| 4.5 superb |
| Agalloch Ashes Against the Grain |
| Amon Amarth Fate of Norns |
| Anathema We're Here Because We're Here |
| Animals as Leaders Animals as Leaders |
| Animosity Animal |
| Animosity, Kurt Ballou, and Guy Kozowyk > you. Don't call this deathcore. |
| Anthrax Among The Living |
| Aphex Twin Richard D. James Album |
| Arghoslent Hornets of the Pogrom |
| omg riffs omg riffs omg riffs omg riffs omg riffs omg riffs omg riffs omg riffs omg riffs omg riffs omg riffs omg riffs |
| Arsis A Diamond for Disease |
| Arsis We Are the Nightmare |
| Arsis maintain the devastating technicality from United In Regret and decided to throw in a plethora of hooks this time around. The production also has improved by leaps and bounds, making this the most accessible Arsis album to date, despite the constant flurry of fretboard acrobatics. Darren Cesca's drum performance here is also almost too much to take. Almost. |
| Arsis Lepers Caress |
| Can all the sputnik hipsters (hopeless cunts) who read Tyler Munro's United in Regret review from years ago and decided it was cool to dislike Arsis finally fuck off now? |
| At the Gates Purgatory Unleashed: Live at Wacken |
| Baroness Red Album |
| This album sounds the same way John Baizley looks. In the words of Channing Freeman: Fucking BURLY. |
| Baroness Yellow and Green |
| Bathory Blood Fire Death |
| Behemoth Demigod |
| Between the Buried and Me Alaska |
| Between the Buried and Me The Silent Circus |
| Between the Buried and Me The Parallax: Hypersleep Dialogues |
| Black Sabbath Paranoid |
| Blackalicious Blazing Arrow |
| Blind Guardian Somewhere Far Beyond |
| Bloodbath Unblessing the Purity |
| Bob Dylan Blood on the Tracks |
| Bon Iver For Emma, Forever Ago |
| Borknagar Empiricism |
| Botch An Anthology of Dead Ends |
| Buried Inside Chronoclast |
| Burzum Hvis Lyset Tar Oss |
| Cannibal Corpse Live Cannibalism |
| Cannibal Corpse The Bleeding |
| Cannibal Corpse Bloodthirst |
| Carcass Heartwork |
| Carcass Necroticism: Descanting the Insalubrious |
| Charles Mingus Mingus Ah Um |
| Charles Mingus The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady |
| Charles Mingus Epitaph |
| Chelsea Wolfe Ἀποκάλυψις |
| Children of Bodom Hatebreeder |
| Circle Takes The Square As the Roots Undo |
| Circle Takes The Square Decompositions: Volume Number One |
| Cloudkicker Beacons |
| Coalesce 0:12 Revolution in Just Listening |
| Comus First Utterance |
| Converge You Fail Me |
| Converge When Forever Comes Crashing |
| Converge Axe to Fall |
| Cradle of Filth Midian |
| Cradle of Filth Vempire or Dark Fairytales in Phallustei |
| Cynic Traced in Air |
| Cynic Carbon-Based Anatomy |
| Darkthrone Transilvanian Hunger |
| Darkthrone A Blaze in the Northern Sky |
| Darkthrone The Underground Resistance |
| Death Symbolic |
| Death Individual Thought Patterns |
| Death Grips The Money Store |
| Decapitated Winds of Creation |
| Deftones Diamond Eyes |
| Deftones Deftones |
| Devin Townsend Ocean Machine: Biomech |
| Devin Townsend Infinity |
| Disillusion Back To Times Of Splendor |
| Dismember Like an Everflowing Stream |
| DJ Shadow Endtroducing..... |
| Down Diary Of A Mad Band |
| Edge of Sanity Crimson II |
| Electric Wizard Supercoven |
| Electric Wizard Come My Fanatics... |
| Eminem The Slim Shady LP |
| Emperor Anthems to the Welkin at Dusk |
| Empty Space Orchestra Empty Space Orchestra |
| Enslaved Axioma Ethica Odini |
| Entombed Left Hand Path |
| Every Time I Die The Big Dirty |
| It's as gritty as it is catchy and as as heavy as it is fun. The Big Dirty is Every Time I Die's most consistent album and one of the better metalcore albums to be released. Combining quality southern-rock influenced riffs with time-signature flipping breakdowns and a great sense of humor, this really isn't something anyone should miss. It's just a great time. Burly dudes playing burly metal for burly fans. |
| Eyehategod Dopesick |
| Eyehategod Take As Needed For Pain |
| Faith No More Angel Dust |
| Gaza No Absolutes In Human Suffering |
| heavier than the heaviest of heavies plus atheism |
| Ghostface Killah Ironman |
| Glassjaw Worship and Tribute |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor F#A# (Infinity) |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor F#A#(Infinity) [Vinyl] |
| Gojira From Mars To Sirius |
| Gorguts From Wisdom to Hate |
| Gorod Leading Vision |
| Hacksaw to the Throat Wastelands |
| Disregard the band's ridiculous name, this album seriously gives 2007's progressive metal giants like Between the Buried and Me's Colors and The Ocean's Precambrian a serious run for their money. While Wastelands is deeply rooted in a melodeath sound, it's still easily one of the best examples of effective prog-metal songwriting I've come across in months. Every sputnik member who listens to metal owes it to them to get Wastelands as quickly as possible. A criminally under-covered album on this website. REVIEW SOON! |
| Hank Williams 40 Greatest Hits |
| Herbie Hancock Headhunters |
| High on Fire Death Is This Communion |
| Iced Earth Burnt Offerings |
| Iced Earth's early days were only up to par, so the band had no where to go but up at this point. After sever lineup changes and the addition of vocalist Matt Barlow, Iced Earth had finally had an incredible band which could only create the band's best album of their careers. Burnt Offerings still remains to be one of the best power metal releases to ever hit the scene because of guitarist Jon Schaffers incredible songwriting being accompanied by some of Barlows finest moments in the band. This album starts strongly and never really lets up for the entire time. This album also contains the most epic power metal song ever, and possibly the most epic song ever concieved, Dantes Inferno. This sixteen minute masterpiece takes the listener through the circles of hell and leaves you breathless by the end. For those of you who are willing to have an album dominate your ears for weeks, maybe even months to come, buy this. |
| Immolation Close to a World Below |
| Immolation Majesty and Decay |
| Immolation Here in After |
| Immortal Sons of Northern Darkness |
| Insect Warfare World Extermination |
| Intronaut Prehistoricisms |
| Iron Maiden Live After Death |
| Isis Panopticon |
| Isis Wavering Radiant |
| Jay-Z Reasonable Doubt |
| Jeff Buckley Grace |
| Johnny Cash At San Quentin |
| Justin Timberlake The 20/20 Experience |
| Karnivool Sound Awake |
| Kayo Dot Choirs of the Eye |
| KEN mode Venerable |
| King Crimson Red |
| King Diamond Abigail |
| Koji Kondo The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time OST |
| Koji Kondo The Legend of Zelda 25th Anniversary Symphony |
| Lamb of God As the Palaces Burn |
| Wow, the New Wave of American Heavy Metal sure does suck, right? For the most part it's rather boring, but Lamb of God's sophomore album really was a ray of light in this dark period of American metal. The band's last album wasn't nearly as strong as it could have been, so these guys really stepped up their game on this release and have released what I think to be one of the strongest metal albums to have come out in the past ten years. This album is heavy from start to finish and barely even features any sort of clean guitars. Amongst the wailing of technical guitar riffs there are very solid drum beats from Chris Adler and some impressive vocal work from Randy Blythe. Some songs like Ruin, 11th Hour, and Vigil will leave you speechless after listening, so get to it. This is a metal album that should not be missed. |
| Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin IV |
| Lye By Mistake Arrangements For Fulminating Vective |
| Everyone on sputnik should really check out these guys, and soon. Think Calculating Infinity meets Focus meets Spastic Ink-level shredding, with a ton of experimentation to boot. A must have for all listeners of technical, progressive, and psychotic music. |
| Mahavishnu Orchestra Birds Of Fire |
| Mastodon Blood Mountain |
| This album really lived up to all of the hype it received this past year. The band has finally harnessed all of their skills to create their strongest album to date. All twelve songs on the album offer something new and exciting to listen to, and follow an epic tale to please any headbanger out there. The guitar work has improved a ton since their past albums, as has the bass work. The drumming has become less chaotic to bring the band closer together, but still packs a really mean punch. I can?t really find anything wrong with Blood Mountain at all. In short, pick it up. It?s well worth your time. |
| Mastodon Crack the Skye |
| Imagine if Mastodon took the strongest elements of "Sleeping Giant", "Hearts Alive", and "Pendulous Skin" and made an entire album out of them. Add a terrific (and crushing) vocal performance from Neurosis' Scott Kelly, improved clean vocals from both Troy and Brent, and an overall knack for combining thinking-man's metal with catchy hooks simultaneously. In short, Crack the Skye isn't something you should miss. Inevitably one of the strongest metal releases of the year. |
| maudlin of the Well Leaving Your Body Map |
| Maybeshewill Sing The Word Hope In Four-Part Harmony |
| Megadeth Rust in Peace |
| Melvins Houdini |
| Melvins Lysol |
| Meshuggah Catch Thirtythree |
| Meshuggah Chaosphere |
| Meshuggah Nothing [Re-release] |
| Metallica ...And Justice for All |
| Michael Jackson Bad |
| Miles Davis Kind of Blue |
| Minus the Bear Planet of Ice |
| Monstrosity Millenium |
| Moonsorrow V: Havitetty |
| Morbid Angel Altars of Madness |
| Morbid Angel Domination |
| Mudvayne L.D. 50 |
| Just when metal fans out there thought that everything nu-metal had to offer had been brought to the table, along came Mudvayne. L.D. 50 is not only the best nu-metal album of all time, it's one of the best metal albums to come out in the past decade. This album really proved the world wrong that nu-metal bands couldn't play complex music, courtesy of fantastic polyrhythmic drumming and some of the best bass playing ever to grace the metal scene. Chad Grey's vocals are also impressive, accompanied by some lyrics way beyond what the genre had done in the past. If you've never been a fan of nu-metal, give this a chance. It's way beyond what you've ever heard the genre offer before. |
| Muse Origin of Symmetry |
| Nails Abandon All Life |
| Nas Illmatic |
| Nasum Shift |
| Necrophagist Onset of Putrefaction |
| Necrophobic The Nocturnal Silence |
| Neurosis Through Silver in Blood |
| Neurosis A Sun That Never Sets |
| Neurosis Honor Found in Decay |
| Nick Drake Pink Moon |
| Nine Inch Nails The Downward Spiral |
| Nine Inch Nails The Fragile |
| Nobuo Uematsu Final Fantasy VI: Original Soundtrack |
| Nobuo Uematsu Final Fantasy VII: Original Soundtrack |
| Nobuo Uematsu Final Fantasy VIII: Original Soundtrack |
| Opeth Still Life |
| Opeth Morningrise |
| Opeth Deliverance |
| Opeth age like fine wine. Their albums get so much better with age, and this is no exception. While it doesn't quite match up with their last album Blackwater Park, it comes damn close. Featuring five of some of the band's heaviest material of all time, this album barely ever lets up to let you breathe. Every member of the band displays some very advanced musicianship, as there are always some very technical and enjoyable riffs to listen to. Mixed in with the chaotic riffing and incredibly brutal vocals there are lovely acoustic sections with beautiful clean vocals courtesy of metal's finest vocalist, Mikael Akerfeldt. It doesn't matter what you listen to, you need this album. |
| Opeth Damnation |
| Opeth Heritage |
| Opeth returns in 2011 with a proggy affair. There are two kinds of records, those with and those without prog. Fortunately, Opeth recognizes the need for prog and fufills the progginess with unabashed prog. Whereas Watershed lacked prog, Heritage put the music on the prog train to progville. Proggy riffs and vocals combine with a proggy rythmn section bolstered by proggy songwriting. Overall, Heritage is an incredibly proggy event, a fantastic star studded evening of prog if you will. |
| Orphaned Land Mabool (The Story of the Three Sons...) |
| Overkill Horrorscope |
| Pantera Vulgar Display Of Power |
| Pelican Australasia |
| Periphery Periphery |
| Pig Destroyer Phantom Limb |
| Pig Destroyer Terrifyer |
| Pink Floyd The Dark Side of the Moon |
| Pink Floyd Meddle |
| Pink Floyd Is There Anybody Out There? |
| Primus Frizzle Fry |
| Propagandhi Failed States |
| Protest the Hero Kezia |
| Protest the Hero Fortress |
| Public Enemy It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us |
| R.A. The Rugged Man Die, Rugged Man, Die |
| Radiohead The Bends |
| Radiohead Kid A |
| Raekwon Only Built 4 Cuban Linx... |
| Rage Against the Machine Evil Empire |
| Rage Against the Machine Live at the Grand Olympic Auditorium |
| Rage Against the Machine Live At The Grand Olympic Auditorium (DVD) |
| Robert Johnson The Complete Recordings |
| Rush A Farewell to Kings |
| Rush Moving Pictures |
| Saint Vitus Born Too Late |
| Say Anything In Defense of the Genre |
| Scar Symmetry Holographic Universe |
| Scar Symmetry release a modern melodic death metal album that doesn't sound like it's ripping off Slaughter of the Soul the entire time. While that should be enough to get you to listen to Holographic Universe, throw in a solid instrumental performance on all fronts and more vocal hooks than you'll ever be able to remember. The title track might also be the song of the year. A must have for metal in 2008. |
| Shrinebuilder Shrinebuilder |
| SikTh The Trees Are Dead and Dried Out |
| Slayer Seasons in the Abyss |
| Slayer South of Heaven |
| Sleep Sleep's Holy Mountain |
| Sodom Persecution Mania |
| Spawn of Possession Cabinet |
| Spawn of Possession Noctambulant |
| Spawn of Possession Incurso |
| This is the album that bands like Origin, Decrepit Birth, and Obscura wish they could write. The five year wait has certainly paid off in spades. |
| Stevie Ray Vaughan Texas Flood |
| Stevie Ray Vaughan Greatest Hits |
| Strapping Young Lad City |
| Streetlight Manifesto Somewhere in the Between |
| Suffocation Effigy of the Forgotten |
| Swans Soundtracks for the Blind |
| Swans Children of God |
| System of a Down Toxicity |
| System of a Down System of a Down |
| Tenacious D Tenacious D |
| TesseracT One |
| The Beatles The Beatles |
| The Beatles Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band |
| The Carrier No Love Can Save Me |
| The Devin Townsend Project Ki |
| The Devin Townsend Project Addicted |
| The Devin Townsend Project Ghost |
| The Devin Townsend Project By A Thread: Live in London 2011 |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Miss Machine |
WITHOUT MY EXISTENCE
YOU AREEEEEEEEEE
NOTHINGGGGGGGG |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Irony Is a Dead Scene |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Option Paralysis |
This album proves two very important things:
1. The Dillinger Escape Plan doesn't need Chris Pennie to make a kick ass album.
2. Ire Works really was just a fluke. |
| The Faceless Akeldama |
| The Faceless Planetary Duality |
| The Mars Volta Octahedron |
| The Mars Volta De-Loused in the Comatorium |
| The Ocean Pelagial |
| The Pax Cecilia Blessed Are The Bonds |
| The Red Chord Prey for Eyes |
| The Red Chord Fed Through the Teeth Machine |
| The Red Chord stray further and further away from their hardcore/metalcore influences and take the sounds developed on Prey For Eyes in an even faster, more death metal-influenced direction. The band, despite losing a second guitar player, still sounds as menacing as always, introducing groove in songs like "Hymns and Crippled Anthems" and loads of melody in "Hour of Rats" and "Mouthful of Precious Stones", while still maintaining loads of breakdowns and ugly, dissonant leads that The Red Chord has become known so well for. One of the most badass records of 2009. |
| Thrice The Alchemy Index Vols. I & II |
| Thrice Vheissu |
| Tom Waits Mule Variations |
| Ulver Bergtatt |
| Underoath Lost in the Sound of Separation |
| A few weeks ago I never thought this album would be on here, but man this one is a grower. Underoath have really improved over the past years, and have finally released a truly superb album. LITSOS is just a perfect placement of songs; the slower and lighter songs come at all the right times and the heavy songs will bring you back in with a dissonant, hardcore flurry. Both vocalists are also on the top of the game and always draw me in on a very personal and emotional level. A killer album! |
| Underoath Define the Great Line |
| Unearth III: In the Eyes of Fire |
| United Nations United Nations |
| Voivod Nothingface |
| Wintersun Wintersun |
| Wolves in the Throne Room Diadem of 12 Stars |
| Wormrot Dirge |
| Probably the best death/grind record since Insect Warfare's World Extermination. The craziest metal I've yet to hear in 2011, and it's only eighteen minutes long. |
| Yes Fragile |
| 4.0 excellent |
| *shels Sea of the Dying Dhow |
| *shels Plains Of The Purple Buffalo |
| 7 Angels 7 Plagues Jhazmyne's Lullaby |
| 7 Horns 7 Eyes Throes Of Absolution |
| A Perfect Circle Thirteenth Step |
| A Wilhelm Scream Career Suicide |
| Adramelech Psychostasia |
| Agalloch The Mantle |
| Agalloch Pale Folklore |
| Agalloch Faustian Echoes |
| Akercocke Antichrist |
| Alice in Chains Dirt |
| Alice in Chains MTV Unplugged |
| All Pigs Must Die God is War |
| All Shall Perish The Price Of Existence |
| All That Remains The Fall of Ideals |
| Amia Venera Landscape The Long Procession |
| Amon Amarth Versus the World |
| Amon Amarth With Oden On Our Side |
| Anata The Conductor's Departure |
| Anata The Infernal Depths of Hatred |
| Anathema Weather Systems |
| Anathema Judgement |
| Animal Collective Strawberry Jam |
| Animals as Leaders Weightless |
| Anthrax Spreading The Disease |
| Aphex Twin Come To Daddy |
| Aphex Twin Selected Ambient Works 85-92 |
| Aphex Twin Selected Ambient Works, Vol. II |
| Arch Enemy Doomsday Machine |
| Arcturus The Sham Mirrors |
| Arkaik Reflections Within Dissonance |
| Arkaik Metamorphignition |
| Army Of The Pharaohs The Torture Papers |
| Arsis United in Regret |
| Arsis Unwelcome |
| Unwelcome is a modern slab of melodic death metal at its finest that's also flashier than most of its peers. That being said, the album is also constantly a middle-finger to anyone who takes the genre a tad too seriously. While it's not as earth-shattering as some of their earlier material, it shows Arsis settling into a more-than-deserved comfort zone, seamlessly incorporating sounds from their entire catalog. Also, the Corey Hart cover rules. |
| As Oceans Enough Light to Warrant the Contrast |
| Assuck Misery Index |
| At the Drive-In Relationship of Command |
| At the Gates With Fear I Kiss the Burning Darkness |
| At the Gates Terminal Spirit Disease |
| Atheist Elements |
| Atheist Piece of Time |
| Atheist Jupiter |
| August Burns Red Constellations |
| Autopsy Severed Survival |
| Autopsy Mental Funeral |
| Baroness Blue Record |
| Bathory Hammerheart |
| Bathory Under the Sign of the Black Mark |
| Beastie Boys Paul's Boutique |
| Behemoth Evangelion |
| Behemoth Zos Kia Cultus (Here And Beyond) |
| Behemoth Abyssus Abyssum Invocat |
| Bereft Leichenhaus |
| Between the Buried and Me Between the Buried and Me |
| Between the Buried and Me Colors_Live |
| Between the Buried and Me The Great Misdirect |
| With The Great Misdirect, it seems that Between the Buried and Me have no interest in being associated with the metalcore scene they once dominated. Instead, it seems like they're more interested in being associated with progressive metal giants like Dream Theater and Opeth (who they shared the stage with not one year ago). The Great Misdirect is filled to the brim with guitar solos, time-changes on a dime, and more genre-hopping than Colors, only this time it feels much less forced. While BTBAM's latest isn't quite as ambitious as their previous outing, it's still an incredibly impressive album that just shows the band becoming even more comfortable in their own shoes and realizing just how damn talented they really are. Plus, the drum solo in "Swim to the Moon" is worth just about anyone's attention. |
| Between the Buried and Me The Parallax II: Future Sequence |
| Black Sabbath Mob Rules |
| Black Sabbath Volume 4 |
| Black Sabbath Sabbath Bloody Sabbath |
| Black Sabbath Live Evil |
| Black Sabbath Symptom of the Universe |
| Black Sheep Wall No Matter Where It Ends |
| Black Star Black Star |
| Blackalicious A2G |
| Bloodbath Nightmares Made Flesh |
| Bloodbath The Wacken Carnage |
| Blotted Science The Machinations Of Dementia |
| Blotted Science The Animation of Entomology |
| Blut Aus Nord 777 - Sect(s) |
| Bob Dylan The Times They Are A-Changin' |
| Bob Dylan The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan |
| Bon Iver Bon Iver |
| Borknagar Epic |
| Botch American Nervoso |
| Brand New Daisy |
| Brand New The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me |
| Burst Lazarus Bird |
| Burzum Filosofem |
| BUS Moving People |
| Camel Moonmadness |
| Camel Mirage |
| Candlemass Nightfall |
| Candlemass Epicus Doomicus Metallicus |
| Cannabis Corpse Tube Of The Resinated |
| Cannabis Corpse Beneath Grow Lights Thou Shalt Rise |
| Cannibal Corpse Evisceration Plague |
| Cannibal Corpse Vile |
| Cannibal Corpse Gallery of Suicide |
| Cannibal Corpse The Wretched Spawn |
| Cannibal Corpse Torture |
| Catch 22 Keasbey Nights |
| Cathedral Forest of Equilibrium |
| Celtic Frost To Mega Therion |
| Cephalic Carnage Misled by Certainty |
| Cephalic Carnage Lucid Interval |
| Charles Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus |
| Children of Bodom Something Wild |
| Children of Bodom Follow the Reaper |
| Children of Bodom Tokyo Warhearts |
| Chimp Spanner Imperium Vorago |
| Circle Takes The Square Rites of Initiation |
| Cities Aviv Digital Lows |
| Cloudkicker The Discovery |
| Cloudkicker ]]][[[ |
| Clutch Robot Hive/Exodus |
| Coalesce OX |
| Coalesce Functioning on Impatience |
| Coalesce Give Them Rope, She Said |
| Coheed and Cambria From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness |
| Coheed and Cambria Year of the Black Rainbow |
| This is the album I've been wanting Coheed and Cambria to write for years now. |
| Coheed and Cambria The Afterman: Ascension |
| Conducting From the Grave Revenants |
| Converge No Heroes |
| Converge Petitioning the Empty Sky |
| Converge All We Love We Leave Behind |
| Converge and Napalm Death Split |
| Cradle of Filth The Principle of Evil Made Flesh |
| Cradle of Filth Dusk... and Her Embrace |
| Cradle of Filth Live Bait for the Dead |
| Crowbar Odd Fellows Rest |
| Crowbar Crowbar |
| Crowbar Time Heals Nothing |
| Cryptopsy Blasphemy Made Flesh |
| Cryptopsy Cryptopsy |
| Surprisingly and unexpectedly the band's best album since None So Vile and the best Cryptopsy album without Lord Worm. |
| Cult of Luna Salvation |
| Cursed II |
| Cursed III: Architects of Troubled Sleep |
| Cynic The Portal Tapes |
| Cypress Hill Black Sunday |
| Daft Punk Discovery |
| Dan Swano Moontower |
| Danger Mouse The Grey Album |
| Danny Elfman The Nightmare Before Christmas |
| Dark Angel Darkness Descends |
| Dark Tranquillity Character |
| Dark Tranquillity Fiction |
| Dark Tranquillity The Gallery |
| Darkest Hour Deliver Us |
| Darkest Hour Undoing Ruin |
| Darkthrone Under a Funeral Moon |
| Dave Weckl Band Live (And Very Plugged In) |
| David Gilmour On An Island |
| Daylight Dies Dismantling Devotion |
| Daylight Dies A Frail Becoming |
| De La Soul Buhloone Mindstate |
| Dead Congregation Graves of the Archangels |
| Dead Kennedys Fresh Fruit For Rotting Vegetables |
| Death The Sound of Perseverance |
| Death Live in L.A.: Death & Raw |
| Death Leprosy |
| Death Live in Eindhoven |
| Death Grips Exmilitary |
| Death Grips No Love Deep Web |
| Deathchain Deathrash Assault |
| Deathspell Omega Paracletus |
| Decapitated Nihility |
| Decapitated The First Damned |
| Decrepit Birth Polarity |
| Deftones White Pony |
| Deftones Saturday Night Wrist |
| Deftones Koi No Yokan |
| Deltron 3030 Deltron 3030 |
| Demigod Slumber of Sullen Eyes |
| Demilich Nespithe |
| Destruction Release From Agony |
| Devin Townsend Ziltoid the Omniscient |
| Dimmu Borgir Puritanical Euphoric Misanthropia |
| Dio Holy Diver - Live |
| Dio The Last in Line |
| Dismember The God That Never Was |
| Dismember Indecent & Obscene |
| Dissection The Somberlain |
| Dissection Rebirth Of Dissection DVD |
| Dissection Live Legacy |
| Down Down III: Over The Under |
| Down Down IV Part I - Purple |
| Dr. Dre 2001 |
| Dr. Dre The Chronic |
