| 4.0 excellent |
| A Lot Like Birds No Place |
| After the Burial In Dreams |
| After the Burial Rareform |
| Alter Bridge Blackbird |
| Alter Bridge Fortress |
| As I Lay Dying Shadows Are Security |
| As I Lay Dying An Ocean Between Us |
| August Burns Red Messengers |
| Between the Buried and Me Between the Buried and Me |
| Born of Osiris The Discovery |
| Bring Me the Horizon Sempiternal |
| Burzum Filosofem |
| Cattle Decapitation The Anthropocene Extinction |
| People are going to hate this, that's an inevitability. Basically if you enjoyed Monolith, this won't disappoint. It gets a tad repetitive and formulaic, but overall it's a fun album that never lets up. (And if you've ever seen these guys live, you'll know that was the point) |
| Chronographs Nausea |
| CKY Volume 1 |
| Converge You Fail Me |
| Converge No Heroes |
| Dance Gavin Dance Instant Gratification |
| This comes out the same day as GTA 5 on PC. Now all I need is weed to be legalized in MO and I can declare this an official holiday. But really, on a serious note, this album is gonna be great. This is Tillian's album 100%, no Jonny. Plus, have you heard those sexy bass lines?! Awwww yeah, that's my fetish. |
| Dance Gavin Dance Downtown Battle Mountain |
| Darkest Hour The Human Romance |
| Deafheaven Roads to Judah |
| Devil Sold His Soul Belong/Betray |
| Devin Townsend Project Addicted |
| Devin Townsend Project Ki |
| Emarosa Versus |
| Emarosa Versus (Reimagined) |
| ERRA Augment |
| Not only completely dashing from "The Second LP Curse" but also making small creative changes in their already strong formula, Erra returns with a highlight in modern melodic metalcore greatness. It truly amazes me with each listen how much weight and varied song-structure each song carries. I look forward to future releases. |
| Fall Out Boy From Under the Cork Tree |
| Fallujah Nomadic |
| Fear Factory Archetype |
| A band that brings back so many amazing memories and an album that took them to the next level, Fear Factory's classic industral/alternative/prog metal trip left me with a new palate of musical influence. A departure of the story driven man vs. machine narratives and only rarely venturing into the squeaky-clean lands of their previous effort, FF takes the emotional tone to max. |
| Fear Factory Mechanize |
| FKA Twigs LP1 |
| Fort Minor The Rising Tied |
| Glassjaw Coloring Book |
| Hans Zimmer The Rock |
| Hans Zimmer The Lion King |
| Haste the Day Burning Bridges |
| Jarrod Alonge Beating a Dead Horse |
| Job for a Cowboy Sun Eater |
| Kendrick Lamar Section.80 |
| Killswitch Engage Alive or Just Breathing |
| Lantlos Melting Sun |
| Linkin Park Meteora |
| Million Dead A Song to Ruin |
| Misery Signals Absent Light |
| Misery Signals Mirrors |
| Monuments (UK) The Amanuensis |
| Mouse On The Keys An Anxious Object |
| Oh, Sleeper The Titan |
| Oh, Sleeper Children of Fire |
| Parkway Drive Atlas |
| Pierce the Veil Collide with the Sky |
| Protest the Hero Kezia |
| Red (USA) Innocence and Instinct |
| Refused Freedom |
| Revocation Deathless |
| Revocation Teratogenesis |
| Rinoa An Age Among Them |
| Shai Hulud Misanthropy Pure |
| Silent Planet The Night God Slept |
| Skillet Collide |
| Structures All of the Above |
| Sufjan Stevens Carrie and Lowell |
| The Black Dahlia Murder Everblack |
| The Black Dahlia Murder Miasma |
| The Black Dahlia Murder Unhallowed |
| The Contortionist Language |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Ire Works |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Miss Machine |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan One of Us Is the Killer |
| The Ongoing Concept Saloon |
| The Tony Danza Tapdance Extravaganza Danza IIII: The Alpha - The Omega |
| Thy Art Is Murder Hate |
| Thy Art Is Murder Holy War |
| Times of Grace The Hymn of a Broken Man |
| Underoath Ø (Disambiguation) |
| United Nations The Next Four Years |
