundown because, frankly, all the songs seem to sound about the same. Old Cradle of Filth is much superior to the new Cradle, but I guess it was too much to hope that they would produce something as dark and wholesome as the old stuff, just because they said they would. Nevertheless, 'Godspeed on the Devil's Thunder' is a step back in the right direction, just not far enough of one. -Now lets see, typical Cradle instrumental songs, those are okay. -'Shat out of Hell' is a song that kind of stood out to me. After hearing Dani's screams in the first few lines, I thought that he almost had his good scream back (but he managed to disproved that over the course of the album). I'll give them credit for writing good music though, some of the riffs almost feel just a little bit like black metal if I dare say. -Next was 'The Death of Love'.. here we see that Cradle is still wasting their talent with their new inferior sound. This 7-minute.. thing.. that made me want to turn off my speakers reminded me of their 'Temptation' cover shit-song. Well editing, I might add that songs like this and 'Temptation' make Cradle seem like weak fuckin' pussies. (Excuse the immature words, but it pisses me off to see so many sweet bands go so soft. Oh well.. still got Gorgoroth and Darkthrone (mostly) ,,/) A couple more mediocre tracks and we come to 'Honey and Sulphur'. This track stood out to me as well, only because it reminded me of what Dimmu Borgir are doing these days. The little attempt at an epic feeling would have better served as a little attempt at making some truly macabre-sounding song such as off of Dusk or Cruelty. Ah how I miss the good old days when they didn't use whole orchestras.. and when they used 100+ gallons of blood in a music video shoot.. A few songs later brings us to the title track. This and 'Shat out of Hell' are the two songs that I might listen to for entertaining purposes. Nice little solo, some thrashy riffs, Dani plays around with his voice a little bit in a good way. Not many complaints here; could do without the bell clanging at the end though. To sum up 'Godspeed on the Devil's Thunder': It is an improvement over the last few albums, but certainly not what they keep promising to us. It is nice to see Paul soloing more these days though. Also, the lyrics in this album are darker and better represent the reputation Cradle used to have than the lyrics in the other recent albums. I'll give this album a 65%, because it seems like they are really trying, but it is almost as if they have forgotten how to write like they did in the past. 65% for effort, guys. I don't think Cradle will ever give me what I'm hoping for again, so I'm just gonna pop in their demo tapes and reminisce while the dust collects on this disc. http://metal-archives.com/review.php?id=212528#155185 Mostly just a dull track by track, not written very eloquently, and rather lacking in musical description.

Author:	Razakel [ Mon Sep 21, 2009 7:39 pm ]
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I just read an awful review for Obtained Enslavement's demo, Out of the Crypts: Frog0holic wrote: This demo is death metal pure and simple. It's a lo-fi recording with nothing but blastbeats and deep guttoral vocals. Like so many other black metal bands, in the days of recording demos they played death metal, and they played it bad. It sounds like Immortal's "Suffocation" demo, or Darkthrone's "Land of Frost" instead of Dissection's "Into Infinite Obscurity" or Windir's "Sogneriket" demo like it should. This is nothing like the symphonic black metal that is Obtained Enslavement, and will probably only disappoint fans looking for obscure black metal releases. The only information in this review is that the demo at hand is a death metal demo. There is no discussion on any individual tracks or specifics on the music. Nuke? http://www.metal-archives.com/review.php?id=19978

Author:	ThePipster [ Mon Sep 21, 2009 8:27 pm ]
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2 reviews for Type O Negative's "I Don't Wanna Be Me" single This is pretty damn good! - 76% Written by Nightcrawler on June 3rd, 2003 I had never heard this band before I got my hands on this promo single, nor had I read any of their reviews, so by looking at their genre I was expecting something completely different than what I heard. I Don't Wanna Be Me, from the upcoming album Life is Killing Me, is really a pretty great song. The riffwork is killer; fast, bludgeoning and sludgy, and very catchy. The somewhat dark vocals sing somewhat depressing lyrics, yet the song in general is pretty fun and has a pretty upbeat feeling overall. It flows along very nice, with memorable vocal lines and a great, catchy chorus, and the solo as Snxke mentioned is killer. My only complaint the bridge is feels somewhat uninteresting and boring, and the keyboard effects underneath it are plain annoying. So the bridge does drag down the rating a couple of points, but aside from that this pretty much kicks ass. I guess I'm gonna have to pick up the new album myself, this seems to be a very good band. _____________ Killer! - 100% Written by Snxke on May 28th, 2003 This is the perfect TON song without a double. The lush production, catchy riffs and almost upbeat vocals about the down and out are just amazingly fun and still bleak as death. The ripping guitar solo is something new and the doomy break down makes for a great flow. I really expect good things from the new album upon hearing this song. We can only hope. The 1st one has bad formatting and the 2nd could be the shortest review on this site...

