| 4.5 superb |
| Anathema Weather Systems |
| Ayreon The Human Equation |
| Blackfield Blackfield II |
| Caroline Polachek Desire, I Want To Turn Into You |
| Children of Bodom Hatebreeder |
| Daft Punk Discovery |
| Demians Building An Empire |
| Devin Townsend Terria |
| Devin Townsend Project Ghost |
| While Deconstruction is a record you listen to get a great kick out off, Ghost is something you can really dive into and get lost in its atmospheres, the scenery that it envisions and warmth it radiates. It's all just really sincere and natural. A beautiful way of closure to this successful project. |
| Disperse Journey Through The Hidden Gardens |
| Draconian Arcane Rain Fell |
| Dream Theater Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes from a Memory |
| Ensiferum Iron |
| Equilibrium Turis Fratyr |
| Fairyland Score to a New Beginning |
Fast and bombastic power metal with the emphasis on keyboards. This is the first album of Fairyland where guest performers are used with the keyboard player being the sole remaining member.
This is, in my opinion a step in the right direction. It gets better with every new album. Just listen to the catchy ''Assault On The Shores'' to get a taste of the album.
The contribution of Serenity's vocalist is a welcomed addition. One of the few critiques you can give it is the lack of originality. It tends to sound a bit like what you can expect from Blind Guardian / Rhapsody, but this is less noticeable than in the previous record, so this can be somewhat overlooked
In the end it doesn't always have to be very original, especially not within the power metal realm. As long as the music is well executed, I am happy, and that's exactly what this album makes you.
It's about as great as fantasy metal can get, for me at least. |
| In Mourning Shrouded Divine |
| Jeff Buckley Grace |
| Kamelot Karma |
| Katatonia Viva Emptiness |
| Katatonia The Great Cold Distance |
| Leprous Bilateral |
| Metallica S&M |
| mind.in.a.box Crossroads |
| Moon Safari Blomljud |
| Opeth Ghost Reveries |
| Porcupine Tree In Absentia |
| Satellite A Street Between Sunrise And Sunset |
| Seventh Wonder Mercy Falls |
| Seventh Wonder The Great Escape |
| Sonata Arctica Silence |
| Sonata Arctica Winterheart's Guild |
| Sonata Arctica For the Sake of Revenge |
| Sonata Arctica Unia |
| Sonata Arctica The Days of Grays |
| Steven Wilson The Raven That Refused to Sing (And Other Stories) |
| Steven Wilson Hand. Cannot. Erase. |
| Strapping Young Lad City |
| Subsignal La Muerta |
| Sylvan Posthumous Silence |
| t e l e p a t h ???????? 現実を超えて |
| The Birthday Massacre Walking With Strangers |
| The Dear Hunter The Color Spectrum (Complete Collection) |
| The Dear Hunter Act IV: Rebirth in Reprise |
| The Dear Hunter Act V: Hymns with the Devil in Confessional |
| The War On Drugs I Don't Live Here Anymore |
| Vanden Plas The Seraphic Clockwork |
| Wintersun Wintersun |
| 4.0 excellent |
| Alcest Kodama |
| Anathema We're Here Because We're Here |
| Anathema Falling Deeper |
| Anathema Distant Satellites |
| Anubis Gate Anubis Gate |
| Easily their best effort so far. rNothing too special for the progressive/power metal genre, but nevertheless an album that contains very solid songwriting with excellent vocal delivery which makes it a very fun record to listen to. |
| Anubis Gate Horizons |
| Arjen Anthony Lucassen Lost in the New Real |
| Ayreon Into the Electric Castle |
| Barren Earth Curse of the Red River |
A great Progressive Death Metal album with Folk and Doom overtones. From a band with members from Amorphis, Moonsorrow and Swallow the Sun you can certainly expect something enjoyable. And those expectations have been more than widely fulfilled. Great riffs, melancholic vocals, soothing keyboard melodies and folky interludes are present throughout the entire album, accompanied by a splendid production from the one and only Dan Swano, which guarantees for a crystal clear sound .
