| 5.0 classic |
| Agalloch The Mantle |
| Ahab The Call of the Wretched Sea |
| Antonin Dvorak Symphony No. 9 in E minor, Op. 95, B. 178 |
| At the Gates Slaughter of the Soul |
| At the Gates The Flames Of The End |
| At the Gates Purgatory Unleashed: Live At Wacken |
| Classic set list, great performance, enormous crowd, flawless production. ATG were in vintage form at Wacken in front of an ocean of fans and this captures it perfectly. Wanna go to an incredible show without leaving your home? Get this and play it twice for good measure. |
| BABYMETAL BABYMETAL |
| This should have been a disaster but Su-metal totally sells it. SEE YOU IN THE MOSH PIT |
| Bathory Blood Fire Death |
| Creedence Clearwater Revival Cosmo's Factory |
| Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young 4 Way Street |
| Cynic Focus |
| That is some gay, gay metal, man...some gay, gay metal. |
| Deathspell Omega Fas - Ite, Maledicti, In Ignem Aeternum |
| Deep Purple Machine Head |
| Deep Purple Deep Purple In Rock |
| Deep Purple Made in Japan |
| Emperor Anthems to the Welkin at Dusk |
| Fall of Efrafa Owsla |
| Gamma Ray Somewhere Out in Space |
| Gamma Ray Land of the Free |
| Gamma Ray Hell Yeah!!! The Awesome Foursome |
A great representation of Gamma Ray's exciting live show, though the DVD is worth getting
over the CD version. The musicianship is top-notch as always, and Kai Hansen does a great
job of playing to the crowd. It has all the power of Skeletons in the Closet, and you won't
go wrong picking this up whether you're a fan already or not. |
| Giant Squid The Ichthyologist |
| This is exactly what we were all hoping for after Metridium Fields. Giant Squid has refined their songwriting and lyrical approach to create a seamless and epic piece of music -- integrating new instruments and new band members perfectly.rTracks like "Dean Man Slough" and "Blue Linckia" roll on over churning riffs and an atmosphere tailor-made for the lyrical concepts of swampy revenge and ocean turmoil. "Throwing a Donner Party at Sea" (a reworking of a song from Monster in the Creek) is a brilliantly executed rocker whose title is a maritime take on the Donner Party story.rThe Ichthyologist is a solid concept piece that shows a band living up to its terrific creative potential... and I can't wait to hear what they come up with next. |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor F♯ A♯ ∞ |
| Gojira The Flesh Alive |
| Seems a bit redundant to release this a month after the live DVD that's part of L'enfant rSauvage...but it's going to be amazing, especially in Blu-Ray. couldn't pick a better band rto see/hear in super high quality. |
| Gospel The Moon Is a Dead World |
| Igor Stravinsky Le Sacre du Printemps |
| Immolation Here in After |
| Intronaut Prehistoricisms |
| ISIS Oceanic |
| ISIS Panopticon |
| ISIS Live 6 (11/16/2007) |
| So Did We, In Fiction, and Holy Tears are even better here than the studio cuts. Having Maria Christopher on Weight also makes a huge difference. This and Live V are must-owns for fans of Isis and post-metal. |
| John Cage 4'33'' |
| John Coltrane A Love Supreme |
| Judas Priest Stained Class |
| Judas Priest Painkiller |
| Kalmah They Will Return |
| Magma Mekanïk Destruktïẁ Kommandöh |
The scope of this album is mind-boggling. Magma invented their own genre to tell Christian
Vander's apocalyptic story, including their own language based around the music. Blasquiz's
voice is ridiculous in range and tone, and the rhythm section (Jannick Top and Vander)
