Open: metal.iplay

Tracker's Name: metal.iplay

Genre: Music

Sign-up Link: http://metal.iplay.ro/signapp.php

Closing date: N/A

Review's Link: http://torrentinvites.org/f36/metal-...20/#post840265

Additional information: Metal.iplay, AKA Romanian Metal Torrents, is romanian tracker that specializes in rock and metal music. Created on february 2006, it is one of the oldest trackers out there. Currently it has 5800 members out of 7000 members maximum allowed. Applications are open until they reach their member cap. Of course, you can also be invited by someone inside. Upon joining, you are granted 10gb of upload credit, to help you build buffer. Maintaining ratio is pretty easy. There is decent amount of freeleech torrents. They also have pretty generous bonus system. Also, there are periods (Easter, New year etc.) when global freeleech is enabled, and it lasts for weeks sometimes. At the time of writing this review, this tracker has just under 12 000 torrents, which is not that big number for tracker that is over 11 years old. This is the first problem. You would expect this tracker to have pretty much everything rock & metal, but you would be wrong. Of course, this tracker has almost all lossless discographies of the more popular bands in specific sub-genre of metal (death metal, black metal, power, grindcore, etc.) however, if you're looking for some not well-known bands (underground bands) chances are that you're not going to find their stuff here. Good thing is that most of torrents are seeded by enthusiasths that are keeping them alive for years. There is always reseed button, in case there are no seeders. They have friendly community & staff, but unfortunately their forums are not very active (sometimes a couple of days pass without single post). Same goes for IRC which is also not very active. That being said, if you are member of trackers like redacted or apollo, apart from friendly metalhead community (not very active though), you won't find much here. If you're looking for some underground metal stuff that is not on redacted, apollo or similar, I suggest that you first check rutracker and metal-tracker, which are both open for signups. My feeling is that this tracker is very old and slowly dying, and that there have not been a lot of dedicated uploaders to create big torrent pool, which would make this tracker more active. I really hope that I'm wrong, and it won't die soon. In the end, i would recommend this tracker to metalheads that are new to tracker world, and are looking to download discographies of their favorite bands. Try entering via applications, if you know what you're talking about, they will surely let you in. Don't get me wrong, it is nice, well-seeded tracker (not great speeds on older torrents, though) but it doesn't offer more than big music trackers I mentioned above.

Tracker's Name:	metal.iplay
Genre:	Music
Sign-up Link:	http://metal.iplay.ro/signapp.php
Closing date:	N/A
Review's Link:	http://torrentinvites.org/f36/metal-...20/#post840265
Additional information:	Metal.iplay, AKA Romanian Metal Torrents, is romanian tracker that specializes in rock and metal music. Created on february 2006, it is one of the oldest trackers out there. Currently it has 5800 members out of 7000 members maximum allowed. Applications are open until they reach their member cap. Of course, you can also be invited by someone inside. Upon joining, you are granted 10gb of upload credit, to help you build buffer. Maintaining ratio is pretty easy. There is decent amount of freeleech torrents. They also have pretty generous bonus system. Also, there are periods (Easter, New year etc.) when global freeleech is enabled, and it lasts for weeks sometimes. At the time of writing this review, this tracker has just under 12 000 torrents, which is not that big number for tracker that is over 11 years old. This is the first problem. You would expect this tracker to have pretty much everything rock & metal, but you would be wrong. Of course, this tracker has almost all lossless discographies of the more popular bands in specific sub-genre of metal (death metal, black metal, power, grindcore, etc.) however, if you're looking for some not well-known bands (underground bands) chances are that you're not going to find their stuff here. Good thing is that most of torrents are seeded by enthusiasths that are keeping them alive for years. There is always reseed button, in case there are no seeders. They have friendly community & staff, but unfortunately their forums are not very active (sometimes a couple of days pass without single post). Same goes for IRC which is also not very active. That being said, if you are member of trackers like redacted or apollo, apart from friendly metalhead community (not very active though), you won't find much here. If you're looking for some underground metal stuff that is not on redacted, apollo or similar, I suggest that you first check rutracker and metal-tracker, which are both open for signups. My feeling is that this tracker is very old and slowly dying, and that there have not been a lot of dedicated uploaders to create big torrent pool, which would make this tracker more active. I really hope that I'm wrong, and it won't die soon. In the end, i would recommend this tracker to metalheads that are new to tracker world, and are looking to download discographies of their favorite bands. Try entering via applications, if you know what you're talking about, they will surely let you in. Don't get me wrong, it is nice, well-seeded tracker (not great speeds on older torrents, though) but it doesn't offer more than big music trackers I mentioned above.

Open: metal.iplay | Music