I just had my submission rejected a second time (first time due to insufficient proof of digital release) because the band is allegedly not a metal band. If this isn't Melodic Death Metal, then what is it?

Nordjarvi - Lakewind Whispers:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNzy3bHH ... f5DyhPoEIa

(The) Paralysing Prophecy (Germany?, Death Metal, c. 1998 - c. 2000/2001)

- Free Imprisoned (September or November 1998, full-length)
- Destroy the Mistery (2000, live split CD with Path of Golconda)

Lineup:
Manuel Bigus - Unknown (per this old review)

Bit of an odd case. I found these guys while doing some research on the Messed Up Albums Thread. The(?) Paralysing Prophecy (I can't find a definitive source of whether The is an official part of the name) is actually the second incarnation of a band with a few name changes. The band is already here under their first name, The Prophecy, and under their third name, Downstroke, but does not have a page for this incarnation.

As you can see above, both of their releases are already on the site, in somewhat incomplete form. The first album, Free Imprisoned, is currently listed on the Downstroke page, with remarks in the additional notes that it was released under the Paralysing name, though it lacks cover art and lineup. It doesn't appear to have been edited since the V2 roll-out, which probably explains why it's never been corrected. The split is listed in our Messed-Up Albums thread; it appears that the Path of Golconda side was added as a stand-alone entry back in V1, and the info on P.P.'s side of the split seems to have been lost to time. It also appears that Path of Golconda shares various members with other incarnation of the band, so that may be another path to look into for information.

I don't have any solid info on a lineup. There are a few members linked to both of the previous incarnations, so it would stand to reason that they would have been in the incarnation that bridged the two, but that's all speculation. Additionally, the entries we already have, both for the different band incarnations and the two albums, all seem to have slightly contradicting information, so it's hard to trust the dates and such.

Now, for the main hurdle: I cannot find anything in the way of samples, unfortunately. The most I can provide is this review of the full-length from metal.de; the music here is described as death metal that sounds like "unenthusiastic Crematory". Conversely, this review of the full-length from blog Underground Empire mentions that it mixes "elements of Gothic and Black metal". An entry for the band at musik-sammler.de also lists the genre as Death Metal/Gothic Metal. Granted, I'm reading these reviews from Google Translate; it may say something completely different in the native German.

Even if this one doesn't have everything needed to make a new entry, I'll be looking to clean up the existing pieces regarding the band to make them all more uniform and coherent.

Wading through a ton of Google results for gay porn (terrible band name), I found this GeoCities site, which is either official, or a really thorough fan page. It includes a bio and an email to purchase all three J.O.G. releases. The updates to the band history and upcoming shows tabs stops around Fall 2000, but the shop page includes the 2001 and 2002 albums as well.

There are two samples from the 2002 album for download on the 'sound' tab, bot in .ram filetype. The first is the same song linked in the original YouTube video. The second is another song, "I go to Heaven"; I tried to convert the file into a more easily-readable format like MP3, but none of the programs I have off-hand worked. If anyone has Real Media Player or another .ram compatible program, go for it.

I did also find two other links that seem to corroborate the YouTube bio's claim that they reformed and toured. Both of these are tour history pages for other bands where Jack Off Guys is mentioned:

-Page 1
-Page 2

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I struck out with both Gideon Knights and Hot Coke, the only info on either really coming from either the linked YouTube videos, or pages about the VA Comps they are featured on in said YouTube videos.

I'm sure someone has already done so, but if not, perhaps we could reach out to the person behind that YouTube channel and see if he could shed some light on his sources. He seems to be fairly proficient in the scene.

Sorry for the delay MCH. Nice job finding that site, looks like the release issue is satisfied, but I have no clue right now how to get that sample to play. Besides, while two songs are definitely better than one, it's still rather slim.

EDIT: hmmmm, seems like the files are no longer working? I just get super tiny files when I try to save it locally.

It's a little strange, though, because an announcement like the one I see @4:30 and a tape photo like the one that appears @5:35 should normally suffice as proof. Did you refer the mods to these two instances in the video? The article speaks of an "epic new demo release".

You're kind of misusing this thread, Somar.

Just point the right way and i'll be happy to post elsewhere

found this band that isn't on MA (not sure if it should tbh, sounds death metal but also has a bunch of hardcore and djent stuff)

Svältvinter
https://svaltvinter.bandcamp.com/album/att-de-vara

No can do. All I know is that this isn't the purpose of the thread.


You're not sure about metal-ness, and yet you post here. Sounds like pre-checking, which you oughtn't to be doing anyway.


The band doesn't require more research. In fact, it'd been in the queue before you posted. So, again, it doesn't belong in this thread.

Hope this helps. If in doubt, read the first post (again), or wait for a mod's response.

it's my 3rd or 4th similar post on this same thread and no mod has said anything, if you can't point out a better one, I'll just keep doing it until someone with actual power tells me not to

or i can just not give a fuck, if all i get for trying to help is some random dude complaining when he cannot point to a better place and no one else, including mods and administrators complained about it for almost a month, might as well just don't give a rats ass if the site is updated or not

1. Watch your attitude, Antioch was trying to be helpful. No need to be rude and disrespectful.

2. He is correct, this is not what this thread is for. This thread is for bands that need more research to be able to be added to the site. All of the bands you've posted here can just be added based on links found with a simple search or just looking at new releases on bandcamp. In fact, 2 of the bands you've posted here were already in the queue pending for approval when you posted about them.

1) the band queue has a seperate search function.

2) technically not all fields have to be entered in order to make a submission.

I can understand both sides of the medal. There is not much research needed which makes a post here borderline at best, but you often can't define whether or not a band is unsigned or not or if they are still active by looking at bandcamp and setting it to "unknown" is a bit lazy. 2 key requirements for a submission (even though they are often guesswork), so there is research to be done, but mostly only clicking on their facebook...
Or at least checking if they are already in the queue would be great, though.

3) If they don't want those posts here, just drop me a PM with the infos and I'll take care of it.

Angels Rage (United States, Progressive Metal?)

Archangel (Heavy Metal?)

^ Not 100% sure but this can't be from 1985. The parental advisory warning didn't appear in this from till 1990. Something's off about this one in general - the way the artwork's done, the fonts, everything seems to post-date the year of release - unless said tapes were released with different artwork.

You got in contact with the guy?!