Complete shitty troll reviewer tries to Ruin Valfar's Legacy with shitty ass Windir Reviews posted to all major Review Sites.

Words cannot describe how Pissed off I am now...  There is a troll who is trying to trash one of my favorite bands ever, Windir.  Windir was a black/folk metal band from Norway that broke up when their founder died in 2004. They were by far the best black/folk metal band I have ever heard, and completely destroyed all I have heard from that genre... Only Bathory is better..

Most folk metal bands use intentionally stupid sounding happy folk melodies on folk instruments over average to bad guitars without adding atmosphere to it at all.  When I first discovered Windir I was listening to a lot of Wintersun and Ensiferum.  The happiness of such bands was something that was getting to me. I wanted to hear new folk metal bands. A website got me into Windir and Mithotyn. Over a period of 6 months I had gotten into 21 new Folk Metal bands and 2 new black metal bands. Windir was the best of all of these and no other band came even close to them.

Windir did things differently.... Instead of using happy folk melodies gotten from folk music, Windir tried using dark sinister sounding Norwegian hymn melodies and played them on guitar and accordion, the instrument they were originally played on. This created dark sounding melodies, something I value a lot. Happy melodies piss me off. On top of that haunting keyboards were used throughout the songs to add dark atmosphere to them, something no other folk metal band even attempted...


A few months later I discovered This idiot who was posting shitty ass Windir Reviews like the below review of Windir's best cd.. "arntor"...

http://www.sputnikmusic.com/review/42976/Windir-Arntor/

This fucking idiot has spammed the following shitty reviews of Windir albums over the following sites... metal-archives.com (cthonicism), Sputnickmusic.com (hyperbore), rateyourmusic.com (Rusted Idiot) and maybe even more (I haven't checked)... The guy even made fun of Valfar's death on his review of Windir's second demo. He is a shitty reviewer who only gives "brutal" metal good reviews. Good atmospheric metal like this gets shitty reviews minus a few. But it seems he has spammed his shitty windir reviews all over the these review sites and none of them even care. The lack of integrity they show is ridiculous to allow total trashing of bands music as an official "review".

On the review of Artnor this idiot posted on sputnikmusic, he kept on trolling posters who protested the review by reposting his rating and made fun of them several times. To me this is proof he is a troll... I urge any Windir Fans  to send the following message to metal-archives.com, sputnickmusic.com and rateyourmusic.com demanding they delete his account...

"There is a troll going around posting shitty reviews of a great Metal Band (Windir).  He is using stupid bullshit criticism to trash any and all cd's by the band. He is going around multiple sites copy and pasting his reviews to those sites. He has posted reviews of Windir's albums to multiple sites using different names for each. For Rateyourmusic.com he is knwon as "rusted Idiot", for sputnickmusic.com he is known as "hyperbore" and for "metal-archives.com" he is known as "Cthonicisms".  He posts mean reviews that try to say that windir's music sucked (It didn't) and trolls the fans of the music in many of his reviews calling them man children and worse.  I urge you to perimently delete his account, he is mocking the review process to trash a dead metal legend. Do something about idiots like this, don't let them ruin Valfar's (windir's founder) Legacy.  Attached is a review he made for Windir's second cd Arntor...

Review Summary: On its second LP, Windir cements its identity once and for all, but in so doing proves itself to be devoid of any but the most banal of merits.

What most obviously separates this music from the heights metal can achieve in its greatest moments is its aesthetic of mood. Whereas metal is most commonly known as angry music, this is mostly happy. Not expressive of the joy of conquest common to power metal, or the appreciation of beauty common to certain niches of black metal, but simply HAPPY. These tracks sound more like drinking songs than anything else, which relegates them to occupying the same conceptual space - mindless, bouncy expressions of having a good ol' time, without a care in the world, because nothing needs to be taken seriously anyway. By expressing this aesthetic and being a metal album, it fails massively.

