10 Years The Autumn Effect | 4.0 |
Aisles 4:45 AM | 4.0 |
The best way to describe these guys is "Latin Rush," maybe a little Coheed in there. |
Akhlys Melinoe | 4.0 |
Alkaline Trio Maybe I'll Catch Fire | 4.5 |
Allt Dark Waters | 3.0 |
Atmospheric instrumental djent post-metal. Nothing groundbreaking, but enjoyable. |
American Wrestlers American Wrestlers | 3.5 |
Angels and Airwaves The Dream Walker | 4.0 |
Animals As Leaders Animals as Leaders | 4.5 |
Animals As Leaders The Madness of Many | 4.0 |
Got my pre-order early and leaving a neutral 3 rating for now as I'm currently listening to it: Sounds like a mix rof Weightless and Joy Of Motion but with more riffing, and electronics are replaced with poly-djunz. |
Animals As Leaders Weightless | 3.5 |
Animals As Leaders The Joy of Motion | 4.5 |
Anubis Gate Anubis Gate | 4.0 |
Anubis Gate Andromeda Unchained | 4.0 |
Anubis Gate The Detached | 3.5 |
Anubis Gate Sheep | 4.5 |
It's only 3 tracks, two of which are covers, but damn, it's got me pumped for the new album! |
Anubis Gate Horizons | 4.0 |
It takes a few listen throughs to let it sink in, but the Danish gentlemen have done a solid job following up their self-titled and blending their signature sound with some new. |
Arch Echo Arch Echo | 4.0 |
Though nothing necessarily new for the genre, the musicianship is excellent and the songs are quality. Can't see how this is lower than a 4, objectively. |
Arch Echo Final Pitch | 4.0 |
At the Drive-In Relationship of Command | 5.0 |
Audioslave Audioslave | 3.5 |
Aviations A Declaration of Sound | 4.0 |
BADBADNOTGOOD III | 4.5 |
BADBADNOTGOOD BBNG | 4.0 |
BADBADNOTGOOD BBNG2 | 3.5 |
BADBADNOTGOOD IV | 4.0 |
Balance and Composure The Things We Think We're Missing | 4.0 |
Balance and Composure Light We Made | 3.0 |
Objectively this is between a 3-3.5 but my favorite tracks bump this up to a solid 3.5 for me. Anyone looking rfor the edgier alt-rock aspects from their first two LPs might be turned away. The vibe here is best described ras coming off a buzz after a night of partying and reflection. Recommended tracks: Midnight Zone, rSpinning, For A Walk, rPostcard, Fame, Loam |
Balance and Composure Slowheart | 4.0 |
Hope this is the next direction the band takes, these songs are great. |
Balance and Composure Too Quick to Forgive | 4.0 |
Balance and Composure Separation | 4.5 |
Be'lakor Vessels | 4.5 |
Belle Noire What It Means To Be | 3.5 |
Debut LP from a relatively new band out of San Jose. Their lead singer was a guest vocalist on the Strawberry
Girls track "Gospel".
Stream can be found here: https://bellenoire.bandcamp.com/album/what-it-means-to-be |
blink-182 Neighborhoods | 3.5 |
blink-182 Blink-182 | 5.0 |
blink-182 One More Time... | 2.0 |
blink-182 Take Off Your Pants And Jacket | 4.5 |
Celldweller Offworld | 2.5 |
CHON Grow | 4.0 |
It takes a few listens to digest all the details, but when you do you'll see how complex and fun this album is. |
City and Colour If I Should Go Before You | 4.0 |
It's up there with Little Hell for sure, and definitely a better follow up to that album than Hurry & the Harm,
imo. This will probably be my Winter 2015 album and get bumped to a 4.5 eventually.
