Average Rating: 3.81 Rating Variance: 0.58 Objectivity Score: 65% (Fairly Balanced)
Sort by: Rating | Release Date | Rating Date | Name5.0 classicAndrew Jackson Jihad Knife ManAt the Drive-In Relationship of CommandRelationship of Command lets me know I'm alive. The lyrics are strange and borderline nonsensical; and it's this, along with the album's brilliantly crafted instrumentation, that makes these songs seem distant and otherworldly, like the album is an entity of all its own, obliterating your speakers in all its vibrant and visceral glory. But how can an album that speaks of virtually no obviously relatable themes, an album that seems like it's not from this world, be so goddamn human? It's because every single sound made on the album, every note picked, drum hit, and word sung, is executed viscerally, with a passion as genuine as they come. Everything on the album is played in a way that just felt right at the very moment it was played. And this approach resulted in something glorious, an album that's beautiful, cacophonous, euphoric and heart-breaking, and everything in between. One of these things being the most realistic musical representation of what it means to be human ever recorded.Blackalicious Blazing ArrowBoards of Canada GeogaddiCannibal Ox The Cold VeinCircle Takes The Square As the Roots UndoIts music is the very definition of "controlled chaos" (except it's really more "meticulously constructed" than "controlled"), constantly shifting volumes and atmospheres in precisely the right places, but always on the brink of losing control and falling to pieces. Its words are a hurricane, enveloping you in pure, unfiltered emotion that's disguised as nonnegotiable philosophy that's disguised as the cries of the battered and bruised malcontent living inside every one of us. It'll make you jump, it'll make you cry, it'll make you fucking sweat. It is As the Roots Undo, and there's nothing quite like it.Converge Jane DoePeople on this site are weird. Not only do a lot of them think that the immense love and praise for Jane Doe is exclusive to sputnik, but a lot of them also have yet to hear the blindingly obvious reasons why it's one of the best albums ever ever ever fucking ever. No, this album didn't have to grow on me, and if you're a fan of extreme music, it shouldn't have to grow on you, either. The riffs, man, the riffs. I mean, "Homewrecker"? Seriously? If those riffs don't rip you open a new asshole and shove your fucking head into it, I don't know what will. Riffs. The riffs. And the fucking floods upon floods of catharsis. When I try to think of albums that could be more emotionally involving than this one, only a few come to mind, and it should be the same for you, extreme music fans, it really should. The riffs, the songwriting, the fucking brilliant nuances. Why are the liner notes only filled with collages of random words, rather than legible stanzas of lyrics? Why are Jacob Bannon's vocals indecipherable, even while reading those collages of random words? Because the album is about a girl once dearly loved fading into facelessness and anonymity, of course! The lyrics coincide with the concept. Nuances! Riffs! Italics! Jane FUCKING Doe! If you don't love it, you're doing it wrong.Death SymbolicGlassjaw Worship and TributeGodspeed You! Black Emperor F#A# (Infinity)GZA Liquid SwordsInterpol Turn on the Bright LightsMadvillain MadvillainyNeutral Milk Hotel In the Aeroplane Over the SeaRadiohead OK ComputerRadiohead Kid ARefused The Shape of Punk to ComeStreetlight Manifesto Everything Goes NumbThe Dillinger Escape Plan Option ParalysisThe Mars Volta De-Loused in the ComatoriumThe National BoxerThe National High VioletThe National AlligatorThe Tallest Man on Earth The Wild HuntIt's been a long time since I've heard an album this instantly and permanently lovable. Ha. 