Reviews discussion

No offense to anyone, but I find it funny that people consider Storm Corrosion to be "innovative" or "inventive."  There are several acts who have been making similar music for a long time (and doing it better, in my opinion).


Edited by Epignosis - June 04 2012 at 17:20

darkshade wrote: dtguitarfan wrote: Seriously, this makes me mad because I would've loved to have received a promo copy of this and if I had, I would've taken more time and put a lot more thought into my review: http://www.progarchives.com/Review.asp?id=763909 Agreed. The guy clearly listened to it once, with low expectations to begin with.

Actually, I was talking amongst the collaborators over on MMA and it's highly possible that this guy didn't listen to the album at all.  I mean, I've talked to people who actually professionally write reviews and Roadrunner is NOT giving out promotional copies.  And if you read the guy's review, he says NOTHING.  Not a single piece of information that couldn't be made up without having ever listened to the album.

There are promo copies of Clockwork Angels and several reviews by "professional" reviewers have already been published elsewhere on the internet and in print.

Edited by Dean - June 05 2012 at 02:50

Unless you have proof positive Karl we have no choice.

Citizen Cain - Skies Darken
this writer tries to be extra funny, just look at the last sentence ...
I'm not sure if this fails the guidelines, a doubtful behaviour at least ... I do hate such an approach 

^ cheeky beggar. I've removed the offending sentence entirely so it will no longer count as a written review and sent him a PM (shame really as he's clearly a good writer and knowledgeable about music)

ExittheLemming wrote: ^ cheeky beggar. I've removed the offending sentence entirely so it will no longer count as a written review and sent him a PM (shame really as he's clearly a good writer and knowledgeable about music)

what makes you think that?

dtguitarfan wrote: darkshade wrote: dtguitarfan wrote: Seriously, this makes me mad because I would've loved to have received a promo copy of this and if I had, I would've taken more time and put a lot more thought into my review: http://www.progarchives.com/Review.asp?id=763909 Agreed. The guy clearly listened to it once, with low expectations to begin with. Actually, I was talking amongst the collaborators over on MMA and it's highly possible that this guy didn't listen to the album at all.  I mean, I've talked to people who actually professionally write reviews and Roadrunner is NOT giving out promotional copies.  And if you read the guy's review, he says NOTHING.  Not a single piece of information that couldn't be made up without having ever listened to the album.

Over at MMA, there is a different outlook I think. We only get a few thousand hits a day, so we need more attention. So we want to get the artists and albums up as soon as possible because if you get a review up close to the release date, the band posts a link on facebook or twitter or what have you, and there's potential for raising the number of hits the page gets. So by all means, take your time getting artists up over here.

Actually, I think it's the other way around, Failcore - as I understand it on PA every single band must be voted in. This slows things way down when most or all of the collaborators don't know anything about the band. On MMA we're kind of on the honor system - if you're absolutely 100% sure where a band goes you can add them no questions asked, and just report your activities. But if there's any doubt you're supposed to put it up for a vote. It's this way on MMA because there's a lot of work to do right now. Also, while it may look like we have a lot of collaborators, if you look at some of their profiles you'll see a lot haven't been active on a while, sadly. So, sometimes we are a lot faster than PA. Sometimes not so much.