Them mellow bluesy songs... |
City and Colour The Hurry and the Harm | 3.0 |
City and Colour Sometimes | 3.5 |
City and Colour Little Hell | 4.5 |
City and Colour Bring Me Your Love | 4.5 |
City and Colour Live at the Orange Lounge | 4.5 |
City and Colour The Love Still Held Me Near | 4.0 |
City and Colour A Pill For Loneliness | 3.5 |
Closure in Moscow First Temple | 4.5 |
Closure in Moscow The Penance and the Patience | 4.0 |
Closure in Moscow Pink Lemonade | 5.0 |
Straight 4.5 for being probably the funky-freshiest thang out there now. New track streaming here:
http://www.underthegunreview.net/2014/04/11/utg-premiere-closure-in-moscow-neoprene-byzantine/ |
Closure in Moscow Soft Hell | 4.0 |
Combines the best of everything the band's done before, while keeping with the experimentation of Pink Lemonade without all the excess |
Code I Phosphenia | 4.0 |
An excellent mix of heavy and soft soundscapes with influences that range from hardcore bands such as 'Being as an Ocean', 'August Burns Red' and 'Counterparts' to post rock classics like 'Red Sparrowes' and 'God is an Astronaut'. |
Coheed and Cambria Year of the Black Rainbow | 2.0 |
Coheed and Cambria From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness | 4.5 |
Coheed and Cambria The Second Stage Turbine Blade | 4.0 |
Coheed and Cambria In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3 | 5.0 |
Coheed and Cambria No World for Tomorrow | 4.0 |
Coheed and Cambria The Afterman: Ascension | 3.5 |
This album is a grower and still > than Descension. |
Coheed and Cambria The Afterman: Descension | 2.5 |
Coheed and Cambria The Color Before The Sun | 2.5 |
Coheed and Cambria Vaxis I: The Unheavenly Creatures | 2.5 |
Coheed and Cambria Vaxis II: A Window of the Waking Mind | 3.0 |
Corelia New Wilderness | 4.0 |
Dance Gavin Dance Mothership | 4.0 |
Danger Mouse and Black Thought Cheat Codes | 4.0 |
Davenport Cabinet Our Machine | 4.0 |
Davenport Cabinet Damned Renegades | 4.0 |
De La Soul 3 Feet High and Rising | 4.0 |
De La Soul Stakes Is High | 5.0 |
De La Soul AOI: Bionix | 3.0 |
De La Soul The Grind Date | 3.5 |
De La Soul and the Anonymous Nobody... | 4.5 |
Experimental and may not be as "rap-heavy" as some would expect, but still high-quality material from De La and guest artists. |
Deftones Ohms | 4.0 |
Denzel Curry Melt My Eyez See Your Future | 4.5 |
DJ Krush Meiso | 4.0 |
DJ Krush Zen | 4.0 |
DJ Shadow The Private Press | 4.0 |
DJ Shadow Endtroducing..... | 5.0 |
Dream Theater Train of Thought | 3.0 |
Dream Theater Octavarium | 3.0 |
Dream Theater Systematic Chaos | 3.0 |
Dream Theater Black Clouds and Silver Linings | 3.0 |
Can't make up my mind on this thing... High moments are high, but low moments are "WTF..." |
Dream Theater Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence | 4.0 |
Dream Theater Falling into Infinity | 3.5 |
Dream Theater Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes from a Memory | 4.5 |
Dream Theater A Dramatic Turn of Events | 3.5 |
Dream Theater Images and Words | 4.5 |
Dream Theater Awake | 5.0 |
Dream Theater A Change of Seasons | 5.0 |
Dream Theater Dream Theater | 3.5 |
Really it's like a 3.8... it wants to be a 4 but they've done better. |
Dream Theater The Astonishing | 3.0 |
Echo Tail Fields of Vision | 4.5 |
Echo Tail Drowning the Pacific | 4.0 |
Eldamar The Force of the Ancient Land | 3.0 |
ERRA Augment | 5.0 |
ERRA Moments of Clarity | 4.0 |
This band may be the first and only metalcore band I'll listen to. |
