Could you name some songs by them that are metal?

I'm listening Beg for It from the album with same name and it sounds pretty straightforward metal, so that's at least one metal song. I picked it because that's the album that came out the year before they got accepted. I know bands aren't accepted based on a single song, but it answered your question. I could go and listen to all the songs and figure out what is and isn't metal on that album and the others, but that's really not my job since I don't work for the site. It's all up to the mods. I just wanted to point out that there is metal on some of their stuff and they probably belong based one or two albums.

http://www.metal-archives.com/bands/Mou ... 3540296615

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rasCYSGzXbI

Not metal

Deleted Sadist Rage, incomplete duplicate of:

http://www.metal-archives.com/bands/Sad ... 3540335215

EDIT: Deleted MournLord. Summoning worship without the riffs.

Deleted Onkunde (Netherlands). Harsh noise/power electronics - only one track in the band's discography features any metal.

Deleted Gnosis (US) - no valid release as of right now.

So after giving their discography an aural pat-down (cf. the ocular variety), I can wholeheartedly agree with this. Their early albums are 100% hard rock. Their more recent albums do get heavier, with chunkier riffing, but it's basically loud sleaze rock. The focus keeps returning to rock choruses and riffs. Deleted.

Looks like the band Sweet Revenge (http://www.metal-archives.com/bands/Swe ... nge/118883) is ex-Xentrix (http://www.metal-archives.com/bands/Xentrix/746), they share the same demos:
http://www.metal-archives.com/albums/Sw ... emo/186316
http://www.metal-archives.com/albums/Xe ... Demo/31612
Source: http://www.metal-archives.com/report/vi ... 6/show/all

Thank you! I am at peace with the universe again.

Deleted "Influence." A successor band to "The Misunderstood" that was included erroneously as NWOBHM. Turns out it's just rock. FSM, Diamhea, OP agree.

0:16 to 0:55 could be part of a metal song. Some sort of stoner/groove metal song. Then comes the chorus, which is a rock chorus. So this is a rock song with some heavy riffs. The intentions of the song was never to be metal.

Any mod?

Yes, that seems to be the case.

Deleted Earacle. Turns out the demo-CD was only sent to zines/labels.

Also these, all of which failed to meet our criteria for valid digital releases (primarily length-wise):
BioHate
Rattler
Morzh
Dagmathe

Deleted Höyry-Kone. Symphonic/Classical/Avant-Garde Prog Rock.

http://www.metal-archives.com/bands/Landscape/22409

https://yadi.sk/d/3QF7FhIybktjt
https://yadi.sk/d/s6t7T-aNbkuLC
https://yadi.sk/d/QMI7Hgpibkuqj
https://www.sendspace.com/file/sk8udz

Not metal. The first demo has kind of a buzz going on, but it's not riffs. The last release has it too on one track, but again not metal. The other two demos are completely non-metal.

Nuked.

Any word on this?

Could be a possibility that that demo for Sweet Revenge was mistakenly attributed to a different band of the same name.

http://www.metal-archives.com/bands/Anv ... 3540284868

One rehearsal release, 11 copies on tape. No mention anywhere of number of tracks or runtime.

Also, someone is unhappy over in this report

Myself, iamntbatman, and I believe derigin deemed that band unacceptable when it was originally submitted last week. Somehow I must have forgotten to add a blacklist note and someone took advantage.

Deleted Tempesta from Switzerland. Listed as "Melodic Heavy/Thrash Metal", which is absolutely laughable. It's groovy hard rock, the newer output not too dissimilar from Nickelback. There might be a couple of closed causal domains out there in the depths of the multiverse where this is genuinely metal, perhaps even thrash, but thankfully we are not living in such a rare cosmic jewel.

Adhur:
http://www.metal-archives.com/bands/Adhur/3217

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bPNPzeYrOk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mxlq7OGuQV4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2utw1_-eqR8

Akelarreko Batzarra is the only semi-metal track. It's kind of riffy at times, but overall it's just wanky guitars behind synths, drums, and bm vocals.