'Lovable.' What an embarrassing understatement. The Wild Hunt has moments of joy and of pain, of regret and of hope, but is always humbly triumphant in its devastating beauty. Every perfect melody soars so gracefully on every perfect, but different guitar part (the vocal parts aren't just reiterations of whatever the guitar's doing), and it's all carried along by Kristian Matsson's mastery of that special kind of poetry that you understand, and understands you, a little bit better each time you hear it. He effortlessly blends emotional statements that seem to express the inexpressible with pitch-perfect imagery, and when this is combined with the rich, brilliant guitar melodies (or piano, in the case of the earth-shaking closer, 'Kids On the Run'), he creates a rugged, arresting, and simply fucking perfect soundscape of life-affirming song. The Wild Hunt is a classic because I knew I'd never get sick of it the very first time I heard it.Wilco Yankee Hotel Foxtrot4.5 superbA Tribe Called Quest Midnight MaraudersA Tribe Called Quest The Low End TheoryAesop Rock Labor DaysAesop Rock DaylightAgalloch The MantleAmerican Football American FootballAmon Tobin PermutationAphex Twin Selected Ambient Works 85-92Arcade Fire FuneralAutechre Tri RepetaeBad Religion No ControlBADBADNOTGOOD BBNG2Beck Odelay!Between the Buried and Me AlaskaBetween the Buried and Me ColorsBinary Star Masters of the UniverseBjork HomogenicBjork VespertineBlack Sabbath ParanoidBlack Sabbath Black SabbathBlackalicious Niablink-182 blink-182Bluetech Sines and SingularitiesBoards of Canada Music Has The Right To ChildrenBohren & Der Club of Gore Sunset MissionBoris Boris At Last - FeedbackerBoris FloodBotch We Are the RomansBrand New The Devil and God Are Raging Inside MeBroken Social Scene You Forgot It In PeopleBurial UntrueCamel MirageCompany Flow Funcrusher PlusCryptopsy None So VileCult of Luna SalvationCynic Traced in AirDangers AngerDead Kennedys Fresh Fruit For Rotting VegetablesDeath HumanDeath Individual Thought PatternsDeath The Sound of PerseveranceDeathspell Omega ParacletusDeep Puddle Dynamics The Taste of Rain...Why KneelDeftones White PonyDeltron 3030 Deltron 3030Discordance Axis The Inalienable DreamlessDJ Shadow Endtroducing.....dredg El CieloEarth Hex: Or Printing In the Infernal MethodEl-P Fantastic DamageEl-P Cancer 4 CureElectric Wizard DopethroneElliott Smith Either/OrEminem The Slim Shady LPEminem The Marshall Mathers LPEminem The Eminem ShowEmperor In the Nightside EclipseEric Dolphy Out To LunchExplosions in the Sky The Earth is Not a Cold Dead PlaceFailure Fantastic PlanetFear Before The Always Open MouthFiona Apple The Idler Wheel...Frightened Rabbit The Midnight Organ FightGang Starr Moment of TruthGlassjaw Coloring BookGodspeed You! Black Emperor Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas...Godspeed You! Black Emperor Slow Riot For New Zero KanadaGuided By Voices Bee ThousandHammock Raising Your Voice... Trying to Stop an EchoInfidel?/Castro! Bioentropic Damage FractalIron Maiden Piece of MindIron Maiden PowerslaveIsis PanopticonIsis OceanicJenny Hval VisceraJethro Tull Thick as a BrickKayo Dot Choirs of the EyeKing Crimson In the Court of the Crimson KingKvelertak KvelertakKyuss Welcome To Sky ValleyMahavishnu Orchestra Birds Of FireMassive Attack Mezzaninemaudlin of the Well BathMesa Verde The Old RoadMeshuggah IMetallica Ride the LightningMetallica Master of PuppetsmewithoutYou Brother, SisterMinutemen Double Nickels On the DimeMisery Signals ControllerModest Mouse The Moon & AntarcticaModest Mouse The Lonesome Crowded WestMr. Bungle CaliforniaNadja The Bungled & the BotchedNaked City Naked CityNas IllmaticNatural Snow Buildings The Dance of the Moon and the SunNeurosis The Eye of Every StormNeurosis Through Silver in BloodNoMeansNo WrongOf Montreal Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer?Opeth Blackwater ParkOpeth DamnationP.O.S. Never BetterPoison the Well The Opposite of DecemberRadiohead The BendsRadiohead AmnesiacRadiohead In RainbowsRaekwon Only Built 4 Cuban Linx...Regina Spektor Soviet KitschSay Anything ...Is a Real BoyScale The Summit The CollectiveThere's just something about The