When you're reviewing, what are some of your favorite adjectives to use? And what are some of the most exotic/fun adjectives you've ever seen in a review? I'll list off a few of mine:

Crunchy
Terrifying
All-devouring
Monotonous
Hyperbolic
Epic

Metal \m/

Crunchy is definitely a good one.

When I'm writing for Thrash albums, I usually come back to these:

Ballsy
Crushing
Chunky
Punchy

My Power Metal lingo is a little less metal:

Epic
Majestic
Triumphant
Consonant

How about christkilling?

No contest for me: "heinous".

Abhorrent, abysmal, phlegmatic, asinine, turgid, transcendent... too many good ones.

Brooding, melancholic, and many along the lines of what OlympicSharpshooter posted.

Sub-awful

Rofl, sub awful? Does that mean worse than awful or better than awful?

Worse, I assume.

Anyway, to describe a thrash album, riffy is a very good (pseudo-)word.

Ethereal, Wistfulness.

"Awesome." I'm sorry, I can't help it.

Now, I think we should turn this into a sort of "adjective recs" thread, to help out people like me with a limited vocabularly, post away!

'Fucking,' and variations thereof, seems to be my most used adjective.

Let me just pick a few out of my bag of tricks:

Searing
Steely
Intricate
Atrocious
Epochal
Monolithic
Twisted
Monstrous
Fiery
Stale
Stagnant
Show-stopping

etc etc etc.

I like monolithic... I might need to steal that one.

Ha, I knew Empyreal wold say monolithic! I'm not quite sure what you mean with it though. Is the music phallic rock or does it have everything integrated in a small song?

Not having reviewed anything for a while I don't really remember. But I do like to include the word 'awkward'. That's a fairly duck-like adjective which should offend any musician happening to read what I write.

I use it as another variant of epic or "big," usually in the manner of riffs or even just heaviness. Like "Isen Torr's 2 song EP contains a monolithic set of riffs to back up Tony Taylor's inimitable wailing." It's just something you know when you hear it; I am sure we all have our own various adjectives for it.

Although certainly it could mean something else too.

Yes, I figured it was something along those lines - due to the context rather than the word itself I suppose.

I prefer gargantuan to monolithic personally... but monolithic is a pretty cool word

PigBenis, you're not supposed to have pics in your sig.

My bad. Removed it.

After submitting my latest one, I realized I use "furious" and "intense" a lot.

Just thought of an awesome one to use, "anthemic".

sloppy
crunchy
evil
grotesque
bad ass
brutal
annoying
monolithic

"Evil beyond all reason."

Deadly, ethereal, soaring. I also thought it was funny when 1349's "Hellfire" was called an abomination.

I remember that when you did that "Pompousness" series you used ass metaphors a disturbing amount.

I tend towards huge, monolithic, massive and the like, I think doom (which for the most part is what I review) lends itself well to those things. I also use epic a lot more then I should.

I got these by looking through a review I'm working on.

Eerie, wrenching, snarling, vicious, triumphant, speeding, gigantic

...

Scaly.



I was going off on a tangent, and

Epic
Grim
Fathom
Unbelievabley

I can't really think of anything else =/

Jesus Christ never write a review please please please.

A review!? How is that a review?

:durr:

lol
I realized what he meant after I wrote it

"Majestic" makes me shiver inside

Consistent, consistency.

Epic is an adjective I always use, but that doesn't imply it's a favourite of mine - my favourites would be stuff like repugnant, insidious, iniquitous etc. but I hardly get the chance to use them.

I hate using it, but it's the only term that applies at times

I find it's use rather inevitable.

Epic would a good adjective if it weren't so overused. Grand, majestic, and anthemic work well in its place though.