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Agni
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PostPosted: Tue Mar 15, 2005 2:34 am 
 

Pointless review...Its obvious the guy doesnt remotely like the band, so why review a live album in the first place?
Also, his main pupose was just to bring down the rating of the review, like he says in the last line.

Terrible. - 10%
Written by transientblur on March 10th, 2004

This cd is 90% garbage. The band screws around with boring solos, convoluted song structures and overly complex melody lines. This band is entirely overrated, and filled with so many self-loving members that it makes Malmsteen look humble. I highly doubt that this is the performance the band gives, but I can’t really attest to their live performances because (thankfully) I haven’t seen one. Sure, the members are talented. Doesn’t mean they make good music. I can easily name better musicians then them.
Bruce Dickinson better than James Labrie
Malmsteen is better than Petrucci
Cliff Burton is better than Myung
Jane Warrman is better than Ruddess
and probably the most overrated of them is Mike Portnoy. Dave Culross is 4 or 5 times better than him.

The songs themselves are all boring, entirely too long, and are really painful to listen to. The melodies are just pounded into your heard over and over and over. The only good tracks on here are Overture 1928 because it takes a whole boring album and makes it a lovely 3:32 seconds and A Change Of Seasons because it has that one cool “heavy” riff. This goes to show you that most musical students can only bring forth a variation on a theme. Just cause theory says you should play a C chord with an E and a G, doesn’t mean you it's interesting to listen to. Petrucci is a fast guitar player, but his riffs all sound the same, not to mention his long solos. Usually having a long cd is good, but this is just ridiculous. I hope this was recorded over different nights, because it would surely be a test of endurance to watch all hours of these songs. The crowd seems entirely unenthusiastic, they probably didn’t mic them because they didn’t want you to hear the audience snoring. When DT tries to play heavy songs, it fails terribly. They just can’t do it. So, they play mostly medium paced rock. I’ve got nothing against rock. Some mellow bands are good. But DT is also bad at this form of music. Did I mention this cd set is long? 3 cds of agony.
Don’t buy this. Ever. Don’t buy it with a gift certificate. Don’t even steal it. It’s terrible. I’m glad I’ll be bringing the rating down a little.

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Nightgaunt
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PostPosted: Tue Mar 15, 2005 3:40 am 
 

Give me a link and I'll consider it. In context, it seems to me that the review was not written solely to bring down the rating, and there is viable description. The matter will be determined by the quality of any other reviews for the same album.
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PostPosted: Tue Mar 15, 2005 11:22 am 
 

Agni wrote:
Pointless review...Its obvious the guy doesnt remotely like the band, so why review a live album in the first place?
Also, his main pupose was just to bring down the rating of the review, like he says in the last line.

Terrible. - 10%
Written by transientblur on March 10th, 2004

This cd is 90% garbage. The band screws around with boring solos, convoluted song structures and overly complex melody lines. This band is entirely overrated, and filled with so many self-loving members that it makes Malmsteen look humble. I highly doubt that this is the performance the band gives, but I can’t really attest to their live performances because (thankfully) I haven’t seen one. Sure, the members are talented. Doesn’t mean they make good music. I can easily name better musicians then them.
Bruce Dickinson better than James Labrie
Malmsteen is better than Petrucci
Cliff Burton is better than Myung
Jane Warrman is better than Ruddess
and probably the most overrated of them is Mike Portnoy. Dave Culross is 4 or 5 times better than him.

