| 2021 |
| Just Before Dawn In the Realm of Ash and Sorrow | 3.5 |
| Phrenelith Chimaera | 3.5 |
| Malignant Altar Realms of Exquisite Morbidity | 5.0 |
| Volbeat Servant of the Mind | 3.5 |
| I remember a time when Volbeat was actually fairly well-liked on Sputnikmusic, as the averages for their first few albums would indicate. Once Outlaw Gentlemen & Shady Ladies dropped, the site's perception started to change for the worst - which is fair, because with that album began a shift toward mainstream overexposure, toothless overproduction, and watered-down songwriting that brought the band's biggest weaknesses to the forefront. Servant of the Mind seems like an attempt to correct course, re-teaming them with their golden years producer and bringing back the meaty, chunky riffs. Now they sound a little less like Godsmack and little more like drunk Elvis singing for Metallica again. |
| Genocide Pact Genocide Pact | 3.5 |
| Unanimated Victory in Blood | 4.0 |
| Failure Wild Type Droid | 4.0 |
| Hypocrisy Worship | 3.5 |
| In Mourning The Bleeding Veil | 4.5 |
| Adele 30 | 3.5 |
| Abraded Abraded | 3.5 |
| Aephanemer A Dream Of Wilderness | 4.0 |
| Abscession Rot of Ages | 4.0 |
| Stormkeep Tales of Othertime | 4.0 |
| Swallow the Sun Moonflowers | 4.5 |
| Converge Bloodmoon: I | 4.5 |
| Makthaverskan För Allting | 3.5 |
| 200 Stab Wounds Slave to the Scalpel | 3.5 |
| Taylor Swift Red (Taylor’s Version) | 4.0 |
| Silent Planet Iridescent | 4.0 |
| Hyperdontia Hideous Entity | 4.0 |
| Omnium Gatherum Origin | 3.5 |
| Emma Ruth Rundle Engine of Hell | 4.0 |
| Snail Mail Valentine | 4.0 |
| SeeYouSpaceCowboy The Romance of Affliction | 4.0 |
| Like Moths to Flames Pure Like Porcelain | 4.0 |
| Mortiferum Preserved in Torment | 4.5 |
| Limp Bizkit Still Sucks | 5.0 |
| Bad Wolves Dear Monsters | 2.0 |
| The War On Drugs I Don't Live Here Anymore | 3.5 |
| Thulcandra A Dying Wish | 3.5 |
| Whitechapel Kin | 4.0 |
| Mastodon Hushed and Grim | 4.0 |
| Be'lakor Coherence | 4.5 |
| Empty MADE OF FIRE | 2.5 |
| Lana Del Rey Blue Banisters | 3.5 |
| 1914 Where Fear and Weapons Meet | 4.0 |
| Worm Foreverglade | 4.0 |
| Cradle of Filth Existence Is Futile | 4.5 |
| Every Time I Die Radical | 4.5 |
| JPEGMAFIA LP! (offline) | 4.5 |
| City Morgue Vol. 3: Bottom Of The Barrel | 3.5 |
| Ice Nine Kills The Silver Scream 2: Welcome to Horrorwood | 4.0 |
| John Carpenter Halloween Kills | 4.0 |
| Hate Rugia | 4.0 |
| Knocked Loose A Tear in the Fabric of Life | 4.0 |
| The Breathing Process Labyrinthian | 3.5 |
| Creeping Death The Edge Of Existence | 3.5 |
| Havukruunu Kuu Erkylän Yllä | 3.5 |
| Trivium In the Court of the Dragon | 4.0 |
| Antichrist Siege Machine Purifying Blade | 4.0 |
| Asking Alexandria See What's On the Inside | 1.0 |
| Wage War Manic | 3.0 |
| Enslaved Caravans to the Outer Worlds | 3.5 |
| Dying Wish Fragments of a Bitter Memory | 4.0 |
| Katatonia Mnemosynean | 4.0 |
| Signs Of The Swarm Absolvere | 3.5 |
| Poppy Flux | 3.5 |
| Unto Others Strength | 4.0 |
| Invent Animate The Sun Sleeps, As If It Never Was | 4.0 |
| Insomnium Argent Moon | 3.5 |
| Thrice Horizons/East | 3.5 |
| I'm more optimistic for this than I was for their last couple albums but there's no way in hell this could be better than major/minor |
| The Plot In You Swan Song | 3.5 |
| Spiritbox Eternal Blue | 4.0 |
| Carcass Torn Arteries | 4.0 |
| Lamp of Murmuur Submission and Slavery | 4.0 |
| Blanket Modern Escapism | 4.0 |
| Carnifex Graveside Confessions | 3.5 |
| step back up from the last album, thanks in part to the crushing production from Mick Kenney (Anaal Nathrakh). it's a bit overlong though, and both the Korn cover and the re-recordings of old material could've been saved as bonus tracks or a separate EP. |
| Iron Maiden Senjutsu | 4.0 |
| Deformatory Inversion of the Unseen Horizon | 4.5 |
| ZillaKami DOG BOY | 3.5 |
| Kanye West Donda | 2.0 |
| CHVRCHES Screen Violence | 4.0 |
| Phinehas The Fire Itself | 4.0 |
| Halsey If I Can’t Have Love, I Want Power | 4.5 |
| Lorde Solar Power | 3.0 |
| Wolves in the Throne Room Primordial Arcana | 4.0 |
| Deafheaven Infinite Granite | 4.5 |
| GosT Rites of Love and Reverence | 3.0 |
| The Killers Pressure Machine | 3.5 |
