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5.0 classic
Alien Kids Alien Rap - Songs About Life on the Planet Glumph
A timeless classic in the world of hip hop. There are albums like Illmatic, and then there are true masterpieces transcending space and time like Alien Rap - Songs About Life on the Planet Glumph.
Atheist Unquestionable Presence
Prepare to be riffed to death, with sublime performances from the whole band to match.
Black Sabbath Paranoid
Black Sabbath Sabotage
Coroner Mental Vortex
The magnum opus of Coroner's career, and undoubtedly one of the best metal albums of all time, let alone the 90s.
Coroner Grin
This album has a punishing, unique groove to it. It mostly doesn't thrash like their previous albums at all, but it instead builds upon the hints of an unsettling atmosphere glimpsed at in No More Color and Mental Vortex. This album packs a ton of atmosphere actually, from its strange percussive intro to the ambient droning interlude to the various sound effects and movie samples utilized. They even utilize electric sitars and female backing vocals sometimes. (The latter was done on Mental Vortex, but that was a Beatles cover, so...) The final track, Host, is stunning in how eerie it manages to be, and is a fantastic display of Coroner's capabilities beyond simply thrash metal. With its experimental nature, long songs, and occasional odd time signatures, I'd classify this as a progressive metal album with some serious bite. With Tommy T. Baron's fantastic guitar work (stellar riffs and amazing leads abound), Marquis Marky's excellent drumming and lyrics (which are quite thoughtful and really compliment the album's dark atmosphere), and Ron Royce's best vocal performance (and best bass performance, for that matter), this album is a criminally underlooked masterpiece. Truly ahead of its time.
Daniel Johnston Hi, How Are You
It's interesting to me that people compare Daniel Johnston with Wesley Willis, or say that he's only known because of his mental health issues, or say that this album sucks musically. Even if Daniel didn't have an incredible life story, this would still be a phenomenal album with amazing, relatable lyrics, lots of variety (which makes for a very interesting listen), and fantastically flowing, very catchy songwriting. My favorite Daniel Johnston album. Lucky stars, in your eyes~
Death Human
Death takes a massive leap in quality. With this and The Sound of Perseverance, Chuck Schuldiner has created at least two definite masterpieces. You will be missed, buddy.
Death The Sound of Perseverance
Complete masterpiece, and the pinnacle of Chuck Schuldiner's career. Featuring some clean vocals in the Painkiller cover!
Death (USA-MI) ...For the Whole World to See
Holy shit. Can I really say anything else? This is absolutely amazing, yet the band slipped through the cracks because they stuck to their guns and refused to change their name back in the day. Everything from ragers like Rock'n'Roll Victim to the melodic Let the World Turn rules. Let there be death! 3.9 average my ass...
Descendents Milo Goes to College
Doom (JPN) Killing Field
One of this band's very best works, with some of their craziest material.
Gary Glitter I've Got Sweets
Holocaust (UK) Hypnosis of Birds
Jericho Jericho
Johann Sebastian Bach Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 565
John Williams Star Wars, Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back
Keiichi Suzuki and Hirokazu Tanaka Earthbound
One of the best and most unique video game OSTs ever.
King Crimson Red
King Crimson In the Court of the Crimson King
Komar, Melamid and Dave Soldier People's Choice Music
CHRISTMASTIIIIIIIME, CHRISTMASTIIIIIIME, DOOO ALL YOUR SHOPPIIIING...AT WAL-MART!
Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin IV
Led Zeppelin Houses of the Holy
Megadeth Rust in Peace
Metallica ...And Justice for All
Almost the best Metallica album, and one of my favorites of all time. Lars is at the top of his game, James sounds fucking pissed, the riffs are great and heavy, the solos are the absolute best in the band's history, and the songwriting tends to be more progressive than ever before for Metallica, featuring longer songs with the occasional tempo change. Blackened features some megaton riffs and might be close to my favorite Metallica song, One was the band's first "big hit" and is the best "ballad" they've ever written (Sorry, Fade to Black), and The Frayed Ends of Sanity was so complex, they didn't play it live until twenty six years after its release! ...And Justice For All could be considered the ultimate culmination of everything great about Metallica back then; a keen eye for melody, heaviness, and talented songwriting and performances. Metallica will never again release an album of this quality.
Metallica Master of Puppets
A slightly more mature album than Ride the Lightning, but very similar in style and structure to that one. I prefer RtL, but this still contains some of Metallica's very best material and showcases their knack for catchiness, heaviness, and good songwriting.
Metallica Kill 'Em All
The rawest and least polished of Metallica's golden '80s quadrilogy, Kill 'Em All is a badass debut LP that pioneered the thrash metal movement. There's quite a bit of variety here; you've got raw, speedy numbers like Hit the Lights, Motorbreath, Whiplash, and Metal Militia. Other songs, like The Four Horsemen or Seek and Destroy, are lengthy metal epics that hint at the direction their music would soon take. Jump In the Fire fits into neither of these categories, but the riffage is unbelievably fun and catchy. No Remorse is the best song on here, if only because of the earth-shattering heaviness achieved as James shouts "ATTAAAACK!" and the music ramps up to mach five. It's not a super-godly kickass masterpiece like their other 80s albums, but it's a fantastic listen nonetheless.
Metallica Ride the Lightning
Ride the Lightning is the true blueprint to Metallica's standard '80s sound. There's viciousness on display with Fight Fire With Fire and Trapped Under Ice, as well as similarly lethal but more pummeling and slow than slicing and speedy tracks like For Whom the Bell Tolls, which is one of the band's most well known songs, or Creeping Death, which features a fucking amazing midsection. The ambitious thrash quartet expands their musical palette in other ways, too. Escape features a catchy chorus, but a crushing enough midsection to keep it metal. Fade to Black, the band's first ballad, showcased their songwriting strengths at more than just thrashy mayhem. Definitely one of Metallica's greatest albums, and the first in a trio of absolute classics of not just thrash metal, or even heavy metal, but maybe the entire harder edge of rock music as a whole.
Mount Eerie A Crow Looked At Me
Nick Drake Pink Moon
Nobuo Uematsu Final Fantasy VII: Original Soundtrack
It really shows how great Nobuo Uematsu is that this isn't even his best score, yet it's still worthy of a 5.
Nobuo Uematsu Final Fantasy VI: Original Soundtrack
People often talk about how Final Fantasy VII has one of the greatest video game soundtracks ever. Hell, I distinctly remember it being voted as having the best game soundtrack of all time on a show on G4 around ten or so years ago. But this stuff is, quite simply, Nobuo Uematsu's finest work. I especially love how the overworld and airship themes match their respective worlds. In the World of Balance, the overworld theme reflects perseverance as the Returners do battle against the Empire. The airship theme evokes flying freely through the sky. In the World of Ruin, the overworld theme reflects the bleakness and despair of the desolate, dying world around you. The airship theme here sounds like the last remaining beacon of hope in a dying landscape as our heroes resist the world's new ruler, Kefka. Awakening evokes feelings of solitude, reflecting Terra's struggle of self-discovery. I could go on, but the point is that this is masterfully composed and memorable stuff that evokes a wide range of emotions and styles.
Pink Floyd The Dark Side of the Moon
Rush 2112
Rush Hemispheres
Rush Moving Pictures
Sabbat The Dwelling
Simply incredible. Total creativity and evil atmosphere and passionate performance from beginning to end.
Stereolab Dots and Loops
Swans The Great Annihilator
Swans Soundtracks for the Blind
The Beach Boys Pet Sounds
The Beach Boys The Smile Sessions
Thought Industry Mods Carve the Pig
This album is fucking crazy, even more than their previous one. And if you've heard Songs for Insects, you'll know that's a hell of an accomplishment.
Toxik Think This
Catchy, uber technical, and more than headbangable, Toxik's Think This is a progressive thrash album that'll leave your pants soaked with semen and/or vaginal fluids for days. Thrash out to Spontaneous, wrap your head around Technical Arrogance's complexity, never forget the mega memorable chorus to Machine Dream, or check out the amazing power ballad There Stood the Fence. And not only is the music good, but it's all (mostly) held together by the concept of society and the media, and the way the media reinforces things in society, and the occasional hypocrisy presented by society/the media's messages...and stuff. This framework is brilliantly reinforced through the use of ads. For example, "Shotgun Logic", about substance abuse/addiction, begins with the classic "This is your brain on drugs" ad, followed by a beer commercial, showing our culture's clashing attitudes on things like drugs and alcohol. Another song, "Machine Dream", is about how advertisements reinforce certain beliefs about body image and self worth. A cookie commercial is played, followed by the sounds of one of those old fashioned exercise tapes, to demonstrate the innate hypocrisy of the advertisements you see and hear on TV and the radio...and stuff. With lyrics that are (mostly) still relevant today and music that'll ALWAYS rip, Toxik's sophomore album is a classic for any fan of thrash or progressive metal.

^I wrote this in high school and while it's pretty stupid, everything I said about how good this is remains completely true.
Vektor Terminal Redux
I'll remember this as one of my greatest ever listening experiences for the rest of my life. Fucking phenomenal.
Voivod Dimension Hatröss
Here we have a concept album narrating the exploits of the Voivod. (The full plot's explained in the Nothingface press kit, which you can find via Google) Here, Snake actually sings instead of shouting, and the songwriting begins to lean more towards the progressive end of the "progressive thrash" label. But there are still fast and loud moments to be found. More importantly, though, is that there are enough impressive and memorable moments here for me to christen this Voivod's best album, since they possess an ability to be both technical and at times crushing.
Voivod Nothingface
Voivod Angel Rat
Angel Rat isn't exactly a metal album (Despite what impression Panorama or maybe the opening five seconds to The Outcast might give you), but it is a very cool alternative-ish progressive rock album. Catchy, unique, atmospheric, and with eccentric lyrics that touch on a variety of themes (including some social commentary), the psychedelic and sometimes mellow vibe this album creates makes it a vastly different listen than anything they'd put out before, with little aggression or complicated and wonky proggy passages, but if you're in the right mood for it, it's nonetheless a very good listen that'll suck you right in.
Yes Close to the Edge

4.5 superb
A Forest of Stars Beware the Sword You Cannot See
I feel I may be overrating this just a bit, but I really do dig the melodic sensibilities on here and overall vibe. A great listen!
Alice in Chains Dirt
Alice in Chains Jar of Flies
Alice in Chains MTV Unplugged
Amesoeurs Amesoeurs
A cool, unique album. Post-punk, black metal, shoegaze, all come together for great music!
Annihilator Alice in Hell
Gets kinda samey, but Alison Hell totally rules, and when the band starts thrashing, they kick fucking ass! The riffs truly burn like a buzzsaw blade.
Anthrax Spreading the Disease
Anthrax Among the Living
Artillery By Inheritance
Aspid Extravasation
Brutal, technical, and awesome Russian thrash! A little cheesy sometimes, but that's part of the fun. AVOID THE REMASTERED CD EDITION AT ALL COSTS! It's pitched up and made faster...sounds really dumb.
Believer Dimensions
Badass Christian prog/thrash (yep.) with a very tight and technical feel, mostly lacking in the band's typical speedy assault but sprinkled with bits of atmosphere, dissonant guitar work, and symphonic experimentation, culminating in the epic four-part suite Trilogy of Knowledge (that might not make sense, but the first part is an intro, so you could still call it a three-part composition), which impressively meshes the band's technical metal style showcased on this album with a string section and a soprano singer! Highly recommended for those looking for some heavy old-school tech metal.
Black Sabbath Black Sabbath
Black Sabbath Heaven and Hell
Black Sabbath Master of Reality
Black Sabbath Sabbath Bloody Sabbath
Boris Flood
Brian Wilson Smile
Candlemass Nightfall
Hard, unstoppable, crushing RIFFS, but with a fair bit of dynamics to even things out, with some awesome instrumental interludes and AMAZING vocals from Messiah Marcolin. I might just 5 this shit.
Candlemass Epicus Doomicus Metallicus
Captain Beyond Captain Beyond
Carcass Necroticism: Descanting the Insalubrious
Carcass Heartwork
Childish Gambino "Awaken, My Love!"
Coroner No More Color
For my money, this is when Coroner truly became a badass fucking band.
Cynic Focus
Daniel Johnston Don't Be Scared
This album will destroy you. Essential sadcore, as is Hi, How Are You and 1990.
Daniel Johnston 1990
If you're in the right mood, you WILL cry at Careless Soul. If you're in that mood and you've ever been through a rough breakup or had to get over unrequited love, you'll cry harder at Some Things Last A Long Time.
Daniel Johnston Retired Boxer
The recording quality is even lower than Daniel's other cassette tapes, which is a shame because the music is really, really good. Emotionally heavy and often quite beautiful, this is definitely one of his best.
David Bowie "Heroes"
David Bowie The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars
David Bowie Aladdin Sane
David Bowie Station to Station
David Bowie Low
David Bowie Blackstar
Dead Kennedys In God We Trust, Inc.
The Dead Kennedys rev up to full speed here, in tribute to the Washington DC hardcore punk scene. This is the Dead Kennedys' most traditionally "hardcore" release. The lyrics are biting (literally on one track...hey, that was a little clever) and displaying as excellent a sense of satire as ever. We've Got A Bigger Problem Now is possibly my favorite Dead Kennedys song, switching between lounge jazz and a fantastic intense remake of California Uber Alles, only this time they're after Ronald Reagan instead of Jerry Brown. Cool EP, though you're more likely to find it with Plastic Surgery Disasters nowadays.
Dead Kennedys Plastic Surgery Disasters
Dead Kennedys Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables
Deafheaven Sunbather
Death Individual Thought Patterns
Maybe, just maybe, there's almost a little too much going on per song at certain points...but not usually. Kicks ass.
Death Spiritual Healing
People call this Death's worst album? This is my favorite pre-Human Death release! Side note: the snare sound reminds me of Beneath the Remains.
Death Symbolic
Imagine how ballin this could've been with Tim Aymar (Control Denied) on vocals
Death Grips Exmilitary
Deathrow Deception Ignored
Excellent German tech thrash with a Joey Belladonna soundalike on vocals (until Bureaucrazy)? Sure, why not. This whole album is an underrated masterpiece, but Triocton and Narcotic are particularly amazing songs.
Deep Turtle There's a Vomitsprinkler in My Liverriver
Deftones White Pony
Devastation Idolatry
Devin Townsend Ziltoid the Omniscient
Devin Townsend Ocean Machine: Biomech
Diamond Head Lightning to the Nations
Die Kreuzen Century Days
Another departure for Die Kreuzen, this one seems to pretty much entirely ditch their hardcore punk roots but is instead a very interesting, layered alternative rock album.
Doom (JPN) Complicated Mind
I highly recommend this album to Coroner fans, especially those that appreciate that band's "artsier" side. So many good riffs on this thing. The second song in particular is amazing.
Doom (JPN) Human Noise
Damn, this rules. This band is underrated and overlooked, but somehow this album is underrated and overlooked even in the context of this band. Great production, heavy as fuck, proggy as fuck, amazing performances all around.
Dream Theater Images and Words
Dream Theater Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes from a Memory
Eminem The Marshall Mathers LP
Exodus Bonded by Blood
The best Exodus album. Every song is chock full of awesome, memorable, and mega heavy riffs. Tends to be mid-paced, but the speedy sections are just as awesome. The tetralogy of Piranha through Strike of the Beast deserves special recognition.
