MMA Reviewer's Challenge Returns
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Topic: MMA Reviewer's Challenge Returns
Posted By: adg211288
Subject: MMA Reviewer's Challenge Returns
Date Posted: 22 May 2022 at 11:08am
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The MMA Reviewer's Challenge will return in June 2022! The challenge will be open to anyone who wishes to participate. The subject of the June 2022 Reviewer's Challenge is: Flourishing - The Sum of All Fossils.  http://www.metalmusicarchives.com/album/flourishing/the-sum-of-all-fossils" rel="nofollow - http://www.metalmusicarchives.com/album/flourishing/the-sum-of-all-fossils The album may be streamed legally via Spotify or Bandcamp: http://open.spotify.com/album/1EUiti9poyVoYFH7Y5volg" rel="nofollow - https://open.spotify.com/album/1EUiti9poyVoYFH7Y5volg http://thepathlesstraveledrecords.bandcamp.com/album/the-sum-of-all-fossils" rel="nofollow - https://thepathlesstraveledrecords.bandcamp.com/album/the-sum-of-all-fossils Review should be marked with the following heading to declare it part of the challenge: Metal Music Archives Reviewer's Challenge: June 2022. We look forward to reading all the different responses the album receives!
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Posted By: Vim Fuego
Date Posted: 22 May 2022 at 2:41pm
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I'm in. Throwing Sick Of It All's Death to Tyrants into the mix. http://open.spotify.com/album/1pOJv3HAZ2cBQX0R2rz5Mg?si=RXycChryTWKoDdGQHOJetg" rel="nofollow - https://open.spotify.com/album/1pOJv3HAZ2cBQX0R2rz5Mg?si=RXycChryTWKoDdGQHOJetg Is also on YouTube for non-Spotify-ers.
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Posted By: BitterJalapeno
Date Posted: 22 May 2022 at 2:50pm
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Also in: I'll add Flourishing - The Sum of All Fossils https://open.spotify.com/album/1EUiti9poyVoYFH7Y5volg?si=CMo6heA6QfWQGsf_KTaTWg&utm_source=copy-link Also on YouTube ------------- Star baby, did you deep fry a piece of the Great Barrier Reef? |
Posted By: adg211288
Date Posted: 22 May 2022 at 3:11pm
Got to just ask if this (and much of this band) is filed right on MMA. They seem to be tagged a hardcore punk act across their whole discography elsewhere, but I'm seeing alt and thrash tags on MMA. ------------- Earn Money Online (NOT a scam): https://premium.gg2u.org?referrer=adg211288" rel="nofollow - GG2U https://adamsfilmcorner.quora.com/" rel="nofollow - Adam's Film Corner on Quora |
Vim Fuego wrote:Posted By: Vim Fuego
Date Posted: 22 May 2022 at 5:00pm
It needs a bit of attention, which I didn't realise until I looked it up, but hadn't checked the genre tags. And no, not thrash metal. I'll fix it later.
