| +44 When Your Heart Stops Beating | 3.5 |
| 30 Seconds to Mars This Is War | 2.5 |
| AC/DC Back In Black | 4.5 |
| AC/DC Highway to Hell | 5.0 |
| But Bon Scott told me it's OK to slip into her room, crawl across her floor and make a mess of her while she sleeps! |
| AC/DC Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap | 4.5 |
| AC/DC High Voltage | 4.5 |
| AC/DC Black Ice | 3.0 |
| AC/DC Let There Be Rock | 4.5 |
| Aerosmith Toys In The Attic | 5.0 |
| Aerosmith Rocks | 5.0 |
| Akon Freedom | 2.0 |
| Angels and Airwaves We Don't Need to Whisper | 2.5 |
| Athlete Vehicles & Animals | 3.5 |
| The electronic influence and infectious hooks on this record proved Athlete both unique and promising. Too bad they settled with becoming a less successful Coldplay. |
| Athlete Black Swan | 3.0 |
| Athlete Tourist | 2.0 |
| Avenged Sevenfold Avenged Sevenfold | 3.0 |
| Avenged Sevenfold City of Evil | 4.0 |
| Avenged Sevenfold Waking the Fallen | 4.0 |
| Avenged Sevenfold Nightmare | 3.0 |
| Black Country Communion 2 | 4.5 |
| Black Country Communion Black Country | 4.0 |
| Black Country Communion Afterglow | 4.0 |
| Black Eyed Peas The E.N.D. (The Energy Never Dies) | 2.0 |
| Black Spiders Sons of the North | 3.5 |
| Black Stone Cherry Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea | 3.0 |
| When will they realise that their Southern-tinged hard rock tracks are like 100X better than the shite attempts to top the charts? |
| blink-182 Neighborhoods | 3.5 |
| blink-182 Take Off Your Pants and Jacket | 4.5 |
| blink-182 blink-182 | 5.0 |
| Blood on the Dance Floor EPIC | 1.0 |
| Bob Marley and The Wailers Legend | 5.0 |
| Bon Iver For Emma, Forever Ago | 4.0 |
| Bowling for Soup A Hangover You Don't Deserve | 4.0 |
| Bowling for Soup The Great Burrito Extortion Case | 4.0 |
| Boys Like Girls Boys Like Girls | 2.5 |
| Bring Me The Horizon Count Your Blessings | 1.5 |
| Bring Me The Horizon There Is A Hell, Believe Me I've Seen It | 3.5 |
| Bring Me The Horizon Suicide Season | 2.0 |
| Bullet For My Valentine The Poison | 4.0 |
| Bullet For My Valentine Temper Temper | 2.0 |
| Caspa and Rusko FabricLive.37 | 3.5 |
| Chickenfoot Chickenfoot | 2.5 |
| Cloud Nothings Attack On Memory | 3.5 |
| Coheed and Cambria Year of the Black Rainbow | 4.0 |
| Coheed and Cambria The Afterman: Ascension | 4.0 |
| Coheed and Cambria No World for Tomorrow | 3.5 |
| Coheed and Cambria From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness | 4.0 |
| Coheed and Cambria The Afterman: Descension | 4.0 |
| Crosses EP II | 4.0 |
| Crosses EP | 3.5 |
| Crucial Dudes 61 Penn | 4.0 |
| Currensy The Stoned Immaculate | 4.0 |
| Cyanotic MedPack Vol. 1 | 2.0 |
| Damon Albarn Dr. Dee | 1.0 |
| Deadmau5 4x4=12 | 3.0 |
| Death Grips Exmilitary | 3.0 |
| Defeater Travels | 4.0 |
| Don't usually like this type of music, but this is great. A chilling tale told with the usual screamed/shouted vocals and good lyrics. I also like the atmosphere the guitarists create. |
| Deftones White Pony | 4.5 |
| Deftones Around the Fur | 4.5 |
| Deftones Diamond Eyes | 4.0 |
| Deftones Saturday Night Wrist | 3.5 |
| Dizzee Rascal Boy In Da Corner | 5.0 |
| Down Down IV Part I - Purple | 3.5 |
| riffs man, riffssssssssss |
| Down NOLA | 5.0 |
| Dowsing All I Could Find Was You | 2.5 |
| Dry The River Shallow Bed | 3.5 |
| Duff McKagan's Loaded The Taking | 3.5 |
| Most of the tracks on 'The Taking' punch you in the face with their hard rock-meets-grunge approach, helped by the low-end production. It's the commercial tracks (e.g. "We Win" SPEW) that let this down. |
| Earl Sweatshirt EARL | 3.5 |
| Enter Shikari Take to the Skies | 4.0 |
There's something about the hypnotic mess of manic hardcore -- complete with a distinctive
techno atmosphere and pretty harmonies (Adieu rules) -- that keeps my inner 14-year-old self
coming back to this. |
| Enter Shikari A Flash Flood of Colour | 3.0 |
| Enter Shikari Common Dreads | 3.5 |
| Enter Shikari The Zone | 3.0 |
| The non-album tracks on this are great. However, the remixes/alternate versions don't interest me. |
| Fleet Foxes Fleet Foxes | 2.5 |
| Fleetwood Mac Bare Trees | 4.0 |
