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Sort by: Rating | Release Date | Rating Date | Name5.0 classicArctic Monkeys Whatever People Say I Am...Arctic Monkeys Favourite Worst NightmareBig L Lifestylez Ov Da Poor and DangerousBloc Party Silent AlarmBoom Boom Satellites EXPOSEDCom Truise Cyanide SistersDance Gavin Dance Downtown Battle Mountain IIDemolition Hammer Epidemic of ViolenceDemolition Hammer Tortured ExistenceDepeche Mode Black CelebrationDepeche Mode ViolatorDepeche Mode Songs of Faith and DevotionEmery While Broken Hearts PrevailEmery ...In Shallow Seas We SailGob Foot In Mouth DiseaseIdiot Pilot Strange We Should Meet HereWhat do I call this album? Simply Amazing? Utter nonsense? Or how about something you have never heard before? Idiot Pilot combines screamo, rock, and electronica into a beautiful concoction that is certainly another deity compared to its individual parts. With both singing and screaming, there is at least one track for every mood making this a universal album. This is definitely a treat for listeners who want a new experience.Interpol Turn on the Bright LightsInterpol AnticsJohnny Truant In the Library of Horrific EventsEmotion is simply irradiated in all directions from this band. Unlike other unconventional metalcore artists, it is very easy to get into the mood of any track on this album simply by listening to the guitars. However, the vocals are what truly set Johnny Truant on a pedestal of their own, as they cover all the grounds (lows, mids, and highs) with such distinction. Regardless of where you are and what your state of mind is, a simple line from the singer is enough to tell you that you're listening to Johnny Truant. It is a shame to see that this band is not together anymore.Kyuss Welcome To Sky ValleyLinkin Park Hybrid TheoryLinkin Park ReanimationMegadeth Rust in PeaceMesh We CollideAs good as real European synthpop will ever get. We Collide sits on the fine line that separates complete use of synth with a mixture of guitars and pulls it off flawlessly. Each track is full of hooks and catchy lines that will relay through the mind for quite some time. Due to the unpopularity of such a genre, if there is any listener wanting to get in on the action, this is the album, let alone the band, to start with.mind.in.a.box Dreamwebmind.in.a.box Lost AloneThis is not what I had wanted, I have to leave this place. This is not what I had dreamed of, I need to gain more space. This is not what I intended, I have to leave these shores. This is not what I had hoped for, I need to close these doors.mind.in.a.box CrossroadsCrossroads marks the final chapter from the Mind.In.A.Box album triology. Right from the first album, Lost Alone, the listener was told a story about lies, betrayal and simply just finding yourself. This album focuses on the the latter, with beautiful and emotional cuts such as The Place and Amnesia. Not to worry though, aside from the lyrics, the music is right on par with club worthy tracks, filled with brilliant synth movements and danceable beats. Definitely one of the deepest (and best) futurepop records you could ever listen to; a true journey.mind.in.a.box RevelationsYour.mind.is.not.ready.for.this.box Misery Signals ControllerMuse AbsolutionNas IllmaticNew Order SubstanceOrphans of Cush White NoizePanic! At the Disco A Fever You Can't Sweat OutPestilence Consuming ImpulseQueens of the Stone Age Rated RQueens of the Stone Age Songs for the DeafQueens of the Stone Age Queens of the Stone AgeRaekwon Only Built 4 Cuban Linx...Rage Against the Machine Rage Against the MachineSikTh Death of a Dead DaySikTh The Trees Are Dead and Dried Out Submotion Orchestra Finest HourSwarms Old Raves EndSwarms SwarmsThe Birthday Massacre VioletTBM is still reminiscent of older synth based goth bands, but there is a new school feeling in their music. If you compare this to their second album, this album has a much darker feel not only through the music and vocals but also in the overall production. Chibi has a wonderfully angelic voice that in now way clashes with the much darker music but she is able to bring it to a screech in certain songs.The Birthday Massacre Walking With StrangersSo if you are not a fan of rock dripping with synth lines and string patches, this band is really going to bring the pain. These guys (and girl) are amazing at what they do; catchy power chord progressions with a little synth hook at every corner, topped off with Chibi's angelic vocals are what make this album irresistible. Listeners who dug Violet might get a surprise when listening to this album due to the overall bright feeling this album gives off, not only through the music but also the production. Nevertheless, The Birthday Massacre feeling is still very much alive and is sure to please old fans as well as new ones.The Birthday Massacre Pins and NeedlesLightning strikes thrice. Yeah you read correctly. Effin' thrice.The Birthday Massacre Imaginary Monsters"Bloc not 5ing this would have just made things awkward." - Gmork89The Birthday Massacre Hide and SeekWatchu think was gonna happen?! The Strokes Room on FireThe Strokes Is This ItVan Halen Van HalenWu-Tang Clan Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)4.5 superbAnimals as Leaders Animals as LeadersFirst, we need to clarify that this is an instrumental metal album. However, it's quite unlike those Satriani or Vai records and more closer to a band like Scale the Summit in the sense that there is attention towards a full band rather than just the guitarist. Particularly with Animals As Leaders, this really lets the listener appreciate the the guitarist's and drummer's talent with how well the clean and distorted bits blend along with the programmed drums. Ranging from metal to jazz, the guitars are often coupled with electronic noise and ambiance and it adds so much more to the listening experience. Annihilator Never, NeverlandArctic Monkeys HumbugArctic Monkeys Five Minutes With Arctic MonkeysArctic Monkeys When The Sun Goes DownArmageddon (SWE) Crossing The RubiconArtillery By InheritanceAssemblage 23 MetaAtheist Unquestionable PresenceAtheist Piece of TimeAugury Fragmentary EvidenceAugust Burns Red ConstellationsBalance and Composure SeparationBalance And Composure and Tigers Jaw Split CDBenea Reach AlleviatBenediction The Grand LevellerBenediction Transcend the RubiconBlack Moon Enta Da Stageblink-182 blink-182blink-182 Take Off Your Pants and JacketBoom Boom Satellites To The LovelessBoom Boom Satellites Back On My feetBorn of Osiris A Higher PlaceBrutality Screams of AnguishCalled To Arms Peril and the PatientCamel CamelCamel MirageCannibal Corpse The BleedingCannibal Corpse Evisceration PlagueCannibal Corpse TortureCannonball Adderley Somethin' ElseChrom Synthetic MovementColdplay ParachutesCom Truise Galactic MeltCoroner Mental VortexCoroner Punishment for DecadenceCoroner No More ColorCoroner R.I.P.CunninLynguists Will Rap For FoodCunninLynguists A Piece Of StrangeCunninLynguists OneirologyCygnosiC FallenCynic FocusDance Gavin Dance Dance Gavin DanceDance Gavin Dance Downtown Battle MountainDance Gavin Dance HappinessDark Angel Darkness DescendsDavid Wise Donkey Kong Country 2 SoundtrackDeath HumanDeath Individual Thought PatternsDeath SymbolicDeftones Saturday Night WristDeftones Around the FurDemigod Slumber of Sullen EyesDepeche Mode The Best Of - Volume IIf you're a fan of just the Depeche Mode songs you hear on the radio, this is definitely the album you need above all their other ones. It contains an immense number of popular singles ranging from early Depeche Mode to Playing the Angel (released only a few years ago).Depeche Mode Music for the MassesDivinity AllegoryPure chaos, and it actually sounds good. This melodic metal album starts strong and ends strong, so it would be wise to assume the middle is strong (if not stronger). Time signatures crazy enough to break your neck, solos that are sometimes melodic but then revert to chaos and noise. Powerful vocals that can handle singing and screaming, guitarists that can hold their own, and an amazing drummer complete this package. This album is still metal guys, don't worry. But those looking for something more melodic should listen to The Singularity.DJ Shadow Endtroducing.....Dr. Dre The ChronicDream Theater Black Clouds & Silver LiningsDrive Characters In TimeDynospectrum DynospectrumElectrocution Inside the UnrealEmery The Weak's EndEmery The QuestionEndemic Terminal IllnessFACT FactFACT may be one of the freshest bands I have listened to in quite some time. To sum up their overall sound, there is a bit of technicality similar to (but a lot less than) to Protest the Hero mixed with screaming but much more dominantly, clean singing. Due to the bands origin, there may be an issue with the heavy Japanese accent in the clean vocals as well as a fair amount of autotune. But do not mistake this for something coming right out of Rise Records. Each song has a bright cheery atmosphere regardless of the the lyrics but most of the songs barely pass the three minute mark which is a bit of a downside. However, in the short time that you finish listening to the entire album, you have this feeling to play the whole thing again due to the uplifting mood that this band brings forward.Franz Ferdinand Franz FerdinandGhostface Killah Supreme ClienteleGhostface Killah IronmanGorod Leading VisionGravediggaz 6 Feet DeepGuthrie Govan Erotic CakesGZA Liquid SwordsHands Give Me RestHavok Time Is UpHavok BurnHeathen Breaking the SilenceHeathen Victims of DeceptionHocico Signos de AberracionDarkness on disc, Hocico delivers darkness that you can actually listen to. This harsh EBM album is full of catchy hooks and beats like you would expect, but the sheer coldness felt from the vocal + music mixture is unlike anything else you might have heard before. A definite must have for any electro-industrial fan.Hocico Memorias AtrasI always had a feeling Hocico would age like a fine wine, and Memorias Atras supports my argument. Not to say their older material is poor (ie. it's fantastic) but Hocico once again remain as one of the leading artists in aggrotech, this time with modern production. This album still feels like the ol' days but it definitely has the ability to draw in some new fans.Hocico Tiempos De FuriaHocico does it again with Tiempos De Furia. Pure agression spat out over club worthy music has always been a difficult concoction for acts today, especially those attempting to do an entire album's worth. Hocico's experience allows them to speed things up like on Bite Me! and suddenly switch to half time on Lost Fate yet still make both styles equally listenable. Tiempos is definitely one of the strongest industrial albums of 2010, and it proves that this old dog does not need to learn any new tricks.Ice Cube AmeriKKKa's Most WantedIce Cube Death CertificateIdiot Pilot WolvesImmolation Majesty and DecayInterpol Our Love to AdmireInterpol InterpolInterpol PrecipitateInterpol Interpol EPIron Braydz Devil May CryJudas Priest Screaming for VengeanceKreator Coma of SoulsKreator Pleasure to KillLimp Bizkit Gold CobraLynyrd Skynyrd Pronounced Leh-Nerd Skin-NerdLynyrd Skynyrd Second HelpingM83 Hurry Up, We're DreamingM9 High FidelityM9 144,000Malevolent Creation RetributionMarilyn Manson The Golden Age Of GrotesqueMark Lanegan Blues FuneralMartyr Feeding the AbscessMasta Ace SlaughtahouseMatthew Good AvalancheMegadeth Peace Sells... but Who's Buying?Megadeth Countdown to ExtinctionMegadeth So Far, So Good... So What!Megadeth Killing Is My Business...Megadeth YouthanasiaMerciless UnboundMetallica Kill 'Em AllMetallica Ride the LightningMetallica Master of PuppetsMF DOOM MM.. FoodMF DOOM Operation: DoomsdayMF DOOM Born Like ThisMiles Davis Kind of BlueMint Julep Save Your SeasonMisery Signals Of Malice and the Magnum HeartMisery Signals manages to combine vocals so raw with heartfelt lyrics and beautiful music. This is one album that stands out among the metalcore releases not only from the same year but also to those being out put out to this very day. While the previously mentioned ingredients sound so common and easy to blend, that is only half of it. With this album, Misery Signals gets their message across whether expressing through brutality, beauty, or both in just a single song. There is no sign of force on this release, meaning instrumentation is not trying too hard to sound technical nor are the vocals trying to sound as brutal as possible. The album just flows like a liquid running from your ears to your heart.Mobb Deep The InfamousMobb Deep Hell on EarthMoby PlayMonstrosity MilleniumMorbid Angel Altars of MadnessMos Def Black On Both SidesMotorhead OverkillMotorhead BomberMuse Origin of SymmetryMuse ShowbizMutemath Mute MathMutemath Odd SoulNecrophobic The Nocturnal SilenceNecrophobic BloodhymnsNeuroticfish Les Chansons NeurotiquesNeurotic songs? pass. No, wait; don't let the album's title fool you. This disc is chock full of catchy futurepop. In fact, THIS is what futurepop should sound like. Crisp production along with synth arppegios and depressing lyrics might sound like your typical mix, but Neuroticfish plays along and does it WELL. Neuroticfish GelbNew Order Power, Corruption and LiesNew Order Low-LifeNew Order BrotherhoodNoisia Yellow Brick/RaarOpeth Blackwater ParkOzzy Osbourne Blizzard Of OzzPendragon PureWith vocals similar to that of Steven Wilson, they are almost always the soft side, never really turning on the fire, even though the band might be playing like it's the end of the world. Leads are not shreddy but they fit perfectly throughout the songs; always changing depending on what the moment calls for. Overall, Pendragon's Pure is definitely an album worth listening to for fans of progressive bands like Riverside, Porcupine Tree or Sylvan.Periphery Periphery II: This Time It's PersonalAll they have is just bao nuh bao duh nuh nao we neh nuh nah nuh neh no...Pete Rock and CL Smooth Mecca and the Soul BrotherPete Rock and CL Smooth The Main IngredientProtest the Hero KeziaProtest the Hero FortressProtest the Hero ScurrilousQueens of the Stone Age Lullabies to ParalyzeRaekwon Only Built 4 Cuban Linx... Pt IIRazor Executioner's SongRazor Evil InvadersRiverside Second Life SyndromeRiverside Out of MyselfRiverside Rapid Eye MovementRobben Ford Tiger WalkRobben Ford Soul On TenRobin Trower Twice Removed From YesterdayRobin Trower Bridge of SighsRobin Trower For Earth BelowRobin Trower Long Misty DaysRory Gallagher DeuceRoyal Republic We Are The RoyalRunemagick The Supreme Force of EternityScorpions In TranceSinister Diabolical SummoningSinister Cross the StyxSky Eats Airplane Sky Eats AirplaneThis album will stand apart from other albums of the same genre, I guarantee it. There is an extremely heavy use of electronics/prgramming in every song and I'm not talking about amateur synth lines and pads. This album contains unique programming whether it be bleeps and bloops, drums, or some other sounds. This along with the very technical guitars make this album very very enjoyable.Slipknot Vol. 3: (The Subliminal Verses)this is one hell of an album, especially coming from slipknot. each instrument has its own identity on the record and can be easily identified by the listener. i could even say this album is more intelligent than their previous ones, since those focused purely on pounding drums and low tunes buzzing riffs. the two of those elements are obviously on this album, but they seem to be more beautiful for some reason. Lyrics are not as blunt this time around, even though they exhibit "fuck the world" mentality quite often. but the one thing that i truly adore on this album is the production/mixing. I love how each guitar is panned fully to either side and how the record has that raw finish on it; there are many sharp corners, almost no smooth curves.Sodom Agent OrangeSolitary Experiments Mind Over MatterState of the Evol Love IndustryGold in the form of futurepop is what I would call this album. Every single song covers a variety of moods, and each song has hooks and beats that you can either sing or dance along to. On the outside, this album may seem like just an ordinary futurepop record. Once you start listening to it, you get this urge to tap your foot, nod your head, or whatever people do these days. Hell, there's even a song devoted to sex.Stevie Ray Vaughan Texas FloodStevie Ray Vaughan Couldn't Stand the WeatherStevie Ray Vaughan Couldn't Stand the Weather (Legacy Edition)Stevie Ray Vaughan In StepSybreed AntaresOne might get chilly when listening to this industrial metal we cal Antares. In other words, the entire album has this very icy feel to it which is something not many albums can create. A heavy use of synths and ambient noise help create the climate plus a vocalist who is able to sing ad scream in the coldest way. Modern touches are added to the overall sound including vocoded vocals and fierce polyrhythms. Any fan of Fear Factory or Soilwork or even industrial metal in general should give this try. Remember to dress warmly!Tears For Fears Songs From The Big ChairTestament The LegacyTestament The New OrderTextures SilhouettesThe Allman Brothers Band The Allman Brothers BandThe Beneath So Came the DecimationEven for a metalcore band, there is great use of synth over some very tasteful riffing and soloing. What really stands out in this band are the vocals. 2 vocalists deliver both screams and clean singing (mostly about religious themes) but the purity in their voice is unmatched. Quite difficult to explain in words, but the clean vocals pierce ears only in a way that dimineralized water can.The Birthday Massacre Nothing And NowhereThe Black Keys Rubber FactoryThe Black Keys ThickfreaknessThe Bravery The BraveryThe Chameleons What Does Anything Mean? BasicallyThe Chasm Procreation of the Inner TempleThe Chasm From the Lost YearsThe Chasm Reaching The Veil Of DeathThe D.O.C. No One Can Do It BetterThe Devin Townsend Project AddictedThe Notorious B.I.G. Ready to DieThe Presets ApocalypsoThe Reign Of Kindo Rhythm, Chord & MelodyThe Used The UsedThe Weeknd House of BalloonsThe Weeknd ThursdayThe Weeknd Echoes of SilenceThin Lizzy JailbreakTriple Darkness AnathemaTwo Door Cinema Club Tourist HistoryUneven Structure FebruusVildhjarta MasstadenVNV Nation Matter + FormVNV Nation (the guys that coined the term "futurepop") create their best album. While other releases had the beauty, the darkness, and the catchy-ness; this album focuses more on the music to really get that body of yours moving in one way or another. But don't think that the beauty and the emotion is gone; tracks like Homeward got you covered while Chrome and Lightwave bring the aggression. The ending track, Perpetual, brings all three elements not only making it the best song on the album, but on of the best futurepop songs ever.VNV Nation Burning EmpiresWes Montgomery The Incredible Jazz Guitar of Wes MontgomeryWes Montgomery Full HouseWhite Lies RitualYou almost have to ask yourself if you're listening The Killers at times, or hell, even an old Tears For Fears album. The vocals are much more expressive this time around plus there is an upbeat synth-heavy vibe in nearly every song.Woe Of Tyrants Behold the LionHoly hell, little did I know that I was going to be in for a treat when I listened to this. Seeing as I was in love with Threnody and Kingdom Of Might, I thought that perhaps the band's first effort, Behold the Lion, might be average (surely it would be impossible for the band to be out 3 amazing albums). But once I got listening, I felt as if these songs simply stood out from the usual death metal tracks I've been hearing; the entire album combined groove, aggression, and melody all into one amazing sounding package which was exactly what I look for in death metal. And to make matters better, each song was flared with a bit of southern sizzle, especially in the leads and solos.Your Demise Ignorance Never Dies4.0 excellent3 The Ghost You Gave To Me50 Cent Get Rich or Die Tryin'A Lot Like Birds Conversation PieceA Perfect Circle Thirteenth StepAbramelin AbramelinAcceptance PhantomsAesthetic Perfection Close to HumanEBM fueled by nothing but emotion and rich arpeggios. Despite the obvious mood the lyrics give, the actual tone of voice is more than enough proof to show the hatred that Close to Human spews out. This album allows you to either get up and dance, or simply get lost in the music which is what a decent EBM album should be capable of.Agressor Neverending DestinyAlarum Natural CausesEventuality Pt. 2 you could say? And that's certainly not a bad thing, since Alarum are at the head of the pack when it comes to progressive, thrash metal. Fortunately, the addition of some new music styles, such as funk, are a welcomed addition to the band's technical palette. Alarum EventualityTroy from Mastodon teams up with Cynic, and that is not an exaggeration. a listener will get the best of both worlds when they hear that familiar gruff yet smooth vocal style with dizzy jazz leads and solid riffing. Alcest Souvenirs d'un autre MondeAlcest Ecailles De LuneAlexisonfire AlexisonfireAlgebra PolymorphAlice in Chains DirtAlice in Chains Black Gives Way to BlueAlien Vampires HarshlizerAmduscia Melodies For The DevilIf there was ever an album title so fit to describe its content, this would be the best one ever. Take the title "Melodies For The Devil" literally, and you will not be disappointed. Not only does Amduscia simply kill it in the melodic department, but the "Devil" really comes alive in the vocals and lyrics. In other words, the usual hate spewed by the vocalist is also masked by this eerie distortion that has potential to make your skin crawl. A near perfect aggrotech album from an artist that truly deserves it. Amduscia Dead Or AliveAmduscia From Abuse To ApostasyAmduscia Madness In AbyssAnacrusis Screams and WhispersAnacrusis Manic ImpressionsAnberlin CitiesAnberlin VitalAndy Timmons That Was Then, This Is NowAndy Wood A Disconcerting AmalgamAngels & Agony UnisonAnnihilator Alice in HellAntithesis Dreaming RealityApollo Brown The ResetArchitects RuinArctic Monkeys Suck It And SeeArctic Monkeys Fluorescent AdolescentArctic Monkeys Leave Before The Lights Come OnArctic Monkeys Who The Fuck Are Arctic Monkeys?Arghoslent Hornets of the PogromArmor For Sleep What To Do When You Are DeadArtillery When Death ComesASAP Rocky Live.Love.A$AP.Asphyx The RackAsphyx Last One On EarthAsphyx AsphyxAspid ExtravasationAssemblage 23 StormAssemblage 23 CompassAssemblage 23 FailureAssemblage 23 AddendumAt the Gates Slaughter of the SoulAtheist ElementsAtmosphere Overcast!Atmosphere God Loves UglyAtreyu A Deathgrip On YesterdayAutopsy Severed SurvivalAutopsy Mental FuneralBADBADNOTGOOD BBNG2Balance and Composure Only BoundariesBaphomet (NY) The Dead Shall InheritBaron Von Luxxury The Last SeductionBarren Earth Curse of the Red RiverBeastie Boys Hello NastyBeastie Boys Hot Sauce Committee Part TwoBeheading Of A King Quasar: Preserving LegacyBetween the Buried and Me ColorsBetween the Buried and Me Colors_LiveBetween the Buried and Me The Great MisdirectBetween the Screams Our Last Days On EarthBeyond Creation The AuraWere you disappointed with Obscura's Omnivium? Is that modern tech death hole in your heart getting bigger and bigger? If so, Beyond Creation has written an album that is sure to fill up any and all voids. The Aura is a perfect example of modern death metal done right; from the vocals to the riffs to the guitar solos and even to the damn fretless bass solos. What really makes this work is the immaculate production. Not only can you hear the fretless bass whine in every song, but the levels are set in such a way so that you can simply hear everything very comfortably. And did I mention these guys are from Quebec? So yeah, it's possible that they know their shit when it comes to death metal...Big Boi Sir Lucious Left FootBig K.R.I.T. ReturnOf4evaBig K.R.I.T. 4Eva N A DayBilly Talent Billy TalentBilly Talent Billy Talent IIBilly Talent Dead SilenceBlack Rebel Motorcycle Club B.R.M.C.Blind Guardian Nightfall in Middle-EarthBlind Guardian Battalions of FearBlind Guardian Follow the BlindBlind Guardian Imaginations from the Other Sideblink-182 The Mark, Tom, and Travis ShowBloc Party A Weekend In The CityBloc Party IntimacyBloc Party Another Weekend In The CityBloc Party FourYEAR OF THE BLOCBloc Party Four MoreBolt Thrower Those Once LoyalBolt Thrower Realm of ChaosBolt Thrower The IVth CrusadeBoom Boom Satellites EmbraceBorn of Osiris The New ReignAlthough Born Of Osiris is an act that properly uses odd time signatures like any technical band, using the word "progressive" with a band that barely has songs over 3 minutes seems like a contradiction. The use of synths in metal nowadays is not uncommon and it's more than likely always going to be the usual sawtooth or string sound but this band actually uses other sounds (not noise) as the base of their synth lines and it works pretty damn well.Brand New The Devil and God Are Raging Inside MeBring Me The Horizon There Is A Hell, Believe Me I've Seen ItBring Me The Horizon SempiternalBroken Social Scene You Forgot It In PeopleBrothertiger Golden YearsBuckethead Decoding the Tomb of BansheebotBurial KindredBurial (NLD) Relinquished SoulsC-Lekktor Tendencias SuicidasC-Lekktor The Silence ProcessionCacophony Speed Metal SymphonyCacophony Go Off!Caliban The AwakeningCaliban I Am NemesisUnexpectedly (at least to me), I Am Nemesis is Caliban's most focused, heaviest, and cohesive album yet. You'll hardly find the predictable screamed verse-clean chorus song structure that seems to haunt modern metalcore bands these days. Instead, I Am Nemesis is chock full of atmosphere and emotion; more so than any other Caliban album.Camel The Snow GooseCamel MoonmadnessCancer Death Shall RiseCancer To The Gory EndCannibal Corpse VileCannibal Corpse BloodthirstCannibal Corpse Gallery of SuicideCannibal Corpse The Wretched SpawnCannibal Corpse Worm InfestedChemical Breath Fatal ExposureChevelle Hats Off to the BullOut of their six albums, Hats Off To The Bull is perhaps the only album I can listen to without skipping or deleting a track. So would that make this their best album? Maybe not to some, but that certainly makes it the one most quality controlled.Chimaira ChimairaChiodos IlluminaudioChrom ElectroscopeChronographs NauseaCiLiCe Deranged HeadtripCirca Survive JuturnaCirca Survive Blue Sky NoiseCirca Survive Violent WavesClubroot Solar FlaresClubroot ClubrootClubroot II - MMXClubroot III - MMXIICocteau Twins Heaven Or Las VegasCoheed and Cambria Year of the Black RainbowColdplay A Rush of Blood to the HeadCom Truise FairlightCommon BeCommon ResurrectionCompton's Most Wanted Music to DrivebyConstants PasifloraCovenant Modern RuinWhile Covenant don't change their literal "sound" on Modern Ruin (ie. if it ain't broke, don't fix it), they certainly improve in songwriting as the three piece creates more traditional sounding EBM/futurepop tunes which is exactly what they excel at. Crionic DifferentCTRL Loaded Weapons And Darkened DaysCTRL Make Things RightCunninLynguists SouthernundergroundCunninLynguists Dirty AcresCygnosiC A Deity In Pain RebornWhen I first read that CygnosiC's debut album was going to be re-released I immediately thought the idea was pointless. While this is very rare to happen to a harsh EBM album, these re-releases usually consist of the same material plus a couple of remixes. However, A Deity In Pain Reborn is a most welcome release from the Greek act. Because the original release was so damn solid, having it re-recorded, re-mixed, AND re-mastered just made Reborn sound so much better. Along with this in sound came newly recorded vocals which were a definite improvement over the vocals on the original album. They are identical to the vocals on CygnosiC's second album, meaning they are clear, less distorted, and certainly unique in the genre. And of course adding several remixes to the track list is a nice touch.Cynic Traced in AirCynic The Portal TapesDance Gavin Dance Whatever I Say Is Royal OceanDangerDoom The Mouse And The MaskDark Angel We Have ArrivedDark Time Sunshine ANXDavid Gilmour On An IslandDeas Vail Birds & CagesDeath The Sound of PerseveranceDeath Spiritual HealingDeath LeprosyDeath Scream Bloody GoreDeath Angel The Ultra-ViolenceDecapitated NihilityDecapitated Winds of CreationDeceased Luck of the CorpseDeep Purple BurnDeep Purple Come Taste the BandDeep Purple Deep PurpleDeep Purple Deep Purple In RockDeep Purple FireballDeep Purple Machine HeadDeep Purple StormbringerDeftones White PonyDeftones DeftonesDeftones Diamond EyesDeicide LegionDeicide Once Upon the CrossDeivos Demiurge Of The VoidDeivos Gospel of MaggotsDepeche Mode Playing The Angeli think it is safe to say that this album is the point where synthpop with a more rock-ish feel has taken flight and succeeded. DM has put out a great album that is still filled with wonderful lyrics and music that come from previous work, but they bring out a more rock feel to every single track. i don't have to warn listeners that this is not a happy album, as the lyrics and even the music create a dark atmosphere. But, this is exactly what one is expecting when they listen to DM.Depeche Mode Speak And SpellDepeche Mode Some Great RewardDepeche Mode Delta MachineDerek and the Dominos Layla And Other Assorted Love SongsDiamond Head Lightning To The NationsDiffuzion Body CodeEven though the female fronted ebm act Diffuzion remains in the shadows in terms of overall sound, there is a danceable like quality to a few of their songs in hopes that you don't curl up into a ball when listening to this album. Songs like Delicious display this quality while other songs like Our Wings are Gone and Falling bring the chills. Diffuzion does what Stray does, except slightly better. Digable Planets Reachin' (A New Refutation of Time and Space)Dinosaur Jr. I Bet on SkyDinosaur Jr. FarmDinosaur Jr. BeyondDisma Towards the MegalithDismember Like an Everflowing StreamDivinity The SingularityAs much as I loved their chaotic debut, Divinity straighten their ties and iron their shirts. In The Singularity, you are treated with a set of wonderful progressive and melodic death metal songs. You won't find any short tracks on this one like in their debut, but each song still grabs your attention with twisting time signatures, wonderful solos and riffs, and tons of synths in the background. Amazingly, this album was all produced/mastered/mixed by the band yet it sounds like it's been done in a professional studio. A true gem from an underrated band.DJ Muggs Vs GZA GrandmastersDJ Muggs Vs GZA Grandmasters: Remix AlbumDj Muggs Vs. Ill Bill Kill Devil HillsDoomtree DoomtreeDream Theater A Dramatic Turn of Eventsdredg Catch Without Armsdredg El CieloDungeon Elite [**] New World DisorderEcho Image CompuphonicCompuphonic is how synthpop should be done, as it is the perfect sound to describe the genre. A wonderful clean voice, tasty synth lines, plus that key ingredient of amazing songwriting make this an album not only enjoyable for listening, but also for getting those hips on the dance floor. For synthpop, it is normal to follow a standard song structure, but the important thing is creating variance between them by using different synth lines and choruses. I probably don't have to mention that Echo Image accomplishes this rather well. Favourite tracks: Fading, Need to be Proud, Good Intentions.Elder (USA-MA) Dead Roots StirringEligh & Amp Live Therapy at 3Emery I'm Only A ManEmery We Do What We WantLike the title says, they do what they fucking want. Similarly, I'll rate this what I want. But seriously, as much as I love my Emery this may be their least satisfying album to date. Most noticeably, it's in the vocal harmonies; you might notice that, well, there are barely any which is a shame because that's literally a signature of Emery. Vocal harmonies are replaced by harsh vocals (which may or may not be a problem for you) but with all of this aside, this is still Emery as clever and sharp as ever. The music has improved technically and there is more thought put into what the keys are doing in each song. On first impression I thought the album was perfectly fine for some other band's debut album but one could expect a little more when it comes to Emery. EDIT: Nevermind this shit is awesome.Empty Never Get To YouEnduser Even WeightEnforcer Death By FireEnslaved Axioma Ethica OdiniEnslaved VertebraeEpidemic Exit ParadiseEric Johnson TonesEric Johnson Venus IsleEric Johnson BloomErra AndromedaErra ImpulseEvidence Cats & DogsExciter ExciterExciter Long Live the LoudExhorder Slaughter in the VaticanExodus Bonded by BloodExodus Tempo of the DamnedExotic Animal Petting Zoo Tree of TonguesExtol The Blueprint DivesFACT In the Blink of an Eyehmmmm, so it looks as if my worst fears have come to life. sure, the album is NOT bad, but it lacks the freshness that their self titled had. Remember when you heard rock, synths, and technical playing all in one song? well, two out of the three are almost gone in The Blink of an Eye; this time around, rock is the only sound that prevails and it leaves the listener unsatisfied as if they just listened to a totally different (and average) band.Fake The Envy DisintegrateFall Out Boy From Under The Cork TreeFalling Up Captivaradio rock mixed in with a bunch of experimentation can go two ways: good or sour. No need to hold your nose, there is no sour here; Falling Up creates a great album filled with beautiful vocal harmonies and tons of new sounds you would never hear in any rock album. However, there are things that remain from classic Falling Up. If you were not a huge fan of the