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colin040
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PostPosted: Sat Jun 24, 2017 4:11 am 
 

https://www.metal-archives.com/reviews/ ... pe/137236/

This sure isn't acceptable anymore now, is it?

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MutantClannfear
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PostPosted: Fri Jun 30, 2017 7:26 pm 
 

https://www.metal-archives.com/reviews/ ... wolf/94611

Short and barely describes the music at all. Not worth keeping.
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PostPosted: Thu Jul 06, 2017 2:03 pm 
 

https://www.metal-archives.com/reviews/ ... bee1/23657

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DoomMetalAlchemist
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PostPosted: Thu Jul 06, 2017 2:08 pm 
 

raspberrysoda wrote:
https://www.metal-archives.com/reviews/Black_Sabbath/Paranoid/485/firebee1/23657

track by track


I don't understand how someone can hate Fairies Wear Boots that much.

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Jophelerx
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PostPosted: Fri Jul 07, 2017 12:41 am 
 

Ran into this review: https://www.metal-archives.com/reviews/ ... kroke/2636

There's a little bit of musical descriptions but it's very short and bare bones, doesn't seem like there's really enough there.
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MutantClannfear
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PostPosted: Sat Jul 08, 2017 12:03 pm 
 

MutantClannfear wrote:
https://www.metal-archives.com/reviews/Desultory/Swallow_the_Snake/1836/Satanwolf/94611

Short and barely describes the music at all. Not worth keeping.

Bump? This album has two other reviews which are much more descriptive.
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PostPosted: Sat Jul 08, 2017 12:44 pm 
 

Done.

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Dembo
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PostPosted: Tue Jul 11, 2017 3:50 am 
 

This guy have three reviews, all from 2004, two say almost nothing at all and one is track-by-track:

https://www.metal-archives.com/reviews/ ... mando/6801
https://www.metal-archives.com/reviews/ ... mando/6801
https://www.metal-archives.com/reviews/ ... mando/6801

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Dembo
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PostPosted: Wed Jul 12, 2017 6:10 am 
 

Track-by-track from 2009 mostly consisting of non-music-describing hyperbole/general insults:
https://www.metal-archives.com/reviews/ ... tir/123274

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Dembo
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PostPosted: Wed Jul 12, 2017 7:12 am 
 

Very short, non-descriptive reviews from 2004-6, by one and the same guy (so it may be worth looking into the rest of his reviews):
https://www.metal-archives.com/reviews/ ... hulhu/3862
https://www.metal-archives.com/reviews/ ... hulhu/3862
https://www.metal-archives.com/reviews/ ... hulhu/3862

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Tanuki
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PostPosted: Thu Jul 13, 2017 12:25 pm 
 

Fairly atrocious track-by-track from 2004:
https://www.metal-archives.com/reviews/Diamond_Head/Canterbury/2070/meedley_meedley/15231

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The Crazy Old School Music Fan
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PostPosted: Sat Jul 15, 2017 12:31 am 
 

This review from 2008 doesn't describe the music very well, but instead seems to just attack the band and go into off-topic ranting quite often.
https://www.metal-archives.com/reviews/Acheron/Tribute_to_the_Devil%27s_Music/25756/demonomania/21543

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Thumbman
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PostPosted: Mon Jul 17, 2017 2:03 pm 
 

Thought this one was pretty borderline. Awful sentence structure and while it does *talk* about the music it doesn't actually describe it. Very little substance and doesn't give you any idea of what it really sounds like beyond being atmospheric black metal (and Glass Shrine definitely are not a typical atmospheric black metal band).
https://www.metal-archives.com/reviews/ ... know/69704
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Dembo
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PostPosted: Wed Jul 19, 2017 11:36 am 
 

This review tells you nothing about what the album sounds like, not even its genre or any basic description of the music:
https://www.metal-archives.com/reviews/ ... ess/177090

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Dembo
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PostPosted: Thu Jul 27, 2017 7:34 pm 
 

Two from ten years ago by one and the same guy...