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Posted By: BitterJalapeno
Date Posted: 26 May 2022 at 3:19pm
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Any others fancy taking a punt on this? ------------- Star baby, did you deep fry a piece of the Great Barrier Reef? |
Posted By: adg211288
Date Posted: 27 May 2022 at 4:04am
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You'd don't have to be taking part to throw an album into the hat to be the subject of this challenge. Just want to reiterate that. I'm removing the limit of one suggestion per person though. Lets say you can suggest up to three now. I'm going to also throw in Anubis Gate's Covered in Colours, mostly because I ignored it for so long as a covers album and I was surprised by what they did with it when I finally (recently) checked it out. ------------- Earn Money Online (NOT a scam): https://premium.gg2u.org?referrer=adg211288" rel="nofollow - GG2U https://adamsfilmcorner.quora.com/" rel="nofollow - Adam's Film Corner on Quora |
Posted By: Tupan
Date Posted: 27 May 2022 at 7:50am
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Here, I will add some albums: Issues' Headspace: https://open.spotify.com/album/12C1vD98wJEXUa0ro3614h?si=1eLdWYcOTJu_sKL7EsNrdw Vola's Witness: https://open.spotify.com/album/3FVRmhZVaZfLvqHupMbJ6V?si=io2cUQkwTWWMMJs2m8ho1g Cormorant's Diaspora: https://open.spotify.com/album/78UYJ2TOSsYp4FyMp3gFFy?si=dbim6RiCTLC1D3SrLXtWFw |
Posted By: Vim Fuego
Date Posted: 28 May 2022 at 9:36pm
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I'll throw in a couple more: Wake Me When It's Over - Faster Pussycat https://open.spotify.com/album/37X0TI6pz7fSg2aUREHzys?si=ZW2IzYUNTfC7zRscVANU6w Cunt - Blood Duster https://open.spotify.com/album/2sSpGQRDtfPiKsvBizP03y?si=UzBpd0HmQ-m5ubfAVgu_YA
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Posted By: DippoMagoo
Date Posted: 28 May 2022 at 10:03pm
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I'll offer up an obscure, hard edged power metal album I love but never reviewed myself, and I'm the only person currently rating it: Pertness - Frozen Time https://open.spotify.com/album/7CO4mREUd9Veu3miEnUuzl (And yeah, I'll participate in this as well. The one potential hangup is I may be working on a promo review at the same time, but if I have two weeks to get this one done, I should have no trouble fitting it in.)
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Posted By: adg211288
Date Posted: 31 May 2022 at 7:55am
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Okay folks since we now have a pool of ten albums (a fair amount), I've decided to do the draw a day early so you can all get stuck in with coming up with reviews right away. Out off the ten albums put forward the randomiser has selected the subject of this reviewer's challenge as: Flourishing - The Sum of All Fossils http://open.spotify.com/album/1EUiti9poyVoYFH7Y5volg" rel="nofollow - https://open.spotify.com/album/1EUiti9poyVoYFH7Y5volg MMA entry: http://www.metalmusicarchives.com/album/flourishing/the-sum-of-all-fossils" rel="nofollow - http://www.metalmusicarchives.com/album/flourishing/the-sum-of-all-fossils  ------------- Earn Money Online (NOT a scam): https://premium.gg2u.org?referrer=adg211288" rel="nofollow - GG2U https://adamsfilmcorner.quora.com/" rel="nofollow - Adam's Film Corner on Quora |
Posted By: adg211288
Date Posted: 01 Jun 2022 at 10:59am
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Just to confirm, in the event that we run another Reviewer's Challenge later in the year (depends on how this one goes), we're not keeping the same list of candidates (we typically changed the format around per challenge before), so feel free to review anything else on the list (including while the challenge is running) if you were going to. ------------- Earn Money Online (NOT a scam): https://premium.gg2u.org?referrer=adg211288" rel="nofollow - GG2U https://adamsfilmcorner.quora.com/" rel="nofollow - Adam's Film Corner on Quora |
Posted By: adg211288
Date Posted: 06 Jun 2022 at 4:29am
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Posted mine: http://www.metalmusicarchives.com/review/the-sum-of-all-fossils/785407" rel="nofollow - http://www.metalmusicarchives.com/review/the-sum-of-all-fossils/785407 ------------- Earn Money Online (NOT a scam): https://premium.gg2u.org?referrer=adg211288" rel="nofollow - GG2U https://adamsfilmcorner.quora.com/" rel="nofollow - Adam's Film Corner on Quora |
Posted By: Nightfly
Date Posted: 06 Jun 2022 at 4:43am
| I'll get one in for this when I get chance. |
Posted By: DippoMagoo
Date Posted: 06 Jun 2022 at 8:38am
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I had a bunch of promos come in literally the same day this started, so I might take a while, lol I'm aiming to get mine done sometime this weekend, but I won't rush it. I have already heard the album a few times, though, it's just a matter of finding the time to write the review.
