3 new Willowtip reviews . . . one of them is a 10/10!

[lurch70]

That is fucked up. I would say that at RC, even a 7/10 score is still worth checking out. 6/10 being 'above average' so most people would probably be indifferent. But a 7/10 could easily be someone else's 10/10 if you know what I mean.

With that said, I used to do that a few years ago myself. I would visit Metal Rules and Metal Observer and only look at reviews with 5/5 or 10/10 ratings, and just ignore the rest. Shame on me I guess.

I the 80's/90's when I used to read Metal Forces I was the same way. But to be honest mediocrity never atracted me. In music or in movies ...
Being average is quite frankly boring. I would rather give something that is a 3/10 a shot just for shock value than something that is 7/10. Stupid? ... Maybe

Unfortunatelly, those mediocre bands never make it just because there are a lot of people like that out there like us, that will never give them a chance.

 

[NAD]

That is fucked up. I would say that at RC, even a 7/10 score is still worth checking out. 6/10 being 'above average' so most people would probably be indifferent. But a 7/10 could easily be someone else's 10/10 if you know what I mean.

Yep, I agree with this.

With that said, I used to do that a few years ago myself. I would visit Metal Rules and Metal Observer and only look at reviews with 5/5 or 10/10 ratings, and just ignore the rest. Shame on me I guess.

Honestly I'm actually wary of perfect scores, depending of course how well I know the reviewer/magazine/website/etc. That might be the fact that out of 800 or so albums I own, only about 20 get a perfect score.

 

[Tranquillian]

Damn royal carnage for making me buy all these awesome albums. Will order the arsis album now.