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Akercocke Choronzon

Akercocke Words That Go Unspoken, Deeds That Go...

Blind Guardian Nightfall in Middle-Earth

If just those interludes.... those useless interludes would be left away... Blind Guardian was at it's peak at this album. Every song is a masterpiece, inventing new bombastic choruses and passages. Those great songs are, however, sadly connect with the use of (stupid) interludes. Where Blind Guardian could have made interesting background story of the concept of the album, we are treated with for example an interlude with nothing but a single line of text. It takes away from the flow, and doesn't work with the bombastic style of Blind Guardian. Luckily they are usually under the 30 seconds, leaving several minutes open to the brilliant songs. Surely a check-out, considering this album has the best Blind Guardian songs all around.

Blind Guardian Somewhere Far Beyond

Deftones White Pony

dredg El Cielo

Enslaved Ruun

Part three of Enslaved intense progressive black metal. Though it's more progressive extreme metal than progressive black metal. Enslaved has dismissed of almost every black metal element. Only the screaming and tremolo picking has remained, that's all. The sound of Enslaved is very space, sometimes upbeat but most of the time expressing vengeance. The addition of a keyboard player was a very good idea. Although you won't hear him playing solo's, the whole sound sounds 100x times fuller. The main thing what made Enslaved be progressive are the song structures. Path of Vanir, for example, features a very Pink Floyd-esque breakdown, and Essence, which goes from a rather slow-paced track to hyperspeed blast beats. Although the tracks clock in at under 7 minutes, this is basically Isa part two, just as good.

Enslaved Isa

Enslaved's eight album, Isa, is one of their biggest suprises yet. Not only with the addition of a keyboard-player, but also a completely new sound Enslaved managed to turn heads of thousands of metalheads. Time signatures, inventive song structures. No question about it, they've become progressive metal. Fine examples of metal's finest songs are Bounded by Allegiance, which features crazy leads at the end, Return to Ygdrassil, Enslaved at it's best, and last but not least the epic song Neogenesis, clocking in at over 11 minutes. Enslaved also experimented with song length, having the 11 minute Neogenesis, but also Violent Dawning, Isa and Secrets of the Flesh, which all three clock in at under 4 minutes. If Enslaved keeps their sound like this album from now on, I'm sure we all can expect huge things to come out.

Grave Digger Rheingold

Hypocrisy Virus

Melodic Death Metal has never been such brutal. Hypocrisy's newest album is probably Hypocrisy's best album to date. The songs, although much of the same, are all killer. Guitar solo's, although scarce, are very good, blast beats are used effectively and Peter's vocals are some of his best yet. From the beginning with XVI, a noisy fading in intro which goes right into War-Path, the best song on the album, until the end, Living to Die, a slow and apocalyptic song. Between those tracks, there are lots of hybrids between melodic death metal and straight f*cking death metal. And except for Craving for Another Killing, they're all killer.

In Flames Colony

Insomnium Since the Day It All Came Down

If a band like Opeth would dismiss of the useless extra minutes of a song and would take lead guitar riffs remicinent of Amorphis and Dark Tranquillity. What if Mikael would only grunt, no more clean singing. Such a band would be named Insomnium. Insomnium's second album, Since the Day It All Came Down, is a pinnacle in the melodic metal history. Energetic leads with a slight classical twist on it rule the album from front to back. With the start of the melancholic and sad Nocturne, a piano tune written in the style of the nocturnes in the classical age, to the final track called Song of the Forlorn Son, a slow epic song dripping with emotion, featuring a astonishing climax. The middle part songs are also fantastic. From the energetic Bereavement to the epic Disengagement. From the grievy Moment of Reckoning to the Closing Words, the only song that isn't filled with sad and melancholic riffs. This is one of the most incredible albums I have ever heard.

Insomnium Above the Weeping World

Insomnium's brilliant discography goes further with their third album: Above the Weeping World. In the vein of Since the Day it All Came Down, but with perfected melodies and acoustic passages. The Gale, where a lonesome piano starts, build up to a momentum notable in the whole metal encyclopedia. Mortal Share finishes it off with a fast lead riff written in 7/8 style. The other songs are just as good, if not better. The Killjoy has more energy in it, like Closing Words from their second album. At the Gates of Sleep and Last Statement are two melodic metal songs where a proper superlative is not yet invented. At the Gates of Sleep features a part where three different leads compliment each other at the same time. Last Statement on the other hand is a hearable monument of emotion. It deals with the dying of a person. The epic song is closed with the most melancholic and sad lead riff ever, after finishing a perfect solo. A must check out for metal fans.

Iron Maiden Seventh Son of a Seventh Son

Judas Priest Painkiller

Kamelot Epica

Kamelot's magnum opus is the first of the 2-cd-long story reveling around good and bad. Epica, power metal's best album to come across features the most subtile power riffs, the cleanest vocals, the most diverse themes throughout the album. And best of all, there is nothing cheesy about it. The lyrics are more of the standard power metal thing, but it's all laid out beautifully with the narrating stories of three different persons. Song highlights include the short but sweet "A Feast for the Vain", the slower but extremely powerful "The Edge of Paradise" and the nostalgic "Center of the Universe".

