Well, that's a start. I don't intend to edit it any further; I just removed that ridiculous (but personally life-affirming) rambling at the end.

Rust in Peace is one of my top 10 albums of all time. No way that will happen!

Very late on, but yeah, at some point. I think with 23 or so reviews, most of which positive (fuck you Falconsbane), another would be quite redundant.

My first metal album! No matter how often I play it, no matter how far I move from thrash in general, Master of Puppets is always there. A great album.

So, this is the death of heavy metal, and mediocre, propaganda-like commercial shameful anti-metal swinefilth that is not thrash? Sounds good to me, after several hundred spins.

A sudden change of heart. I gave Ride the Lightning a few spins, and it all started to unravel for me. Generally my opinion on MoP waxes and wanes with time, but there was a general downwards trend from 'the greatest album of all time' to 'it's ok', and its predecessor rammed home its weaknesses to me.

Naah, since it was Ride the Lightning and Metallica that got me into Metallica and metal on the whole anyway. Even as a kid I didn't really like MoP, it sort of grew on me with time and fluctuated as time went on.

Ride the Lightning showed me how that sort of progressive, atmospheric thrash is done, and in every case it destroys its successor. Whether it be vocals, instruments, production, songwriting, pacing, hell even aesthetics. I started to see what the band was actually capable of, and MoP came off as a sort of perversion and near parody of the formula set by the album before.

'Avant-garde', a mindset to making music that I thoroughly despise.

Back to actually discussing reviews now: I never actually realised how much better PorcupineofDoom's reviews got. Apparently some of his earlier stuff wasn't very good (I don't actually know, never read it) but his latest review is actually very good. Nicely descriptive, passionate, succinct, well-structured... yeah. Good work. It actually makes me want to check out something labelled 'Avant-garde', a mindset to making music that I thoroughly despise.

Been taking notes listening to albums during downtimes / no classes but still having to sit in the classroom. Feels a bit hollow trying to spring back into reviewing after a few years.

http://www.metal-archives.com/reviews/Iron_Maiden/Seventh_Son_of_a_Seventh_Son/80/HamburgerBoy/115667
This is a troll that seem hipster "overrated this" "overrated that" blah blah blah and Stained Class Priest's don't has negative reviews with low points, pffff...

And this is a kluseba's review, only 65%???
http://www.metal-archives.com/reviews/I ... eba/238242

And No prayer for the dying 67%?? Really???
http://www.metal-archives.com/reviews/I ... eba/238242

And Virtual XI 75%?? REALLY? REALLY KLUSEBA!?
http://www.metal-archives.com/reviews/I ... eba/238242

http://www.metal-archives.com/reviews/Iron_Maiden/Seventh_Son_of_a_Seventh_Son/80/HamburgerBoy/115667
This is a troll that seem hipster "overrated this" "overrated that" blah blah blah and Stained Class Priest's don't has negative reviews with low points, pffff...

And this is a kluseba's review, only 65%???
http://www.metal-archives.com/reviews/I ... eba/238242

And No prayer for the dying 67%?? Really???
http://www.metal-archives.com/reviews/I ... eba/238242

And Virtual XI 75%?? REALLY? REALLY KLUSEBA!?
http://www.metal-archives.com/reviews/I ... eba/238242

Thanks for the typos, Diamhea! And thanks for your patience with me. If there are any recurring mistakes, please let me know. I do proofread but my reviews are often quite detailed and I'm not a fan of correcting texts on a small computer screen, so I might miss a few things here and there.

The terms "Slayer" and "future" do not fit together? Well, I guess that the self-declared experts discuss this topic very controversially.

Thrash metal (with an awkward grin): "Hello traditional metal. So far, I hated you. That was the reason why I always wanted to be something different. But now I see that it can make sense to move into your direction every now and then. Commercial aspects, I do not need to emphasize it, do not play a role!"
Tradition metal (precocious): "My dear juvenile loudmouth, I don't understand. Explain to me how "Silent Scream" and "Dissident Aggressor" fit together."
Thrash metal (in a fit of pique): "Don't ask me. It doesn't matter."
Traditional metal: ... (speechless)

Thanks for the typos, Diamhea! And thanks for your patience with me. If there are any recurring mistakes, please let me know. I do proofread but my reviews are often quite detailed and I'm not a fan of correcting texts on a small computer screen, so I might miss a few things here and there.

That being said, I constantly improved my writing over the past six years but there is always room for improvement for everyone for sure. Since English is only my third language, I'm actively expanding my vocabulary and learning new stuff. Even though many people think I'm trying to be contrarian or to get extra attention, I simply write what I think and stick to my opinions, as simple as that. I can perfectly understand that my tastes are controversial since there also regular writers on board that I find weird concerning their opinions or writings without feeling the necessity to point anyone out though. I guess it's better to stand out occasionally than to be completely faceless. I'm proud of what I'm doing, I enjoy writing and listening to music and I appreciate the learning process behind it.

In my book, that's always better than the high amount of new reviewers these days who immediately react when somebody criticizes them and go change their ratings, modify their reviews or even delete their contributions to please the veterans. I don't comment a lot on the forum but I read review threads occasionally and what really strikes me is that certain threads look rather like therapy sessions for mentally unstable writers than actually constructive debates about writing. Other users quickly pass by and are happy not to get criticized for once and take the chance to make rude comments on someone who looks inferior to them to make themselves feel better but that's a common thing for anonymous outsiders on the internet. Others are happy to play the role of the wise elders to repeat that those who try to argue back are "passive aggressive" which seems to be a real fetish expression for some people here. Maybe some people will look back on such threads in a few years and feel ashamed that they really wrote stuff like that accessible to anyone on the internet. To end on a positive note, these threads are at least entertaining and sometimes amusing for those who are just reading them.

I'm getting the impression that you didn't read most of my more recent reviews. I might indeed state here and there that I'm open-minded and I understand that this might sound arrogant on paper if you don't really know the person behind it. I certainly exaggerated a bit with this kind of attitude in my earliest reviews on this page. I'm aware of this and sometimes it's funny for my to look back on reviews I wrote three years ago.

Obviously, any kind of constructive feedback is appreciated, so if you could concretely suggest what ''rarely substantial'' or ''not interesting'' means, that might be useful. Your reviews are definitely not my cup of tea but your constructive ideas are still always welcome.

For the In Flames review, you are right. I simply wanted to call out on those who still want the band to sound like fifteen years ago and don't understand that this will never happen. It's even more annoying when half of the exchangeable reviews for the band basically just say that everything was better back in the days.

Has anyone else noticed that hammersmashedeverything deleted all his reviews? What the hell's happening to all these writers lately?

Speaking of deleted reviews, Reign In Blood dropped from 33 to 32 reviews. It was a recently written one, too.

People should care much more about their efforts and their spending hours writing...

There could be any number of reasons people delete their reviews. I've deleted a few and I've considered deleting others for various reasons. For example, I recently deleted my review for Gorguts' Obscura because my views on the album have changed in the years since its acceptance. I don't know about the latest Reign in Blood review but maybe the author didn't like the way it was written. Besides, there's still over 30 reviews - plenty to choose from still.

I wonder where gasmask_colostomy has gone. He was churning out reviews pretty much daily for ages, and now suddenly it's been six weeks since he published a review. Hopefully he's just taking some time off and he'll return, because he's a good reviewer and it'd be a shame if he didn't.