The Two-thousandth Review

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Yaaaaayyyyyy!

That’s really what you’re reading. Yeah, it’s real. We’re celebrating our two-thousandth review here at Metal Addicts! Hey Guinness World Records here we are! Quite impressive, huh?

It was no bed of roses, it was no pleasure cruise, I guarantee you, my dear child of the night. It took me eight long years to reach this number. However, against all the odds, on the now glorious day of June 20th with the review of Cainites “Revenant” we finally reached the magical number of the 2,000th review. A world record? I don’t know, but maybe.

Our journey began on July 20th, 2016 with Noire “The Tracks of the Haunted,” an album which showed me the pleasure of the lost art of reviewing and introduced me to a world I had been apart from some time. Interestingly, the band ceased their activities with this EP. Is it a coincidence? The burning question is on. It was followed on July 30th, 2016 by Beansidhe “Mont,” Besides, only today I noticed that I wrote their album tittle wrong. It’s “Mónt,” not “Mont” as it’s written. But I’ll leave it untouched because misspelling and many other mistakes are my marks here. My problem is I love writing, but I don’t like reading what I write. It’s in no way compelling to me. By the way, Beansidhe released their following album just in 2021 with “Processionaria” – a very especial thanks to the Encyclopaedia Metallum – The Metal Archives for the valorous help they have been giving to me so far. It was only with Melanism “Decline” that I decided not to write the nationality of the band reviewed. I thought it would be fair to a band to give it a chance to be heard without the prejudice the nationality brings with it. That’s why I don’t write it anymore. We’re living difficult times as we all know.

Well, but numbers don’t lie. At least is what they say. However, in fact, numbers lie indeed. It only takes the right person to do the right math and voilà. But it’s not it. We had many bands as the stars here with the magical number of two thousands reviews. Unfortunatelly, the great majority was one review only. If I were to say a number I’d say more than 90% of them were one review only. In fact, a great deal of them had their oner and unique chance to release one album. I can’t tell you how many unfortunatelly. On the other hand, some bands and artists are real – let’s say – partners of the page as their albums are constantly here. By far Axel Rudi Pell is the winner with 9 reviews. One per year. Second would be Magnum with 5 reviews, but I can’t tell for sure as my old man’s memory fails me all the time and, that’s the reality, I don’t keep track.

I like to think of my reviews as chronicles where I write about my impressions of Metal music, some details about Metal’s history, details about the bands, some politics, and facts about life itself. Throughout these eight years I persued both quality and quantity even though quantity has won. It’s a fact I’m far from being a gifted writer. I’m pretty aware of that. But, for sure, I had my moments. In my defense, most of the errors here are due because I love writing, but I don’t like reading what I write, thus, the lack of proofreading. Many mistakes would have been avoided, if I had proofread my reviews. I admit I was sloppy.

I can’t deny I had lots of fun writing all those reviews and, most of all, getting to know all those bands. I’m pretty aware I wouldn’t be able to know them all if I hadn’t been here writing to you. I like to to believe most of my readers also had some fun reading me. My reviews don’t follow in no way the serious track most reviews go. I like them light. This world is serious enough. Within the years I was able to forge my own writing style trying so hard to avoid the common grounds. As I said, I like to think my reviews as chronicles. This includes some mottos as ‘my child(ren) of the night,’ ‘my dear fans,’ to say Power Metal and Thrash Metal are predictable and many others.

The truth is I write for the love of Metal music. It’s my way of honoring all the great bands and songs that made my life on this sad and lonely and pathetic little planet a little, just a little bit more interesting.

At last, but not least, I’d like to thank all our partners who shared this pleasure cruise with us. Without you and the bands you represent this wouldn’t be possible. We’ve got almost all big guns covered except for Napalm Records. But, who knows, only time will tell.

See you at the 3,000th!

I’ll leave you with one of the bands I most cherish Saxon with “Heavy Metal Thunder.”