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true_death
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PostPosted: Tue Mar 28, 2017 9:55 pm 
 

Can I get this review removed: http://www.metal-archives.com/reviews/D ... man/321549

When the guy posted it, it was a 45% (which is justified by the content of the review), but now it's a 0% with literally nothing that justifies such a rating aside from lowering the album's score. He does give some vague descriptions of the music, but they don't really make any sense and in many cases are flatly untrue such as: "The structures are so simple that everything just runs in a loop." (this is a very technical album) "The band is content with just grooving most of the time" (only one groove-based track on the album, "Soul Erosion"), and finally this gem: "All the technical flourishes are just that, flourishes - usually the same harmonizing positions too, for cheap 'morbidity' i.e. death metal cred -, and don't add anything to death metal, sounding like unnecessarily bloated versions of what could be decent Brutality riffs." (this has to be one of the most idiotic things I've ever read in a review :lol:). It feels like this guy saw the 100% score it once had, listened to one track on YouTube, and based his entire review on that entirely to elicit a reaction.
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PostPosted: Tue Mar 28, 2017 10:46 pm 
 

http://www.metal-archives.com/reviews/M ... /Snxke/267

I get that back in 2003 there basically weren't standards, but....
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PostPosted: Thu Mar 30, 2017 4:30 pm 
 

http://www.metal-archives.com/reviews/B ... adek/92991

So... this is a acceptable? Or is a bare-bone review?

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PostPosted: Sat Apr 01, 2017 7:20 am 
 

Very short, but well-written and concise. Hardly what we should be concerning ourselves over in this thread.

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hakarl
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PostPosted: Sat Apr 01, 2017 9:00 am 
 

We ought to encourage that kind of writing. There are many long-winded, incoherent, rambling, self-centered reviews on the site that are more than twice as long, and far more deserving of deletion.
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Need4Power
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PostPosted: Mon Apr 03, 2017 4:17 am 
 

If you look back at earlier reviews they tend to be a lot shorter. It would be very hard to get away with submitting something that short now. Standards have gotten higher than what they once were.

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colin040
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PostPosted: Thu Apr 13, 2017 10:58 am 
 

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

http://www.metal-archives.com/reviews/A ... nity/8906/

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wrathchild_88
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PostPosted: Thu Apr 13, 2017 1:46 pm 
 

A track-by-track
http://www.metal-archives.com/reviews/M ... umed/60504

Also the last (oldest) several reviews for that album are all italicised for some reason?
http://www.metal-archives.com/reviews/M ... heart/164/
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PostPosted: Fri Apr 14, 2017 9:54 am 
 

colin040 wrote:
This probably isn't acceptable anymore now, is it?

http://www.metal-archives.com/reviews/A ... nity/8906/


poof

wrathchild_88 wrote:
Also the last (oldest) several reviews for that album are all italicised for some reason?
http://www.metal-archives.com/reviews/M ... heart/164/


That happens when there's an unclosed html tag within the review text. However it looks like the last line of Nhorf's review (the one that starts it) is actually closed so I don't know what the hell is up with this one.

EDIT: I went to look at the page again after posting this and it's apparently good now. We'll just say I used gypsy magic.
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PostPosted: Mon Apr 17, 2017 4:29 pm 
 

http://www.metal-archives.com/reviews/Rudra/Rudra/12109/Tamsco/38017
The review doesn't say much about the music at all and there are spelling errors throughout.

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PostPosted: Tue Apr 25, 2017 1:30 am 
 

http://www.metal-archives.com/reviews/S ... /L_H/26815
This one has some pretty glaring spelling and formatting issues, it would otherwise be borderline passable, though this reviewer probably hasn't even been here in over 10 years so it's not like he can be requested to fix it.
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colin040
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PostPosted: Wed Apr 26, 2017 7:52 am 
 

Should this one still be on the site?

http://www.metal-archives.com/reviews/T ... adent/1245

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PostPosted: Fri Apr 28, 2017 5:28 pm 
 

Stumbled across this. Not only is it a complete eyesore, but there are multiple grammar and spelling errors.
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PostPosted: Sat Apr 29, 2017 5:18 pm 
 

This one is pretty crummy. His other three reviews are really bare bones track-by-tracks as well.

