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5.0 classic
Animal Alpha Pheromones
Archspire Relentless Mutation
Archspire Bleed the Future
August Burns Red Constellations
Black Tongue Nadir
Brand New The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me
Dangers Messy, Isn't It?
Defeater Lost Ground
Deftones White Pony
Deftones Around the Fur
Deftones Diamond Eyes
Every Time I Die Radical
Fair to Midland Fables From a Mayfly: What I Tell You Three Times is True
Fit for an Autopsy Oh What the Future Holds
Gojira From Mars to Sirius
Gojira The Way of All Flesh
Greyhaven This Bright and Beautiful World
He Is Legend Endless Hallway
Karnivool Sound Awake
Knocked Loose A Tear in the Fabric of Life
Lamb of God Ashes of the Wake
Protest the Hero Fortress
Protest the Hero Palimpsest
Rishloo Living as Ghosts with Buildings as Teeth
Sylosis Conclusion of an Age
TesseracT Altered State
The Wonder Years Suburbia I've Given You All and Now I'm Nothing
Tool Lateralus

4.5 superb
A Lot Like Birds DIVISI
A Wilhelm Scream Career Suicide
Allegaeon Proponent for Sentience
Animal Alpha You'll Pay For The Whole Seat But ...
Archspire All Shall Align
Archspire The Lucid Collective
As I Lay Dying An Ocean Between Us
As I Lay Dying The Powerless Rise
August Burns Red Rescue & Restore
August Burns Red Found in Far Away Places
Basement Beside Myself
BATS The Sleep of Reason
Biffy Clyro Only Revolutions
Billy Talent Billy Talent
Billy Talent Billy Talent II
Black Breath Sentenced To Life
Black Peaks All That Divides
Bleed from Within Uprising
Bleed from Within Era
Bleed from Within Shrine
Blood Command Funeral Beach
Blood Command Cult Drugs
Blood Command Return of the Arsonist
Born of Osiris Soul Sphere
Brand of Sacrifice Lifeblood
Caskets Lost Souls
Chelsea Grin Suffer In Hell
Christine and the Queens La vita nuova
clipping. There Existed an Addiction to Blood
clipping. Visions of Bodies Being Burned
Dangers Anger
Defeater Travels
Defeater Empty Days and Sleepless Nights
Deftones Adrenaline
Deftones Koi No Yokan
Koi No Yokan - Roughly Translates to "Love at First Deftones"
Destrage Are You Kidding Me? No.
Every Time I Die New Junk Aesthetic
Every Time I Die Ex Lives
Every Time I Die From Parts Unknown
Every Time I Die Low Teens
Fair to Midland Arrows and Anchors
Fit for an Autopsy Absolute Hope Absolute Hell
Fit for an Autopsy The Sea of Tragic Beasts
Gatherers " ( mutilator. ) "
Ghost (SWE) Meliora
Glassjaw Coloring Book
Glassjaw Our Color Green (The Singles)
Good Tiger We Will All be Gone
Good Tiger Raised in a Doomsday Cult
Greyhaven Empty Black
Hail the Sun Wake
Hail the Sun Divine Inner Tension
Half Me Soma
HAWK (USA-PA) Tolerance's Paradox
He Is Legend White Bat
Heart of a Coward Deliverance
Intervals A Voice Within
Jessie Ware What's Your Pleasure?
Johnny Booth Firsthand Accounts
Johnny Booth Moments Elsewhere
Knocked Loose Laugh Tracks
Knocked Loose A Different Shade of Blue
Kvelertak Kvelertak
La Dispute Somewhere at the Bottom of the River Between Vega and Altair
La Dispute Wildlife
Lamb of God Wrath
letlive. The Blackest Beautiful
Make Them Suffer Worlds Apart
Malevolence Self Supremacy
Amazing record. Some of the best guitar work you'll hear this year. The song writing and performances are so good, you'll easily forgive the weak lyrics.
Malevolence The Other Side
Megadeth Rust in Peace
Megadeth Countdown to Extinction
Megadeth Peace Sells... but Who's Buying?
Misery Signals Absent Light
Monuments (UK) The Amanuensis
Movements Feel Something
Nails Abandon All Life
RAWR!
Norma Jean Meridional
Norma Jean All Hail
Northlane Alien
Nothing More Spirits
Phinehas The Fire Itself
Polyphia The Most Hated
Polyphia New Levels New Devils
Protest the Hero Volition
Protest the Hero Fabula & Syuzhet
PUP The Dream Is Over
PUP Morbid Stuff
Queens of the Stone Age Songs for the Deaf
Queens of the Stone Age Rated R
Queens of the Stone Age ...Like Clockwork
Reliqa I Don't Know What I Am
Revocation Teratogenesis
Run the Jewels Run the Jewels 2
Septicflesh Codex Omega
SikTh Opacities
SikTh The Future In Whose Eyes?
Silent Planet Everything Was Sound
Strapping Young Lad Alien
Strapping Young Lad City
Stray from the Path Euthanasia
Sufferer Sufferer
Sum 41 Chuck
Sylosis Edge of the Earth
System of a Down Toxicity
System of a Down Mezmerize
Teenage Wrist Earth Is A Black Hole
TesseracT One
TesseracT Polaris
The Chariot Long Live
The Devil Wears Prada Zombie
The Ghost of a Thousand This Is Where The Fight Begins
The Haarp Machine Disclosure
The Human Abstract Digital Veil
The Menzingers After the Party
The Menzingers Hello Exile
The Wonder Years The Greatest Generation
This or the Apocalypse Haunt What's Left
Tool Ænima
Tool Undertow
Tool 10,000 Days
Touche Amore Stage Four
Turnstile Glow On
Twelve Foot Ninja Smoke Bomb
Twelve Foot Ninja Silent Machine
Unearth Darkness in the Light
Veil of Maya [m]other
Viscera (UK) Obsidian
Voices from the Fuselage Odyssey: The Founder of Dreams
While She Sleeps You Are We
While She Sleeps Sleeps Society