Fishmans Uchuu Nippon Setagaya
Fishmans Long Season
Fishmans 98.12.28 Otokotachi no Wakare
Flotsam and Jetsam No Place for Disgrace
Flower Travellin' Band Satori
Frank Zappa Hot Rats
Frank Zappa Waka/Jawaka
Frank Zappa Apostrophe
GGGOLDDD Why Aren't You Laughing?
Dude how is this not getting a ton of accolades? This is excellent.
Godspeed You! Black Emperor F♯ A♯ ∞
Godspeed You! Black Emperor Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven
Godspeed You! Black Emperor Yanqui U.X.O.
Goldie Timeless
Heathen Victims of Deception
Hive (USA-CA) Devious Methods
3.5 average, huh? I don't even listen to this kind of music much, but this album jams. Dark, atmospheric, pounding, groovy...this album makes me want to buy a subwoofer.
Holocaust (UK) The Sound of Souls
Holocaust (UK) Covenant
Holocaust (UK) The Courage to Be
Husker Du Zen Arcade
Iron Maiden Powerslave
Iron Maiden The Number of the Beast
Iron Maiden Somewhere in Time
Judas Priest Painkiller
This whole album is a masterpiece of incredibly intense fucking METAL incarnate. Possibly their best effort.
Judas Priest Sad Wings of Destiny
This album is so amazing, it's like they were chosen by some divine force to steer metal into its next evolving stages, the torch passed from Black Sabbath. Especially since it came out the year after their last masterpiece.
Judas Priest Stained Class
Total fucking masterpiece, damn close to being the traditional metal album to end all traditional metal albums.
Judas Priest Unleashed in the East
Collection of some of 70s Priest's greatest songs, now with extra intensity! Exciter, Hell Bent For Leather, Delivering the Goods, Victim of Changes, Starbreaker, all classic Priest stompers enhanced with bolder, stronger sounding guitars. Pretty much the only song that isn't in its ultimate form for me is Tyrant because it's lacking the cool backing vocals.
Killing Joke Killing Joke
Killing Joke Night Time
King Crimson Discipline
Koji Kondo Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island
A lot of this game's soundtrack doesn't really sound like Mario music, and it really sounds like there was a good effort taken to make this game's soundtrack feel special. In any case, it's really great; I especially love the innocent yet suitably "tribal" sound of the game's title theme, the mysterious cave music, the surprising final boss theme, and the quite beautiful credits theme. Some of the best stuff on 16 bit hardware!
Koji Kondo The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time OST
Koji Kondo Super Mario 64 Original Soundtrack
Le Mystere Des Voix Bulgares Le Mystere Des Voix Bulgares
Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin III
Led Zeppelin Physical Graffiti
Manic Street Preachers Everything Must Go
Manic Street Preachers The Holy Bible
Manuel Gottsching E2-E4
Megadeth Killing Is My Business... and Business Is Good!
Megadeth Warchest
Megadeth Peace Sells... but Who's Buying?
Meme ちとてとち
A lot of people will click on this out of curiosity out of the goofy name, but hopefully someone who does that checks this album out and sees the beauty it holds. Either this is a really pretty, melancholic little album that I enjoyed a lot, or it being 5AM is kind of messing with my senses. Maybe both?
Michael Jackson Thriller
Michiru Yamane Dracula X: Nocturne in the Moonlight OST
Fantastic and varied soundtrack. Castlevania: Symphony of the Night carries a series tradition (At the time, at least; I haven't played a Castlevania game more recent than it) of having great music.
Minor Threat Complete Discography
Motorhead Overkill
Mr. Bungle California
Naked City Naked City
I don't think I've ever heard anything quite like this before. It's pretty amazing, and VERY unhinged. Some of the sax squealing stuff gets annoying, and some of the really fast stuff just kind of blurs together, but when this album's good it's pretty damn great. The soft parts are beautiful, and the louder parts are energetic as hell! If there's one thing I could definitely say about this album, it's that it's very original.
Neutral Milk Hotel In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
Recommended to me by a friend that believes the hype. After a few listens, it's safe to say I do too. I kinda hated Jeff's voice at first, but then I got used to it.
Nick Drake Bryter Layter
Nirvana Bleach
NoMeansNo Wrong
Opeth Morningrise
Opeth Blackwater Park
Opeth Still Life
Oranssi Pazuzu Värähtelijä
Paradox Heresy
This thing riffs like a beast, has great vocals to match, and it's a concept album about the crusades! How dope is that? Recommended to all thrash metal fans.
Pentagram Pentagram
Pink Floyd Meddle
Pink Floyd Wish You Were Here
Pink Floyd Animals
Queensryche Operation: Mindcrime
Radiohead Hail to the Thief
Radiohead Kid A
Revocation Chaos of Forms
Original, interesting, and fucking awesome! Great album.
Rush Signals
Rush Grace Under Pressure
Rush A Farewell to Kings
Rush Permanent Waves
Savatage Hall of the Mountain King
Sepultura Schizophrenia
Riff potpourri! This album spits out so many fucking riffs...not a bad song on here.
Sigh Imaginary Sonicscape
Sir Lord Baltimore Kingdom Come
The performances on this album are just FULL of energy! This is some very early heavy metal that ain't afraid to kick your ass remarkably hard for 1970.
Slayer Hell Awaits
Fucking evil! This album was the first full LP to showcase the brutality that Slayer were truly capable of. This album's murky and fucking venomous as hell. It's interesting how long the songs are here, too, especially considering that they'd trade this occasionally more progressive approach for a more raw and stripped down one next time around.
Slayer Reign in Blood
Reign in Blood has Angel of Death and Raining Blood, which must mean it's their best album, right? Well, Reign in Blood is actually quite overrated. It's by no means bad; every song is at least enjoyable to some extent. But it's not the magnum opus many claim it to be, because of one reason. The first and last songs aren't better than the rest just because they have the best riffs; they're the most developed. Criminally Insane, Epidemic, and Postmortem are the only other songs that there's something to them over than "cool and brutal fast riffs, maybe a tempo change". But there still isn't really a "bad" song here; digested as an album, it's still great. The songs are just better developed on their other albums from Hell Awaits to Seasons in the Abyss.
Sonic Youth Daydream Nation
Sonic Youth Goo
Soundtrack (Video Game) Super Metroid
Stereolab Switched On
Stereolab Margerine Eclipse
Stereolab Transient Random-Noise Bursts with Announcements
Stereolab Emperor Tomato Ketchup
Stereolab Cobra and Phases Group Play Voltage in the Milky Night
Stereolab Sound-Dust
Stormtroopers of Death Speak English or Die
Chock-full of riffs, speed, awesome mosh sections, and hilariously offensive lyrics. If you're easily offended or don't like short songs, go ahead and pass.
Strapping Young Lad City
Swans Children of God
Swans White Light From the Mouth of Infinity
Swans The Seer
Symphony X The Divine Wings of Tragedy
A hell of an album. I don't know how they went from their debut to THIS in just three years, but they did. You like prog metal? You like power metal? Hell, you like ANY kind of metal? Listen to this!
System of a Down Mezmerize
T.S.O.L. Dance With Me
T2 It'll All Work Out in Boomland
Testament The Gathering
Testament bounces back and releases their best album since The New Order. By the way, this sounds pretty much nothing like that oft-atmospheric and melodic record. Rather, The Gathering is an all-out brutal assault, with plenty of death metal influences mixed with badass riffage and obvious thrashy moments. DNR and Fall of Sipledome are unmistakably brutal thrash, while Legions of the Dead is more death metal inspired. The Gathering was Testament's most consistent album in a long time, and the second in a row to feature a legendary metal drummer behind the kit; Demonic had Gene Hoglan, while this album has Dave Lombardo. I'm sure this would have led to an awesome comeback if it weren't for Chuck Billy falling ill with cancer soon after.
Testament The New Order
Here, Testament slows down just a bit and tries to sound more dynamic and atmospheric, and they pull it off pretty damned well. With all-time classics like Trial By Fire, Into the Pit, and A Day of Reckoning, The New Order is an awesome melodic thrash record, and my personal favorite release of theirs.
Testament The Legacy
Dated production can't cripple this thrash metal monster. Testament is a consistent band, but they don't manage to match this fantastic album album often, though they would surpass it just a year later.
The Beach Boys Surf's Up
The Beatles Revolver
The Beatles Abbey Road
The Cure The Head on the Door
The Dismemberment Plan Emergency & I
The Microphones The Glow Pt. 2
The Mothers of Invention We're Only in It for the Money
The Mothers of Invention Over-Nite Sensation
The Stooges Raw Power
The Third Eye Foundation Semtex
The first four songs are INCREDIBLE music, insane blasts of mix of noisy drum n bass and shoegaze. The combination of rhythmic pulse and atmosphere is nuts. The latter two tracks are overlong and not nearly as impressive but they sure do bring in the atmosphere.
Vektor Outer Isolation
Voivod Angel Rat Sampler
I like the remix of Clouds in My House better. I also generally prefer the remix of The Prow, although I'd prefer the organ in The Prow to be louder like on the album. The other two songs are great.
Voivod Killing Technology
"WE ARE CONNECTED." Thus begins Voivod's golden age. Killing Technology is aggressive and raw, with Snake still shouting hard into the mic, but here they begin to dip into more inspired, progressive territory. Just check out the rhythms near the end of the opening title track to see what I'm talking about. This is where Voivod really started to embrace sci-fi themes more, add new layers of technicality, and overall become the band that most people think of when they think "Voivod". Killing Technology is challenging and difficult stuff; this isn't some cliche thrash album with typical E-tuned chugga-chugga riffage, not at all. This album really brims with great ideas, from the angular and dissonant riffs driving most parts of the songs, to the more distinctly memorable moments like a great number of riffs in the opener, the fucking evil moment at about 3:24 in Overreaction, the great chorus to Tornado, or that impressively fast section starting at around 1:53 in Order of the Blackguards. A special highlight (and a serious contender with the previously mentioned rhythms later on in the opening title track) would be that one MONSTER riff in This Is Not An Exercise that plays for the first time almost a minute in. And I haven't even brought up Ravenous Medicine, which is one of my favorite Voivod songs ever. Even the sound is better than before, with raw yet competent production and a guitar tone that actually allows for some more legible riffs. Great fucking album.
Voivod The Outer Limits
The Outer Limits is Voivod's return to having a bit of an aggressive edge to their music. It's nowhere near as aggressive as their first three albums; Snake's still singing (His vocal performance is very strong, by the way), and I can only recall one brief fast/thrashy section off the top of my head. But just listening to the introduction to Fix My Heart, you know they were trying to be a bit more hard-edged. Whatever wider things you want to say about this album's aggressiveness or whatever don't really matter as much as the fact that this is another solid release from Voivod. Most of these songs are pretty damn good. But then there's Jack Luminous, which kicks so much ass and is one of the greatest musical accomplishments in Voivod's long career. There are dark and atmospheric passages, more raw and aggressive passages, and seemingly gentle and serene passages...that soon become eerie, of course. Since the album has Jack Luminous, as well as fantastic production, a ripping opener, and a string of consistently great tracks other than those two highlights, it's worthy of being considered a quality Voivod release.
Voivod Post Society
Watchtower Control and Resistance
Fucking awesome thrash-tinged jazz metal. Songs are awesome, lyrics rule, production is great, and fantastic performances from everybody. And yes, I'm including Tecchio. Gotta love those old school screeches!
X Japan Art of Life
Yes Going for the One
Yes Time and a Word
Yes The Yes Album
Yes Fragile

4.0 excellent
Acid Bath When the Kite String Pops
Adolescents Adolescents
Agalloch The Mantle
Might bump this up to 4.5 sometime because there are some amazing moments, but sometimes it feels kind of boring and padded out.
Agent Orange Living in Darkness
Alice in Chains Facelift
Alice in Chains Alice in Chains
Amesoeurs Ruines Humaines
Amon Tobin Permutation
Anacrusis Manic Impressions
Anacrusis Screams and Whispers
Anal Cunt Howard is Bald
By far the best and funniest album in Anal Cunt's repertoire. It would've been nice if they were to have continued with this lighthearted, goofier style of humor with lots of musical homages. (Happy 300th rating, me!)
Anal Cunt Picnic of Love
Anal Cunt, the band behind tracks like "Hitler Was A Sensitive Man", "I Sent Concentration Camp Footage To America's Funniest Home Videos", "I Lit Your Baby On Fire", and "I Respect Your Feelings as a Woman and as a Human"
Annihilator Never, Neverland
Coburn Pharr has a cool name but his name and vocals both pale in comparison to Randy Rampage. He does a fine job as a replacement though. This one's a little less intense than the classic Alice in Hell, but it's still great in its own right.
Annihilator Phantasmagoria
This demo's pretty cool, because Jeff Waters is on the mic doing some proto death growls. This makes for an rather nteresting alternate way to experience the three songs on this EP that would go on to make it to Annihilator's first two studio albums. The first song's alright too.
Anthrax Worship Music
Anthrax State of Euphoria
Anthrax Persistence of Time
The final album of Anthrax's glory years, and the last until 2011 to feature their best vocalist, Joey Belladonna. Darker, heavier, and more complex than any of their previous releases. Some songs drag on a bit, though, and that's coming from someone who doesn't mind long songs at all. Highlights include Time, Blood, H8 Red, and One Man Stands.
Anthrax Sound of White Noise
Aphex Twin Digeridoo
Aphex Twin Selected Ambient Works 85-92
Aphex Twin Selected Ambient Works Volume II
Aphex Twin Richard D. James Album
Aphex Twin Windowlicker
Aphex Twin Analord 10
Arcturus The Sham Mirrors
Armored Saint Symbol of Salvation
Atheist Elements
Different from Unquestionable Presence, but terrific in its own right. The production is not good though.
Bad Brains Bad Brains
Bad Brains Rock For Light
Bad Religion Suffer
Bad Religion Back to the Known
Bathory Blood Fire Death
Bathory Hammerheart
Believer Sanity Obscure
Nonpoint and especially Dies Irae are fucking AWESOME. Pretty much everything else thrashes hard too. Someone please review!
Beth Gibbons and Rustin Man Out Of Season
Big Star 3rd
Bjork Post
Bjork Homogenic
Bjork Vespertine
Bjork Medulla
Black Flag Damaged
Black Sabbath Vol. 4
Blind Illusion The Sane Asylum
Bobby Prince Doom
Featuring MIDI ripoffs of D.R.I.'s "Hooked", Slayer's "Behind the Crooked Cross", Pantera's "Mouth For War", and S.O.D.'s "Sargent D and the S.O.D.", with some other, more atmospheric tracks that are still great.
Body Count Body Count
Boris Akuma no Uta
Brian Eno Another Green World
Brian Eno Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy)
Burzum Hvis Lyset Tar Oss
Carbonized Disharmonization
Damn, this is really fucking crazy. So crazy that it sometimes collapses into incoherence, but it can pull itself together long enough for some pretty cool songs, like the first two tracks and Spanish Fly.
Carbonized Screaming Machines
Just a little more subdued than Disharmonization, but still continues down the path of weirdness. I cannot BELIEVE how underrated it is either, there is so much creativity on this album.