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Author:	Empyreal [ Mon Sep 21, 2009 10:25 pm ]
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MercyfulSatyr wrote: Goatfangs wrote: http://metal-archives.com/review.php?id=244607 Reading through the Human666 review that fell through the cracks, the thought that comes to my mind is "Somebody listened to the first song and decided to bull shit the rest of the album" There seem to be two adjectives used to describe the music, "Bad" and "Bland". If I were to describe the review using the same language this reviewer used, I'd have to knock myself over the head with a sledge hammer after downing a fifth of whiskey to lower my brain performance to the sufficient level where I even misspell "United Abominations" and forget random but critical placings of the word "of". Ahh well, here goes: this reveiw are bad and bland doenst descrieb music at all or anything. So I exaggerated a bit there, but the point is this review does not seem to describe the music that well and has more than its fair share of annoying typographical errors. There is even more content in the review the user gor did for Motorhead's Hammered: http://metal-archives.com/review.php?id=954 Terrible misspellings, awful grammar interspersed with Engrish, and various other cringe-worthy moments make this one of the worst reviews I've ever read. The reviewer obviously didn't put much thought into writing it, and likely didn't even listen to the whole thing. "Fail," indeed. It takes more words than that if your only point against an album is that it's soulless and bland. That's too subjective for such a short, bare-boned review.

Author:	EntilZha [ Thu Sep 24, 2009 4:10 pm ]
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So UltraBoris can't capitalize the first word of a sentence anymore... I guess it ain't like riding a bicycle.

Author:	CandideCamera [ Thu Sep 24, 2009 4:22 pm ]
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Front page or not, give a fucking link, dipshit. http://www.metal-archives.com/review.php?id=166580#147 I mean really, preferential treatment still? Gimme a break.

Author:	~Guest 3496 [ Thu Sep 24, 2009 4:25 pm ]
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UltraBoris wrote: goddamn, it's taken me over two years to write a release for this, so in that meantime the album has passed from its new excitement to its medium exposure to its maturity of mediocrity... right? wrong - it still kicks my fucking face in, every time I pull it up. now I am proudly biased, born in '81 and caught up all the catching up I had to do, and I love me some Kill and any new release they make, I will give it a fair shot ... and I gave this one a fair shot, and another fair shot, and it ended up with far too many whiskey-soaked intervals of having nothing to listen to as the desperation of existence clawed at my throat ... and that's when you gotta realize, your life may be a fecal pile of wastes, but god damn, Overkill is there for you, to fail to disappoint! it's not an album to be heard for the single tracks ... not one to think: oh hey! the highlights! the one burst of three minute brilliance that overshadows (see: Queen of the Reich) the rest of the forty-minute interval that the band seeks to express. Nah, this is an "all or nothing" album - if you like one song, say the first one, which of course comes in like a raging wave of a thousand motherfuckers - you will goddamn like them all. This is not a place to find your #1 hit singles. This is a place to thrash the goddamn fuck out for 40 minutes straight. Do I gotta name some song titles? Do I gotta name some riffs? Nah, it all blasts together ... "Devils in the Mist" has a great intro, and "Walk Through Fire" has that vocal fist-fuck of a chorus that demands you headbang upon pain of death, and "Skull and Bones" features the shrieking vocals of the guy from Lamb of God to complement Bobby Blitz, and it all works out great ... and it all marches on for the duration of the album. Special mention must be made to "Overkill Part V" - wherein they implicitly acknowledge that Evil Never Dies from 1989's Years of Decay was "Overkill Part IV", and, more obviously, note that the classic thrash sound of years gone by is the sound to hear (crystal clear!) - they get it fucking right. It's not quite Overkill Part II with its spine-defecating fury of a riff, but it comes in as the second-best of the Overkill ... uhm, extended trilogy? Pentagram? Whatever it is that is in five parts. It is clearly a song that takes its place among the classics like "riding the wind on a stormy night" Overkill, to "money hungry power thirsting fear inflicting..." of Overkill IV (Evil Never Dies) - it stands all among those as a classic of the old school. and, in fact, that is what Immortalis does best: it is a classic of the old school. Overkill, been rocking since 1980 and they know how to get it right. Here, they provide another insane headbanging number, the sort that they have been delivering since 1983... they sure damn did get this one right. The nightmare continues .... This is the kind of review of his we'd be deleting had it been written four years ago. Gone.

