Most metal journalism is paid advertising

It’s easy to type words:

In tens of millions of reviews on Web sites like Amazon.com, Citysearch, TripAdvisor and Yelp, new books are better than Tolstoy, restaurants are undiscovered gems and hotels surpass the Ritz.

Or so the reviewers say. As online retailers increasingly depend on reviews as a sales tool, an industry of fibbers and promoters has sprung up to buy and sell raves for a pittance.

“For $5, I will submit two great reviews for your business,” offered one entrepreneur on the help-for-hire site Fiverr, one of a multitude of similar pitches. On another forum, Digital Point, a poster wrote, “I will pay for positive feedback on TripAdvisor.” A Craigslist post proposed this: “If you have an active Yelp account and would like to make very easy money please respond.” – NYT

Label sends stuff to blogs, blogs fawn, label reprints, and on it goes.

What gets lost? Any notion of music quality.

You can be a wank metal blog, and be popular for some time, but you’ll never touch the popularity of the metal that really made life more intense for people.

A repo man’s always intense. Come on, let’s go get a drink.

0 thoughts on “Most metal journalism is paid advertising”

  1. ANUS IS GAY says:

    First

  2. @ANUS IS GAY says:

    Great, now on your knees and suck!

  3. ANUS WRITES SHITTY ARTICLES says:

    Second

    What the hell is this half-assed attempt at an article? Dude, Brett, if you’re going to write an article, at least put some effort behind it.

  4. @Brettney Spears says:

    Or maybe, you know, some people just like the music.

    And yeah, as if ANUS isn’t guilty of this, with their glowing coverage of Until the Light Takes Us (OMG a girl, the filmmaker, actually acknowledged me!!), Averse Sefira, Cianide and a slew of other crap bands.

    That reminds me, what do you like about metalcore band Crimson Massacre? Other than that they’re from Texas. They sound just like any other technical metalcore clone.

  5. Go yeah! Conservationist fan # 1 ! !!!! says:

    No dude. Crimson Massacre is fucking awesome! And Beg to Differ by Prong is really cool to. Pavor is another band Prozak used to like; they play tech-death and nowdays he neglects that band. And what about Christ Agony and Satanic Slaughter? He used to like those bands too, review included and now? It’s like it never happened! What the fuck? Same goes for Miscreant, Vile and Mythos man! He even said Mythos was an unsung classic of black metal and the review is fucking gone!!! Now don’t let me get started on Nargaroth. Two long reviews praising them, one review on Amazon, praising them! And now, it’s like it never happened.

    ps: if you think crimson massacre is metalcore then you suck balls and eat jizz.

  6. i was goonnna be the first but i dindt know what to type yall says:

    i W as gonna be the fi rst com mmento r but i let the anus is gay guy win it cuz he’s my liittle retar ded brutha.

  7. Poop says:

    Didn’t we have this exact article a few months ago? If you keep going on like this, you’ll get trapped in an infinite loop, and that won’t be pleasant.

  8. Lord of the Holy Jizz says:

    My JIZZ is holier than the blood of jesus christ !

    DRINK IT !!!

  9. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjJwqDa1QVI says:

    He leads a lonely life
    He leads a lonely life

    When he woke up late in his base_ment
    And the day had just begun
    He opened up his eyes and thought
    Damn my life sucks
    It’s not a day for work
    It’s a day for staying inside
    Just surfing on the web and having fun
    He’s going to get you

    All that he wants is another troll post
    He’s gone tomorrow boy
    All that he wants is another troll post
    Yeah yeah

    All that he wants…

    So if you are inside and your mood is right
    He’ll be baiting you for fun
    The dumb replies that you make will be there forever
    It is a night for laughter
    But the the laughter is on you
    Beware of what you’re reading on your screen
    He’s going to get you

    All that he wants is another troll post
    He’s gone tomorrow boy
    All that he wants is another troll post
    Yeah yeah

    All that he wants…

  10. Hardcore Hessibanger says:

    ANUS has awesome taste in music, check out this. Might be too brutal and intense for you Mastodon fags, though.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8F5YSA1Oz0

  11. Levy_Spearmen says:

    I am commenting so I may hate myself later on.

  12. Troll says:

    Last night I was trolling a chatroom and I managed to pull off a double-triple troll. Unfortunately I was reverse-trolled by one of them so I resorted to an underwater troll. Then I time-trolled them and did a backflip while shooting lasers. After that I performed an elephant troll and it was all over for them. The chatroom was in chaos. I did a small pocket troll as an encore and left, satisfied that I had trolled the living troll out of them. And lasers.

  13. haha weep says:

    I knew the anti-anus aspergers patrol would twist their little brains trying to defend payed reviews somehow. Then again, they’re probably gamers who rely on payed reviews daily.

  14. what? says:

    Dear Anus

  15. real ass gangsta nigga says:

    Damn it feels good to be a gangsta
    A real gangsta-ass nigga plays his cards right
    A real gangsta-ass nigga never runs his fuckin’ mouth
    Cuz real gangsta-ass niggas don’t start fights
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    Showin’ all his boys how he shot ’em
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    And all I gotta say to you
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  16. Party Like A Millionaire says:

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    I’m so fucked out of my mind

    [Chorus]:
    I do what I want, middle finger in the air
    Gonna party party party like a millionaire
    Imma dance like a slut, and I don’t even care
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    [Chorus]

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    I don’t give a
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    [Chorus]

    DGAF baby (DGAF, DGAF, DGAF, DGAF)
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  17. @haha weep says:

    Who are you referring to? Who’s defending payed reviews? And more importantly, how are you not an aspie?

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