Kamelot The Black Halo

Part two of Kamelot's twin-CD story. And a funny thing is, this album is just as good as the first part. The main difference between Epica and this is the more and better use of keyboards. No wonder, because at this time a fifth member suprised every fan. Oliver, the keyboard-player, contributes with great keyboards. Beside the new member, nothing has really changed at all. That's not bad. Kamelot invented new ways to use their talent. The older albums were varied enough to stay interesting, this is no difference. When the Lights are Down is fast and euphorious, while Abandoned is emotional and deep. Memento Mori on the other hand is an eight-minute epic which proves that Kamelot can be progressive. Because it's still a part of the story, Kamelot threw again some interludes in it. Unlike most other interludes, these are interesting, though not as interesting as the interludes on Epica. Still, this album is one of metal's finest.

King Crimson In the Court of the Crimson King

Whether it be the Pink Floyd album, or King Crimson's album, I think we all can agree that when it comes to quality, King Crimson outshines almost every other album on the earth. With Fripp's passionate guitar playing, a style that was beyond imagination at that time. Giles his uncontrolable jazz playing and unique drum fills. As Pete Townshend once said: It's an uncanny masterpiece.

Kreator Coma of Souls

Muse Origin of Symmetry

Muse has that certain feeling that makes a song so special. Most songs only feature 3 or 4 different riffs although they clock in at a maximum of 7 minutes. The thing that makes it special is the artistic addition of a whirlwind of a piano, synthesizer and distorted bass. The guitar's main purpose is to strengthen the songs with a spacey lead riff, but is kept to a minimum. The songs itself are just perfect, from the emotional, spacey joyride called Bliss, the energetic rifffest Plug In Baby and the apocalyptical wormhole called Micro Cuts. A pinnacle in the alt rock scene.

Nocturnus The Key

Opeth Blackwater Park

This album is very nice. Not too progressive, not too intellectual. Not obscure or whatever. Opeth basically change a riff once per minute, do it 9 times and call it a song. Still, as long as it works it's good. And damn it works on here. Nice acoustic interludes, some solo's, dissonance, anti-dissonance (sonance?). It's also somewhat more of an easier listen compared to their older releases, which is a plus for me.

Rage The Missing Link

Incredible power metal work here. Aside from the dull Nevermor every song on here is a winner. Sure, Firestorm and The Pit and the Pendulum could've been better, but the perfection of tracks such as Refuge, Who Dares?, Raw Caress and Certain Days makes it all up. Hundreds of totally unique riffs with cool catchiness while staying metal all the way through. The manly voice of Peavy, every instrument playing with style as cool as Barry White. It's comparable to Judas Priest's Painkiller, though more power metal oriented.

The Cure Disintegration

Virgin Steele The Marriage of Heaven and Hell: Part II

Virgin Steele The House of Atreus: Act 1

Virgin Steele Visions Of Eden

Virgin Steele The House of Atreus: Act II

Virgin Steele Invictus

4.5 superb

Aborted Slaughter & Apparatus: A Methodical Overture

Aborted Goremageddon

Alice in Chains Dirt

Amon Amarth With Oden On Our Side

Amorphis Eclipse

Amorphis his newest album is not just a melodic death metal album. It's one of the most simple and straight metal album. There are even doubts if this album is even "metal". Of course there will be some grunting, a lot of distorted guitars and quite poetic lyrics. It's just the feeling and the melodies that make this band quite the original band. For once, The Smoke, one of scandinavian's best songs, has only a handful of riffs which are extremely close related to each other. This, however is put out very well. The same goes for Perkele (the God of Fire), House of Sleep, Same Flesh and Leaves Scar. The top 5 of this album. Note must be made that every track is notable. The only one thing that restrain this album from a 5 is the fact that the music is very linear. Riffs are somewhat similar, yet catchy enough to keep it interesting. Probably the highest 4.5 I've ever given.

Amorphis Silent Waters

Arcturus The Sham Mirrors

Now this is weird metal. Expect a very electronic and spacey atmosphere build around crazy guitar leads, frantic drums and strangely composed vocals. The real highlight however are Sverds keyboards. From the piano intro of Star Crossed, or the evil circus sounds on the epic For To End Yet Again. This man makes what Arcturus on this record is. An evil circus metal band. The band that plays when the Reaper invites you for his cirucs. The only song that somewhat differs from this standard is Radical Cut, which features Ihsahn from Emperor. I would go as far as calling this the pinnacle of Avantgarde music.

At the Drive-In Relationship of Command

This is just awesome. How could I think that this album was worth only a 3. How could I not heard the emotion of the vox, the innovative guitar riffs and great structure. I wasn't into post-hardcore then, those days. But people don't really need to love a genre to love the peak of that certain genre. This is the album, that some people will love regardless of their dislike towards that genre. It's that good. It has got great singles, like Patterns Against User and One Armed Scissor, but their tops lie in Cosmonaut and Invalit Litter Dept. A must check-out for everyone who isn't allergic for electric guitars.