| Diskord Degenerations | 4.0 |
| Quicksand Distant Populations | 4.0 |
| Act of Denial Negative | 4.0 |
| Seether Wasteland – The Purgatory EP | 3.0 |
| Billie Eilish Happier Than Ever | 4.0 |
| Flames of Betrayal The Rain Reeks of Heaven | 4.0 |
| Times of Grace Songs of Loss and Separation | 3.0 |
| Drawn and Quartered Congregation Pestilence | 3.5 |
| At the Gates The Nightmare of Being | 4.0 |
| Beartooth Below | 3.5 |
| The Absence Coffinized | 3.5 |
| Darkthrone Eternal Hails | 4.0 |
| Cerebral Rot Excretion Of Mortality | 4.0 |
| Helloween Helloween | 4.0 |
| Fear Factory Aggression Continuum | 4.0 |
| Various Artists Dark Nights: Death Metal - Soundtrack | 4.0 |
| Garbage No Gods No Masters | 3.0 |
| Sleater-Kinney Path of Wellness | 3.0 |
| AFI Bodies | 3.5 |
| Distant Aeons of Oblivion | 3.5 |
| Wristmeetrazor Replica of a Strange Love | 4.0 |
| These guys sure love metalcore. A much fuller, more developed release than their debut, they pull from nearly every era and variety of mxc that you can think of - 90s metallic hardcore, screamo/emoviolence, mathcore, and melodic metalcore circa the early 2000s before the style was done to death. Fans of Pg. 99, Eighteen Visions, and The Agony Scene will find a lot to have fun with here. |
| Black Veil Brides The Phantom Tomorrow | 1.5 |
| Eliran Kantor's artwork is too good for this band. |
| Atreyu Baptize | 2.0 |
| Rise Against Nowhere Generation | 3.5 |
| Wolf Alice Blue Weekend | 4.0 |
| Japanese Breakfast Jubilee | 4.0 |
| Duskmourn Fallen Kings and Rusted Crowns | 4.0 |
| This Ending Needles of Rust | 3.5 |
| Mental Cruelty A Hill to Die Upon | 4.0 |
| Perturbator Lustful Sacraments | 4.0 |
| Olivia Rodrigo Sour | 3.5 |
| The Devil Wears Prada ZII | 4.0 |
| Hanging Garden Skeleton Lake | 4.0 |
| Impure Wilhelmina Antidote | 4.5 |
| Grave Miasma Abyss of Wrathful Deities | 3.5 |
| Weezer Van Weezer | 3.0 |
| stop fucking making comments already |
| Inferno (CZ) PARADEIGMA (Phosphenes of Aphotic Eternity) | 4.0 |
| Gojira Fortitude | 3.5 |
| it hasn't come out or even leaked yet dumbass |
| Helslave From the Sulphur Depths | 3.5 |
| Bodom After Midnight Paint the Sky With Blood | 4.0 |
| Tougher Than Nails Delusional Blasphemies Destroyed | 1.0 |
| Escape the Fate Chemical Warfare | 1.5 |
| The Offspring Let the Bad Times Roll | 1.5 |
| Holding Absence The Greatest Mistake of My Life | 4.0 |
| Spectral Wound A Diabolic Thirst | 4.0 |
| Kekht Arakh Pale Swordsman | 3.5 |
| Taylor Swift Fearless (Taylor’s Version) | 4.0 |
| Zao The Crimson Corridor | 4.0 |
| Sanguisugabogg Tortured Whole | 2.0 |
| Citizen Life In Your Glass World | 3.0 |
| KANGA You And I Will Never Die | 4.0 |
| Lana Del Rey Chemtrails Over The Country Club | 3.0 |
| ERRA ERRA | 4.0 |
| A Day To Remember You're Welcome | 2.0 |
| Dreamshade A Pale Blue Dot | 3.5 |
| Chevelle NIRATIAS | 4.0 |
| incoming 3.8! |
| Chainsword Blightmarch | 3.0 |
| Architects For Those That Wish to Exist | 3.0 |
| based on the singles I'm pretty sure I'll wish this didn't exist |
| Epica Omega | 3.5 |
| Of Mice and Men Timeless | 3.5 |
| Coffin Mulch Septic Funeral | 3.5 |
| Moonspell Hermitage | 4.0 |
| Definitely the "softest", most melodic album they've ever done - and easily the best since Alpha Noir. The focus is on Fernando's singing, which is welcome because he's never sounded better. The increased melody and excellent production make this perhaps the most hauntingly atmospheric album in their discography. |
| Evergrey Escape of the Phoenix | 4.0 |
| Love and Death Perfectly Preserved | 2.0 |
| Ablaze My Sorrow Among Ashes And Monoliths | 3.5 |
| Suffering Hour The Cyclic Reckoning | 4.5 |
| Loathe The Things They Believe | 2.5 |
| Foo Fighters Medicine at Midnight | 2.5 |
| Cult of Luna The Raging River | 4.0 |
| Soen Imperial | 2.5 |
| Tribulation Where the Gloom Becomes Sound | 4.0 |
| Weezer OK Human | 4.0 |
| Asphyx Necroceros | 3.5 |
| Memoriam To the End | 3.5 |
| Gatecreeper An Unexpected Reality | 4.0 |
| Frozen Soul Crypt Of Ice | 3.5 |
| 2019 |
| Bring Me the Horizon Music to Listen to... | 1.0 |
| The Acacia Strain It Comes in Waves | 4.0 |
| Horrified (UK) Sentinel | 3.5 |
