| 4.0 excellent |
| 36 Crazyfists A Snow Capped Romance |
| 36 Crazyfists Rest Inside the Flames |
| Adversary Singularity |
| Alexisonfire Crisis |
| Alice in Chains Black Gives Way to Blue |
| Alice in Chains Alice in Chains |
| All That Remains The Fall of Ideals |
| Amon Amarth Hymns to the Rising Sun |
| Animal Alpha You'll Pay For The Whole Seat But ... |
| Animal Alpha Pheromones |
| Annihilator Alice in Hell |
| Annihilator Never, Neverland |
| Anthrax Among The Living |
| As I Lay Dying Awakened |
Original Score: 3.5
A disappointing but still valiant effort. The only issue with the record is the songwriting
has taken a small step backwards. The majority of Awakened can't replicate the
heights that the instrumentation and vocal hooks achieved on their two previous releases. As
I Lay Dying have by no means crafted a bad record but in comparison to their best work,
Awakened falls short.
Edit: Album has since grown on me. Still not as good as The Powerless Rise or Oceans Between
Us though. |
| Audioslave Out of Exile |
| Audioslave Audioslave |
| August Burns Red Constellations |
| August Burns Red Messengers |
| Baroness Red Album |
| BATS The Sleep of Reason |
| Benighted Icon |
| Benighted Identisick |
| Benighted Asylum Cave |
| Between the Buried and Me The Parallax II: Future Sequence |
| Billy Talent Billy Talent |
| Billy Talent Dead Silence |
| Black Breath Heavy Breathing |
| Black Breath Razor To Oblivion |
| Bleed from Within Uprising |
| Blood Command Funeral Beach |
| Born of Osiris The Discovery |
| Brand New The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me |
| Bullet For My Valentine The Poison |
| Bullet For My Valentine Hand Of Blood |
| Bury Tomorrow The Union Of Crowns |
| Children of Bodom Are You Dead Yet? |
| CiLiCe Deranged Headtrip |
| Coheed and Cambria The Afterman: Ascension |
| Coldplay A Rush of Blood to the Head |
| Converge All We Love We Leave Behind |
| Crosses EP |
| Dangers Anger |
| Dead And Divine Antimacy |
| Deftones Koi No Yokan |
| Koi No Yokan - Roughly Translates to "Love at First Deftones" |
| Deftones Saturday Night Wrist |
| Devil Sold His Soul Blessed & Cursed |
| DevilDriver Beast |
| DevilDriver Pray for Villains |
| Enabler All Hail The Void |
| "All Hail The Void" has one of the best riffs I've heard in a while. |
| Every Time I Die New Junk Aesthetic |
| Exit Ten Give Me Infinity |
| Fear Factory Mechanize |
| Fear Factory Demanufacture |
| Filter The Trouble With Angels |
| Gallows Orchestra Of Wolves |
| Ghost B.C. Opus Eponymous |
| Glassjaw Our Color Green (The Singles) |
| Gojira The Way of All Flesh |
| Gojira The Link |
| Havok Time Is Up |
| Hawk Eyes Ideas |
| Indian Handcrafts Civil Disobedience For Losers |
| Killing Joke Absolute Dissent |
| Killswitch Engage As Daylight Dies |
| Killswitch Engage Alive or Just Breathing |
| Kreator Phantom Antichrist |
| I second the EPICNESS of the leak! |
| Kvelertak Kvelertak |
| Kylesa Spiral Shadow |
| Lamb of God Wrath |
| Lamb of God As the Palaces Burn |
| Lazarus A.D. The Onslaught |
| Letlive. Fake History |
| Machine Head Through the Ashes of Empires |
| Malefice Dawn Of Reprisal |
| Mastodon Blood Mountain |
| Mastodon The Hunter |
| Megadeth Endgame |
| Megadeth Th1rt3en |
| Monster Magnet Powertrip |
| Monuments We Are The Foundation |
| Nails Unsilent Death |
| Norma Jean Meridional |
| Opeth Blackwater Park |
| Parkway Drive Horizons |
| Queens of the Stone Age Songs for the Deaf |
| Queens of the Stone Age Lullabies to Paralyze |
| Queens of the Stone Age Queens of the Stone Age |
| Queens of the Stone Age ...Like Clockwork |
| SikTh Death of a Dead Day |
| Skindred Union Black |
| Slayer World Painted Blood |
| Soundgarden King Animal |
| Sum 41 Chuck |
| TesseracT Perspective |
Reference: One - 4.5
Elliot's voice takes center stage here due to the toned down nature of the instrumentation.