creates the funkiest, most thunderous foundation I've ever heard. If you have any interest
in experimental music, jazz, progressive rock, or outer space, get this right now. |
| Magma Live |
| Mastodon Leviathan |
| Mastodon Crack the Skye |
| The intricacy of this album took me a while to wrap my head around, but if you buy into the ideas behind the album, you'll be rewarded with a masterpiece of songwriting that marries the brutal power of Mastodon's earlier efforts with a touch of imagination and beauty. |
| Moonsorrow Verisäkeet |
| Nightwish End Of An Era |
| Opeth In Live Concert at the Royal Albert Hall |
| Live albums (and DVD's) just don't get any better than this. Frontman Akerfeldt is spot-on and the rest of the band do their thing perfectly in performing their classic album Blackwater Park, and on one of the world's greatest stages. A must-have for any fan who can tolerate seriously good music. |
| Paysage d'Hiver Paysage d'Hiver |
| Paysage d'Hiver Winterkälte |
| Rainbow Rising |
| Rainbow Deutschland Tournee 1976 |
| dat bass in Stargazerrbest live recording of Rainbow, which means it's one of the best live recording period. the chemistry between Dio and Blackmore here is incendiary. awesome show. |
| Rorcal Heliogabalus |
| Sigur Ros Heima (DVD) |
| The Great Old Ones Tekeli-Li |
| The way black metal should be done, with awesome songwriting and creepy fucking atmosphere. |
| The Ocean Fluxion (Remaster) |
| The Rolling Stones Let It Bleed |
| Ulcerate The Destroyers of All |
| Ulver Nattens Madrigal |
| Weakling Dead as Dreams |
| Wolves in the Throne Room Two Hunters |
| 4.5 superb |
| Agalloch Marrow of the Spirit |
| Ahab The Giant |
| Best replay value of any doom album this side of The Dreadful Hours. |
| Alaskan Despair, Erosion, Loss |
| Avantasia The Metal Opera Pt. II |
| if you haven't heard The Seven Angels, do yourself a favor and change that. |
| BABYMETAL LIVE AT BUDOKAN ~RED NIGHT~ |
| Bereft (USA-CA) Leichenhaus |
| Black Sabbath Heaven and Hell |
| Caladan Brood Echoes Of Battle |
| Captain Beyond Captain Beyond |
| Cloudkicker Beacons |
| Converge Jane Doe |
| Cynic Traced in Air |
| Darkenhold Castellum |
| Death Symbolic |
| Deathspell Omega Paracletus |
| Deep Purple Fireball |
| Dimmu Borgir Enthrone Darkness Triumphant |
| Dragonland Starfall |
| Dragonland Under the Grey Banner |
| Edguy Burning Down the Opera |
| Electric Wizard Dopethrone |
| Emperor Live Inferno |
| Fall of Efrafa Inle |
| Fen Winter |
| Fleetwood Mac Rumours |
| Gamma Ray No World Order |
| Gamma Ray Majestic |
| Gamma Ray Power Plant |
| Gamma Ray Skeletons in the Closet |
| Gazpacho Demon |
| Giant Squid Cenotes |
| In the grand scheme of things, 4.5 is more appropriate. But with regards to my taste, I absolutely love this, so it gets a 5. |
| Godflesh Streetcleaner |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor Slow Riot For New Zero Kanada |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor F♯ A♯ ∞ [Vinyl] |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor John Peel Sessions |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor 'Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend! |
| Gojira From Mars to Sirius |
| Gorguts Colored Sands |
| Gris Il Était Une Forêt... |
| Gris À L'Âme Enflammée, L'Âme Constellée... |
| Halestorm Live in Philly 2010 |
Halestorm's real appeal, as solid as their debut album was, is in their energetic live show.
