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Saying Karl Sanders' projects are shit for not being Death Metal would be stupid

but have you ever heard Savatage? TSO and them are the same band

and I gladly extend the same malice I have toward TSO to Savatage after Handful of Rain.

Feel free to disagree and write your own review, pal.

Talk to the review, 'cause the writer ain't listenin'

http://www.metal-archives.com/review.php?id=8866

shantanupatni1991's review is worthless: no musical description at all, and despite the inclusion of some very scant factual information, even this is misleading-- he claims that "There are no acoustic guitars, no distorted riffs" - both untrue (see They Never Hope for the former, and tracks 2 and 4-6 for the latter), although why acoustic guitars are important anyway is beyond me; that there are no real drums (okay, mostly correct, but as far as I know the timp is real); that there are only five notes on the album (patently absurd; I think he only listened to the intro track). Basically this guy either didn't listen to the album or he's exaggerating to the point of dishonesty!

and most probably helped defined modern doom.

Then after this, things start to go downhill a bit (ironically a bit like the band to great releases then they really went down hill).

This album is about 40% metal and 60% easy listening/ambient/w/e which is a real short coming.

Also, he has a much better tone and sounds far more aggressive than White. There are no clean vocals on this one.

This was the last classic doom that Anathema released. With Eternity, the band decided to take another direction, away from doom.

This review is WAY too short and is the absolute bare minimum for a review. Not only that, but it's full of spelling and grammatical errors. It's for the demo Extinction by Fallen Angels (the former name of Sonic Syndicate)

I first heard this band when they were doing a gig in my hometown. They sold this demo and since I liked them I bought it. They sound a little like The Haunted meets Dark tranquility. It´s definitely not an original mix (There´s a lot of metalbands inspired by the Gothenburg sound today) but unlike many of todays In Flames/Dark Tranquility clones they actually write great songs with a lot of feeling. They have also found a good balance between guitar and keyboard. All four songs is great and the only reason I´m not giving it a higher rate is because of the complete lack of origianlity. But since the write really good songs it´s not a major issue. I´m relly looking forward to the fortcoming album.

It pisses me off when I spend hours composing a review...and then I see that a piece of shit like this got accepted.

Has anyone else noticed this review from autothrall has been accepted TWICE?

http://www.metal-archives.com/review.ph ... 897#192699

First time I ever see this happen.

Marvelous!!! - 85%
Written by skinfected on January 8th, 2003

What do you get when you take 4 great musicians and mix them together with some swedish oldschool death metal, a guitarsound that would make Dismember cry and a vocalist that in my opinion has the best growls there is? A BLOODBATH of course!!!
I started to hear about Bloodbath while hanging on the Opeth forum a while ago but I didn´t have the chance to listen to them until they released their previews on the homepage. After that it was clear! This album is a hit, gotta have it!!!

The first that strikes me when listen to Bloodbath "Resurrection Through Carnage" is the awful sound of the guitars! It´s absolutely dreadful. I wouldn´t play with that guitar sound if I got paid to do it! BUT!!! It fits the music soooo good!!! The oldschool riffing reminds me alot of Dismember and Hypocrisy while it sometimes takes other directions that shows the greatness of these guys! Just listen to the marvelous track "Cry my name" and you´ll see what I mean. The vocals of Åkerfeldt in a class of itself! I´m not sure there IS a better growler around!!! The drums of Swanö are good and its sound are great! Love ém!!! The guys of Katatonia (Anders and Jonas) do their work with pride. I really like the riffing alot! I get goosebumps everytime I listen to the riffing of "Mass strangulation" for an example. The riffing sometimes reminds me of the superb group Edgy of sanity (around the "Purgatory Afterglow" era).

This is an album for every lover of swedish oldschool Death Metal!!

Pure fucking Death metal! - 85%
Written by gabalgabow on April 15th, 2003

Pure fucking Death metal!
I didn't dream anymore about discovering a new old school Death metal band that would procure me the mighty thrills of Death and inner dehumanized revelations again! But this CD has a part of it! I revive the storms, thrills and victories of the past listening to this CD! I die! Old school Death metal à la old DISMEMBER, CARNAGE, old ENTOMBED, old EDGE OF SANITY played with a real enthusiasm! Ahhhh!
It was produced to sound like old school Death metal bands of the early 90's with the raw and quite corrosive sound that made the tremolo riffs à GRAVE, ENTOMBED and old DISMEMBER more tremendous and brutally vicious! Like a fucking reptile! It has the sorrowfull swedish melodies that made DISMEMBER and EDGE OF SANITY good!
I feel fucking sorry I haven't more time to give to this (few) kind of releases because of my websites, webzine and other metal activities... but it's a fucking metallized choice!
This CD isn't 100% essential, but it's fucking welcome in a scene so full of shit loving Goregrind, ultra technical Brutal Death and poor as fuck Black metal!

