Tuesday, November 6, 2012

Review Scores Reference

Though I don't "score" my reviews on this site, there are some out there that take stock in some of those things and since I do have a method to scoring my reviews, I figured some may be interested to see where reviews land on the scoring scale. Here is my scoring methodology and the scores of my reviews which I've calculated using this scale. I plan to add all reviews on the site here with scores at some point. I feel my method is a fair representation of scoring for an album and is the scoring method I use on rated websites.

Premise: An album consists of songs which make up the whole (100%). My scoring is based on a scale of 0% - 100%.

To calculate score:

1. I break down each song into a percentage of the whole album.
2. I rate each song on a scale from 0-5.
3. This rating is used to calculate points each song earns towards the maximum an album can earn.
4. Points are added and a total is calculated:

Let's use as an example, My recent Narrow House review:

1. Break down of each song into a percentage:
  1. Poslednee Pristanishe (14:35) 14:35 = 875 seconds / points
  2. Psevdoriatunok          ( 6:45 )   6:45 = 405 seconds / points
  3. Steklianniy Bog          (13:00)  13:00 = 780 seconds / points
  4. Pod Maskoy Etoy        (11:10)  11:10 = 670 seconds / points
                            Total Points Possible: 2730 seconds / points
2 / 3.  Song rating, points per song and allotted points:

  1. Poslednee Pristanishe (3.5 / 5 (or 70%)) = 875 x 70% = 612.5 points
  2. Psevdoriatunok          (4.0 / 5 (or 80%)) = 405 x 80% = 324.0 points
  3. Steklianniy Bog           (4.5 / 5 (or 90%)) = 780 x 90% = 702.0 points
  4. Pod Maskoy Etoy         (3.8 / 5 (or 76%)) = 670 x 76% = 509.2 points
                                              Total Points Awarded:     2147.7 points
4. Percentage calculated:

2147.7 ÷ 2730 = .78 (78%)

This method takes into account what part of each album each song represents and really leaves less possibility of a skewed scoring since each song is being given it's own rating. It is difficult to review an album and say that one song is the best song on the album, rate it at 4/5 and yet give every other song the same score or better.


Orion's Review Scores:

ARTIST
Absence of Salvation
Ad Patres
Aeternus
Aetherius Obscuritas
After Oblivion
Alkmorhilyion
Anarchos
Anthem
Arkham Witch
Atomic Head 
Attacker
Attacker
Battlerage
Beyond
Bitter End
Black Sabbath
Black Sabre
Blood Dancer
Botulistum
Bound By Entrails 
Carcariass
Catacombs
Cerebrum
Coprophilia
Countess
DarkBlack
Descantation
Dröne
Earthlord
Forced
Forefather
Goll
Grai
Haiduk
Hamnskifte
Hivelords
Hivelords
Hivelords
Honey For Christ
Humanity Delete
Isanmaa
Johansson & Speckmann
Leukemia 
Licrest
Magnum Itiner Interius
Midnight Funeral 
Mortalicum 
Mortalicum
Narrow House
Necrosadist
Noble Savage
Nocturn
Odem
Penetration
Polluted Inheritance
Psychobliss
Rivera Bomma   
Sacred Gate
Sacristy 
Scorched Earth
Scythe
Sentinelles
Shadows In The Crypt
Snakeskin Angels
Solstice
Strychnia
Twilight Fauna
Twilight Fauna
Zakhm     
ALBUM
Demo 2013
Scorn Aesthetics
...And So The Night Became
Ventus
Stamina
Droves
Descent Into The Maelstrom
Anthem
Legions of the Deep
March of the Urban Zombies
Battle At Helms Deep
The Second Coming
Blood, Fire, Steel
Enter Transcendence
Have A Nice Death
Headless Cross
High Speed Warrior
Blood Dancer
Botulistum / Goll Split
The Stars Bode You Farewell  
Killing Process
Echoes Through The Catacombs
Cerebrum
Right Is Right
Sermons of the Infidel
Midnight Wraith
Descantation
L'Inconnue De La Seine
Earthmission
Accursed Share
Ours Is The Kingdom
Botulistum / Goll Split 
About Our Native Land
Spellbook
Fodzlepijnanis
The Cellar Scrolls
Grand Cromlech
Cavern Apothecary
The Darkest Pinnacle of Light
Never Ending Nightmares
Yli Peltojen, Vetten Ja Tunturien
Sulphur Skies
Love
Devoid of Meaning
Departure at the Betrayal of Life
Visions Through The Dark Memories 
Progress of Doom 
The Endtime Prophecy
A Key To Panngrieb
Abstract Satan
Killing for Glory
Shades of Insanity
Rape Your God and Pray For Reprieve
Return To Sodom
Ecocide
Dreams of Dystopia
Infinite Journey Of Soul
When Eternity Ends
Masters of Baphometic Devastation
Marauders
Beware The Scythe
L'envol
Fanatical And Ready To Die
Witchchapel
Poems of Petulancy
The Anatomy of Execution
The Silence of a Blackening Abyss
The Grotesque Travesty of Creation
Inner Depression     
SCORE
44%
67%
100%
66%
63%
20%
76%
76%
66%
60% 
76%
87%
55% 
84% 
68%
84%
53%
72%
66%
68% 
69%
63%
49%
37%
81%
82%
67%
50%
84%
61%
83%
66%
62%
49%
71%
76%
72%
94%
53%
58%
79%
61%
76% 
78%
68%
24%
79% 
84%
78%
50%
25%
80%
60%
79%
71%
14%
57% 
68%
58%
68%
61%
67%
67%
66%
78%
50%
58%
56%
58% 

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