| 3 Doors Down Away from the Sun | 3.0 |
| 3 Doors Down Seventeen Days | 3.0 |
| AC/DC Back In Black | 4.0 |
| AC/DC For Those About To Rock We Salute You | 4.0 |
| AC/DC Live | 4.5 |
| Aerosmith Toys in the Attic | 3.0 |
| Aerosmith Just Push Play | 3.0 |
| Aerosmith Get a Grip | 3.0 |
| Aerosmith Greatest Hits | 3.5 |
| Aerosmith Big Ones | 3.5 |
| Aerosmith A Little South of Sanity | 3.5 |
| AFI Sing the Sorrow | 3.0 |
| AFI Decemberunderground | 3.5 |
| Alcest Souvenirs D'Un Autre Monde | 3.5 |
| Alexisonfire Alexisonfire | 3.0 |
| Alice in Chains Greatest Hits | 4.0 |
| Anberlin Blueprints for the Black Market | 3.0 |
| Andromeda Extension of the Wish | 3.5 |
| Anthrax Persistence of Time | 2.5 |
| Anthrax Spreading the Disease | 3.0 |
| Anthrax Among the Living | 4.0 |
| Armor For Sleep What To Do When You Are Dead | 4.0 |
| As I Lay Dying Frail Words Collapse | 3.0 |
| Ashes Divide Keep Telling Myself It's Alright | 4.0 |
| At the Drive-In Relationship of Command | 4.5 |
| Atreyu Lead Sails Paper Anchor | 3.0 |
| Atreyu The Curse | 3.5 |
| Atreyu A Death-Grip on Yesterday | 3.5 |
| Avenged Sevenfold Waking the Fallen | 4.5 |
| Avenged Sevenfold City of Evil | 4.5 |
| Avril Lavigne Under My Skin | 3.5 |
| Avril Lavigne Let Go | 3.5 |
| Avril Lavigne The Best Damn Thing | 3.5 |
| Backstreet Boys Millennium | 3.0 |
| Backstreet Boys Black and Blue | 3.0 |
| Barenaked Ladies Stunt | 3.5 |
| Bathory Blood Fire Death | 3.0 |
| Beastie Boys Licensed to Ill | 3.0 |
| Beatallica Beatallica | 3.0 |
| Between the Buried and Me Colors | 4.5 |
| Blacklisted Peace On Earth, War On Stage | 3.0 |
| blink-182 Enema Of The State | 3.5 |
| blink-182 Blink-182 | 4.5 |
| Bon Jovi Slippery When Wet | 3.5 |
| Bowling for Soup A Hangover You Don't Deserve | 3.5 |
| Breaking Benjamin We Are Not Alone | 3.5 |
| Burlap to Cashmere Anybody Out There? | 3.5 |
| Burlap to Cashmere Burlap to Cashmere | 4.0 |
| Carbon Based Lifeforms Hydroponic Garden | 3.5 |
| Catch 22 Keasbey Nights | 3.5 |
| Chevelle Vena Sera | 3.0 |
| Children of Bodom Are You Dead Yet? | 2.5 |
| Children of Bodom Follow the Reaper | 3.5 |
| Circle Takes the Square As the Roots Undo | 4.5 |
| Coheed and Cambria The Second Stage Turbine Blade | 4.0 |
| Coheed and Cambria From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness | 4.5 |
| Cold Year Of The Spider | 3.5 |
| Coldplay Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends | 3.5 |
| Collective Soul Collective Soul | 3.5 |
| Creed My Own Prison | 3.0 |
| Creed Human Clay | 3.0 |
| Creed Weathered | 3.0 |
| Creed Greatest Hits | 3.5 |
| Crossfade Falling Away | 2.5 |
| Crossfade Crossfade | 4.0 |
| Daitro Laisser Vivre Les Squelettes | 4.0 |
| Daitro Des Cendres, Je Me Consume | 4.0 |