The songs themselves are all boring, entirely too long, and are really painful to listen to. The melodies are just pounded into your heard over and over and over. The only good tracks on here are Overture 1928 because it takes a whole boring album and makes it a lovely 3:32 seconds and A Change Of Seasons because it has that one cool “heavy” riff. This goes to show you that most musical students can only bring forth a variation on a theme. Just cause theory says you should play a C chord with an E and a G, doesn’t mean you it's interesting to listen to. Petrucci is a fast guitar player, but his riffs all sound the same, not to mention his long solos. Usually having a long cd is good, but this is just ridiculous. I hope this was recorded over different nights, because it would surely be a test of endurance to watch all hours of these songs. The crowd seems entirely unenthusiastic, they probably didn’t mic them because they didn’t want you to hear the audience snoring. When DT tries to play heavy songs, it fails terribly. They just can’t do it. So, they play mostly medium paced rock. I’ve got nothing against rock. Some mellow bands are good. But DT is also bad at this form of music. Did I mention this cd set is long? 3 cds of agony.
Don’t buy this. Ever. Don’t buy it with a gift certificate. Don’t even steal it. It’s terrible. I’m glad I’ll be bringing the rating down a little.



Indeed a blitz-potent review.
He starts the review by putting DT's members down, and it's against the guidelines if I remember correctly; Then he goes and talks shit about DT's MATERIAL...it's a LIVE album damnit, go flame the STUDIO ones if you don't like the material; And then there's this tiny section in the end that relates to this album as a LIVE recording, a thing he had to relate to in the first place.

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OlympicSharpshooter
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PostPosted: Tue Mar 15, 2005 3:05 pm 
 

I love Dream Theater, but its an acceptable review up until that last line. I question where such a hater of the band picked up a three-disc album, but he probably just borrowed it. Its technically acceptable nonetheless, although quality-wise hardly top-tier.

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PostPosted: Wed Mar 16, 2005 1:30 am 
 

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It's awesome and it's for free! - 95%
Written by hacksawjimduggan on March 24th, 2004

I downoaded this from the band's website last night and I'm officially hooked. The way these songs are put together is incredible. The riffs are definitely ear-pleasing, the first track is a surprise so listen carefully. I can not believe how incredible this demo is. It only has 5 or 6 songs but they are more than worth the time to download it, You can get several more demos from their site and their 1993 full length album that the name escapes me right now.


http://metal-archives.com/review.php?id=10730#7745


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I can't agree more. - 24%
Written by Snxke on May 27th, 2003

I won't say the record is AS BAD as the above review paints it but the basic idea IS true. This record is nothing more than a rageful slab of teenage angst that goes nowhere fast.

It's tough that COC started off with such a hardcore ideal that sucked and ended up making good with the Black Sabbath vibe.

Confusing band at best...


http://metal-archives.com/review.php?id=1050#267


Actually, you all should just nuke all of the reviews for that album, seeing as they are all equally shitty.
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PostPosted: Wed Mar 16, 2005 8:49 am 
 

I agree wth sticks
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sAlex
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PostPosted: Wed Mar 16, 2005 4:01 pm 
 

Gothick (or whatever) pig slop! - 25%
Written by Snxke on February 3rd, 2003

Blasting beats! Vocals that sound like a demented five year old child having his genitals mutilated! THE FUN! THE FUN! THE TERRIBLE TERRIBLE DEATH METAL! I really can't say much more than this, other than that this is only second to Dimmu Borgir in overt silliness and gothiness. The arrangements are flacid and tuneless, the shreiks annoying after one song and the keys misplaced to hell.

It's like a bad Dracula movie, just without the fun!

How can a review this short even get accepted???
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PostPosted: Wed Mar 16, 2005 6:40 pm 
 

sAlex wrote:
How can a review this short even get accepted???

Look at the date it was accepted. But yes, I agree, there are too many shitty Snxke reviews from back in the day that still stand. My goal is to hunt them all down and bring them to justice.
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sAlex
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PostPosted: Fri Mar 18, 2005 10:41 am 
 

http://www.metal-archives.com/review.php?id=64 here's the link to the review....i'd love to see it nuked..
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PostPosted: Fri Mar 18, 2005 6:49 pm 
 

It is no more.
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PostPosted: Sat Mar 19, 2005 5:10 pm 
 

Snxke's strength is that even when he doesn't meet the guidelines at all, he's at least not annoying.

