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Ribos
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PostPosted: Wed Aug 29, 2012 11:09 am 
 

So there's something that's been bothering me for a while. The band Judgement Day has been here forever and has been consistently updated over the years, but I'm not sure they can really be called metal.

Don't get me wrong, I love them and they may call themselves metal, but I'd say that less than half their material really qualifies. They use no guitars at all, which I know has kept bands out in the past, and for every song like Barrage or Cobra Strike, there's one like Peacocks/Pink Monsters or Mark of Vishnu.

It seems like they'd be a borderline case at best, even if they were a part of the metal scene, but they've been touring with bands like Dredg and Pinback. Again, I love the band, but I don't really see them fitting in on the Archives.
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Twisted_Psychology
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PostPosted: Wed Aug 29, 2012 7:58 pm 
 

More of an observation than a complaint, but I attempted to add The Midnight Ghost Train onto the Archives last week and they were rejected for being stoner rock only to be added on a couple days later by a different user. I'm guessing it was due to them being added by a user with more history adding bands or me mislabeling the genre, but I'd still like to know what gives.
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Metantoine
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PostPosted: Wed Aug 29, 2012 8:03 pm 
 

Me and Azmodes decided that they were more rock than metal and then rejected the band, but another mod added the band himself... Sorry, for the confusion, I guess I'll talk with the staff and all.
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Derigin
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PostPosted: Wed Aug 29, 2012 8:10 pm 
 

Yeah, I was the one who finally ended up rejecting it in agreement with the other mods who commented on the band finding it to be unacceptable. The mod who submitted it should not have submitted it, and we will look into a review of the band.

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Azmodes
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PostPosted: Thu Aug 30, 2012 8:22 am 
 

Deleted Blutaxt. Melodic hard rock.
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Alhadis
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PostPosted: Fri Aug 31, 2012 2:03 am 
 

Just in case anybody's wondering about the three death metal bands added today, HellBlazer's graciously agreed to increase the maximum number of bands per split to 6. ;)

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~Guest 152635
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PostPosted: Fri Aug 31, 2012 6:33 pm 
 

I was looking over this band again and apparently I was confused when I submitted it. I thought it only had 2 ambient songs, but it is 5/9 ambient/folk, 4/9 metal. Sorry about this:

Marfik
http://www.metal-archives.com/bands/Marfik/3540350752

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Alhadis
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PostPosted: Sat Sep 01, 2012 1:39 am 
 

Toasted.

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PostPosted: Sat Sep 01, 2012 5:38 pm 
 

Deleted Korvurxag. Keyboard based ambient.

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Napero
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PostPosted: Sat Sep 01, 2012 5:54 pm 
 

Alhadis wrote:
Just in case anybody's wondering about the three death metal bands added today, HellBlazer's graciously agreed to increase the maximum number of bands per split to 6. ;)

Incidentally, that makes Crushing the Holy Trinity a legit release. In think it's time for a merge soon.
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uglur
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PostPosted: Sun Sep 02, 2012 6:15 am 
 

These two should get deleted:
http://www.metal-archives.com/bands/Marcynaton/46952
http://www.metal-archives.com/bands/Narbe/46655

according to his myspace he mixed instrumental samples from different bands with his own vocals and sound-effects.
http://www.myspace.com/narbe1994

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Azmodes
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PostPosted: Sun Sep 02, 2012 6:41 am 
 

uglur wrote:
These two should get deleted:
http://www.metal-archives.com/bands/Marcynaton/46952
http://www.metal-archives.com/bands/Narbe/46655

according to his myspace he mixed instrumental samples from different bands with his own vocals and sound-effects.
http://www.myspace.com/narbe1994

Both gone.
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~Guest 104167
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PostPosted: Sun Sep 02, 2012 8:48 am 
 

Anybody want to hear mighty Centaurus? Here's full album, just use the common sense and think: is it metal?

