Metal Reviews

I thought about it for a little while, but I honestly don't see this as being good.

Alright, first of all, we are gonna have to agree that MR is trageted towards a certain market, that being underground metal (whether or not it became mainstream is beyond the point)

Now, why is MR writing reviews for mainstream Nu-metal acts? Obviously, no regular viewer of this site is coming here for that. I started coming here because I wanted to see what promotional material from the indie labels was worth listening to and MR succeeds at that.

Now, I consider the attitude towards mainstream metal acts to be hostiule at best and honestly don't believe anything written in this vein because it is biased towards believing there is no way these bands are good. Historically, it has been shown the vast majority of these acts were not very good and are poorly regarded now.

I am not one that can go back in time and change the way i thought about something during inception, so i tend to have a solid opinion once it is formed. It doesn't shift from year to year as some others might.

I am a fan of almost all the NM bands I used to listen to and coming from that perspective, I don't see the point in going back and retroactively giving these albums shitty reviews. They are no use to me or anyone that likes this form of metal, they seem to only exist as a way to justify current opinions and suggest that in the grand scheme of things the underground metal this site has covered for years has now become more important historically and musically.

Calling the new slipknot record a piece of shit doesn't do anything but make the site look elitist, snobby and too good to review anything anyone's heard about in the mainstream press.

Simply ignoring these bands and records is the most effective way to not only marginize these efforts (since I believe that is the goal here) but make them historically irrelevant.

People can say whatever they want about being fans, but the reality is that when you see nothing but retroactive bad reviews for nu-metal and even worse reviews for the new stuff coming out, there doesn't seem to be an credibility to the effect that this music is appreciated at all, thus, why would you take it seriously as a viewer? If MR had the opinon that rap sucks (not saying it does or doesn't either way) why would they bother reviewing any albums from the genre? no one that enjoys it would consider it credible and those who never liked it would have their opinion reaffiremed, most likely in error.

The responsibility of giving us your insight comes at the cost that you must remain credible and shitting on a sub-genre constantly acheives nothing in this regard. I'm far less inclined to trust a review when obvious polotics and historical manuevering have worked their way into the albums reviews and quotes.

I like this site better when experts reviewed things within their realm of expertise rather than stretching out and taking the opportunity to make it known that anything deviating from such isn't worth your time.

I thought about it for a little while, but I honestly don't see this as being good.

Alright, first of all, we are gonna have to agree that MR is trageted towards a certain market, that being underground metal (whether or not it became mainstream is beyond the point)

Now, why is MR writing reviews for mainstream Nu-metal acts? Obviously, no regular viewer of this site is coming here for that. I started coming here because I wanted to see what promotional material from the indie labels was worth listening to and MR succeeds at that.

Now, I consider the attitude towards mainstream metal acts to be hostiule at best and honestly don't believe anything written in this vein because it is biased towards believing there is no way these bands are good. Historically, it has been shown the vast majority of these acts were not very good and are poorly regarded now.

I am not one that can go back in time and change the way i thought about something during inception, so i tend to have a solid opinion once it is formed. It doesn't shift from year to year as some others might.

I am a fan of almost all the NM bands I used to listen to and coming from that perspective, I don't see the point in going back and retroactively giving these albums shitty reviews. They are no use to me or anyone that likes this form of metal, they seem to only exist as a way to justify current opinions and suggest that in the grand scheme of things the underground metal this site has covered for years has now become more important historically and musically.

Calling the new slipknot record a piece of shit doesn't do anything but make the site look elitist, snobby and too good to review anything anyone's heard about in the mainstream press.

Simply ignoring these bands and records is the most effective way to not only marginize these efforts (since I believe that is the goal here) but make them historically irrelevant.

People can say whatever they want about being fans, but the reality is that when you see nothing but retroactive bad reviews for nu-metal and even worse reviews for the new stuff coming out, there doesn't seem to be an credibility to the effect that this music is appreciated at all, thus, why would you take it seriously as a viewer? If MR had the opinon that rap sucks (not saying it does or doesn't either way) why would they bother reviewing any albums from the genre? no one that enjoys it would consider it credible and those who never liked it would have their opinion reaffiremed, most likely in error.