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Bloodstone
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PostPosted: Sat Mar 19, 2005 5:37 pm 
 

TWO really terrible reviews for Freedom Call's Eternity:

http://www.metal-archives.com/review.php?id=3443#12893

http://www.metal-archives.com/review.php?id=3443#453

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PostPosted: Sat Mar 19, 2005 6:20 pm 
 

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I nuked the two worst ones.

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PostPosted: Sat Mar 19, 2005 6:26 pm 
 

Cheeses_Priced wrote:
Snxke's strength is that even when he doesn't meet the guidelines at all, he's at least not annoying.

Haha.
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OfWintryDeath
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PostPosted: Sat Mar 19, 2005 7:11 pm 
 

The newest Priest review blows.

http://metal-archives.com/review.php?id=465#38

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Priest Becomes Their Own Tribute Band - 45%
Written by Falconsbane on March 18th, 2005

Want to know the secret of convincing everyone that a mediocre album is great? Do like Judas Priest and bookend it with two decades of utter shit and anything not completely dreadful suddenly seems like genius in comparison.

When "Painkiller" was released in 1990, it followed a series of dismal records that saw Judas Priest devolve into first into a parody of itself, and then into a parody of early 80's Queen. In the years following its release, Rob Halford was replaced by Tim "Ripper" Owens, inaugurating an era in the venerable band's history that is perhaps best simply forgotten. In the middle of an otherwise unbroken string of suck, anything remotely interesting and slightly musical would seem great. And Priest delivers remotely interesting and slightly musical. Unfortunately, they forgot to deliver anything else.

What "Painkiller" purports to be is a back-to-roots return to form for the band that almost single handedly drove metal forward in the years after the collapse of Black Sabbath into drug-addled schlock. What it actually turns out to be is a group of middle aged men who have churned out a tribute album to themselves. "Painkiller" is a reasonable facsimile of classic Priest, just without the spirit or the intelligence that made Priest classic in the first place. The lyrics are godawful, and while, by this point, this was par for the course for Priest, it's still disappointing to get crap like "Leather Rebel" and "Metal Meltdown" from the men who gave you "Beyond the Realms of Death" and "Epitaph."

More frustrating, however, is the way that Priest sought to return to the style of their roots while abandoning the substance. What made Priest great in the early days was their relentless pursuit both of excellence and a way forward. Priest in the 70's was a constantly striving and evolving affair, and by pretending that they could recapture their glory days by mimicking them a dozen years down the road, Judas Priest only managed to demonstrate how obsolete they had become.


Te only part which actually describes the music (I use that phrase loosely) is when he mentions the lyrics. Other than that, he simply bitches that "Painkiller" isn't "Sad Wings of Destiny pt. II".. And he doesn't state anything that isn't already said, because just about anyone knows (and those who don't know wouldn't care) about Tim Owens, and so on. It just seems like a useless review, to me.

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OlympicSharpshooter
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PostPosted: Sat Mar 19, 2005 9:03 pm 
 

I think that's a fucking excellent review myself. There are eighteen other reviews telling you exactly what Painkiller sounds like, and Falco's review is too good to lose because he didn't tell me that the riffs are fast and Rob's voice is shrieky.

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Gabometal86
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PostPosted: Sat Mar 19, 2005 10:12 pm 
 

I agree with OSS, i don´t like to see one of my all-life favourite albums trashed but the review is well-thought and nicely put into words. Furthermore, it´s the only negative review for that album.

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PostPosted: Sat Mar 19, 2005 11:28 pm 
 

OlympicSharpshooter wrote:
I think that's a fucking excellent review myself. There are eighteen other reviews telling you exactly what Painkiller sounds like, and Falco's review is too good to lose because he didn't tell me that the riffs are fast and Rob's voice is shrieky.


Ah, but I did. I mentioned that it was "reasonable facsimile of classic Priest." Anyone who DOESN'T already know what classic Priest sounds like is probably responsible for putting Godsmack in the queue.

