For the record, do you have any evidence that it exists as an actual release? It only seems to be mentioned here and on similar sites...

Please delete:

http://www.metal-archives.com/albums/Pr ... tov/174118

Webattack against Ivan Chertov from Craving from 2007.

Not a Demo / Album.

ps.

allready reported it 3 times!

And one more information, it DOESNT exist!
There demo wasnt produces, its just provocation on the net.
So its kinda not official, please remove it!

We wont remove something simply because the artist wrote it as a provocation against someone else. IF the work was released and official, then it's a legitimate part of the band's discography and must factually be listed. We simply seek to report facts; we don't look into the motives of the artist in releasing a work.

Nevertheless, if you can prove that the demo does not exist, beyond just hearsay, then it will be removed. Factually, the album wouldn't exist at that point and does not belong in the discography.

Out of curiosity, would Khanate be deleted for being more noise than metal if they weren't a worldwide-distributed side project of Stephen O'Malley?

Since when were they more noise than metal? They had riffs, just v e r y s l o w ones.

I was reminded of them because of the argument here. Listening to the track that was supposedly more noise than metal, it sounded exactly like Khanate. My experience with them is mostly limited to their s/t, but when you think about it they are indeed very noisy and devoid of actual metal riffage.

Eh? When someone refers to a metal band being "very noisy", I think more of Abruptum or Enbilulugugal than a bleak snail's pace doom band like Khanate. The influence of bands like Swans is evident, but that doesn't necessarily make Khanate more noise rock than doom.

"Krieg gegen Ivan Chertov" is a web release with artwork, which is allowed on this site. No physical copy was ever made, but that's not what matters. What matters is that the song was recorded and released on the web. I was present during the recording of the song, so I think I know whether it exists or not, Lakter is simply being a butthurt baby because he doesn't like the title of the song.

@Lakter: Just release your own recording hating on these other cunts. Here, just use this:

Deleted Voice of the Soul. No sign of already released albums in physical form.

What about this:



Will you delete the page or do I update it?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xybjYBXJbyo is http://www.metal-archives.com/bands/Mielofon/31940.
Started looking at the other thread (why rejected) and one of the last posts had a whole list of bands like this. I'd link to the post if I could figure out how. oh

I haven't checked any of the others but it might be worth a look

Actually, reading above, this is relevant to that debate. I also just saw a band that sounds like Khanate being rejected in the other thread for being more noise than metal.
Where should we draw the line?

I'm currently unable to play music on Myspace with Chrome, for whatever reasons (one of them probably being that Myspace sucks balls). Listened to some songs on Youtube and it does sound like rock. Any other mods who can get Myspace to work care to take a listen, though?

DamaJuana deleted for being rock.

Alright but... is this track available somewhere for download then? It seems to me that, to be considered an actual release rather than a random mp3, there should be a relatively permanent way to access it.

http://www.metal-archives.com/bands/Shambles/3540337742 should be removed, this is not a valid name change that deserves a new entry (based on the rules).

Is this really a significant enough of a name change to warrant its own page?

http://www.metal-archives.com/bands/Shambles/3540337742
http://www.metal-archives.com/bands/Shambless/24731

Nope, i made that mistake and corrected it

Do moderators have more privileges when adding bands, because Azmodes's band Habitual Defilement was already added to this site before the EP was released.

http://www.metal-archives.com/bands/Hab ... 3540336890

According to their Facebook page the EP was self-released on November 8th. Porman changed the date and label after I added them. I don't know whether the original release never happened or it's just released again by a label.

The Facebook seems to state that the release date is in January 2012. I'm afraid the self-release might be digital, in which case the band must go. Let's check this.

Hm,

That's after one post from November 8th where they wrote about the EP release being in 4 hours. Were they just talking about getting a couple of promos sent to some labels?

I'm pretty sure they were talking about a real CD release though (I remember a BigCartel entry other than the current one), otherwise I wouldn't have added them.

EDIT: I remember that Alhadis had a draft for them ready, so maybe he can shed some light on this?

