Metal Reviews

Zadok · Last edited by Zadok on Wed Sep 10, 2008 10:31 am; edited 1 time in total

Anyone with less than, say, 50 posts, come in and introduce yourselves! Regulars, feel free to join in too.

I'll start the ball rolling:

Real first name: Zadok
Age: 23
Location: Manchester, England
Job/school?: Legal Secretary
Favourite five bands of the moment: Napalm Death, Enslaved, Rush, Cryptopsy, Testament
Current favourite album: Testament - Formation Of Damnation
Non-musical interests: Reading, writing, films, art, politics
How you discovered Metal: Evanescence on radio, then discovered System Of A Down, then discovered Iron Maiden... the rest is history!
How you discovered Metal Reviews: Googling 'metal reviews'
Gen. info: Frequent author for the site, as well as Forum Moderator and all-round really nice guy, never even raised my voice in anger, never in arguments, known for kind manner and vast storehouses of patience. Feel free to contact me with questions and so on.
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5/3/// · Metal Servant Joined: 27 Aug 2008 Posts: 177

Real first name: Pierrick
Age: 29
Location: Rennes, France
Job/school?: Management in a wholesale paper company
Favourite five bands of the moment: Deep Purple, Nick Cave, Tom Waits, Scorpions, Green Carnation
Current favourite album: Cult of Luna - Eternal Kingdom
Non-musical interests: Football (Allez FC Rennes !), Fiction novels, Animal world, Cooking (etc.).
How you discovered Metal Reviews: Googling 'metal reviews'
Gen. info: New poster here. Previously a member of the french forum Les Immortels which I left because too many posters were youngsters with close to no idea and interest about older music. Music left aside, married, one boy (2 years old) and, generally, an easy going an happy fellow.

If you don't mind, I'll add one:
How did you discover metal? My big brother had one album by Judas Priest (Sad Wings of Destiny) and didn't like it (he was more into pop) so he gave it to me. I was 11 years old and that's how it all started

crast · Metal King Joined: 09 Feb 2006 Posts: 1501

Real first name: Fredrik
Age: 26
Location: Den Haag, The Netherlands
Job/school?: Programmer
Favourite five bands of the moment: Primordial, The Crown, Rotting Christ, Amon Amarth, Lifelover, Ophthalamia
Current favourite album: Ophthalamia - Dominion
Non-musical interests: Code, WoW, getting my fucking apartment finished
How you discovered Metal: Older brother and I bought Master of Puppets when I was in 2:nd grade or so, after that it just went downhill.
How you discovered Metal Reviews: My band was reviewed here by Mr.Ken,

Gen. info: I'm Swedish, but I recently moved to The Netherlands. I demand Edge of Sanity - Crimson every 6 months or so in the Classics thread, but I have yet to be listened to! Don't post much really, usually spam shit about my band in the hopes that people will find something they enjoy.

Speaking of which: http://www.entercanopy.com
http://www.myspace.com/canopy

.:crast:.

Adam

Real first name: Adam
Age: 28
Location: Indianapolis, Indiana, US
Job/school?: Project Manager
Favourite five bands of the moment: Neurosis, Evoken, Sodom, Immolation, Napalm Death
Current favourite album: Hammers of Misfortune - The August Engine
Non-musical interests: Sports, gaming, movies, reading, politics, drinking
How you discovered Metal: My dad's a big Neil Young fan, and I always found myself liking the harder songs (e.g. Fuckin' Up), so I wanted harder and faster stuff. I think the first metal album I owned was Reign in Blood around 7th or 8th grade.
How you discovered Metal Reviews: Googling 'metal reviews'
Gen. info: Write for MR, moderate MR forums, married, father of a 1 year old girl, huge Eagles, Yankees, Blackhawks, and Pacers fan. Robert DeNiro is the person I would most like to meet. My wife understands that if Jennifer Connelly ever wanted to marry me, she (my wife) is history.