Between The Buried And Me Alaska

Never has a bands sound so bombastic and powerful as Between the Buried and Me. The sound is a perfect hybrid of metalcore and progresssive metal. Perfect examples are Backwards Marathon, starting bombastic, before evolving into a Mars Volta esque acoustic breakdown. Or Selkies, with one of BtBaM best guitar solo's up to date. Filled with crazy (bass) guitar riffs, metal vocals and speedy drums, it's obvious these guys have the talent. Luckily they also have the songwriting talent, going from almost death metal to an exotic soft passage. Almost everything BtBaM has done right is on this record.

Blind Guardian Imaginations from the Other Side

Buckethead Colma

Children Of Bodom Follow the Reaper

Cryptopsy None So Vile

Cynic Focus

Dark Tranquillity Fiction

DT newest album does nothing new in terms of experimentation. In fact, it is just Character number 2, where Charactor left of, Fiction picked it up to go further. This, however, isn't necercerly a bad thing. Sometimes an album doesn't need the uniqueness to be superb. Fiction is like that. The lead guitars and keyboard do excellent riffs until infinity. From the industrial Nothing to No One until the emotional closer The Mundane and the Magic, a song that picks up where Negation left of. Terminus and Blind at Heart are the two highlights, densely followed by Icipher. Those three songs feature the ultimate Dark Tranquillity riffs, the most raspy vocals and the most subtile layout. With the exception of Focus Shift, a decent track, every song is from incredible state. This album is probably the best Dark Tranquillity has ever done. Including The Gallery and Character.

Death Symbolic

Dissection Storm of the Light's Bane

Divine Heresy Bleed The Fifth

dredg Catch Without Arms

Dredg went more mainstream. It's a fact, you can't change anything about it. This, however, is by far not a bad thing. Although not as good as El Cielo, and definitialy better than Leitmotif, this record is excellent. Gavin's voice is an angelvoice. It's beautiful, ranging from high notes to deep tones. The drumming from Dino is incredibly tight, and proves Dino to be an excellent drummer. The guitar and bass make a good combination. More than often the guitar jumps out for a lead riff, while the lack of a rhythm guitar is fixed by the bass. With the good amount of tracks, which differ not often enough, almost everything seems to be perfect. There is the magnum opus Jamais Vu. A song so passionate that the normal Tango bleaks at the sight of it. Bug Eyes, the powerful single. Planting Seeds and Sang Real, two more laidback songs with the usual Dredg amount of emotion. The lack of variety kills the album somewhat but this album still remains to be an excellent record.

Edge Of Sanity Crimson

One song... 40 minutes... millions of riffs... That's what Crimson's explenation would be. Edge of Sanity's magnum opus is an epic song with a length twice of the second longest song on my I-pod. From the beginning until the end, the song approaches the listener with crushing riffs, grunting vocals and pounding drums, but also acoustic interludes, angelish singing and emotional leads. The best thing, however, is the fact that the music feels like reading a story. No wonder, the lyrical concept of this album tells about a tragic tale of a future where no human is able to reproduce. The story goes very deep about it, with gods involving in it, several death's of persons and a suprising end. The music perfectly accompies the lyrics. When the lyrics are sad, the music sounds sad. When the lyrics are hectic, the music is hectic. This masterpiece is fully written by Dan Swano, the lyricist, vocalist, guitarist and mastermind of the band. His grunting vocals are perfectly balanced with variated clean vocals and beautiful lead riffs. A perfect example would be the hectic and beautiful part between 20:31 and 20:56. This epic progressive/melodic death metal song is only recommended for metalheads with patience and ability to see beauty within this kind of music.

Enslaved Below the Lights

Enslaved Frost

Enslaved Blodhemn

Fates Warning The Spectre Within

Fates Warning Awaken The Guardian

Gojira From Mars To Sirius

Gorguts The Erosion of Sanity

Gorguts Obscura

Grave Digger The Last Supper

Grave Digger Tunes of Waken

Hypocrisy The Final Chapter

Iced Earth Horror Show

Immolation Close To A World Below

In Flames A Sense of Purpose

Insomnium In the Halls of Awaiting

Isis Panopticon

Kamelot Karma

Kamelot The Fourth Legacy

Kamelot One Cold Winter Night

Katatonia Tonight's Decision

Keep of Kalessin Kolossus

King Diamond "Them"

Kreator Pleasure to Kill

Kyuss Welcome To Sky Valley

Lost Horizon Awakening The World

Lykathea Aflame Elvenefris

Megadeth Rust In Peace

Mike Oldfield Tubular Bells

Morbid Angel Altars of Madness

Muse Absolution

Muse's third album has a hard time trying to develop from the artistic pinnacle called Origin of Symmetry. It's quite suprising that Muse put it out so well. This album features a more mainstream sound for the easier minds. This however isn't bad; the art and emotion is still there, and as much present as it was on their previous album. Blackout is the follow-up of the song Bliss. The beautiful strings make this song the best of the album. Virtually every song on this album is magnificient, although songs such as Endlessly, Ruled by Secrecy and Falling Away With You drag down somewhat compared to the rest. Still, this album is almost (I repeat, ALMOST) as good as Origin of Symmetry.