religious lyrics, now is no time to get your hopes up; God-filled lyrics are aplenty but the great thing is that they do not come off as being preachy or forceful. In previous releases, Falling Up embraced a nu-metal sound but on Captiva that entire sound has been ditched. Captiva is rooted directly in radio friendly rock but don't let that boring genre stop you from listening; Captiva aims high and scores high.Falling Up FangsSurely we all know that Falling Up will never return to numetal and in Fangs we are not surprised. In fact, this album sounds different even when compared to Captiva, the album before this. While Falling Up continue to create radio friendly rocks tunes just like from Captiva, the overall sound seems darker. However, this is partly because of different production that creates a much more moody atmosphere. Overall, the songs split up between up beat tracks and slow emotional ones. Standout tracks: Streams of Woe at Acheron; Magician Reversed; Goddess of the Dayspring, Am I; Swimming Toward Propellers.Feathers (US) If All Now HereFeral Dragged To The AltarForced Entry Uncertain FutureForeign Beggars Asylum SpeakersForeign Beggars Stray Point AgendaFranz Ferdinand You Could Have It So Much BetterFranz Ferdinand Tonight: Franz FerdinandFunebre Children of the ScornGarden of Shadows Oracle MoonGary Clark Jr. The Bright LightsGary Clark Jr. Blak and BluGeneral Monks Each Step Becomes ElevatedGhostface Killah FishscaleGhostface Killah More FishGhostface Killah Apollo KidsGhostface Killah Twelve Reasons to DieGifts From Enola Loyal Eyes Betrayed The MindGojira From Mars To SiriusGojira The Way of All FleshGojira L'Enfant SauvageGorguts Considered DeadGorod Process of a New DeclineGorod A Perfect AbsolutionGrave Back From The GraveGreenleaf Nest of VipersGZA Beneath the SurfaceHalf Dub Theory Acute CaseHands Like Houses Ground DwellerHard 2 Obtain Ism and BluesHard-Fi Stars Of CCTVHavok Point of No ReturnHe Is Legend I Am HollywoodHeart Dreamboat AnnieHeathen The Evolution of ChaosHeaven Shall Burn Whatever It May Take (Reissue)Heavenward Within These DreamsHelloween Keeper of the Seven Keys Part IHelstar A Distant ThunderHermitude HyperParadiseHidden Orchestra Night WalksHieroglyphics 3rd Eye VisionHieronymus Bosch Artificial EmotionsHieronymus Bosch The Human AbstractHocico A Call for DestructionHocico Cronicas Letales IHocico Cronicas Letales IIHocico Bite Me!Hooverphonic Blue Wonder Power MilkHour of Penance The Vile ConceptionHour of Penance ParadogmaHour of Penance SeditionHowling A Beast ConceivedHighly influenced by that fictional creature who has a hard-on for a full moon, the three piece death metal band Howling have made A Beast Conceived not only fast and nasty, but also thrashy, melodic, and definitely raw. The album really sounds like it was recorded on a low budget in the early 90's and that really adds to the charm of the finished product. One more thing...HOLY FUCK THE VOCALIST IS A WOMAN?I Am Abomination Let The Future Tell The TruthI, Omega Tale of the Complex CircuitIce Cube The PredatorIce-T O.G. Original GangsterIced Earth Burnt OfferingsIconcrash InkeroinenImmolation Hope and Horror Immolation Close to a World BelowImmolation ProvidenceIn Mourning MonolithIn Vain MantraIn Vain AEnigmaIncantation The Infernal StormIncantation Diabolical ConquestIncantation Onward to GolgothaIncantation Mortal Throne of NazareneInnerpartysystem InnerpartysystemInsomnium One for SorrowInterpol Fukd ID #3Inure The OfferingInvocator Through The Flesh To The SoulIris WrathDespite only two years between Wrath and their previous album, Awakening, Iris seems to have gone through such a big change in sound that you would think they'd have been inactive for at least ten years. Wrath takes everything from previous albums but then filters out all of the industrial element. Remember though, there was not much of that element to begin with (Iris is more on the synthpop side) so what is left on Wrath is a collection of very solid and very friendly synthpop songs. Another thing to mention is that this collection of songs is more on the rock side, meaning they resemble fellow bands like Mesh more than they do with, say, Echo Image. Regardless, Wrath finds that special balance between rock and synths to create some very very very catchy songs.Iris DisconnectIris BlacklightBlacklight demonstrates how Iris can easily move in and out of a more rockish territory compared to the usual synthpop we are more familiar with. This was initiated on their previous album, Wrath, and it proved successful. Iris can sound fantastic when it comes to blending guitars and synthpop together to create a soft yet sometimes aggressive sound and that also makes it very difficult to pick the best songs since each has unbelievably catchy choruses and other parts.Iron Maiden PowerslaveIron Maiden Iron MaidenIron Maiden The Number of the BeastIron Maiden Piece of MindIron Maiden KillersIron Maiden Somewhere in TimeIron Maiden Seventh Son of a Seventh SonIron Maiden Dance Of DeathJack Slater Blut Macht FreiA lot more death-y than their latest release, Slater combine all that we love from tech death: great vocals, twin guitar assault and bass that is loud enough to hear that familiar rattle. Leads are much more abundant than in their newer album, and they utilize nontraditional structure plus many of them use those good ol' whammy tricks that have not been used in death metal for quite some time. By the way, prepare for a saxophone solo in Narbe Part 3.Jack White BlunderbussJanus Nox AerisJapandroids Celebration RockJeru the Damaja The Sun Rises in the EastJimi Hendrix People, Hell, and AngelsJimmy Eat World FuturesJimmy Eat World Bleed AmericanJimmy Eat World ClarityJoe Bonamassa The Ballad of John HenryJoe Bonamassa Driving Towards The DaylightJoe Bonamassa You & MeJoe Bonamassa Had To Cry TodayJohn Coltrane Lush LifeJohn Mayall Blues Breakers with Eric ClaptonJohn Mayer Room for SquaresJohn Talabot FinJoy Division CloserJR and PH7 The StandardJudas Priest PainkillerJudas Priest Sad Wings of DestinyJudas Priest British SteelJudas Priest Ram It DownKashmere In The Hour Of ChaosKiller Mike R.A.P. MusicKimbra VowsKing Diamond Fatal PortraitKing Diamond AbigailKno Death Is SilentKreator Endless PainKreator Enemy of GodKreator Extreme AggressionKreator Flag Of HateKreator Violent RevolutionKRS-One Return Of The Boom BapKuedo SeverantKyuss ...And The Circus Leaves TownKyuss Blues for the Red SunLeather Nunn Take the NightLed Zeppelin Led ZeppelinLed Zeppelin Led Zeppelin IILed Zeppelin Led Zeppelin IVLed Zeppelin Houses of the HolyLed Zeppelin PresenceLetting Up Despite Great Faults UntogetherLife in Your Way Waking GiantsLimp Bizkit Chocolate Starfish...Linkin Park MeteoraLinkin Park Live In TexasLong Arm The BranchesLords of the Underground Here Come the LordsLupe Fiasco Food & LiquorM83 Saturdays=YouthM83 Before The Dawn Heals UsM9 Orion's StencilMalevolent Creation The Ten CommandmentsMan Without Country FoeManage (Live) In ProtestMantic Ritual ExecutionerMartyr Warp ZoneMartyr Hopeless hopesMassive Attack CollectedMasta Ace Take A Look AroundMasta Ace Sittin' on ChromeMastodon Blood MountainMastodon Crack the SkyeMastodon The HunterThe Hunter has a very heavy emphasis on melodic vocal hooks much more than you would expect from Mastodon. What results is a very enjoyable (and certainly catchy) album that still delivers the typical Mastodon instrumentals that you would know from Blood Mountain and Crack The Skye. If you don't like it, well, that's just the curl of the burl.Maximo Park A Certain TriggerMaximo Park Our Earthly PleasuresMaximo Park The National HealthMC Ren Kizz My Black AzzMegadeth EndgameMekong Delta IntersectionsMelody's Echo Chamber Melody's Echo ChamberMemphis May Fire The HollowMen Without Hats Love In the Age Of WarThey're the band known for that one hit wonder forever ago but hold up; it's the year 2012 and Men Without Hats' new album is actually really solid. While Love In The Age Of War may lack in variety to some, every single song is well written and catchy synthpop similar to what you'd hear in the 80's. Anyone who can get into a bunch of songs abundant with synths, drum machines, weird lyrics, and more hooks than all the Peter Pan movies put together should definitely check this out. Old dogs don't have to learn new tricks if they're still succeeding at their current ones.Mercyful Fate Don't Break the OathMercyless Abject OfferingsMercyless Coloured FuneralMeshuggah obZenMeshuggah NothingMeshuggah Catch ThirtythreeMeshuggah KolossMetallica MetallicaMethod Man TicalMethod Man Tical 2000: Judgement DayMethod Man 4:21... The Day AfterMew And the Glass Handed KitesMicall Parknsun First Second Time AroundMichael Jackson ThrillerMidnight Resistance RemoteMidnight Resistance The Mirror CageMiles Bonny Lumberjack SoulMiles Davis NefertitiMiles Davis Miles Smilesmind.in.a.box R.E.T.R.OMind.In.A.Box pays homage to the good ol' days of bleeps and bloops. But due to the sheer brilliance of Mind.In.A.Box as an artist, there is no way this could be annoying or bad, and listening to this album proves it. Right away you can tell there is a vintage mood in the air because of the opening instrumental. It consists of a very old style of synth repeating itself to create a the perfect mood to get you ready for the remainder of the album. Unfortuately, there are not too many vocals on the album which is shame considering how great Box's vocals are. However, in the songs that do have vocals you can hear how Stefan has adopted an almost opera style especially on the closing track Whatever Mattered. In conclusion, this is still the Mind.In.A.Box we love with the same mood, just a different sound.Mint Julep AdornMinus the Bear Planet of IceMinus the Bear OmniMinus the Bear Highly Refined PiratesMinus the Bear Infinity OverheadMoby 18Moby DestroyedMoby Everything is WrongModel Kaos Ghost MarketMonstrosity Imperial DoomMorbid Angel CovenantMorbid Saint Spectrum of DeathMorgue Eroded ThoughtsMortification Post Momentary AfflictionMotley Crue Dr. FeelgoodMotorhead Ace of SpadesMuse H.A.A.R.PMuse Hullabaloo [Live CD or DVD]Mutemath Reset EPMutemath ArmisticeNahemah A New ConstellationNahemah The Second PhilosophyNaive IlluminatisNeil Young Greatest HitsNeurotech Decipher Vol. 2Nevermore This Godless EndeavorNevermore Dead Heart In A Dead WorldNew Order Get ReadyNight Sins New GraveNine Inch Nails The FragileNine Inch Nails With TeethNine Inch Nails The Downward SpiralNirvana In UteroNirvana NevermindNocow Like ApartNocturnus ThresholdsNocturnus The KeyNWA Straight Outta ComptonNWA The Best of N.W.ANWA Niggaz4LifeObituary Slowly We RotObituary Cause of DeathObliveon From This Day ForwardOh, Sleeper Children of FireOpeth MorningriseOpeth OrchidOpeth My Arms, Your HearseOpeth Still LifeOpeth DeliveranceOpeth Ghost ReveriesOrganized Konfusion Stress: The Extinction AgendaOverkill The Years of DecayOverkill Under The InfluenceOzzy Osbourne Bark at the MoonPanic Lift Witness To Our CollapsePanic! At the Disco Vices & VirtuesMusically, Vices & Virtues brings flashbacks of glorious 80's pop; simple 4/4 drums, backing OH-OH-OH's (and other similar structured backing vocals) around every corner, and some of the freshest sounding synths and other sounds. Pair these with modern and bright production as well as Urie's (now matured) vocals and you have a very anthem-like album. Unfortunately, the clever and snappy wordplay found on Fever is missing...Paradox ElectrifyParadox Collision CoursePeriphery PeripheryProbably one of the most hyped up releases of the year so far, and Periphery's self titled is well deserving of it. I must admit that I was unimpressed with the opening tracks, particularly the first two; they consisted of the usual chugs and polyrhythms while the vocals were totally average (ie. they were not demonstrating their potential). However, once I entered the middle portion of the album, I knew I was listening to some very special songs. Not only was there more variation in the music (leads and solos) but the vocalist really started to show his range, holding out long notes full of passion and sizzle. As if three guitarists wasn't enough, the album is packed with atmospheric pads in the background plus a few bits of drum programming, which really bring out that Animals as Leaders type of vibe. Another highlight of the album is the wonderful production, although it should be no surprise considering we have veteran musician Bulb in the front seat.Periphery IcarusPestilence Testimony of the AncientsPestilence Malleus MaleficarumPink Floyd The Dark Side of the MoonPink Floyd MeddlePolluted Inheritance EcocidePolyenso Birth.EaterPride and Fall Elements of SilencePsyborg Corp. The Mechanical RenaissanceEverything you could ever want in a modern industrial act is right here in The Mechanical Renaissance. This long awaited album has actually built up well deserved hype for months and it has delivered exactly what industrial fans have expected if not more. A unique harsh voice backed by danceable beats and synths create songs that are equally catchy and brutal.Public Enemy Yo! Bum Rush the ShowPulp Different ClassQueens of the Stone Age Era VulgarisQueens of the Stone Age ...Like ClockworkQueens Of The Stone Age are truly kings of the rock age. Queensryche Operation: MindcrimeRabbit Junk REframeThe only experience I've had with JP Anderson is The Shizit, and his album is hell on disc, fueled with rage and no other emotion. In Rabbit Junk, there is still a lot of fury to be shared, but imagine that mixed in with almost a pop-like element. As disastrous as it sounds on paper, REframe is really a killer album; Anderson brings the rage while his leading lady handles the "yeah yeah yeah!" So as raw as this album sounds (yes, even literally) REframe is a very fresh sounding album, unlike anything you could ever listen to. Highly recommended for those into The Shizit, Mindless Self Indulgence, or any other similar industrial rock/metal acts.Rabbit Junk Project NonagonRadiohead In RainbowsRadiohead The BendsRadiohead Pablo HoneyRadiohead Kid ARaekwon Shaolin vs. Wu-TangRage Against the Machine The Battle of Los AngelesRainbow Ritchie Blackmore's RainbowRainbow RisingRainbow Long Live Rock & RollRaised By Swans Codes and Secret LongingsRammstein Reise, ReiseRammstein Völkerballa live cd/dvd can be good in two ways. one is that the band changes things up in their songs, either improvising their lines or adding jams between songs. Another way is that the band makes minimal changes to their songs but sounds amazing live, either as good as on disc or better. In Volkerball, Rammstein does the latter.Ras Kass Soul on IceRed Hot Chili Peppers CalifornicationRed Hot Chili Peppers One Hot MinuteRed Hot Chili Peppers Stadium ArcadiumRevocation Chaos of FormsRiot ThundersteelRival Sons Pressure And TimeRiverside Anno Domini High DefinitionIf you look back at previous Riverside albums, each of them contains two sounds: laid back, quiet parts and the furious rock stuff. In fact, there were some songs that were devoted to just one of these sounds. On Anno Domini High Definition, it seems as though blood is boiling; most of the album is fast and furious with even some very powerful screaming coming from the vocalist. There are still numerous quiet parts in this collection of songs, but the entire album gives off a very pissed off feeling, and suits Riverside very well.Riverside Voices In My HeadRobben Ford SunriseRobben Ford The Inside StoryRobben Ford TruthRobben Ford Bringing It Back HomeFord truly does bring it back home on his latest release. The entire album is strangely cohesive and has a very prominent "live" vibe, which not only adds to the overall enjoyment of the album but also makes you wonder if the songs were recorded in chronological order in a live setting. You also get a very laid back feeling when listening to the album which isn't a bad thing at all, considering Robben shines best when performing at a slow or mid paced tempo along with a bunch of other instruments, whether they be a Rhodes pianist or a trumpeter.Robin Trower In City DreamsRush Clockwork AngelsRx Bandits ProgressSacred Oath A Crystal VisionSacred Warrior ObsessionsSacred Warrior Wicked GenerationSacred Warrior RebellionSadistik Flowers For My FatherSaosin SaosinSarin Sunday The Path Before UsSarin Sunday The Lonely HikeSatellite A Street Between Sunrise And SunsetScarface The DiaryScientifik CriminalScorpions Animal MagnetismScorpions Virgin KillerScorpions LovedriveSenses Fail RenacerSights and Sounds MonolithSikTh How May I Help You?Silversun Pickups CarnavasSilversun Pickups SeasickSin Cos Tan Sin Cos TanSinister HateSkrein The Eat UpSlayer Reign in BloodSlayer South of HeavenSlayer Seasons in the AbyssSlayer Haunting the ChapelSleep Sleep's Holy MountainSlo Burn Amusing The AmazingSnoop Dogg DoggystyleSodom In War And PiecesSodom M-16Solace (CAN) Call & ResponseSolar Fake FrontiersSolitary Experiments CompendiumSolitary Experiments has always been one of the top bands when it comes to futurepop with elements of EBM. However, all of their work seems to have one certain (and unexplainable) characteristic missing. That said, this album is something I have never seen in an industrial/futurepop remix album. Not only are songs remixed and remastered, but many of them contain guest vocals from well know industrial acts such as X-Fusion and Agonoize. They add so much more to the original tracks and so that they do not only live up to the originals, but they are given new life so that they appeal not only to the older listeners but even to new listeners looking for modern sound and production.Solitary Experiments Compendium 2It's odd to see that although Compendium 2 is a series of b-sides and rarities, most of them are way better than some of the songs that have appeared on actual Solitary Experiments LP's. This fact makes Compendium 2 an album in itself, as opposed to just a compilation. Definitely one of the strongest futurepop albums released in 2010.Speak Of The Devil Speak Of The DevilSpice 1 187 He WroteSpice 1 Spice 1Spock's Beard The Kindness Of StrangersSpock's Beard The LightSpock's Beard VSteel Panther Balls OutStolas Living CreaturesStumbleine All For Your SmileStumbleine Drifting YouthStumbleine SpiderwebbedSubmotion Orchestra FragmentsSubmotion Orchestra Finest Hour - The RemixesSuicide Commando Implements of HellHe killed her with a hammer, in her sleep. Cut off her head and hands. And then put her vocal chords in the garbage disposal and threw darts at her severed head.... ...Severed head. Cannibalizing...raping her headless body... Sungrazer MiradorSwarms I Gave You EverythingSwarms NostalgiaSweet Trip You Will Never Know WhySwollen Members Bad DreamsSylosis Conclusion of an AgeAt first, I thought this would be typical All That Remains/As I Lay Dying metalcore meaning that I would be listening to something I'd pretty much heard before. However, this band brings in elements from the past and fuses them with metalcore to create genuine thrash that is almost invisible in modern metal acts today. Solos/leads are executed at just the right moments and they exhibit the strong talent that the guitarists possess. The drummer also has his chops high and with aid from the bassist, there is an unbreakable rhythm as the vocalist unleashes mostly political inspired lyrics.Sylosis The Supreme OppressorSylosis Edge of the EarthDespite a new vocalist, Sylosis do nothing new on Edge Of The Earth and while that may sound like an insult at first, what could they possible change from their spectacular brand of modern thrash metal? Right from their debut EP Casting Shadows, Sylosis have brought their A-game every single time with the riffs, the blasts, the growls, and the solos. Edge Of The Earth is simply another no frills thrash record that is, well, pardon my French, heavy as fuck.Sylosis MonolithSylvan SceneriesSyrian De-SynchronizedSystem Syn EndSystemshock Virus-ElectroJust looking at Systemshock gives you an idea of what they're music is going to sound like. I walked into Virus-Electro a bit skeptical because of this, but what I got back simply blew my mind. Not only is Virus-Electro amazing, but it is also a possible contender for album of the year! There is a perfect equilibrium between industrial and rock (although more bias for industrial :D) and it just sounds so natural. The vocals are fantastic and original, very little screaming but plenty of distortion to make an aggro type of sound. Synth lines are excellent and do a brilliant job of driving each song while the guitars chug out the rhythm chords and sometimes even come out for a simple solo or two. I a very proud of these newcomers Systemshock for releasing such a brutal yet fun industrial album for the year 2010.Tears For Fears The HurtingTestament Practice What You PreachTestament Dark Roots Of EarthTestament The Formation Of DamnationTestament Souls of BlackTha Alkaholiks 21 & OverTha Dogg Pound Dogg FoodThe Allman Brothers Band At Fillmore East (Deluxe Edition)The Allman Brothers Band At Fillmore EastThe Angelic Process Weighing Souls with SandThe Arusha Accord The Echo VersesSo you miss Sikth, huh? you wish you had them back? Maybe add a couple more hardcore influences like Architects in the mix? Look no further than The Arusha Accord. These men are able to create the most ferocious music yet still remain nimble. You ain't gonna find no 4/4 timing in this stuff, so if you've just come back from listening to the radio, please put on a helmet and remain in your seat.The Beatles Abbey RoadThe Beatles Please Please MeThe Beatles With The BeatlesThe Beatles A Hard Day's NightThe Beatles Rubber SoulThe Beatles The BeatlesThe Black Dahlia Murder RitualThe Black Keys Magic PotionThe Black Maria A Shared History in TragedyThe Chameleons Script of the BridgeThe Chasm Deathcult For Eternity; The TriumphThe Chemical Brothers Singles 93-03The Cinematic Orchestra HorizonThe Cinematic Orchestra Every DayThe Cinematics A Strange EducationThe Comsat Angels Sleep No MoreThe Contortionist ExoplanetThe Crown Deathrace KingThe Crystal Method VegasThe Crystal Method TweekendThe Cure DisintegrationThe Devil Wears Prada ZombieThe Devil Wears Prada Dead ThroneThe Devin Townsend Band Accelerated EvolutionThe Echoing Green In Scarlet And VileThe Epilogues CinematicsThe Faceless Planetary DualityThe Futureheads The FutureheadsThe Ghost Inside ReturnersThe Hives Veni Vidi ViciousThe Hives Tyrannosaurus HivesThe Hives Barely LegalThe Intersphere Hold On, Liberty!The Jimi Hendrix Experience Axis: Bold As LoveThe Jimi Hendrix Experience Are You Experienced?The Joy Formidable The Big RoarThe Joy Formidable A Balloon Called MoaningThe Killers Hot FussThe Kymatica 2011 EPThe Machine Calmer Than You AreThe Mars Volta De-Loused in the ComatoriumThe Mars Volta Frances the MuteThe New Division ShadowsThe New Division The RookieThe Organ Grab That GunThe Paul Butterfield Blues Band Paul Butterfield Blues BandThe Presets PacificaThe Prodigy The Fat of the LandThe Raconteurs Consolers of the LonelyThe Shizit The ShizitThe Smiths The SmithsThe Smiths Meat is MurderThe Smiths The Queen Is DeadThe Strokes AnglesThe Subways Young For EternityThe White Stripes Icky ThumpThe White Stripes ElephantThe Wonder Years The Greatest GenerationThem Crooked Vultures Them Crooked VulturesTherion Beyond SanctorumThin Lizzy Black Rose: A Rock LegendThin Lizzy Vagabonds of the Western WorldTHYX The Way HomeI sure as hell ain't complaining why this isn't that much different than Stefan's other project Mind.In.A.Box. One comment I do have is how more of the songs on The Way Home follow a more standard song structure than any of the songs on a Box album. You will hear distinct parts in each song meant to represent the verse, chorus, etc. which leads me to believe that while the instrumentation remains the same as in Mind.In.A.Box, THYX is overall a bit less experimental, a bit less progressive, but much more club friendly. You will still hear epic buildups in several songs in typical Box fashion, but nearly every song has a driving pulse serving another purpose.Tigers Jaw Spirit DesireTigers Jaw Two WorldsTorche HarmonicraftToxik Think ThisTrivium AscendancyTrivium ShogunUFO Force ItUFO PhenomenonUFO No Heavy PettingUFO Lights OutUFO ObsessionUlrich Schnauss A Strangely Isolated PlaceUltramagnetic MCs Critical BeatdownUnderoath Lost in the Sound of SeparationUnderoath Define the Great LineUnderoath DisambiguationUnida Coping With The Urban CoyoteVader Welcome To The Morbid ReichValkyria ValkyriaVan Halen Fair WarningVeil of Maya The Common Man's CollapseVeil of Maya EclipseVektor Outer IsolationVektor Black FutureVicious Rumors Digital DictatorVicious Rumors Vicious RumorsViolator Chemical AssaultVNV Nation EmpiresVNV Nation FutureperfectVNV Nation AutomaticVoivod Killing TechnologyVomitory Raped In Their Own BloodWalking With Strangers HardshipsWashed Out Within and WithoutWaves Under Water All Of Your LightWayd BarriersWeezer The Blue AlbumWeezer Blue Album Deluxe EditionWhat's Left Of Her PerceptionsWhiplash Power and PainWhirr DistressorWhite Arms Of Athena AstrodramaWoe Of Tyrants Kingdom of MightVery solid release from a young death metal act. Every single lick and solo has gotta be some of the tastiest sounding passages I've heard in quite some time. Still a shred galore and sure to cause your neck to snap due to all the headbangable parts, but the melodic aspect just soars miles ahead and really grabs you attention.Woe Of Tyrants ThrenodyWot Gorilla? KebnekaiseWretched Beyond The GateWu-Block Wu-BlockWu-Tang Clan Wu-Tang ForeverWu-Tang Clan The WWynardtage Sleepless In HeavenX-Ecutioners Built From ScratchThe X- Men do one thing on this album, and that is scratch. Better yet, they do it brilliantly, not over doing it on any song so that it just sounds like noise. However, we know that there are a number of people who do not enjoy instrumentals for so long and prefer singing to go along with them, regardless of genre. That prayer is answered in this album, as the The X-Men invite several guests, most low brow, to the mic stand. My only complaint of this album is the numerous skits, most about 1 minute or so, that are disguised as tracks. They may appear comical at first but then they grow annoying and that start to look immature compared to the actual songs. Yppah Eighty One[:SITD:] Icon:KoruIcon:Koru is harsher, faster, and just plain damn heavier than what you may be expecting. That's not to say this is a totally different [:SITD:] you'll be hearing, because all of those typical things they do in their music are still there but let's be frank: [:SITD:] was always a little more brutal than their contemporaries anyway. Let's just say [:SITD:] has been spending a lot more time at the gym and that Icon:Koru is what they see in the mirror every time they flex.3.5 great30 Seconds to Mars A Beautiful Lie3rd Bass The Cactus Album9th Wonder The Wonder YearsA Hope For Home The Everlasting ManRight after listening, it sounds like A Hope For Home has put a large amount of effort into getting a message across to the listener. In such a class of music, long song lengths are a plus but only when used sparingly. But on The Everlasting Man, we are treated with a relatively high number of longer songs, all with a progressive structure. Also, it is easy to hear the large influence this band has from Underoath. With twin guitars, twin vocals, and keyboards, Hope's music comes off as almost a carbon copy of Underoath except it does not execute as smoothly. Lyrics consist of overly religious lyrics which may turn off the listener. As a result, we have a young band that is just trying way too hard. A Lot Like Birds Plan BA Love Like Pi The Atlas And The OysterA Perfect Circle Mer de NomsAbandon All Ships GeevingABBA ABBA GoldAbove The Law Black Mafia LifeAbove The Law Livin' Like HustlersAccessory TitanAeternam Disciples of the UnseenAfter Me, The Flood RemembranceAfter the Burial Rareformi would say that the only thing that bothers me about this album is the mixing; the bass drum is incredibly over powering and actually hurts your ears at times when wearing headphones at high volume. but speaking about the actual album content; yes, nothing new is attempted here but what this band does, they do it very well. Leads are incredibly melodic and go so nicely with the aggressive chug chug happening in the background. After the Burial Rareform (Re-release)As strange as it may seem, we finally have production value that lives up to the value of the band with this re-release plus a new and capable vocalist. On the outside, this may seem like a young Meshuggah wannabe, with all the repetition of poly-rhythmic chugging. However, what really brings this album to life are the guitar leads. All of them have this uplifting sound to them to balance out the harshness coming from the rhythm section. It really helps to create an original album in a sea of stale.After the Burial In DreamsAfter the Burial correct all the flaws that were present in their previous album. Ranging from the lack of a definite song structure to just too much chugging and not enough variation. The presence of clean vocals is a nice touch, as they appear sparsely throughout the album, and they don't take away from any aggression that the band is trying to put out. Each of the 8 songs on In Dreams has a formula to follow, and it works in such a way that the listener doesn't get lost in the song. My only issue with the album is its length; with only 8 songs, it wouldn't have killed the band to maybe add two more songs to the mix instead of leaving listeners wanting more. I mean, they DID have 2 years to write this.Aktive.Hate In TerroremIn Terrorem might be your typical aggrotech album, but it still succeeds in delivering catchy and brutal songs. There is a particularly heavy use of guitars on this album which is a nice touch, yet they still remain in the background simply chugging rhythm chords. The definite highlight of the album is the track Mixed Feelings as it has an unbelievably catchy chorus that has CLEAN VOCALS. YES. CLEAN FUCKING VOCALS. This is not only the best song on the album but certainly one of my favourite tracks of the year.Alarum Fluid MotionAliases Safer Than RealityAlice in Chains FaceliftAlice in Chains Jar of FliesAll That Remains The Fall of IdealsAlphaville Forever YoungAmia Venera Landscape Amia Venera LandscapeAnacrusis Suffering HourAnacrusis ReasonAnamanaguchi Endless FantasyAnberlin Never Take Friendship PersonalAnberlin Dark Is The Way, Light Is A PlaceAngels & Agony AvatarAngels & Agony EternityAngels On Acid Blood Sweat and TearsWhat really makes Blood Sweat and Tears stand out from the rest of the pack is the inclusion of a psytrance element in the music. On paper, this sounds like a typical feature in today's ebm and aggrotech but surprisingly it is a very rare thing to hear. Fortunately, Angels On Acid executes it well which further strengthens their more abundant use of beats, arpeggios, and harsh vocals. The album does not appear to be very long, but it is made longer with the addition of five remixes of songs alreaady existing on the disc. Luckily they do not add any faults to the album as they are all fairly good songs, yet remain as their own instead of sounding too much like the original mixes.Animations AnimationsAnimations is one of those neo-prog instrumental bands that fuses progressive metal and jazz into a very nice listen. Right off the bat, you know there'll be a ton of wank, but at the same time there is emotion flowing through each song. The tracks range from 4 minutes all the way to 18 minutes, but each has its own mood so that the listener can tell which song is which and so that they do not get bored. Every band member is infinitely skilled on their respective instrument which is a must for a band like this, but they also know the lesson of when enough is enough.Annihilator AnnihilatorAnthrax Among The LivingApoptygma Berzerk Apbl2000Apoptygma Berzerk Welcome To EarthApoptygma Berzerk HarmonizerApoptygma Berzerk You and Me Against the WorldApop finally do what many synthpop try and fail to do and that is to create a synthrock album that is both catchy and worth hearing. Tracks like Cambodia and Back on Track are just screaming to be sung a long to and with the entire album being so upbeat, it's hard not to let that voice of yours shine. But don't think this album suffers from ADHD because there are couple slow tunes in the mix that serve a purpose and are not just filler.Apoptygma Berzerk 7Arcade Fire FuneralArchitects Hollow CrownArchitects NightmaresArctic Monkeys BrianstormArt vs. Science The ExperimentAs I Lay Dying An Ocean Between UsAshbury Heights Three Cheers For The NewlydeadsAs much a synthpop album as one can want. The duo of Ashbury Heights utilizes only synthesizers to create an extremely catchy album that one can either dance along to or sing along to (or both if he/she is in a gutsy mood). Luckily, we also hear both male and female vocals in a few of the tracks which is always a joy when it comes to synthpop like this. Top tracks include Derrick Is A Strange Machine, Christ, and Eternity At An End. Asphyx On The Wings of InfernoAsphyx DeathhammerAsphyxia Sense Of DecayAssemblage 23 DefianceAssemblage 23 ContemptAssemblage 23 DocumentThis EP consists of several remixes of one of the very first Assemblage 23 songs plus another b-side. What really makes this remix album amazing is the variety of different paths that each remix takes. A major problem with an album like this is that it may get boring because of a single song being remixed over and over again. Or simply, the