| 4 excellent |
| 3oh!3 Want |
| A Fine Boat that Coffin! The Second Nail |
| A Silver Mount Zion 13 Blues for Thirteen Moons |
| A Wilhelm Scream Career Suicide |
| AFI All Hallow's EP |
| Alestorm Captain Morgan's Revenge |
| Army of the Pharaohs Ritual of Battle |
| August Burns Red Thrill Seeker |
| Bad Religion Against the Grain |
| Bad Religion Against The Grain (re-issue) |
| Baroness Red Album |
| Beirut The Flying Club Cup |
| blink-182 blink-182 |
| blink-182 Enema Of The State |
| blink-182 Dude Ranch |
| Circle Takes The Square Circle Takes the Square |
| City Of Caterpillar City Of Caterpillar |
| Cryptopsy None So Vile |
| Cypress Hill Black Sunday |
| Dillinger Four C I V I L W A R |
| Do Make Say Think You, You're a History in Rust |
| Dr. Dre The Chronic |
| E-40 My Ghetto Report Card |
| E-40, despite being a mainstream rapper, creates a very solid "Yay Area" influenced hip-hop record. Tell Me When to Go pales in comparison to Muscle Cars, Gouda, Go Hard or Go Home, and Yee. Not musically or technically impressive, but solid and easy to MC to, though the lingo may be extremely foreign to this outside the West Coast. |
| Eisbrecher Eisbrecher |
| Eisbrecher is not Rammstein, which in this case is definitely a good thing. Eisbrecher's industrial synths, fantastic catchyness, and low-pitched groozy vocals all work together perfectly to make this a very powerful cd. Don't expect any difficult guitar riffs or very diverse drum parts, as these all take a back seat to the vocals and the electronic sounds. |
| Emmure Goodbye To The Gallows |
| Enter Shikari Sorry, You're Not A Winner - EP |
| Fair To Midland Fables From a Mayfly |
| Fall of Efrafa Owsla |
| Fear Before Art Damage |
| Fear Before Odd How People Shake |
| Glass Casket We Are Gathered Here Today... |
| Glassjaw Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor F# A# ∞ |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor Slow Riot For New Zero Kanada |
| Gustav Holst The Planets Suite, for orchestra, Op. 32 |
| Heavy Heavy Low Low Everything's Watched, Everyone's Watchin |
| Heavy Heavy Low Low Fuck It?! |
| Hot Cross Risk Revival |
| Kidcrash Jokes |
| Linkin Park Hybrid Theory |
| LoveHateHero White Lies |
| Maps and Atlases You and Me and the Mountain |
| mc chris mc chris is dead |
| meandhimcallitus Loss |
| Minor Threat Complete Discography |
| My Own Private Alaska MOPA |
| Naked City Torture Garden |
| Nas Illmatic |
| Neutral Milk Hotel In the Aeroplane Over the Sea |
| Nine Inch Nails Pretty Hate Machine |
| Norma Jean O' God The Aftermath |
| Norma Jean Redeemer |
| Oceans of Sadness Mirror Palace |
| Pharoahe Monch Desire |
| Porcupine Tree Nil Recurring |
| Portugal. The Man Waiter, \"You Vultures!\" |
| Protest the Hero Fortress |
| Rammstein Reise, Reise |
| Saul Williams The Inevitable Rise and Liberation of Ni |
| Sed Non Satiata Le Ciel De Notre Enfance |
| Set Your Goals This Will Be the Death of Us |
| Sigh Hangman's Hymn |
| System of a Down Toxicity |
| Talib Kweli The Beautiful Struggle |
| Tera Melos Complex Full of Phantoms |
| The Blood Brothers Burn Piano Island, Burn |
| The Clash London Calling |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Calculating Infinity |
| The Lonely Island Incredibad |
| The Mars Volta De-Loused in the Comatorium |
| The Mars Volta The Bedlam In Goliath |
| The Sound of Animals Fighting Tiger & The Duke |
| Thrice The Artist In The Ambulance |
| Thrice The Illusion of Safety |
| X Japan Art Of Life |
| Yasunori Mitsuda Chrono Trigger Original Sound Version |
| Zao Liberate Te Ex Inferis |
| 3 good |
| 30 Seconds to Mars 30 Seconds to Mars |
| A Black Rose Burial An Awakening of Revenants EP |
| Aborted Slaughter & Apparatus: A Methodical Overture |
