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Daniel

This release has been added to the Hall of Judgement. I've gone with the first entry, and will add the second if successful.

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Daniel

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Daniel

This release has been added to the Hall of Judgement.

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Daniel

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Daniel

This release had been added to the Hall of Judgement.

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Daniel

This release has been added to the Hall of Judgement.

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Daniel

This release has been added to the Hall of Judgement.

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Daniel

This release has been added to the Hall of Judgement.

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Shadowdoom9 (Andi)

I agree with you here Andi. The heavy metal tag is completely unnecessary as far as I can see.

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Daniel

These releases have been added to the Hall of Judgement.

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Daniel

This release has been submitted to the Hall of Judgement.

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Sonny

This release has been added to the Hall of Judgement.

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Daniel

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Daniel

This release has been added to the Hall of Judgement.

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Daniel

This release has been added to the Hall of Judgement.

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Sonny

This release has been added to the Hall of Judgement. Apologies for the delay Sonny! Been a crazy few months.

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Daniel

This release has been added to the Hall of Judgement.

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Shadowdoom9 (Andi)

And what happens if this is voted a no then Andi? Does that mean that you'll never listen to it again & will remove your review so that you won't be linked to death metal?


For the record, I'll be voting no here.

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Daniel

I was only joking Andi. I'm fine with the result if that's the way the members have voted but, just to be clear, I wouldn't class ANY of Venom's first four records as legitimate speed metal as (in much the same way as Motorhead) there's no more than the odd speed metal song here & there. Take the "Black Metal" album for example. Of the ten songs included, I challenge anyone to identify more than two tracks that qualify for the speed metal tag. It's really only the title track & "Heaven's On Fire" as far as I can see. The rest all fall under traditional heavy metal with the possible exception of "Teacher's Pet" which is more of a blues/punk/hard rock effort than it is metal. Is 20% of the tracklisting enough for a legitimate speed metal tag? I don't think so as the fact that it's 70% heavy metal comfortably outweighs any speed metal reference but that's just my two cents.

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Shadowdoom9 (Andi)

Thanks Ben! And good timing too, my departure from death metal (https://metal.academy/forum/10/thread/748) is only a couple days away. All that's left is my submission for Persefone's Core to be removed from the Horde (https://metal.academy/forum/28/thread/688), could you please add that to the Hall during your next judgement submission addition round? Thanks again!

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Daniel

This release has been added to the Hall of Judgement.

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Daniel

Ben, please also create an entry for Running Wild's "Wild Animal" E.P. for the exact same reasons.

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Shadowdoom9 (Andi)
So I gave Les Voyages de l'Âme a full listen and review, and I was right about this album being metal, specifically post-metal and blackgaze, as heard in most of the album, though the band does what most other black metal bands wouldn't do; evoke hope and tranquil beauty. With my feeling for this release unchanged, I'd like to try again to submit Alcest's "Les Voyages de l'Âme" with the proposal of being added into The Infinite with the post-metal tag and The North with the blackgaze tag (can be two separate submissions with one for each clan, or one for both).
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Daniel

I've never been too sure about the release year for Riot's Rock City being 1977, despite popular belief. Barely anyone has heard of them until at least 1978, which was the year they started selling a decently prominent amount of copies and performed with AC/DC and Molly Hatchet, and then later right when they were about to lose momentum, DJ Neal Kay of the Bandwagon Soundhouse helped spread the word about them in the UK, earning the band a higher fanbase and encouraging them to continue. And even though the original vinyl label says 1977, that's not highly reliable because some CD/vinyl publishing years might be slightly false (like for example, Symphony X's The Divine Wings of Tragedy has the release year label 1996 even though its official release year is 1997). With that, I'd like the release year for Riot's Rock City to be changed to 1978.

And by the way, sure this album is mostly hard rock, but I think there's plenty of the heavy metal you would find in bands like Accept and the more popular Iron Maiden...

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Shadowdoom9 (Andi)
I just think it's too close to darkwave and death industrial for the most part, but since you two prefer to keep the drone tag, we'll put this submission on hold now.
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Daniel

Riot's "ThunderSteel" offers a combination of heavy metal, power metal & speed metal & subsequently fits perfectly into the US power metal bracket. There's a three track run in the middle of the record that I'd class as being legitimate power metal in the classic sense of the term too so I feel that this warrants the addition of the "Power metal" genre on top of the existing "Heavy metal" one.

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Daniel

This release has been added to the Hall of Judgement.

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Shadowdoom9 (Andi)
Thanks Ben! If there are any other judgements I'd like you to cancel, I'll let you know, but for now the only ones I had in mind were those Trivium submissions.
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Daniel

This release has been added to the Hall of Judgement.

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Daniel

This release has been added to the Hall of Judgement.

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Daniel

This release has been added to the Hall of Judgement.

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Shadowdoom9 (Andi)
Thanks Ben! By the way, I can tolerate a little more industrial metal now, but it's more of the experimental industrial metal of Strapping Young Lad and Godflesh, not the alt-industrial metal of Ministry and Rammstein. I still don't think any of Voivod's albums belong in The Sphere though...
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