| Daughtry Daughtry | 3.5 |
| Dc Talk Intermission | 3.5 |
| Deadlock Wolves | 4.0 |
| Deathchain Deathrash Assault | 3.5 |
| Deceased Supernatural Addiction | 3.5 |
| Decyfer Down End of Grey | 4.5 |
| Demon Hunter Demon Hunter | 3.5 |
| Demon Hunter Storm the Gates of Hell | 3.5 |
| Demon Hunter Summer of Darkness | 4.5 |
| Demon Hunter The Triptych | 4.5 |
| Destroyer 666 Phoenix Rising | 3.5 |
| Dinosaur Jr. Bug | 4.0 |
| Dio Holy Diver - Live | 3.0 |
| Dio Dream Evil | 3.5 |
| Dir En Grey The Marrow of a Bone | 3.0 |
| Disturbed Believe | 3.0 |
| Disturbed The Sickness | 4.0 |
| Disturbed Ten Thousand Fists | 4.0 |
| DragonForce Inhuman Rampage | 3.5 |
| DragonForce, known for their cheesy lyrics, lightning-fast guitar solos, mindblowing keyboard solos, and heart pounding drum beats. They prove they're the best at what they do, in only 8 songs. Just one downside, half of these songs sound about the same. Don't get me wrong, Inhuman Rampage is a great album, full of ZP's great lyrics, Sam and Herman's amazing dual-solos, Dave's speedy drumming, Vadim's beautiful keyboarding (shown in 'Trail of Broken Hearts', and even Frederic shows some bass talents in 'Body Breakdown'. If you think this is one of those albums that you will be hooked on from the beginning, you may be wrong. This could turn out to be one of those albums that takes awhile for you to get hooked on, but will hold its place in your heart for a long time. |
| Dream Evil Evilized | 3.5 |
| Dream Evil The Book of Heavy Metal | 5.0 |
| Drop Dead, Gorgeous Worse Than A Fairy Tale | 3.0 |
| Dustin Kensrue This Good Night Is Still Everywhere | 3.0 |
| Dustin Kensrue Carry the Fire | 3.5 |
| Dustin Kensrue The Water and the Blood | 4.0 |
| Element Eighty The Bear | 4.0 |
| Element Eighty Element Eighty | 4.5 |
| Elvenking The Scythe | 4.5 |
Frankly, I just can't find the right words to express my love for this album. It's got everything that a catchy lyric-crazed power metal listener could want, and more. A very radio-friendly metal album to say the least, but that doesn't make this any less enjoyable. Everything is done well, and while no instrument sticks out in particular, they all fit together in such a way that the final product is amazing.
All that being said, I can completely understand why one would dislike this album. For one, it's a bit too radio-friendly, to the point where the catchiness and sheer lack of originality and technicality could possibly be its downfall. This is most likely not for br00tal metal fans, and from what I've heard from others, this is a bit of a change from past Elvenking releases.
Bottom line, this is an overall great album that is at least worth looking into for any (lighter) metal fans.
