| 4.5 superb |
| Amon Amarth Versus the World |
| From start to finish, Amon Amarth hits you with full force. Brutality, Melody, and excellent song structure make this an excellent listen even by today's standards. Strongest songs would be Across the Rainbow Bridge and Where Silent Gods stand guard. My favourite album by them and is truly one of the best melodic death albums ever. |
| Between the Buried and Me Alaska |
| Although most people prefer the successful giant album Colors over this, I have found this to be better for a few reasons. In my opinion the song structure is much better here. The songs don't drag on as much as in Colors, and don't have an overburden of breakdowns like their first two albums. Selkies, All Bodies, and Backward Marathon are my top 3 on here, but all the songs including the instrumentals are strong and keep me interested over multiple listens. |
| Between the Buried and Me Colors |
| This band is truly hated on this site, or the people who genuinely like them hide in their closets scared that KILL will find them. |
| Between the Buried and Me The Parallax II: Future Sequence |
| A new album, a new sound. Almost match Alaska with this album. Melting Cities chorus is the best they have every written imo. No weak spots other then Autumn instrumental. |
| Botch An Anthology of Dead Ends |
| Camel Moonmadness |
| Children of Bodom Hatebreeder |
| Most bands first or second album is usually considered their best. In this case I agree with this statement. Though their first album had great instrumental sections, the production was raw, and Alexi's vocals weren't nearly as good. This really took it to the next level, and had all the elements of a excellent album. Riffs are common, but the soloing is where it really shines. Black Widow is my favourite song from here, and the solo in its Chorus gets me every time. Sadly after this album, COB would slowly get worse and worse. |
| Cynic Focus |
| Dark Tranquillity The Gallery |
| Death Spiritual Healing |
| Death Symbolic |
| Decapitated Nihility |
| Every song is amazing, with such well timed solo's and amazing riffs. Probably my favorite death metal band as of right now. |
| Decapitated Winds of Creation |
| DevilDriver The Last Kind Words |
| Every song is perfect or close to it, better then the rest of their albums. |
| Devin Townsend Ocean Machine: Biomech |
| Dot Hacker Inhibition |
| Extol Synergy |
| A very interesting change in Extol's style that I found myself loving every step of the way. |
| Extol Undeceived |
| Extol Burial |
| Genesis Foxtrot |
| Gotic Escenes |
| Immolation Close to a World Below |
| In Flames The Jester Race |
| One of the founders of melodeath gets it right with their defining album. |
| In Flames Colony |
| In Flames Clayman |
| My favorite In Flames album. Every song is so well written and quite catchy with their pop influences being shown. However, it is nowhere near as overwhelming as their next two albums would be and is quite near flawless for the melodeath genre. |
| In Mourning Shrouded Divine |
| After 5 or so listens I found out how truly mindblowing this album is. |
| Lamb of God As the Palaces Burn |
| Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin |
| Metallica Ride the Lightning |
| Metallica Kill 'Em All |
| Minus the Bear Planet of Ice |
| Necrophagist Onset of Putrefaction |
| Neutral Milk Hotel In the Aeroplane Over the Sea |
| Nine Inch Nails The Downward Spiral |
| Opeth Blackwater Park |
| Opeth Ghost Reveries |
| Pantera Cowboys from Hell |
| Protest the Hero Fortress |
| Radiohead The Bends |
| Rush Clockwork Angels |
| Rush A Farewell to Kings |
| Rush Moving Pictures |
| Rush Permanent Waves |
| Soilwork The Living Infinite |
| The Agonist Prisoners |
| You know they have done something right when you love their previous album, but barely take time to listen to it because you are busy listening to this. |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Option Paralysis |
| The National High Violet |
| Trivium Shogun |
| Trivium creates their best album so far. Every song is consistently technically proficient, and contain most of their best riffs of their career. Solo's are not super often, which is good, because than it may seem like they are trying too hard. When you come across one, they are so well written and are quite different from most other metal core bands. |
| Vader Welcome To The Morbid Reich |
| Yes Fragile |
| Yes Close to the Edge |
| Boy wow that emerson2 boy is such a big troll!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
| Zao The Fear Is What Keeps Us Here |