Composition continues to be simplistic, as in the band's previous output, although there are obvious occurrences of ambition sprinkled in. "Svartesmeden Og Lundamyrstrollet" at least attempts to develop itself linearly, eventually rescinding its irritatingly goofy lead hook for an atmospheric transition that is punctuated by the appearance of an arpeggiated couple of chords before gradually leading back into that main hook for a sincere, if trite, attempt at a conclusion. The ridiculously overlong-for-its-content "Saknet" takes a similar approach by moving its atmospheric section towards the end of the track, providing a lead-out that would close the album on a tolerable note if not for the following final track that, aside from its possibly being the worst song here, is also jarring in its overindulgent intensity that would be better placed at the beginning of this work.

As before, Windir's primary compositional approach here is to layer lead hooks comprised of overly dichotomous notes over two- or three-chord drawn-out rhythm riffing. Although there is some improvement in this album's desire to be expressive, with interstitial "heavy" riff sections to space out the songs a bit and occasional more dynamic uses of the rhythm section, it remains a boorish affair overall that is only made worse by Windir's full adoption of being mind-numbingly light. What little there is to like here is drowned in sappy melodies that carry nothing beyond their face value, and sound more like Disney music than anything else. This is the kind of metal that is not metal, and as such even mopey one-dimensional teenage pop is better than this. At least that has the decency to decline pretending to be something it's not. Windir is children's music made for adults, and as such this will be popular with man-children and nobody else.


People like this should not be allowed to post reviews! Where is your integrity. They trash a DEAD musician's music after his death, not just any musician, but a musician with tons of talent, and you let it happen? Where the fuck is your integrity! You have no integrity you stupid fucks! Immediately correct your mistake by banning the account of the user! It's  the only way to fix the mistake YOU CAUSED!"

http://www.metal-archives.com/users/Chthonicisms
http://www.sputnikmusic.com/user/Hyperbore

http://rateyourmusic.com/~RustingIdiot
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Stupid Fake Music Review Site bashes Great Metal Artists with tons of shitty Critical Reviews...

So I was searching for Australian metal Bands when I came across a list of Australian bands. The list was posted on a rather bad site for metal. The site is rateyourmusic.com. The site is a crowd review site and one that sucks. It is filled with idiots who write bad reviews by the hundreds for awesome cd's... There are tons of idiot trolls giving good metal bands cd's shitty reviews there... Underground bands such as Windir (my favorite folk/metal hybrid band), Valtari and Be'lakor (two underground Australian melodeth bands). Part of the purpose of this post is to expose these trolls as the idiots they are.  On the site there are tons of shitty reviews written by trolls for every artist. Not a single artist cd's get's any higher than a 3.7 out of 5 due to this. A perfect album gets a 3.5 due to all the shitty idiots giving it 2 and 1 star reviews. They factor into the reviews so much that nothing can get a good review there, no matter how good it is.


Checking the "reviews" Of At the Gates's Slaughter of the Soul CD. In the first 10 pages of reviews there were 13 2 and 1 star reviews alone. All were written by trolls who hate melodic death metal because they are idiots. One of The Trolls who bashed Be'lakor's awesome music (which I just got into on spotify), simply wrote a 1 star review claiming it was crappy "generic melodeath", which it isn't... It's progressive doom metal inspired melodeath. Imagine a mix of amon amarth/dark tranquillity with elements of opeth, insomnium and other bands thrown in. That's what Be'lakor sounds like. They write fantastic music and yet they score a crappy 2.5 out of 5 on the site by all the stupid melodeth haters... Someone else whined that Be'lakor wasn't progressive and also whined that the only progressive elements are piano's which isn't the case. I came across tons of time and tempo changes and softer passages as well as long song lengths and concept albums too... Fuck him. But what really pisses me off is the one idiot on the site who abuses the stupid site's ridiculously stupid rules to write shitty reviews that take apart everything about an artist to bash it for stupid reasons...


Enter "RustedIdiot".


RustedIdiot is a moron who bashed Valtari's Awesome 1 man band melodeth project by whining about it's production and said none of the songs were anything but generic melodeth. Think that is bad? Well It gets worse... Because he ripped my favorite folk/viking metal band to shreds. Yes That is Windir.