The responsibility of giving us your insight comes at the cost that you must remain credible and shitting on a sub-genre constantly acheives nothing in this regard. I'm far less inclined to trust a review when obvious polotics and historical manuevering have worked their way into the albums reviews and quotes.

I like this site better when experts reviewed things within their realm of expertise rather than stretching out and taking the opportunity to make it known that anything deviating from such isn't worth your time.

Good point Adveser but you have to remember that elitist sites despise hardcore most grindcore, punk, sludge, drone and so on too. Those genres get a lot of attention here, from myself included.

also it's silly to say i need to spend money on something to truly appreciate it. i might be quicker to dismiss something if i haven't spent money, but i can appreciate the stuff i don't dismiss just fine

I thought about it for a little while, but I honestly don't see this as being good.

Alright, first of all, we are gonna have to agree that MR is trageted towards a certain market, that being underground metal (whether or not it became mainstream is beyond the point)

Now, why is MR writing reviews for mainstream Nu-metal acts? Obviously, no regular viewer of this site is coming here for that. I started coming here because I wanted to see what promotional material from the indie labels was worth listening to and MR succeeds at that.

Now, I consider the attitude towards mainstream metal acts to be hostiule at best and honestly don't believe anything written in this vein because it is biased towards believing there is no way these bands are good. Historically, it has been shown the vast majority of these acts were not very good and are poorly regarded now.

I am not one that can go back in time and change the way i thought about something during inception, so i tend to have a solid opinion once it is formed. It doesn't shift from year to year as some others might.

I am a fan of almost all the NM bands I used to listen to and coming from that perspective, I don't see the point in going back and retroactively giving these albums shitty reviews. They are no use to me or anyone that likes this form of metal, they seem to only exist as a way to justify current opinions and suggest that in the grand scheme of things the underground metal this site has covered for years has now become more important historically and musically.

Calling the new slipknot record a piece of shit doesn't do anything but make the site look elitist, snobby and too good to review anything anyone's heard about in the mainstream press.

Simply ignoring these bands and records is the most effective way to not only marginize these efforts (since I believe that is the goal here) but make them historically irrelevant.

People can say whatever they want about being fans, but the reality is that when you see nothing but retroactive bad reviews for nu-metal and even worse reviews for the new stuff coming out, there doesn't seem to be an credibility to the effect that this music is appreciated at all, thus, why would you take it seriously as a viewer? If MR had the opinon that rap sucks (not saying it does or doesn't either way) why would they bother reviewing any albums from the genre? no one that enjoys it would consider it credible and those who never liked it would have their opinion reaffiremed, most likely in error.

The responsibility of giving us your insight comes at the cost that you must remain credible and shitting on a sub-genre constantly acheives nothing in this regard. I'm far less inclined to trust a review when obvious polotics and historical manuevering have worked their way into the albums reviews and quotes.

I like this site better when experts reviewed things within their realm of expertise rather than stretching out and taking the opportunity to make it known that anything deviating from such isn't worth your time.

We'll review what we like, giving our personal viewpoints,

yeah! you should stick to reviewing what you like! my reasoning behind negative reviews being pointless is, even with people who have very similar taste to me, there's still a ton of stuff they dislike that i like. so i really don't care when people say something sucks. i guess negative reviews were more useful pre-myspace/music downloading for the reason Fridge said.

nah the only sacrifice someone needs to make to appreciate music is the energy it takes to focus on it

yeah! you should stick to reviewing what you like! my reasoning behind negative reviews being pointless is, even with people who have very similar taste to me, there's still a ton of stuff they dislike that i like. so i really don't care when people say something sucks. i guess negative reviews were more useful pre-myspace/music downloading for the reason Fridge said.

What we would like to review, not only reviewing music we have a favourable impression of. It wasn't so long ago that people were complaining about all the scores being high, but now Ross is gone that seems to be less of a problem.

What happened to Ross? Did he get hurt moshing in his wheelchair again?

He vanished! What are we, a Missing Persons charity?

I hope he died.