Are discs sent to labels considered a valid physical release? Because I usually don't submit those bands.

You could try providing some context, like how the band actually sends the disc to the label. I remember one label where they would not accept mp3's as demos (I'll try to find this label).

I changed it according to the report which I followed up on.

Like this:

http://i41.tinypic.com/2uqitc1.jpg
http://i40.tinypic.com/2jg2yh5.jpg

I am not sure if this band http://www.metal-archives.com/bands/Mag ... sday/42115 should stay. Check the additional notes field beside their music genre is suspicious. I found this on the Internet:

Maggot Pigs On Tuesday started off as a single man project led by Brooklyn, New York musician David Fix sometime in 2003 but gradually has been making name within the aggro industrial rock scene of New York City, growing as an actual band rather than being single project. The band itself is actually a Ministry-worship band playing a similar style found on their “The Mind Is A Terrible Thing To Taste” album. (I suppose Ministry got accepted based on their "Rio Grande Blood" album)

MPoT sounds like a very simple no: the rules specifically forbid Ministry, and if everything (including the m-a profile) says this guy's a Ministry ripoff, he shouldn't be here.

On another note, I love The Tyrant of Manchester ( http://www.metal-archives.com/bands/The ... ster/54856 ), but why the hell is it on m-a when I'm seeing other bands rejected for being "predominantly noise?" "Rough Musick" has metalish riffs on a couple songs. Most of them are straight-up harsh noise or mix various electronic elements and/or rock riffs.

Consistency: imaginary

Yeah, I was actually playing nice guy and decided not to speak up about the band's premature addition to the archives:

http://www.facebook.com/habitualdefilem ... 9238371073

Other reason was because I didn't want to sound like a butthurt user about a mod adding the band before I had a chance to submit my own draft. But yeah, as you can see, the EP was only sent to labels for pressing at the time.

Well, you should have. I was wrong in adding them. If you have some information about a band wrongly included then don't hesitate to bring it up, no matter who added them. Nothing butthurt about that if your point is valid.

I've deleted them.

Sorry sir.

That description is from Last.fm (or at least it's the only source for it I could find), so it's not something I would accept as a reason to delete a band. Samples nowhere to be found, Myspace link mentioned there is dead, bleh. Granted, it was added in 2005 and all in all the info makes it look suspicious, but I'd rather listen to something by the band than blindly remove it.

And what idiot added this:

Again I am not quite familiar with that but is this band http://www.metal-archives.com/bands/Boize/3540337934 really heavy enough? If yes I suppose that Hard Rock should be added to the genre.

Sounded heavy enough to me. But I've added the hard rock tag, yeah.

Then I suppose this one http://uiliotrecords.bandcamp.com/album/reach-in is heavier, anyway I pass through many similar bands that I don't submit because I am not quite familiar with their music so I was wondering if we can have a thread to post such links so other users can submit them if they are familiar with their music. What do you think?

That sounds in fact less heavy to me. But it's not really my genre preference either, so I dunno. Boize however seemed like acceptable traditional metal with some rock leanings to me. I'd tell you that you should just throw bands in the queue you might think could have a place on this site, but as a matter of fact you already have enough borderline stuff among your submissions as it is.

Don't know how sensible such a thread would be. That would just be a "Do you think this band is metal enough?" thing, something the rejection thread is already plagued by. It would most probably only lead to more fighting about a band's metalness and not have any real merit. I think the staff as a whole has a good "collective genre knowledge" anyway, so when a band pops up in the queue that knowledge will be put to good use via internal discussion.

Well dunno sounded like a Black Sabbath influenced band anyway I'll keep ignoring those I am not quite familiar with this kind of music after all. Probably you are right about "That would just be a "Do you think this band is metal enough?" thing" so let's keep it this way. Well I do submit borderline bands, yes. This is quite known I suppose but they fit under the rules. I didn't have much problems about that except the sludge related bands (I am not getting back to that although I am still convinced that many of those can be easily re-considered). But the fact is that the 5 bands that are in the queue now are not borderline bands.

No they do not...