| City Morgue City Morgue Vol 2: As Good As Dead | 3.5 |
| Cattle Decapitation Death Atlas | 3.5 |
| Sentient Horror Morbid Realms | 4.0 |
| Blood Incantation Hidden History of the Human Race | 3.0 |
| Hanging Garden Into that Good Night | 3.5 |
| Despised Icon Purgatory | 4.0 |
| Abigail Williams Walk Beyond The Dark | 4.0 |
| Like Moths to Flames Where the Light Refuses to Go | 3.5 |
| Have a Nice Life Sea of Worry | 3.5 |
| The Drowning The Radiant Dark | 4.0 |
| Grave Pleasures Doomsday Roadburn | 4.0 |
| Turnover Altogether | 2.5 |
| Stray from the Path Internal Atomics | 3.0 |
| Nile Vile Nilotic Rites | 3.5 |
| Novembers Doom Nephilim Grove | 3.5 |
| Paganizer The Tower of the Morbid | 3.5 |
| The Damned Black Is the Night | 4.0 |
| Counterparts Nothing Left to Love | 4.5 |
| Cradle of Filth Cruelty and the Beast - Re-Mistressed | 4.5 |
| Dayshell Mr. Pain | 2.5 |
| Kanye West Jesus Is King | 1.0 |
| oh for fuck's sake |
| Bad Wolves N.A.T.I.O.N. | 1.0 |
| Norma Jean All Hail | 3.5 |
| Alcest Spiritual Instinct | 4.0 |
| Fit for an Autopsy The Sea of Tragic Beasts | 4.0 |
| Mayhem Daemon | 4.0 |
| PVRIS Hallucinations | 4.0 |
| Stiu Nu Stiu Sick Sad Love | 4.0 |
| Thornhill The Dark Pool | 4.5 |
| Refused War Music | 3.0 |
| Prison Still Alive | 3.0 |
| Alter Bridge Walk The Sky | 3.5 |
| Runemagick Into Desolate Realms | 3.5 |
| 1349 The Infernal Pathway | 3.5 |
| Jimmy Eat World Surviving | 3.5 |
| Dream State Primrose Path | 3.5 |
| clipping. There Existed an Addiction to Blood | 4.5 |
| Thousand Below Gone in Your Wake | 2.5 |
| Toothgrinder I Am | 3.0 |
| Gideon Out of Control | 3.0 |
| Lacuna Coil Black Anima | 3.5 |
| Life of Agony The Sound Of Scars | 3.5 |
| Signs Of The Swarm Vital Deprivation | 3.5 |
| The Devil Wears Prada The Act | 3.5 |
| not a diss at this band at all, but I've always found it funny that the dude who did the covers for Left Hand Path, Altars of Madness, Effigy of the Forgotten, and Like an Ever Flowing Stream does art for them.redit: no, this red version is the album art |
| Mortiferum Disgorged from Psychotic Depths | 4.0 |
| Varials In Darkness | 4.0 |
| GosT Valediction | 2.5 |
| In Mourning Garden of Storms | 3.5 |
| Kublai Khan TX Absolute | 3.5 |
| Insomnium Heart Like a Grave | 4.0 |
| Gatecreeper Deserted | 4.0 |
| Angel Olsen All Mirrors | 4.5 |
| Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds Ghosteen | 4.5 |
| Chromatics Closer to Grey | 4.0 |
| Kim Petras TURN OFF THE LIGHT | 3.5 |
| Profane Order Slave Morality | 4.0 |
| Opeth In Cauda Venenum | 3.5 |
| Creeping Death Wretched Illusions | 3.5 |
| Of Mice and Men EARTHANDSKY | 3.5 |
| SeeYouSpaceCowboy The Correlation Between Entrance And Exit Wounds | 3.5 |
| DOTGIFFROMGOD approximation_of_a_human | 3.5 |
| Cynic Traced In Air Remixed | 4.0 |
| Dayseeker Sleeptalk | 4.0 |
| As I Lay Dying Shaped by Fire | 2.5 |
| M83 DSVII | 3.0 |
| Exhorder Mourn the Southern Skies | 3.5 |
| blink-182 Nine | 3.5 |
| mark hoppus has publicly stated that they are, in fact, counting Buddha |
| Coffins Beyond the Circular Demise | 4.0 |
| Cult of Luna A Dawn to Fear | 4.5 |
| Starset Divisions | 2.0 |
| Pixies Beneath the Eyrie | 3.0 |
| War of Ages Void | 3.0 |
| Charli XCX Charli | 3.5 |
| Korn The Nothing | 3.5 |
| Belle and Sebastian Days Of The Bagnold Summer | 3.5 |
| Chelsea Wolfe Birth of Violence | 4.0 |
| JPEGMAFIA All My Heroes Are Cornballs | 4.0 |
| Disillusion The Liberation | 3.5 |
| Lindsey Stirling Artemis | 3.5 |
| Empty Hope and The Loss of It | 4.0 |
| Lana Del Rey Norman Fucking Rockwell! | 4.0 |
| Wage War Pressure | 2.5 |
| I laughed several times while listening to this album but afterwards I just felt deep embarrassment and shame |
| Witch Vomit Buried Deep In A Bottomless Grave | 3.5 |
| Tool Fear Inoculum | 3.5 |
| Antichrist Siege Machine Schism Perpetration | 3.5 |
| Taylor Swift Lover | 3.5 |
| Knocked Loose A Different Shade of Blue | 4.0 |
| Killswitch Engage Atonement | 3.0 |
| Ride This Is Not a Safe Place | 3.5 |
| Cerebral Rot Odious Descent Into Decay | 3.5 |
| Sleater-Kinney The Center Won’t Hold | 3.5 |
| Detherous Hacked to Death | 3.5 |
| Shadow Of Intent Melancholy | 4.0 |
| Slipknot We Are Not Your Kind | 4.0 |
