:ugh::puke::cry:

This has made me lose faith in humanity.

For Epiclore's Into Demise and Victory

Damn, it impress me two times! - 100%

Wtf, a black metal band called Deep Forest?

Those French guys are going to have a good time laughing at that.

And have you seen the tracklist?
1. Intro 05:38
2. Lake of Sorrow 05:10
3. Old Tree And Old Ghost 05:08
4. Outro 01:57

How original!

what the hell i though it was gonna be good - 81%
Written by boundgagkill on September 18th, 2008

this is the first death metal band from japan i ever heard i though it started out good the riffs are fucking killer but the singer sucks when i say SUCK i mean fucking terrible he sounds like a retard being fucked by his own dog ,its shit ...besides that the CD was awesome i am surprised they actually pulled off all the songs about one subject i partially like ..ZOMBIES!!!

To bad you cant really understand what the dude says in the first place cause most of it is in Japanese , the drummer did a exceptional job and the bass lines are perfect, besides little flaws in the vocal area it was good in till track 4 but soon got annoying and want to shut it off as quickly as you turned it on all in all the cd was decent but its not the best i ever heard.

Welcome to the internet! I see this is your first time here.

The standard - 100%
Written by blashyrkh66 on September 20th, 2008

The gold standard that all that has come after has tried to duplicate, but mostly failed. The greatest thrash album of all time and blueprint for much of death metal as well. If you think this is mere hyperbole, I can only assume that you were either too young or too out of touch to know the impact that this record had when it was released in 1986. This record changed and influenced most who heard it, and ushered in a new level of brutality in music.

So you know where I stand, I think the album is thrash/death perfection. So instead of waxing poetic on its excellence, I will instead take on its critics. Now I can understand those who don't like metal not finding this album spectacular - but people on a metal website? You have to be kidding!

When I read reviews giving this album less than, say a 85-90 rating, I am shocked. Some people say that besides "Angel of Death" and "Raining Blood", that the rest of the tracks are "generic" and "unmemorable". How someone can find these perfect blasts of aggression not catchy or remarkable is beyond me. We must be listening to two different albums, or maybe you don't really like this genre?

If these tracks are generic, it is only because a good percentage of the Metal scene has been attempting to copy Slayer for the last 2+ decades, people then copy those copies, and so on. Another side to the same coin would be someone who will say that music which originally used this as a basic blueprint has evolved over 22 years, and so someone who may like Decapitated or Origin (two bands that would have evolved from the "basic" thrash or death sound, but are now much different due to musical evolution) may not find this style appealing. While I can see the logic behind that point, I would still say they are ultimately wrong, because like good classical music, time cannot render perfection obsolete. You can say that "Reign In Blood" is not your style if you don't like this type of metal, but in that case you shouldn't be writing a review of it.

Also, I think it is trendy for younger people to name drop more obscure older bands so they look more knowledgeable or "true". Anyone who says that they think Slayer are hacks but then name drop some 2nd or 3rd rate band (like pretty much any band on New Renaissance for example), either have tastes different than most, or are kids trying to buy street cred by knowing about more underground shit, which is a true poser move. And I would even say this extends to some good bands. There are some second tier 80's Thrash acts that get name checked all the time now, and some of them were amazing, but they couldn't have touched Slayer back in the day, which is why they were second tier! I know it's not "cool" to say that you like the big established band that everyone else likes too, but sometimes those bands are huge because they were the fucking best! Don't deny yourself the classics because you are worried about being trendy. That's lame.

Or there is also just poor criticism - some critics use a bullshit tactic against Slayer that I see often used against Metallica's older, classic thrash work. They express their dissatisfaction against what they perceive as a later "sell-out" or less than stellar newer work by attacking the older, legendary works in their canon. This is ridiculous, illogical and bad reviewing. It's like arguing over semantics instead of meaning, people like this probably make "good" lawyers, but are frustrating assholes the rest of us have to put up with. Or we have the contrarians who just always like to disagree with everyone else, and they are just as annoying. Or the occasional, slightly less irritating person who honestly just doesn't get it, but due to their ego and incapability to recognize that maybe they just don't understand, feels a need to express it (I don't like Emperor for example, but I'm not rating their records because I clearly don't get it). This is why you'll go onto the listings of every big band here and see the albums that are generally considered their classics ("Reign In Blood", Metallica's "Master of Puppets", etc) with ratings lower than their legend would indicate they should have. These types of people should have their keyboards taken away from them. When I become dictator, you all will be sent to the salt mines to work, ha ha.

I simply cannot understand those who find this less than amazing. Your loss.

For V Pøítmí's Prázdnota here's one - a gift true.

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A Beautiful Tribute To Trist. - 100%
Written by NihiL_izTik_VoiD on July 28th, 2008

.... Before the middle of the song, it comes a really haunting sound that is so malancholic it provides a strong feeling of melancholy, this part is so sweet, it makes the song perfect.

