Post about them here and they will be deleted if that is the case.

Just curious as to why Warm from the United States was blacklisted? They are coming out with their first full length soon, but have two EPs that are pretty heavy (sludge/post metal/stoner). http://warm.bandcamp.com/album/warm-ii

SYNAPTIK debut sees its official (digital) release today. Please release their page.

Judging by the samples here, I would say 4-5 of those songs definitely seem to have metal riffs. A lot of them really don't, though. Considering the fact that the band is already blacklisted, ehh. Anyone else want to comment on this?

Feuerschwanz are one of those terrible, terrible Mittelalter-Rock bands, and from what I've read they manage to be particularly loathsome even for that style. I saw them live at a festival once, but I was distracted, talking to friends and rather inebriated, so I didn't really pay attention to what they sounded like. The point of this little anecdote? Non-existent, really. I'll have a look at that new album.

That Black Crown Initiate album sounds 100% acceptable. Once it is out, bring 'em on in.


To provide some context: The band's entire output at the time (2012/2013) had been checked by the mod(s), to my knowledge. Not just a single track. The band was blacklisted because it wasn't considered predominantly metal by the site. At some point after that, the album "Lupus Est Homo Homini" happened, but instead of posting about it in this thread, the band was submitted (before the actual release date too) with a different country, evading the blacklist. I told the submitter not to do that and post in this thread once the album was out, but this was ignored and the band was simply resubmitted without any changes. Therefore the submitting user was banned. After a time, another account, possibly the same person, evaded the blacklist again instead of posting here. Same outcome.

Looks like we have finally made some progress. Of the two tracks from the album on that label, one is mostly metal, one is ambient. Is there a way to check the entire album?

I listened to three tracks, including the ten-plus minute "Einsamkeit III." It is too ambient, in my opinion. It has some moments, but it isn't consistent enough.

How about a mixture concerning the genre: Pagan Black Metal/Ambient. If you think that it's not really clear, take both genres. At any rate it is a metal band and so it belongs to the archives.

Hi,

My submission for the Finnish band Skein got rejected as "not metal enough". If anyone would care to elaborate on what the mods thought they predominantly are, I'd like to know for future reference. Thanks.

P.S. I know the vocals are kinda -core, no need to educate on this.

The Blacklist says that while there is some metal, the majority of the bands sound is hardcore, alt stuff and atmospheric stuff

So now that Integrity is on the archives and certain metalcore stuff is being reevaluated (to my understanding), is there any consensus on whether or not Kickback should be on the archives? They started off as a beatdown NYHC influenced hardcore band, but as they've progressed they've entered into a darker, more black metal influenced style of metal/hardcore.

So the band Vehemal was just rejected for this reason:

"Can you link that the album is released? The unboxing video has a "Coming soon" at the end of the video"

My question is since that was the promotional video, it said coming soon, though the album has now been released. It was released independently so I don't know how else to prove it, so I linked to that video just to show that there are physical copies so you could see that they existed. I don't know if there will be an online release, but I am actually in this band so I can attest to the fact that it has been released. Would it be enough if I take a photo of the album? The band members are selling them through word of mouth and many have already been sold, I don't know how else to prove it.

Hey, so, Wolf In Vain. The reason for the rejection was that there isn't a valid release. However, there is both a physical and digital EP available on Amazon (it's on other sites, but only in digital form).

Hi. I was trying to upload this band Lyria here, but the moderator that had to evaluale it decided that this is not a metal band.
I was wondering if you could listen to the entire album to decide, I'm pretty sure that this is metal band. Thank you so much!

http://www.goear.com/listen/fad46f2/insanity-lyria
http://www.goear.com/listen/c1010b0/the-true-war-lyria
http://www.goear.com/listen/1197d3e/revenge-lyria
http://www.goear.com/listen/e7f1b59/jester-lyria
http://www.goear.com/listen/3174557/the ... -cry-lyria
http://www.goear.com/listen/9be7291/reflection-lyria
http://www.goear.com/listen/6740eac/the ... irth-lyria
http://www.goear.com/listen/ce4e3c9/lig ... ness-lyria
http://www.goear.com/listen/4f3067e/wha ... m-me-lyria
http://www.goear.com/listen/b4d43b6/craven-lyria

hi
lately i wanted to add the band Dead Leaf (Depressive black/ambient) to the MA but it got rejected because of the metalness
the band has no internet precence so here i uploaded another song from their Promo

it is called Eyes of Shattered Glass:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wUF_y3Fp2FI

Here is the old song again: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gyo8ZuoHcHE

cheers

here the proof that the band rejected "Tortuosa" touch "metal"

https://myspace.com/tortuosa/music/songs

I hope that the band will accepted ...

Greetings

It wasn't necessarily a matter of proof of release, the album is primarily ambient according to PDS' blacklist note, which disqualifies it.

What do you mean by primarily ambient? Did you listen to the album?