The title is 大地女神, which translates to Mother Earth. I did not notice this band or the release before. It is made "in memory of the people who died and suffered in the 2008.5.12 Sichuan Earthquake." (The small Chinese words on the bottom of the cover.)

http://www.metal-archives.com/albums/Bl ... m%29/26284
The lyrics of track 1 are broken, while the other listed lyrics are writeen correcty in Chinese.

http://www.metal-archives.com/albums/Cr ... ONE/323429
The title is written on the cover in Chinese, not English

http://www.metal-archives.com/albums/Da ... and/329604
As with most of the artists previous works, the cover title is both Chinese, and an English subtitle. The Chinese section needs to be added

http://www.metal-archives.com/bands/Can ... 3540290698
Finally, I bring these guys. It would appear that their stagenames are written in either an obscure language (at least one I've never seen) or they just made up a bunch of symbos and used those as names.

Track 1 is instrumental. Some voices appear in the sampling, but this is not lyrics.


This album is released under the band member Silvester See (施伟然). It should not be regarded as a release of Crystal Zone. Deleted.


This is a compilation album by 6 artists. deleted.

http://www.metal-archives.com/bands/%D0 ... 3540267215
Titles should be Macedonian. Large cover art (containing tracklist) can be found here:
http://balkan-metal.blogspot.ca/search/ ... 7%D0%B5%29

http://www.metal-archives.com/bands/Necros/105840
(additional names)

Changed. Was only one additional name; the other was "Изверг", which shouldn't have even been there.

Czech - Lyrics are broken.
http://www.metal-archives.com/albums/Br ... 1998/61830

In case someone can fix this:
http://www.metal-archives.com/report/view/id/345840

Well, this band is really obscure, but I manage to find some info. On this page, it says the first generation line-up features 拉夫拉斯 Lafulasi (vocal), 至中 Zhizhong (Guitar), 宗聯 Zonglian (Bass), 阿寶 Abao (Drums). Note that except 拉夫拉斯, all other names are given names or nicknames. On this page, it says the 2nd generation line-up features 拉夫拉斯 Lafulasi (vocal/bass), 至中 Zhizhong (Guitar), 小新 Xiaoxin (Guitar), 小柯 Xiaoke (Drums). Comparing to the v1 page, 小新 is clearly the nickname of Long Xin, following a typical Chinese nickname style, though I cannot determine which character Long corresponds to, possibly 龍.

Also some info from this page. Here is a translation of the first two paragraphs:
In March 2000, A Paiwan (an aboriginal people from Taiwan) youth 夫拉斯 (note: should be 拉夫拉斯) from Pingdong County, Southern Taiwan, under the influence of death metal bands such as Deicide、Morbid Angel、Death..., founded the death metal band Mystery (謎) together with his Paiwan friends 巴魯 (Balu) and 阿寶 (Abao), and his cousin 庫瓦勒 (Ku Wale). The band performed many live performances in Southern Taiwan. (On one occasional, they shared the stage with Manum from Taipei, and they were also interviewed by local aboriginal radios.)

[Description of their music...] In 2001 December, they recorded a s/t demo and distributed it in Taiwan; the demo contains four tracks: 悲, 亡、殺、毀. Afterwards in July 2002, the band released a hand-numbered limited single album by the 2nd generation line-up, containing two tracks 悲, 亡.

I just spent hours on correcting deformed letters for bands from Eastern European. I am now a little bit frustrated. There are tons of mojibakes which are easy to correct, but actually correcting them is so time-consuming. For example, we know in Hungarian pages, two letters are affected, û (incorrect) --> ű (correct), õ --> ő, while other Hungarian letters with diacritics (á, é, í, ó, ö, ő, ú, ü, ű) are not affected. So whenever we see û, õ (which are not even letters in the alphabet) on a Hungarian page, it is quite safe to change them to ű, ő. This is annoying for lyrics. If the lyrics contains these deformed letters, you have to go through copy, paste, copy, paste... Could someone write a small script (for firefox say) that allows one to systematically change special deformed letters to correct letters? I can tell you how other eastern European languages are affected.

If only two letters are affected, maybe you can (temporarily) change the language/keyboard setting to Hungarian? You'd have to find out which keys correspond to the letters you need; apparently, on Hungarian keyboards (some) letters with diacritics have their own key. For my pc/system (Dutch language Windows, US keyboard) I found the following corresponding keys:
ő = [
Ő = {
ű = \
Ű = |

I tried it out for this album: http://www.metal-archives.com/albums/Ma ... ejt/106981, went smoothly, but it had only two mojibake (in the songtitles).