remixes are terrible. However, Document is literally re-shaped in every single remix. Standouts include the the Das Ich, Forma Tadre, and Ultimate-Gloom-Mix B takes.At the Drive-In In/Casino/OutAtheist JupiterAtoma SkylightAugust Burns Red Thrill SeekerAugust Burns Red LevelerAvenged Sevenfold City of EvilAZ Doe or DieAZ Pieces of a ManAzure Ray As Above So BelowB.B. King One Kind FavorBabylonia Later TonightBeach House BloomBeastie Boys Licensed To IllBeastie Boys Ill CommunicationBeastie Boys Paul's BoutiqueBecoming the Archetype DichotomyBecoming the Archetype Celestial CompletionBenediction Subconscious TerrorBetween the Buried and Me AlaskaBig K.R.I.T. K.R.I.T Wuz HereBig K.R.I.T. Live From The UndergroundBig L The Big PictureBig L 139 & LenoxBig Pun Capital PunishmentBlack Sabbath Master of RealityBlack Sabbath ParanoidBlack Star Black StarBlaqk Audio CexCellsBlessed Curse Blessed CurseBlind Guardian A Night at the OperaBlind Guardian Tales from the Twilight WorldBlind Guardian Somewhere Far Beyondblink-182 Enema of the StateBloc Party Silent Alarm RemixedBloc Party Intimacy RemixedBlood Stain Child EpsilonBloodhound Gang Hefty FineBloodhound Gang Hooray For BoobiesBlotted Science The Machinations Of DementiaBlotted Science The Animation of EntomologyBlue Foundation Life Of A GhostBlue Stahli Blue StahliIt's funny because even though this is produced by Klayton (the man behind Celldweller), Blue Stahli is better than anything he's put out since Celldweller's debut album. Yes, Blue Stahli is literally a clone of that smooth, polished industrial rock sound that Celldweller helped bring up, but there are times when he really does sound like Maynard James Keenan which add a bit of freshness to the overall sound.Bolt Thrower ...For VictoryBolt Thrower In Battle There Is No LawBoom Boom Satellites Out LoudBoom Boom Satellites OnBoris New AlbumBox Car Racer Box Car RacerBoy Kill Boy CivilianBoys Night Out Make Yourself SickBraid/Balance and Composure SplitBrand Nubian Everything Is EverythingBring Me The Horizon Suicide SeasonBroadcast the Nightmare Twenty TwelveUh oh, not another young band who thinks their the most technical and ferocious metalcore band out there...Yes, these were my initial thoughts but as soon as I started to listen, I realized these guys were pretty damn technical and ferocious. Yet, they remain relaxed in their songwriting; you won't find any wank fests on any song, as the licks and sweeps are scattered out nicely throughout the entire album. Lots of tasteful chug balances it all out as well. The vocals are on the higher side, so they go very well with the anger inside the music. And as a bonus, amazing production helps this album soar among the rest. This band definitely shows promise.Broken Note Terminal StaticBurial Street HaloBurial Truant/Rough SleeperBury Your Dead Beauty and the BreakdownCaliban Say Hello to TragedyCannibal Corpse Tomb of the MutilatedCannibal Corpse Gore ObsessedCannibal Corpse KillCannibal Corpse Hammer Smashed FaceCanvas Solaris Cortical Tectonics Canvas Solaris Penumbra DiffuseCanvas Solaris The Atomized DreamCarbon Based Lifeforms Hydroponic GardenCarbon Based Lifeforms World of SleepersCarnage Dark RecollectionsCasual Fear ItselfCelldweller CelldwellerCelldweller The Complete Cellout Vol. 01Sure, it's simple to just say Klayton's remixes on The Complete Cellout Vol. 1 are enjoyable. However, any listener who's been following the man since his early days, or even a casual listener (I mean, who hasn't heard Switchback yet?), will note that the change in his musical styles are nearly parallel to what's popular in clubs and other electronic music sources. The important thing to note is Klayton's ability to still stay in that industrial rock niche, helping older listeners to still enjoy his new material yet bring on new listeners as well. But even if you still can't dig any of Klayton's newer material, you can at least respect the man's musical ability to change with the time.Cemetary An Evil Shade of GreyCenturies Apart MalachiCesium_137 Intelligent DesignCesium_137 Proof Of LifeCesium_137 IdentityCesium_137 are blessed (or perhaps even cursed) with the gift of remaining consistent throughout every single album they write. But even though they stick to standard structured futurepop, they still seem to create an album with songs that sound different that a previous album. Identity is the album to prove this; with amazing tracks like Embers, Dither, and Firewalker the album remains to be something you could listen to over and over without getting confused or bored. Chevelle Wonder What's NextChildren of Bodom Are You Dead Yet?Chimaira ResurrectionCilvaringz ICirca Survive On Letting GoCirca Survive AppendageCircle Of Contempt Artifacts In MotionClass Actress RapprocherCliff Martinez DriveCloudkicker The DiscoveryWhen it comes to instrumental music, the artist usually needs to work harder to cut through than if there was a vocalist. Cloudkicker does just that despite using any leads or solos, which is quite unbelievable. Chord progressions are really what the listener has to rely on to enjoy a song and luckily most of them are just perfect. The use of background noise and a few effects such as delay enhance the listening experience as well.Cloudkicker The Map Is Not The TerritoryCloudkicker PortmanteauCloudkicker BeaconsClubroot Remixes Volume 1Clubroot SummonsCoheed and Cambria From Fear Through the Eyes of MadnessCoheed and Cambria The Afterman: AscensionCoheed and Cambria The Afterman: DescensionCommon Like Water for ChocolateCommon One Day It'll All Make SenseConflicted Social DisorderContinuo Renacer Continuo RenacerCoprofago GenesisCorelia NostalgiaCounterparts ProphetsA young metalcore band that reminds us all of old Misery Signals. While the songs are much shorter, they still contain clean breaks, mathy chug riffs, and gruff yet heartfelt vocals. Covenant Northern LightCovenant SkyshaperCrazy Town DarkhorseCrazy Town step it up with a more serious approach to song writing. Most of the tracks are still nothing special, but it all depends on the listener. There are still the familiar "fuck my ex" tunes such as Waste of My Time but with solid rock hits like Decorated or Drowning this album really has potential to connect with angst ridden teens or maybe just us regular folk. Cream Disraeli GearsCrosses EP IICulture Kultur RebornAs much of a futurepop record as one can get. However, it is still possible that the love for many of the tracks may die out. In other words, they will start to become bland and lose their catch. But depending on the listener, there are still hooks, arps, beats and a voice more than capable of delivering the goods. Standout track is definitely Wonder.CunninLynguists Strange Journey Volume TwoCunninLynguists Strange Journey Volume OneCut Copy In Ghost ColoursCyanotic MedPack Vol. 1CygnosiC A Deity In PainCygnosiC Fire And ForgetCyrus Malachi The Isis PapersD.I.T.C. D.I.T.C.Da Lench Mob Guerillas In Tha MistDaath The HinderersA true American metal band with two very knowledgeable guitarists might hint that this is an amazing album. However, this is where assumptions might not be so accurate. Many of the songs follow the same structure resulting in difficulty to figure out which song is which. The only real excitement the listener might get are from the leads, which follow very irregular scales despite what the background chords may be. Fortunately, this album does show a lot of promise for Daath.Daath The ConcealersPure metal is what these guys put out; crushing and fast, Daath never gives the listener a chance to breath, except for a few soft parts (those are only like 5 seconds long though). However, don't think this to be some mindless headbanger's album as there are a ton of grooves to nod your head at plus lyrics that truly make you think. My only issue with this album is that there is still too much potential that has not been reached. The two guitarists in this band are ridiculous, but they do not fully show off their skills which I know they possess. Daath DaathDaft Punk Tron: LegacyDaft Punk HomeworkDaft Punk DiscoveryDaft Punk Tron Legacy: ReconfiguredPerhaps this soundtrack has been reconfigured so much that you forget it's just a soundtrack? This remix album aims to get Tron on the dancefloor and it certainly succeeds. Anyone who found the original soundtrack to have a few highlights but nothing more should definitely give this a spin. It is unfortunate that not every track on the original was remixed, but each remix is quite unique so that you won't really mind if there are two remixes of End of the Line, etc.Damn the Machine Damn the MachineDamnation Rebel SoulsDark Angel Leave ScarsDark Time Sunshine VesselDead Letter Circus This Is The WarningDeath Cab for Cutie TransatlanticismDeath From Above 1979 You're a Woman, I'm a Machinei guess it can't be too much of a surprise when many of the tracks on an electropunk album are very short. however, the band retains fury and groove in such a way, that a listener can dance to one track and suddenly jump up and down to the next one. considering this band only has two members, it is easy to say that the two must be very talented which i think, is true. if only there was more length to the album and the fusion of moods was more fluid.DeathevokatioN The Chalice Of AgesDeathrow Riders of DoomDecapitated The NegationDeep Purple Shades of Deep PurpleDeep Purple The Book of TaliesynDeep Purple Who Do We Think We Are!Deftones Koi No YokanDeicide DeicideDemented Ted Promises ImpureDemigod Shadow MechanicsDepeche Mode UltraDepeche Mode Sounds Of The UniverseDepeche Mode A Broken FrameDepeche Mode ExciterDepeche Mode step into the modern world with Exciter. Every song has a smooth, sensual, R&B vibe accompanied by the fantastic vocals of Gahan and Gore. Destroid Silent WorldDestruction Thrash AnthemsDestruction Spiritual GenocideDestruction Infernal OverkillDevin Townsend Ocean Machine: BiomechDevin Townsend InfinityDiffuzion Winter CitiesDigitalism PogoDigitalism BlitzDio Holy DiverDio The Last in LineDisembarkation Rancorous ObservationDiverse For All It's WorthDJ Muggs and Planet Asia Pain LanguageDoomtree No KingsDormant Ordeal It Rains, It PoursDr. Dre 2001Drained Scorn Release The HateIt's amazing how Drained Scorn almost sits in the middle when it comes to focusing on thrashy aggression or ditching it all and writing with slow groove. Release The Hate has songs that rely on either mood and some very special ones that have both. While these latter ones are not the standout tracks, they are still effective in getting your rear end to the dance floor or tempting you to just sit in silent darkness.Drake Take CareDream Theater Images and WordsDream Theater Train of ThoughtEarl Sweatshirt EARLEazy-E Eazy-Duz-ItEdge Of Dawn Enjoy The FallEdge of Sanity The Spectral SorrowsEiffel 65 EuropopEleven Tigers Clouds Are MountainsElitist CavesElitist EarthSolid and groovy metalcore, much like Elitist's Caves EP. You get the same single note poly-rhythmic lines while a melodic lick plays over top just as you would expect any similar band to do, but Elitist excel at it much more than their peers (note choice, phrasing, tone, etc.). My only true problem with this is the addition of three instrumental versions of the same tracks appearing on this EP. I don't see why anyone would bother listening to them if the version with vocals is just a few track-skips away.Elitist Reshape ReasonYes, the drums sound like crap and sure, you could even argue that all the songs sound the same on this thing. However, for those really into that relatively new brand of metalcore (you know, the one dubbed as progressive, with all the melodic wank and djenty rhythms?), Reshape Reason will certainly be a treat. Elysian Wires of CreationEmarosa This is Your Way OutEminem The Marshall Mathers LPEndanger EternalizerEnergetic Krusher Path to OblivionEnshine OriginEnslaved RuunEntombed ClandestineEntombed Left Hand PathEpidemic DecameronEPMD Strictly BusinessEscape With Romeo HistoryAs this was my first and only listen of Escape With Romeo, I thought this greatest hits compilation would be the most suitable way to judge the band. As soon as I got through the album, I was incredibly confused about what to label this band. Synthpop? Rock? Alternative? But with more listening, the label started to become meaningless and I realized just how good Escape With Romeo was. Poetic and thought provoking lyrics are the true stand out on History, especially on a track like The Godz Look Down On Us. Escape With Romeo SamsaraExhorder The LawExivious ExiviousExodus Fabulous DisasterExodus Shovel Headed Kill MachineExotic Animal Petting Zoo I Have Made My Bed in DarknessFacing New York Get HotFail Emotions TransfornationFail Emotions Speed Of LightFall Out Boy Infinity On HighFalling Up Your Sparkling Death ComethFalling Up Dawn EscapesFalling Up Exit LightsFallujah The Harvest WombsFallujah NomadicFallujah takes a huge step forward on Nomadic and the execution is brilliant, aside from some questionable drum production. My only issue is that out of the three tracks on this EP, "Silent" is pretty much skip-worthy ambient nonsense. I don't think it would have killed the band to add another "real" song to the track list. Of the two remaining songs, there are a ton of influences on them from all genres of metal. As long as Fallujah remain on this path, their next LP is sure to get them some well deserved attention.Fates Warning The Spectre WithinFear, and Loathing in Las Vegas All That We Have NowAll That We Have Now is another testament to how only the Japanese can make trancecore enjoyable. Take this album and hell, the whole genre seriously and you're going to have a bad time. Fischerspooner OdysseyFliptrix Force Fed ImageryFlourishing The Sum of All FossilsFluke PuppyFoo Fighters Wasting LightFor The Fallen Dreams ChangesI suppose you could call this a poor man's Misery Signals? But since that may be offensive, Misery Signals Jr. will do. Unlike many of the Rise albums today, Changes stands out in a heavier, technical, and more melodic sense. Not that there's autotuned clean vocals or anything, but the melodic licks escaping from the guitars create a perfect balance to the gruff vocals and chugging chords.For The Fallen Dreams RelentlessForbidden Forbidden EvilForced Entry As Above, So BelowForeign Beggars United Colours Of BeggattronForeign Beggars Bukkake Ski TripFractal Gates Beyond The SelfFreakangel The Faults Of HumanityFreakangel Let It All EndFriend For A Foe Source of IsolationFrom Exile Just Like You ImaginedFront Line Assembly ImplodeFXZERO SkyholmDespite the lame band name, FXZERO is for listeners really into that spastic style of progressive metalcore which ranges from crushing rhythms to soaring leads yet always remains melodic for the most part. Skyholm was produced by Jamie King from Between The Buried And Me fame, so it has that similar sound not only in terms of songwriting, but also in guitar and drum tones. For fans of Between The Buried And Me, Called To Arms, and Journal, to name a few.Gama Bomb Citizen BrainGamma Ray Land of the FreeGang Starr Hard to EarnGenghis Tron Board Up the HouseGlaciers Of Mountains and MonumentsGod Is An Astronaut God Is an AstronautGod Is An Astronaut The End of the BeginningGod Module PerceptionGod Module Victims Among FriendsGod Module VisceraGorguts ObscuraGorillaz GorillazGorillaz Plastic BeachGorod NeurotripsicksGorod TranscendenceGrave Into the GraveGrave You'll Never See...Grave Endless Procession Of SoulsGraveyard (ESP) The Sea GraveGreen Day American IdiotGru CosmogenesisGrum HeartbeatsGuthrie Govan & The Fellowship The Basement Club BandGZA Legend of the Liquid SwordHacride AmoebaHadouken! OxygenHaji's Kitchen Twenty TwelveHaken VisionsHands CreatorHard-Fi Killer SoundsHave A Nice Life DeathconsciousnessHavoc (USA-CA) The GripHeart Little QueenHeaven Shall Burn Iconoclast (Part 1: The Final Resistance)Heaven Shall Burn Whatever It May TakeHeaven Shall Burn AntigoneHeaven Shall Burn Deaf to Our PrayersHelloween Walls of JerichoHelloween HelloweenHelloween Keeper of the Seven Keys Part IIHelstar NosferatuHexen State of InsurgencyHidden Orchestra ArchipelagoHieroglyphics Full CircleHieronymus Bosch EquivokeHocico Sangre HirvienteHocico Wrack and RuinHocico comes back to the style of their first album: cold, but with very simple song structures. While the album before this was full of catchy arps and beats, it still had that Hocico feeling. Here, much of those catchy elements are missing so there is possibility that one may even get bored with this if they are used to second-album-style Hocico.Hocico Los Hijos Del InfiernoHocico Odio Bajo El AlmaHocico Cronicas Letales IIIHocico El Ultimo MinutoHollerado White PaintHollow Modern CathedralHollow Architect of the MindHoly Other HeldHorrendous The ChillsHotel of the Laughing Tree Terror and Everything AfterHouse Vs. Hurricane PerspectivesI See Stars 3DHmm, perhaps it is the early novelty, but this album stands out more than any other post-hardcore/pop album put out this year. Yes, nothing new is attempted here and while listening to this album, you will hear the screaming, the breakdowns, the synth leads, and perhaps not as noticeable, you will hear the autotune engulfing the singer's voice but this is not a surprise, as any band in this genre uses it liberally. However, there is some unknown element that 3D possesses that raises them higher than anything. It ain't the lyrics; most of it revolves around relationships but there are some catchy lines that prove the lyricist to have some intelligence. It ain't the piercing screams. It ain't the sugar cleans, and it ain't the guitars...I See Stars The End of the World PartyIf you can get over the fact that the singer now sounds like he's ten years old (believe me, that's a high hurdle to get over) then you have the familiar sound of I See Stars. There is also a noticeable lack of synths on the album which is a shame because they are what brought 3D to a new pedestal. Aside from the overly sugary parts on the album, they are unequally balanced by the AMAZING heavy parts; with an amazing screamer it's surprising he wasn't utilized enough on World Party because his moments are honestly the only thing you'll look forward to when you listen to a song from this.I See Stars Digital RenegadeI, the Breather These Are My SinsIced Earth Iced EarthIced Earth Night of the StormriderIf These Trees Could Talk If These Trees Could TalkIgnivomous ContragenesisIgnominious Incarceration Of Winter BornDefinitely a young UK death metal that stands above the rest. Brutal vocals, tons of great riffing and a melodic element that really makes this a worthwhile listen. You won't hear breakdown after breakdown on this album like so many other bands suffer from.Immolation Dawn of PossessionImmolation Here in AfterImmolation Failures for GodsImmolation Unholy CultImmolation Kingdom of ConspiracyStill bitching about the "production"? Get your head out of your ass.Imperative Reaction Imperative ReactionIn Every Breath AwakeningIn Flames ClaymanIn Mourning Shrouded DivineIn Strict Confidence La Parade MonstrueuseIn Strict Confidence proceed even further into the rock genre, but they never forget where their true roots lie. This album finds an equilibrium between both rock and industrial music and spits out some very catchy tunes. With the familiar "beauty and beast" vocals, two separate moods are created in nearly every song. Silver Bullets is easily one of my favourite songs this year.In Strict Confidence Silver BulletsEasily one of the best songs I've heard this year. The remixes and extra tracks aren't bad either, but they pale in comparison to the title track.Incantation Primordial DominationIncantation Vanquish in VengeanceInformatik ArenaInformatik Re:VisionInformatik NymphomatikInformatik SyntaxInnerpartysystem The Download EPInsomnium Across the DarkInspectah Deck Uncontrolled SubstanceInto the Ocean RuinsIN[TOXIN] The Future Is NowThe Future Is Now is meant for the club setting and almost nothing else. Providing exquisite beats and synths to dance to, there isn't much else going on with this album. The various samples used in each track provide an extra spice that could otherwise cause the album to be a little too repetitive.Irepress Samus OctologyIris AwakeningIris ReconnectIron Thrones Visions of LightTake the hit or miss vocals of Tommy Rogers from BTBAM and add the simple yet effective music of solo Devin Townsend and you get Iron Thrones. Very epic yet brutal at the same time. While there might not be much singing, there are numerous guitar solos that provide more than enough melody.Japandroids Post-NothingJay-Z The Black AlbumJay-Z Reasonable DoubtJean Baudin SolaceJeff Beck Blow by BlowJesu ConquerorJesu SilverJimi Hendrix The Cry of LoveJoe Bonamassa Sloe GinJoe Bonamassa Dust BowlJoe Satriani Super ColossalJohn 5 God Told Me ToJohn Maus We Must Become the Pitiless Censors of OurselvesJohn Maus A Collection Of Rarities And Previously UnreleasedJohn Mayer ContinuumJohn Mayer Battle StudiesJohn Mayer Heavier ThingsJournal UnlorjaI'll admit I was a little hesitant to give this a listen due to the high similarities between Journal and over the top bands like The Crinn. However, I was treated to a collection of songs and one minute interludes on Unlorja that where just fantastic. Forget the spastic image that you may get if you simply just visit the band's myspace; in fact, Journal really knows how to mix chaos and musicality into one listenable concoction. Sure, there is dissonance quite often, but it just seems to fit most of the time, and either way, all is forgiven once beautiful guitar (or vocal) melodies start appearing. My only issue with this album are the vocals, and while they may be great, there are not enough cleans on this album as there should be. The vocalist sounds like a standard metalcore screamer but when he starts singing it's as if the guy from Textures has suddenly taken over.JR and PH7 The UpdateJudas Priest Rocka RollaJudas Priest Stained ClassJudas Priest TurboJunius Reports From The Threshold of DeathJunkie XL Big Sounds Of The DragsJurassic 5 Power in NumbersJustin Timberlake The 20/20 ExperienceKalisia SkiesKalmah SwamplordKalmah The Black WaltzKalter Spiritual AngelKalter UbuntuKarate High School The League Of TomorrowSOMETIMES WHEN YOU LOSE YOU WIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIN....huh? oh sorry. This is just a hint to the unbelievable treat your ears will receive. Take your pick from strong vocal, guitar, or synth hooks. Catchy as hell post-hardcore, The League of Tomorrow never over does it on the synths nor are the synths barely audible. This isn't like those serious RARARARA albums you've grown to hate, this album allows any listener to go wild and not be judged.Kasabian KasabianKekal 1000 Thoughts of ViolenceKekal The Painful ExperienceKing Crimson RedKing Diamond "Them"Kings of Leon Only By The NightKlashnekoff The Sagas of KlashnekoffKlatu MutualKool G Rap and DJ Polo Road to the RichesKorn The Path of TotalityKORNSTEP LIVES! Korzus Discipline Of HateKreator Terrible CertaintyKreator Hordes Of ChaosKreator Phantom AntichristKriminal Minds Resistance AgainstKryptic Minds Can't SleepKuedo VideowaveLast Chance to Reason Level 2Late Phantom PapersLate Night Alumni Of Birds, Bees, Butterflies, Etc.Finding a balance between chill music and music I can be active with has always been a challenging thing for me. Chill music is something I can listen to only when I'm in a relaxed mood and doing very light activities. However, Of Birds has the power to fill both of these shoes; even though a quick skim may give the sound of a pure chill album, there is a subtle energy on this album that really makes it a well rounded listen.Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin IIILeprous BilateralLich King World Gone DeadLich King Born of the BombLights SiberiaLimp Bizkit Significant OtherLoading Data Double Disco Animal StyleLoolacoma AnimamLostprophets Start SomethingLute West1996Lykathea Aflame ElvenefrisM83 Dead Cities, Red Seas and Lost GhostsM83 Digital Shades Vol. 1M9 Magna CartaMadvillain MadvillainyMagic Wands Aloha MoonMain Attrakionz 808s and Dark Grapes IIMalefice EntitiesA young UK metalcore band that, while does nothing new, brings in the good ol' headbanging that we've been craving for. Nowadays, many young bands are competing over who can sweep the fastest or skip the most strings, but Entities ditches the gimmicks and brings the listener back to the 90's in terms of song structure yet keeps the overall feel of the album in current taste. Tons of groove, some singing leads, and a capable vocalist all complete the package.Malevolent Creation The Fine Art of MurderMalevolent Creation EnvenomedMangled Torsos Drawings of the DeadMarilyn Manson Mechanical AnimalsMarty Friedman Dragon's KissMassacra Final HolocaustMassacre From BeyondMassive Attack Blue LinesMassive Attack ProtectionMassive Attack MezzanineMassive Attack 100th WindowMasta Killa No Said DateMaster Slash Slave ScandalIndie rock mixed with bleeps and bloops. Actually a very catchy outcome as you get a guitar and drum duo plus melodic synths to create a true listening experience. Lyrics involve love and heartbreak (of course) and they flow out from very expressive vocals. Mastodon LeviathanMatthew Good Band In A Coma: 1995-2005Maximo Park Quicken The HeartMaybeshewill Sing The Word Hope In Four-Part HarmonyMaybeshewill I Was Here For a Moment, Then I Was GoneMaylene and the Sons of Disaster IIMED Bang Ya Head IIIMegadeth Th1rt3enMemphis May Fire ChallengerMental Discipline ConstellationConstellation is an odd futurepop album in the sense that it has a different singer on every one of its tracks. Each of these vocalists is no slouch either, coming from well known acts such as Culture Kultur, Endanger, and !Distain. This adds a huge level of freshness to the album overall as does the well produced music, full of mid paced beats, melodic arpeggios, and huge synth strings. Having just a single vocalist on Constellation would still produce a solid album, but featuring several just makes it that much better.Mercyful Fate MelissaMesh A Perfect SolutionMesh takes the genius from We Collide and runs with it. Even though A Perfect Solution increases the aggression, it lacks much of originality since it is just too similar to We Collide. The biggest annoyance with this album are the song lengths. Most of them are in the 5 and 6 minute zone which is very unnecessary since the last couple minutes of every single track has some useless instrumental tune to finish off the song. However, given that this album is just a leech off the spectacular We Collide, you're definitely going to hear some amazing songs.Mesh An Alternative SolutionMeshuggah ChaosphereMeshuggah Destroy Erase ImproveMetallica ...And Justice for AllMethod Man and Redman Blackout!Metric SyntheticaMew FrengersMew No More StoriesMichael Jackson Off the WallMichael Jackson Badmind.in.a.box What Used To Bemind.in.a.box Revelations Club.MixesMindless Faith Just DefyMindless Self Indulgence Frankenstein Girls Will...Minerve Love TracesLove Traces is enough proof to realize that Minerve is a very solid futurepop act. There isn't much deviance from the standard "main-synth-line-followed-by-the-verse-chorus" but it actually works well. However, the excellence of the band can be seen in the choruses; great lyrics are added on top of these catchy synth lines (as mentioned) to create passages so deep you'd need to try extremely hard to stop yourself from singing along. My major issue with this album is the length. It may be unusual to see 15 tracks but it is made worse due to the fact that at least 5 of these tracks are just remixes of already existing tracks. The remixes aren't terrible or anything, but they could easily be replaced with some original material.Minerve PleasePlease is the perfect continuation from Love Traces, the album released in 2007. Please has the same style and content, in terms of lyrics and vocals but there seems to be more emphasis on writing catchy synthlines this time around (which is nice). A few of the songs even sound more aggressive than anything off Love Traces, which alters the mood of the album in a good way. However, Please suffers the same fate as Love Traces and that is too many remixes. While there are only 3 on Please, this is still 2 too many and what makes it even worse is that all 3 of the remixes are terrible. This little error comes of as laziness from Minerve, since they could have easily written 2 original tracks to replace these useless remixes.Mint Julep Songs About SnowMinus the Bear Menos El OsoMisery Signals MirrorsMithras Behind the Shadows Lie MadnessMithras Worlds Beyond the VeilMobb Deep Murda MuzikMoneen The Red TreeMonstrosity Spiritual ApocalypseMonstrosity In Dark PurityMorbid Angel DominationMorbid Angel Blessed Are the SickMorbid Saint Destruction SystemMorbus Chron Sleepers In The RiftCoolest album art I've seen this year Morpheus Descends Chronicles of the Shadowed OnesMortification Scrolls of the MegillothMortification MortificationMos Def True MagicMozart Season ApotheosisMurs Love And Rockets Vol.1Muse Black Holes and RevelationsMutemath Spotlight EPMy Bloody Valentine LovelessMy Hero Is Me The Crywolf BroadcastMythosis Mind Built PrisonNas It Was WrittenNecrophagist EpitaphNecrophagist Onset of PutrefactionNeuraxis The Thin Line BetweenNeuropa The BlitzNeuropa could actually be 1980s era Depeche Mode brought back to life! In The Blitz, Neuropa pay homage to the danceable beats and thought provoking lyrics that Depeche Mode was able to ace on their albums Speak and Spell or A Broken Frame. Only difference is, we get a modern sound (this is 2007, after all) which may attract listeners turned off by retro production. Sure, we don't get the vocal sex of Dave Gahan, but ya can't have it all...Neurotech Blue Screen PlanetNeurotech AntagonistNeuroticfish No InstrumentsNew Order TechniqueNew Order MovementNew Order Waiting for the Siren's CallNidus Expire Mute PlanetNine Inch Nails Pretty Hate MachineNine Inch Nails Pretty Hate Machine: 2010 RemasterNo Consequence In The Shadow of GodsA young tech metal band from the UK featuring two vocalists is one of those things I just love. Here we got No Consequence, a band that mixes the musical stylings of Protest the Hero but with breakdowns. Don't run away though, these breakdowns are tastefully used and are not the kind that take up a whole damn song. Beautiful leads with some soft clean bits and tons o' chugging help create a wild listen. The main problem with the band are the two vocalists; normally, we would expect there to be contrast between their voices ie. Sikth and The Arusha Accord, where one vocalist has a higher/lower voice than the other, etc. Unfortunately, I had difficulty determining who was singing what part in a given song. No Consequence IONocturnus Ethereal TombNorthlane DiscoveriesNowen Essence of FearO.C. Word...LifeO.C. and Apollo Brown TrophiesObfusc Midnight DomeObie Trice CheersObituary The End CompleteObliteration NekropsalmsObscura CosmogenesisObscura OmniviumObscure Descension Obscure DescensionOccam My RorschachOf Machines As If Everything Was Held In PlaceOf Mice & Men Of Mice & MenOf Mice & Men The FloodOFWGKTA The OF Tape Vol. 2Oh, Sleeper Son of the MorningOpeth DamnationOpeth WatershedOpeth HeritageOppressor Solstice of OppressionOrganized Konfusion Organized KonfusionOrgy CandyassOrgy Vapor TransmissionOuroboros Glorification Of A MythOverkill HorrorscopeOverkill Feel the FireOverkill Taking OverOzzy Osbourne Diary Of A MadmanP.O.D. SatelliteP.O.D. Greatest Hits: The Atlantic YearsP.O.D. Murdered LovePainted in Exile RevitalizedIf you can get through the unbelievably horrendous intro of Skylines and maybe the entire track Distanced By Dissonance, which is just so boring compared to the other two songs, then you will be treated to a great mix of deathcore style vocals and low end with smooth jazzy interludes. Although the latter may seem out of place, they feel very natural and useful; never forced or thrown in just for the sake.Pallers The Sea of MemoriesPanic! At the Disco Pretty. Odd.Pantera Cowboys from HellPantera Vulgar Display Of PowerParadox Product of ImaginationParamore All We Know Is FallingPariah (GBR) UnityPatriarchs EmergeWith the roaring vocals of Misery Signals, the melodic and licky music of It Prevails, and the Christian lyrics of Life In Your Way, we get an album from Patriarchs. In other words, you can feel the emotion coming from both the singer and his band yet at the same time you are hit with relentless brutality. It is also worth mentioning that the end of Freedom is one of the heaviest moments of 2010 I have heard so far.Paul Gilbert Silence Followed By A Deafening RoarPaul Gilbert Fuzz UniversePestilence SpheresPet Shop Boys PleaseThis is some of the stuff that started it all; one of the very first Pet Shop Boys album. Very similar to Erasure, Please gathers more pop into its sound instead of anything else. You won't even find any simple guitar on this, as everything is synth. While Depeche Mode and New Order were incorporating guitars into their music at this point in time, Pet Shop Boys were new on the scene, and created one hell of a danceable album.Phace and Misanthrop EnergyPhaeleh Fallen LightPhaeleh Within The EmptinessPharoahe Monch W.A.R.Pharoahe Monch Internal AffairsPhoenix Bankrupt!Pink Floyd Wish You Were HerePink Floyd The WallPitchblend The Lines Of UnreasonPlacebo MedsPolyenso One Big Particular LoopPorcupine Tree DeadwingPossessed Seven ChurchesPriestess