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sAlex
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PostPosted: Sun Mar 20, 2005 11:34 am 
 

http://www.metal-archives.com/review.php?id=68

Worst album of a kinda bad band.... - 38%
Written by Shalafi_1 on July 1st, 2003

Year ago i would have said its bad, not kinda bad, but nowdays there is Damnation And A Day, wich sounds heavy to me.
Okay, Dusk is a little melodic, but they stretch the bad parts (theres mostly only bad ones) hell much, and as my friend once said: "What a Donald Duck-band!". Meaningless to say, he meant to say it was because of Dani.
Id remember (yeah, havent listened to it so much) that its second song, after the instrumental intro, is only listenable song.

So, what do we have here? A gothic Donald Duck singing some love-poems with the kinda voice that you cant even follow the lyrics when you listen the song same time. It sounds like "blar blar blarblablabbalbar bliibaa, blaabraa" with stupid screaming.
Principle of Evil Made Flesh, Damnation And A Day and Midian. Those are the albums you can listen a bit. There Dani uses his voice better. Well, kill me, but i dont like Dusk



This one doesn't say shit to me about music, and the writer also admit's that he didn't listen to it much....may the jury decide....
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PostPosted: Sun Mar 20, 2005 11:42 am 
 

http://www.metal-archives.com/review.php?id=69

Cradle of Crap!!! - 14%
Written by JohnGargo on March 21st, 2003

I'll give this album one thing... it's got the atmosphere down. The only problem is that you need songwriting to back up your atmosphere. I could create the most ominous sounding album that's filled to the brim with eerie synths and simplistic evil-sounding chords, but that doesn't mean shit if there's no decent instrumentation or cohesive songs to speak of. That's the problem with this album... it's essentially a series of crappy songs with strong gothic overtones, which is OK if you care about image more about the quality of the music.

There's a reason why black metal afficianados tend to look down upon this band, while more mainstream metal fans are quick to embrace them... They've got this slick "vampire metal" image thing going that appeals to the ideals of the goth crowd while, at the same time, seriously alienating black metal traditionalists (if you're interested in how REAL black metal sounds like, I suggesting getting yourself an album by EMPEROR). The main problem with CRADLE OF FILTH would have to be Dani's absolutely horrendous vocals... When this guy goes for the high pitched screams, it sounds like somebody torturing a castrated pig. The first time me and a friend were listening to this album, we actually broke down into laughter, not exactly the ideal response to this sort of music.

So you want a listing of standout tracks to check out and see if this is your thing? Don't bother man... it all sucks! The biggest insult, though, is their laughable cover of Iron Maiden's HALLOWED BE THY NAME ("Hey guys... I've got this great idea!!! Let's stick in a 'SHALLOW BE MY GRAVE' at the end of the title to emphasize to our audience the fact that we're all evil and stuff!!!"). It's absolutely one of the worst covers I've ever seen... I didn't think it was possible to desecrate a masterpiece, but I guess I was wrong. Save your time and money and stay away from this garbage...

Bottom line, there's so much better music out there to listen to... If you want to hear depressing music that's well written and performed, I seriously suggest that you check out MY DYING BRIDE.


He just blabbers something about how real black metal should sound and how he laughed at dani's vocals.....do as thou wilt....
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PostPosted: Sun Mar 20, 2005 11:44 am 
 

sAlex, JohnGargo's review was passable, but I did nuke a bad review at the top of the page.

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sAlex
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PostPosted: Sun Mar 20, 2005 11:47 am 
 

PhantomOTO wrote:
sAlex, JohnGargo's review was passable, but I did nuke a bad review at the top of the page.


Yeah I know, the second one is ''doubtful'' but the first one had to go...
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sAlex wrote:
PhantomOTO wrote:
sAlex, JohnGargo's review was passable, but I did nuke a bad review at the top of the page.


Yeah I know, the second one is ''doubtful'' but the first one had to go...

