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5 classic

Bandits of the Acoustic Revolution A Call To Arms

Bathory Blood Fire Death

Blind Guardian Nightfall in Middle-Earth

Dio Holy Diver

Judas Priest Painkiller

Mercyful Fate Melissa

Slough Feg Traveller

Tarot Suffer Our Pleasures

The Clash London Calling

4.5 superb

After Forever After Forever

Armored Saint March of the Saint

Candlemass Candlemass

Celtic Frost Into the Pandemonium

Danzig Danzig II: Lucifuge

Dungeon One Step Beyond

Green Day Dookie

Heaven and Hell The Devil You Know

Iced Earth Horror Show

Kamelot The Black Halo

Lost Horizon A Flame To The Ground Beneath

Misfits American Psycho

Running Wild Black Hand Inn

Rusted Root When I Woke

Savatage The Hall Of The Mountain King

Savatage Gutter Ballet

Savatage The Wake Of Magellan

The Hippos Heads Are Gonna Roll

The Seatbelts Cowboy Bebop OST

Warren Zevon Genius

Wuthering Heights Far from the Madding Crowd

4 excellent

69 Eyes Devils

Alestorm Captain Morgan's Revenge

Anders Manga Welcome to the Horror Show

Atmosphere Seven's Travels

Candlemass King of the Grey Islands

Danzig Danzig

Darkest of the Hillside Thickets Cthulhu Strikes Back

Michale Graves Punk Rock Is Dead

Modest Mouse The Moon & Antarctica

Nightwish Once

Savatage Streets: A Rock Opera

Savatage Dead Winter Dead

The Atomic Bitchwax The Atomic Bitchwax

3.5 great

Avenged Sevenfold City of Evil

Abandoning the metalcore approach they started with, Avenged Sevenfold have taken more influences from hard rock and classic metal on City of Evil. The album is much more melodic than anything they've ever done and uses epic song structures frequently. Though the band is still working on fitting into this new direction, particularly vocalist M Shadows who is still growing into his actual competency (as opposed to the previous albums where he had no training whatsoever), they do show great promise with catchy hooks, clever songwriting, and blazingly melodic solos and harmonized leads.

Cathedral Hopkins (The Witchfinder General)

Green Day American Idiot

Green Day are getting a lot of flack lately. Terms like "sellouts" and "bandwagon jumpers" are being tossed around more than condoms at a coed frat party. All because of American Idiot. Though hardly their best album, it is still entertaining, and the concept isn't nearly as political as people seem to believe it is. American Idiot is a hook-filled, catchy, sing-along pop-punk album with a slightly different approach to songwriting than on the band's previous albums, as well as the same sort of snide social commentary they've built their whole careers on. Take it for what it is: a good album that's been unnecessarily demonized because of the oversaturation on the radio.

Human Fortress Defenders of the Crown

Iced Earth The Glorious Burden

Nightwish Dark Passion Play

The Forces Of Evil Friend or FOE?

A vast improvement over Reel Big Fish, the vocalist of said band has formed a catchy, balls-to-the-wall ska band that seems to care only about having fun. Naturally, you don't look for deep lyrics as there aren't any. The musicianship is high quality, though the album is marred by a couple of filler tracks that break the pace.

The Network Money Money 2020

3 good

3 Inches of Blood Advance and Vanquish

Beyond Fear Beyond Fear

Dir en grey THE MARROW OF A BONE [LIMITED EDITION]

Dir en grey The Marrow of a Bone

Dir en Grey occupy an interesting niche in J-rock, and Marrow of a Bone have pursued the metal/metalcore influences further than ever. The music is more punishing than on any previous release, and lead vocalist Kyo delivers a large pallette of harsh vocal styles, even going so far as to deliberately do it the wrong way to achieve a few seconds of a specific tone. This obsession with heaviness is the album's weak point, and it lacks much of the tact and subtle touches that made the previous album, Withering to Death such a great record. To sum up, not a bad album, but far from being Dir en Grey's best.

Human Fortress Lord of Earth and Heavens Heir

My Chemical Romance The Black Parade

2.5 average

Green Day 21st Century Breakdown

2 poor

Metallica Master of Puppets

Arguably the most overrated album in history, Master of Puppets is a parody of itself. The riffs are standard fair for a thrash/speed band. The songwriting is nothing special and gets rather predictable. Hetfield's voice is the most aggravating noise in the world since Chris Tucker's whine. The oft-praised Cliff Burton doesn't really do anything that impressive. And yes, I listened to Orion, but didn't understand what the big deal was. And I think we're all in agreement that in lack of talent, Lars is only surpassed by Meg White. In short, this is an over-hyped "right album, right time" deal that was already surpassed by its contemporaries and was swiftly left in the dust only a few short years later.

1.5 very poor

Iced Earth The Crucible of Man

Trivium Ascendancy

1 awful

Human Fortress Eternal Empire