Collective. It's instrumental metal, but it never loses itself in any mindless shredding, or any other kind of stereotypical self-indulgence. Yeah, it has solos (not in every song though, which is unique in itself), but they all actually do something for the song they're in, and they're all gorgeous. The riffs are nearly always huge and catchy, and the melodies are nearly always dazzling. But unlike other excellent instrumental metal albums out there, there's more to The Collective than just good entertainment. There's a whole lot of brilliant substance underneath. Every musical idea on the album is given plenty of time to breathe, and every idea is placed so well, that every riff, melody, solo, and entrancing atmospheric passage moves as much as it entertains. The Collective obviously had so much effort and love put into it, that it's a delicious feast for the ears and the heart.Secede TryshaslaShponglesque in its boldness and eclecticism, but uniquely intense in its executionShpongle Tales of the InexpressibleShpongle Ineffable Mysteries From ShponglelandSigur Ros ( )Yes, if you put down everything you're doing, completely clear your head, and try to perceptively listen to this album, it's not exactly the most entertaining music ever recorded. Because you're not supposed to listen to it that way. When you listen to this album, it's not supposed to be the only thing going on in your world during the moments you listen to it. The album is meant to accompany the thoughts the listener is thinking while listening-or rather, the EMOTIONS the listener feels while thinking. How well it does this is breathtaking. This album was made for the listener. You get to choose what each vocal sound signifies, what the song titles are, hell, even the album title is up to you. So when you're mad, sad, happy, whatever, put this album on. Whatever emotional path you're walking down, this album fits perfectly by your side. Because that's what it was meant to do. It's a "sublime, passionate template for every important moment in your life" (-Adam Knott). - But this is not to say that the music isn't good when you don't listen to it this way, it just really takes its time to get where it's going. Emotional journey or no, "Untitled 8" is one of the best songs post-rock has to offer. Listening to it with something on your mind just enhances the experience, as does the whole album. I'm talking in circles, aren't I? Just get this album, and figure out your way to define it.Sigur Ros Ágætis ByrjunSleepmakeswaves ...and so we destroyed everythingSonic Youth Daydream NationStars of the Lid And Their Refinement Of The DeclineStars of the Lid The Tired Sounds of Stars of the LidSublime SublimeSunny Day Real Estate DiaryTexas Is the Reason Do You Know Who You Are?The Arrogant Sons of Bitches Three Cheers For DisappointmentThe Avalanches Since I Left YouThe Cinematic Orchestra MotionThe Dillinger Escape Plan Calculating InfinityThe Field From Here We Go SublimeThe Flaming Lips The Soft BulletinThe Future Sound of London LifeformsThe Gaslight Anthem The 59 SoundThe Knife Silent ShoutThe Mars Volta Frances the MuteThe Smith Street Band No One Gets Lost AnymoreAt first glance, No One Gets Lost Anymore seems like pretty typical folk-punk fare, but with a few more listens, it reveals itself to actually be a pretty transcendent experience. There's virtually no songwriting mishaps, and you really couldn't ask for more when it comes to shout-along choruses. And the lyrics. Mmmmm. This will inevitably become another one of those albums that I jam and laugh and cry to with all my friends while we milk our last few precious months of intoxication (both drug and life-induced) and try to feel infinite again before the crushing reality sets in and we all leave and try to ignite our lives separately and ughhhhh idon'twannathinkaboutitidon'twannathinkaboutiti'lljustputthisalbumonagainThe Story So Far Under Soil and DirtThe Weakerthans Reconstruction SiteThis Heat DeceitThursday No DevolucionTim