Reviews reporting thread

hi,this is the first time i have a problem with a review. Unless he has sampled a leak, this album is not out yet and the reviewer only based his reivews on the previous works by the band and the song titles from this new CD. I cannot the see where he actual talks about the music on this new CD (except that it's SO VERY BORING)

http://www.progarchives.com/Review.asp?id=461915&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+progarchives%2Freviews+%28Reviews+%28all%29+-+Progarchives.com%29

NotAProghead wrote: Who knows what the hell this review: http://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=33381 is doing here before the album's release date? Written by Prog reviewer, btw.

Do we really want ProgArchives to be closed down due to illegal activities from some deadheads ?  The record labels lawyers and solicitors are swarming over the internet like a trillion midges on a hot summer day, looking for reviews like this and for websites to close down. We are sailing close to the wind with reviews like this.     

I wholly agree with you here, NotAProghead. 

Rivertree wrote:   I sometimes receive promo material where the release is four or more weeks in the future. So this might base on a legal procedure though

Here is the core of the issue. 

If you as a music journalist for a newspaper receive a promo copy of an album, the editor of the newspaper will know why you have received this album if you review it four weeks before the album is being published. So if a solicitor throws the lawbooks at the newspaper, he/she will get nowhere and everything is proven perfectly legal. 

In this case; nobody can prove if this copy is legal or not due to the loose reviewer structure of ProgArchives. 

A review made four weeks before the publishing date is also a waste of the record label's resources if a legal promo copy was reviewed. In this case, this review is also premature and not based on the usual listening criterias according to the reviewer. If I still ran a record label and a review like that of one of the albums I had invested large resources in was published in PA, I would had been absolute furious and taken actions. 

This is someone's job, only source of income and life. Not a set of Lego bricks. 

Dean wrote: There is another issue in that this album will be released in Japan in 3 days, is it really worth getting into a fuss when legitimate reviews will start turning-up on Wednesday?

this review of the new Queensryche album was over two weeks ahead, and doesnt really show any justification that the  reviewer has listened to the album. The whole thing (should i call rant) is based on the on song titles rather than their merits. 

Although i share the same cynicism for the band i once loved, I don't think it's fair to the band to be bashing unreleased materials like this. i strongly suggest the admin to remove this review.