Marcus Karlsson's Reviews page

Frozen · Joined: 27 Oct 2012 Posts: 2623

Here's a piece of internet-nostalgia from a time when there was no such thing as Metal Archives or Discogs. I found a lot of good stuff through Marcus site and even traded a few CD's with him back then.

http://web.archive.org/web/20090323081542/http://legolas.mdh.se/~kem93mkn/reviews.htm

Candlemass · Joined: 23 May 2009 Posts: 1799

Man, this takes me back...

There was also Mega's Metal Asylum or something, the Vibrations of Doom (I think) website of classic metal albums for streaming in "Real Audio" format and a few other sites that come to mind but can't remember any other names.

Edit: also found this site the other day and was surprised to see it's still alive.

Conservationist · banned Joined: 25 Feb 2009 Posts: 2909

Can't forget BNR and ANUS of course Smile

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Candlemass · Joined: 23 May 2009 Posts: 1799

LARM: The Fourth Reich of Reviews (now hosted at Anus.com): http://www.anus.com/metal/about/larm/

ps. Anybody remember that Bathym 'tard? Laughing

In Solitude · Joined: 10 Sep 2008 Posts: 5181 Location: Seattle

Sunnportal · Posted: Tue Jan 01, 2013 10:27 pm Post subject:

Cool, i'll enjoy looking through this. I love reviews.
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God Slayer · Joined: 24 Feb 2009 Posts: 1377

This is great! Brings back so much nostalgia. That baphomet rating system makes me feel like a teenager again!
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Saltrubbed Eyes · Joined: 26 Aug 2011 Posts: 678

I remember this, pretty cool I guess..

Frozen · Joined: 27 Oct 2012 Posts: 2623

aiezue · Joined: 25 Apr 2012 Posts: 257 Location: China

Some nice ones I have never known before. Thanks very much for them. Razz

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Frozen · Joined: 27 Oct 2012 Posts: 2623

It's always interesting for me to see what people liked and disliked back then. Bands like CoF usually got top ratings, while the more cultish stuff got lower scores for having "poor sound". Took my generation a while to get adjusted to lo-fi sound.

Mikael · Joined: 26 Jan 2008 Posts: 2373

The True Norwegian was small but nice site with some samples. Would be great to re-check it from www.archive.org, but don't know the address anymore.

Feuersturm · Joined: 29 Nov 2012 Posts: 1819 Location: Finland

Oh yeah these sites... back then when you did a search about a band or an album (on Altavista of course) that Marcus Karlsson thing always showed up.

And remember those 100kb Realmedia samples some people put up? They were pretty rad too.

Also, there were these short snuff and scat clips on burzum.org once.
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Frozen · Joined: 27 Oct 2012 Posts: 2623

nsbm.org was a classic as well. Wasn't that run by Prozak (anus.com)?

Dusted · Joined: 07 Jul 2012 Posts: 673

haha from this you can see the old school SIGH page

http://web.archive.org/web/20020729062335/http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~nd6m-kwsm/