Voice_Of_Steel's profile

Metal knight since 03/24/2022

A little background about me: I've been into metal since I was 12 and I'm mainly a black metal fan, but I like bands from all genres, including -core stuff. My main goal on this site is to add bands that aren't here yet and my main focus is on bands that might have been overlooked due to being borderline or associated with parts of the metal scene that most people don't pay attention to. I also make edits when I see that pages are missing information or have errors. I occasionally write reviews for my own amusement, but these aren't written frequently. Some of them also have points that I no longer agree with, but I am not going to alter them because I think doing so would be a waste of time. In general, I am only into metal for the music itself and make an attempt to separate the art from the artist, but, obviously, this is not always easy to do. I also don't care about the general consensus on or popularity of bands in the metal scene. If I think their music is good, I'll listen.

Review scale:
100% - Masterpiece/Classic metal album.
90-99% - Very high quality release. Enjoyable all the way through.
80-89% - A great album that is generally pretty enjoyable. 80+ percent albums are usually ones that end up in my regular rotation.
70-79% - Enjoyable, but has some noticeable issues (filler tracks, some bad ideas etc.) or not very original/unique, but still good enough to listen to.
50-69% - Stuff that falls in this range is generally just generic/extremely average. Some of these have occasional good songs on them but are generally not very interesting.
0-49% - Varying degrees of bad. On the upper end you'll usually find stuff with flaws like bad vocals accompanied by generic instrumentals, but as you near closer and closer to 0 things start becoming musically inept.

Some of my favorite metal bands include: In Flames, Death, Megadeth, Dark Tranquillity, Darkthrone, Nokturnal Mortum, At the Gates, Cradle of Filth, (old) Dimmu Borgir, Edge of Sanity, Iron Maiden, Machine Head, Slayer, (old) Nightwish, Imperial Circus Dead Decadence, Pantera, Burzum, Cryptopsy, Fear Factory, Queensryche, Decapitated, Obscura, Morbid Angel, and Children of Bodom.

Note: I own a lot more albums than are listed in my collection. I haven't gotten around to adding them all yet.

Bands I've seen live (metal and non-metal):

Aborted
Anthrax
Avatar
Aversions Crown
Babymetal
Batushka (before the break up)
Belphegor
Benighted
Blood Incantation
Cannibal Corpse
Cattle Decapitation
Cryptopsy
Dark Funeral
Deicide
Exhumed
Fleshgod Apocalypse
Hate
Hideous Divinity
Imperial Triumphant
Incantation
Infernal Conjuration
In Flames
Jungle Rot
Krisun
Lamb of God
Megadeth
Misanthropy
Morbid Angel
Necrot
Origin
Pearl Jam
Revocation
Rise Against (only part of their set)
Rivers of Nihil
Slayer
Shadow of Intent
Suffocation
Testament
The Absence
The Black Dahlia Murder
The Chasm
Trivium
Visceral Disgorge
Whitechapel
Yautja

Note: Some of these were against my will. I am not a fan of some of these bands