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colin040
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PostPosted: Sat Mar 04, 2023 5:19 pm 
 
https://www.metal-archives.com/reviews/ ... Hate/2654/

Another one that's not saying much.
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Sean16
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PostPosted: Sat Mar 25, 2023 11:55 am 
 
2004 + Snxke + crappy nazi album = this one is literally yelling for deletion. There IS indeed some musical description, but come on. Ellipses galore, inept typos including an unfinished sentence(!), and a disturbingly sympathetic attitude towards the ideology displayed.

https://www.metal-archives.com/reviews/Sons_of_Satan/In_Times_of_Fire/45333/

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Meh... - 61%
Snxke, July 3rd, 2004

Sure, these guys have the Nazi thing down more than 90% of the Nazi bands could DREAM of having it down...sadly...the music just doesn't really cut it. It's extremely well played, and the musicians are obviously talented though lacking in a truly creative presentation. (They also have the most annoying singer in black metal...the screams just aren't doing it for me.) They rise up and hit with a guitar/drum hit here and there but the basic concept is the same as most of the aggressive NSBM being shoved out to the market today. If you're angry at Jews, Muslims...etc...etc. You'll probably love this release...if you're looking to simply find some good black metal...well...you'll find some average double-stomp black metal that has been a key sound for many years now. Sure, they were slightly ahead of the game releasing the early stuff in 2000...but the market is so glutted now that it's really hard form them to stand out against the crowd.

The songcraft is what really suffers here. They deliver song after song of hateful wrath but little of it gells into an actual catchy riff or fist-pumping resistance anthem. Learning nothing from the master of National Socialism himself...they forgo drama and epic turns for violence and bloodshed. This will hardly draw more than a few dedicated fanatics to thier cause...and we all no the success of preaching to a very small choir. These guys have the goods to create stirring metal, but they're currently more concerned with thier diatrabes against the "enemies" than they are in crafting perfect songs. They DO however sometimes come up with a good "march" riff (see "Fire of Hell) that puts in the mood to knock out a few teeth...but these few moments don't save the CD from being entirely average.

Oh yeah...somebody strangle that annoying vocalist. He isn't strong enough to carry this material...he is passable in the low range...but his screams are just...ugh.

If you're into Marduk...and other entirely unrelenting bands of this sort you might be in luck. This doesn't let up for a moment and it sometimes strikes you with a neat passage that makes you bounce your head along, but the overall feel lacks the militancy they so desperately tried to seek. When they rise to the occasion they

The whole affair though makes you wonder what exactly they were all so pissed off about in the first place...hopefully this was a tad cathartic for them.

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colin040
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PostPosted: Sun Apr 02, 2023 5:53 am 
 
https://www.metal-archives.com/reviews/ ... zene/5300/

Not sure why this got accepted, honestly. Person makes some superficial claims that aren't saying much, such as;

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While the musicianship is okay, it doesn't sound like Ossian were trying to put all their might into this album. The guitar work is great when it comes to solos and leads, and those parts are the best parts on this album. But the riffs are very dry and very lifeless. Not one riff grabs you, not one riff grips you. They are monotonous, repetitive, robotic and just underwhelming.


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The drumming is quite okay, it lives up to the standard it needs to in this genre. It's not groundbreaking, but there are quite a bit of fills in the record that save this album from being even more colorless and less interesting. Vocalist Endre Paksi doesn't contribute much. It's the typical example of someone who does vocals just to fill up the space that's there for the vocals, and do absolutely nothing more than that. This is the "bare minimum" of metal vocals. Surely, nobody gets excited about a bare minimum performance.


Also claims that;

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The album as a whole is not bad, by any means. It's alright, and you can definitely listen to it once without much difficulty. At the same time, the record is horribly indifferent and insignificant.


But at the same time says;

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So, there is nothing really shiny and valuable about this. This is an extremely populated genre, if you like it, I probably don't even have to list recommendations, you have an endless amount of available records in this realm that actually get the job done, starting with Primal Fear's "Jaws of Death", for instance. Don't listen to this. It never stops being flat. Because of the lack of creativity, it feels like it goes on forever (58 minutes!) with very minimal amount of substance. Avoid this.
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Auselesspileofflesh
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PostPosted: Tue Apr 04, 2023 1:21 am 
 
Weak if at all any discussion on the music. Reads more like a Facebook ramble.

https://www.metal-archives.com/reviews/ ... orn7/80604
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colin040
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PostPosted: Fri Apr 14, 2023 8:08 am 
 
https://www.metal-archives.com/reviews/ ... Meat/16808

Brief, hardly descriptive
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colin040
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PostPosted: Fri Apr 21, 2023 3:19 pm 
 
https://www.metal-archives.com/reviews/ ... ide/69090/

Not saying much!
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morbert
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PostPosted: Wed May 03, 2023 2:00 am 
 
https://www.metal-archives.com/reviews/Napalm_Death/Coded_Smears_and_More_Uncommon_Slurs/694635/gyuihvgui/785629

Damn. Does this reviewer not even know it's not an album but a compilation?
"phoning it in like this" huh? what? It's composed of already existing/released songs.
He speaks of 'the production' while there are multiple recordings and productions on it from the 2004-2014 period.

