| 4.0 excellent |
| Aesop Rock Bazooka Tooth |
| This album really sucked for me at first, and i'm a huge aesop rock fan. The beats were just really boring, and his lyrics didn't really stand out. Though, the more i listened the better it got and i was able to pick up on some awesome moments that i missed. It's probably my second favorite album of his. |
| Aesop Rock None Shall Pass |
| August Burns Red Thrill Seeker |
| Between the Buried and Me Colors |
What do you call it when an intense sweeping metal soundscape suddenly shifts into something entirely different and unique midsong? Btbam has perfected this technique in songs like mordecai, with influences of jazz, and bossa. In colors they just enhance and perfect upon what mordecai and the silent circus did. They better what alaska had but i still feel that there is something missing. Colors is brutal yet almost serene at times, a partial view of what progressive or alternative metal should sound like. Extremely difficult drum and guitar patterns, with vocals to boot. Each mucisian seems to have their metal position down and rooted. Although, most tracks feature a paradigm that represents sounds from a louisaina swamp/bayou setting
a bar in northern baltimore
and even a wild west time fiddling solo.
But what this album doesn't seem to have is enough originality, btbam seemed to have just added another layer to their cake
the music sounds the same as alaska with almost no innovation.
The musicianship is incredible but there is not enough satisfying innovation for this album to be considered classic |
| Brand New The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me |
| Incubus (USA-CA) Make Yourself |
| Life in Your Way Waking Giants |
| A very talented yet, underplayed hardcore band life in your way has made a cd that should be remembered. With lyrics that define a postive message and a relegious background combined with some very intense guitar and drums. A few slower paced almost hymn like songs make up this cd to be among the best in christian hardcore |
| Maylene and the Sons of Disaster II |
| Norma Jean The Anti Mother |
| Rx Bandits The Resignation |
| Senses Fail Life Is Not a Waiting Room |
| Sum 41 All Killer No Filler |
| The Bronx The Bronx |
| The Killers Sam's Town |
| Thrice The Artist in the Ambulance |
| Thrice Vheissu |
| Thrice The Alchemy Index Vols. I & II |
| War of Ages Pride of the Wicked |
| Wu-Tang Clan Wu-Tang Forever |
