Mantissa
http://www.metal-archives.com/bands/Mantissa/5613
Their sound's described as Psychedelic Heavy Metal. However, there's no psychedelia and hardly any metal.
Suggestion 1: Discard
Suggestion 2: Genre: Hard Rock/Heavy Metal, Grunge

http://killingtime-mantissa.bandcamp.com
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Mantissa

I noticed that, but it seemed like the physical release was out already. Looks like it's not. Gone.

Deleted Wolfshonor. Accepted based on a fake tape inlay scan complete with fake photograph. No valid distribution proven.

Pending duplicates:
http://www.metal-archives.com/bands/Eldamar/3540407768
http://www.metal-archives.com/bands/Eldamar/3540407774

http://www.metal-archives.com/bands/Persona/3540406822
http://www.metal-archives.com/bands/Persona/3540406261

Dupes gone.

Deleted.

http://www.metal-archives.com/bands/Retroact/76338

Check their myspace page. Some kind of thrash metal-influenced nu-metal, and although the tracks they have uploaded are not from their CD, I have a lot of trouble believing that they played something more thrash-oriented in 2003.

Яemoved.

Thanks. A lot of these "thrashcore" entries are really dubious.

Duplicates:
http://www.metal-archives.com/bands/Las ... 3540407848
http://www.metal-archives.com/bands/Las ... 3540388018
of
http://www.metal-archives.com/bands/Las ... 3540406638

Done.

Let's keep the bands in here to listed stuff only, as per the thread title. Multiple subs in the queue can simply be reported (though we usually notice anyway).

Consider it done.

http://www.metal-archives.com/bands/CPR/3876

Really metal enough for the Archives or significant enough a side project?

Notes say significant enough side project. Members of Holy Mother and TSO

Oh alright then.

It's not related, but I think that's the first time I've ever seen a band added by an "unknown user".

Deleted Morgion from Virginia, United States (pre-Malintent). No proven releases.

Who the hell is Holy Mother? And TSO isn't even metal most of the time. I know that what's considered significant is kind of arbitrary, but that one seems very far-fetched.

Yeah, I think that one should be tossed...

Deleted Lux Belle. No releases.

Alright, nuked CPR and also the following non-metal side-projects found lacking:

Invictus (Hun)
Kátai Tamás
Mike Scheidt
Tactile Gemma

Some more Spring Cleaning (tm):
Heatenic Noiz Architect - Deathcore/Mathcore/Awfulcore
Iván Ferrús - No riffs.
Antigua y Barbuda - The Mars Volta ripoff
Reckoning Hour - More -core than metal
Mouth - Mostly bass lines and noise with not predominant, weak underlying riffs

Skull Transmission - No proof of VR
Netherfell - Djentcore/Folkcore

다섯손가락/Five Fingers was deleted, rock and only accepted based on misleading reviews.

There are 4 Thrashcore bands http://www.metal-archives.com/search?se ... band_genre

Can someone tell me why?

Looks like you are itching for another 30 day break from the forums. I'll give you the courtesy of this one warning.

Your question is too vague for me to answer outright, but I believe it stands to reason that those four bands are primarily metal. If you have proof to the contrary, feel free to notify us and we will reassess.

MetalMuxxer, the term is ambiguous and it doesn't always designate what you (probably) think it designates. I have seen it used for thrashy modern metalcore (common usage nowadays, apparently), crossover thrash, nu-metal and hardcore. We are however in the process of going through all bands tagged as such and changing genres or deleting them where necessary.

Try searching for "thrashcore" on the forum and you'll find some more information about this. Try using the search function more in general.

What do you mean "Djentcore/Folkcore"?
Try listening to their demo, which apparently is a mini-album, not the demo, it's pure folk metal.

What even is this djent?

Also, as I'm here writing.

Uruk-Hai should be restored based on this rule:
"Non-metal projects included arbitrarily as they are seen by the staff to belong as a part of the metal scene. Their inclusion is rare, exceptional, and discretionary of the staff."
As they are an important band of underground black-metal scene.

