Zad wrote:
Dago wrote:
Hey why not have a hatenail section?
Being honest, I can ony remember knowing of two: that one and another attacking someone for another review. We've been lucky, I suppose.
Haha!! I actually saved that one, here's the email that got sent to the site contact address:
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Hi!! first, thank you for the great site. your reviews have helped
me to find all new awesome bands like scar symmetry etc. just
wondered what is it with you and metalcore? unearth and blinded
colony for example, which isn´t even metalcore at all and yet you
categorised it so. its melodic death. b.c. got 69/100 even that the
newest delivering is an incredible album. and then bands like
l´acephale get rated 91/100 and their "music" is beyond shitty. yes,
I know that everything is relative and its all up to personal
interests, but still...
I couldn't help but respond, with this:
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You might have an argument with Blinded Colony being melodic death instead of metalcore, might. But come on, Unearth is metalcore, I don't even see how that's up for debate. Yes, they are more melodic than most metalcore, but the breakdowns and vocals easily garner them the metalcore tag. As for L'Acephale, I don't know what to tell you. Just because you say its shitty doesn't make it so. Do you dislike black metal? It's all personal preference, not really worth getting pissy over. Most of the staff don't like metalcore because...well...most of it sucks. Maybe you feel the same way about other genres, which is your right.
To which he responded, with this:
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hello again! just to make it right, I did mean that unearth IS metalcore and b.c. is not. just continued the frase a bit funny and wondered the metalcore issue generally. the main point I´m tryin´ to make is that for example mercenarys newest got 92/100, which is quite understandable considering that pretty much everything from songstructures to production is done with great overall meaning in mind. and this is what gets me pissed. a group of "musicians" put a recorder to the middle of their reherseal room and push rec. result is 25 minutes of cacophonic noise, screams and growls with no idea of nothing at all. I mean, wheres the production, idea, some sort of thin red line to follow??? as even a joke no man can say that, "yes we do this with straight face." maybe if you´re 10 years old. and no, I don´t dislike black metal, generally... I have every record that dimmu have done and bands like behemoth, martriden and anaal nakhrath have some very good songs. (demigod, slaves...)(enigma of fate)(lama sabachtani) but I can´t say that I´m a blackmetal fan. anyway, why do I like them is that theres SOMETHING to grab onto, something you recognise as an attempt to be music. noise is not music, its noise.
After that, I just gave up.