Drummer Arejay, in particuar, is fun to watch and excellent througout the show. This is a
band to bank on. |
| Helloween Walls of Jericho |
| Helloween Keeper of the Seven Keys Part I |
| Iced Earth Burnt Offerings |
| Immolation Close to a World Below |
| In the Woods... Omnio |
| Intronaut Valley of Smoke |
| Iron Maiden Powerslave |
| Iron Maiden Seventh Son of a Seventh Son |
| ISIS Clearing the Eye (DVD) |
| ISIS Wavering Radiant |
| ISIS Live 5 |
| It's Oceanic with more oomph. Isis speed things up a bit and there aren't any female vox, so it's a bit different. Of course, that just means you have to hear it because it's brilliant in a slightly different way than the original. Oh, and that damn WHACK WHACK snare drum is fixed...yeah I'm looking at you, Matt Bayles. |
| Judas Priest Defenders of the Faith |
| Judas Priest Sad Wings of Destiny |
| Judas Priest Unleashed in the East |
| Judas Priest Rising in the East |
| Kalmah Swamplord |
| Kamancello Kamancello |
| Kylesa Static Tensions |
| Light Bearer Lapsus |
| Lord Mantis Death Mask |
| Magma Köhntarkösz |
| Mastodon Remission |
| Mastodon The Workhorse Chronicles [DVD] |
| Mastodon Blood Mountain |
| Meshuggah I |
| Meshuggah Nothing (Re-Release) |
| Metallica Ride the Lightning |
| Moonsorrow Viides luku - Hävitetty |
| My Dying Bride The Dreadful Hours |
| Ne Obliviscaris Portal of I |
| Ne Obliviscaris Citadel |
| Near Death Condition Evolving Towards Extinction |
| Great DM a la Immolation. Riffs rule, decent diversity. The drums aren't programmed. but they appear to have been cleaned up in the studio. |
| Nightwish Once |
| Opeth Blackwater Park |
| Opeth Ghost Reveries |
| Ornette Coleman The Shape of Jazz to Come |
| Paysage d'Hiver Kristall und Isa |
| Paysage d'Hiver Das Tor |
| Pelican Australasia |
| Pig Destroyer Prowler in the Yard |
| Rainbow Long Live Rock 'n' Roll |
| Revocation Existence Is Futile |
| Revocation Teratogenesis |
| Revocation Deathless |
| Riot Thundersteel |
| Rorcal Vilagvege |
| Rorcal and Kehlvin Ascension |
| The three-part structure of this does wonders to make a 28-minute song stay interesting. From a hardcore/sludge beginning to its beautiful middle section and doomy outro, this is really a fascinating EP and well worth checking out for fans of sludge and post-metal. |
| Saor Roots |
| Saor Aura |
| Scarred Gaia - Medea |
| Seal Seal |
| Secrets of the Sky To Sail Black Waters |
| Septicflesh The Great Mass |
| Shade Empire Omega Arcane |
| Slayer Seasons in the Abyss |
| Sleep Dopesmoker |
| Sting The Soul Cages |
| Sylosis Conclusion of an Age |
| The Dave Brubeck Quartet Time Out |
| The Ocean Precambrian |
| The Ocean Pelagial |
| An emphatic return to form for The Ocean, who ditch the philosophical posturing and return rto what they're best at - creating massive soundscapes in a great conceptual framework. |
| The Ocean Collective Oblivion |
| The Visit Between Worlds |
| Thou Heathen |
| Ulcerate Everything Is Fire |
| Ulcerate Vermis |
| Ulver Bergtatt - Et eeventyr i 5 capitler |
| Venom Welcome to Hell |
| Windir Likferd |
| Wolves in the Throne Room Live at Roadburn 2008 |
| Wormrot Dirge |
| Yes Relayer |
| 4.0 excellent |
| 3 Inches of Blood Advance and Vanquish |
| Agalloch Pale Folklore |
| Agalloch Ashes Against the Grain |
| Agalloch Faustian Echoes |
| Agnes Vein Soulship |
| Agrimonia Rites of Separation |
| Ahab The Boats of the Glen Carrig |
| Alaskan Adversity; Woe |
| Anaal Nathrakh Desideratum |
| Animals As Leaders The Joy of Motion |
| As Oceans Willows |
| Checks all the right boxes of Meshuggah worship, but the real treat here is the pacing and assembly. Frequent ambient breaks and suspenseful dropouts make for a much more engaging experience than typical pounding chaos. At half an hour, the album is also short enough to keep its momentum all the way through. Very good overall listen. |
| At the Gates Terminal Spirit Disease |
| Atheist Jupiter |
| BABYMETAL Megitsune |
| BABYMETAL Live Legend I, D, Z Apocalypse |
While I can't speak for the others, the first concert here ("I") is astoundingly good.