| Skillet Victorious | 1.0 |
| Volbeat Rewind, Replay, Rebound | 2.5 |
| Carnifex World War X | 3.0 |
| Bad Omens Finding God Before God Finds Me | 3.0 |
| Northlane Alien | 3.5 |
| Undeath Sentient Autolysis | 4.0 |
| Thy Art Is Murder Human Target | 3.5 |
| Sanction (NY) Broken In Refraction | 4.0 |
| Lacrimas Profundere Bleeding the Stars | 4.0 |
| It's a shame that Oliver Schmid had to fire everyone else in the band and replace them to achieve it, but here we have a return to form for a band that undeniably started out strong before settling into mainstream complacency. The doomy tempos and harsh vocals are back after a nearly 20 year absence, and new vocalist Julian Larre proves to be the strongest asset the band has had since Christopher Schmid left the band. |
| Sum 41 Order In Decline | 3.5 |
| Tomb Mold Planetary Clairvoyance | 4.0 |
| Chamber (USA) Ripping/Pulling/Tearing | 4.0 |
| Batushka Hospodi | 3.0 |
| weird how people get worked up over this and refuse to support it on """principle""" but then give money to Deathspell Omega despite their extreme Nazi ties |
| Banks III | 3.0 |
| Oh, Sleeper Bloodied/Unbowed | 3.5 |
| Drab Majesty Modern Mirror | 4.0 |
| Disentomb The Decaying Light | 4.0 |
| Blood Stain Child Amateras | 3.5 |
| Kim Petras Clarity | 3.5 |
| Memoriam Requiem for Mankind | 3.5 |
| Abyssal (UK) A Beacon In The Husk | 4.0 |
| Lil Nas X 7 | 5.0 |
| Baroness Gold and Grey | 3.0 |
| Soilwork Underworld | 3.5 |
| Hate Auric Gates of Veles | 4.0 |
| Motionless in White Disguise | 2.5 |
| Distant Tyrannotophia | 3.0 |
| Cave In Final Transmission | 4.0 |
| Silversun Pickups Widow's Weeds | 4.0 |
| Andavald Undir Skyggðarhaldi | 4.0 |
| AngelMaker AngelMaker | 3.5 |
| Death Angel Humanicide | 3.5 |
| Denzel Curry Zuu | 3.5 |
| Gaahls Wyrd GastiR - Ghosts Invited | 4.0 |
| Darkthrone Old Star | 4.0 |
| Krypts Cadaver Circulation | 4.0 |
| Batushka Panihida | 4.0 |
| Morrissey California Son | 2.0 |
| Fleshgod Apocalypse Veleno | 3.5 |
| Destrage The Chosen One | 3.5 |
| Misthyrming Algleymi | 5.0 |
| Goregang Neon Graves | 3.5 |
| October Tide In Splendor Below | 3.5 |
| The National I Am Easy to Find | 3.5 |
| Rammstein Untitled | 3.5 |
| Bethlehem Lebe Dich Leer | 3.5 |
| Tyler, the Creator IGOR | 4.5 |
| Unto Others Mana | 4.0 |
| Cult of Luna The Silent Man | 4.0 |
| Bad Religion Age of Unreason | 3.0 |
| Amon Amarth Berserker | 3.0 |
| New Years Day Unbreakable | 1.5 |
| Sunn O))) Life Metal | 2.0 |
| The Cranberries In the End | 3.5 |
| Spotlights Love and Decay | 4.0 |
| Belzebubs Pantheon of the Nightside Gods | 4.0 |
| Minenfeld The Great Adventure | 4.0 |
| Spiritbox Singles Collection | 4.0 |
| GARDSGHASTR Slit Throat Requiem | 4.5 |
| Sadistik Haunted Gardens | 4.0 |
| Get Scared The Dead Days | 3.5 |
| Allegaeon Apoptosis | 4.0 |
| Blood Command Return of the Arsonist | 4.0 |
| Aaron Lewis State I'm In | 1.0 |
| Silverstein Redux: The First 10 Years | 4.0 |
| Hath Of Rot And Ruin | 4.5 |
| NONE Damp Chill of Life | 4.0 |
| PUP Morbid Stuff | 2.0 |
| I Prevail TRAUMA | 2.0 |
| Devin Townsend Empath | 3.0 |
| Nightrage Wolf to Man | 3.0 |
| Arrival of Autumn Harbinger | 3.5 |
| Orpheus Omega Wear Your Sins | 3.5 |
| Whitechapel The Valley | 4.0 |
can someone let WoodeeX know that they are actually not a respected user? I don't think anyone's let them in on the joke yet
edit: WoodeeX deleted his soundoff lol |
| Brutus (BE) Nest | 4.0 |
| Billie Eilish When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? | 4.0 |
| Dalek Respect to the Authors | 3.5 |
| Aephanemer Prokopton | 4.0 |
| Aoratos Gods Without Name | 4.0 |
| Master Boot Record Internet Protocol | 4.0 |
| Predatoria Casting Shadows | 4.0 |
| Blaqk Audio Only Things We Love | 3.5 |
| Any Given Day Overpower | 3.5 |
| Venom Prison Samsara | 4.0 |
| Misery Index Rituals of Power | 3.5 |
| Children of Bodom Hexed | 4.0 |
| Weezer The Black Album | 2.5 |
| Demon Hunter War | 3.0 |
| Demon Hunter Peace | 3.0 |
| In Flames I, the Mask | 3.0 |
| Queensryche The Verdict | 4.0 |
| Attila Villain | 1.5 |
| Overkill The Wings of War | 3.0 |
| Blood Youth Starve | 3.5 |
| Rotting Christ The Heretics | 3.5 |
| Zao Decoding Transmissions From The Möbius Strip | 4.0 |