1. In the Mood
2. The Lynch Way
3. The Rocker
4. On the Sands
5. If I Build My World for You
6. You Shake Me
7. To the Wireless
8. The Maiden Song
9. Cold Emotion

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MalignantThrone
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PostPosted: Mon Sep 03, 2012 11:45 pm 
 

Inopexia:
http://www.metal-archives.com/bands/Inopexia/3540325718

Riffless, noisy goregrind in the vein of Last Days of Humanity's Putrefaction in Progress. Certainly no "brutal death metal" here.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VuBzPwrx5Ps
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evSwNYzE9bM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zu8zfizGsaQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pb143RG_RW4
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PostPosted: Tue Sep 04, 2012 12:07 am 
 

I'll admit this is more Al's territory, but what little goregrind I am familiar with is that Last Days of Humanity album you mentioned, which this does sound almost exactly like. Unless a mod has a strong objection I am 100% in favor of eliminating this band, I hear almost no metal whatsoever.
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PostPosted: Tue Sep 04, 2012 12:20 am 
 

I was surprised too when I'd seen Inopexia here, they are pretty grindcore, and I've seen 'em live at least twice, they're acting like grindcore joke band :)

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Alhadis
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PostPosted: Tue Sep 04, 2012 12:41 am 
 

Downloading their entire discography now. If I hear not one release that sounds riffy, it's toast.

(Fuck, I love my job)

EDIT: ... yep, aaaaaand as much as I love what I'm hearing (especially them snares :drool:), I concur. There's not a single riff to be heard anywhere in these recordings. Deleted and blacklisted.

Great stuff, though! :D Makes me wonder why I haven't heard about these guys sooner. :)

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uglur
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PostPosted: Tue Sep 04, 2012 12:06 pm 
 

http://www.metal-archives.com/bands/Gat ... aria/22550

should get deleted. not metal at all. all songs on the split are like this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkCxsNVd ... re=related

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PiotrB
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PostPosted: Tue Sep 04, 2012 2:38 pm 
 

uglur wrote:
http://www.metal-archives.com/bands/Gates_of_Azharia/22550

should get deleted. not metal at all. all songs on the split are like this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkCxsNVd ... re=related

Done.

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MetalCuresHeadaches
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PostPosted: Thu Sep 06, 2012 5:10 pm 
 

http://www.metal-archives.com/bands/Karn_Kluay/125828

I came across these guys by rechecking old posts in the broken encoding/trransliterated titles thread. And I can find abosolutely nothing on this band. Aside from our site, an empty shell at The Gauntlet, and a few sites that copy or mirror us, the only proof this band is even real is an out-of-stock listing for their third album from a distro called Triple Six Thailand (http://www.triplesixthailand.com/Online ... gory_id=51) I can find no samples, and no website or social media profile.

Now, their listed label, Banana, does not have a Karn Kluay, although they have a group named กล้วยไทย whose English name is listed as Kluaythai (http://www.bananarecord.net/kluaythai/). But they are listed as a purely a rock n roll outfit (I believe the Google translation mentioned something about nu metal), and not metal. Are there any submission notes for the band (not sure those were a thing before v2), or is it possible for a mod to message the submitting user (dust666) to find out where he got his info for the submission (which includes a second album I cannot find online, and a 5-piece line-up)?

EDIT: I do admit that the covers of the two albums we have on the site do list a non-English (most likely Thai) name for the band, which may be a hurdle in finding some examples.
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TvvrAskesis
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PostPosted: Thu Sep 06, 2012 7:35 pm 
 

MetalCuresHeadaches wrote:
http://www.metal-archives.com/bands/Karn_Kluay/125828

... And I can find abosolutely nothing on this band. Aside from our site, an empty shell at The Gauntlet, and a few sites that copy or mirror us, the only proof this band is even real is an out-of-stock listing for their third album from a distro called Triple Six Thailand (http://www.triplesixthailand.com/Online ... gory_id=51) I can find no samples, and no website or social media profile.