And go it did.

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sAlex
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PostPosted: Sun Mar 20, 2005 11:52 am 
 

http://www.metal-archives.com/review.php?id=72

So this is the future of metal eh... - 40%
Written by Snxke on May 31st, 2003

After listening to this gothic sludge pile about twenty times I can only think that this band is done for. The keyboards are flaccid and the lyrics are the only thing of value. (That and the killer artwork.) I really think that this is a band in need of some seriously clocking out as this CD is deader than a doornail and less entertaining than the worst Sisters of Mercy album. Sure, the playing is on target and the production is top notch. But fuck this, I couldn't even finish listening to it back and forth.

You know you have problems when a Sisters of Mercy cover is the best song on your new METAL album.

If this shit stays than....I swear I'll never write a review longer than 8 lines.....
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PostPosted: Sun Mar 20, 2005 11:55 am 
 

http://www.metal-archives.com/review.php?id=15392

I know what I hate. This is what I hate. - 40%
Written by Snxke on August 16th, 2003

Hammer horror keyboard begin this album. I hate hammer horror keyboards...

Simply put. This is the same old old tripe CoF has been spewing since the beginning. It simply is more polished and slanted towards the traditional and pop metal crowds and is successful at finally attaining some sort of catchy atmosphere. Too bad that nobody really cares at this point and the SONY power machine could not push the record to debut above #150 on the Billboard top 200.

Geuss what - the kiddies didn't buy into this shoddy affair filled with pomp, melodrama and black-metal-pop styled garbage any more than the rest of those who didn't like it to begin with.

Skip it and by some Gorgoroth.


....:annoyed:....I wrote 10-times longer review than this one recently (still waiting to be accepted/rejected) and It was rejected the first time for typos...ahhh forget it....
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PostPosted: Mon Mar 21, 2005 1:23 pm 
 

Man, that review is really not that acceptable, BUT not because of the lenght... A good review does not need to be long.

On-topic:

http://www.metal-archives.com/review.php?id=247

Someone should blitz the ''10% one''. It says absolutely nothing about the music and we REALLY don't care about the drugs he's taking.

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PostPosted: Mon Mar 21, 2005 3:29 pm 
 

The 10% one is gone.
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PostPosted: Mon Mar 21, 2005 4:00 pm 
 

I was looking up Nazgul, and I came up on the one in Italy, and this is what came up:

http://www.metal-archives.com/review.php?id=17289

I just don't get it.
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Then read it again. More than qualified to be the only review.
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PostPosted: Mon Mar 21, 2005 4:52 pm 
 

What the fuck is with the last Annihilator review?

http://metal-archives.com/review.php?id=43160

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why the sappy ballads? - 85%
Written by atouchofevil on March 14th, 2005

If not for the inclusion of two of the most horrible, horrible (horrible) ballads,
this could have been the best Annihilator CD ever. As
it stands, it’s the best collection of psychological
torment since Alice in Hell. Much of the guitar work
is the fastest and most tightly-picked of Jeff Waters’
output. It almost sounds at times like he turned up
the shred for the sake of it, to prove a point. Point
being (as he has said himself) that no one can touch
his picking. He’s right. The crazy thing about Waters
is, the faster he plays the more in control he seems.
I’ve never heard anyone else pull that off. Waters
plays all the guitar and bass parts on the album and
he’s as good a bass player as anyone he could have
hired (must suck to be so gifted). New vocalist Dave
Padden is a huge upgrade from Joe Comeau. Hopefully,
Annihilator will finally tour the U.S. What the hell
was he thinking on those ballads!? They almost ruin
the record. Christ!


The formatting is really fucked up, the review is actually quite short, and it seems more like he's gossiping than reviewing.

