I did a quick listen and going to guess it was blacklisted for being more heavy/psyche rock than metal. Unless one of the other mods (more into that scene) deem otherwise, I think the blacklist is going to stand.

Why was Longa Morte from Belarus blacklisted? If it's due to either poor production/metalness, there's a new album with better quality and more riffs - http://longamorte.bandcamp.com/album/escapism

And also why was Destroy My Enemy (Belarus) from blacklisted?

Why is VitaPhobia from Iran blacklisted?
https://cvlminis.bandcamp.com/album/withering-of-life

A cursory search reveals Overkill L.A. mentioned exactly once before in 2011 by Witcher, but nothing since then.

The music still retains its Punk spirit, but there's enough Motörhead and even a touch of Black Sabbath here and there to merit a listen:


A playlist of the entire album for all interested parties

So I have a general question:

When judging metal (or music, for that matter) to determine its appropriateness for inclusion, does the instrumentation/production method matter? In Zaraza's case, for example, they never a had a guitarist (as far as I know), and instead made use of manipulated guitar samples. Assuming for a moment that Zaraza's composition is consistent with metal/has "the metal riff", is it still invalid because their band members don't follow the literal "rock/metal band format" (guitarist, drummer, whatever...)?

Note that I am not really asking for a re-evaluation of Zaraza; I just listened to their entire discography besides the old demos, and while I think it's metal as fuck, there's also enough weird shit going on that I could kinda see why they would be removed as not being metal enough anyway. I'm just trying to figure out how MA feels about metal that is electronically produced (not to be confused with "electronic metal" or whatever). In my view, if it sounds like metal, it is metal, and Zaraza's inclusion for years led me to believe that MA shared this mentality.

Sounds fine, but listening to the entire album or at least a good portion of it would be ideal.

Are you sure? The blacklist entry is from 2014 and calls them "industrial rock". What I'm hearing on Bandcamp is industrial rock/metal, though seemingly more of the former. A short digital demo is not a valid release in any event.

Thats a completely different band. The band I have linked to started February 2016 and is definitely Industrial Metal.

That's funny, because a band called Polter performed at this 2014 gig and is described as featuring a certain Pieter Oevering, who is also listed as the guitarist on the FB page you linked. Here's a video of that concert, uploaded in April 2014.

But as I mentioned, all of this is immaterial, since a short digital demo does not qualify as a valid release. You'll have to wait for something more substantial.

I'll give them a listen a bit later but the metalcore bands listed here are usually far and away more influenced by the melodeath portion of the dichotomy at at least one point in their career. As I Lay Dying is very metal influenced apart from the clean vocals and breakdowns (which make up neither the majority nor the driving force of their music (Lambesis has even said that when he started the band he had precisely two influences: In Flames and Living Sacrifice, two metal bands)) and For Today's output from Immortal onwards would be unacceptable but their earlier albums, particularly Ekklesia and Portraits, are more than metal enough. I'm not all that familiar with Bury Your Dead but if these are the bands you're using as a benchmark you need to understand just how much more metallic they are than Parkway Drive or nearly the entirety of the swoopy haircut and gauged earlobe riddled bands that saturated the mid 00s.

re: kujang rampak
Actually, the blacklist note says it might be a fake band as the sound and videos don't seem to line up right. Looks like Derigin blacklisted it - so maybe he can explain more.

We need samples from the actual album, not from live performances. Not only that, but there were some serious red flags there. For instance, not only did one video show music being dubbed over a live performance, but the samples provided don't even match the sound of the actual live performances. It was like someone was taking songs from other sources and dubbing them over their own live performances. Just fucked up. So, long story short, unless you can provide us with samples of (preferably all) tracks from the album itself, we can't judge it.

Nautilus (CRI)
Official release (2012) via FB: https://www.facebook.com/Nautilusbanda/ ... =3&theater
(Not available anymore through the link, but that shouldn't matter)
I got the whole thing via this link: http://metalencastellano.blogspot.nl/20 ... -2013.html

Sample 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zoja8N_BLxQ
Sample 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRVP4e3IXAU
Sample 3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BnSo2_RQ7lM

Can From the Sewer be removed from the blacklist, please? The last time I submitted them they were rejected because their digital albums were too short but now they have a physical release.
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_ ... 2704938669

http://fromthesewer.bandcamp.com/

Hi There,

Just wondering if "Chron Goblin" can be added as currently showed up as blacklisted? They are a 'stoner metal' band from Canada. Their latest album was released on Ripple Music.

http://www.chrongoblin.com
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PN0MxyJkLYg

Hey why you put my band into blacklist...?

If you do not believe or you think is not a metal band... well what can I do?