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PostPosted: Fri May 05, 2017 4:25 am 
 

http://www.metal-archives.com/reviews/Nargaroth/Amarok/2497/Hate_And_Sorrow/28537
I don't know if this is acceptable.. track by track and a very weird approach in the musical description

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Dembo
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PostPosted: Tue May 09, 2017 5:10 pm 
 

Old review that don't seem veryd descriptive, apart from calling some songs hard and some slow. More about what songs he thinks are good.

http://www.metal-archives.com/reviews/M ... c716/13247

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colin040
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PostPosted: Fri May 12, 2017 7:40 am 
 

http://www.metal-archives.com/reviews/P ... ce/202137/

Very, very brief. Especially considering the year this got accepted.

EDIT: found another review that doesn't really say a lot: http://www.metal-archives.com/reviews/C ... hin/73586/

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PostPosted: Tue May 16, 2017 1:08 pm 
 

http://www.metal-archives.com/reviews/P ... ering/9343

Track-by-track, and a sloppy, not very descriptive one as well.

An irrelevant but funny aspect is that the title of the review is "For 1994 this is excellent" but the release year is 1993. I guess the year was edited when the review was already there.

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PostPosted: Wed May 17, 2017 1:25 pm 
 

http://www.metal-archives.com/reviews/P ... gre/59960/

Doesn't really explain much.

Found another review that's probably not up to the standards anymore: https://www.metal-archives.com/reviews/ ... Fate/8762/

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PostPosted: Thu May 25, 2017 9:26 am 
 

This review from 2003 makes the average high school kid seem like a Nobel prize-winning writer, both regarding attitude, maturity in choices of words, and overall writing style:
https://www.metal-archives.com/reviews/ ... gia666/859

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"This is the equivalent of receiving unsolicited porn on your e-mail. You see it and YOU KNOW that if you open the attachment a virus will activate and you're gonna lose all your files. You know it, but somewhat your horny ass feel tempted by the file and you say "Hey, is a small file, nothing will go wrong if i take a peek". Big mistake. Next thing you know a virus erases your hard disk with the work reports you should have handled to your boss next day. You're fired from work. Then you go "I'm such a moron!!! I never should have opened this file!!". Next, you kill yourself for being a jackass."

"the vocalist.....Ooooooooohhh!! Would somebody please tell Ms. G(r)oss that she CAN'T SING. Her performance on the album is simply awful. I would gladly choose Kelly Osbourne over her. No wait, damn, what the hell am i saying?? I can feel my brain melting by exposing myself to this record so damn much!"

"In fact, this album has absolutely nothing to offer. Just a lame album with lame "musicians" hoping to cash in for the poor little retards that swear this is the future of Heavy Metal."

"Now, for the serious metalheads....avoid this, even if your families' lives depend on giving more money to these bitches. Probably some misinformed people already bought this to give it a shot, and are seriously regretting so. In that case, go to whatever music store you bought this and get your money back, pronto!"

"What, still here? Didn't i told you? AVOID THIS."

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https://www.metal-archives.com/user-rev ... usic%20Fan

Especially this one: https://www.metal-archives.com/reviews/ ... Fan/386190

He states his opinion over bland (and ultimately meaningless) things, makes no connection between what he said (as if he didn't write anything some paragraphs earlier), and it never comes together to back his opinion.
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islwnd wrote:
https://www.metal-archives.com/user-reviews/The%20Crazy%20Old%20School%20Music%20Fan

Especially this one: https://www.metal-archives.com/reviews/ ... Fan/386190

He states his opinion over bland (and ultimately meaningless) things, makes no connection between what he said (as if he didn't write anything some paragraphs earlier), and it never comes together to back his opinion.

I mean, have you listened to that album? There's not much going on to begin with so there really isn't that much to say.
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islwnd wrote:
https://www.metal-archives.com/user-reviews/The%20Crazy%20Old%20School%20Music%20Fan

Especially this one: https://www.metal-archives.com/reviews/ ... Fan/386190

He states his opinion over bland (and ultimately meaningless) things, makes no connection between what he said (as if he didn't write anything some paragraphs earlier), and it never comes together to back his opinion.


Not agreeing with someone's opinion isn't grounds for rejection. His reviews are technically fine.
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Diamhea wrote:
islwnd wrote:
https://www.metal-archives.com/user-reviews/The%20Crazy%20Old%20School%20Music%20Fan

Especially this one: https://www.metal-archives.com/reviews/ ... Fan/386190

He states his opinion over bland (and ultimately meaningless) things, makes no connection between what he said (as if he didn't write anything some paragraphs earlier), and it never comes together to back his opinion.


Not agreeing with someone's opinion isn't grounds for rejection. His reviews are technically fine.