| Dr. Octagon Dr. Octagonecologyst |
| Dream Theater Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes from a Memory |
| dredg El Cielo |
| Drudkh Blood In Our Wells |
| Dysrhythmia Test Of Submission |
| Easy Star All Stars Dub Side of the Moon |
| Edge of Sanity Purgatory Afterglow |
| Electric Wizard Witchcult Today |
| Electric Wizard We Live |
| Electro Quarterstaff Gretzky |
| Electro Quarterstaff Aykroyd |
| Elliott Smith Either/Or |
| Elliott Smith XO |
| Emperor Emperial Live Ceremony |
| Emperor Prometheus: The Discipline of Fire... |
| Emperor As the Shadows Rise |
| Ensiferum Iron |
| Enslaved Vertebrae |
| Entombed Clandestine |
| Entombed Wolverine Blues |
| Ephel Duath The Painter's Palette |
| Evan Brewer Alone |
| Every Time I Die New Junk Aesthetic |
| Remember when Every Time I Die wrote really fun songs like "We'rewolf" and "INRihab"? Yeah, that's but a distant memory at this point. New Junk Aesthetic is here to whoop ass, make you want to grow a beard, chug a few PBR's, and maybe start a circle pit with those in your immediate area. And for a short and blistering thirty-one minutes, I couldn't ask for more. Check out "Organ Grinder", "For the Record", and "White Smoke" for top notch Botch-influenced metalcore, "Roman Holiday" for a surprisingly crushing intro track, and "The Marvelous Slut" for just a good time. |
| Every Time I Die Hot Damn! |
| Every Time I Die Ex Lives |
| Every Time I Die Sh!t Happens |
| Exhorder Slaughter in the Vatican |
| Explosions in the Sky The Earth is Not a Cold Dead Place |
| Extol Undeceived |
| Eyehategod Confederacy of Ruined Lives |
| Fallujah The Harvest Wombs |
| Fightstar Be Human |
| Frank Ocean Channel Orange |
| Gaza He Is Never Coming Back |
| Gaza I Don't Care Where I Go When I Die |
| Genesis Selling England by the Pound |
| Gentle Giant Acquiring The Taste |
| Gentle Giant Gentle Giant |
| Ghost B.C. Opus Eponymous |
| Ghost B.C. Infestissumam |
| Ghostface Killah Fishscale |
| Ghostface Killah Supreme Clientele |
| Ghoul Splatterthrash |
| Glassjaw Coloring Book |
| Gnostic Engineering the Rule |
| Godflesh Streetcleaner |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor 'Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend! |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas... |
| Gojira The Way of All Flesh |
| Gojira L'Enfant Sauvage |
| Gordian Knot Emergent |
| Gordian Knot Gordian Knot |
| Gorguts Obscura |
| Gorguts The Erosion of Sanity |
| Gorillaz Gorillaz |
| Gorod Neurotripsicks |
| Gorod A Perfect Absolution |
| willfellmarsy doesn't know dick. This is the most complicated and intricate album in the rband's fucking awesome discography. If the jazz guitar section in "Carved In The Wind" rdoesn't please you, I don't know what death metal could.r...and apparently I ruined his day more than this album did. Keep pretending to know more rabout metal than everyone else, if that's what gets you off. And there's no other memorable rjazz parts on the album? Did you even listen to "Varangian Paradise"? Thanks for keeping the rspirit of self-entitled Sputnik elitism alive in 2012. |
| Gorod Transcendence |
| Grayceon Pearl & The End of Days |
| Green Day Insomniac |
| GWAR War Party |
| GWAR Violence Has Arrived |
| Haarp The Filth |
| Heaven and Hell The Devil You Know |
| Helloween Keeper of the Seven Keys Part I |
| Hieronymus Bosch The Human Abstract |
| High on Fire Snakes For The Divine |
| High on Fire De Vermis Mysteriis |
| Hour of Penance The Vile Conception |
| How To Destroy Angels Welcome Oblivion |
| Iced Earth Night of the Stormrider |
| Iced Earth Days of Purgatory |
| Iced Earth Alive In Athens |
| Ihsahn The Adversary |
| Immolation Dawn of Possession |
| Immolation Harnessing Ruin |
| Immolation Providence |
| Immortal At the Heart of Winter |
| Immortal The Seventh Date of Blashyrkh |
| Impaled Northern Moonforest Impaled Northern Moonforest |
| In Flames The Jester Race |
| In Mourning Shrouded Divine |
| Incantation Mortal Throne of Nazarene |
| Incubus S.C.I.E.N.C.E. |
| Incubus Make Yourself |
| Iniquity Serenadium |
| Integrity Humanity Is The Devil |
| Into Eternity The Scattering of Ashes |
| Into Eternity Buried In Oblivion |
| Intronaut Void |
| Intronaut Habitual Levitations |
| Iron & Wine The Shepherd's Dog |
| Iron Maiden Killers |
| Iron Maiden Brave New World |
| Iron Maiden Seventh Son of a Seventh Son |
| Iron Maiden Somewhere in Time |
| Iron Maiden Rock In Rio |
| Iron Maiden Death On The Road |
| Isis Celestial |
| Isis The Red Sea |
| Isis SGNL>05 |
| Isis Pig Destroyer & Isis Split 7'' |
| Jay-Z The Black Album |
| Jay-Z The Blueprint |
| Jedi Mind Tricks Legacy of Blood |
| Jedi Mind Tricks Violent By Design |
| Jesu Silver |
| John Coltrane Giant Steps |
| Journal Unlorja |
| Joy Division Unknown Pleasures |
| Judas Priest Metalogy |
| Kamelot The Black Halo |
| Kataklysm In The Arms Of Devastation |
| Kayo Dot Gamma Knife |
| Kayo Dot Dowsing Anemone With Copper Tongue |
| KEN mode Reprisal |
| KEN mode Entrench |
| so you're busy getting bombarded by awesome hardcore/sludge/noise riffs, frantic drums and schizophrenic vocals and then all of a sudden dave verellen shows up in "the promises of god" and just destroys everything else in this genre of music right now |
| Killer Mike R.A.P. Music |
| King Crimson Discipline |
| King Crimson Larks' Tongues in Aspic |
| King Crimson Lizard |
| King Crimson In the Wake of Poseidon |
| King Crimson THRAK |
| King Crimson The Power to Believe |
| King Diamond "Them" |
| King Diamond Conspiracy |
| Kiuas The New Dark Age |
| Koji Kondo The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask OST |
| Korn Korn |
| Krallice Dimensional Bleedthrough |
| Krallice Years Past Matter |
| Kvelertak Kvelertak |
| Kylesa Spiral Shadow |
| Kylesa Static Tensions |
| Kyuss Blues for the Red Sun |
| Kyuss Queens of The Stone Age Split EP |
| Lamb of God Ashes of the Wake |
| As the Palaces Burn was truly an amazing album, so how would the next one measure up? Ashes of the Wake was made really quickly after AtPB but still manages to impress me with their unrelenting brutality and impressive musicality. This album has also taken the band to a new level of musical skill, where the guitars are starting to play more complicated riffs and starting to solo more. Lamb of God has always been a fun listen and this album still stands as a solid release in their discography. |
| Lamb of God Sacrament |
| Lamb of God Killadelphia |
| Lamb of God Resolution |
| "Straight For The Sun" alone kicks everything from Wrath right in the cunt. Lamb of God is back. |
| Last Chance to Reason Level 2 |
| Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin II |
| Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin III |
| Led Zeppelin Physical Graffiti |
| Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin [DVD] |
| Led Zeppelin How the West Was Won |
| Led Zeppelin BBC Sessions |
| Leviathan Massive Conspiracy Against All Life |
| Light Bearer Lapsus |
| Linkin Park Hybrid Theory |
| Ludacris Word Of Mouf |
| Lynyrd Skynyrd Pronounced Leh-Nerd Skin-Nerd |
| Malevolent Creation Retribution |
| Manchester Orchestra Simple Math |
| Massive Attack Mezzanine |
| Mastodon Remission |
| Mastodon Call of the Mastodon |
| Mastodon The Workhorse Chronicles [DVD] |
| Mastodon The Hunter |
| maudlin of the Well Part the Second |
| Maybeshewill I Was Here For a Moment, Then I Was Gone |
| Maybeshewill Not For Want Of Trying |
| Mayhem Live in Leipzig |
| Megadeth Endgame |
| Megadeth Peace Sells... but Who's Buying? |
| Megiddo The Devil and the Whore |
| Melvins Stoner Witch |
| Melvins A Senile Animal |
| Melvins Stag |
| Melvins Nude With Boots |
| Melvins The Bulls and the Bees |
| Mercyful Fate Don't Break the Oath |
| Meshuggah I |
| Meshuggah Alive |
| Meshuggah Destroy Erase Improve |
| Meshuggah None |
| Meshuggah Koloss |
| Mestis Basal Ganglia |
| Metallica S&M |
| Metallica Live Shit: Binge And Purge |
| mewithoutYou Catch For Us The Foxes |
| Michael Jackson Thriller |
| Michael Jackson HIStory: Past, Present and Future, Book I |
| Minus the Bear Highly Refined Pirates |
| Mirrorthrone Gangrene |
| Mithras Behind the Shadows Lie Madness |
| Mitochondrion Parasignosis |
| Monstrosity Spiritual Apocalypse |
| Moonsorrow Verisakeet |
| Morbid Angel Gateways to Annihilation |
| Morbid Angel Blessed Are the Sick |
| Morbid Angel Covenant |
| Morbid Saint Spectrum of Death |
| Mos Def Black on Both Sides |
| Mos Def The Ecstatic |
| Motorhead Ace of Spades |
| Mudvayne L(ive) D(osage) 50: Live in Peoria DVD |
| Muse Absolution |
| Muse Black Holes and Revelations |
| My Bloody Valentine Loveless |
| My Bloody Valentine m b v |
| Nails Unsilent Death |
| Napalm Death From Enslavement to Obliteration |
| Napalm Death Harmony Corruption |
| Napalm Death The Curse |
| Narrows New Distances |
| Narrows Painted |
| Nas It Was Written |
| Nasum Human 2.0 |
| Necrophagist Epitaph |
| Neurosis Enemy of the Sun |
| Neurosis Given to the Rising |
| Neurosis Souls at Zero |
| Neurosis Sovereign |
| Neutral Milk Hotel In the Aeroplane Over the Sea |
| Nightwish Oceanborn |
| Nirvana Nevermind |
| Nirvana In Utero |
| Nirvana MTV Unplugged in New York (DVD) |
| Nirvana MTV Unplugged in New York |
| No Salvation Faith |
| Nocturnus The Key |
| Obituary Slowly We Rot |
| Obscura Cosmogenesis |
| Old Man Gloom Seminar III: Zozobra |
| Old Man's Child The Pagan Prosperity |
| Om Advaitic Songs |
| Opeth Ghost Reveries |
| Opeth My Arms, Your Hearse |
| Opeth Lamentations |
| Opeth The Roundhouse Tapes |
| Opeth Watershed |
| Ornette Coleman The Shape of Jazz to Come |
| Overkill The Electric Age |
| Overkill Ironbound |
| Pantera Cowboys from Hell |
| Pantera The Great Southern Trendkill |