How can you make fun of that review? The riffs are like fucking reptiles! REPTILES! They're just so goddamn tremendous! :lol:

Is it just me or is there an overabundance of short reviews for that Bloodbath album?

And the depth in lyrics have also dwindled.

http://www.metal-archives.com/review.php?id=10#66546

"This happens and then this happens. There's a bass, too!"

The harmonies and melodies where arguably ahead of their time in some respects.

Thrash your head in. - 80%
Written by Skyklad on October 28th, 2002

Good Australian Thrash with just a dash of Death Metal for added ferocity. This third offering comes with excellent production and they truly do live up to their name with furious riffing and raw intensity. The vocals are pissed off and very angry. They come in two varieties of which the first mentioned is preferrable: cleaner but still aggressive or a rougher, gruff kind. If you are into the Bay Area Thrash bands then FURY is worth checking out. With this kind of talent I wonder why they´re not signed yet... they should be. Website: fury.musicpage.com.

Author:	Empyreal [ Thu Dec 24, 2009 8:21 pm ]
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Saying Karl Sanders' projects are shit for not being Death Metal would be stupid, but have you ever heard Savatage? TSO and them are the same band, and I gladly extend the same malice I have toward TSO to Savatage after Handful of Rain. There isn't that much of a difference aside from the lighter weight of TSO's rhythm department. I don't think they suck because it's not metal, that's a ludicrous claim. I think they suck because it's not compelling or interesting music to me. Feel free to disagree and write your own review, pal.

Author:	yentass [ Fri Dec 25, 2009 10:44 am ]
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http://www.metal-archives.com/review.php?id=158251#155125 The review of thammaren is very short, lacks in description and substance, basically his major point is that it is "metal". http://www.metal-archives.com/review.php?id=6317#438 Both Bart's and md25's reviews should be deleted. Bart's one has a single paragraph, half of it - background info, with merely two lines describing the album. md25's review goes song by song with only two lines of text for each song (it's illegal according to the announcement). http://www.metal-archives.com/review.php?id=174644#138425 Lustmord's review has very short paragraphs with double line breaks all the way http://www.metal-archives.com/review.php?id=178385#133962 Almost the same problem - good paragraphs but with double line breaks http://www.metal-archives.com/review.php?id=133482 Both the first and the last one. Reverov's review is poorly formatted caspian's review has too many non-unicode characters in it. And is it legal to submit the same review for both of the bands that partake in a split?

Author:	Darth_Roxor [ Sat Dec 26, 2009 2:32 pm ]
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Quote: Saying Karl Sanders' projects are shit for not being Death Metal would be stupid Just like saying Jon Oliva's projects are shit for not being Savatage Empyreal wrote: but have you ever heard Savatage? TSO and them are the same band Now I wonder whether you have actually heard Savatage. Saying they're the same band is just a plain lie - they're similar, but Savatage still has a lot bigger focus on guitars than orchestrations, not to mention you will never find faster and more 'metal' stuff like Lights Out, Taunting Cobras or Doesn't Matter Anyway in TSO. Even the 'Tage album that's closest to the TSO sound (Wake of Magellan) is different. And again, you're saying 'Stick with Edge of Thorns for a better representation of this style'. Edge of Thorns? The style of TSO? Don't make me laugh. Quote: and I gladly extend the same malice I have toward TSO to Savatage after Handful of Rain. Hohoho, no siree, I'm sure you didn't approach this with an attitude of 'this will suck no matter what, I'm sure it'll be like Savatage, gotta give it a shitty rating!!'. You were probably completely oblivious to the fact that it'll be an even less metal version of Savatage. Yup. That's a plausible theory. Quote: Feel free to disagree and write your own review, pal. Thanks for pulling off the most stupid argument ever, simpleton. Hey, let's put it in other words: 'Don't like the music? Then record some better tunes instead of doing slappy reviews!'.

