| 4.0 excellent |
| AC/DC Highway To Hell |
| AC/DC Back In Black |
| Arcade Fire Funeral |
| Atmosphere You Can't Imagine How Much Fun... |
| Atreyu Lead Sails Paper Anchor |
| Avenged Sevenfold Waking the Fallen |
| Avenged Sevenfold City of Evil |
| Between the Buried and Me Colors |
| Black Sabbath Master of Reality |
| blink-182 Blink-182 |
| Bullets And Octane In the Mouth of the Young |
| Clutch Pure Rock Fury |
| Clutch From Beale Street to Oblivion |
| Deadmau5 4x4=12 |
| Dispatch Bang Bang |
| Dustin Kensrue Please Come Home |
| Eminem Recovery |
| Eminem's best album since The Eminem Show opens on weak legs but finds its groove in the latter tracks solidifying it as one of the greatest comeback albums ever after the disappointment of Relapse. |
| Ennio Morricone The Good, the Bad and the Ugly |
| Every Time I Die Gutter Phenomenon |
| Every Time I Die The Big Dirty |
| Every Time I Die New Junk Aesthetic |
| Every Time I Die Ex Lives |
| Fall Out Boy Folie a Deux |
| Fall Out Boy Save Rock and Roll |
| Frank Turner Love, Ire & Song |
| Frank Turner Poetry of the Deed |
| Halestorm One and Done EP |
| Jay-Z The Black Album |
| Jose Gonzalez Veneer |
| Justice Planisphere |
| Justice Audio, Video, Disco |
| Kanye West My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy |
| Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin IV |
| Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin [Box Set] |
| Metallica Master of Puppets |
| Muse HAARP |
| My Chemical Romance Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge |
| My Chemical Romance The Black Parade |
| Protest the Hero Kezia |
| Protest the Hero Scurrilous |
| Kezia was the conception of everything I love about Protest the Hero. It had great riffs, song structure, melodies, and lyrics and perfectly combined the lighter and heavier sides of the band. Fortress repeated this with improved musicianship and a shift in focus from hardcore to the prog metal elements reminiscent of their influences in Dream Theater and Symphony X. Scurrilous again takes another step in this direction with the most notable improvement in Rhody Walker's vocal attack which is almost devoid of all the screams, growls and shrieks that made up the schizophrenic nature of the band's past two efforts. Unfortunately PtH's frontman is a double edged sword. Taking over the lyrical responsibilities from bassist Arif Mirabdolbaghi, Walker takes his chance to step into the poetic spotlight. And it works half the time, but never fills the gaping hole left by Arif's voice. Protest the Hero are a great metal band, but their narrative lyrics with socio-political subtext was what always set them apart from their peers. Rhody sings about heartbreak and women and does a fine job at it, but I can't help but miss hearing tales of condemned saviors and forgotten gods. |
| Sara Bareilles Little Voice |
| Schoolyard Heroes Abominations |
| Silvertide Show and Tell |
| Sleigh Bells Treats |
| Stephen Lynch Superhero |
| Stephen Lynch The Craig Machine |
| The Beatles Revolver |
| The Beatles The Beatles |
| The Beatles Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band |
| The Black Keys Brothers |
| The Bronx The Bronx |
| The Damned Things Ironiclast |
| The Killers Hot Fuss |
| Thrice The Alchemy Index Vols. I & II |
| Toto Falling In Between |
| Weezer Make Believe |
| Weezer Raditude |
