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5.0 classic
Bob Dylan Blood on the Tracks
Megadeth Rust in Peace
The Beach Boys Pet Sounds

4.5 superb
Atheist Unquestionable Presence
Bloodbath Resurrection Through Carnage
Blotted Science The Machinations of Dementia
Bob Dylan Time Out of Mind
Bolt Thrower Those Once Loyal
Cryptopsy None So Vile
De Lirium's Order Diagnosis
Death Symbolic
Decapitated Winds of Creation
Edge of Sanity Crimson
High on Fire Blessed Black Wings
Intestine Baalism Ultimate Instinct
Into Eternity Buried in Oblivion
Kraftwerk The Man-Machine
Love Forever Changes
Metallica Master of Puppets
Miles Davis Bitches Brew
Mithras Behind the Shadows Lie Madness
Self professed proponents of experimental Death Metal live up to the billing with an album of technical,progressive and yes,experimental Death Metal. The listener is forced to listen to every track intently,to wander is to miss something incredible and often quite brilliant.This has Brutal death undertones,tech death time signatures and guitar tone.,the lyrical content most fitting an album of doom and the all round technical expertise of prog.
Morbid Angel Altars of Madness
Necrophagist Epitaph
Neil Young Harvest
Nevermore This Godless Endeavor
Ornette Coleman The Shape of Jazz to Come
Sigh Imaginary Sonicscape
Sigh Hangman's Hymn
Spawn of Possession Noctambulant
Symphony X Paradise Lost
The Faceless Akeldama
Vader The Art Of War

4.0 excellent
Akercocke Antichrist
Anaal Nathrakh Hell Is Empty and All the Devils Are Her
Anata The Conductor's Departure
Arghoslent Hornets of the Pogrom
At the Gates Slaughter of the Soul
Baroness Red Album
Beneath the Massacre Mechanics of Dysfunction
Bergraven Dödsvisioner
Between the Buried and Me The Silent Circus
Between the Buried and Me Alaska
Bloodbath Nightmares Made Flesh
Bloodbath Breeding Death
Carcass Necroticism: Descanting the Insalubrious
Carcass Heartwork
Carcass Wake Up and Smell the Carcass
Charles Mingus Mingus Ah Um
Cynic Focus
Death Live in L.A.: Death & Raw
Decapitated Organic Hallucinosis
Decrepit Birth Diminishing Between Worlds
Draconian Turning Season Within
Edge of Sanity Crimson II
Edge of Sanity When All Is Said
Fear Factory Obsolete
Forest of Impaled Demonvoid
Gojira From Mars to Sirius
In Flames The Jester Race
In Flames Come Clarity
In Mourning Shrouded Divine
In Vain (NO) The Latter Rain
This band describe themselves as, Experimental Progressive Death/Black Metal and the fare they serve up on this, their debut album, lives up to the billing. They added 14 guest musicians to the already 6 strong band, playing a mind boggling array of instruments ranging from Piano to Trumpet, Orchestral percussion to Viola and several more that I neither have the patience nor space to list. The texture and layers this all adds to the music is incredible and reveals itself more and more on each listen. To be fair it took a couple of listens to 'get it' and fully appreciate what was going on and it isn't until track 4 that it really rises above standard melodic death fare of late, In Mourning as an example would be pretty accurate. After this the comparison I'd find easiest to make would be with Crimson era Edge of Sanity and while not quite in that class it is a very decent effort indeed. If you've any liking for the 2 bands mentioned (or Opeth even)then this album is right up your street and needs to be heard.
Intestine Baalism Banquet in the Darkness
Into Eternity The Scattering of Ashes
Iron Maiden A Matter of Life and Death
Johnny Cash American IV: The Man Comes Around
Lamb of God Sacrament
Megadeth Peace Sells... but Who's Buying?
Megadeth Greatest Hits: Back to the Start
Mesa Verde The Old Road
Nevermore Nevermore
Opeth Blackwater Park
Opeth Watershed
Pagan Reign Ancient Fortress
Pantera Reinventing Hell: The Best of Pantera
Pathosray Pathosray
Pig Destroyer Terrifyer
Primordial The Gathering Wilderness
Primordial To the Nameless Dead
Protest the Hero Fortress
Sickening Horror When Landscapes Bled Backwards
Slayer Reign in Blood
Spawn of Possession Cabinet
The Police Reggatta de Blanc
The Police Outlandos d'Amour
Unleashed Midvinterblot
Vesania Distractive Killusions
Vital Remains Icons of Evil
Witchery Don't Fear the Reaper
Wyrd Kammen

3.5 great
36 Crazyfists Rest Inside the Flames
A Forest of Stars A Shadowplay for Yesterdays
Arch Enemy Rise of the Tyrant
At the Gates Terminal Spirit Disease
Bob Dylan Blonde on Blonde
Bob Dylan Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits
Bruce Springsteen Tunnel of Love
Cannibal Corpse Vile
Cannibal Corpse Kill
Carcass Symphonies of Sickness
Cephalic Carnage Xenosapien
Decapitated Nihility
Decapitated The Negation
Disavowed Stagnated Existence
Dismember Dismember
Divine Heresy Bleed the Fifth
Echoes of Eternity The Forgotten Goddess
Fear Factory Archetype
Interpol Turn on the Bright Lights
Interpol Antics
Into Eternity Dead or Dreaming
Iron Maiden Seventh Son of a Seventh Son
Killswitch Engage As Daylight Dies
Lamb of God Ashes of the Wake
Lamb of God As the Palaces Burn
Leviathan Massive Conspiracy Against All Life
Limbonic Art Legacy of Evil
Megadeth Countdown to Extinction
Metallica Ride the Lightning
Monstrosity Spiritual Apocalypse
Morbid Angel Covenant
Municipal Waste Hazardous Mutation
Necrophagist Onset of Putrefaction
Odious Mortem Cryptic Implosion
Opeth Ghost Reveries
Pantera Cowboys from Hell
Pantera Vulgar Display of Power
Primordial A Journey's End
Primordial Storm Before Calm
Primordial Imrama
Pygmy Lush Mount Hope
Slayer Seasons in the Abyss
Slayer South of Heaven
Symphony X V: The New Mythology Suite
Ted Maul White Label
The Red Chord Clients
The Red Chord Prey for Eyes
Trivium Ascendancy
Yogth Sothoth Abominations of The Nebulah Mortiis

3.0 good
Bob Dylan Love and Theft
Cannibal Corpse Butchered at Birth
Carcass Reek of Putrefaction
Megadeth United Abominations
Meshuggah obZen
Metallica Kill 'Em All
Morbid Angel Heretic
Slayer Decade of Aggression
The Police Zenyatta Mondatta
Trivium Ember to Inferno

2.5 average
Arsis United in Regret
Fear Factory Digimortal
Job For A Cowboy Genesis
The Police Synchronicity
The Police Every Breath You Take: The Classics
Virgin Black Requiem - Fortissimo

1.5 very poor
Trivium The Crusade

1.0 awful
Metallica St. Anger
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