| Paramore Riot! |
| Pearl Jam Ten |
| Pelican The Fire in Our Throats Will Beckon... |
| Periphery Periphery (Instrumental) |
| Periphery Periphery II: This Time It's Personal |
| Pestilence Consuming Impulse |
| Pestilence Testimony of the Ancients |
| Pig Destroyer Book Burner |
| Pink Floyd Pulse |
| Pink Floyd Delicate Sound of Thunder |
| Pink Floyd Live At Pompeii |
| Pink Floyd Pulse [DVD] |
| Porcupine Tree In Absentia |
| Porcupine Tree Fear of a Blank Planet |
| Portishead Dummy |
| Primus Sailing the Seas of Cheese |
| Propagandhi Supporting Caste |
| Protest the Hero Fortress (Instrumental) |
| Protest the Hero Scurrilous |
| Psycroptic The Scepter of the Ancients |
| Queen A Night at the Opera |
| Queens of the Stone Age Songs for the Deaf |
| Queens of the Stone Age Rated R |
| Quo Vadis Defiant Imagination |
| R.A. The Rugged Man Legendary Classics Vol. 1 |
| R.A. The Rugged Man Legends Never Die |
| Raekwon Only Built 4 Cuban Linx... Pt II |
| Rage Against the Machine The Battle of Los Angeles |
| Rage Against the Machine Live & Rare |
| Rage Against the Machine The Battle of Mexico City (DVD) |
| Rage Against the Machine Testify |
| Rainbow On Stage |
| Rainbow Rising |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers Blood Sugar Sex Magik |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers Californication |
| Refused The Shape of Punk to Come |
| Repulsion Horrified |
| Reverend Bizarre II: Crush The Insects |
| Revocation Existence Is Futile |
| RiFF RAFF The Golden Alien |
| Rise Against The Sufferer and the Witness |
| Rosetta The Galilean Satellites |
| Rosetta A Determinism of Morality |
| Rotten Sound Cursed |
| Rotten Sound Napalm |
| Rush Clockwork Angels |
| Rush Permanent Waves |
| Rush In Rio |
| Rush R30: 30th Anniversary Tour |
| Rush Exit...Stage Left |
| Saint Vitus Lillie: F-65 |
| Satyricon Nemesis Divina |
| Scale The Summit The Collective |
| Scarface Mr. Scarface Is Back |
| Shai Hulud Reach Beyond the Sun |
| Sigh Scenes from Hell |
| SikTh Death of a Dead Day |
| Slayer Hell Awaits |
| Slayer Soundtrack To The Apocalypse |
| Slayer Still Reigning [DVD] |
| Sleep Dopesmoker |
| Slipknot Slipknot |
| Slipknot Vol. 3: (The Subliminal Verses) |
| Slipknot Disasterpieces [DVD] |
| Sodom M-16 |
| Sodom Sodom |
| Sodom Agent Orange |
| Soilent Green A Deleted Symphony For the Beaten Down |
| Solstice (USA-FL) Solstice |
| Soundgarden Superunknown |
| Spastic Ink Ink Complete |
| Storm Corrosion Storm Corrosion |
| Strapping Young Lad Alien |
| Streetlight Manifesto Everything Goes Numb |
| Suffocation Human Waste |
| Suffocation Suffocation |
| Suffocation Pinnacle of Bedlam |
| Sunn O))) Black One |
| Sunn O))) Monoliths and Dimensions |
| Sunn O))) and Boris Altar |
| Swans Cop |
| Symphony X The Divine Wings of Tragedy |
| System of a Down Mezmerize |
| Terrorizer World Downfall |
| TesseracT Altered State |
| TesseracT Concealing Fate |
| The Agonist Lullabies For the Dormant Mind |
| ...and the award for Most Improved Metal Band of 2009 goes to The Agonist. Congrats, fellas. |
| The Avett Brothers I and Love and You |
| The B-52s The B52's |
| The Beatles Revolver |
| The Beatles Let It Be |
| The Beatles Magical Mystery Tour |
| The Beatles Hey Jude |
| The Black Dahlia Murder Nocturnal |
| The Black Dahlia Murder Ritual |
| The Contortionist Exoplanet |
| The Contortionist Intrinsic |
| Darker, heavier, more progressive, and an overall more consistent listen than Exoplanet. |
| The Devin Townsend Band Accelerated Evolution |
| The Devin Townsend Project European Tour |
| The Devin Townsend Project Epicloud |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Under the Running Board |
| The End Elementary |
| The Human Abstract Nocturne |
| These guys are much more than just a metalcore band. Sure, there's breakdowns and the typical catchy chorus, but these guys incorporate many genres besides just your typical metalcore band. Combining technical extreme metal, classical guitars, neo-classical arpeggio sweeping with an almost poppy chorus, this album can almost seem like too much. And it is, but I never get tired of it. |
| The Jimi Hendrix Experience Axis: Bold As Love |
| The Lonely Island Incredibad |
| The Mars Volta Frances the Mute |
| The Mars Volta Amputechture |
| The Notorious B.I.G. Life After Death |
| The Obsessed Lunar Womb |
| The Ocean Aeolian |
| The Ocean Anthropocentric |
| The Red Chord Clients |
| The Roots Things Fall Apart |
| The Roots How I Got Over |
| The Sword Warp Riders |
| One of the most fun and groovy albums of the year. Add some riffs to your spliffs. |
| Thelonious Monk Thelonious Monk With John Coltrane |
| Them Crooked Vultures Them Crooked Vultures |
| Those Who Lie Beneath Antichrist |
| Thrice The Alchemy Index Vols. III & IV |
| Thrice The Artist In The Ambulance |
| Thrice The Illusion Of Safety |
| Thrice Major/Minor |
| Through the Eyes of the Dead Bloodlust |
| Tool 10,000 Days |
| I truly think that this is a superb album, despite what many of our regulars here seem to think. The band has obviously matured musically, as this is their most technical album to date. Their atmosphere is also as good as ever, especially in the giant two track power house that is Wings For Marie and 10,000 days. Some of the lyrics may be a bit questionable at times, but I'm sure that the band didn't just put it there for a reason. The only setbacks that I think this album has is that it slowly gets weaker as the album goes on and that this album doesn't have as much replay value as Lateralus does. Otherwise, I really enjoy this album. |
| Torche Meanderthal |
| Townes Van Zandt Live at the Old Quarter, Houston, Texas |
| Toxik Think This |
| Trap Them Darker Handcraft |
| Trioscapes Separate Realities |
| Twilight Monument To Time End |
| Tyler The Creator Bastard |
| Ulver Kveldssanger |
| Ulver Wars of the Roses |
| Ulver Perdition City |
| Underoath Survive Kaleidoscope |
| Underoath Disambiguation |
| Unearth The Oncoming Storm |
| Metalcore is a genre that most metalheads look to in shame. I know I have in certain occasions, as it seems awfully commercial at times and there are lots of bands that just bore me to death. But fear not! Unearth has come to save the genre. The band, while still using the qualities of the genre, has improved on the sound quite a bit by including some more advanced riffs, occasional shredding and overall better songwriting than before. This album is great for a broad range of fans, from the fans of hardcore all the way to the fans of maybe even death metal. If you were ever to pick up a metalcore album, make it this one. |
| Unexpect Fables of the Sleepless Empire |
In A Flesh Aquarium was the soundtrack to the itchiest asshole you've ever had. Fables of
the Sleepless Empire is the finger that scratches it away. ChaotH reigns. |
| United Nations Nevermind the Bombings, Here's Your Six Figures |
| Veil of Maya The Common Man's Collapse |
| Venom Black Metal |
| Vildhjarta Masstaden |
| Vinterland Welcome My Last Chapter |
| Weakling Dead as Dreams |
| Weird Al Yankovic "Weird Al" Yankovic |
| Weird Al Yankovic Off the Deep End |
| Weird Al Yankovic Running With Scissors |
| Windir Arntor |
| Witchfinder General Death Penalty |
| Wolves in the Throne Room Black Cascade |
| Wolves in the Throne Room Celestial Lineage |
| Wormrot Abuse |
| Wretched Beyond The Gate |
| Wretched Son of Perdition |
| Wu-Tang Clan Wu-Tang Forever |
| X Japan Art of Life |
| Xasthur Telepathic With The Deceased |
| Yes Tales from Topographic Oceans |
| Yes Relayer |
| Yndi Halda Enjoy Eternal Bliss |
| YOB Atma |
| 3.5 great |
| Aeon Spoke Aeon Spoke |
| Aether Realm One Chosen By The Gods |
| After the Burial In Dreams |
| Agalloch Of Stone, Wind, and Pillor |
| Ahab Call Of The Wretched Sea |
| Ahab The Divinity Of Oceans |
| Akercocke The Goat of Mendes |
| Alice in Chains Facelift |
| All Shall Perish This is Where it Ends |
| Amon Amarth Twilight Of The Thunder God |
| Amon Amarth Surtur Rising |
| Anata Under a Stone With No Inscription |
| Anata Dreams of Death and Dismay |
| Andrew W.K. I Get Wet |
| Animal Collective Feels |
| Animosity Empires |
| Anthrax Return Of The Killer A's |
| Anthrax Fistful Of Metal |
| Anthrax Worship Music |
| Aphex Twin Windowlicker |
| Apocalyptica Plays Metallica by Four Cellos |
| Arch Enemy Anthems of Rebellion |
| Architects Hollow Crown |
| Arghoslent Incorrigible Bigotry |
| Army Of The Pharaohs Ritual Of Battle |
| Arsis As Regret Becomes Guilt |
| As I Lay Dying An Ocean Between Us |
| As I Lay Dying The Powerless Rise |
| As I Lay Dying This Is Who We Are |
| Ash Borer Cold of Ages |
| Ash Borer Bloodlands |
| Augury Fragmentary Evidence |
| August Burns Red Thrill Seeker |
| August Burns Red Leveler |
| Autopsy Macabre Eternal |
| Autumn Leaves Embraced by the Absolute |
| Bathory Bathory |
| Bathory Twilight of the Gods |
| Be'lakor The Frail Tide |
| Beastie Boys The In Sound from Way Out! |
| Behemoth Satanica |
| Behemoth The Apostasy |
| Behemoth Thelema.6 |
| Behemoth Sventevith (Storming Near The Baltic) |
| Behemoth Ezkaton |
| Beyond Creation The Aura |
| Black Sabbath Dehumanizer |
| Black Sabbath Sabotage |
| Black Sabbath We Sold Our Soul for Rock 'N' Roll |
| Black Sabbath 13 |
| Bleeding Through This Is Love, This Is Murderous |
| Blind Guardian At the Edge of Time |
| Blind Guardian A Night at the Opera |
| blink-182 Take Off Your Pants and Jacket |
| blink-182 The Mark, Tom, and Travis Show |
| blink-182 Enema of the State |
| Blut Aus Nord The Work Which Transforms God |
| Bolt Thrower Realm of Chaos |
| Bongzilla Amerijuanican |
| Boris Heavy Rocks II |
| Boris Amplifier Worship |
| Borknagar Origin |
| Borknagar Urd |
| Born of Osiris The Discovery |
| Botch Unifying Themes Redux |
