Goat wrote:
Ken wrote:
More of this conspiracy bollocks, huh? Look out, MetalReviews fans! I have a secret evil plot to write dismissive reviews of bands that Ken and Adveser like! It is impossible to not like certain Korn or Slipknot albums, because if you do you're lying! Open-mindedness is not possible when faced with the sheer genius of Nu-Metal!
Seriously, stop trolling and get on with life, as Orion said.
You are just being a reall ass over this. It was confirmed in this thread, if someone doesn't like an old metal album, they don't review it generally. I am saying this site is great, but one of the very few compaints I have is that generally the reviewers tend to trash anything that is an easy target.
And frankly only a total asshole would use someone's political position to frame everything they say as being irrelevant.
Bias is not a bad thing. I enjoy the bias of metal reviews personally because it means I don't have to read reviews trashing albums that I might like or do like because it is the position of the individual reviewers that they don't really like the form of music. I don't come here to read what the reviewers think of music that they consider beneath them before even opening the case. Sort of like Rolling Stone acting like every prog. rock record is a piece of shit with very few exceptions. This isn't news. I simply think it would be better to stick with what you know instead of going outside the lines to either a) make a point that your tastes are better than the mainstream or b) beat a deads horse because universally no one will care. Maybe even c) to prove you have a much broader range of taste than you really do.
I just can't come up with a solid reason to review an album that is obviously not within the realm of what is typically reviewed when it is going to be viewed in a very negative and biased light.
There is a huge difference between being biased, which we all are, and making up some dumb bullshit that everyone is paranoid and thinks there is some conspiracy going on. Don't keep talking about of trash, which you have been for pages now, then insist the review was fair, who can't see through that? and why are the people pointing out this inconsistency out of line?