Windir wrote Blackened folk metal with very dark haunted melodies and keyboard passages. They started as a 1 man band ran by a guy from norway who called himself Valfar before he Died... They based the folk aspect of their music on melodies from Norwegian hymns. These are dark accordian based melodies that sound absolutely nothing like all the other folk music heard in folk metal (which is usually happy or cheesy in some way). These melodies sound dark and sinister.


Windir's music was so far removed from black metal AND folk Metal alike that it needs a new subgenre to represent it's awesome dark sound. The band created that subgenre "Sognametal". It's in the void between black metal and folk metal but isn't either one of those really.


That didn't stop the fucking idiot RustedIdiot for bashing Windir for the following stupid reasons:


-"Faux Aggression"

-Use of an admittedly awesome Arpeggio Riff

-Folk Melodies being used (claiming even the darker folk melodies windir used are cheezy and crappy)

-Claimed every song  sucked and every song gets worse than the previous one on the windir cd "1184" (complete BS, The Final Song is the best one, I enjoyed them all, fuck him!)


RustedIdiot is very similar to a fucking idiot on youtube named DWTerminator. He is similar in so many ways that I think they are the same person but I cannot prove it without some real evidence (which as a person without IP address info I cannot do sadly).


They both do the following things:


-Trash bands/video games (in dwterminator's case) by writing stupid overcritical reviews.

-Use a scale where every level of quality ("good", "excellent", "bad") has a lower number than it normally should, for example they both give good albums/games a 2.5. This is done to piss of people who like a certain artist by giving them a lower score than you would expect. Because 2.5 would be bad on most people's eyes.

-They both harass and call fans of the stuff they are "reviewing" idiots to piss them off. Dwterminator did this in a Skyrim review, RustedIdiot did this in a review of a Windir Cd I liked. (I forgot which one).


I looked at all the reviews RustedTurdburglar give 4 and 5 star reviews and found out he is a "true norwiegan black metal" and "brutal" death metal nut. People like this bash anything that has melodies because it's not "BR00TAL!". They fucking suck.  Good music needs melody to be good. Just because it has melody does not mean it's cheesy. This guy took the best damn sounding folk/metal mix in metal (the least cheesy of  them all!) and bashed it for being cheesy. He is a fucking turdburglar.


This is what happens when idiots who make stupid crowd-reviewed sites like rateyourmusic.com allow absolutely anything and everything in a review, and don't punish reviews for stupid shit like this.


Do NOT use sites like this to judge music. I'd rather use encyclopedia metallium's reviews (with their tons of fanboys giving bands 100% reviews) and stupid bad reviews ruining albums reception over a site that allows tons of stupid critics to post reviews bashing a cd for stupid fucking reasons muddling the score so bad because 30% of the reviews are 1 star reviews by stupid "BR00TAL is best assholes".


Fuck them!

How I discovered over 22 AWESOME metal bands in one year!

This year was a  majestic metal journey through the best damn bands metal can offer for me. I discovered a LOT of new bands this year I didn't know about before and 80% of them were awesome. I specifically went looking for viking/folk metal/folk inspired black metal and atmospheric black metal to listen to.  I went "fishing" through websites looking for new music and through google searches and spotify I ended up becoming a huge fan of the following awesome metal bands.

Mithotyn (Classic viking folk metal)

Windir (AMAZING folk inspired black metal band, very somber and haunting - best on the list by FAR!)

Wolfchant (great pagan metal)
 Manegarm  (good viking metal - very fast and aggressive and black metal based)
 Falkenbach (epic viking metal - like bathory plus flutes)

Moonsorrow (epic fucking band - 15-18 minute long pagan metal epics!)

Wuthering Heights (amazing folk/power/prog metal band!)

