The Casket Lottery Survival Is For Cowards
4.0
06.16.17
Ulver The Assassination of Julius Caesar
4.5
04.17.17
Failure Fantastic Planet
5.0
04.05.16
Blind Guardian Beyond the Red Mirror
I've got to say, I never thought they would run out of killer riffs and epic vocals, but so much of this album feels tired. Every album since Nightfall has sounded a little more recycled but this just feels absolutely uninspired. As some have noted, the production is a huge factor. Like Metallica, a band this big shouldn't be having any audio engineering issues, but the production on this is anemic and doesn't serve the style well. Either way, the songs themselves don't shine, Nightfall or Imaginations didn't have A+ production but still rocked hard. Definitely not indicative of a 5 year wait....they should have had killer material devel
3.0
02.01.15
Sleepytime Gorilla Museum Of Natural History
4.5
09.17.14
Satariel White Ink: Chapter One
4.0
08.28.14
Opeth Pale Communion
2.5 is average. That is a perfect way to describe this album. I love 70's hard rock, I love prog, I love the way that Opeth could incorporate that into death metal. It was unique. They are no longer unique, they are 'pale' imitations of the music they love. This is not stylistically creative in the least. Aping the sound of a certain style or band is not creativity, it is plagiarism. They have now 'tuned-up' their guitars, gone for retro-sounding production, and want so bad to included in the 'prog-club'. Mikael Akerfeldt simply doesn't have the chops vocally to make this even remotely interesting. As so many people have already com
2.5
08.13.14
Jeremy Enigk World Waits
4.0
05.18.14