Sad world.

Okay then, his review of "Shining's debut": https://www.metal-archives.com/reviews/ ... Fan/386190

Katatonia's debut: https://www.metal-archives.com/reviews/ ... Fan/386190

If acting like you know everything and never even explain why is a review, then... well, never mind about it.

P.S It seems to me like he is reviewing the wrong genre... he even said he isn't even remotely into DSBM. It's as if I reviewed a Grindcore album.
So, out of 5 paragraphs, only one is about the music, but there is no explanation why, only statements.

Also, I don't care anymore, do whatever you want. No reason to at this point.
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As long as he attempts to describe the music and isn't totally off the mark... having a shitty opinion is not grounds for rejection.
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PostPosted: Fri May 26, 2017 4:11 pm 
 

Some who review here are very wrong, or in just plain they're not metalheads.... Those who give 63% to Coma of Souls for example, or those who give 96% to St. Anger, too.

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WR95 wrote:
Some who review here are very wrong, or in just plain they're not metalheads.... Those who give 63% to Coma of Souls for example, or those who give 96% to St. Anger, too.


In the case of Coma of Souls, just because they're highly proficient at their instruments doesn't mean people will automatically love it. Some people simply prefer Endless Pain.
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Diamhea wrote:
As long as he attempts to describe the music and isn't totally off the mark... having a shitty opinion is not grounds for rejection.

My apologies. And yes his opinion is so shitty and hopefully he'll realize that. Although his ego would probably reign for a while more until it gets to him that he has done injustice. And if he doesn't then I don't even want to know about his life, I mean look at his forum signature. /start rant     It seems nowadays people cling to what is possible to be ignorant in, both inside and outwards, so avoiding negative feedback is a bad thing as well, but what I don't get is what he gets out of getting his opinion through, usually for people it's about money and similar, but where it gets tricky is "happiness", because positive is a loop so it's much easier to get caught in one when positive is the subject, even though negating everything like an inverted magnet isn't more control either. It's like push and pull... and the brain learns by making a labyrinth, so no wonder life is a labyrinth as well - I think he is a very fucked up person to have to go through that senseless labyrinth to feel something good, when it's about making a review like that. I also deeply hate people... worst beings in the history of the planet. I think it's the positive that causes it, because people go too far with it, less and less brakes visible, although the point is there is no need for breaks when there are boundaries, but those are less and less to be found. The only thing that can break down a positive is a negative, but it is less and less to be "found", although on a second look it's suddenly sickeningly everywhere - so, suddenly there are boundaries everywhere, and some things are just futile. It's how it's seen. Wish this world was fair, I think people like you are devastatingly underrated and others devastatingly overrated. Oh well, end of rant. Cheers and good day to you.
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thrashmaniac87 wrote:
WR95 wrote:
Some who review here are very wrong, or in just plain they're not metalheads.... Those who give 63% to Coma of Souls for example, or those who give 96% to St. Anger, too.


In the case of Coma of Souls, just because they're highly proficient at their instruments doesn't mean people will automatically love it. Some people simply prefer Endless Pain.


The first time I heard I loved it so much, Endless Pain is a debut that everyone loves because has an important history context. It's unique in their catalog. The Old School bla bla bla is very wrong too with their Sound Of Perseverance review. I consider Death as the Pink Floyd of death metal. I enjoy every job Chuck did.

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Many people, including myself, love EP not for its place in history but for how it sounds. We like it raw and simple. That's why many people like Venom and Hellhammer or Love Scream Bloody Gore and hate SoP. To enjoy something simply for it's historical context is stupid.
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islwnd wrote:
Diamhea wrote:
As long as he attempts to describe the music and isn't totally off the mark... having a shitty opinion is not grounds for rejection.

My apologies. And yes his opinion is so shitty and hopefully he'll realize that. Although his ego would probably reign for a while more until it gets to him that he has done injustice. And if he doesn't then I don't even want to know about his life, I mean look at his forum signature. /start rant     It seems nowadays people cling to what is possible to be ignorant in, both inside and outwards, so avoiding negative feedback is a bad thing as well, but what I don't get is what he gets out of getting his opinion through, usually for people it's about money and similar, but where it gets tricky is "happiness", because positive is a loop so it's much easier to get caught in one when positive is the subject, even though negating everything like an inverted magnet isn't more control either. It's like push and pull... and the brain learns by making a labyrinth, so no wonder life is a labyrinth as well - I think he is a very fucked up person to have to go through that senseless labyrinth to feel something good, when it's about making a review like that. I also deeply hate people... worst beings in the history of the planet. I think it's the positive that causes it, because people go too far with it, less and less brakes visible, although the point is there is no need for breaks when there are boundaries, but those are less and less to be found. The only thing that can break down a positive is a negative, but it is less and less to be "found", although on a second look it's suddenly sickeningly everywhere - so, suddenly there are boundaries everywhere, and some things are just futile. It's how it's seen. To explain why I said all this: psychiatry killed me; don't let it happen to anyone else. And yes, I have to be gone. Wish this world was fair, I think people like you are devastatingly underrated and others devastatingly overrated. Oh well, end of rant. Cheers and good day to you.