Hello MasterPropagandhi Supporting CasteProtector The HeritageProtector A Shedding of SkinProtest the Hero Gallop Meets the Earth (DVD)Prozzak Hot ShowPublic Enemy It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold UsQuarashi JinxQueens of the Stone Age Stone Age ComplicationsQueensway Automatic LoverQuo Vadis Defiant ImaginationDeath metal that ventures from old school brutality to new school virtuosity. To be specific, Defiant Imagination dips its feet into very solid riffing and leads with vocals very similar to common acts such as Gorod. However, the album truly shines with the bass, which is an uncommon thing in metal. Instead, you can simply hear the fretless wonder literally everywhere on the album. Skip to a random part in a song and BAM, bass! Even better, the bass has a mind of its own; venturing off and playing lines that the guitarists could only dream of playing.Rabbit Junk This Life Is Where You Get FuckedRabbit Junk Rabbit JunkRadiohead OK ComputerRadiohead AmnesiacRadiohead Hail to the ThiefRage Against the Machine Evil EmpireRammstein SehnsuchtRammstein MutterRecon (USA-CA) Behind Enemy LinesRed Cell Hybrid Society"Eureka, I've done it!" is the slogan Red Cell must have used after they listened to the finished product of Hybrid Society. Very rarely do I come across an album that is both harsh and catchy, meaning that these albums still focus on one aspect more than the other. However, with the case of Hybrid Society, both elements are in equilibrium and you end up with hard hitting ebm vocals mixed with futurepop-like music. Red Fang Murder the MountainsRed Hot Chili Peppers By the WayRed Hot Chili Peppers Mother's MilkRed Hot Chili Peppers The Uplift Mofo Party PlanRed Hot Chili Peppers Blood Sugar Sex MagikRedemption Snowfall on Judgment DayRedemption This Mortal CoilRefused The Shape of Punk to ComeReggie and The Full Effect Under The TrayReggie combines punk pop with a lot of keyboard use. This fact alone helps this album stand out from the rest of the pack. Even better, they manage to do a good job on this record so that its sound remains fresh. Singalong choruses plus a unique voice make this album so catchy it should be a crime. Top tracks are Congratulations Smack and Katy, What Won't Kill You Eats Gas, and Happy V-Day.Repugnant Epitome of DarknessReso ValkenResurgency False EnlightenmentRevolution Of The Mind Honor In SinRinoa An Age Among ThemRival Sons Head DownRiverside Memories In My HeadRiverside Shrine Of New Generation SlavesRob Swift War GamesRobben Ford Talk to Your DaughterRobin Trower Victims Of The FuryRobin Trower Caravan To MidnightRobin Trower Roots And BranchesRory Gallagher Rory GallagherRory Gallagher TattooRotersand Random is ResistanceA bit of an odd record coming from an artist like Rotersand. In the past, they were more EBM with harsh vocals and a repeating synth line throughout. In other words, very simple. Here, Rotersand keeps their heritage but adds a futurepop influence. While still dark with those signature moody vocals, the music is relatively upbeat with some songs even featuring enormous buildups to danceable, trance-like synth lines.Royal Thunder CVIHard rock with stoner and drone influences fronted by very strong and burly female vocals. My main issue with CVI is that the majority of the songs could easily be shortened as they tend to drag at times.Royksopp Melody A.M.Runemagick Moon of the Chaos EclipseRunemagick Requiem of the ApocalypseRush CounterpartsRush Vapor TrailsRush HemispheresRx Bandits MandalaRx Bandits The ResignationSadistik The Balancing ActSadus IllusionsSadus Swallowed In BlackSaving Grace Behind Enemy Lineslike many other metalcore albums, it does have the habit of being a bit too repetitive. HOWEVER, that does not cover up the fact that this is a great band and album. tons o' breakdowns and grooves and the best part are the lyrics that advise listeners to believe in themselves no matter what.Scale The Summit Carving Desert CanyonsScale The Summit is unlike many of the instrumental artists you will ever listen to. This band keeps up with the technicality and progression that instrumentals try to achieve but they never seem to overdo it. In other words, there is no part in the album that is typical "shred." The technicality of this band may be a bit subtle but it is easy to conclude that these guys are very talented. Scale The Summit The CollectiveScale The Summit certainly display an increase in emotion on The Collective (as opposed to the monotone "chill" vibe" that came from the majority of Carving) which is interesting to notice from an instrumental band. By utilizing different modes, scales, and note choices Scale The Summit are totally redefined. Not only is there more technicality coming from all 4 members, but there is much more variation displayed in guitar effects and instrument techniques. The inclusion of these variances and emotions make The Collective not only one hell of a ride, but also a ride to be enjoyed for years to come.School of Seven Bells GhostoryScorpions Savage AmusementScorpions Lonesome CrowScorpions Fly To The RainbowScorpions Taken By ForceScorpions BlackoutScorpions Love At First StingSeabound Double-CrosserSecret Band Secret BandSection Brain Hospital Of DeathSepalcure SepalcureSepultura Beneath the RemainsSepultura AriseShort On Time SanctuaryI do hate calling a certain band a complete ripoff of another band, but Short on Time truly is another (poorer) version of Protest the Hero. Musically, they are identical to the Kezia era with enough riffs to cause your fingertips to catch on fire plus all those mini tapping bits stuck in between. However, we see a difference in the vocals; in terms of vocals, Short on Time is pure punk. Yes, the kind you hear on the radio or back in the late 90's. It does add a nice new flavour to the sound, but to most it may seem out of place.Shpongle Ineffable Mysteries From ShponglelandSilversun Pickups SwoonSkid Row Slave To The GrindSkid Row Skid RowSky Architect Excavations of the MindSky Eats Airplane The Sound of SymmetryConsisting of just three songs, Sky Eats Airplane's new EP is simply a continuation of their self titled LP. In other words, there is a mixed bag of tunes with both math-y rhythms and chug as well as radio friendly choruses. Luckily, each song is also sprinkled with a little something special aka. melodic guitar leads and heavy electronic use. While the new singer does still sound like the old one, his overly sugar sweet clean vocals may be a turnoff to some listeners, while his screams may impress them at the same time.Skyfire EsotericSlayer Hell AwaitsSlayer Show No MercySleepmakeswaves ...and so we destroyed everythingSlowdive Just for a DaySodom Persecution ManiaSodom Better Off DeadSodom SodomSodom Tapping the VeinSolar Fake Broken GridSolar Fields EarthShineSolar Fields Leaving HomeSolitary Experiments In the Eye of the BeholderSolstice (USA-FL) SolsticeSorrow (UK) ExistenceSouls of Mischief 93 'til InfinitySoundtrack Get Rich Or Die Tryin'Spawn of Possession CabinetSpawn of Possession NoctambulantSpawn of Possession IncursoSpock's Beard Beware of DarknessStarfucker JupiterStarfucker ReptiliansSteel Panther Feel The SteelSteely Dan Can't Buy A ThrillSteely Dan Countdown To EcstasySteely Dan Pretzel LogicStevie Ray Vaughan Soul to SoulStray Abuse by ProxyFemale vocals behind a wall of glass. That is the best way to describe this cold, dark and lonely EBM album. The chick we all know from Unter Null provides unusually haunting vocals filled with emotion and laced with a vocoded effect. This album is surely something you cannot dance to, not because of it's overwhelmingly dark mood, but because there are almost no drums to create a foot tapping beat. It's going to be a cold experience; please put on your sweater.Stray Letting GoStumbleine Sunshine GirlsStumbleine The Night BeforeStumbleine GhostingSubmotion Orchestra Blind Spot - The RemixesSubstructure MonolithSuffocation Pierced from WithinSuicidal Angels Dead AgainSuicide Commando X.20 (Best Of)Suicide Commando X.20 (Remixes)Aggrotech remix albums tend to be either better than the original album, or simply average. In the case of X.20 Remixes, we have the former. Well known industrial artists take the task of remixing some of Suicide's greatest hits to really enhance the listening experience. Not only are they more suited towards modern listeners, but they also contain musical elements that would never be found on any aggrotech album; some of these being clean vocals or acoustic piano.Sum 41 Does This Look InfectedSum 41 All Killer No FillerSumatra Heliocratic InfinitySunpocrisy Samaroid DioramasSwarms Low SunSwollen Members Beautiful Death MachineSwollen Members BalanceSymphony X Paradise LostTake a band like Dream Theater. Now, remove the vocals, the annoying synth sounds, the long song lengths, and the same recycled riffs. What's left is literally nothing, except fancy drums and bass which are actually a good thing. In this release Symphony X gathers up these two elements and adds their own sound. Abandoning the heavy power influence, what we have here are crunchy guitars and synth that does not overpower the overall sound. What really stands out here are the gruff vocals; the singing has that gravelly sound to it which definitely helps bring out the snarling beast of the band. Riffs may borrow ideas from thrash but still retain originality. Whether they come in at full speed or in the lovely half-time, the listener will find himself bobbing along without thinking. In conclusion, Paradise Lost strays from past Symphony X releases by losing the power metal sound. Instead, what the listener gets is a healthy dose of progressive metal.Syrian Alien NationSyrian still remains true to their futurepop style but adds a touch of guitars into the mix for Alien Nation. The outcome is decent, as the some of the melodic lines intended for a synth have been spiced up with an overdriven guitar. One track, Helium, even has a Middle Eastern main theme using a sitar and vocals, yet it still remains in the usual futurepop body in the hopes that it is enjoyed by everyone. Hypercube takes on rave style main theme making it perfect for the clubs. Although Alien Nation can still be categorized as futurepop, it is so diverse that it is a definite must for any fan.Syris Unseen ForcesSystem of a Down ToxicitySystem Syn PostscriptTalking Heads Talking Heads: 77Tame Impala InnerspeakerTaste On the BoardsTelepopmusik Genetic WorldTextures Drawing CirclesThank You Scientist Maps of Non-Existent PlacesThe All-American Rejects The All-American RejectsThe Allman Brothers Band Idlewild SouthThe Aristocrats The AristocratsOkay so here's the story: you have Guthrie Govan on guitar who every one knows is one of the best in the world. Then you have Bryan Beller on bass who has worked with James LaBrie, Steve Vai, Dweezil Zappa, and others. Lastly, on drums, is Marco Minnemann who has pretty much worked with guys like Paul Gilbert to bands like Necrophagist. That alone is enough to tell you this instrumental trio has insane chops but more importantly, amazing compositional skills. In 9 songs, that is exactly what you get; each musician showcasing their skills in the most musical way possible without any sense of egomania, whether it be in styles of rock, jazz, blues, or a fusion of all three.The Arusha Accord Nightmares of the OceanThe Beatles Beatles for SaleThe Beatles Help!The Beatles RevolverThe Beatles Let It BeThe Beauty Of Gemina Iscariot BluesThe Beneath City of LightTake the vocal styling of Protest the Hero plus the instrumentation of BTBAM Colours and you have this album to a standard deviation of 0.000001. No kidding. Opera style melodies with great gowling/screaming plus riff-fests mixed with piano licks make this a great progressive listen.The Birthday Massacre Looking GlassThe Black Dahlia Murder UnhallowedThe Blood of Heroes The Blood Of HeroesThe Chameleons Strange TimesThe Chemical Brothers Dig Your Own HoleThe Color Morale My Devil In Your EyesThe Coup Steal This AlbumThe Cranberries RosesThe Crystal Method Legion Of BoomThe Crystal Method Community Service IIThe Cure PornographyThe Dillinger Escape Plan Miss MachineThe Dillinger Escape Plan Calculating InfinityThe Dillinger Escape Plan The Dillinger Escape PlanThe Dillinger Escape Plan Irony Is a Dead SceneThe Doors The DoorsThe Dreamside Spin Moon MagicFemale fronted Gothic metal in vein of Within Temptation and Theatre of Tragedy. While this does not have the familiar "beauty and beast" vocals in every song, our heroine has one hell of a singing voice. Luckily, the vocals are not the only thing to grab your attention; the instrumentation is way above average and in many songs you will hear a sweet solo or lick that seems to fit perfectly in the song. Top tracks are Into A Frenzy, Forsaken, The Feast is Set, and Slay Your Dragons.The Echoing Green Music From The Ocean PictureAn album much different than The Echoing Green's earlier material as it takes on a more industrial sound. Not to call this a Wumpscut album, but there is a new level of maturity in the sound while all the elements of the previous albums are still present. That said, it lacks a bit of the catchy-ness that these other albums had. Best track is easily Epiphany, a very slow and droning track that manages to have tons of swag at the same time.The Echoing Green The Echoing GreenThe Egocentrics Center of the CycloneThe Faceless AkeldamaThe Faint Danse MacabreThe Fall of Troy DoppelgangerThe Fall of Troy The Fall of TroyThe Graduate Only Every TimeThe Haarp Machine DisclosureThe Hives Lex HivesLex Hives is classic Hives like they've always been: quick, furious, and fun.The Jimi Hendrix Experience Electric LadylandThe Jonah Veil End of A BurdenThe Joy Formidable Wolf's LawThe Killers Sam's TownThe Machine The Machine And Sungrazer SplitThe Mars Volta AmputechtureThe Modern The Modern LPCatchy synthpop with both male and female vocals are something I just love and this is no exception. You get great synth lines, moderate guitar work, and most importantly very strong choruses. Songs like Sometimes, Jane Falls Down, and Industry are some of my most played tracks of 2008/2009 for a reason...The Panic Division VersusThis is one band that blends electronic elements and mainstream rock almost flawlessly; neither part is over done. Lyrics are about the usual heartbreak and relationships, but the singer delivers them with a wonderful, mellow voice. Don't get me wrong though, despite the mellow aspect, the lyrics are still able to penetrate even the most stubborn ears. There is a small flaw in the album which is that the songs might get repetitive at times meaning that there is a lack of originality between songs. I have seen this curse happen with many bands that blend these two genres together.The Panic Division EternalismEternalism may be The Panic Division album I have been waiting for. While there aren't any songs that touch the caliber of their big single Versus from way back, each song is great in its own right. The Panic Division intertwines electronics beautifully with big and catchy choruses and spacey guitar lines which may not be anything new for them, as they've been doing it well since their first album, but Eternalism remains much more consistent quality-wise than any of the band's other albums.The Pharcyde Bizarre Ride II the PharcydeThe Raconteurs Broken Boy SoldiersThe Rolling Stones Let It BleedThe Roots Illadelph HalflifeThe Roots Things Fall ApartThe Smiths Strangeways, Here We ComeThe Sorrow Origin of the StormThere is definitely something different about this album over the previous one. Musically, it is about the same in terms of guitar skills and riffing; but vocally, it stands out. In the first album, the screaming was a bit monotonous whereas in this album, the singer attempts to stretch his range and occasionally scream in high pitches which actually works really well. It looks like The Sorrow is a little more comfortable in their skin because the first album seemed a bit mechanical. This time around, everything sounds so smooth and natural and nothing seems exaggerated. The Sorrow Blessings From a Blackened SkyI can understand that when a band's first album is put into the metalcore genre, it is very difficult to get out of it or be original. With that said, this really is one of those normal sounding metalcore albums, except I prefer them much more when compared to some of the more popular acts. These guys deliver the breakdowns and solos as always but the important thing is that the breakdowns are not over done and the solos are not super shreddy. There are three vocalists in this band; the two screamers deliver wonderful fury and the clean vocalist delivers the cleanliness. One of my favourite tracks of all time is actually the last song on this album, Savior Welcome Home.The Sound Of Arrows VoyageThe Strokes First Impressions of EarthThe Subways All or NothingThe Vines Highly EvolvedThe White Stripes White Blood CellsThe Wonder Years The UpsidesThe Wonder Years Suburbia: I've Given You All and Now I'm NothingThe Word Alive DeceiverThin Lizzy FightingThin Lizzy NightlifeThrice The Alchemy Index Vols. I & IIThrice The Alchemy Index Vols. III & IVThrice VheissuThursday No DevolucionTiger Baby Open Windows Open HillsTigers Jaw Tigers JawTorchure The EssenceTourniquet Stop the BleedingToxik World CircusTraKKtor Halo Of LiesTrinodia Human HistoryTriple Darkness Last DayzTrivium In WavesTwo Door Cinema Club BeaconTyske Ludder DiasporaU2 The Best Of 1990-2000U2 The Joshua TreeUFO UFO 1UGK Super Tight...Ugly Colors Perfect As We AreUlrich Schnauss GoodbyeUltramagnetic MCs The Four HorsemenUnderworld 1992 - 2002Unearth The MarchUnearth The Oncoming StormUnida Unida - Dozer [Split EP]Unleashed Where No Life DwellsUnleashed Shadows In The DeepUnter Null Moving OnVader The Ultimate IncantationVan Halen 1984Van Halen Van Halen IIVan Halen Diver DownVan Halen A Different Kind of TruthVarious Artists For The MassesVektor Demolition (Demo)Viktor Vaughn Vaudeville VillainVio-Lence Eternal NightmareVolor Flex My StoryVolumes The Concept Of DreamingVomitory RedemptionVotum Harvest MoonVuvr PilgrimageWarbringer Worlds Torn AsunderWarbringer Waking Into NightmaresWe Are The Illusion The Podium of LiesWith the addition of angelic clean vocals, backing synths, and tons of melodic licks/solos to a super djent-y band, The Podium of Lies is a great listen for anyone into similar bands such as Born of Osiris, Elitist, or Circle of Contempt. The crystal clean production definitely helps as well.Weezer The Green AlbumWeezer MaladroitWestside Connection Bow DownWhiplash Ticket to MayhemWhirr Pipe DreamsWinter Soul ReactorVery solid aggrotech from an artist you probably have never heard of. While they might not be as household as Hocico, they produce tracks of near equal quality and should not be overlooked from those looking for some great aggrotech.Within Temptation The UnforgivingWoe, Is Me Number[s]Wrath and Rapture Wrath and RaptureSo here I am thinking this is some boring Winds of Plague rip off, when the track Disembodiment starts playing...I kid you not, in the middle of the song there is a funk section. Yes, this band take more from a band like BTBAM than Winds of Plague, but they manage to keep it in their pants at the same time. There are beautiful melodic solos, great vocals with the creme de la creme being the symphonic parts. While they still have quite a hold on each song, they do not overpower any of them and instead just let the listener know, "Hello, here I am." The one problem with this album is its length. Sure, ten songs seems reasonable to some, but not when four out that ten are 2 minute instrumentals. It seems like a waste, when these instrumentals could easily support vocals and become real songs to be enjoyed by all.Wretched The Exodus of AutonomyWu-Tang Clan Iron FlagWu-Tang Clan Legendary WeaponsWu-Tang Clan 8 DiagramsX-Divide XA combination of synthpop/futurepop done right for once. While on paper, making a successful combo of the two genres sounds so easy, yet when it comes to the final result, the ears always give the last words. Amazing music combined with a voice that drifts in and out of a vocoder help freshen up this release and achieve a status that many acts try and fail to achieve. Every song has a memorable chorus (a key in this genre) plus we get some great remixes of already awesome tracks.X-Fusion Thorn In My FleshX-In June Hall Of TruthYazoo Upstairs at Eric'sYellowcard Ocean AvenueYour Memorial AtonementYour Memorial RedirectZZ Top TexicaliZZ Top Eliminator[:SITD:] RotRot is what I like to call you very standard EBM/futurepop. In fact, with all the synth lines going on, you may mistake this album for something done by VNV Nation. But just because SITD has changed a bit, it does not mean they've lost their touch; Rot is filled with some very catchy tracks such as Redemption, MK Ultra, and Destination so even though the aggression is gone, perhaps that dancer inside you may come alive.3.0 good16Bit Chainsaw Calligraphy The Remixes16Volt SuperCoolNothing16Volt Beating Dead Horses2Pac All Eyez on Me2Pac Thug LifeA Cosmic Trail The Outer PlanesA Kiss Could Be Deadly FarewellA Life Divided The Great EscapeA Perfect Circle eMOTIVeA Tribe Called Quest The Low End TheoryA7IE The ShatteringAADF ProcessAccessory Forever and BeyondAccessory More Than MachineryAcid Engine BeastAcid AcidActress R.I.PAcylum The EnemyI'm not sure which is more disturbing: the actual album or what was going through the heads of this duo when they were making the album.Aeges The BridgeAesthetic Perfection A Violent EmotionFans of the older Aesthetic Perfection may be shocked when they listen to their latest release. This album takes on a more modern approach with more mainstream song structures as opposed to a lead synth line taking control of a song. Here, there is more verse-chorus type of writing which may lead the listener to believe that Aesthetic Perfection has gone commercial. This is partly true also due to the lack of emotion in the songs; they seem fit for a club, but for personal listening they may get stale very quickly.Aesthetic Perfection The Devil's In The DetailsAfter the Burial Forging a Future SelfAghora FormlessSo I'm sitting under a tree, sighing about the lack of good female fronted technical bands. All of a sudden, Formless drops from the sky (EUREKA). Aghora combines Alarum/Cynic-like jazz leads and cleans plus great riffing, also similar to Alarum and Cynic. In other words, this is band is just like Alarum or Cynic musically. However, instead of gruff vocals we are treated to a beautiful female lead in vain of, say, Lacuna Coil.Akala DoublethinkAktive.Hate X-SynthesizedAlcest Les Voyages De L AmeAlexisonfire Watch Out!Alexisonfire Old Crows / Young CardinalsAlice in Videoland She's A Machine!Alice in Videoland A Million Thoughts And They're All About YouAlien Vampires Fuck Off and DieAlkaline Trio CrimsonAll Shall Perish Awaken The DreamersAlpha Eleventh TripAlpha Point High Like The AngelsAmduscia Death, Thou Shalt DieAmia Venera Landscape The Long ProcessionAmorphis EclipseAn Obscure Signal CreationsAnata The Conductor's DepartureAnata The Infernal Depths of HatredAnathema Weather SystemsAnberlin New SurrenderAnd So I Watch You From Afar GangsAndy Timmons ResolutionAngel Dust To Dust You Will DecayAngelcorpse ExterminateAnimals as Leaders WeightlessYou can't believe your eyes and I can't believe my ears, but Weightless is actually really disappointing...Boring, low string riffs accompanied by flurries of high string work are just not going to cut it this time (especially when every band and their mother is doing the same thing). You'd think that being in a proper trio, Tosin and co. would have perhaps made something that would rival even their debut but damn it's barely even competition.Animosity EmpiresAnimosity Shut It DownAnomalous Cognitive DissonanceAntilove The Affinity of Alice and HeHere we have metalcore with an electronic edge. This means you get a simple metalcore band plus power pop synths. The final product definitely isn't something to write home to because of the downfalls that come with such a concoction. These being autotune plus lack of aggression. The former speaks for itself (heavy use in the choruses in various songs) but the latter is a bit more complicated. When it comes to metalcore, the idea is usually to be as aggressive as possible, and the band actually accomplishes this. However, once the synths start kicking in, you hear cheesy poppy lines that could easily be manned up if the patch was changed. Another turnoff is the awful production; very low quality makes the album sound like it came from a basement band.Anubis A Tower Of SilenceAnvil Metal on MetalAnvil Forged in FireApollo Brown CloudsApoptygma Berzerk Sonic DiaryApostasy (CHL) Sunset of the EndAPOSTATE SeaborneAPOSTATE Λ ♦ Λ ♦ ØApples of Idun Disaster ArtApples of Idun is one of those bands that can manage being 50% industrial and 50% rock. While not perfect, their latest release Disaster Art is a perfect example to show what they can do plus demonstrate how industrial and rock and live in harmony. Catchy choruses, heavy synth use and mix of heavy hitters and ballads make this a solid industrial rock release.Arcade Fire Neon BibleArctic Monkeys I Bet You Look Good On The DancefloorAria Aesthetic AeonArmy of the Pharaohs Ritual of BattleArsonists Get All The Girls MotherlandArtillery Fear of TomorrowArtillery B.A.C.K.As Cities Burn Come Now SleepAs I Lay Dying Shadows Are SecurityAs I Lay Dying The Powerless RiseAs I Lay Dying AwakenedAs Tall As Lions As Tall As LionsAsa WithdrawalASAP Mob Lord$ Never WorryASAP Rocky LongLiveA$APAshbury Heights Morningstar in a Black CarAsphyxia UnreleasedAssemblage 23 Let The Wind Erase MeAssemblage 23 BruiseAstronote Weapon Of The FutureAtsuko And Sangam TomodachiAudioslave AudioslaveAugury ConcealedAugust Burns Red MessengersAustrian Death Machine Double BrutalAustrian Death Machine Total BrutalAutoclav1.1 Love No Longer Lives HereAutoclav1.1 Embark On DepartureAvenged Sevenfold Waking the FallenAWAR Things Of That NatureB. Dolan Fallen House Sunken CityBabylonia Tales Of Loving HeartsBADBADNOTGOOD BBNGBaring Teeth AtrophyBaroness Blue RecordBaroness Yellow and GreenBaroness Red AlbumBarren Earth The Devil's ResolveBeastie Boys Check Your HeadBeati Mortui Let The Funeral BeginLet The Funeral Begin is chock full of fast paced aggrotech, similar to that of Suicide Commando and Winter Soul. Unfortunately, this album ain't got nothin' on any release of said bands. The first song, Vision of Hell is wonderful, and it actually brought my hopes up for the rest of the album. But a few tracks later, even though I was still listening to the album, my mind was elsewhere. Why? Because the rest of the album was BORING. Apart from the first song, there is nothing really to grab onto, no awesome synth line, nothing; it all just passes you by. I still feel as though there is massive potential in Beati Mortui, due to the abundance of female vocals (similar to older Unter Null, mind you) so I look forward to their next work.Becoming the Archetype Terminate DamnationBeliever GabrielBeliever TranshumanBenea Reach PossessionEven more disappointing than the album art is that Possession fails to stand out from a metal scene already supersaturated with harsh/clean vocals, odd timed rhythms, melodic guitar lines, and ethereal atmospheres. Benea Reach's vocalist remains the VIP of the band like on their previous releases but it just isn't enough this time. Possession can still be an enjoyable effort from the Benea Reach in its own right, but don't expect the same greatness they achieved on Alleviat.Between the Buried and Me The Silent CircusBibio Silver WilkinsonBig Boi Vicious Lies and Dangerous RumorsBig Wreck In Loving Memory OfBitcrush In DistanceAn extremely calm album, perfect for enjoying those quiet sunsets. Vocals are evident, yet they are very sparse; Bitcrush allows the music (consisting of drums, clean guitars, and ambient synths) to do most of the "talking". There are also no issues regarding In Distance being too long or boring since each song has its own identity, yet they all still retain an overall calm mood. My favourite track is easily And Triage.Bitcrush CollapseBlack Country Communion Black CountryBlack Milk Album Of The YearBlackroom Lighthouseblink-182 NeighborhoodsBloc Party Bloc PartyBloodbath The Fathomless MasteryBlu Her Favorite Colo(u)rBlue Stahli B-Sides And Other Things I ForgotBlur ParklifeBlutengel Child of GlassBoards of Canada TwoismBody Count Body CountBodycall States of ExceptionBodycall Mechanically Recovered MeatBolt Thrower MercenaryBolt Thrower War MasterBonded by Blood The AftermathBoom Boom Satellites Full of Elevating PleasuresBorn of Osiris The DiscoveryDID I NOT FUCKING TELL YOU 2011 IS THE YEAR OF THE OSIRIS?Brand New Deja EntenduBreakdown Of Sanity MirrorsBring Me The Horizon Suicide Season Cut Up!Brutality Ruins of HumansBuckethead Shadows Between The SkyBurst Lazarus BirdC-Drone-Defect Neural Dysorder Syndrome ReduXC-Lekktor X-Tension In ProgressCamouflage SensorCamouflage Voices & ImagesCannibal Corpse Butchered at BirthCannibal Corpse Eaten Back to LifeCanvas Solaris IrradianceCapharnaum FracturedCarbon Based Lifeforms TwentythreeCarcariass Killing ProcessCassius The RawkersCatharsis (USA-CA) Pathways To WholenessCeDigest Walking in the FleshCeltic Frost To Mega TherionCenotaph (Mex) The Gloomy Reflection of Our Hidden SorrowsCeruleus TrenchesCesium_137 Science And SoundChemical Breath ValuesChevelle Vena SeraChevelle This Type of Thinking (Could Do Us In)Chief Kamachi Rise and Rhyme, Vol. 1Chimaira Impossibility of ReasonChimaira The Age of HellChimp Spanner At the Dream's EdgeChromatics Kill For LoveCianide A Descent into HellCircle Of Contempt Entwine The ThreadsCity Of Ifa Blue ShoesClosure in Moscow First TempleCloudkicker ]]][[[Coat of Arms Sun & SatellitesCode 64 DepartureCode 64 TrialogueCode 64 is back with generally the same formula that Departure had except for a few minor additions here and there. Fortunately, this is not a bad thing as Code 64 is exceptional at creating that model futurepop sound and you can certainly hear it on Trialogue. My favourite tracks are easily Progenitor and Oblivion (Seeds of Utopia III). However, this same-y path comes with some problems. The major one being that Trialogue may not have the lasting power as some of the other releases this year due to the fact that nothing new is attempted. It is likely that you will end up keeping a few tracks and then perhaps forgetting about the rest.Coheed and Cambria In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3Coheed and Cambria Neverender 12% Coheed and Cambria The Second Stage Turbine BladeColdplay Mylo XylotoColdplay X & YColdplay Viva La VidaColdworker Rotting ParadiseColony 5 ColonisationColony 5 Buried AgainCommon Can I Borrow A Dollar?Conception The Last SunsetConducting From the Grave When Legends Become DustLike a plague that takes over many young bands today, this album may seem a bit repetitive at first. But with further listening, I was to determine which song from which and suddenly the entire album seemed spectacular; almost like a neat cohesive package. Riffing was solid and groovy, while the leads brought the perfect element of melody. The vocals are almost a cross between early Between the Buried and Me and Lamb of God, which is another key that the band possesses. Consequence (NZ) Test DreamContact Play Champion FraffCooly G Playin MeCoprofago Unorthodox Creative CriteriaCoroner GrinCounterparts The Current Will Carry UsCream Fresh CreamCrosses EPCruciamentum Convocation of Crawling ChaosCryptopsy Once Was NotCryptopsy And Then You'll BegCrystal Castles (III)CTRL Fragmentary MomentsCubical Sphere PromoCue to Recall PolarityCut Copy Bright Like Neon LoveCyaegha Steps of DescentCyanotic The Medication GenerationCynic Re-TracedCynic Carbon-Based AnatomyCypress Hill Black SundayCypress Hill x Rusko Cypress Hill x RuskoCzarface CzarfaceDamien Thorne The Sign of the JackalDaniel Land, & the Modern Painters Love Songs for the Chemical GenerationDarkness (DEU) Death SquadDave Gahan HourglassGahan brings the most sensual vibe you could imagine in Hourglass. The atmosphere consists of only this feeling, with each song being very smooth to the ears. This is definitely more rock oriented when compared to even the most recent Depeche Mode albums, but there is still a heavy hint of electronics amongst the guitars and drums. Top tracks are Saw Something and Kingdom.David Bowie The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust...De/Vision PopgefahrDe/Vision Rockets And SwordsDead And Divine The Machines We AreA release even better and much more mature than their first album. You won't find any cheese here, as Dead and Divine has grown up into a solid post-hardcore act. Great vocals, standard instrumentation and many areas to sing along to. Top track is definitely Teeth; not quite the usual post-hardcore tune but overall a slow and dark song. Dead By Sunrise Out of AshesDead Poetic VicesDeath Cab for Cutie PlansDeath From Above 1979 Romance Bloody RomanceDeceased As the Weird Travel OnDecoded Feedback AftermathDecoded Feedback disKonnektDefeater TravelsDeftones CoversDeicide Serpents Of The LightDeltron 3030 Deltron 3030Demigodz KILLmaticDemonical HellswornDestroid LoudspeakerDestruction D.E.V.O.L.U.T.I.O.N.Destruction Day Of ReckoningDestruction Sentence of DeathDestruction Mad ButcherDestruction Eternal DevastationDesultory BitternessDetroit Diesel Terre HumaineDevil Sold His Soul A Fragile HopeDevin