| Foo Fighters Wasting Light | 4.5 |
| Forever Came Calling Contender | 4.0 |
| Frank Ocean Channel Orange | 4.5 |
| Frank Ocean Nostalgia, Ultra | 3.5 |
| Funeral for a Friend Welcome Home Armageddon | 4.0 |
| Funeral for a Friend Casually Dressed & Deep in Conversation | 3.5 |
| Funeral for a Friend Hours | 4.0 |
| Funeral for a Friend Tales Don't Tell Themselves | 3.5 |
| Funeral for a Friend Memory and Humanity | 3.0 |
| Funeral for a Friend The Young And Defenseless | 4.0 |
| Funeral for a Friend Conduit | 3.5 |
| Gary Clark Jr. The Bright Lights | 3.5 |
| Gary Clark Jr. Blak and Blu | 4.0 |
| Ghost B.C. Opus Eponymous | 4.0 |
| Green Day ¡UNO! | 2.5 |
| Green Day 21st Century Breakdown | 2.5 |
| Guns N' Roses Appetite for Destruction | 5.0 |
| Guns N' Roses Use Your Illusion II | 4.0 |
| Guns N' Roses Use Your Illusion I | 4.5 |
| Handguns Angst | 3.0 |
| James Iha Let It Come Down | 3.5 |
| After hearing 'Take me down' from Mellon collie I had to hear this. Granted, nothing here really sounds like that song, or any other song in the Pumpkins' discography for that matter. But it's a pleasant record full of sunny, country-tinged, 70s soft rock. |
| Jeff Buckley Grace | 4.5 |
| John Mayer Born and Raised | 4.0 |
| John Mayer Battle Studies | 3.5 |
| John Mayer Room for Squares | 4.0 |
| KiD CuDi Man On The Moon: The End Of Day | 4.0 |
| Korn The Path of Totality | 1.5 |
| Lil Ugly Mane MISTA THUG ISOLATION | 3.5 |
| Living With Lions Holy Shit | 3.5 |
Pretty much pop punk we've all heard before. But the vocalist weaves some nice melodies into
the reverb-dipped, flat sounding production (when he's not grunting).. and I just like
listening to it. |
| Living With Lions Make Your Mark | 3.0 |
| Lordi The Arockalypse | 3.5 |
| Lostprophets The Betrayed | 4.0 |
| Lostprophets Start Something | 4.0 |
| Lostprophets Liberation Transmission | 2.5 |
| LSD and the Search for God LSD and the Search for God | 4.0 |
| Masked Intruder Masked Intruder | 3.5 |
| Megadeth Th1rt3en | 3.5 |
| Modern Baseball Sports | 3.5 |
| Motion City Soundtrack Commit This To Memory | 4.0 |
| Motion City Soundtrack My Dinosaur Life | 4.0 |
| My Bloody Valentine Loveless | 5.0 |
| My Chemical Romance Danger Days: The True Lives of... | 4.0 |
| My Chemical Romance I Brought You My Bullets, You Brought... | 3.0 |
| Neck Deep Rain In July | 3.0 |
| Neck Deep A History Of Bad Decisions | 3.5 |
| New Found Glory New Found Glory | 3.5 |
| Nickelback All the Right Reasons | 2.5 |
| Nirvana Nevermind | 5.0 |
| Nirvana Bleach | 4.0 |
| Back when Kurt wrote songs about masturbation, blowjobs and serial rapists/killers. Evidence that Nirvana were actually grunge as fuck. |
| Nirvana In Utero | 5.0 |
| her shit is my milk, my milk is her shit. DOLL STEAK! |
| Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds | 3.5 |
| Old Gray Do I Dare Disturb The Universe | 3.0 |
| Pity Sex Dark World | 3.5 |
| nice 90's vibe |
| Plan B Who Needs Actions When You've Got Words | 4.5 |
| Plan B The Defamation Of Strickland Banks | 3.5 |
| Receivers Haunts | 3.5 |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers I'm with You | 3.5 |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers Stadium Arcadium | 3.5 |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers Blood Sugar Sex Magik | 4.5 |
| Rich Robinson Through a Crooked Sun | 4.0 |
| Ryan Adams Gold | 4.0 |
| Silversun Pickups Swoon | 3.5 |
| this one's a bit too sparkling pumpkins |
| Silversun Pickups Carnavas | 4.5 |
| Silversun Pickups Neck of the Woods | 4.0 |
| Sithu Aye Cassini | 3.5 |
| It is in the second half of the album -as its true prog colours are shown- where Cassini shines. The first half falls victim to pedictable song structures and downtuned riffs that chug, chug, chug. EXCELLENT guitar work, though, and the fact that pretty much all of this was done by one guy amazes me! |
| Sithu Aye Isles | 4.0 |
| Sithu Aye released Cassini, played Skyrim and then released this. Awesome. |
| Sithu Aye Invent the Universe | 3.5 |
| another solid release from Sithu Aye, even if some of those riffs and jazzy interludes are losing their punch. |
| Slash Slash | 3.0 |
| Slash Apocalyptic Love | 3.0 |