Nightwish Wishmaster

Nocturnal Rites Grand Illusion

Nocturnal Rites Shadowland

Obituary Cause Of Death

Opeth Still Life

Opeth Ghost Reveries

Opeth Damnation

Overkill Taking Over

Paradise Lost Draconian Times

Pendulum Hold Your Colour

Possessed Seven Churches

Rage XIII

Running Wild Death or Glory

Running Wild Blazon Stone

Running Wild Pile of Skulls

Rush Power Windows

Savatage Edge Of Thorns

Say Anything ...Is A Real Boy

Sentenced The Cold White Light

Shadows Fall The Art of Balance

Sigh Hangman's Hymn

Sigur Ros Takk

Sodom Tapping The Vein

Stolen Babies There Be Squabbles Ahead

Stratovarius Visions

Stratovarius Dreamspace

Summoning Let Mortal Heroes Sing Your Fame

The Cure The Head on the Door

The Cure Pornography

Tool Lateralus

Vader Impressions In Blood

Vader Litany

Vader De Profundis

Vader The Art of War

Virgin Steele Age of Consent

Virgin Steele The Marriage of Heaven & Hell: Part I

Voivod Angel Rat

After the album "Nothingface", which was considered Voivod's magnus opus, it was very hard for Voivod to deliver the same quality. Angel Rat did not only deliver very good quality, it was even better than Nothingface. The melodies are intertwining with each other, all very simple yet delicious. And although these guys are classified as metal, it bears the same heaviness as the average alt. rock band. There are no blast beats, no harsh vocals, no overly distorted guitars. Only the slightly melancholic and subtle way to please the ears and to make and enjoyable listen.

Windir Arntor

Does anyone said epic? Does anyone said black metal? Well, this is more epic than it is black metal. Confused? Windir is a crossover from black metal to folk metal. This band however has almost nothing in common with other black metal bands. Although the production is far from perfect, the main purpose from these songs is to enjoy the listener with some of the most full and epic songs ever. Svartesmeden Og Lundamyrstrollet and Saknet are two lengthy songs, but the different speeds, riffs and dynamics make them interesting as hell (no pun intended). The other songs are all very different, Arntor Ein Windir being the standout from those songs. Kampen is a more slow upbeat song compared of what black metal normally brings. We also have an intro-song and an ending-song, both clocking over 3 minutes. With the high keyboard and guitar parts, sufficient blast beats and one of the most enjoyable black metal vocals, I think this album is very close at being a classic.

Wolves in the Throne Room Two Hunters

4 excellent

30 Seconds to Mars 30 Seconds to Mars

Agalloch Ashes Against the Grain

Agalloch Pale Folklore

Aghora Formless

Akercocke Antichrist

Akercocke The Goat of Mendes

Alice in Chains Jar of Flies

Amon Amarth Versus the world

Amon Amarth Twilight of the Thunder God

Amorphis Tales From the Thousand Lakes

Amorphis Skyforger

Anata Under a Stone With No Inscription

Anthrax Among the Living

Arcturus La Masquerade Infernale

Arsis A Celebration of Guilt

At the Gates Slaughter of the Soul

At the Gates Terminal Spirit Disease

Bal-Sagoth The Power Cosmic

Black Sabbath TYR

Black Sabbath Headless Cross

Blind Guardian A Night at the Opera

Blind Guardian Tales from the Twilight World

Blind Guardian A Twist in the Myth

Bloodbath Nightmares Made Flesh

Candlemass King of the Grey Islands

Candlemass Nightfall

Cannibal Corpse The Bleeding

Children Of Bodom Hatebreeder

Cryptopsy Blasphemy Made Flesh

Dark Angel Darkness Descends

Dark Funeral Attero Totus Sanctus

Dark Tranquillity Character

Dark Tranquillity The Gallery

Death The Sound of Perseverance

Death Human

Deftones Saturday Night Wrist

Deftones Deftones

Destruction The Antichrist

Dimmu Borgir Enthrone Darkness Triumphant

Dimmu Borgir Stormblåst MMV

Disturbed Believe

Dragonland Holy War

Dragonland Starfall

Dragonland Astronomy

Dream Theater Images and Words

Drudkh Blood In Our Wells

Emperor Anthems to the Welkin at Dusk

Ensiferum Victory Songs

Enslaved Monumension

This psychedelic piece of art is weird. It's weird how Enslaved makes use of dissonance, scales and harmonizing. Songs are usually slower than old Enslaved, but less epic than newer Enslaved. This is basically what sets this album apart of every other album of theirs. The Sleeping: Floating Diversity for example makes heavy use of keyboards and clean vocals, and is all set on a calm, but haunting tempo. There are some throwbacks in to older stuff, like Enemy I and Smirr. These are rare though, and mostly the songs are Pink Floyd meets black metal style.