| AFI Black Sails in the Sunset |
| AFI Decemberunderground |
| Alexisonfire Watch Out! |
| All Time Low So Wrong, It's Right |
| Amanda Woodward La Décadence de la Décandence |
| Amorphis Silent Waters |
| Arch Enemy Rise Of The Tyrant |
| Arde Hollywood En Los Pasillos de La Extinción |
| Arsonists Get All The Girls Hits From the Bow |
| Bad Religion Bad Religion |
| Bishop Suicide Party |
| Black Flag Damaged |
| Bleeding Through The Truth |
| Blessthefall His last walk |
| Bloodlined Calligraphy They want you silent |
| Bomb the Music Industry! To Leave Or Die In Long Island |
| Botch We Are The Romans |
| BoySetsFire The Misery Index: Notes from the plague years |
| Bright Eyes I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning |
| Bring Me The Horizon Suicide Season |
| Broken Social Scene You Forgot It In People |
| By The End Of Tonight ...in a letter to the sandbox |
| Casey Jones The Messenger |
| Catch 22 Permanent Revolution |
| Catherine Rumour Has It |
| Cave In Perfect Pitch Black |
| Chiodos Bone Palace Ballet |
| Coheed and Cambria Good Apollo, I'm Burning Star IV... |
| Comeback Kid Broadcasting |
| Darkest Hour Deliver Us |
| David Bowie Earthling |
| Dead Swans Southern Blue |
| Despised Icon The Ills of Modern Man |
| Dethklok The DethAlbum |
| Dimmu Borgir In Sorte Diaboli |
| Disturbed The Sickness |
| Dope American Apathy |
| dredg Catch Without Arms |
| Drop Dead, Gorgeous In Vogue |
| Ed Gein It's A Shame That A Family Can Be Torn Apart By... |
| Escape the Fate Dying Is Your Latest Fashion |
| Evergreen Terrace Sincerity is an Easy Disguise in this Business |
| Flyleaf Flyleaf |
| Forgive Durden Wonderland |
| Four Year Strong Explains It All |
| Foxy Shazam The Flamingo Trigger |
| From A Second Story Window Not One Word Has Been Omitted |
| From Autumn To Ashes Holding A Wolf By The Ears |
| Gatsbys American Dream Ribbons and Sugar |
| Genghis Tron Dead Mountain Mouth |
| Gorillaz Gorillaz |
| Hadouken! Music For An Accelerated Culture |
| I Never Heard The Bullet Moving With Grace That Men Despise |
| I Would Set Myself On Fire For You Believes In Patterns |
| Insect Warfare World Extermination |
| Intohimo Failures, Failures, Failures, & Hope |
| Ion Dissonance Minus the Herd |
| Joshua Fit For Battle To Bring Our Own End |
| Killwhitneydead Hell To Pay |
| Killwhitneydead Nothing Less, Nothing More |
| King Crimson In the Court of the Crimson King |
| KMFDM Attak |
| Lamb of God Ashes of the Wake |
| Lamb of God Sacrament |
| Liferuiner No Saints |
| Love Like... Electrocution Love Like... Electrocution |
| Madina Lake From Them, Through Us, To You |
| Maps and Atlases Tree, Swallows, Houses |
| Memphis May Fire Memphis May Fire |
| Meshuggah obZen |
| Metallica Master of Puppets |
| Modern Life Is War Witness |
| My Bloody Valentine Loveless |
| My Chemical Romance The Black Parade |
| N Sync No Strings Attached |
| Nine Inch Nails Broken [EP] |
| Nine Inch Nails With Teeth |
| Nine Inch Nails The Slip |
| Norma Jean Bless The Martyr, And Kiss The Child |
| Okkervil River The Stage Names |
| Pelican The Fire in Our Throats Will Beckon... |
| Porcupine Tree Deadwing |
| Rammstein Herzeleid |
| Rammstein Mutter |
| Rammstein Rosenrot |
| Riverside Out of Myself |
| Say Anything ...Is A Real Boy |
| Scary Kids Scaring Kids The City Sleeps In Flames |
| Senses Fail Let it Enfold You-Special Edition |
| Senses Fail Let It Enfold You |
| Set It Straight My Favourite Words |
| Shels Sea of the Dying Dhow |
| Sleep Dopesmoker |
| Slipknot 9.0: Live |
| Snow Patrol Eyes Open |
| Soilwork Natural Born Chaos |
| Soilwork Stabbing the Drama |
| Sonata Arctica Winterheart's Guild |
| South Park South Park: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut OS |