| Burzum Det Som Engang Var |
| Burzum Belus |
| Byzantine ...And They Shall Take Up Serpents |
| Camel The Snow Goose |
| Cannibal Corpse Kill |
| Cannibal Corpse Tomb of the Mutilated |
| Carcass Swansong |
| Celeste Misanthrope(s) |
| Cephalic Carnage Xenosapien |
| Cephalic Carnage Anomalies |
| Chelsea Wolfe The Grime and the Glow |
| Children of Bodom Hate Crew Deathroll |
| Children of Bodom Trashed, Lost & Strungout |
| Children of Bodom Chaos Ridden Years - Stockholm Knockout |
| Chimaira Impossibility of Reason |
| Chimaira Chimaira |
| Chimp Spanner All Roads Lead Here |
| Chimp Spanner At the Dream's Edge |
| Cloudkicker Let Yourself Be Huge |
| Coalesce Salt and Passage |
| Coheed and Cambria No World for Tomorrow |
| Coheed and Cambria The Second Stage Turbine Blade |
| Coheed and Cambria The Afterman: Descension |
| Converge The Poacher Diaries |
| Converge Unloved and Weeded Out |
| Converge Deathwish Live Series 02: Minneapolis |
| Cradle of Filth Nymphetamine |
| Cradle of Filth Cruelty and the Beast |
| Cryptopsy Whisper Supremacy |
| Current 93 All the Pretty Little Horses |
| Cursed I |
| Cynic Re-Traced |
| Cypress Hill Cypress Hill III: Temples of Boom |
| Darkest Hour The Eternal Return |
| Darkest Hour The Human Romance |
| Darkthrone Soulside Journey |
| Darkthrone Ravishing Grimness |
| Daylight Dies Lost To The Living |
| De La Soul 3 Feet High and Rising |
| De Liriums Order Diagnosis |
| Death Scream Bloody Gore |
| Deathspell Omega Drought |
| Decapitated The Negation |
| Decapitated Human's Dust DVD |
| Decrepit Birth Diminishing Between Worlds |
| Deeds of Flesh Reduced To Ashes |
| Deeds of Flesh Mark of the Legion |
| Deftones Around the Fur |
| Demolition Hammer Tortured Existence |
| Desultory Into Eternity |
| Dethklok The Dethalbum |
| Devin Townsend Physicist |
| Dimmu Borgir Enthrone Darkness Triumphant |
| Dimmu Borgir Alive In Torment |
| Dismember Dismember |
| Disturbed Indestructible |
| DOOMRIDERS Darkness Come Alive |
| Down Down II: A Bustle In Your Hedgerow |
| DragonForce Sonic Firestorm |
| Dream Theater Train of Thought |
| Dream Theater Awake |
| Dream Theater Dark Side of the Moon |
| Dying Fetus Destroy the Opposition |
| Dysrhythmia Psychic Maps |
| Earl Sweatshirt EARL |
| Edge of Sanity The Spectral Sorrows |
| Edge of Sanity Unorthodox |
| Edge of Sanity Infernal |
| Electric Wizard Let Us Prey |
| Electric Wizard Black Masses |
| Elliott Smith New Moon |
| Eluveitie Slania |
| Eminem The Eminem Show |
| Eminem Recovery |
| Eminem The Slim Shady EP |
| Emperor Emperor |
| Emperor IX Equilibrium |
| Emperor Reverence |
| Ensiferum Ensiferum |
| Ensiferum Victory Songs |
| Ensiferum Dragonheads |
| Ensiferum From Afar |
| Equilibrium Sagas |
| Equilibrium Turis Fratyr |
| Exotic Animal Petting Zoo Tree of Tongues |
| Eyehategod In the Name of Suffering |
| Fair to Midland Fables From a Mayfly |
| Fellsilent The Hidden Words |
| Fleshgod Apocalypse Oracles |
| Fleshwrought Dementia/Dyslexia |
| Fredrik Thordendal's Special Defects Sol Niger Within |
| Sometimes a little too strange for its own good (what the fuck is up with the organ in "Cosmic Vagina Dentata Organ"?). Also what the fuck is up with that song title? Sure, it's overly experimental, but as a whole this album is cooler than anything I've come across from Meshuggah. The guitar solos are most often incredible, and the vocals add a very spacey touch to the record. Sometimes I wish I knew where the downbeat was, but I guess that's not the point. |
| Genghis Tron Board Up the House |
| Ghostface Killah Apollo Kids |
| Ghoul Transmission Zero |
| Glassjaw Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About |
| Gojira The Link |
| Gorguts Considered Dead |
| Gorillaz Demon Days |
| Gorod Process of a New Decline |
| Grand Belial's Key Judeobeast Assassination |
| Green Day Dookie |
| Grotesque Incantation |
| GWAR Lust in Space |
| GWAR Bloody Pit of Horror |
| GWAR Scumdogs of the Universe |
| Harvey Milk Life... The Best Game in Town |
| Hate Eternal Phoenix Amongst The Ashes |
| Hella Hold Your Horse Is |
| HellHammer Apocalyptic Raids 1990 A.D. |
| Hellwitch Syzygial Miscreancy |
| Hieronymus Bosch Artificial Emotions |
| High on Fire Surrounded By Thieves |
| Hooded Menace Effigies of Evil |
| Horrendous The Chills |
| Hour of Penance Sedition |
| Iced Earth Horror Show |
| Iced Earth Something Wicked This Way Comes |
| Ihsahn angL |
| Immolation Unholy Cult |
| Immolation Shadows in the Light |
| Immolation Kingdom of Conspiracy |
| Immortal Pure Holocaust |
| In Flames Whoracle |
| In Flames Colony |
| In Mourning Monolith |
| In Mourning The Weight of Oceans |
| Incantation Vanquish in Vengeance |
| Insect Warfare At War With Grindcore |
| Into Eternity Dead or Dreaming |
| Intronaut Valley of Smoke |
| Iron Maiden Piece of Mind |
| Iron Maiden Iron Maiden |
| Iron Maiden Dance of Death |
| Iron Maiden The Final Frontier |
| Iron Maiden Maiden Japan |
| Iron Maiden A Real Dead One |
| Isis In the Absence of Truth |
| Isis The Mosquito Control EP |
| Island Orakel |
| Jedi Mind Tricks Servants In Heaven, Kings In Hell |
| Jeff Loomis Zero Order Phase |
| Jeff Loomis Plains of Oblivion |
| Job for a Cowboy Demonocracy |
| John Coltrane Interstellar Space |
| Johnny Truant In the Library of Horrific Events |
| Kalmah They Will Return |
| Kataklysm Serenity In Fire |
| Kayo Dot Coyote |
| Killswitch Engage Set This: World Ablaze [DVD] |
| Killswitch Engage Alive or Just Breathing |
| King Crimson Islands |
| King Crimson Beat |
| Kiuas Reformation |
| Kiuas The Spirit of Ukko |
| Kiuas Lustdriven |
| Korn Issues |
| Krallice Diotima |
| Krallice Krallice |
| Kreator Enemy of God |
| Krisiun Ageless Venomous |
| Kvelertak Meir |
| Kyuss ...And The Circus Leaves Town |
| Kyuss Wretch |
| Lamb of God New American Gospel |
| Lamb of God Walk With Me In Hell |
| Led Zeppelin The Song Remains The Same |
| Leviathan The Tenth Sub Level of Suicide |
| Lil B Obama BasedGod |
| Ludacris Back For The First Time |
| Lustmord Carbon/Core |
| Lykathea Aflame Elvenefris |
| Macklemore and Ryan Lewis The Heist |
| Magrudergrind Crusher |
Scion and Magrudergrind gave you a free EP that is legitimately well-produced and
relentlessly violent. Butthurt inter-fags worldwide pretend to not like how "corporate" it
is. Too bad they're reading this soundoff on their MacBook Pro. |
| Malevolent Creation The Ten Commandments |
| Man Man Life Fantastic |
| Massacre From Beyond |
| Mastodon Lifesblood |
| Mayhem De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas |
| Mayhem Deathcrush |
| Maylene and the Sons of Disaster Maylene and the Sons of Disaster |
| Megadeth United Abominations |
| Megadeth Countdown to Extinction |
| Melvins Honky |
| Melvins Pigs Of The Roman Empire |
| Melvins The Bride Screamed Murder |
| Melvins Hostile Ambient Takeover |
| Mercyful Fate Mercyful Fate |
| Meshuggah obZen |
| Metallica Kill 'Em All |
| Metallica Metallica |
| Metallica Death Magnetic |
| Michael Jackson Dangerous |
| Miles Davis '58 Sessions |
| Mirrorthrone Carriers of Dust |
| Monstrosity Imperial Doom |
| Moonsorrow Tulimyrsky |
| Moonsorrow Kivenkantaja |
| Morpheus Descends Ritual of Infinity |
| Mumakil Behold The Failure |
| Municipal Waste Hazardous Mutation |
| Napalm Death Utilitarian |
| Napalm Death The Code Is Red...Long Live the Code |
| Napalm Death Utopia Banished |
| Narrows Narrows / Heiress Split |
| Nasum Inhale/Exhale |
| Nasum Helvete |
| Ne Obliviscaris Portal of I |
| Neurosis and Jarboe Neurosis and Jarboe |
| Nevermore Dreaming Neon Black |
| Nightwish Over The Hills And Far Away |
| Nightwish Once |
| Nile In Their Darkened Shrines |
| Nile Annihilation of the Wicked |
| Norther Mirror of Madness |
| Novembers Doom The Novella Reservoir |
| Novembre Materia |
| Obituary Cause of Death |
| Oblivion Called to Rise |
| Off Minor Some Blood |
| Ol' Dirty Bastard Return To The 36 Chambers: The Dirty Version |
| Old Man Gloom Christmas |
| Old Man Gloom NO |
| Old Man's Child In Defiance of Existence |
| Old Man's Child Vermin |
| Old Man's Child Slaves Of The World |
| One Day As A Lion One Day As A Lion |
| Opeth Orchid |
| Orbs Asleep Next to Science |
| Overkill The Years of Decay |
| Ozzy Osbourne Blizzard Of Ozz |
| Ozzy Osbourne Diary Of A Madman |
| Pallbearer Sorrow And Extinction |
| Pantera Far Beyond Driven |
| Parkway Drive Deep Blue |
| Parkway Drive Killing With A Smile |
| Peccatum Lost in Reverie |
| Pelican Ephemeral |
| Pestilence Spheres |
| Pig Destroyer Prowler in the Yard |
| Pig Destroyer Painter of Dead Girls |
| Pig Destroyer Natasha |
| Pink Floyd Echoes: The Best of Pink Floyd |
| Pink Floyd The Piper at the Gates of Dawn |
| Pink Floyd A Saucerful of Secrets |
| Porcupine Tree Deadwing |
| Portal Swarth |
| Portal Vexovoid |
| Primordial To The Nameless Dead |
| Primus Antipop |
| Primus Pork Soda |
| Protest the Hero Gallop Meets the Earth (DVD) |
| Psycroptic Ob(Servant) |
| Psycroptic The Inherited Repression |
| Queens of the Stone Age Lullabies to Paralyze |
| Queens of the Stone Age Queens of the Stone Age |
| Radiohead In Rainbows |
| Radiohead Amnesiac |
| Radiohead I Might Be Wrong: Live Recordings |
| Rage Against the Machine Renegades |
| Rage Against the Machine Rage Against the Machine (DVD) |
| Raintime Flies and Lies |
| Rancid ...And Out Come the Wolves |
| Ratatat LP4 |
| Reverend Bizarre In The Rectory Of The Bizarre Reverend |
| Reverend Bizarre III: So Long Suckers |
| Revocation Empire of the Obscene |
| Revocation Chaos of Forms |
| Ripping Corpse Dreaming With The Dead |
| Rise Against Revolutions Per Minute |
| Rise Against Siren Song of the Counter Culture |
| Rotten Sound Cycles |
| Rotten Sound Species At War |
| Runic Liar Flags |