4.0 excellent
36 Crazyfists A Snow Capped Romance
36 Crazyfists Rest Inside the Flames
A Lot Like Birds Conversation Piece
A Perfect Circle Thirteenth Step
A Perfect Circle Mer de Noms
A Perfect Circle Eat the Elephant
Adversary Singularity
AFI The Missing Man
Agnes Obel Philharmonics
Alexisonfire Crisis
Alice in Chains Dirt
Alice in Chains Black Gives Way to Blue
Alice in Chains The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here
All That Remains The Fall of Ideals
Alter Bridge Fortress
Anathema The Optimist
Andrew W.K. I Get Wet
Animals As Leaders The Joy of Motion
Anthrax Among the Living
Arcane Roots Blood and Chemistry
Arcane Roots Heaven and Earth
Architects Hollow Crown
Architects Holy Hell
As I Lay Dying Awakened
Original Score: 3.5rA disappointing but still valiant effort. The only issue with the record is the songwriting rhas taken a small step backwards. The majority of Awakened can't replicate the rheights that the instrumentation and vocal hooks achieved on their two previous releases. I rLay Dying have by no means crafted a bad record but in comparison to their best work, rAwakened falls short. rEdit: Album has since grown immensely on me.
As I Lay Dying Shaped by Fire
Atreyu Lead Sails Paper Anchor
Audioslave Audioslave
Audioslave Out of Exile
August Burns Red Messengers
August Burns Red Leveler
August Burns Red Phantom Anthem
August Burns Red Messengers (Remixed)
August Burns Red Leveler (Anniversary)
August Burns Red Death Below
Aurora (NOR) The Gods We Can Touch
Aversions Crown Xenocide
Backxwash God Has Nothing To Do With This Leave Him Out Of I
Backxwash I LIE HERE BURIED WITH MY RINGS AND MY DRESSES
Balance and Composure The Things We Think We're Missing
Balance and Composure Light We Made
Baroness Red Album
Baroness Blue Record
BATS Red In Tooth and Claw
Behemoth The Satanist
Bellevue Days It Can’t Possibly Go Wrong Ever
Ben Quad I'm Scared That's All There Is
Benighted Identisick
Benighted Icon
Benighted Asylum Cave
Between the Buried and Me The Parallax II: Future Sequence
Biffy Clyro Opposites
Billy Talent Billy Talent III
Billy Talent Dead Silence
Bjork Post
Bjork Vespertine
Black Breath Razor To Oblivion
Born of Osiris The Discovery
Born of Osiris The Eternal Reign
Brand New 3 Demos, Reworked
Brand New Science Fiction
Bring Me the Horizon Post Human: Survival Horror
Brockhampton SATURATION II
Bullet for My Valentine The Poison
Bullet for My Valentine Hand of Blood
Bury Tomorrow The Union of Crowns
Bury Tomorrow Cannibal
Caligula's Horse Rise Radiant
Can't Swim Foreign Language
Caroline Polachek Desire, I Want To Turn Into You
Caskets Reflections
Cattle Decapitation The Anthropocene Extinction
Chelsea Grin Suffer In Heaven
Children of Bodom Are You Dead Yet?
Children of Nova The Complexity of Light
CiLiCe Deranged Headtrip
Circa Survive The Amulet
Code Orange Forever
Code Orange The Hurt Will Go On
Code Orange Underneath
Coheed and Cambria From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness
Coheed and Cambria The Afterman: Ascension
Coheed and Cambria Vaxis II: A Window of the Waking Mind
Coldplay A Rush of Blood to the Head
Comeback Kid Symptoms + Cures
Comeback Kid Die Knowing
Converge All We Love We Leave Behind
Converge The Dusk in Us
Counting Crows August And Everything After
Crosses EP
Crosses Crosses
Cynic Traced in Air
Cynic Traced In Air Remixed
Danny Brown XXX
Dead And Divine Antimacy
Dead Letter Circus This Is The Warning
Dead Letter Circus The Catalyst Fire
Dealer (AUS) Soul Burn
Dealer (AUS) Saint
Defeater Letters Home
Deftones Gore
Denzel Curry and Kenny Beats Unlocked
Descendents Cool to Be You
Destrage A Means to No End
Destrage So much. Too much.
Devil Sold His Soul Blessed & Cursed
Devil Sold His Soul Belong/Betray
DevilDriver Pray for Villains
Dinosaur Pile-Up Celebrity Mansions
Dio Holy Diver
Dirty Loops Phoenix
Don Broco Priorities
Don Broco Technology
Don Broco Amazing Things
Dool Summerland
Doomriders Darkness Come Alive
Dragged Under The World is in Your Way
Dying Fetus Reign Supreme
Dyscarnate With All Their Might
Earl Sweatshirt I Don't Like Shit, I Don't Go Outside
Electric Callboy TEKKNO
Enabler All Hail the Void
"All Hail The Void" has one of the best riffs I've heard in a while.
END (USA-NJ) From the Unforgiving Arms of God
END (USA-NJ) Splinters From An Ever-Changing Face
Enter Shikari Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible
Every Time I Die The Big Dirty
Everything Everything Raw Data Feel
Evile Five Serpent's Teeth
Exit Ten Give Me Infinity
Failure In The Future Your Body Will Be The Furthest Thing From Your Mind
Faith No More King for a Day... Fool for a Lifetime
Fear Factory Demanufacture
Fear Factory Mechanize
Fellsilent The Hidden Words
FEVER 333 Wrong Generation
Filter The Trouble With Angels
Filter The Sun Comes Out Tonight
Fit for an Autopsy The Great Collapse
Four Year Strong Brain Pain
Gallows (UK) Orchestra Of Wolves
Gallows (UK) Grey Britain
Gama Bomb Speed Between The Lines
Ghost (SWE) Infestissumam
Gojira The Link
Gojira The Link Alive
Gojira L'Enfant Sauvage
Original Rating: 4

L`Enfant Sauvage unfortunately falls JUST short of its predecessors. While the songs here
are magnificent, Gojira`s mannerisms are starting to wear thin. Often you will hear the
familiar pick slide, pinch harmonics, and their distinct tapping style. This familiarity, at
times, can make certain riffs/structures seem formulaic in nature. On top of that, the riffs
and overall guitar work is less memorable than what they`ve conveyed in the past.