Suzuka is clearly the leader and has a stupendous voice and all three show great energy and
crowd-play, while the backing band kicks ass all show. Considering the spectrum of how good
or bad this whole Babymetal thing could have been, this is about perfect. Set aside
pretension and just have fun with this. |
| Baroness Blue Record |
| Battlecross Pursuit of Honor |
| Behemoth Demigod |
| Between the Buried and Me The Parallax: Hypersleep Dialogues |
| Billy Joel River Of Dreams |
| Born of Osiris The Discovery |
| Burzum Hvis Lyset Tar Oss |
| Cannibal Corpse A Skeletal Domain |
| Carcass Heartwork |
| Carcass Surgical Steel |
| Cave In White Silence |
| Cerna Restoring Life |
| Cicada the Burrower Despoina |
| Cinderella Night Songs |
| Cinderella Long Cold Winter |
| Cloudkicker Live with Intronaut |
| Cormorant Dwellings |
| Cult of Luna Salvation |
| Cynic Carbon-Based Anatomy |
| Deafheaven Sunbather |
| Death The Sound of Perseverance |
| Death Live in L.A.: Death & Raw |
| Deathspell Omega Si Monvmentvm Reqvires Circvmspice |
| Deathspell Omega Drought |
| Deep Purple Perfect Strangers |
| Deep Purple Burn |
| Deep Purple Perfect Strangers Live |
| Great performance by Purple, questionable production. Still a must-see (or must-hear, as it were) for fans. |
| Defeater Travels |
| Demilich Nespithe |
| Dethklok Dethalbum II |
| Diamond Head Lightning to the Nations |
| DragonForce Valley of the Damned |
| DragonForce Sonic Firestorm |
| Dragonland Astronomy |
| Echoes of Eon Immensity |
| Edguy Theater of Salvation |
| Edguy Mandrake |
| Emperor In the Nightside Eclipse |
| Enslaved Axioma Ethica Odini |
| EPISTASIS Light Through Dead Glass |
| Exhumed Necrocracy |
| Fall of Efrafa Elil |
| Fallujah The Flesh Prevails |
| Fleetwood Mac Tusk |
| Fleshworld Like we're all equal again |
| Foreigner 4 |
| Forest Like a Blaze Above the Ashes |
| Gabriel Graves The Hermit |
I'm not sure what I was expecting out of this, but it wasn't what I got. I'm hearing
everything from Pink Floyd and Queen to Bon Jovi and REM. You have a great voice for the
low-key singing and the understated drumming is spot-on. I'm really enjoying this. |
| Garden of Shadows Oracle Moon |
| Ghost (SWE) Infestissumam |
| Ghost Brigade Until Fear No Longer Defines Us |
| Giant Squid Metridium Fields |
| Giant Squid Monster in the Creek |
| Working on a review for this now. Should be done soon. Not typical Giant Squid but still a cool album, the first two tracks are terrific. |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven |
| Beautifully orchestrated, and the opening song is about as emotive as music gets, though it does drag around end of the first disc. Godspeed have a formula that works, despite the fact that it is sounding more and more like a formula. |
| Gojira The Way of All Flesh |
| Gojira L'Enfant Sauvage |
| Like when Mastodon pulled back the throttle on Crack the Skye, Gojira spend a lot of time impressing with mid-paced creative forays, but not really thrilling you. If that comparison proves accurate, however, it will be a big time grower. |
| Graviton Massless |
| Writing a review for this now. In a time where almost nothing is "unique", Sacha and company have created an extremely well-crafted piece of music that is both alien and accessible, a combination that is sure to open many new fans to the world of progressive metal. |
| Halestorm The Strange Case Of... |
| Helloween Keeper of the Seven Keys Part II |
| Helloween Master of the Rings |
| Helloween Keeper of the Seven Keys: The Legacy World Tour |
| Helloween Gambling with the Devil |
| Helms Alee Sleepwalking Sailors |
| High on Fire De Vermis Mysteriis |
| Ifing Against This Weald |
| Immolation Majesty and Decay |
| In Flames The Jester Race |
| Inter Arma The Cavern |