| Combining the bare-bones of both grind, emo and black metal genres then violently mixing them into a chaotic yet beautiful collection of 11 over-the-top tracks, United Nations does exactly what Geoff Rickly wanted since the start of the band back in 2005; stand out. This is definitely Best-of-2014 material. |
| Veil of Maya Eclipse |
| Volumes Via |
| Not only a "catchy as fuck" LP but ultimately something that grips the emotional side of metal with open-minded lyrical passages and exceptional approach towards groovey stucture, Volumes hit the nail on the head with this first release. While I usually gripe about originality in most of my reviews, something about this album feels somewhat like a comfortable familiar instead of recycled lost ambition. Truly an album I'm glad to own in it's physical form. |
| 2.5 average |
| All That Remains ...For We Are Many |
| Attila Rage |
| Born of Osiris Tomorrow We Die Alive |
| Bring Me the Horizon Suicide Season |
| Cattle Decapitation Karma.Bloody.Karma |
| Cattle Decapitation Humanure |
| Daughters Hell Songs |
| Daughtry Daughtry |
| Disturbed Believe |
| Disturbed The Sickness |
| DragonForce Inhuman Rampage |
| Drake Nothing Was the Same |
| ERRA Moments of Clarity |
| Evanescence Fallen |
| Fall Out Boy Save Rock and Roll |
| I See Stars The End of the World Party |
| I Set My Friends On Fire You Can't Spell Slaughter Without Laughter |
| Imagine Dragons Night Visions |
| Issues Issues |
| Iwrestledabearonce Iwrestledabearonce |
| Iwrestledabearonce It's All Happening |
| Iwrestledabearonce Ruining It for Everybody |
| Iwrestledabearonce Hail Mary |
| Writing a full review would be a waste of time for an album like this. A better title; HAIL FILLER. It shows promise with some new members and tight instrumentals, but left me skipping through almost every track. The vocals are so lazy and unbearable that their first EP looks like a godsend. |
| Jay-Z Magna Carta... Holy Grail |
| Jay-Z The Blueprint 3 |
| Jay-Z The Blueprint²: The Gift & the Curse |
| Killswitch Engage Disarm the Descent |
| While pushing forward with a old/new vocalist and a more mello-thrash based sound first heard in Adam and Jessie's side project, Killswitch Engage pulls off an emotional but ultimately forgettable release. Most will see, like myself, their lead singles are the only saving grace for these once captivating artists. |
| Korn Korn III: Remember Who You Are |
| Korn See You on the Other Side |
| Linkin Park Minutes to Midnight |
| Linkin Park A Thousand Suns |
| Make Them Suffer Old Souls |
| I didn't find a single song that could hold my attention. Best deathcore release ever? No, I'm pretty sure The Contortionist still holds that title. |
| Miss May I At Heart |
| Nothing More Nothing More |
| Parkway Drive Deep Blue |
| Patrick Stump Soul Punk |
| Periphery Periphery II: This Time It's Personal |
| Using an unbelievability toppling amount of copy-and-pasted material from their first outstanding album, Periphery proves that what had made them special to many in the first place was nothing more than a one night stand. .... that was a very awkward metaphor. |
| Revocation Existence Is Futile |
| Senses Fail Let It Enfold You |
| Skillet Comatose |
| Structures Life Through a Window |
| T.I. Paper Trail |
| Taylor Swift 1989 |
| The Contortionist Intrinsic |
| The Devil Wears Prada Dead Throne |
| The Devil Wears Prada 8:18 |
| The Word Alive Real. |
| Underoath They're Only Chasing Safety |
| Volumes No Sleep |
| As a fan beginning from their first EP release, this was a let down that I had not expected from a band that obviously had the right idea in mind. While the lyrics and inclusion of more believable clean vocals feels on-par with Via, the overall production became the ax for this album. Listening to the pre-production of "Vahle" and the same song on this LP is somewhat cringing to my poor, little djenty heart... (fuck me, I know.) |
| We Came As Romans To Plant a Seed |
| We Came As Romans Understanding What We've Grown to Be |
| Whitechapel Our Endless War |
| Whitechapel A New Era of Corruption |
| World Under Blood Tactical |