Carcass Swansong
Very different for Carcass, but still pretty cool. Childs Play and Room 101 are my favorite cuts.
Cardiacs The Seaside
Cardiacs A Little Man and a House and the Whole World Window
Cardiacs Sing to God
Celtic Frost Morbid Tales
Great album. Would've liked a little more speed, though. Kinda funny how the guitars are all raw and downtuned and cheap sounding but the drums sound all awesome and pristine, exactly how metal drums should sound imo
Celtic Frost To Mega Therion
Chikusyo Death in Life
Children Hard Times Hangin at the End of the World
Christoph De Babalon If You're Into It, I'm Out Of It
Circus Mort Circus Mort
Control Denied The Fragile Art of Existence
This album's a bit of a grower but it's pretty good. Chuck had a good thing going here, RIP.
Crass Penis Envy
Cynic Traced in Air
Cynic '90 Demo
This is brutal as hell, a bit technical in parts too. Awesome production!
Cynic Demo 1991
Very reminiscent of Death's Human, but with a bit of the promise that would blossom into the unique and groundbreaking Focus.
Cynic The Portal Tapes
The thing that makes me happiest about this trippy and generally pretty cool jazz-tinged psychadelic rock from the main dudes in Cynic is that it currently has a 38% average on Metal Archives
D.R.I. Dirty Rotten
Quick and dirty hardcore, not what D.R.I. is best known for but they were great at it. Favorites include I Don't Need Society, Commuter Man, Balance of Terror, Who Am I, Money Stinks, War Crimes, Reaganomics (which is better on Dealing With It), Capitalists Suck, and Blockhead. In the original "Dirty Rotten EP" release, the sides were flipped, resulting in a vastly different track order.
D.R.I. Dealing with It!
D.R.I.'s best hardcore release. This was before they'd released Crossover, so this album is still mostly hardcore punk with only slight tinges of thrash metal. Most songs here are fast and only two songs here are above three minutes, but in general there's a lot more variety than on the Dirty Rotten LP. Highlights include I'd Rather Be Sleeping, Soup Kitchen, Mad Man, Stupid Stupid War, Couch Slouch (Which originates from their Violent Pacification EP), God Is Broke, Karma (which to me is one of the most metallic songs here), Argument Then War, and the re-recordings of The Explorer and Reaganomics.
Daniel Johnston Songs of Pain
"Like a Monkey in a Zoo" brought me to tears. Daniel Johnston is a genius. A genius who deserves a big hug. Gets just a little extra kudos for including Grievances ("The quintessential Daniel Johnston song") and being his first full album.
Daniel Johnston Yip/Jump Music
has some pretty good songs, gets really good towards the end
Daniel Johnston The Lost Recordings
Daniel Johnston Merry Christmas
Dark Angel Darkness Descends
It took a while, but this album eventually grew on me. It's angry, evil, and brutal as all fucking hell, it's the L.A. caffeine machine's most menacing album, it's Darkness Descends! A couple songs could use some improvement (Hunger of the Undead isn't very memorable, and Black Prophecies is a little too long), but for the most part this is solid and fucking EVIL thrash metal.
Dark Angel Time Does Not Heal
Amazing riffage abound! Two big problems though. One, the vocals take some getting used to and are just not great overall. The guy is often off-tune and has very little range in terms of pitch or vowels. Two, the last few songs don't live up to the rest of the album's lofty standards. Also, avoid the "Black Edition" of this, which comes with a couple live bonus tracks, sounds like ass thanks to "remastering"; AKA senseless brickwalling. All that being said, if you're a fan of more extreme thrash metal, get this and Darkness Descends. The last song is about the movie Bambi!
David Bowie Hunky Dory
David Bowie Diamond Dogs
DBC Universe
Dead Kennedys Frankenchrist
Dead Kennedys Bedtime for Democracy
Deafheaven New Bermuda
Deafheaven Roads to Judah
Deafheaven Ordinary Corrupt Human Love
Death Leprosy
Death Scream Bloody Gore
This album from the guy who went on to write songs like Symbolic and Misanthrope uses the word "cunt" nine times on this album. BAPTIZED!!!! IN BLOOOOOOOOD!!!!
Death Angel Act III
Death Angel continues their experimental direction with Act III, their only major label album (With fantastic production to match!), and the last of their albums featuring the original lineup. They do a lot of different things here, from acoustic ballads Veil of Deception and A Room With A View, to top-notch funk metal numbers Discontinued and Stagnant, to more straightforward metal stuff. They don't really thrash very often, which is a little disappointing, but the mighty Seemingly Endless Time, The Organization, and Stop provide some traces of their earlier stuff. To think their sound had come so far in just three years! This would be 4.5 or maybe even 5 worthy if they didn't tragically run out of steam towards the end. After Stagnant comes three tracks that are clearly inferior to the preceding material. Ex-TC has a catchy chorus, but is still probably the worst song here. There isn't much to say about it; it just kinda sucks. Disturbing the Peace takes a bit to get going but is actually pretty good, even if it can't match the first seven songs. Falling Asleep seems like it'll suck as hard as Ex-TC, but a minute and a half in they suddenly come launching through with lots of momentum and great riffs. Chorus is good too! But then they go into this absolutely abysmal section where vocalist Mark Osegueda is chanting "Rock-a-bye baby..." and it doesn't work at all. After that, the song's fine, but the mediocre parts drug down what could've been a decent ending to a pretty good album. Even though it loses steam, Death Angel's third act is still some great stuff.
Death Angel Archives And Artifacts
"The Ultra-Violence" and "Frolic Through The Park" are brickwalled now, but that's not important; what is important is the fancy bonus tracks and disc of old recordings! The included "Kill As One" demo tape was produced by none other than Kirk Hammett! The demo songs on Disc 2 are mostly just alright, but with Silent Killer being fucking great. Disc 3 is hit-or-miss; you've got some interesting stuff like The Morrows Memoirs (Seriously, a really good song. How did this one not make it to an album?), Samson, and Betrayed (Which should have replaced Ex-TC on Act III imo), but then most of the rest of the disc...well, it's easy to see why a lot of these didn't make it to full albums. Still, if you haven't heard The Ultra-Violence or Frolic Through The Park, or just want to hear a bunch of rare demo tracks ranging (in my subjective opinion) from shitty to great, get this box set!
Death Angel The Ultra-Violence
If you want Death Angel at their thrashiest (this is definitely their heaviest album by far), go for The Ultra-Violence. The songwriting can be a little shaky, but there's plenty here for fans of thrash metal, including some great riffs and amazingly shrieky vocals.
Death Breath Stinking Up The Night
Death Grips Death Grips
Death Grips The Money Store
Death Grips No Love Deep Web
Death Grips Steroids (Crouching Tiger Hidden Gabber Megamix)
Deep Purple Deep Purple In Rock
Deep Turtle Flutina
Deftones Deftones
Deftones Saturday Night Wrist
Deftones Koi No Yokan
Demolition Hammer Epidemic of Violence
A bit overrated, but still kicks ass if you're looking for sheer brutality.
Demolition Hammer Tortured Existence
Dennis Wilson Pacific Ocean Blue
Depressive Age First Depression
Devin Townsend Infinity
Devin Townsend Ass-Sordid Demos I
My rating applies to the Spotify verison, which has a totally different track listing than the original issue being detailed here. Those 1991 demos are pretty dang cool and quirky!
Devin Townsend Terria
Devin Townsend Empath
Devin Townsend Project Addicted
Devin Townsend Project Transcendence
Die Kreuzen October File
Die Kreuzen's real breakthrough album, blending their hardcore punk roots (which had already been melded with dissonant riffing) with eerie textures. It's a little slower than their more frantic self titled LP (and their debut EP, Cows and Beer), but it feels heavy in a different way. It even has a fairly soft track, Cool Breeze, layered with pretty acoustic guitars. Very cool record!
Die Kreuzen Die Kreuzen
Die Kreuzen Cows and Beer
Discharge State Violence State Control
Dizzy Mizz Lizzy Dizzy Mizz Lizzy
Doom (JPN) Incompetent...
Doom (JPN) No More Pain
I'm Your Junky Doll and Til Death are pretty damn sick. Intro to Body to Body is stunning too, though the rest of the song doesn't quite live up to it. The rest of the album is pretty good too. It's faster, meaner, and more straightforward than most of their output after that, and it's pretty fucked up and cool too. While it doesn't reach the creative heights of their ensuing work, the raw, untamed energy does hint at amazing things to come for this band, and there are some flashes of brilliance here and there.
Doom (JPN) Doom VI - Illegal Soul
Dream Theater Awake
Dream Theater Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence
If it was just The Glass Prison and then disc 2, it'd be a 4.5
Dream Theater Train of Thought
"The heaviest Dream Theater album" is unfortunately hampered by a non-negligible amount of corny moments, but it is Dream Theater, who traffic in cheese about as much as...uh, Kraft? Awful rapping parts aside, this is another great-but-not-amazing Dream Theater album.
Drexciya Neptune's Lair
Sounds like a Sega Genesis throwing a rave.         ‌        ‌‌‌ ‌ ‌‌‌ ‌ ‌‌
Drive Like Jehu Yank Crime
Edge of Sanity Crimson
Electric Light Orchestra Time
Electric Wizard Come My Fanatics...
Electric Wizard Electric Wizard
Eminem The Slim Shady LP
Eminem The Eminem Show
Emperor In the Nightside Eclipse
Entombed Wolverine Blues
Exhorder Slaughter in the Vatican
Exodus Tempo of the Damned
These corny lyrics are the shit man. You tell em Zetro.
Exodus Pleasures of the Flesh
Exodus gains Steve "Zetro" Souza, but Pleasures of the Flesh ultimately doesn't hold a candle to Bonded by Blood. There are still some great tracks, though, like Deranged, Parasite, Faster Than You'll Ever Live To Be, Chemi-Kill, and the raging closer Choose Your Weapon. Unlike their debut, Pleasures of the Flesh is usually at its best when it's going full speed. The fuck is that Tarzan shit going on at the start of the title track though?
Exodus Fabulous Disaster
Exodus bounces back with Fabulous Disaster, which deserves a place in any thrasher's collection as much as Bonded By Blood and sports my favorite production of any of their albums. There's actually variety here, too. Thrashterpieces like The Last Act of Defiance, Open Season, and my second favorite Exodus song, Fabulous Disaster, are still the norm here, but the midpaced songs are much more entertaining here than on Pleasures of the Flesh. We've got The Toxic Waltz, which is an awesome mosh anthem that was an MTV hit for the band. It's built around a heavy yet fun riff, and a lovable chorus. This song, the cover of Low Rider by War, and Cajun Hell, another slower paced track, demonstrate a sort of silliness found in Zetro-era Exodus that is sadly missing from their newer work, which takes itself all too seriously. Like Father, Like Son, which is another lower tempo track save a few bursts of speed, is pretty serious, though, with lyrics about child abuse. It's also heavy as all hell. Verbal Razors is the weakest track here, but the venomous lyrics at least serve as goofy entertainment. This is Exodus' last great album in my opinion.
Extol Synergy
Faith No More The Real Thing
Faith No More Angel Dust
Fates Warning No Exit
Father John Misty Pure Comedy
I actually really like the political direction taken here. Maybe it's a little pretentious, but I generally think he does a good job of encapsulating the sense of division and hopelessness in the social climate in the era of this album's release. Whether touching ("Pure Comedy", "Two Wildly Different Perspectives"), ironic and satirical ("Total Entertainment Forever", "Ballad of the Dying Man"), or just bitter ("Leaving LA", "The Memo"), this album tackles its themes in an engaging way. This album's main fault is that there's just a bit of tendency towards plodding monotony, something that could've been fixed if about 10 to 15 minutes of the album were chopped out or certain sections had key or tempo changes to help keep certain songs more interesting interesting.
Fight War Of Words
Little Crazy is cheesy in a really bad way (though it does briefly pick up around the solo) but beside that this album is generally pretty good. There are a few awesome standout tracks, like Nailed to the Gun, Into the Pit, and Kill It.
Fishmans Corduroy's Mood
Fishmans Orange
Fleetwood Mac Fleetwood Mac
Fleetwood Mac Rumours
Fleetwood Mac Tusk
Fleetwood Mac Tango in the Night
Flower Travellin' Band Made in Japan
I hear a little bit of Voivod and Die Kreuzen in Aw Give Me Air. The remake of Part III of Satori is awesome. Great album, cool band!
Forbidden Twisted into Form
Great riffs, vocals rule, catchy choruses, AWESOME production...
Frank Zappa Sheik Yerbouti
Fugazi 13 Songs
Fugazi In on the Kill Taker
Fugazi Red Medicine
Gargoyle Tenron
This is a fun, speedy Japanese metal album which some greatly appreciated variety. Sometimes it thrashes hard, but at other points it's just a rockin' good time, with some songs throwing elements of funk and punk into the mix. The gruff, exaggerated vocals add some campiness, but I think that works in this album's favor.
Gargoyle Tsuki no Toge
Gary Wilson You Think You Really Know Me
Gary Wilson Mary Had Brown Hair
Geinoh Yamashirogumi Akira OST
Godspeed You! Black Emperor Slow Riot For New Zero Kanada
GRLwood Daddy
Heathen 2005 Demo
The first and last songs are pretty good, but Dying Season is an amazing modern thrash metal classic. It's a real shame that this has much better production than The Evolution of Chaos.
Heathen The Evolution of Chaos
Good album, though it doesn't match their previous albums (Particularly the mega ultra masterpiece that is Victims of Deception), and the production is ass incarnate. One interesting bit of trivia is that, judging by the lyrics to A Hero's Welcome, they seem to have done a political 180 from the days when they were writing songs like Pray For Death ("The government builds machines that kill/And they use our money against our will!").
Heathen Breaking the Silence
Helloween Keeper of the Seven Keys Part I
Rating bumped up just a bit by how groundbreaking this is, but this would probably get a 4.5 anyways on the strength of its powerful choruses, killer power metal riffs, and the epic Halloween.
Hellwitch Syzygial Miscreancy
Fuck's with the album and song titles? Cool album but I don't wanna need a thesaurus to decipher this shit.
Holocaust (UK) Primal
Holocaust (UK) The Nightcomers
Holocaust (UK) Live (Hot Curry & Wine)
Holocaust (UK) Elder Gods
Another grower from Holocaust, this one has a spiritual moodiness to it that harkens back to some of their more progressive material, but darker. The slightly lifeless production and pedestrian metal drumming hurt it a little bit, but after listening to this enough, I think it's ultimately a great atmospheric piece of work, and the best Holocaust album in nearly 20 years.
Iconoclasm (USA-TX) Iconoclasm
The mix takes some getting used to, but as someone who's been checking out these guys since the Bite Your Face Off EP, their vocals have definitely improved, and the guitar playing is way tighter at this point. Fun little collection of thrashing tunes that actually kind of gives the impression of listening to a 35 minute jam-session. Cool cover art, too!
Iconoclasm (USA-TX) Out for Blood
Impaled Northern Moonforest Impaled Northern Moonforest
Obviously the music sucks, and there are no real lyrics, but the cover, album/band title, sheer concept (acoustic black metal), and absurdly hilarious song titles which had me crying with laughter all add up to one of the funniest joke albums ever made.
Intruder A Higher Form of Killing
Mostly just an alright album, but major props for The Martyr, which is just top notch for the genre.