ERRA Impulse | 5.0 |
ERRA Drift | 3.5 |
New song's here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M89t4Wge_b4&feature=youtu.be |
ERRA Neon | 3.5 |
Although it doesn't reach the highs of the pre-lineup change albums, 'Neon' has plenty of
atmosphere and is a definite improvement from 'Drift'. I'm finding no skippable tracks
even after 6 full listens. However, if you didn't like Drift, this may not change your mind about the
new direction the band has been taking. |
ERRA Andromeda | 4.0 |
ERRA ERRA (EP) | 3.5 |
ERRA ERRA | 4.0 |
Failure Fantastic Planet | 4.5 |
Faith No More Angel Dust | 5.0 |
Faith No More Album of the Year | 3.5 |
Fallujah Empyrean | 4.5 |
Fates Warning Darkness in a Different Light | 4.0 |
Fleshwater We're Not Here To Be Loved | 4.0 |
Folder (Italy) Keep The Flow | 3.0 |
A rap-rock record from Italy, as good as this genre can be. |
Foo Fighters Medicine at Midnight | 2.0 |
Foo Fighters Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace | 3.0 |
Foo Fighters Wasting Light | 4.0 |
Foo Fighters In Your Honor | 3.5 |
Foo Fighters One by One | 3.0 |
Foo Fighters Foo Fighters | 4.0 |
Foo Fighters There Is Nothing Left to Lose | 4.5 |
Foo Fighters The Colour and the Shape | 5.0 |
Foo Fighters Sonic Highways | 2.5 |
Foo Fighters Saint Cecilia | 3.5 |
No love for track 3 "Savior Breath"? Hotdamn that song... Track 4 is the weakest, but it's still great quality because Foos, of course. And it's free!r |
Foo Fighters But Here We Are | 3.0 |
Frank Turner Love, Ire & Song | 4.5 |
Frank Turner England Keep My Bones | 4.0 |
Frank Turner Positive Songs for Negative People | 3.5 |
Frank Turner Tape Deck Heart | 4.5 |
Franz Ferdinand Right Thoughts, Right Words, Right Action | 3.5 |
Franz Ferdinand Tonight: Franz Ferdinand | 4.0 |
Franz Ferdinand You Could Have It So Much Better | 4.5 |
Franz Ferdinand Franz Ferdinand | 4.0 |
Frontside (US) Essentially, Eventually | 4.0 |
Like a mathy version of early Coheed & Cambria, with elements of Closure In Moscow, The
Fall of Troy and vocals interestingly similar to Fall Out Boy. Perhaps a little repetitive
at times, but the music is high-quality and recommended for fans of the aforementioned
bands. |
Gary Clark Jr. Blak and Blu | 4.0 |
A great mix of retro and modern. It's good to see blues/rock coming back to mainstream, it's so refreshing. |
Gasoline Journey Into Abstract Hip Hop | 4.5 |
Gin Blossoms New Miserable Experience | 4.0 |
Goo Goo Dolls A Boy Named Goo | 4.0 |
Goo Goo Dolls Superstar Car Wash | 3.5 |
Goo Goo Dolls Hold Me Up | 3.0 |
Goo Goo Dolls Chaos in Bloom | 3.0 |
Good Tiger Raised in a Doomsday Cult | 4.0 |
Goodbye to Gravity Mantras of War | 3.5 |
Gorillaz Cracker Island | 3.5 |
Haken The Mountain | 5.0 |
Whole thing is being streamed here:rhttp://www.progrockmag.com/news/haken-album-premiere-the-mountain/ |
Haken Visions | 4.5 |
Haken Restoration | 4.0 |
It's Haken, but more concise as prog-metal can be. rI agree with others above (below?) that you can hear some DT *influence*, but to my ears Haken manage to sound different to their forefathers. |
Haken Affinity | 3.5 |
"One thing that I love about ?Affinity? is that the band merge their current heavier sound with a mix of 80s
prog. Yes really. The song ?1985? is my favorite track on the album because it is that perfect mix. Imagine the
Alan Parsons Project circa ?Stereotomy? (the album, not just the song) mixed with TesseracT djent-ish riffs.
