| 4.0 excellent |
| *shels Sea of the Dying Dhow |
| 1000 Funerals Portrait Of A Dream |
| A Perfect Circle Thirteenth Step |
| Abstrakt Algebra Abstrakt Algebra |
| AC/DC High Voltage |
| AC/DC Let There Be Rock |
| AC/DC Back In Black |
| Accept Restless And Wild |
| Acid Death Pieces of mankind |
| Acrimonious Purulence |
| In their debut album, Hellenes Acrimonious decorate their adventurous second-wave black/death metal with bitter -and sometimes nostalgic ("Spirit's Eclipse")- melodies and craft a manifesto for chaos. |
| Aerosmith Toys In The Attic |
| Aghora Aghora |
| Aghora Formless |
| Alchemist Organasm |
| Alchemist Austral Alien |
| Alice Cooper Trash |
| Alice in Chains Facelift |
| Alice in Chains Black Gives Way to Blue |
| Amorphis Tuonela |
| Anacrusis Manic Impressions |
| Anathema Judgement |
| Angel Dust To Dust You Will Decay |
| Angel Dust Into the Dark Past |
| Angelo Badalamenti Mulholland Drive (score) |
| Angstridden Fuck Humanity With Pride |
| Annihilator King of the Kill |
| Annihilator Alice in Hell |
| Anthrax Fistful Of Metal |
| Arch / Matheos Sympathetic Resonance |
| Arcturus The Sham Mirrors |
| Arleta Demo |
| Back in the mid '70s, Demo would be Arleta's first credible effort in reaching the folk audiences outside Greece, if the head of Lyra Records hadn't decided to bury the record and confine her talent within the -then- rapidly developing New Wave of the Greek folk scene. |
| At the Gates Slaughter of the Soul |
| Atheist Unquestionable Presence |
| Aura Noir Black Thrash Attack |
| Norwegian avant-garde black metal gangstas thrashing hard....... AAAAAARRRGGGGGHHHHHH! |
| Behemoth Demigod |
| Behemoth Evangelion |
| Believer Gabriel |
| Biomechanical Eight Moons |
| Bjork Debut |
| Bjork Post |
| Black Sabbath We Sold Our Soul for Rock 'N' Roll |
| Black Swan The Quiet Divide |
| Blind Guardian Follow the Blind |
| Blue Oyster Cult Secret Treaties |
| Bolt Thrower ...For Victory |
| Boris Amplifier Worship |
| Boris Absolutego |
| Boris Heavy Rocks |
| Boris BXI |
This band simply can never fail...
Ian Astbury's has never singed like this before, vocals of tremendous emotional depth...... |
| Boris Attention Please |
| Boris With Michio Kurihara Rainbow |
| Breach Venom |
| Bruce Dickinson Balls to Picasso |
| Bruce Dickinson Accident of Birth |
| Burial Ghost Hardware |
| Burst Origo |
| Burst Lazarus Bird |
| Candlemass King of the Grey Islands |
| Candlemass Tales Of Creation |
| Carcass Swansong |
| Cathedral The Carnival Bizarre |
| Celtic Frost Monotheist |
| Celtic Frost Into the Pandemonium |
| Children of Bodom Something Wild |
| Chimaira Resurrection |
| Christian Mistress Agony & Opium |
| Fantastic old school heavy metal by this US outfit, despite the female vocals being somewhat inconsistent... |
| Chroma Key You Go Now |
| Conception In Your Multitude |
| Converge You Fail Me |
| Converge Jane Doe |
| Coroner Mental Vortex |
| Coroner Coroner |
| Coroner's quirky personna in a nutshell... Despite its inhomogeneity as a compilation album, it still delivers. |
| Cult of Luna Cult of Luna |
| Cyanotic (DK) Sapphire Season |
| Cyanotic's debut is anything but an ordinary melodic death metal album... |
| Cynic Traced in Air |
| Cynic Re-Traced |
| Cypress Hill Cypress Hill III: Temples of Boom |
| Excellent stuff in here, the psychedelic touch blends nicely with the band's hip-hop agenda... Really well done! |
| Cypress Hill Los Grandes Exitos En Espanol |
| Danzig Danzig II: Lucifuge |
| Dayglo Abortions Out of the Womb |
| PUNKZ NOT DEAD!!!!!! |
| Deadsoul Tribe A Murder of Crows |
| Death Individual Thought Patterns |
| Death Spiritual Healing |
| Death Leprosy |
| Death In Vegas The Contino Sessions |
| Decapitated Organic Hallucinosis |
| Decapitated The Negation |
| Defleshed Under the blade |
| Defleshed's second album is an underground death/thrash gem from Sweden... |
| Depeche Mode Music for the Masses |
| Depeche Mode Playing The Angel |
| Depeche Mode Songs of Faith and Devotion |
| Depeche Mode Violator |
| Depressive Age Symbols for the Blue Times |
| Dio The Last in Line |
| Dire Straits Dire Straits |
| Disincarnate Dreams of the Carrion Kind |
| Doctor Butcher Doctor Butcher |
| Dodheimsgard Kronet Til Konge |
| "Monotonous", nihilistic, ravishing, Kronet Til Konge got Dodheimsgard amongst Norwegian black metal's finest proprietors. |
| Drive Characters In Time |
| Excellent US power metal with discrete progressive metal leanings and in the vein of bands such as Vicious Rumors and Oliver Magnum, this is fantastic stuff. |
| Earth The Bees Made Honey in the Lion's Skull |
| Eldritch Seeds Of Rage |
| Eldritch Headquake |
| Eldritch Reverse |
| Enforcer Death By Fire |
| Old school metal lives and these Swedes should be worshiped accordingly.- |
| Ennio Morricone The Good, The Bad and The Ugly |
| Enslaved Isa |
| Esoteric Paragon Of Dissonance |
| Exodus Bonded by Blood |
| Exodus Fabulous Disaster |
| Exodus Another Lesson In Violence |
| Faith No More King for a Day... Fool for a Lifetime |
| Faith No More Angel Dust |
| Faithreat Thrashing With The Stars |
| Fates Warning Disconnected |
| Fates Warning Parallels |
| Fates Warning Perfect Symmetry |
| Fear Factory Mechanize |
| Fear Factory Demanufacture |
| Fear Factory Obsolete |
| Fear of God Within the Veil |
| Fight War Of Words |
| Fleurety Min Tid Skal Komme |
| Quite original sound here, in terms of avant-garde black metal, female voices singing over bm blast beats, jazz passages, ambient soundscapes... It's somewhere between a 3.5-4 for me, and i rate with a 4/5 due to its originality. |
| Flotsam and Jetsam Cuatro |
| Flying Lotus Cosmogramma |
| Free Fire and Water |
| Genghis Tron Board Up the House |
| Gordian Knot Emergent |
| Grand Funk Railroad E Pluribus Funk |
| Grand Funk Railroad Grand Funk |
| Grave Endless Procession Of Souls |
| OLD SCHOOL DEATHSTERZ NOT DEAD!!!! |
| Grave Digger Tunes of War |
| Graveyard (SWE) Lights Out |
| Green Carnation A Blessing In Disguise |
| Green Carnation The Acoustic Verses |
| Grip Inc. Nemesis |
| Grip Inc. Solidify |
| Guns N' Roses Use Your Illusion I |
| Guns N' Roses Appetite for Destruction |
| Hate Morphosis |
| Morphosis is an overlooked death/black gem from Poland, baring a good share of "alien" influences (industrial)... |
| Hate Solarflesh |
| Solarflesh is the 8th observation from the Polish death/black outfit of Hate and captures the band going upward again after the low flight of Erebos. Their sense in arranging their blast beat driven death/black metal (second (?) only to their fellow country men Behemoth) has shown some progress in here. The band has managed to successfully infuse melody within the blast beat chaos and amplify the majestic feeling that made albums such as Morphosis so great in the first place. That being said, their attempts in exploring the area outside their comfort zone are a hit or miss. The 3.5 rating is about the limited edition of the album. Excluding the bonus tracks, the album is much more solid, close to a 4/5. |
| Heathen Breaking the Silence |
| Heathendom Nescience |
| Heavens Gate Livin' In Hysteria |
| Heir Apparent Graceful Inheritance |
| Heir Apparent One Small Voice |
| Hellion Hellion |
| Badass '80s metal with the ballsy female vocals of Ann Boleyn... |
| Helloween Walls of Jericho |
| Helstar Nosferatu |
| Holocaust (Gbr) The Nightcomers |
| Holy Moses Finished With The Dogs |
| Horisont Tva Sidor Av Horisonten |
| Horseback The Invisible Mountain |
| House of Spirits Turn of the Tide |
Excellent power/progressive metal with one foot stepping on the path Queensryche opened (Operation Mindcrime/Empire era) and the other treading the territory of the critically acclaimed German melodic prog metal scene (Sieges Even, Soul Cages etc).