Iron Maiden Piece of Mind
Iron Maiden Seventh Son of a Seventh Son
J Dilla Donuts
Jane's Addiction Nothing's Shocking
Jane's Addiction Ritual De Lo Habitual
Judas Priest Rocka Rolla
Whoa, this is fucking awesome! I mean, that part in Deep Freeze that's just wailing guitars sucks, but even then that song has a great part following that section.
Judas Priest Killing Machine
Slipping a bit with a disappointing final track (that is at least preceded by a great ballad) and a generally lower level of consistency than their previous works, Killing Machine is still a 70s Priest record, and is thus still pretty good. It does have Hell Bent For Leather and Running Wild, after all! Take on the World is pretty good for a blatant attempt at an arena rock anthem, too.
Judas Priest Screaming for Vengeance
Doesn't stack up to their masterpieces, but nonetheless a significant improvement upon its predecessor.
Judas Priest Sin After Sin
Not half bad. Special shoutouts to Starbreaker, Dissident Aggressor, and the almighty Let Us Pray/Call for the Priest.
Judas Priest British Steel
Judas Priest Defenders of the Faith
It has cheesy 80s production and the worse songs are corny as hell, but hey, the faster numbers are still really cool. You just can't go wrong with Freewheel Burning, The Sentinel, or Eat Me Alive, the last of which gets special props for pissing off the PMRC.
Kara's Flowers The Fourth World
Kayo Dot Choirs of the Eye
Kendrick Lamar Section.80
Kendrick Lamar good kid, m.A.A.d city
Kendrick Lamar To Pimp a Butterfly
Killing Joke Brighter Than a Thousand Suns
Killing Joke Killing Joke (2003)
Killing Joke Pandemonium
Killing Joke Democracy
Killing Joke Outside The Gate
This is a damn good, maybe even great album severely underrated because it's called "Killing Joke" despite not being very heavy. Or maybe people just don't like the layered, busy synths. But I really appreciate what Jaz Coleman was trying to do here. The first two songs are SOOOO good.
King Crimson In the Wake of Poseidon
King Crimson Lizard
King Crimson Larks' Tongues in Aspic
King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard Infest the Rats' Nest
King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard I'm In Your Mind Fuzz
King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard Quarters
King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard Paper Mache Dream Balloon
King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard Nonagon Infinity
King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard Flying Microtonal Banana
King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard Polygondwanaland
King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard Fishing For Fishies
King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard PetroDragonic Apocalypse; or, Dawn of Eternal Night: An Annihilation of...
Kraftwerk Radio-Activity
Kraftwerk Trans-Europe Express
Kraftwerk The Man-Machine
Kraftwerk Computer World
Kraftwerk Electric Cafe
Kreator Pleasure to Kill
A little overrated, but still some fine brutal thrash. No doubt a key inspiration for death metal.
Kreator Coma of Souls
Remains brutal while showcasing more range than on Pleasure to Kill, and the occasional political lyrics.
Kreator Extreme Aggression
Either this or Coma of Souls is my favorite pick from Kreator.
Laster Het wassen oog
Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin
Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin II
Lil Ugly Mane Mista Thug Isolation
Lou Reed Transformer
Lou Reed Berlin
Lucifer's Friend Lucifer's Friend
Madder Mortem All Flesh Is Grass
Madder Mortem Eight Ways
maudlin of the Well Part the Second
maudlin of the Well Bath
maudlin of the Well Leaving Your Body Map
Megadeth Countdown to Extinction
Megadeth Last Rites
Cover art is better than either edition of Killing Is My Business
Megadeth Greatest Hits: Back to the Start
Megadeth Youthanasia
The last in a line of great Megadeth releases for a while. Slower than Countdown, but still awesome! A few songs are kinda boring, but in general, you'll either be singing along to uber-catchy tracks A Tout Le Monde or Elysian Fields or banging your head to slower, rippingly heavy numbers like The Killing Road or Black Curtain. Too bad it was downhill from here.
Mekong Delta The Principle of Doubt
In my opinion, their strongest album up to this point, with some really impressive material. The Twilight Zone theme cover is amazing. Those vocals in The Jester, though...yeesh.
Mekong Delta Dances of Death (and other Walking Shadows)
Mekong Delta Kaleidoscope
Awesome album, complete with pretty good vocal performances this time around, which is a welcome change as most of their albums before this had some pretty painful singing. (Doug Lee sung on Dances of Death too, but here the vocal melodies are stronger.) I must say, though, that there are a couple things on here that make me think of other progressive thrash metal albums. There's a riff in "Misunderstanding" that sounds like a major riff in Coroner's "Divine Step (Conspectu Mortis)", and "About Science" features the lyric "Controlled by confusion, confused by control"....Watchtower much? Still a great album that overcomes the weaknesses of Mekong Delta's previous work.
Melvins Stag
Melvins Houdini
Melvins A Senile Animal
Mercyful Fate Don't Break the Oath
Meshuggah Catch Thirtythree
Metal Church The Dark
The relentlessly 80s snare sound makes me wince just a little, completely unfitting for this album. Cool record though.
Metal Church Metal Church
Metallica Metallica
Metallica tones things down a bit with The Black Album. They've basically abandoned the progressive evolution they undertook through in the '80s; only four out of twelve songs here reach the six minute mark, and there aren't nearly as many riffs packed in each song. That's okay, though, because the songs are still pretty good. This is not "thrash", but blistering numbers like Through the Never, The Struggle Within, and the super heavy The God That Failed make it clear that while Metallica's music might be more accessible, but haven't lost their metal attitude yet. Some tracks, like the boring and repetitive Wherever I May Roam (How did this get to be a single? It has like one or two good riffs in six in a half minutes.) or the cheesy Nothing Else Matters, are pretty weak, but most of the album is solid. The production is fucking great, too. If the fast songs were a little faster and had more thrash oomph in their drumming, this album would've been received better by hardcore fans, I think.
Metallica No Life 'til Leather
Metallica Beyond Magnetic
Great little EP, just what they needed after the absolutely abominable Lulu. Hate Train is mostly my least favorite, but the crunchy as hell freaking riff at about five minutes is gold. Just a Bullet Away is already a very good midpaced stomper, but the melodic section in the middle seals it as better than many of Death Magnetic's weaker tracks. Hell and Back is overall reminiscent of a Black Album song at first, until they speed things up a bit. Again pretty good, but it's held back just a bit by a certain very lame and uninspired riff (You'll know what I mean if you've listened to it) that thankfully isn't featured much. Rebel of Babylon is the best song here, and is up with All Nightmare Long as some of Metallica's best material since 1991 (or perhaps even 1988). This 8 minute epic has it all, featuring a melodic intro, a super memorable refrain, parts to thrash to, parts to mosh to (think back to the heavier section in Hate Train), and even a moment where Lars shows off better drumming than he's exactly known for. How didn't this one make it onto Death Magnetic? Beyond Magnetic is overall a collection of one decent track, two great tracks, and one mega killer one that helped wash down the bitter taste Lulu left.
Michael Jackson Off the Wall
Michael Jackson Bad
Ministry Psalm 69
Misfits Earth A.D./Wolf's Blood
Monstrosity Millenium
Morbid Angel Altars of Madness
Morbid Saint Spectrum of Death
You know what, that "FUCK YOU!" in Scars is so hype.
Mort Garson Mother Earth's Plantasia
Motley Crue Too Fast for Love
Too Fast For Love is one of two truly great Motley Crue albums. They sound a lot rawer here than on just about anything they'd release afterwards, and the production matches this.
Motley Crue Shout at the Devil
The greatest Crue album by far, and the first album that I ever really got into. It's more polished than Too Fast For Love, but has enough aggression to carry songs like Bastard (This one pissed off the PMRC!), Red Hot, and Knock 'Em Dead Kid. God Bless the Children of the Beast is really cool, and Danger is an awesome softer song. The title track is also tons of fun. There isn't anything else that's essential by Motley Crue after this. I would recommend getting the version with bonus tracks, because the demo versions have much more raw production including a PERFECT drum sound.
Motorhead Ace of Spades
Mr. Bungle Disco Volante
Mr. Bungle Mr. Bungle
Murmuure Murmuure
My Bloody Valentine Loveless
N.W.A. Straight Outta Compton
Nanoray Zapper
Neu! Neu! '75
Nine Inch Nails Broken
Nine Inch Nails The Downward Spiral
Nirvana MTV Unplugged in New York
Nirvana Nevermind
Nirvana In Utero
Nobuo Uematsu Final Fantasy IV: Original Soundtrack
Nobuo Uematsu Final Fantasy V: Original Soundtrack
Nocturnus The Key
NoMeansNo You Kill Me
NoMeansNo Sex Mad
NoMeansNo The Day Everything Became Nothing
NoMeansNo Small Parts Isolated and Destroyed
NoMeansNo 0 + 2 = 1
Nuclear Power Trio A Clear and Present Rager
Obliveon Nemesis
Obliveon From This Day Forward
Opeth Damnation
Opeth My Arms, Your Hearse
Opeth Ghost Reveries
Orang-Utan Orang-Utan
Oranssi Pazuzu Mestarin Kynsi
Oranssi Pazuzu Kevät / Värimyrsky
Osamu Sato Lucy in the Sky with Dynamites
Osees Orc
Outrage (JPN) Black Clouds
My rating for the album improved a whole 1.0 once I heard the remixed version now on Spotify. Holy shit the songs sound way better with a snare sound that actually carries momentum.
Overkill The Years of Decay
Overkill Horrorscope
Almost edging out The Years of Decay as the best Overkill album, Horrorscope is an absolute freaking classic! With quality tracks like Coma, Thanx For Nothing, Bare Bones, Live Young, Die Free, and the ultra-heavy Nice Day...For A Funeral, Overkill's ability to write awesome riffs is in full force here. Also...the picture of them on the back is cool. An absolute must-have for any thrash fanatic.
Ozzy Osbourne Blizzard of Ozz
Ozzy Osbourne Diary of a Madman
Ozzy Osbourne No Rest for the Wicked
Pan.Thy.Monium Khaooohs And Kon-Fus-Ion
This album is pretty dang awesome. Just wish I could hear it without the retarded frog vocals
Panopticon Kentucky
Great atmosphere and great fusion of styles. Really emotionally involved in presenting its message too. My only thing is the vocals: they're very raw which I appreciate, but I can't really feel the righteous anger as much in the black metal songs if I can't understand what he's saying! And the bluegrass vocals sometimes have this kind of nerdy timbre to them that betrays their gritty working class meaning. Cool album though.
Pantera Cowboys from Hell
The best Pantera album. Phil's vocals are at their absolute greatest, too. What if they stayed this badass?
Pantera The Great Southern Trendkill
Pantera's heaviest, yet also with some of their most somber moments. Maybe their best?
Pantera Far Beyond Driven
The highlights aren't as amazing as Vulgar Display of Power's, but there are a few lesser tracks throughout (that are still decent) instead of Vulgar's big dip from tracks 7 to 10, so I daresay this is a little better overall. I appreciate how fucking PISSED they were on this album. When Pantera achieved mainstream success, they responded by getting even heavier instead of going soft. Mad respect for that. And also mad respect for having the balls to end the album on a cover of Planet Caravan.
Pestilence Malleus Maleficarum
Pestilence Testimony of the Ancients
Pestilence Consuming Impulse
Pestilence Spheres
Pig Destroyer Prowler in the Yard
pilotredsun Achievement
Pink Floyd A Saucerful of Secrets
Pink Floyd Atom Heart Mother
The title suite is just awesome, and the first two songs of side B are great. Fat Old Sun isn't quite up to their standard, but it's good too. As for Alan's Psychedelic Breakfast, it's almost a great closer, but there are too many stretches of eating noises, which is a shame, because most of the actual music in the song is fantastic. I still prefer it over every Pink Floyd album before it.
Pink Floyd Obscured by Clouds
Pink Floyd The Wall
Pixies Doolittle
Pixies Bossanova
Poppy I Disagree
Portal (Cynic) Portal
Primus Frizzle Fry
Prong Cleansing
Prong Rude Awakening
Propaganda A Secret Wish
Queen Queen II
Queen Sheer Heart Attack
Queen A Night at the Opera
Queen News of the World
Queen The Game
Queensryche Empire
Queensryche Queensryche EP
Radiohead A Moon Shaped Pool
Radiohead OK Computer
Radiohead Amnesiac
Radiohead In Rainbows
Radiohead The King of Limbs
Rage Against the Machine The Battle of Los Angeles
Rage Against the Machine Rage Against the Machine
Randy Newman Sail Away
Red Vox Blood Bagel
it rocks
Sabbat Sabbat
Sabbat The Devil's Sperm is Cold
Sabbat The Seven Deadly Sins
Sabbat Evoke
Sabbat Karisma
Listen to the Japanese version of this album! The mixing and vocal performances are better, and you still can't understand what the hell they're singing in the English version anyway.
Sabbat (UK) History of a Time to Come
Sacred Reich The American Way
Sacred Reich mellows their approach a bit, but that's okay, because they pull it off well. Phil Rind's vocals have now settled comfortably into aggressive and rough singing instead of just shouting; he even drives Crimes Against Humanity more than the guitar riffs do. This fits well with their more varied and less brutal approach. Hell, they even have a semi-ballad here, in the form of Who's To Blame. They're even more reliant on social commentary as lyrical subject matter than before. They even tell their listeners to explore genres other than metal; the fun yet oft-derided 31 Flavors is a rap/funk number with sexual double entendres. As much as I like a lot of songs here, though, the album as a whole just can't quite achieve a score above a 4 for me. Individually, the songs are pretty damn good (Well, except for I Don't Know, which even seems to rip a riff from Violent Solutions from their first album; this song obviously sounds like they were out of ideas), but listening to the whole album...something about it just lacks a specific punch. For one thing, I really wish this had just a little more of the band's brutal thrash approach seen on Ignorance; I Don't Know is supposed to be really fast, but doesn't really work that way. When you're in the right mood, though, this album's best moments fucking rule.
Sacred Reich Surf Nicaragua
Much improved production from Ignorance, I get the feeling that if they'd have went into the studio to record a full album around this time it would have been their best release ever. Oh well, the title track is excellent and probably the second most known Sacred Reich song. Draining You of Life makes its full studio debut, and One Nation is crushingly heavy (if a bit repetitive). I really love the lyrics to One Nation and Surf Nicaragua, and the War Pigs cover is pretty nice. The bonus live recordings are good too.
Sacred Reich Ignorance
Sacred Reich's explosive debut. It's worth getting the remastered edition, which is really loud, but has nifty bonus tracks and improved sound quality.
Sacred Reich Heal
Satan Court in the Act
Satan Suspended Sentence
I like the singer on this album more than the singer on their first album! It's quite a taboo opinion, that, but I think he just sounds rawer and cooler. In general this album is pretty good, I dig the thrashy influences. The lyrics to S.C.U.M. are pretty messed up though, and not in a cool metal way.
Savatage Sirens
Savatage Gutter Ballet
Scanner Hypertrace
Scatterbrain Here Comes Trouble
Scorpions Animal Magnetism
Scott Walker Scott 4
Secrecy Art In Motion
Secrecy Raging Romance
Sepultura Beneath the Remains
Fucks your soul with riffs just like the last one. There are some really, really cool slow sections scattered about, which seem to hint at their groove metal days in the coming years.