Mistur (sick black metal band founded by an ex-windir member)

Finsterforst (sick epic progressive folk metal)

Thyrfing (best viking metal band ever)

Valtiari (awesome underground melodeth 1 man band from Australia)
Be'lakor (sick progressive melodeth band from Australia too)
Ulcerate (brutal technical death metal band from new Zealand)
Obsidian Tongue (cool atmospheric black metal from my own state)

Summoning (sick atmospheric black metal - second best band I found by far)

Myrkgrav (cool blackened folk metal 1 man band from norway - very good music)

Menhir (german pagan metal with folk elements and amazing opera like vocals)

Gernotshagen (epic folk/pagan metal - similar to Be'lakor meets ensiferum)

XIV Dark Centuries (excellent folk metal)

Black Messiah (amazing viking metal from germany, really cool and haunting sounding)

Thrudvangar (germanies amon amarth!)

Forefather (sick pagan metal from England! Really good band)

 It all started with me googling info on Amorphis. I just got into them and thought they were ok. I was into Folk Metal like Ensiferum, Wintersun, etc at the time. That's all I listened to. I had all the Ensiferum Cd's and listened to them to death. I planned massive virtual tours of places around the world and ensiferum was always the band I chose to listen to while touring North America (esp Canada!), Europe, south america and Australia. My google search on Amorphis lead me to a site. I was lucky to find it. It was a metal forum post asking a simple question... "What is the most influentual, underrated folk/viking metal band?". Some band named Windir won it. Now a long time ago I heard Windir on Internet radio and liked them but soon forgot about them all together. So I started to purchase albums in a purchasing frenzy that would last an entire month. The forum recommended Mithotyn. So I bought their king of the distant forest cd. Right away I knew I would love them. They were heavy and had insanely brutal growling that I loved. But then I listened to windir for the first time a short while later and it blew Mithotyn to shreds.

Describing Windir is tricky. The band sounded a lot like black metal but had really cool folk, industrial and atmospheric touches. Within a few listens they had far surpassed mithotyn and were endangering Ensiferum's place as my second favorite metal band ever. the guitar solos on the song Martyrium are insane. Then there is Fagning. Then I listened to 1184 and was blown out of the water by that. I thought Likferd was good. This was even better. The same thing happened when I finally bought Arntor online. That made 1184 look bad. By Far the most atmospheric band I have ever heard and Nothing comes close. Windir is very underrated. People trash it as crappy black metal. But it's not, It's amazing sounding and nothing comes close to it. Of all the bands I got into this was the best.
By a mile. Windir got me into far darker kinds of folk inspired metal. It got me away from crap like Korpiklaani and fintroll and made me like stuff like Thyrfing, Menhir, and much more.

Pretty soon I was on spotify and getting into other great Atmospheric folk inspired metal bands, such as Moonsorrow, Falkenbach,Wuthering Heights, Mistur, Finsterforst, Thyrfing, Myrkgrav, Menhir, Black Messiah, Gernotshagen, and Forefather. All of these single handily blew Ensiferum out of the water to the point where it was no longer even good in my mind anymore. It had been replaced by tons of non-cheezy Epic Folk inspired bands that actually had some really haunting melodies to them.

All of the bands I listed above are great. They are all worth listening to. Some of them however are insanely good. One band that captivated me all month was Summoning. This was not a folk inspired band but a really good black metal band that did atmospheric non folk inspired metal. Their latest cd is a masterpiece. I loved the sound on it. It was black metal + middle ages music. Their style is amazing.  It's only a 2 man band with 2 guys doing keyboards, and playing another instrument too...

Overall I had a blast getting into awesome new music this year...

Rancid Abomination Update 12/4/2016

This is the latest in a series of video updates for Rancid Abomination (my black metal band). I filmed this last night. I will do these every 2-3 days. This one was the one done just after the new cd released... I plan to do these regularly from now on..

Enjoy.. \m/

New Rancid Abomination Cd "The Devouring" Finished...

I've been working hard on the 7 new tracks for the new Rancid Abomination (my black metal band) CD. New cd is called the devouring, and it has 7 songs on it. 5 out of 7 are songs with vocals on them, the other 2 are instrumentals. The music for these songs is amazing sounding for the most part, minus 1 song.