| HEALTH VOL. 4 :: SLAVES OF FEAR | 4.0 |
| Bring Me the Horizon Amo | 3.0 |
| Swervedriver Future Ruins | 3.0 |
| Swallow the Sun When a Shadow Is Forced into the Light | 3.5 |
| Hecate Enthroned Embrace of the Godless Aeon | 3.5 |
| Evergrey The Atlantic | 4.0 |
| Puppy The Goat | 4.0 |
| Weezer The Teal Album | 3.0 |
| I don't like this therefore it should not exist because my desires are more important than the artist's |
| FEVER 333 Strength In Numb333rs | 1.5 |
| Wristmeetrazor Misery Never Forgets | 3.5 |
| The Twilight Sad It Won/t Be Like This All the Time | 4.5 |
| Soilwork Verkligheten | 3.5 |
| While She Sleeps So What? | 2.5 |
| 2018 |
| Palisades Erase the Pain | 3.0 |
| Gudveiki Vængför | 4.0 |
| Acathexis Acathexis | 4.5 |
| Sulphur Aeon The Scythe of Cosmic Chaos | 4.5 |
| Currents I Let the Devil In | 4.0 |
| AFI The Missing Man | 4.0 |
| Carnifex Bury Me in Blasphemy | 3.0 |
| Svartidaudi Revelations of the Red Sword | 4.0 |
| Crystal Lake Helix | 3.0 |
| 6ix9ine DUMMY BOY | 1.5 |
| Unearth Extinction(s) | 2.5 |
| Sodom Partisan | 3.0 |
| In the Woods... Cease the Day | 3.0 |
| myGRAIN III | 3.5 |
| Obliteration Cenotaph Obscure | 4.0 |
| Memphis May Fire Broken | 2.0 |
| Azusa Heavy Yoke | 4.0 |
| Failure In The Future Your Body Will Be The Furthest Thing From Your Mind | 4.0 |
| 1914 The Blind Leading the Blind | 4.0 |
| Imagine Dragons Origins | 1.5 |
| Architects Holy Hell | 3.5 |
| All That Remains Victim of the New Disease | 3.5 |
| Kaelan Mikla Not Eftir Not | 4.0 |
| Cult Leader A Patient Man | 4.5 |
| Emery Eve | 4.5 |
| The Smashing Pumpkins Shiny and Oh So Bright, Vol. 1 | 3.0 |
please don't suck please don't suck please don't suck please don't suck
edit: it sucks |
| Dead Can Dance Dionysus | 3.5 |
| Arsis Visitant | 3.5 |
| Silent Planet When the End Began | 4.0 |
| The Ocean Phanerozoic I: Palaeozoic | 4.0 |
| Normandie White Flag | 3.0 |
| Bloodbath The Arrow of Satan Is Drawn | 3.5 |
| Nicole Dollanganger Heart Shaped Bed | 3.5 |
| Hate Eternal Upon Desolate Sands | 4.0 |
| Chevelle 12 Bloody Spies: B-Sides and Rarities | 4.0 |
| Moonshade Sun Dethroned | 4.0 |
| Shining (NOR) Animal | 1.5 |
| Greta Van Fleet Anthem of the Peaceful Army | 1.5 |
| Disturbed Evolution | 2.0 |
| Amaranthe Helix | 3.0 |
| Soulfly Ritual | 3.5 |
| Our Hollow, Our Home In Moment // In Memory | 3.5 |
| John Carpenter Halloween (2018) | 4.0 |
| Tom Morello The Atlas Underground | 1.0 |
| Atreyu In Our Wake | 2.0 |
| Basement Beside Myself | 3.5 |
| City Morgue HELL OR HIGH WATER VOL. 1 | 3.5 |
| Outer Heaven Realms of Eternal Decay | 4.0 |
| Chthonic Battlefields of Asura | 3.5 |
| mewithoutYou [Untitled] | 2.5 |
| Coheed and Cambria Vaxis I: The Unheavenly Creatures | 3.5 |
| Gunship Dark All Day | 3.5 |
| Behemoth I Loved You at Your Darkest | 3.5 |
| Ice Nine Kills The Silver Scream | 4.0 |
| High on Fire Electric Messiah | 4.0 |
| Carpe Noctem Vitrun | 4.0 |
| Rise to Fall Into Zero | 3.5 |
| Beartooth Disease | 3.0 |
| Marissa Nadler For My Crimes | 3.5 |
| Anaal Nathrakh A New Kind of Horror | 3.5 |
| Wolfheart Constellation of the Black Light | 3.5 |
| The Black Queen Infinite Games | 4.0 |
| Horrendous Idol | 4.0 |
| Scorched (USA-DE) Ecliptic Butchery | 4.0 |
| Dir En Grey The Insulated World | 3.5 |
| The Story So Far Proper Dose | 4.0 |
| Thrice Palms | 3.0 |
| Shinedown's best album yet |
| Deicide Overtures of Blasphemy | 3.5 |
| Fit for a King Dark Skies | 3.5 |
| Irreversible Mechanism Immersion | 3.5 |
| Infernal Coil Within a World Forgotten | 4.0 |
| Emma Ruth Rundle On Dark Horses | 4.5 |
| aoty incoming |
| Clutch Book of Bad Decisions | 3.5 |
| Pig Destroyer Head Cage | 3.5 |
| Boston Manor Welcome to the Neighbourhood | 4.0 |
| Counterparts Private Room | 4.0 |
| Eminem Kamikaze | 1.5 |
| are you fucking kidding me with that album art tho |
| Wild Nothing Indigo | 3.5 |
| VCTMS Vol. III: Halfway Happy | 3.5 |
| The Breathing Process Samsara | 3.5 |
| Thou Magus | 4.0 |
| IDLES Joy as an Act of Resistance | 4.0 |
| Omnium Gatherum The Burning Cold | 4.0 |
| Alkaline Trio Is This Thing Cursed? | 4.5 |
| Hespera In Absence | 4.5 |