Sepultura Arise
It's pretty good, but not quite as good as the last two. As far as I'm concerned, this is their last truly great release.
Sigh Heir to Despair
Sigh In Somniphobia
Slave The Concept
Slayer Seasons in the Abyss
Slayer continues bringing forth variety in tempo, sublime riffs, and awesome soloing. Tom's vocals are at their absolute best, finding a balance between earlier brutality and attempts at a vocal melody that were first forgotten with Haunting the Chapel, storaged until their return in South of Heaven, and now done very well here. They thrash more often here than on South of Heaven. I would give this a slightly higher score, but the three weaker tracks bring down the album's quality for me. Still fucking awesome stuff, though.
Slayer South of Heaven
Slayer Haunting the Chapel
Slint Spiderland
Slogan Voluntary Swoon
Pretty cool songs on this obscure piece of mid-90s prog metal. Check the synth chimes in Passing Away, the energy of Immortality Express, the dissonance of Source, and the general greatness of Branch and the title track.
Sonic Youth Sister
Sonic Youth Dirty
Sortilege Métamorphose
Spastic Ink Ink Complete
What the fuck was that? I think I enjoyed it. Oh, by the way, A Wild Hare totally goes with scenes from Bambi!
Spastic Ink Ink Compatible
Mindblowing upon first listen. The music here is actually made rather intimidating from the incorporation of synthesizers. It makes for an...unsettling effect. Having a vocalist also makes things feel a little more coherent, enough so for me to label this the better of Spastic Ink's two albums.
Stereolab Low Fi
Stereolab Mars Audiac Quintet
Stereolab Refried Ectoplasm
Stereolab The Groop Played "Space Age Batchelor Pad Music"
Stereolab Peng!
Stereolab Instant 0 In The Universe
Stereolab Fab Four Suture
Strapping Young Lad Alien
Strapping Young Lad Strapping Young Lad
Suicidal Tendencies Suicidal Tendencies
Suicidal Tendencies Lights...Camera...Revolution
Swans Swans
Swans To Be Kind
Symphony X The Odyssey
Symphony X V: The New Mythology Suite
Symphony X Twilight in Olympus
Quite good! I can't quite say this compares to Divine Wings, but it certainly seems to me that they still had some of the creative high they were on with that album, because, in my opinion at least, this is one of their best.
System of a Down System of a Down
System of a Down Toxicity
System of a Down Hypnotize
T.S.O.L. T. S. O. L.
T.S.O.L. Weathered Statues
T.S.O.L. Beneath The Shadows
Talk Talk The Colour of Spring
Target (BE) Master Project Genesis
Television Marquee Moon
Testament Dark Roots of Earth
Testament The Formation of Damnation
Pretty great album, though not quite the "comeback" that some may label it. The next one's better. Title track fucking slays, though.
Testament The Ritual
Testament's Black Album smokes pretty much every other thrash metal band's attempt at one.
Testament Practice What You Preach
Practice What You Preach was their most straightforward and successful record of the '80s. Possibly their "commercial" peak? Most of the songs aren't too fast (but there's still some speedy parts) but that's okay because the songwriting is mostly excellent and often quite catchy.
Testament Live at the Fillmore
It's an alright live album, but the real jewels on here for me are the acoustic versions of Testament ballads.
The Beach Boys Today!
Now this is where they really started getting good. The largely introspective mood of Side B is a hint of things to come on Pet Sounds, but the fun and upbeat When I Grow Up (To Be A Man) and Good To My Baby are also standout tracks.
The Beach Boys Friends
The Beach Boys Sunflower
The Beach Boys Summer Days (And Summer Nights!!)
The Beatles Rubber Soul
The Beatles Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
The Beatles The Beatles
The Beatles Magical Mystery Tour
The Beatles Let It Be
The Caretaker Everywhere at the End of Time
Pulls off its concept well. Wouldn't have minded it being a couple hours shorter though.
The Clash The Clash
The Clash London Calling
The Cure Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me
The Cure Disintegration
The Cure Wish
The Debauchees Big Machines and Peculiar Beings
The Devin Townsend Band Synchestra
The Devin Townsend Band Accelerated Evolution
The Four Freshmen Four Freshmen and 5 Trombones
The Mothers of Invention Freak Out!
The Mothers of Invention One Size Fits All
The Other People Place Lifestyles Of The Laptop Cafe
The Smiths Hatful of Hollow
The Smiths The Smiths
The Stalin 虫
An enjoyable 80s hardcore album, generally pretty fun and angry until the long, plodding closing track, but I'll forgive that for the good time everywhere else...plus the drone of that song actually works in its own way.
The Stooges Fun House
The Third Eye Foundation Ghost
The Velvet Underground The Velvet Underground & Nico
The Velvet Underground The Velvet Underground
The Wesley Willis Fiasco Spookydisharmoniousconflicthellride
CAAAASPER CAAAASPER CAAAASPER CAAAASPER CASPER THE HOMOSEXUAL FRIENDLY GHOST!!!!
Thinking Fellers Local 282 Admonishing the Bishops
Thinking Fellers Local 282 Wormed by Leonard
Thinking Fellers Local 282 Strangers From the Universe
This Heat Deceit
Thought Industry Outer Space Is Just a Martini Away
Thought Industry Short Wave on a Cold Day
Tiamat Wildhoney
Tom Waits Blue Valentine
Tom Waits Rain Dogs
Tool Undertow
Tool Opiate
Tool 72826
Tool Ænima
Tool Lateralus
Toxik World Circus
Clearly not as evolved as Think This, but still a good, hard slab of heavy metal.
Tropical Trash Southern Indiana Drone Footage
Trouble Trouble
Trouble Manic Frustration
Trouble Run to the Light
Van der Graaf Generator H to He, Who Am the Only One
Van der Graaf Generator Pawn Hearts
Van der Graaf Generator Godbluff
Ved Buens Ende Written In Waters
Ved Buens Ende Those who Caress the Pale
Vektor Black Future
The two epics at the end are absolutely amazing. Killing Technology: Part 2? (Side note: This album has some sick ass screams.)
Vendetta Brain Damage
Venom Black Metal
Venom Welcome to Hell
Vince Guaraldi Trio A Charlie Brown Christmas
Vio-Lence Eternal Nightmare
Sean Killian's vocals aren't too great and can occasionally be outright distracting, but they do have plenty of attitude. The rest of the band thrash like there's no tomorrow, and the riffage is in fine fette. Highly recommended for fans of Exodus' Bonded by Blood.
Voivod War and Pain
Although Voivod is famous for their more intricate, technically impressive progressive stuff, War and Pain is simply raw, loud, fast, and angry. It's hard to describe this with a simple category, but it's definitely got some evident thrash and punk influences. How many other albums have Snake threatening to rape your child? Voivod (the song) contains a seemingly simple yet memorable and badass main riff, with a catchy chorus too, not to mention the headbanging fucking mania nearly three minutes in. Then there's Warriors of Ice, with that awesome chorus riff and killer climax, the decidedly UN-sexual and lovably violent Suck Your Bone (Which sports another memorable chorus!), and the galloping riffage of Nuclear War. There are other good songs, like Blower, which thrashes your face to hell. The loud and rough production makes this a bit of an acquired taste, and the lyrics are juvenile and sometimes outright incoherent. ("GO SHIT! I'M NOT A FISH!" The concept of the Voivod in the land of Morgoth is cool and all, but you wouldn't know anything about that if you hadn't read about it.) Still a great raw thrash album, and Away's performance is particularly notable; I love the way he opens these songs!
Voivod Target Earth
Snake stumbles a bit on the vocals, but this is still Voivod's best since The Outer Limits.
Voivod The Wake
Really love how this album pushes out in multiple different directions. There are some fast-paced numbers (Obsolete Beings especially, also Iconspiracy and to a lesser extent Always Moving), but The End of Dormancy and Spherical Perspective have ominous lurching rhythms to them early on that build in intensity, the former pulling off that buildup superbly. Orb Confusion has a punkish excitement to it and a couple thrash riffs, with some badass heavy riffs halfway through. Event Horizon has that tech as fuck opening and overall reminds me of the best tracks off Target Earth. And Sonic Mycelium is, of course, a true prog epic, with lyrical passages of great interest to those familiar with a certain previous prog epic of theirs. Vocals are a little rough sometimes but really this album is their best in 25 years. Great job Voivod.
Watchtower Energetic Disassembly
Production sucks, but riffs are wicked. This album rules m/
Watchtower Demonstrations In Chaos
Every song off Energetic Disassembly is here but Violent Change...and those songs all sound better here, despite being studio demos! That alone makes this worth owning, but then there are also some cool Control and Resistance demos, plus two exclusive tracks! You like Watchtower? Check this out, ESPECIALLY if you haven't checked out Energetic Disassembly yet.
Watchtower Concepts of Math: Book One
They haven't put out a full album since 1989 (only releasing some singles in 2010 and 2015, all of which made it on this EP], but age hasn't stopped them from putting out this totally kickass EP. Definitely their heaviest release yet. Book 2 (or the full Mathematics album that this is pieces of) can't come soon enough!
Wintersun Wintersun
Witchfinder General Death Penalty
Wolf Spider Drifting in the Sullen Sea
Technically Wolf Spider's true final album (at least, it was the last recorded one), and like their other albums, it rules. Either this or Kingdom of Paranoia is their best.
Yellow Magic Orchestra Yellow Magic Orchestra
Yellow Magic Orchestra Solid State Survivor
Yes Relayer
Zeitgeist The Eyes of Time

3.5 great
Agent Orange This Is the Voice
Agent Orange Bitchin' Summer
Agent Orange When You Least Expect It...
Aion Deathrash Bound
Alice in Chains Sap
Amon Tobin Bricolage
Anacrusis Suffering Hour
Faster and heavier than expected! This is the same band that put out Screams and Whispers? I just want to know what girl cheated on Kenn Nardi and pissed him off enough to write Frigid Bitch.
Anewabyss Dreading My Thoughts
Anthrax Fistful of Metal
Anthrax Armed and Dangerous
The debut of Joey Belladonna, although he wouldn't appear on a full length album until later that year. I'm especially partial to the alternate versions of some of the best tracks from Fistful of Metal.
Anthrax I'm the Man
I'm not sure why you'd need three versions of the same song on an EP, but whatever, it's a neat and funny little song. The Sabbath, Bloody Sabbath cover is pretty good, I just wish it weren't played a half-step down. I'm picky, though. The live performances aren't bad. The production is like that on Among the Living, and that album had good production.
Anthrax Attack of the Killer B's
Anvil Metal on Metal
Aphex Twin ...I Care Because You Do
Aphex Twin Girl/Boy EP
Aphex Twin Come to Daddy
Aphex Twin Drukqs
Atheist Piece of Time
Fucking immense! Gets a little samey, but as an album it works quite well.
Atrophy Violent by Nature
Don't make the mistake I did and judge this by the weak title track, because it's actually good. I dig the social commentary bent of the lyrics.
Bad Brains I Against I
Bad Brains Quickness
Bad Religion No Control
Bad Religion How Could Hell Be Any Worse?
Bad Religion Into the Unknown
Bad Religion Against the Grain
Bad Religion Bad Religion
Bad Yodelers I Wonder...
Big Black Bulldozer
Big Black Racer-X
Big Black Atomizer
Big Black Songs About Fucking
Bjork Debut
Black Flag Nervous Breakdown
Black Flag Jealous Again
Black Flag Six Pack
Black Flag TV Party
Black Flag My War
Black Flag Slip It In
Black Sabbath 13
Black Sabbath Dehumanizer
Black Sabbath 1969 Demo
Something about this supposed "1969 Demo" sounds fishy to me. It's obviously cobbled together from different sources, because each song sounds different. The Rebel is alright sonically is definitely legit all the way through. It's alright, and doesn't sound much like classic Sabbath. Pretty cool towards the end. When I Came Down is obviously a 52 second clip looped twice, and then the intro's looped with reverb as an outro. This is definitely Sabbath in their early stages. Tony's guitar has that unmistakable sound to it, and Ozzy's always distinctive. Thomas Jones...this one doesn't even sound like it's actually Black Sabbath! I could be wrong, but this just doesn't sound like them at all. The production really tips me off that this song is fakely being passed off as the Sabs. Lame! Early One Morning Blues has super rough production. Ozzy's voice is definitely there, so this is Sabbath. Overall, this kind of reminds me of some of those bizarre metal bootlegs from the '80s and early '90s. The actual material is cool, it's super interesting to hear Sabbath's earliest stuff.
Body Count Bloodlust
Boris Amplifier Worship
Boris Pink
Burzum Burzum
Burzum Det Som Engang Var
Can Tago Mago
Casualties of Cool Casualties of Cool
Celtic Frost Into the Pandemonium
Coroner Coroner
The new tracks are really cool, and quite groove-like (basically, in the style of Grin). Nothing else is too interesting, though.
Coroner R.I.P.
Counting the intros to songs as separate tracks just feels like blatant padding to me. That's just a minor thing that bothers me, though. Cool album.
Coroner Punishment for Decadence
Personally I find this a little overrated. It's a definite improvement over their overly samey debut but has its own problems with the songs kind of blurring together, and the production is only a little improved. Masked Jackal and Skeleton On Your Shoulder are some badass songs though.
Crotchduster Big Fat Box of Shit
Cyclone Temple I Hate Therefore I Am
This is fine, but they REALLY wanted to sound like Metallica. Like this has every melodic thrash cliche in the books.
D.R.I. Full Speed Ahead
D.R.I. Thrash Zone
D.R.I.'s most metal 80s album. Many a memorable moment, either from awesome group shouts ("LABELED...UNCURABLE!", "YOUSAYI'MSCUMYOUSAYI'MSCUM", "AB! DUC! TION!", et cetera) or from fantastic riffage. This is probably the riffiest D.R.I. album, with Spike Cassidy cranking out awesome riffs-aplenty. The best songs in this regard (and the best songs overall) are Thrashard and the underrated Gun Control and Kill the Words. Kill the Words is D.R.I.'s best song of their metal era, by the way. Fun little album, but derivative and boring at times.
Daniel Johnston The What of Whom
Daniel Johnston Artistic Vice
Dark Angel Leave Scars
This album is dark as hell. Be it the downtuned guitars, very grim subject matter (touching on topics like suicide and sexual abuse/assault), or raw production, something about this album just seems downright evil. It's not fantastic (Immigrant Song is a really bad cover and Worms is ominous, but feels like filler), but a few songs like The Death of Innocence, The Promise of Agony, and No One Answers are really good, and all the breakdowns are absolutely insane, like the one just a bit before the two minute mark in the title track. Not as good as the one just before or after, but has some great stuff in it.
David Bowie Let's Dance
David Bowie The Man Who Sold the World
David Bowie Young Americans
David Bowie Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps)
David Bowie Lodger
Dead or Alive Youthquake
Death Angel The Dream Calls for Blood
Their heaviest album in awhile! Highlights include Left For Dead, Fallen, Territorial Instinct/Bloodlust, and the title track.
