Atkingani wrote: Well, let's see if with the edition it's improved.

      
It's much better. I can read it without cringing from the puncuation mistakes. Thanks.

Zappa88 wrote: Uhh yeah, yeah masterpiece and essential but uhm, is there even any mention of the actual music?   http://www.progarchives.com/Review.asp?id=12999

http://www.progarchives.com/Review.asp?id=104965 Doesnt even review the album...just talks about how it sold and filled stadiums for a Genesis tour

tuxon wrote: Tuzvihar wrote: What about this one: ZAPPA, RICCARDO — Celestion Review by JoseMendoza (Jose Luis Mendoza Villegas) This Album debut of Riccardo Zappa is very good in musical matter, because their good knowledge of classic music use them of an appropriate way to originate a mixture of styles whose result is something impressive. 4 stars! A bit too short IMO...   what does length have to with it. as long as we are allowed ratings only, no review can be too short.   if I'm correct these reviews are not shown on the frontpage. and can easily be ignored. at l;east it provides some reasoning (be it not very good) for the 4 star rating.   My guess is the writter's language is spanish, or portugese, it can be difficult to write in a  foreign language.

This review was shown on the front page.
    

http://www.progarchives.com/Review.asp?id=81665 Short, sour and not even to the point

MASTODON — Leviathan
Review by King of Loss (Xiaojie Liu)

This was Mastodon's 2nd release, at least in my books, but Mastodon's Leviathan is neither Progressive or Progressive Metal.

Even though, this band is an interesting form of Metal, it does not succeed in convincing me that it is Progressive at all.

1. It has neither the sound or the content of most Progressive/Progressive Metal bands such as Dream Theater or Pain Of Salvation. It has neither the virtuosity of Dream Theater or the dynamic nature of Daniel Gildenlow's Pain Of Salvation. The 13 minute epic does not sound remotely Progressive, but it is pretty good by its Alternative Metal outlines.

2. What kind of Progressive Metal band slams another of its colleague? Even though, some of the old school Progressive Metal members have slammed recent Prog Metal bands as being keyboard metal bands, Mastodon are anything but old. They are new to the Metal scene and not old school Progressive Metal, or anything but Progressive.

3. When do Progressive Metal bands have regressive sounding music? I do not know.

This album might be good on another level, such as the level that it deserves to be in: metalcore, alternative metal or such. Much like Death and some of the Metal bands on this site, this band is not Progressive. It might be closer than Death, but its song structure nor its musical styling sounds remotely close to being Progressive. So, for more Progressive audiences, this album is a big thumbs down. If you are a fan of Metal, then try this album, but it is far from being up to the calibur of an album such as Blind Guardian- Imaginations from the Other Side.

Flossy pwns you white n00bs!

This comment probably should be in the reviews discussion thread but I dunno. Flossy described the album enough. If this is taken down, I will be an Upsetbeard.

    SCHULZE, KLAUS — Irrlicht
Review by tuxon (Gerald)
Special Collaborator Honorary Collaborator
Ultimatly boring, yet somehow intriguing piece of electronic noise. Hardly any melodies present, just an ever increasing sonic vibe. Nice for once. An early excample of ambient music, but only for fans of Klaus really.

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(sorry for the rubbish copy&paste result, that's my low browser for two weeks)

I think you could say more tux, even being the "against" option (and even if one or two ideas- [early ambient],[hardly any melodies as a damaging factor] are very misleading - but regarding that I don't wanna be the pedantic Schulze knower...)

    

Edited by Ricochet - January 02 2007 at 06:15

If it's that short Tux, it ain't a proper review. Remember our collaborators are setting the standard for others to aspire to. How about putting the album in context. Is it a one off for Schulze, or are all his albums like that. Are all the tracks the same noise, and so on.