Oh wow, the lyrics on Disc 2 in this album are spot on for me: https://www.metal-archives.com/albums/E ... dency/1320


What in the absolute hell is going on here?

Anyway, that Trist review did kinda suck because he spent too much time on some nonsense but it's still acceptable. The other two? Those were totally fine, I don't see anything really disagreeable about those at all.
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BastardHead wrote:
What in the absolute hell is going on here?

Anyway, that Trist review did kinda suck because he spent too much time on some nonsense but it's still acceptable. The other two? Those were totally fine, I don't see anything really disagreeable about those at all.

From his review of Katatonia's Dance of December Souls I mentioned earlier: "Whereas the debut was influenced more heavily by the black metal in Norway, the death metal of Sweden, and the doom metal of Finland, their first full length was much more influenced by gothic rock and a more epic and extravagant doom metal than the rather odd mixture of atmospheric doom, black and death metal. (...) While the album does have some great guitar riffs, it falls into the same pitfalls as the debut"
How is a debut not the "first full length"? Ironically, Dance of December Souls IS the debut. Woops.

"(...) is structurally very different from it's predecessor."
"The guitar riffs are cool, laid back, and melancholy. For example, listen to the riffage in "Gateways of Bereavement"; they sound very melancholy, dark, and very fitting of the atmosphere."
Clearly pretending to know any English.

From his review of Trist's Zrcadlení Melancholie: "Shining's debut album is a fabulous landmark in the genre and Make A Change... Kill Yourself is an example of the genre done right."
Who is he to decide what is done right? Landmark, okay sure, whatever. Fabulous, yeah sure, his opinion must be a universal standard, that their debut is the only one in their discography that's better than their most well-reviewed album, when everything else besides only one album in their discography, has about the same score, including the "debut".
"On a lesser known note, there is also Strid, the pioneer of this sound, who made two impeccable releases in the early 90s before vanishing into thin air, which is a shame, as those two releases showed great potential."
I don't get how Strid is less well-known than those heavily-criticized and controversial-in-value bands. Potential, sure, whatever. Shame, well, I smell deviation from the subject, and doubt he even knows more than 15 DSBM bands.
"However, there are a lot of DSBM bands that are complete shit; this is one of them."
Hm, okay, he must surely be well-versed in DSBM - enough to know most bands are shit compared to the ones he mentioned.
"But this is cringe-inducing in how mediocre it is."
So is your review, you infantile dimwit.
"Take, for example, the lyrics of "Trnový labyrint". This "song" literally has verses consisting of 1 word per line. Seriously, "Pain / Sorrow / Oblivion"? Is this guy for real? Even I could do better than this, and I'm not the best songwriter there is."
He clearly can't even review, so he has to shove that line in, confuse songwriting and writing, and on top of that mention both the lyrics and album art before the music which is the only criteria for DSBM, given the vocals are rarely understood anyways. They must be so important - the music must be a soundtrack to the lyrics and artwork.
"Secondly, the album art. I know DSBM is about depression and suicide, but this album art is unimaginative. A cut arm/wrist is an idea that was done by hundreds of bands in this genre already, so what does Trist do? He follows the trend and adds a cut arm to the album art. (...) The drumming is tedious, like the drummer is extremely tired of this shit. The vocals are mediocre, even by DSBM standards."
Such an imaginative description, considering he said the cover is unimaginative - more so, it is simply common sense that the drummer is "extremely tired of this shit". Oh, he must also know better than everyone what influenced the artist's decision to have that album art - surely, it must be a dry statistic that explains everything. So, the DSBM standards are well-known enough to not be pointed out in ANY of the paragraphs? Considering he's "not a fan of DSBM, perhaps I would need to be a fan of the genre to 'get it'." - he surely knows the standards, but wait, he doesn't understand them at the same time, to be able to explain what they are, because surely, they must be so uniform that they would not need to be pointed out, and that in spite of the fact that the entire uniform genre is already mediocre to him, this album must somehow be exceptionally so, and only he would somehow know the truth - no sir, what it would actually mean is, he would only well-review something that isn't actually DSBM. So what does he do, he follows the trend and adds his own review. Impeccable.
"The riffs are basically the same chord repeated over and over repeatedly."
And?... Isn't that a "DSBM standard"? Oh, missed that one, too bad - at least there are mentions of it everywhere else in the review.
"The bass is just there to add "heaviness" to the recording."
You know best each instrument's role, master reviewer. What an informative insight.
"The vocals are mediocre, even by DSBM standards. Trist sounds like a Varg Vikernes wannabe. While I will admit Varg isn't the best vocalist out there, at least he knew how to do it correctly and add power to the music. Trist adds no power to this already weak recording."
So he's a wannabe? If the vocals are not hand in hand with the music, why point the vocals as a ripoff? It would mean the music is not a Burzum ripoff and he's only pointing out more meaningless details which are strictly his opinion. Also, Burzum is not a DSBM band, too bad Mr. "DSBM standards".
"If you want a good DSBM record, I recommend listening to Make A Change... Kill Yourself, Strid or Shining's first album (the third album is also a good release minus Attila's annoying vocal performance) and avoiding this by any means possible."
He must surely be well-versed in the genre enough to shove mentions of other artists and the entire genre, in most paragraphs. But wait, given DSBM is not a real genre but an umbrella term of a spectrum of emotions in music that can be categorized as blackened - he must surely know the emotions in that album well enough to use the umbrella term multiple times - and not even mention this has Doom in it, claiming to be a Doom fan in other reviews and his profile.
Surely then, there must be at least one mention of an emotion in that review: not one.
He must surpass Perplexed_Sjel's, Nokturnal_Wrath's, GuardAwakening's, BlackMetal213's, and 4 other reviewers' opinions, when the album had an average of 96% and the lowest review score was 90%, enough to warrant a deviation of 96% from the average score of an album with 8 other reviews, done over a period of 8 years, almost 2 years before it, and give it a 0%.