Mostly gone are the guttural vocals found on "From Mars to Sirius". Joe now favors a style
somewhere in between shouting and singing(comparable to choruses found on "The Way of All
Flesh"). Whilst Joe's vocals carry more impact than ever, I would have liked to see more of
the range he explored on the aforementioned album. The drum work is interesting as always.
As a result of the toned down guitar work, Mario's technical prowess moves even further into
the forefront. "Mouth of Kala" is proof that he has never sounded more massive behind the
kit.

Gojira have created an album that new fans will gush over. Older Gojira aficionados will
notice trademark consistencies that may hinder their experience slightly. The band have
sacrificed a small amount of their brutality and technicality with each release in purpose
of crafting more dynamic music. Despite your feelings on the bands direction, the material
found on L'Enfant Sauvage is no doubt some of the best of 2012!
Gojira Magma
Gorod A Perfect Absolution
Haken Vector
Haken Virus
Havok Time Is Up
Havok V
Hawk Eyes Ideas
headcave 3
Heart of a Coward Severance
Heart of a Coward The Disconnect
I Am Abomination The Passion Of The Heist
I Am Abomination Let The Future Tell The Truth
In Flames Whoracle
In Flames A Sense of Purpose
Indian Handcrafts Civil Disobedience For Losers
Infant Annihilator The Battle of Yaldabaoth
Inferi (USA) Vile Genesis
Intervals The Shape of Colour
Intervals The Way Forward
Jamie Lenman Devolver
Jeff Buckley Grace
JID The Forever Story
Johnny Booth Storyteller
Judas Priest Painkiller
Karnivool Asymmetry
Katahdin No Longer Room For Us
Katatonia Dead End Kings
Katatonia The Fall of Hearts
Killing Joke Absolute Dissent
Killswitch Engage Alive or Just Breathing
Killswitch Engage As Daylight Dies
Knocked Loose Pop Culture
Kreator Enemy of God
Kreator Phantom Antichrist
I second the EPICNESS of the leak!
Kylesa Spiral Shadow
La Dispute Panorama
Lamb of God As the Palaces Burn
Laura Stevenson Laura Stevenson
Lazarus A.D. The Onslaught (Re-release)
Led Zeppelin Physical Graffiti
Leprous Pitfalls
letlive. Fake History
Lizzy McAlpine five seconds flat
Loathe I Let It In And It Took Everything
Machine Head Through The Ashes Of Empires
Machine Head The Blackening
Mad Caddies Keep It Going
Make Them Suffer Old Souls
Malefice Dawn Of Reprisal
Malevolence Reign of Suffering
Manchester Orchestra Simple Math
Manchester Orchestra A Black Mile to the Surface
Manchester Orchestra The Million Masks of God
Manchester Orchestra The Valley of Vision
Mastodon Blood Mountain
Mastodon Crack the Skye
Mastodon The Hunter
Mastodon Emperor of Sand
Mastodon Hushed and Grim
Megadeth Youthanasia
Megadeth Endgame
Meshuggah Koloss
Metallica Master of Puppets
Metallica Ride the Lightning
Metallica ...And Justice for All
Microwave Death is a Warm Blanket
Monster Magnet Powertrip
Monuments (UK) We Are the Foundation
Monuments (UK) Phronesis
Monuments (UK) In Stasis
Mother Mother Eureka
Motion City Soundtrack My Dinosaur Life
Municipal Waste Hazardous Mutation
Municipal Waste The Art of Partying
My Chemical Romance Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge
Nails Unsilent Death
Native Construct Quiet World
Neck Deep The Peace And The Panic
Night Verses Every Sound Has a Color...: Part I
Nirvana Nevermind
Norma Jean Polar Similar
Norma Jean Deathrattle Sing for Me
Northlane Obsidian
Nothing More Nothing More
Nova Twins Who Are The Girls?
Nova Twins Supernova
Omerta Hyperviolence
Onslow Onslow
Opeth Blackwater Park
Opeth Watershed
orphantwin Future Classic
Pain of Salvation Panther
Parkway Drive Horizons
Parkway Drive Deep Blue
Parkway Drive Ire
Periphery Periphery III: Select Difficulty
Perturbator New Model
Pixies Doolittle
Protest the Hero Kezia
Protest the Hero Scurrilous
PUP PUP
Pusha T DAYTONA
Queen Kona ALL HAIL
Queens of the Stone Age Queens of the Stone Age
Queens of the Stone Age Lullabies to Paralyze
Rage Against the Machine Evil Empire
Reuben Racecar Is Racecar Backwards
Revocation Existence Is Futile
Revocation Chaos of Forms
Revocation Revocation
Revocation The Outer Ones
Run the Jewels Run the Jewels
Run the Jewels Run the Jewels 3
Run the Jewels RTJ4
Shadow Of Intent Melancholy
Shadow Of Intent Elegy
SikTh Death of a Dead Day
Silent Planet The Night God Slept
Silent Planet When the End Began
Silent Planet The Night God Slept (Redux)
Slayer World Painted Blood
Soilwork The Ride Majestic
Spanish Love Songs Brave Faces Everyone
Sum 41 Does This Look Infected?
Sum 41 All Killer No Filler
Sylosis Monolith
KILL you're stupid. r
Sylosis Dormant Heart
Sylosis Cycle of Suffering
Symphony X Iconoclast
System of a Down Hypnotize
Tallah Matriphagy
Tellison Hope Fading Nightly
TesseracT Errai
TesseracT Sonder
Testament Dark Roots of Earth
The Armed Untitled
The Black Dahlia Murder Nocturnal
The Black Dahlia Murder Deflorate
The Black Dahlia Murder Ritual
The Black Dahlia Murder Everblack
The Black Dahlia Murder Nightbringers
The Black Keys Brothers
The Callous Daoboys Celebrity Therapist
The Chariot One Wing
The Contortionist Our Bones
The Damned Things Ironiclast
The Dear Hunter Black
The Dear Hunter Act IV: Rebirth in Reprise
The Devil Wears Prada Dead Throne
The Devil Wears Prada Color Decay
The Faceless Planetary Duality
The Hell JORIS (A Hardcore Opera​)​, Pt. 1
The Menzingers On the Impossible Past
The Ocean Phanerozoic II: Mesozoic | Cenozoic
The Offering Seeing the Elephant
The Offspring Greatest Hits
The Strokes Is This It
The Strokes Room on Fire
The Wonder Years The Hum Goes on Forever
The World Is a Beautiful Place... Harmlessness
Thornhill The Dark Pool
Three Days Grace One-X
Thrice The Illusion of Safety
Thrice The Artist in the Ambulance
Thrice The Artist in the Ambulance (Revisited)
thrown Extended Pain
Thy Art Is Murder Dear Desolation
Tool Fear Inoculum
Touche Amore Dead Horse X
Trap Them Darker Handcraft
Trivium Ascendancy
Turbowolf The Free Life
Turnstile Time and Space
Turnstile Turnstile Love Connection
Unearth The Oncoming Storm
Unearth Watchers of Rule
Vatican Ultra
Vein.fm Errorzone
Vektor Outer Isolation
Vildhjarta Måsstaden
Vildhjarta Måsstaden (Forte)
Vitalism SY
Voices from the Fuselage To Hope
Upon first exposure, listeners will be immediately reminded of One era TesseracT.
Later, it becomes evident that slight stylistic differences exist between the bands, but
measuring those deviations almost seems over-analytical. Like TesseracT, Voices from the
Fuselage are more focused on ambient passages and songwriting than the average polyrhythmic
band. Voices from the Fuselage have crafted four excellent songs that TesseracT fans will
feel right at home with.
VOLA Applause of a Distant Crowd
VOLA Witness
Warbringer Worlds Torn Asunder
Warbringer Woe to the Vanquished
Warbringer Weapons of Tomorrow
Weezer Weezer
Weezer The White Album
Weezer Van Weezer
While She Sleeps The North Stands for Nothing
While She Sleeps This Is the Six
This abso-lute-ly RIPS! One of the most exciting upcoming bands in modern metal.
While She Sleeps Brainwashed
While She Sleeps So What?
White Moth Black Butterfly Atone
Whitechapel Kin
Windwaker Love Language
Within the Ruins Halfway Human