I know absolutely nothing about Thai bands or the Thai language, but I found this online (by googling band members' names and tracktitles in Thai): http://www.myspace.com/kaankluay. And this: http://www.pmdplus.com/eng/album_detail.php?aid=444, and this: http://www1.you2play.com/shop/product/detail/2788/. Note that their name is spelled Kaan Kluay on Myspace, and Kan Kluay on pdm.plus.com. On the third site their name is given in Thai; ก้านกล้วย.
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PostPosted: Thu Sep 06, 2012 8:44 pm 
 

TvvrAskesis wrote:
I know absolutely nothing about Thai bands or the Thai language, but I found this online (by googling band members' names and tracktitles in Thai): http://www.myspace.com/kaankluay. And this: http://www.pmdplus.com/eng/album_detail.php?aid=444, and this: http://www1.you2play.com/shop/product/detail/2788/. Note that their name is spelled Kaan Kluay on Myspace, and Kan Kluay on pdm.plus.com. On the third site their name is given in Thai; ก้านกล้วย.


I never would have thought of going for tracknames; thanks for that.
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PostPosted: Fri Sep 07, 2012 11:46 am 
 

Today I've got interesting e-mail about the band Weed. Their only release is Demo 2003 and it has the same tracklist as album by Ken Hensley Weed, released in 1971. I think there must be a proof for Demo 2003: was it released, maybe the band was accepted by mistake.

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Azmodes
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PostPosted: Fri Sep 07, 2012 11:54 am 
 

aeternus1990 wrote:
Today I've got interesting e-mail about the band Weed. Their only release is Demo 2003 and it has the same tracklist as album by Ken Hensley Weed, released in 1971. I think there must be a proof for Demo 2003: was it released, maybe the band was accepted by mistake.

Weird. The demo was added one year after the band by another user, so the question arises what their discography had been before that. Plus, genre "Melodic Metal" :/ and no samples to listen to. Their website is still up, but doesn't say much, only that they had a demo finished in 2005. I'll look into this, but I think we have a nuking candidate here.
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Azmodes
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PostPosted: Mon Sep 10, 2012 11:46 am 
 

I'm going through all bands tagged as "thrashcore" and adjust the genre where I can (the term has so many potential misuses).
Deletions so far:
Cabra from Argentina - mildly thrashy jumpdafuckup-style hardcore
Djeena's Circus from France - experimental/-core
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PostPosted: Tue Sep 11, 2012 2:32 pm 
 

Just came across the band Jehangir Aziz Hayat while adding links and Last.fm tags says "rock" and "grunge". That confused me and I post here an album trailer (the band have only one full-length) - and seems it's really not "Heavy Metal" as the band page states but you know it better.

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Azmodes
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PostPosted: Wed Sep 12, 2012 10:22 am 
 

aeternus1990 wrote:
Just came across the band Jehangir Aziz Hayat while adding links and Last.fm tags says "rock" and "grunge". That confused me and I post here an album trailer (the band have only one full-length) - and seems it's really not "Heavy Metal" as the band page states but you know it better.

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Ribos
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PostPosted: Thu Sep 13, 2012 8:37 am 
 

So just an expansion on the Judgement Day case: their youtube channel has a number of music videos for a good amount of their material. The "acoustic direction" mentioned in the description of the video for Forest Battle (the video directly on their channel page) really just means they dropped the distortion pedals and other effects from the cello and violin; compositionally, there's not much difference (as you can hear from the Pink Monsters/Peacocks videos).

Again, I love the band, but by the site's own precedents, they probably shouldn't be here. At least Botanist is decidedly a part of the metal scene and associates with other metal bands...
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PostPosted: Sun Sep 16, 2012 7:12 pm 
 

MetalCuresHeadaches wrote:
http://www.metal-archives.com/bands/Karn_Kluay/125828

I came across these guys by rechecking old posts in the broken encoding/trransliterated titles thread. And I can find abosolutely nothing on this band. Aside from our site, an empty shell at The Gauntlet, and a few sites that copy or mirror us, the only proof this band is even real is an out-of-stock listing for their third album from a distro called Triple Six Thailand (http://www.triplesixthailand.com/Online ... gory_id=51) I can find no samples, and no website or social media profile.