Astaroth · Guest

Real first name: Kim
Age: 24
Location: Odense, Denmark
School: Schoolteacher
Favourite five bands of the moment: Windir, Nokturnal Mortum, Amon Amarth, Negura Bunget, Burzum
How you discovered Metal: Metallica when i was 10. Then 7 years later some nu-metal, then i discovered a norwegian program showing music videos with many metal bands, including black metal, I have been listening to that for almost 5 years now.
Non-musical interests: "Bodybuilding", sport, wine, movies, King of Queens, Comedy, gaming, viking and norse mythology, anal gay porn and masturbation
How you discovered Metal Reviews: Googling 'metal reviews'
Gen. info: Moved out of my parents house to live on my own when I turned 18 and now I live on a shitty dorm far away from everybody. I like being artsy fartsy and someday i hope to produce some k3wl art myself (music). I also hope to produce some kids one day, that's probably my biggest goal, and most ambitious, since I'm no good with the ladies.

Azrael · Posted: Wed Sep 10, 2008 3:26 pm Post subject:

Real first name: Mitul
Age: 21
Location: Lisbon, Portugal

Occupation: student - 1 exam away from finishing undergradaute degree, started MSc today
Favourite three bands of the moment: Kamelot, Misery Index, The Black Dahlia Murder.
How you discovered Metal: started off with stuff like The Offspring, Korn, Limp Bizkit and Rammstein and my first taste of "real metal" was 80's Metallica when i was 14/15
Non-musical interests: football (as in "soccer") - i support SL Benfica, reading, movies, stories
How you discovered Metal Reviews: through some guy on irc. remember that?

Gen. info: god's gift to mankind, especially women.

traptunderice · Posted: Wed Sep 10, 2008 3:44 pm Post subject:

Real first name: Kyle
Age: 19
Location: Cincinnati, OH, USA
Job/school?: Work at a grocery store, studying for my BA in Philosophy
Favourite five bands of the moment: Of the moment? Metallica, The Rotted, Electric Wizard, Nick Cave, Moonspell
Current favourite album: The Rotted - Get Dead or Die Trying
Non-musical interests: Reading, philosophy (mainly neo-marxism and the classics), film, politics, kittens.
How you discovered Metal: My older brother had the classic four Metallica albums, Cowboys from Hell, and La Sexorcisto and I grew up listening to them.
How you discovered Metal Reviews: Googling 'metal reviews'
Gen. info: I'm rather impulsive and defensive. I'm basically married without the paperwork and that comes with the baggage of downturning the excitement and just coasting through life which I like. Being single again would scare me.

December Flower

Ness · Posted: Wed Sep 10, 2008 4:58 pm Post subject:

Real first name:Adam
Age: just turned 24 last week
Location: HUSKER NATION!!! ...*cough* Omaha, NE.
Job/school?: Wells Fargo Bank N.A. operations manager
Favourite five bands of the moment: At the moment... Opeth, Between the Buried and Me, Angra, Equilibrium, 7th Avenue
Current favourite album: Opeth - Watershed
Non-musical interests: Halo, running, gym, playing basketball, everything related to FOOTBALL (American), sports in general, and watching gay porn with Kim
How you discovered Metal Reviews: I think I googled metal reviews
Gen. info: I have a beautiful wife, been married 2 years this December, Looking for a house, I love living in the city. The time of year I look forward to the most is Husker gameday and Lakers basketball. Jerry Seinfeld is one of my favorite comedians... and u hhh

... I've been at this website a long time.
How did you discover metal?: Started with softer Alternative Rock bands and progressed to Slayer, then discovered Devin Townsend and SYL! I think I was about 13 or so....

Azrael · Posted: Wed Sep 10, 2008 5:08 pm Post subject:

so far only two of us didn't get here by googling "metal reviews". they did well to get this name for their website. maybe one day they'll sell it like that guy who sold sex.com for a fortune

The Silent Man · Posted: Wed Sep 10, 2008 5:30 pm Post subject:

Real first name: Ryan
Age: 23
Location: Nova Scotia, Canada
Job/school?: Nova Scotia Liqour Corp. People beg for money on the streets and then come to me for 3 dollar cans of Faxe 10%.
Favourite five bands of the moment: Nazareth, Dragonforce, Battlelore, Testament, Judas Priest
Current favourite album: Dragonforce - Ultra Beatdown (suck my balls, everyone, suck my balls)
Non-musical interests: Film, Anime, Reading, Video Games, Sex, Trampolines, and Canned Soup
How you discovered Metal: Within Temptation - Dark Wings, 7 years ago, from there went on to listen to Mother Earth and moved on to Nightwish and any cheesy power metal band I could find.
How you discovered Metal Reviews: Like everyone else, I googled Metal Reviews back in the day and I lurked for a long time during the old days of the weird oldstyle forum. Decided to sign up eventually to get to know metalNESS better and get his phone number.
Gen. info: Sometimes mistaken for Hercules I live each of my days hoping my work will call me in since I am a casual and have been averaging like 15-20 hours a week and I need mo'! I like to do stupid things for laughs, like last night I fell down a flight of stairs and I would like to believe I did it on purpose. I also like to write with bad grammar and runon sentences so that I can anger people who actuallty car.

