Xephyr's Forum Replies
Cân Bardd
Harakiri for the Sky
Nocturnal Graves (2018 release)
Pillorian
Rosk
Skálmöld
Sojourner
Sons of Crom
Stormlord
Svartsyn
Thank you!
They've apparently been "working" on this since the Nightfall in Middle-Earth days (1998), so hopefully it's good! The single "Point of No Return" is out and it sounds good but not great? I wish it was a bit more dynamic, everything feels super loud, but maybe that's the YouTube quality talking.
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)