3.5 great
'68 Two Parts Viper
3 Inches of Blood Advance and Vanquish
3 Inches of Blood Fire Up The Blades
36 Crazyfists The Tide and Its Takers
A Lot Like Birds No Place
A Wilhelm Scream Partycrasher
Alaya Thrones
Alaya's sonic stamp lays somewhere between Djent and the Tech Metal scene. The vocal ability is the standout feature of the Album. The frontman's clean's are expressed passionately and retain a level of grit that many progressive singers lack. The instrumentation is no doubt played with precision and executed skillfully, but further refinement to their songwritting and structure would go long way to improving their craft.
Alexisonfire Watch Out!
Alexisonfire Old Crows / Young Cardinals
Alice in Chains Rainier Fog
All Pigs Must Die God Is War
All Pigs Must Die Nothing Violates This Nature
Allegaeon Apoptosis
Amon Amarth Hymns to the Rising Sun
AngelMaker AngelMaker
Annihilator Alice in Hell
Annihilator Never, Neverland
Annihilator King of the Kill
Anthrax Worship Music
Arcade Fire The Suburbs
Arcane Roots Melancholia Hymns
Arch Enemy Doomsday Machine
Arch Enemy Anthems of Rebellion
Arch Enemy Rise of the Tyrant
Architects All Our Gods Have Abandoned Us
Architects For Those That Wish to Exist
Architects The Classic Symptoms of a Broken Spirit
Atreyu Congregation of the Damned
Audioslave Revelations
August Burns Red Sleddin' Hill
August Burns Red Guardians
Avenged Sevenfold City of Evil
Avenged Sevenfold Avenged Sevenfold
Avenged Sevenfold The Stage
BABYMETAL Metal Galaxy
Balance and Composure Separation
Be'lakor Of Breath and Bone
Benighted Carnivore Sublime
Between the Buried and Me Automata II
Biffy Clyro Infinity Land
Biffy Clyro A Celebration of Endings
Bilmuri Eggy Pocket
Bjork Homogenic
Black Breath Heavy Breathing
Black Breath Slaves Beyond Death
Black Peaks Statues
Bleed from Within Fracture
Blood Command Ghostclocks
Bokassa Divide and Conquer
Bolt Thrower Those Once Loyal
Boundaries Burying Brightness
Brad Sucks I don't know what I'm doing
Brad Sucks Out of It
Brand New Daisy
Brand of Sacrifice Interstice
Breakdown of Sanity Mirrors
Breakdown of Sanity Perception
Bring Me the Horizon Sempiternal
Brockhampton SATURATION III
Brutus (BE) Nest
Bullet for My Valentine Scream Aim Fire
Bury Tomorrow The Seventh Sun
Cancer Bats Birthing the Giant
Cancer Bats Hail Destroyer
Cancer Bats Bears, Mayors, Scraps & Bones
Cancer Bats Dead Set on Living
Liam's vocals are uncharacteristically good on this release. He uses a ton of variation and
has created many fun, catchy, choruses. The guitarist writes some pretty awesome riffs, but
I'd like to see him inject more complexity into his playing. The drum work is passable, but
nothing overly interesting. It's a shame because the percussion is extremely well produced
and punchy. Although "Dead Set on Living" is a continuation the same record written their
entire career, the refinement and song writing on this release keep the experience from
becoming stale. No filler here; Best Cancer Bats album to date!

(High 3.5)- 4
Cane Hill Too Far Gone
Cane Hill Kill The Sun
Carcass Surgical Steel
Cattle Decapitation Monolith of Inhumanity
Chevelle Sci-Fi Crimes
Chevelle Hats Off To The Bull
Chevelle The North Corridor
Chevelle NIRATIAS
Children of Bodom Hate Crew Deathroll
Children of Bodom Halo of Blood
Chloe x Halle Ungodly Hour
Chthonic Bu-Tik
Coheed and Cambria The Afterman: Descension
Original Score: 3

Although there are standout moments on the record, the latter half is plagued with average
instrumentation and somewhat forgettable songwriting. The dialogue intermissions, are
largely devoid of musicianship and seem tacked on.