Karmakosmonaut

Real first name: Laurens (Larry)
Age: 22
Location: Ghent, Southern Netherlands
Job/school?: Studying to become a high school teacher
Favourite five bands of the moment: Sahg, Moonsorrow, Stille Opproer, Entombed, Porcupine Tree.
Current favourite album: Moonsorrow - Tulimyrsky EP
Non-musical interests: comedy, films, visual arts, politics, board games, student clubs, foods & drinks
How you discovered Metal: Slayer on MTV (GHUA era), down their discography, then Vader and so on
How you discovered Metal Reviews: looking for reviews for a particular album, think it was ...and Oceans - Cypher
Gen. info: not really much to say, I'm right-wing but rather likeable once you stop being paranoid about it, I'm generally open-minded and helpful, and I'm very honest.

Cara · Posted: Wed Sep 10, 2008 5:48 pm Post subject:

Real first name: Carolyn
Age: 18 now, yess!
Location: Ontario, Canada
Job/school?: I'm a nursing student and Nipissing University
Favourite five bands of the moment: Amon Amarth, Opeth, Against me!, Shiny Toy guns, Ensiferum
Current favourite album: Against Me! - New Wave
Non-musical interests: Reading, Video Games, Makeup and Aesthetics, Making Clothing, The interwebs.
How you discovered Metal: I was always into KISS, Iron Maiden, Judas Priest and the like, but I was really really into punk, plaid pants, straps, boots and all that jazz! haha. Then my brother's ex girlfriend introduced me to nightwish, and the rest is history

How you discovered Metal Reviews: ELIAS! (Frigid Symphony) I met him on the Sonata Arctica Forum, and was chatting with him about how much the forum sucks, because it was too safe and there were too many rules, so he showed me this place.
Gen. info: I frequent a few other forums, mostly punk bands that I just can't give up. Uhm, in the very far distant future, i'd like to be a doctor. But for my undergrad I'm studying as a nurse, specifically for children. Uhhhhhm. Of course my back up plan is a rockstar

I'm a huge comic nerd. I'm the biggest Wonder Woman addict you'll ever encounter in your life. I like piercings and tattoos, a bunch of the former, none of the latter.
Anymore you'd like to know, don't be afraid to hit me up via PM for my MSN and the like. I very much enjoy chatting.

noodles · Posted: Wed Sep 10, 2008 5:52 pm Post subject:

Real first name: jeff
Age: 19, 20 in a month
Location: Victoria, BC
Job/school?: philosophy student, video store clerk
Favourite five bands/musicians of the moment: Nomeansno, Jonas Hellborg, Thrice, Esbjorn Svensson, Colour Haze (from last.fm's 3 month charts)
Current favourite album: Warning - Watching From a Distance
Non-musical interests: books
How you discovered Metal: there was a clan based around metal on Warcraft 3, they were all "Tool is metal!" so i joined and stuff.
How you discovered Metal Reviews: forget, someone on rateyourmusic linked here i believe
Gen. info: i'm really shy and i like grapefruit

Cú Chulainn · Posted: Wed Sep 10, 2008 6:20 pm Post subject:

Real first name: Elias
Age: 17
Location: Lugano, Switzerland
Job/School: 11th grade IB program (hell).
Fave five atm: Dagoba, At The Gates, Amon Amarth, Agnostic Front, Equilibrium
Fave album atm: "Twilight Of The Thundergod", Amon Amarth
Non-musical interest: Occult, history, movies.
How I discovered metal: Cousin lent me Maiden's "Rock In Rio" and Metallica's "S&M".
How I discovered metalreviews: by googling "metal reviews".
Gen info: I don't post much anymore, unless I really have something to say, and unless I'm trying to promote my own band (which also got reviewed here

www.soulsmirror.net www.myspace.com/soulsmirror). In a great relationship for a year now.