Debunked.

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PostPosted: Sat May 27, 2017 7:48 am 
 

islwnd wrote:
A novel.


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Back on track, I bring up https://www.metal-archives.com/reviews/ ... /Snxke/267 and https://www.metal-archives.com/reviews/ ... /Snxke/267, both by user Snxke. Neither one of these really seems to describe much of anything. Ancient Skin manages to get 6 whole sentences, which all say some variant of "this music annoys me", and WLA gets one full sentence of music talk in the entire review. Frankly, I think most of this guys reviews are low-quality, and should be scrubbed.
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islwnd
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PostPosted: Sat May 27, 2017 7:51 am 
 

MetalCuresHeadaches wrote:
islwnd wrote:
A novel.


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Back on track, I bring up https://www.metal-archives.com/reviews/ ... /Snxke/267 and https://www.metal-archives.com/reviews/ ... /Snxke/267, both by user Snxke. Neither one of these really seems to describe much of anything. Ancient Skin manages to get 6 whole sentences, which all say some variant of "this music annoys me", and WLA gets one full sentence of music talk in the entire review. Frankly, I think most of this guys reviews are low-quality, and should be scrubbed.

Grow the fuck up and mind your own business.
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raspberrysoda
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PostPosted: Sat May 27, 2017 1:21 pm 
 

https://www.metal-archives.com/reviews/ ... cweed/8877

poorly formatted, barely describes the music

https://www.metal-archives.com/reviews/ ... Death/1545

this one too
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MetalCuresHeadaches
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PostPosted: Sat May 27, 2017 6:59 pm 
 

A handful more of Snxke's work:

https://www.metal-archives.com/reviews/ ... /Snxke/267 - incredibly short, no music description
https://www.metal-archives.com/reviews/ ... /Snxke/267 - no music description
https://www.metal-archives.com/reviews/ ... /Snxke/267 - track-by-track
https://www.metal-archives.com/reviews/ ... /Snxke/267 - track-by-track
https://www.metal-archives.com/reviews/ ... /Snxke/267 - several sentences of "it rocks", with a single sentence about music at the end
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WR95
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PostPosted: Sat May 27, 2017 7:33 pm 
 

islwnd wrote:

Back on track, I bring up https://www.metal-archives.com/reviews/ ... /Snxke/267 and https://www.metal-archives.com/reviews/ ... /Snxke/267, both by user Snxke. Neither one of these really seems to describe much of anything. Ancient Skin manages to get 6 whole sentences, which all say some variant of "this music annoys me", and WLA gets one full sentence of music talk in the entire review. Frankly, I think most of this guys reviews are low-quality, and should be scrubbed.