Apparently the letters ő, ű do not occur too often in the language. So if we have lyrics affected, you would have to "search/replace" or "replace all", which is not a fun work.

I need help. Slavic languages (Russian, Ukraininan, Czech etc.) have only first letter capitalized of the phrase/title/sentence and some bands give song and album titles when first letter of each word capitalized (for example, Ария - Мания Величия. I start to change all songs' and albums' titles of Ария with normal grammar rules (only first letter capitalized) but another Russian user changed them back to each word capitalized. I understand why Ария written their titles like that because it looks "cool", "pathetic" but it's still not familiar with Russian grammar rules.
What to do in that case? How titles should be written? I looked at Iron Maiden "Killers" and it has every word capitalized even preposition (of, the, in). But we written them according to general English grammar rules, so what to do with Slavic languages? I need official confirm from masters of MA because tons of bands from Slavic countries have this disorder in MA. Thanks!

That's actually something that's been going around in my head for some time now.

Although it has never been fully addressed (to my knowledge) for any language other than English, it's my understanding/assumption that the particular language's capitalization rules should be applied, regardless of how the titles are rendered by official sources. The rules for composition titles, that is, with the ones on Wikipedia being the standard we use for English. There are exceptions, naturally. Any kind of deliberate artistic lower case or CAPS choice or whatever. I don't know much about the specific rules in other languages nor do I know about the degree to which this may be codified at all, but I suspect many probably use the "only capitalize the first letter and proper nouns" approach. I've been dealing with this in regards to Spanish and German as well, correcting the capitalizations where I see them. German is a bit trickier in that regard, while Spanish mostly follows the rule paraphrased above.

If those are the formal rules for Russian/the Slavic language in question, then simply yes, please do change them. It might be useful to create a thread to collect individual languages' rules on this, if applicable. Could also be used for a "capitalization-task force" and posting links, similar to the lyrics thread, as native or fluent speakers are the obvious choice for the respective languages.

That being said, it's more of a "nice to have" thing, nothing pressing, and the suspected sheer amount of non-standard titles makes this a considerable undertaking. Still, it can't hurt to make edits when one comes across faulty capitalization. If you can't fix it yourself, reporting it is overkill, though.

aeternus1990 said in Slavic languages, only the first letter of a phrase (not each word in the phrase) is capitalized. Pardon me for my ignorance, but does it mean that "Мания Величия" is grammatically incorrect? I noticed that the Russian wikipedia renders Мания величия, and I also noticed that Russian wiki renders Песня о Буревестнике (Gorky's The Song of the Stormy Petrel). Is there a difference between writing an album title and an article title?

Yes, "Мания Величия" grammatically incorrect. But "Песня о Буревестнике" is correct because in this case "Буревестник" is the main protagonist not just a bird. If it was an article about the bird then it must be "О буревестнике". Russian grammar is not simple at all and there are exceptions here and there. There's no difference for an album title and an article title. For the song and arcticle titles we use standard grammar rules so only the first letter capitalized as usual. For example we didn't write language and nationality names with first letter capitalized like "I know English"; we write "Я знаю английский" not "Я знаю Английский". We capitalized only proper names/nouns. A little exceptions exist only for poetry...

Oh, finally I understand why there are so many Czech song titles with only the first letter capitalized. If this is the rule for Slavic languages, then I support changing the titles according to it. Also it is beneficial to collect info about other languages.

I remember seeing a report on a French album, saying all French titles of that album should only have the first letter capitalized. Does French have a similar rule for capitalization?

I'm tired of reporting the mojibake-affected Hungarian album titles one by one. The following link (.xlsx file) is a complete list of all such album titles. Since the ű --> û mojibake has been cleared, the only mojibake of Hungarian language is ő (correct) --> õ (incorrect). These mojibakes also affect song titles and lyrics, which I will correct from time to time. Note that õ is a letter in Estonian and Portuguese. I've double checked that all titles in my list are Hungarian.

http://www.mediafire.com/?z0pk1zpq4utpj56

In the file, the first column are band names, second column are incorrect titles, third column are correct ones.

Spanish have. Here's about French. Hungarian too, only the first letter capitalized in "individual titles".



Done.

I just noticed a serious problem in the modification history. For example, in my modification of this album, I changed track 2 title from "Visszatérõ Esõk" to "Visszatérő Esők", but in the modification history, the old value shows "Visszatérõ Esõk" instead of "Visszatérõ Esõk". This phenomenon pretty much affects all non-standard Latin letters. The problem is, if someone did a bad modification, changing correct data to incorrect ones, then it is difficult to revert the action. Hope this will bring the attention of the webmasters.