A must listen for every Queensryche fan!!!!!! |
| Hypocrisy Abducted |
| Hypocrisy Hypocrisy |
| Illwill Evilution |
| Iron Maiden The Number of the Beast |
| Iron Maiden Piece of Mind |
| Iron Maiden Powerslave |
| Iron Maiden Fear of the Dark |
| Isis Oceanic |
| Jag Panzer The Fourth Judgement |
| Jag Panzer Casting the Stones |
| Jamiroquai Travelling Without Moving |
| Jamiroquai A Funk Odyssey |
| Jamiroquai Rock Dust Light Star |
| Jan Garbarek In Praise Of Dreams |
| Jega Variance |
| Jethro Tull Songs From The Wood |
| Jethro Tull Minstrel In The Gallery |
| Jim Matheos First Impressions |
| Joe Satriani Joe Satriani |
| Judas Priest Sad Wings of Destiny |
| Judas Priest Killing Machine |
| Judas Priest British Steel |
| Judas Priest Screaming for Vengeance |
| Judas Priest Defenders of the Faith |
| Karl Sanders Saurian Meditation |
| Katatonia The Great Cold Distance |
| Katatonia Viva Emptiness |
| Kathaaria The Complex Void of Negativity |
| Kayser Kaiserhof |
| Kevin Moore Ghost Book |
| King Crimson Larks' Tongues in Aspic |
| King Crimson Starless and Bible Black |
| King Diamond Voodoo |
| King Diamond House of God |
| King's X Out of the Silent Planet |
| Kreator Enemy of God |
| Kreator Phantom Antichrist |
| Kreng L'Autopsie Phenomenale De Dieu |
| Labyrinth Return to Heaven Denied |
| Last Crack Sinister Funkhouse /17 |
Highly energetic metallic rock with a twist from this bunch of American wackos!!!!
Shelter (live):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4AyFx_CRVRo |
| Led Zeppelin BBC Sessions |
| Lethal Programmed |
| Lethal's debut is a US power metal gem, band performance and especially Tom Mallicoat's higher-than-the-sky vocals are the tits.. |
| Machine Head Burn My Eyes |
| Machine Head The Blackening |
| Madder Mortem Eight Ways |
| Madder Mortem Desiderata |
| Manes Vilosophe |
| Manowar Sign of the Hammer |
| Mar De Grises Streams Inwards |
| Marshall Law Marshall Law |
In their debut album, Marshall Law present a highly addictive '80s heavy metal blend, with one foot standing on US heavy/power metal and the other on Los Angeles glam rock/metal...
In any case, this is awesome stuff. |
| Mastodon Crack the Skye |
| Mastodon The Hunter |
| Mastodon Leviathan |
| Mastodon Blood Mountain |
| Mayhem Ordo Ad Chao |
| Mayhem Grand Declaration Of War |
| Meanstreak Roadkill |
| Megace Inner war |
| Megadeth Peace Sells... but Who's Buying? |
| Megadeth Countdown to Extinction |
| Megadeth Youthanasia |
| Mekong Delta Lurking Fear |
| Mekong Delta The Principle of Doubt |
| Mekong Delta Pictures At An Exhibition |
| Mekong Delta Classics |
| Meshuggah Nothing [Re-release] |
| Meshuggah Destroy Erase Improve |
| Meshuggah Chaosphere |
| Meshuggah Nothing |
| Meshuggah obZen |
| Metal Church Hanging in the Balance |
| Metal Church The Dark |
| Metal Church Metal Church |
| Metallica Kill 'Em All |
| Metallica ...And Justice for All |
| Metallica Metallica |
| Ministry Psalm 69 |
| Minsk With Echoes in the Movement of Stone |
| Monster Magnet Spine of God |
| Monster Magnet Superjudge |
| Monster Magnet Monolithic Baby! |
| Monstrosity Spiritual Apocalypse |
| Morbid Angel Domination |
| Morbid Angel Blessed Are the Sick |
| Morbid Angel Covenant |
| Morbid Angel Heretic |
| Death metal that lies within the interfaces. |
| Motorhead Orgasmatron |
| Municipal Waste Massive Aggressive |
| My Dying Bride The Angel and the Dark River |
| My Dying Bride The Light at the End of the World |
| My Dying Bride The Dreadful Hours |
| My Dying Bride Songs Of Darkness, Words Of Light |
| My Dying Bride I Am The Bloody Earth |
| My Dying Bride A Line Of Deathless Kings |
| My Dying Bride Trinity |
| My Dying Bride The Voice of the Wretched |
| Nachtmystium Assassins: Black Meddle Pt.1 |
| National Pornografik D. |
| Neil Young Dead Man |
| Neurosis A Sun That Never Sets |
| Nevermore Dreaming Neon Black |
| Nevermore Enemies Of Reality |
| Nevermore This Godless Endeavor |
| Nightfall Parade into Centuries |
Parade Into Centuries is an atmospheric doom/early '90s death metal gem, unworn by time.
Songs are diverse, time-lengthy, yet memorable, while the musicianship is top notch. Bassists should really take note of the bass which feels like it has been played by Steve Di Giorgio or Sean Malone... |
| Nightstalker Superfreak |
| Nirvana MTV Unplugged in New York |
| November En Ny Tid Ar Har... |
In their debut album, November from Sweden deliver an excellent piece of vintage blues/rock.
Although the record got released in 1970, it still sounds fresh as if it was released by one of those bands that are relevant with the 21st century revival of the genre.
Don't let yourself be disappointed by the fact that all lyrics are written in Swedish, this still rocks. |
| OSI Office of Strategic Influence |
| OSI Free |
| Overkill Feel the Fire |
| Overkill Horrorscope |
| Ozric Tentacles Arborescence |
| Ozzy Osbourne Diary Of A Madman |
| Pain Of Salvation The Perfect Element, Part 1 |
| Pain Of Salvation Be |
| Pain Of Salvation Road Salt One |
| Pain Of Salvation Road Salt Two |
| Paradise Lost Paradise Lost |
| Paradise Lost Tragic Idol |
| Paradise Lost In Requiem |
| Paradise Lost Icon |
| Paradise Lost Symbol Of Life |
| Phase Reverse Phase Reverse |
Phase Reverse really hit the spot with their groovy/chill-out heavy rock, as everything - the riffs, the vocals (a mix of Chris Cornell with Eddie Vedder) and the mature songwriting - is really in place.
I Got Your Back - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9iPSiFzzK8
Road Fever - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1NvSHTtlPs&feature=related
High Hopes - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C63JJiPanhQ&feature=related |
| Pink Martini Sympathique |
| Pink Martini Hang on Little Tomato |
| Poem The Great Secret Show |
| Porcupine Tree In Absentia |
| Porcupine Tree Deadwing |
| Porcupine Tree Stars Die: The Delerium Years |
| Primordial To The Nameless Dead |
| Propagandhi Failed States |
| Prototype Continuum |
| Purson The Circle and the Blue Door |
| Purson turn their spotlight towards the intermediate space between '70s pop, progressive, and occult/folk rock and deliver an enticing debut album. |
| Queensryche Empire |
| Queensryche Promised Land |
| Rabbit Junk Rabbit Junk |
| Rabbit Junk REframe |
| Rage Black In Mind |
| Rage End of All Days |
| Red Harvest Cold Dark Matter |
| Red Sparowes At The Soundless Dawn |
| Released Anger Violent Instincts |
| Debut EP from Hellenic thrashers Released Anger is all about '80s euro/US thrash (in the vein of Extreme Aggression-era Kreator and Breaking The Silence-era Heathen) done excellently.- |
| Revocation Teratogenesis |
| Riot Immortal Soul |
| Riot Thundersteel |
| Rory Gallagher Blueprint |
| Rotting Christ Sanctus Diavolos |
| Running Wild Port Royal |
| Running Wild Under Jolly Roger |
| Rush Permanent Waves |
| Ry Cooder Paris, Texas |
| Ry Cooder Chávez Ravine |
| Sacred Reich Still Ignorant |
| Sadus Elements Of Anger |
| Samael Ceremony Of Opposites |
| Santana Santana |
| Sarissa Demo 1987 |
| For those who get goosebumps whenever they choose to engage themselves in '80s old school metal, the 1987 demo of the Hellenes Sarissa is an underground gem that deserves to be discovered anew. |
| Saturnus Saturn in Ascension |
| Savatage The Hall Of The Mountain King |
| Savatage Gutter Ballet |
| Savatage Edge Of Thorns |
| Savatage Handful of Rain |
| Savatage Dead Winter Dead |
| Saxon Unleash the Beast |
| Saxon Denim And Leather |
| Sceptic Unbeliever's Script |
| Scorpions Lovedrive |
| Scorpions Blackout |
| Scorpions Love At First Sting |
| Scott Kelly The Wake |
| Screaming Trees Sweet Oblivion |
| Sear Bliss Phantoms |
| Sentenced Down |
| Septic Flesh Sumerian Daemons |
| Septic Flesh Communion |
| Septic Flesh The Ophidian Wheel |
| Septic Flesh The Great Mass |
| Sepultura Beneath the Remains |
| Sepultura Chaos A.D. |
| Sieges Even A Sense of Change |
| Sieges Even Paramount |
| Skid Row Skid Row |
| Skyclad Tracks From The Wilderness |
| Skyclad A Burnt Offering For The Bone Idol |
| Skyclad Vintage Whine |
| Skyclad Outrageous Fourtunes |
Skyclad bring forth their intimate folk melodies at the expense of their heavy/thrash practice.