| This is basically the perfect holdover until the next Soilwork album. Not only is Bjorn Strid doing vocals and former Soilwork drummer Dirk Verbeuren lending his talents, but even the songwriting, melodies, and guitarwork courtesy of Cole Martinez and Matt Silac sound utterly indistinguishable from that of Soilwork's two most recent albums. It's basically the ultimate Soilwork clone, completely identical and every bit as good as its parent. |
| Interpol Marauder | 3.0 |
| The Amity Affliction Misery | 3.0 |
| Nothing Dance On The Blacktop | 3.5 |
| Jesus Piece Only Self | 4.0 |
| Alice in Chains Rainier Fog | 4.0 |
| Convulsing Grievous | 4.0 |
| Nicki Minaj Queen | 2.0 |
| Unanimated Annihilation | 3.5 |
| Crossfaith Ex_Machina | 2.0 |
| Daughtry Cage to Rattle | 1.0 |
| Otep Kult 45 | 1.5 |
| I'll admit it: I liked Otep's first three albums. they weren't perfect, especially when it came to the spoken word tracks, but they contained some moderately enjoyable nu-metal bangers. ever since, they've been on a not-so-steady decline, with this being their absolute lowest point to date. everything about this is obnoxious, from the ham-fisted sociopolitical lyrics to Otep Shamaya's pseudo-rapped vocals to the generic, chuggy instrumentation. it's all the worst elements of nu-metal wrapped up in a neat little package and delivered on the doorstep of a musical climate that's been over it since 2005. |
| Drawn and Quartered The One Who Lurks | 3.5 |
| Denzel Curry TA13OO | 4.5 |
| Thou Rhea Sylvia | 4.0 |
| Jungle Rot Jungle Rot | 3.0 |
| Runemagick Evoked From Abysmal Sleep | 3.5 |
| Skeletonwitch Devouring Radiant Light | 4.0 |
| The Agony Scene Tormentor | 4.5 |
| 11 years after releasing what was then to be their final album, The Agony Scene come back more savage than ever with their magnum opus. Disgustingly ferocious and oppressively heavy, I'm not sure this can even be called metalcore anymore. This is much closer to blackened death metal, and it rules. |
| Chelsea Grin Eternal Nightmare | 1.5 |
| Bury Tomorrow Black Flame | 3.0 |
| Deafheaven Ordinary Corrupt Human Love | 3.5 |
| Hopesfall Arbiter | 4.0 |
| oh me yes |
| Immortal Northern Chaos Gods | 3.5 |
| Mom Jeans. Puppy Love | 2.0 |
| Bullet for My Valentine Gravity | 1.0 |
| Drake Scorpion | 2.0 |
| Guns N' Roses Appetite For Destruction (Super Deluxe) | 2.0 |
| Gorillaz The Now Now | 3.0 |
| Florence and the Machine High as Hope | 3.5 |
| Paradise Lost Believe In Nothing (Remixed/Remastered) | 3.5 |
| Converge Beautiful Ruin | 4.0 |
| Impending Doom The Sin and Doom Vol. II | 3.0 |
| Marduk Viktoria | 3.0 |
| Vein.fm Errorzone | 4.0 |
| Nine Inch Nails Bad Witch | 4.0 |
| Gaerea Unsettling Whispers | 4.0 |
| Nas NASIR | 2.0 |
| Johnny Marr Call The Comet | 3.5 |
| Hoth Astral Necromancy | 4.0 |
| Blood Stain Child The Legend | 2.0 |
| the GazettE Ninth | 3.5 |
| Dance Gavin Dance Artificial Selection | 1.5 |
| Snail Mail Lush | 4.0 |
| Tomb Mold Manor of Infinite Forms | 4.0 |
| Spectral Wound Infernal Decadence | 4.0 |
| Kanye West ye | 1.5 |
| Ghost (SWE) Prequelle | 3.5 |
| good music for dads trying to be hip with the kids by being edgy |
| Jonathan Davis Black Labyrinth | 2.0 |
| CHVRCHES Love Is Dead | 2.5 |
| Micawber Beyond the Reach of Flame | 3.5 |
| Bleeding Through Love Will Kill All | 4.0 |
| this album was not quite what I expected and I love it for that. the increased use of cleans (more than on The Truth?) and Marta's increased presence, both on keys and vocally, really make this feel fresh and give it a unique vibe within their discography. also, No Friends is the dumbest fucking song they've ever done and I love it. |
| Uada Cult of a Dying Sun | 4.0 |
| Five Finger Death Punch And Justice for None | 1.0 |
| Burn the Priest Legion: XX | 2.5 |
| if they were going to resurrect the Burn the Priest name, I would've hoped they'd resurrect the Burn the Priest style, too. but sadly there's no groovy grind-infused death metal here - instead what we get is a collection of very play-it-safe covers that differ very little from the originals aside from the recognizable vocals of Randy Blythe and snare-heavy drum sound of Chris Adler. there's nothing really bad here, but nothing particularly good either. ultimately it feels like an unnecessary release, but at least it sounds like they had fun when they made it. |