| Running Wild Black Hand Inn |
| Rush 2112 |
| Rush Fly by Night |
| Rush Grace Under Pressure |
| Rush Snakes & Arrows |
| Rush Signals |
| Rush Hold Your Fire |
| Saint Vitus Saint Vitus |
| Saint Vitus Hallow's Victim |
| Say Anything Say Anything |
| Scale The Summit Carving Desert Canyons |
| Shadows Fall The Art of Balance |
| Sigh Hangman's Hymn |
| Sigur Ros Ágætis Byrjun |
| Skeletonwitch Beyond the Permafrost |
| Slayer Show No Mercy |
| Slayer Christ Illusion |
| Slayer Live Undead |
| Sleep Volume One |
| Slipknot Mate. Feed. Kill. Repeat. |
| Slipknot Iowa |
| Sodom In the Sign of Evil |
| Soulfly Prophecy |
| Spawn of Possession The Forbidden |
| Strapping Young Lad Strapping Young Lad |
| Suffocation Blood Oath |
| Suffocation Breeding the Spawn |
| Suffocation Despise the Sun |
| Suspyre When Time Fades |
| Suspyre A Great Divide |
| Swans Filth |
| Symphony X Paradise Lost |
| Symphony X The Odyssey |
| Symphony X V: The New Mythology Suite |
| Talib Kweli Quality |
| Tenacious D The Pick of Destiny |
| Textures Silhouettes |
| Textures Dualism |
| The Absence Riders of the Plague |
| The Allman Brothers Band Eat a Peach |
| The Aquabats Myths, Legends and Other. . . Adventures |
| The Beatles Help! |
| The Black Dahlia Murder Everblack |
| The Contortionist Apparition |
| A pretty decent deathcore album. These guys clearly listen to a lot of Between the Buried and Me but still find themselves trying to dig their way out of a scene that has become oversaturated with 808's and thuper-thweet two step sections. While those elements are present on Apparition, it's much more enjoyable than most of their br00tal comrades by showing a sense of experimentation and musical aptitude. I look forward to seeing how these guys progress in the upcoming years. It's up to these guys, Veil of Maya, and Within the Ruins to keep modern deathcore interesting at this point. |
| The Decemberists The Crane Wife |
| The Devin Townsend Band Synchestra |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Under the Running Board (Reissue) |
| The Haarp Machine Disclosure |
| The Human Abstract Digital Veil |
| The Jimi Hendrix Experience Electric Ladyland |
| The Mars Volta The Bedlam in Goliath |
| The Mars Volta Noctourniquet |
| The Mars Volta Tremulant |
| The Notorious B.I.G. Born Again |
| The Number Twelve Looks Like You Worse Than Alone |
| The Roots Rising Down |
| The Safety Fire Grind The Ocean |
| The Sword Gods of the Earth |
| The Tallest Man on Earth The Wild Hunt |
| The Tallest Man on Earth There's No Leaving Now |
| The Tony Danza Tapdance Extravaganza Danza III: Series Of Unfortunate Events |
| The Tony Danza Tapdance Extravaganza Danza IIII: The Alpha - The Omega |
| Just when you thought electric guitars couldn't possibly have any more gain... |
| The Zombies Odessey and Oracle |
| These Arms Are Snakes Easter |
| Those Who Lie Beneath An Awakening |
| Thursday Full Collapse |
| Thy Art Is Murder Hate |
| Times of Grace The Hymn of a Broken Man |
| Toby Driver In the L..L..Library Loft |
| Torche Torche |
| Torche Harmonicraft |
| Tyler The Creator Wolf |
| Ulver Nattens Madrigal |
| Ulver Svidd Neger |
| Unearth The March |
| While Unearth's The March isn't exactly anything new and the album art is pretty bad, it's still a really enjoyable metalcore album and a worthy addition to the band's already stellar discography. This album's twelve new songs take the band further away from their once hardcore-oriented sound and more into a groove/thrash metal hybrid, while still maintaining an unhealthy amount of breakdowns. Unearth has never sounded as melodic or as shreddy thanks to Buz McGrath's massive improvement on the fretboard. Sure, it's a slightly less amazing version of III: In the Eyes of Fire, but it's still worthy of any metal fan's attention. One of the must-have metal albums of the year. |
| Unearth Alive From The Apocalypse |
| Unraveller Kinship Synthesis |
| Veil of Maya [id] |
| Veil of Maya improve from their sophomore release, The Common Man's Collapse, reaching even rhigher levels of technicality than before. It's very clear that guitarist Marc Okubo and rdrummer Sam Applebaum are ridiculously talented, but some of the more glorious moments on rthe album (ex: Mowgli and Conquer) are lost in a contrived sea of Meshuggah posturing that rjust serves the purpose of getting the scene kids jumping. Veil of Maya is dangerously close rto realizing their potential as a legitimate progressive metal band, they just need to flesh rout their songs more and use a much less thin production to their mix. But the more melodic rsongs are definitely worth your attention. |
| Veil of Maya Eclipse |
| Vildhjarta Omnislash |
| Vintersorg The Focusing Blur |
| Volumes Via |
| Warbringer War Without End |
| Weird Al Yankovic Dare To Be Stupid |
| Weird Al Yankovic UHF |
| Weird Al Yankovic Bad Hair Day |
| Wintersun Time I |
| This is what you get when you combine Devin Townsend's Deconstruction with Dungeons & Dragons and a FUCKING SHITLOAD of synth orchestra. Pretty good, but a few years too late. |
| Within the Ruins Creature |
| This is the album that bands like Born of Osiris and After the Burial wish they could write. Creature is surprisingly fun and very technical simultaneously, though some of the gang chants and spoken word parts are really cheesy. |
| Wolves in the Throne Room Malevolent Grain |
| Wormrot Noise |
| Worship Dooom |
| Wu-Tang Clan 8 Diagrams |
| Wu-Tang Clan The W |
| Xasthur Nocturnal Poisoning |
| Yes The Yes Album |
| 3.0 good |
| 3 The End is Begun |
| Abigail Williams Legend |
| Abigail Williams In the Absence of Light |
Abigail Williams attempt to steal Emperor's first two records and yield some occasionally
great, but mostly mediocre results. But hey, at least they're not playing breakdowns
anymore! |
| Abigail Williams Becoming |
| Abigor Nachthymnen (From The Twilight Kingdom) |
| Abiotic Symbiosis |
| Absu Abzu |
| After the Burial Rareform (Re-release) |
| After the Burial This Life Is All We Have |
| Agalloch Marrow of the Spirit |
| Alcest Ecailles De Lune |
| Alcest Les Voyages De L Ame |
| Alestorm Terror on the High Seas |
| All That Remains This Darkened Heart |
| Amorphis Silent Waters |
| Animal Collective Merriweather Post Pavilion |
| Animal Collective Sung Tongs |
| Apocalyptica Apocalyptica |
| Apocalyptica Cult |
| Arch Enemy Wages of Sin |
| Arkaik Existential Chaos |
| Arsis Starve for the Devil |
| Arsis completely change from their previous outing, We Are the Nightmare. Instead of a more flashy and technical approach that their last album took, Starve For the Devil focuses more on thrash/80's metal influences and more hooks than ever previously presented in an Arsis record. Mike Van Dyne delivers his best drum performance to date, giving Arsis a sense of rejuvination and drive. James consistently slays the fretboard, which has become the norm for followers of the band. Hell, you'll even hear a bass solo in "Closer To Cold". Check out "A March For the Sick", "From Soulless to Shattered (Art In Dying)", and "Closer To Cold" for some of the most solid metal I've heard in a while. |
| As I Lay Dying Shadows Are Security |
| As I Lay Dying Frail Words Collapse |
| Audioslave Audioslave |
| August Burns Red Messengers |
| August Burns Red Home |
| Austrian Death Machine Total Brutal |
| Avenged Sevenfold Waking the Fallen |
| Basilisk Vintyrhell |
| Behemoth Pandemonic Incantations |
| Between the Buried and Me The Anatomy Of |
| Between the Buried and Me Alaska [Instrumental] |
| Black Sabbath Cross Purposes |
| Black Sabbath The Eternal Idol |
| Black Sabbath Live at Last |
| Black Stone Cherry Black Stone Cherry |
| Bleeding Through Portrait Of The Goddess |
| Bleeding Through The Truth |
| Blind Guardian Nightfall in Middle-Earth |
| Blind Guardian Battalions of Fear |
| Bloodbath The Fathomless Mastery |
| Bloodbath Resurrection Through Carnage |
| Bloodbath Breeding Death |
| Borknagar The Olden Domain |
| Borknagar Universal |
| Borknagar Quintessence |
| Borknagar The Archaic Course |
| Brand New Deja Entendu |
| Cancer Bats Hail Destroyer |
| Cannabis Corpse Blunted at Birth |
| Cannabis Corpse The Weeding |
| Cannibal Corpse Eaten Back to Life |
| Cannibal Corpse Gore Obsessed |
| Cannibal Corpse Hammer Smashed Face |
| Carcass Reek of Putrefaction |
| Carcass Symphonies of Sickness |
| Carcass Wake Up And Smell The Carcass |
| Catacombs In the Depths of R'lyeh |
| Cattle Decapitation Monolith of Inhumanity |
| Cerebral Bore Maniacal Miscreation |
| Chelsea Wolfe Unknown Rooms: A Collection of Acoustic Songs |
| Chevelle Vena Sera |
| Children of Bodom Are You Dead Yet? |
| Chimaira Resurrection |
| Circle Of Contempt Entwine The Threads |
| Cloudkicker Fade |
| Coheed and Cambria In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3 |
| Coheed and Cambria Kerrang! / XFM UK Acoustic Sessions |
| Conducting From the Grave When Legends Become Dust |
| Converge Caring and Killing |
| Cradle of Filth Thornography |
| Cradle of Filth Bitter Suites to Succubi |
| Crowbar Obedience Thru Suffering |
| Cryptopsy Once Was Not |
| Cryptopsy And Then You'll Beg |
| Cursive Domestica |
| Cynic Demo 1991 |
| Cynic '90 Demo |
| Daath The Hinderers |
| Daft Punk Random Access Memories |
| Dark Angel Time Does Not Heal |
| Dark Tranquillity Haven |
| Dark Tranquillity We Are The Void |
| Dead Letter Circus This Is The Warning |
| Dead Man In Reno Dead Man In Reno |
| Death Spiritual Healing |
| Decapitated Carnival Is Forever |
| Deeds of Flesh Crown Of Souls |
| Deicide The Stench of Redemption |
| Demons and Wizards Touched by the Crimson King |
| Destroyer 666 Phoenix Rising |
| Dethklok Dethalbum III |
| DevilDriver The Fury of Our Maker's Hand |