Author:	Karnstein_Records [ Fri Sep 25, 2009 1:52 pm ]
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Ultraboris is always an entertaining writer, but did his mother never teach him to start sentences (and moreso paragraphs) with a capital letter?

Author:	CandideCamera [ Fri Sep 25, 2009 3:26 pm ]
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Given the history of things, he was probably very drunk at the time.

Author:	Artemus_Cain [ Fri Sep 25, 2009 9:29 pm ]
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ZombieCreepingFlesh wrote: http://metal-archives.com/review.php?id=222321 The review by Artemus_Cain is a waste of space. He starts off by saying that he doesn't like sludge metal, fer chrissakes. His only reference points seem to be Down and Raging Speedhorn, the British hard rock band described in one review as "Corby, Northamptonshire's own Slipknot" and so metal they aren't even included in the database! Surely one needs to know what sludge metal is before one attempts to review an album in the genre? First off, I never said "I don't like Sludge." I said I wasn't the genre's biggest fan. That does not immediatly constitute the fact that I despise the genre. A quick brease through the albums in my collection will reveal a few gems. I stated that I did like Soilent Green, Crowbar, early Mastodon, and Down. Maybe a mention of Eyehategod would've validated myself. I actually came across Dopesick shortly afterwards and am digging it so far. Second, the only reason I picked up this album is because of all the glowing reviews that said that this was one of the best albums in that genre of all time. I didn't get that. I got more of what has been done before and done better by the previously stated bands. Thirdly, maybe if you actually listened to a Raging Speedhorn song or album than droningly quote someone elses review, you might agree with me that their Motorhead-come-Eyehategod-come-very-VERY-early-Neurosis sound belongs on this site, and that my comparisons between them and 16 are well founded. But thank you for your insight onto my writing.

Author:	ZombieCreepingFlesh [ Mon Sep 28, 2009 6:23 am ]
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Cheers for responding. Perhaps I was overly harsh but my biggest problem with your review (and I should have said this earlier) was the 15% score. I understand that everyone's entitled to their opinion but the album just isn't as bad as that, objectively speaking. I think such a low score is totally dismissive and suggests a lack of comprehension. There were two reviews posted here prior to yours and neither was so overwhelmingly positive that you should feel the need to 'redress the balance.' On a 1-5 star system 15% equates to less than one star, which would make 'Bridges To Burn' one of the worst albums of all time. In all honesty, I don't think it's as good as it's cracked up to be, but it's certainly competent, which 15% does not indicate. I'd say it's solid rather than outstanding. 65%-ish. Good to see you're digging 'Dopesick'. I'd recommend you check out some Buzzov*en after that. For the record, I've heard a number of Raging Speedhorn tracks and don't think they belong on the database. It's hard rock, pure and simple, and nothing like Neurosis at any stage of their career. "Very-VERY-early-Neurosis" was hardcore, anyway, and wouldn't be included on the archives if they hadn't evolved into a metal band.

Author:	OzzyApu [ Mon Sep 28, 2009 9:22 pm ]
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http://www.metal-archives.com/review.php?id=239#4085 Abominatrix's review: poor formatting, doesn't describe the actual music aside from lengths and such in the middle. Only one sentence (beginning of second paragraph) has a good amount of description. The rest is pretty much fodder and the review pales in comparison to the other 15 reviews for the album.

Author:	Abominatrix [ Tue Sep 29, 2009 10:24 pm ]
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Indeed, that Immortal review of mine was embarrassingly poor..written in 2000 or 2001 for a defunct site and submitted in an early batch when I first discovered the MA. Good riddence. Satariel review was emtpy; gone.

Author:	EntilZha [ Fri Oct 02, 2009 3:19 am ]
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http://www.metal-archives.com/review.php?id=245353#8027 Album is released on Oct. 23rd.

Author:	Derigin [ Mon Oct 12, 2009 3:11 pm ]
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They are now dealt with.

Author:	KerberosOfHades [ Tue Oct 13, 2009 9:03 pm ]
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http://www.metal-archives.com/review.php?id=133 Among the best Nightwish albums - 98% Written by revoltingblob on February 10th, 2005 All its says is that Elvenpath and Tutankhamen are good and Tuomas cant sing, essentially.

Author:	Noktorn [ Mon Sep 28, 2009 11:13 pm ]
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http://www.metal-archives.com/review.php?id=16886 Says nothing.