Indispensable EP!!! |
| Slammer The Work of Idle Hands... |
Although it is not groundbreaking in the least, the Bay Area driven thrash of these English folks will force some heads to roll.......
Fantastic groove................ |
| Sleepin Pillow Apples on an Orange Tree |
In their debut album, Hellenes Sleepin Pillow derive a highly original blend of post rock, psychedelia, electronica and Hellenic/Oriental traditional music.
Really awesome stuff...
Instrument Of Time - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vNQMGDoLFU |
| Sodom Persecution Mania |
| Sodom Better Off Dead |
| Solitude Aeturnus Downfall |
| Sore Plexus HaPTePHObiC |
| Soundgarden Badmotorfinger |
| Soundtrack Death Proof |
| Soundtrack The Insider |
| Soundtrack Trainspotting: Music from the Motion Picture |
| Soundtrack The Edukators |
| In so many words, "The Edukators" is the soundtrack to our personal revolution against catastrophic capitalism.- |
| Soundtrack Road House |
| Soundtrack Collateral |
Awesome soundtrack and of high replay value.
And 9 out of 10 Michael Mann movies rip skulls. Easily. |
| Spice and the RJ Band The Will |
| Spiral Architect A Sceptic's Universe |
| Spiritual Beggars Spiritual Beggars |
| Spiritual Beggars Another Way To Shine |
| Spiritual Beggars Earth Blues |
| In view of the ever flourishing "contemporary" vintage/heavy rock circuit, Earth Blues may as well be the album that will introduce Spiritual Beggars (est. 1992!) as one of its inherent forefathers. |
| Spitfire (GR) First Attack |
First Attack is an amazing offering of hard rocking heavy/power metal and on the same caliber with Dio's first two albums.
With this album, Spitfire single-handedly put the (strictly underground until that point) Hellenic metal scene into the map of world metal. |
| Stabbing Westward Darkest Days |
| Steve Vai Alien Love Secrets |
| Alien Love Secrets is the best Vai record by far... |
| Strapping Young Lad Alien |
| Stratovarius Twilight Time |
| Suffocation Blood Oath |
| Suffocation Effigy of the Forgotten |
| Sun of Nothing The Guilt Of Feeling Alive |
| Sunn O))) and Boris Altar |
| Swarms Old Raves End |
| Symphony X Twilight in Olympus |
| Symphony X The Divine Wings of Tragedy |
| System of a Down Hypnotize |
| Tesla Mechanical Resonance |
| Testament The Gathering |
| The Answer Rise |
| The Cult Electric |
| The Devil's Blood Come, Reap |
| Excellent 70's occult/psychedelic/heavy rock from the Dutch masters... Satan will prevail... |
| The Devil's Blood The Time Of No Time Evermore |
| The Gathering Black Light District |
| The Gathering Mandylion |
| The Gathering Nighttime Birds |
| The Gathering How to Measure a Planet? |
| The Gathering If_Then_Else |
| The Jeff Healey Band See the Light |
| The Jeff Healey Band Hell To Pay |
| The Jimi Hendrix Experience Electric Ladyland |
| The Mars Volta Frances the Mute |
| The Mars Volta Amputechture |
| The Mars Volta Octahedron |
| The Police Outlandos d'Amour |
| The Police Reggatta de Blanc |
| The Tea Party The Interzone Mantras |
| The Tea Party The Edges Of Twilight |
| The Third and the Mortal Tears Laid In Earth |
| Theory In Practice The Armageddon Theories |
| Therapy? Troublegum |
| Thin Lizzy Thunder and Lightning |
| Thorns Stigma Diabolicum |
| Threshold Psychedelicatessen |
| Thunder Back Street Symphony |
| Thunder Laughing On Judgement Day |
| Tiamat A Deeper Kind of Slumber |
| Timo Tolkki Classical Variations and Themes |
| Tom Waits Beautiful Maladies: The Island Years |
| Tom Waits The Heart of Saturday Night |
| Trapeze Medusa |
| Trespassers William Different Stars |
| Trouble Psalm 9 |
| Trouble Trouble |
| Trouble Manic Frustration |
| Troubled Horse Step Inside |
| Sweden keeps on churning awesome vintage rock and this outfit right here, is no exception. Awesome stuff. |
| Turbonegro Party Animals |
| TV on the Radio Return to Cookie Mountain |
| Ulver Svidd Neger |
| Ulver Lyckantropen Themes |
| Ulver A Quick Fix of Melancholy |
| Uncle Acid And The Deadbeats Blood Lust |
| Universe217 Universe217 |
| Bumping this to a 4 from a 3.5, despite its few flaws, there is literally nothing that sounds like this... HQ Experimental doom metal..... |
| Universe217 Never |
Psychedelic/majestic/post/you-name-it, female fronted doom metal baring various awesome vibes.
Prepare to be severely overwhelmed by Tanya's vocals...
http://universe217.bandcamp.com/ |
| Uzala Uzala |
Seldom has psychedelic doom metal sounded so awesome...
album stream: http://uzala.bandcamp.com/ |
| Various Artists Nativity in Black - A Tribute to Black Sabbath |
| Vauxdvihl Vog |
| Ved Buens Ende Those who Caress the Pale |
| Vicious Rumors Welcome to the Ball |
| Vicious Rumors Warball |
| Vicious Rumors Word Of Mouth |
| Vicious Rumors Razorback Killers |
| Vicious Rumors Electric Punishment |
| At their eleventh observation, Vicious Rumors reproduce their brand of US power metal with class, and while they are getting themselves closer and closer to Bay Area thrash, they further diversify their sound with 80s glam rock and the blues. |
| Vinum Sabbatum Songs From The Convent |
On their debut EP, Norwegian Vinum Sabbatum simply amaze with their mature blend of occult rock, albeit they don't offer the universal sensation of the genre, namely the voluptuous female vocals of some already acclaimed bands, like The Devil's Blood and the alike.
Instead there are crooning male vocals, amazing lyrics (listen to "Witch Woman"), thick/warm sounding hammond, the riffs (the fucking riffs!!!), classic rock solos, and the traditional doom/ '70s hard rock thing at its best. |
| Virus (NO) Carheart |
| Voivod Target Earth |
Voivod just can't do no wrong and give their fans enough reasons as to why they should continue as a band.
Target Earth is a condensed re-run of all the places Voivod have visited from Killing Technology up to Voivod, their industrial era (Negatron, Phobos) excluded. Dan Mograin does wonders in the guitars, emulating Piggy's style. |
| W.A.S.P. The Crimson Idol |
| Wardrum Spadework |
| Windfaerer Solar |
All those into black metal with folk/epic leanings, should take hold of this band and EP, as the folk/epic thing is blended superbly with old-school black metal under a skull crushing sound production.
Not sure yet about the exact rating, although it already feels like a 3.5 at least...
http://windfaerer.bandcamp.com/album/solar |
| Wolverine (SWE) Cold Light of Monday |
| Wooden Shjips West |
| Fantastic '60s psychedelic/minimalistic noisy rock... The perfect soundtrack for driving out in the open road... |
| Wulfhook Sacrifice (demo) |
Wulfhook's third demo is plain awesome US power metal in the vein of Helstar, Destiny's End, Vicious Rumors etc.