The band do such an incredible job transitioning back and forth. 80s drums and synths yield to thick modern
prog metal riffs."
http://progressivemusicplanet.com/2016/03/02/haken-affinity/ |
IDLES Brutalism | 4.5 |
Jack The Joker Mors Volta | 4.5 |
Jason Isbell Weathervanes | 4.0 |
Kansas The Absence Οf Presence | 4.0 |
Good prog rock album, from a band I had no idea was still making music. Carry on, wayward sons. |
Kardashev Liminal Rite | 4.0 |
Kesha Rainbow | 3.5 |
Linkin Park Hybrid Theory | 5.0 |
Lord Huron Long Lost | 5.0 |
Ludvig Forssell Death Stranding | 4.5 |
Lupe Fiasco Tetsuo and Youth | 4.5 |
Lupe Fiasco DROGAS Wave | 4.5 |
Lupe Fiasco Drill Music in Zion | 3.5 |
Matt Uelmen Diablo II | 5.0 |
Mestis Polysemy | 3.5 |
Michael Kiwanuka Love and Hate | 4.5 |
Michelle Branch The Spirit Room | 4.0 |
Milo Who Told You To Think??!!?!?!?! | 4.5 |
Monuments (UK) Phronesis | 3.5 |
Monuments (UK) The Amanuensis | 4.0 |
Monuments (UK) In Stasis | 3.0 |
'Seems they've outgrown their "sis" complex'rBut "stasis" ends in "sis" :big think: |
Ne Obliviscaris Urn | 4.0 |
No Devotion No Oblivion | 4.5 |
Norma Jean Polar Similar | 4.0 |
Polyenso One Big Particular Loop | 4.5 |
Polyenso Pure In The Plastic | 4.5 |
Polyphia Remember That You Will Die | 3.0 |
Pool Kids Pool Kids | 3.5 |
Porcupine Tree The Incident | 3.5 |
Porcupine Tree Lightbulb Sun | 4.5 |
Porcupine Tree In Absentia | 5.0 |
Porter Robinson Nurture | 4.5 |
Queens of the Stone Age Songs for the Deaf | 4.5 |
Redemption The Art of Loss | 4.5 |
Riverside Love, Fear and the Time Machine | 4.5 |
Became my AOTY for 2015 but keeps growing stronger each listen. |
Royal Coda To Only a Few at First | 3.5 |
Rush Clockwork Angels | 4.5 |
Rush A Farewell to Kings | 4.5 |
Rush Hemispheres | 5.0 |
Rush 2112 | 4.5 |
Rush Permanent Waves | 4.5 |
Rush Moving Pictures | 5.0 |
Rush Signals | 4.5 |
Rush Grace Under Pressure | 4.0 |
Shylmagoghnar Emergence | 4.5 |
Found this via Be'Lakor on Youtube. Gooooooooood shit. |
Silversun Pickups Better Nature | 3.5 |
Silversun Pickups Widow's Weeds | 3.0 |
Silversun Pickups Swoon | 4.0 |
Silversun Pickups Carnavas | 5.0 |
Silversun Pickups Neck of the Woods | 3.5 |
Skyharbor Blinding White Noise: Illusion & Chaos | 4.5 |
Skyharbor Guiding Lights | 4.5 |
Skyharbor Sunshine Dust | 3.0 |
Has more of an alternative rock vibe than prog; Eric sounds great on vocals. Previously released rsingles have been reworked, some for the better (Synthetic Hands). |
Soft Blue Shimmer Love Lives in the Body | 4.0 |
Somewhere South of Here Leave Me for the Crows | 4.0 |
SOUL GLO Diaspora Problems | 4.5 |
Sound of Contact Dimensionaut | 4.0 |
Simon Collins (son of Phil Collins) and Dave Kerzner (Sonic Reality) unleash an atmospheric album that takes you on a journey through space and time that borders on post-rock riffing. |
Spanish Love Songs Schmaltz | 4.5 |
Submotile Sonic Day Codas | 4.5 |
Svalbard When I Die, Will I Get Better? | 4.0 |
Sweet Pill Where the Heart Is | 4.0 |
Tennis Swimmer | 4.0 |
Tesla The Great Radio Controversy | 4.0 |
Thank You Scientist Maps of Non-Existent Places | 4.5 |
Thank You Scientist The Perils of Time Travel | 4.0 |