| Intronaut Void |
| Intronaut Habitual Levitations |
| Iron Maiden The Number of the Beast |
| Iron Maiden Piece of Mind |
| ISIS Celestial |
| ISIS In the Absence of Truth |
| Judas Priest Angel of Retribution |
| Judas Priest Screaming for Vengeance |
| Judas Priest Priest...Live! |
| Judas Priest Epitaph |
| Better set list than Rising in the East but Halford doesn't quite have it anymore. Still, Faulker is a great addition and makes this a very worthwhile listen/watch. |
| Kalmah Swampsong |
| Kalmah 12 Gauge |
| Kalmah Seventh Swamphony |
| KEN mode Entrench |
| Killswitch Engage The End of Heartache |
| Killswitch Engage As Daylight Dies |
| Kylesa Spiral Shadow |
| Lamb of God Killadelphia |
| Leprous Coal |
| Light Bearer Beyond the Infinite: The Assembly of God |
| Light Bearer Live in Sedel |
| Light Bearer Silver Tongue |
| "almost nothing happens throughout the whole album, it's just one predictable build to ranother predictable build"rThat's like analyzing the sentence structure of Moby-Dick and concluding that it's just a rbunch of descriptions that build to more descriptions with way too many commas in between. rLight Bearer are a medium for a story and ideology, and without that framework it is indeed rjust a bunch of build ups and riffs like any other post-metal album. An opinion is just rthat, but I think this album demands a more holistic view than most. |
| Mastodon Call of the Mastodon |
| Battle At Sea alone makes this worthy of a 4. Hail to Fire and Call of the Mastodon seal the deal. |
| Mastodon Live at Brixton |
| Matisyahu Live At Stubb's |
| Mendel Subliminal Colors |
| Meshuggah Catch Thirtythree |
| Meshuggah Chaosphere |
| Metallica Master of Puppets |
| Morbid Angel Covenant |
| Mother of Mercy IV: Symptoms of Existence |
| Mother of Mercy III |
| GET MAD AND GET EVEN YOU SUCKERS |
| Musk Ox Woodfall |
| National Sunday Law La Storia Di Cannibali |
| National Sunday Law Festival of the Horned God |
| Nothing Guilty of Everything |
| Obsequiae Suspended in the Brume of Eos |
| Opeth Damnation |
| Paramnesia Paramnesia |
| Paula Cole This Fire |
| Paysage d'Hiver Kerker |
| Paysage d'Hiver Steineiche |
| Primordial Where Greater Men Have Fallen |
| Pyramaze Melancholy Beast |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers Californication |
| Revocation Chaos of Forms |
| Revocation Revocation |
| Rorcal Myrra, Mordvynn, Marayaa |
| Rorcal La Femme sans Tete |
| Sannhet Known Flood |
| Savatage The Wake of Magellan |
| Seal Seal II |
| Septicflesh Communion |
| Sigur Ros Kveikur |
| Skeletonwitch Serpents Unleashed |
| Slayer South of Heaven |
| Soreption Engineering The Void |
| stellastarr* Harmonies for the Haunted |
| Sting Ten Summoner's Tales |
| Sting Brand New Day |
| Svart Crown Witnessing The Fall |
| Drumming is beast, riffs are usually great. Vox aren't special but do the trick. Sets a great mood. Working on a review for this. |
| t.A.T.u. 200 km/H In The Wrong Lane |
| t.A.T.u. Waste Management |
| Terra Tenebrosa The Purging |
| The Afterglow Cadence The Fight |
The Fight is a fine collection of pop rock songs based around classic singer-songwriter
arrangements. Standout song "Pressure" flirts with jazz harmonies and builds steadily
over shuffling percussion and careful vocal harmonies. "Life's Not So Bad" has some great
acoustic guitar work, with a chorus that threatens to lead into Green Day's smash hit
"Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)." Towards the end of the album, "Just Say the Word"
overcomes some shaky moments via a strong crunchy REM-esque guitar riff, while
"Jackknife" and closer "Pictures" ride clever chord progressions that hint at Brian
Donarski and Ian Steur's comfort with the theory behind what makes them beautiful.