Lyrically, the album is guilty of both pretentious tendencies and triumphant story telling.
A coherent and admittedly interesting story can be followed here, but the vocalist awkwardly
and tirelessly forces "love"(the album's theme) down the throat of the listener.

While Coheed and Cambria have crafted a decent collection of songs, I hesitate to
reciprocate the same appraisal for the entire album experience. This record is heavily
predicated on story telling. Musically, the weaker content should be left off. Conceptually,
that practice would gape the story experience.
Coheed and Cambria The Color Before The Sun
Coheed and Cambria Vaxis I: The Unheavenly Creatures
Coldplay X&Y
Converge Jane Doe
Converge Axe to Fall
Coroner Mental Vortex
Corrosion of Conformity Deliverance
Corrosion of Conformity Blind
Counterparts You're Not You Anymore
Counterparts Private Room
Counterparts A Eulogy for Those Still Here
Crosses EP II
Crosses permanent.radiant
Cult of Luna and Julie Christmas Mariner
Currents The Place I Feel Safest
Cynic Re-Traced
Cytotoxin Nuklearth
Dance with the Dead Out of Body
Dangers The Bend In The Break
Danny Brown Atrocity Exhibition
Death Angel The Evil Divide
Death Grips Exmilitary
Deep Purple Machine Head
Deftones Deftones
Deftones Saturday Night Wrist
Deftones Ohms
Deftones Black Stallion
Denzel Curry Melt My Eyez See Your Future
Destrage The Chosen One
Dethklok Dethalbum II
Dethklok The Dethalbum
Devil Sold His Soul Empire of Light
Edit: I have revisited this album a year later and have come to conclusion that my original
soundoff should be complete redacted. I can't believe how wrong I was about this record.

