| 5.0 classic |
| A Perfect Circle Thirteenth Step |
| What a concept album. After the wonderful Mer de Noms, A Perfect Circle create their masterpiece. The songs revolve around the concept of various forms of addictions from different perspectives. The album flows wonderfully and even has a dreamy quality to it. The songs are a little more mellow overall than those on their debut, but there are still heavy moments and songs. Lyrically and vocally Maynard does his job exceptionally and the music compliments this very well. A must own. |
| AFI The Art of Drowning |
| The Art Of Drowning is the point in AFI's career where they stood on the precipice of change. It was their last album before their major label release and already with each previous release the winds of change were blowing. Here is where the band took the greatest elements that defined them in Black Sails In The Sunset and expanded them. The crunchy guitars, driving drums, unique bass lines, and shouted vocals are still here. The main difference from this CD to the last is that more variety is present. The band uses more melody and slows the pace down a few times. The end result is a beautiful thing. The Days Of The Phoenix is one of the catchiest songs on the CD, lyrically showing the band looking back at their beginnings. Songs like Smile still show the faster side of past AFI though, the added dynamics to the songwriting just show the band at the apex of their career. |
| AFI Sing the Sorrow |
| Sing the Sorrow was a turning point for AFI. It still bears faint traces of their past punk and hardcore roots, but fused with a new direction containing more rock and pop influences. This CD has a lot of variety going on. From the dark, anthemic opener, to the punk verses of Dancing Through Sunday and its more poppy choruses. To the short electronic passage in Death Of Seasons to the backing choirs of ...but home is nowhere. Sing the Sorrow has a little something for everyone. Vocally and lyrically it's a big progression for the band, using elements of their past and fusing them with a newfound direction. |
| Agalloch Ashes Against The Grain |
| Agalloch The White |
| The White EP transports you to another world. Agalloch really showcase their songwriting ability on this release. The songs are mainly mellow though they pick up a few times, and vocals only show up in the form of whispers, spoken word, a few vocal harmonies, and sound clips (from the classic original Wicker Man). As per their usual, acoustic guitars are the backbone of these songs giving everything a very earthy feel. It feels as if you are lost, walking through a great forest on a late summer afternoon as you travel through this EP. It's an incredible listen and I look forward to what direction Agalloch take their next full length. |
| Anathema A Natural Disaster |
| A Natural Disaster is a beautiful album that has an incredible flow. The order of the songs feels incredibly natural and there's a good amount of variety. This CD shows the softer side of Anathema which is an extremely touching side of them. The songs are very atmospheric with some flashes of bands like Pink Floyd and Porcupine Tree. There is much more focus on piano/keyboards in many of the songs and it gives this album a very laid back feel. Pulled Under... stands out as it has a lot of energy in comparison to most of the other songs. The weakest song on here is the last track, Violence, though it's not a bad song by any means. |
| Elliott Smith XO |
| Isis Panopticon |
| The expansive soundscape found on Panopticon is paralleled by none. This album ranges from soft, ambient passages to emotionally crushing climaxes. The expansive and intensifying buildups in between are incredible to hear. At first listen Panopticon appears to be a pretty repetitive album, but when paying closer attention there are all sorts of subtle changes going on with a nice range of dynamics. Each instrument works off one another, no single instrument really standing out a lot from the rest, and this works beautifully. Listening to Panopticon is like taking a journey through the human subconscious and discovering all sorts of intricacies that one was not aware of previously. |
| Nine Inch Nails Broken |
| Opeth Blackwater Park |
| Opeth In Live Concert at the Royal Albert Hall |
| Porcupine Tree Stupid Dream |