Hecker Harmony in UltravioletTipper Broken Soul JamboreeTom Waits Rain DogsTortoise Millions Now Living Will Never DieTortoise TNTTrentemoller The Last ResortWolf Parade Apologies to the Queen MaryWormrot DirgeHoly shit! Well, this kicks you right in the face, doesn't it?Wu-Tang Clan Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)Yes Close to the Edge4.0 excellent16Bit Chainsaw Calligraphy The RemixesShit's crazy. This is dubstep to headbang to, man.35007 LiquidA Tribe Called Quest People's Instinctive Travels & The Paths of RhythmA Wilhelm Scream Career SuicideA Winged Victory for the Sullen A Winged Victory for the SullenAesop Rock SkelethonAgainst Me! Reinventing Axl RoseAhmad AhmadAidan Baker The Sea Swells A Bit...All Shall Perish The Price Of ExistenceAll Shall Perish Awaken The DreamersAmon Duul II Phallus Deithe title track is one of the pinnacles of krautrock, prolly one of the pinnacles of weird music in general Amon Tobin BricolageAmon Tobin SupermodifiedAnberlin CitiesAnimal Collective Strawberry JamAnimals as Leaders Animals as LeadersArcade Fire The SuburbsAs Cities Burn Come Now SleepAsh Borer Ash BorerAstronautalis This Is Our ScienceAutopsy Severed SurvivalBADBADNOTGOOD BBNGBark Psychosis HexBehold... The Arctopus SkullgridBetween the Buried and Me The Parallax: Hypersleep DialoguesBetween the Buried and Me The Great MisdirectBlack Flag DamagedBlack Moon Enta Da StageBloc Party Silent AlarmBomb the Music Industry! Adults!!!Bomb the Music Industry! To Leave Or Die In Long IslandBoredoms Super AeBoris Amplifier WorshipBoris PinkBorn of Osiris The DiscoveryBorn of Osiris absolutely annihilate their previous release, A Higher Place, with The Discovery, a progressive metalcore album that's actually progressive. The band has tightened many of their loose songwriting screws evident on both A Higher Place and their debut, The New Reign, making the album's songs stronger, more cohesive, and just plain better. Those short, but awesome little quirks Born of Osiris is known for (cool, wanky transitions and such) abound as they always did, but this time the band repeats them now and again and lets them develop fully. The Discovery also features many genuinely experimental moments, but they're not there for the mere sake of it, it sounds like they're there because the band wanted to make an honestly more interesting experience for the listener. And the band's technical skills are just as amazing as always, if not more so this time around. Check the all-instrument trade-off repeated in "Behold," or the solos in "Devastate" and "Dissimulation," among many other examples. The Discovery shows that Born of Osiris are most certainly maturing and progressing in the right direction, and that one day their masterpiece will indeed be shaped.Brand New Deja EntenduBrian Eno Ambient 1: Music For AirportsBurial KindredBy The End Of Tonight A Tribute To TigersChelsea Wolfe ἈποκάλυψιςCircle Takes The Square Rites of InitiationClever Girl No Drum And Bass in the Jazz RoomCloudkicker BeaconsCoil Horse RotorvatorConverge Axe to FallCounting Crows August And Everything AfterCunninLynguists OneirologyCyne Evolution FightDamu The Fudgemunk SparetimeDeafheaven Roads To JudahDeath LeprosyDeerhunter MicrocastleDefeater Empty Days and Sleepless NightsDigable Planets Reachin' (A New Refutation of Time and Space)Earth Angels of Darkness, Demons of Light I Earth Earth 2El-P I'll Sleep When You're DeadEluvium CopiaFago.Sepia L'ame Sure Ruse MalFever Ray Fever RayFlorence and the Machine LungsFlorence and the Machine CeremonialsFlower Travellin Band SatoriFlunk For Sleepyheads OnlyFlying Lotus Los AngelesFuneral Diner The UnderdarkFunkadelic Maggot BrainGiraffes? Giraffes! Pink MagickGlassjaw Everything You Ever Wanted To Know AboutGod Is An Astronaut All Is Violent, All Is BrightGrails Burning Off ImpuritiesGrouper A I AHavok Time Is UpWow, this takes me back. There was a time a number of years ago when I was a strict metalhead, on a consistent diet of thrash metal, death