secondly, it's just bad, like Cynic - Focus may be terrible but the SMR is just lame and most importantly, not representative

Good morning @fallot

hi @Spinal , I wish I knew who bitterman was, did try to narrow it down to a couple of people but never could actually pinpoint

but it doesn't matter that much, I'll tell you what is known

some dude calling himself bitterman started to write hilarious reviews on metal archives for various albums

it got some traction both on metal archives, where a minority appreciated it (showing that there are always discerning people here and there)

and on the DMU forums/frontpage comments

soon after, we got Sadistic Metal Reviews which were written in the bitterman style, the earliest I suspect were by whoever was behind the monicker in the first place

enough talk though, I'll just show you

unfortunately you cannot simply click his profile anymore on metal archives, so reviews must be searched for individually

a pain in the ass

@Death Strike's Bat : http://www.deathmetal.org/forum/index.php?topic=17712.0

re: the bitterman comments being deleted

http://www.metal-archives.com/reviews/Carcass/Surgical_Steel/382463/bitterman/321549

Ah

Thanks

http://www.metal-archives.com/reviews/Meshuggah/Pitch_Black/366357/bitterman/321549

Was he banned? from m-a

Guess he was

No

Pretty good reviews, they have substance without being a bore

Yeah, substance, exactly

that's the SMR problem

no substance

http://www.metal-archives.com/reviews/Gorguts/Colored_Sands/379853/bitterman/321549

you can google bitterman site:metal-archives.com and get all of them

I think the SMR's are justified considering the amount of enui involved in actually listening to the crap

http://www.metal-archives.com/reviews/Pantera/Vulgar_Display_of_Power/230/bitterman/321549

Everything that ruined metal is documented in this one album. This album paints a picture of AC/DC shirt wearing pickup truck drivers heading to the meth house after swigging too much malt liquor while watching a marathon of Maury and Dog the Bounty Hunter. It's this single piece of drunken bafoonery that sapped all the creativity out of metal by showing people that they too can make money by playing groove based rock with faux-aggressive vocals and throwing pot leaf designs on t-shirts. It is the prototype for Korn.

So it's painful to the listener, the reviewer and the reader

may be a good idea just to avoid it then

I could never do an SMR personally

Perhaps this should go into <#279635339285626880>?

Defeats the purpose of proselytism

You can't put me in a box!

true true

that room is for spamming links anyway

http://www.metal-archives.com/reviews/Rainwound/United/316358/bitterman

After a parody of the Star-Spangled Banner (with added notes and all) that is the intro, the album reveals it's true nature: patriotic (AMER-KUH!!) themed tire commercial jingles mixed with moments from a The Legend of Zelda soundtrack performed by a quaaludes addled Dan Swanö.

I'm just twisting your nipple fallot

but you agreed with bitterman