Townsend PhysicistDie Sektor Applied Structure In A VoidDigital Daggers The Devil WithinDigitalism IdealismI could tell before even listening this would be one of those albums where I'd enjoy one or two tracks and discard the rest. My hypothesis was correct, and it turned out that Pogo became one of my favourite songs of that year. However, the rest of the album is bland, boring, and offers nothing new. However, this album would make a perfect album to play in the background of a party or a club, if that means anything.Digitalism I Love You, DudeDinosaur Jr. Green MindDioramic TechnicolorDisclosure The Face - RemixesDiskonnekted Hotel ExistenceDisperse Living MirrorsDisturbed IndestructibleDisturbed Ten Thousand FistsDisturbed The SicknessDiversant:13 The End Of DaysDJ Jazzy Jeff The Return of the MagnificentDJ Z-Trip Shifting GearsDMX It's Dark and Hell Is HotDorsal Atlantica Searching for the LightDot Execute [dotEXE]Dragonette GaloreDrawn And Quartered Return of the Black DeathDrawn And Quartered Feeding Hell's FurnaceDream Theater A Change of Seasonsdredg LeitmotifDungeon Elite [**] MeteoriteEdge of Sanity Purgatory AfterglowEditors The Back RoomEidolon Nightmare WorldEidolon Seven SpiritsEight and a Half Eight and a HalfEighteen Visions Eighteen VisionsEisley The ValleyEl-P I'll Sleep When You're DeadEminem The Eminem ShowEmmure Speaker of the DeadEmpty Open AeonEndanger Addicted To The MassesEnduser Bollywood BreaksEnduser LeftEnduser Comparing PathsEnglish Dogs Forward into BattleEnslaved Below the LightsEnter Shikari TribalismEntities AetherEntombed CrawlEntropy (CAN) Ashen ExistenceEric B and Rakim Paid in FullEric Clapton 461 Ocean BoulevardEric Clapton Eric ClaptonEric Johnson Ah Via MusicomEsoteric Paragon Of DissonanceEvan Brewer AloneEvanescence FallenEvery Time I Die Gutter PhenomenonEvery Time I Die The Big DirtyEvery Time I Die Ex LivesExeloume Fairytale of PerversionExodus Let There Be BloodExodus Pleasures of the FleshF.A.Q WhitechapelF.A.Q takes the path of futurepop and tries something new. You can find tracks here that are almost progressive; they start of slow and simple, then build up and then come to a halt. A very odd characteristic since music of this type is very simple. After listening to a few tracks, you can tell that a lot more focus was put into the music (more like the percussion) than an ordinary futurepop album. A few songs feature drum n' bass like structures and consist of no singing at all. Futurepop that is not quite futurepop...Facing New York Facing New YorkFACT Never Turn Out The Light To Keep MyselfFACT Eat Your WordsFACT burundangaFactory of Art Grasp!!!Failure Fantastic PlanetFake The Envy InterludeFallen Figure DevivalFaltyDL You Stand UncertainFarmakon A Warm GlimpseFates Warning Awaken The GuardianFeeder Silent CryFellsilent The Hidden WordsFilter Title Of RecordFinch What It is to BurnFleetwood Mac RumoursFleshwrought Dementia/DyslexiaFliptrix Theory of RhymeFlyleaf FlyleafFoals Total Life ForeverForeign Beggars Beggattron Remixed EP 1Forevermore SojournerForgiven Rival This Is A WarYou won't find anything out of the ordinary in this metalcore/post-hardcore band except one thing. There is not one singer, there are not two singers, but there are three singers. Honestly, this makes them stand apart from the rest in a way, as we have the usual assault of a screamer, and then the soothing melodies of two singers. Nothing is drowned in autotune, but instead we have a collection of songs that actually have heart in them. Top tracks are The Grey and Like the effects of the Wind.Four Year Strong Rise Or Die TryingFour Year Strong Enemy of the WorldFractal Gates Altered State Of ConsciousnessFrank Ocean Nostalgia, UltraFrom A Second Story Window ConversationsFrom Exile MonolithFront Line Assembly FalloutFront Line Assembly Artificial SoldierFront Line Assembly Improvised. Electronic. Device.Funeral for a Friend Welcome Home ArmageddonFuneral Party The Golden Age Of KnowhereFunerus Reduced to SludgeFuture Trail ParalysisFutures The Karma AlbumGalleons Swans EPGamma Ray Master of ConfusionGang Starr Daily OperationGang Starr No More Mr. Nice GuyGary Numan Dead Son RisingGeneral Fiasco Unfaithfully YoursCatchy indie rock similar to that of Bloc Party and Two Door Cinema Club. My major issue with this album, which happens to lower the quality of this album substantially, is the prepubescent sounding vocalist.Ghost Brigade Guided By FireGhost Brigade Until Fear No Longer Defines UsGhosts Of Paraguay On The RunGladiator DesignationGlassjaw Coloring BookGlis PhoenixPhoenix is as mixed bag as you can get. Glis admitted himself that this was a very personal effort so what you get are songs that range from twinkly M83-esque ballads with female vocals to modern era New Order styled pop-rock to the typical hard hitting, beat driven ebm tracks he is known for.God Forbid DeterminationGod Forbid Gone ForeverGod Forbid IV: Constitution of TreasonGod Module EmpathGojira Terra IncognitaGomorrah Caress the GrotesqueGood Charlotte The Young And The HopelessGorefest FalseGory Blister SkymorphosisGory Blister Graveyard of AngelsGravediggaz The Pick, the Sickle and the ShovelGreeley Estates Go West Young Man, Let The Evil Go EastGreg Howe IntrospectionGrendel (NL) Inhumane AmusementGuardians The AlignmentGuns N' Roses Appetite for DestructionGym Class Heroes The Papercut ChroniclesGZA Pro ToolsHacride LazarusHadouken! Every WeekendHatchet Dawn Of The EndHate SolarfleshHe Is Legend It Hates YouHellbringer Dominion Of DarknessHellogoodbye Zombies! Aliens! Vampires! Dinosaurs!Helloween The Time of the OathHelstar Remnants of WarHeltah Skeltah NocturnalHer Bright Skies A Sacrament; Ill CityHer Name In Blood DecadenceHere I Come Falling Oh Grave, Where Is Thy Victoryalthough this is a good album, a curse befalls on this album; repetition. This album is nothing new, and even worse, after listening to it several times, you start to get confused about which song title goes with which song. Synths are not used too much as one might expect so nothing seems to gimmicky but this album definitely brings out the headbanging feeling a person is supposed to get when listening to this genre.Heritage What Waits in the WaterHexenhaus A Tribute To InsanityHexenhaus The Edge Of EternityHidden Hospitals 002Hooded Menace Fulfill the CurseHooverphonic A New Stereophonic Sound SpectacularHORSE the band Desperate LivingHot Action Cop Hot Action CopHotel of the Laughing Tree Mammoth SkinHour of Penance Pageantry For MartyrsHowler America Give UpHypno5e Acid Mist TomorrowHypocrisy A Taste Of Extreme DivinityHypocrisy AbductedHypocrisy The Final ChapterI Am Abomination To Our ForefathersI Are Droid The Winter WardIAMX Dogmatic Infidel Comedown OKWow, remixes and reinterpretations better than their originals? Impossible! IAMX gathers some tracks that span their discography and lets some other artists rework them (we even have a remix done by the famous Combichrist). What really makes this album shine is the fact that while the remixes sound like totally new songs, they still keep the essence of the originals. For example, my favourite IAMX track, I Am Terrified, gets redone and the results are spectacular. While not as good as the original, it adds a much more heavier industrial element that works perfectly well with the untouched vocals.Icosian When I Stopped Calling It HomeIf These Trees Could Talk Above the Earth, Below the SkyIllogicist SubjectedIllusion Of Light SkylightImmolation Harnessing RuinImpaler Charnel DeityImperative Reaction As We FallIn Every Breath DistrustIn Flames Soundtrack to Your EscapeIn Flames Reroute to RemainIn Flames ColonyIn Flames WhoracleIn Flames The Jester RaceIn Strict Confidence UtopiaIn Vain The Latter RainIndukti S.U.S.A.R.Informatik BeyondInformatik takes an interesting turn in sound on their album Beyond. Instead of the heavy ebm/industrial sound, Informatik almost cheers up with a more rock and arena sound. In other words, guitars are more abundant than ever and we are even treated to almost live sounding drums. There is still synth use, but this time around it has decided to sit in the back seat while the other instruments shine. While Beyond may separate the hardcore Informatik fans from the rest of the group, there is still much to be enjoyed on this album; the vocals are still as beautiful and unique as ever, while the lyrics still revolve around depressing themes just like in the good ol' days.Insanity Death After DeathInsomnium Above the Weeping WorldInterpol Remix EPIntronaut PrehistoricismsIntronaut Valley of SmokeInverse So TrueIN[TOXIN] Pioneers Of The High FrontierIrepress Sol Eye Sea IIris HydraIron Maiden Fear of the DarkIron Maiden No Prayer for the DyingIronchrist Getting the Most Out of Your ExtinctionIt Prevails Capture & EmbraceIt Prevails The InspirationJaga Jazzist What We MustJaga Jazzist One-Armed BanditJakalope It DreamsJames D. Stark Music of the NightCalling all goths! No, not really, I am sure this album could possibly be listened to by anyone....Synthpop with an extremely dark and gloomy feel to it. You're not going to find any of that upbeat stuff but never fear, the hooks are definitely there. The two tracks I kept off of this are Hell and Ready and both of those tracks are amazing. The latter of the two gives the expected sensual feeling one gets from a solo male singing in that low voice of theirs and because it is the first track on the album, the energy courses through the rest of the disc until the very end.James LaBrie Static ImpulseJanus Red Right ReturnJavelynn Chimaera At HeartJeff Beck Jeff Beck's Guitar ShopJeff Beck WiredJehst The Return of the DrifterJimmy Eat World Chase This LightJoe Satriani Black Swans and Wormhole WizardsJoe Satriani Unstoppable MomentumJohn Mayall CrusadeJohn Mayer Born and RaisedJonny Craig A Dream Is A Question You Don't Know How To AnswerJoy Division Unknown PleasuresJudas Priest Killing MachineJudas Priest Defenders of the FaithJudas Priest Sin After SinJulian Casablancas Phrazes for the YoungJunkie XL Booming Back At YouJunkie XL Saturday Teenage KickJust Like Vinyl Black MassJustin Timberlake JustifiedJustin Timberlake FutureSex/LoveSoundsk-os Joyful RebellionKaiser Chiefs EmploymentKalmah They Will ReturnKamelot KarmaKasabian EmpireKashiwa Daisuke Program Music IKatatonia Discouraged OnesKate Bush Hounds of LoveKeane Hopes & FearsKendrick Lamar Section.80Killarmy Silent Weapons For Quiet WarsKillswitch Engage Alive or Just BreathingKillswitch Engage Killswitch EngageKing Crimson In the Court of the Crimson KingKings of Leon Come Around SundownKISS KISSKontravoid KontravoidKuedo Dream SequenceKyuss WretchKyza The ExperienceLadytron 604Ladytron Witching HourLadytron Gravity the SeducerLamb of God WrathAfter the first listen, that many of the songs on this album sound the same. however, that might contradict the rating i have given it so i will clarify; despite some of the songs sounding similar, this does not make the album terrible in any way. The style they use throughout is good but it just gets repetitive once you get to the end of the album. It almost ends up being an album of hit or miss.Lamb of God SacramentLate Night Alumni HauntedLate Night Alumni Empty StreetsLazarus A.D. The OnslaughtLead Hands DecoderLed Zeppelin Physical GraffitiLevi/Werstler Avalanche of WormsWhen I listen to Daath, I always feel as if the guitars were holding back. Both guitarists attended the famous Musician's Institute yet when the time came to show off their skills in the form of Daath, I was a bit disappointed to hear standard metal. That all changes on Avalanche of Worms, as I was treated with instrumentals that used the most delicious and unique musical scales and tricks I could think off. Don't think this is all wank, because the album consists of equal parts solid riffing and great lead work. This album ranges from pure thrash all the way to entire songs that could be ripped off from a twisted carnival's soundtrack. Altogether, you are left with one hell of a guitar trip.Levin Torn White Levin Torn WhiteLiege Lord Burn to My TouchLiege Lord Master ControlLife Cried Banished PsalmsBanished Psalms is an aggrotech album just oversaturated with emotion and heart. It is unlike any other album of that class, since the songs don't seem to make you want to get up and dance (even though they are filled with catchy beats and synths) but instead you feel like sitting in a corner and just think about stuff. Vocals are definitely the crown jewel of Banished Psalms, as it gives off a more natural vibe than other acts out there.Lifeboat FramesLights Out Asia GarmoniaLights Out Asia Tanks And RecognizersLimp Bizkit The Unquestionable Truth [Part 1]Limp Bizkit New Old SongsLinkin Park Living ThingsLiquid Divine AutophobiaLostprophets The Fake Sound Of ProgressLunatic Soul Lunatic SoulLunatic Soul Lunatic Soul IIMachinemade God MaskedMalevolent Creation In Cold BloodMalevolent Creation EternalManchester Orchestra Simple MathMankind Is Obsolete RiseMantric The DescentMantus DemutYou don't need to understand the German lyrics to enjoy this decent gothic metal duo. Keep in mind, this ain't no Rammstein either; think of a female fronted, non English speaking Katatonia right down to the simple music and scattered synths.Marsheaux InhaleMasta Ace MA DOOM: Son Of YvonneMastodon RemissionMaylene and the Sons of Disaster IIIMechanical Moth The Sad MachinaMechanical Moth Fallen Into YouMegadeth Cryptic WritingsMegadeth The System Has FailedMegadeth United AbominationsMelvins Gluey Porch TreatmentsMelvins HoudiniMerciless The AwakeningMerciless The Treasures WithinMercyful Fate In the ShadowsMesh In This Place ForeverMesh The Point At Which It Falls ApartMesh Fragmente 2Meshuggah IMeth, Ghost and Rae Wu-MassacreMethod Man and Redman Blackout! 2Metric Live It OutMetric Old World Underground, Where Are You NowMF Grimm The Hunt For The Gingerbread ManMiami Horror IlluminationMike G VersesMike G ALIMinerve Breathing AvenueMisery MysticMobile Tomorrow Starts TodayMoby Wait for Memodernsextrash penumbraModest Mouse Good News For People Who Love Bad NewsMonkey3 Beyond The Black SkyMonuments GnosisMorbid Angel Illud Divinum InsanusMorbid Angel Formulas Fatal to the FleshMorbid Jester Gates to ValhallaMortem (Per) Demon TalesMos Def The EcstaticMotion City Soundtrack Commit This To MemoryMotionless Battle The Universe DefiantJudging from the cover of The Universe Defiant, this album looked like it would be chock full of glitchy nonsense like an old HORSE The Band album and I was hesitant to even give this a listen. However, once I got through the first song I realized this was just a front, because the album actually contained beautiful melodies whether done by a piano or a saw lead. Although most of the sound is electronic, lives drums are added plus some electric guitar, which set the album apart from its contemporaries. Any left over space is filled with soothing string patches. Despite the lack of glitchiness, this is still a fast paced album, but due to the melodic lines being thrown in every 10 seconds, it doesn't really matter.Motionless In White CreaturesMotorhead MotörheadMotorhead On ParoleMozart Season NightmaresMozart Season continue along the same path as their Apotheosis EP. What I find strange is that although I really enjoyed that last EP, I found this one to be lacking. There was still a fair share of clean singing and harsh screams, as well as enough riffs and melodic lines similar to those on Apotheosis. But more than likely, this is an EP that will definitely be enjoyed by those who liked the previous EP.MSTRKRFT The LooksMSTRKRFT creates an album that just begs to be played during the night scene. Robotic riffs and foot tapping beats make this an album that is perfect for clubs, parties, or even just your personal enjoyment. Mutiny Within SynchronicityMy Bloody Valentine m b vMy Chemical Romance Three Cheers For Sweet RevengeMy Chemical Romance The Black ParadeMy Chemical Romance I Brought You My Bullets, You Brought...Mythosis Counter Fate IllusionsNamnambulu DistancesNamnambulu is definitely an act that has just more than its foot in the door when it comes to futurepop. With countless albums and ep's the duo has been producing numerous singles and they are quite the role model for other acts. However, Distances shows a bit of laziness in the fact that there isn't really much on this album. You'll get a bunch of futurepop songs that are really just hit or miss (depending on the listener) but luckily that signature Namnambulu sound is still there. Fortunately, my personal favourite track Deception remains as one of my favourite songs of 2010.Nas STILLmaticNas Life Is Goodneath The Small UntruthsNecro Facility WintermuteNecrophobic Death To AllNeon Indian Era ExtranaNervecell PsychogenocideNeuraxis AsylonNeuraxis A Passage into ForlornNevermore The Politics of EcstasyNew Found Glory HitsNew Order RepublicNew Order Lost SirensNightfall Parade into CenturiesNo Consequence PathwaysPathways is almost a prelude to No Consequence's 2009 LP In The Shadow Of Gods. Similar musical styling includes melodic guitar passages, spastic time shifts, and several technical riffs. However, unlike the LP, Pathways only has one vocalist performing which may not be too much of a concern for fans of the band. If anything, the only turnoff I can see is the very raw production and sound on this EP.Nocow Ruins TapeNocow And Hmot Lost In TaigaWhile the Nocow side is great, the entire collection is let down by the awful and annoying Hmot side. The musical styles from each artist are very distinct, and do not sound good together on a disc.Noisia Split The AtomNoisia Block ControlNoisia ImperialNuclear Assault Game OverNujabes Spiritual StateNujabes Metaphorical MusicOasis Definitely MaybeOasis (What's The Story) Morning Glory?Obituary World DemiseObliteration Perpetual DecayObscura RetributionObsidian Point Of InfinityOh, Sleeper When I Am GodOl' Dirty Bastard Return To The 36 Chambers: The Dirty VersionOld Apparatus RealiseOmega Lithium Dreams In FormalineOnry Ozzborn Hold On for Dear LifeOrbs Asleep Next to ScienceOrganized Konfusion The EquinoxOrianthi BelieveJust looking at the front cover tells you this is nothing more than a pretty face behind a guitar. However, put the soul of a shredder in that pretty face and you get Orianthi. This album is comprised of radio friendly rock songs with blazing and melodic solos and leads. Big choruses, solos to hum to, and powerful vocals make this a fun ride. It just might just be the best of both worlds.Outkast ATLiensOutkast AqueminiOutrun The Sunlight The Return of Inertia Vocalist Re​-​ReleaseOverkill IronboundOverkill The Electric AgeOzzy Osbourne The Ultimate SinOzzy Osbourne No More TearsP.O.D. TestifyP.O.D. Fundamental Elements of SouthtownP.O.S. Never BetterP.O.S. We Don't Even Live HerePain Of Salvation Remedy LanePantera The Great Southern TrendkillPapa Roach InfestParabelle Your Starry Eyes Will Never Make Us EvenParadise Lost HostParadise Lost Believe In NothingParamore Riot!Paul Banks BanksPaul Oakenfold A Lively MindPaul Wardingham Assimilate RegeneratePendragon PassionPendulum ImmersionPersefone Truth Inside the ShadesPersefone CorePersefone Shin-KenPerversion Pillars of the EnlightenedPete Rock & Smif N Wessun MonumentalPharoahe Monch DesirePhoenix Wolfgang Amadeus PhoenixPink Floyd Atom Heart MotherPink Floyd The Division BellPink Floyd MorePink Floyd AnimalsPixies Surfer RosaPlacebo Black Market MusicPlacebo Without You I'm NothingPlanas The Long GamePMtoday In Medias ResPMtoday And Then The HurricanePoison the Well The Tropic RotPorcupine Tree Fear of a Blank PlanetPressure Points Remorses to RememberPride and Fall NepheshPride and Fall In My Time of DyingPropagandhi Potemkin City LimitsPropagandhi Today's Empires, Tomorrow's AshesPropagandhi Failed StatesProtest the Hero Fortress (Instrumental)Prozzak Saturday PeoplePsy'Aviah Introspection/ExtrospectionFirst 6 songs are quite good, but sadly the remaining 7 songs are terrible.Psycroptic The Inherited RepressionPurity Ring ShrinesPurtenance Member of Immortal DamnationQuasimoto The Further Adventures of Lord QuasQuidam Alone TogetherQuo Vadis Day Into NightRadiohead The King of LimbsRadius System ChangesRadius System Work In ProgressRaekwon Lost JewlryRammstein RosenrotRammstein Liebe Ist Für Alle DaRandom Axe Random AxeRaunchy Wasteland DiscothequeRazor Malicious IntentRazor Custom KillingRazor Violent RestitutionRe:Legion 11.11.11Red Hot Chili Peppers I'm with YouReso In Da MixReveille Bleed the SkyRevenant (US) Prophecies Of A Dying WorldRevocation Existence Is FutileRevocation Empire of the ObsceneRevocation TeratogenesisRhyme Asylum Solitary ConfinementRinoa RinoaRiot Rock CityRob Swift Roc For RaidaRobben Ford Discovering The BluesRobyn Body TalkRolo Tomassi AstraeaRoniit RoniitRoots Manuva Brand New Second HandRory Gallagher BlueprintRotersand Truth is FanaticRoyal Republic Save The NationSave The Nation has nowhere near the wit, the cleverness, nor the imagination that Royal Republic's debut album We Are The Royal had. While it still remains catchy in RR style and has their signature, unmistakeable sound, it seems as though the band got lazy when writing this album despite it being 15 (albeit, short) songs long. Many of the chord progressions and melodies are so generic and obvious you can actually sense what the next note or chord will be during your first listen of any song on this album.Rush RushRush Fly by NightRush Caress of SteelRush 2112Russian Circles GenevaSabotage Hoka HeySacred Warrior Master's CommandSacrilege GBG The Fifth SeasonSadist Season In SilenceSadus A Vision Of MiserySaigon The Greatest Story Never ToldSarcofago I.N.R.I.Sarcofago RottingSaves the Day Through Being CoolSay Anything ...Is a Real BoyScariot Strange to NumbersSceptic Unbeliever's ScriptSceptic Internal ComplexityScHoolboy Q Habits and ContradictionsSeance Fornever Laid to RestSecond Version eVidenceSecret And Whisper Great White WhaleA solid release from an otherwise bland genre. Despite only a rating of 3, this is quite an achievement. This band takes Saosin vocals and mixes it with the musical styling of Of Machines. Whether you are fan of either band or not, this is definitely one to check out for a fan of post-harcore.Sectu InundateSenses Fail Still SearchingSentenced Shadows of the PastSeptic Flesh The Great MassSepultura Chaos A.D.Serosia Perspective And BalanceSet Your Goals This Will Be the Death of UsSeventh Wonder Mercy FallsShad When This Is OverShadow Gallery Digital GhostsShadows Fall Fire From the SkyShapeshifter The System Is A VampireShiny Toy Guns We Are PilotsShot Heard Around The World How Empty We've BecomeShpongle Nothing Lasts... But Nothing Is LostSienna Skies The Constant ClimbSilent Auction H on EarthPotential is wasted on with this synthpop trio's album H on Earth. There are some great moments in a few individual songs, but they are soon muffled by boring and typical songwriting. There is still an excellent share of vocals between the man and woman, and there is never a thought that perhaps one style is outperforming the over. Unfortunately, what makes this the ultimate disappointment is how long the album is; with 14 tracks (including 2 remixes), you would expect there to be a high chance of finding something really good, but it is such a rare thing for such a long album. Top songs are easily Reverie and NB Sadness, the former being remixed decently by futurepop geniuses Mind.In.A.Box.Silent Killer Everyone BleedsSilversun Pickups Neck of the WoodsSims Bad Time ZooSinew Pilots of a New SkySinister Aggressive MeasuresSirens GatesSirens For What RemainsSkold AnomieSkyfire Mind RevolutionSkyharbor Blinding White Noise: Illusion & ChaosSkynet SkynetSleep Volume OneSleigh Bells Reign of TerrorSlipknot All Hope Is GoneSlum Village Fan-Tas-Tic Vol.1Small Black Limits Of DesireSmif-N-Wessun Dah Shinin'Snake River Conspiracy Sonic JihadSnow Patrol Final StrawSodom Obsessed by CrueltySoilwork The Living InfiniteSolar Fields Blue Moon StationSolipsist The Human EquationSorrow (UK) Art Is DeadSoulwax Nite VersionsSpektralized The PuzzleSpiral Architect A Sceptic's UniverseSpoon Gimme FictionStarfucker Miracle MileState of the Black City LightsState of the InpendumSteve Vai The Story of LightAvoid tracks "John The Revelator" and "Book Of The Seven Seals" at all costs. The rest of the songs are standard and enjoyable Vai (depending on how much you actually like him), ranging from the Hawaiian inspired song Creamsicle Sunset, the ballad-like Weeping China Doll, to the waves of arpeggiated chords in the title track.Steven Wilson Grace for DrowningSteven Wilson InsurgentesSteven Wilson The Raven That Refused to SingCame for the Steven Wilson. Stayed for the Guthrie Govan.Still Corners Strange PleasuresStrapping Young Lad AlienStrapping Young Lad CityStrike Master Up for the MassacreStructures All of the AboveSubscribe Stuck Progress to the MoonSuffocation Breeding the SpawnSuffocation Effigy of the ForgottenSuffocation Blood OathSuffocation Pinnacle of BedlamSuicidal Romance Shattered Heart ReflectionsPerhaps the most outstanding element in Shattered Heart Reflections is the dominating female vocals. Although the idea on paper has been done a million times, the vocals are just spectacular; cutting right through everything and piercing the listener in unimaginable ways. Unfortunately, there are still those ideas on this album that have been done a million times and are simply thrown into the songwriting. This actually brings down the shining vocals, as they could have been utilized far more effectively. Supreme Beings of Leisure 11iSwallow The Sun New MoonSwallow The Sun HopeSwollen Members Black MagicSybreed The Pulse of AwakeningSybreed Slave DesignSymphony X The Damnation GameSymphony X The Divine Wings of TragedySymphony X V: The New Mythology SuiteSymphony X Twilight in OlympusSymphony X IconoclastSynkro Broken PromisesSystem Syn All Seasons PassTankard Zombie AttackTegan and Sara SainthoodTelevision Marquee MoonTerminal Function Measuring the AbstractTesseracT Concealing FateTesseracT OneTestament The RitualTextures PolarsTextures DualismThe Academy Is... Almost HereThe Audition Controversy Loves CompanyThe Beach Boys Pet SoundsThe Beatles Magical Mystery TourThe Beauty Of Gemina At The End Of The SeaThe Binary Code Suspension Of DisbeliefThe Black Dahlia Murder NocturnalThe Black Keys The Big Come UpThe Black Keys Attack & ReleaseThe Black Keys El CaminoThe Black Keys BrothersThe Bunny The Bear The Stomach for ItThe Chameleons Why Call It Anything?The Chant A Healing PlaceThe Chemical Brothers SurrenderThe Cinematic Orchestra MotionThe Clash London CallingThe Color Morale We All Have DemonsSounds nothing out of the ordinary, but that is no easy task when the band is pure metalcore. Instrumentation is average, but thankfully there is not a breakdown very 5 seconds. What really puts this band out there are the two vocal types: singing and screaming. While the screaming is not perfect, it has that "gasp" in it that really makes it sound like the man is screaming his heart out. The singing is also similarly beautiful; a cross between Underoath and Emarosa. No use of auto-tune is evident nor are any other studio tricks on the album. Highly recommended for the Rise fans.The Contortionist ApparitionThe Contortionist IntrinsicThe Cure Boys Don't CryThe Dandy Warhols Welcome To The Monkey HouseThe Dear Hunter BlackThe Dear Hunter BlueThe Dear Hunter IndigoThe Dear Hunter OrangeThe Dear Hunter VioletThe Dear Hunter WhiteThe Dear Hunter The Color Spectrum (Complete Collection)The Dear Hunter Act II: The Meaning of...The Dears No Cities LeftThe Devin Townsend Project EpicloudThis makes up for Ki, Ghost, and Deconstruction. The Dillinger Escape Plan Ire WorksThe Dream the Chase Found AgainThe Dreaming PuppetThe Echoing Green The Winter of Our DiscontentThe Eyes Of A Traitor A Clear PerceptionThe Faceless AutotheismLast year it was GOD IS DEEEEAAAD. This year it's I AM GAAAAWWWD. Stay tuned for next year. EDIT: Wait now they're saying GOD IS DEEEEAAAD shit...The Faint Blank-Wave ArcadeThe Fall of Troy ManipulatorThe Flashbulb ArborealThe Hives Black And White AlbumThe Human Abstract NocturneThe Human Abstract Digital VeilThe Hundred in the Hands Red NightThe Joy Formidable The Big MoreThe Joy Formidable ChollaThe Killers Day & AgeThe Lonely Island IncredibadThe Messenger Let's Get Dangerous!The Mire Volume: IIThe National Sad Songs for Dirty LoversThe New Division Night EscapeThe Panic Division SleepwalkerThe Pass MeltThe Prodigy Their Law:The Single 1990-2005The Prodigy Music for the Jilted GenerationThe Prodigy Always Outnumbered, Never OutgunnedThe Prodigy Invaders Must Die: Special EditionThe Prodigy More Music For The Jilted GenerationThe Project Hate MCMXCIX Bleeding The New ApocalypseThe Receiving End of Sirens Between the Heart and the SynapseThe Reign Of Kindo This Is What HappensThe Roots Do You Want More?!!!??!The Ropes Post-EntertainmentThe Shizit Script KiddieThe Sorrow The SorrowThe Sorrow Misery EscapeThe Sound From The Lion's MouthThe Strokes Comedown MachineThe Vines MelodiaThe White Stripes Get Behind Me SatanThe Word Alive Life CyclesTheatre Of Tragedy MusiqueTheatre Of Tragedy AssemblyTheatre Of Tragedy Forever is the WorldTheatre Of Tragedy AddendaThis Is A Shakedown Love KillsDance rock that sounds a bit too similar to Innerpartysystem. You might even call the two bands identical right down to the lyrics. Nevertheless, Love Kills aims and getting your ass on the dancefloor and it really is hard not to when you listen to tracks like Circles and Comeandcutmyheartout. This or the Apocalypse Haunt What's LeftThomas Giles PulseThree Days Grace Three Days GraceThrice Major/MinorThrough Solace The World On StandbyAlthough this sounds like one of the usual hardcore tinged metalcore acts, you are still treated to a set of fist pounding and heart wrenching tracks similar to that of It Prevails (if not better). The gruff vocals seem to be the focal point on The World on Standby, but the instruments pull their weight delivering speed and beauty through thoughtful riffs and melodic leads. Favourite tracks are Aspects of Dreams and Lead By Example.Thursday A City By the Light DividedTonedeff ArchetypeTool 10,000 DaysTool LateralusTorae For The RecordTorche MeanderthalTorche TorcheTorchure Beyond the VeilToro Y Moi Causers of ThisTotally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs TroubleTourniquet Psycho SurgeryTourniquet Pathogenic Ocular DissonanceTrauma Archetype of ChaosTreble Charger Wide Awake BoredTreble Charger DetoxTrepalium XIIITrioscapes Separate RealitiesTriple Darkness Cold BloodedTTNG 13.0.0.0.0Twelve Foot Ninja New DawnTying Tiffany Dark Days, White NightsTyler The Creator BastardTyler The Creator GoblinTyrant Goatgaldrakona Horns In The DarkUberbyte DOSUFO No Place to RunUGK Ridin' DirtyUlcerate Everything Is FireUlcerate The Destroyers of AllUnearth III: In the Eyes of FireUneven Structure 8Unter Null Sick FuckUnter Null's finally stepped inside the zone and created a harsh yet danceable EP. The majority of the songs are remixes of her track Sick Fuck, but they all do justice to the original song. They maintain the anger that the track has, and then add some. But because they all stick to that formula, the remixes start to lack an identity from one another and you start to notice more similarities between them than any differences.Vader De ProfundisVale of Pnath Vale of PnathVan Halen Women and Children FirstVanguard (SWE) SanctuaryVarious Artists The Matrix: Music From The Motion PictureVessels White Fields and Open DevicesViatrophy ViatrophyVicious Rumors Welcome to the BallVigilante The New Resistance: North American Special EditionVio-Lence Oppressing the MassesVirgin Steele Guardians of the FlameVisions Of Trees Visions Of TreesVNV Nation JudgementVNV Nation Praise the FallenVNV Nation Of Faith, Power, and GloryVoicians EscApeIf Voicians focused on making actual songs with vocals, EscApe could have been at least a full point higher. Most of the tracks here are instrumental, so that may limit the number of people who would enjoy these tracks constantly. However, when Voicians does add some vocals to the songs, they become much better most of the time. A perfect example of this is Loner, which is easily the best song on the album. Sure, Voicians could be considered a poor man's Celldweller but the fact that EscApe is an album to simply just enjoy and dance to, it doesn't really matter.Voivod Dimension HatrossVoivod Target EarthVolumes ViaVomitory Primal MassacreWar of Ages Arise and ConquerWar of Ages Fire From the TombSo there is always thought that every song will sound the same when it comes to initially listening to a metalcore album. I must admit, i had this thought when i first started listening to the tracks but upon my second listen, i realized that they were all quite distinguishable. But moving on to the actual songs, the riffs are so wonderful and are not always composed of the same ol' ones with a dropped open note. Also, even though this may be a common thing nowadays, there are solos in almost every song. These solos truly bring the songs to life and they are full of melody with just enough shreddy bits. Like many War of Ages fans will know, the lyrics are positive themed and they kind of balance out the seesaw with the furious music on the other side.Warbringer War Without EndWavves Afraid of HeightsWe Were The Fires Of Rome Live From The Forest FloorWeezer PinkertonWhirr JuneWith Life In Mind GrievancesWolverine (SWE) StillWolverine (SWE) Communication LostWynardtage DesperationWynardtage A