Thomas · Posted: Wed Sep 10, 2008 7:30 pm Post subject:

Real first name: Thomas
Age: 20
Location: Malaga, Spain
Job/school?: Atlantis Medical College, studying Dietics.
Favourite five bands of the moment: Convege, Deep Purple, Genesis, Aspera, Norma Jean
Current favourite album: Deep Purple - In Rock
Non-musical interests: Football (soccer), photo, Ice-hockey, powerlifting, beer, beer, beer, beer.
How you discovered Metal: Iron Maiden live at Rock in Rio on TV
How you discovered Metal Reviews: Don't remember actually
Gen. info: I'm playing alot of guitar when not working or working out. Right-wing, but not extreme.

Raven · Einherjar Joined: 15 Jan 2007 Posts: 1963

Real First Name: Mike

Age: 40

Location: North Carolina USA

Job/school?: Teaching Assistant/I'm currently working on a BS in special education/autism.

Favourite five bands of the moment: Arch Enemy-Draconian-Katatonia-Iron Maiden-Paradise Lost

Current favourite album: Katatonia: Night Is The New Day

Non-musical interests: Reading, Halo, NFL Football, Baltimore Ravens fan, Fantasy Football, my family, our dogs, I'm a horror/monster film fan, and I build huge Halloween horror props for our yard-haunt.

How you discovered Metal: My older brother let me hear Judas Priest's "Diamonds & Rust" from Unleashed in the East. I quickly discovered Iron Maiden after that and the rest is history. That was around 1982. I was in my local record store the day that Iron Maiden's Piece of Mind was released. Yes, I am a dinosaur but I was there for some great concerts!!

How you discovered Metal Reviews: By Googling 'metal reviews'

Gen. info: I am a huge metal fan obviously, guitarist for almost 25 years, I own, Parker, Steinberger, and Hamer guitars.

Playing and listening to music is extremely therapeutic for me!!

Seinfeld26 · Guest

Real first name: Marty

Age: 25 (will be 26 in two weeks)

Location: A little suburb outside of Detroit, Michigan

Job/school?: College student (see the "Gen Info" section below)

Favourite five bands of the moment: Megadeth, Exodus, Machine Head, Iron Maiden, Slayer (bear in mind that these aren't necessarily my overall five favorite bands)

Current favourite album: Megadeth - The System Has Failed

Non-musical interests: Weightlifting, Swimming, Metaphysical Philosophy, Computers, Gaming, Old-School Cartoons, Urban Studies, Volunteerism, Hanging Wit' My Homies, Sociology, etc.

How you discovered Metal Reviews: I think I accidentally found it when looking for a review of St. Anger about five years ago.

Gen. info: I'm a pursuing a double major in Mathematics and Computer Science, and I'm striving to become a professional software developer. When I'm not doing school work, I'm usually working out, doing outside comp-sci related studies (right now, I'm trying to teach myself Java and SQL, and I'm the VP of my school's ACM - Association For Computing Machinery chapter), hanging out with my buds, reading, gaming, and of course, listening to rock/metal.

How did you discover metal?: Quite by accident, actually. I used to be one of those "metal is just noise" types. Until I started sporadically hearing it either in my friend's car or when playing video games. Eventually, I had to admit to myself that I like the genre. And so now I've been a fan for almost nine years.

Thomas · Posted: Wed Sep 10, 2008 8:02 pm Post subject:

Hey! That was my reason too! And the review was hilarious btw!

Mintrude · Posted: Wed Sep 10, 2008 8:09 pm Post subject:

Real First Name: Alex

Age: 16 (Young 'un, aren't I? Youngest regular poster here, I believe)

Location: Cardiff, Wales

School: 6th Form student.

Current Five Favorite Bands: Ulver, The Mars Volta, Coheed And Cambria, Manilla Road, Neutral Milk Hotel

Current Favorite Album: Ulver-Perdition City has been getting A LOT of airplay in chez Mintrude recently.

Non-musical interests: Acting, public speaking, Model UN shit, and generally being a massive attention whore.

How I discovered Metal: Sabbath were the first metal band I got into, but I fell off the beaten path for several years until I started listening to Tool.

How you discovered the site: googling metal reviews, of course. I think my dad posted once on the old forums to complain about British Steel's 100/100 score.

General Info: Hopeless romantic, self-confessed liberal vagina, the boss around here.