Review Rating: 4
Personal Rating: 4.5
Check These Out: The Scythe, Lost Hill Of Memories, Poison Tears, The Divided Heart, Dominhate. |
| Emanuel Black Earth Tiger | 3.0 |
| Ensiferum Victory Songs | 3.5 |
| Enter Shikari Take to the Skies | 4.0 |
| Evanescence Fallen | 3.0 |
| Exodus Bonded by Blood | 3.0 |
| Explosions in the Sky How Strange, Innocence | 3.5 |
| Fair to Midland Inter.Funda.Stifle | 4.0 |
| Fair to Midland Fables From a Mayfly: What I Tell You Three Times is True | 4.5 |
| Fall Out Boy Infinity on High | 3.5 |
| Fall Out Boy From Under the Cork Tree | 4.0 |
| Falling Up Dawn Escapes | 3.0 |
| Falling Up Crashings | 4.0 |
| Fefe Dobson Fefe Dobson | 2.5 |
| Finch Say Hello to Sunshine | 4.0 |
| Finger Eleven Finger Eleven | 3.0 |
| Firefly Summer The Classic EP | 3.5 |
| Firewind Burning Earth | 3.0 |
| Firewind Allegiance | 4.0 |
| Flyleaf Flyleaf | 3.0 |
| Franz Ferdinand Franz Ferdinand | 3.5 |
| Gamma Ray Majestic | 3.5 |
| Gatsby's American Dream Gatsby's American Dream | 3.5 |
| Godsmack Awake | 3.5 |
| Godsmack Faceless | 4.0 |
| Godsmack IV | 4.0 |
| Goo Goo Dolls A Boy Named Goo | 3.0 |
| Good Charlotte The Chronicles of Life and Death | 3.0 |
| Good Charlotte The Young And The Hopeless | 3.5 |
| Gorillaz Gorillaz | 3.0 |
| Gorillaz Demon Days | 3.0 |
| Green Day International Superhits | 4.0 |
| Green Day Nimrod | 4.0 |
| Green Day American Idiot | 4.0 |
| Green Day Bullet In A Bible | 4.0 |
| Guns N' Roses Greatest Hits | 3.5 |
| Haste the Day When Everything Falls | 3.5 |
| Haste the Day Pressure the Hinges | 3.5 |
| Hawthorne Heights If Only You Were Lonely | 2.0 |
| Hawthorne Heights The Silence in Black and White | 2.5 |
| HIM Dark Light | 3.0 |
| Hinder Extreme Behavior | 3.0 |
| Hootie and The Blowfish Cracked Rear View | 3.0 |
| Hootie and The Blowfish The Best of Hootie & The Blowfish (1993-2003) | 3.5 |
| I Mother Earth Scenery & Fish | 3.0 |
| Iron Maiden The Number of the Beast | 4.0 |
| Jag Panzer Thane to the Throne | 3.5 |
| Jars Of Clay If I Left The Zoo | 3.0 |
| Jars Of Clay Good Monsters | 3.5 |
| Jeremy Camp Restored | 3.0 |
| Jeremy Camp Stay | 3.5 |
| Jet Get Born | 3.0 |
| Jimmy Eat World Bleed American | 3.0 |
| Journey The Essential Journey | 4.0 |
| Kamelot Epica | 3.5 |
| Kamelot The Black Halo | 4.0 |
| Kid Rock Devil Without a Cause | 2.0 |
| KISS Gold | 3.0 |
| Korn See You on the Other Side | 3.0 |
| Korn Greatest Hits Vol. 1 | 3.5 |
| Led Zeppelin Best Of, Vol. 1: Early Days | 3.5 |
| Led Zeppelin Early Days/Latter Days | 3.5 |
| Led Zeppelin Best Of, Vol. 2: Latter Days | 3.5 |
| Limp Bizkit Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavored Water | 2.0 |
| Limp Bizkit Significant Other | 2.5 |
| Linkin Park Meteora | 3.5 |
| Linkin Park Hybrid Theory | 4.0 |
| Lostprophets The Fake Sound Of Progress | 3.5 |
| Lostprophets Start Something | 4.0 |
| Lostprophets Liberation Transmission | 4.5 |
| Ludo Ludo | 3.0 |
| Ludo You're Awful, I Love You | 4.0 |
| Ludo Prepare the Preparations | 4.0 |
| Ludo Broken Bride EP | 5.0 |
| Lynyrd Skynyrd 20th Century Masters | 3.5 |
| Machinae Supremacy Redeemer (Underground Edition) | 4.0 |
| Machinae Supremacy Deus Ex Machinae | 5.0 |
DragonForce, eat your hearts out.
These guys truly know how to rock the synths, incorporating a special sound module called the Sid Station. The Sid Station is based off of the SID synthesizer chip used in the Commodore 64 computer. What all this means is that Machinae Supremacy can provide the videogame-ish sound that DragonForce themselves have become known for.
