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I'm sorry, I don't think I made myself very clear. How can I submit an album for inclusion on Metal Academy that has not been included because it doesn't have a metal primary on RYM even though I believe it to warrant one? I'm not saying I'm right, but it would be nice to at least be able to submit a release for consideration by the MA consensus. 

As someone who occasionally throws out a review that spans only a couple of lines, I would warn against being too dogmatic about what qualifies as a review, or you end up with a situation like metal archives where people just don't bother reviewing at all as it's just too much hassle and ends up being no fun!

Personally, I just want to give people a flavour of what an album is like so that they can make up their own minds about it, if it sounds like the kind of thing they're would be into, not bore them shitless with irrelevant details or tell them what they should think about it. 

Maybe my opinion of the purpose of a review is different to others, but there are websites that have some terribly self-important reviews that just feel like the reviewer is showing off how intellectual and insightful they are, not how an album feels to them, which I think is way more important than trying to display one's intellectual superiority.

Just saying...

Hi Ben, please add:

Vofa (Iceland)

The Drowning (UK)

Slow (Belgium)

Imber Luminis (Belgium)

Serpent Warning (Finland)

Plateau Sigma (Italy)

Golgotha (Spain)

Profetus (Finland)

Esogenesi (Italy)

Hi Ben, please add Possessor (UK), Bloodthirst (Poland), Black Mass (US) and Mentor (Poland).

Thanks in advance.

Hi Ben,

Please add The Red Widows, Karyn Crisis' Gospel of the Witches and Year of the Cobra.

Very helpful new feature and as the site grows an increasingly useful one, I'm guessing.

Agreed that this is a much needed change. Is there a plan to review the minimum number or instigate some kind of algorithm as the site grows?

Thanks Ben, however I've got one more for you.

They're my favourite stoner band, they're completely underrated and they've got a killer new album out, so can you please add Witches of God...

Hey, Ben. As a massive fan of Lee Dorrian, how about Rise Above Records?

Hi Ben, if I may suggest a few neo-thrashers:

Antiverse

Crucified Mortals

Sins of the Damned

Sepulcher

Defiatory

Division Speed

Subtype Zero

Hi again, Ben. Could you please add:

Atavisma

Hexer

The Slow Death

Coffins

And a few bands with only a single release (so far):

Epitaphe

Gorge (US)

Ashtar

Burial in the Woods

Doom Snake Cult

Thanks in advance...

Sure have!

How about:

Sortilegia

Dusk (Hungary)

Stworz

The Great Old Ones

Horcrux

Lamentations of the Ashen

Alda

Wędrujący Wiatr

Void Omnia

Old Graves

Old Forest

Wildernessking

Hi Ben, could you please add:

Doom: Vs

Ea

Arkham Witch

Doomraiser

The Flight of Sleipnir

Hell (US sludge / doom)

Haunted (Italian stoner / doom)

Slomatics

Cheers in advance.

Hi Ben. Any chance of adding Stilla, Skogen, Downfall of Nur and blackened doom outfits Yith and Gaul?

Some of my favourite trad doom bands I'd like to see added:

Spiritus Mortis

Seamount

Age of Taurus

Briton Rites

Cardinal Wyrm

Goatess

Isole

Hour of 13

Lord Vicar

Monolord

The Wounded kings

Sorry...

Great job with the site by the way.

A few "one and done" releases I'd like to see:

Scald - Will of Gods Is a Great Power

Disma - Towards the Megalith

Sempiternal Deathreign - The Spooky Gloom

Thergothon - Stream From the Heavens

and Inter Arma's latest opus, Sulphur English.

Thanks...

How about Monolithe & Subrosa?