Flicker Of HopeIt's quite amazing (and sad) to hear a harsh ebm album where the "faster" songs are all plain jane and the slower (yes, I said SLOW) songs are ten times better. A Flicker of Hope is exactly the case, where tracks like White Frost and Hurricane Age are brilliant, yet surprisingly clean sounding. It's a new sound for Wyndartage, and he pulls it off so well that I feel bad for not liking the rest of the songs on the album. The rest are not bad by any means, but just too generic. Given that Wynardtage has been releasing an album EVERY year since 2006, I think it's safe to say he's getting pretty damn tired.Wynardtage In The Mix (Chapter One)X-Fusion Dial D For DemonsXerath Xerath IThis band is known for blending math metal with orchestra movements and that is exactly what this album comprises of. Think of modern acts such as Textures and Hacride but with a symphony. However, this does mean that the atmosphere from Textures and Hacride are missing from Xerath. There is almost no room for such element since the orchestra takes over whenever the guitars are resting.Yes The Yes AlbumYngwie Malmsteen Rising ForceYou Love Her Coz She's Dead You Love Her Coz She's DeadYour Demise Blood Stays On The BladeZeromancer Bye-Bye BorderlineBye-Bye Borderline could perhaps be Zeromancer's most complete and mature album to date. While I was a bit turned off by the title of the album, strangely enough the title track is by far my favourite thing on this. Personally, I've always felt as though industrial rock sounded best when performed with a serious attitude and mature content, thus making Bye-Bye Borderline Zeromancer's best album.ZZ Top La FuturaAmazing to hear the band's version of DJ DMD's 25 Lighters. Sounds like a disaster on paper, yes, but they gotsta get paid...2.5 average16Volt AMERICANPORNSONGS18 Carat Affair Pure Gold30 Seconds to Mars 30 Seconds to Mars50 Cent 5 (Murder By Numbers)65daysofstatic Stumble.Stop.Repeat65daysofstatic One Time for All Time65daysofstatic We Were Exploding Anyway7 Horns 7 Eyes Throes Of AbsolutionA Day To Remember For Those Who Have HeartA Day To Remember HomesickA Hero A Fake Let Oceans LieA Hero A Fake VolatileFor a metalcore band, I was not expecting this to be amazing, but there was one element that caught my ear and that was the music. Guitars, bass, and drums are all played to perfection whether it's soaring leads or beautiful clean passages. There are even a few bass solos in the mix and the entire band does a great job at impressing the listener with an array of fresh licks and riffs. However, this band loses half its points in the vocal department. The clean vocals are totally average and are almost only heard in the chorus (like most metalcore). The screaming, unfortunately, is below average and that is really what sets this band back; all you hear is this muffled sound whether its high or low, and you really miss that power and emotion that would come from a good screamer.A Textbook Tragedy IntimidatorA Textbook Tragedy Rain City State of Mind - EPAbsurd Minds DeceptionAbsurd Minds Serve or SufferAbysmal Dawn Leveling the Plane of ExistenceAccuser The ConvictionAcross the Sun Pestilence & RaptureAdam Lambert For Your EntertainmentAdvocate Trial And ErrorAeon Of Horus The Embodiment of Darkness and LightAerodyne Flex TransmissionsAesop Rock FloatAesop Rock Music For EarthwormsAesop Rock SkelethonAfter the Burial This Life Is All We HaveAgalloch Pale FolkloreAkala Knowledge is Power Vol.1Akissforjersey VictimsAlien Produkt RevengeAlien Vampires Evil GenerationAll Shall Perish Hate. Malice. RevengeAll Shall Perish The Price Of ExistenceAll Shall Perish This is Where it EndsAll That Remains This Darkened HeartAllegaeon Fragments Of Form And FunctionAllegaeon FormshifterAlphaville Catching Rays on GiantAlter Bridge BlackbirdAmerican Me HeatAmorphis Far from the SunAmorphis TuonelaAmorphis Am UniversumAmorphis Silent WatersAnata Dreams of Death and DismayAnathema A Natural DisasterAngelzoom Nothing Is InfiniteAnimations Reset Your SoulAnimosity AnimalAnnie Don't StopAnomalous OhmnivalentAntagonist (USA-WI) AntagonistAnterior This Age of SilenceAnterior Echoes of the fallenAnubis 230503Anvil Hard 'n' HeavyApollo Brown and Guilty Simpson Dice GameApoptygma Berzerk Soli Deo GloriaArch Enemy Wages of SinArch Enemy Rise of the TyrantArchitects DaybreakerArchons The Consequences of SilenceArena The Seventh Degree of SeparationArghoslent Incorrigible BigotryArkaea Years in the DarknessArkaik Reflections Within DissonanceArkaik Existential ChaosArkaik MetamorphignitionArmin van Buuren MirageArmy of the Pharaohs The Unholy TerrorArsis United in RegretArsis We Are the NightmareArsis A Celebration of GuiltArsis Lepers CaressArsonists Get All The Girls PortalsAs Blood Runs Black AllegianceAs Cities Burn Son, I Loved You At Your DarkestAs Cities Burn Hell Or High WaterAs I Lay Dying Frail Words CollapseAs Oceans Enough Light to Warrant the ContrastAsa and Stumbleine Your SecretAscariasis Ocean Of ColourAshbury Heights Take Cair ParamourIt pains me a bit to hear how average Ashbury Heights, a top notch synthpop duo, has become. With their new album Take Cair Paramour there is a large collection of songs that either have very annoying vocals to offer, or nothing else. In terms of music and vocals, nothing has really changed from their older material, but personally I found an absence of hooks and especially catchy choruses. Unfortunately, this is made even worse because the album is 14 tracks long and for such an album to be this long makes it a chore to listen to. Luckily, the second last track Unbearable Beauty satisfies my synthpop hunger with a great chorus and an amazing use of vocoding. But like I said before, due to the dullness of the twelve tracks before this track, I could have easily missed it by simply shutting off the cd about halfway through.Asian Dub Foundation Time Freeze: The Best ofAspects Correct EnglishAsphyxia AsphyxiaAstra The Black ChordAtaraxy Revelations of the EtherealAtheretic Apocalyptic Nature FuryAtoms for Peace AmokAttack Attack! Someday Came Suddenlyalthough these guys don't take anything to the next level, on the first few listens of the whole album, you will be amazed by how catchy each song is. Every song is so crisp and polished but this feeling does not last very long as the tracks start to all sound familiar. Soon, the crispness turns into the fact that the album (and especially the vocals) seems a bit overproduced. The clean singing has that wet synth sound to it, and the screaming seems a bit mechanical. all of this plus the fact that nothing new is attempted makes this the novelty wear off even faster.Attack Attack! This Means WarBased on their new haircuts, you'd think AA! was getting more focused, tighter, and more serious. Even listening to the new song, The Motivation, would have you thinking similarly. Unfortunately, we are met with the same problems on This Means War as AA!'s other albums. Switching to dropped tunings and 7 string guitars has not done anything to make their music more interesting, as the entire album is filled with chugs, power chords and nothing more. Seriously, you won't find a single guitar lead on this thing. It was coming to the point where I was asking, "Can I have more synths on this thing, please?" The vocals are another weak aspect: Caleb seemed like he was the man for the job at first, but on this album he sounds like he's struggling for air. His half spoken-half screamed lines (or whatever you call them) are just awful to listen to. Attention System Wait For My SignalA very interesting listen, that is actually 50% rock, and 50% electronica. In other words, you'll get all the groovy bass/guitar lines and drum beats that a rock band would have plus tasty synth lines that add that little special flavour. Favourite songs are Bot Killer, Drastic Measures, and Miss Machine.Autechre AmberAutechre Tri RepetaeAutoclav1.1 All Standing Room In The Goodnight SaloonAutopsy The Tomb WithinAvenged Sevenfold Sounding the Seventh TrumpetAvenged Sevenfold NightmareBalance and Composure I Just Want To Be PureBarren Cross Atomic ArenaBattles MirroredBe'lakor The Frail TideBe'lakor Of Breath And BoneBecoming the Archetype The Physics Of FireBefore Their Eyes The Dawn of My DeathBefore Their Eyes RedemptionBehemoth EvangelionBelle Manoir Century TreeBeneath the Massacre Mechanics of DysfunctionBetween the Buried and Me The Anatomy OfBetween the Buried and Me Between the Buried and MeBetween the Buried and Me The Parallax: Hypersleep DialoguesBetween the Buried and Me The Parallax II: Future SequenceIs funny because when band finally writes songs that are less than two minutes, those songs are absolutely useless.Big Wreck AlbatrossBilly Talent Billy Talent IIIBlack Country Communion 2Black Pyramid IIBlaq Poet Blaq Poet SocietyBlaqk Audio Bright Black HeavenBleeding Through The TruthBleeding Through Bleeding Throughblink-182 Dogs Eating DogsBloodshot Dawn Bloodshot DawnBlu and Exile Give Me My Flowers While I Can Still Smell ThemBlue Foundation In My Mind I Am FreeBlur The Great EscapeBlur LeisureBlur Modern Life Is RubbishBlut Aus Nord 777 - The DesanctificationBlutengel SeelnschmerzBlutengel MonumentBombay Bicycle Club A Different Kind of FixBonded by Blood Exiled to EarthBonded by Blood Feed the BeastBoom Boom Satellites JoyrideBoom Boom Satellites UmbraBoom Boom Satellites REMIXEDBoris Heavy RocksBotch We Are the RomansBreakdown Of Sanity The Last SunsetBrother/Ghost Black IceBullet For My Valentine Scream, Aim, FireBullet For My Valentine The PoisonBullet For My Valentine Hand Of BloodBurden of a Day Blessed Be Our Ever AfterBurial South London BoroughsBurial BurialBurials Tired ArmsI do appreciate Burials trying to distance themselves from the typical metalcore outfit, but Tired Arms still lacks any originality. Vocally, you're pretty much listening to Oli Sykes except without too much range. Sure, I can deal with that but when the music layers over top, I start to lose faith. You can hear the TDWP synth filling up the empty spaces, you can hear the forced guitar leads, and you can pretty much see a breakdown coming at every corner. Burning The Masses Offspring of TimeBury Me Breathing Through Eyes Not Your OwnBy Blood and Iron By Blood and Iron (EP)Bywar Invincible WarCage The Elephant Cage The ElephantCalled To Arms The Last LamentCanvas Solaris SublimationCapharnaum Reality Only FantasizedCappadonna The PilgrimageCarcass HeartworkCarnivore CarnivoreCaspian The Four TreesCassidy C.A.S.H.Celldweller The Beta CessionsChapterhouse WhirlpoolChelsea Grin Desolation of EdenChevelle Sci-Fi CrimesChevelle Point #1Children of Nova Impossible LandscapeChimaira Pass Out Of ExistenceChromeo Fancy FootworkCircles The CompassCity Of Ifa Black PyramidClaps WreckCloudkicker Let Yourself Be HugeCloudkicker FadeCode 64 StormCodes In The Clouds Paper CanyonCoheed and Cambria No World for TomorrowComa Lies NC The Great Western BasinCombichrist Making MonstersComecon Converging ConspiraciesConducting From the Grave RevenantsConstants The Murder of Tom FitzgerrilConstants The Foundation The Machine The AscensionContradiction The Essence of AngerControl Denied The Fragile Art of ExistenceConverge All We Love We Leave BehindConvulse World Without GodCopywrite The Life And Times Of Peter NelsonCoroner CoronerCovenant Dreams Of A CryotankCovenant EuropaCovenant United States Of MindCraft Spells Idle LaborCrash Kings Crash KingsCrocodiles Endless FlowersCrossfaith The Dream, The SpaceCruciamentum Engulfed In DesolationCrypt Of Kerberos World Of MythsCryptopsy CryptopsyCryptopsy Blasphemy Made FleshCTRL Lost In StaticCue to Recall MainlandCut Copy ZonoscopeCyclamen SenjyuCygnosiC One Step ForwardDarkest Hour The Eternal ReturnDaylight Dies No ReplyDaylight Dies Dismantling DevotionDDM LucidityDead Calm No Way OutDeadborn Mayhem Maniac MachineDeadmau5 Random Album TitleDeadmau5 4x4=12Deadmau5 > album title goes here <For a guy with 11.5 million to his name you'd think he'd be able to pay another guy to think of a decent album title...Deas Vail Deas VailDeas Vail The Side EffectDeath Angel Killing SeasonDeath Angel Relentless RetributionDeath Cab for Cutie Codes and KeysDeath Cab for Cutie The Photo AlbumDeathrage Self Conditioned, Self LimitedDecapitated Organic HallucinosisDeceased Surreal OverdoseDef Leppard HysteriaDelphic AcolyteDemians Building An EmpireDemigod Unholy DomainDemon Hunter Summer Of DarknessDepeche Mode Construction Time AgainDerma-Tek DefiledDerma-Tek Corpus TechnologicalDesecrator Subconscious ReleaseDesolate Shrine Tenebrous TowersDestinity The InsideDestroy The Runner SaintsDestruction Inventor of EvilDestruction The AntichristDetroit Diesel Coup d'EtatDevil Sold His Soul Blessed & CursedDevin Townsend TerriaDevin Townsend Ziltoid the OmniscientDFRNT FadingDinosaur Jr. Where You BeenDinosaur Jr. Without a SoundDiorama CubedDirewolf Beyond the Lands of Human ExistenceDisclosure The FaceDissect Swallow Swouming MassDistance My DemonsDistorted Memory Swallowing The SunA heavy middle eastern vibe is what separates Swallowing the Sun from other harsh ebm albums but even then, it lacks in all the other departments. This would be much better if the middle eastern-ness was toned down so there would be more focus on danceable arpeggios and beats.Disturbed The Lost ChildrenDivision By Zero Tyranny of TherapyDJ Shadow The Less You Know, the BetterDomo Genesis No IdolsDr. Octagon Dr. OctagonecologystDragon Scream of DeathDragonette Fixin to ThrillDragonForce The Power WithinDream Theater AwakeDream Theater Falling into InfinityDreamshade What Silence Hidesdredg The Pariah, The Parrot, The DelusionDual Density Soul EcstasyIt's a bit of a shame that an album with 16 tracks does not contain a single song that stands out or has a good chorus. But then again, electro-pop isn't a genre to be taken too seriously, as its main purpose is to get your ass on the dancefloor or become depressed over the one that got away. Unfortunately, every song contained the same sort of cheese content (especially with lyrics) and like stated before, there was not a single track that stood out from the others. If an album's only goal was to get your hips moving, this would definitely be up there though...Dungeon Elite [**] Dance Dance EvolutionDuran Duran All You Need Is NowDust Is Noise Fractured FormsDYM The InvilidEarwig Gibson Under MountainEast of the Wall The ApologistEdge of Sanity Nothing But Death RemainsEl-P Cancer 4 CureElectric Valentine AutomaticI don't give a damn if you're literally made of stone, there are at least 3 tracks to get that body moving whether it be the hips or even a subtle tapping of the foot. Yes, there is auto-tune and simplistic GarageBand beats so this might turn off you music snobs, but all in all, this is a very solid electro-pop records from the man/woman duo. Element The EnergyEleven8 AloneEleven8 Changing ColoursEleventyseven Galactic ConquestEmarosa RelativityEmarosa EmarosaEmmure Slave to the GameEmpty Aeon XpandEndanger RevoltThe only songs I truly enjoyed from Revolt were Atemlos and Fool. But this is where it gets funny, because those two songs contain more of an alternative rock vibe than a futurepop one. The former track contains an acoustic guitar strumming chords throughout the whole song and it's so overpowering it could be a tune from the radio. Fool is a bit more futurepop sounding (yes, I lied), but it also contains an electric guitar playing a lick throughout the song, which also gives it a more rock-ish sound than any other song on the album. Unfortunately, the rest of the songs on Revolt that actually embrace futurepop are just too boring to be listened to over and over again.Endevor 296 Above ParallelsEnfold Darkness Our Cursed RaptureEngineers Three Fact FaderEnslaved RIITIIREnter Shikari Common DreadsEntrails The Tomb AwaitsEric B and Rakim Don't Sweat the TechniqueEroded Engravings of a Gruesome EpitaphEsc Eight Thousand Square FeetI'll admit my hopes did increase a little when I saw industrial veterans like SITD and Wynardtage featured on this album. Unfortunately, even they were not enough to save this album from being nothing more than a boring, uninspired aggrotech album. Eight Thousand Square Feet, like many other aggrotech albums, opens up with its best song and AGAIN I am fooled into thinking this album will be great. However, the truth sinks in a few songs later and by the time you get to the end and decide to replay that first good song, you realize that it sucks too.Essence (DNK) Lost in ViolenceEssence of Mind Try and FailEssence of Mind IndifferenceEternal Tears of Sorrow Sinner's SerenadeEve 6 Eve 6Every Time I Die Hot Damn!Every Time I Die New Junk AestheticEvita Minutes and MilesEvoke Dreaming The RealityEvoke The Fury WrittenExcision X RatedIs funny because even though Jaguar will statistically be the worst song on this, it's the only one I kept from this.Exmortus In Hatred's FlameExtol UndeceivedExtol BurialExtol SynergyEyeconoclast Drones of the AwakeningEyes Set To Kill ReachFall In Archaea GatheringsFall Out Boy Take This To Your GraveFalling Up CrashingsFamily Force 5 Business Up Front, Party In The BackFang Island MajorFarscape For Those Who Love to KillFatal Embrace The Ultimate AggressionFear Factory MechanizeFear Factory Soul of a New MachineFei Comodo They All Have Two FacesFilur FacesFireflight UnbreakableFix8:Sed8 HumanophobiaFleetwood Mac Then Play OnFleshgod Apocalypse OraclesFleshgod Apocalypse MafiaFlying Lotus CosmogrammaFlyUnion The Greater Than ClubFoals Holy FireFoo Fighters One By OneFor Today EkklesiaFor Today PortraitsForeign Beggars Beggattron Remixed EP 2Forever Orion Passion. Love. Harmony.Forever the Sickest Kids Underdog Alma MaterForever the Sickest Kids Forever the Sickest KidsFormalin BodymindingFoster The People TorchesFractional BloodProbably not the best album to listen to if you just want to hear some damn break beats. Blood is more of an experimental breakbeat album, but you will score some gold with one of the last tracks, Ofue, which is just beautiful breakbeats layered under a very harsh sounding yet melodic arpeggio and string arrangement.Fractured Beneath The AshesFrank Ocean Channel OrangeFriendly Fires PalaFront Line Assembly FLAvour of the WeakFrozen Plasma ArtificialBy definition, Frozen Plasma would technically excel at combining synthpop vocals with futurepop music. Such a statement would surely argue that Artificial deserves an excellent rating. However, I just don't see it that way. Firstly, most of the songs revolve around a single synth line and a strong chorus. Therefore, disregarding decent verse sections. While it may not be the end of the world in a genre like this, it still results in weak songwriting. Perhaps the most interesting weakness of this album is the production; it is in fact too clean. Almost like a Joey Sturgis record, everything on the album gives off a slick impression and it takes away even more from whatever the album originally had.Funebrarum/Undergang The Dead of WinterFuneral Whore Step Into DamnationFuture Islands In Evening AirFuture Perfect EscapeGalahad Beyond The Realms Of EuphoriaGalaxy Hunter Sleeping ChildGama Bomb Tales From the Grave in SpaceGamma Ray Insanity and GeniusGatsbys American Dream VolcanoGentlemans Pistols At Her Majesty's PleasureGet Up Texas RevelationsGhost Brigade Isolation SongsGhostface Killah and DJ Premier Duel Of The Iron FistsGifts From Enola From FathomsGlassjaw El MarkGod Is An Astronaut A Moment of StillnessGod Is An Astronaut Age of the Fifth SunGod Is An Astronaut All Is Violent, All Is BrightGojira The LinkGorefest MindlossGorillaz Demon DaysGory Blister Art BleedsGreg Howe Sound ProofGrendel (NL) Harsh GenerationGrieves 88 Keys & CountingGuards In Guards We TrustHacride Deviant Current SignalHacride Back To Where You've Never BeenHadouken! ParasiteHadouken! For The MassesHail of Bullets ...Of Frost and WarHanging Garden At Every DoorHaste the Day Attack Of The Wolf KingHatchet Awaiting EvilHe Is Legend Suck Out The PoisonHead-Less Imperfect: [Mensch]Heaven Shall Burn Invictus (Iconoclast III)Heaven Shall Burn VetoHelalyn Flowers White Me In/Black Me OutHellogoodbye Would It Kill You?Helloween Better Than RawHelloween Straight Out of HellHelloween The Dark RideHelloween Master of the RingsHelstar Burning StarHideous Divinity Obeisance RisingHimsa Hail HorrorHocico Vile WhispersHodgy Beats UntitledHoly Terror Mind WarsHoobastank The ReasonHope For The Dying Aletheia (LP)House Vs. Hurricane Crooked TeethHumanoid Remembering UniverseHundredth When Will We SurrenderHurts ExileHypertension Primeval Tyrants PrevailsHypocrisy Catch 22 (V2.0.08)Hypocrisy Into The AbyssHypocrisy End of DisclosureI Am Abomination The Passion Of The HeistI am the Ocean ...And Your City Needs SwallowingI Scintilla The ApproachI The Omniscient Lost In NebulaA 2.5 may be a bit harsh, but it's easy to tell that I The Omniscient is a bunch of French kids with a lot of potential. Lost In Nebula proves that the group has the chops to make some very exciting-to-listen-to metal but I feel as the the vocals need A LOT of improvement which can only happen with age.I, Omega The RavenousIAMX Kingdom of Welcome AddictionWhile the album is one of those "been there, done that" electronica trips, one song managed to stick out and become one of my favourites of 2009. that song, I Am Terrified, delivers unbelievable emotion from the lyrics as well as the vocals. Said song is a jewel among sand.IAMX The AlternativeIce Choir AfarIce Cube Lethal InjectionIce Nine Kills Safe Is Just A ShadowIced Earth Something Wicked This Way ComesIdiot Pilot Heart Is LongIllusion Of Light Follow The SunImpalers Power Behind The ThroneImperative Reaction Eulogy For the Sick ChildImperative Reaction Minus AllIn Fear and Faith Your World On FireIn Flames Come ClarityIn Flames TriggerIn Flames Sounds of a Playground FadingIn Mourning The Weight of OceansIndesinence Vessels of Light and DecayIndukti IdmenInformatik Direct Memory AccessInformatik How LongInhale Exhale The Lost, the Sick, the SacredIntronaut Habitual LevitationsInvocation of Nehek Invocation of NehekIn[Perfektion] MonstersIron Thrones The Wretched SunStaying with the path they chose on Visions of Light is just not going to cut it for The Wretched Sun. This particular EP is just boring, as it relies on repetitive chords to drive each of the 6 songs which range from 5 minutes all the way to 11 minutes. You will hear a change up or two, where the song slows down but even this is not enough to keep you from nodding off nor are the minimal guitar leads/solos.Isles & Glaciers The Hearts of Lonely PeopleIwrestledabearonce IwrestledabearonceIzz Crush Of NightJack Slater Extinction AftermathTechnical death metal, but with more focus on groove than anything else. In that sense, they are very similar to Gorod. Deep growls, speedy drums, and twin guitars that deliver the licks and tricks. As a bonus, we get an audible bass that is also capable of delivering the skillz.James and Evander Bummer PopJamies Elsewhere They Said a Storm Was ComingJamiroquai DynamiteJane's Addiction StraysJay-Z and Kanye West Watch the ThroneJeff Loomis Zero Order PhaseJeffree Star Cupcakes Taste Like ViolenceJimmy Eat World InventedJJ DOOM Key To The KuffsJohn Talabot Fin Remixes Part 1Johnny Marr The MessengerJohnny Truant No Tears for the CreaturesJudas Priest Point of EntryJulien-K We're Here with YouJunkie XL Need For Speed: ProStreet OSTGood soundtrack if one just wants music in the background for a party or small get together. However, the actual game this comes from is a lot worse.Junkie XL Radio JXL: A Broadcast From The Computer Hell CabiJunkie XL TodayJXL decides to go organic with this release, and to a regular listener of his work, it can go two ways. Similar to The Crystal Method, JXL has much commercial success so doing a complete 180 for this release may have been risky. In my opinion, it got the best of him and this particular album just left the listener bored and wondering when the bounce was going to kick in. Today ditches the abundant use of synths and uses clean guitars as an alternative. One track that demonstrates this is Such A Tease, which is my favourite track off the album. The album maintains a calmness and coolness, perfect for the chill club setting. Justice CrossK Sera Collisions and Near MissesKalisia CybionKalmah 12 GaugeKalmah SwampsongKanye West My Beautiful Dark Twisted FantasyKatatonia Viva EmptinessKatatonia The Great Cold DistanceKeith Merrow Lonestar TranscendKenos X-TorsionKilians Lines You Should Not CrossKilling The Dream FracturesKillswitch Engage As Daylight DiesKillswitch Engage The End of HeartacheKillswitch Engage Disarm the DescentKincaide MyriadKincaide The Landscape VersesKingdoms AtlantisKingston Falls Armada On MercuryKlimt 1918 DopoguerraKool Keith Sex StyleKrenak DecimationKryptic Minds One of UsKrypts Unending DegradationKuedo Work, Live & Sleep In Collapsing SpaceLa Dispute Somewhere at the Bottom of the River...Ladyhawke LadyhawkeLamb of God ResolutionLaments of Silence Restart Your MindIf it was not for the electronics floating around behind the wall of drums and crushing guitars, this would just be another poor and boring melodic death album. In other words, those synth lines that are just too damn shy to come out into the front could easily make this a worthwhile listen but there is still too much focus on the death metal side rather than a possible industrial side. Vocals are reminiscent of The Shizit, but the music is that of a generic melodic death act.Lavender Diamond Incorruptible HeartLeaether Strip AengelmakerWhen it comes to EBM, Leaether Strip is almost a household name; he's released a number of albums throughout the years, each one consistent, and sticking to the traditions of ebm and harsh ebm. However, once you've kept with traditions for so many years, one starts to get bored, and it shows on this album. The first half of the album is pretty much terrible; cheesy lyrics and arrangements inserted into songs that lack any drive. Once we get to the ending tracks, the album actually picks up a little where Strip starts to get more serious and reaches out to the listener. Strip even manages to do a wicked cover of Depeche Mode's Black Celebration which turns out to be one of the strongest songs on the album.Life in Your Way The Sun Rises and the Sun SetsLife in Your Way Ignite and RebuildLife in Your Way Kingdom Of GodLife in Your Way Kingdom Of ManLife in Your Way Kingdom Of DarknessLife in Your Way KingdomsLifeless (DE) GodconstructLight This City StormchaserLimp Bizkit Three Dolla Bill Y'allLions!Tigers!Bears! Shallow Waters, Endless DepthLiquid Stranger The Private RiotLiving Colour VividLost Area MemoriaThe album may not stand apart from any ebm you've heard this days, but one of the tracks, Guardian Angel is easily one of the best songs I've heard all year.Lostprophets Liberation TransmissionLucidstatic Symbiont UndergroundLunatic Soul ImpressionsMy impression? This is boring as hell. Lymbyc Systym SymbolystLyronian Hope And VenerationMacabra Blood Nurtured NatureMachine Head The BlackeningMalefice Dawn Of ReprisalIf you are expecting a continuation of Malefice's debut album, you are sure to be disappointed. Any of the grooves and head nodding bits from the debut are absent and we are left with a failing attempt at a boring metalcore album that's trying to be a melodic death metal album.Malefice Awaken The TidesMalevolent Creation StillbornMan Must Die No Tolerance For ImperfectionMarcus D Melancholy HopefulMari Chrome Georgy#11811Marillion MarblesMarilyn Manson Born VillainMatchbook Romance Voicesmaudlin of the Well My Fruit Psychobells... A Seed CombustibleMaybeshewill Japanese Spy Transcript EPMechanical Moth TormentMellowHype BLACKENEDWHITEMellowHype YellowhiteMellowHype NumbersMemphis May Fire SleepwalkingMenschdefekt The Human ParasiteMesh Automation BabyMetallica Death MagneticMetric FantasiesMicroburst Hadal LagoonMillionYoung AmanecerMind.Area Mazemind.in.a.box SelectivaIf Selectiva were to be released as an official LP, I would be much more disappointed in Mind.In.A.Box. However, Selectiva is simply a collection of b-sides and rarities that are really hit or miss (which can be said for any b-side or rarity, really). The majority of them are very quiet and relaxed sounding, which may sound enticing considering Mind does this formula very well, but these songs are actually very poor. The few harder songs on this compilation are much better, especially tracks like Dead End (One Way Mix) and Lament for Lost Dreams (Space Mix).Minora ImagoMinushuman Watch The World DieMiseration Your Demons ~ Their AngelsMoby Destroyed: RemixedWhy the hell does this compilation consist of just a few tracks from Destroyed remixed repeatedly? One would expect several, if not all, tracks from the LP to have an opportunity to be remixed. This is especially disappointing given that some of my favourite tracks on Destroyed, such as Be The One, did not make an appearance in any form on this remix compilation. But other than being remixed, some tracks did appear as their "original mixes" which honestly served no purpose to this album.Mono One Step More and You DieMoonlight Cove Hearts Of The WorldMortal Sin Psychology of DeathMotorama CalendarMoving Mountains PneumaMoving Mountains WavesMr. Big What If...MSTRKRFT Fist of GodIt seemed like this band started out not giving an eff about what was popular and whether they'd ever get played on the radio. The Looks perfectly summed up this feeling, and it was a great album. This second effort from MSTRKRFT seems to have an opposite mood. They kept the synths, but invited a bunch of low brow rappers to provide vocals. At times, vocals just kill the song but there are a few songs that are brought justice with the addition of vocals. It seems as though MSTRKRFT is aching to appear on tv and the radio with this album.Mudvayne L.D. 50Muse The ResistanceMutilation Aggression In EffectMutiny Within Mutiny WithinMy Bitter End The RenovationWhen listening to the first few tracks, you get the feeling that this album will be 50/50 brutal and melodic. However, as the album goes on, this ratio starts sliding in favour of brutal and suddenly the last few tracks are just three minute breakdowns. Whatever melody is left in them seem to be recycled licks that were just put in there for the hell of it. The vocals are nasty throughout, similar to that of The Hero, The Fake which may be hit or miss with listeners.Nameless The Overcome of the Portuguese BastardsNas God's SonNatron Rot Among UsNeal Morse Testimony 2Nebula 3 Another WayNecrosanct IncarnateNegative Format GradientsNero Welcome RealityNeuraxis Trilateral ProgressionNeuropa Plastique PeopleNeuropa is almost considered to be a household name when it comes to synthpop, where they have released many albums using the same formula every single time. It is not until now, in Plastique People, that the formula has gone bland. This particular album really does not offer anything other than a set of passable synthpop tunes, each one just as boring as the other. This may seem odd, seeing as Neuropa has not changed much since their debut but each of their albums had that special ingredient that made them worthwhile; Plastique People just sounds lazy.Neurotic Machinery OpsialgiaNevermore NevermoreNevermore In MemoryNew Found Glory RadiosurgeryNile Annihilation of the WickedNile At The Gate Of SethuNine Inch Nails Y34RZ3R0R3M1X3DNipsey Hussle The MarathonNocturnal Torment They Come At NightNoisia Machine GunNorthlane SingularityNothing Nada Violence NadaNovembers Doom Into Night's Requiem InfernalNuclear Assault The PlagueNumbers NumbersOblivion Called to RiseObscura IllegimitationOceanLab Sirens Of The SeaOctaves Greener PasturesOctober Tide Rain Without EndOf Virtue HeartsoundsOFWGKTA RadicalOh No OhnomiteOK Go Ok GoOmen Battle CryOrianthi Heaven In This HellStrangely enough, as Orianthi's technical chops increase, the chance of Heaven In This Hell sounding like a generic rock guitar album does as well.Origin AntithesisOrigin Echoes of DecimationOrphanage By Time AloneOwl City Ocean EyesPain Dancing with the DeadPanda Riot Northern Automatic MusicPanic Lift Is This Goodbye?Pantera Far Beyond DrivenPantera Reinventing the SteelPaper Route AbsenceParadise Lost Tragic IdolParadise Lost Symbol Of LifeParadise Lost In RequiemParadox Tales of the WeirdParagon World Of SinParallaxis Psychotronic PoetryParamore Brand New EyesParkway Drive Deep BlueParley Judges of the UnderworldPaul Van Dyk EvolutionPendulum In SilicoPendulum Hold Your ColourPersefone Spiritual MigrationPestilence Resurrection MacabrePhace PsychoPhace and Misanthrop From Deep SpacePicture Eternal DarkPink Floyd Obscured by CloudsPink Floyd The Final CutPlanar Evil Mankind Way Of LifePlasmodivm The Post-Modern PrometheusPoison the Well VersionsPolluted Inheritance Into DarknessPolyenso The TidePorcupine Tree The IncidentPorcupine Tree Lightbulb SunPorter Robinson Spitfirepost harbor. PraenumbraPreEmptive Strike 0.1 Extinction ReprogrammedI was very disappointed after listening to Extinction Reprogrammed after reading about the hype and new flavour that 0.1 was bringing to the scene. The problem is that 0.1 seems to have taken a little bit from fellow artists (C-Lekktor, Amduscia, Suicide Commando, etc) and mashed it all up into their own concoction. Originality is missing from this album and that's what really causes the listener to suffer.PreEmptive Strike 0.1 The KosmokratorPreemptive Strike follow the path that they took on their previous album, Extinction Reprogrammed, and this is exactly the problem with The Kosmokrator. There