| 4.0 excellent |
| A Day To Remember For Those Who Have Heart |
| A Day To Remember For Those Who Have Heart (Reissue) |
| A Perfect Circle Thirteenth Step |
| A Perfect Circle Mer de Noms |
| After the Burial Dig Deep |
| After the Burial show no signs of slowing down in the wake of Justin Lowe's death on Dig Deep, an album packed with furious 8 string riffs. Collapse and Mire are among the heaviest tracks this band has written to date. |
| Alcoa Bone & Marrow |
| All That Remains The Fall of Ideals |
| All That Remains ...For We Are Many |
| Amia Venera Landscape The Long Procession |
| Anberlin Dark Is the Way, Light Is a Place |
| Anberlin Vital |
| Architects Hollow Crown |
| Architects Holy Hell |
| As I Lay Dying The Powerless Rise |
| As I Lay Dying Awakened |
| Atreyu The Curse |
| August Burns Red Constellations |
| August Burns Red Sleddin' Hill |
| August Burns Red Rescue & Restore |
| With a great change in production, improved songwriting and successful experimentation everywhere, Rescue & Restore is the album that Leveler was trying to be, only this time the band accomplished what they set out to do a hell of a lot better. This is among the the best metalcore of 2013 and one of their best outings. |
| Austrian Death Machine Total Brutal |
| Austrian Death Machine A Very Brutal Christmas |
| Austrian Death Machine Triple Brutal |
| I HOPE YOU THAT YOU LEAVE ENOUGH ROOM FOR MY FIST. I thought that Double Brutal was alright but this is on par with Total Brutal for best ADM. |
| Bad Meets Evil Hell: The Sequel |
| Beartooth Disgusting |
| Caleb pulls a Jonathan Davis on the last track, "Sick and Disgusting". The only difference is, the result actually is an emotional and intense track. Disgusting is a fantastic album with lots of energy, and proves that Beartooth are a band with serious potential. |
| Between the Buried and Me The Silent Circus |
| Between the Buried and Me Colors |
| Between the Buried and Me Colors_Live |
| Between the Buried and Me The Parallax: Hypersleep Dialogues |
| Between the Buried and Me The Parallax II: Future Sequence |
| Black Light Burns Cruel Melody |
| Bleeding Through Declaration |
| blink-182 Take Off Your Pants And Jacket |
| blink-182 Enema Of The State |
| blink-182 Neighborhoods |
| Never mind all the songs that the band released from the album, this rules. Sounds like they never left. |
| Bloodbath Unblessing the Purity |
| Blue Stahli Blue Stahli |
| Box Car Racer Box Car Racer |
| Breaking Benjamin Phobia |
| Breaking Benjamin Dear Agony |
| Bring Me the Horizon There Is a Hell, Believe Me I've Seen It... |
| Bring Me the Horizon Sempiternal |
| Cannibal Corpse Tomb of the Mutilated |
| Cannibal Corpse Kill |
| Cannibal Corpse Evisceration Plague |
| Cannibal Corpse Torture |
| Torture proves that Cannibal Corpse can still belt out some awesome death metal despite how far they are into their career. All 5 members are in top form here and Alex Websters basslines are thankfully audible most of the time, which I appreciate because he is extremely talented. The bass solo in "The Strangulation Chair" is awesome. |
| Celldweller Live Upon a Blackstar |
| Chevelle Vena Sera |
| Chevelle La Gárgola |
| Chimaira Resurrection |
| Chimaira The Age of Hell |
| Coldplay X&Y |
| Coldplay Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends |
| Counterparts The Difference Between Hell and Home |
| Yeah this is extremely good. Glad they went in a more metalcore direction as opposed to the straight hardcore style on Current. |
| Crossbreed Synthetic Division |
| Crossbreed KE 101 |
| Crosses EP II |
| Crosses Crosses |
| Cursed II |
| Daath The Hinderers |
| Daft Punk Discovery |
| Daft Punk Random Access Memories |
| Dark Tranquillity Character |
| Dark Tranquillity Fiction |
| Dayshell Dayshell |
| Deadmau5 For Lack of a Better Name |
| Defeater Lost Ground |
| Deftones Adrenaline |
| Deftones Saturday Night Wrist |
| Deftones Gore |
| Demon Hunter The Triptych |
| Demon Hunter True Defiance |
| Departures Escaping |
| Departures Green Turns To Red, Then Turns To Gold |
| Departures Teenage Haze |
| Dethklok Dethalbum II |
| Dethklok The Dethalbum |
| DevilDriver The Fury of Our Maker's Hand |
| Devin Townsend Project Deconstruction |
| Distance My Demons |
| Disturbed Believe |
| Disturbed Ten Thousand Fists |