Enslaved Vikingligr Veldi

Enslaved Vertebrae

Enslaved Eld

Exodus Bonded by Blood

Fates Warning Inside Out

Gamma Ray Land of the Free

Gamma Ray Majestic

Godspeed You! Black Emperor F# A# ∞

Gordian Knot Emergent

Gorillaz Demon Days

Grave Digger Excalibur

Grave Digger Knights of the Cross

Hate Eternal King of All Kings

Hate Eternal I, Monarch

Helloween Walls of Jericho

Helloween Gambling With The Devil

Hypocrisy The Arrival

Hypocrisy Hypocrisy

Hypocrisy Abducted

Hypocrisy 10 Years of Chaos and Confusion

Immolation Harnessing Ruin

Immolation Failures For Gods

Immortal Pure Holocaust

Immortal Diabolical Fullmoon Mysticism

Immortal Battles in the North

In Flames Soundtrack to Your Escape

In Flames sure did sell out. After the, compared to In Flames other releases, atrocious album, with the lack of sufficient melodies we get a more industrial sounding record. A great load of electric drums, keyboards and a rather weird vocal style sums this album up pretty well. It's however not, that the riffs have abandonded all the melodies. By far it's not. My Sweet Shadow and Evil in a Closet are two of In Flames best songs to date. Both switching of between heavy and soft, added with keyboard and guitar leads. Other songs are appealing too. Touch of Red, Discover me like Emptiness and Superhero of the computer rage are very good, even though there is a slight lack of melodies. Of course not everything is brought out well. The opener F(r)iend is very average and lacks constitency. Dial 595-Escape has a cool name, but just like Bottled it feels recycled and old. Still, this album is very good for a sold out album, and certainly not worth the hate it gets.

In Flames Clayman

In Flames The Jester Race

In Flames Whoracle

Incubus Morning View

Insomnium Across the Dark

Iron Maiden Brave New World

Iron Maiden A Matter of Life and Death

Iron Maiden Rock In Rio

Iron Maiden The Number of the Beast

Iron Maiden Iron Maiden

Iron Savior Dark Assault

Judas Priest Sad Wings of Destiny

Kalmah The Black Waltz

Kamelot Ghost Opera

Kamelot Siege Perilous

Kamelot Expedition(Live)

Katatonia Last Fair Deal Gone Down

Killswitch Engage As Daylight Dies

King Crimson Red

Kreator Endless Pain

Kreator Violent Revolution

Kreator Endorama

Kreator Extreme Aggression

Krisiun AssasiNation

One of the top death metal albums for sure. Krisiun's newest album is heavier than heavy, faster than fast, sicker than sick, and is constructed with only three twisted brasilians. From the beginning, the listener gets assaulted with brutal melodies, insane fast blast beats and rhythms that only the brasilians can make. Sure, the tempo does slow down at times, and there are even some interludes between the metal assault, but for most of the time, this album is made to let all ears bleed. Beware, for this is heavy, like it has never been before.

Lost Horizon A Flame To The Ground Beneath

Machine Head Elegies

Manticora Hyperion

Manticora 8 Deadly Sins

Marduk Rom 5:12

Metallica Kill Em All

MGMT Oracular Spectacular

Moonsorrow Kivenkantaja

Morbid Angel Domination

Mudvayne L.D. 50

Muse Black Holes and Revelations

My Dying Bride The Dreadful Hours

Naildown Dreamcrusher

Nightwish Once

Nightwish Oceanborn

Nightwish Century Child

Nocturnal Rites New World Messiah

Nocturnal Rites Tales of Mystery and Imagination

Nocturnal Rites In a Time of Blood and Fire

Nocturnal Rites Afterlife

Nocturnus Ethereal Tomb

Nocturnus Thresholds

Novembre Materia

Obituary Slowly We Rot

Paradise Lost Gothic

Pink Floyd Dark Side of the Moon

Running Wild Port Royal

Running Wild The Rivalry

Rush Gold

Rush Moving Pictures

Sadus Illusions/Chemical Exposure

Sentenced The Funeral Album

Sentenced Amok

Sepultura Beneath the Remains

Shadows Fall Of One Blood

Shadows Fall The War Within

Skyfire Mind Revolution

Slayer Seasons in the Abyss

Sodom M-16

Sodom Agent Orange

Stratovarius Infinite

Swallow The Sun The Morning Never Came

The Cure Greatest Hits

The Eyes Of A Traitor A Clear Perception

The Fall Of Troy Manipulator

The Fall Of Troy Doppelganger

The Mars Volta De-Loused in the Comatorium

Tool 10,000 Days

Tool Aenima

Tool Salival

U2 The Joshua Tree

Unexpect _We, Invaders

Unexpect In a Flesh Aquarium

Vader Black to the Blind

Voivod The Outer Limits

Watchtower Energetic Disassembly

3.5 great

1349 Hellfire

30 Seconds to Mars A Beautiful Lie

A Perfect Circle Thirteenth Step

Aeon Bleeding the False

Agalloch The Mantle

Alexisonfire Alexisonfire

Alexisonfire Watch Out!

Alexisonfire Crisis

Amorphis Far From The Sun

Amorphis Elegy

Arch Enemy Wages of Sin

Arsis A Diamond for Disease

Atheist Unquestionable Presence

Behemoth Demigod

Bjork Vespertine

Blind Guardian Follow the Blind

Blind Guardian Battalions of Fear

Cannibal Corpse The Wretched Spawn

Cardinale 13:31

Children Of Bodom Something Wild

Coheed and Cambria Good Apollo, I'm Burning Star IV...

