| 4.0 excellent |
| '68 In Humor and Sadness |
| A Cold Dead Body Harvest Years |
| Adebisi Shank This is the Album |
| Aghora Aghora |
| Alarum Eventuality |
| Alice in Chains Jar of Flies |
| Alice in Chains Facelift |
| Altar of Plagues Teethed Glory and Injury |
| Amebix Sonic Mass |
| Amenra Mass IIII |
| Amia Venera Landscape The Long Procession |
| Amorphis Silent Waters |
| Anberlin Blueprints for the Black Market |
| Anberlin Never Take Friendship Personal |
| Anthrax Among the Living |
| Arghoslent Hornets of the Pogrom |
| Atheist Elements |
| Atheist Piece of Time |
| Augury Concealed |
| Backstabbers Inc Kamikaze Missions |
| Baroness Yellow and Green |
| Barrows Imprecari Island |
| Bathory Blood Fire Death |
| Bathory Twilight of the Gods |
| Behold... The Arctopus Skullgrid |
| Between the Buried and Me The Silent Circus |
| Between the Buried and Me The Parallax: Hypersleep Dialogues |
| Beyond Creation The Aura |
| Black Sheep Wall I Am God Songs |
| Black Ships Omens |
| Blacklisted Peace On Earth, War On Stage |
| Blacklisted Heavier Than Heaven, Lonelier Than God |
| Blindead Autoscopia: Murder In Phazes |
| Blotted Science The Machinations of Dementia |
| Burst Origo |
| Candiria 300 Percent Density |
| Catamenia Morning Crimson |
| Catamenia VIII - The Time Unchained |
| Cave In Jupiter |
| Cave In Planets of Old |
| Chosen Resolution |
| Cloudkicker The Map Is Not the Territory |
| Cloudkicker ]]][[[ |
| Cloudkicker Beacons |
| Coalesce 0:12 Revolution in Just Listening |
| Coalesce OX EP |
| Coheed and Cambria From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness |
| Coheed and Cambria No World for Tomorrow |
| Continuo Renacer Continuo Renacer |
| Control Denied The Fragile Art of Existence |
| Converge Axe to Fall |
Don't be quick to judge this collaboration effort as a normal collaboration album. Converge deserves an open mind rather than just a label of incohesive since it features a wide array of hardcore artists. Axe To Fall is a great album in the correct context.
At this point in their legendary career Converge are spreading the wealth, so to speak. This album is being released simply because Converge can and still will do what they enjoy, that is playing hardcore music. It does expand the boundaries of Converge's sound somewhat with more noticeable influences from post-metal and even a acoustic track, but it doesn't feel as legitimately experimental as some of their previous works. Or in other words, it isn't meant to be their magnum opus.
If you're looking for Converge with their ambition, creativity, and chemistry at it's peak refer back to Jane Doe. If you're looking for an enjoyable continuation of a legendary career give Axe To Fall a few spins.
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| Cryptopsy Blasphemy Made Flesh |
| Cryptopsy Whisper Supremacy |
| Cult of Luna Salvation |
| Curl Up and Die We May Be Through With The Past... |
| Curl Up and Die But The Past Ain't Through With Us |
| Dark Tranquillity Character |
| Daughters Daughters |
| Deadguy Fixation on a Coworker |
| Death Leprosy |
| Death Human |
| Decrepit Birth Diminishing Between Worlds |
| Dimmu Borgir Enthrone Darkness Triumphant |
| Dismember Like an Ever Flowing Stream |
| Dream Theater Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence |
| Dream Theater Black Clouds and Silver Linings |
| Drudkh Autumn Aurora |
| Earth Crisis All Out War |
| Edge of Sanity Purgatory Afterglow |
| Electro Quarterstaff Gretzky |
| Ellie Goulding Halcyon |
| Exodus Bonded by Blood |
| Exodus Tempo of the Damned |
| Exotic Animal Petting Zoo I Have Made My Bed in Darkness |
| Faith No More King for a Day... Fool for a Lifetime |
| Faith No More The Real Thing |
| Fear Before The Always Open Mouth |
| Five Bolt Main Venting |
| Five Star Prison Cell The Complete First Season |
| Fleshgod Apocalypse Oracles |
| Gaza I Don't Care Where I Go When I Die |
| Gaza No Absolutes in Human Suffering |
| Genghis Tron Board Up the House |
| Ghostlimb Bearing & Distance |
| Glass Casket Desperate Man's Diary |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven |
| Gordian Knot Gordian Knot |
| Gorod Leading Vision |
| Gorod Process of a New Decline |
| Gorod Transcendence |
| Gory Blister Skymorphosis |
| Hacride Lazarus |
| High Contrast Tough Guys Dont Dance |
| High on Fire De Vermis Mysteriis |
| Hour of Penance The Vile Conception |
| Humanfly II |
| Humanoid Remembering Universe |
| I'll Eat Your Face Irritant |
| If These Trees Could Talk Above the Earth, Below the Sky |
| Immortal Sons of Northern Darkness |
| In Flames Colony |
| In Flames Come Clarity |