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PostPosted: Mon Mar 21, 2005 5:39 pm 
 

Do we really need yet another review fellating "Genevieve"? I mean, the review isn't that bad, but with as many positive reviews as it's got, do we really need another that simply "isn't that bad"?
http://www.metal-archives.com/review.php?id=40053#20113

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Had to get this to see what the fuss is all about. Excellent music to my ears, though I wouldn't characterise it as 'black metal'. I would describe it as minimalist drone built on an obscured metal foundation. The spirit of Stockhausen's 'Hymnen' stalks this release like a humming, thrumming ghost. The strength of the dieselharp sound is astounding, a constant churning blur.Chinks of melodic riffing rise from the depths from time to time, propelled by rudimentary rhythm. Vocals are indistinct and function as another texture in this thick, soupy sound. The last track, a pure ambient muted roar, should be tedious but isn't - it creates a microworld which is full of shifting textures and changing relationships between the elements of relentless sound.

Superb CD which has propelled me into hitherto-unexplored realms of pretension. Basically, I like it because my ears do - it just sounds creamy-good to me.
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PostPosted: Mon Mar 21, 2005 5:40 pm 
 

ok im reading the new review for the band xandria and it seems the writer used a language translator for the review. heh heh

but hell the cover is cool ;)

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PostPosted: Tue Mar 22, 2005 1:50 pm 
 

yogibear wrote:
ok im reading the new review for the band xandria and it seems the writer used a language translator for the review. heh heh

but hell the cover is cool ;)


Yeah, I don't know who was half asleep and admitted those Nightmaster reviews. I rejected one from the queue yesterday and saw that he'd submitted some more, but I didn't have time to touch them. I came back today to find they'd all been let in! :wtf:

he keeps submitting, too...although he's finally turned his e-mail notification on so maybe we can get somewhere with him.

If those really are his reviews, it's too bad nobody can translate them as teh Cadaveria one he submitted earlier seemed like a real, honest effort...just in horrendously put together english thanks to babelfish or something.

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PostPosted: Tue Mar 22, 2005 2:45 pm 
 

Send Morri the links to the reviews in question, Abom. So she can give whoever accepted them a slap on the wrist, I suppose....It's what she had me do last time I observed something similar.

I nuked the Annihilator and VC reviews above.
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RickJames
Future Drone Librarian

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PostPosted: Tue Mar 22, 2005 3:04 pm 
 

Nightgaunt wrote:
Then read it again. More than qualified to be the only review.


K. I just thought someone should see it. I didn't think it was bad, I just thought it might've contained too much. It kinda seemed like he would just trail off....quite kr13g. But then again, I don't see how that's bad. Sorry necron313, wherever you are.

Carry on Sleepless One.
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Abominatrix
Harbinger of Metal

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PostPosted: Tue Mar 22, 2005 5:00 pm 
 

Nightgaunt wrote:
Send Morri the links to the reviews in question, Abom. So she can give whoever accepted them a slap on the wrist, I suppose....It's what she had me do last time I observed something similar.

I nuked the Annihilator and VC reviews above.


Damn, I long since deleted them.

Ah well..look out for nightmaster's reviews then, people.

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OfWintryDeath
Metal newbie

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PostPosted: Tue Mar 22, 2005 5:17 pm 
 

This is not a review.

http://metal-archives.com/review.php?id=52990

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Excellent - 92%
Written by turdface on March 22nd, 2005

This is my first Rotting Christ album, and judging from Sancatus Diavolos, it probably won't be my last either. Black Metal is hard to come by where I live, but this album has motivated me to try harder to find some. To tell you the truth, I never really liked Black Metal until now. Anyways, if you're a fan of Rotting Christ, this CD should be essential to your collection. The opening track is very nice grabbing your attention immediately. Some other stand out tracks are tracks #3(sorry forgot the song's name) #9, and 10. That's definately not to say that any other tracks aren't bad eithier. You've also gotta give the production credit too. Two band members have left but the CD sounds as if a full band of 5 or 6 were playing. What amazes me the most though is how bands like Dimmu Borgir and Cradle of Filth can get all the attention when bands like Rotting Christ put out albums that are several times better.


