How to pick bands for review

[41|>5]

The first four Danzig albums (plus one EP)??

[Humanicide]

this is a good list. id add in Artillery's whole catalogue, get rid of Dodheimsgard, Xasthur, and the Ramones, and add in Anti-Cimex.

otherwise, quite good indeed.

[cmargir]

Stallagh
Anata
Sex Pistols
Wold
Windir
Origin
psycroptic
Lykathea Aflame
Xasthur

aren't necessary by any mean.


and those are already there

Abigor
at the gates (though TRITSIO isn't)
Timeghoul (iirc, Kontinual has  reviews for those somewhere on the site)
Capharnaum
carbonized
Creepmime
celtic frost - into the pandemonium

[death metal black metal]

Per what was done above, I've divided this list into two lists: one for long reviews, one for shorter reviews. Long reviews mean the band is essential; short reviews mean it's interesting in context but lacks any eternal recommendation.

Abigor
Acerbus - Live at KVRX
Adversary
Aeon - Rise to Dominate
Agressor
Anata - Under A Stone With No Inscription
Anathema - All Faith Is Lost / An Illiad of Woes
Angel Witch
Anti-Cimex

Artillery
Ash Pool
Assassin
At the Gates
Augury - Concealed
Aurora Borealis
Bad Brains
Bathory - Hammerheart
Benediction
Besatt
Black Funeral - Vampyr/Throne of the Beast
Black Sabbath
Blut Aus Nord
Bolt Thrower - War master and Realm of Chaos
Brutality
Cancer
Capharnaum
Carbonized
Carcass - Necroticism
Cathedral - In Memoriam ep / Demo
Celtic Frost - Into The Pandemonium
Cemetary
Chasm, The
Coroner 
Creepmime 
Crimson Massacre
Cynic
Dark Angel
Dark Millennium
Dead Infection
Deathspell Omega
Deceased - Luck Of The Corpse
Deeds of Flesh - all recent works
Demoncy - within sylvan realms of frost/more
Desecrator - Subconscious Release 
Destruction
Desultory
Devastation
Diabolicum
Discharge
Disembowelment
Disgrace
Disaffected
Disharmonic Orchestra
Disincarnate
Dodheimsgard
DRI
Emperor / Enslaved split
Esker / Utlagr
Esoteric
Exciter
Excruciating Terror 
Exhorder
Exmortis
Exodus
Exploited, The
EYES OF LIGEIA - A Fever Which Would Cling To Thee Forever
FEAR
Fleshcrawl - Structures of Death
Forbidden 
Funebre
Funeral - Tristesse
Gehenna - Second Spell
Golem - Eternity: The Weeping Horizons
GONKULATOR/massachusetts/satan's burial ground/96
Gontyna Kry
Goreaphobia
Gorefest - False
Gorement - Darkness of the Dead
Graveland - Will Stronger Than Death
Grayceon - Grayceon
Herr - Vondels Lucifer Mortuus De contemplanda Morte; De Reverencie laboribus ac Adorationis
Hirilorn - Legends of Evil and Eternal Death
Iggy and the Stooges/Iggy Pop
Immolation - Shadows in the Light
Incest - Misogyny
Infernal Nature
Insanity
Inveracity - Extermination of Millions
Invocator - Weave the apocalypse
Iron Maiden
Isengard
I Shalt Become -  In Falling Snow 
Judas Priest - sad wings of destiny
Katharsis - World Without End
King Diamond- Abigail & Them
Kreator
Led Zeppelin
Legion of Doom
Lemming Project 
Loudblast
Lunar Aurora - Andacht
LUST/canada/demos, 97-99
Lykathea Aflame - Elvenefris
Macabre Omen
makrothumia - the rit of individuation
Malevolent Creation - The Ten Commandments & Retribution
Marduk - Rom 5:12
Mareridt - Mors Angelorum
Master - Master, And on the seventh day, god created Master, Slaves to Society
Master's Hammer - Ritual 
Mayhem - Live in Leipzig
May Result
Mercyful Fate 
Metallica
Messiah
Mgla 
Miasma
Minor Threat
Misfits, The
Mithras
Molested - Blod Draum
Morgoth
Morgue - Eroded Thoughts
Morpheus Descends - Chronicles of the Shadowed Ones, Horror of the Truth
Moss - Cthonic Rites
Motorhead
mutiilation - vampires of black imperial blood, Sorrow Galaxies
Mysticum - In the Streams of Inferno
Necrovore
Nest - Trail of the Unwary
Neurosis
Nihilist
Nile - Festivals of Atonement, Mars Bringer of War
Nocternity - Onyx
NOCTURNUS
Nokturnal Mortum
nuclear assault (survive)
Obliveon
Obscura
Origin
Overkill
Paradise Lost
Pavor
Pentagram (US)
Peste Noire - Folkfuck Folie
Primordial - Imrama, To The Nameless Dead
Psycroptic - The Scepter Of The Ancients
Purtenance
Purulence
Queensryche
Quintessence
Ramones, the
Ras Algethi - Oblita Divinitas demo
RIPPING CORPSE - Dreaming with the Dead
Root - Daemon Viam Invenient
Rotting christ - Thy mighty contract
Rottrevore
Sabbat (UK)
Sacramentum - Sedes Imporium demo
Samhain - november's coming fire
Seance - Fornever Laid to Rest
Semargl - Manifest
Septic Flesh - mystic places of dawn
Sex Pistols
Sorcier des Glaces - Moonrise in Total Darkness
Sororicide
Siege
Sindrome
Slayer - Reign in Blood
slaughter-strappado
Sodom - IN THE SIGN OF EVIL/OBSESSED BY CRUELTY
Sorcery
Stallagh
Summoning - Minas Morgul
Suuri Shamaani - Mysteerien Maailma
SKELETON OF GOD/colorado/urine garden/93
S.V.E.S.T. - Urfaust
Thergothon
Timeghoul
Testament - The Legacy 
Tormentor
Tyr - How Far to Asgaard, Eric the Red
Uriah Heep
Utumno - Across the Horizon
VARATHRON - Walpurgisnacht
Vehemence
Venom - Black Metal
VILE - Depopulate
Vital Remains
Vlad Tepes - March to the Black Holocaust
Voivod - Phobos
Windir
Winter (US)
Witchfinder General
Wold - Screech Owl
Wormphlegm - In an Excruciating Way...
Wotanorden - Aryan Culture Preservation
Zephyrous - Entrance and Wandering on the Seven Zones