MaSu's talent, however, does not end there. Robert Stjarnstrom has a unique voice (at least to me), that is different from the high-pitched power metal vocalists that I've heard in DragonForce and Dream Evil. Quite possibly my favorite member of the band, Jonas Rorling the lead guitarist, shows he can write amazing riffs and solos on tracks like 'Insidious' and 'Player One', sometimes rivaling the speed and sound of Herman Li and Sam Totman from DragonForce. Andreas, Johan, and Tomas, on keyboards, bass, and drums, respectively, while are talented, do not showcase their skills much in this album.
Overall, this is an essential power metal album for those who like the genre.
Recommended Tracks: Insidious, Dreadnaught, Flagcarrier, Player One, Deus Ex Machinae... Never mind, just get the entire album.
NOTE: There being only 2,000 copies of this album made, there isn't much of a chance you'll find this in stores, but you can download the first 14 songs off of MaSu's Last.FM page, and the 15th song off of their official website, www.machinaesupremacy.com
4.8/5 |
| Mae Singularity | 3.0 |
| Maroon 5 Songs About Jane | 3.0 |
| Matchbox Twenty Yourself or Someone Like You | 4.0 |
| Matchbox Twenty More Than You Think You Are | 4.0 |
| Metallica Master of Puppets | 4.0 |
| Metallica Metallica | 5.0 |
| mewithoutYou I Never Said That I Was Brave | 3.5 |
| mewithoutYou A to B: Life | 4.0 |
| mewithoutYou It's All Crazy! It's All False! It's All A Dream! It's Alright! | 4.0 |
| mewithoutYou Ten Stories | 4.0 |
| mewithoutYou Catch For Us the Foxes | 4.5 |
| mewithoutYou Other Stories | 4.5 |
| mewithoutYou Brother, Sister | 5.0 |
| Modest Mouse Good News for People Who Love Bad News | 4.0 |
| Muse Black Holes & Revelations | 4.0 |
| My Chemical Romance The Black Parade | 3.5 |
| Nat King Cole The Christmas Song | 4.0 |
| This was probably the first Christmas album I've ever listened to. Now I'm not a fan of jazz at all, but Nat King Cole's singing is great. He makes the songs calm and serene, which adds to the overall effect of the relaxing songs. The orchestras and chorus in the background provide an unneeded assist to Nat's singing. In the album, he covers many Christmas songs that are popular around the world. A must have for anyone who loves jazz, or just listening to Christmas songs during the holidays. |
| Needtobreathe The Heat | 3.5 |
| Needtobreathe The Outsiders | 4.0 |
| Needtobreathe Rivers In The Wasteland | 4.0 |
| Neutral Milk Hotel On Avery Island | 2.5 |
| Nevermore Dreaming Neon Black | 3.5 |
| Nevermore This Godless Endeavor | 3.5 |
| New Found Glory From the Screen to Your Stereo Part II | 1.5 |
| New Found Glory Coming Home | 2.0 |
| New Found Glory Catalyst | 3.5 |
| Nickelback Silver Side Up | 3.0 |
| Nickelback The Long Road | 3.0 |
| Nickelback The State | 3.0 |
| Nickelback Curb | 3.0 |
| Nickelback All the Right Reasons | 3.5 |
| Nirvana Nirvana | 4.0 |
| Noah Gundersen Ledges | 4.0 |
| Noah Gundersen Family | 4.5 |
| Noah Gundersen Saints & Liars | 4.5 |
| Norma Jean O' God, the Aftermath | 2.5 |
| Norma Jean The Anti Mother | 2.5 |