And here is an incomplete list of mojibake-affected Czech album titles. This list includes ALL Czech titles affected by the common deformation ì (incorrect) --> ě (correct). Other deformations of Czech letters are è --> č, ø --> ř, ù --> ů, ï --> ď and a deformation affecting ť. These deformations also seriously affect song titles and lyrics, which may take years to clean up...

http://www.mediafire.com/?bif4dwp7atmb8te

Please, thake a look at this nonsense gibberish. I think it was originally cyrillic, since every other lyric is.

Yes, Russian lyrics. Changed to normal.

http://www.metal-archives.com/albums/X_ ... %29/161960 - "Shigeki" is a transliteration. Original Japanese text is needed.
http://www.metal-archives.com/albums/X_ ... %29/335433 - Nihon Budokan is listed on cover by Japanese name

http://www.metal-archives.com/albums/Fa ... %A3/179703

The additional notes list the album line-up in Japanese, but all the band member profiles are in English

Google translate was a bit rough, but I've added the line-up.

Oh man, I was really hoping you would list the Japanese names as aliases, or at least add them under the artist page's real name section. They're now lost, though, as they appear as mojibakes in the update history.

Oh, fuck, yeah you're right. Sorry about that. I'm going to work on that.

...

Concerning the band Fast Draw (as discussed by ob and MCH): the line-up (in Japanese) for the Rough and Ready album is still in the modification history (date/time: 2012-02-07 07:01:45). Four of the names are different from what is now listed on MA;
小玉克馬 (Katsuma Kodama) – vocals [not 勝間児玉]
飯田光正 (Kosei Iida) – guitar [not 佼成飯田]
鈴木　潤 (Jun Suzuki) – guitar [correct]
三上展弘 (Nobuhiro Mikami) – bass [not 信弘三上]
小野寺義弘 (Yoshihiro Onodera) – drums [not 義弘野火小野寺] (note: the "野火"-part reads "Nobi"; his nickname)

Note that for Japanese names, when written in Japanese, the family name comes first; but when romanized, the given name comes first.
Also, the name 光正 (Kosei or Kousei) could also spell out Mitsumasa (as seen for their 輪廻転生 album), but this is incorrect.

For the newly added Japanese band {3540351329}, a number of releases were added wih transliterated titles instead of the proper Japanese titles:
- http://www.metal-archives.com/albums/D/ ... ien/350548 should be 夢なりし空中庭園
- http://www.metal-archives.com/albums/D/ ... ugi/350549 should be 繭月の棺
- http://www.metal-archives.com/albums/D/ ... ty~/350550 should be 真昼の声～Synchronicity～
- http://www.metal-archives.com/albums/D/ ... oru/350554 should be 白い夜
- http://www.metal-archives.com/albums/D/ ... ria/350555 should be 闇より暗い慟哭のアカペラと薔薇より赤い情熱のアリア
- http://www.metal-archives.com/albums/D/ ... _Hi/350559 should be 太陽を葬（おく）る日
- http://www.metal-archives.com/albums/D/ ... eri/350561 should be 桜花咲きそめにけり
- http://www.metal-archives.com/albums/D/ ... mon/350565 should be 闇の国のアリス
- http://www.metal-archives.com/albums/D/ ... age/350569 should be 風がめくる頁
- http://www.metal-archives.com/albums/D/ ... kai/350570 should be 赤き羊による晩餐会
- http://www.metal-archives.com/albums/D/ ... eu~/350575 shoud be 鳥籠御殿~L’Oiseau bleu~
- http://www.metal-archives.com/albums/D/ ... ien/350557 should be 夢なりし空中庭園
- http://www.metal-archives.com/albums/D/ ... ui~/350604 should be 皇帝〜闇に生まれた報い〜
- http://www.metal-archives.com/albums/D/ ... %AB/350582 should be 断罪の銃士（ガンナー）

Do not add the part in the parentheses; they are merely the phonetics of the word before.

Would anyone care to edit the above releases? D's discograph is horribly inaccurate...
(Where's sofeshue when you need him?)

I've edited the album titles. There are still a lot of song titles left that need to be edited, though. Also, some tracklists might be up for revision, with all the special limited edition versions of their latest singles. Would probably be easier to make separate entries for each different version of their singles, since they not only have different artwork but also different songs.

How come it is not possible (yet) to add furigana to kanji? Even on a lot of Japanese websites the phonetics are placed behind the kanji, instead of above them. Makes the lyrics on this album even harder to read, instead of easier: http://www.metal-archives.com/albums/%E ... %BE/249058.

Holy crap, that would totally be my bad, I'll be sure to enter that in correctly for future submissions, sorry for giving you extra work. :/

Finally fixed. I've found information here.

... the... what...?


Got an example...?