Nah sorry this is wrong. Review whatever you want, in whatever genre you want, in whatever style you want. While I can appreciate the depth and breadth of knowledge a genre fanatic (for lack of a better term) can bring to a review, I find an outsider's opinion and view far more interesting and challenging.

That review (editor note: I thought we were talking about the ziomaletto review for some reason) doesn't use the word influence (or any conjugation there of) at any point, the writer just states they find other releases more extreme / interesting around the time. The review is an absolute slog to read but it's certainly more interesting than yet another retread on why the album is a classic. Actually most of the negative review acknowledge the album's influence and don't discount it.

1. This is not a hallmark of pure sonic brutality, or at least, it is nowhere near as influential purely in that sense as you might think. Of the notable aggressive albums that already existed prior to the time of this album's release, Seven Churches is far more chaotic, Bathory's first two have a bigger emphasis on the expression of absolute black metal filth, and Slayer's very own Hell Awaits (I'm also including the EP Haunting The Chapel for similarities) broke new ground in adding a degree of sophistication to such violent expressions while being a far more influential album in directly inspiring others to follow in its footsteps.

Oh cool, a Terminal Death review. You don't see those very often...

This sounds something like an early US version of old Sepultura with more emphasis on bleakness

Shoutout to Twisted Psychology for reviewing the Nine Stitches album, even though I was gonna review it for the challenge only to see I now can't. I tend to like it a bit more than you but agree the lack of variation really hurts it in the second half. All in all, a fun little obscurity I didn't know anyone else had given the time of day.

Thanks! I remember coming across them when I was using the advance search feature to find local and semi-local bands that I didn't know about (I live in the Indianapolis area). I don't know any of the guys from the band but it was interesting to see that there was a band like that. You should still totally review it though, every writeup is good exposure I wager!

Apologize if this is the wrong place to post this, but Derigin, thank you so much for scribing me. I didn't think I would get that privilege when I first joined here, but it's an honor.

Wow man, congrats! Being scribed shows your quality and is also convenient, which could be why Derigin chose this week to make it happen. Welcome to the club!

That new Worm review...god damn. I get that not everyone likes this kind of stuff, but how the reviewer can claim that album lacks identity, consists of nothing but riff stacking (did he ignore the clean guitars or something?) and that the guitar solos resemble metalcore... Very bad read!

No examples from the album are given to back up the claims that were made, and the reviewer spent a good chunk of the review talking about their band photo and them ripping off Thergothon’s logo (am I missing something with that last one?)

Glad I’m not the only one who thought that review was garbage. If the reviewer doesn’t like it then they are certainly entitled to their opinion, but a least make an effort to explain why. No examples from the album are given to back up the claims that were made, and the reviewer spent a good chunk of the review talking about their band photo and them ripping off Thergothon’s logo (am I missing something with that last one?)

Good Lord! Great Fortress review by Hells_Unicorn. (Haha, I've been so caught up building up my gunslinger in Red Dead Online, completely missed the last virgin review challenge!) Totally nailed all the points about the album, to the point where I was going to write it up, but simply, there's nothing left to say about it...

Anyone else heard the new Morgul Blade? It's quite awesome.

That new Worm review...god damn. I get that not everyone likes this kind of stuff, but how the reviewer can claim that album lacks identity, consists of nothing but riff stacking (did he ignore the clean guitars or something?) and that the guitar solos resemble metalcore... Very bad read!

Since we're talking about, I figure anyone who liked the Worm album would really dig Fetid Zombie's Transmutations from earlier this year. Same ponderous, atmospheric, lead-soaked death doom with a few heavier eruptions.

Anyone else heard the new Morgul Blade? It's quite awesome.

Since we're talking about, I figure anyone who liked the Worm album would really dig Fetid Zombie's Transmutations from earlier this year. Same ponderous, atmospheric, lead-soaked death doom with a few heavier eruptions.

It's cool to see Midnight Odyssey's ambient output from last year get attention, but I really want to know what angle Forever Underground is coming from with him being dissatisfied with the ambient and dungeon synth scene's output at late. Like specific examples. My top 15 albums from last year had like a third being ambient or dungeon synth, one of them being the other Midnight Odyssey album.

It's cool to see Midnight Odyssey's ambient output from last year get attention, but I really want to know what angle Forever Underground is coming from with him being dissatisfied with the ambient and dungeon synth scene's output at late. Like specific examples. My top 15 albums from last year had like a third being ambient or dungeon synth, one of them being the other Midnight Odyssey album.