Reviews reporting thread

Homotopy wrote: The last two rewievs (by Pavel) of Roz Vitalis don't have a word about music and are clearly AI-generated. Trademark ample use "Is not just A but B", em dashes, bold fonts [that the guy didn't even bother to copy correctly], lack of any actual content, off-sounding methphors, all delivered with weird eloquence never seen from a Russian guy. This is as blatant as it can get.

Thank you.❤❤❤ This AI garbage's been driving me nuts. There's another suspicious user known as Progressive Heart and I'm 99.5% sure they also use an LLM text generator to "write" their "reviews".

^ It did have a rating from you, maybe you accidentally rated it without reviewing. I have deleted your rating. Please try again. Sorry for the inconvenience.

Oh, I had not realised. I saw it and thought it looked so similar that my delete just had not taken as sometimes happens (sometimes functions time out). Apologies. I hope you saved it.

Yeah, I'll remove that and preserve it here for posteriorauraity. I hate completely expunging such things.

fearofablueplanet wrote: The reviews here are so apologetic. Everyone trying to excuse the band for sounding so much like a preliminary demo tape for In Absentia and Deadwing. Some of the comments are hilarious: "Quite frankly this is where Porcupine Tree should have been on their last and less than impressive album Fear of a Blank Planet". Another one: "Expect some great guitar solos in a few places which are far more virtuostic than PT ones". Who wrote that? The band mom? "Vocals that are very similar to Steven Wilson". Yeah, as similar as Gary Cherone is to David Lee Roth. There is inspiration and there is imitation. It is clear where this band stands. 2 stars

By the way, Gary Cherone was lead singer of Van Halen. He followed Sammy Hagar who had followed David Lee Roth as lead singer. I had to look it up.

Edited by Logan - May 11 2025 at 16:42

^ After looking at the last 50 reviews. I see there are three by him all in a row, so off some other platform I would guess rather than written for PA, except that minimal effort went into the reviews so maybe all written for here after all.   I could just delete but this once I will translate all three. Any more will be deleted that are not presented in English. I PMed the user who I saw in the forum.

Edited by Logan - April 27 2025 at 11:12

https://www.progarchives.com/Review.asp?id=3181266

Review is in Spanish. Google Translate still leaves it with some sentences that don't make sense.

^ It may be something wrong with me, and maybe it's because you actually attended the tour while I am not familiar with the release, but it seem both readable and passable to me as an album review for this site.

^ While I have taken the time to translate that reviewers reviews before (had to do it piecemeal because the reviews are so long), with a note and to PM the reviewer, its has not been noted, so I just deleted the latest. If it continues I will be forced to suspend the account and likely will delete all reviews.

The latest review:

C'est, par une soirée où le temps semblait suspendu, que je me suis plongée dans "The Time Machine", la dernière ?uvre des Samurai of Prog, mettant en lumière le talent du compositeur italien Marco Grieco. Paru en octobre 2024, cet album conceptuel nous convie à un voyage musical à travers les âges, mêlant habilement rock progressif symphonique et arrangements orchestraux.

Dès les premières notes de la piste éponyme, "The Time Machine", le piano rêveur et la voix chaleureuse de Serge Tiagniryadno nous enveloppent, tissant une mélodie envoûtante. Les claviers de Marco Grieco, soutenus par le violon de Maria Kovalenko et la flûte de Giovanni Mazzotti, apportent une profondeur émotive, oscillant entre passages délicats et crescendos intenses.

"Apes" nous transporte ensuite dans une fusion audacieuse de musique classique occidentale et d'éléments modernes. Les harmonies chorales et les solos de guitare électrique, notamment ceux de Roine Stolt, se mêlent aux interventions magistrales du violon et de la flûte, créant une atmosphère à la fois nostalgique et contemporaine.

Avec "The Last Legionary", l'album atteint un sommet de lyrisme. Introduite par le cor français cinématographique de Marc Papeghin, la voix ardente de Bo-Anders Sandström raconte une histoire empreinte de mélancolie, soutenue par des solos de violon et de guitare d'une rare intensité.

L'instrumental "Moon" évoque l'exploration spatiale, avec des claviers expressifs, des guitares et des violons qui peignent des paysages sonores cosmiques, invitant l'auditeur à une contemplation introspective.

"Madiba's Life" rend hommage à Nelson Mandela à travers une composition pour piano brève mais touchante, témoignant de la capacité du groupe à transmettre des émotions profondes en toute simplicité.

Enfin, "Future" clôt l'album sur une note d'espoir, avec la voix éblouissante de Christina Booth, soutenue par des arrangements somptueux de violon, de guitare et de claviers, suggérant un avenir lumineux et prometteur.

En somme, "The Time Machine" est une ?uvre magistrale où les Samurai of Prog, guidés par la vision artistique de Marco Grieco, réussissent à fusionner passé, présent et futur en une symphonie intemporelle. Un incontournable pour tout amateur de rock progressif.

^ I'm not familiar with rules against that despite people frowning on such things. It's terrible to read.

You sure are good at your job Greg! I don't think I would have even noticed if his two reviews weren't back to back under non-collaborator review section, even though 3 years apart.