| Stupid Dream is when Steven Wilson and Porcupine Tree found all of the right ingredients to make an incredible album. Many moods can be found on here from solemn, almost depressing songs to more upbeat and carefree ones. There are a lot of psychedelic influences to be heard and they play an integral role in creating some of the soundscapes and feelings found in each song. The variety on here is great as no two songs sound alike yet they all somehow manage to have the same feel as if they all belong on the same disc. It's very hard to find a fault in this album, especially for fans of progressive and/or psychedelic rock. |
| Sigur Ros ( ) |
| The Cure Disintegration |
| Thrice Beggars |
| Tool Aenima |
| VNV Nation Empires |
| VNV Nation combines many aspects of electronic, industrial, orchestral, and pop music in this breakthrough release. There is not a weak point in this album. The music is catchy and upbeat when it needs to be and impressive with its subtle beauty at other moments. The lyrics are also very well written and powerful. This is an essential album for both fans of electronic music and non-fans looking to give the genre a chance. |
| 4.5 superb |
| AFI Black Sails in the Sunset |
| This album is raw, aggressive, and cathartic. There's so much energy and passion in all the songs. I like how the bass has a good presence in the songs, the guitar lines and riffs are very good, the drumming is tight, and the vocals are powerful. Davey has some very good lyrics on here and this album contains the classic God Called in Sick Today. It's hard to find anything wrong with this record unless you aren't into this type of music. The only thing that keeps this from being a classic is that it lacks a little variety. There are moments of it, but not too many. |
| AFI All Hallow's EP |
| AFI Black Sails EP |
| AFI Crash Love |
| AFX Hangable Auto Bulb |
| Agalloch The Mantle |
| Agalloch Split |
| Agalloch The Silence Of Forgotten Landscapes |
| Agalloch Marrow Of The Spirit |
| Alcest Ecailles De Lune |
| Alice in Chains Dirt |
| Amon Amarth With Oden On Our Side |
| Anathema Hindsight |
| Anathema We're Here Because We're Here |
| Aphex Twin Selected Ambient Works 85-92 |
| Aphex Twin ...I Care Because You Do |
| Beck Sea Change |
| Coheed and Cambria In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3 |
| Cult of Luna Somewhere Along the Highway |
| Depeche Mode Violator |
| Elliott Smith Either/Or |
| Elliott Smith Figure 8 |
| Explosions in the Sky The Earth is Not a Cold Dead Place |
| One word to describe this album is "beautiful." The compositions on here flow together nicely. There are no vocals present, but the way the instruments are used and blended together more than make up for that. The instruments speak their own lyrics filled with emotion and intensity. There's some very chilled out, relaxing moments on here as well as impassioned build-ups. This is an excellent example of how post-rock should be done. |
| Fair to Midland Arrows and Anchors |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor F#A# (Infinity) |
| Hans Zimmer Inception |
| Incubus Make Yourself |
| Incubus Morning View |
| Incubus When Incubus Attacks, Vol. 2 (DVD) |
| This DVD gets a high score based on the sheer volume of content provided. There's a lot of live concert footage, backstage stuff, music videos, and so on. Everything takes place before the release of Morning View, so it gives fans a great look at their back catalogue. If only every DVD release for bands could be of this quality. |
| Isis Oceanic |
| Isis In the Absence of Truth |
| Isis Clearing the Eye (DVD) |
| Isis Wavering Radiant |
| Isis Live 5 |
| Lunatic Soul Lunatic Soul |
| Mastodon Leviathan |
| Mastodon Blood Mountain |
| Mastodon Crack the Skye |
| Mike Doughty Smofe + Smang: Live in Minneapolis |
| Minus the Bear Planet of Ice |
| Modest Mouse The Moon & Antarctica |
| Murder by Death Who Will Survive and What Will Be Left of Them? |
| This is a great ominous, haunting album. There's a certain tone or feel present throughout the album that ties together each song and the story the album tells as a whole. The story, laid out on the band's website, is very interesting and adds a nice twist to the music. The songs are unique and very well crafted. The prominence of the cello and piano is beautiful throughout the album. I would rate this CD a classic except that the second half is a little lacking when compared to the first half. This album makes for excellent driving music as well. |
| Neurosis The Eye of Every Storm |
| Neurosis A Sun That Never Sets |
| Nine Inch Nails The Downward Spiral |
