| A Day To Remember Homesick | 5.0 |
| Aborted Goremageddon: The Saw and the Carnage... | 4.0 |
| Aborted Coronary Reconstruction | 4.5 |
| Aesop Rock None Shall Pass | 3.0 |
| Agoraphobic Nosebleed Agorapocalypse | 4.0 |
| Agoraphobic Nosebleed Frozen Corpse Stuffed With Dope | 5.0 |
| All Shall Perish The Price of Existence | 2.5 |
| Animosity Animal | 4.5 |
| Annotations Of An Autopsy Before the Throne of Infection | 3.0 |
| Annotations Of An Autopsy II: The Reign of Darkness | 3.0 |
| Annotations Of An Autopsy Welcome To Sludge City | 4.0 |
| Aphex Twin Come to Daddy | 3.5 |
| Aphex Twin Drukqs | 4.0 |
| Aphex Twin Richard D. James Album | 5.0 |
| Arsis We Are the Nightmare | 2.5 |
| Arsis Starve for the Devil | 3.5 |
| Arsonists Get All the Girls Portals | 4.0 |
| Attack Attack! Someday Came Suddenly | 2.5 |
| B.o.B The Adventures of Bobby Ray | 4.5 |
| Baroness Red Album | 4.0 |
| Beck Mutations | 3.0 |
| Beck Odelay | 3.5 |
| Beck Mellow Gold | 3.5 |
| Beck Guero | 3.5 |
| Beck Sea Change | 5.0 |
| Behemoth Demigod | 3.0 |
| Between the Buried and Me The Great Misdirect | 4.5 |
| Born of Osiris The New Reign | 3.0 |
| Bring Me the Horizon Count Your Blessings | 2.0 |
| Bring Me the Horizon Suicide Season | 4.0 |
| brokeNCYDE BC 13 | 1.0 |
| Brother Von Doom Relentless | 3.5 |
| A few great, great songs, but overall bogged down by a lot of filler. |
| Burning Skies Greed.Filth.Abuse.Corruption | 3.5 |
| Carnifex Dead in My Arms | 1.5 |
| Carnifex The Diseased and Poisoned | 2.0 |
| Cattle Decapitation The Harvest Floor | 4.0 |
| Cavalera Conspiracy Inflikted | 2.0 |
| Cephalic Carnage Anomalies | 4.0 |
| Cephalic Carnage Xenosapien | 4.0 |
| Conducting from the Grave When Legends Become Dust | 4.0 |
| Converge Jane Doe | 3.5 |
| Cynic Traced in Air | 4.5 |
| Despised Icon The Ills Of Modern Man | 2.5 |
| Devourment Unleash the Carnivore | 2.0 |
| DoomThrone Skeleton Veiled in Flesh | 1.0 |
| Dying Fetus War of Attrition | 3.0 |
| Emmure The Respect Issue | 1.0 |
| Facedowninshit Nothing Positive, Only Negative | 2.5 |
| Fellsilent The Hidden Words | 3.0 |
| Fellsilent almost completely tip off disbanded British math metal outfit Sikth. The catchy singing choruses are the only saving grace. |
| Fleshgod Apocalypse Oracles | 4.5 |
| Fuck the Facts Stigmata High-Five | 3.5 |
| Genghis Tron Dead Mountain Mouth | 3.0 |
| Genghis Tron Cloak of Love | 3.5 |
| Genghis Tron Board Up the House | 4.5 |
| Gojira The Way of All Flesh | 4.5 |
| He Is Legend It Hates You | 2.5 |
| Hester Prynne The Goswell Divorce | 3.0 |
| Hester Prynne is no doubt a group of kids who got into Death metal a few years ago, and really got into JFAC, Suicide Silence, and BDM. They got together and took thier favorite elements from these bands, combined them, and added in out-of-place hiphop/electronica elements that I'm sure they thought was really innovative. Either way a lot of the songs on this disc come together nicely and end up being good for a listen or two. Noteworthy tracks include Leeann Legore, which has a quick instrumental of softly played guitars leading into a predictable but effective breakdown; Bad for Business which sits square in the middle of the album and provides and awkward and some what random seeming hip hop-esque electronica instrumental; All Roads Lead to Hell which starts off with a gimmicky "Break, break, break your'e fucking neck" vocal intro which I'm sure will be used effectively in their live show to boost the crowd; and their strongest track overall, That Night a Forest Grew, which come together with generic but effective riffs and BDM flourishes sprinkled through out, a gimmicky synth riff melding into a guitar riff, and a strangely catchy chorus. Offering more then just chug-chug riffs, Hester Prynne contains some fun Deathcore that takes the genre no where that it hasn't been before, but does it nicely and entertainingly. If you hate Deathcore, you'll hate this album. If you like Deathcore, you may find enjoyment from this Disc, but don't expect to find anything groundbreaking. |
| High on Fire Death Is This Communion | 4.0 |
| Hollywood Undead Swan Songs | 1.0 |
| HORSE the band R. Borlax | 4.0 |
