thank god im not alone in this

ConorFynes and kluseba are criticised for writing complete garbage, not for being productive.

You brought this upon yourself, Diarrhea.

First Blodfest review posted on metal-archives! Ok, it was from a Danish guy but still. More people need to listen to this band.

Epic series of Moonsorrow reviews, Napero. Kivenkantaja is my favourite.

0% review for a Summoning album?!?!! does not compute.

And not a very good one, at that. Nothing in that review actually made it clear why it deserved a 0%. It was pretty vague and wishy-washy, I thought.

That review: "It didn't sound exactly like I wanted it to sound, so I'm giving it a 0%." Awful review.

Zarach 'Baal' Tharagh gets 65% higher... I wonder if he actually screwed up putting in the score. From reading the review you'd think the rating would be 40% - 50%.

Thank you, sir. It's one of the bands that need to be looked at as a whole, not as individual albums. So read those in chronological order.

I may have to do it myself one of these days, I wrote them all while having a mild fever. There's got to be plenty to edit.

What's your opinion on their demos? Tämä Ikuinen Talvi is probably my favorite Moonsorrow release in general, despite how different it sounds from their regular works.

Really great reviews Nap. Your Havietty one was quite nice and I agree with most of it. It reminds me that I should work on my english

I feel ashamed of listening to it as studying background music now.

Isn't that the grounds for giving any album a negative review?

I think that what Empyreal meant was that he had great expectations for the album due to it being constantly praised. So when he didn't listen to what he was expecting he lashed back. The grounds for giving a negative review, let alone a 0%, have to account for its musical value somehow.

Ok now Zodijackyl is just trolling.

http://www.metal-archives.com/reviews/M ... Zodijackyl

Yea that's a questionable one for sure. I wasn't sure to accept it or not, but he said he wasn't trolling. That's reliable, right?

I love how he refuses to combat the reasons why other people think it's terrible or even acknowledge its general consesus whatsoever. Nothing he writes there justifies a 100% review - it's more of a mildly descriptive and objective rite-up on the music ith little sprinkles of opinion. Awful.

I actually quite liked that album, but you're right in that the 100% seems to be just for counterbalance to the 0s. The review didn't exactly scream "perfection! classic! must-have!"

And "The depth of the album is legendary"? Come on, even I wouldn't go that far. It's a brutally simple album by design.

Yeah, hate to pull the troll card, but I'd be lying if I said that wasn't the first thought that crossed my mind as soon as I spotted those scores on the reviews page. The (lack of) content of both reviews did little to dissipate my doubts.

Now that's just shocking. I'm surprised the standards aren't higher for an album that already has thirty reviews, not to mention the review isn't even good and in no way justifies a score of 100%.

I have that one, but haven't heard most of the rest. Tämä ikuinen talvi sounds kinda like a Wal-Mart version of older Dimmu Borgir, IMO... But I'm not too much into that kind of BM, really, so you can simply forget my opinions. I was going to include it in the lot, but decided against it, as it is not a part of the same continuum as the full-lengths.


I'd clean the reviews on that, since probably 40% of those reviews are crap. But... but. I haven't heard but a few tracks off tha album, and I really don't have an opinion of my own on it. However, I definitely DO have an opinion on reviews on it, and frankly, I find them utterly repulsive, and I don't want to read any of them.

Any other mod willing to prune out about a third of that junk? I'll see to that you'll get the Order of Lenin for it. Please...?

What's happening to metal-archives? Illud gets 100%, Nespithe gets 40%. Fuck that shit, people have terrible tastes.

Are you really that surprised?

I can accept that someone likes Illud, seeing that I haven't heard it, but disliking Nespithe is a sign of mental problems. Or of really low level of understanding.

Seeing how the guy talks about the guitar work being incoherent barrages of notes, then I'd say your second guess is the correct one.

Did you see the list of DM he enjoys in the final paragraph of that review? Gateway bands, basically. I don't think he was quite ready for Demilich.

I wouldn't call Autopsy or Immolation gateway bands but yeah, I get your point. Unless you love really alien stuff by default it's very difficult to get a band such as Demilich.

I don't see how Autopsy aren't a good gateway band. Rocky, doomy catchy stuff that appeals to fans of heavy metal.

It's just that I relate the term "gateway band" with groups like Machine Head and Cradle of Filth. You know what I mean.

It's somewhat that, but the review came off as an extremely flimsy justification. It's like he heard these great things about it and then just listened to it based on the hype instead of how the actual, real music sounded. I can buy that he didn't like it, but giving it a shitty review as well as a 0% just shows that he didn't really take the time to analyze it at all or judge it based on anything other than his pre-conceived notions.

Not to bitch too much, but http://www.metal-archives.com/reviews/G ... 9/Wilytank anyone?

It takes some time to appreciate it. For me it did at least. I could hardly believe, at first, how highly esteemed the band was, though I did enjoy the music somewhat.

His review is crappy, but I can completely understand why some find Obscura to be a highly annoying album (though I do like it myself).

He does use the word "wankery" in nearly every sentence. Wait until he listens to Origin...

I found this amusing: http://www.metal-archives.com/reviews/A ... rest/3224/

Two reviews, same score and title. If I review that album, I think I'll title it "Terrible", regardless of what I think of the music.

Why would you assume that? Seems like pretty nostalgia-trip (which is appropriate) autothrall goodness to me. He's had several reviews like this.

It just looks strangely long and meticulously descriptive considering what autothrall usually does (or at least what I've read from him). Not like that album deserves any less.

That's typical for the classics he really enjoys. Check out the Keeper of the Seven Keys, Part 1 and No More Color reviews. Newer albums receive less info, usually. It just depends.

I will check those bad boys out then.

I write my review in Notepad before posting them, so the coincidental titles and scores were completely unintentional. That demo really was terrible.