Donarski's bass work is a high point on all tracks, and the whole band seems to be
thoroughly enjoying themselves. You probably will too. |
| The Dresden Dolls Yes, Virginia... |
| The Great Old Ones Al Azif |
| The Ocean Fogdiver |
| The Ocean Heliocentric |
| The last two songs make up for the lack of creative punch on the rest of the album in a massive way. Firmament has some great moments too. Worth checking out if you're into progressive metal. |
| The Ocean Anthropocentric |
| This is the sound The Ocean was trying for when they shook things up after Precambrian - much wider dynamic range, bigger climaxes, more poignant spacial areas, and for the first time, this band really grooves during sections. A big step forward. |
| The Visit Offering |
| The Wounded Kings Consolamentum |
| Thou Peasant |
| Thy Light No Morrow Shall Dawn |
| Trvth Black Horse Plague |
| Trvth Trvth Be Told |
It's like a long, meandering hike into unknown woods in the best way. The record Agalloch
wishes they'd made. |
| Vallendusk Black Clouds Gathering |
| Venom Black Metal |
| Warren of Ohms The Wolf and The Fox |
| Weird Al Yankovic Mandatory Fun |
| White Empress Rise of the Empress |
| Within Temptation The Unforgiving |
| Wolves in the Throne Room Diadem of 12 Stars |
| Wolves in the Throne Room Black Cascade |
| Wolves in the Throne Room Celestial Lineage |
| Wormed Exodromos |
| Worms in Women and Cattle Sick Road |
| 3.5 great |
| 3 Inches of Blood Fire Up The Blades |
| A Storm Of Light As The Valley Of Death Becomes Us... |
| Agalloch The Serpent and the Sphere |
| Alexandre Desplat Godzilla |
| Amon Amarth Deceiver of the Gods |
| Anette Olzon Shine |
| Arch Enemy Rise of the Tyrant |
| At the Gates With Fear I Kiss the Burning Darkness |
| At the Gates At War with Reality |
| A lot more mid-paced stuff here like on With Fear. Pleasantly surprised by this, definitely not Slaughter 2.0 |
| Avenged Sevenfold Waking the Fallen |
| Baroness Red Album |
| Baroness Yellow and Green |
| Barrowlands Thane |
| Bathory Hammerheart |
| Billy Joel The Bridge |
| Bonedust When you die and your bones are rotting... |
| Bullet for My Valentine The Poison |
| Cave In Jupiter |
| Cloudkicker Let Yourself Be Huge |
| Complete Freedom Inner Thoughts |
Every instrument here seems to have a mind of its own, but somehow they all end up on the
same path by the end. There are little timing issues scattered about, and that bass is
sometimes overpowering, but the foundation is all there for a great and eclectic
collection of songs. Trvth is well in-tune with the notion that on the best albums, no
two songs sound the same, and runs with it. Highlights include "Fire Inside," with its
slow-burning build, "Aura," and "V," the album's very worthwhile payoff. |
| Converge Axe to Fall |
| Creedence Clearwater Revival Green River |
| Cynic Re-Traced |
| Deep Purple Rapture of the Deep |
| Deep Purple The House of Blue Light |
| Deep Purple Purpendicular |
| Deep Purple Shades of Deep Purple |
| Deep Purple Bananas |
| Dethklok The Dethalbum |
| Dimmu Borgir In Sorte Diaboli |
| DragonForce Inhuman Rampage |
| DragonForce Twilight Dementia |
The production leaves a lot to be desired and ZP spends way too much time swearing for no
apparent reason, but the guitarists and Mackintosh sure bring it. If nothing else, it shows
that Dragonforce aren't nearly the punch-line that people have made them out to be. |
| DragonForce The Power Within |
| I already miss ZP and his potty mouth. Dragonforce continues to lose the plot even further. rThe smart money says this is gonna suck.rUpdate: it's actually not bad. |
| Emphatic Damage |
| Enabler La Fin Absolue Du Monde |
| Eternal Closure Ad Primum |
| The ingredients are familiar, but EC have quality chops and assemble some very solid songs, particularly the closer, "Enthalpy". The low-end is a little overwhelming, so the guitars get drowned a little, but overall it's a tight EP. There were some ballsy riffs that reminded me of For the Revolution-era Kalmah, which is always a good thing. A full album of this would be excellent. |
| Feist/Mastodon Feistodon |
| Flickerstick Welcoming Home the Astronauts |
| Gamma Ray Sigh No More |
| Gamma Ray Heading for Tomorrow |
| Gamma Ray Land of the Free II |