Cradle of Filth Nymphetamine

Cradle of Filth Midian

Cryptopsy Whisper Supremacy

Dark Tranquillity Damage Done

Deftones Around The Fur

Dragonland The Battle of the Ivory Plains

dredg Leitmotif

Edge Of Sanity Crimson II

Eminem Curtain Call: The Hits

Emperor In the Nightside Eclipse

Ensiferum Iron

Enslaved Mardraum - Beyond the Within

Fates Warning Night On Bröcken

Fates Warning No Exit

Gorguts Considered Dead

Grave Digger Tunes of War

Helloween Keeper of the Seven Keys Pt. 1

Helloween Keeper of the Seven Keys Pt. 2

Hypocrisy Catch 22

Iced Earth Burnt Offerings

Ill Nino One Nation Underground

In Flames Come Clarity

Insomnium Demo '99

Iron Maiden Powerslave

Iron Maiden Dance of Death

Jethro Tull Thick as a Brick

Job for a Cowboy Doom EP

Kamelot Dominion

Killswitch Engage The End of Heartache

King Crimson In the Wake of Poseidon

Korn Untouchables

Lamb of God Sacrament

Liquid Tension Experiment Liquid Tension Experiment 2

Machine Head Through the Ashes of Empires

Machine Head Burn My Eyes

Martyr Warp Zone

A fantastic album, but something is missing. The guitar riffs are usually quite great, both melodic and heavy. The drums are innovative, not relying too much on blast beats. The vocals on the other hand are quite awful, and downgrades the album more than it should have. Although the quality on tracks as Carpe Diem and Virtual Emotions really shine, songs as Speechless and Retry, Abort, Ignore feel like they suddenly ran out of time and wrote their stuff within hours. Also, Realms of Reverie is probably the most emotional technical death song ever made.

Moby Play

Mogwai Happy Songs For Happy people

Mors Principium Est Inhumanity

Decent melodeath, nothing too special. This is one of those melodeath albums that drown in the sea of coppycats it's created within. It's quite good, the title track is a real topper, but it digs its own grave with its generic-ness. It's nothing bad overall, but there are many bands that do it better. For a similar type of band, with just as much experience, I would recommend Naildown. Also normal melodeath, but it brings quite an original sound. Something this album also needed.

Muse Hullabullo Soundtrack

Negativa Negativa

Nelly Furtado Folklore

Neurosis Enemy of the Sun

Nile In Their Darkened Shrines

Agression... Blast beats... Egyptian themes... yep, the standard Nile work here. Nile, one of worlds most brutal bands has developed a style what they call "egyptian brutal (technical) death metal", and brutal it is. When we are not blasted away by ferious blast beats, or deep throaty vocals, we get to enjoy a wide range of egyptian sounds. Nile has put much work to differ all the different themes from each other, and it has worked. From the beginning of the album, "The Blessed Dead", we get adrenalined with a haunting but overpowering synth, symbolizing egyptian warfare. "Unas the Slayer of Gods", on the other hand, starts with quiet guitars, before developing into a death metal epic clocking in at over 11 minutes. Suggested also is to listen to the last 4 tracks, all belonging together as one track, the title track. Brutal, Technical, but very refined, this album is.

Nile Ithyphallic

Obituary Frozen in Time

Opeth My Arms, Your Hearse

Opeth Deliverance

Opeth Morningrise

Paradise Lost Paradise Lost

Pelican The Fire in Our Throats Will Beckon...