Check it here - http://www.youtube.com/user/WulfhookBand?feature=watchr |
| Yann Tiersen Good Bye Lenin! (Soundtrack) |
| YOB The Illusion Of Motion |
| Your Hand In Mine Every Night Dreams |
| YUREI Working Class Demon |
| Yurei allow for themselves to be influenced by the works of Oslo avant-garde metal league, yet they manage to add a good load of original ideas to the mix... |
| Zaxas Zaxas |
| Zed Yago From Over Yonder |
| 3.5 great |
| 27 Songs From the Edge of the Wing |
| 3 Wake Pig |
| 3 The End is Begun |
| 5ive Hesperus |
| A Perfect Circle Mer de Noms |
| AC/DC For Those About To Rock... |
| Acid Death Promo 2011 |
| Acid Death Balance of power |
| Aethenor En Form for Bla |
| Agnes Vein Duality |
| Airbourne Runnin' Wild |
| Alchemist Tripsis |
| Alice in Chains Jar of Flies |
| Amon Amarth Once Sent from the Golden Hall |
| Amorphis Elegy |
| Anathema The Silent Enigma |
| Anathema A Fine Day To Exit |
| Anathema A Natural Disaster |
| Anathema Hindsight |
| Angel Dust Border of Reality |
| Angelo Badalamenti The Straight Story |
| Annihilator Carnival Diablos |
| Annihilator Set the World on Fire |
| Anthrax Among The Living |
| Antidrasi Orkos Tou Misous |
The anthemic crossover of this cult punk/hardcore/thrash act from Hellas would be a hell of a lot more effective, if it wasn't for the clean and surprisingly "silent" sound production (especially in the guitars)...
If someone like Kurt Ballou for example, could do his magic with the sound, this would be pure dynamite........
Get the record for free in here: www.antidrasi.com |
| Antimatter Saviour |
| Antimatter Lights Out |
| Apocalyptica Plays Metallica by Four Cellos |
| Apocalyptica Inquisition Symphony |
| Apocalyptica Reflections |
| Apollo 440 Electro Glide In Blue |
| Apollo Ra Ra Pariah |
| Arch Enemy Anthems of Rebellion |
| Arch Enemy Doomsday Machine |
| Arcturus Disguised Masters |
| Arcturus My Angel |
| Ark Ark |
| Artillery When Death Comes |
| Asphyx God Cries |
| Atheist Jupiter |
| Atheist Elements |
| Audrey Horne No Hay Banda |
| Azam Ali Elysium for the Brave |
| BADBADNOTGOOD BBNG |
| Band of Spice Feel Like Coming Home |
| Baroness Red Album |
| Battlefield We Come to Fight |
| Fantastic female-fronted '80s thrash decorated with awesome lead guitar work. |
| Bauhaus The Sky's Gone Out |
| Beefcake Polycontrale Contra Punkte |
| Behemoth Satanica |
| Behemoth Thelema.6 |
| Behemoth Zos Kia Cultus (Here And Beyond) |
| Believer Transhuman |
| Benediction Transcend the Rubicon |
| Bewitched Encyclopedia of Evil |
| Beyond Creation The Aura |
| Biomechanical The Empires of the Worlds |
| Black Mass (USA-MA) The Second Coming |
Only three songs here, but these guys are very promising, even though they appear to be teenagers.
Combine Heathen, Testament and Slayer and there you have it m/ |
| Black Stone Cherry Black Stone Cherry |
| Black Swan Black Swan (In 8 Movements) |
| Black Swan Aeterna |
| Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeerie... Especially the closing track, for which the whole record works for............. |
| Black Symphony Black Symphony |
| Blood Money Red, Raw and Bleeding! |
| Red, Raw and Bleeding is a fantastic slab of British raw heavy/thrash that will reward every old school metal fan who will care to listen. |
| Boards of Canada The Campfire Headphase |
| Bolt Thrower Mercenary |
| Bon Jovi Slippery When Wet |
| Bon Jovi New Jersey |
| Bon Jovi Keep The Faith |
| Boris Pink |
| Boris Akuma no uta |
| Boris New Album |
| Moments of sheer brilliance that this band can produce with a snap of its finger, are mixed with moments of pop-esque "naiveness" in the New Album, with the latter somewhat watering down the overall quality of the record. Nevertheless, the record remains a thoroughly interesting listen. |
| Boris Heavy Rocks II |
| Boris With Merzbow Klatter |
| Borknagar Origin |
| Brainstorm Hungry |
Brainstorm, although they are German, they consist of those very rare bands whose power/thrash is leans more to the left than to the right bank of the Atlantic Ocean. For the thrash part, take Metallica, Testament, Annihilator and a tad of Slayer and mix it with a just a tad of Kreator. For the power part, take Vicious Rumors and Metal Church and mix it with just a tad of traditional German power metal.
This album is almost a guilty pleasure, I mean these guys are on their debut here, that is they take quite a few missteps in terms of the way compositions are set and developed and overall the music is catchy but not original. In addition, their singer is good but not overwhelming in any case. However leaving aside every setback, guitars and rhythm section are top notch for what they are up to, with killer/super-heavy riffs/leads and great drumming.
These guys are here to stay, that's for sure.
Standout songs: King Of Fools, Innocent Until Caught (GET IN THE MOSH!!!!!), Welcome To The Darkside, Mr. Know-It-All |
| Bruce Dickinson Skunkworks |
| Buddy Lackey The Strange Mind of Buddy Lackey |
| Bunker 66 Out of the Bunker |
| The Venom/Motorhead black/thrash of Italian act Bunker 66 is readily convincing, while a certain eccentricity with respect to the vocals, indicative of the infamous Italian temperament, gives this EP an additional twist. |
| Burial Street Halo |
| Candlemass Candlemass |
| Candlemass Psalms For The Dead |
| Canvas Solaris Irradiance |
| Car Bomb Centralia |
| Cathedral Forest of Equilibrium |
| Cathedral The VIIth Coming |
| Cathedral The Garden Of Unearthly Delights |
| Cave In Perfect Pitch Black |
| Cave In Planets of Old |
| Christian Mistress Possession |
| Chroma Key Graveyard Mountain Home |
| Cinderella Long Cold Winter |
| Circle II Circle Delusions Of Grandeur |
| Cirith Ungol King of the Dead |
| Combo De La Muerte Tropical Steel |
| Conception Flow |
| Conception Parallel Minds |
| Confessor Condemned |
| Converge All We Love We Leave Behind |
| Convixion Metal Drinkin' Conspiracy |
| Long before thrash titans such as Kreator or Testament bring forth anew their classic metal influences and infuse them to their sound, Hellenes Convixion were mixing the aforementioned ingredients with admirable results... |
| Coroner Punishment for Decadence |
| Coroner R.I.P. |
| Corrosion of Conformity Deliverance |
| Crematory Illusions |
| Crippled Black Phoenix (Mankind) The Crafty Ape |
| Cult of Luna The Beyond |
| Cult of Luna Somewhere Along the Highway |
| Custom Made Noise Hypoxia |
Contrary to what their band name implies, Thessaloniki-Greece-based Custom Made Noise don't go far from the legacy of outfits such as Meshuggah or Pantera and the NWOAHM/metalcore circuit, ending up being no better yet no worse than the rest of the competition.
album stream: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18mSQiNMAD8&list=UU56gnKXBHJoUnuei8TbSPyQ |
| Cyanotic The Medication Generation |
| Cynic Carbon-Based Anatomy |
| Cypress Hill Cypress Hill |
| Dark Tranquillity The Gallery |
| Darkstar Marching Into Oblivion |
| David Gilmour On An Island |
| David Gilmour David Gilmour |
| Deadsoul Tribe Deadsoul Tribe |
| Deadsoul Tribe The January Tree |
| Deadsoul Tribe A Lullaby For The Devil |
| Death Angel Relentless Retribution |
| Death Angel The Art of Dying |
| Death Angel Frolic Through the Park |
| Death In Vegas Milk It |
| Death In Vegas Scorpio Rising |
| Death In Vegas Trans-Love Energies |
| Far from "excellent", yet superbly intimate... |
| Deathrow Raging Steel |
| Decapitated Nihility |
| Decapitated Carnival Is Forever |
| Decoryah Wisdom Floats |
Decoryah's debut is as quirky as atmospheric doom/death metal can get...
Really strange album... |
| Depeche Mode Ultra |
| Derek Sherinian Inertia |
| Destruction Eternal Devastation |
| Destruction Spiritual Genocide |
| Devil Time to Repent |
| In a period where some of the leading occult rock bands are going uphill in terms of ambitiousness, Devil from Norway prefer to stick to the basics of the genre, doing a great job in the process... |
| Discharge Hear Nothing See Nothing Say Nothing |
| Diskreet Engage the Mechanicality |
While this is a solid 3/5, it gets a 0.5 plus for the tremendous vigor by which the material is executed. Well done, indeed a band which shows great promise.