Short reviews:

Acheron
Afflicted
Arkona
Assuck
Atrophy
Cirith Ungol
Crypt of Kerberos
DERKETA/pennsylvania/premature burial/91
Elend - A World in Their Screams
Hades
Negura Bunget
Phlebotomized
Portal - Outre
Trelldom
Watchtower
Wicked Innocence
Windham Hell
Xasthur
Xysma

This is a list for listening at this point. It's impossible to tell, without having heard a band, if it sucks, although things like retarded cover, retarded song titles, retarded behavior make it likely. My guess is that most of these will fall by the wayside.

[Humanicide]

Assuck should definitely be moved to the long reviews list. I could write an essay on "Anticapital".

[Devamitra]

The list above would overpower anyone, but we are giving a bit of helping hand over at Deathmetal.org. For example, some Nocturnus, Cynic and Obscura recordings have been covered so far and there's more to come. Readers are also advised to try out the search engines on these sites - there are good reviews "hidden" in LARM, Heidenlärm zine, ANUS blog and other related sections and archives besides the DLA.

[the spine]

I would love to see a review for Sacamentary Abolishment's "River of Corticone" essential material!

[Devamitra]

What did I just say about the search engine? It found two reviews of that SA album, one from Heidenlärm and one from LARM.

[baxter]

Inquisition - Into the Infernal Regions of the Ancient Cult
Legion of Doom
Master's Hammer

[kontinual]

Inquisition - Into the Infernal Regions of the Ancient Cult
Legion of Doom
Master's Hammer

Can everyone please read the posted lists before putting in their $0.02?

[baxter]

Can everyone please read the posted lists before putting in their $0.02?

My fault, however this thread is a mess and needs to be culled into a concise list of top priorities

[kontinual]

My fault, however this thread is a mess and needs to be culled into a concise list of top priorities

We'll get right on that so you can continue to lazily suggest other work for us.

[baxter]

We'll get right on that so you can continue to lazily suggest other work for us.

Yeah, I predicted that retort. I'd love to do it, but a large portion of this stuff i haven't heard before. There's likely someone more qualified than me who has a better overall view of things.

[Devamitra]

While I'm sure there is plenty of material "hidden" all over, I feel like the point of a reviews database is to have it all up front and easily found.

Well, yeah, now that I read the whole topic again it seems that most people were strictly talking about DLA reviews. It was lost on me because the first message didn't specify and the list was so long, thought no-one would expect DLA to handle all this because they are not review robots.

[Gargos]

Maybe you should include some sort of ranking system, percentiles or 1-10 scales or something.