Musically, it feels like a throwback to the cd "eternal hate and pestilence" which was done in 2003, only this time with slightly better production. The melodies are so similar, it's not funny. Both cd's have dark sinister melodies done on lead guitar and keyboards. Both cd's have thrashy  riffs, but this one has more of a groove metal influence in the rhythm guitars than Eternal Hate and Pestilence.

It took me a LONG time of constant work to get it sounding good. I had to alter the mixes by adding new lead guitars to them several times and had to fix the vocals an hour ago, to add more distortion which makes it sound better, vocal wise. Still not great sounding but better than before. Before it was sounding bad...

Whether I release this album on soundcloud depends. I really don't want negative comments so I think I will only release 1,2 songs. The whole theme of the cd (anti-(C)Rap) will piss of lots of people there I think, so I may only put it on noisetrade. Either way, It will be the last RA cd ever. I don't intend to do any more besides the upcoming greatist hits I am releasing on noisetrade on December 24.

Soon I will be posting this album on noisetrade. I hope it does well.. Until the Greatist Hits album launches there I will be posting updates here telling how RA albums do.

Enjoy Metalheads. Stay EVUL... Remember to Eat, Sleep, Drink, Piss, Fart and Wank BLACK FUCKING METAL \m/

EDIT : Here is a link to it!

New Rancid Abomination CD "The Devouring" being worked on...

Today, I was looking through tracks I had written in 2003-2004 to see if I could write an album with them, one final album to finish off Rancid Abomination's sick Black Metal Career. I found tracks for 5 songs and decided I was going to use them to write one final album. Several hours later, the work on "the devouring" had been done.

The Devouring consists of guitar, drum and bass tracks put through a remixing process and lead guitar and keyboard tracks added into to make them more hideous sounding. The Guitars on the new album were 90% done in 2003-2004, and the drums are all from that period. 90% of the keyboards, minus one track, are new however, and the lead guitars were tracked with my PC yesterday and today.

The Result is the most sinister sounding RA cd ever. By far.

Number 1, the evil emanated from this cd's music is insane. It even dwarfs Eternal Hate and Pestilence.  It sounds a LOT more sinister. Most of that comes from the keyboard and lead guitar tracks added on, the original music was NOT this way minus 1 track.  The result is quite good. Sick black metal here. Which brings me to the lyrical theme of this album... Which is insanely evil.

I am writing, what best can be described as, a black metal anti-rap themed cd. The lyrics are HIDEOUS on this one. I felt like I needed to do this after trolls from the Rap Community pissed me off by listing our band as HIPHOP without checking first and assuming our music was rap when they liked it over and over again. They sent tons of (C)RAP promoters our way that were completely unwanted. It pissed me off. So I intend to get my vengeance... MWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! EVUL! BLACK FUCKING METAL >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> (C)RAP!


THIS is what will mark the end of Rancid Abomination's unfortunately unpopular career... It might be the meanest damn cd ever but it is the last. And I don't intend to do more. I could but I don't want to... Pushing the boundaries in taste is something I don't really want to do too much so Lets just end it here with a funny bang... Hehe.... Anti-(C)Rap black metal = funny!

Rancid Abomination Music Videos

Here are home made music videos recorded for Rancid Abomination songs. They are not the best music videos you can find because:

1) They only show me (Z.A. - the bands founder)
2) They have no real special effects
3) They are home recorded..

They do however have a creepy air to them... They all have an eerie type style to them. I recorded all of them with the lights out, to make it scary. They have me doing scary facial features too as well. I look like a complete lunatic during these videos and that's the kind of effect I was going for.

They might not be the best music videos ever recorded but they are ok. They are not cheezy. They are a bit boring, that's the only negative I can find... But they do have excellent creepy effects, so they are worth watching for that, alone.

                                           The Terrible Sound of the Demonic Hordes:

The Bleeding:





Something Horrible:


Harbinger of Fate (new song):