The standard - 100%

VOCAL OUT OF TUNE!!!! - 90%
Written by michal on September 22nd, 2008

YES!I SHOULD JUST END MY REVIEW HERE...VOC.OUT OF TUNE BIG TIME!!!JEEEZZZ CAN'T YOU GUYS HEAR THAT!!AND COMPARE IT TO SEVENTH SON....?????I GAVE 9O FOR MUSIC.BUT IS SUCH A SHAME THAT VOCALIST SPOILED THIS ALBUM.TO BE ABLE TO WAIL HE WOULD HAVE TO BE KING DIAMOND TO BE ABLE TO DO IT IN TUNE.
SAID ENOUGH.SHAME.

For Fates Warning's The Spectre Within.

Something new. - 87%
Written by Batnobbit on September 22nd, 2008

We have all ehard about Viking metal, Turcian metal etc but Pirate Metal? No, and it's about damn time. I really liked this album, but ofc I loved pirates since i was a little kid. But I reccomend this if you like Melodic Death Metal and pirates.
My last words is probaly: Yaaaaaaaarrrr Mate!

For Slayer's Reign in Blood:



Something one may not be used to seeing in this thread, but nevertheless it fits the bill. Totally worthless.

Engrish boulevard isn't the only road that leads to the dump.

How are reviews like this even accepted?

VERY INTERESTING MUSIC - 10%
Written by michal on September 22nd, 2008

I WOULD LIKE TO START THIS REVIEW THAT I DON'T WAN'T TO OFFENCE ANYBODY BY IT.BEFORE BUYING THIS ALBUM YOU HAVE TO ASK YOURSELF A QUESTION:DO I REALY CARE ABOUT LISTENING SOME GREAT MUSIC WITH SINGER WHICH CONSTANTLY IS OUT OF TUNE?IF YES THEN BUY THIS ALBUM BECAUSE IT HAS AMAZING MUSIC.
UNFORTUNETELY VOCAL ON THIS ALBUM IS ANNOYING AND OUT OF TUNE AS I POINTED IT OUT EARLIER ON AND IS SPOILING ALL IT'S BEAUTY.GREAT SHAME THAT MR.ALDER ARRIVED A BIT LATER TO THIS GREAT BAND.
AND THE RATING HAS TO BE 90% FOR MUSIC,10% FOR VOCAL.

Symbolic acts - 100%
Written by MetalSupremacist on September 23rd, 2008

In my personal Opionion Everything that death has released is absolutley fucking amazing... and symbolic just another noch of brilliance to their name.

eveything on this album is pure greatness
to the hard wriffs, to the awesome melodic solo's, the pounding drums, the screeching vocals, amazing memorable lyrics... i like to call this beautfiul death metal because its simply just ...beautiful

your a fan of death then you must get this album
even if you have to burn it off limewire or utorrent
just get it.. its fuckin sweet

I suppose its quite ironic that most foreign people won't actually be able to read the rule that states all reviews must be in English.

I guess "wriffs" is a more amusing mangling of "riffs" than "rifts" though.

I made a rant about that sort of posting in the FFA thread. People who type like that make me want to bash my skull in. I'm surprised this guy thought it would be accepted.

The Day Nargaroth tried to kill Black Metal - 20%
Written by thekoner666 on September 25th, 2008

Here we have the dedication monument "black metal ist krieg"
well i really think this is a very poor album, so is nargaroth,
songs in this album are poor, i meant the lyrics!
here you have songs that even a 13 years old kid could have wrotten.
example BLACK METAL IST KRIEG i think this is the dumbest song ever
what the fuck is wrong with him?

Black Metal ist Krieg!
Black Metal ist Krieg!
Black fucking Metal ist Krieg!

say that 100 times add some poor music
and there is a black metal song.
when i downloaded this album i was expecting more than that
so let me tell you if you are thinking in steal,buy,borrow this album
just forget about!
this album sucks ass!
just walk away from it
and pretend you never heard of nargaroth
or BLACK METAL IST KRIEG

Here's a lovely review for Nargaroth's "Black Metal ist Krieg":

even a 13 years old kid could have wrotten.

In the review queue, not revealed to the commoners.

I somehow like that review. Especially the irony here:



Well, "wrotten" is another high point.

Who? Perdition? He is a mod.

In the review queue, not revealed to the commoners.

I somehow like that review. Especially the irony here:



Well, "wrotten" is another high point.

