This may be the best review I've ever read

[Black Winter Day]

Enjoy!

http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/record-reviews/m/metallica/st-anger.shtml

 

[MFJ]

that rules, and it rules even more because its dead on.

 

[MadeInNewJersey]

Tldr

 

[Allure of the Earth]

http://pitchforkmedia.com/record-reviews/u/ulver/perdition-city.shtml

no comment.

 

[MFJ]

okay... that review of Perdition City is fucking ridiculous.

 

[J.]

I wouldn't go so far as to call Perdition City "crap", but it certainly is not very interesting, like all post Nattens Madrigal material.

At least they got the Jeff Buckley review spot on.

 

[Ayeka]

What a fantastic review. I still say that anyone who likes St Wanker is a fucking idiot

 

[Black Winter Day]

Pitchfork are excellent and cover much of the type of music I've been recently getting into. Yeah, I know they fucked up on the Ulver, but at least they didn't give Sentenced's "Crimson" a 10/10 (had to do it since Markgugs is back).

 

[JayKeeley]

Hehe...

In Metallica's case, the result was somehow worse for sounding so calculated and plotted in ProTools. ProTools had never been metal. ProTools never snorted ants up his FireWire from the side of the pool while urinating down a woman's dress. ProTools never inserted the sound of a chainsaw into the opening of "Black Metal" off the album Black Metal. ProTools never burned churches in Norway. And yet, ProTools had a major hand in assembling both "American Life" and "Frantic".

 

[NAD]

Wait... so St. Anger wasn't recorded in a matter of a few hours using raw (as in crappy) equipment? I'm asking a serious question here.

Perdition City is almost too good for words.

 

[MajestikMøøse]

I think that the most interesting reviews to read are always the lowest scores

 

[Ayeka]

I think that the most interesting reviews to read are always the lowest scores

Hell yeah. When I'm reading magazines and stuff, the low score reviews are pretty much the only ones that I read.

 

[Lies and Perfidy]

I think that the most interesting reviews to read are always the lowest scores

One word:

...or, two words:

...or, one compound word: UltraBoris. He's a champ.

Also, any time Scorpio/Demiurge or Mornelithe Falconsbane go off on an album, it's a joy to read. They always seem to have something personal against the musicians.

 

[Crimson Velvet]

UltraBoris seems to enjoy reviewing albums from genres he doesn't like. Which again means that he isn't objective.

 

[Hell Mike]

So? Review=Opinion of an album.

 

[Crimson Velvet]

But what's the point of making a review if you have no interest in the genre? I would never review a power metal album, because my opnion of that album wouldn't be relevant.

 

[Crimson Velvet]

Hehe... I see your point...

 

[Nico]

Fucken' Opeth and their fucken' scapegoatage.

 

[MFJ]

UltraBoris seems to enjoy reviewing albums from genres he doesn't like. Which again means that he isn't objective.

yes... its absolutely worthless to go review a gothenburg album if you hate the genre and know that you do.... like so many of the people on Metal-Archives

 

[Demonspell]

I'm not going to deny the entertainment value of negative reviews that sound like the writer has a personal vendetta against the artist, but in the end I don't believe they accomplish anything, especially when written from an incorrect perspective like many of the M-A bashathons...