is not a shred of uniqueness on this, as any idea that your hear on The Kosmokrator has literally been done a hundred times. As a whole, you could easily play this at a club or other similar scene but listening to each track individual is quite a chore. You can expect an average release when it is simply a carbon copy of another average release.Priestess Prior to the FirePrince Purple RainProfanal Black ChaosPronostic Deviated Inner SpectrumProtest the Hero A Calculated Use of SoundProzzak Cruel Cruel WorldPsy-Virus EternityPsycroptic The Isle of DisenchantmentPsycroptic Symbols of FailurePsycroptic Ob(Servant)Psycroptic The Scepter of the AncientsPsyopus Ideas of ReferencePure Reason Revolution Hammer & AnvilPysiedius Butchery and ApathyPsyiedius prove one thing on Butchery and Apathy, and that is they got musical chops. But don't believe that this album is full of nonsensical shred, as there is plenty of breathing space on each song as well as a noticeable structure. However, these softer and slower moments on the album (the breathing space) seems forced, almost as if Pysiedius knew what we were all thinking and decided to slow a song down just cuz. Production is also a weak point of the album and can understand this because the band is so young and not well known, but when you really have to max the volume of your player just to hear the outline of the song, you know there is a problem.Quo Vadis Forever...Rah Rah The Poet's DeadRaven Architect of FearRazor Armed and DangerousRe:Legion IntersectionReactor7x DisorderreADJUST MetamorphosereADJUST Alive!Reaver LeviathanRed Innocence and InstinctRed Seas Fire Red Seas FireRed Sparowes At The Soundless DawnRed Sparowes The Fear Is Excruciating, But Therein...Reso Check 1, 2Retractor The False MemoryRetractor, you bore me with your unimaginative album named The False Memory. Each song seems compressed, as if there is some beast waiting to jump out, but that time never comes. Synths aren't exactly minimalistic on this album, but they lack any sort of lead or hook that the listener can attach themselves to. This actually may have been a decent album due due to a few good, but hidden ideas.Riot NaritaRiot Fire Down UnderRishloo FeathergunRob Swift The ArchitectRobin Trower Living Out Of TimeRotersand Waiting To Be BornRusko SongsRussian Circles StationRussian Circles EnterRussian Circles EmprosRXYZYXR LMNTSRZA Ghost Dog: The Way of the SamuraiScale The Summit MonumentScar Symmetry Dark Matter DimensionsWhen your band is pure melodic death metal, it is extremely hard to get out of that niche and attempt to make a stand out record, so why bother? Scar Symmetry do exactly that and stick with making their music which is literally the definition of today's melodic death. Vocals are capable, yet average, while the guitars also deliver nothing but average. The only standout on this album are the guitar solos; extremely sweet sounding yet also shreddy. Definitely worthy of being acknowledged.Scariot Tongueless GodScarve The UndercurrentScarve IrradiantScarve LuminiferousSceptic Pathetic BeingSchool of Seven Bells Put Your Sad DownScrap.Edx Merciless ProtractionSea of Skies DistanceSea of Treachery At Dagger's DawnSea of Treachery Welcome To Wonderland Seabound No Sleep Demon V2.0Secret And Whisper Teenage FantasySeptic Christ Guilty As We Were BornSeven (UK) EvolutionSeventh Wonder Waiting in the WingsShade Empire Omega ArcaneShadow Gallery LegacyShadows Fall Threads of LifeShadows Fall Fallout From The WarShadows Fall Of One BloodShadows Fall RetributionShai Hulud Misanthropy PureShiv-R Hold My HandShiv-R fails to make their own album, and instead borrows elements from all around them. The vocals almost seem to be snatched from In Strict Confidence, yet the music has no flavour at all. It remains so simple, that it actually becomes boring; you almost forget that it's even there. The only song I truly enjoyed from this was Map the Feedback because it borrows the formula of today's psytrance and crunches it into a short, five minute package.Silent Civilian Rebirth of the TempleSilent Civilian Ghost StoriesSilverstein Discovering the WaterfrontSine Here LiftedSinister Creative KillingsSinister The Carnage EndingSirens & Sailors Still BreathingSiva Six The Twin MoonsSkeleton Hands GoneSkrillex Scary Monsters and Nice SpritesSkrillex My Name Is SkrillexSkrillex BangarangSky Eats Airplane Everything Perfect on the Wrong DaySkyfire SpectralSkyfire Timeless DepartureSlave Republic Electric OneElectric One is another album that's strives to get your booty on the dance floor. As a whole, it accomplishes this task well, yet there are still a few tracks that are on the calmer side, in case you need a breather. Personally, I find these dance rock albums to be hit or miss; there may be a few amazing tracks scattered among some boring/average ones. Electric One is no different, but despite this, it is still worth a listen.Sleep Parade Things Can Always ChangeSleep Party People We Were Drifting On A Sad SongSlice the Cake The Man With No FaceSlipknot IowaSlipknot SlipknotSociety's Plague The Human, The CanvasA very generic metalcore album with enough keys to make it border on melodic death metal. The only thing that keeps it on the metalcore edge is the numerous breakdowns that accompany each song. Yes, reading that last sentence makes it seem as though the album is plagued (pun intended) with breakdowns. However, they appear at just the right moments to get you back in the game temporarily, right before you doze back to sleep when a generic chorus or riff starts up again.Soilwork The Panic BroadcastSolar Fields Random FridaySole and the Skyrider Band PlastiqueSolitary Experiments ParadoxSon of Aurelius Myocardial InfarctionSon of Aurelius Son of Aurelius The Farthest ReachesWait, what track is this? Huh? I thought that was this track? No man, the track you're thinking of is this one. Son of Aurelius show off their technical chops more than anything on their debut LP and sooner than later, the entire album sounds like one big mush of 36 minutes. Every single song consists of the same formula of fretboard-burning riffs, shreddy solos, and never changing vocals. But this formula may also be exactly what one is looking for so if the above description tickles your fancy, this band is right up your alley.Sonic Syndicate Only InhumanSoul Cycle Soul CycleSoulsavers The Light The Dead SeeSpiralsea EssenceStealing Axion MomentsStill Remains The SerpentStories VoidStrange Talk Cast AwayStrapping Young Lad The New BlackStratovarius Fright NightStray From the Path Make Your Own HistoryUK metalcore that's brutal as hell, similar to what old Bury Your Dead sounds like. Perfect music for those that are pissed off and wanna mosh, but in terms of the actual songs, many of them suffer from that familiar plague in this genre, and that is repetition.Stray From the Path Rising SunStryper To Hell With the DevilStuck In The Sound PursuitStyles of Beyond 2000 FoldSubmerse TearsSubmerse Algorithms And GhostsSuffocation SuffocationSuicidal Romance A Kiss To ResistAlthough Suicidal Romance may have been smart enough to produce the brilliant song Always off this EP, they were not smart enough to remix every other song three times and leave this one out. EDIT: seti, thank you for the info. I actually had no idea it was a cover of an Erasure track.Suicide Silence The Black CrownSum 41 ChuckSum 41 Half Hour Of PowerSwollen Members Monsters in the ClosetSybreed God Is an AutomatonSympathy Arcane PathSympathy InvocationSystem Annihilated FurorSystem Syn StrangersT.R.A.M. Lingua FrancaTactical Sekt SyncopeTalib Kweli Gutter RainbowsTall Ships Everything TouchingTalvekoidik Negotiate the DistanceTame Impala LonerismTardive Dyskinesia The Sea of See Through SkinsTardive Dyskinesia Static Apathy in Fast ForwardTeam Sleep Team SleepTears For Fears The Seeds of LoveTeebee BlacksciencelabsTegan and Sara HeartthrobTelemetrik My LightyearTera Melos Patagonian RatsTera Melos X'ed OutTerminate Ascending To Red HeavensTerrolokaust God Loves The ViolenceTerrorgazm Save UsTesseracT Altered StateTexas In July I AmTexas In July One RealityThe Academy Is... SantiThe Air I Breathe Great Faith In FoolsThe Alchemist Russian RouletteThe All-American Rejects Move AlongThe American Scene Safe For NowThe Angelic Process Coma WaeringThe Arcane Order In The Wake of CollisionsThe Assemble Head in Sunburst Sound ManzanitaThe Beatles Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club BandThe Black Dahlia Murder MiasmaThe Black Dahlia Murder DeflorateThe Boy Will Drown FetishThe Breathing Process Odyssey (un)DeadThe Bunny The Bear If You Don't Have Anything Nice to Say...The Bunny The Bear StoriesThe Burial Lights and PerfectionsThe Cardigans First Band on the MoonThe Chemical Brothers Push The ButtonThe Chemical Brothers Exit Planet DustThe Chemical Brothers Come with UsThe Crystal Method Community Service IThe Crystal Method Divided By NightThe Damned Things IroniclastThe Dead Weather Sea of CowardsThe Dead Weather HorehoundThe Dear Hunter Act I: The Lake South, the River NorthThe Dear Hunter YellowThe Dear Hunter GreenThe Dear Hunter RedThe Devil Wears Prada With Roots Above and Branches BelowThe Devin Townsend Project DeconstructionThe Devin Townsend Project GhostThe Dillinger Escape Plan Under the Running BoardThe Dillinger Escape Plan Option ParalysisThe Doors L. A. WomanThe Doors Morrison HotelThe Dreamside The 13th ChapterThe 13th Chapter is an album that contains mostly remixes of songs from previous albums like Spin Moon Magic. It is common knowledge that a remix album can go either two ways: being unbelievably bad or being ridiculously good. Strangely, The 13th Chapter falls right in between; the remixes aren't horrible but they don't add much to the originals except perhaps a synth line or an industrial beat meaning you're better off listening to the original anyway. There are some new tracks added to this album however, and they are of typical Dreamside style which really help bring this album up to any worth.The Empire Shall Fall AwakenThe Engineered IdentitiesThe Fall of Troy Phantom on the HorizonThe Futureheads The ChaosThe Game The R.E.D. AlbumThe Getaway Plan Other Voices, Other RoomsThe Ghost Inside Fury And The Fallen OnesThe Heavy The Glorious DeadThe Korea Chariots Of The GodsThe Last Felony Too Many HumansThe Luna Sequence They Follow You HomeVery similar to Celldweller's Soundtrack to the Voices Inside My Head meaning this is a very repetitive drum n' bass style industrial release. Definitely suits an action movie soundtrack or a club scene, but it suffers from the one thing that plagues instrumental acts and that is repetition. The fun does not last long with this album, and sooner or later you find yourself skipping many tracks and eventually removing the entire album from your mind.The Mary Onettes Hit The WavesThe Medic Droid What's Your MediumThe Mission Veo StrangersThe National High VioletThe National AlligatorThe National BoxerThe National The NationalThe Notorious B.I.G. Life After DeathThe Number Twelve Looks Like You Put On Your Rosy Red GlassesThe Number Twelve Looks Like You Nuclear, Sad, NuclearThe Ocean FluxionThe Ocean PrecambrianThe Ocean The Sky ContactThe Panic Division Songs from the GlasshouseThe Physics Tomorrow PeopleThe Pigeon Detectives We Met At SeaThe Postal Service Give UpThe Prodigy Invaders Must DieThe Prodigy The Added FatThe Prodigy ExperienceThe Qemists Spirit in the SystemThe Rasmus Dead LettersThe Rasmus Hide From The SunThe Receiving End of Sirens The Earth Sings Mi Fa MiThe Red Chord Fed Through the Teeth MachineThe Rocketboys Build AnywayThe Rolling Stones Beggars BanquetThe Room Colored Charlatan Between Mirrors: The Quantum ImmortalityThe Roots undunThe Safety Fire Grind The OceanThe Shizit Evil InsideThe Silicon Scientist Windows On The WorldThe Sound Of Arrows RemixedThe Storm Picturesque ArrivalThe Sword ApocryphonThe Temper Trap ConditionsThe Temper Trap The Temper TrapThe Threat Sacred GroundThe Tony Danza Tapdance Extravaganza Danza II: The Electric BoogalooThe Vines Winning DaysThe Vines Vision ValleyThe Who Who's NextThe Wrath Of Vesuvius Portals Through OphiuchusTheory In Practice The Armageddon TheoriesThey Found Her In Pieces VictorianThis Is Menace No End In SightThis or the Apocalypse MonumentsThis or the Apocalypse Dead YearsThis Romantic Tragedy RebornThreat Signal Under ReprisalThreat Signal VigilanceThrice The Artist In The AmbulanceThrice The Illusion Of SafetyThrowing Snow ClamorTool AenimaTool UndertowTormenter Pulse of TerrorToro Y Moi Anything In ReturnToxic Holocaust Hell on EarthTransmetal El Infierno De DanteTravis Barker Give The Drummer SomeTreble Charger Maybe It's MeTrenches The Tide Will Swallow Us WholeTribulation The Formulas of DeathTrigger the Bloodshed DegenerateTrivium The CrusadeTrue Widow As High As The Highest Heavens And From The CenterTRUSTcompany The Lonely Position of NeutralTRUSTcompany Dreaming In Black and WhiteTTNG This Town Needs GunsTurbid North OrogenyTurbonegro Sexual HarassmentTV on the Radio Nine Types of LightTwo Cities Little GhostsTyrant (USA) King of KingsU2 The Unforgettable FireUFO UFO 2: FlyingUlcerate Of Fracture and FailureUnder the Scythe The Truth Inside YouUnderoath They're Only Chasing SafetyUnitary Safe From HarmUniversal Trilogy Pop CrisisUnspoken Requiem Aeternam DeoUnter Null Sacrament EPUnwound Leaves Turn Inside YouUpon a Burning Body The World Is OursUtumno Across the HorizonV2A Machine CorpsVale of Pnath The Prodigal EmpireVan She Idea Of HappinessVanna A New HopeVectom Rules Of MysteryVega Nova Lovesongs For The DeadVeil of Maya [id]Veto Crushing DigitsVex'd Cloud SeedVicious Rumors Soldiers Of The NightVigilante The New ResistanceViktor Vaughn (VV:2) Venomous VillainVildhjarta OmnislashViolator Annihilation ProcessVolor Flex The ConspiracyVotum MetafictionWalk the Moon TightropeWar From A Harlots Mouth VoyeurWar of Ages EternalWar of Ages Return To LifeWatchtower Energetic DisassemblyWax Poetic On A RideWe Came As Romans To Plant A SeedWe Came As Romans DreamsWe Came As Romans Understanding What We've Grown To Bewecollectskies In Light PassingWest Of Hell Spiral EmpireWhite Lies To Lose My LifeWhitechapel This Is ExileWhitechapel A New Era of CorruptionWilco Being ThereWilco SummerteethWilco A Ghost is BornWilco A.M.Wilco Yankee Hotel FoxtrotWilco Sky Blue SkyWild Nothing NocturneWinds Of Plague Decimate The WeakWithin the Ruins CreatureOkay, so here we actually have a young metal band that doesn't sound like anything you may be thinking of. But if i were to compare this band to others, the closest matches would be Veil of Maya or Conducting from the Grave. i find that the vocals are a bit weak, a bit like After the Burial, where it sounds like the vocalist has a sore throat. But the music is definitely the thing to catch your attention; firstly, almost every guitar line is harmonized by the 2 axemen, and the mixing was done in such a way, that one guitar is fully panned left while the other is fully panned to the right. However, bassist is almost nonexistent, and due to the groove of the twin guitars, the drums also highlight the catchy beats they make. I do find it difficult to name songs from this album, just by listening to them though. Reason being, many sound the same; but given the small chance the band has taken with their sound, perhaps they can be forgiven.Within the Ruins InvadeWithin the Ruins EliteUpon listening to Elite, it is clear Within The Ruins has not changed a single thing about their approach to music. Elite is a near carbon copy of the band's previous album, Invade, right down to the guitar tone. Unfortunately, this means all of the band's flaws on Invade are present on Elite and perhaps even magnified; the most prominent being the lack of variety among songs. You would think Elite was recorded at the same time as Invade back in 2010 but the band decided to wait three years to release it.Wretched Son of PerditionWynardtage Evil MindX-Fusion Beyond The PaleXenolith Obscure ReflectionsXerath IIXP8 The Art Of RevengeXP8 Drop the Maska few lame (and some even barely noticeable) guest spots are not going to help this album from being boring ol' XP8. The songs on this album could easily be fit in with other XP8 albums and you would not notice the difference. unfortunately, the addition of random samples to create atmosphere do not help bring any songs to life. Hell, the title track sounds like a rip off of Ayria's The Gun Song.Xzibit NapalmYakuza Of Seismic ConsequenceYellowcard Lights and SoundsYou Slut! Critical MeatYour Memorial SeasonsYouth Lagoon The Year of HibernationZero Hour A Fragile MindZero Hour Dark DeceiverZeromancer Clone Your LoverZeromancer EurotrashZeromancer ZzyzxZomby DedicationZZ Top Rio Grande MudZZ Top Tres Hombres[:SITD:] Stronghold[:SITD:] Odyssey: 132.0 poor(the) PLASMArifle While You Were Sleeping the World Changed in an In+44 When Your Heart Stops Beating16Bit In The Death Car30 Seconds to Mars This Is WarA Hope For Home RealisIt was very easy to tell that A Hope For Home were nothing more than an Underoath clone when I listened to The Everlasting Man. While it was an okay album, I thought that the band could easily deviate from this habit and perhaps add a little more originality in their work. Unfortunately, Realis is a step back; this collection of songs is beyond Underoath cloning. In fact, Realis adopts a style so generic that you may mistake them for...well...any other band that ever existed.A Perfect Circle aMOTIONA Textbook Tragedy A Partial Dialogue Between Ghost and PriAccessory UnderbeatAFI DecemberundergroundAlexisonfire CrisisAlien Produkt IgnoranceAlien Vampires No One Here Gets Out AliveAll That Remains For We Are ManyAmerican Me Siberian Nightmare MachineAnd One Virgin SuperstarAnd Then There Were None Who Speaks For Planet Earth?Angels and Airwaves We Don't Need to WhisperAnimal Collective Merriweather Post PavilionAnnihilator Schizo DeluxeAnnihilator Set the World on FireAnonymus StressApoptygma Berzerk Rocket ScienceApop take what they did on You and Me Against the World and well, don't do much. While the previous album seemed to turn its back on the futurepop sound of the earlier work, it was damn catchy with the abundance of guitars plus synth lines and all that stuff. Apop had essentially made a rock album. However, with this the catchy-ness is gone and the band just fails at trying to be progressive (if that's even possible). Longer songs do not suit this band at all and it all comes off as boring and passable.Arch Enemy Doomsday MachineArch Enemy Anthems of RebellionArchitects The Here and NowArsis Starve for the DevilAs I Lay Dying DecasAsking Alexandria Stand Up and ScreamThis band is nothing more than a carbon copy of everyone's favourite band Attack Attack; the actual instruments (ie. guitar, bass, and drums) are trapped in the breakdown hole. In other words, each song consists of only open chord chugging, a few common drop-C chord progressions for the singing, and perhaps a dash of tremolo picking. Then we got that lovely studio magic along with the secret weapon, the synthesizer. This does not reap any benefits for the band, as everything they do has already been done. The wet synth lines come off as almost annoying just like in other similar bands. If you can find a connection with bands like this, this is definitely one to add to the books. Otherwise, avoid.Aspirin Rose Stay In Your HeartsAtreyu The CurseAtreyu The Congregation Of The Damnedso i appreciate atreyu having the courage to a follow up to their previous album. however, anyone looking for the chemistry involving strictly screamed verses and sung choruses will be disappointed as the two mesh together relentlessly. instead, the listener is treated to a number of songs that are all worthy of ending up on the radio (mute a couple swearwords here and there of course). but after listening to any two songs, you can hear how much the instrumentation has been stepped up, particularly the guitars; every song has at least one solo or some type of lead but each one of them has that cliche approach. that is, it starts of with pull-offs and hammer-ons and ends with a big bend. even the bass actually has a couple solo sections in songs during the verses. but be warned, any serious musician will find these new "skills" passable. another issue with this album's sound is the production; it's nice that bass is audible, but the guitars and drums sound like they were recorded with a laptop microphone. the lead tone is particular sharp and would in my mind, have no trouble cutting off a listener's head.Attack Attack! Attack Attack!Autechre Chiastic SlideAvenged Sevenfold Avenged SevenfoldAzure Emote Chronicles of an Aging MammalB.o.B Strange CloudsBad Veins The Mess We've MadeBassnectar Divergent SpectrumBeastie Boys To The 5 BoroughsBecoming Everest BelieverBecoming the Archetype I AmI Am - Becoming the Stereotypical Deathcore Band Before Their Eyes Before Their EyesBefore Their Eyes UntouchableCongratulations Before Their Eyes! You have managed to write an album that could potentially be successful in today's radio! Huh? That's not what your goal was? Oh.....Carry on then.....Yep, you won't find any screaming on this album save for the first track and a couple of the last ones meaning that the middle portion of this album is stuffed with pop-punk garbage. Untouchables travels deeper into the realm of pop-punk and drifts further from post-hardcore. Even the tracks with screaming aren't enough to get you huffing and puffing. The end result is a bunch of songs that are simply hit or miss, depending on the listener. Top tracks are Hey Dude! and Hell or High Water (both are the first and last songs on the album respectively, btw).Benea Reach Monument BineothanBetraying The Martyrs Breathe In LifeBetween Breathing HomegrownBlack Rebel Motorcycle Club Specter At The FeastBlackmail IIBleeding Through This Is Love, This Is MurderousBlessthefall His Last WalkBlessthefall WitnessBlind Illusion The Sane AsylumBlindside With Shivering Hearts We WaitBloodhound Gang One Fierce Beer CoasterBlu No York!Blue Stahli Antisleep Vol. 2Bodycall Somatic TurnHere I am thinking this is gonna be some serious EBM. After listening to the first two tracks, my thoughts suddenly change; I get this odd feeling I am listening to some sub-par music that's only masked by a brutal image. You won't find any aggression on this record but the most painful thing is the Godawful music. Extremely simple, way behind its time, and utterly boring.Bondage Fairies Bondage FairiesBong-Ra MonsterBreaking Benjamin PhobiaBreaking Benjamin Dear AgonyBrendon Small GalaktikonBroadway KingdomsBunny Lake The Sound Of SehnsuchtBurnt Offering Walk of the DeadC-Lekktor Cloned And MutatedC2C TetraCaliban The Opposite From WithinCarry Your Ghost DecisionsCaspian TertiaCaspian You Are The ConductorCasual He Still Think He RawCatherine The NaturalsCelldweller Soundtrack for the Voices in My Head Vol. 01When it comes to a dude making music like Klayton, you just know sooner or later he'll get snagged up by corporations and be forced to create tunes that would suit their commercials and their video games. Well folks, here we have it. Tracks lack any vocals which is a bit said considering how good Klayton's voice is plus they seem like they were old scraps that were just lazily tossed together to make a new album with, despite how long we had to wait for this album. Celldweller Soundtrack For The Voices In My Head Vol. 2 (02)Celldweller Wish Upon A BlackstarCelldweller Space And TimeCentaurus-A Side Effects ExpectedCenthron DominatorCerebral Fix Death EroticaChase and Status No More IdolsChildren of Bodom BlooddrunkChildren of Bodom Relentless Reckless ForeverChimaira The InfectionPainfully average. But there's nothing wrong with bands staying in their niche when writing new albums. However, this is not the case when your niche is metalcore/groove metal. This is just another album by a band that has released amazing stuff in the past. Another thing that bothers me is the lack of keys, is Spicuzza in the damn band anymore?Claire Voyant LustreClap Your Hands Say Yeah Clap Your Hands Say YeahConvalesce DecisionsIt's almost common knowledge to know that a band like For the Fallen Dreams is a poor man's Misery Signals. But is there such a thing as a poor man's For the Fallen Dreams? Convalesce has stepped up to take that role, which should not be a good thing. The band is basically metalcore attempting to be progressive at some points just by making their songs longer. Sadly, you'll hear very few licks n' leads which is something that any Misery Signals copycat should thrive on. This results in a boring and forgettable album.Covenant LightbringerCrazy Town The Gift of GameCrimson Falls Fragments of AwarenessCristal Snow God You Made Me WickedCrossfaith The Artificial Theory For The Dramatic BeautyCrossfaith ZionCryo Hidden AggressionDave Gahan, is that you? Since when have you been fronting an electro band? Vocally, Cryo is incredible. Not only does the singer manage to imitate a mature Gahan voice, but he also manages to capture the rich sensuality that Depeche Mode always had. Unfortunately, the voice is not enough to save this album as the backing music is terribly boring. Simple can be very effective at times, but given the mood of this album, music a little more complicated is required.Cryo CryogenicCryogenic Echelon AntipodeCrystal Castles Crystal Castles (II)Crystal Castles drop most of the glitchy nonsense from their previous album, and decide to write a collection of synthpop/dreampop tracks. While this fact alone makes it better, Castles still needs to work on actual songwriting; out of the 14 songs, many of them sound too identical so it almost confuses you when trying to determine which song is which just by listening. And because the album consists of 14 songs, the album verges on being too long. With albums like this, they are most effective as being very short, almost acting like a tease. By the time you get to the end of Crystal Castles II, you're almost off the edge of your seat, just waiting to go do something else than listen to anything off this album again.CTRL Lose The ImageCulture Kultur SpiritSpirit simply comes off as a poor man's Reborn. While Reborn was a great album, Culture Kultur's routine is not going to suffice and instead you are treated with 11 songs that are either boring as hell or have been done a million times before. A true disappointment considering the shining past of this futurepop act.Cute Is What We Aim For RotationCyclamen Memories, VoicesCylab Cut & CoilD Creation Silent EchoesD.V.C. Molecular ShadowDatA The SkywriterDe/Vision NoobDe/Vision DevolutionDead And Divine The FancifulDeath By Dawn One Hand, One Foot...And a Lot of TeethDeathstars Synthetic GenerationDecrepit Birth ...And Time BeginsDeftones AdrenalineDegradead Out of Body ExperienceDelay Trees DozeDelphic CollectionsDemolition Hammer Time BombDemon Hunter Storm The Gates Of HellDemon Hunter The TriptychDemon Hunter The World Is A ThornDemon Hunter True DefianceDevice DeviceDevil Sold His Soul Darkness PrevailsDevil Sold His Soul Empire Of LightDinosaur Jr. DinosaurDismal Lapse Eon FragmentationDismantled The War Inside MeDisparaged The Wrath of GodDisreflect Some Brittle WordsDisturbed AsylumDivine Heresy Bringer of PlaguesDouble Dragon DevastatorDungeon Elite [**] RenovatioE-Craft Unsocial ThemesIncredibly boring ebm that is made even worse by the long song lengths. There are actually a few good ideas in a few of the songs, but they are not built upon. An example would be a great sounding arpeggio line that may only appear once in a six minute song. The rest of the song being nothing but noise filler.E-Craft ElectrocutionIf you were unlucky enough to somehow get your hands on an instrumental version of Electrocution, you would literally end up with a soundtrack to some cheesy Plasystation or Sega beat-em-up sidescroller. Vocals are what make this bearable, but due to the impact that the music has on ebm like this, it takes away any points that the vocals might have racked up (no pun intended).Edge Of Dawn Anything That Gets You Through The NightOnce I got through this album, I was paralyzed with confusion. For many minutes I wondered what the hell happened to Edge of Dawn that made them lose their entire edge. Anything That... is one of the most disappointing and shocking albums of the year, since it sounds so generic coming from a such a quality band. There may be a track or two that's worth keeping (I didn't find any) for the general listener, but other than that this is not even worth listening to.Eleven Tigers 111Eleventyseven And The Land of Fake BelieveEndanger MotionEnduser Caustic PulseEnter Shikari Take to the SkiesEnter Shikari Sorry, You're Not A WinnerEnter Shikari A Flash Flood of ColourEphel Duath Through My Dog's EyesEver Forthright Ever ForthrightEveryone Dies In Utah Seeing ClearlyFaderhead FH3Fall In Archaea Fall In ArchaeaFall Out Boy Folie a DeuxFamily Force 5 Dance or DieFatal Rupture Total Neural System FailureFear Before Fear BeforeFear Factory The IndustrialistFeed Me Escape From Electric MountainFerry Corsten W.K.N.D.Fleshgod Apocalypse AgonyFlux Motivational ChantsFollow The White Rabbit EndorphiniaFor The Fallen Dreams Back BurnerFox Hunting MasqueradeFreezepop Imaginary FriendsFrozen Plasma EmphasizeFuneral for a Friend ConduitGalactic Pegasus MirageOne of those EPs that is as lame as the band's name.Galaxy Hunter Running HighGhosts (IRL) NightGifts From Enola Gifts From EnolaGlass Cloud The Royal ThousandGod Is An Astronaut Far from RefugeGod Module Let's Go DarkGod Module The Magic In My Heart Is DeadGod Module SeanceGood Charlotte Good Morning RevivalGood Charlotte The Chronicles of Life and DeathGorillaz The FallGravediggaz Nightmare in A-MinorGreeley Estates No Rain, No RainbowNo good. That's what I say to a band that decides to abandon the momentum they created in Young Man and create a boring, almost deathcore, album. Young Man showed signs of promise since the band experimented with guitar noises/effects and overall made really good songs. In this album, you get stuck with boring breakdowns you've heard before, a voice that starts to get annoying (see Jealousy Breeds) and simply a letdown.Grendel (NL) Timewave ZeroGrinspoon Black RabbitsCongratulations to Grinspoon for fooling me into listening to this album. They released an enjoyable single "Passerby" which perhaps hinted that something cool was coming up, but guess what...Gym Class Heroes As Cruel As School ChildrenHadouken! Music For An Accelerated CultureHadouken! Bad SignalHaken AquariusHammerhawk Welcome Home, We Expected YouHands Of Despair HereafterHawthorne Heights If Only You Were LonelyHeartwire HeartworkHellcannon Infected With ViolenceHey Monday Beneath It AllHimsa Summon In ThunderHooverphonic The Night BeforeIt's hard to believe this is the same Hooverphonic that wrote the classic track, Eden, back in the late 90's. I admit I haven't followed this band since then, but when listening to The Night Before I was shocked to hear what was coming out of my headphones. Instead of chilled, downtempo electronica, I was "graced" with what I like to call adult contemporary (you know, that stuff your parents listen to on the radio). Bashing the album based on that would be unfair (as I am guilty of listening to some of this music sometimes), but it was just unbelievably generic; a very weak attempt at mainstream jazz along with average vocals.House Vs. Hurricane ForfeitureHow to Dress Well Love RemainsI Am Abomination Jaw DropperI am the Ocean Escapist FictionI Killed The Prom Queen When Goodbye Means ForeverI Killed The Prom Queen Music for the Recently DeceasedI Love You But I've Chosen Darkness Fear Is on Our SideIllusionists ContemptIn Fear and Faith VoyageIn Fear and Faith ImperialIn League Where the Silence Is EasyIncubator Symphonies Of Spiritual CannibalismInformatik Playing With FireInnerpartysystem Never Be ContentIt Dies Today SirensIt Dies Today The Caitiff ChoirIt Hugs Back Laughing PartyIt Prevails StromaIvoryline There Came A LionIwrestledabearonce It's All HappeningIwrestledabearonce Ruining it for EverybodyJ-Louis BalancedOther than being a rather bland mix of soft synth pads and smooth vocal samples (the last track even contains a Submotion Orchestra vocal bit), what really ruins Balanced is the percussion used. On paper, this shouldn't even be a problem since all it takes is a hazy sounding, bass heavy, simple beat to get the job done but instead J-Louis insists on using trap style beats in nearly every single song. Not only do they ruin the entire vibe of the track but they sound rather cheap too, perhaps originating from some free software. It just does not fit.Jack Ketch Bringers Of The DawnJaga Jazzist Jævla Jazzist Grete StitzJaga Jazzist The StixJaga Jazzist A Livingroom HushJamies Elsewhere Goodbye Rocketman, St. George is under fireJamies Elsewhere Guidebook for Sinners Turned SaintsJay-Z and Linkin Park Collision CourseJet Lag Gemini Fire the CannonsJob for a Cowboy RuinationJulien-K Death To AnalogJunius The Martyrdom of a CatastrophistJustice Audio, Video, DiscoKalmah For The RevolutionKarma To Burn VKasabian Velociraptor!Katatonia Tonight's DecisionKatatonia The Longest YearKatatonia Dance of December SoulsKatatonia Brave Murder DayKatatonia Night Is the New DayKatatonia Dead End KingsKeane StrangelandKele The BoxerKent Jag Är Inte Rädd För MörkretKidstreet Fuh YeahLacuna Coil KarmacodeLadytron Light & MagicLast Call Chernobyl Drowning Beneath The Sound Of ChangeLate Night Alumni The Beat Becomes A SoundLexia