Now, their listed label, Banana, does not have a Karn Kluay, although they have a group named กล้วยไทย whose English name is listed as Kluaythai (http://www.bananarecord.net/kluaythai/). But they are listed as a purely a rock n roll outfit (I believe the Google translation mentioned something about nu metal), and not metal. Are there any submission notes for the band (not sure those were a thing before v2), or is it possible for a mod to message the submitting user (dust666) to find out where he got his info for the submission (which includes a second album I cannot find online, and a 5-piece line-up)?

EDIT: I do admit that the covers of the two albums we have on the site do list a non-English (most likely Thai) name for the band, which may be a hurdle in finding some examples.


They are existing, here's some CD photos and interview in Thai. All internet sources listed 'em as metal and their albums as metal releases.

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droneriot
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PostPosted: Mon Sep 17, 2012 9:25 am 
 

Was Gnaw accepted as a side-project because Khanate was still active at the time? Because while it is listed as "industrial/doom metal" on the site, I do not hear any metal whatsoever in their sound, especially not doom metal. It's industrial with guitars providing one of the layers of noise, no metal riffs. Here are the first three tracks off the album, the rest is in the same vein:

First track: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NbRhYaOCxPo
Second track: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OK-9Pi1cam0
Third track: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1mq_gfb2OAY

-edit- Just listening to it again. There's actually even less metal in the later tracks than in the first three.

Example - track eight: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2E6k01XZyzM
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Helvede
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PostPosted: Mon Sep 17, 2012 4:23 pm 
 

Looks like it falls under the side project rule. The genre is indeed debatable.

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droneriot
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PostPosted: Tue Sep 18, 2012 6:47 am 
 

Yeah, thought it may qualify as a side-project. I'd change their genre simply to "industrial" for the reasons I mentioned above.
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Azmodes
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PostPosted: Tue Sep 18, 2012 7:29 am 
 

Agreed, I've changed the genre.
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PostPosted: Tue Sep 18, 2012 8:51 am 
 

Deleted Novocaine. Predominantly mallcore.
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PostPosted: Tue Sep 18, 2012 3:50 pm 
 

Aww, crap... I forgot I was supposed to nuke them a while ago.

Would anybody tell me I was gettin' stupider?

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PostPosted: Thu Sep 20, 2012 4:56 pm 
 

Nuked Botanist after it was brought to my attention. Nowhere close to metal at all (there aren't even guitars, let alone metal riffs).
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Ribos
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PostPosted: Fri Sep 21, 2012 4:16 pm 
 

Morrigan wrote:
Nuked Botanist after it was brought to my attention. Nowhere close to metal at all (there aren't even guitars, let alone metal riffs).

I guess that means Judgement Day is as good as gone, then?
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PostPosted: Fri Sep 21, 2012 5:23 pm 
 

http://www.metal-archives.com/bands/Clip/86852#
Mallcore/nu-metal. It's sort of like Hatebreed but with more chugging and the shouting is a bit more like rapping.

They were approved in 2007, so based on this album:
http://www.myspace.com/clipundergroundc ... p-16749988

Their 2009 album is a bit more hardcore/metalcore, but still much closer to mallcore. That's also on their MySpace page.

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PostPosted: Fri Sep 21, 2012 6:41 pm 
 

Ribos wrote:
Morrigan wrote:
Nuked Botanist after it was brought to my attention. Nowhere close to metal at all (there aren't even guitars, let alone metal riffs).

I guess that means Judgement Day is as good as gone, then?

Which? And why?
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PostPosted: Fri Sep 21, 2012 7:22 pm 
 

Morrigan wrote:
Which? And why?

http://www.metal-archives.com/bands/Jud ... Day/105335

No guitars.
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