metal, a little bit of black metal, and classic heavy metal. After following modern thrash/crossover for a little while (and eventually widely expanding my music taste in general), I got bored. Why? Because most modern thrash is really fucking boring. After hearing a few too many uninspired, unconscious (or maybe conscious) early Metallica emulations, I decided that thrash was strictly an 80s-very early 90s thing, when all the riffs hadn't been used up yet and all the "hey bro let's thrash" lyrical content wasn't nauseatingly trite. But Time Is Up, this latest release from Havok, has officially proved the falseness of all these notions to me and I am ecstatic for it. Time Is Up proves that if the songwriting is tight enough, if the riffs and solos are creative enough, and if the thrash is fucking good enough, there still remains water in the deeply dug well of thrash metal. Seriously, how can you possibly resist headbanging to this? Alright, later, bros. If you need me, I'll be on a huge thrash metal kick.Hella Hold Your Horse IsHORSE the band Desperate LivingHungry For Hands I Was Hungry For HandsIgorrr NostrilIron Maiden Somewhere in TimeIron Maiden The Final FrontierIron Maiden Seventh Son of a Seventh SoniTAL tEK Midnight ColourJaga Jazzist What We MustJakob SolaceJames Blake James BlakeJawbox For Your Own Special SweetheartKayo Dot Blue Lambency DownwardKidcrash JokesKing Crimson RedKraftwerk AutobahnKreator Extreme AggressionLaura Stevenson Sit ResistLetlive. Fake HistoryLights Out Asia Eyes Like BrontideLye By Mistake Fea JurManners ApparitionsWHY ME?! WHY ME?! I WENT TO CHURCH EVERY FUCKING SUNDAY!Massacre From BeyondMaybeshewill I Was Here For a Moment, Then I Was GoneMF DOOM MM.. FoodMoby PlayMogwai Young TeamMogwai Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Willmy dad vs. yours Little SymphoniesNujabes Spiritual StateOld Man Gloom Seminar III: ZozobraOrchid Chaos Is MeOrganized Konfusion Stress: The Extinction AgendaOverkill The Years of DecayPark It Won't Snow Where You're GoingPelican Ataraxia/Taraxisdamn there's some dope ass textures on this motherfuckerPink Floyd Wish You Were HerePink Floyd AnimalsPixies DoolittlePortugal. The Man The Satanic SatanistPrimus Green NaugahydePsyopus Our Puzzling Encounters ConsideredQuasimoto The UnseenSigh Imaginary SonicscapeSleep Sleep's Holy MountainSleepy Sun FeverSleepy Sun EmbraceSlint SpiderlandSpokes Everyone I Ever MetSt. Germain TouristStars Set Yourself On FireStorm and Stress Under Thunder and Fluorescent LightsSubmotion Orchestra Finest HourSwarms Old Raves EndTame Impala InnerspeakerTegan and Sara The ConThe Blood Brothers ...Burn, Piano Island, BurnThe Carrier No Love Can Save MeThe Contortionist ExoplanetThe Dead Texan The Dead TexanThe Doppelgangaz Lone SharksThe Early November The Room's Too ColdThe Faceless Planetary DualityThe Flaming Lips Yoshimi Battles the Pink RobotsThe Mars Volta OctahedronThe Mars Volta The Bedlam in GoliathThe Number Twelve Looks Like You MongrelThe Phantom Carriage New ThingThe Tallest Man on Earth There's No Leaving NowThee Silver Mount Zion Born Into Trouble As the Sparks Fly...This Time Next Year Road Maps and Heart AttacksThis Will Destroy You Young MountainTim Hecker Haunt Me, Haunt Me Do It AgainTitus Andronicus The MonitorLyrically, The Monitor is an absolute delight, but musically, while for the most part being infectious, visceral, and spine-tingling, it's a bit too bombastic for its own good. There's lots of great licks everywhere on the album, but they're often carried on for too long, or have too much other stuff put on top of them. The album is too raw and dirty, and speaks of times too troubled for over-epic and over-long piano intros to not sound just a bit out of place. And "The Battle of Hampton Roads" did not need to be 14 minutes long. Sorry.toe For Long TomorrowUlcerate The Destroyers of AllListening to this album feels like swimming through a sea of smoke and anvils.Underoath Define the Great LineUnexpect Fables of the