Underground SoundsLich King Necromantic MaelstromLifeforms SyntheticLight Asylum Light AsylumLights The ListeningLights LightsLights Siberia (Remixed)Limp Bizkit Results May VaryLinkin Park A Thousand SunsLittle Boots NocturnesLiv Kristine Deus Ex MachinaLiv Kristine LibertineLost Area Destroying Something BeautifulLower Definition The Greatest of All Lost ArtsLower Hell HellevatorLower Hell is a young death metal band that has their feet in two different pools of water. On one hand, there is a strong death metal/metalcore sound very much like Heaven Shall Burn (not as serious, of course) with very simple riffing and drumming. However, the band adds a melodic death metal layer on top of everything with shreddy solos and tons of licks to get those fingers blazing. Sure, this doesn't sound like anything new...which is exactly the problem. Right after the third song (assuming you make it that far) I start asking myself "did I leave a song on repeat?" In conclusion, as a generic, run-of-the-mill melodic death metal record, this is sufficient. But as an album to actually enjoy listening to, well, prepare for a sweet lullaby. Lymbyc Systym Love Your AbuserLymbyc Systym Shutter ReleaseLymbyc Systym Love Your Abuser RemixedMadmaze Frames of AlienationMain Attrakionz Bossalinis & FooliyonesMake Me Famous It's Now or NeverMalak MalakGreat, you guys can shred like there's no tomorrow. Now, can you write a song? Malak's EP is nothing but another young technical death metal band blazing up and down their fretboards. You won't find a single thing memorable here, and despite the fact that there are only 3 tracks here (4 actually, but that's a 60 second instrumental, the cheap bastards) time will just pass you buy as you sit, just waiting for this EP to finish.Malakwa Street PreacherMankind Is Obsolete Trapped InsideMaster On the Seventh Day God Created.... MasterMaybeshewill Not For Want Of TryingMaylene and the Sons of Disaster IVMeat Beat Manifesto Answers Come In DreamsIf you were to set up a recording device inside an underground sewer pipe and let it record for an entire night you would literally get Answers Come In Dreams, right down to the drip drip coming from the midnight rain pattering on the earth's surface to the nonsensical jabbering coming from the boogie man.Mekong Delta Wanderer on the Edge of TimeMekong Delta Lurking FearMethod Cell Curse Of A Modern AgeMethod Man Tical 0: The PrequelMetric Grow Up and Blow AwayMetronomy The English RivieraMind.Area Long-Distance Side TripMindless Self Indulgence You'll Rebel To AnythingMindust Taking OffMirrors Lights And OfferingsMiss May I Apologies Are for the WeakMiss May I MonumentMisstress Barbara Many Shades Of GreyMnemic PassengerMnemic The Audio Injected SoulMonuments We Are The FoundationMos Def The New DangerMotionless In White When Love Met Destruction EPMotor Man Made MachineMountain AvalancheMuse Hullabaloo SoundtrackMy Bitter End Nostalgic SentimentsMy Chemical Romance Danger Days: The True Lives of...Neaera Ours Is The StormNeikka RPM Chain LettersNeon Zoo ONevermore The Obsidian ConspiracyDespite the time between this and Nevermore's last album, Conspiracy comes off as one of the laziest records of the year, only relying on a catchy guitar solo, or a repeating chorus (all of them are terrible, actually). While I was hoping this would be a perfect cross between the ballad type of material from Dead Heart and the thrash-y type of stuff from This Godless Endeavor, each song simply picked a side never attempting to combine the two. This resulted in an extremely boring compilation of songs. Given the magnitude of Nevermore and my joy for their previous work, it adds even more to the disappointment that Conspiracy really is.Nine Inch Nails Year ZeroNo Joy Wait to PleasureNo Made Sense The Epillanic ChoragiNorthlane Hollow ExistenceNosound A Sense of LossNovallo NovalloNovembers Doom To Welcome the FadeNovembers Doom The Pale Haunt DepartureOcean Within LeadersOf Virtue To Breathe AgainohGr unDevelopedOl' Dirty Bastard Nigga PleaseOne Way Mirror One Way MirrorOOMPH! Truth Or DareDear Oomph, why do you release an album that has 16 songs that all sound the same? Are you expecting us to memorize what the song name of each is, because that is impossible with all the bad choruses and stuff. Every song goes verse, chorus, verse, chorus, end. Hell, the choruses and verses are just annoying which makes matters worse.Overkill ImmortalisOwl City Maybe I'm DreamingOwl City Of JuneOwl City All Things Bright And BeautifulOwl Eyes NightswimPaddock Park A Hiding Place For Fake FriendsPaper Route The Peace Of Wild ThingsParachutes (DE) BlueprintsParadise Lost Lost ParadiseParkway Drive AtlasPaul Gilbert VibratoPestilence DoctrinePet Shop Boys ElysiumPink Floyd The Piper at the Gates of DawnPink Floyd A Saucerful of SecretsPlacebo Sleeping With GhostsPlayRadioPlay! Texaspost harbor. They Can't Hurt You If You Don't Believe in ThemProject Pitchfork Continuum RideProject Pitchfork Dream, Tiresias!Psyopus Our Puzzling Encounters ConsideredPsyopus Odd SensesPulcher Femina Darkness PrevailsBy the end of track one, I was sitting in a puddle of my own urine due to the sheer terror I felt from listening to those eerie moans that filled up the track. Luckily, the rest of the album was not so scary sounding, but this fact did not help the album one bit. Unfortunately, Darkness Prevails is just a purely average futurepop record. There is too much emphasis on the vocals so the music ends up ruining everything; you will become very bored considering this album is 61 minutes long (ie. a bit too long).Putrified Spawn Of The DeadRadius System Almost NothingRaggedy Angry How I Learned To Love Our Robot OverlordsRaydead End in SightRazed in Black DamagedRed Hot Chili Peppers The Red Hot Chili PeppersRed Hot Chili Peppers Freaky StyleyReggie and The Full Effect Songs Not To Get Married ToReso TangramReveille LacedRhye WomanRhyno Sleep SongsRitual Carnage I, InfidelRoots Manuva 4everevolutionRoots Manuva Slime & ReasonRumble Militia Fuck Off CommercialRXYZYXR Geometrical MetalSADIZTIK:INJEKTION Global GenocideToss in some overused synth lines, a heavily distorted voice, and a billion media samples. Mix thoroughly until it becomes a gooey paste. Finally, smear that on a blank disc. Voila! You have Global Genocide!Saosin In Search Of Solid GroundScorpions UnbreakableSeabound Beyond FlatlineSerdce CyberlySerdce The Alchemy Of HarmonySero.Overdose No Time For SilenceSero.Overdose create a futurepop album that borders on boring. Yes, a great voice fronts them, but the problem lies in the music. In this type of music, both the vocals and music play equal roles in a song and because the music is average, it is difficult to find hooks or anything to sing or tap your foot along to.Sero.Overdose Heading For TomorrowSuffering from the same elements that made their previous album a disappointment. However, the drive that you hear from other futurepop acts is missing. In other words, there are still no hooks to get attached to in any song.Set Your Goals Burning At Both EndsShabazz Palaces Black UpShadow-Minds The Arc Of TruthWhen it comes to futurepop, you either have it or you don't. Unfortunately, Shadow-Minds is really nothing more than a VNV Nation clone with worse music. Vocally, the two are almost identical except that the singer from Minds really does not change his act in any song. Musically, The Arc of Truth is as average as it gets; weak percussion with very few memorable moments. The entire album is made worse because of how damn long it is. With 14 tracks (13 of which are either close to 4 minutes or much higher) it's like adding insult to injury.Shining (NOR) One One OneShiny Toy Guns Season of PoisonShiny Toy Guns IIIShiv-R This World EraseIs it sad that I really wished the song Stripped would be a Depeche Mode cover?Sick Puppies Dressed Up as LifeSienna Skies Truest Of ColoursThe combination of metal and synths is probably more than enough information to tell you that Sienna Skies is nothing more than your average metalcore band. And of course, the riffs and choruses are as stale as ever. However, Truest of Colours loses its points in production and overall sound. In this case, everything just sounds wrong. The synths sound extremely cheap, as if the band used some freeware program on a PC to create the various synth pads and lines that consume the album. The guitars are just as worse, also sounding like they've been recorded through 5 watt practise amps.Sin DNA AfterlifeSkillet ComatoseSkillet AwakeSkrillex More Monsters and SpritesSlayer Divine InterventionSleep JerusalemSleigh Bells TreatsSnow Patrol Fallen EmpiresSodom Get What You DeserveSodom Epitome of TortureSolvent Subject To ShiftWhy does Solvent think it's wise to release a "synthpop" album that barely has any singing? If one manages to get through the entire album (I did), they'll be left with nonsensical bleeps and bloops ringing in their ears, instead of sick one-liners you may hear in an actual synthpop album. There are actually a few tracks that do contain singing, but a lot of the time it is masked in a vocoder which eliminates any emotion that would have existed. In fact, the one song that contains real vocals, Loss For Words, is miles ahead of the rest of the album. It's still not that great, but it contains the elements that should have been utilized more on this album.Soreption Deterioration of MindsSpektralized In Between The OppositeStars Are Projectors WavelengthsStereo Alchemy God Of LoveStrangers Holding WaterStrapping Young Lad Strapping Young LadStrapping Young Lad Heavy as a Really Heavy ThingStreet Sweeper Social Club Street Sweeper Social ClubStructures Divided ByI try to avoid the joke of how a song by Structures has no structure but damn it's nearly impossible to not blurt it out when you listen to Divided By. Many of these songs sound as though the band went through their discography and copy-pasted random bits from it to form these new songs. The addition of clean vocals also brings the album down because they seem to pop out of nowhere. They really serve no purpose in the song especially when they are surrounded by breakdowns and grooves (on the verge of clipping, I might add), which creates a unavoidable sense of imbalance in the album. Seriously, listen to the first song on this album and then the last song...Is it the same band still?Styrofoam A Thousand WordsSuicide Silence The CleansingSun Glitters It's Snowing And The Girls Are SingingSuono My StyleA very boring set of dance-ebm that relies on the same damn beat in all 18 songs on this album (3 of which are just 10 second skits). Although vocals take the back seat on this album, they can still be heard among a few tracks either through actual singing or sampling. Fortunately, Suono's debut album might be more suitable for a club setting where the goal is to get as many asses shaking as possible. However, when it comes to some personal listening, this may bring the zzzz's.Supreme Cuts Whispers In The DarkSwollen Members HeavySympathy Anagogic TyrannySyrian KosmonautaFuturepop so average that it almost seems like a lazy attempt to just put out an album for the hell of it. This album deserves the lower score only because the other releases that Syrian has put are infinitely better than this. Every song consists of a simple main arpeggio theme followed by a terrible chorus that repeats until the end. Only stand out track is Space Overdrive. Tears For Fears Everybody Loves a Happy EndingTears For Fears ElementalTears For Fears Raoul and the Kings of SpainTechnolorgy Endtimes In VogueTen After Two Truth Is...Tenek On The WireTestament DemonicThe Absence Riders of the PlagueThe Adept Catastrophic EcstasyThe Almost Southern WeatherThe American Dollar Awake In The CityThe Angelic Process SighThe Angelic Process ...And Your Blood Is Full Of HoneyThe Automatic Not Accepted AnywhereThe Automatic Tear the Signs DownSo much for being a post-punk/post-hardcore hybrid. Still not perfect, The Automatic demonstrated their style in their first album where they were essentially post-punk a la Futureheads and Franz Ferdinand but with screaming and keyboards. Here, the screaming is ditched so now we get a mediocre Futureheads wannabe band that does nothing for the listener except be forgotten. The Beatles Yellow SubmarineThe Bewitched Hands Vampiric WayThe Black Ghosts When Animals StareThe Chemical Brothers We Are The NightThe Cinematics Love and TerrorThe Date Night A Friend In ParisThe Devil Wears Prada PlaguesThe Devin Townsend Band SynchestraThe Devin Townsend Project KiThe End Within DividiaThe End ElementaryThe Eyes Of A Traitor The DiseaseThe Eyes Of A Traitor BreathlessThe Fall of Troy In the Unlikely EventThe Ghost Inside Get What You GiveThe Gun Show CurrentsChristian metalcore so "heavy", it verges on being deathcore. This is not like the usual breakdown-every-ten- seconds deathcore band (although there ARE breakdowns); instead, The Gun Show utilizes dissonant licks and abrupt rests and rhythms to create music that not only sounds bad, but is also very annoying to listen to.The Human Abstract MidheavenThe Human League CredoThe Killers Battle BornWHAT ARE YOU MAAAADE OFFFFFFF? FLESH AND BONE! Well no shit...The Megaphonic Thrift The Megaphonic ThriftThe Ocean HeliocentricThe Odious Joint VenturesThe Rasmus Black RosesThe Rasmus The RasmusThe Shizit Soundtrack For The RevolutionThe Soft Pack StrappedThe Subways Money and CelebrityThe Synthetic Dream Foundation Mechanical SerpentAbsolutely no substance whatsoever in this dark electro/psytrance release from The Synthetic Dream Foundation, despite hearing good things about them. Each of the nine songs goes absolutely nowhere; in other words, I listened to each track almost at the edge of my seat, waiting for some climax or bridge to erupt and take my breath away. Unfortunately, no song delivered my request; each was just filled with meaningless beats and vocals that did nothing.The Tenth Circle Of War And ReflectionThe Used In Love and DeathThe Used VulnerableThe Vines Future PrimitiveSo I think it's safe to say The Vines are done? Not only does Future Primitive sound like a recycled version of all of The Vines' albums combined, but the band themselves sound bored as hell on this.The Wedding PolarityThe Word Alive EmpireThe xx CoexistTheory In Practice Colonizing The SunThis Is Menace The Scene Is DeadThree Days Grace Life Starts NowThrice Identity CrisisThrice BeggarsThrough Your Silence Whispers To The VoidTNGHT TNGHTTonight Is Glory The Vision and RealityTorul Tonight We Dream FiercelyTrigger the Bloodshed The Great DepressionTyler The Creator WolfU2 Rattle And HumUnderwater Pilots EndlessUnleashed OdalheimUnter Null Unter NullNot familiar with some of the earliest Unter Null, I was a bit surprised the first time I listened to this. With no vocals at all, this album comes off as one of those hardstyle ebm/aggrotech attempts that is suitable for a club but perhaps a bit too harsh for personal listening. Repeated listens may wear away the impact this albums first poses, and it will simply become generic and boring.Unter Null NeocideA bit better that her first release, but this album still reverts to the same style of club ebm. A bit more creativity on this definitely increases the re-playability factor, but in the end it suffers the same fate as the debut.Unter Null Absolution EPUs, From Outside Inspired By the Threat of FailureVangough Kingdom of RuinVanna The Few and the Far BetweenVelvet Acid Christ The Art of Breaking ApartVessels HelioscopeVHS or Beta Diamonds And DeathVio-Lence Torture TacticsVNV Nation Crossing the DivideVortice Human EngineWalking With Strangers Buried, Dead & DoneWar From A Harlots Mouth MMXWe The Kings We The Kingswecollectskies These Stars Our Flamewecollectskies Adventures of the LostWeezer HurleyWhiplash Unborn AgainWhitechapel The Somatic DefilementWinds Of Plague A Cold Day In HellWinds Of Plague The Great Stone WarWithin the Ruins OmenWomen Public StrainWork Drugs DeltaXP8 Hrs:Min:SecXzibit RestlessYagya The Inescapable Decay Of My HeartYngwie Malmsteen SpellboundYour Demise Cold Chillin'At least they're heavy again, right?..........RIGHT?!Zeller TurbulencesZero Hour The Towers of AvariceZeromancer Sinners International[:SITD:] Coded Message: 12[:SITD:] Bestie:Mensch1.5 very poor30 Seconds to Mars Love Lust Faith + DreamsA Day To Remember What Separates Me From YouSure, a 1.5 may seem typical for the band we love to hate, but given how catchy some of the tracks are on their previous releases, this is one of those "honest" 1.5 ratings. What Separates is comprised of the most boring songs you could imagine in post-hardcore/whatever. Terrible lyrics, uninspiring music, and a lack of harsh vocals make this not only boring, but very VERY tame sounding.A Static Lullaby Rattlesnake!A Thorn For Every Heart Things Aren't So Beautiful NowAbandon All Ships InfamousAdelaide PergamumJUN JUN JUN I'M A CHRISTIAN JUN JUN JUN RAAAAAAAAAAAAAHAesthetic Perfection All Beauty DestroyedMore like "All Music Credibility Destroyed" amirite? If I wanted to listen to simple club beats and melodies with sleazy and scornful lyrics, there are certainly better artists to choose from but this is essentially what All Beauty Destroyed is. What's worse is the addition of clean vocals to a few of the songs. Now, I do love clean vocals in EBM but when it comes to Aesthetic Perfection it just shouldn't belong. Gone is the raw production and emotion you heard on Close To Human, because All Beauty Destroyed is just jam-packed with slick club anthems and nothing more. Hell, the harsh vocals are terrible on this too. It sounds as though Daniel Graves had a sore throat when he recorded all the harsh vocals on this.After Me, The Flood Still SearchingWhat in the blue hell happened?! When listening to their old EP Remembrance, there was hint of a metalcore band with so much potential. Sure, they didn't write the most unique stuff out there, but the sound they had going (particularly the vocals) was quite enjoyable. On Still Searching, the band has turned into nothing more than a Counterparts rip-off. It's great that they didn't take the djent path, but still...All That Remains OvercomeAngel Theory The Death Of AngelsAngel Theory is literally talking over beats. Nothing more. No melody whatsoever in neither the music nor the "talking" and hell, even the beats are weak.Arian 1 ImmersionArian 1's Immersion contains nothing, and lacks absolutely everything.Armor For Sleep Smile For ThemAsking Alexandria Life Gone WildAvenue Six Left The Thin Line Of LifeBassnectar VAVA VOOMBlack Light Burns Cruel MelodyBleeding Through DeclarationBounte TwoBoy Kill Boy Stars and The SeaBreathe Carolina Hello FascinationBullet For My Valentine FeverBurden of a Day OneOneThousandBury Your Dead Bury Your Deadwhat happened to this band? i really do not like the new singer and it is almost painful to listen to him scream with a tune, instead of shouting and barking like on previous albums. this album lacks groove and aggression that was found on albums with the old singer.Cobra Starship While the City Sleeps, We Rule the StreeCovenant EuroCryptopsy The Unspoken KingCrystal Castles Crystal CastlesCute Is What We Aim For Same Old Blood Rush With A New TouchDaft Punk Human After AllDaft Punk Random Access MemoriesWait, I am confused. Is this supposed to be the highly anticipated new album from a popular 20+ year old French electronic duo or a free album on a college kid's Bandcamp page?Datsik Vitamin DDave Gahan Paper MonstersSo could this album be proof that Dave Gahan is nothing without his two band mates from Depeche Mode. This entire albums lacks the sensuality that DM brought and sounds like some radio-friendly rock album. Don't let this debut get you down though, his second release Hourglass is a large improvement.Dead by April Dead by AprilDead Turns Alive MaelstromOh it's over? Sorry, I fell asleep two songs in. Too bad I can't try and listen to this album again, I erased it already.Destroy The Runner I, LuciferDiorama AmaroidDissentient Black Hole MachineDJ Shadow The OutsiderDoes It Offend You, Yeah? Don't Say We Didn't Warn YouDragonette BodypartsDragonette just gets worse and worse. While even their previous album had at least a couple of keepers, I couldn't help but cringe at most of the hooks and it was ridiculous to hear how annoying Martina's vocals had gotten. On Bodyparts, those two things are cranked up so high their knobs have broken off.Editors In This Light and On This EveningEmigrate EmigrateEmmure Goodbye to the GallowsFaderhead FH1Not going to lie, I look at Faderhead, and I see some of the heaviest and most hard hitting industrial my ears have ever heard. But when the time comes to actually listen to this album, I am shocked and appalled. The beats exist, but the lyrics are unbelievably ridiculous. Nearly every single song contains cheesy lyrics that refer to "the clubs" and "goth lyfe" so whatever seriousness the beats created, are all gone. I does not hurt to mention that the music lacks any creativity either; it sounds as if the same idea is recycled for every track.Faderhead FH2Fall Out Boy Save Rock and RollI actually thought the line was, "I'm gonna change you like a remix, then erase you like a fetus"Falling Up MnemosIt'll be when you're two minutes into the first song (they're long btw) when you'll start asking, "Where the hell are the bloody vocals on this thing?" until you are finally greeted with them about halfway into the second song. I've always attached Falling Up to brilliant vocal harmonies and melodies since the band's first album. However, you will find nothing on this EP other than some sparse, lazily repeated lines in a couple of the songs. Mnemos is nothing more than twinkly dinkly background music or perhaps just a disc loaded with cheesy post-rock-esque synths and atmospheres. Fischerspooner EntertainmentFive Finger Death Punch Way Of The FistFor The Fallen Dreams Wasted YouthGenghis Tron Cloak of LoveGym Class Heroes The QuiltHelia ShiversHer Bright Skies Causing A SceneWell it looks like Her Bright Skies (they changed their name) has taken the path that so many fellow post-hardcore bands have walked. In other words, Causing A Scene has abandoned the hardcore side and stepped into the radio-friendly dimension. Maneuvers like this are never for the better, plus I don't want to bore you with naming examples of decent post-hardcore bands that have done this, and Causing A Scene has actually ended up being tame enough to be loved by your mother. Yes, your mother. Perhaps one song out of the bunch has screaming in it (and it's only one verse) while the rest is packed with generic material perfect for radio play.Himsa Courting Tragedy & DisasterHipgnosis RelusionHollywood Undead Swan SongsIAMX Volatile TimesIAMX The Unified FieldImatem HomePerhaps this is evidence that Peter Spilles can't do everything by himself?In Flames A Sense of PurposeIt Dies Today LividityIt Prevails FindingsSame shite, different album you could say. It Prevails continues down the path of emotional metalcore but this time the gimmick is not enough. This EP consists of 3 songs, each one boring enough to turn your lights off. I think I've heard this already...Iwrestledabearonce It's All DubstepThis is probably better than any of the stuff that Deviant recsJakalope Born 4Julian Plenti Julian Plenti is... SkyscraperJunkie XL SynthesizedKaiser Chiefs Yours Truly, Angry MobKasabian West Ryder Pauper Lunatic AsylumKillswitch Engage Killswitch Engage IIKorn See You on the Other SideKryoburn Enigmatic ExistenceTypical metal in vein of Mnemic. In other words, VERY unimaginative and VERY boring. There is some keyboard work used to add mild ambiance, but this is not really a positive for any song. In other words, it makes you wonder why the band is using this odd sounding pad instead of putting in a synth line. To make matters worse, the production is terrible, with the drums overshadowing the guitars and vocals. Yes, during any given song, you'll feel like you need to concentrate to hear the vocals. Then again, the man can't even hold a tune; his singing in choruses ranges from key to key so you'll hear this constant change in his voice that really adds the icing on the cake.Ladyhawke AnxietyLadytron VelociferoLifeforms MultidimensionalLinkin Park Minutes To MidnightM83 ReunionMadison Affair Teenage TimeMarilyn Manson Eat Me, Drink MeMarilyn Manson The High End of LowMetallica St. AngerMetro Station Metro StationMindless Self Indulgence IfMoby Last NightMoby HotelMuse The 2nd LawNemora Equinox Of The GodsNiki And The Dove InstinctNine Inch Nails The SlipNiveau Zero JasmineOrgy Punk Statik ParanoiaPink Floyd UmmagummaPlayRadioPlay! FrequencyPlushgun Me.Me.Polyenso Clean HeadRaunchy A Discord ElectricRed-Line Out Of BusinessSaving Grace UnbreakableSaving Grace what happened?! In their debut, not only did they bring the headbanging moments but they also brought the emotion and the powerful lyrics. In this album, all of it is abandoned and the listener is left with 12 songs that sound EXACTLY the same. Every song is chug chug chug, the lyrics consist of OOOOOOOOOH and EEEEEEEEEEEEE every friggin' second and any of that emotion I once felt from listening to this bands debut has been lost forever. This album is absolutely terrible and absolutely forgettable.Silent Descent DuplicitySkrillex Make It Bun Dem After HoursSkrillex LeavingWhile the album art may suggest a total 180 degree turn from his past style of music, there is truly only one track on this three track EP that may have you scratching your head, wondering if this really is Skrillex. It's slow, quiet, dark, and minimal, which is probably how Sonny Moore himself would describe the song. However, that one track "Leaving" is nothing more than a carbon copy of work done by some of the more respected, underground dubstep artists out there. True, it actually is slow, quiet, dark, and minimal by Skrillex's standards, but comparing it to a track done by an artist who specializes in the style, it is obvious that Skrillex's is less genuine and clearly overproduced. The track "Scary Bolly Dub" is pretty much a waste - a medley of his famous past material while the final track "The Reason" stands in between Skrillex's new found "IMUSTBEDARKANDYSTERIOUS" attitude and his "DANCEOHMYGOD" habits.Suicidal Romance Memories Behind Closed CurtainsWho the hell is doing the harsh vocals on this album?! Yikes! Suicide Silence No Time to BleedDescribing this album, four letters, one syllable: C-H-U-G The thought going through the listener's head, four letters, one syllable: F-U-C-KSybreed ChallengerT3rror 3rror First ContactTechnomancer 2There's almost an unspeakable rule when it comes to the majority of industrial and synthpop, and that rule is "no autotune." Although this sounds like a very general statement, it's quite true. Unfortunately, Technomancer missed the meeting, or they're succumbing to modern production tricks. Either way, the album is drenched in it, and it sounds absolutely terrible, extremely sugary sounding. In fact, the overall sound is very artificial as though the entire music aspect of the album was done in the last five minutes before releasing. Apart from the autotuned vocals, the lyrics are quite average, but luckily do not border on being cheesy. Remember this is not a techno album, but a synthpop/futurepop album, focusing on image, rather than heart.Test Icicles For Screening Purposes OnlyThe Academy Is... Fast Times at Barrington HighThe Audition ChampionThe Bravery The Sun and the Mooni really liked the debut from these guys because it was a decent resurrection of new wave with many catchy songs. However, like any artist, you cannot always do the same thing again and in this case, The Bravery attempted to pull off another debut but fell short. Every single track is forgettable and each has a "modern" theme to it, making it sound like any song on the radio. There was not enough "new wave" in this album.The Break Up The Break UpThe first half, nay, the first three quarters of this album is God awful; our female vocalist really can't sing at all, and it really sounds like she is struggling throughout the entire album to keep a tune. Sure, this may be a good effect at times, but this is synthpop we're talking here; music meant to sound beautiful. The backing music is just as bad, nothing really you can hold onto and it just passes you buy. It isn't until the last 4 songs where songs actually start sounding like synthpop, meaning that there is actually some relatively upbeat music with fairly tuneful vocals. But sadly, this is not enough; and even though these tracks themselves are not that great, they will probably go un-listened either way since you'll want to turn this off 3 songs in.The Chemical Brothers BrotherhoodThe Chemical Brothers FurtherThe Click Five Greetings from Imrie HouseThe Futureheads RantThe Perfects Many NightsThe Starting Line Based on a True StoryThe Used Lies for the LiarsTV Off Music MachineI have never listened to something that even comes close to the annoyance that Music Machine brings to my ears. TV Off, a synthpop tag team featuring female vocals, is almost indescribable. The musical aspect is perfectly fine, nothing out of ordinary in terms of synthpop, and it remains quite listenable throughout the entire album. However, once we get to the nonsensical vocals and lyrics you get this sudden urge to rip the cd out of its player and throw it in the ocean. Tracks like Pillows and Shortcakes or Honey are just unbearable because of this fact.Uberbyte EXSOn EXS, Uberbyte decides to create a collection of songs, each consisting of a beat, a recycled synth line, and then a repeating sample. Such a combination may sound like your typical industrial tune, but on EXS the mediocrity is magnified tenfold due to old ideas being used. While not great, Uberbyte's previous album, Dos, had a much more original feel, while EXS sounds like the same crap but even worse. The beats are stale and the samples are just annoying. In the songs that contain actual vocals, they don't really help that much especially if you take a listen to the chorus in The Lie; it contains a blood curdling scream that just sounds so wrong. Underneath The Gun Forfeit MisfortunesUpon a Burning Body Red. White. Green.I could have sworn Upon A Burning Body was better than this. The lyrical content is basically corny one-liners and tough-guy attitude all mixed into a pot with the word "fuck". Next, forget any groove that the band brought in their previous album. While the album is plagued with breakdowns, there isn't a single one I found that I could get into and just nod my head to (ie. there ain't no WE'LL SHAKE THE FUCKING GROUND up in this bitch). Finally, we have the vocals. Its tone remains unchanged for the most part, but I am seriously disliking how they are used almost tunefully at times, similar to those Bury Your Dead albums with that new singer ugh...Waves In Head RemixedWe Are Defiance Trust in FewWeezer The Red AlbumWeezer Make BelieveWoe, Is Me Genesi[s]Youngblood Hawke Wake UpYour Demise The Kids We Used To BeListening to this album will be your demise. DEMISE OF YOUR EARS. Forget about the overly aggressive YD of the last album, the new YD is just terrible. Despite similar instrumentation, it just doesn't seem as effective this time around and even worse, your ears are treated to clean vocals in several of the songs. This point alone automatically takes away any hardcore edge this album had and throws it all into a generic sounding pot which is the metalcore we hear today.Zeromancer The Death of RomanceOh, Zeromancer. Five albums in and you still haven't learn the meaning of the word 'progression'. I am still finding difficulty determining what song is what on your second album and suddenly with this fifth album the problem is even worse; not only are there very few differences between songs, that one particular structure that every song here revolves around is terrible. The Death of Romance is what I consider the most bland and boring industrial rock imaginable. And after five albums, I'd expect Zeromancer to learn its lesson.1.0 awfulAlien Skin The Unquiet GraveAn album so unbelievably boring, I almost feel sad that I can't think of some cool pun to write from the title. The murmuring vocals, minimalistic music, and BEYOND cheesy lyrics easily make this one of the most unsatisfying albums of 2010. Shame on A Different Drum for signing this act.Breathe Carolina It's Classy Not ClassicCoroner The Unknown Unreleased Tracks (1985-1995)I love Coroner but what the fuck is this supposed to be...Emmure FelonyEscape the Fate This War Is OursForeign Beggars The UprisingRegardless of the fact that there isn't any BLAU, this is so fucking disappointing, holy shit. The Uprising focuses less on rapping (but even the rapping is shit when you finally hear it) and more on lame hooks and weak beats. I honestly thought Foreign Beggars' multiple collaborations with Noisia, Skrillex, etc. were enjoyable and would lead to a tolerable full length but this is just fucking bad.Mindless Self Indulgence How I Learned to Stop Giving A Shit and Love MSIHow I Learned to Listen To The New MSI Album and Realize It Is Fucking TerribleProtest the Hero Sequoia Throne Remix EPSonic Syndicate Love and Other DisastersSquarepusher UfabulumSuicide Commando Chromdioxyde 1An unbelievably boring record that does nothing for the listener except maybe put them to sleep. Good thing this was set to a limited number of copies...The Faint FasciinatiionThe Galvatrons Laser Graffiti
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