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Whoa, when did you become a mod? Congrats.

that steel review owns, you guys are harsh and elitist

Nuked

It owns what? It owns nothing. I'm sure Ultra Boris will be mature about it.

I was gonna put it back then I re-read it and saw it sucked a lot more than I remembered.

Oh well.

Please don't kill my Pantera "Power Metal" review. It's sort of an archaic running gag.

it would help if you let us know which album the reviews is for.

Metallica Gives Birth to a New Genre - 100%
Written by OlympicSharpshooter on December 31st, 2003

This is the cold new frontier of thrash, Metallica creating or defining (depends who you ask) the new niche to be called Progressive Thrash.

but these songs are so advanced from the familiar speed of the classic thrash era that one is almost disoriented by it.

Except that he's factually incorrect. St. Anger isn't complex or progressive.

Except that he's factually incorrect. St. Anger isn't complex or progressive.

I trust Olympic's opinion, because he's proven himself to be knowledgeable when it comes to metal. Plus, he's a damn good writer.

Anyone who says St.Anger is a good album has their opinion on metal immediately invalidated. I didn't make this rule, it's just there.

creating or defining (depends who you ask)

I didn't say whether or not they were the first. Early prog-thrash is a thorny concept as thrash tends to be quite tricky in the first place, but that isn't the point of the fucking review.

I liked St. Anger, well, fuck me then. Regardless of your opinions on my opinions, unless you have a legitimate criticism about the writing quality of the review as it relates to the standards of this website you can shove your whining straight up your ass. If you want to debate my opinions or you have something to say in regards to my review, you're welcome. If you want to get my reviews deleted because you disagree with them, you're welcome to go get fucked.

And that last isn't in regards to Req or anyone else who weighed in on the prog thrash debate, it's in regards to anyone who advocated my perfectly acceptable Justice review be deleted in favour of some of the other reviews for that album. Mine isn't the best, but it's far from the worst.

Legion Of Sin And Supremacy - 99%
Written by Xerxes the Immoral on August 2nd, 2003

I bought this immediatly after hearing Xasthur's first cd.
"Nocturnal Poisoning" is the best Black Metal album in existence,from the first riff I fell for it,and havent looked back since.
Opener "In The Hate Of Battle" is a 9 minute opus bearing all hallmarks of "true" black metal,and exaggerating them to dangerously high levels,whilst keeping the grim and necro sound of Xasthur alive.
A sketchy production runs throughout,but this isnt a bad case here,I find it adds to the sickness on offer.
Nocturnal Poisoning is 8 lengthy tracks(Title track being 15 mins) of pure hatred and vitriol.


"Soul Abduction Ceremony" is one of the most chilling songs in memory,and you even get a Mutiilation cover(Black Imperial Blood)

What more could you want???

Album of 2002.

I know this was previously mentioned, but I still think requiem99's review for Textures' Polars is quite crap. Half of it is just complaining about how un-metal it is, and the other half is complaining about how numetal/mallcore is a shit genre, filled to the brim with as many gay jokes as he can pull out. He even admits in the review that he only gave it a single listen, but I doubt he even did that. I mean, to compare the band to Linkin Park and Slipknot is just ridiculous. Textures sounds like a cross between At The Gates and Meshuggah. That might not sound very appealing, but "One Step Closer" or "Spit It Out"? Hardly.

I don't care that he doesn't like the album, or he doesn't enjoy metalcore, I dislike pretty much every metalcore band I've heard. But it's quite clear that before he even heard the band, he had dismissed them as "baggy pant-legged skateboard jerkoffs" who make "homosexual noise".