Clearly djent, not sure these are even real guitars.

Sounds like Xerath or Mechina with more drop-out, atmospheric intervals. I don't think it is going to cut it, sorry. Not terrible, though.

I have no idea, but how does it matter if the instruments are real or not? It would never have been an issue with a more traditional style of metal, so clearly that argument is void.

I'm also curious of how the rules related to djent are. As soon as you can slap the label "djent" on something, it's suddenly not metal? There are some metal riffs and all else you usually require to accept bands, as opposed to many of the already accepted bands, like Cynic, Gordion Knot, Spastic Ink and Blotted Science. If these bands had forked from some American hitlist they would have been blacklisted, as they for the most part don't have a single riff. What is the rationale behind accepting these bands, while rejecting Mindplotter (based on the album Depths)?

I meant SOLANUM. Is there anything wrong with them again? The status is still pending.

Seems okay, that physical copy looks professional enough. I'll accept them.

MEMENTO MORI from AUSTRIA.

Can someone tell my, why they are Blacklisted?

They Released an Noble Digipack, limited to 100 Copies.

Here an Releasetrailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54eVgeUDbek
Here an Physical Videoreview (German Language) where you can see the release: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6TQHLk6Byk


Its typical Black Metal with a good Production.
So please let me re-add this group to MA!

Hmm, well it seems professional enough. It is blacklisted for not being long enough and/or lacking clear distribution and the user kept spamming and re-submitting it without taking these requests into account.

How/where was the demo circulated?

"For not being long enough"?

I think the Problem is that the most user don´t understand the problem from the past, that demo/releases must have a physical release. The most of them try to add the bands for the reason: "i know a band and i can´t find it here, so i try to add them here"
but they never understand that the band must have an release...today digital releases are accepted...

The Digipack was released by CorKra Productions in Austria. Label is Closed. The most of the Copies given to the Band and they sell it at their Facebook page.

But thats all not reasons to let them blacklisted. please delete it from that list and let me re-add it to the database...
Thanks

The problem seems to have been that at the time of the first submission (January 2014), they didn't have a release per se, only, as their website states, a quite limited and quite short tape that -and this is the key issue here- was only given to friends and members. I don't see an issue now that the digipak EP is released, go ahead and submit them.

Why this band is here?

My band is blacklisted because someone said it's not "primarily metal". Ok, then I asked about Burzum ambient albums and I was told that's because burzum released other primarily metal albums.

But this one? This is not Satyricon.

This is Wongraven, and has only one album, which is not primarily metal.

http://www.metal-archives.com/bands/Wongraven/609

1. Wrong thread.

2. Read the rules again and find the side projects clause.

Hi,

Why was Picha from Costa Rica Black Listed? they have a CD full length and 2 demos, and a CD split with an italian band, they play Grindcore (CD and one demo) , Goregrind (Split )the other demo (the first one) was pure noise but they evolved.

The demos and the CD were distributed by the band it self from the years 2000 to 2010, then I tried to add them but it is black listed.

Here is apicture of the 2 demos and the CD

https://fbcdn-sphotos-b-a.akamaihd.net/ ... b9667088fc

Here is a picture of the Splits ready for distribution among colleagues at concerts locally.

https://scontent-b-iad.xx.fbcdn.net/hph ... e=54ED2336

Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/Pichacr
Reverbnation profile: http://www.reverbnation.com/picha
twitter: http://twitter.com/pichabanda

Yeah, what about them?
I know one, who added them, but it was rejectet, as him said...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQis1I-GW84

When it doesn't sound like Central American Spermswamp, when it does play with guitars, it isn't even remotely metal.



Rejected for being Post-Rock

Just curious... Who the fuck let these guys in?

Dear god. There is no death metal in this at all.

Dude, really? You have been around the bend. Don't you know what post goes to what thread? Also, that was added by a mod, I'll lead him to this inquiry

Whoops, haha I hadn't even noticed I posted in the wrong thread. Been a little mindless today. My apologies.

No problem, sorry for snapping. It's been one of Those days

Just got a rejection notice for Samskaras: http://www.samskarasmetal.com

I take issue with the fact that the release of two digital singles at the launch point of a project do not constitute valid releases.

This band's lineup features musicians already listed on this website who are well recognized in Canada for their work in other bands (Derelict, Unhuman, (the) Plasmarifle).

The singles in question were produced at a reputed professional studio owned by Cryptopsy guitarist Chris Donaldson.

The public release of the first single was widely covered by the metal media, example:
http://www.metalunderground.com/news/details.cfm?newsid=107213
and both are entering rotation on Canadian and some US college radio stations as I write this.

If the purpose of this website is to list all the metal bands in existence, then I don't understand how a band using the release method logic and technology appropriate to this era and market to put out professional-quality music does not qualify.

It doesn't matter that they are reputable musicians, professional recording or even approved by the grand Poo-Bah of Toronto. two digital singles doesn't constitute a legitimate release according to our site rules.

