List of Metal bands with 4.5 or above Allmusic Guide reviews?
If you don't know of Allmusic Guide (AMG) - it is a huge online database that claims to be an authoritative source of music criticism. Obviously music journalism is subjective and AMG are therefore not infallible, but I believe they are reliable and put in a solid effort to cover even 'underground' genres such as metal really quite extensively. They rate albums out of 5 stars. The really good ones used to get rated 5 stars, but nowadays, even very good albums peak at 4.5 and are only given 5 star status when their cultural impact over time has been retrospectively analyzed. If you're interested, the only recent metal band to have one of their albums receive 5 stars is 'Negura Bunget' with the album 'Om'.
The following metal/hardcore bands (unless asterisked) have at least one album with a 4.5 star or above rating on AMG; 36 Crazyfists 1349 Aborted Abruptum After Forever Agalloch Alchemist Altar Of Plagues Amon Amarth Anaal Nathrakh Anata* Anathema Angels Of Light Arcturus Autopsy Ayreon Baroness Behemoth Between The Buried And Me Black Cobra Blood Duster Bloodbath Bloodthorn Bloody Panda Blut Aus Nord Boris Botch* Byzantine Candiria* Cathedral Cavity Cave In Cerebral Bore Chevelle Church Of Misery Coalesce* Cobalt* Converge Cryptopsy Cult Of Luna Cynic (90s) Dark Tranquility Deathspell Omega Decapitated** Deicide Demon Hunter Diabolical Masquerade Dillinger Escape Plan Dimmu Borgir Dir En Grey Discordance Axis D.O.A. Dragonforce Dream Theater Drowningman Drudkh* Earthless Edge Of Sanity Electric Wizard Embodyment Emperor Enslaved Entombed Epoch Of Unlight Esoteric Evergrey Every Time I Die Evil Beaver Evoken Exhumed Extol Funeral Mist Gallery Of Mites Gates Of Slumber Gathering, The Genghis Tron God Forbid Gojira* Gorguts* (90s) Greymachine Gridlink Harvey Milk Hate Eternal Hatebreed Haunted, The Heaven Shall Burn Hollenthon Hour Of 13 Human Abstract, The Immolation Immortal In Flames Into Eternity Intronaut* Isis Kamelot Kampfar Karma To Burn Katatonia Keelhaul Krallice Kverlertek Kylesa Lacuna Coil Lair Of The Minotaur Lamb Of God* Loss Ludicra Luna Mortis Lykathea Aflame* Machine Head Madder Mortem Made Out Of Babies Marduk Mars Volta, The Martyr AD Mastodon Melechesh Meshuggah Morbid Angel Nachmystium Napalm Death Nasum Necrophagist Negura Bunget Neuraxis Neurosis Nevermore** Nightwish Nile** Novembers Doom Ocean, The Om On Thorns I Lay Opeth Orphaned Land Pain Of Salvation Paradise Lost Pelican Pig Destroyer Poison The Well Porcupine Tree Priestess Primordial Queens Of The Stone Age Rage Refused* Regurgitate Revocation Rotting Christ Ruins Of Beverest Rwake Scar Symmetry Shadow Gallery Shining Sigh Skinless Sleepytime Gorilla Museum Slipknot* Slough feg Soilent Green Soilwork Solefald Sonata Arctica Spirit Caravan Spiritual Beggars Stargazer Strapping Young Lad* Suffocation* Sunn O)))) Swallow The Sun Sword, The Symphony X System Of A Down Tenet Therion Today Is The Day Tool* Torche Triptykon Tristania Trivium Turisas Twilight Tyr Unearth Unleashed Virgin Black Voivod Warhorse Watain Weakling Windir Witchery Within Temptation Wolf Wolves In The Throne Room Xasthur Yakuza (The above is pretty much my entire metal collection, and I've been compiling the list over about a decade, so the asterisked bands are I think bands who don't have a 4.5 or above rated AMG album, but who I like anyway). Please add to this list!! I'm interested mainly in bands whose 4.5 or above AMG rated albums were released from 2000-2011 (present) cuz I'm not so into retro stuff. But whatever, I guess you can add retro bands in as well. With your help I look forward to this list expanding and becoming huge!! [Edit: 24/9/11] |
who the fuck cares
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this sounds very important
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nile is very good and deserve to be on this list
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glanced at the list and saw trivium and machine head
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allmusic isn't too bad, I often end up on there researching albums
an all defining list like this makes it look kind of authoritative and stupid though |
nah allmusic sucks
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lol dragonforce
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haha, look at bit harder and you'll see that Chevelle is up there as well!!
Can anyone add to the list, though? That's the point of this thread preferably recent additions ie. no golden oldies like Metallica. I'll add your additions to the list. |
motorhead
black sabbath |
[QUOTE=nodding;18631409]nah allmusic sucks[/QUOTE]
you hate any place of music criticism though |
lol Dragonforce
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bumpity bump
replies saying "no-one cares" are [I]accepted[/I], but kinda gay. |
If you have to bump the thread, maybe that's a clue as well. :p
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theres a bunch of good bands here
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bump
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Nokturnal Mortum - [I]Goat Horns[/I]
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Oh, wow, more websites where people categorise music into a scale and pretend to be objective about it.
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i just use rym these days
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[QUOTE=Morumbar;18654615]Oh, wow, more websites where people categorise music into a scale and pretend to be objective about it.[/QUOTE]
Nothing is ever going to be remotely objective as far as music (especially extreme metal) is concerned - but allmusic guide (and metacritic - which covers metal not nearly as extensively) are as close as you can currently get. Anyway - I just edited the list and added in recent releases by Autopsy, Deathspell Omega, Wolves In The Throne Room and Ludicra which have got a 4.5 or above review. Haha, that Nokturnal Mortum album got 3 stars, good joke. I would really appreciate it if you guys happen to know of recent metal releases rated 4.5 or above that aren't on the list. |
bring Me The HOrizon, winds of plague, stick to your guns, years spent cold
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[QUOTE=Haz;18631408]allmusic isn't too bad, I often end up on there researching albums
an all defining list like this makes it look kind of authoritative and stupid though[/QUOTE] yeah its more organized than last.fm but not as comprehensive of underground badns |
I'm gonna guess the Machine Head album is The Blackening, with Unto the Locust set to join that.
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[url]http://www.allmusic.com/album/r15110[/url]
attention threadstarter first post needs to be updated to include Pestilence |
r.e. the guy who suggested pestilence - preferably i'd like modern metal bands to be on this list (2000's onwards).
Hence bands like Metallica and Black Sabbath are not on the list even though they definitely got multiple 4.5+ rated albums |
bump to add 'Priestess' due to their album 'Hello Master'
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Bump to say that Mastadon's 'Leviathan' has been upgraded in its allmusic score and is now one of the 2 metal albums (I'm aware of) to get the full 5 out of 5 stars in the last decade.
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That just did they did to make Mastodon feel better about the fact everything since Leviathan was shit.
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3rd Feb 2012 bump
added Turisas, Altar Of Plagues, Hate Eternal and Loss to the list. ...I don't give up do I? |
this proves that i listen to shitty music
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