Author:	Tantalus [ Tue Sep 29, 2009 10:51 am ]
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He's submitted the review for the wrong album. He posted it for Acid's first album, but is clearly talking about the second album. http://www.metal-archives.com/review.php?id=2436#39668

Author:	Razakel [ Tue Sep 29, 2009 12:33 pm ]
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It's not oven fodder, but has anyone read the most recent review for marduk's new album? Quote: Marduk is legendary in the black metal scene for releasing some of the most ground-breaking black metal of its time. Records like Panzer Division Marduk and especially Heaven Shall Burn… When We Are Gathered considered two of the finest black metal albums ever released; the former having been likened to Slayer’s magnum opus Reign in Blood in reference to how it changed black metal by upping the ante. I just found that pretty funny. Likening the importance of Panzer Dicision Marduk to Regin in Blood? Hahaha.

Author:	ThePipster [ Wed Sep 30, 2009 4:45 pm ]
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http://www.metal-archives.com/review.php?id=1437 Mostly dialog, all it really says is fuck John Petrucci

Author:	iamntbatman [ Wed Sep 30, 2009 11:06 pm ]
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ThePipster wrote: http://www.metal-archives.com/review.php?id=1437 Mostly dialog, all it really says is fuck John Petrucci Are you serious? That review was pretty good. The dialogue gimmick might have made some assumptions about the intents of the band, but it did do a great job of musical description. The only thing more I really could have asked from the review is a bit more pretend-your-reader-is-clueless kind of description. The review does a good job of describing the band in comparison to Dream Theater, but doesn't describe what Dream Theater really sound like in the first place. Of course, just about anyone listening to LTE is going to be familiar with DT, so I'll cut him some slack. I definitely wouldn't call this review oven fodder.

Author:	orionmetalhead [ Fri Oct 02, 2009 2:59 am ]
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ThePipster wrote: http://www.metal-archives.com/review.php?id=1437 Mostly dialog, all it really says is fuck John Petrucci I think you're just angry that he was making fun of one of your favorite bands.

Author:	Radagast [ Sat Oct 03, 2009 8:52 am ]
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http://www.metal-archives.com/review.php?id=125122 Nowhere near enough musical description in my opinion, especially for a 0% rating. Half the review seems to be fixated on the mistaken assumption that the band is a side-project, which I know isn't grounds for deletion but sums up the basic lack of homework-doing by the writer.

Author:	Vlachos [ Mon Oct 05, 2009 6:48 am ]
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The latest review for Show No Mercy is redundant and has corny parts, whole nondescript paragraphs and unexplained references to other Slayer songs: Quote: No mercy, indeed - 83% Written by colin040 on October 4th, 2009 First of all, the title is "No mercy, indeed". I know it's not important, but you could do that for every other album on the database. "Rusting in peace, indeed" or "Mastering reality, indeed". Yuck. Quote: Tom Araya's vocals are really, well, balanced sounding. He doesn't sound too crazy such as on ''Angel of Death'', but rather sings in a semi raspy/clean vocal style, that actually fits without sounding akward. (''Silent Scream'', anyone?) No, I don't know what you mean. Don't just mention Silent Scream and assume that it'll help me conjur up the same point of view that you have. Quote: Guitarwork is really good here. Again, not too aggressive, but just like Arya's vocals, very balanced. Some songs got typical thrash metal riffage going along all the time, while others sound more NWOBHM influenced. Even the guitar solo's will shock you if you're new to Slayer. Spelled "Araya" incorrectly; used "got" instead of "have"; used an apostrophe in "solos". Plus it doesn't describe anything. Quote: Drumming is well done and good for the pace. The faster paced parts never sounds too rushed due to a forced drumming, but always sound focused. Even on mid paced moments, such as the ending of ''Fight Till Death'' there's some nice drumming around. Colin could have mentioned any song from the album. Also, what is meant by "forced drumming"? What's Dave supposed to, just let his arms hang there? By Colin's standards it'd sound really good because it isn't "forced". Quote: ''Evil Has No Boundaries'' is a straight out of hell thrasher that for 1983 sounded pretty damn heavy I suppose, which is one of the highlights. ''The Antichrist'' is more mid paced, but still manages to sound pretty damn wicked. ''Black Magic'' has to be one of the heaviest songs Slayer ever put out, while ''Tormentor'' for example, sounds really different. Why not just do a track-by-track and actually discuss each song in-depth? That would've been better, even. http://www.metal-archives.com/review.php?id=207#135223

Author:	Acrobat [ Mon Oct 05, 2009 8:02 am ]
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As youth and inexperience aren't really any excuse I think someone needs to take a long at a lot of Colin's reviews (cough Awaken the Guardiancough). Anyway, ironasinmaiden's review of The Obsessed's debut: http://www.metal-archives.com/review.php?id=4908 I'm submitting a review for this later today, and it'll be in much greater depth than this 3-paragraph 2003 wonder.

