I've removed Applaud the Impaler - EP release date is November 23, 2010.

Are dark ambient bands supposed to be allowed on here? Not a bad style of music, but not metal. Dark Ages is one such band.

Are dark ambient bands supposed to be allowed on here? Not a bad style of music, but not metal. Dark Ages is one such band.

The demo was really just done to have some songs on myspace and was rerecorded for an album called Maximum Rock which will be released sometime next spring on At War with False Noise. An indie label from Scottland.

Why is Hellyeah on MA? What exactly makes them 'metal'?

Use the search function. They are considered to be some kind of groove/southern metal. This is a decision of the staff and will not change.

http://www.metal-archives.com/band.php?id=96910

No info on the band whatsoever.

Is this review good enough for you? Took me 30 seconds to find.

http://www.musicextreme.com/cd0402b.htm

When that's said, it doesn't sound very metal based on this review.

It was an accident if the releases turned out to be download-only yet the band was accepted. Mods make mistakes sometimes too (even me); you can't expect them to be perfect.

Basically, your band Conrad will not be accepted unless you have a physical release available to the public, and proof can be provided. The same goes for Csorna as well.

You haven't brought any new argument to the table since the last time you demanded this group be added some years ago (which, incidentally, seems to be the only reason your account exists); you have simply expressed the same ideas in different words. The group remains a cover band--albeit a professional, dedicated one--for all practical intents and purposes; trying to argue that a group is writing "original material" because they adapt the base song to another style or genre is little more than an attempt to confuse the issue by rephrasing the definition of the term; these activities are simply par for the course in doing a cross-genre "cover" of a song. Appealing to their touring career is equally irrelevant. In the wide world of music, it is very far from unheard of for straightforward cover bands to be popular and respected enough to fill a regular spot in a touring stable with big-name bands; this in no way alters the fact that they are cover bands. Your best angle (and the only new one) is the thing about the "completely original" Duck Hunt song, but unless the group has many more completely original songs just like it--that is, a whole proper album of them actually arranged as such--it is nearly as irrelevant as the two points above. Regardless of the issue of whether or not Powerglove is a cover band, no band on the Archive is admitted on the basis of a single song, but rather on the basis of at least one major qualifying release. So, just as a group whose career output consists of dozens of jazz songs and one metal song will (for obvious reasons) not be added on the basis of that one song (even if it is 100% metal), a group whose career consists of one completely original tune amidst countless covers will not be added on the basis of that single original song. It is possible that the day may come when Powerglove might qualify, but that day has plainly not yet come

To quote Nightgaunt from that locked Powerglove thread:



If no cover band is allowed with one original song, then why is Tankwart here?
http://www.metal-archives.com/band.php?id=5109

We should also delete Metallica then because the released some shitty rock albums in the 90s.

They have one own song on an album and since the written rules say nothing about the number of written songs.

Sounds like blackened grind to me...