| Gamma Ray Skeletons & Majesties Live |
| While some of the rare cuts are welcome additions (see "Dethrone Tyranny" and "Wings of Destiny"), there isn't much to get excited about compared to the last live album. Also, Kiske looks like a douche with his black beanie. |
| Gamma Ray Empire of the Undead |
| Giant Squid Minoans |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor Yanqui U.X.O. |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor 'Asunder, Sweet and Other Distress' |
| Gojira The Link |
| Gojira Terra Incognita |
| Halestorm Halestorm |
| As far as debut albums go, this is really quite good. There aren't many major flaws...maybe some generic moments, but I consider those neutral rather than negative. Song like "Innocence" and "Familiar Taste of Poison", while nothing groundbreaking, are excellently performed and Lzzy's vocals are powerful and always in tune. This is a great place to work from for the band going forward. Exciting to think what they're capable of in the future. |
| Halestorm ReAnimate: The CoVeRs |
| HammerFall Threshold |
| Helloween The Dark Ride |
| Helloween Keeper of the Seven Keys: The Legacy |
| Helloween 7 Sinners |
| Howl Full of Hell |
| Howl Bloodlines |
| Iron Maiden Killers |
| ISIS The Red Sea |
| ISIS Mosquito Control |
| ISIS SGNL>05 |
| ISIS Temporal |
| Judas Priest British Steel |
| Judas Priest Sin After Sin |
| Judas Priest Ram It Down |
| Judas Priest Redeemer of Souls |
| Kalmah The Black Waltz |
| Kalmah For the Revolution |
| Katy Perry Teenage Dream |
| Katy Perry MTV Unplugged |
| Katy Perry Prism |
| Killswitch Engage Alive or Just Breathing |
| Magma Üdü Ẁüdü |
| Mastodon Live at the Aragon |
| Thank goodness they mixed the vocals way down. Mastodon plays everything like -- or better than -- the album, sometimes a bit faster...basically it rocks. The unorthodox song choices from Blood Mountain (Circle of Cysquatch) and Leviathan (Aqua Dementia) at first seem odd, but in concert sound terrific. They also get big points for deciding before the show that everything that happened on stage would be on the record: no overdubs, no re-takes. This is their show, warts and all...and it is awesome. |
| Mastodon Once More 'Round the Sun |
| Sweet Jesus, Brent threw pieces of Hearts Alive, Bladecatcher, All the Heavy Lifting, and Elephant Man into Ember City's solo. That was crazy cool. |
| Meshuggah Nothing |
| Meshuggah obZen |
| Meshuggah Koloss |
| Metallica Metallica |
| Mindset Evolution Prelude |
| Concise, energetic debut that makes a strong impression both lyrically and musically. A combination of fresh songwriting, in-your-face hardcore philosophy and fan-oriented approach sets ME apart from the crowd. |
| Moonlit Sailor We Come from Exploding Stars |
| Moonsorrow Kivenkantaja |
| My Dying Bride The Angel and the Dark River |
| Myrkur Myrkur |
| National Sunday Law The Fifth Ape |
| Nelly Furtado Folklore |
| Neurosis Through Silver in Blood |
| Paysage d'Hiver Nacht |
| Paysage d'Hiver Schattengang |
| Moloch is a strange track, with electronic bursts and rock riffs and drums in parts, but it's kinda cool. Die Zief is more like classic Paysage and it's bitchin', especially with that wolf kill sample. Good overall album, but not on par with Paysage's best. |
| Primal Fear Black Sun |
| Rainbow Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow |
| Rainbow Straight Between the Eyes |
| Revocation Empire of the Obscene |
| Rorcal The Way We Are, The Way We Were, The Way... |
| Seal Seal IV |
| Seal Human Being |
| Sorxe Surrounded by Shadows |
| Sting Mercury Falling |
| Sun Worship Elder Giants |
| Sunn O))) Monoliths and Dimensions |
| Sunn O))) and Ulver Terrestrials |
| Svart Crown Ages Of Decay |
| Swans To Be Kind |
| Sylosis Edge of the Earth |
| t.A.T.u. Dangerous and Moving |
| t.A.T.u. Happy Smiles |
| Taurus (USA-OR) No/Thing |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Option Paralysis |
| The Guilt Of... Isolation Room |
| Shades of Godflesh throughout this creepy hardcore album. |
| The Ocean Aeolian |
| Thou Tyrant |
| Trenches The Tide Will Swallow Us Whole |
| Ulcerate Of Fracture and Failure |
| Unisonic Light of Dawn |
| Usher Confessions |
| Viking Skull Born in Hell |
| White Lies To Lose My Life |
| Within Temptation Enter |