| Disturbed Indestructible |
| Dope Group Therapy |
| Dope No Regrets |
| Eminem The Eminem Show |
| Eminem Curtain Call: The Hits |
| Eminem The Marshall Mathers LP 2 |
| Excision X Rated |
| Fear and The Nervous System Fear and The Nervous System |
| Featuring members of several bands including Korn, Faith No More, and Bad Religion; Fear and The Nervous System's self-titled debut features a strong combination of industrial and hard rock. One of this years most suprising releases. |
| Fear Factory Obsolete |
| Fear Factory Mechanize |
| This is the best FF album since Obsolete. I only gave it one listen so far, but it might be even better than Demaufacture in time. Dino's return sparked a great return to form on this album and they went back to the old sound they had before Archetype and Transgression. Burton sounds as great as ever too. Oh, and Gene Holgan is a monster behind the kit on this. Its awesome. |
| Five Finger Death Punch War Is The Answer |
| For the Fallen Dreams Changes |
| Glassjaw Worship and Tribute |
| Guns N' Roses Use Your Illusion II |
| Hatebreed Supremacy |
| Hatebreed The Divinity of Purpose |
| I Am Legion I Am Legion |
| I Killed the Prom Queen Beloved |
| In Flames Soundtrack to Your Escape |
| Incubus (USA-CA) S.C.I.E.N.C.E. |
| James Horner Aliens |
| Julien-K Death To Analog |
| Katatonia Night Is the New Day |
| Killswitch Engage The End of Heartache |
| Korn The Paradigm Shift |
| Lamb of God Ashes of the Wake |
| Lamb of God Wrath |
| Lights Siberia |
| Linkin Park Live In Texas |
| Linkin Park The Hunting Party |
| Its been over a decade since Linkin Park released a record that has had any lasting impact. The Hunting Party feels like the true follow up to Meteora in the sense that it really is a solid rock record and sounds like a natural progression from their original sound. In no way is it perfect, and the flaws in their sound still show, but even with these faults the album succeeds because it shows the side of the band that we all fell in love with in the first place more than any of their past 3 records have. An unexpected surprise indeed. |
| Manners Apparitions |
| Marilyn Manson The Golden Age of Grotesque |
| Meshuggah Catch Thirtythree |
| Meshuggah obZen |
| Metallica Ride the Lightning |
| Metallica Metallica |
| Modern Life Is War Witness |
| Modern Life Is War Fever Hunting |
| Fever Hunting will make you realize just how much you missed Modern Life Is War and why even after being away for so long they continue to still be the kings of melodic hardcore. |
| Motley Crue Saints of Los Angeles |
| Motograter Motograter |
| Mudvayne Lost and Found |
| Mudvayne Mudvayne |
| Mushroomhead XIII |
| Nine Inch Nails Beside You in Time |
| Nine Inch Nails The Slip |
| Nine Inch Nails Hesitation Marks |
| Nirvana Nevermind |
| Of Mice and Men The Flood |
| Opeth Blackwater Park |
| Opeth My Arms, Your Hearse |
| Palms Palms |
| Mission Sunset is one of the best songs of 2013 |
| Periphery Periphery |
| Periphery Icarus |
| Periphery Juggernaut: Omega |
| Periphery Juggernaut: Alpha |
| Powerman 5000 Anyone For Doomsday? |
| Psyclon Nine We the Fallen |
| Rammstein Sehnsucht |
| Rammstein Reise, Reise |
| Rise Against Siren Song of the Counter Culture |
| Rob Zombie The Sinister Urge |
| Rob Zombie Hellbilly Deluxe |
| Senses Fail Let It Enfold You |
| Senses Fail The Fire |
| Senses Fail Follow Your Bliss: The Best of Senses Fail |
| Shadows Fall The War Within |
| Six Feet Under 13 |
| Six Feet Under Maximum Violence |
| Slayer Hell Awaits |
| Slayer God Hates Us All |
| Slayer Still Reigning (Video) |
| Slipknot Vol. 3: The Subliminal Verses |
| Slipknot Vol.3: The Subliminal Verses [Reissue] |
| Slipknot .5: The Gray Chapter |
| Static-X Wisconsin Death Trip |
| Stone Sour Come What(ever) May |
| Stone Sour House of Gold and Bones - Part 2 |
| Storm Corrosion Storm Corrosion |
| so much better than either of the two new albums these frontmen have put out with their respective bands |
| Strapping Young Lad City |
| Strapping Young Lad The New Black |
| System of a Down Steal This Album! |
| Team Sleep Team Sleep |
| Tenacious D Rize of the Fenix |
| The Contortionist Exoplanet |
| The Devil Wears Prada Zombie |
| The Devil Wears Prada Dead Throne |
| Its nice to see Adam D. helped them finally realize the potential they always had in them. This is great. |