Sleepless EmpireVerse AggressionViolent Femmes The Violent FemmesWhy? AlopeciaWormrot NoiseWreck and Reference Black CassetteYes RelayerYes FragileZomby Dedication3.5 great*shels Plains Of The Purple Buffalo2562 Fever65daysofstatic One Time for All TimeAlexisonfire Watch Out!All Shall Perish Hate. Malice. RevengeAmpere Like ShadowsAnd So I Watch You From Afar GangsAntigama WarningAs Cities Burn Son, I Loved You At Your DarkestASAP Rocky Live.Love.A$AP.BATS Red In Tooth and ClawBeau Navire HoursBeck Sea ChangeBeck MutationsBetween the Buried and Me The Silent CircusBon Iver For Emma, Forever AgoBrand New Your Favorite WeaponBravo Fucking Bravo IIBurial Street HaloCannibal Corpse Eaten Back to LifeCity and Colour Little HellCoilguns And Kunz Coilguns And KunzColin Stetson New History Warfare, Vol 2: JudgesComa Cinema Blue SuicideConsciousness Removal Project The Last SeasonDaitro YDas Racist RelaxDeath Scream Bloody GoreDeath Spiritual HealingDecapitated NihilityDecapitated The NegationDepartures When Losing Everything Is Everything You WantedDo Make Say Think You, You're a History in RustDon Caballero What Burns Never ReturnsEarth Angels of Darkness, Demons of Light IIEarth The Bees Made Honey in the Lion's SkullEminem RecoveryEmpire! Empire! (I Was a Lonely Estate) Home After Three Months AwayErnest Gonzales Natural TraitsFlying Lotus CosmogrammaGod Is An Astronaut Far from RefugeGonjasufi A Sufi and a KillerGonjasufi MU.ZZ.LEGorillaz GorillazGreen Day DookieHave Heart The Things We CarryImmolation ProvidenceItal Hive MindJimmy Eat World FuturesKidcrash SnacksKing Crimson Larks' Tongues in AspicKing Crimson LizardKryptic Minds Can't Sleepughhh if they just trimmed a little fat off this would be amazingLa Dispute WildlifeI was wishing and hoping and praying that La Dispute would get rid of their bad songwriting habits and fully realize their colossal potential (or at least realize it moreso), with their new album, Wildlife, and to my elation, they have done just that. Parts are repeated more often (admittedly not as much as I'd hoped for, but it's definitely still an improvement) to give the songs more unity, and parts are also given much more time to breathe, resulting in build-ups and climaxes that are genuinely affecting, and actually pretty damn epic, too. Also, those disjointed, incoherent quirks that the band's debut was loaded with are virtually gone on Wildlife. The songs on this album feel much more like songs, rather than Somewhere at the Bottom of the River's collections of vocalist and band stomping all over each other. And the lyrics are incredible, as expected. I think if the band keeps progressing at this rate, they may have a true classic in 'em. Here's to getting even better, La Dispute.La Dispute Somewhere at the Bottom of the River...This album is filled with great moments. Schizophrenic, disjointed, and occasionally cheesy, but great. The album seems to floor most of its first-time listeners due to its breathtaking lyrics and heartfelt, powerful execution. But repeated listens reveal that the songwriting here is extremely all-over-the-place, which is why I've brought down my rating of it from a 4.5 to a 3.5. Awesome, memorable moments pop up all over the place, but they're rarely expanded upon or connected to another. While I still listen to the album for those moments that excite me (there's actually a great deal of them, they're just, like I said, hardly ever tied to other parts of the song they're in), and also for the amazing lyrics, this whole decrease in my enjoyment of it has been pretty disappointing. Here's to improving your songwriting skills, La Dispute.Love Like... Electrocution Love Like... ElectrocutionMastodon Crack the SkyeMeshuggah ChaosphereMetallica ...And Justice for AllMetallica Kill 'Em AllMNMNTS The Good LifeMogwai Happy Songs for Happy PeopleMogwai The Hawk Is HowlingMos Def Black On Both SidesMotion City Soundtrack Commit This To MemoryMy Morning Jacket Evil UrgesNatural Snow Buildings Waves of the Random SeaNew