JUST LIKE A VENOM/BATHORY SPLIT! - 100%

This is a split promotion CD for (at the time) upcoming albums of Chemikiller and Black Torment. The Chemikiller songs were songs from the album which was going to be released on Witches Brew Records but never happened and later was released on Autopsy Kitchen Records. The Black Torment tracks are from the Obscurum II - The Return Of The King album which was coming out on Dark Minion Records later that year (2003) but didn't get released until early 2004, on Dark Minion and was re-issued in 2006 on Unsung Heroes Records. This split is now going on 6 years old, and is rare and hard to find. Limited to 100 copy's. Chemikiller distributed 50, Black Torment distributed the other 50. Which was a good idea since Chemikiller is from the East Coast and Black Torment is from the Midwest. So people in the Midwest who haven't heard of Chemikiller would be able to hear the band and people on the East Coast who haven't heard Black Torment in the past even though Black Torment is a rather older band, got to hear it on the east coast...

This can be compared exactly to what a Bathory/Venom split would of sounded like. (Chemikiller being Venom, Black Torment being Bathory) These Chemikiller songs have more of an old-school black/thrash with even old punk influences. The Black Torment songs have an old-school feeling of dark heavy sounding Black Metal. Being familiar with both bands when i saw it for free at the merchandise table at a Black Witchery concert in Chicago (where Black Torment is from) (i am from Boston) I grabbed two copy's right away one to give to a friend when i got back home. I got to the show early and i had a portable CD Player so i listened to it before the show started and loved every bit of it. The Chemikiller songs sound like they were recorded in 1982, EXCEPT the drum machine. If it had real drums, it would make it 10 times better. The Black Torment songs have real drums, and the recording sounds produced in the same vein of the first four Bathory albums. The drum's are real good for the sound of the music the snare drum is tuned low, for a heavy/old school sound, which fits the music and vocals perfectly. The vocals on the Chemikiller songs could use some reverb and delay or some kind of effect the only thing i did not like about it, the vocals were TOO clean, just imagine Venom with even cleaner sounding vocals and no effects on them what so ever. The vocals on the Black Torment tracks i would say i would not change a bit, they are perfect for the sound of the music, Angzerhornbroals sounds a lot like Quorthon. Another thing i liked about this is both bands have the Bass turned up loud. Which also gives it an old school feeling, you can hear the bass real good in the Chemikiller song "Witches Brew" and on the Black Torment song "Blackwinds Blow Through The Spirit Of Angzerhorn......" A lot of bands these days, you can never hear the bass that is one thing that ALWAYS pisses me off. Some times when i listen to lots of modern black metal bands, i wonder if they even USED a bass track because you can't hear it...There are only a few bands today that the bass stands out such as Barathrum, Black Torment, Chemikiller, Root, Sabbat (Jap), Wind Of The Black Mountains, Sodom, etc...I think that is a very important thing in the sound of Black Metal. When it comes down to it id have to say that if Venom & Bathory were to have done a split, this is the closest thing to it. That was the first thing that popped into my head after i listned to the whole CD. And speeking of quorthon, at the concert after the show was over i saw a flame out of the corner of my eye and i saw Angzerhornbroals blowing fire in the venue (Cafe Lura in Chicago) and the alcohol or whatever liquid that was used was blood red and that made it look even cooler but a few of the blows reminded me of Quorthon he did it just as good, i did not even know he was at the show until then and seeing not many bands Blow Fire anymore especially on stage or inside a venue it must have taken some guts to do that because this was right after Great White burnt down the club...as i was watching, his friend or whoever was with him poured WAY too much alcohol on the torch and it dripped down onto Angzerhornbroals' hand and his hand was on fire and they were stomping the torch out because he dropped it i remember him screaming, if something would of went wrong he could of killed him self that night but seeing that in person gave me lots of respect for Black Torment & Angzerhornbroals because not many people will go that far to get the feeling of old school Black Metal - even bands in the early/mid 90s...After that slowly i noticed bands stopped blowing fire, wearing warpaint if they did they wore it like dimmu borgir instead of sodom/destruction/sarcofago style. Which is yet another thing i like about Chemikiller and Black Torment in pictures i've seen they have the warpaint style of Sarcofago, Beherit, etc...Instead of the black on white which has become so trendy now. In the car since i had a LONG ride back to Boston i listened to the split probably 3 more times and im thinking "wow this is amazing for a free promo CD" The chemikiller tracks had me headbanging in the car and the Black Torment tracks had me pictureing evil thoughts in my mind which made the long ride home much quicker and eaiser. So when it comes down to it i have to say this is one of the best Split promo's/EP's i ever have heard, actually i think it is THE BEST split i ever heard like i said i think its the closest you could get to a Venom/Bathory split (which would of kicked ass) so if you see this on Ebay which i have recently, for pretty cheap id recomend picking it up, it is rare only 100 copy's so if you see it id defenitly grab it because you might not have another chance to. To this day, i listen to this split CD at LEAST once a month...I think they should do another split in the future on there new albums. Sort of like a "part 2" to this one...that would be amazing......