You're not alone, is an impotence to know when a contrarian starts to shitting a respected album. But besides him, we've got a lot of it on this site. As I said, if they tell their opinions in front of a metalhead, they'll see their teeth fall :lol: I saw a profile that said metal sucks after 1995, then they have many albums to criticize. Instead of that, they should talk about their favorite albums before 1995, 2000 or whatever.

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Klaagzang
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PostPosted: Thu Jun 01, 2017 5:19 am 
 

https://www.metal-archives.com/reviews/ ... a_3/24965/

Edit:
This one is also quite lacking:
https://www.metal-archives.com/reviews/ ... vil/109390

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Emptiness Cycle
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PostPosted: Fri Jun 02, 2017 7:36 am 
 

Emptiness Cycle wrote:
I suspect I'm gonna regret doing this, but here we go :
Note : Before I do August, September, and go through the entire site (Which I will), if the mods think this is un-needed or don't want it on the forums, PM me and i'll stop.

NB: Where there is only one review of the release, I've not listed it unless it's utter shite, in which case I will probably offer a review of it if a mod is on the fence. Hopefully helping!

Black Metal reviews to be "reviewed" - July 2002.

Infernum

http://www.metal-archives.com/reviews/I ... kkal/61910

Mutiilation

http://www.metal-archives.com/reviews/M ... oichi/9372
http://www.metal-archives.com/reviews/M ... ness/22097
http://www.metal-archives.com/reviews/M ... esin/49667
http://www.metal-archives.com/reviews/M ... legion/798
http://www.metal-archives.com/reviews/M ... Tepes/7015

Judas Iscariot

http://www.metal-archives.com/reviews/J ... lain/12925
http://www.metal-archives.com/reviews/J ... d.../2997/
http://www.metal-archives.com/reviews/J ... china/7367

Dark Funeral

http://www.metal-archives.com/reviews/D ... stard/2763
http://www.metal-archives.com/reviews/D ... nter/49770
http://www.metal-archives.com/reviews/D ... orth/16907

Vermeth

http://www.metal-archives.com/reviews/V ... legion/798

Zarathustra

http://www.metal-archives.com/reviews/Z ... mpt/76210/

Cross Sodomy

http://www.metal-archives.com/reviews/R ... /Snxke/267
http://www.metal-archives.com/reviews/C ... ning/2573/

Vlad Tepes

http://www.metal-archives.com/reviews/V ... ch/491694/ (7 reviews here, at least 5 of them are awful)
http://www.metal-archives.com/reviews/V ... inge/98429
http://www.metal-archives.com/reviews/V ... tal/55862/ (all 3 of these)

Clandestine Blaze

http://www.metal-archives.com/reviews/C ... ion/12071/
http://www.metal-archives.com/reviews/C ... Cum/10907/
http://www.metal-archives.com/reviews/C ... orth/16907

Satanic Warmaster

http://www.metal-archives.com/reviews/S ... olac/11013
http://www.metal-archives.com/reviews/S ... rsk/130849
http://www.metal-archives.com/reviews/S ... arch/17737
http://www.metal-archives.com/reviews/S ... eBee/12221
http://www.metal-archives.com/reviews/S ... eath/43610

Veles

http://www.metal-archives.com/reviews/V ... etal/2632/
http://www.metal-archives.com/reviews/V ... ain/42134/

Heretic

http://www.metal-archives.com/reviews/H ... wolf/13777

Burzum

http://www.metal-archives.com/reviews/B ... o_II/2812/

Tangorodrim

http://www.metal-archives.com/reviews/T ... wolf/13777

Abyssic Hate

http://www.metal-archives.com/reviews/A ... path/57616



Entirely forgot about this post; did this ever get looked at, or do you guys want me to take it on now that I have the ability to?

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Dembo
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PostPosted: Fri Jun 02, 2017 10:34 pm 
 

Surprised to see many reviews posted above still remaining without a response, or maybe moderators have simply been busy with other things. Anyway, I'll post one near-decade-old review that's terrible:

https://www.metal-archives.com/reviews/ ... houl/40130

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