At least everyone seems to acknowledge that this has one of the worst production jobs ever, and that the album suffers from it, but that's where most people seem to turn their brain off and praise this anyway, merely because it has "Suffocation" on the cover or something. A brand name does not guarantee quality, people! Open your eyes and remove the shit from your ears, you're not doing it right! You all know this sucks very badly, stop trying to come up with fake bullshit praise for an album that doesn't deserve it.

Mullen is far from being close to his best here. His frog croaking style on the first album was admittedly really, really good. It doesn't really sound intelligent, but it definitely doesn't even come close to this crummy performance from him. I don't have a clue what he's trying to achieve here, but it really sounds like he's trying to scream his lungs out constantly losing his tone in the process. He sounds like Martin Van Drunen, just as deliberately grating on the ears, but far less torturous and far, far less impressive.

...the first 40% or so of the review (which, in case you're too lazy to click, is about Breeding the Spawn) consists of a rant about how if only people were being honest with themselves, they'd all agree with him.

Oh yeah, cutting the sarcasm for a second, that review is positively awful, I barely managed to get through the whole thing, and I honestly wished I'd stopped after the first paragraph.

Funny, as I felt the same way after reading the title, and I don't even care about Suffocation.

It's a shame though, as judging by that review he is not a bad writer apart from the abundance of weasel words.

Chris Barnes' vocals don't do it for me, and I don't like any of his albums. All of the early Cannibal Corpse vocals sound the exact same and are very monotone, as are the riffs.

Never understood what reviewers think they are going to achieve with this style. "I don't like this, and because of that it means you don't actually like it either and are just delusional idiots who are pretending!" That just seems childish to me.

i did enjoy mutantclannfears review of in the nightside eclipse. I really did crack up reading the spongebob comparison. Kinda missed the mark with calling the riffing on that album half primitive/half cutting edge.

Woot! Someone else who doesn't like that album... or Emperor in general.

But the problem is that for the most part, In the Nightside Eclipse is a bit more behind the times than its contemporaries were in terms of riffing, and so it attempts to mix older black metal riffs with a newfound early-90s level of seriousness and pretense, to limited success. This seems to have missed out on the developments that bands like Darkthrone, Mayhem and Burzum had picked up on, who were shifting to a more technical and focused style of black metal with more chords, more layering, and more blasting.

" I I also pine for the days when FSM and Nightgaunt would reject 8 point reviews from Acrobat for having the wrong it's/its. You kids have it easy with Dia, Zodi, and myself!

To be fair it's one of the more annoying grammatical errors that people make. And it's not even that hard to differentiate between the two, especially for a native English speaker.

Yeah. They're are few things worser then that. Also, people who misspell vinyl annoy me.

I don't really mind, as long as their describing the rifts on those albuns.

There their over they're, aren't they? I could of corrected the errors myself, if only would of had studied more grandma on school.

Chug chug chug chug...what is that? A train?!?! No!!! It's the equally crushing yet awesome death metal/thrash metal riffs of Broken Hope which are present all throughout their debut full length, Swamped in Gore

Acrobat, your review for In the Rectory of the Bizarre Reverend is listed under the 2004 version with the bonus disc, but your review doesn't ever mention the bonus disc or any of the tracks on it. Why is this?

http://www.metal-archives.com/reviews/Burzum/Hvis_lyset_tar_oss/413048/LeMiserable/327446

Half a page of rambling on genres and this dimwit can't seem to understand that this album is both black metal and ambient. It seems like the possibility that an album is a fusion of two styles isn't possible in his demented mind.