| In Mourning Shrouded Divine |
| Incubus (USA-CA) S.C.I.E.N.C.E. |
| Into Eternity The Scattering of Ashes |
| Irreversible Ashes |
| ISIS Panopticon |
| ISIS The Red Sea |
| ISIS Mosquito Control |
| Jaga Jazzist What We Must |
| Karnivool Themata |
| Katatonia The Great Cold Distance |
| Katatonia Night Is the New Day |
| KEN mode Venerable |
| Khann Tofutopia |
| Khuda Iecava |
| Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin III |
| Lye By Mistake Fea Jur |
| A drastic improvement over their first release and one that is more than capable of standing alone without vocals. This is a group that can seriously shred, and they rarely let up. Their experimentation and style makes for a enjoyable listen even while being a bit show-off'ish. The tracks mainly consist of five, six, or seven plus minute jam sessions featuring a incredibly wide array of instrumentation styles (like Flamenco, Jazz, Acoustic, Progressive, etcetera), which should satisfy anyone looking for a complex instrumental record to make them think a little. |
| Martyr Warp Zone |
| Maserati Maserati VII |
| Mastodon Leviathan |
| Mastodon The Hunter |
| maudlin of the Well Part the Second |
| Mayhem De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas |
| Megadeth Endgame |
| Menace Ruine The Die is Cast |
| Meshuggah Catch Thirtythree |
| Monuments (UK) Gnosis |
| More Than Life Love Let Me Go |
| Mouth Of The Architect Dawning |
| Nails Abandon All Life |
| Ne Obliviscaris Portal of I |
| Necrophagist Epitaph |
| Neurosis Through Silver in Blood |
| Neurosis A Sun That Never Sets |
| Neurosis Times of Grace |
| Nirvana Bleach |
| Nirvana In Utero |
| Norma Jean O' God, the Aftermath |
| Old Man Gloom Christmas |
| Old Man Gloom Seminar III: Zozobra |
| Old Man Gloom NO |
| Omega Massif Karpatia |
| Opeth Watershed |
| Paria The Barnacle Cordious |
| Peasant Shady Retreat |
| Pelican Australasia |
| Pelican The Fire in Our Throats Will Beckon... |
| Pelican Forever Becoming |
| pg.99 Document #8 |
| Poison the Well The Opposite of December |
| Protest the Hero Kezia |
| Psycroptic Ob(Servant) |
| Queens of the Stone Age Songs for the Deaf |
| Quo Vadis Day Into Night |
| Reflux The Illusion Of Democracy |
| Russian Circles Enter |
| Russian Circles Station |
| Russian Circles Geneva |
| Saosin Saosin |
| Scale the Summit The Migration |
| SikTh The Trees Are Dead and Dried Out, Wait for Something Wild |
| Soul Cycle Soul Cycle II |
| Soundgarden Badmotorfinger |
| Spawn of Possession Noctambulant |
| Spiral Architect A Sceptic's Universe |
| Spitfire Cult Fiction |
| Split Cranium Split Cranium |
| Starkweather Croatoan |
| Starkweather This Sheltering Night |
| Static-X Wisconsin Death Trip |
| System of a Down Toxicity |
| Textures Silhouettes |
| The Banner Frailty |
| The Crinn Dreaming Saturn |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Ire Works |
| The Dodos Visiter |
| The End (CAN) Transfer Trachea Reverberations from Point: False Omniscient |
| The Human Abstract Nocturne |
| The Mars Volta The Bedlam in Goliath |
| The Number Twelve Looks Like You Mongrel |
| This Is Menace The Scene Is Dead |
| Today Is the Day Axis of Eden |
| Tomydeepestego Nero |
| Tool Lateralus |
| Tool Undertow |
| Trap Them Blissfucker |
| Underoath Cries of the Past |
| Underoath Define the Great Line |
| Unmoored Indefinite Soul-Extension |
| Vitalic Ok Cowboy |
| Volt Rorhat |
| We Are Knives We Have Become Like Knives |
| Witchcraft Legend |
| Wolves in the Throne Room Black Cascade |
| Zozobra Bird of Prey |
| A concise, straightforward, crushing, and overall top-notch sludge effort that is a vast improvement over Scofield's previous work, "Harmonic Tremors."r"Bird of Prey" is much more than a collection of sludge-noise over harsh vocals. Simplicity with stellar songwriting (the definition of high musical value) keeps this album leaps and bounds above most acts that have jumped on the post-metal bandwagon. Influence from the prototypical post-metal acts is undeniable but "Bird of Prey" is presented in a much smaller sample size with just as much if not more ferocity than early Isis or Neurosis. Scofield's powerful vocals, his sense of atmosphere, and his chemistry with Aaron Harris (Isis) make "Bird of Prey" one of the top-five best post-metal albums of 2008. |
| Zozobra Savage Masters |
| The biggest downfall is that the sample size is small, but it's a vinyl-only release that is the most straightforward of anything related to the Cave In band mates. It's hardcore without the glitch, drone, and noise of Old Man Gloom. In that context, in can be appreciated for just being short, sweet, and brutal. |
