Xephyr's Forum Replies

Speaking of latest replies, in your profile page under "Forum Replies" there's no such option to jump to your post or the latest post. All the things you can click on takes you to the original post. 

Final round for Infinite Requests:

Beyond the Bridge

Igorrr

Imminent Sonic Destruction

Kaura

The Ocean (aka The Ocean Collective)

Oceans of Slumber

Tronos

With Our Arms to the Sun

Man, remember when Sonata Arctica were somewhat good? Well the decline continues with their newest one Talviyö, which just dropped today. This is the most dead this band has ever sounded and some of the songwriting is almost laughable. I don't think Sonata Arctica are coming back at this point, they've worn themselves out. 

This may seem random, but you guys heard of the MMORPG RuneScape? I've circled all the different locations in the RuneScape map to fit them in their appropriate Metal Academy clans. I call it, "MetalScape" or "RuneScape locations and their Metal Academy clans"! What do you guys think?

The Fallen = Morytania

The Gateway = Tirannwn and the Lost Grove

The Guardians = Asgarnia

The Horde = Wilderness

The Infinite = Kandarin and Entrana

The North = Troll Country, Fremennik Province, Northern Islands, and Daemonheim

The Pit = Feldip Hills and Soul Wars

The Revolution = Misthalin

The Sphere = Kharidian Desert, Mos Le'Harmless and Harmony Island

The Others = Southern Islands and Dragontooth Island

Man this brings back some memories. I was a big RS player way back when. This seems pretty good from what I can remember! I'd maybe rope Lunar Isle into The Infinite? Possibly Seers into The Sphere due to the Elemental Workshop? The first part of Karamja into The Pit because of the Tz'Haar? It's insane that I even remember half of this stuff lol

One nitpick I've found is that avatar shapes aren't consistent throughout the site. They show up as circles on album pages for reviews or ratings, but squares everywhere else. It might make sense to go for all circles since the clan icons are already circular. 

I think the big thing is adding more features to the user's profile. Right now there's no way to properly navigate through your own data. I can't search mine or anyone else's ratings to see if they rated/reviewed something, I can't see any data on how many ratings/reviews I have per clan, or even what my rating distribution is. I do want this site to have a fresh take on some features rather than copying everything over from RYM, but the ability to interact more with your own or other peoples' collections of ratings is a must. 

Just as an example, if I looked into some of your reviews it seems like you're way more into Death Metal than I am. If I was on RYM, I could go to your page, click the "5 Stars" button and see what Death Metal albums you rated as 5's to see what I might want to check out if I'm new to the genre. On this site, I would have to go through every single one of your ratings in chronological order with no way of sorting. The clan tags for albums don't show up in user profile ratings/reviews either, so I would have to know that Morbid Angel is a Death Metal band if that's what I was searching your ratings/reviews for. 

If I had to make a wishlist it would probably be: 

• Ability to search by own ratings/reviews
• Ability to sort my own ratings/reviews by clan
• Ability to see clan tags on my ratings/reviews in my/others profile. 
• Possibly rating distribution graphs or another way to show how many albums you've rated or on a clan-by-clan basis

These missing features are what keep me going back to RYM to look at my own profile and rating collection instead of here. 

Cellar Darling

Chaos Divine

Eumeria

Intervals

Pomegranate Tiger

Votum

Witherfall

Xanthochroid 

Thank you!

Thanks man. I'm still in the process of moving and rewriting old RYM reviews over so the quality is all over the place. I don't have too many but it's a start. 

Last round, then I'm all caught up on my Guardians requests! 

Kryptos

Lords of Black 

Lyra's Legacy 

Niviane

Riot V

Syu

Turilli / Lione Rhapsody 

Unshine

Turilli / Lione Rhapsody - Zero Gravity (Rebirth and Revolution)

Luca Turilli (Guitarist for the original Rhapsody) and Fabio Lione (Vocalist for the original Rhapsody) are back together for a release under the Rhapsody subtitle that is actually worth listening to after many blunders from Luca Turilli's Rhapsody and Rhapsody of Fire. Everything you would want from a Rhapsody release is in here, and it's great to hear these two back together doing what they do best with their grand, fantastical, and more classical style of Symphonic Metal. 

I really wish that Turilli would give the word "Rhapsody" a rest moving forward with all of these projects. Trying to unravel the story behind the Rhapsody name is getting harder and harder and Turilli just keeps adding random projects to the Rhapsody name, which I think is going to hurt this album in particular in the long run. Who is going to find this album other than current Rhapsody or Turilli fans with a name like Turilli / Lione Rhapsody? It's currently seems like it's not getting a whole lot of traction but I'm interested to see how it shakes out, given how good it is. 

Thank you, here's another round: 

Frozen Crown

Katana

Kobra and the Lotus

Leaves' Eyes

Lyriel

Skull Fist

Smoulder

Tanith

Unleash The Archers

Xandria

I'll be doing the same as DippoMagoo, here's the first wave of bands that were missing as I was moving my ratings over: 

Avantasia

       -  Wicked Symphony

        - Angel of Babylon

Damnation Angels

Delain

DGM

Dionysus

Dragony 

Ex Deo 

Icarus Witch 

Iron Fire 

Iron Savior 

Jorn (Solo Albums)