By and large track-by-track, and not very descriptive in most cases:
https://www.metal-archives.com/reviews/ ... n666/68424

This one isn't track-by-track to as high a degree as the first one, but to some. And it got the peculiar quote "'Tormentor' has also a shitload of awesome riffs [but I liked Slayer version much more]", as if one is a cover of the other. I mean, "version", isn't exactly a fitting word for two songs that just happen to have the same title.
https://www.metal-archives.com/reviews/ ... n666/68424

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MutantClannfear
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PostPosted: Sun Jul 30, 2017 12:58 am 
 

https://www.metal-archives.com/reviews/ ... ed/275213/

Very light on description for both bands on the split. Also, annoyingly, the review's score isn't calculated correctly (the reviewer gives a 28% to one band and 35% to the other, resulting in an overall score of 28 + 35 = 63%???).
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PostPosted: Sun Jul 30, 2017 1:45 am 
 

MutantClannfear wrote:
Also, annoyingly, the review's score isn't calculated correctly (the reviewer gives a 28% to one band and 35% to the other, resulting in an overall score of 28 + 35 = 63%???).


I'm uhhh... not sure how to break this to you but... 28 plus 35 is 63.

EDIT: Oh shit wait ignore me, I see what you're saying.
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MutantClannfear
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PostPosted: Sun Jul 30, 2017 11:15 am 
 

Looking at the review with fresh eyes, I take it back - I think he actually means ZBT is worth a 56 and Zebulon Kosted is worth a 70, so he averages those. Sounds like a really negative review for such a high score, though.
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Dembo
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PostPosted: Wed Aug 02, 2017 7:58 am 
 

Two old ones by one and the same guy:
https://www.metal-archives.com/reviews/ ... rtal/73868
https://www.metal-archives.com/reviews/ ... rtal/73868

The first one has the rating 15% but says early on "this review is not so much to critique the music (which totally rules)"...

The second one is mostly attempts at being funny and he's open about not describing the music:
"the lyrics remind me of tv shows about school kids where there's that goofy, faggoty goth kid in the class who gets up to read some of his terrible poetry about dead leaves and loneliness. These guys and most other foreign bands should just stick to their own languages so that if their lyrics are weak, most people can ignore them."

"I would have been more specific in this review, but after listening to this about 5 times nothing stuck with me. I'm sure I'm not the first one to say this, but "Plaguewielder" and most other Darkthrone albums (any after "A Blaze") are shit and only give black metal a bad name. Don't buy this. You would be better of just spending your money on drugs or fast food. Both would probably stick with you longer".

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hakarl
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PostPosted: Wed Aug 02, 2017 8:22 am 
 

Dembo wrote:
https://www.metal-archives.com/reviews/Darkthrone/Goatlord/1926/SunGodPortal/73868

The first one has the rating 15% but says early on "this review is not so much to critique the music (which totally rules)"...

Well, he does make it fairly clear that the vocals on this release ruin the whole experience for him.

It is very short on description, though.
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colin040
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PostPosted: Wed Aug 02, 2017 9:41 am 
 

https://www.metal-archives.com/reviews/ ... nds/29905/

Yet another short review.

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Dembo
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PostPosted: Wed Aug 02, 2017 10:24 am 
 

Ilwhyan wrote:
Dembo wrote:
https://www.metal-archives.com/reviews/Darkthrone/Goatlord/1926/SunGodPortal/73868

The first one has the rating 15% but says early on "this review is not so much to critique the music (which totally rules)"...

Well, he does make it fairly clear that the vocals on this release ruin the whole experience for him.

It is very short on description, though.

It's not a description of the music at all, just an opinion. The review doesn't tell the reader anything about what the music sounds like, thus it being worthless as a review of a work in music.

colin040 wrote:
https://www.metal-archives.com/reviews/Lost_Dreams/Where_Gods_Creation_Ends/29905/

Yet another short review.

I clicked on a bunch of that user's reviews and all of them barely reaches the scope of common forum post in any given album thread:
https://www.metal-archives.com/users/Skyklad

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hakarl
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PostPosted: Wed Aug 02, 2017 10:32 am 
 

Dembo wrote:
It's not a description of the music at all, just an opinion. The review doesn't tell the reader anything about what the music sounds like, thus it being worthless as a review of a work in music.

Yeah, I agree that the review barely describes the music at all, besides offering the subjective notion that the vocals sound like vomiting or whatever, and by pointing out that there are also "female" vocals.
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PostPosted: Wed Aug 02, 2017 3:02 pm 
 

https://www.metal-archives.com/reviews/ ... Skyklad/96

Too bare bones, plus not a great concept of punctuation/capitalization, either.
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PhilosophicalFrog
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PostPosted: Thu Aug 03, 2017 8:47 pm 
 

https://www.metal-archives.com/reviews/ ... Face/38250

This is an absolutely terrible review
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PostPosted: Thu Aug 03, 2017 9:20 pm 
 

Not sure if that warrants rejection, though...

