Average Rating: 3.70 Rating Variance: 0.76 Objectivity Score: 72% (Fairly Balanced)
Sort by: Rating | Release Date | Rating Date | Name5.0 classicAnathema We're Here Because We're HereAtheist ElementsBetween the Buried and Me ColorsCynic FocusCynic Traced in AirDaft Punk DiscoveryDaft Punk Alive 2007Daft Punk Random Access Memories4.5 superbA Perfect Circle Thirteenth StepAnathema A Natural DisasterAnathema HindsightBaroness Blue RecordBetween the Buried and Me The Anatomy OfDaft Punk HomeworkMastodon Crack the SkyePink Floyd The Dark Side of the MoonShadow Gallery Room VJust had to write in great favour of this album. Comfort Me is one of the defining emotional and melodic highlights where its motif is revisted nicely in Lamentia. Birth of a Daughter and Death of a Mother are 2 minute instrumentals that pair together very well. Torn has a great main guitar line and the song, especially in its closing moments, conveys the singer's emotional difficulties very well. Rain is a heavier point in the album and has great sections instrumentally, although it is hampered slightly by its rather obscure vocal work, notably too much time spent in the higher ranges. The album on its own is a 4.0 work - excellent, but still with a number of faults. The bonus disc is what sets this apart from the pack, if only for the epic 24-minute behemoth. Floydian Memories is one of the greatest things I've ever heard, even in the scope of progressive metal epics. Although it is a cover of multiple Pink Floyd songs, the transitions from one section to another is so seamless and clean that Shadow Gallery has made the piece their own. Highlights within it include its movement from Julia Dream's chorus to Comfortably Numb's solo, the vocal harmonizations in "Goodbye Blue Sky", and transforming sections of "Point me to the Sky" and "Your Possible Pasts" into something, well, listenable. If you're a fan of the peerless Pink Floyd, you owe it to yourself to download Floydian Memories if not this entire album. Sigur Ros Med Sud i Eyrum vid Spilum EndalaustSilverchair Diorama4.0 excellent54-40 Dear DearGreat band, somewhat forgotten but they have the formula down pat.Cynic Carbon-Based AnatomyHawksley Workman Lover/FighterISIS OceanicISIS PanopticonMr. Bungle CaliforniaNirvana Live at ReadingReally brings the songs back to life, excellent show and I concur... Kurt at his peak herePortishead ThirdSecret Chiefs 3 Xaphan: Book of Angels Volume 9While not quite the sequel to "Book of Horizons", there's enough diversity in the material to live up to the last album. I don't know anything about Zorn, but if he had a part in this I'd check his work out for sure. The intro to "Akramachamarei" is one of the most ear-pleasing moments on the album, as is the funky bass intro on Balberith.Secret Chiefs 3 TraditionalistsThe Cooper Temple Clause See This Through And LeaveThrice The Alchemy Index Vols. III & IV3.5 greatBurst Lazarus BirdCynic Kindly Bent to Free UsHawksley Workman Between the BeautifulsJustice †N.E.R.D. Seeing SoundsThe Cooper Temple Clause Kick up the fire.....The Roots Rising Down3.0 goodA Perfect Circle eMOTIVeAtheist JupiterAtmosphere When Life Gives You Lemons...Bloodbath The Fathomless MasteryCynic Re-TracedDaft Punk Tron: LegacyGates of Winter Lux AeternaOpeth WatershedProtest the Hero FortressPuscifer "V" Is For VaginaThe Cooper Temple Clause Make This Your OwnThe Fall of Troy Phantom on the HorizonThursday Common Existence2.5 averageDaft Punk Human After AllDaft Punk Tron Legacy: ReconfiguredISIS Wavering RadiantThis is in no way better than the new Mastodon, which effectively saved the band from their post-Blood Mountain letdown. This pushes no boundaries and goes nowhere new. I'll need to give it a few more listens but as a HUGE fan of Panopticon and Oceanic, this is a let down. Even In the Absence of Truth had some good moments.Metallica Death MagneticScar Symmetry Holographic UniverseThin Lizzy Live and DangerousUnderoath Lost in the Sound of Separation1.0 awfulAvenged Sevenfold Avenged Sevenfold
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