| Nine Inch Nails Pretty Hate Machine |
| Nine Inch Nails Still |
| Nine Inch Nails Ghosts I-IV |
| Nirvana MTV Unplugged in New York |
| Opeth Still Life |
| Opeth Damnation |
| Opeth Lamentations |
| Opeth Watershed |
| Orphaned Land Mabool (The Story of the Three Sons...) |
| OverClocked ReMix Xenogears : Humans + Gears |
| Pelican Ephemeral |
| pg.lost It's Not Me, It's You! |
| Pink Floyd Animals |
| Pink Floyd Wish You Were Here |
| Porcupine Tree In Absentia |
| Porcupine Tree Lightbulb Sun |
| Lightbulb Sun, like Porcupine Tree's previous outing, is quite amazing. The amount of variety on here is very good which helps differentiate each song and give it its own place on the disc. This album shows a few more traces of pop with a little more structure than Porcupine Tree has shown before. The only thing that keeps this from being a classic is that a few songs are a little weaker than the rest, namely Four Chords That Made A Million and Where We Would Be. Despite that, this is an album I highly recommend to anyone. |
| Porcupine Tree Arriving Somewhere... (DVD) |
| Porcupine Tree The Incident |
| Red Sparowes The Fear Is Excruciating, But Therein... |
| Sarah Fimm Nexus |
| Sarah Fimm Red Yellow Sun |
| SIG:AR:TYR Godsaga |
| Sigur Ros Heima (DVD) |
| Solstafir Kold |
| Soundgarden Badmotorfinger |
| Steven Wilson Insurgentes |
| Steven Wilson Grace for Drowning |
| The Mars Volta De-Loused in the Comatorium |
| The Smashing Pumpkins Siamese Dream |
| The Smiths The Queen Is Dead |
| Thrice The Alchemy Index Vols. I & II |
| Thrice The Alchemy Index Vols. III & IV |
| Thrice Major/Minor |
| Tiger Army Music From Regions Beyond |
| Tool Lateralus |
| VNV Nation Praise the Fallen |
| VNV Nation Burning Empires |
| 4.0 excellent |
| 3 Wake Pig |
| 3 The End is Begun |
| 5ive Hesperus |
| A Perfect Circle Mer de Noms |
| AFI Shut Your Mouth and Open Your Eyes |
| Shut Your Mouth And Open Your Eyes is a nice turn towards a more serious AFI. This album shows nice growth from Answer That And Stay Fashionable and Very Proud of Ya and foreshadows the change present with Black Sails In The Sunset. The band moves away from their punk roots slightly, adding in more elements of hardcore. This is the first AFI album featuring their current bassist, Hunter, who brings more interesting bass lines to the music. Davey's lyrics also offer a lot more than the band's previous outings, being much more earnest and displaying much more self-disclosure than in the past. This is an excellent record with great energy and passion. |
| AFI Decemberunderground |
| AFX Chosen Lords |
| Agalloch Pale Folklore |
| Agalloch Of Stone, Wind, and Pillor |
| Alcest Souvenirs d'un autre Monde |
| Alice in Chains Jar of Flies |
| Alice in Chains Facelift |
| Alice in Chains MTV Unplugged |
| Alice in Chains Black Gives Way to Blue |
| Alkaline Trio Goddamnit |
| Alkaline Trio Remains |
| Amon Amarth Twilight Of The Thunder God |
| Amon Amarth Surtur Rising |
| Amorphis Silent Waters |
| Anathema A Fine Day To Exit |
| Anathema Judgement |
| Anathema Alternative 4 |
| Anathema Weather Systems |
| Aphex Twin Selected Ambient Works, Vol. II |
| Autechre Amber |
| Baroness Blue Record |
| Bass Communion Continuum II |
| Bathory Twilight of the Gods |
| Battles Mirrored |
| Beck Guero |
| Ben Harper burn to shine |
| Blaqk Audio CexCells |
| Blind Guardian Nightfall in Middle-Earth |
| Blind Guardian Somewhere Far Beyond |
| Blind Guardian Imaginations from the Other Side |
| Boards of Canada In A Beautiful Place Out In The Country |
| Bon Iver For Emma, Forever Ago |
| Bon Iver Bon Iver |
| Brand New Daisy |
| Coheed and Cambria The Second Stage Turbine Blade |
| Coheed and Cambria Live at the Starland Ballroom |
| This DVD features a nice mix of songs from the first two albums. The video and audio quality is good and overall it's a great show. There are a few extra performances on the disc, some music videos, some interviews, ect. It comes with a CD which is just the live concert, but it's nice to be able to listen to it on the road or away from a DVD player. In the end it's a great deal for anyone who's a fan of Coheed and Cambria. |
| Coheed and Cambria From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness |
| Coheed and Cambria Year of the Black Rainbow |
| Cormorant Metazoa |
| Cult of Luna Salvation |
| Cynic Traced in Air |
| Daft Punk Tron: Legacy |
| Danzig Danzig II: Lucifuge |
| Danzig Danzig III: How The Gods Kill |
