I can't get why Between the Buried and Me is not accepted on MA?
Colors is definitely a METAL album (extreme prog metal).

Reviewed to death. Band isn't gonna be accepted based on any existing material.

Extreme prog metal

What ProgArchives says?
http://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=16337
Tech/Extreme Prog Metal

What RateYourMusic says?
http://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/between-the-buried-and-me/colors/
Primary genres: Progressive metal, Metalcore

What Wikipedia says?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colors_(Between_the_Buried_and_Me_album)
Genres: Progressive metal, extreme metal

It seems only MetalArchives says something different?

It doesn't really matter what the rest of the internet says to us. Btbam is an example of a band that gets debated constantly and has never had a majority consensus among the staff as being metal. They get evaluated every time a new album comes out. Nothing will change before the next album. Stop asking.

Hi,

When was KER (Germany) blacklisted? The 2017 demo sounds acceptable sludge/doom/post-metal.
https://thekercollective.bandcamp.com/a ... -the-blind

Another doubt for me: Band The Angelic Process is not accepted as metal, whilst Jesu is?

The band Mary Jane (Argentina) is blacklisted. Was it for their style (groove metal) or for lack of an official physical release? I have proof of the later.

I haven't heard back from Creature yet, well, I haven't really been active much online. I noticed that he uploaded photos on Bandcamp. Can I resubmit Creature?
https://creature-of-hell.bandcamp.com/a ... h-darkness

The Angelic Process is mainly a drone band, with no album we consider predominantly metal. Jesu likely has at least one metal album(s) by our standards, although I can not point you to it/them as I do not listen to them.

Also:



Az had responded:




Blacklisted for being nu-metal.


Blacklist note says "Blackened Post-hardcore", 2016. Took a quick listen and sounds like it might be fine. Whitelisted for evaluation.

I'm sorry, but can we talk for a second about how Prog Archives thinks Drudkh, Moonsorrow, My Dying Bride, or Nocturnus are "tech/extreme prog Metal"? I know we're not supposed to use what other sites say when making a case for a band's conclusion, but this is the reason why. These other sites have their own thoughts about what bands sound like, but some of them are just flat out wrong!

On the description of the physical CDrs that's on Bandcamp, says there were 25 made. I will try again to get ahold of him, but I'm sure he distributed them himself at concerts, the early notebook paper version of the Creature album I have, I got at a concert. He was handing them out to people.
https://creature-of-hell.bandcamp.com/a ... h-darkness

Thanks, Stormy! Pending in the queue.

Resubmit.

Thank you, about to resubmit.

The band The Omega Sequence was rejected and labeled as being Djent. I believe that if definitely not the case. While they have songs that are tuned down, the style is far from any djent I have personally heard. I feel Melodic/progressive metal fits their sound and is what they claim to be. I have included a link to their release, Aeon on their bandcamp page for further review. Thank you.

https://omegasequence.bandcamp.com/trac ... gilant-eye
https://omegasequence.bandcamp.com/album/aeon

Sorry, but that is djent, leaning into -core territory too.

And yet super djent bands like After The Burial, or Veil of Maya are allowed...

Super.

The Chicago one is there too. Im just saying, its a bit hypocritical...
https://www.metal-archives.com/bands/Veil_of_Maya/45084

It's not really hypocritical. MA can be best viewed as an archive of metal albums. Now most bands that have metal albums are also metal bands, but there are cases where bands better known for their non-metal material come out with a metal album. We've judged both those bands as having had at least one metal album at some point in their career. This band does not appear to have one at this present time. You can ask us to look at the band again in the future if they release new material.

I tried to upload a band but I was not allowed and I don't understand why.
It is the parallel only project of an integrate of a group already registered on this page.
The project has download links in Bandcamp of 3 discs and even so, I do not understand why it is rejected.

I hope you can give me a solution.
Thanks.

Why was Regressor from Russia blacklisted, please?

Multiple submissions with no proof of PR.

Would help if you told us the name of the band and provided some links.

If it's the same band, the CDs were sold at Metal Hail Fest 2014 and available for order via VK later on, announcement posts with CDs pics:
https://vk.com/regressor?from=quick_sea ... 193662_109
https://vk.com/regressor?from=quick_sea ... 193662_132

Download the single with 2 cover tracks.

Please submit, so the band can be properly judged now.

Hails.

I'm writing to contest my recent submission of Iron Cemetery being rejected by Storm due to being "pretty decent stuff but a bit too short for a valid digital release".
This release is now available on tape and can be ordered here: https://store.nghtrhthms.com/product/ir ... ery-s-t-cs
Please reconsider accepting Iron Cemetery into the archives and let me know if you require further photographic evidence of the tape which I'd be happy to provide.
Many thanks.

Feel free to resubmit.

The band is already here as of September 3rd: https://www.metal-archives.com/bands/Ir ... 3540441338

Just noticed that as well as I was re-submitting. Appreciate the update.

In Red Moon. Looks fine and can now be submitted again.

Pheldagar [Mex] was rejected for the following reason:

"Too makeshift/rough/unfinished for (a) digital-only release(s). Please wait for additional releases or a physical version of the existing one(s). If there is already a physical release, provide clear and definitive evidence for its existence. Thank you."

Just to make things clear (as I did not read that out in the announcement of "Digital-only bands policy change / 2018-09-10 12:12"): the length of the digital release does not matter anymore, right? Whether its 05:15 minutes, 15:23 minutes, or 44:15 minutes - if the quality is rather poor/makeshift/rough, the band won't be accepted. Is this assumption correct? As until 10/09/18 it was 20:00 (18:00) minutes length aspect that was the most important, wasn't it?

When it comes to the release and distribution of an album, for the purposes of getting a band accepted on the Archives, we've always considered certain aspects as important - no matter if it's physical or digital - and that includes characteristics like presentation and production, the scope of distribution, and the legitimacy of the distributor. This is especially the case for digital-only submissions. It was just that, up until recently, we also considered length - quite literally the amount of metal music - to be another characteristic especially important for digital-only submissions. We still do consider length important - we won't normally accept digital singles, and would prefer digital full-lengths, EPs and demos instead - but we are now no longer relying on "X minutes of music" to be a factor. For many mods that was "the" factor above all other factors, and that was not right either.

So bands can still be rejected for being too makeshift/rough/unfinished, but they wont be rejected anymore if the band has a full-length grindcore album that's just 8 minutes in length. It matters more to us that they have an album, ideally one with multiple tracks of original material.

Using the search funcion I found out that the Brazilian band Krucipha was rejected due to their metalness. The posts here date back to 2011.

Ever since, they have released new albums that I suppose worth at least a reassessment. Was the band ever reevaluated?

I don't think it was. Post the release(s) in question here and we'll check.

hey guys, why is Methgoat blacklisted? they sound like a convincent mix of raw and black metal

https://methgoat.bandcamp.com/album/promo-mmxvii

Attempted to add Painboys from Seattle earlier this year (i think), I was told they were not metal enough at the time, they have new material and I'd like to see if it is "metal" enough for a resubmission?
https://welovepain.bandcamp.com/album/ritual-torment

Thank you for your time.

Hi, could it be whitelisted base on this release?

That EP/song has ~5 minutes of metal, I don't think that's gonna make much of a difference. Sounds like their first release.

Which Viscera (Australis) has been blacklisted? The one formed in the 90s or the Sydney band formed in 2014?