Persuader Album Name

Queens Of The Stone Age Rated R

Rage Speak of the Dead

Rhapsody of Fire Power of the Dragonflame

Rosetta The Galilean Satellites

Running Wild Branded and Exiled

Sepultura Dante XXI

Shadows Fall Fallout From The War

Skyfire Timeless Departure

Slough Feg Traveller

Sonata Arctica Ecliptica

Sonata Arctica Winterheart's Guild

Stratovarius Episode

Stratovarius Fourth Dimension

Textures Drawing Circles

The Red Shore Unconsecrated

Tool Opiate

Unexpect Utopia

Vader Revelations

Vader Sothis

Vader The Ultimate Incantation

Virgin Steele Virgin Steele

Virgin Steele Noble Savage

Virgin Steele Life Among the Ruins

Wintersun Wintersun

3 good

A Perfect Circle Mer de Noms

Aborted The Purity of Perversion

Aeon Rise To Dominate

Akercocke Rape of The Bastard Nazerene

Arch Enemy Burning Bridges

Arch Enemy Doomsday Machine

At the Gates The Red in the Sky is Ours

Behemoth The Apostasy

Between The Buried And Me Colors

Billy Talent Billy Talent II

Catamenia Winternight Tragedies

Chimaira Impossiblity of Reason

Cock and Ball Torture Album Name

Dark Tranquillity Haven

Dark Tranquillity Projector

Deftones Adrenaline

Demons and Wizards Touched by the Crimson King

Dimmu Borgir Stormbl�st

Eternal Tears of Sorrow Before the Bleeding Sun

Fear Factory Obsolete

Ill Nino Confession

Incubus Make Yourself

Into Eternity Buried In Oblivion

Kamelot Eternity

Kataklysm In The Arms Of Devastation

Linkin Park Hybrid Theory EP

Linkin Park Reanimation

Marillion Misplaced Childhood

Mortem Slow Death

Naglfar Diabolical

Nevermore Dreaming Neon Black

Nightwish Angels Fall First

Nile Annihilation of the Wicked

Nocturnal Rites The 8th Sin

Obituary Back from the Dead

Opeth Orchid

Primal Fear New Religion

Running Wild The Brotherhood

Scar Symmetry Pitch Black Progress

Skyfire Spectral

Slayer Reign in Blood

Slipknot Vol. 3: (The Subliminal Verses)

Sodom 'Til Death Do Us Unite

Soilwork Natural Born Chaos

Soilwork The Chainheart Machine

Sonata Arctica Silence

Stratovarius Destiny

Stratovarius Fright Night

Symphony X V: The New Mythology Suite

System of a Down Toxicity

Tool Undertow

Twilightning Delerium Veil

Ulver Blood Inside

Vader The Beast

Virgin Steele Guardians of the Flame

2.5 average

After Forever Reimagine

Arch Enemy Anthems of Rebellion

Arcturus Sideshow Symphonies

Avenged Sevenfold City of Evil

blink-182 blink-182

Cannibal Corpse Tomb of the Mutilated

Cannibal Corpse Kill

Children Of Bodom Are You Dead Yet?

Children Of Bodom Hate Crew Deathroll

Cryptopsy And Then You'll Beg

Dimmu Borgir Puritanical Euphoric Misanthropia

Dimmu Borgir Spiritual Black Dimensions

Dream Theater Metropolis Part 2: Scenes From a Memory

Elvenking The Winter Wake

Enter Shikari Take To The Skies

Falconer Northwind

Hypocrisy The Fourth Dimension

In Flames Reroute to Remain

Isis In the Absence of Truth

Isis The Mosquito Control EP

Kreator Renewal

Linkin Park Hybrid Theory

Linkin Park Meteora

Mastodon Crack the Skye

Metallica Master of Puppets

Morbid Angel Blessed Are the Sick

Mudvayne The End of All Things to Come

Necrophagist Epitaph

Opeth Watershed

Pig Destroyer 38 Counts Of Battery

Psycroptic Symbols of Failure

UURAAGHH, ULRGH ULRGH OOOUUARGGGHHLL. That's basically how Symbols of Failure sounds like. An vocalist a-la Lord Worm screaming undecipherable words of hate. Unlike Cryptopsy's vocalist, this man screams every second. There are almost no instrumental parts in it. This makes the album quite boring, considering it's always the same UURAAGHH ULRGH. Also given that every song starts the same way the previous one stopped, but without changing anything, this can quite be the borefest of technical death metal.

Rammstein Mutter

Sepultura Chaos A.D.

Slipknot Disasterpieces

Slipknot Slipknot

Sonata Arctica Reckoning Night

Spawn of Possession Noctambulant

Beware of the beast of technicallity. Forget None So Vile, Epitaph or Erosion of Sanity, this album is the new black technical. Time signatures are switched almost randomly, every second is different from the last and the speed is menacing. I think we could say we're speaking of an underrated technical album. Well, although the technique is present, the songwriting may lack sometimes. The only consistent song on the album is Lash by Lash. Others feel forced and overly technical, though some of them still are enjoyable to listen to. Just not every song is the new black.

Strapping Young Lad Alien

Stratovarius Elements Part 2

Symphony X The Divine Wings of Tragedy

System of a Down Steal This Album!

System of a Down Hypnotize

System of a Down Mezmerize

The Beatles Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band

The Rasmus Dead Letters

Windir 1184

Within Temptation Mother Earth

2 poor

Alestorm Captain Morgan's Revenge

Arch Enemy Black Earth

Avenged Sevenfold Waking the Fallen

Bring Me The Horizon Count Your Blessings

Cellador Enter Deception

Dimmu Borgir Death Cult Armageddon

DragonForce Inhuman Rampage

One of the most talented bands ever. No kidding. When seen on a very rough standard, these six guys seem very gifted. Sadly, it is easy to notice that this band is probably the most one-trick-pony band ever. The drummer, has a suffficient speed, but he is doing nothing but standard patterns. The bassist and keyboard are not present enough. The vocalist is always singing the same melody, in every song. It becomes rather tiring. These four guys however, are not the pinnacle of the band. The main purpose of this band is to have two guitarists doing fast solo's. Herman Li and Sam Totman are incredibly speedy, but it becomes rather tiring when they play the exact same melodies over 8 songs. Doing the same tricks over and over again, the album is full with it. Dragonfcore failed to create a good album.

DragonForce Ultra Beatdown

Dream Theater Train of Thought

Dream Theater Black Clouds and Silver Linings

Dream Theater Systematic Chaos

Dying Fetus Killing on Adrenaline

Eminem Encore

Emperor Prometheus: The Discipline of Fire...

