Black Metal.

[V.V.V.V.V.]

That song is really awesome, some creepy melancholic yet melodic doomy ambient industrial goodness. Fuck that was a bunch of adjectives.

Dodsferd is excellent shit. He's done two albums this year so far (not counting a split with USBM act Ganzmord, who is decent in his own right, at least on Monolithic In Darkness which is all I have heard), each with a very distinct style. Fucking Your Creation is a rollicking black and roll disc with excellent pacing and good grooves, along with a couple epic length songs which make up the whole disc for the most part. The newest one Cursing Your Will To Live is a standard BM affair, with great strong production and vocals, and more of a storyline/concept based exploration of the style. Very great stuff!

 

[Manic Ferocity]

Been listening to Vlad Tepes a lot lately. They have a huge rock n' roll influence in their sound that most black metal bands don't have, which I really dig.

 

[Alter]

I never got what was so good about them. I have Celtic Poetry downloaded and it sounds like total shit.

 

[ShredHeadJHJ]

I hear it's their worst, and it's nothing compared to their early/mid era material. Get Blood Ritual instead, or Passage if you're daring to explore their progression into industrial black metal.

It got rave reviews at M-A... They're kinda like a good representation of the common metal head as anyone can write reviews over there. I think it got like 4-5 %100's & one %20.

 

[Zephyrus]

It got rave reviews at M-A... They're kinda like a good representation of the common metal head as anyone can write reviews over there. I think it got like 4-5 %100's & one %20.

Don't use M-A reviews as a measure of good taste among metalheads.

 

[V.V.V.V.V.]

Yeah, don't. They have fucking retarded standards as to what gets accepted for reviews. If I ran a site with reviews by users accepted, I would not accept anything which contained this sentence:

It's good but that's the point: being just good isn't good enough to make a band...good.

Fucking retarded. How the hell do you rationalize negating an axiom like that?!

 

[Zephyrus]

And way too often there are reviewers who in their reviews point out flaws and make criticisms, then just cast all these aside and rate the album 100%.

 

[ShredHeadJHJ]

And way too often there are reviewers who in their reviews point out flaws and make criticisms, then just cast all these aside and rate the album 100%.

Oh no, I fucking agree with you guys. I'm not saying it's the standard, just a fair place to look... Well... Maybe not. I have read a lot of BS over there. Like I've seen reviews where someone rated something 100% then just went on to talk about nothing but problems with that album & at the end of the review they say that the good points more than make up for it uke: If an album is 100% it has no flaws & leaves nothing to be desired.

Yeh, I agree with you guys, but you have to admit that 5/6 100%'s is very impressive.

 

[Jreg]

And way too often there are reviewers who in their reviews point out flaws and make criticisms, then just cast all these aside and rate the album 100%.

...which is especially retarded considering that they rejected two reviews of mine that were about 80-85%, claiming I was too critical to be rating them that high. Fuck that.

 

[MasterOLightning]

I wonder what percentage of the reviews there are 100%s. 10? 20?

Then there are the obviously bad reviews done by people who have no understanding of the genre.

 

[V.V.V.V.V.]

That's ridiculous.

 

[Alter]

Its either a 100% or a 20%....

 

[skeptik]

Uh, yeah, that's why you look for the reviewers that aren't fucking retarded, like Gutterscream or peterott.

 

[Alter]

Theres a guy on there, Chriskiller, with a fucking crazy amount of bands that he sent in and edited.

 

[skeptik]

That's because he has no life. He sits there all day editing band entries to get points.

 

[cookiecutter]

I hate when people who have no understanding of a genre review things. For example the negative reviews of Wormed

 

[skeptik]

That's probably the one thing that annoys me more than anything else, really.

 

[General Zaroff]

Like I said in another thread:

MA give gay reviews.

Metal-Observer and Ultimate Metal are better.

 

[cookiecutter]

Metal-Observer lost every shred of respect I had for it with their review of Disgorge - She Lay Gutted. I never read Ultimate Metal reviews.

 

[V.V.V.V.V.]

So true. I hate when people call things grindcore and have no idea what that even comes close to implying.