Author:	Empyreal [ Sat Dec 26, 2009 2:37 pm ]
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What part of, I just don't find TSO interesting, compelling or endearing, do you not understand? Get the fuck out.

Author:	Octavarium64 [ Sat Dec 26, 2009 6:31 pm ]
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http://www.metal-archives.com/review.php?id=127#2532 "Now, I've had this album for quite a while, but recently I just popped it in and really listened to it. I was surprised I hadn't realized this thing before. I will only review the first disc, because the second disc is but one song, that would be hard to review. First, it's The Glass Prison. It's a great song to start off the cd except for the part where they use some turntable effect. It's not their best, but it does pwn a good amount. The solo rocks out loud, and there are some catchy-as-hell riffs. Then, there's Blind Faith. This is probably tied for the best song on the cd. It's just great. Probably the best part in the song is when it starts to go into the chorus with the whole Mona Lisa thing. I just found that pwnage. The solo is probably my favorite solo on this whole album. This really is a song to show off James' talent as a vocalist as well. Then, as for the best song on the album (with Blind Faith) Misunderstood. It starts off with a great acoustic intro. Then in the middle of it it goes right into the rockin' part. That was a great DT moment in my book. They really stretched out almost 3 minutes with the whole weird freaky solo part, though. All in all, m/. The Great Debate. This was the first song on the album I actually heard to be honest. The only thing I don't like about it is the long news intro. There's not much to say about this song, it's just a standard DT song. Best part is the whole "Turn to the light" thing IMO. And last, there's Disappear. A nice little soft thing, but nothing to get excited about at all. I've probably heard it 2 times, I don't care for it that much. So, I won't say anymore about it. As I said, I will not review the second disc, for I do not feel like reviewing a 45 minute song. And I'm not gonna do each and every chapter, because I'm lazy. So, there ya go.... Final opinion: It's worth the 20-30 bucks you spend." This is only a very cursory treatise: it barely says anything about the music, has no support behind it, and doesn't even review half the album. There's nothing wrong with having the review be short, but it needs to be sweet also: this really just isn't. Also on the same album: http://www.metal-archives.com/review.php?id=127#2636 "One thought: is this album too close to heaven? I know, sometimes Dream Theater try to hard, but most of the time they keep it on the edge and manages to pull everything off just right. When they succeed, sure the world keeps spinning, but to an ordinary human - time stops! And this time they nearly pulled a 100% and remade (according to my opinion of course) Images & Words. Most of this albums is so tight, so excellent and the riffs and beats are created with so much skill and experience that they live their own lives and tell their own stories. Most of the songs on both discs are great, especially pieces like: "My Glass Prison", "Misunderstood", "The Great Debate" - "Solitary Shell" & "The Test That Stumped Them All". But there are some things I personally think they could have done better - like the intro on the first disc, its just noisy static! I mean sure, nice sequel to "Metropolis Pt. II" where the albums ends with the same static, but its relly just annoying... And Im just going to pick a little on the beginning on the second disc too: the first song / the first songs: Whats this "March-band" feeling I get? These "war"-drums and Rudesess' prodigious whirlwindishlike clinking on the keyboard? By erasing this part, the seconds disc could have been perfect. Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence contains great material and really great lyrics (although they might imply a little too much about the USA and their religion). But no matter - this is a great album!" There's plenty of awkward errors (eg: seconds disc, Im, first song/first songs, Rudesess), but what sticks out is that there's nothing about why the album is so good. (On an aside, if you have Internet Explorer, is there a way to get a single review in a window? These links always take me to the top of the list.)

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Author:	yentass [ Sat Dec 26, 2009 7:04 pm ]
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In addition to those I've posted above, also check: http://www.metal-archives.com/review.php?id=186980 DARKMETALPASSION's review has really poor formatting, although the second also could have been done better

Author:	ThePipster [ Sat Dec 26, 2009 10:04 pm ]
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http://www.metal-archives.com/review.php?id=15361 Single paragraph, and not that detailed.

Author:	Darth_Roxor [ Sun Dec 27, 2009 3:35 am ]
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Empyreal wrote: Talk to the review, 'cause the writer ain't listenin' What a hilariously immune to argumentation waste of time and effort you are.