| Squarepusher Feed Me Weird Things |
| Stabbing Westward Darkest Days |
| Streetlight Manifesto Somewhere in the Between |
| Sugarcult Lights Out |
| Sugarcult Start Static |
| Tera Melos Drugs to the Dear Youth |
| Texas is the Reason Do You Know Who You Are? |
| The Acacia Strain The Dead Walk |
| The Dear Hunter Act II: The Meaning of... |
| The Decemberists Castaways and Cut-outs |
| The Devil Wears Prada Dear Love: A Beautiful Discord |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Ire Works |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Irony Is A Dead Scene |
| The Fall Of Troy Manipulator |
| The Fall Of Troy Doppelganger |
| The Format Dog Problems |
| The Human Abstract Nocturne |
| The Human Abstract Midheaven |
| Clearly progressive music. The Human Abstract has evolved and morphed into the face of new music. This album is unique and finally separates them from Protest the Hero, who copies them in absolutely every way. The lyrics are groundbreaking and the vocals, despite what others say, rival the technical and aural reverie of Craig Owens or Dennis Lee. This album is hard to handle because of the sheer complexity and uniqueness of it, but it is an important album not only to rock, but to music as a whole. Truly groundbreaking. |
| The Locust Plague Soundscapes |
| The Mars Volta Tremulant |
| The New Pornographers Challengers |
| The Pax Cecilia Blessed Are The Bonds |
| The Tangent A Place in the Queue |
| Three Days Grace Three Days Grace |
| Thrice The Alchemy Index: Vols. I and II... |
| Through the Eyes of the Dead Bloodlust |
| Thursday A City By the Light Divided |
| Trash Talk Plagues |
| Trophy Scars Hospital Music |
| Underneath The Gun The Awakening |
| The music is solid, and the vocalist is all right, but this album is almost one giant breakdown. Underneath the Gun loves breakdowns more than anything, and they show it on this album. Would be much better with the breakdowns toned down. |
| Will Smith Big Willie Style |
| 2.5 average |
| 36 Crazyfists Rest Inside The Flames |
| A Static Lullaby A Static Lullaby |
| ABACABB Survivalist |
| Amber Pacific Truth In Sincerity |
| American Head Charge The War Of Art |
| As I Lay Dying An Ocean Between Us |
| August Burns Red Looks Fragile After All EP |
| Looks Fragile After All is extremely mediocre, especially the vocals and most of the songwriting. However, this is just the debut EP from the group and at times it shows glimpses of what the band would become, and the band still does some things very very well in this album. The accoustic outro to Accidental Shot Heard 'Round the World is great, and it's unfortunate that they never replicated it in further albums. Solid for a young debut, but they greatly improve on this. It's nice to see where they came from. |
| August Burns Red Lost Messengers: The Outtakes EP |
| Beneath the Massacre Dystopia |
| Bring Me The Horizon Count Your Blessings |
| Chiodos All's Well That Ends Well |
| Circa Survive On Letting Go |
| Clawfinger Clawfinger |
| Coheed and Cambria Good Apollo...No World For Tomorrow |
| Conducting From the Grave When Legends Become Dust |
| Converge No Heroes |
| Cursed III: Architects of Troubled Sleep |
| Dance Gavin Dance Downtown Battle Mountain |
I came in to Downtown Battle Mountain expecting the best Post Hardcore album of the year, because the rating suggested so. This record is far from it. None of the songs are stand-outs, and the cd becomes monotonous to listen to. Downtown Battle Mountain is, unfortunately, just another generic offering from Rise Records. Nothing on the cd is bad, it's just that none of it is really all that good. After a few listens, I still can't tell the songs apart due to the lack of variety. I hope they do better next time.