The song "Serpent Tongue" IS THE SHIT.
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| Dissect Swallow Swouming Mass |
| Douglas State Of Rock |
| Although I'm not too fond of Adult Oriented Rock in general, the debut album from Douglas is great, as it lacks nearly nothing, compared to critically acclaimed bands such as Foreigner, for example. |
| Draconian Turning Season Within |
| Dream Theater Falling into Infinity |
| Dream Theater Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence |
| Dream Theater Train of Thought |
| Dropped Flyer Lowlife |
| Drysill Welcome to the Show |
Solid '80s metal from Iceland
unofficial stream: http://www.metal-samples.com/2013/05/drysill-welcome-to-show-1985.html |
| E-Force Evil Forces |
| Eldritch Neighbouhell |
| Enslaved Ruun |
| Enslaved Vertebrae |
| Enslaved Axioma Ethica Odini |
| Enter Shikari Take to the Skies |
| Evergrey Glorious Collision |
| While the music is an undeniable 3.0/5, Englund's vocals and passion add a 0.5 to the cart. Hope they get their shit together in their next effort and reach the heights of The Inner Circle and the albums that came before it. |
| Fanttasma Another Sleepless Night |
Brazilian outfit Fanttasma blends post rock with black metal, whereas some songs are further decorated with blues climaxes, saxophone and female vocals.
While the aforementioned package needs some work so as to sound more cohesive, the album is very interesting overall.
http://fanttasma.bandcamp.com/ |
| Fates Warning FWX |
| Fates Warning Inside Out |
| Fear Factory The Industrialist |
| Fifth Reason Within Or Without |
| Flotsam and Jetsam Drift |
| Flotsam and Jetsam The Cold |
| this gets a 3.5 and not a 3.0, due to the decent, yet intense riffing and the passionate vocal performance of Erik AK... |
| Flotsam and Jetsam High |
| Flotsam and Jetsam No Place for Disgrace |
| Forbidden Omega Wave |
| Great semi-technical thrash from the Bay Area thrash veterans... |
| Forbidden Forbidden Evil |
| Forbidden Twisted Into Form |
| Forte Vae Solis |
| Fourth Dimension Novo |
| In their debut EP, Hellenes thrashers Fourth Dimension show a keen sense in adapting their music to the tech branch of the Bay Area thrash scene (Master Of Puppets-era Metallica, Heathen, Testament), although the somewhat inconsistent vocals and the muddy sound production tend to spoil it for them in the process... |
| Fredrik Thordendal's Special Defects Sol Niger Within |
| Future Of The Left The Plot Against Common Sense |
| Galactic Cowboys At The End Of The Day |
| Gentle Giant Octopus |
| Godflesh Streetcleaner |
| Grand Funk Railroad We're An American Band |
| Grand Magus Grand Magus |
| Grand Magus Wolf's Return |
| Grave Digger The Reaper |
| Greenleaf Greenleaf |
| Grip Inc. Incorporated |
| Guardian Angel Oblivion Seas |
| Guns N' Roses G N' R Lies |
| Hark Mythopoeia |
Although Mythopoeia is a two track 7'' EP, its content is enough to take Hark's brutal stoner/doom places...
http://superfirecords.bandcamp.com/album/mythopoeia-7 |
| Heaven and Hell The Devil You Know |
| Heavens Gate Hell For Sale! |
| Hellion Screams In The Night |
| Helstar Glory Of Chaos |
Superb tech thrash from the Bay Area veterans. I didn't remember them to be so aggressive in their past releases...Well done!
Edit: i'm changing this from a 4.0 to a 3.5 because the power metal songs of the record aren't anything special. If the whole record was pure thrash, it would be a 4.5 easily... |
| High Spirits Another Night |
| We need more metal records like this one, that's for sure!! |
| Holy Mount We Fell From The Sky |
| Holy Mount's debut is a great piece of psychedelic desert blues/rock, ideal for copious listening sessions... Really great... |
| Hooded Menace Fulfill the Curse |
| House of Spirits Psychosphere |
| Iced Earth Night of the Stormrider |
| Iced Earth The Dark Saga |
| Immolation Majesty and Decay |
| In Flames The Jester Race |
| Inferno (USA) Psychic Distance |
| Infidel I, Oathbreaker |
| Infidel King Of Cynical Control |
| Inmoria Invisible Wounds |
| Members from Morgana Lefay and Tad Morose join forces and churn out a great piece of ominous, neck breaking, Swedish heavy/power metal. |
| Into Eternity The Scattering of Ashes |
| iNTRiKeT Songs For Sleepy |
| Intronaut Valley of Smoke |
| Iron Maiden Ed Hunter |
| Iron Maiden A Real Live One |
| Iron Maiden No Prayer for the Dying |
| Iron Maiden The X Factor |
| Iron Maiden A Real Dead One |
| Iron Maiden A Real Live Dead One |
| Isis Celestial |
| Jaco Pastorius Jaco Pastorius |
| Jag Panzer Thane to the Throne |
| Jag Panzer The Scourge of the Light |
| Jamiroquai The Return Of The Space Cowboy |
| Jeff Buckley So Real: Songs From Jeff Buckley |
| Jester's March Beyond |
| Jesu Silver |
| Jethro Tull Benefit |
| Jim Matheos Away with Words |
| Joe Satriani The Extremist |
| Karl Sanders Saurian Exorcisms |
| Karma To Burn Almost Heathen |
| Katatonia Discouraged Ones |
| Katatonia Brave Murder Day |
| Katatonia Dead End Kings |
This is Katatonia suffering from a burnt out syndrome (who's to blame: Night Is The New Day)
Still the record has its moments... |
| Kayser The Good Citizen EP |
| This EP bridges the gap between Kayser's debut album Kaiserhof and their next and most recent album, Frame The World ... Hang It On The Wall. It contains probably the best song from the debut, "Good Citizen" and its video, 2 songs from their upcoming - then - second album and one new song. Their sound can be characterized as modern hard rock/metal with severe tech-thrash twists. Great work!!! |
| Keelhaul Subject To Change Without Notice |
| Kinetic The Chains That Bind Us |
| King Crimson In the Wake of Poseidon |
| King Crimson Discipline |
| King Crimson Three of a Perfect Pair |
| King Crimson THRAK |
| King Diamond The Spider's Lullabye |
| King Diamond Conspiracy |
| Knut Terraformer |
| Kreator Terrible Certainty |
| Kreator Renewal |
| In this album, Kreator craft thrash that lies in the interfaces... |
| Kreator Cause for Conflict |
| Kreator Outcast |
| Kreator Violent Revolution |
| Lake of Tears Forever Autumn |
| Led Zeppelin Presence |
| Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin III |
| Less Than Human To Breed True |
| Lethal Your Favourite God |
| Lizzy Borden Give 'em the Axe |
| Loincloth Loincloth |
| Lunatic Soul Lunatic Soul |
| Madder Mortem Where Dream And Day Collide |
| Madder Mortem All Flesh is Grass |
| Madder Mortem Mercury |
| Madleaf Sinners |
| Make A Change...Kill Yourself Fri |
| Manilla Road Live by the Sword: The Very Best of Manilla Road |
| Manowar Kings of Metal |
| Max Richter Infra |
| Medalyon Visions |
| Although it is not as effective as the work of more accomplished acts such as Lizzy Borden or Vicious Rumors, the debut Medalyon album delivers a solid slab of old school heavy/power metal. |
| Megace Human errors |
| Megadeth So Far, So Good... So What! |
| Megadeth Cryptic Writings |
| Mekong Delta Intersections |
| Melvins A Senile Animal |
| Memento Mori Songs For The Apocalypse, Vol. 4 |
| Memorain Reduced to Ashes |
| Memory Garden Doomain |
| Solid as a whole, Memory Garden's fifth observation will satisfy dedicated power/doom metal fans, whereas it is a good starting point for getting acquainted with the band and the sub-genre they file under. |
| Mencea Dark Matter Energy Noir |
| The death/thrash of this Hellenic outfit is promising... |
| Mephisto Mephisto |
| Mephisto's eponymous debut is a token of rather unusual '80s metal with non-trivial prog leanings and styles ranging from Teutonic metal (Helloween) to epic metal (Manowar) and even Bay Area thrash (Metallica). The rating would be much higher, should the record had more songs with vocals (there are 4 songs plus one intro and two instrumentals, one of which is rather weak) and more tracks in general. Nevertheless, this album is worth being discovered by fans of the previously described sound. |
| Mercyful Fate In the Shadows |
| Meshuggah Koloss |
| Metallica The $5.98 E.P. Garage Days Re-Revisited |
| Miles Davis Kind of Blue |
| Mind Odyssey Schizophenia |
| Minsk Out of a Center Which is Neither Dead nor Alive |
| Mogwai The Hawk Is Howling |
| Monster Magnet 4-Way Diablo |
| Monstrosity Rise to Power |
| Moonspell Irreligious |
| Morbid Angel Formulas Fatal to the Flesh |
| Morbid Angel Gateways to Annihilation |
| Morgana Lefay Sanctified |
| Motorhead Overnight Sensation |
| Motorhead Snake Bite Love |
| Municipal Waste The Art of Partying |
| Municipal Waste The Fatal Feast |
| My Dying Bride Like Gods of the Sun |
| My Dying Bride 34.788%... Complete |
| My Dying Bride The Thrash Of Naked Limbs |
| My Dying Bride An Ode To Woe |
| My Dying Bride Symphonaire Infernus Et Spera Empyrium |
| My Dying Bride A Map Of All Our Failures |
| Myty Konkeror I Miss The Future |
The heavy rock of these guys carries a serious twist, with influences from grunge (Screaming Trees come to mind), southern rock, psychedelia and noise rock...
