True, but I guess it gets to a point where enough is enough. Like I'd say 80% of mine are classics and 20% are less known things, so at this point people have an idea of what my taste is and I've made some ground on writing style (even though that can always be improved), so here on out I'm gonna try and avoid stuff like that. I've been part of MA for 5 months now and I think it's time I give it a rest since I'm not really "new" anymore. Plus evidently it's pissing off the mods. But you make a great point there.

Nice, thorough job by hells_unicorn on that Energetic Krusher; that album needs as much exposure as possible.

Much obliged, I actually ended up checking out the album because of your review. I never knew there was anything that sounded like that going on in the U.K.'s thrash metal scene during the late 80s, though I guess it definitely provides a missing link between the safer thrash acts from that area and the few death metal acts that sprang out of the U.K. soon after.

Man, my review for Orden Ogan's newest is looking pretty lonely among all the 90+ ones.

Yeah, can't say I'd score that one a 90+ myself (maybe a 70 on a good day). It hasn't fully grown on me though - my impression on the first 3 listens varied wildly (1st = 60, 2nd = 30, 3rd = 70).

I thought you always liked being different.

At any rate, I listened to that one 5 times and every time it hit me almost as hard as "To The End" did. Maybe my ears just love a good hook, though I think I held a minority position on Blind Guardian's "Nightfall On Middle Earth" being their greatest work, which may account for the divergence. I love my power metal when it's big sounding and mostly fast.

I had to force myself to play it more than once, so that was how I knew I didn't care for it. As for Nightfall, I don't think that's too outrageous really. My own review still stands personally, but I think it's a pretty good album overall - just not as good as the hype was, is all.

I'm on the "Ravenhead is Awesome" brigade, as well. It's just got too many memorable tunes to dismiss, whereas I can't for the life of me remember anything off their first three albums.

Testimonium A.D. is an odd little album, it all but sounds like a folksy retread of extremely early Manowar. I'm guessing Seeb's brief run with Suidakra must have had an impact on his songwriting at that time. I generally like all of their albums, though I think the latest two are their best work.

I'd love to get my hands on a hard-copy of Testimonium A.D. (haven't been able to find a reasonably priced copy of that anywhere). Strangely enough, I did land a copy of their "Soli Deo Gloria" demo awhile back. Not the best thing in the world, but its definitely an interesting listen.

As there's a lot of negativity in this thread, I feel the need to post something positive, about a solid review I enjoyed reading that basically summed up my thoughts on this album, except I wouldn't rate it 100%. Regardless, I thought this one was great.

http://www.metal-archives.com/reviews/G ... ega/329906

Interesting read. Seems to capture what is liked about the album quite well.

http://www.metal-archives.com/reviews/D ... nas/115788

Bodom was always terrible at the slower songs, I'll stick with that til I die. I'll tolerate Angels Don't Kill at shows because it was the first one and the fans seem to like it, but all the rest of them can fuck off forever. Bodom, especially in the early days, was carried by their batshit insanity and absolutely foreign understanding of the concept of restraint. Hatebreeder is great because it's so shit-chewing ridiculous, when they started getting more serious and focused, they somehow managed to get much more pedestrian and clearly phoned in like three and a half straight albums.

Waiting for Acrobat or somebody to just quote the first four words of this post

But who was "Everytime I Die?" Does that suck too?

Ehhhhhhh I guess you're right, though I've just never looked at it in the same camp as Angel's Don't Kill, Banned From Heaven, Punch Me I Bleed, etc

I've never listened to corn on the CoB, but this discussion is entertaining for how consistently awful the song titles are.

I actually once considered drawing a single-panel cartoon of "KoRn on the CoB", but soon realized I'm not into stuff quite that repulsive.

You're welcome!

but yeah Bodom's a band I used to listen to a lot but can't really enjoy anymore. There's some good stuff scattered throughout their earlier albums but I always found they're technicality overshadowed their ability to actually write memorable songs. Kalmah and Mirror of Madness-era Norther had more interesting stuff going on.

Kluseba's Acrassicauda review

40 minutes is brazenly short?

It's daringly close to an EP! Tingly!

Kluseba probably shouldn't use random words.

Good read, pretty tight review for this excellent album by Nahsil: http://www.metal-archives.com/reviews/N ... hsil/56817

From the new Vallendusk review:

That's really not the case at all. In fact the ratio of decent to rubbish in terms of lyrics is pretty similiar in Southeast Asia to the rest of the world.

Oftentimes, people make sweeping generalizations to cover the fact that they don't onow what they're talking about.

Sweetleaf's new review for Quiet Riot was a little heavy-handed with laying down the law, but I'm glad Rhandy Rhoads-QR is getting more attention and liked the review a lot. Nevertheless I understand the general ignorance about those albums a little: the newer members of Quiet Riot and DuBrow considered it a sort of separate band, which is why they ignored those albums in counting, as in QR III and Quiet Riot 10.

Since he'll likely read this: have you seen Quiet Riot: Well Now You're Here, There's No Way Back? 'Explains it all rather well: the history of personnel changes is out of this world funny.

Thank you, and I actually haven't read that yet, I'll check it out for sure.

Rad. Concept thrash. I will definitely heed this album.

Can you do Terrified next? I always thought that one was pretty decent considering the time of its release (1993). Thought about doing it myself but you seem to know QR pretty well. Have at it.

I was gonna do Quiet Riot II next but perhaps I'll give that one a whirl sometime soon. The last QR album that I truly loved was QR III.

My new Portal review has a long section on their earlier material, I hope that doesn't violate the review rules. I just felt it necessary to put the album in perspective.

SweetLeaf95, I'm mad at you for giving Dirt a 67%.

You're a few months late there Grave_Wyrm. I do like that album, in my book a 67% is still pretty good. It's just that along with all of the good there were a lot of parts I disliked.

Dirt is an iconic record, but I think they've done way better overall. I can agree with his review.

I don't see what you mean. I wrote that immediately after I saw that score.

That's because my review was one of the latest ones, but I wrote that back in like early February.

I agree but I'd still give it a 80%+, I think it's too long and overstays its welcome. Dinosaurs is very long too but it stays good throughout and has top notch tracks near the dead like "Phantom Limb".Sort of weird that my favorite AiC albums are basically their 2 last ones alongside Jar of Flies.

SweetLeaf, nobody is stopping anyone from commenting on older reviews, yours is only a few months old anyway... We need more action in this thread anyway.

I'd give it an 80-82% myself. It's just one of those things where it defined their sound and is their most well known album, but not the best...the s/t improves on it and I like the mellow EPs a lot more. Dinosaurs has actually been growing on me too, though I probably wouldn't give it any higher of a score really.

I would agree on the part with the mellow EPs. I tackled Jar of Flies back then and I gave that one a 96%. It's the most superior of their work, if you ask me.

Yes, back then in the ancient times of February 2015, when the world was a more innocent place.

Great reviews of the new Nightwish album and singles, sushiman - very well done, descriptive, easy to read and makes me want to hear it. Keep up the good work. People should read this guy's reviews if they want to know how to do it right.