| Dimmu Borgir Death Cult Armageddon |
| Dimmu Borgir Spiritual Black Dimensions |
| Dimmu Borgir Stormblast (Re-Recording) |
| Dissection Reinkaos |
| Dissection Where Dead Angels Lie |
| Dissection Maha Kali |
| Disturbed Ten Thousand Fists |
| DragonForce Inhuman Rampage |
| DragonForce Valley Of The Damned |
| Dragonlord Rapture |
| Dragonlord Black Wings Of Destiny |
| Dream Theater Images and Words |
| Dream Theater Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence |
| Dream Theater Live at Budokan |
| Dream Theater Black Clouds & Silver Linings |
| Dream Theater returns with their umpteenth effort, The Bleakest Future. Mike Portnoy plays the drums mega fast and destroys your eardrums with gut-fucking brutal vocals. Everyone else in the band is fucking nutz. They constantly attack with stunning musical imagery coupled with overwhelming technicality. When I heard the first track, called Overcome With Nightmarish Chug, I rushed to the kitchen where my mom was making the macaroni and cheese I had ordered her to make twenty minutes earlier, snatched the pot of boiling water from the stainless-steel stove, and threw it into the dining room. My mom said that I needed to respect her more and I told her I wouldnt until she could shred harder than John Petrucci, which will never happen, because NO ONE can. The most novel aspect of the Dream Theaters music is the subtle flourishes of soca and rhythm and blues that they have adopted. John Myung plays the bass guitar much like a soulful black man would strum on a box outside on a porch in those grand plantation days. He doesnt sound like that awkward Asian person you see playing the bass. The most progressive musical outfit since Rush, the most aggressive since Nile, the wisest since Slayer, Dream Theater will come at you like a crazy train and run you over and make smush out of your fucking soul. |
| Dream Theater Score |
| Dying Fetus Purification Through Violence |
| Dying Fetus Killing on Adrenaline |
| Dying Fetus Reign Supreme |
| Easy Star All Stars Radiodread |
| Edge of Sanity Nothing But Death Remains |
| Electric Wizard Electric Wizard |
| Elliott Smith Figure 8 |
| Emperor Wrath of the Tyrant |
| Enslaved Frost |
| Enslaved RIITIIR |
| Eric B and Rakim Paid in Full |
| Escape the Fate There's No Sympathy for the Dead |
| Evanescence Fallen |
| Evanescence The Open Door |
| Every Time I Die Gutter Phenomenon |
| Firewind The Premonition |
| Gates of Winter Lux Aeterna |
| Gojira Terra Incognita |
| Gorgoroth Incipit Satan |
| Gorillaz Plastic Beach |
| Green Day Nimrod |
| Grimes Visions |
| Grotesque In the Embrace of Evil |
| Guns N' Roses Appetite for Destruction |
| High on Fire Blessed Black Wings |
| High on Fire Art of Self-Defense |
| HORSE the band Pizza |
| Hour of Penance Paradogma |
| Hyades And the Worst is Yet to Come |
| Iced Earth Iced Earth |
| Iced Earth The Blessed And The Damned |
| Iced Earth Enter the Realm |
| Iced Earth The Reckoning |
| Ihsahn After |
| Immolation Failures for Gods |
| Immortal Blizzard beasts |
| Immortal All Shall Fall |
| Immortal Technique Revolutionary Volume 1 |
| Immortal Technique Revolutionary Volume 2 |
| In Flames Come Clarity |
| In Flames Clayman |
| Insomnium Since the Day It All Came Down |
| Iron Maiden Fear of the Dark |
| Iron Maiden A Matter of Life and Death |
| Iron Maiden A Real Live Dead One |
| Iwrestledabearonce Iwrestledabearonce |
| Iwrestledabearonce It's All Happening |
| Jay-Z and Kanye West Watch the Throne |
| Joanna Newsom Have One on Me |
| Job for a Cowboy Ruination |
| Kalmah The Black Waltz |
| Kanye West 808s & Heartbreak |
| Kanye West The College Dropout |
| Kataklysm Prevail |
| Kataklysm Heaven's Venom |
| Katatonia Viva Emptiness |
| Keep of Kalessin Kolossus |
| Kendrick Lamar good kid, m.A.A.d city |
| Killswitch Engage As Daylight Dies |
| Killswitch Engage Disarm the Descent |
| King Crimson Three of a Perfect Pair |
| King Crimson Starless and Bible Black |
| Korn Life Is Peachy |
| Kreator Hordes Of Chaos |
| Krisiun Black Force Domain |
| Lacuna Coil Comalies |
| Lamb of God Terror And Hubris |
| Last Chance to Reason Lvl. 1 |
| Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin |
| Led Zeppelin Presence |
| Lil B Based Jam |
| Linkin Park Meteora |
| Linkin Park Reanimation |
| Lupe Fiasco The Cool |
| Lurker Of Chalice Lurker Of Chalice |
| Machine Head The Blackening |
| Magrudergrind Rehashed |
| Malevolent Creation Stillborn |
| Maylene and the Sons of Disaster II |
| Maylene and the Sons of Disaster III |
| Megadeth Killing Is My Business... and Business Is Good! |
| Megadeth So Far, So Good... So What! |
| Megadeth Th1rt3en |
| Melvins The Bootlicker |
| Melvins The Maggot |
| Melvins Electroretard |
| Melvins Freak Puke |
| Melvins Ozma |
| Meshuggah Contradictions Collapse |
| Meth, Ghost and Rae Wu-Massacre |
| Michael Jackson Off the Wall |
| Michael Jackson Blood On The Dancefloor: HIStory In The Mix |
| Minus the Bear Menos El Oso |
| Mirrorthrone Of Wind and Weeping |
| Misery Index Retaliate |
| Morbid Angel Formulas Fatal to the Flesh |
| Mr. Bungle Mr Bungle |
| Mudvayne Mudvayne |
| Naglfar Diabolical |
| Napalm Death Scum |
| Nas STILLmatic |
| Nazgul De Expugnatione Elfmuth |
| Nightwish Century Child |
| Nightwish Angels Fall First |
| Nile At The Gate Of Sethu |
| Nine Inch Nails Ghosts I-IV |
| Nirvana Bleach |
| Norther Death Unlimited |
| Norther Till Death Unites Us |
| Obscura Omnivium |
| Odious Mortem Cryptic Implosion |
| OFWGKTA Radical |
| Ol' Dirty Bastard Nigga Please |
| Old Man's Child Ill Natured Spiritual Invasion |
| Opeth Burden |
| Ozzy Osbourne Bark at the Moon |
| P.O.D. Satellite |
| Pagan Altar Volume 1 |
| Painted in Exile Revitalized |
| Pantera Reinventing the Steel |
| Papa Roach Infest |
| Paramore Brand New Eyes |
| Parkway Drive Horizons |
| Five Months and Boneyards are both pretty damn cool but the rest of this album just lacks the fun the two tracks mentioned above possess. An incredibly average listen overall with a few gems in the middle. |
| Pearl Jam Vs. |
| Periphery Icarus |
| Pestilence Malleus Maleficarum |
| Pink Floyd Relics |
| Pink Floyd Atom Heart Mother |
| Pink Floyd Obscured by Clouds |
| Pink Floyd The Division Bell |
| Porcupine Tree The Incident |
| Possessed Seven Churches |
| Psycroptic Symbols of Failure |
| Queens of the Stone Age Era Vulgaris |
| Radiohead Hail to the Thief |
| Ratatat Ratatat Remixes Vol.1 |
| Red Sparowes At The Soundless Dawn |
| Rise Against Appeal to Reason |
| Rush Rush |
| Rush Caress of Steel |
| Rush Vapor Trails |
| Rush Roll the Bones |
| Rush Counterparts |
| Satyricon Volcano |
| Say Anything ...Is a Real Boy |
| Scar Symmetry Pitch Black Progress |
| Sepultura Chaos A.D. |
| Shade Empire Intoxicate O.S. |
| Shadows Fall The War Within |
| Shadows Fall Threads of Life |
| Sleep Jerusalem |
| Slipknot 9.0: Live |
| Slipknot All Hope Is Gone |
| Sodom Obsessed by Cruelty |
| Son of Aurelius The Farthest Reaches |
| Sons of Aurelius The Farthest Reaches |
| Staind Break the Cycle |
| Strapping Young Lad The New Black |
| Strapping Young Lad Heavy as a Really Heavy Thing |
| Suffocation Souls to Deny |
| SuidAkrA Caledonia |
| Sumatra Heliocratic Infinity |
| Summoning Minas Morgul |
| Swans The Burning World |
| Symphony X Iconoclast |
| System of a Down Steal This Album! |
| System of a Down Hypnotize |
| Mezmerize is clearly a stronger album than this, mostly because of Daron's more-than-frequent vocal appearances on here. He's great as a guitarist and as a songwriter, but his vocals become incredibly annoying after a song or two. There are still a few memorable tracks on here. For example "Holy Mountains" is one of the most powerful songs the band has ever written, and "Viscinity of Obscenity" is just plain fun to sing along with. This album was decent, but I just expect so much more from this band. |
| Talib Kweli The Beautiful Struggle |
| TesseracT Perspective |
| The Absence From Your Grave |
| The Acacia Strain The Dead Walk |
| The Acacia Strain 3750 |
| The Agonist Prisoners |
| The Beatles Rubber Soul |
| The Black Dahlia Murder Deflorate |
| As if I needed further proof that Ryan Knight should have kept playing in Arsis. Deflorate offers a few more dweedles than on past releases, but really does little else to differentiate from Miasma and Nocturnal. Unless you're already a dedicated TBDM fan (and I wouldn't understand why), approach this album with minimal expectations. At least the album art rules. |
| The Bled Pass The Flask |
| The Blood Brothers Young Machetes |
| The Decemberists Picaresque |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Ire Works |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Plagiarism |
| The Faceless Autotheism |
| The Notorious B.I.G. Duets: The Final Chapter |
| The Rolling Stones Let It Bleed |
| The Sword Age of Winters |
| The Sword Apocryphon |
| The Who Quadrophenia |
| They Found Her In Pieces Victorian |
| This or the Apocalypse Haunt What's Left |
| Thrice Beggars |
| Thrice completely ditch their past influences of melodic-hardcore on the first two records, their past hints of post-metal on Vheissu, and their experimentation on both Alchemy Indexes. While reading this may seem like Thrice has gone in a completely new direction yet again, don't get too excited. Beggars is essentially the band really tightening their alt-rock sound and centering their attention on Dustin Kensrue's great singing. While this certainly isn't my favorrite Thrice record by any means, it's still got some great songs to add to the band's already stellar discography. Check out "In Exile", "At the Last" and "Beggars" for some of the album's strongest content. |
| Through the Eyes of the Dead Skepsis |
This album is completely harmless.