Thank You Scientist Stranger Heads Prevail | 4.5 |
Thank You Scientist Terraformer | 4.5 |
Thank You Scientist Plague Accommodations | 4.0 |
The Artificials The Artificials | 4.0 |
The Artificials Heart | 4.0 |
Band just lost two of their members and they aren't signed to Tragic Hero anymore, according to a facebook post. |
The Artificials Parables of the Human Spirit | 4.0 |
The Black Keys Dropout Boogie | 3.0 |
More like 3.2–3.3, but still very good. Sounds like a love child of Delta Kream and
Brothers, though doesn't quite achieve the same highs. The track with Billy F. Gibbons is a
banger. |
The Black Keys Delta Kream | 4.0 |
Finally, more of what I originally liked about the Black Keys, their take on old blues
rock. If you liked all their albums up to and including Brothers–especially the EP
'Chulahoma'–you'll enjoy this. |
The Contortionist Clairvoyant | 4.0 |
The Contortionist Exoplanet | 4.5 |
The Contortionist Our Bones | 3.5 |
The Lawrence Arms Cocktails and Dreams | 4.5 |
The Lawrence Arms Buttsweat and Tears | 4.0 |
The Lawrence Arms The Greatest Story Ever Told | 5.0 |
The Lawrence Arms Oh! Calcutta! | 4.5 |
The Lawrence Arms Apathy and Exhaustion | 4.5 |
The Lawrence Arms Skeleton Coast | 4.0 |
The Lawrence Arms Metropole | 4.0 |
The Menzingers On the Impossible Past | 4.5 |
The Menzingers After the Party | 4.5 |
The Ocean Pelagial | 4.0 |
The Reign of Kindo Rhythm, Chord & Melody | 5.0 |
The Reign of Kindo This Is What Happens | 4.0 |
The Rembrandts L.P. | 3.5 |
Great pop-rock/adult contemporary album from 90s. Could stand to be a little heavier sounding or more creative lyrically to push it into the alternative category, but then that probably wasn't the aim of the album anyways.rPut it on when you want some chill, guitar-driven easy listening. |
The Roots How I Got Over | 4.5 |
The Story So Far Under Soil and Dirt | 4.5 |
The Wonder Years Suburbia I've Given You All and Now I'm Nothing | 4.0 |
The Wonder Years The Greatest Generation | 4.5 |
The Wonder Years No Closer to Heaven | 4.0 |
Tides of Man Dreamhouse | 4.0 |
Tides of Man Every Nothing | 4.5 |
Tides of Man Young and Courageous | 4.0 |
Timecop1983 Night Drive | 4.0 |
Tom Caruana Enter the Magical Mystery Chambers | 4.0 |
Tool Fear Inoculum | 3.0 |
Despite how long this album took to release, it sounds incomplete. |
Uneven Structure Februus | 4.5 |
uponbrokenapologies Demonstration of Pain and Sadness | 4.0 |
UVERworld TYCOON | 3.5 |
This is a very fun album. Long yet varied in sound, and moves pretty quickly despite the length.
You'll hear quite a mix of genres here: heavy rock and metal, DnB, hip-hop/rap, electronic, pop,
jazz, funk, pop, industrial- and yet it's all blended very well. |
Vanden Plas Chronicles of the Immortals: Netherworld (Path 1) | 4.0 |
Vestascension Breaching the Sound | 4.0 |
Voices from the Fuselage Odyssey: The Founder of Dreams | 4.5 |
Voices from the Fuselage Odyssey: The Destroyer of Worlds | 4.0 |
VOLA Applause of a Distant Crowd | 4.5 |
Wolfie's Just Fine Everyone Is Dead Except Us | 4.0 |
Wu-Tang Clan The Saga Continues | 4.0 |
xSPONGEXCOREx Don't Mess With TexXxas | 4.0 |
xSPONGEXCOREx How Tough Are Yah? | 5.0 |