This band might go places.. |
| Naer Mataron Praetorians |
| Nashville Pussy Get Some |
| Nasty Savage Penetration Point |
| Nazareth The Catch |
| Need Siamese God |
| A major improvement compared to Wisdom Machine, Siamese God finds Hellenes Need giving the right angles to their Pantera-meets-Nevermore-meets-Pain Of Salvation metal, albeit they don't completely hide the influence from the aforementioned bands on both the music and the vocals, with the latter being the last wheel rolling Need's carriage. |
| Neurosis Times of Grace |
| Neurosis Given to the Rising |
| Nevermore Nevermore |
| Nevermore Dead Heart In A Dead World |
| New Testament Apocalypse |
| Nirvana Nevermind |
| No-Man Returning Jesus |
| Nocturnus Ethereal Tomb |
| Officium Triste Mors Viri |
I like this album a lot, the doom/death metal of these guys shows a certain twist towards traditional metal and 70s rock. That being said, it rests some steps lower with respect to other releases filing under the same genre such as the last Saturnus album, for example.
album stream: http://hammerheart.bandcamp.com/album/mors-viri |
| Oliver Magnum Drive By |
| Opeth Heritage |
| Opeth Watershed |
| Opeth Ghost Reveries |
| Opeth Morningrise |
| Opeth Orchid |
| OSI Blood |
| OSI Fire Make Thunder |
| Overkill Ironbound |
| Ozric Tentacles Floating Seeds |
| Ozzy Osbourne Ozzmosis |
| Ozzy Osbourne The Ultimate Sin |
| Pain Of Salvation Linoleum |
truly new soundz from POS...
can't wait the new album.- |
| Pain Of Salvation One Hour by the Concrete Lake |
| Pain Of Salvation Scarsick |
| Pantera Cowboys from Hell |
| Pantera Far Beyond Driven |
| Pantera The Great Southern Trendkill |
| Pantheist Journey Through Lands Unknown |
| Paradise Lost Gothic |
| Paradise Lost Faith Divides Us - Death Unites Us |
| Paradise Lost One Second |
| Paradox Product of Imagination |
| Great 80's thrash with a serious tech twist |
| Pariah (UK) Detroit Falls |
| Pathos (SWE) Katharsis |
| Pearl Jam Ten |
| Peeping Tom Peeping Tom |
| Pelican Australasia |
| Pelican The Fire in Our Throats Will Beckon... |
| Pentagram (TUR) Anatolia |
| Perished Seid |
| Great black/death metal from this Norwegian band! Although blast beats prevail for the most part of the record, they manage to endorse melancholic/epic melodies to the black metal mayhem. Well done indeed! |
| Pestilence Testimony of the Ancients |
| Peter Gabriel Us |
| Pink Martini Hey Eugene! |
| Porcupine Tree Stupid Dream |
| Porcupine Tree Fear of a Blank Planet |
| Porcupine Tree Signify |
| Porcupine Tree Voyage 34: The Complete Trip |
| Porcupine Tree Nil Recurring |
| Poverty's No Crime The Chemical Chaos |
| Primordial Redemption At The Puritan's Hand |
| Prototype Cloned |
| Prototype Catalyst |
| Psychosis (USA-CA) Lifeforce |
| Rage Trapped! |
| Rainbow Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow |
| Raven Mind Over Metal |
| Realm Suiciety |
| Red Harvest Internal Punishment Programs |
| Resurgency False Enlightenment |
| False Enlightenment from Hellenes Resurgency is a great piece of European/US old school death metal, as it combines the best elements from both worlds. |
| Reverend Reverend |
| Riverside Second Life Syndrome |
| Rocka Rollas Conquer |
This EP and band are the perfect compensation for the blandness of the last Running Wild album.
Really good heavy/power metal. |
| Rotting Christ A Dead Poem |
| Rotting Christ Khronos |
| Rotting Christ Thy Mighty Contract |
| Royal Thunder Royal Thunder |
A solid slab of bluesy heavy rock with exceptional female vocals....
the only reason that i don't rate this as a 4/5, is that it has only 6 songs... |
| Sabbat History of a Time to Come |
| Sacred Reich Heal |
| Sacred Reich Ignorance |
| Samael Above |
| Sarissa Sarissa |
| Savage Messiah Plague of Conscience |
Fantastically executed, aptly sound produced (FANTASTIC guitars!!), yet hardly groundbreaking power/thrash metal from these English folks, that fails to be even more compelling solely due to the relatively mediocre vocals...
In the vein of Heathen's Evolution of Chaos... |
| Scale The Summit The Collective |
| Scanner Hypertrace |
| Great heavy/speed metal with sci-fi lyrics and really unique vocals. A solid stepping stone for their magnum opus, Terminal Earth |
| Sceptic Blind Existence |
| Sceptic's debut is a superb tribute to Human-era Death and early 90's Cynic, decorated with sparse traces of originality and the universal constants of the critically esteemed Polish Death Metal scene... |
| Sceptic Internal Complexity |
| Scorpions Face the Heat |
| Sebastian Bach Angel Down |
| Sepultura Roots |
| Sigh Imaginary Sonicscape |
| Sigur Ros Takk... |
| Skogen Brinner Fasornas Berg |
Solid '70s heavy rock from this company of Swedes...
http://ljudkassett.bandcamp.com/album/fasornas-berg |
| Skyclad The Answer Machine? |
| Slash's Snakepit Ain't Life Grand |
| Slayer World Painted Blood |
| Slayer Undisputed Attitude |
| Slayer cross the subway bridge that links punk and thrash. Judging by the rating average, i see that a lot of people neglect the fact that punk has played a great role for the Slayer sound, although it's not so apparent at first listen... |
| Slayer Hell Awaits |
| Slayer Divine Intervention |
| Slayer Christ Illusion |
| Slough Feg The Animal Spirits |
| A solid slab of old-school heavy metal... Butter on the bread for fans of Thin Lizzy and Skyclad. |
| Sodom Masquerade in Blood |
| Sodom 'Til Death Do Us Unite |
| Sodom In War And Pieces |
| Solitude Aeturnus Alone |
| Solitude Aeturnus Adagio |
| Sortilege Sortilege |
| Solid '80s metal with the awesomely sung lyrics being written in French, since the band is from France. However, the latter attribute is not annoying in the least... |
| Soul Cages Soul Cages |
| Soundtrack Juno |
| Soundtrack Last Action Hero |
| Soundtrack Once |
| Soundtrack Vicky Cristina Barcelona |
| Soundtrack Broken English |
| Soundtrack Black Snake Moan |
| Soundtrack Blow |
| Spice and the RJ Band Shave Your Fear |
| Spider Kickers Alcoholic |
| Although the death/thrash metal of Hellenes Spider Kickers is not mind bending in any case, it is neck breaking all the way... |
| Steve Vai Fire Garden |
| Steven Wilson Insurgentes |
| Strapping Young Lad The New Black |
| Strike Master Up for the Massacre |
| Suffocation Pinnacle of Bedlam |
| Sun of Nothing ...In the Weak and the Wounded |
| Syd Barrett The Madcap Laughs |
| Symphony X Paradise Lost |
| Tad Morose Matters Of The Dark |
| Tad Morose Undead |
| Testament Low |
| Testament The Formation Of Damnation |
| The Alan Parsons Project Eye in the Sky |
| The Amenta n0n |
| The Chemical Brothers Dig Your Own Hole |
| The Cult Sonic Temple |
| The Cure Three Imaginary Boys |
| The Devil's Blood Fire Burning |
| The Devil's Blood The Thousandfold Epicentre |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Calculating Infinity |
| The Flaming Lips Dark Side of the Moon |
| The Gathering Disclosure |
| The Gathering Home |
| The Myrrors Burning Circles In The Sky |
| The Police Synchronicity |
| The Tea Party Triptych |
| The Tea Party Seven Circles |
| The Tea Party Splendor Solis |
| Theory In Practice Colonizing The Sun |
| Thin Lizzy Johnny The Fox |
| Thorns Thorns vs Emperor (split w/ Emperor) |
| Threshold Clone |
| Tiamat Clouds |
| Tom Waits Closing Time |
| Tom Waits Nighthawks At The Diner |
| Tool 10,000 Days |
| Tourist Tonight |
Fans of Burial and of good electronic music in general, will love this one...