___

ORIGINAL SOUNDOFF
Despite the lad's input, the outcome is uninteresting. Devil Sold His Soul's previous
outings displayed a masterful blend of ferocity and beauty. Empire of Light still
retains many of the band's trademarks, but is watered down to the point of no longer
adequately representing their aforementioned "yin and yang" like qualities. The root of this
misstep is the lack of balance. Meandering vocal melodies, tame atmospherics, and monotonous
guitar work, litter the majority of the album's duration. Although these cleaner passages
had proven to be an asset in the past, moderation was the foundation of that success.
Unfortunately Devil Sold His Soul have focused all of their attention on the poorest aspect
of their sound and consequently have alienated their uniquity.
DevilDriver The Last Kind Words
DevilDriver Beast
Dinosaur Pile-Up Nature Nurture
Direct Hit! Wasted Mind
Dr. Acula Slander
Dragged Under Upright Animals
Drain (USA-CA) California Cursed
Drug Church Hygiene
Dying Fetus Wrong One to Fuck With
Eagles Of Death Metal Death By Sexy
Eagles Of Death Metal Heart On
Emery Eve
Enterprise Earth Luciferous
ERRA Neon
ERRA ERRA
Every Time I Die Gutter Phenomenon
Everything Everything Get to Heaven
Evile Enter the Grave
Evile Infected Nations
Evile Skull
Expire Pendulum Swings
Fair to Midland Inter.Funda.Stifle
Faith No More Angel Dust
Fear Factory The Industrialist
Fear Factory Genexus
Feed The Rhino The Burning Sons
Fightstar Behind the Devil's Back
Fire from the Gods Narrative Retold
Fit for an Autopsy Hellbound
Five Finger Death Punch War Is The Answer
Fleshgod Apocalypse King
Foo Fighters Wasting Light
Former Wrestlers Champion of the World
Four Year Strong Four Year Strong
Frank Carter and the Rattlesnakes End of Suffering
Fuming Mouth The Grand Descent
Gang of Youths Angel in Realtime
Gatecreeper Deserted
Genesis Owusu Smiling with No Teeth
Ghost (SWE) Opus Eponymous
Ghost (SWE) Prequelle
Gideon Costs
Gideon Out of Control
Gojira Fortitude
Good Tiger A Head Full of Moonlight
Great American Ghost Torture World
Green Day American Idiot
GRiZ Mad Liberation
Halford Resurrection
Harm's Way (USA-IL) Posthuman
Havok Conformicide
Heart of a Coward Hope and Hindrance
Helmet Size Matters
Helmet Monochrome
Hollywood Burns First Contact EP
Hollywood Burns The Age of the Saucers
Holy Grail Crisis In Utopia
Holy Grail Ride the Void
I AM Hard 2 Kill
I Am Abomination Passion Of The Heist II
Ice Nine Kills The Silver Scream 2: Welcome to Horrorwood
In Mourning The Weight of Oceans
Incendiary Thousand Mile Stare
Inferi (USA) Of Sunless Realms
Intervals Circadian
Jack White Fear of the Dawn
JID DiCaprio 2
Joyce Manor Cody
Judas Priest Screaming for Vengeance
Kadinja Ascendancy
Kendrick Lamar DAMN.
Killer Be Killed Killer Be Killed
Killswitch Engage The End of Heartache
Killswitch Engage Disarm the Descent
Killswitch Engage Atonement
Korn Follow the Leader
Krux III - He Who Sleeps Amongst the Stars
Kvelertak Meir
Kylesa Static Tensions
La Dispute Rooms of the House
Lamb of God Sacrament
Lamb of God Resolution
Lamb of God VII: Sturm und Drang
Leprous Aphelion
Lil Nas X Montero
Limp Bizkit Still Sucks
Lorna Shore ...And I Return to Nothingness
Machine Head Unto The Locust
Mad Caddies Duck and Cover
Malefice Awaken The Tides
The melodies and choruses are stronger this time around, but guitar work and growls are significantly less inspired.
Malevolence Malicious Intent
Manchester Orchestra Hope
Marilyn Manson Antichrist Superstar
Marmozets Knowing What You Know Now
Martin Grech Hush Mortal Core
Mastodon Once More 'Round the Sun
Mastodon Cold Dark Place
Maylene and the Sons of Disaster II
Megadeth United Abominations
Megadeth Th1rt3en
Metallica Kill 'Em All
Metallica Hardwired...To Self-Destruct
Monotheist Scourge
Municipal Waste The Last Rager
Mustasch Latest Version Of The Truth
Nails Obscene Humanity
Nails Two Song Flexi
Nails You Will Never Be One of Us
Neck Deep Life's Not Out To Get You
Newsted Metal
Norma Jean Wrongdoers
Nothing More The Stories We Tell Ourselves
O'Brother Endless Light
Oh, Sleeper Children of Fire
Oliver Tree Ugly Is Beautiful
Opeth Still Life
Opeth Ghost Reveries
Palm Reader Braille
Palm Reader Sleepless
Periphery Periphery II: This Time It's Personal
Perturbator The Uncanny Valley
Pierce the Veil Collide with the Sky
Pinegrove 11:11
Polaris Fatalism
Powerwolf The Sacrament of Sin
Protest the Hero Pacific Myth
Psycroptic As The Kingdom Drowns
Pulled Apart By Horses Pulled Apart By Horses
Pulled Apart By Horses Tough Love
Queens of the Stone Age Era Vulgaris
Queens of the Stone Age Villains
Radiohead OK Computer
Revocation Deathless
Revocation Great Is Our Sin
Rico Nasty and Kenny Beats Anger Management
Rise To Remain Bridges Will Burn
Rivers of Nihil Where Owls Know My Name
Rush 2112
Shadows Fall Fire From the Sky
SikTh The Trees Are Dead and Dried Out, Wait for Something Wild
Silk Sonic An Evening with Silk Sonic
Skindred Union Black
Skindred Kill the Power
Skyharbor Guiding Lights
Slash Slash
Slayer Reign in Blood
Sleep Token Take Me Back to Eden
Soilwork The Panic Broadcast
Soilwork The Living Infinite
Soundgarden King Animal
Spiritbox Eternal Blue
Spiritbox Rotoscope
Steel Panther Feel the Steel
Stray from the Path Internal Atomics
Structures None of the Above
Sum 41 Order In Decline
Susanne Sundfor Ten Love Songs
Sylosis A Sign of Things to Come
System of a Down Steal This Album!
TesseracT Perspective
Reference: One - 4.5rElliot's voice takes center stage here due to the toned down nature of the instrumentation. rWhile Elliot proves he is an excellent vocalist, he falls short of Dan's ability. Elliot has ran awkward cadence about him when he lets his voice get out of control. This flaw is most revident on the beginning of "Perfection" and ending of "Dream Brother". Elliot shines on r"Origin". His voice soars over the superb musicianship, adding a depth to the song I haven't rexperienced before. As a whole, I find this interpretation of "Origin" surpasses the quality rof the version found on One. Unfortunately Elliot lacks the impact needed for more rchaotic sections/songs. Moments of "April" and the Majority of "Eden 2.0" exemplify this rissue. The replacement did a fantastic job with Dan's work, but we will see Elliot's rpotential come to fruition with new material.
Testament The Formation of Damnation
The Black Dahlia Murder Abysmal
The Black Dahlia Murder Verminous
The Bravery The Bravery
The Bravery The Sun and the Moon
The Bronx The Bronx (II)
The Contortionist Clairvoyant
The Dear Hunter Act I: The Lake South, the River North
The Dear Hunter The Color Spectrum
The Dear Hunter Red
The Dear Hunter Act V: Hymns with the Devil in Confessional
The Devil Wears Prada 8:18
The Devil Wears Prada ZII
The Dirty Nil Fuck Art
The Ocean Phanerozoic I: Palaeozoic
The Offspring Rise and Fall, Rage and Grace
The Smashing Pumpkins Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
The Strokes First Impressions of Earth
The Strokes Angles
The Wonder Years Sister Cities
Thrice Vheissu
Touche Amore Is Survived By
Toxic Holocaust Conjure and Command
Trapped Under Ice Big Kiss Goodnight
Tribulation Down Below
Trivium Shogun
Turnstile Step 2 Rhythm
Twelve Foot Ninja Outlier
Tyler, the Creator Flower Boy
Tyler, the Creator Call Me If You Get Lost
Underoath Ø (Disambiguation)
Unleash The Archers Abyss
Unprocessed Artificial Void
Unprocessed Boy Without A Gun
Vektor Black Future
Vildhjarta Måsstaden Under Vatten
Vision of Disorder The Cursed Remain Cursed
Voices from the Fuselage Odyssey: The Destroyer of Worlds
Void of Vision Chronicles II: Heaven
Vulkan Technatura
Weezer OK Human
Wet Leg Wet Leg
White Moth Black Butterfly The Cost Of Dreaming
Within the Ruins Black Heart
Wolf Alice Blue Weekend
Your Demise The Kids We Used To Be