This one also sucks:

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What can compare to this? - 93%
Written by spud1 on March 14th, 2005

I'd have to say, Rotting Christ have amazed me throught the years, and this simply is no let down either. Although, after Tirarchy of the Lost Lover, I thought they steadly went down hill, but with the realease of Sanctus Diavolos, they're clearing making it towards the top once again.

Most of the song structures are fairly the same however, yet the riffs are still what you'd expect from Rotting Christ, dark, atmosphereic, still driven by keyboard for some songs, but even those riffs are good. All of the songs on Sanctus Diavolus are exteremly well composed and as always, the insturments play exceptionaly well. The key song on this album would have to be Athanati Este. Very nice leads and main riff. Infact, the first 4 tracks are good, but in between Visions Of A Blind Order and Thy Wings, Thy Horns, Thy Sin, its almost difficult to tell where one track ends and the next begins, still very nice structures.

As Rotting Chirst has progressed though the years, they have proven to be one of the best at what they do. This album was certainly no let down, as were any of their other albums.


And so does this one.

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Topnotch Rotting Christ - 98%
Written by BloodyPhalluses on January 18th, 2005

This album is fuckin awesome.
That's really all that needs to be said. Very evil, heavy, and great production. The bass is so clear, you can hear every note. The vocals are a little too low in the mix, which is really my only complaint. Sakis has an awesome evil voice though, and shrieks, spits, and growls out the lyrics with anger. The lyrics are your standard satanic, evil Rotting Christ lyrics, very well thought out, and I might even say philosophical. There are even some Latin parts (or I think they are latin). Sakis is definitely a great songwriter, and plays the keys on the album as well.

Sanctus Diavolous also features a choir, which adds tons to the music. The great thing about this album is that the keys and the choir aren't overused. They add just the right amount of atmosphere that's needed. Although every song is awesome, I definitely think "Athanati Este" is a standout track. Some great guitar work and melody on this track. Very heavy and rocking, not quite as fast as the others, but it is one kick-ass song.

The dark artwork also reflects the dark atmosphere of the music as well.

Very well done. I own all of Rotting Christ's albums, and this is my favorite.


And this one isn't that great, either..

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Still going strong!!!! - 94%
Written by Ambivilant on January 31st, 2005

Not many bands can reach "god" status with such a controversial name. However, Greece's Rotting Christ have quickly moved up the ranks and have become the mighty force that we know today.

Sanctus Diavolos is not at all like the band's more mellower albums nor their raw unpolished past works. Instead, Sanctus brings fourth a new style to the Rotting Christ table. The band manages to incorporate operatic vocal tones and thundering guitar/drum work effortlessly. Even more outstanding, is how Sakis Tolis (Guitars/Vocals) can maintain the same vocal style he uses in this album that he has been using in countless albums past. Even more outstanding is his flawless soloing in "Visions Of a Blind Order". That short solo alone is worth a listen. The album's music is a little sloppier than usual, but the rich operatic backing vocals easily make up for this. The most noteable track on this album is "Athanati Este" which showcases Dissection-esque guitaring and a thundering rythm section. For fans of melodic death metal, this album is worth a listen!


If you want to nuke 'em all (all on the same page), go ahead. I've actually got a review for the album I'm about to submit, that's at least somewhat better..

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OfWintryDeath
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PostPosted: Tue Mar 22, 2005 5:41 pm 
 

Oh, and before nuking that turdface review (which will surely be nuked), I'd recommend finding out who the hell accepted such an abomination. Such a review wouldn't even be acceptable as the first review for an album, much less the fourth, in my opinion. Here's the direct link, if needed:

http://metal-archives.com/review.php?id=52990#32279

I just submitted my review for the album, too.

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PseudoGoatKill
High Priest(ess) of the Order

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PostPosted: Tue Mar 22, 2005 11:34 pm 
 

Wasn't me, I don't accept reviews that short.
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