Found Glory Sticks and StonesNicolas Jaar Space Is Only NoiseNoisear Subvert the Dominant ParadigmOh, Sleeper Children of FireOm Advaitic SongsOrbs Asleep Next to ScienceAsleep Next to Science is a vibrant, fun, progressive adventure. Although it can get a little long and over-bombastic, the songwriting is still very solid throughout the album, with occasional exceptions. (One being the rather unfortunate ending to the otherwise awesome "A Man of Science"). All of the music seems very fresh and alive, and all of the album's ideas intrigue, lyrically, especially. The lyrics are written with a smart-alecky -but still smart and subtle- tone, and all the songs speak of very interesting topics, ranging from personal and emotional (from "Eclipsical: " Does anyone believe in God, and do you feel the flames of Hell? 'Cause I do. Or maybe I don't at all, it's just really fucking hot in here..") to broadly philosophical (from "The Northwestern Bearitories A. We the Animal: "The bears asked me to dinner, they had me over, didn't have me for."). The words are always clever, fun, and thought-provoking, just like all the music. I recommend this album to any prog-head or open-minded person in need of some of hearing and/or mind stimulation.Pig Destroyer Phantom LimbPiglet lava landPsyopus Ideas of ReferencePublic Enemy Yo! Bum Rush the ShowRadiohead Hail to the ThiefRed Krayola The Parable of Arable LandRussian Circles EnterRussian Circles EmprosShabazz Palaces Black UpSlayer Reign in BloodSome Mistakes Glamorous ThoughtsSon Lux We Are RisingSon Lux At War With Walls And MazesThe Armed These Are LightsThe Bled Pass The FlaskThe Caretaker Patience (After Sebald)The Dear Hunter RedThe Dear Hunter BlackThe Dear Hunter OrangeThe Dear Hunter YellowThe Dear Hunter VioletThe Dear Hunter The Color Spectrum (Complete Collection)The Dear Hunter IndigoThe Dear Hunter WhiteThe Dillinger Escape Plan The Dillinger Escape PlanThe Evpatoria Report GolevkaThe Faceless AkeldamaThe Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble From the StairwellThe Mars Volta AmputechtureThee Silver Mount Zion He Has Left Us Alone...Thrice Major/MinorTim Hecker Ravedeath, 1972Touche Amore Parting The Sea Between Brightness And MeToxic Holocaust Conjure and CommandUnderoath They're Only Chasing SafetyVeil of Maya [id]Vessels HelioscopeWeekend Nachos WorthlessWhitechapel A New Era of CorruptionWhy? Elephant EyelashWindmills By the Ocean Windmills By the Ocean IIYouth Lagoon The Year of HibernationYuck Yuck3.0 goodAll Shall Perish This is Where it EndsAll the Empires of the World Old Gods, Old Worlds, Old WoundsAnimal Collective Here Comes the IndianAs I Lay Dying An Ocean Between UsAugust Burns Red Leveleri really wish these guys would stop pissing away all their potentialBeau Navire Life MovesBehold... The Arctopus HorrorscensionBon Iver Bon IverBorn of Osiris A Higher PlaceCannibal Corpse Evisceration PlagueCloudkicker Let Yourself Be HugeDaniel Striped Tiger No DifferenceDo Make Say Think & Yet & YetDon Caballero American DonEminem RelapseExplosions in the Sky How Strange, InnocenceExplosions in the Sky Those Who Tell the Truth...Frank Zappa and The Mothers of Invention Freak Out!Jesu AscensionKidcrash New RuinsKing Crimson In the Wake of PoseidonLa Quiete La Quiete IILamb LambLantlos AgapeLee Noble No BecomingLightning Bolt Wonderful RainbowMethod Man Ticalmmpsuf RetinaMogwai Come On Die YoungMogwai Rock ActionMono Under The Pipal TreeMono Walking Cloud And Deep Red Sky, Flag Fluttered....Municipal Waste The Art of PartyingMunicipal Waste Massive AggressiveMy Chemical Romance I Brought You My Bullets, You Brought...Obscure Sphinx Anaesthetic Inhalation RitualOpeth DeliveranceOpeth My Arms, Your HearseOpeth Heritagepg.lost It's Not Me, It's You!Pink Floyd Atom Heart MotherPortugal. The Man In The Mountain In The CloudPulling Teeth FuneraryRadiohead Pablo HoneyRadiohead The King of LimbsSleepingdog With Our Heads in the Clouds...The Bled Found In The FloodThe Boxer Rebellion The Cold