3.0 good
A Life Once Lost Hunter
AFI AFI (The Blood Album)
AFI Bodies
After the Burial Evergreen
Against Me! Transgender Dysphoria Blues
Alexisonfire Otherness
Alice in Chains Alice in Chains
Alkaline Trio Maybe I'll Catch Fire
Alpha Wolf A Quiet Place to Die
Alter Bridge AB III
Amon Amarth Berserker
Anew Revolution Rise
Anew Revolution Anew Revolution
Architects Ruin
Architects Daybreaker
Not as similar to Hollow Crown as Architects would lead you to believe...
Architects Lost Forever // Lost Together
As I Lay Dying Decas
Atheist Jupiter
August Burns Red Thrill Seeker
Avatar Black Waltz
Aversions Crown Tyrant
Aversions Crown Hell Will Come For Us All
BABYMETAL Metal Resistance
Baptized In Blood Baptized In Blood
BATS Alter Nature
Beheading of a King Quasar: Preserving Legacy
Between the Buried and Me Colors
Between the Buried and Me Coma Ecliptic
Billy Talent Afraid of Heights
Black Sabbath 13
Black Tongue The Unconquerable Dark
Blakfish Champions
Bleeding Through The Truth
Blood Command Hand Us The Alpha Male
Blood Command Praise Armageddonism
Blood Incantation Hidden History of the Human Race
Born of Osiris Tomorrow We Die Alive
Born of Osiris The Simulation
Born of Osiris Angel or Alien
Breakdown of Sanity Coexistence
Breaking Benjamin Phobia
Breaking Benjamin Ember
Bring Me the Horizon Suicide Season
Bring Me the Horizon There Is a Hell, Believe Me I've Seen It...
Brockhampton Iridescence
Brockhampton Roadrunner: New Light, New Machine
Brutality Will Prevail Sleep Paralysis
Bury Tomorrow Runes
Bury Tomorrow Earthbound
Bury Tomorrow Black Flame
Busta Rhymes Extinction Level Event 2: The Wrath of God
Caligula's Horse The Tide, the Thief and River's End
Cattle Decapitation Death Atlas
Chevelle La Gárgola
Circa Survive A Dream About Love
Circles Infinitas
Clutch Earth Rocker
Coldplay Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends
Comeback Kid Heavy Steps
Corrosion of Conformity In the Arms of God
Counterparts Nothing Left to Love
Crossfaith Zion
Dangers 5 O'Clock Shadows At The Edge Of The Western World
Danny Brown The Hybrid
Danny Brown Old
Daughters You Won't Get What You Want
Dayshell Mr. Pain
DC Dark Nights: Death Metal Dark Nights: Death Metal Soundtrack
Death Angel Relentless Retribution
Death Grips The Money Store
Defeater Abandoned
Defeater Defeater
Devin Townsend Empath
Djerv Djerv
Doomriders Grand Blood
Dream Theater Octavarium
Dvne Etemen Ænka
Eagles Of Death Metal Peace Love Death Metal
Earthside A Dream In Static
Electric Six Bride Of The Devil
Enterprise Earth The Chosen
ERRA Augment
Evergrey Escape of the Phoenix
FEVER 333 Made An America
Fucked Up Dose Your Dreams
Gallows (UK) Death Is Birth
Get The Shot Infinite Punishment
Glassjaw Material Control
Green Day Dookie
Greta Van Fleet The Battle at Garden's Gate
Hatebreed Perseverance
Havok Point of No Return
Havok Unnatural Selection
Hollywood Burns Invaders
Hope For The Dying Dissimulation
Humanity's Last Breath Abyssal
Humanity's Last Breath Välde
Hyborian Volume II
Ice Nine Kills The Silver Scream
In Flames Come Clarity
Joe Satriani Surfing with the Alien
Karnivool Themata
Katatonia Dethroned & Uncrowned
Kendrick Lamar good kid, m.A.A.d city
Kendrick Lamar To Pimp a Butterfly
Killing Joke MMXII
King 810 La Petite Mort or a Conversation With God
Korn The Path of Totality
Kreator Hordes of Chaos
Kreator Gods of Violence
Kublai Khan TX Nomad
Lazarus A.D. Black Rivers Flow
letlive. If I'm the Devil...
Little Simz Sometimes I Might Be Introvert
Little Simz No Thank You
Lorna Shore Pain Remains
Lower Than Atlantis Far Q
Magrudergrind Magrudergrind
Mastodon Leviathan
Megadeth Killing Is My Business... and Business Is Good!
Megadeth The System Has Failed
Megadeth Cryptic Writings
Megadeth The World Needs a Hero
Megadeth Risk
Metallica Metallica
Metallica Death Magnetic
Mose Giganticus Gift Horse
Neutral Milk Hotel In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
Newsted Heavy Metal Music
Ocean Wisdom Wizville
Of Mice and Men The Flood
Orbit Culture Nija
Otoboke Beaver Itekoma Hits
Papa Roach Crooked Teeth
Parkway Drive Atlas
Periphery Periphery IV: Hail Stan
Perturbator Lustful Sacraments
Pig Destroyer Head Cage
Polaris The Death of Me
Power Trip Nightmare Logic
Pressure Cracks This Is Called Survival
PUP This Place Sucks Ass
Quicksand Slip
Ribozyme Presenting the Problem
Rico Nasty Nasty
Sabaton The Great War
Scale the Summit The Collective
Shadow Of Intent Reclaimer
Sights and Sounds Monolith
Silent Planet Iridescent
Skeletonwitch Forever Abomination
Skyharbor Blinding White Noise: Illusion & Chaos
Slipknot We Are Not Your Kind
Soen Cognitive
Spiritbox Singles Collection
Stam1na Nocebo
Steven Wilson The Future Bites
Structural Metacognition
Suicide Silence The Black Crown
Sum 41 Half Hour Of Power
Sunny Day Real Estate Diary
Swain Howl
System of a Down System of a Down
Team Sleep Team Sleep
TesseracT Odyssey/Scala
Tesseract's studio material isn't as well reaproppriated on Odyssey/Scala as it could have been.

Pros:
+ Musicianship
+ Overall Tracklisting
+ Live Ambience

Cons:
- Mix
- Dan's performance on Altered State material
- Guttural Vocals
Thank You Scientist Terraformer
The Dillinger Escape Plan Ire Works
The Dillinger Escape Plan Option Paralysis
The Dillinger Escape Plan One of Us Is the Killer
The Dirty Nil Master Volume
The Hell Brutopia
The Holly Springs Disaster Motion Sickness Love
The Interbeing Edge of the Obscure
The National I Am Easy to Find
The Safety Fire Grind the Ocean
The Safety Fire Mouth of Swords
The Used Lies for the Liars
Three Days Grace Three Days Grace
Thy Art Is Murder Hate
Thy Art Is Murder Human Target
Tired Lion Breakfast for Pathetics
Trap Them Crown Feral
TRC Bright Lights
Tremonti All I Was
Tremonti Dust
Trivium The Sin and the Sentence
Turbowolf Two Hands
Twelve Foot Ninja New Dawn
Twelve Foot Ninja Vengeance
Uncle Acid and The Deadbeats Blood Lust
Underoath Erase Me
Underoath Voyeurist
Unearth The March
Unearth Extinction(s)
Urne Serpent and Spirit
Vader Solitude in Madness
Vexes Imagine What We Could Destroy / If Only Given Time
Visigoth Conqueror's Oath
Wage War Manic
Warbringer IV: Empires Collapse
Whitechapel The Valley
Wovenwar Wovenwar

