Well I found that first link very rude and untruthful , the second one just tell how I feel it.
I like the album,
Well man, on the first review, I agree completely, it almost reads like the guy has a problem from the beginning. I reading some of the comments below some people actually ridicule him and his bias. Also some people totally jump on the wagon though and get on with knocking the album. The language from some of these people and the reviewer to me comes across like a teenager or something, it's a total joke. I guess it's made me
paranoid about the production more than anything else because the rest (the music, the playing etc) is subjective.
Glad you like it
and if you didn;t I would hope you would tell me.
Gerry,
the first reviewer most probably digs albums/bands that have their guitars tuned down to subterranean levels with a guitar tone where bass is dialled out completely and mids and highs are boosted up to the ISS. Your album probably didn't djent enough
Take that review with a grain of ["...add accordingly..."]. My digipack should be delivered shortly by Japan Post and until then I can only add up to all other very positive reviews I read so far (on the basis of having listend to some snippets and your vids).
Keep em coming RBOTN!!!
Yeah he comes across totally biased against the style of metal, hahaha there is a djent bit in the middle of "The Missionary" hahaha what are chances of that eh? Well I think it's a djent bit (what a silly f**king term eh?)
Yes I know to take the review with a grain of salt, it's just that one shocked me as it was the first bad review I found and also so blatantly negative. It sounded like it was written by someone dead against the band.................although from what I can gather this is their first encounter (they are canadian I think).
Hey RG, call me a philistine, but what does NWoBHM stand for, and what's a DR10 or DR12 ?
Well I found that first link very rude and untruthful , the second one just tell how I feel it.
+1 It seems there is allot of strange politics in the "metal" genre which the first guy seems more focused on than the music.
For what it's worth (and you know I'm not a "metal" guy), I really like your clip and when I finally get a job again I'd like to get the album but on CD, no progress bar... just my trusty Nakamichi CD player and some decent speakers so I can hear it properly.
Nwobhm stands for New Wave fo British Heavy Metal. Some people call this a genre, for me it is not really, it was a movement from 1979-82 in England when many bands started emerging playing heavy metal in a vast aray of styles, the variation is what made it special along with the sheer number of bands. Famous bands that emerged from this movement are Iron Maiden, Saxon, Def Leppard. Those big names emerged from the movement in their own right and went on to massive commercial success as you probably are aware. So if you see nwobhm you will know what it means.
It's a large influence on my own band since I like a lot of these NWOBHM bands as do the other guys. However I think the press has read to much into our nwobhm influences by branding us like a "modern day nwobhm band". I personally see us more like a band that was inspired by the NWOBHM............................such as Metallica. Not saying we sound like Metallica, I'm saying we are like a band who formed because of the movements influence on us and we are very much carrying on from them. So our sound is more like the sounds that came after nwobhm bands or closer to what some of the nwobhm bands developed into.
Richard, you are dead right about politics in metal, it's actually really bad. I for one don't mind admitting I have elitist views on the matter, but I don't review or pay attention to the stuff I don't deem suitable or within my classification of what metal is. Whereas this guy has reviewed us knowing full well we are more a traditional metal band which appears not to be to his taste from what I can gather. It's all BS at the end of the day, but I do wish the "metal" tag or genre was a little more defined, as currently as it stands, I could meet someone who is into metal, and strike up a conversation with them only to find out we are poles apart based on the fact that they like more of one sub-genre as opposed to the traditional old school stuff I like. I guess the linkage is because a lot of the stuff I don't like, was born from the stuff I do like. Doesn't make it the same though.
But yes, the politics is something that is out there, and we as a band never get involved in it. If we did, we would come across like the prick in that review
and no one likes people like that.
But Richard I'm glad you can appreciate the song in the video, but if you felt it wasn't good or mundane or boring or whatever I'd like to be told.
I'm biased, but I really like that song hahahhaha
Oh and DR10 and DR12 are measurements of dynamic range Richard. So he critisizes me for making a DR10 album. Even though it's closer to DR12 as I measured it hahahaha So yes I left 12db of dynamic range and I could have made the whole thing louder but I chose not to.
Having shown this to the band and a little more investigation, it appears this guy just writes negative blogs about everyone, therefore I deduct - bullshit.
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I MUST GIVE CREDIT WHERE CREDIT IS DUE! the asshole reviewer guy was right, the tracks are DR10. some are DR11. Still plenty of dynamic range left. How he even knows about dynamic range is actually puzzling, I'm sure bands he likes don't leave very much DR on their records hence him complaining about my tracks.