Fear Factory Archetype

Green Day Dookie

Green Day International Superhits

Green Day Insomniac

Helloween Chameleon

Ill Nino Revolution/Revolucion

Into Eternity The Incurable Tragedy

Iron Maiden Virtual XI

Kalmah Swampsong

Korn See You on the Other Side

Korn Follow The Leader

Lamb of God Ashes of the Wake

Machine Head The Burning Red

Machine Head The Blackening

Mastodon Blood Mountain

Meshuggah I

Meshuggah Catch Thirty-Three

Metallica ...And Justice for All

Mnemic The Audio Injected Soul

Mudvayne The Beginning of All Things To End

Mudvayne Lost and Found

Necrophagist Onset of Putrefaction

Nile Amongst the Catacombs of Nephren-Ka

Rammstein Sehnsucht

Satyricon Now, Diabolical

Boring rock n' black this is. How Satyricon, one of Black Metal's greatest bands, managed to go this low is unknown to me. Now, Diabolical is a atrocious attempt to create black metal that could be listened by the mainstream person. Result is that all the drums (done by Frost, one of black metal fastest drummers) are beyond simplicity, the riffs are as epic as a Shakira song and the variation is zero times zero. There are sometimes riffs that lean towards anything metal, those are the best parts. But basically, this album is nothing special. And to conclude on a nice black metal way: "This album F*CKING SUCKS, this is not br00tal Kvlt or Tr00".

Sigh Gallows Gallery

Slipknot Iowa

Soilwork Stabbing the Drama

Sonata Arctica The Days of Grays

Spawn of Possession Cabinet

Stratovarius Elements Part 1

Stratovarius Stratovarius

Symphony X The Odyssey

System of a Down System of a Down

The Mars Volta Frances the Mute

Trivium The Crusade

Yes, I know, a 2 is much higher than a 1 which it "obviously" deserves. But truth is, this is Trivium's best album up to date. The content may be bordering on plagiarism, but the overall sound improved a lot. Gone are the atrocious vocals which Matt used to have. Gone are the "300 picks per minute" riffs. What we get in return are some nice songs which vary somewhat of each other. Detonation's second part is arguably the best part of the album. To the Rats is, despite the bad lyrics, another highlight and All the World can't Tear us Apart is, although more cheesy than a collaboration of Sonata Arctica and 10 pounds of old cottage cheese, still one of the best on the album. It's sad however that the solo's went from boring to wankery worse than anything John Petrucci has ever put out. A lesson Trivium (or rather: Matt Heafy) still needs to learn, a song can be enjoyable without being overly complex.

1.5 very poor

3 Inches of Blood Advance and Vanquish

3 Inches of Blood Battlecry Under a Winter Sun

Adema Unstable

Adema Adema

Brain Drill Apocalyptic Feasting

DevilDriver The Fury of Our Maker's Hand

Fear Factory Transgression

Gamma Ray Sigh No More

Graveworm (N)utopia

Green Day American Idiot

Green Day Warning

Green Day Nimrod

James Blunt Back To Bedlam

Korn Korn

Korn Life Is Peachy

Limp Bizkit Chocolate Starfish...

Limp Bizkit Significant Other

Limp Bizkit Greatest Hitz

Linkin Park Live In Texas

P.O.D. Satellite

Six Feet Under 13

Slayer Undisputed Attitude

Slipknot Mate. Feed. Kill. Repeat.

Soilwork Figure Number Five

Sonata Arctica Unia

Suicide Silence The Cleansing

Sunn O))) Black One

DRRRRRRRRRRRROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIINNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG. Sad though, if the songs ended minutes shorter, it would actually be enjoyable. What we get though, are songs (or whatever you call them) with minutes of monotone droning. Bands like Boris, who are in the same genre, have more changes in one songs than this album in whole has. The two shortest songs are the most enjoyable. Sin Nanna is a 3 minute piece of atmospheric art, and It Took the Night to Believe is fairly enjoyable with it's waving structure. The other songs, all over 10 minutes are boring, drawn out and just not enjoyable. Save yourself, don't listen to this.

The Black Dahlia Murder Miasma

Trivium Ascendancy

1 awful

50 Cent The Massacre

50 Cent Get Rich or Die Tryin'

Adema Planets

Annihilator Metal

Belphegor Blutsabbath

Beneath the Massacre Mechanics of Dysfunction

Bowling for Soup Drunk Enough To Dance

Bowling for Soup A Hangover You Don't Deserve

Cryptopsy The Unspoken King

Darkthrone F.O.A.D.

Devourment Butcher The Weak

Green Day Shenanigans

Hawthorne Heights If Only You Were Lonely

Hawthorne Heights The Silence In Black And White

Iwrestledabearonce Iwrestledabearonce EP

Khanate Things Viral

Krypteria In Medias Res

Linkin Park/Jay Z Collision Course (The Ulitmate Mash-Up)

Metallica St. Anger

P.O.D. Testify

Sepultura Roots

Soilwork Sworn to a Great Divide

The Dillinger Escape Plan Ire Works

Trivium Ember to Inferno

Trivium Demo

Waking The Cadaver Perverse Recollections of a Necromangler