2.5 average
36 Crazyfists Collisions and Castaways
Aerodyne Flex Transmissions
AFI The Art of Drowning
Agnostic Front Riot, Riot, Upstart!
Alexisonfire Alexisonfire
Architects The Here and Now
Artillery My Blood
Austrian Death Machine Total Brutal
Avenged Sevenfold Nightmare
Barkmarket L. Ron
Baroness Yellow and Green
Baroness Purple
Battlecross Pursuit of Honor
Be'lakor Vessels
Between the Buried and Me The Parallax: Hypersleep Dialogues
Black Futures Never Not Nothing
Black Spiders Sons of the North
Brand New Deja Entendu
Brockhampton SATURATION
Bruce Springsteen Born to Run
Brutality Will Prevail Scatter the Ashes
Cannibal Corpse Violence Unimagined
Chelsea Grin Desolation Of Eden
Cursed Earth Cycles of Grief: The Complete Collection
Dagoba Post Mortem Nihil Est
Dangerface Get Loud!
Dave We're all alone in this together
Dayseeker Dark Sun
Death Angel The Dream Calls for Blood
Destrage The King Is Fat'n'Old
Dethklok Dethalbum III
Detonation Emission Phase
Devin Townsend Project Z2
Devin Townsend Project Transcendence
DMX It's Dark and Hell Is Hot
Dogleg Melee
ERRA Impulse
Every Time I Die Hot Damn!
Evile Hell Unleashed
Filter Crazy Eyes
Five Finger Death Punch American Capitalist
Gallows (UK) Gallows
Gideon Milestone
Gideon conform to become even more generic =(. Unfortunately the infectious choruses found
on Costs were stripped out. The melodic leads have been dumbed down resulting in
the (often mindless)chugging as the only distinguishing factor between songs. An abundance
of breakdowns desensitizes what could have otherwise emphasized the impactful production
value of the instrumentation. Ultimately the band's lack of variety makes for a forgettable
listen.
Gideon Calloused
Gojira Terra Incognita
Grade Under the Radar
HEALTH VOL. 4 :: SLAVES OF FEAR
Heathen The Evolution of Chaos
Her Name Is Calla Animal Choir
Highly Suspect Mister Asylum
In Mourning Monolith
In Vain (NO) Currents
Inferi (USA) The End of an Era | Rebirth
Kadinja Super 90'
Katatonia City Burials
Killswitch Engage Incarnate
Lamb of God Lamb of God
Leeched You Took The Sun When You Left
Madvillain Madvillainy
Make Them Suffer How to Survive a Funeral
Mastodon Remission
Megadeth Super Collider
Megadeth The Sick, the Dying... and the Dead!
Memphis May Fire Challenger
Metallica St. Anger
Metallica Load
Misfits Famous Monsters
Monuments (UK) Gnosis
Moon Tooth Crux
Neck Deep All Distortions Are Intentional
Nothing The Great Dismal
Parkway Drive Darker Still
Pixies Beneath the Eyrie
Poison the Well The Tropic Rot
Polaris The Mortal Coil
Rings of Saturn Dingir
Rise To Remain City of Vultures
Shining (NOR) Blackjazz
Shining (NOR) One One One
Shokran Supreme Truth
Sick of It All Built to Last
Skeletonwitch Devouring Radiant Light
Skindred Big Tings
Sleep Token Sundowning
Spirit Adrift Curse of Conception
Symphony X Paradise Lost
The Beach Boys Pet Sounds
The Dali Thundering Concept Savages
The Ghost of a Thousand New Hopes, New Demonstrations
The Strokes Comedown Machine
The Zenith Passage Solipsist
Three Trapped Tigers Silent Earthling
Thy Art Is Murder / The Acacia Strain / Fit for an Autopsy The Depression Sessions
Touche Amore Lament
Toxic Holocaust Chemistry of Consciousness
Twin Atlantic Great Divide
Uneven Structure 8 (Re-release)
Unto Others Mana
Upon a Burning Body Red. White. Green.
Upon a Burning Body Straight From the Barrio
Wage War Blueprints
Warbringer Waking into Nightmares
Will Haven Carpe Diem
Wovenwar Honor Is Dead
XTRMST XTRMST

2.0 poor
3 Inches of Blood Long Live Heavy Metal
The band have gone way downhill since they lost their harsh vocal counterpart. The balance
is gone. Although it's obvious the boys are making a conscious effort, the music has become
too ridiculous for its own good.
Arch Enemy Khaos Legions
Austrian Death Machine Double Brutal
AxeWound Vultures
Blaqk Audio Only Things We Love
Bullet for My Valentine Fever
Bullet for My Valentine Temper Temper
Carpenter Brut Leather Teeth
Children of Bodom Blooddrunk
Children of Bodom Relentless Reckless Forever
Cokie The Clown You're Welcome
Corelia Nostalgia
Creeper Eternity, In Your Arms
Cynic Kindly Bent to Free Us
Daath The Concealers
Darkthrone The Underground Resistance
Desert Sessions Volumes 11 and 12
Devil Sold His Soul A Fragile Hope
FEVER 333 Strength In Numb333rs
Gama Bomb Tales From the Grave in Space
Grave Pleasures Motherblood
Igorrr Spirituality and Distortion
Invent Animate Stillworld
Invent Animate Greyview
Jeff Rosenstock NO DREAM
JPEGMAFIA All My Heroes Are Cornballs
King 810 Memoirs of a Murderer
Megadeth So Far, So Good... So What!
Oceano Revelation
Palms Palms
Periphery Periphery
Scott Walker The Drift
Skeletonwitch Serpents Unleashed
Soen Tellurian
The Contortionist Exoplanet
The Living End The Living End
The Royal Origins
This or the Apocalypse Dead Years
Trivium In Waves
White Moth Black Butterfly One Thousand Wings
Zoax Zoax

1.5 very poor
A Life Once Lost Ecstatic Trance
Daath Daath
Lou Reed and Metallica Lulu
Metallica Reload
Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds Ghosteen
Pissgrave Posthumous Humiliation
The Tony Danza Tapdance Extravaganza Danza IIII: The Alpha - The Omega
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