| Slipknot All Hope Is Gone | 3.5 |
| Snowmine Laminate Pet Animal | 4.0 |
| Soulja Boy Souljaboytellem.com | 1.0 |
| Soulja Boy iSouljaBoyTellEm | 1.0 |
| Soundgarden Ultramega OK | 4.0 |
| Soundgarden King Animal | 4.0 |
| An older, lighter Soundgarden that surprisingly still manages to create a hypnotic energy that one can only love to be engrossed in. They've been away for too long, and it's great to have them back. |
| Stereophonics Language.Sex.Violence.Other? | 4.0 |
| Stone Sour Audio Secrecy | 4.0 |
| Stone Sour Stone Sour | 4.0 |
| Stone Sour Come What(ever) May | 3.5 |
| Stoned Jesus Seven Thunders Roar | 3.5 |
| Sylosis Edge of the Earth | 3.5 |
| Sylosis have crafted what is an excellent piece of modern thrash metal here, possessing an instrumental section that is almost flawless to listen to. The album does, however, run for 70+ minutes - way longer than it should, and the vocals occasionally come off as weak in comparison to the rest of the band. With a few minor tweaks, these guys will be putting out a classic in the near future - no doubt. Heads up for a new album in the works....Safe! |
| Taking Back Sunday Tell All Your Friends | 4.5 |
| Taking Back Sunday Taking Back Sunday | 3.0 |
| Not a terrible album, but many of the tracks struggle to push beyond mediocrity. 'El Paso' and 'You Got Me' are awesome, though, and John Nolan's backing vocals make a welcome return. |
| Taking Back Sunday New Again | 3.5 |
| Taking Back Sunday Where You Want To Be | 4.0 |
| Taking Back Sunday Louder Now | 3.5 |
| Tenacious D Tenacious D | 4.5 |
| Tenacious D The Pick of Destiny | 4.0 |
| Tenacious D Rize of the Fenix | 4.0 |
| the fucking D is baacckkkk! yeah this rocks, the honesty in the 'hollywood jack' thing and how their film sucked is cool, and the production is awesome. |
| The Blackout The Best in Town | 3.5 |
| The Damned Things Ironiclast | 3.5 |
| The Get Up Kids Something To Write Home About | 4.5 |
| The Get Up Kids Four Minute Mile | 3.5 |
| The Hextalls Get Smashed | 3.5 |
| The Jimi Hendrix Experience Axis: Bold As Love | 5.0 |
| The Killers Battle Born | 2.5 |
| WHAT IS THIS!? will probably appeal to ageing married couples on the brink of divorce. Can't stop listening to runaways though |
| The Main Drag Yours As Fast As Mine | 4.5 |
| The Smashing Pumpkins Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness | 4.5 |
| The Smashing Pumpkins Siamese Dream | 5.0 |
| The Smashing Pumpkins Oceania | 4.0 |
| The Story So Far Under Soil and Dirt | 4.0 |
| The Vaccines What Did You Expect From The Vaccines? | 3.0 |
| The Weeknd House of Balloons | 4.5 |
| The Weeknd Thursday | 4.5 |
| The Weeknd Echoes of Silence | 4.5 |
| The Wonder Years Suburbia: I've Given You All and Now I'm Nothing | 4.5 |
| The Wonder Years Get Stoked On It! | 3.0 |
| The Wonder Years The Upsides | 4.0 |
| Thin Lizzy Jailbreak | 5.0 |
| Thin Lizzy Nightlife | 4.0 |
| "Just a slight guitar injection", a cool Phil Lynott shouts in Nightlife's opening track, right before we get a first taste of the twin-guitar harmonies that defined Lizzy's career. In comparison to later releases, Nightlife is best described as laid-back, but it is a gem of an album in a discography that is largely underrated. |
| Thin Lizzy Renegade | 3.5 |
| Thin Lizzy Black Rose: A Rock Legend | 5.0 |
| Thin Lizzy Live And Dangerous | 5.0 |
| Thin Lizzy Johnny The Fox | 5.0 |
| Thin Lizzy Fighting | 4.5 |
| Thin Lizzy Bad Reputation | 5.0 |
| Thin Lizzy Chinatown | 3.5 |
| Thin Lizzy Thunder and Lightning | 4.0 |
| Thin Lizzy Vagabonds of the Western World | 4.0 |
| Twin Atlantic Free | 2.5 |
| Violent Soho Violent Soho | 3.0 |
| Wiley Chill Out Zone | 1.5 |
| Wiley 'chilling out' by producing some light, stripped-down beats and hiring a few guest singers. Oh, he also made a rubbish EP in the process. |
| Wiley Treddin' on Thin Ice | 3.5 |
| Wiley Playtime Is Over | 3.5 |
| wiley, the 'Godfather' of grime, put (and still puts) out some great tracks, but his first few LP's were inconsistent and contained a high abundance of shit. |
| Wolves in Aramid Obsidian | 3.5 |
| Yellowcard Ocean Avenue | 4.0 |
| Yuck Yuck | 4.5 |