| Danzig 7:77 - I Luciferi |
| With I Luciferi Danzig has dropped almost all of the industrial elements that moved in after Danzig IV. The album has more in common with the signature stripped down sound of the original lineup minus the blues influences. Fans who were let down with Blackacidevil and Satan's Child should check this out as the extraneous elements that felt out of place on a Danzig CD are gone. These are some of the darkest and heaviest songs Danzig has released. The only downsides to this album lie in the production quality and the song Wicked Pussycat. |
| David Bowie The Man Who Sold The World |
| David Bowie The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust... |
| David Bowie Hunky Dory |
| David Bowie Low |
| David Wise Donkey Kong Country 2 Soundtrack |
| Dead Can Dance Within the Realm of a Dying Sun |
| Deftones White Pony |
| Deftones Diamond Eyes |
| Demians Building An Empire |
| Demians Mute |
| Depeche Mode Playing The Angel |
| Depeche Mode Music for the Masses |
| Depeche Mode Sounds Of The Universe |
| Dethklok Dethalbum II |
| Disillusion Back To Times Of Splendor |
| DJ Shadow Endtroducing..... |
| dredg Leitmotif |
| dredg Orph |
| dredg El Cielo |
| dredg Catch Without Arms |
| dredg The Pariah, The Parrot, The Delusion |
| Dual Core Lost Reality |
| Dustin Kensrue Please Come Home |
| Earth The Bees Made Honey in the Lion's Skull |
| Elliott Smith From a Basement on the Hill |
| Elliott Smith Elliott Smith |
| Equilibrium Sagas |
| Estatic Fear A Sombre Dance |
| Faith No More Angel Dust |
| Falkenbach Ok Nefna Tysvar Ty |
| Foo Fighters The Colour and the Shape |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor Slow Riot For New Zero Kanada |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor Yanqui U.X.O |
| Grendel Beowulf |
| Grinderman Grinderman |
| Guster Goldfly |
| By far, my favorite Guster release. The songs on this album have a very distinct and unique sound. There's a lot of energy throughout the disc and many of the songs are just fun to listen to. Acoustic guitars and bongo percussion form the basis of Guster and they put them together with very catchy hooks. The instruments just compliment one another very well, with the percussion really shining through. Every song on Goldfly is great. |
| Howard Shore The Fellowship of the Ring |
| In Mourning Monolith |
| Incubus S.C.I.E.N.C.E. |
| Incubus The Morning View Sessions (DVD) |
| This is an excellent DVD for any Incubus fan. The live set on here is of very high quality and is featured in an intimate setting. A majority of the songs on here are from Morning View but there are a few older ones as well. Also, the behind the scenes look at the recording of Morning View are very cool. Like other Incubus DVD's, there's a lot packed on here. You definitely get your money's worth. |
| Indukti S.U.S.A.R. |
| Iron Maiden The Number of the Beast |
| Iron Maiden Brave New World |
| James Horner Braveheart |
| Jesu Pale Sketches |
| Kalmah Swampsong |
| Led Zeppelin Houses of the Holy |
| Lunatic Soul Lunatic Soul II |
| Mastodon Remission |
| mewithoutYou A to B: Life |
| mewithoutYou Catch For Us The Foxes |
| mewithoutYou Brother, Sister |
| Mike Doughty Skittish/Rockity Roll |
| Minus the Bear Omni |
| Modest Mouse We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank |
| Modest Mouse No One's First And You're Next |
| Mono Hymn To The Immortal Wind |
| Murder by Death In Bocca Al Lupo |
| Murder by Death Good Morning, Magpie |
| My Bloody Valentine Loveless |
| Neurosis Given to the Rising |
| Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds Abattoir Blues/The Lyre of Orpheus |
| Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds Murder Ballads |
| Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds Henry's Dream |
| Nine Inch Nails The Fragile |
| Nine Inch Nails And All That Could Have Been |
| Nine Inch Nails Beside You In Time |
| Nine Inch Nails Year Zero |
| Nirvana Nevermind |
| Nobuo Uematsu Final Fantasy VII: Original Soundtrack |
| Oasis (What's The Story) Morning Glory? |
| Oceansize Frames |
| Old Man Gloom Christmas |
| Opeth Orchid |
| Opeth Ghost Reveries |
| OverClocked ReMix Chrono Trigger: Chrono Symphonic |
| OverClocked ReMix Final Fantasy VII: Voices of the Lifestream |
| OverClocked ReMix Radical Dreamers: Thieves of Fate |
| Pagan Altar Mythical & Magical |
| Pearl Jam Ten |
| Pearl Jam Vs. |
| Pelican Australasia |
| Pelican The Fire in Our Throats Will Beckon... |