This just feels like bashing for bashing's sake and not an honest review. At all
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Napalm_Satan
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PostPosted: Wed May 03, 2023 8:23 am 
 
Honestly, they had 5 other reviews in the queue that I just went to reject, only to see they were already all rejected. As you can imagine they're similar to that one in general content, though at least they seem to understand the nature of the release being reviewed.

Anyway yeah that's naff. Came here to reject this one too and it's also gone lol.
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PostPosted: Wed May 03, 2023 8:30 am 
 
I'm pretty certain they were all written by a bot. See TBoS notes in the general discussion forum. He nuked all of them (including that one ^)
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colin040
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PostPosted: Sat Jun 10, 2023 3:57 am 
 
Another old one from UltraBoris that's hardly saying much.

https://www.metal-archives.com/reviews/ ... 2002/3861/
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colin040
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PostPosted: Mon Jun 26, 2023 2:42 pm 
 
https://www.metal-archives.com/reviews/ ... Xeper/1073
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colin040
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PostPosted: Fri Jul 07, 2023 2:24 pm 
 
https://www.metal-archives.com/reviews/ ... atrix/4221
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PostPosted: Fri Jul 07, 2023 4:16 pm 
 
Like zine reviews, that do not tell a lot ;) BUT: gotta love that "traditional hyper death metal" thingy!!!
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colin040
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PostPosted: Sun Jul 16, 2023 3:54 pm 
 
https://www.metal-archives.com/reviews/ ... aBoris/147

Should this one still be on the site?
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VictimOfScience
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PostPosted: Wed Aug 02, 2023 4:02 pm 
 
https://www.metal-archives.com/reviews/ ... attori/112

It's hilarious, but I'm not sure about this one.
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Of_This_Night36
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PostPosted: Tue Aug 22, 2023 9:21 pm 
 
I reported this to 2 separate mods in 2021 and 2022, and ALL the reviews are still there.
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The user I'm talking about - here
The report where the relation to the label/bands is confirmed - here
"Brother" thing - here
I hate to even bring it up as I kind of know the guy and it was a long time ago, but continuing to have these misleading, self-promoting reviews on the site is ridiculous.
If you need a list of all the bands they're in, just see here in their lineup.

Edit: I may also suggest looking at these two reviews ([here] and [here]). Knowing the intent here was to promote his own label, I find it not-very-coincidental the only two negative reviews he ever wrote were for bands not on his label. ........... And if I may say, I find O Majestic Winter (which he called "defiling the name of black metal") and Ichabod (a release on his label which he called a "masterpiece") to both sound pretty similar to each other......
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PostPosted: Thu Aug 24, 2023 1:10 am 
 
Of_This_Night36 wrote:
I reported this to 2 separate mods in 2021 and 2022, and ALL the reviews are still there.

Hey, thanks for your detailed research into this, we will have to spend a little time to determine which ones are best kept/deleted. It's not a terribly common situation for a band member to review their own stuff, so it may require some discussion.

Since it comes up both in relation to this user and also in your signature, I'm curious: what would an "unblack metal label" be like? (Okay, I checked. So you guys are competitors...)
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TheBurningOfSodom
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PostPosted: Thu Aug 24, 2023 7:50 am 
 
Might I ask you where did you get that band members are in fact allowed to review their own music, as long as those conditions are met? Honest question, since the same issue popped up when a user recently submitted a couple reviews of their own releases. They were surely honest (one was about a 15% and both read like a vlog commentary on the releases' making) and I was pretty sure I'd read the same 'criterion' you mentioned somewhere, but couldn't find anything to back up my memories. Either way, those ended up being rejected by some other mod. I'm not terribly fond of somebody reviewing their own stuff in first person, either... just don't see the point of it.

In any case, the situation you brought up is surely more shady and possibly dishonest. By a quick look, I think at least some of them will surely be eligible for a deletion.
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PostPosted: Thu Aug 24, 2023 12:44 pm 
 
AFAIK we never had a hard and fast rule against it, and as long as it isn't obviously disingenuous PR I don't personally have a problem with it. Hell doesn't Cirith Ungol have a few reviews from their drummer that are usually praised for their insightful honesty?
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Of_This_Night36
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PostPosted: Thu Aug 24, 2023 2:19 pm 
 
gasmask_colostomy wrote:
Since it comes up both in relation to this user and also in your signature, I'm curious: what would an "unblack metal label" be like? (Okay, I checked. So you guys are competitors...)

