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.

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.

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.

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.

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




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.

I agree wth sticks

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???

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.

http://www.metal-archives.com/review.php?id=64 here's the link to the review....i'd love to see it nuked..

It is no more.

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

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

I nuked the two worst ones.

Haha.

The newest Priest review blows.

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



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.

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.

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.

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.

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....

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....

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.

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.....

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.


........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....

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.

The 10% one is gone.

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.

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

What the fuck is with the last Annihilator review?

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



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

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

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!

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.

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.

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.

Damn, I long since deleted them.

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

This is not a review.

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



This one also sucks:



And so does this one.



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



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..

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.

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