2.5/5 |
| Destroy The Runner Saints |
| Emigrate Emigrate |
| Enter Shikari Take To The Skies |
| Eyes Set To Kill Reach |
| From Graves of Valor Famine |
| Fugazi The Argument |
| Funeral For A Friend Casually Dressed & Deep in Conversation |
| Grade Under the Radar |
| Greeley Estates Go West Young Man, Let The Evil Go East |
| Haste the Day Pressure The Hinges |
| Hatebreed Supremacy |
| Hopesfall A Types |
| Hopesfall Magnetic North |
| HORSE The Band A Natural Death |
| Hurt Vol. II |
| Iluvatar Iluvatar |
| In Flames A Sense of Purpose |
| In Flames Colony |
| KMFDM Naïve |
| KMFDM Money |
| KMFDM What Do You Know, Deutschland? |
| KMFDM Angst |
| KMFDM Don't Blow Your Top |
| KMFDM Symbols |
| KMFDM XTORT |
| KMFDM Hau Ruck |
| KMFDM Adios |
| Know Margaret The First Feather |
| Liferuiner Taking Back The Nightlife |
| Limp Bizkit Chocolate Starfish... |
| Linkin Park Meteora |
| Martriden The Unsettling Dark |
| Maylene and the Sons of Disaster II |
| Metallica Kill Em All |
| mewithoutYou Brother, Sister |
| Minus The Bear Planet Of Ice |
| Misery Signals Mirrors |
| Motion City Soundtrack Even If It Kills Me |
| Necrophagist Epitaph |
| Off Minor Problematic Courtship |
| Panic! At the Disco A Fever You Can't Sweat Out |
| Pg. 99 Document # 8 |
| Pokemon 2BA Masta |
| PsyOpus Our Puzzling Encounters Considered |
| Red Jumpsuit Apparatus Don't You Fake It |
| Rites of Spring Rites of Spring |
| Rites of Spring End on End |
| See You Next Tuesday Sampler '05 |
| Senses Fail Still Searching |
| Showbread Life, Kisses, and Other Wasted Efforts |
| Silverstein Arrivals and Departures |
| Story of the Year Page Avenue |
| Story of the Year In The Wake Of Determination |
| Straylight Run Straylight Run |
| Suicide Silence The Cleansing |
| Talk Talk Laughing Stock |
| Tenacious D Tenacious D: The Pick of Destiny |
| The Acacia Strain Continent |
| The Academy Is... The Academy |
| The Almost Southern Weather |
| The Butterfly Effect Imago |
| The Chariot The Fiancee |
| The Devil Wears Prada Plagues |
| The Devil Wears Prada does some things unique, but for the most part they are just like every other Christian metalcore band. The synths are derivitive, the vocals are grating, and the bass is non-existant. There are some good breakdowns and a few of the songs have some nice guitar parts, but for the most part this album is just really average. |
| The Devil Wears Prada With Roots Above and Branches Below |
| The Tony Danza Tapdance Extravaganza The Tony Danza Tapdance Extravaganza |
| The Tony Danza Tapdance Extravaganza Danza II: The Electric Boogaloo |
| Tortoise Millions Now Living Will Never Die |
| Underneath The Gun Forfeit Misfortunes |
| Underoath Define the Great Line |
| Various Artists (Hip Hop) 8 Mile OST |
| Veil Of Maya The Common Man's Collapse |
| Venetian Snares Cavalcade of Glee and Dadaist Happy Pom Poms |
| Waking The Cadaver Perverse Recollections of a Necromangler |
| War From A Harlots Mouth Transmetropolitan |
| Whitechapel The Somatic Defilement |
| Winds Of Plague Decimate The Weak |
| With Blood Comes Cleansing Horror |
| Yellowcard Ocean Avenue |
| 1.5 very poor |
| Annotations Of An Autopsy Welcome To Sludge City |
| Annotations Of An Autopsy Before the Throne of Infection |
| Brand New The Devil And God Are Raging Inside Me |
| Dr. Acula S.L.O.B. |
| If See You Next Tuesday, HeavyHeavylowlow, Waking The Cadaver, and Psyopus sounds like a dream lineup, this album is for you. If you just threw up in your mouth, avoid this release at all costs. A mixture of death grunts, spoken word, and cliche' metalcore-esque vocals, S.l.o.b. by Dr.Acula is a grindcore album for those with a sense of humor. Looking at this in terms of quality, it is terrible; however, this album is one of those "so bad it's good" type albums. Be wary when purchasing since this is not good music, just relatively interesting. |
| Dr. Acula Below Me |
Below Me has much better production and much improved vocals, but in that they lose most of what made them enjoyable in the first place. The pig squeals are gone and the vocals are a great deal less humorous. Instead of being so bad they're funny, they're just bad. The instrumentals are as simple as ever and the synths are still as annoying and grating as before. The songs transfered from S.L.O.B. are better musically, but way less enjoyable than their counterparts.
Overall, Below Me to Dr.Acula is a lot like Before The Throne of Infection was to Annotations of an Autopsy. The band is more respectable, but they aren't nearly as fun as they were before, and in that they have become much less enjoyable. |
| DragonForce Inhuman Rampage |
| Embrace The End Counting Hallways To The Left |
| Extol The Blueprint Dives |
| Gorillaz Demon Days |
| Gwen Stacy The Life I Know |
| Gym Class Heroes As Cruel As School Children |
| Life at These Speeds To Your Health |
| Limp Bizkit New Old Songs |
| R. Kelly Trapped in the Closet (Chapters 1-12) |
| Scary Kids Scaring Kids Scary Kids Scaring Kids |
| Taking Back Sunday Louder Now |
| The Mars Volta Amputechture |
| The Partisan Turbine Surgical Assault |
