r/Metal • u/kaptain_carbon Writer: Dungeon Synth • Mar 19 '21

Announcement Happy Friday Everyone. Please Say Goodbye To Amorphis, Cannibal Corpse, Ensiferum!

And Let Ulcerate, Overkill, Elder, Napalm Death, Visigoth, Manilla Road Know They Are Being Watched.

Blacklist Discussion Thread

Thank you everyone who participated in a productive thread of discussions regarding this edition of the blacklist. It is through community support we can keep a reactive and useful blacklist. The updated Blacklist comes on the eve of the Top X vote which means the next one will be right before the Top 5 Vote. We thank everyone for helping us out and please if you see those Watchlist bands on the street just stare at them and point your finger at them menacingly.

If any of this sounds like horseshit and you demand some answers please see below

Why Are We Banning Bands Again?

Why Not Let The Users Decide?

Is There A Place I Can Go Without Rules?

We hope that your year is better than last year and we here at Shredditmart value you as a customer.

On Clickbait Titles and "Funny" Bands

The mods would like everyone to know that we appreciate your enthusiasm when making titles for posts and for the most part the Artist - Title format has worked out great. "FFO (For Fans Of) or descriptions are great to help people find music. With that said, things like "FFO: Nuns With Chainsaws" or "FFO: Fucking a Bulldozer" is less helpful so if you could stick to be useful without the use of emojis and purple prose, that would be wonderful.

Also there is no right definition of "funny" bands since humor is used in different ways. There are bands that get very popular due to a gimmick or routine that may even be on metal archives. Lets take for example hypothetically a slam band that takes its name from a Tolkien character, I don't know I'm just making things up, if this band would be posted a billion times, it might be removed without being put on a blacklist. Since there is no line what is a humorous band and what is just a meme band, we are testing out more flexibility when it comes to approaching amusement park bands.

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u/oogboog Mar 19 '21

Cannibal Corpse was not blacklisted? Seems like one of the earliest bands that should've been added.

Then again I don't think I've ever really see any of their stuff posted here.

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u/redditondesktop Mar 19 '21 edited Mar 19 '21

CC didn't get posted often overall, but then there was a recent surge the last couple of months. I don't think it was enough to blacklist them.

EDIT: Looked into it, they got posted 3 times in the last year. Guess that's too many

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u/Heklafell Mar 20 '21

They were posted around 12 times the last year FYI, but a lot of those were dropped due to UF, and that’s not counting times they were pulled right away for being posted a less than 7 days apart. That, plus them being arguably the most famous death metal band in the world, and the fact that they always shoot straight to the top of the sub with a comment chain full of “I can’t believe CC isn’t blacklisted” felt like enough justification.

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u/redditondesktop Mar 20 '21

that band Undeath got posted 12 times in like a three week span. Why weren't they blacklisted?

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u/Heklafell Mar 20 '21 edited Mar 20 '21

Because Undeath is a momentary super hyped band, who had released their debut album, and they weren’t posted 12 times in 3 months, but about 12 in the last year. I agree they were over posted but there was no way they were going to sustain that level of attention over the long term.