First I have to say I very much enjoy your reviews on the Metalpage, because they are honest. 100%.
On the other hand I sometimes wonder
why you keep buying so many obscure/unknown records at all, because you seem to like only a very very small portion of them. Still you keep all of them in your collection (I think...?). This does not make any sense to me, I for example keep only what I like. Be it for the music, the lyrics, the cover, the rarity. But to each his own.
And thats the point: Only because YOU think HAMMER WITCH sucks, it is not univeral truth
HAMMER WITCH is US Power Metal close to perfection.
Sometimes (and this is not directed to you Prowler) I get the impression that people throwing mud on expensive records are simply the ones who dont own them or cannot afford them, out of pure envy.
However, my all-time TOP record probably is METAL FROM HELL. Musicianship on this record for sure isnt outstanding and I am searching since 25 years unsuccessful for any record with a worse sound (okay, EXTERMINATOR is worse). And still M.F.H. eats every Metallica or Priest or Maiden LP for breakfast. But I'm aware this is MY taste only and I have given up on trying to enlighten the world many many years ago, haha.
KILLEN is great, DARK AGES is even better in its own unique way, STREET CHILD totally crushes and all of them are superior to DISSECTION CAN (which is also very good tough).
Tastes are like assholes, everybody has one...