Death Angel Frolic Through the Park
Death Grips Fashion Week
Death Grips The Powers That B
Death Grips Bottomless Pit
Deathrow Raging Steel
These guys were badass even before their magnum opus Deception Ignored
Deathrow Life Beyond
Deftones Adrenaline
Deftones Around the Fur
Deftones Diamond Eyes
Depressive Age Lying in Wait
Almost a soft 4.5. Another great album from Depressive Age!
Devastation Signs of Life
Devin Townsend Lightwork
The songs where he pulls it back a little bit like Moonpeople and Call of the Void are awesome. But there are also some songs that are just really messy like Heartbreaker. Good album, not one of Devy's best but holds a few great songs.
Devin Townsend Physicist
Devin Townsend Dark Matters
Devin Townsend Project Ki
Devin Townsend Project Sky Blue
Devin Townsend Project Deconstruction
Devin Townsend Project Epicloud
Die Kreuzen Cement
More accessible and perhaps poppier than Century Days. Hearing Die Kreuzen with production this good is very nice. This doesn't really sound like Die Kreuzen to me, as they've kinda toned down the shrieky vocals (for the better imo) and the guitar playing is a little more restrained, but it's a good alternative rock album in its own right.
Die Kreuzen Gone Away EP
Discharge Realities of War
Discharge Fight Back
Discharge Decontrol
Discharge Hear Nothing See Nothing Say Nothing
Doom (JPN) Still Can't the Dead
Doom (JPN) Go Mad Yourself!
Dream Theater When Dream and Day Unite
Starts off pretty promising, but then it kinda peters out when the songs start getting longer. Not bad for a debut though, and boy were they gonna improve a lot in a couple years.
Dream Theater Falling into Infinity
Electric Wizard Dopethrone
Eminem The Marshall Mathers LP 2
Equinox Auf Wiedersehen
Faith No More We Care a Lot
Faith No More Introduce Yourself
Fates Warning The Spectre Within
Fates Warning Perfect Symmetry
Fishmans Neo Yankees' Holiday
Fishmans King Master George
Fishmans Kuuchuu Camp
Fleetwood Mac Then Play On
Flying Lotus 1983
Forbidden Forbidden Evil
Frank Zappa Zoot Allures
Fugazi Repeater
Fugazi Steady Diet of Nothing
Fugazi The Argument
Gargoyle Misogi
Gargoyle Furebumi
Heavy Load Death or Glory
Hive (USA-CA) Working With Sound
Holocaust (UK) Predator
This album is a competent throwback to Holocaust's sound on The Nightcomers. Of course, this sounds different to that album, considering most of the lineup is different and quite old and the production is fairly contemporary (but more lively than most metal production these days, nice!). This one took a few months to click for me, but really it's a fun time. Just don't expect something as good as their prog-era stuff.
Holy Terror Mind Wars
Homestar Runner Strong Bad Sings and Other Type Hits
Husker Du Metal Circus
Husker Du Everything Falls Apart
Husker Du New Day Rising
Husker Du Flip Your Wig
Husker Du Candy Apple Grey
Iron Maiden The Book of Souls
Jacob's Optical Stairway Jacob's Optical Stairway
Jandek Ready for the House
This album scares the hell out of me. What Can I Say, What Can I Sing made me feel some kind of deep, unbearable dread.
Jello Biafra and NoMeansNo The Sky is Falling and I Want My Mommy
Judas Priest Nostradamus
This ain't half bad, and in fact, I would go as far as to say that this could've been totally awesome, if not for one fatal flaw: it is WAY too long and overblown. They could've cut this down to around 70-80 minutes, keeping it epic in scope but preventing it from being too bloated for its own good, and it would've been great. Doing that and then making a couple of the remaining songs much faster would have produced a classic. Slow pace and length aside, this is still a fundamentally good album, and it's nice to see an old band still trying to do new things. Some of the tracks are pretty damn solid, like NOOOOOOSTRAADAAMUUS (enough said), the stomping Prophecy, the orchestral and epic Revelations (which embodies what they were probably trying to do here more than anything else on the album), Conquest, and Persecution, which carries the faster pace that this album needed more of. As mentioned, there are certainly lesser tracks as well, like the pretty crappy ballad New Beginnings, and with the exception of the AWESOME final two songs, the second disc isn't very good, but something about the great atmosphere, the epic scope, and the sheer audacity of this group of fifty-somethings put out a double-disc, 102 minute metal opera in 2008 makes me not want to rate this below a 3.5. If you enjoy Judas Priest and big grand albums, and are feeling patient, then check out Nostradamus.
Kanye West My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
Keaton Henson Birthdays
Decent album. I prefer the songs that get a little more electric.
Kendrick Lamar DAMN.
Kendrick Lamar untitled unmastered.
Killing Joke Revelations
Killing Joke What's THIS For...!
Killing Joke Fire Dances
Killing Joke Extremities, Dirt & Various Repressed Emotions
Killing Joke Hosannas From The Basements Of Hell
Killing Joke Absolute Dissent
Killing Joke MMXII
King Crimson Islands
King Crimson Starless and Bible Black
If only it'd maintained the momentum of those magnificent first two tracks. Still not bad.
King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard Float Along. Fill Your Lungs
King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard Oddments
King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard Sketches of Brunswick East (w/ Mild High Club)
King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard Gumboot Soup
King's X Out of the Silent Planet
Kraftwerk Autobahn
Kreator Flag of Hate
Kreator Terrible Certainty
Led Zeppelin Coda
Led Zeppelin Presence
Led Zeppelin In Through the Out Door
Living Colour Stain
Loudness Soldier of Fortune
M83 Dead Cities, Red Seas and Lost Ghosts
Machine Head Burn My Eyes
Machine Head The Blackening
maudlin of the Well My Fruit Psychobells... A Seed Combustible
Mayfair Behind...
Mayhem Deathcrush
Mayhem De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas
Megadeth Cryptic Writings
This is the poppy hard rock album Risk wishes it was, and with some solid metal songs on it too!
Megadeth United Abominations
Megadeth So Far, So Good... So What!
Most of this is better than it gets credit for. Hook In Mouth and Set The World Afire are probably my favorite songs on here. Into the Lungs of Hell is an instrumental, which isn't very common for this band. Mary Jane is kind of lame, but it and the Anarchy in the UK cover are the only ones I skip when listening to this CD. Kinda funny how he doesn't perform that song anymore because of the first line. The production is really weak in the original, so get the remastered version if you can.
Megadeth The System Has Failed
THIS was the comeback they really needed after Risk, and if they'd have skipped The World Needs A Hero for this, it would've shredded heads.
Megadeth Endgame
Megadeth's heaviest record in a long time. I don't think it's as good as their classics, but it's the closest we're gonna get to them. The best songs are This Day We Fight, Head Crusher (I was so hyped when this was first released), and The Right To Go Insane.
Megadeth Dystopia
One of Megadeth's most solid albums in a while, certainly miles ahead of Pooper Collider. Kiko Loureiro's awesome guitar work adds plenty to Megadeth's sound. Maybe could've used more speed, though, but Megadeth aren't usually very fast anyway. Glad to hear Megadeth sounding this dark and heavy again.
Mekong Delta Mekong Delta
Mekong Delta The Music of Erich Zann
Melvins Bullhead
Melvins Stoner Witch
Merauder Master Killer
Metallica Death Magnetic
Their best since the Black Album in my opinion. Not only are they finally being fast and heavy again (WITHOUT shit production, if you listen to the GH3 rips instead of the actual thing), they've also brought back guitar solos and songwriting with a little more depth than "repeat ad infinitum"...for the most part. Much of you've come to love from Metallica's classic period is here; there's thrashers like My Apocalypse, more accessible and catchy stuff like Cyanide, an excellent half-ballad in The Day That Never Comes, and as implied before, the songs are long, but not just copy/pasted. The absolute best track here is All Nightmare Long, which is the single greatest song they've released in years. A couple songs fall flat though, namely Judas Kiss and The Unforgiven III. The actual CD is way too fucking loud; such are the pitfalls of modern music production. Death Magnetic isn't amazing but it's a solid return to form.
Metallica S&M
A bit of a mixed bag. One one hand, the fact that many songs are tuned a half step down from their original recordings irks the hell out of me because I'm weird like that, James' voice is a bit weak, and because it was the late '90s, there are a lot of Load/Reload songs on here. But the two new songs are both very good, and many songs sound pretty effective with symphonic backing, especially The Call of Ktulu.
Metallica The $5.98 E.P.: Garage Days Re-Revisited
Michael Jackson HIStory: Past, Present and Future, Book I
Mild High Club Skiptracing
Ministry Houses Of The Molé
Ministry With Sympathy
Ministry Twitch
Ministry The Land of Rape and Honey
Ministry Rio Grande Blood
Ministry The Last Sucker
Ministry The Mind Is a Terrible Thing to Taste
Moral Decay To Build an End
Motorhead On Parole
Mr. Bungle Goddammit I Love America!!!$ɫ!!
N.W.A. Niggaz4Life
Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds Your Funeral... My Trial
Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds Tender Prey
Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds The Good Son
Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds Henry's Dream
Nine Inch Nails Pretty Hate Machine
NoMeansNo Betrayal, Fear, Anger, Hatred
NoMeansNo Mama
Opeth Deliverance
Overkill Feel the Fire
Overkill Taking Over
Ozzy Osbourne Bark at the Moon
Pantera Power Metal
Pantera Vulgar Display of Power
This album is front loaded as fuck. Almost all of the first half is golden, while the second half definitely falters in comparison, though Hollow is a great closer.
Paradox Riot Squad
Peccatum Lost in Reverie
PFFR Rock Rocker Rocketh
Pixies Come On Pilgrim
Pixies Surfer Rosa
Prong Force Fed
Prong Beg to Differ
Prong Prove You Wrong
Public Enemy It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back
Public Enemy Fear of a Black Planet
Public Enemy Apocalypse 91 The Enemy Strikes Black
Punky Bruster Cooked on Phonics
Queen Queen
Queen A Day at the Races
Queen Jazz
Queen Innuendo
Queensryche The Warning
Queensryche Rage for Order
Queensryche Promised Land
Radiohead Pablo Honey
Radiohead The Bends
Rage Against the Machine Evil Empire
Realm Suiciety
Realm Endless War
When that opening riff kicked in, I immediately got hyped up. That being said, this album can get boring on repeat listens.
Rick Astley Whenever You Need Somebody
Ride Nowhere
Ride Going Blank Again
Rob Zombie Hellbilly Deluxe
Rush Fly by Night
Rush Caress of Steel
Rush Clockwork Angels
Sabbat Envenom
Satan Bless You through Reek of Cremation is a truly great run. The album unfortunately gradually drops off after that--much of Carcassvoice is a mess--but at least maintains its simple Satanic metal charm throughout. The dark ambient bookends are cool too.
Sabbat Desecration
Sabbat Satanasword
Sabbat Karmagmassacre
Sabbat Sabbatrinity
Sabbat (UK) Dreamweaver
Sacred Reich Draining You of Life
Sacred Reich and Rest in Peace are alright songs, but it's Draining You of Life (The only song on here that didn't make it to Ignorance, instead saved for the Surf Nicaragua EP) and No Believers that shine the most. The latter has better vocal delivery here than on its "official" studio release. Freaking vicious! This demo doesn't feature the social commentary they're known for, unless you count No Believers, which is anti-religion.
Sacred Reich Independent
Sacred Reich softens their approach even more, with nothing here even reaching the fastest parts of The American Way. Most of this album is pretty good and catchy, much more accessible than most of anything on Ignorance. This album somewhat feels a bit like a product of the times, what with the style of riffage and sudden Eb tuning. The title track's video just screams early '90s. Said title track's main riff is fucking awesome and high energy, and while Just Like that is a bit overlong, it still has a sick as fuck groove. Crawling is obviously inspired by Black Sabbath; listen to the riff at about 5:08 and tell me that they weren't jamming to some Master of Reality recently. Phil's vocals are quite strained on I Never Said Goodbye (His performance on this album overall seems to indicate that his vocal cords have taken a beating), but it's still a decent little ballad. Other good tracks include the fun and fast paced Pressure, and moody instrumental If Only. A couple songs on here kinda mediocre, and the riffs do tend to sound similar, but I still contend that this is a pretty cool little album.
Sacred Reich Awakening
Just a little samey, but really there's more variety than the opening two singles let on. I dig the positive lyrics; as a band renowned largely for being politically conscious, they could've wrote something really bitter and cynical to reflect the current shitty climate. Instead they did the opposite of that and wrote something hopeful and optimistic. An interesting statement! Anyone worried this would suck after Don't Do It Donnie came out, rest assured this is a solid effort.
Savatage Power of the Night
Scott Walker Scott
Scott Walker Scott 3
Scott Walker Climate of Hunter
Scott Walker Tilt
Shame (UK) Drunk Tank Pink
Sigh Gallows Gallery
Slayer World Painted Blood
Doesn't match their classic shit, sure, but it's still their best album in a while.
Slayer Show No Mercy
Slayer's a lot more NWOBHM influenced on this album, and it's interesting hearing them before they got more brutal.
Slint Tweez
Slint Slint
Sodom Agent Orange
I sure do love the album Sodom by the 80s punk band Agent Orange.
Sonic Youth Confusion Is Sex
Sonic Youth Sonic Youth
Sonic Youth Bad Moon Rising
Sonic Youth Evol
Sonic Youth Experimental Jet Set, Trash, and No Star
Sonic Youth Washing Machine
Sonic Youth A Thousand Leaves
Sonic Youth Murray Street
Soundgarden Badmotorfinger
Spellling The Turning Wheel
Stereolab Aluminum Tunes
Stereolab The First Of The Microbe Hunters
Stereolab Oscillons From The Anti-Sun
Strapping Young Lad The New Black
Strapping Young Lad Heavy as a Really Heavy Thing
Stray (UK) Stray
Suicidal Tendencies Join the Army
Suicidal Tendencies How Will I Laugh Tomorrow If I Can't Even Smile Today?
Suicidal Tendencies No Mercy Fool!/The Suicidal Family
Swans Holy Money
Swans Filth
Swans Greed
Swans The Burning World
Swans Love of Life
This is good, but it kind of feels like a collection of B-sides from the previous, superior album White Light from the Mouth of Infinity. Still, check it out if you really liked that album. One particularly interesting thing about this album is that you can start to see the affinity for recorded conversations and ambience that would go on to define the band's magnum opus Soundtracks for the Blind. There aren't many standouts on here unfortunately, but No Cure for the Lonely can be a tearjerker.
Swans The Glowing Man
This is good, but it's also definitely their weakest this decade. The second half is better. I think they should cool it with the 20+ minute songs. This band has some really amazing long songs like Helpless Child, Animus, and The Apostate, but now it's just getting kinda overblown. Some highlights: the last song is truly amazing, When Will I Return is quite moving, and the title track really took me surprise when it suddenly picked up the pace.
Symphony X Paradise Lost
Another solid Symphony X album, this time with a dash of extra heaviness. Were those death growls in Domination?
Symphony X The Damnation Game
Total improvement all around from their first album to their second, and introducing awesome vocalist Russel Allen! The mighty "A Winter's Dream" is one of my favorite Symphony X songs ever.
Symphony X Underworld
System of a Down Steal This Album!