Author:	linkavitch [ Fri Oct 09, 2009 6:58 pm ]
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http://www.metal-archives.com/review.php?id=41911 The one by Benign_Hypocrite can go. No indent after a period, it creates a formatting issue, at least it did for me. Whenever the letter ‘I’ is alone it is not capitalized, and he didn’t even capitalize the band name at one point.

Author:	OzzyApu [ Mon Oct 12, 2009 12:57 am ]
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Checking out the reviews for WASP's debut, I saw this one that really needs the boot: http://www.metal-archives.com/review.php?id=1796#3804 The one by UnleashtheHeathen has all the wrong things going for it. 100% without describing the music beyond "vintage heavy metal, anthems, and semi-ballads." It's a very short review, isn't easy on the eyes, has sore formatting, and, once again, just doesn't really describe the music. For a 100%, you gotta back it up with more than that. The album has 10 other review for it, so that one can really bite the dust.

Author:	Nyaricus [ Mon Oct 12, 2009 5:04 am ]
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This reveiw is just... sad http://www.metal-archives.com/review.php?id=447#37478 Ok, the reason why my rating is 98% and not 100% is because of the album's lenght (a little too short)... But other than that, this album contains all the viking atmosphere of Enslaved's older work, starting with a nice and calm intro, then breaking into "I Lenker Til Ragnarok", which is one of my personal favorites, where you can hear the combination of the black metal screams and the viking clean voice through the whole song, and using this for the rest of them. The whole album keeps this pace until the closing song, Suttungs Mjod, where the atmosphere is enhaced even more, this calm song makes you feel like if you were listening to a horde of Berzerks in a Longship chanting and sailing, and the sound of the waves during the song kind of makes the image clearer! Definately a masterpiece, Enslaved really ended their viking-black era with a very nice closure! Lots of spelling mistakes, doesn't really say much, and there are two other reviews which give the same glowing review that this one does while saying A LOT more the whole way through. Plus, this user has only has this one review... I don't think he's gonna mind.

Author:	~Guest 193166 [ Mon Oct 12, 2009 9:38 pm ]
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http://www.metal-archives.com/review.php?id=9842 I honestly think this review can go. In total, there are only 6 sentences and they are divided into 4 paragraphs. The formatting is very bad and the music isn't described in-depth at all.

Author:	iamntbatman [ Mon Oct 12, 2009 10:49 pm ]
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It's the only review and while it could use more musical description, it is a review for a single, after all. How much is there to write?

Author:	~Guest 193166 [ Mon Oct 12, 2009 11:45 pm ]
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You do have a good point here but I believe that the formatting for reviews should be decent (or at least better than the aforementioned one) and they should contain sufficient information supporting why they feel however they may feel about a release. This review is lacking extensively in both of those specific areas. This release has 2 tracks this is all the reviewer has to say about the second one. Quote: Well, what I didn't like was "Ain't my Bitch". The song sucks, the live version doesn't do anything to help it out of that misery. I think a review should contain more than just 6 sentences and be expressed in a more thorough and descriptive manner to even pass as what one might call a "review."

Author:	Nightgaunt [ Tue Oct 13, 2009 12:05 am ]
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You're both right, in a way. I deleted it, but wouldn't have done so if I felt that it were liable to be the only review the release would ever see (something that will probably never be the case for anything Metallica has written or will write).

Author:	beelaal85 [ Tue Oct 13, 2009 3:59 pm ]
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Why did 'United Abominations' lost '3' reviews?... owned '26' reviews a few weeks ago... Same is happening with other records.

Author:	Razakel [ Tue Oct 13, 2009 9:25 pm ]
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beelaal85 wrote: Why did 'United Abominations' lost '3' reviews?... owned '26' reviews a few weeks ago... Same is happening with other records. Didn't notice that. My guess is that mods are getting rid of a few to follow up on the unwritten 'maximum of 25 reviews' rule. What other albums have lost reviews?

Author:	failsafeman [ Tue Oct 13, 2009 10:51 pm ]
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It's not so much an unwritten rule as it is a vague point at which our standards get a lot stricter. I deleted a few reviews that were markedly weaker than the overall standard.

Author:	invoked [ Wed Oct 14, 2009 2:02 am ]
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http://www.metal-archives.com/review.php?id=376#39668 Offers very, very little musical description. Mostly just a rant against Varg, like many Burzum reviews.