Author:	EntilZha [ Sun Dec 27, 2009 5:08 am ]
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Get banned already.

Author:	Lana [ Sun Dec 27, 2009 5:46 pm ]
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http://www.metal-archives.com/review.php?id=62978#4780 One of the worst reviews I've come across in a long time. Then there's this, then there's that, then there's me from reading such an abomination.

Author:	lord_ghengis [ Sun Dec 27, 2009 6:37 pm ]
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He does seem to miss the point of the album entirely, but I don't think there's anything technically wrong with what was written.

Author:	ForNaught [ Sun Dec 27, 2009 9:52 pm ]
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http://www.metal-archives.com/review.php?id=8866 shantanupatni1991's review is worthless: no musical description at all, and despite the inclusion of some very scant factual information, even this is misleading-- he claims that "There are no acoustic guitars, no distorted riffs" - both untrue (see They Never Hope for the former, and tracks 2 and 4-6 for the latter), although why acoustic guitars are important anyway is beyond me; that there are no real drums (okay, mostly correct, but as far as I know the timp is real); that there are only five notes on the album (patently absurd; I think he only listened to the intro track). Basically this guy either didn't listen to the album or he's exaggerating to the point of dishonesty!

Author:	ScourgeOfDeath [ Mon Dec 28, 2009 12:15 am ]
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ForNaught wrote: http://www.metal-archives.com/review.php?id=8866 shantanupatni1991's review is worthless: no musical description at all, and despite the inclusion of some very scant factual information, even this is misleading-- he claims that "There are no acoustic guitars, no distorted riffs" - both untrue (see They Never Hope for the former, and tracks 2 and 4-6 for the latter), although why acoustic guitars are important anyway is beyond me; that there are no real drums (okay, mostly correct, but as far as I know the timp is real); that there are only five notes on the album (patently absurd; I think he only listened to the intro track). Basically this guy either didn't listen to the album or he's exaggerating to the point of dishonesty! Atleast he got the rating right. The review is quite low in musical description and reads like an extended rant. But it also happens to be the only negative review. The reviewer is a friend of mine, I ll ask him to add more meat to it.

Author:	hakarl [ Tue Dec 29, 2009 12:12 pm ]
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Please nuke this piece of shit: http://metal-archives.com/review.php?id=1608#87356 It's WilliamAcerfeltd's (what's up with that name anyway) review of The Silent Enigma. Not only is it worthless and horrendously written, it even has factual inaccuracies, arguably. Just look at this vast collection of blunders he has managed to stick into such an awfully short review. Quote: and most probably helped defined modern doom. Quote: Then after this, things start to go downhill a bit (ironically a bit like the band to great releases then they really went down hill). Quote: This album is about 40% metal and 60% easy listening/ambient/w/e which is a real short coming. Quote: Also, he has a much better tone and sounds far more aggressive than White. There are no clean vocals on this one. Both statements are incorrect. Quote: This was the last classic doom that Anathema released. With Eternity, the band decided to take another direction, away from doom. Actually, even Pentecost III was already a step away from doom, and if that is pretty arguable, The Silent Enigma definitely is. It's closer to Eternity than Serenades.

Author:	KerberosOfHades [ Fri Jan 08, 2010 5:45 pm ]
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http://www.metal-archives.com/review.php?id=11131#33193 Its only a single paragraph, not a bad one content wise but it seems to just end suddenly in the middle of a sentence: "his is a very good album, and I recommend it to those who are fans of thrash, power metal, folk, etc. and of course to fans of later" Fans of later what? I have no idea.

Author:	Radagast [ Sun Jan 10, 2010 12:12 pm ]
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http://www.metal-archives.com/review.php?id=28189 There's a very, ah, shall we say, <i>quaint</i> Skyklad review stilling hanging on in there down the bottom.

Author:	Peter31095Metalhead [ Mon Jan 11, 2010 7:50 pm ]
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Thank Quorthon someone deleted my review for Bathory's debut. It was horrible even for my horribly low standards. I wonder what I was thinking when I wrote that abomination.