System of a Down Demo Tape 2
Talk Talk It's My Life
Talk Talk Spirit of Eden
Talk Talk Laughing Stock
Testament Souls of Black
The songwriting and production take a noticeable dive from Practice What You Preach. Still a good album, though. Alex Skolnick's guitar-work, which is always fantastic, might be at its absolute greatest here. Check out the solos in Malpractice and Seven Days of May to see what I mean. They try to bring back some thrash influence here; this album is faster on average than Practice What You Preach. It's certainly rushed, but it's classic Testament, so it's only mediocre at worst.
Testament Brotherhood of the Snake
Overall not as good as Dark Roots of Earth, but it really brings the speed in greater doses, which is much appreciated. Nowadays Testament love to play midpaced thrash, and they're great at that, but they're at their best when they're thrashing at full velocity.
The Angels of Light How I Loved You
The Beach Boys All Summer Long
Previous Beach Boys LPs were mostly mediocre with flashes of Brian Wilson's brilliance here and there, but this is in my view their first decent album. Still some "meh" numbers, but more great songs like I Get Around, Wendy, and Girls on the Beach, and most of the lesser songs are alright. Those curious on the Beach Boys, consider starting here chronologically.
The Beach Boys Smiley Smile
The Beach Boys Wild Honey
The Beach Boys Holland
The Beatles A Hard Day's Night
The Beatles Help!
The Clash Give 'Em Enough Rope
The Cure Three Imaginary Boys
The Cure Seventeen Seconds
The Cure Faith
The Cure Pornography
The Mothers of Invention Uncle Meat
The Mothers of Invention Burnt Weeny Sandwich
The Rezillos Can't Stand The Rezillos
The Shaggs Philosophy of the World
The laugh factor wears off after a while, but it's good for some quick yuks.
The Smiths The Queen Is Dead
The Smiths Meat Is Murder
I was eating pork chops when I started listening to this so Morrissey can suck my DICK
The Stalin Fish Inn
The first half of this is pretty cool, The Stalin's sound evolved fast! The second half can be kinda boring, and the overlong ending track is worse than the one on Mushi.
The Stooges The Stooges
The Stooges I'm Sick of You
The Third Eye Foundation The Dark
Thinking Fellers Local 282 Tangle
Thought Industry Songs for Insects
Man...this record is just freaking crazy. So much variety! Terrible production though.
Thought Industry Black Umbrella
They aren't the crazy band they were on Mods Carve the Pig, but they do moody and still weird alternative rock well.
Tim Heidecker In Glendale
Tom Waits Swordfishtrombones
Tom Waits The Heart of Saturday Night
Tom Waits Closing Time
Tom Waits Franks Wild Years
Tom Waits Bone Machine
Tom Waits Mule Variations
Tool 10,000 Days
Tourniquet Psycho Surgery
Cheesy lyrics (I don't like to dog on something for religious lyrics, I mean I didn't mind it in Believer's stuff, but it really isn't pulled off great here), terrible vocals (something like Zetro, only with a lot less charm and too corny) and a wimpy drum production that brings down a great performance bely some great riffs and some killer speedy sections.
Trouble Trouble/Psalm 9
Trouble The Skull
Tyler, the Creator Bastard
V8 Luchando por el Metal
Van der Graaf Generator The Aerosol Grey Machine
Van der Graaf Generator The Least We Can Do Is Wave to...
Venom At War with Satan
Virus (NO) Carheart
Voivod RRRÖÖÖAAARRR
Voivod Phobos
Good, but sometimes boring and repetitive. The vocals aren't great either. Snake's voice is the only voice for Voivod! Still not bad though, I like the sludgier direction in spite of some plodding moments and the first few songs are badass.
Voivod Negatron
E-Force's vocals can't match Snake's (although he's better here than on Phobos), but this is heavy as shit and has some kickass stuff on it, as every Voivod album should. I guess it's their worst album at that time, though, because RRROOOAAARRR was a little more fun for me.
Voivod Voivod
Occasionally draggy and repetitive, and largely lacking their trademark progressive edge which only occasionally shows itself. Still a good time, and it's nice to see 3/4 of the lineup all together here for the first time in 12 years. (Side note: A LOT of songs end with Snake shouting the title over and over.)
Voivod Synchro Anarchy
This album is good and all with some kickass songs on it, but it feels a little bit like Voivod going through the motions. The Wake brought a dynamic and special life to the band, but this is just more "modern Voivod." It's a good example of that sound and some parts really kick ass but I'm worried they're starting to lose that forward-thinking spirit.
Warlord Deliver Us
Wavves Afraid of Heights
Whiplash Power and Pain
Wolf Spider Wilczy pająk
It's like Kill 'Em All, but from Poland. Cool little album.
Wolf Spider Kingdom of Paranoia
X Japan Vanishing Vision
Pretty cool album. Production suuuuuuuucks, but I can forgive that because the music is good speed metal.
Xentrix For Whose Advantage?
Though this album would have benefited a little from more riffs not in E and a lot from some less stale vocal melodies, it's worth checking out for fans of melodic thrash metal. By the way, the cover at the end is awesome.
Yes Tales from Topographic Oceans
Yes Yes
Znowhite Act Of God
ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls...dyin time's here

3.0 good
Acid Acid
Adolescents Brats in Battalions
AFI Shut Your Mouth and Open Your Eyes
Aktor Placebo
Annihilator Set the World on Fire
This would so be a 4 if it weren't for all the boring parts. This album has some really great songs, like the title track, No Zone, Knight Jumps Queen (IF YA KNOW WHAT I MEAN!), and Brain Dance.
Bad Religion Generator
Bad Yodelers Window
Bastard Wind Of Pain
Beastie Boys Licensed to Ill
Big Black Lungs
Big Black Headache
Black Flag Family Man
I come to infect. I come to rape your woman. I come to take your children into the street.
Black Flag Loose Nut
Body Count Carnivore
Bum Rush, Thee Critical Beatdown, and The Hate Is Real all slap. Point the Finger is pretty good too. When I'm Gone is interesting. But overall the vocals can push the limits of cheesy and the songs not named here are pretty mediocre. I appreciate the increase in brutality at least.
Brockhampton SATURATION
Brockhampton SATURATION II
Calhoun Conquer Lost In Oneself
Circle Jerks Group Sex
Coroner Death Cult (demo)
Coven 13 Worship New Gods
Interesting goth influence on display, but not that great. Maybe more spins needed...
Cynic '88 Demo
Cynic Reflections of a Dying World
So many people knocking this, but why? It's not half bad.
Cynic Kindly Bent to Free Us
D.R.I. Crossover
Probably D.R.I.'s most "important" album, but far from their best.
D.R.I. 4 of a Kind
Daniel Johnston Respect
A slim majority of the songs here are rather spotty. The good songs, however, are really, really good. An Angel Cry and Good Morning You in particular are so, so, SO good!
Daniel Johnston Continued Story with Texas Instruments
Daniel Johnston More Songs of Pain
My least favorite of his home-made tapes, but it still has some good songs. Nice Beatles cover!
David Bowie Space Oddity
David Bowie Pin Ups
DBC Dead Brain Cells
Death Angel The Art of Dying
Most of the album's alright, and a few songs are really good. Famine takes a while to grow on you, but then there are awesome tracks like The Devil Incarnate and 5 Steps of Freedom. Kind of weird how the first roughly half or so rules and then it peters out until the end, but oh well.
Death Grips Government Plates
Defiance (USA-CA) Beyond Recognition
There's potential on this album, which is why it's a downer to listen to. You listen to this great part, thinking they're gonna go somewhere awesome...but nope, still just eh.
Detente Recognize No Authority
Devin Townsend Devlab
Discharge Why
Eazy-E Eazy-Duz-It
Eminem Relapse
Eminem Recovery
Eminem Music to Be Murdered By
Exhorder The Law
Exodus Exhibit B: The Human Condition
Better than Exhibit A, boasting a lot more standout tracks.
Exodus Force of Habit
I actually like this just a little better than Impact is Imminent, if only because this one at least has a bit of variety instead of being generic thrash metal all throughout. That, and the highlights are pretty good songs in their own right. The one fast thrash metal song at the end, Feeding Time at the Zoo, is Exodus doing a fine job at what they do best. Good Day to Die and Me Myself & I are both solid tracks and the best example of the style most typical of this album. As for said style, it's midtempo, "groovy", and depending on the song, can be a fun time or quite boring, with most songs being just about passable. As would become a big problem with this band, most of the songs are way overlong. This is definitely a lesser attempt at a "Black Album" than the ones by Metallica, Megadeth, Anthrax, but they were at least trying harder on here than on Impact is Imminent.
Fishmans Chappie, Don't Cry
Fleetwood Mac Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac
Hades Resisting Success
Heathen Demo with Paul Baloff
Sorry, but Paul Baloff just doesn't fit Heathen nearly as well as David White. But hey, the intro to Hypnotized sounds really eerie and cool here.
Husker Du In a Free Land
Husker Du Warehouse: Songs and Stories
Iron Maiden Brave New World
Jeff Mills Waveform Transmission Vol.1
Judas Priest Point of Entry
This isn't really bad or anything, just boring. It loses steam after a few tracks and from then on is just average hard rock. You can still tell the guys playing this are talented (Rob Halford's vocals are still pretty cool), but it's like it's being squandered.
Judas Priest Ram It Down
The opening title track may have been their fastest yet, and a song titled Love Zone on an 80s metal album is actually not half bad! Still carries some of Turbo's problems, worst of all general cheesiness and corny production, the Johnny B. Goode cover is, in Halford's own words, "silly", and it still pales in comparison to both their 70s material and the almighty upcoming Painkiller, but it's not horrible. Dare I say this could've been a 3.5 if the second half was as decent as the first, or possibly even a 4 if the second half were better, but unfortunately they couldn't quite get it together all the way.
Killing Joke Almost Red
Killing Joke Pylon
King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard Anglesea
King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard Willoughby's Beach
King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard 12 Bar Bruise
Kreator Endless Pain
Linkin Park Meteora
Megadeth Th1rt3en
My expectations were pretty high after hearing Never Dead, but this isn't awesome like I thought it'd be. It's comprised half of good stuff (Discounting re-recorded/reused stuff, the best songs are probably Public Enemy No. 1, Whose Life Is It Anyways, and Never Dead) and half of lame stuff. Guns, Drugs & Money, Fast Lane, Black Swan, and Deadly Nightshade are examples of the latter. Dave's vocals are also not very good here. There's enough good music here to sort of redeem it, though.
Megadeth The World Needs a Hero
This album isn't "a return to thrash" as some might've thought, but it's a return to metal at least. A couple great songs, a lot of just okay stuff, but a step in the right direction.
Melvins Lysol
Melvins Ozma
Melvins Gluey Porch Treatments
Metallica St. Anger
Close to being a solid album, a lot of good riffs and good hooks, cool vocal harmonies too. But DAMN, they just HAD to go with that drum sound, just HAD to stretch those songs out. Oh well, guess it'll always be a "what could've been" album.
Metallica Reload
The former pioneers that brought thrash metal to the mainstream release this and its older brother. There's some cool stuff on this album. Bad Seed, Where the Wild Things Are (which is really atmospheric and cool), and Attitude are all pretty good. Fuel is fun (and fast, unlike almost anything else they were putting out at the time), and Devil's Dance is sick as hell, but everything else here is sadly mediocre. Shitty filler tracks like Carpe Diem Baby are a chore to fully listen to, and that's indicative of the real problem with the worse tracks (and most of the album, really); it's mostly boring and forgettable. You can really tell that this is really just a leftovers album. Barring Lulu, Reload is certainly Metallica's worst studio album, at least if you're like me and think that St. Anger is overhated.
Metallica Load
It's okay. I guess you can't really blame people for being pissed off this wasn't thrash metal. For what it is, half of it is either boring (The House Jack Built, Thorn Within) or actually sucks (Pure Twisted Me, Cure, and god forbid Mama Said), but then some of it's alright (Ain't My Bitch, Bleeding Me, King Nothing) and then some of it is very good (Wasting My Hate, The Outlaw Torn) so if you really like Metallica this is worth listening to, I guess. It certainly has its gems, but it's not regarded as one of their best for good reason.
Metallica Hardwired...To Self-Destruct
Metallica's much-belated true followup to Death Magnetic ain't half bad, but almost every track is like one or two minutes too long. That being said, James Hetfield clearly has a newfound interest in vocal harmonies, which leads to some of the more interesting moments on this album. It's also bookended by two solid thrashers. Hardwired is their briefest song in 33 years, and that brevity really works in its favor. Spit Out the Bone is also fast, but over twice as long. But hot damn is it the best song on this album. With all its riffs and energy, it definitely earns its place with songs like The Outlaw Torn, No Leaf Clover, -Human, and All Nightmare Long as among the best of Metallica's post-80s output. Other highlights include the riff-dense Atlas Rise, Moth Into Flame, and Halo On Fire, which settles into some surprising last few minutes. Lyrically, it's very corny, but I actually like that. It gives it sort of a campy vibe. After all these guys are playing metal their 50s. Dull in some spots, great in others.
Michael Jackson Dangerous
Ministry Filth Pig
Motley Crue Dr. Feelgood
Motley Crue Girls, Girls, Girls
Mr. Bungle The Raging Wrath of the Easter Bunny
Mr. Bungle Bowel Of Chiley
Neutral Bling Hotel In My G4 Over Da Sea
is this that newfangled death grips the youngsters are into these days
Nevermore Nevermore
Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds The Firstborn Is Dead
Nuclear Assault Game Over
OLD Lo Flux Tube
Onslaught In Search of Sanity
Awesome vocals! This could've been a cool album, but all the songs are like twice as long as they need to be. Five minute long intro of random ambient noises? Sheesh! I bet their fucking sound guy was sitting in the studio after making it like "Yeah, what a cool soundscape I've created..." No bitch.
Opeth Orchid
Orange Juice You Can't Hide Your Love Forever
Ozzy Osbourne Ozzmosis
Unfortunately, it's the last Ozzy Osbourne album worth owning. There are some good songs here. Perry Mason, Thunder Underground, and My Jekyll Doesn't Hide are all great, crunching stompers, and Denial and Tomorrow are pretty good too. But this album really suffers from being too soft. Most of the album is half heavy/half soft power ballads, really! Seriously, the tracklist goes like this: Heavy, power ballad, power ballad, heavy, power ballad, kinda heavy, power ballad, power ballad, heavy, ballad. Ozzy was obviously going for a more modern approach here, and overall I don't know if it really worked out for him.
Ozzy Osbourne Down to Earth
Paradox Product of Imagination
PFFR Chrome Ghost
PFFR Injustice Center
Pig Destroyer Book Burner
Pink Floyd The Piper at the Gates of Dawn
Pink Floyd Ummagumma
The album's structure was a neat idea, but this album is nonetheless underwhelming. The live tracks are great, but the studio tracks sure sure aren't, except for bits of Sysyphus (especially the second part) and the third part of The Narrow Way. I'll keep the generous rating for the neat structure, the occasional interesting studio moments, and the fantastic live portion.
Pink Floyd The Final Cut
The lyrics are very, very good, and Not Now John is awesome, but this album gets old fast. Touching, maybe, yet samey and mostly not very memorable. Roger Waters' vocals on this album are weird.