Another thing, Percival Shuttenbach signed a recorddeal with Sony, this means they now have worldwide distribution, so their side project "Percival" should be eligible to be added, thoughts?

1. Netherfell is more deathcore and Djent than anything else, it definitely isn't pure folk metal.
2. Do some research about Djent, please




Do some research, just the search function, Uruk-Hai has been done to death.



Uhhh, the side project needs to have worldwise distribution, not the base band. The base band needs to be notable. Never listened to Shuttenbach and really, never heard of them so uhhh, ask Derigin about that one.

The deal regards both incarnations. The band is more or less notable in Poland. You definitely should, though they sing in polish.

As you'll notice, we've been re-evaluating our approach to side projects and other non-metal bands on the site. It's a slow and intermittent process as we work our way through it. The rules/guidelines are being reworked - for now, the process is internalized and exceptions can only be submitted/added by staffers. For now, any exceptions will be handled internally.

There is no longer a "mechanical" approach to exceptions, as this got away from the purpose of being a metal archive. A few guidelines from the past that are not literally applied:

-The overall notability/name recognition/fame of the primary band. - King's X's Jerry Gaskill had a side project on a major label. Despite King's X having released some metal albums, there was no doubt this project didn't belong on a metal archive)

-Distribution on a major label. - This does not qualify a side project to be on the site, it was simply a rule intended, as the rule states, to prevent a flood of submissions of bands that would ultimately be deemed insignificant for inclusion. This is a consideration, but not a qualifier.

-Technically being a "side project." - Who was in a metal band when, and other things that were rules-lawyered to excess in the past. This used to be mentioned a lot, but it completely misses the point, which is...

-Region-specific notability. - Such a caveat about a band's notability becomes an exception within an exception. It becomes unmanageable when the realm of notability is unknown to those of us making the decisions. We once had someone appeal the rejection of a noise band because "...this side project belongs to one of the precursors of using keyboards in south american black metal scene in early 90's. I think that is strong significance in metal community..." Seriously.

(full quote spoilered)



Any non-metal bands on the site are exceptions. The more we discuss them, the more we find that very little non-metal should sensibly be included in a metal archive.

As you can see from Azmodes' recent round of cleanup, we've been combing through the list of exceptions and determining that a lot of these bands don't belong on the archives. We've found that the best and most consistent way to handle these is to discuss them internally as they arise, rather than handle them somewhat mechanically like regular submissions.

http://www.metal-archives.com/bands/Was ... iscography

Checked this band out due to the dubious genre description.

Apparently, this band also put out a VHS/DVD or something:
http://www.evilaidy.com/discography.htm

But, this reeks of being only 2 audio files on the internet. Additionally, it is not metal.

Samples:
https://myspace.com/5yearson

Sayonara to A Drop of Joker, Electro Metalcore. Some Riffs in the 2013 EP, but not enough.

I noticed that one of my submitted bands was deleted within the last 24 hours (the current site statistics as of yesterday morning still show a total of 1241 approved bands vs. 1240 on the real-time list). I checked the last few pages of this thread but didn't see anything. If a moderator could let me know what band it was and why it was deleted I would appreciate it. Thanks.

Looks like Porman deleted "Grinning Moon" with the reason "never released anything." You're very good about proof of PR, so I'm not sure why he'd delete it. That, and it would have been nice to be consulted and for it to be posted in here, too. I'll wait for his reasoning.

No problem. Thank you for looking into it. I added that band back in 2005 but I think I still have the German fanzine (Idiosyncrasy #1) that contained a review article for their demo. I would be happy to provide a scan of it when I get home if necessary, but if Porman has more concrete evidence to the contrary (i.e. a band member confirming that it was never officially released) then of course I won't argue with that.

Ronnie Ripper told me that it was never released officially, just a couple that were handed out to friends. A couple of the riffs ended up in Gehennah.

Thanks for the info. It's no wonder that nobody managed to find a track listing for that tape in 10+ years.