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Posted by John McCullim on 8/26/2003, 9:32 am, in reply to "Response to the Malcom Dome review." --Previous Message--
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Amen, big man.
: Ok...everybody is entitled to an opinion...even
: me!
: It seems to me that those individuals working
: for the glossy mags feel that they live or
: die by having their fingers on the pulse of
: "fashion". If the sort of music
: Holocaust produces happened to be fashionable
: right now, I bet he'd have given the Primal
: album 4 or 5 stars.
: Notice that I say, "It seems to
: me......". That is precisely the sort of
: phrase reviewers like Mr Dome NEVER use. Why
: do they have to come across as ultimately
: authoritative? Where does he get this
: authority? When it comes to reviewing
: Holocaust albums, I would have thought that
: authority resided with Holocaust fans. For
: example, If he'd begun the review with,
: "I've been a fan of Holocaust over the
: years, BUT this album...", you would
: most definitely pay attention to what he had
: to say next, wouldn't you?
: If it was me reviewing an album I didn't like
: much, I would say something along the lines
: of, "I didn't like the album
: because.....(reasons x,y,z), and then go on
: to describe the album in as objective a way
: as possible, in order to inform readers who
: might be thinking about checking out the
: album. That is never the way with reviewers
: like our Malcolm, however; they have to have
: the definitive last word...it's not just
: their opinion, it's a FACT!! Seems like a bit
: of an ego trip to me.
: The idea that Holocaust is CURRENTLY
: benefiting from a Metallica,
: "endorsement", in 1987,
: (yes...1987!!!), is quite simply absurd. It
: would seem that Mr Dome quotes all the bands
: that have covered Holocaust over the years in
: order to appear, yep....you guessed
: it.....authoritative.
: To the best of my knowledge Mr Dome has never
: been in any band that has released an album,
: so why should we accept his opinion as
: somehow more authoritative than any other
: person's opinion, when it comes to reviewing
: albums?
: He says that our time, "came and
: went", with the NWOBHM in the early
: 1980s........how does he know this?? In fact,
: what exactly does he mean? If he's talking
: about actual album sales then I can inform
: him that sales have remained stable, (neither
: up nor down), since the Nightcomers. Does
: this mean that this is still, "our
: time"?! It all gets back to the nebulous
: concept of "fashion". Why is he not
: bright enough to realise that the A&R
: departments of larger record labels are not
: stuffed full of experts in metal music? The
: problem Holocaust has with, "not
: achieving much", is one of financial
: backing. We need exposure; we need as many
: music fans as possible, (of ALL ages), to
: hear our stuff. The traditional way of doing
: this is to tour. In order to tour you need an
: initial financial outlay. Since Holocaust has
: never been with a label large enough to
: afford that initial outlay, Holocaust has
: never gained serious exposure. I would say
: that today is, in fact, "our time",
: because the Internet presents real
: opportunities for exposure, independent of
: record labels.
: If none of the songs, (apart from the
: possible exception of Colossus), light his
: particular candle, that's fine by me, but to
: claim that Holocaust survives because
: Metallica covered "The Small Hours"
: in 1987 proves only one thing.....Mr Dome is
: too "old"...it is HE who trades off
: the past.
: John Mortimer.
:
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