First two tracks - http://www.earmilk.com/2013/02/08/tourist-i-have-no-fear/
Never Stop - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQMkvo1VNA0
Heartbeats - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8OKSoIt9xo |
| Trademark Fatal Blues |
| Trans-Siberian Orchestra The Christmas Attic |
| Trans-Siberian Orchestra Christmas Eve and Other Stories |
| Transistor Things You Miss When You Blink |
| Trapeze Trapeze |
| Trouble Unplugged |
| Turbonegro Scandinavian Leather |
| TV on the Radio Dear Science |
| Ugly Kid Joe America's Least Wanted |
| Ulver 1993-2003: 1st Decade In The Machines |
| Ulver Blood Inside |
| Ulver Shadows of the Sun |
| Ulver Silencing the Singing |
| Ulver Silences Teaches You How to Sing EP |
| Ulver Teachings In Silence |
| Ulver Wars of the Roses |
| Undersmile A Sea Of Dead Snakes |
| Unleashed Odalheim |
| Odalheim is an interesting affair and a record of good replay value if anything else, as Unleashed combined their traditional Viking death/black metal with lead/rhythm guitar work which brings in mind Nevermore and albums such as Enemies Of Reality and Dead Heart In A Dead World. |
| Vangelis The City |
| Vauxdvihl Siberian Church Recordings |
| Vaya Con Dios The Promise |
| Vektor Black Future |
| Vektor Outer Isolation |
| Velvet Viper Velvet Viper |
| Solid "'80s" metal with the excellent vocals of Jutta Weinhold, the female incarnation of Ronnie James Dio... |
| Vicious Rumors Vicious Rumors |
| Violator Chemical Assault |
| Virus (NO) The Agent That Shapes The Desert |
| Borrowing a song title from their debut album Carheart, "It's all gone weird" here... It seems that the band hasn't progressed at all with respect to its past work, although this assessment heavily depends on the listener's subjective whereabouts. Band's unique/trademark sound is here, however a certain confusion is floating in the air, as to where the band was heading with the new material... This album somewhat feels closer to their debut Carheart than to the The Black Flux album, taking a significant distance from the latter. Still, it's a tough nut to crack, as it can be characterized as anything between average and great... |
| Virus (NO) Oblivion Clock |
| Virus finalize/optimize their unfinished ideas from past sessions and with the inclusion of rare material, they give out more of the same, albeit with a minor twist. |
| Visitor (USA) Visitör |
| Voivod Angel Rat |
| Voivod Voivod |
| Voivod Infini |
| Voivod Negatron |
| Voivod Katorz |
| Voivod War and Pain |
| Voivod Rrroooaaarrr |
| Wardog Scorched Earth |
| Wardrum Desolation |
| Second Wardrum album is great in its own right, however the intimate '80s heavy/proto-prog character of their debut is absent... |
| Watchtower Control and Resistance |
| When Drowning But Learning |
| Human subconscious made music... Don't search for logic here, only let yourself be drifted away from the cut n' paste music Lars Pedersen crafts... |
| Wino Adrift |
| Wolverine (SWE) The Window Purpose |
| Wooden Shjips Wooden Shjips |
Debut album from Wooden Shjips is a great match between psychedelic '60s and minimal noise rock experimentation...
Fans of early Porcupine Tree (Delerium era) and Boris will definitely love this. |
| Wooden Shjips Dos |
| In Dos, the drone/meditative character of Wooden Shjips made some room for an equally fuzzed out, but more up tempo, "monotonous"/psych/60s garage rock. Good stuff. |
| Yngwie Malmsteen Rising Force |
| YOB Atma |
Yob merely go through the(ir) motions on this one, however the final product is still worth it...
Edit: Bumping this from a 3 to a 3.5, I totally agree about this being a grower, a very slow one though... |
| Your Hand In Mine Your Hand In Mine |
| 3.0 good |
| 1902 Motsi |
| Acid Death Random's Manifest |
| Acid Death Eidolon |
I wish I could like this more, but Acid Death's prog death/thrash is really going through the motions on Eidolon, being less complex and imaginative than both its predecessors.
Still, 2-3 songs kind of stand out, with "Dying Alone" being the best song of the album by far, as it successfully combines tech death/thrash with black metal.
Before listening anything from this band, listen to Pieces Of Mankind, their best album. |
| Acrimony Hymns To The Stone |
| Agnosia Trace Decay |
| Altar of Oblivion Sinews of Anguish |
| In Sinews of Anguish, Altar of Oblivion present a pretty standard version of epic doom metal, with the vocals being the only element that stands out. The latter either they croon (imagine something between Messiah Marcolin and Scott Walker) or they resemble the voice of Ozzy Osbourne. |
| Anacrusis Suffering Hour |
| Anathema We're Here Because We're Here |
| Annihilator Waking the Fury |
| Antimatter Planetary Confinement |
| Arcturus Sideshow Symphonies |
| Armistice Armistice |
| As I Lay Dying Awakened |
| Asteroid Asteroid EP |
| Biomechanical Cannibalised |
| Bjork Telegram |
| Blind Guardian Mr. Sandman |
| Blot Mine Porphyrogenesis |
In their debut, Swedish blacksters Blot Mine are capturing with ease the essential vibes of frosty hyper-fast black metal, which bares some melody but little breakthough altogether.
Ideal for background listening. |
| Bob Katsionis Rest in Keys |
Bob Katsionis is admittedly an established guitar and keyboards shredder, however impeccable abilities in instrument handling don't always guarantee essential songwriting and Rest In Keys is a case in point.