Author:	Mother_of_God [ Thu Dec 31, 2009 12:29 am ]
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This review is WAY too short and is the absolute bare minimum for a review. Not only that, but it's full of spelling and grammatical errors. It's for the demo Extinction by Fallen Angels (the former name of Sonic Syndicate) I first heard this band when they were doing a gig in my hometown. They sold this demo and since I liked them I bought it. They sound a little like The Haunted meets Dark tranquility. It´s definatly not an original mix (There´s a lot of metalbands inspired by the Gothenburg sound today) but unlike many of todays In Flames/Dark Tranquility clones they actually write great songs with a lot of feeling. They have also found a good balance between guitar and keyboard. All four songs is great and the only reason I´m not giving it a higher rate is because of the complete lack of origianlity. But since the write really good songs it´s not a major issue. I´m relly looking forward to the fortcoming album. It pisses me off when I spend hours composing a review...and then I see that a piece of shit like this got accepted.

Author:	ScourgeOfDeath [ Thu Dec 31, 2009 1:05 am ]
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Mother_of_God wrote: This review is WAY too short and is the absolute bare minimum for a review. Not only that, but it's full of spelling and grammatical errors. It's for the demo Extinction by Fallen Angels (the former name of Sonic Syndicate) I first heard this band when they were doing a gig in my hometown. They sold this demo and since I liked them I bought it. They sound a little like The Haunted meets Dark tranquility. It´s definitely not an original mix (There´s a lot of metalbands inspired by the Gothenburg sound today) but unlike many of todays In Flames/Dark Tranquility clones they actually write great songs with a lot of feeling. They have also found a good balance between guitar and keyboard. All four songs is great and the only reason I´m not giving it a higher rate is because of the complete lack of origianlity. But since the write really good songs it´s not a major issue. I´m relly looking forward to the fortcoming album. It pisses me off when I spend hours composing a review...and then I see that a piece of shit like this got accepted. Atleast give a link if you think the review should be deleted.

Author:	Sean16 [ Thu Dec 31, 2009 4:21 am ]
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Has anyone else noticed this review from autothrall has been accepted TWICE? http://www.metal-archives.com/review.ph ... 897#192699 First time I ever see this happen.

Author:	Mother_of_God [ Thu Dec 31, 2009 11:12 am ]
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Quote: Has anyone else noticed this review from autothrall has been accepted TWICE? http://www.metal-archives.com/review.ph ... 897#192699 First time I ever see this happen. I only saw one by autothrall...

Author:	Empyreal [ Thu Dec 31, 2009 11:15 am ]
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The other one was deleted already.

Author:	planiol [ Thu Dec 31, 2009 11:22 am ]
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I went to check out the "new" review for Moonblood's rehearsal 7. this - http://www.metal-archives.com/review.ph ... 622#216309 When I read it I had deja vu, and the part about not understanding German gave it away. Rehearsal 7 is not in German. I had read the exact same review for Moonblood's Siegfried! this - http://www.metal-archives.com/review.php?id=3263 The purported review for rehearsal 7 is just an exact copy of someone else's review for a different Moonblood release. One of the moderators, please remove Juan_metalforever's review for rehearsal 7. I started a new topic to post this, then I realized it probably belongs here.

Author:	Derigin [ Thu Dec 31, 2009 4:24 pm ]
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Thank you for catching that. Removed.

Author:	OzzyApu [ Thu Dec 31, 2009 9:46 pm ]
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Was skimming the Alice In Chains page when I discovered this archaic hunk of shit. http://www.metal-archives.com/review.php?id=13830 It's the first review on that page (the oldest one) and all the guy does is bitch about the cover art. Otherwise, he just says buy it for one song and he couldn't give a rat's ass about the other ones. Personally, I don't like that Greatest Hits compilation, but that review deserves to burn in a mod's enteral hellfire. No other description and there are two reviews above it that do the release a bit more justice.

Author:	ThePipster [ Thu Dec 31, 2009 11:29 pm ]
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http://www.metal-archives.com/review.php?id=1366 This one by UltraBoris doesn't really say anything about the album other than it's nothing but wankery. He says that Falling Into Infinity has two good tracks (he doesn't say why also). Then he says the rest is crap and thats it. You could write the review for any prog album by any prog band and just replace the track titles and it would be a different review for any album that says almost nothing.

