Please, read it before starting using this section!!!
First off, I do look for some devoted :W:-Fan-Follower-trapper that can/know/want to make some decent German->English translation at least for the Fuckit articles. Please, :W: boys and girls...anybody out there to help?
This website contains articles of 4 types: biographical, interviews, reviews and last one called 'article', i.e. any articles not in the first three categories.
'Interview' section divided by year of interview. The review section divided by the :W: release reviewed. The rest articles types are shown as plain list ordered backward. "By Source" will show all types of articles from specific source in one list.
The articles displayed in the original language, which one shown in menu near source of the article. Some articles have been translated to other languages. See the links to translations near the language code of the article in menu. As for reviews translation links will be embedded near the review itself. Source column in the menu leads to main page of source website, link to source in the article body leads to the exact URI of article if available. Many sources from years<2k are dead now. We keep no links to them.
Used language codes:
cs - Czech
nl - Dutch
en - English
fr - French
de - German
it - Italian
ru - Russian
pl - Polish
es - Spanish
pt - Portuguese
The most of the articles for last years unfortunately in German. Interesting note that approximately before Wreath of Bards there was most English articles. I do not know the reason may be Funeral Diner (primary source for older articles) was mostly collecting English articles or that's the real situation now: much more German music sites, so that is reason for most material in German for the last several years.
IMPORTANT: I tried to keep all :w: related articles available regardless of its content. So you will see literally both ends of the scale: from absolute devotion to absolute :W: haters. I choose to keep haters too. Why? Sometimes it curios to read absolute different opinions about exactly same thing. I confess, as I collected/transferred all that stuff , I've read many of it. Some of it written by de facto very professionally and some by ..Well...by people who seems hardly can express what they think (like me, ehe?). In our days of easy web access, development, bogs, social networks it is very easy to become so called 'music critics' . Keep this in mind when you read articles written in last years.
Let's look at the example so called 'review' of Cannibal Anthem. The 'critic' didn't say a word about album, about the music! He just continue to rattle on how he dislikes the album. Doh! Note the funny part, that user rating near that review. 4/5 by all votes. How come?
FINAL ADVICE: use those readings for fun, but to get real opinion is to make one of your own. Listen :W:. Listen to it good, not once. Give it a time, 2-3 months is very least. And only then make up your judgment. It's from my own experience. It happened not once (not only with :W:) that album you hardly cam tolerate on first listen will became one of your favorite in several months.