|
| Tool Undertow |
| Sure, Tool is one of the most important bands in progressive metal these days, but what were they like at the beginning? This album offers just that, and it's not nearly as impressive as their modern stuff. The riffs and drum patterns aren't nearly as catchy, technical, or memorable as any of their other three releases. This is of course a hard thing to do when their other releases are all of no less than excellent quality, but still. If this wasn't by Tool then I really wouldn't have picked this up, as it just sounds like an average rock record to me. While some songs like "Prison Sex" and "Swamp Song" are enjoyable, I really don't listen to this album that much anymore. You'd be better off with Lateralus or 10,000 Days. |
| Tool Opiate |
| Trivium Shogun |
| Trivium learn a lot from their past mistakes and come back with a (mostly) solid album. The first five songs and the title track are easily the strongest material Heafy & Co. have ever written, though the remainder of the album drags, and Matt Heafy's harsh vocals are just as grating as ever. Over an hour of Trivium is simply too much for all but the most loyal of fans. While I'm still not totally convinced that this band is as great as some would have you believe, I'm starting to see a bit of light. Everyone should at least check out "Torn Between Scylla and Charybdis", it's one of the twenty best metal songs of the year. |
| Tyler The Creator Goblin |
| Ulver Shadows of the Sun |
| Ulver Themes from William Blake's The Marriage of Hea... |
| Ulver Blood Inside |
| Ulver Lyckantropen Themes |
| Underoath Cries of the Past |
| Underoath The Changing of Times |
| Unearth Darkness In The Light |
| Unexpect In a Flesh Aquarium |
| In a Flesh Aquarium is the soundtrack to the itchiest asshole you've ever had. |
| Vader The Art Of War |
| Various Artists (Metal) Kerrang Remastered: Master of Puppets... |
| Vertical Horizon Everything You Want |
| Victor Wooten A Show of Hands |
| Vintersorg Solens Rotter |
| Vintersorg Cosmic Genesis |
| Volumes The Concept Of Dreaming |
| Warmen Accept The Fact |
| Watain Lawless Darkness |
| Weeping Birth Anosognosic Industry of the I |
| Weird Al Yankovic Even Worse |
| Within the Ruins Invade |
| Within the Ruins Elite |
| Woe Of Tyrants Threnody |
| Woods of Ypres Against the Seasons |
| Wu-Tang Clan Iron Flag |
| Xasthur Subliminal Genocide |
| Yes Yes |
| Yes Time and a Word |
| 2.0 poor |
| 50 Cent Get Rich or Die Tryin' |
| A Day To Remember What Separates Me From You |
| A Hero A Fake Volatile |
| Abigail Williams Gallow Hill |
| AC/DC Back In Black |
| After the Burial Rareform |
| Hey guys! Look, I know we're all really capable and talented musicians, but these days...who cares? I kinda get tired of writing actual melodies and riffs, and let's be honest, those take too long to write. And who wants to listen to that shit anyways?! Let's put in a ton of bro-downs whenever we run out of ideas! Sound good to everyone? Ok, cool. |
| All Shall Perish Hate. Malice. Revenge |
| All That Remains For We Are Many |
| Animosity Shut It Down |
| Audioslave Revelations |
| Behemoth Grom |
| Biffy Clyro Opposites |
| Black Sabbath Headless Cross |
| Black Sabbath Technical Ecstasy |
| blink-182 Buddha |
| Bloc Party Silent Alarm |
| Born of Osiris The New Reign |
| While this album is tremendous in short bursts (and I mean very short), it fails to grab my attention for the entire time. Born of Osiris clearly have the chops to create some quality technical death metal, but really kill the buzz quickly with goofy keyboards and way too much Meshuggah leg-humping. You might want to check out the songs "Open Arms to Damnation" and "The Takeover", but really you should just listen to The Faceless again for a much more rewarding experience with essentially the same sound. |
| Bring Me The Horizon Suicide Season |
| Bring Me The Horizon There Is A Hell, Believe Me I've Seen It |
| Burn the Priest Burn the Priest |
| Burzum Umskiptar |
| Burzum Dauði Baldrs |
| Carnifex Hell Chose Me |
| Childish Gambino Camp |
| Children of Bodom Blooddrunk |
| Painfully average album overall. The only three songs that stand out are "Tie My Rope", "Blooddrunk" and "Roadkill Morning". The rest just sound like b-sides to the band's previous two albums and don't seem original or inspired. I was disappointed by this. |
| Cradle of Filth Damnation and a Day |
| Cradle of Filth Darkly, Darkly, Venus Aversa |
| Creed Human Clay |
| Creed Weathered |
| Deathchain Cult of Death |
| Deicide Till Death Do Us Part |
| Deicide Scars Of The Crucifix |
| Despised Icon Day of Mourning |
| Despised Icon The Healing Process |
| Devourment Unleash the Carnivore |
| Devourment Conceived in Sewage |
| Dimmu Borgir For All Tid |
| Dimmu Borgir World Misantrophy |
| Dimmu Borgir Abrahadabra |
| Disturbed Believe |
| Disturbed The Sickness |
| Dream Theater Systematic Chaos |
| Earth The Bees Made Honey in the Lion's Skull |
| Eminem Encore |
| Eminem Relapse |
| Eminem Relapse: Refill |
| Fall Out Boy Infinity On High |
| Fear Factory Hatefiles |
| Gorgoroth Twilight of the Idols (In Conspiracy...) |
| Green Day Shenanigans |
| HammerFall Chapter V: Unbent, Unbowed, Unbroken |
| Iced Earth The Glorious Burden |
| Iced Earth Tribute To The Gods |
| Ill Nino Confession |
| Impending Doom Baptized in Filth |
| In Flames A Sense of Purpose |
| In Flames Reroute to Remain |
| In Flames Sounds of a Playground Fading |
| Tired band releases tired album consisting of recycled riffs and hackneyed hooks. Fucking snooze. |
| Into Eternity The Incurable Tragedy |
| Iron Maiden No Prayer for the Dying |
| Iron Maiden Virtual XI |
| Iwrestledabearonce Ruining it for Everybody |
| Jay-Z The Blueprint 3 |
| Jedi Mind Tricks A History of Violence |
| Not even Stoupe's frequently stellar beats can save this train wreck. Jus Allah's return to the group, while being positive for the group's morale, is just painful to listen to. Jus' delivery is incredibly awkward and his rhymes are nothing more than nonsensical plays on words that don't do it for me. Vinnie Paz has recycled every last punchline he can on here, almost always referencing boxers, serial killers and religious figures. While it worked quite well on Legacy of Blood, it's far too stale and boring at this point. Something drastic needs to happen on the next record, or Jedi Mind Tricks is going to lose a once loyal fan. |
| Joanna Newsom Ys |
| Kanye West Graduation |
| Knives Exchanging Hands Hiatus |
| Korn Untouchables |
| Korn MTV Unplugged: Korn |
| Korn Korn III: Remember Who You Are |
| Lamb of God Wrath |
| With each of their previous releases, Lamb of God brought a new sound to the table while still saying in their niche of "pure American metal". Sadly, they've become too comfortable with their current sound and popularity, and have thus cranked out a lazy, recycled album that strikes me nothing more as a b-sides to Sacrament. Wrath has it's moments, but you'll really have to listen hard to find them. |
| Led Zeppelin In Through The Out Door |
| Led Zeppelin Coda |
| Lil Wayne Tha Carter III |
| Limp Bizkit Chocolate Starfish... |
| Linkin Park Live In Texas |
| Ludacris The Red Light District |
| Melvins Prick |
| Metallica Load |
| Metallica Garage, Inc |
| Metallica Beyond Magnetic |
| Morbid Angel Heretic |
| Mudvayne Lost and Found |
| Mudvayne The End of All Things to Come |
| Mudvayne The New Game |
| Muse The 2nd Law |
| Nas Nastradamus |
| Nickelback Silver Side Up |
| Nile Ithyphallic |
| Nile Those Whom the Gods Detest |
Nile released another album. They're so cute.
But seriously, this album is simply another regurgitation of everything they've made from In Their Darkened Shrines onward. George Kollias is still obnoxiously fast, the solos still make Kerry King look like he knows what he's doing, and Dallas still sounds like a dishwasher. Not to mention the added pseudo-Egyptian clean vocals are some of the most lol-worthy additions to any metal album this year. Every once in a while a riff will come along that absolutely rules, but you won't remember it for long. Overall, it's just Nile shitting out another album just because it's been another two years. |
| Norma Jean Bless the Martyr and Kiss the Child |
| Papa Roach Lovehatetragedy |
| Pig Destroyer 38 Counts Of Battery |
| Pink Floyd Works |
| Primus The Brown Album |
| Primus Tales from the Punchbowl |
| Radiohead The King of Limbs |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers By the Way |
| Sepultura Roots |
| Shadows Fall Retribution |
| Slayer God Hates Us All |
| Slayer Diabolus in Musica |
| Slayer Undisputed Attitude |
| Slipknot Welcome to Our Neighborhood [DVD] |
| Suicide Silence The Black Crown |
| The Acacia Strain Death is the Only Mortal |
| I just want to make it perfectly clear: Meshuggah released Nothing ten years ago. |
| The Acacia Strain Wormwood |
| The Black Dahlia Murder What A Horrible Night To Have A Curse |
| The Mars Volta Scab Dates |
| Tvangeste FireStorm |
| Underoath They're Only Chasing Safety |
| Underoath Act of Depression |
| Unholy Matrimony Love and Death |
| Vital Remains Icons of Evil |
| Weird Al Yankovic Alapalooza |
| Whitechapel A New Era of Corruption |
| Whitechapel The Somatic Defilement |
| Will Smith Big Willie Style |
| Winds Of Plague Decimate The Weak |
| Take every metalcore/deathcore cliche imaginable and just beat yourself over the head with it for ten songs. And throw in some "epic" keyboards while you're at it. Oh well, at least Anthems of Apocalypse is a good song. |
| Winds Of Plague The Great Stone War |
| Wrath and Rapture Wrath and Rapture |
| Yes Tormato |
| Yes 90125 |
| 1.5 very poor |
| Alesana On Frail Wings Of Vanity And Wax |
| Alexisonfire Alexisonfire |
| All That Remains A War You Cannot Win |
| No amount of flashy solos and melodeath riffing can make up for the fact that Phil "Autotune" Labonte wants the band to sound just like Five Finger Death Punch. A waste of your time, but you already knew that, right? |
| As Blood Runs Black Allegiance |
| Avenged Sevenfold City of Evil |
| Bathory Octagon |
| Behold... The Arctopus Skullgrid |
| Black Sabbath Forbidden |
| Black Sabbath Never Say Die! |
| Black Sabbath Seventh Star |
| Blessthefall Awakening |
| blink-182 Dude Ranch |
| Bring Me The Horizon Count Your Blessings |
| Carnifex The Diseased and Poisoned |
| Common Universal Mind Control |
| Cryptopsy The Unspoken King |
| Darkthrone F.O.A.D. |
| Despised Icon The Ills of Modern Man |
| DragonForce Ultra Beatdown |
| Dream Theater Falling into Infinity |
| Dream Theater When Dream and Day Unite |
| Edge of Sanity Until Eternity Ends |
| Emmure The Respect Issue |
| Emmure Slave to the Game |
| Emmure Goodbye to the Gallows |
| Escape the Fate This War Is Ours |
| From First To Last Dear Diary, My Teen Angst Has a Body... |
| Green Day American Idiot |
| Green Day 21st Century Breakdown |
| Guns N' Roses Use Your Illusion I |
| Guns N' Roses Use Your Illusion II |
| Guns N' Roses Chinese Democracy |
| I Killed The Prom Queen Music for the Recently Deceased |
| In Flames Soundtrack to Your Escape |
| Iron Maiden The X Factor |
| It Dies Today The Caitiff Choir |
| Job for a Cowboy Doom |
| Korn Take A Look in the Mirror |
| Korn See You on the Other Side |
| Limp Bizkit Significant Other |
| Linkin Park Minutes To Midnight |
| Lou Reed Metal Machine Music |
| Lupe Fiasco Lasers |
| Megadeth Risk |
| Metallica ReLoad |
| Don't get me wrong, I'm actually a huge Metallica fan. That is, pre-Load Metallica. If there ever was a band to sell out, it was these guys. It's not that cutting their hair was a big deal to me, it was the fact that they went from creating some of the most essential pieces of music in heavy metal history to pooping out collections of sub-par hard rock garbage. This album may have "The Unforgiven II", which I do thoroughly enjoy, but other than that I just can't tolerate this album. It's a damn shame to see one of the most important bands in metal history turn to this. |
| Michael Jackson Invincible |
| Morbid Angel Illud Divinum Insanus |
| Murderdolls Beyond The Valley of the Murderdolls |
| MyChildren MyBride Unbreakable |
| Nickelback All the Right Reasons |
| Nile Amongst the Catacombs of Nephren-Ka |
| Oceano Depths |
| Oceano Contagion |
| Ozzy Osbourne Black Rain |
| Ozzy Osbourne Scream |
| Panic! At the Disco A Fever You Can't Sweat Out |
| Psyopus Odd Senses |
| Radiohead Pablo Honey |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers Stadium Arcadium |
| I've been a fan of the Red Hot Chili Peppers for man years now, but this is by far the weakest album that I own by them. I don't care what Flea says, I still like the band despite the fact that this is a poor album. It's got a few enjoyable songs here and there, but overall it's just way too long and sometimes incredibly painful to listen to. There are way too many slow songs on here for my taste. I like it when RHCP blasts out with some funk-rock songs that get you pumped up and not the slower, emotional tracks that seem more like jokes than actual passages of feeling. Even though Warlocks is one, if not the band's best song ever, I just can't listen to this album any more and I'm sick of all the positive press it's getting. |
| Rings of Saturn Embryonic Anomaly |
| Spineshank Self Destructive Pattern |
| Staind 14 Shades Of Grey |
| Stick To Your Guns Comes From The Heart |
| Structures Divided By |
| This might be the most disorganized and least memorable record in the entire Sumerian Records catalog. |
| Suicide Silence The Cleansing |
| Suicide Silence No Time to Bleed |
| Taproot Welcome |
| The Human Abstract Midheaven |
| Trivium The Crusade |
| Whitechapel Whitechapel |