| NSYNC Celebrity | 2.0 |
| NSYNC No Strings Attached | 3.0 |
| Of Monsters and Men My Head is an Animal | 4.0 |
| Overflow A Better Place | 3.0 |
| Ozzy Osbourne The Essential Ozzy Osbourne | 3.5 |
| Panic! at the Disco A Fever You Can't Sweat Out | 4.0 |
| Pantera Vulgar Display of Power | 3.5 |
| Papa Roach Getting Away With Murder | 4.0 |
| Paramore All We Know Is Falling | 4.0 |
| Paramore Brand New Eyes | 4.0 |
| Paramore Riot! | 4.5 |
| Pink Floyd The Dark Side of the Moon | 2.5 |
| Poison The Best Of Poison: 20 Years Of Rock | 4.5 |
| Protest the Hero Kezia | 4.0 |
| Protest the Hero Fortress | 4.0 |
| Protest the Hero Fortress (Instrumental) | 4.0 |
| Puddle of Mudd Come Clean | 3.0 |
| Puddle of Mudd Life On Display | 4.0 |
| Quiet Riot Super Hits | 3.5 |
| Rage Against the Machine Rage Against the Machine | 5.0 |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers Greatest Hits | 3.5 |
| Refused Songs To Fan The Flames Of Discontent | 4.5 |
| Relient K Mmhmm | 3.0 |
| Rise Against Siren Song of the Counter Culture | 4.0 |
| Rise Against The Unraveling | 4.0 |
| Rise Against The Sufferer and the Witness | 4.5 |
| Rubik Dada Bandits | 4.0 |
| Rush Test for Echo | 3.5 |
| Rush Moving Pictures | 4.0 |
| Rush 2112 | 5.0 |
| Russell Allen Atomic Soul | 3.5 |
| Saliva Every Six Seconds | 3.0 |
| Sanctus Real We Need Each Other | 3.0 |
| Sanctus Real Pieces of a Real Heart | 4.0 |
| Savatage Hall of the Mountain King | 3.5 |
| Savatage Edge of Thorns | 3.5 |
| Scorpions Unbreakable | 3.0 |
| Scorpions Scorpions 20th Century Masters | 3.5 |
| Scott Stapp The Great Divide | 2.0 |
| Seether Karma And Effect | 3.0 |
| Seether Finding Beauty In Negative Spaces | 3.5 |
| Senses Fail Still Searching | 4.0 |
| Seven Mary Three American Standard | 2.5 |
| Shinedown Us and Them | 3.5 |
| Shinedown Leave a Whisper | 4.5 |
| Showbread No Sir, Nihilism Is Not Practical | 4.0 |
| Showbread Age of Reptiles | 4.0 |
| Showbread The Fear of God | 4.0 |
| Showbread Who Can Know It? | 4.0 |
| Showbread Cancer | 4.0 |
| Simple Plan Still Not Getting Any... | 3.0 |
| Skindred Babylon | 3.5 |
| Slipknot Vol. 3: The Subliminal Verses | 3.5 |
| Smash Mouth Astro Lounge | 3.5 |
| Smash Mouth Smash Mouth | 3.5 |
| SOiL Scars | 3.5 |
| Sonata Arctica Silence | 3.5 |
| Soundtrack (Film) The Spongebob Squarepants Movie - Music | 3.0 |
| Soundtrack (Television) Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog | 4.0 |
| Sparta Threes | 3.5 |
| Sparta Wiretap Scars | 4.0 |
| Staind Chapter V | 3.0 |
| Steve Vai Infinite Steve Vai: An Anthology | 3.0 |
| Stevie Ray Vaughan Greatest Hits | 4.0 |
| Stone Temple Pilots Thank You | 4.0 |
| Story of the Year Page Avenue | 3.5 |
| Stutterfly And We Are Bled Of Color | 3.0 |
| Sum 41 All Killer No Filler | 3.5 |
| Switchfoot Nothing is Sound | 3.0 |
| Switchfoot The Beautiful Letdown | 3.5 |
| System of a Down Toxicity | 3.5 |
| System of a Down Mezmerize | 4.5 |
| Tad Morose Matters of the Dark | 3.5 |
| Tad Morose Modus Vivendi | 4.0 |
| Taking Back Sunday Louder Now | 3.5 |
| Tenth Avenue North The Light Meets The Dark | 3.5 |