Shrine:
http://www.metal-archives.com/bands/Shrine/21209

Only track I can find:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=klubR4XEUJY

Reviews that say it's not metal:
http://xantropophobia.blogspot.com/2011 ... -1997.html
http://portal.xtreemmusic.com/shrine-sa ... holy-soul/

Am I missing something, or is there some bigoted rule against Touhou metal? Thousand Leaves is a neoclassical/power/speed/melodic death metal band. Last time I checked, those are METAL genres... and this is the METAL Archives. I don't see why it was okay to completely remove this band from the Metal Archives. It's not like it's J-rock or electronic or something NOT METAL. Thousand Leaves is just as metal as any other neoclassical power metal band.... e.g. GALNERYUS.

Uh, have a closer read of the rules, mate. At the bottom, you'll see that we don't accept bands who lack any original material of their own:

This extends to "Touhou" bands too.

Damn, well that's too bad. Thanks for the non-confrontational response, man.

Deleted Angelina from the most awesomest country in the world. Pure hard rock. EDIT: ok, there's a few NWoBHM vibes to be found on the b-side, but yeah.

Nuked Kick N Scratch (USA); Predominantly glam.

Deleted Becomes Astral after slight prodding. On re-listen I have to agree. A little too wanky and core-ish.

I was just going to complain here, but you're too damn right. What a shame, they had amazing albums

Trust me, it killed me nukin' them.

http://www.metal-archives.com/albums/Sv ... att/234465
Not completely sure about this one, but it's most likely a joke.

The picture is actually a tape by Belgian band Kludde:
http://www.metal-archives.com/albums/Kl ... land/29607

Also, not much information about the band itself. Seems the bandname translates to "Black Pete(r)".

Svarte Petter is the Swedish name of Disney's Black Pete or Peg Leg Pete from Mickey Mouse.
It's also the name of a card game where the loser is left with the Jack of Spades.
The name of the demo translates to Night of Thunder.

I'm failing to see how At the Heart of the World made it in here. Yeah, they have a track or two here or there with some slow, heavy riffs, but the majority of their tracks are a shitload of noise layered over hoarse shouts and the occasional doodles n' noodles, similar to 'black noise' type acts. At the very least, the genre needs to be updated.

Full discography:
*Flesh and Death (seems to contain the most metal output)

*Their half of the ATHOTW/Quills split (Track two hits the mark, the bookends not so much)

*Split with Kent State (Track three has riffs in there under the noise)

*Split with High Priestess (Keep your volume down, the first track starts right up with screeching noise. no metal at all in these two)

Svarte-Petter has been nuked. Very nice work on finding that one.

At the Heart of the World were accepted based on the "Flesh and Death" demo as that's the only release on the v1 page. Less than half of it is metal on a six minute demo. The rest of the discography seems to similarly have some flashes of metal but it's predominantly non-metal. Removed.

I also removed two other bands this week:
Found (USA) "Experimental Progressive Metal" - Random bedroom jams that isn't musically coherent but certainly wasn't metal. A few sections were heavy rock-ish stuff.
The Morning After (UK) "Melodic Heavy Metal" - Some sorta melodic Warped Tour-core stuff that had some semblence of metal while sounding completely unlike metal.

Tossed Anamnasia. Nu-metal bullshit.

Riiiight, so I just decided to find out what Ghost aka Ghost B.C. sounds like. I figured being Swedish and dressing up in cool hoodie robes they'd be some sort of epic crunch-metal like a Satanic version of Amorphis or something. Instead I just heard about 4 songs worth of indie rock that sounded like a really lame version of Pavement with that fat bitch from The White Stripes on drums. There was one riff which sounded slightly metalish and only because in an actual metal band it would have led into something heavy.

Are you sure you listened to Ghost? In any case, you're waaaaaaay late to the whole "Ghost" things

copy pasting a report i made yesterday or so

on what basis has Human Error been added to MA? Because ive heard 3 releases, Life Sentence, Financial crimes split and Another bloody Intervention and they are all crust with some grindy tracks. Even more so i have seen them live and they were even more crusty then.
Compared with the band Mind I submitted recently this band is a lot less metal and yet Mind got rejected.
http://human-error.bandcamp.com/album/life-sentence

and



so thoughts?

Yep it was definitely the same one. Never even knew who they were until I saw their pics on Facebook with funny captions on them. That said, if someone wants to provide an explanation as to why they're on the Archives and Steel Panther isn't, go ahead, I could use a good laugh

Okay so I searched this thread and apparently their first album qualifies. Perhaps it would be a good idea to make mention of that one their page just like the one regarding Def Leppard, because that second album is a load of gutless nonsense.