First, the guy's name is Mangini (not Mangina).

I know that my opinions differ from yours.

Apart of that, I just can't take someone giving 98% to Edguy's last disasterpiece serious (while he gives albums by Nevermore, In Flames and Iced Earth 10% or less).

(incidentally, I think Empyreal has estimated his audience quite astutely).

And yes, 75% is a pretty average rating by these site's standards. It's the same thing as with school grades. If you get 50%, you don't pass, 60% is just tolerable and 70% starts being average.

Empyreal's reviews are also getting worse. The one about the first Ghost record is quite hard to read (sentence structure!) and somewhat ridicolous (vocabulary choice!). Apart of that, I just can't take someone giving 98% to Edguy's last disasterpiece serious (while he gives albums by Nevermore, In Flames and Iced Earth 10% or less). These are just my two cents. It's always interesting to come back to the board...

If my comments are stupid, your reactions are even worse. I'm definitely not a Ghost fanboy. 79% is very good but not a fanboy rating, that would be 97%. I didn't even talk about the 50% rating (that was only the case for the two "pop" albums by Edguy and Elvenking that got completely different ratings). And I'm not written for well-respected websites and never claimed to do so. I try to work for different webistes to exchange with different people and get on in my life.

You want something constructive? Here you go:

The band copies itself and doesn't do anything "progressive" here at all. That's why there is a lack of perfection.

79% is very good

75% is a pretty average rating

Foiled again!

I replied. All their albums are 90%+, they're the most consistent band to ever exist!

I, too, would like to check out more of this Ningen-Isu discography. I believe I have two or three albums on my home PC, which I found online, but haven't come across anythign else. However, I just wanted to say, regarding antoine's review there:

You wrote:

"Ningen-Isu has of course always played their music with a very tight approach, they’re Japanese after all and outside the realms of Abigail and Metalucifer, sloppiness is to be laughed at."

I know there's a preference in Japanese culture for having things neat and orderly, but I actually think that's resulted in a tradition of Japanese rock/punk/metal bands rebelling by going the other way (not talking about shredders here or proggish bands like Ningen-isu). What about the tradition of crazy punkmetal stuffs from there like S.O.B., GISM, etc? I also seem to recall coming across some pretty rough black metal from the late 90s...in particular there was one band called Hurusoma that sounded like Darkthrone's UAFM, only much rawer. Sabbat also delivered some gloriously sloppy goods in their old albums and even recent live shows (I believe their drummer likes to play pretty drunk!) Anyway, this is the country that gave us The Boredoms!

iamntbatman's review of 'Sarkrista - The Acheronian Worship' is very well written and describes the music and sound perfectly I think. Just an FYI, they are working on 2 splits and an EP I believe for the coming months/year and then hopefully another full length

Oh yeah????? What albums are you gonna review, Jesus Cop?

@RapeTheDead: I get your (fucking) point, (dude), but everyone's (fucking) different I guess, (guys) (.), at school, nobody (fucking) learns nothing about sentence structures, phrases lengths or how to write reviews (.), it's all just about dumbly (fuckingly) regurgitating information all the time (.) but you surely didn't go to school in Canada, (fella), 'cos that's not how it works there, (you know), (man?) (hope that wasn't too cold-hearted and I swear I didn't post it on an "intellectual" web site first).

I'm sorry but I just can't have a serious conversation with anyone who gave "Silverthorn" a 50 for being emotionless and pale... A step down from "Poetry for the Poisoned"? There's something amiss here.

I don't agree with his review of Silverthorn, but the main thing I really have to criticize it for is his assertion that it has too many parts crammed into the songs - it's actually the simplest Kamelot album maybe ever, though I haven't heard their very early ones. It's got much less ornate bells and whistles than every album they did with Khan, though maybe Ghost Opera was close in simplicity.

Over the years I'm coming to the slow realization that Kamelot kinda just sucks. At least Poetry was a little different from their oeuvre, but my underdogging for that album only lasted a few listens before remembering that this is Kamelot after all and none of their albums last more than a listen or two before getting awfully boring.

I CAN'T TAKE ANYTHING APU SAYS SERIOUSLY BECAUSE HE GAVE "ALTARS OF MADNESS" 11%!!!!!!!

Pretty spot on High Spirits review: http://www.metal-archives.com/reviews/H ... 051/Xyston love that record, it's a funnier and rockier Dawnbringer.

Reading through his review quickly, I would especially like to point out the absurdity of his complaint regarding the overuse of blast beats. There is more, I'm sure, but I can't bear to read further.

it's impossible to overuse blast beats! The more the better!

He did? And I thought it puzzling he should give the completely fine Aurora Borealis album a score below 10%. What a strange taste.

Reading through his review quickly, I would especially like to point out the absurdity of his complaint regarding the overuse of blast beats. There is more, I'm sure, but I can't bear to read further.