That's retarded. When someone says something like "only for die-hard fans" or "buy used" or "download first", it's simply an extension of their subjective opinion put into a real-world context. They're not literally saying "eschew all other opinions but mine and do what I am telling you to do regarding the purchasing of this album right now."

You're arguing semantics.

I wouldn't call H&H a classic. As far as I can tell, the more general consensus (outside of the little MA bubble) is "pretty good but not as good as early Ozzy-era stuff". If he'd done that review for Master of Reality or Sabotage, you might be able to make that call. But he didn't, so that argument of yours is moot.

Every time there is a negative review for classic Maiden's second worst album after 'Number of the Beast', some moron comes and fucks it up. This time Empyreal is the one who apparently loves classic Maiden at their worst.

Every time there is a negative review for classic Maiden's second worst album after 'Number of the Beast', some moron comes and fucks it up. This time Empyreal is the one who apparently loves classic Maiden at their worst.

Uh, I'm a little confused here. Are you calling me a moron for creating a negative review in a bad way, or are you calling Empyreal a moron for disagreeing with my assessment?


Also, to hells_unicorn, what did you think of my Iron Maiden reviews? I don't know if I should really be talking about my own reviews here, but I'm just curious...

Uh, I'm a little confused here. Are you calling me a moron for creating a negative review in a bad way, or are you calling Empyreal a moron for disagreeing with my assessment?

While I'm more prone to dislike "Piece of Mind" than "Powerslave", I'm pretty well perplexed at how Empyreal can say that bands such as Heavenly and Gamma Ray don't care about their music being taken seriously anymore and yet lavishes jokes like Edguy's and Avantasia's latest releases with praise.

I never said those bands didn't care about their music being taken seriously, I said those bands just plain old didn't care. There's a difference. Newer Edguy and Avantasia are good though, and I don't understand why you keep saying that YOU don't understand, when I already have reviews explaining why I like it. I never said you had to agree.

I had that review for Powerslave in my head for a while, but never really had any incentive to write about it until MetalSupremacy's review made me realize how good it really is. It was either that or Piece of Mind, which I was not able to finish a review for, due to it mostly coming out as egregious fanboying. But someday. Perhaps some anniversary review.

And I even said Powerslave wasn't their best album, so...

Every time there is a negative review for classic Maiden's second worst album after 'Number of the Beast', some moron comes and fucks it up. This time Empyreal is the one who apparently loves classic Maiden at their worst.

It's really hilarious if you actually think this way, but I assume you're just joking. So what is Maiden's best album, Ye Father of all things metal?

hells, so are you saying you enjoy the new Heavenly album? If so, I believe the same inconsistency in taste could be turned around on you.

Frequently, a song on this album will start with a harmonised melodic riff, keep it going for a while, then get heavy a little while later, before going back to the harmonised riff, and then an idiotic clean break will often follow, something completely unmetal. Used properly in moderation, clean breaks can work to break the tension in a song and provide a contrast to the heaviness before and then after them. Overusing them, on the other hand, is just annoying and, like the harmonised melodic riffs with zero heaviness, serves little purpose other than to make the songs more accessible to non-metallers. And that's another disgusting "quality" that this album possesses, something that is such an enemy of everything truly metal and so clearly a pop aesthetic that it should be enough to make any real metalhead smash the album into oblivion.

Seriously, how can anyone not see the obvious poppy tendencies that are so blatantly on display here all over the album? This album's fans probably think the cheesy harmonised melodic riffs with no heaviness and the clean breaks are "epic" elements that enhance the album's proto-power metal elements. What utter tosh.

The worst thing about the negative Powerslave review is statements like, "they sing along with the chorus of Two Minutes to Midnight, which is something that happens at pop concerts, so it must be a pop song," or whatever it was that he wrote. There were others, too, but just dumb statements like that make it hard to take his review seriously at all.

What I didn't like about the review was the "HEAVY DISTORTED GUITAR RIFFS" thing. Riffs, as far as I'm concerned are just one musical element in metal, and a melody or chord progression can be just as effective at getting people's heads to bang as a great riff. You can have all the great riffs in the world, but just lining them up and playing them won't guarantee your songs are good or even memorable. You also have to consider the way songs are put together, something he really didn't do.

Writing a review for Cynic's Traced in Air is a rather difficult task for me. On one hand, I can write a very concise review, divulging what I like and didn't like about the album, what this album is and isn't, and why you should or shouldn't purchase it. On the other hand, Cynic's Traced in Air illuminates to me just what music truly is a lot of times; illogical. Music isn't something to be described with words, but something to be experienced by an individual. To write a review about this album requires me to force logic out of the sub-conscious and instinctive areas of my mind. Even if I do, I'm sure it won't be exactly understood why I truly enjoy Traced in Air. My conclusion to this review, which I'm deliberately putting at the beginning, is to ask each and every one of your reading this review to just give this album a chance. Hell, I'm not even going to ask you to go into it with an open mind, just listen to it because you may find the golden gem I've found while listening to this album.

I found this review passage on Unorthdox's Traced in Air review. The rest of the review kinda sucked, (it was too vague and didn't really give me an idea of what the album sounded like) but the opening paragraph was top-notch.

duel melody guitars

The Citizen Kane of Extreme Metal Albums - 96%
Written by blackthrash84 on July 26th, 2009

I'll admit right away I've yet to see the film Citizen Kane, but every way in which I've heard it described, praised and criticized - as well as it's historic significance - correlates perfectly to C.F.'s masterpiece full length. Long, boring, monotonous, excessive, innovative, original, unique, genre-defining, classic. These are all adjectives that come to mind when discussing either work. The only real difference lies in the scope of each piece's influence. But is influencing the entire extreme metal world really that far from influencing the entire world of film? I like to think not.

http://www.metal-archives.com/review.php?id=1524#155739

Check out the title and first paragraph...



Is this guy's knowledge of cinema so narrow that he has to compare an album to a film he has never seen before? The review itself isn't terrible but his choice of comparison is.

And FTR, Citizen Kane is neither long, boring, nor monotonous.

Every once in a while, Noktorn reminds me why I love him so much.

This is so awesome, thanks for sharing.

One mode is a traditional minor scale (12-tone), while the other is a far older 8 or 10-tone scale, most obviously giving a folk Romanian ‘gypsy’ sound to many of the acoustic passages but also present in the distorted bulk of the songs.

Some may say this is simply ‘Blut Aus Nord played by Gypsies,’ (and if so, wouldn’t you want to hear that?) but I see this as an original work worthy of appreciation in its own light.

This guy's review is one of the most idiotic that I've read on this site. Not for lack of musical description or the usual things which make reviews go awry, but because of the reviewer's ignorance of basic knowledge and geography.




Negura Bunget aren't fucking Gypsies. Gypsies are about 5% of Romania's population and they live in the gutter. They don't even know what metal is, aside from the bits of iron and steel they steal throughout the country to see as scrap in order to further fuel their own pathetic lives.




Enough with the fucking Gypsies. I don't go around calling Americans "Injuns" or "Redskins" do I?