Enjoyable as background music but that's that. |
| Boris With Michio Kurihara Cloud Chamber |
| Brains (IE) Alchemy |
| Burial and Four Tet Moth/Wolf Club |
| Callisto Providence |
| Cephalic Carnage Misled by Certainty |
| Chimaira The Infection |
| Chimaira Impossibility of Reason |
| Concept of God Visions |
| Conception The Last Sunset |
| Dark Nova The Dark Rhapsodies |
| David Gilmour About Face |
| Deadsoul Tribe The Dead Word |
| Death In Vegas Satan's Circus |
| Dead air for radios...... |
| Deathrow Riders of Doom |
| Depeche Mode Exciter |
| Devil Magister Mundi Xum |
| Dido No Angel |
| Dodheimsgard Supervillain Outcast |
| Double Square The Hive |
| Draconian A Rose For The Apocalypse |
| Unfortunately, this is a 3-3.5 (tops). In their previous album, there were songs that stood out of the bunch, but in here..... It is very difficult to pinpoint one or two, despite the fact that the production is perfect for the genre Draconian file under... The arrangements are pretty formulaic, I'm afraid... |
| Dream Theater Octavarium |
| Dreamlongdead MadnessDeadGrave |
| Duff McKagan's Loaded Sick |
| Dying Fetus Descend Into Depravity |
| Eagle Eye Cherry Desireless |
| Eidolon Zero Hour |
| Eidolon's power/thrash blend in debut album Zero Hour, is leaning excessively towards melody at the expense of aggression. The latter element is further diluted due to the merely adequate vocals and an unexpected lack of nerve during song composing and instrument recording. Despite all these shortcomings, Zero Hour remains enjoyable (mostly because of the lead guitar work of Glen Drover), albeit with a rather questionable replay value. |
| Eldritch Portrait Of The Abyss Within |
| Eldritch Gaia's Legacy |
| Enchant Break |
| Enola Gay Strange Encounter |
| Enslaved RIITIIR |
| Exodus Impact Is Imminent |
| Firewind Few Against Many |
| Ghost B.C. Opus Eponymous |
| Gojira From Mars To Sirius |
| Gojira The Way of All Flesh |
| Golgatha Strength of the World |
| Gozu Locust Season |
| Grave Burial Ground |
| Grave Dominion VIII |
| This band just doesn't know how to make a bad album, however few tracks (Deathstorm, Bloodpath, 8th Dominion) stand out of the lot. |
| Hades $avior$elf |
| Halford Crucible |
| Hate Erebos |
| Erebos is the 5th album from the Polish death/black act, Hate. Unfortunately, this is some steps down with respect to their previous album Morphosis. While the latter was a raw death/black blast beat orgy with a fair amount of experimentation (industrial influences), Erebos is somehow watered down... First of all, it must be stated that these guys can shred, but I'm afraid that's not good enough. The solos don't work so well, the drum patterns are not so inspired and that holds for the riffs as well which go from classic metal, to tech-metal and then to death/black, making the record feel as an inhomogeneous amalgama of ideas instead of an inspired yet diverse work... Ah i must say that here they resemble A LOT to Behemoth, without having the quirky touch of the latter, though... Too bad as Morphosis was immense... |
| Headhunter (DEU) Rebirth |
| Heathendom The Symbolist |
| Helloween Straight Out of Hell |
| Hypocrisy Into The Abyss |
| Iced Earth Iced Earth |
| Illogicist Subjected |
| Indica (USA) Pavement |
| Isis In the Absence of Truth |
| Isis Wavering Radiant |
| Isis Oceanic: Remixes and Reinterpretations |
| Ivanhoe Visions and Reality |
| Jag Panzer Dissident Alliance |
| Jamiroquai Dynamite |
| Jamiroquai Emergency On Planet Earth |
| Jethro Tull Too Old To Rock 'n' Roll: Too Young To Die! |
| Job for a Cowboy Gloom |
| Joe Satriani Unstoppable Momentum |
| This is a good Joe Satriani album, but nowhere near albums such as Flying In A Blue Dream. |
| Judas Priest Rocka Rolla |
| Judd Madden Float |
Influenced from the blues, ambient, classical music and post rock, Judd Madden rounds up every edge and crafts ideal music for reading a book, for meditating and for easing the mind after a hard labor's day...
Float is a free download at http://juddmadden.bandcamp.com/album/float |
| Kamelot Poetry for the Poisoned |
| KEN mode Venerable |
| Killers Murder One |
| King Crimson Islands |
| KISS You Wanted the Best, You Got the Best!! |
| Kreator Endorama |
| Kylesa Spiral Shadow |
| Lack of Faith Aeternus Caligatio |
| Lacuna Coil Dark Adrenaline |
| Loincloth Iron Balls of Steel |
| Madder Mortem Misty Sleep |
This is where all begun for this great band.
Despite its numerous shortcomings - inconsistent vocals, "loose" arrangements, merely decent production - Misty Sleep demo contains in compressed form the unique goth metal character of the band, a character with a vast margin for improvement, as it was proven in albums that followed... |
| Manitou (NO) Entrance |
Good-to-great prog rock/metal that somewhat resembles to Perfect Symmetry-era Fates Warning, without matching the latter in innovation and quality, though...
This obscure Norwegian band is where the great Oyvind Haegeland (Spiral Architect, Arcturus) made his debut vocal appearance. |
| Megadeth Endgame |
| Mekong Delta Wanderer on the Edge of Time |
| Melechesh The Epigenesis |
| Meshuggah Contradictions Collapse |
| Mordred The Next Room |
| Moriturus Black Thoughts |
| Motorhead Sacrifice |
| Mottek Hypnose |
| Mottek's debut is a good treat of 80's punk rock, with the lyrics written in the band's native language (German). The biggest shortcoming in this lies in the mediocre sound production, but still the whole thing works well... |
| My Dying Bride For Lies I Sire |
| I explain myself... It is average compared with earlier MDB stuff... Because there is no comparison with other bands...rAfter a lot of spins i conclude it's a solid 3/5 |
| Nightfall Astron Black and the Thirty Tyrants |
| No Trouble Looking for Trouble |
| Novembers Doom Aphotic |
| Orbital The Altogether |
| Oz Heavy Metal Heroes |
| Ozric Tentacles Erpsongs |
| Paradise Lost Shades Of God |
| Perversity In the Garment of Lust |
| Debut of this brutal death metal outfit from Slovakia is pretty standard, except for the audible bass which brings Steve Di Giorgio in mind... |
| Pestilence Resurrection Macabre |
| Pink Floyd Atom Heart Mother |
| Poenari Rule of the Damned |
| Porcupine Tree The Incident |
| Predator Born in Blood |
| Predator Predator |
| Psychotic Waltz Dark Millenium |
| Purged Form Of Release |
Despite their good intentions, Australian metallers Purged fail to impress with their Nevermore driven metal, due to the colorless vocals and the lack of imagination in diversifying the song structures.
Nevertheless, Form Of Release is a decent album in its own right. |
| Puscifer Donkey Punch The Night |
| Queen Made in Heaven |
| Red Harvest Nomindsland |
| Relic 45 Relic 45 |
| Riverside Anno Domini High Definition |
| Rotting Christ Sleep of the Angels |
| Rust Shoot Them Higher |
| Ruthless Steel Die in the Night |
| Die in the Night is merely decent, female fronted '80s metal in the vein of outfits such as Hellion and Chastain, mainly due to the potent, yet inconsistent female vocals and the grossly under-refined arrangements. |
| Sacrificial Forever Entangled |
| Sadist Lego |
| This is so weird... The band goes completely berzerk on this... Awkward, awkward... |
| Sadus Out For Blood |
| Sahg III |
| Samael Lux Mundi |
| Saturnus Paradise Belongs to You |
| Saxon Saxon |
| Scorpions Sting In The Tail |
| Sea of Dreams Dawn of Time |
This is merely enjoyable power/prog metal, a rather abrupt mixture of cheesy and melodic power metal with keyboard driven atmospheric ambient textures, cheesy, abstract or (even) dismal on occasion.
Really strange record. |
| Sear Bliss Eternal Recurrence |
| Seer's Tear Precious |
| Serpent Venom Carnal Altar |
| Serpent's Knight Released from the Crypt |
| Shebrew Provenance |
| Sixx:A.M. 7 |
| Sodom Sodom |
| Solefald Norron Livskunst |
| Soul Cages Craft |
| Souls at Zero Souls at Zero |
| Soundtrack Songs in the Key of X |
| Spider Kickers The Northwest Emperor |
| Steve Vai Passion and Warfare |
| Steve Vai The Ultra Zone |
| Stratovarius Fright Night |
| Suffocation Suffocation |
| Suffocation Souls to Deny |
| Tardive Dyskinesia Static Apathy in Fast Forward |
| The Devil's Blood The Graveyard Shuffle |
| The Free Fall Band Elephants Never Forget |
| The Gates Of Slumber Hymns of Blood and Thunder |
| The Shadow Theory Behind The Black Veil |
| Therion Lepaca Kliffoth |
| Tiamat Skeleton Skeletron |
| Torr Armageddon |
| Tricky Maxinquaye |
| Troubled Horse Bring My Horses Home |
| Veni Domine 23:59 |
| Venom Cast in Stone |
| Vildhjarta Masstaden |
| Virus (GBR) Pray for War |
| Although it is TOTALLY chaotic in nature, the thrashing of these guys is highly addictive... ROTTEN TO THE CORE... |
| Volbeat Beyond Hell/Above Heaven |
| Voracious Souls No Tribute No Thanx Fuck Off |
Despite the poor sound production, the heavy/thrash of these German guys is so m/!!!
AAAAAAAARRRRRGGGGGHHHHHH!!!! |
| Watchtower Energetic Disassembly |
| Wolf The Black Flame |
| Wolverine (SWE) Still |
| Wolverine (SWE) Communication Lost |
| Yama Demo 2011 |
| YOB Elaborations Of Carbon |
| YOB Demo |
| YOB get their thing on the move...... |
| YUREI Night Vision |
| On his second album under the YUREI moniker, Bjeima sacrificed the claustrophobic atmosphere of Working Class Demon in favor of generic "prog" rock. I don't have anything against prog rock in principle, but overall, Night Vision feels uninspired. |
| Zaz Zaz |
| Zenith Prisoner |
| Pretty enjoyable while it lasts, but pretty forgettable soon afterwards, the hard rocking '80s metal of those German folks is a decent listen. |