While Elliot proves he is an excellent vocalist, he falls short of Dan's ability. Elliot has
an awkward cadence about him when he lets his voice get out of control. This flaw is most
evident on the beginning of "Perfection" and ending of "Dream Brother". Elliot shines on
"Origin". His voice soars over the superb musicianship, adding a depth to the song I haven't
experienced before. As a whole, I find this interpretation of "Origin" surpasses the quality
of the version found on One. Unfortunately Elliot lacks the impact needed for more
chaotic sections/songs. Moments of "April" and the Majority of "Eden 2.0" exemplify this
issue. The replacement did a fantastic job with Dan's work, but we will see Elliot's
potential come to fruition with new material. |
| Testament Dark Roots Of Earth |
| The Black Dahlia Murder Ritual |
| The Black Dahlia Murder Everblack |
| The Bravery The Sun and the Moon |
| The Dear Hunter Black |
| The Haarp Machine Disclosure |
| The Human Abstract Digital Veil |
| The Strokes Room on Fire |
| The Strokes Is This It |
| Tool Lateralus |
| Trap Them Darker Handcraft |
| Trivium Ascendancy |
| Underoath Disambiguation |
| Unearth Darkness In The Light |
| Unearth The Oncoming Storm |
| Vektor Outer Isolation |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 3.5 great |
| 3 Inches of Blood Fire Up The Blades |
| 3 Inches of Blood Advance and Vanquish |
| 36 Crazyfists The Tide and Its Takers |
| Alexisonfire Old Crows / Young Cardinals |
| Alexisonfire Watch Out! |
| Alice in Chains The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here |
| All Pigs Must Die God is War |
| Anew Revolution Anew Revolution EP |
| Anew Revolution Rise |
| Annihilator King of the Kill |
| Anthrax Worship Music |
| Arch Enemy Doomsday Machine |
| Arch Enemy Rise of the Tyrant |
| Arch Enemy Anthems of Rebellion |
| Atheist Jupiter |
| Atreyu The Congregation Of The Damned |
| Atreyu Lead Sails Paper Anchor |
| Audioslave Revelations |
| August Burns Red Leveler |
| August Burns Red Sleddin' Hill |
| Avenged Sevenfold Avenged Sevenfold |
| Avenged Sevenfold City of Evil |
| Be'lakor Of Breath And Bone |
| Billy Talent Billy Talent III |
| Bleeding Through The Truth |
| Brad Sucks Out of It |
| Brad Sucks I don't know what I'm doing |
| Breakdown Of Sanity Mirrors |
| Bring Me The Horizon Suicide Season |
| Bring Me The Horizon Sempiternal |
| Bullet For My Valentine Scream, Aim, Fire |
| Cancer Bats Bears, Mayors, Scraps & Bones |
| Cancer Bats Hail Destroyer |
| Cancer Bats Birthing The Giant |
| 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 |
| Cattle Decapitation Monolith of Inhumanity |
| Children of Bodom Hate Crew Deathroll |
| 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. |
| Coldplay X & Y |
| Comeback Kid Symptoms + Cures |
| Converge Axe to Fall |
| Corrosion of Conformity Deliverance |
| Corrosion of Conformity Blind |
| Crosses EP II |
| Cynic Re-Traced |
| Dead Letter Circus This Is The Warning |
| Death Angel Relentless Retribution |
| Death Grips Exmilitary |
| Deep Purple Machine Head |
| Defeater Travels |
| Deftones Deftones |
| Dethklok Dethalbum II |
| Dethklok The Dethalbum |
| DevilDriver The Last Kind Words |
| Dr. Acula Slander |
| Eagles Of Death Metal Death By Sexy... |
| Eagles Of Death Metal Heart On |
| Every Time I Die The Big Dirty |
| Evile Five Serpent's Teeth |
| Evile Infected Nations |
| Evile Enter the Grave |
| Expire Pendulum Swings |
| Faith No More Angel Dust |
| Feed The Rhino The Burning Sons |
| Filter The Sun Comes Out Tonight |
| Five Finger Death Punch War Is the Answer |
| Foo Fighters Wasting Light |
| Ghost B.C. Infestissumam |
| Gideon Costs |
| Halford Resurrection |
| Hatebreed Perseverance |
| Heart Of A Coward Hope and Hindrance |
| Helmet Monochrome |
| Helmet Size Matters |
| Holy Grail Crisis In Utopia |
| Holy Grail Ride the Void |
| In Flames A Sense of Purpose |
| In Mourning The Weight of Oceans |
| Karnivool Sound Awake |
| Katatonia Dead End Kings |
| Killswitch Engage The End of Heartache |
| Killswitch Engage Disarm the Descent |
| Krux III - He Who Sleeps Amongst the Stars |
| Kvelertak Meir |
| Kylesa Static Tensions |
| Lamb of God Sacrament |
| Lamb of God Resolution |
| Machine Head Unto the Locust |
| Malefice Awaken The Tides |
| The melodies and choruses are stronger this time around, but guitar work and growls are significantly less inspired. |
| Marilyn Manson Antichrist Superstar |
| Mastodon Leviathan |
| Megadeth United Abominations |
| Megadeth Risk |
| Megadeth The System Has Failed |
| Megadeth Cryptic Writings |
| Megadeth Killing Is My Business... and Business Is Good! |
| Meshuggah Koloss |
| Metallica Death Magnetic |
| Mustasch Latest Version Of The Truth |
| Newsted Metal |
| Of Mice & Men The Flood |
| Opeth Ghost Reveries |
| Opeth Still Life |
| Parkway Drive Deep Blue |
| Protest the Hero Kezia |
| Protest the Hero Scurrilous |
| Pulled Apart By Horses Pulled Apart By Horses |
| Pulled Apart By Horses Tough Love |
| Queens of the Stone Age Era Vulgaris |
| Rise To Remain Bridges Will Burn |
| Shadows Fall Fire From the Sky |
| SikTh The Trees Are Dead and Dried Out |
| Slash Slash |
| Sum 41 All Killer No Filler |
| Sum 41 Does This Look Infected |
| System of a Down Steal This Album! |
| Testament The Formation Of Damnation |
| The Black Keys Brothers |
| The Bravery The Bravery |
| The Chariot One Wing |
| The Damned Things Ironiclast |
| The Dear Hunter Red |
| The Devil Wears Prada Dead Throne |
| The Offspring Rise and Fall, Rage and Grace |
| The Strokes Angles |
| The Strokes First Impressions of Earth |
| Toxic Holocaust Conjure and Command |
| Trapped Under Ice Big Kiss Goodnight |
| Trivium Shogun |
| Vektor Black Future |
