Apart from
http://metal-archives.com/stats.php and
https://pub.needlebase.com/actions/visu ... etal-Index the database logs what happens to the reviews each year. I've extracted some stats from that log now, so enjoy.
Totals:
17694 submissions in total
10500 approvals in total
7533 reviews were rejected or deleted in total
7154 were initial rejections (by mods)
156 reviews were later removed by mods
388 reviews were removed by the respective authors
This means that it was harder to get a review accepted in 2009 than in 2008, as the total number of submissions was somewhat lower (18092 in 2008) and the rejection number grew from 7101. This gives a rejection ratio of 0.43 compared to 0.39 in 2008 and 0.42 in 2007.
It should be noted, for these stats and the ones that follow, that the database only logs the date when something happened to the review, i.e. it was accepted, rejected or deleted. This skews the presented results somewhat when it comes to reviews that are deleted after the year of submission. Now, those deletions probably don't matter too much (there aren't that many deletions anyway), so enjoy the figures.
Album stats:
Albums with most approved reviews:
(approvals count forever, so it was later removed it still does show up here):
25 Kreator - Hordes of Chaos
23 Cannibal Corpse - Evisceration Plague
16 1349 - Revelations of the Black Flame
15 Mastodon - Crack the Skye
14 Heaven and Hell - The Devil You Know
13 Immortal - All Shall Fall
13 Megadeth - Endgame
13 Slayer - World Painted Blood
13 Wolves in the Throne Room - Blood Cascade
12 Beherit - Engram
11 Dream Theater - Black Clouds & Silver Linings
11 Funeral Mist - Maranatha
11 Job For A Cowboy - Ruination
11 Obscura - Cosmogenesis
11 Sepultura - A-Lex
Albums with most rejected or deleted reviews :
38 Metallica - Death Magnetic (down from 116 rejections last year)
36 Cannibal Corpse - Evisceration Plague
36 Megadeth - Endgame
35 Cryptopsy - The Unspoken King (down from 65)
31 Slayer - World Painted Blood
26 Kreator - Hordes of Chaos
26 Lamb of God - Wrath
23 Behemoth - Evangelion
23 Metallica - Master of Puppets
22 Immortal - All Shall Fall
22 Metallica - St. Anger
21 1349 - Revelations of the Black Flame
21 Gorgoroth - Quantos Possunt ad Satanitatem Trahunt
19 Slayer - Reign In Blood
18 Waking the Cadaver - Perverse Recollections of a Necromangler
Most improved (most reviews approved and later deleted):
7 Kreator - Hordes of Chaos
4 Setherial - Nord
3 Cannibal Corpse - Evisceration Plague
3 Limbonic Art - In Abhorrence Dementia
3 Limbonic Art - Moon in the Scorpio
3 Peste Noire - Ballade cuntre lo Anemi Francor
...and then follows 40 albums at 2 reviews approved and deleted.
Worst albums (rejections/approvals ratio):
19 Metallica - Death Magnetic
17,5 Cryptopsy - The Unspoken King
11,5 Metallica - Master of Puppets
7,333333333 Metallica - St. Anger
7 Metallica - Ride the Lightning
6,5 Mayhem - De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas
6,333333333 Slayer - Reign In Blood
6 Death - The Sound of Perseverance
6 Dimmu Borgir - In Sorti Diaboli
6 Waking the Cadaver - Perverse Recollections of a Necromangler
5,5 Dark Angel - Darkness Descends
5 Lacrimas Profundere - Filthy Notes for Frozen Hearts
4,5 Cannibal Corpse - Kill
4,5 Lord Azmo - Expire My Candle
Goes to show that the bandwagon jumping just doesn't pay out. Even less so this year. In 2008 the highest ratio was 6 (for …And Justice for All). Death Magnetic had 5.5 in a shared second place with Reign in Blood.
Band stats:
Bands with most approved reviews:
62 Black Sabbath
53 Megadeth
51 Slayer
48 Iron Maiden
46 Behemoth
42 Ozzy Osbourne
41 Cannibal Corpse
39 W.A.S.P.
38 Amorphis
37 Judas Priest
37 Kreator
36 Anthrax
33 Immortal
32 Dio
30 Dream Theater
Bands with most rejected reviews:
148 Metallica
93 Megadeth
87 Slayer
71 Cannibal Corpse
58 Iron Maiden
57 Death
49 Behemoth
49 Cryptopsy
46 Lamb of God
46 Mayhem
44 Judas Priest
43 Immortal
41 Kreator
38 Dream Theater
37 Gorgoroth
Worst bands (highest rejections/approvals ratio):
6,57 Mayhem
6,17 Metallica
5,00 DevilDriver
5,00 Watain
4,75 Death
4,67 Whitechapel
4,60 Waking the Cadaver
4,08 Cryptopsy
4,00 Arch Enemy
4,00 Negative Plane
Checking the calendar:
Months:
Jan 1456
Feb 1333
Mar 1434
Apr 1506
May 2068
Jun 1392
Jul 1468
Aug 1205
Sep 1174
Oct 1359
Nov 1918
Dec 1288
The busiest days:
152 21st May
138 18th May
127 23rd May
126 16th Nov
123 17th Nov
120 20th May
119 22nd May
117 18th Dec
115 24th May
113 20th Nov
108 19th Nov
107 19th May
93 18th Nov
90 22nd Oct
Coincidentally, the 8th Virgin Review Challenge was Monday the 18th of May to Sunday the 24th and the 9th was 16th - 22nd November.
Reviewer stats:
Reviewers with most approved reviews:
762 autothrall
269 hells_unicorn
268 Perplexed_Sjel
255 OzzyApu
249 Noktorn
209 DeathRiderDoom
209 oneyoudontknow
177 ThrashManiacAYD
156 Empyreal
131 Phuling
105 Muloc7253
101 Werewolf
95 sushiman
94 CHRISTI_NS_ANITY8
85 colin040