| Ash Islands | 3.0 |
| Conform Circa '94 | 3.5 |
| Amorphis Queen of Time | 4.0 |
| Traitrs Butcher's coin | 4.0 |
| Bad Wolves Disobey | 1.5 |
| Sevendust All I See Is War | 3.0 |
| Skinless Savagery | 3.0 |
| Engel Abandon All Hope | 3.0 |
| Beach House 7 | 4.0 |
| Shinedown Attention Attention | 2.0 |
| Parkway Drive Reverence | 2.5 |
| The Word Alive Violent Noise | 2.5 |
| Dimmu Borgir Eonian | 3.5 |
| At the Gates To Drink from the Night Itself | 3.5 |
| Wolvhammer The Monuments of Ash and Bone | 3.5 |
| Ihsahn Amr | 4.0 |
| Depravity (AUS) Evil Upheaval | 3.5 |
| Godsmack When Legends Rise | 1.0 |
| The Armed Only Love | 4.0 |
| Just Before Dawn Tides of Blood | 4.0 |
| Sectioned Annihilated | 4.0 |
| Varathron Patriarchs of Evil | 4.5 |
| Inferi (USA) Revenant | 3.5 |
| A Perfect Circle Eat the Elephant | 3.5 |
| Breaking Benjamin Ember | 3.0 |
| The Damned Evil Spirits | 3.5 |
| Skeletal Remains Devouring Mortality | 3.5 |
| Thirty Seconds to Mars America | 1.0 |
| Caliban Elements | 2.5 |
| Underoath Erase Me | 3.0 |
| Kalmah Palo | 3.5 |
| Bleed from Within Era | 4.0 |
| Kataklysm Meditations | 3.0 |
| Within Destruction Deathwish | 3.5 |
| Napalm Death Coded Smears and More Uncommon Slurs | 4.0 |
| Hayley Kiyoko Expectations | 4.0 |
| Blessthefall Hard Feelings | 2.0 |
| Memoriam The Silent Vigil | 3.0 |
| The Absence A Gift for the Obsessed | 3.0 |
| GosT Possessor | 4.0 |
| Altars Of Grief Iris | 3.5 |
| Hinayana Order Divine | 3.5 |
| XXXTENTACION ? | 1.0 |
| Stone Temple Pilots Stone Temple Pilots (2018) | 2.0 |
| Susperia The Lyricist | 3.0 |
| Greyhaven Empty Black | 4.5 |
| Three Days Grace Outsider | 1.0 |
| Judas Priest Firepower | 4.0 |
| Oceans of Slumber The Banished Heart | 4.0 |
| Rolo Tomassi Time Will Die And Love Will Bury It | 4.5 |
| Anna von Hausswolff Dead Magic | 4.5 |
| Recode the Subliminal Disconnected | 4.0 |
| Necrophobic Mark of the Necrogram | 3.5 |
| Vexes Ancient Geometry | 4.0 |
| Of Feather and Bone Bestial Hymns of Perversion | 4.0 |
| Usurpress Interregnum | 4.5 |
| rest in peace vocalist and band leader Stefan Pettersson. fuck cancer. |
| The Plot In You Dispose | 3.0 |
| Senses Fail If There Is Light, It Will Find You | 3.5 |
| Ride Tomorrow’s Shore | 3.5 |
| Cypecore The Alliance | 4.0 |
| Endless Heights Vicious Pleasure | 4.0 |
| Thornhill Butterfly | 4.0 |
| Pole Younger Barren Scum Ethics | 1.0 |
| getting some new 1's, i really don't understand why i attract so many retarded users whenever i release new shitri want to bury the hatchet once and for all, this has to be addressed and there's no shame in itreveryone who 1's pole younger i'm sorry that you're boring and retarded and we can't be friends, i can't give you advice on how to become a user i'll get along with, you guys would piss me off even if it wasn't for pole younger, your tastes are awful and always trying too hard to fit in with the eccentric boys for whatever reason, go listen to your metal records because you don't have what it takes to be top notch |
| Harm's Way (USA-IL) Posthuman | 3.5 |
| Orphaned Land Unsung Prophets and Dead Messiahs | 4.0 |
| Machine Head Catharsis | 1.5 |
| In Vain (NO) Currents | 3.5 |
| Tribulation Down Below | 4.0 |
| Mammoth Grinder Cosmic Crypt | 4.0 |
| Cane Hill Too Far Gone | 3.0 |
| JPEGMAFIA Veteran | 4.0 |
| Black Veil Brides Vale | 1.5 |
| Avatar Avatar Country | 2.5 |
| Summoning With Doom We Come | 3.5 |
| Watain Trident Wolf Eclipse | 3.5 |
| Shining (SWE) X - Varg Utan Flock | 4.0 |
| Light This City Terminal Bloom | 4.0 |
| Sinistro Sangue Cassia | 4.5 |
| Deathwhite For a Black Tomorrow | 3.5 |
| Jeff Rosenstock POST- | 3.5 |
| Megadeth Killing Is My Business... The Final Kill | 4.5 |
I've always thought the original version of Megadeth's debut album was severely held back by its incredibly low-budget production and mix. At the same time, with how poorly the 2004 Megadeth reissues were handled, I was a bit hesitant when Dave Mustaine announced that Killing Is My Business was getting a completely remixed and remastered version this year to celebrate the band's 35th anniversary.