| The Devil Wears Prada 8:18 |
| Wow, this suprised me. Their best yet, and "Gloom" hits hard. |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Miss Machine |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan One of Us Is the Killer |
| The Ghost Inside Get What You Give |
| The riffs are heavy, the breakdowns are well placed, and the clean vocals are tastefully done. Call me crazy, but while this isn't the best metal record of 2012 by any means its one of my favorites so far. They also have FTFD's former drummer m/ |
| The Offspring Rise and Fall, Rage and Grace |
| The Red Chord Fed Through the Teeth Machine |
| The Used The Used |
| Three Days Grace One-X |
| Times of Grace The Hymn of a Broken Man |
| This album, put simply, proves why Killswitch Engage will never make anything that measures up to Alive Or Just Breathing. |
| Tool Ænima |
| Trap Them Darker Handcraft |
| Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross The Social Network OST |
| Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo OST |
| Verse Bitter Clarity, Uncommon Grace |
| The hype was all worth it, the return of Verse is signaled by this monster of an album in which you can tell by the emotion of the music that the band have a fire in them again as they tear through every track. Might be AOTY for hardcore. |
| We Are The Fallen Tear The World Down |
| I encourage you to drop everything you might think about We Are The Fallen being an Evanescence copy, for this album destroys everything Evanescence has ever done. Carlies vocals are incredible, and Ben Moody's signature guitar sound and writing skill that was so prominent on the Evansecence debut is ever so present on this release. Tear The World Down shows that We Are The Fallen are a force to reckoned with and have tons of potential. |
| Whitechapel Whitechapel |
| Whitechapel The Somatic Defilement (Remaster) |
| 3.5 great |
| A Day To Remember Homesick |
| A Day To Remember Homesick (Special Deluxe Edition) |
| Anberlin Cities |
| Architects Daybreaker |
| Judging by the withered crown on the cover, Daybreaker is clearly meant to be the other side of Hollow Crown's coin, and it certainly plays out that way. The band took the best elements of the sound they presented on The Here and Now and mixed it with some of the heavier tones of previous works and for the most part its a lot more enjoyable than their last release. Some songs here though fall completely flat, and although "Unbeliever" is meant to mirror "Hollow Crown" as an emotional album closer, it doesn't come anywhere close to matching it. |
| Architects Lost Forever // Lost Together |
| Architects continue to attempt to find their way back to a heavier sound reminiscent of their Ruin and Hollow Crown days, and this album is about as close as they've ever gotten to achieving that. Still though, they don't quite make it back there. Sam's vocals, however, have definitely taken a step up from recent efforts. |
| As I Lay Dying An Ocean Between Us |
| Attack Attack! Attack Attack! (Deluxe Reissue) |
| Attack Attack! This Means War |
| The band have mastered the newfound maturity in their music, now they just need to learn how to add variation to it |
| August Burns Red Leveler |
| They did it. They finally made the album we knew they could make. This is a grower but I enjoy it more than rConstellations already. Carpe Diem is seriously incredible. |
| Austrian Death Machine Double Brutal |
| Avenged Sevenfold Waking the Fallen |
| Beartooth Sick |
| Between the Buried and Me The Great Misdirect |
| Black Light Burns The Moment You Realize You're Going To Fall |
| Black Light Burns Lotus Island |
| Bleeding Through Bleeding Through |
| blink-182 Dude Ranch |
| Bloodbath Breeding Death |
| Breaking Benjamin We Are Not Alone |
| Breaking Benjamin Dark Before Dawn |
| Bring Me the Horizon Suicide Season |
| Broken Note Terminal Static |
| Bullet for My Valentine The Poison |
| Bullet for My Valentine Hand of Blood |
| Cannibal Corpse 15 Year Killing Spree |
| Celldweller Celldweller |
| Celldweller Wish Upon a Blackstar |
| Chevelle Wonder What's Next |
| Chevelle Hats Off To The Bull |
| Chimaira The Impossibility of Reason |
| Chimaira The Infection |
| Chimaira Crown of Phantoms |