To be accepted via having a single it must be a physical release with distribution.

I was looking to initiate a page for FerreTT, but it would appear they have been sealed with the mark of banishment. My guess would be someone tried to make a page before their album physically came out. But now, that album is out. Would whosoever runs that department kindly lift the ban? Thanks.

-Warbastard

PS. The album can be found here:

http://ferrett.bandcamp.com/

FerreTT was blacklisted for being Glam Rock. Listening to it, it does sound very Glam Rock.

I would say glam/heavy metal, personally. Their are glam tracks, for sure, but also some pretty heavy tracks on there. See: Wrath of the Wizard. Either way, their next album will clear up such confusions.

Thanks again.

Hi..., I just wanted to know why Aeons of Corruption has been blacklisted, isn't it metal enough? -I don't know too much about how metal a band is since I'm not too much into metal-.

Thank you for asking. Aeons of Corruption was blacklisted earlier this month for being more -core than metal. That means we judged none of the band's albums as being predominantly rooted in metal (eg. having metal riffs). This is common for many bands that play that type of music, as they may be -core bands that have metal influences or metal bands with -core influences.

I see... Well, thanks for answering a.a

Since we all have so much fun jumping up peoples respective backsides, this statement and especially the bold element is a laughable constraint considering the number of demo's that are found within these archives...

Unless of course by "distribution"you mean me selling homemade tapes at my high school in between classes or maybe its more legit if I sling the tapes out front of the local 7-11 while looking for some old dude to buy me beer if I let him think he is going to get to touch my naughty bits. If so, then I stand corrected.

I believe the more important thing concerning most of the standalone demos you are citing is that they are physical copies, not so much the semantics concerning legit/not-legit distribution. There is a small measure of flexibility concerning what we consider acceptable in that regard, but what is not flexible is the added discretion leveled against digital-only bands.

Agreed. And that being said, I don't know why you wouldn't independently distribute physical copies either. It's not a risky investment to spend ~120 dollars total on CD's, cases and ink/paper inserts to make 100 products. Once you sell ten or twenty copies, you get your money back, and you've still got almost 90% of your inventory to sell for profit. Poisoned By Life was originally going to be an online only band, but after sitting down and doing the math I figured it was worth a shot. The only hits I didn't anticipate were shipping costs (thanks to some buyers in Australia), so now I'm still only a couple sales away from breaking even, and I only charge five bucks a CD. Plus, I only used half the CD's for PBL. The other 50 are going to be pressed as Psychological Regurgitation albums once the vox are done over winter break. All those CD's will be pure profit from that point on. As long as your music doesn't suck and you have friends (which is what most metalheads are right?) selling a dozen or two copies should be a breeze.

Beats me.

Well i am the owner of Ancestral Terror Recs.
I will release a split tape from BUTAMACHO and LAPIDATION. Both bands from Chile and both plays death metal, no problem with Butamacho but Lapidation is blacklisted.
I want to add them to MA, maybe they commited some mistake or the name is banned.....i want to know the reason please and the way to fix it.

They were blacklisted for another user repeatedly resubmitting the band without an official release. I removed the blacklisting, so you can go ahead and resubmit as long as everything is in order.

Why reason those bands was rejecteds? http://downfallofempires.bandcamp.com/ and http://spreadtheplague.bandcamp.com/.

Both received the same rejection message:

"-Core. Not a metal band; does not belong on Encyclopaedia Metallum. Please read (or re-read) our rules next time to see what qualifies as metal."

Because they were both more "core" than metal. Do you have your email notifications turned on? If your email notifications are on, then you are notified when a band is accepted or rejected.

Thanks!!!!

Hi, I submitted a band, "Grinkis" and it was rejected because it's rock. The band never was a rock band, it's metal (with one or two metal parodies of rock songs, nothing more). Can you listen to this songs and say it's rock? :/

https://grinkis.bandcamp.com/track/mord ... -malaccana
https://grinkis.bandcamp.com/track/pus-sale-pus
https://grinkis.bandcamp.com/track/examen-final

(And please excuse my poor English).

I don't Relly Understand How My Band Was rejected when so many Other Dark ambient neo classical bands Are registered
on this site, I find so many Bands in this genre at this site? like Arcana,Dark Sanctuary,Dargaard.

aarmestocor, those songs seem to be predominantly metal, but just linking us to a few random songs doesn't necessarily prove much. A band must have a primarily metal, valid release to meet our standards. The blacklist note also cites that the band does a lot of covers, which do not count either.

TheWoundOfTheHealer, no idea what your band's name is, but using other, accepted bands as the basis for your argument is not the way to go about it. Those bands certainly have a primarily metal release, which you apparently don't.

Ok, thank you. We hope we meet the requirements in the following records/cds.

Dear moderators, why band Devilment (UK, Dani Filth-project) was blacklisted? I don't understand it.

https://www.facebook.com/devilmentcorps -official fb-page.

"Sounds like a gothic Drowning Pool" is what the blacklist note says. It's mallcore, not metal.