1) Same as any other. There is no difference. Other than that mine is kind of on hold at the moment, so some of the links are dead.

2) Closer to friends, other than this one single review situation that weighs on my conscience. He's actually helped me out a ton over the past couple years with a certain non-label-related endeavor; we've had a lot of nice talks; and he gave me rights to re-issue one of their old releases. I in turn have helped to promote his unblack material (he typically does secular stuff) and got him in touch with a new artist to work with.
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colin040
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PostPosted: Sun Sep 17, 2023 9:37 am 
 
https://www.metal-archives.com/reviews/ ... uin/38056/

Extremely brief and superficial description...even for grimdoom's standards.
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colin040
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PostPosted: Wed Sep 27, 2023 4:06 am 
 
That new Pestilence review makes my head hurt. It's as if the reviewer felt like describing each instrument separately, but is hardly capable of describing the music as a whole.

https://www.metal-archives.com/reviews/ ... is/1338686

Some memorable quotes include;

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The guitar work in this album is wonderful, I'm glad that Mameli had a big ego for those with skill to support their behavior absolutely have the right to be arrogant. The most of the solos are so fast that they seem to melt the listener's face such as the warping solo beginning Extreme Unction.

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The riffing is one of the many things that differentiates Pestilence from other bands. The riffs on Malleus Maleficarum are full of less used riffing techniques when compared to other metal albums, even the next Pestilence LP Consuming Impulse. In the track Commandments, for example, the riff at 3:17 has furious gallops before a darkened barre section where the ride cymbal is used too, creating the feeling of a dark billowing cloak or some sort of evil. Many of the riffs and the first solo in Parricide emanate the same darkened evil as the short but rotten barre section in that riff in Commandments.

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Not much I can say about the bass on this album besides it jolts the listener with vicious pounding. According to the information on the Metal Archives, Mameli played the bass on the LP recording, although Van Drunen plays the bass live while singing. Sometimes the bass is played solo, leaving the listener in awesome anticipation for the other instruments to join, like at 2:34 in Parricide.

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The drumming on this album is definitely a highlight as it is clearer than all of the other instruments. The aggressive drumming has a healthy amount of newer death metal techniques, instead of focusing on double kicking 100% of the time as a lot of death metal bands did later. An example of a nice death metal technique is at 2:05 in the track Subordinate To The Domination where the stick is pounding a snare and a cymbal and continues unchanging besides a few fills even when the riff changes and reverts, even when the solo starts and ends. Throughout Chemo Therapy, the drumming is also excellent, full with effects.
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morbert
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PostPosted: Thu Sep 28, 2023 1:30 am 
 
colin040 wrote:
That new Pestilence review makes my head hurt. It's as if the reviewer felt like describing each instrument separately, but is hardly capable of describing the music as a whole.

https://www.metal-archives.com/reviews/ ... is/1338686


It read like a teenager review. I found this to be the nail in the coffin:
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it keeps the posers at bay who wouldn't dare to be associated with a masterpiece of an album with this dampened fuzzy tone
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colin040
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PostPosted: Thu Sep 28, 2023 6:59 am 
 
How did I miss that? :lol:
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colin040
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PostPosted: Sun Oct 15, 2023 9:43 am 
 
https://www.metal-archives.com/reviews/ ... wkMoon/170

Super brief, hardly descriptive.
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gasmask_colostomy
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PostPosted: Sun Oct 15, 2023 9:52 am 
 
colin040 wrote:
https://www.metal-archives.com/reviews/My_Dying_Bride/The_Angel_and_the_Dark_River/2114/HawkMoon/170

Super brief, hardly descriptive.

Yeah, a rare old one that no one has seen for a while probably. I must have read that in the past, that's one of the first albums I reviewed on this site.
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PostPosted: Mon Oct 16, 2023 10:50 pm 
 
This reviewer has been brought up before. but I think all of their reviews are of questionable-at-best quality. As somebody else said, they write like a six-year-old. I believe they might legitimately be intellectually disabled. But that doesn't mean we should accept their poorly-written reviews.

Here are some examples.

https://www.metal-archives.com/reviews/ ... st666/9582 "this album is really damn good. this album is really damn good. this album is really damn good. I like the drumming"

https://www.metal-archives.com/reviews/ ... st666/9582

https://www.metal-archives.com/reviews/ ... st666/9582 "This is the first Cannibal Corpse album without Chris Barnes and I'm, like, so fucking impressed ohmygod"

You get the deal. As I said, this person's entire review history should really be nixed.
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PostPosted: Tue Oct 17, 2023 5:31 am 
 
Undyne_The_Undying wrote:
This reviewer has been brought up before. but I think all of their reviews are of questionable-at-best quality. As somebody else said, they write like a six-year-old. I believe they might legitimately be intellectually disabled. But that doesn't mean we should accept their poorly-written reviews.