| Tenth Avenue North Over and Underneath | 4.0 |
| The All-American Rejects The All-American Rejects | 2.5 |
| The All-American Rejects Move Along | 3.0 |
| The Black Dahlia Murder Unhallowed | 3.0 |
| The Black Eyed Peas Elephunk | 3.0 |
| The Calling Two | 3.0 |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Irony Is a Dead Scene | 3.0 |
| The Fall of Troy Doppelganger | 4.0 |
| The Flatliners Destroy To Create | 4.0 |
| The Jimi Hendrix Experience Smash Hits | 3.5 |
| The Mars Volta De-Loused in the Comatorium | 4.0 |
| The Mars Volta Frances the Mute | 4.0 |
| The Offspring Greatest Hits | 4.5 |
| The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus Don't You Fake It | 4.0 |
| The Tallest Man on Earth Shallow Grave | 4.0 |
| The Tallest Man on Earth The Tallest Man on Earth | 4.0 |
| The Tallest Man on Earth The Wild Hunt | 4.0 |
| The Tallest Man on Earth Sometimes The Blues Is Just A Passing Bird | 4.0 |
| Third Day Offerings II: All I Have To Give | 3.0 |
| Third Eye Blind Third Eye Blind | 3.0 |
| Third Eye Blind Blue | 3.0 |
| Thirty Seconds to Mars A Beautiful Lie | 3.0 |
| Three Days Grace Three Days Grace | 4.0 |
| Three Days Grace One-X | 4.5 |
| Thrice The Alchemy Index Vol. III: Air | 3.5 |
| Thrice Red Sky | 4.0 |
| Thrice The Alchemy Index Vols. I & II | 4.0 |
| Thrice Beggars | 4.0 |
| Thrice Major/Minor | 4.0 |
| Thrice The Alchemy Index Vol. I: Fire | 4.0 |
| Thrice The Alchemy Index Vol. II: Water | 4.0 |
| Thrice The Alchemy Index Vol. IV: Earth | 4.0 |
| Thrice The Illusion of Safety | 4.5 |
| Thrice The Artist in the Ambulance | 4.5 |
| Thrice If We Could Only See Us Now | 4.5 |
| Thrice Vheissu | 4.5 |
| Beautiful album, although highly deceiving to those who first heard about this album through the single 'Image of the Invisible'. The first song starts out leading you to believe the majority of the album is purely hardcore, when in truth, it is more of a calm-verse and slightly hardcore-chorus type album. I'd recommend 'The Earth Will Shake', 'Music Box', and 'Red Sky' as they are a few of my personal favorites. Awesome album, well worth the $10-15 if you're into the slower stuff. |
| Thrice The Alchemy Index Vols. III & IV | 4.5 |
| Thrice Anthology | 4.5 |
| Thursday Full Collapse | 3.5 |
| Tool 10,000 Days | 3.0 |
| Trapt Someone in Control | 3.0 |
| Trapt Trapt | 3.5 |
| Trivium The Crusade | 2.5 |
| Twain Harte A Sunny Place for Shady People | 3.5 |
| Underoath They're Only Chasing Safety | 3.0 |
| Van Halen Fair Warning | 2.5 |
| Van Halen OU812 | 3.0 |
| Van Halen Women and Children First | 3.0 |
| Van Halen For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge | 3.5 |
| Van Halen Van Halen II | 3.5 |
| Van Halen Diver Down | 3.5 |
| Van Halen Van Halen | 4.0 |
| Various Artists Tooth & Nail vs. Solid State | 3.5 |
| Velvet Revolver Contraband | 3.5 |
| Weezer Pinkerton | 2.5 |
| Weezer Make Believe | 3.0 |
| Will Smith Big Willie Style | 3.0 |
| Will Smith Willennium | 3.0 |
| Will Smith Lost and Found | 4.0 |
| Winger IV | 2.5 |
| Yellowcard Lights and Sounds | 3.5 |
| Yellowcard Ocean Avenue | 4.5 |
| ZZ Top Recycler | 3.0 |