| HORSE the band Desperate Living | 4.5 |
| I See Stars 3D | 3.5 |
| I Set My Friends On Fire You Can't Spell Slaughter Without Laughter | 4.0 |
| Indricothere Indricothere | 4.5 |
| Infested 1000 Doors | 2.5 |
| Iron And Wine The Shepherd's Dog | 3.0 |
| Iron And Wine Our Endless Numbered Days | 4.5 |
| Iwrestledabearonce Iwrestledabearonce | 2.0 |
| Iwrestledabearonce It's All Happening | 2.5 |
It's hard to write innovative metal when your'e writing inside of a formula. They already
used a goofy noise to lead into a chug-chug breakdown on Taste Like Kevin Bacon, and the
jazzy soft parts got old quick after almost every song. It reminds me of that kid in school
who seeks attention by making loud noises and rapid arm movements, and at first, the class
buys into it, but after days of the same thing, it's old, and its over. IWABO uses gimmicks
as a crutch in their new disc 'It's All Happening', and ultimately, at the end of the
listen,I just found my self asking, "What were they trying to do with this record?". |
| Jay-Z The Blueprint 3 | 3.0 |
| Jesu Why Are We Not Perfect? | 4.0 |
| Job For A Cowboy Demo 2004 | 2.0 |
| Job For A Cowboy Genesis | 3.0 |
| Job For A Cowboy Doom | 4.0 |
| Job For A Cowboy Ruination | 4.0 |
Without a doubt JFAC's best, they continue to further themselves from their initial Doom
sound and instead refine the Genesis sound to a deadly sharp point. Much more technical
sounding riffs, perhaps thanks to new guitarist and former Despised Icon axman Al Glassman,
and solid drumming from Jon 'The Charn' Rice. Ruination is easily one of the best Death
records of 2009 so far. However, through out the album it feels as if the riffs are
competing with Jonny Davy's vocals for your attention, creating a clashing and unorganized
sound. Overlooking that problem, Ruination is a must have for 2009 for any Death Metal fan. |
| Kanye West The College Dropout | 4.5 |
| Kanye West 808s and Heartbreak | 5.0 |
| Kid Cudi Man on the Moon: The End of Day | 4.0 |
| La Roux La Roux | 3.0 |
| Lady Gaga The Fame Monster | 5.0 |
| Landmine Marathon Rusted Eyes Awake | 3.5 |
| Lights The Listening | 2.5 |
| Lmfao Party Rock | 3.5 |
| Mastodon Call of the Mastodon | 4.0 |
| Mastodon Remission | 4.5 |
| Mastodon Leviathan | 4.5 |
| Mastodon Blood Mountain | 4.5 |
| Mastodon Crack the Skye | 5.0 |
| Miley Cyrus The Time of Our Lives | 4.0 |
| Napalm Death Scum | 3.5 |
| Opeth Blackwater Park | 4.5 |
| P.O.S Never Better | 5.0 |
| Pig Destroyer 38 Counts of Battery | 4.0 |
| Pig Destroyer Terrifyer | 4.5 |
| Pig Destroyer Phantom Limb | 4.5 |
| Pig Destroyer Prowler in the Yard | 5.0 |
| Protest the Hero Kezia | 4.0 |
| Protest the Hero Fortress | 4.5 |
| Psyopus Odd Senses | 4.0 |
| Skeletonwitch Beyond the Permafrost | 4.0 |
| Sky Eats Airplane Everything Perfect on the Wrong Day | 1.5 |
| Soilent Green Inevitable Collapse in the Presence of C | 4.0 |
| Suicide Silence The Cleansing | 3.0 |
| The Acacia Strain 3750 | 2.5 |
| The Acacia Strain The Dead Walk | 4.0 |
| The Acacia Strain Continent | 5.0 |
| The Black Dahlia Murder A Cold-Blooded Epitaph | 2.0 |
| The Black Dahlia Murder Unhallowed | 2.5 |
| The Black Dahlia Murder Miasma | 3.0 |
| The Black Dahlia Murder Deflorate | 4.0 |
| The Black Dahlia Murder Nocturnal | 4.5 |
| The Boy Will Drown Fetish | 4.5 |
| The Chariot Wars and Rumors of Wars | 2.5 |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Under the Running Board | 3.5 |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Irony Is a Dead Scene | 3.5 |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Calculating Infinity | 4.5 |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Miss Machine | 4.5 |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Ire Works | 4.5 |
| The Faceless Akeldama | 4.5 |
| The Faceless Planetary Duality | 4.5 |
| The Irish Front Universe | 1.0 |
| The Red Chord Prey for Eyes | 3.0 |
| The Red Chord Fused Together in Revolving Doors | 4.0 |
| Thy Art Is Murder Infinite Death | 3.0 |
| Waking The Cadaver Perverse Recollections Of A Necromangler | 1.0 |
| Warbringer One by One the Wicked Fall | 3.0 |
| Warbringer War Without End | 3.5 |
| Whitechapel This Is Exile | 2.5 |
