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Well, it’s been a while since I avoided commenting on Battle's pages; I had already bothered him enough about some of his pages written by scattering words randomly, and it's been a while since I've checked DeB, but given the latest about M.B.V., I wanted to take a look and I’m astounded… I see a vast majority of high ratings, many 5s: but doesn’t the use of this poor language, already battered by time and rampant sloppiness, seem like a fundamental element in judging a text? And if so, how the hell can you not realize that, despite some slight improvements, almost no sentence, maybe even no phrase, starting from the opening, in this "review," makes any recognizable sense, at least according to what we thought Italian was until now? But if that weren’t enough, shall we talk about the "content"? Does anyone really think that this stuff is worthy of even a meager passing grade? What the hell is written, what does it say about the group, about the album, about the period, that makes even a minimum of sense? The issue is that it’s true that on DeB there’s such a variety of "styles" and approaches to the subject that anything seems acceptable, but one thing is to choose to proceed with images, evocations, stories, or para/poetic hermeticisms, and that’s fine, everyone is free (and everyone will reap what they sow), another is to attempt a "historical" and "stylistic" analysis of an album. In that case, you either do it properly, first measuring yourself against your syntactical abilities, your vocabulary, then you try to articulate an analysis that has relevance to the subject you’re tackling, identifying its characteristics, perhaps approaching it from a personal perspective, but arguing, illustrating the aspects you find peculiar, establishing connections between the elements that compose it and placing it, for example, in relation to other works or to the context in which it appears. And on DeB there are many pages done like this, some, furthermore, written very well, which, since they are the work of less "popular" users, receive lukewarm readings and even cooler acclaim, because, perhaps, they are dedicated to works less "cool" than these M.B.V. Was there really a need for this banal little page, after nine others, for this album? And it even gets a 5? Damn, you have low standards. - I don’t dispute the sincere passion of Battlegods, which drives his hyperproductivity (and since all the "cool" albums are already reviewed, the need to write duplicates) nor can I avoid noting his absolute impermeability to criticism (he always responds, but almost never to the point, not because he’s being clever, I really think he just doesn’t understand it) but I’m astounded by the uncritical and positive response that certain pages receive. I had promised him I wouldn’t bother him on one of his pages anymore and I held on for dozens of "reviews," but I believe it’s clear that, having lost hope with him, this long rant is aimed more at the readers than the "reviewer": encouraging, with applause, such a mediocre and unshaken practice seems detrimental to me. Amen.

Beautiful

Enough. But do you even read what you vote for?

And who are these Converge!?!?

Oh come on, I didn't know they had released an album. Or did they? I'll look it up now. Thanks, mate.

Hi Psaico. It seemed to me that they had already reached an "international" "dimension," at least since "Ashram Equinox." And they are interesting precisely because they shun simplistic solutions, even if more convenient, adopted by many more well-known bands in the neo-psych stew. In short, it seems to me they have had enough personality for a while now to not run the risk of being "Italian." For those interested, the album is here: Julie’s Haircut - Invocation And Ritual Dance Of My Demon Twin (2017) (Full Album) Rar Zippyshare - I Liked You Better Dead

Well, as soon as "Cloud 9" starts, you're sure you've heard it before, and the more you listen, the more you're convinced. Is it really a new song?

- “There is nothing intelligent to say about a massacre. It is assumed that everyone is dead, and they have nothing more to say or demand.” (from "Slaughterhouse-Five")
- "Mark Twain, at the end of a life of profound worth, for which he had never received a Nobel Prize, wondered what purpose we all lived for. He came up with five words that satisfied him. They satisfy me too. And they should satisfy you: 'The esteem of your neighbors.'" (From "When You Are Happy, Notice It")
But one of the phrases that says a lot about him and our times, and that I particularly like, is this: "There is a tragic flaw in our precious Constitution, and I don't know how it can be remedied. It is this: only the craziest people want to run for president. And it was this way even in high school. Only the most outwardly disturbed students would put themselves forward to be class representatives." (from "A Man Without a Country")
Welcome, Skyburial. And have a good journey with Kurt.

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