| This album confuses me. Even after a few listens I'm still trying to get a grasp on how I feel about it. The band are clearly giving it their all, and Emil Werstler certainly holds his own replacing Rob Arnold as the bands primary songwriter, but the songs are seriously lacking the hooks and instrumental passages that made their self-titled and Resurrection such great albums. Still though, for having the entire lineup apart from Hunter replaced this is still a solid effort, it just lacks variation and blends together way too often. |
| Coldplay Parachutes |
| Coldplay Prospekt's March |
| Converge When Forever Comes Crashing |
| Counterparts The Current Will Carry Us |
| Crosses EP |
| Daft Punk Human After All |
| Damageplan New Found Power |
| Dark Age Acedia |
| Dead By Sunrise Out of Ashes |
| Deadmau5 4x4=12 |
| Defeater Letters Home |
| Defeater Abandoned |
| Demon Hunter Storm the Gates of Hell |
| Despised Icon The Ills Of Modern Man |
| Device Device |
| DevilDriver Beast |
| Finally combining the technicality of their recent efforts with the dark and sinister vibe of The Fury of Our Maker's Hand, DevilDriver have crafted their best record yet. |
| Distance Repercussions |
| Disturbed The Sickness |
| Disturbed Asylum |
| Disturbed The Lost Children |
| Containing many excellent tracks left over from their albums, soundtracks, and various other releases, The Lost Children actually proves to be quite a neat release from Disturbed. Several tracks on here worth checking out. |
| Divine Heresy Bleed the Fifth |
| Divine Heresy Bringer of Plagues |
| Dope Life |
| Droid Droid |
| Drowning Pool Drowning Pool |
| Emery We Do What We Want |
| Eminem Recovery |
| Evanescence Evanescence |
| This is better than The Open Door, but its got nothing on Fallen. Nothing Evanescence do ever will. |
| Fear Factory Digimortal |
| Fear Factory Soul of a New Machine |
| Fear Factory Genexus |
| Five Finger Death Punch The Way Of The Fist |
| Five Finger Death Punch The Wrong Side of Heaven and The Righteous Side of Hell, Volume 1 |
| Flyleaf Flyleaf |
| For the Fallen Dreams Relentless |
| For the Fallen Dreams Back Burner |
| Glassjaw El Mark |
| Hatebreed Rise of Brutality |
| Hatebreed Hatebreed |
| I Killed the Prom Queen Music for the Recently Deceased |
| In Flames Reroute to Remain |
| Jasta Jasta |
| Job for a Cowboy Doom |
| Killswitch Engage Disarm the Descent |
| Korn Take a Look in the Mirror |
| Korn Life Is Peachy |
| Korn Greatest Hits Vol. 1 |
| Korn Korn III: Remember Who You Are |
| Korn recruit Ross Robinson for the first time since 1996 and create their best album in years. In a career filled with mediocrity, they actually managed to go back to their roots on this one to create an album worth listening to again. Jonathan Davis actually sounds convincing like he did on the first 2 records, the riffs are heavy, Fieldy's bass isnt as annoying, and new drummer Ray Luzier proves to be a worthy replacement to David Silveria behind the kit. |
| Korn The Path of Totality |
| Many will regard this album as a terrible work of music and an abomination, but the fact remains that Korn have been doing the same nu-metal sound since their 1994 debut. Sure, they manipulated it with See You on the Other Side and Untitled, but its grown very tiring to listen to a Korn record these days. With the elements of electronic music thrown into the mix with The Path of Totality the band have made their music interesting to listen to again if anything. Pretty impressive to see them rebounding off of their recent redundant albums with this. |
| Lady Gaga Born This Way |
| While those who loved how The Fame Monster turned out might not like her new direction, there is no denying that Lady Gaga is stepping out of her comfort zone and evolving her sound with each release. With new experimentation everywhere, Born This Way combines elements from both of her previous works and injects a new energy into her sound. This album shows that Gaga not only takes risks, but is growing more and more as an artist. |
| Lamb of God VII: Sturm und Drang |
| Lead Hands Lead Hands |
| Limp Bizkit Significant Other |
| Linkin Park Reanimation |
| Linkin Park A Thousand Suns |
| Love and Death Chemicals |
| Love and Death Between Here And Lost |
| Marilyn Manson Born Villain |
| Marilyn Manson The Pale Emperor |
