Apart from http://metal-archives.com/stats.php and https://pub.needlebase.com/actions/visu ... etal-Index the database logs what happens to the reviews each year. I've extracted some stats from that log now, so enjoy.


Totals:
17694 submissions in total
10500 approvals in total
7533 reviews were rejected or deleted in total
7154 were initial rejections (by mods)
156 reviews were later removed by mods
388 reviews were removed by the respective authors

This means that it was harder to get a review accepted in 2009 than in 2008, as the total number of submissions was somewhat lower (18092 in 2008) and the rejection number grew from 7101. This gives a rejection ratio of 0.43 compared to 0.39 in 2008 and 0.42 in 2007.

It should be noted, for these stats and the ones that follow, that the database only logs the date when something happened to the review, i.e. it was accepted, rejected or deleted. This skews the presented results somewhat when it comes to reviews that are deleted after the year of submission. Now, those deletions probably don't matter too much (there aren't that many deletions anyway), so enjoy the figures.





Album stats:

Albums with most approved reviews:
(approvals count forever, so it was later removed it still does show up here):
25 Kreator - Hordes of Chaos
23 Cannibal Corpse - Evisceration Plague
16 1349 - Revelations of the Black Flame
15 Mastodon - Crack the Skye
14 Heaven and Hell - The Devil You Know
13 Immortal - All Shall Fall
13 Megadeth - Endgame
13 Slayer - World Painted Blood
13 Wolves in the Throne Room - Blood Cascade
12 Beherit - Engram
11 Dream Theater - Black Clouds & Silver Linings
11 Funeral Mist - Maranatha
11 Job For A Cowboy - Ruination
11 Obscura - Cosmogenesis
11 Sepultura - A-Lex



Albums with most rejected or deleted reviews :
38 Metallica - Death Magnetic (down from 116 rejections last year)
36 Cannibal Corpse - Evisceration Plague
36 Megadeth - Endgame
35 Cryptopsy - The Unspoken King (down from 65)
31 Slayer - World Painted Blood
26 Kreator - Hordes of Chaos
26 Lamb of God - Wrath
23 Behemoth - Evangelion
23 Metallica - Master of Puppets
22 Immortal - All Shall Fall
22 Metallica - St. Anger
21 1349 - Revelations of the Black Flame
21 Gorgoroth - Quantos Possunt ad Satanitatem Trahunt
19 Slayer - Reign In Blood
18 Waking the Cadaver - Perverse Recollections of a Necromangler



Most improved (most reviews approved and later deleted):
7 Kreator - Hordes of Chaos
4 Setherial - Nord
3 Cannibal Corpse - Evisceration Plague
3 Limbonic Art - In Abhorrence Dementia
3 Limbonic Art - Moon in the Scorpio
3 Peste Noire - Ballade cuntre lo Anemi Francor
...and then follows 40 albums at 2 reviews approved and deleted.



Worst albums (rejections/approvals ratio):
19 Metallica - Death Magnetic
17,5 Cryptopsy - The Unspoken King
11,5 Metallica - Master of Puppets
7,333333333 Metallica - St. Anger
7 Metallica - Ride the Lightning
6,5 Mayhem - De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas
6,333333333 Slayer - Reign In Blood
6 Death - The Sound of Perseverance
6 Dimmu Borgir - In Sorti Diaboli
6 Waking the Cadaver - Perverse Recollections of a Necromangler
5,5 Dark Angel - Darkness Descends
5 Lacrimas Profundere - Filthy Notes for Frozen Hearts
4,5 Cannibal Corpse - Kill
4,5 Lord Azmo - Expire My Candle

Goes to show that the bandwagon jumping just doesn't pay out. Even less so this year. In 2008 the highest ratio was 6 (for …And Justice for All). Death Magnetic had 5.5 in a shared second place with Reign in Blood.





Band stats:

Bands with most approved reviews:
62 Black Sabbath
53 Megadeth
51 Slayer
48 Iron Maiden
46 Behemoth
42 Ozzy Osbourne
41 Cannibal Corpse
39 W.A.S.P.
38 Amorphis
37 Judas Priest
37 Kreator
36 Anthrax
33 Immortal
32 Dio
30 Dream Theater



Bands with most rejected reviews:
148 Metallica
93 Megadeth
87 Slayer
71 Cannibal Corpse
58 Iron Maiden
57 Death
49 Behemoth
49 Cryptopsy
46 Lamb of God
46 Mayhem
44 Judas Priest
43 Immortal
41 Kreator
38 Dream Theater
37 Gorgoroth



Worst bands (highest rejections/approvals ratio):
6,57 Mayhem
6,17 Metallica
5,00 DevilDriver
5,00 Watain
4,75 Death
4,67 Whitechapel
4,60 Waking the Cadaver
4,08 Cryptopsy
4,00 Arch Enemy
4,00 Negative Plane




Checking the calendar:

Months:
Jan 1456
Feb 1333
Mar 1434
Apr 1506
May 2068
Jun 1392
Jul 1468
Aug 1205
Sep 1174
Oct 1359
Nov 1918
Dec 1288



The busiest days:
152 21st May
138 18th May
127 23rd May
126 16th Nov
123 17th Nov
120 20th May
119 22nd May
117 18th Dec
115 24th May
113 20th Nov
108 19th Nov
107 19th May
93 18th Nov
90 22nd Oct

Coincidentally, the 8th Virgin Review Challenge was Monday the 18th of May to Sunday the 24th and the 9th was 16th - 22nd November.





Reviewer stats:

Reviewers with most approved reviews:
762 autothrall
269 hells_unicorn
268 Perplexed_Sjel
255 OzzyApu
249 Noktorn
209 DeathRiderDoom
209 oneyoudontknow
177 ThrashManiacAYD
156 Empyreal
131 Phuling
105 Muloc7253
101 Werewolf
95 sushiman
94 CHRISTI_NS_ANITY8
85 colin040

Whoo! I sure as hell did a lot last year. I count for most of those WASP reviews and the Limbonic Art rejected / accepted pile.

I'm amused that the site's busiest day was my birthday.

I am also highly amused that the Most Approved and Most Rejected lists are almost identical.

Best year for me since joining and plenty of 2010 left to surpass that, I think I'm somewhere in the early 90s right now.

I just noticed, isn't it interesting how Black Sabbath/ Heaven & Hell don't seem to get all the rejected reviews that other big name bands, even Iron Maiden and such, get. Nice for the psychological profile and literacy of the average Sabbath aficionado to be so validated.

This has nothing to do with the literacy of the average Sabbath aficionado. It's just that the average Black Sabbath and Heaven and Hell album does not has a lot of reviews, so it's easier to get a review accepted for them.

Ha, yeah, Jon I think you might be reading into something that isn't there. I, for one, consider myself one of millions of stupid people who love Sabbath's music.

I expect you're right, I was messing about. I'd count myself in the same illustrious demographic as ANA does!

Personally I find it quite impressive how many people just a) don't have enough self-criticism to find out their reviewing just isn't good enough compared to over 20 others, b) can't be bothered to really write something good, especially for a really large-scale album. 154 reviews not accepted altogether for Death Magnetic? Wow...