Talk:Seasons in the Abyss/GA1

GA Review

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Reviewer: Canniba loki 15:18, 12 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

GA review – see WP:WIAGA for criteria

Is it reasonably well written?
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Is it factually accurate and verifiable?
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B. Citation of reliable sources where necessary:

C. No original research:
Is it broad in its coverage?
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Is it neutral?
Fair representation without bias:
Blabbermouth.net said that the album is "considered to be among the genre's all-time classics." "War Ensemble", "Dead Skin Mask", and "Seasons In The Abyss" were described as "the preeminent list of metal standards that [Seasons in the Abyss] spawned has rarely been matched by others." The problem here is that the source is just a news article promoting the band's 'Carnage' tours.
Is it stable?
No edit wars, etc:
Does it contain images to illustrate the topic?
A. Images are copyright tagged, and non-free images have fair use rationales:
File:Slayer - Seasons in the Abyss.jpg is 500 pixels, but should be a maximum 300 pixels.

B. Images are provided where possible and appropriate, with suitable captions:
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Failed (see revision as of 18:34, 12 August 2010).--Canniba loki 19:35, 12 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Seasons in the Abyss (also referred to as Seasons) is the fifth studio album by the thrash metal band Slayer. It was released on October 9, 1990 through Def American Records, and later through American Recordings after the company changed its name. It should be reworded. Seasons in the Abyss is the fifth studio album by American thrash metal band Slayer, released through Def American Recordings, on October 9, 1990.

"Temptation" (track #8) featured an overdub of lead vocalist Tom Araya's singing, because the first vocal track was not erased between the takes. Simply out of place in the lead section. Anyway, it sounds like fancruft.

Within its first few years, the album was not available in many stores, solely because of the band's "extreme sound." This sentence is an example of original research, as the source said only that "...the band's extreme sound was distinctly unwelcome at the muisc channel and most of rock-radio outlets, leaving Slayer to develop its intensely loyal following on the road."

As an experimental album full of several elements, it "fuses its two predecessors," South of Heaven and Reign in Blood. This is just an unencyclopedic opinion of someone that contradict itself. According to Allmusic: Essentially, Seasons fuses its two predecessors, periodically kicking up the mid-tempo grooves of South of Heaven with manic bursts of aggression. [...] Since the band is refining rather than progressing or experimenting, Seasons doesn't have quite the freshness of its predecessors, but aside from that drawback, it's strong almost all the way from top to bottom (with perhaps one or two exceptions).