| Meshuggah Nothing |
| Meshuggah Chaosphere |
| Metallica Kill 'Em All |
| Metallica Death Magnetic |
| Motionless in White Creatures |
| Motionless in White Infamous |
| Murderdolls Beyond The Valley of the Murderdolls |
| Murderdolls Women and Children Last |
| Showing a much more metal-influenced sound this time around, the Murderdolls 2nd studio album (their first in 8 years) is much better than their sometimes inconsistent debut. The riffs are heavy, the drumming is precise, and Wednesday 13's vocals are great. Only weaknesses would be the lack of bass and the lyrics. |
| Muse The 2nd Law |
| Mushroomhead XX |
| Nine Inch Nails Pretty Hate Machine |
| Nine Inch Nails Year Zero |
| Nothingface Skeletons |
| Nothingface Violence |
| Of Mice and Men Restoring Force |
| Its not as good or as heavy as The Flood, and Shayley brought something unique to the band that feels missing here. The production on that album was near perfect as well. That being said, Aaron shines the most on this album and there are some really great melodies on a lot of these tracks. Austin isn't up to par with his past performances, but he has his moments, most notably on You Make Me Sick. Overall its solid though, and they made a great move choosing Aaron as their new clean vocalist. |
| Opeth Still Life |
| Opeth Watershed |
| Opeth Heritage |
| Parkway Drive Deep Blue |
| Parkway Drive Atlas |
| Periphery Periphery II: This Time It's Personal |
| They improved their sound so much, and Spencer sounds miles better. |
| Rage Against the Machine Evil Empire |
| Rammstein Rosenrot |
| Rob Zombie Past, Present & Future |
| Rob Zombie Venomous Rat Regeneration Vendor |
| After two horribly disappointing albums, it really is nice to hear Rob Zombie finally return to form on Regeneration Vendor. Praise must once again be given to guitarist John 5, who packs this album full of heavy and infectious riffs. Another ex-Manson member has joined the Zombie fold in the form of drummer Ginger Fish, who proves to be the best drummer for the band yet. The industrial-tinged horror rock vibe that Zombie made himself known for on his early work has finally been brought back to the forefront on this album, which is by far his best solo album in over a decade. |
| Scar the Martyr Scar the Martyr |
| SECRETS Fragile Figures |
| The band have improved a lot since their debut. New screamer Aaron Melzer is a perfect fit for the band, and Richard Rogers' clean vocals continue to improve and be the true highlight of the album. The whole thing is a lot more enjoyable than The Ascent. |
| Senses Fail Still Searching |
| Shadows Fall Retribution |
| Shadows Fall Fire From the Sky |
| Shadows Fall have returned, and not much has changed since 2009's Retribution. The melodies and thrash riffs are still present, and the production is fantastic due to Adam D's contributions. Still though, the band is moving further and further into commercial territory with vocalist Brian Fair's prominent usage of clean vocals combined with his signature bark, which might continue to alienate listeners. |
| Six Feet Under Commandment |
| Six Feet Under Undead |
| Skrillex Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites |
| Slayer Christ Illusion |
| Slayer World Painted Blood |
| Slipknot Voliminal: Inside The Nine [DVD] |
| Slipknot All Hope Is Gone |
| Slipknot Welcome to Our Neighborhood [DVD] |
| Slipknot (sic)nesses [DVD] |
| Static-X Shadow Zone |
| Static-X Start A War |
| Static-X Cannibal |
| Stone Sour House of Gold and Bones - Part 1 |
| Suicide Silence You Can't Stop Me |
| Major props to Eddie for holding his own as the bands new frontman. He gives it his all on this album and is a perfect fit for the band. There is no doubt that this is their best album to date. Control is especially brutal as fuck with the Corpsegrinder/Eddie interplay. |
| Sum 41 Does This Look Infected? |
| Sum 41 All Killer No Filler |
| The Agony Scene Get Damned |
| The Devil Wears Prada With Roots Above and Branches Below |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Ire Works |
| Tool Undertow |
| Tool Opiate |
| Treyarch Sound Call of Duty: Black Ops - Zombies Soundtrack |
| Underlined Deadtime Stories |
| Unearth The March |
| Various Artists (Hip Hop) 8 Mile OST |
| Wayne Static Pighammer |
| Whitechapel This Is Exile |