| Pelican What We All Come To Need |
| Pink Floyd The Dark Side of the Moon |
| Porcupine Tree Deadwing |
| Porcupine Tree Up the Downstair |
| Porcupine Tree The Sky Moves Sideways |
| Porcupine Tree Nil Recurring |
| Porcupine Tree We Lost the Skyline |
| This is a wonderful collection of stripped down Porcupine Tree songs. It's a special set with some nice surprises and just an enjoyable listen all around. The sound quality and production for this live recording is really good. My only complaints are that I was slightly letdown with a few sloppy moments in Even Less and without the piano Lazarus sounds like it's missing that special ingredient. The pros far outweigh the cons however and I highly recommend this to both fans and even non-fans of Porcupine Tree. |
| Puscifer "V" Is For Vagina |
| Puscifer C is for... |
| Puscifer Conditions of My Parole |
| Radiohead Kid A |
| Radiohead OK Computer |
| Radius System Escape/Restart |
| Ratatat Ratatat |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers Californication |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers Stadium Arcadium |
| Red Sparowes At The Soundless Dawn |
| Red Sparowes Every Red Heart Shines Toward The Red... |
| Rilo Kiley The Execution of All Things |
| Rise Against Siren Song of the Counter Culture |
| Rise Against The Sufferer and the Witness |
| Riverside Second Life Syndrome |
| Riverside Out of Myself |
| Riverside Voices In My Head |
| Riverside Rapid Eye Movement |
| Riverside Anno Domini High Definition |
| Riverside Memories In My Head |
| Robyn Miller Myst Soundtrack |
| Rosetta The Galilean Satellites |
| Rosetta Wake/Lift |
| Russian Circles Enter |
| Sarah Fimm A Perfect Dream |
| Sarah Fimm White Birds |
| Sarah Fimm The Vanishing Sessions (B-Sides Part I) |
| Sarah Fimm Karma Phala |
| Sarah Fimm Near Infinite Possibility |
| Scott Kelly The Wake |
| Sigur Ros Takk... |
| Sigur Ros Hvarf/Heim |
| Sigur Ros Valtari |
| Silversun Pickups Carnavas |
| Silversun Pickups Swoon |
| Silversun Pickups Seasick |
| Skinny Puppy Too Dark Park |
| Skinny Puppy The Process |
| Soundgarden Superunknown |
| Stone Temple Pilots Core |
| Streetlight Manifesto Everything Goes Numb |
| Streetlight Manifesto Somewhere in the Between |
| Sublime Sublime |
| Sublime 40 Oz. to Freedom |
| Tears For Fears The Hurting |
| The Black Mages The Black Mages |
| The Cure Pornography |
| The Cure The Head on the Door |
| The Cure Seventeen Seconds |
| The Cure Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me |
| The Cure Wish |
| The Gaslight Anthem Sink or Swim |
| The Gaslight Anthem Señor and the Queen |
| The Gaslight Anthem The 59 Sound |
| The Mars Volta Frances the Mute |
| The Mars Volta The Bedlam in Goliath |
| The Mars Volta Octahedron |
| The Smashing Pumpkins Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness |
| The Smashing Pumpkins Gish |
| The Smiths Strangeways, Here We Come |
| The Sound of Animals Fighting Tiger and the Duke |
| The Tuss Rushup Edge |
| Thrice The Illusion Of Safety |
| Thrice The Artist In The Ambulance |
| Thrice If We Could Only See Us Now |
| Thrice Vheissu |
| Thrice Red Sky |
| Thrice Live At The House Of Blues |
| Tiger Army II: Power of Moonlite |
| Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers Into The Great Wide Open |
| Tool Undertow |
| Tool Salival |
| Tool 10,000 Days |
| Torche Meanderthal |
| Ulver Perdition City |
| Ulver Kveldssanger |
| Ulver Bergtatt |
| Ulver Shadows of the Sun |
| VNV Nation Matter + Form |
| VNV Nation Futureperfect |
| Weezer The Blue Album |
| Wolfchant A Pagan Storm |
| Wolves in the Throne Room Two Hunters |
| Wolves in the Throne Room Malevolent Grain |
| Wolves in the Throne Room Celestial Lineage |
| Worm Ouroboros Worm Ouroboros |
| Wuthering Heights Far from the Madding Crowd |
| X Japan Art of Life |
| Despite containing only one song, this is an amazing disc. It is, however, a very massive song, clocking in around 30 minutes in length. There is a lot of diversity in this one song. You can find harmonized guitar leads, classical sounding piano solos, tight drumming and rhythm, and so on. The feel and mood of this one song changes many times and makes this a very enjoyable listen despite its length. The only downside, as this is a Japanese band, the vocals sung in English are hard to decipher at times. |
| Yasunori Mitsuda Chrono Cross Original Soundtrack |
| Yasunori Mitsuda Xenogears Original Soundtrack |