Edit: Actually, I think my review is likely to be very similar to Adam's, lol
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Posted By: adg211288
Date Posted: 06 Jun 2022 at 11:12am
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I was saying the first two weeks of June to do this in, but that can easily be extended to the whole of June if people want more time. I only put a deadline in as I want to write a little summary piece of all the submissions to officially close the challenge. It doesn't matter though if I do that on June 15th or July 1st. If we do another challenge later in the year, perhaps in August (with sign-ups through July), I intend to alter the format. I'm thinking album suggestions which are then randomised between people who put their name down, with the added caveat that they won't be selected their own nomination. ------------- Earn Money Online (NOT a scam): https://premium.gg2u.org?referrer=adg211288" rel="nofollow - GG2U https://adamsfilmcorner.quora.com/" rel="nofollow - Adam's Film Corner on Quora |
Posted By: Vim Fuego
Date Posted: 10 Jun 2022 at 11:13pm
Finally managed to get into the right headspace to do this. Normally it wouldn't be a problem for me, because I reckon I can write something about anything. After all, I used to do that for a job. However, I'm not far off five months straight working from home, and last thing I feel like doing after 8 hours technical writing a day is to write some more. Glad I finally got around to it.Sometimes with these challenges I think "ah fuck, what's this shit?" with the choices, and I'm usually proved wrong and end up enjoying the album to some extent. Through a previous challenge I discovered Panopticon, which is a band (if one guy counts as a band...) I love to this day. Flourishing is in the same league as that. Thus is a fucking amazing album I wouldn't have discovered on my own.
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Posted By: BitterJalapeno
Date Posted: 11 Jun 2022 at 3:16am
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I posted mine a few days ago and see that Patrick has posted his this morning. Going by the reviews and Travis' comments above, opinions seem pretty evenly spread so far. Adam, I like your idea of not being selected to review your own suggestion as I struggled to write about Flourishing in this setting even though I'm familiar with them. I also had it rated as a 5 prior to reviewing but knocked half a star off when reviewing and now not totally sure why that was  ------------- Star baby, did you deep fry a piece of the Great Barrier Reef? |
Posted By: DippoMagoo
Date Posted: 11 Jun 2022 at 10:08am
| My review should be up sometime tomorrow, I'm just giving it a final listen now to see if anything changes for me, then I'll start fully sorting my thoughts out and get to writing the review early tomorrow. |
Posted By: DippoMagoo
Date Posted: 11 Jun 2022 at 11:35pm
| And, done: http://www.metalmusicarchives.com/review/the-sum-of-all-fossils/786168 |
Posted By: adg211288
Date Posted: 12 Jun 2022 at 2:01pm
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Thanks all for taking part. I'm not sure if anyone else is planning to, but I'm leaving the challenge officially running for the rest of the month. At the start of July I'll knock up a little summary with the announcement of the next challenge, which will be a different format (the theme will be encouraging new release reviews, so get thinking of 2022 releases you know that you don't think others are paying attention to). ------------- Earn Money Online (NOT a scam): https://premium.gg2u.org?referrer=adg211288" rel="nofollow - GG2U https://adamsfilmcorner.quora.com/" rel="nofollow - Adam's Film Corner on Quora |
Posted By: Vim Fuego
Date Posted: 12 Jun 2022 at 9:15pm
| I've been collecting 2022 new releases on Spotify so I don't fucking forget them! |
Posted By: adg211288
Date Posted: 12 Jun 2022 at 11:36pm
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I do that as well. I've been trying to listen to at least one every day lately, but there'll be some left by year's end I never get around to. ------------- Earn Money Online (NOT a scam): https://premium.gg2u.org?referrer=adg211288" rel="nofollow - GG2U https://adamsfilmcorner.quora.com/" rel="nofollow - Adam's Film Corner on Quora |
Posted By: Nightfly
Date Posted: 13 Jun 2022 at 3:45pm
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Just finally found the time to do my review and post it... http://www.metalmusicarchives.com/review/the-sum-of-all-fossils/786698
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Posted By: BitterJalapeno
Date Posted: 20 Sep 2022 at 3:55pm
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Any interest in rolling this out again in the coming months? ------------- Star baby, did you deep fry a piece of the Great Barrier Reef? |