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Metantoine
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PostPosted: Thu Aug 03, 2017 9:24 pm 
 

More like Diamhea_Face, am I right?

Bad review but it seems acceptable.
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CannibalCorpse
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PostPosted: Fri Aug 04, 2017 9:53 am 
 

You gotta bei kidding with the acceptance of that Wintersun 100% review by Livingwave 17.

It's absolutely nondescriptive ("epic sound", "powerful sound", "harsh sound" + another billion mentions of "epic" and "sound") and nothing more but an "epic" sucking up to Jari.

Maybe Jari wrote it himself.

https://www.metal-archives.com/reviews/Wintersun/The_Forest_Seasons/652821/Livingwave17/413797
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PostPosted: Fri Aug 04, 2017 11:19 am 
 

It's certainly a weak review and could probably use a proofreader in the future, and the account WAS registered just a few days ago and only has one contribution, but it's still acceptably descriptive (if a bit weak) and is just a fanboy. We have the three pointer option for a reason.
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Yeah, you got a point there, I suppose.
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colin040
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PostPosted: Sat Aug 05, 2017 5:41 am 
 

https://www.metal-archives.com/reviews/ ... Bling/1308

Yet another brief review.

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poof
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colin040
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PostPosted: Wed Aug 09, 2017 6:44 am 
 

https://www.metal-archives.com/reviews/ ... us/445866/

Another brief one. D:

EDIT: One more

https://www.metal-archives.com/reviews/ ... ic/221860/

EDIT: found yet another one

https://www.metal-archives.com/reviews/ ... 789/63300/

EDIT: https://www.metal-archives.com/reviews/ ... tes/32168/

EDIT: https://www.metal-archives.com/reviews/ ... jant/14508 - quite a funny one right there. :lol:

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PostPosted: Sat Aug 26, 2017 5:33 pm 
 

Both of those below should be deleted. They are weak in content and description and also a poor formatting

http://www.metal-archives.com/reviews/A ... ath/42701/

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colin040
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PostPosted: Sun Sep 03, 2017 9:39 am 
 

https://www.metal-archives.com/reviews/ ... hra/27715/

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colin040 wrote:
https://www.metal-archives.com/reviews/Khephra/Khephra/27715/


Oh my goodness :ugh:

motherfucking poof
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PostPosted: Tue Sep 12, 2017 12:50 am 
 

https://www.metal-archives.com/reviews/ ... sephC/8028

This is just a bad review, and I'll exert no more effort in citing it than this person did in writing it.

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PostPosted: Tue Oct 10, 2017 5:00 pm 
 

what about this one?

https://www.metal-archives.com/reviews/ ... ation/959/

as barebones as it gets, apparently the guy was more pissed off by hammerheart records than describing the actual music.
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PostPosted: Thu Oct 12, 2017 6:59 am 
 

^ I mean, a good half of Christgau reviews tell me more about the music than that one. And Christgau reviews are much better written, that's for sure.
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PostPosted: Thu Oct 19, 2017 6:22 am 
 

https://www.metal-archives.com/reviews/ ... 666/177205
Always ridiculous when reviewers admit to giving an unjustified rating:

"Well yeah the album does definitively not deserve a 3/100, there are some nice/decent riffs here and there, for example on Fireblind which was not that bad after all, but the point is, I was pranked! I got this album dressed up as a classic, and it managed to be complete garbage. I don't tolerate being pranked and this is why I'm giving it such a low score"

Basically another case of someone reviewing and rating other people's description of an album rather than the album itself.

Not to mention the 10-year old level maturity and style:

"I opened the album folder and started to listen to the first mp3. But after some minutes the excitation was completely gone and I thought "Oh my God what the hell is this......... album?" This failed abortion of an album starts off with some random noises, then some absurd voices come in: "Oh, oh, oh, OH, OH!!!". What the fuck, I have no idea what that is supposed to be, the only thing I know is that it sounds like a guy getting a cock up his asshole. Then after this part (Which does only help to realize how the album is going to be) the guitar comes in. Unfortunately it manages to sound as bad as the gayguy. Very boring guitar work, and then the drums come in and I hoped they were at least going to save the situation a bit but mother of God, the drums manage to sound even worse than the guitar. They're very weak and sound like the drummer's beating plastic dishes or something else, I cannot find any other comparision to describe how much the drumming sucks. Then, when you think the album can not get any worse (And we're still at the first song!) the vocals come in and.... it does get worse!!!"

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