Author:	OzzyApu [ Sun Jan 03, 2010 7:00 pm ]
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This review by stefan86 for Dark Tranquillity's Damage Done: http://www.metal-archives.com/review.php?id=1264#21281 I got to say, this review sucks. The only descriptions were for the vocals, and the rest is him talking about how he used to be a big fan and would have given it a higher score had he reviewed it earlier. He says songwriting lacks, but doesn't go into any detail on that at all (like we'll just take his word for it) and comments how how it has "surprisingly little faggotry." Compared to the other reviews, it's quite bad. In fact, a lot of those reviews on that page look questionable, especially the overtly short ones. Mods may want to give that whole page a Queer Eye for the Straight Mod review page makeover or something. Found this one for Nile, too (the first review by Skyklad): http://www.metal-archives.com/review.php?id=654#96 It's a clustered, one paragraph fan-jerk with barely any detail beyond how brutal it is. Hardly contributed anything and serves only to show how desperate the site was in the early days for reviews. It has no purpose in this new decade where the standards have increased dramatically. All right, here's another one from a reviewer who can do much better - Gutterscream's review of Running Wild's EP: http://www.metal-archives.com/review.php?id=4717 This doesn't tell me jack shit. I was confused as hell reading it, with the "Walpurgis Night" making the only lick of sense in regards to song descriptions. "Satan" has a little mention in that anecdote, but other than that the review is quite odd and horrible. I'll be reviewing it shortly, but that one definitely needs to go. Doesn't do much describing the music.

Author:	DevilsWhorehouse [ Tue Jan 05, 2010 3:30 am ]
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Bloodbath - Resurrection Through Carnage http://www.metal-archives.com/review.php?id=6718#600 Quote: Marvelous!!! - 85% Written by skinfected on January 8th, 2003 What do you get when you take 4 great musicians and mix them together with some swedish oldschool death metal, a guitarsound that would make Dismember cry and a vocalist that in my opinion has the best growls there is? A BLOODBATH of course!!! I started to hear about Bloodbath while hanging on the Opeth forum a while ago but I didn´t have the chance to listen to them until they released their previews on the homepage. After that it was clear! This album is a hit, gotta have it!!! The first that strikes me when listen to Bloodbath "Resurrection Through Carnage" is the awful sound of the guitars! It´s absolutely dreadful. I wouldn´t play with that guitar sound if I got paid to do it! BUT!!! It fits the music soooo good!!! The oldschool riffing reminds me alot of Dismember and Hypocrisy while it sometimes takes other directions that shows the greatness of these guys! Just listen to the marvelous track "Cry my name" and you´ll see what I mean. The vocals of Åkerfeldt in a class of itself! I´m not sure there IS a better growler around!!! The drums of Swanö are good and its sound are great! Love ém!!! The guys of Katatonia (Anders and Jonas) do their work with pride. I really like the riffing alot! I get goosebumps everytime I listen to the riffing of "Mass strangulation" for an example. The riffing sometimes reminds me of the superb group Edgy of sanity (around the "Purgatory Afterglow" era). This is an album for every lover of swedish oldschool Death Metal!! Apparently this guy is 38 years old...

Author:	OzzyApu [ Tue Jan 05, 2010 3:36 am ]
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FUCK THAT LOOK AT THE ONE ABOVE IT! http://www.metal-archives.com/review.php?id=6718#832 Quote: Pure fucking Death metal! - 85% Written by gabalgabow on April 15th, 2003 Pure fucking Death metal! I didn't dream anymore about discovering a new old school Death metal band that would procure me the mighty thrills of Death and inner dehumanized revelations again! But this CD has a part of it! I revive the storms, thrills and victories of the past listening to this CD! I die! Old school Death metal à la old DISMEMBER, CARNAGE, old ENTOMBED, old EDGE OF SANITY played with a real enthusiasm! Ahhhh! It was produced to sound like old school Death metal bands of the early 90's with the raw and quite corrosive sound that made the tremolo riffs à GRAVE, ENTOMBED and old DISMEMBER more tremendous and brutally vicious! Like a fucking reptile! It has the sorrowfull swedish melodies that made DISMEMBER and EDGE OF SANITY good! I feel fucking sorry I haven't more time to give to this (few) kind of releases because of my websites, webzine and other metal activities... but it's a fucking metallized choice! This CD isn't 100% essential, but it's fucking welcome in a scene so full of shit loving Goregrind, ultra technical Brutal Death and poor as fuck Black metal! This was put through a god damn translator and is embarrassing as hell to read. What mod let this one through? It was years ago, yeah, but god damn is it horrible. So hard to read and has so many errors it's just pathetic. This should have ended up in the rejected reviews thread. I still love how skinfected's review starts off with the exact same words as the oldest review on there.