Pissed Jeans King of Jeans
Poltergeist (CHE) Behind My Mask
Prong Primitive Origins
Psychotic Waltz A Social Grace
Public Enemy Yo! Bum Rush the Show
Robert Hood Internal Empire
Rush Rush
Sabbat Born By Evil Blood
Sabbat Disembody
Sabbat Fetishism
Sadus Illusions
Scott Walker Scott 2
Scott Walker The Drift
Sepultura Morbid Visions
It's okay. Their next two albums eviscerate this one into another dimension, though. The outro is unintentionally funny as shit.
Sepultura Chaos A.D.
Sepultura Bestial Devastation
Slayer Christ Illusion
Way better than their previous two albums, and features the return of Dave Lombardo! The first five songs are all excellent. I particularly like that Skeleton Christ and Eyes of the Insane are both Slayer songs with very downtuned guitars that DON'T suck! Jihad has a really cool concept, and still had some shock value in 2006, especially with the outro. Black Serenade is also pretty cool. The other four songs aren't that good, and Catatonic in particular sounds a bit like the sludge of their last two albums. Also, Tom Araya's vocal style gets grating at times. I wish he'd sound like he did on their classic albums again. But man, it was refreshing to hear a Slayer album that didn't suck all the way through or almost all the way through. I would also recommend checking out Final Six; it was supposed to be on the album proper, but instead ended up only being on the Special Edition. It's a good song.
Slayer Divine Intervention
The best songs are Killing Fields, Fictional Reality, Dittohead, the title track, and 213. Slayer went downhill starting with this album, and I'm sad to say that Diabolus in Musica and God Hates Us All both sucked the big one. However, the production isn't that bad, and I don't get why everyone rags on it.
Sonic Youth Kill Yr Idols
Sonic Youth NYC Ghosts & Flowers
This album's okay. There are some neat chords (Thurston Moore's on the strings, after all) but most of the songs don't really go anywhere. This album can be annoyingly pretentious, too, mainly with the spoken poetry. On that note, fuck Side2Side, get outta here with that crap. All that being said, there are some times where this kinda clicks. For example, Renegade Princess gets pretty energetic, and Nevermind (What Was It Anyway) hits the kind of slightly atmospheric and lowkey yet memorable vibe I think they were going for. Other times are kind of charmingly eccentric, and the blasts of noises can be kind of interesting. A lot of this album is rather boring and unmemorable, enough for me to say this is probably the worst full Sonic Youth album, but it's not terrible.
Swans Cop
Swans My Father Will Guide Me Up a Rope to the Sky
Talk Talk The Party's Over
Target (BE) Mission Executed
Testament Demonic
On Demonic, Testament tries to be pretty much as heavy as possible, adopting death growls, downtuning their guitars, and slowing to try and be as crushing as possible. This brings mixed results; the good songs are pretty cool, but that label only applies to six (maybe seven) of eleven tracks here. The songs that aren't standouts are just kind of boring, and it's honestly a bummer to see the end of the old Testament sound. But hey, it has that fucking awesome part at around 1:17 in Distorted Lives.
Testament Low
Alex Skolnick's absence is certainly a detriment to Testament's sound, but Low isn't all bad. It has one of my favorite Testament ballads, Trail of Tears, the death metal monster Dog Faced Gods (A foreshadowing of their later musical experiments), and Urotsukidoji, which is a funky hentai metal instrumental! That's right, hentai metal; it's named after a tentacle hentai series, and features voice samples from it. Low is okay, I guess, but either this or Demonic could qualify as Testament's worst.
The Beach Boys Surfer Girl
The Beatles With the Beatles
The Beatles Beatles for Sale
The Beatles Yellow Submarine
The Mothers of Invention Absolutely Free
The Velvet Underground White Light/White Heat
The Velvet Underground VU
This Heat This Heat
Tom Waits The Black Rider
Voivod Katorz
Wrathchild America 3-D

2.5 average
Aion Aionism
Annihilator Remains
Anthrax We've Come for You All
Production is excellent, and there are a few great songs to be found here. What Doesn't Die evokes feelings of Anthrax's glory days, especially coming after the disappointing Stomp 442 and Volume 8. Taking the Music Back and W.C.F.Y.A. are both pretty good. Aside from everything I mentioned, though, this album was ultimately another overall mediocre John Bush-era release.
Coroner The Unknown Unreleased Tracks (1985-1995)
Look, I get that Coroner is often avant-garde, but a lot of this is just a little too out-there for me. Octopus is really cool and atmospheric, and S.W.A.T. is just awesome, but most of the "ambient" stuff here can really just be thrown away. Also, the recording quality of the live tracks sucks, and it's honestly a little distracting how downtuned the guitars are in the live performances. But hey, the demo tracks with the frontman of Celtic Frost are cool!
Crass The Feeding of the 5000
David Bowie David Bowie
Death Angel Killing Season
Destruction Infernal Overkill
Dream Theater Master of Puppets
LaBrie's voice is clearly not meant for thrash vox. Great performances from everyone else, though.
Eminem Kamikaze
Nice to hear Eminem with genuine fire again. Also nice to see him put out an album that's not a million hours long. Some good tracks on this thing but the last three songs are TRASH, the Tyler bar is quite egregious, and he really should've accepted how bad Revival was. He's shat on Relapse time after time, then has the gall to call Revival a porterhouse? The last part of Not Alike goes crazy though.
Exodus The Atrocity Exhibition: Exhibit A
Not too great. Most of the songs are boring and drag on for a million and one years. With that being said, the best song is the longest one, The Atrocity Exhibition. The Exhibition duology doesn't really sound like Exodus to me, though.
Exodus Impact Is Imminent
Forbidden Distortion
Holy shit, every song on this album drags and drags and drags. Every time I try to listen to it I get bored and want to skip ahead. I sense some good riffs buried in here, but the layer of boredom masking them is just too deep for me to bother digging through.
Hellhammer Apocalyptic Raids
Holocaust (UK) No Man's Land
A disappointing sophomore effort. One wonders why John Mortimer didn't just replace half of these songs with studio recordings of the "new" songs on Live: Hot Curry & Wine.
Husker Du Land Speed Record
Judas Priest Turbo
The cheesiest album Judas Priest would ever put out, and not cheesy in a cool way like Painkiller, but rather cheesy in a "stock glam production, synths, and lame lyrics" way. Locked In is actually not too bad, but when you compare even the best stuff on here to the essential Priest classics, it just doesn't stack up. Rock You All Around the World is almost good on this album, but compare it to a better known fast-paced Judas Priest ripper like Exciter or Hell Bent for Leather and it just doesn't stack up. The lyrics on that one are just fucking stupid too, which is a recurring element through the whole album. To this record's credit, while it does beat the whole "let's try to put a super catchy chorus in" thing to death, it does stick sometimes. Overall, though, there's a pretty good reason this is often regarded as Priest's weakest 80s effort.
Judas Priest Jugulator
Remember how awesome it was when Judas Priest decided to get way heavier out of nowhere on Painkiller, incorporating influences from (then-)contemporary thrash groups? I guess they tried to catch that lightning in a bottle a second time, but now with groove influences. Didn't work out too well. This isn't truly irredeemably horrible, and Tim "Ripper" Owens isn't half bad (except when he's shouting, like at the beginning of Abductors or on a lot of Brain Dead, which may be the worst song on here), but the lame studio effects and the occasional forgettable riffs really drag this down. I can't really say it's Tim Owen's fault that Judas Priest's late 90s attempt to be heavy and cool was more or less a stinker, but Rob could've provided songwriting contributions to make this better. After all, Fight's first album was pretty good and it had some thrash and groove influences too.
Judas Priest Demolition
Like Jugulator, not truly putrid to my ears, but nonetheless quite forgettable. Did they have to throw nu metal and industrial stuff into the mix? Did they have to make all the songs drag for so long? Subterfuge might be the worst Priest song ever made. I sense bits of potential in this, but they're drowned out by mediocrity. Time for me to put on some Stained Class to wash out my ears.
Mayhem Wolf's Lair Abyss
Megadeth Super Collider
This is easily Megadeth's second-worst album. A lot of these songs almost have something going for them, but end up utterly neutered by Dave's corny lyrics and cornier singing. Kingmaker, Dance in the Rain, Built for War, and the Blackest Crow are actually alright, but overall, this was a pretty disappointing release.
Metallica 72 Seasons
Some good riffs, title song and You Must Burn and Crown of Barbed Wire are alright. That's about it though, overall this is the least inspired album Metallica ever made. Every song is way too long and the cool riffs are sparse. This just makes me appreciate Death Magnetic more.
Ministry AmeriKKKant
Misfits Walk Among Us
Motley Crue Theatre of Pain
Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds From Her To Eternity
Outrage (JPN) Blind to Reality
Ozzy Osbourne The Ultimate Sin
Pantera Reinventing the Steel
Pink Floyd More
Post Mortem Festival of Fun
Suicidal Tendencies The Art of Rebellion
Suicidal Tendencies Controlled By Hatred/Feel Like Shit...Deja Vu
Symphony X Symphony X
Not awful or anything, but it just feels very cliche and generic. It's mediocre and unmemorable, and feels like "going through the motions" of the kind of metal Symphony X plays. I do like Rod Tyler's voice, though!
Testament Titans of Creation
The Beach Boys Shut Down Volume 2
The Beach Boys Surfin' U.S.A.
The Beatles Please Please Me
Thinking Fellers Local 282 Lovelyville
Thinking Fellers Local 282 Mother of All Saints
Toxik Breaking Class
It's a real shame that this turned out so mediocre, I loved Think This so dearly that I referenced it in a college essay.
Unto Others Mana
I expected a really cool crossover between gothic post-punk and heavy metal, and I kinda got that? Reminds me of Killing Joke but slightly more conventionally metal. Unfortunately the songs are really samey and the singer's voice gets annoying fast.
Voivod Infini
Warbringer War Without End
There just isn't very much dimension to this. There are some cool riffs and cool leads, and the singer's voice is cool as first until you're twenty minutes into the album, at which point things just feel like a drag. Many parts of it are more than headbangable, but there's nothing that really stands out here. I'm glad that the old school thrash attitude extended to the production. Guitars slice and chug, the drums sound great and have that classic thrash vibe, and overall it doesn't sound too loud or brickwalled. No bass, though.
Wolf Spider Hue of Evil

2.0 poor
Anthrax Volume 8: The Threat Is Real
Anthrax Stomp 442
D.R.I. Definition
Dark Angel We Have Arrived
Sucky vocals, generic riffs, eh drumming. To think this band would one day release Time Does Not Heal...
Devastation Violent Termination
Eminem Encore
Forbidden Green
What a fall from grace. They go from awesome to boring to, on this album, just bad. Next!
Jad Fair & Daniel Johnston It's Spooky
I love Daniel Johnston, but this album...I'm just not feeling it, sorry. (Soundoff #200!)
Megadeth Risk
Honestly? Crush Em is the nadir of Megadeth's discography. I really just don't like this album, even if it has some alright moments. I'll at least admit that Breadline is pretty good.
Ripped Through My Eyes
Shitty trebly mixing, terribly annoying vocals, and utterly unmemorable, samey songwriting. There are a couple interesting grooves here and there, a riff that catches the year, but then either the vocals poop all over it or it goes into some annoying or boring direction.
Savatage Fight for the Rock
At least Hyde and The Edge of Midnight are kinda cool. Lady in Disguise would be way better played by a different sort of band with some different instruments. But man...this is a pretty bad album overall. It has this lame 80s radio rock sound to a lot of it, like they were trying a little too hard to be successful. Nothing nearly as badass as Rage to be found on this record But that's largely the record company's fault, I've heard.
Sepultura Roots
Booooo! The first song is cool...but it's the only worthwhile thing here.
Slayer Diabolus in Musica
What the hell is this, Slayer? Slayer tries to modernize, and they even adopt some nu metal techniques here. You know what this has most in common with nu metal? It sucks.
Slayer God Hates Us All
More nu metal inspired Slayer. I would say that it's only slightly better than Diabolus In Musica, if only because I like Disciple (Man, I love that unexpected outro) and Payback. But two decent songs don't elevate the record above overall dreck level. Good thing they snapped out of this with Christ Illusion and the excellent World Painted Blood.
Testament First Strike Still Deadly
The production isn't even as good as Low, and I thought The New Order sounded fine anyways, so the "better production" thing doesn't really do anything for me. This does have plenty of tracks from their fantastic debut The Legacy, which unfortunately suffers from poor, dated production. Now if this would have been exclusively songs from The Legacy and similarly poorly produced Souls of Black...I still would have been disappointed, because as it is, this album takes tracks from Testament's classic first two albums...and sucks all the life and old school charm out of them! They just don't sound as fun with Chuck Billy's changed voice. Or with guitars tuned to Drop-D.
The Beach Boys Surfin' Safari

1.5 very poor
Black Flag What The...
Sometimes you really can judge a book by its cover. Good lord, that was shit.
Farrah Abraham My Teenage Dream Ended
Megadeth Breadline
Pantera Metal Magic
IN THIS DAY AND TIME...OF METAL MAGIC...WE NEED...ROCK AND ROLL...WE NEED...a much better album. The title track's riffage is actually slightly neat, and the first song's kinda catchy, but the vocals are so, so awful, and most of the album just sucks.
Queensryche Dedicated to Chaos
The Beach Boys Little Deuce Coupe

1.0 awful
100 Gecs 1000 gecs
Aftermath There Is Something Wrong
This is seriously fucking awful. What a joke, easily the worst ""tech thrash"" album I've ever heard and one of the very worst albums I have ever heard period.
Crazy Frog Crazy Frog Presents Crazy Hits
any of you guys remember that thing on funnyjunk where crazyfrog sounds would play in the background to a picture of a formula one racing vehicle and you were supposed to not laugh
Eminem Revival
Girls With Attitude Girls With Attitude
Hello Kitty Suicide Club ^_^
I, uh...wow. Someone show this to Joel from Vinesauce, he'd be absolutely flabbergasted at the idea of MIDI grindcore.
Ironic Punishment Division Trigger Warning
Lou Reed Metal Machine Music
Lou Reed and Metallica Lulu
Human fecal matter varies significantly in appearance, depending on diet and health. Normally it is semisolid, with a mucus coating. Its brown coloration comes from a combination of bile and bilirubin, which comes from dead red blood cells. Human fecal matter can even take audio form, as exemplified by the 2011 collaboration album Lulu by Lou Reed and Metallica...It's been three years, but the scars still remain. Cool parts of tracks like Frustration and Iced Honey, or even the admittedly beautiful first three minutes of Cheat On Me, just can't save this absolute fucking disaster. The greatest crime here is Little Dog, which goes absolutely fucking nowhere for eight goddamn minutes. I actively despise this album. May it swallow my sharpest cutter like a colored man's dick. (EDIT Dec. 2018 - I respect their artistic intent and appreciate what they were going for more now. They really tried, but this still sucks, sorry.)
Mike Love Unleash the Love
This album should be a meme near the level of Angelic 2 the Core
Pantera History of Hostility
Seriously, who buys a 9-track compilation CD these days? Why would you want to have this?
Pokemon Pokemon Christmas Bash
Soulja Boy Souljaboytellem.com
I wanted to make the whole shoutout just say "YOOOOU" extended to fifty characters, but I got a white page that just said "No" when I tried to post it : (
The Beach Boys Summer in Paradise
Thrash Queen Manslayer
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