| 4.0 excellent |
| A Perfect Circle A Perfect Circle Live: Featuring Stone and Echo |
| Alexis Marshall House of Lull. House of When |
| Anberlin Devotion |
| Antemasque Antemasque |
| Blanck Mass World Eater |
| Blanck Mass Animated Violence Mild |
| Chevelle Hats Off To The Bull |
| Coheed and Cambria The Afterman: Descension |
| Crosses Crosses |
| David Maxim Micic Who Bit the Moon |
| Doyle Abominator |
| Doyle is no longer constrained to a template, as Abominator feels like a rejuvenation for the Misfits icon. |
| Glassjaw Material Control |
| Grant Kirkhope Donkey Kong 64 Original Soundtrack |
| Hail the Villain Population: Declining |
| Helms Alee Sleepwalking Sailors |
| Jambinai A Hermitage |
| Killer Be Killed Killer Be Killed |
| This doesn't sound like I thought it would, but I ended up enjoying it big time. The diversity between Troy, Max and Greg's vocals gives the songs lots of twists in tone, all while offering some really heavy riffs and mind-blowingly fluid rhythms. Don't let the radio-friendly opener fool you; this is heavy stuff from one of the best metal supergroups to appear in a while. |
| Mount Salem Endless |
| With a tight grip on psychedelia and Black Sabbath proto-metal, all topped off with a distinctive and unique vocalist at the mic, Mount Salem make an invigorating trip with Endless, an album that finally adds some spice to the doom metal brew. |
| Omar Rodriguez-Lopez Old Money |
| Primus Pork Soda |
| Primus Frizzle Fry |
| Primus They Can't All Be Zingers |
| Saosin Along the Shadow |
| Savlonic Red |
| Sparta Wiretap Scars |
| The Body and Full Of Hell Ascending a Mountain of Heavy Light |
| By laying off the oppressive noise and miasmic distortion, both The Body and Full of Hell make a more approachable record than their previous collaboration. It still has that trademark atmosphere, but the electronic focus makes it far less impenetrable than the bands' previous works. It bursts with volatility, but it also allures. |
| The Damned Things Ironiclast |
| Trioscapes Digital Dream Sequence |
| Channeling the spirits of classic King Crimson, Trioscapes don't do well with leading the listener into their brand of jam madness, instead deciding to blow their mind from the get-go. Digital Dream Sequence is rampantly impenetrable, but it's worth working through the spiralling sax trills and quantum physics drum rhythms to get to its lush rewards. |
| Utsu-P Warufuzake |