Everyone who's stoked on Opeth, Amorphis and Swallow The Sun will love this. But really, with music from this magnitude, anyone who likes metal should give this a good listen. |
| Big Big Train English Electric |
| Blackfield Blackfield |
| Blackfield Blackfield V |
| Blinded Colony Bedtime Prayers |
| Brett Garsed Dark Matter |
| Brothertiger Brothertiger |
| Cain's Offering Gather the Faithful |
| Children of Bodom Follow the Reaper |
| Children of Bodom Hate Crew Deathroll |
| Children of Bodom Halo of Blood |
| Children of Bodom Hexed |
| Chimp Spanner At the Dream's Edge |
| Collage Moonshine |
| Dark Tranquillity We Are the Void |
| Daylight Dies Lost to the Living |
| Demians Mute |
| Devin Townsend Ocean Machine: Biomech |
| Devin Townsend Project Ki |
| Devin Townsend Project Deconstruction |
| The amount of stuff happening on this album is overwhelming. Truly a massive symphonic metal opera that incorporates everything the man has ever done and easily a contender for AOTY 2011. |
| Dream Theater Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence |
| Dream Theater Black Clouds and Silver Linings |
| In my opinion their best album since 6DOIT. Although the choruses of AROP and Wither are a bit underwhelming. ANTR, TSF and TCOT are all great Dream theater songs, and TBOT has an awesome solo at the end. Way better than Systematic Chaos indeed. |
| E.S. Posthumus Cartographer |
| Ensiferum From Afar |
| Equilibrium Rekreatur |
| Equilibrium Erdentempel |
| Eternal Tears of Sorrow Before the Bleeding Sun |
| Fair to Midland Arrows and Anchors |
| Foster the People In the Darkest of Nights, Let the Birds Sing |
| Frost* Milliontown |
| Guilt Machine On This Perfect Day |
| Haken Visions |
| In Mourning Monolith |
| Insomnium Above the Weeping World |
| Insomnium Across the Dark |
| James LaBrie Static Impulse |
| Kalisia Cybion |
| Kalmah 12 Gauge |
| Kamelot Ghost Opera |
| Kamelot Poetry for the Poisoned |
| Kamelot Haven |
| Katatonia Dead End Kings |
| Katatonia The Fall of Hearts |
| Kauan Sorni Nai |
| Kiuas The Spirit of Ukko |
| Kiuas The New Dark Age |
| Leprous Coal |
| Leprous The Congregation |
| Lights Out Asia In The Days Of Jupiter |
| Lights Out Asia Hy-Brasil |
| Lone Galaxy Garden |
| Lord Huron Lonesome Dreams |
| Lunatic Soul Lunatic Soul |
| Mew Visuals |
| mind.in.a.box Dreamweb |
| mind.in.a.box R.E.T.R.O |
| mind.in.a.box Revelations |
| Miseration The Mirroring Shadow |
| Moon Safari Lover's End |
| Moon Safari Himlabacken Vol. 1 |
| Ne Obliviscaris Portal of I |
| Nightwish Imaginaerum |
| Omnium Gatherum The Burning Cold |
| Opeth Damnation |
| Opeth Watershed |
| Pendragon (UK) Pure |
| Pendragon (UK) Passion |
| Pendulum Immersion |
| Porcupine Tree Deadwing |
| Porcupine Tree Fear of a Blank Planet |
| Riverside Second Life Syndrome |
| Riverside Love, Fear and the Time Machine |
| Rush Power Windows |
| Scar Symmetry Holographic Universe |
| Seventh Wonder Waiting in the Wings |
| Solution .45 For Aeons Past |
| Sonata Arctica Pariah's Child |
| Steven Wilson To the Bone |
| Strapping Young Lad Alien |
| Susumu Hirasawa Kyuusai no Gihou |
| Swallow the Sun Hope |
| Swallow the Sun New Moon |
| Sybreed The Pulse of Awakening |
| The Birthday Massacre Violet |
| The Birthday Massacre Pins and Needles |
| The Birthday Massacre Fascination |
| The Dear Hunter Act III: Life and Death |
| The Devin Townsend Band Synchestra |
| The Few Against Many Sot |
| Threshold Subsurface |
| Threshold March of Progress |
| THYX The Way Home |
| Tuomas Holopainen Music Inspired by the Life and Times of Scrooge |
| Vienna Teng Aims |
| Warmen Accept The Fact |
| X-Panda Flight of Fancy |
| Yumi Zouma Willowbank |
| Yumi Zouma EP III |
| Yumi Zouma Truth or Consequences |