StillThe Color Morale We All Have DemonsThe Crimson Armada GuardiansThe Dear Hunter GreenThe Dear Hunter BlueThe Dillinger Escape Plan Ire WorksThe Men Leave HomeI guess sometimes music can be a little too visceral. Albums like At the Drive-In's Relationship of Command succeed because already extremely well-written songs are executed with a spur-of-the-moment passion, whereas the songs on Leave Home are too loose and uncalculated for the visceral aspects of them to be entertaining. Although there are a few good, driving rhythms here and there, most of the meandering, slow-burning noise just leaves me out in the cold.The Rural Alberta Advantage DepartingTrap Them Darker HandcraftVeil of Maya EclipseWinds Of Plague The Great Stone WarWoe Of Tyrants Threnody2.5 averageAfter the Burial In DreamsAlesana The EmptinessAs Blood Runs Black InstinctBring Me The Horizon Count Your BlessingsChildren of Bodom BlooddrunkExplosions in the Sky The RescueExplosions in the Sky Take Care, Take Care, Take CareFleet Foxes Helplessness BluesIced Earth Iced EarthJob for a Cowboy GloomOf Mice & Men The FloodOpeth MorningrisePsyopus Odd SensesSebastiAn TotalThe Devil Wears Prada ZombieThe Devil Wears Prada Dead ThroneTyler The Creator GoblinAm I that out of touch with what's been lurking into the mainstream lately, or is Tyler really as infamous as he makes himself out to be on this album? Is all the bitching he does here about parents blaming him for their rebellious and disobedient kids really...valid? Because according to what I've seen and read, I don't think it is. And that, in turn, makes a large chunk of this album extremely off-putting and vaguely...irritating. If all the whining is valid though, this album is still pretty lame. Tyler only seems to create a good flow when he's focusing on wordplay ("Yonkers" and "Tron Cat" being the two best examples), and a lot of times, those words he's playing with deal with stupid, trite, uninteresting bullshit. He tries so hard to pull off that consciously-trying-to-shock-but-justifying-it-by-calling-it-"dark humor" persona, but he does it so awkwardly and so unsubtly, that a lot of times, his words seem to fall to the ground before he even says them. He gets so angry at all these people who supposedly "take him too seriously," but seems to take that sentiment more seriously than anything else he says on the album. Honestly, if it wasn't for "Yonkers" and "Tron Cat," this would be a 2, maybe even lower. With Goblin, Tyler just tries way too hard.2.0 poorBeastie Boys Licensed To IllBring Me The Horizon Suicide SeasonEminem EncoreI See Stars The End of the World PartyAmidst the annoying autotune, the cringe-worthy lyrics, and the inherently shoddy formula of combining synths and other electronic bleeps and bloops with br00tal breakdowns and hxc screaming, there are, admittedly, some pretty catchy melodies on here. And I can tell that the band actually gave a shit about what they were writing, too, however poor what they were writing is. And that's enough to merit a 2.Iced Earth The Crucible Of ManJudas Priest NostradamusMetallica Death MagneticPink Floyd UmmagummaSuicide Silence The Black CrownWe Came As Romans Understanding What We've Grown To Be1.5 very poorAlesana On Frail Wings Of Vanity And WaxChelsea Grin Chelsea GrinEmmure FelonyEscape the Fate Dying Is Your Latest FashionMorbid Angel Illud Divinum InsanusNickelback All the Right ReasonsSay Anything Anarchy, My DearThe Devil Wears Prada Plagues1.0 awfulAsking Alexandria Stand Up and ScreambrokeNCYDE Will Never DieDragonForce Inhuman RampageLou Reed and Metallica LuluThere's coral, there's rocks, there's whale poo...and then there's Lulu. Millionaires Bling Bling Bling!The Crimson Armada ConvictionSo yeah, this is pretty much worthless. Plus, it's an absolutely fucking embarrassing decrease in quality from their debut. Don't know what the fuck they were thinking.Waking The Cadaver Perverse Recollections of a Necromangler
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