Here are some examples.

https://www.metal-archives.com/reviews/ ... st666/9582 "this album is really damn good. this album is really damn good. this album is really damn good. I like the drumming"

https://www.metal-archives.com/reviews/ ... st666/9582

https://www.metal-archives.com/reviews/ ... st666/9582 "This is the first Cannibal Corpse album without Chris Barnes and I'm, like, so fucking impressed ohmygod"

You get the deal. As I said, this person's entire review history should really be nixed.

Has the vocabulary of a tomato, but actually talks about the music. Those ones pass better than random pretentious crap that says nothing about the music.
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colin040
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PostPosted: Tue Oct 17, 2023 8:59 am 
 
What about this one?

https://www.metal-archives.com/reviews/ ... oat/41708/
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colin040
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PostPosted: Tue Oct 24, 2023 6:45 am 
 
Found a couple of questionable ones from the old days

https://www.metal-archives.com/reviews/ ... ctim/21329

https://www.metal-archives.com/reviews/ ... ctim/21329

https://www.metal-archives.com/reviews/ ... ctim/21329 (not sure about this one)

https://www.metal-archives.com/reviews/ ... ctim/21329

EDIT: https://www.metal-archives.com/reviews/ ... erott/9872
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colin040
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PostPosted: Tue Oct 31, 2023 10:57 am 
 
Should this still be on the site? https://www.metal-archives.com/reviews/ ... ert/101472

morbert mentions how the album consists of 8 contorted compositions, but hardly explains why. Then complains about the riffs and lack of memorability and ''real melody'' (not idea what this means), but doesn't elaborate on this part.
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morbert
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PostPosted: Thu Nov 02, 2023 2:13 am 
 
colin040 wrote:
Should this still be on the site? https://www.metal-archives.com/reviews/ ... ert/101472

morbert mentions how the album consists of 8 contorted compositions, but hardly explains why. Then complains about the riffs and lack of memorability and ''real melody'' (not idea what this means), but doesn't elaborate on this part.


Because contorted compositions is the description.
as in 'randomly throwing together parts and riffs and call it a song when it's long enough'
If I go into more depth it would become even worse than a song by song review, which aren't even allowed

p.s. I wouldn't write the review as it is anymore since I got to know some people from the Dutch scene and as such I wouldn't say 'just stick to Asphyx mr Gubbels' anymore knowing more backstory on that collaboration. I'd still give this album a very low score though
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PostPosted: Thu Nov 02, 2023 3:20 am 
 
I tend to look at the ones posted here at least once in a while. If they are still on the site a week later, you can assume they are passable. In the case of morbert's it's probably descriptive enough of the sound in general that it communicates adequately to a fan of the style. It won't inform a power metal fan very well, but I don't think that was the point.
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PostPosted: Mon Nov 13, 2023 3:45 am 
 
How about this one: https://www.metal-archives.com/reviews/ ... oDeus/9954

Not saying much at all.

Edit/update
Maybe this one too? (same album) https://www.metal-archives.com/reviews/ ... Lord/35007
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PostPosted: Sun Nov 19, 2023 10:44 am 
 
Is this ok?

https://www.metal-archives.com/reviews/ ... nas/115788

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PostPosted: Sun Nov 19, 2023 2:07 pm 
 
Forever Underground wrote:
Is this ok?

https://www.metal-archives.com/reviews/ ... nas/115788

HanSathanas wrote:
It’s unfathomable the level of hate Arghoslent is getting. Just enjoy the music for fuck’s sake. I mean, we’ve all listened to some of the worst things in metal, anti-religion, pedophilia, genocide, rape etc. Out come a band that shamelessly championed the racial hatred like no other, then everyone loses their mind.


Pretty pointless in my opinion


Might be an unnecessary final paragraph, but the reviewer did mention enough about the music.
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Metal_On_The_Ascendant about Virgin Steele's The Passion of Dionysus:
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PostPosted: Sun Nov 19, 2023 3:48 pm 
 
The review is fine, I was simply referring to whether or not the excerpt I quoted should be acceptable. He could be asked to omit that part and resubmit the review.
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As I write this I'm mentally body slamming an innocent old lady walking down the street like that dude from Scatterbrain.
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PostPosted: Fri Nov 24, 2023 6:20 pm 
 
https://www.metal-archives.com/reviews/ ... ior/22852/

Brief one from the old days.
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colin040
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PostPosted: Sun Nov 26, 2023 4:19 pm 
 
Another old one

https://www.metal-archives.com/reviews/ ... ndi/130238
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colin040
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PostPosted: Fri Dec 08, 2023 2:29 pm 
 
https://www.metal-archives.com/reviews/ ... og7/294019

Surprised that this one made it on the site. It's super brief!
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