Author:	in_human_form [ Fri Jan 08, 2010 1:00 am ]
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How can you make fun of that review? The riffs are like fucking reptiles! REPTILES! They're just so goddamn tremendous! Is it just me or is there an overabundance of short reviews for that Bloodbath album?

Author:	DevilsWhorehouse [ Fri Jan 08, 2010 9:14 am ]
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in_human_form wrote: How can you make fun of that review? The riffs are like fucking reptiles! REPTILES! They're just so goddamn tremendous! Is it just me or is there an overabundance of short reviews for that Bloodbath album? There isn't much to say about it other than "it sounds like an uninspired Dismember album"... Bit I agree, most of the reviews on that page are pretty terrible.

Author:	hakarl [ Fri Jan 08, 2010 11:50 am ]
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http://metal-archives.com/review.php?id=218436#161950 Opeth - Burden single I know reviews for singles don't have the same standards as those for full-lengths, at least if there are no other reviews, but I believe this one is just sub par. Firstly, no musical description. The only thing the reviewer manages to comment on the nature of the music is its lack of extreme metal influence. What a criticism. He does describe Mellontron Heart as boring through a hyperbolic statement, but that's not musical description. Then, nothing. Well, the Alice In Chains cover is apparently boring too, but nothing besides that. Then more whining about lack of metal in Opeth's new sound. We get it, Opeth has taken a turn for the worse. Now how about reviewing the fucking single? Oh, and it's a single, not an EP, like he keeps saying. Also, the use of smilies irks me. This also peeved me somewhat: Quote: And the depth in lyrics have also dwindled. If anything, the lyrics have improved. The lyrics of the song Black Rose Immortal, which the reviewer so loves, are just generic goth poetry with little to be analysed. The new ones aren't the cream of the crop as far as good lyrics go, metal or otherwise, but the quality of lyrics certainly hasn't deteriorated since Morningrise. Basically, the message of this review is that, because it doesn't sound like Opeth in the early days, it's crap. I could take that if he actually pointed out why the old style is so much better, but he doesn't. He doesn't even explain why he thinks the new style is that bad. Worthless review.

Author:	Acrobat [ Sat Jan 09, 2010 12:12 pm ]
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http://www.metal-archives.com/review.php?id=10#66546 "This happens and then this happens. There's a bass, too!"

Author:	hakarl [ Sat Jan 09, 2010 12:16 pm ]
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ANationalAcrobat wrote: http://www.metal-archives.com/review.php?id=10#66546 "This happens and then this happens. There's a bass, too!" Typical redundant-to-no-end grimdoom review. Definitely nukeworthy.

Author:	Empyreal [ Sat Jan 09, 2010 12:20 pm ]
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Just nuke all of grimdoom's reviews; god he's terrible. I love how he says: Quote: The harmonies and melodies where arguably ahead of their time in some respects. And doesn't even try to tell us what these respects are, or why it's so cool that they're "ahead of their time." I would say something like "why don't people put more effort into reviews?", but I think grimdoom actually puts far less than even the usual mediocre MA reviewer does.

Author:	ScourgeOfDeath [ Sat Jan 09, 2010 1:06 pm ]
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Is that supposed to be a positive review? He doesnt like the production and doesnt really praise this album much but goes and gives it a 100. This is bad even by grimdoom's 'lets give everything a 100' standards.

Author:	DevilsWhorehouse [ Mon Jan 11, 2010 2:48 am ]
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I'll get in on the Skyklad bashing... Fury - Slavekind http://www.metal-archives.com/review.php?id=5020#96 Quote: Thrash your head in. - 80% Written by Skyklad on October 28th, 2002 Good Australian Thrash with just a dash of Death Metal for added ferocity. This third offering comes with excellent production and they truly do live up to their name with furious riffing and raw intensity. The vocals are pissed off and very angry. They come in two varieties of which the first mentioned is preferrable: cleaner but still aggressive or a rougher, gruff kind. If you are into the Bay Area Thrash bands then FURY is worth checking out. With this kind of talent I wonder why they´re not signed yet... they should be. Website: fury.musicpage.com.