Thankfully, I can say this release is a near-complete success that improves on the original in almost every possible way and really brings out the brilliance that was hampered by its poor sound.
The one notable drawback I can point to (besides the largely expendable but ultimately irrelevant live and demo bonus content) is the re-recorded vocals on the cover of These Boots. While it sounds like they tried to blend it in as best as they could, it's impossible not to notice the difference in Dave's voice between now and then. That said, considering the circumstances involving the altered lyrics and subsequent legal threats from the song's writer, the decision to redo the vocals with the original lyrics intact was probably the better option over censoring or omitting it completely as done in the past.
Despite this shortcoming, in all this was a superbly done revamp of a criminally underappreciated album and sits firmly as one of the best remixed and remastered reissues I've heard.
edit: dedes that's not nice to say about poor Vic Rattlehead |
| 2017 |
| Asking Alexandria Asking Alexandria | 1.5 |
| For All Eternity The Will to Rebuild | 2.5 |
| Evilfeast Elegies of the Stellar Wind | 4.5 |
| War of Ages Alpha | 3.0 |
| Red Death Formidable Darkness | 4.0 |
| Graceless Shadowlands | 4.0 |
| Morbid Angel Kingdoms Disdained | 3.5 |
| Glassjaw Material Control | 4.5 |
| Aetherian The Untamed Wilderness | 3.5 |
| Coraxo Sol | 3.5 |
| In Flames Down, Wicked and No Good | 1.5 |
| Morrissey Low In High School | 3.0 |
| Phinehas Dark Flag | 3.5 |
| Cavalera Conspiracy Psychosis | 4.0 |
| Chaos Moon Eschaton Mémoire | 4.0 |
| Ulver Sic Transit Gloria Mundi | 4.0 |
| Taylor Swift Reputation | 3.0 |
| The Unguided And The Battle Royale | 3.5 |
| Threat Signal Disconnect | 3.5 |
| Toothgrinder Phantom Amour | 3.5 |
| Quicksand Interiors | 4.0 |
| Angel Olsen Phases | 4.0 |
| Moonspell 1755 | 3.5 |
| Cannibal Corpse Red Before Black | 3.5 |
| Like Moths to Flames Dark Divine | 3.5 |
| Signs Of The Swarm The Disfigurement Of Existence | 3.5 |
| Converge The Dusk in Us | 4.0 |
| Zao Pyrrhic Victory | 4.0 |
| Blaze of Perdition Conscious Darkness | 4.0 |
| Polaris The Mortal Coil | 4.5 |
| Red (USA) Gone | 2.0 |
| Weezer Pacific Daydream | 2.5 |
| The Used The Canyon | 3.0 |
| Forgotten Tomb We Owe You Nothing | 3.0 |
| Ne Obliviscaris Urn | 3.5 |
| 10 Years (How to Live) As Ghosts | 3.5 |
| Left Behind Blessed by the Burn | 3.5 |
| Hanging Garden I Am Become | 4.0 |
| Spiritbox Spiritbox | 4.0 |
| Blut Aus Nord Deus Salutis Meae | 3.5 |
| Veil of Maya False Idol | 2.0 |
| Cyhra Letters To Myself | 2.5 |
| We Came As Romans Cold Like War | 3.5 |
| Then Comes Silence Blood | 3.5 |
| Makthaverskan Ill | 4.0 |
| Trivium The Sin and the Sentence | 4.0 |
| Movements Feel Something | 4.0 |
| Amenra Mass VI | 4.5 |
| Fozzy Judas | 2.0 |
| MyChildren MyBride Vicious World | 3.0 |
| Samael Hegemony | 3.5 |
| Stick to Your Guns True View | 3.5 |
| In Dying Arms In Dying Arms (Remake) | 3.5 |
| Enslaved E | 4.0 |
| Through the Eyes of the Dead Disomus | 4.0 |
| Spectral Voice Eroded Corridors of Unbeing | 4.5 |
| Citizen As You Please | 4.0 |
| August Burns Red Phantom Anthem | 4.0 |
| The Black Dahlia Murder Nightbringers | 4.0 |
| My Ticket Home Unreal | 4.0 |
| Spotlights Seismic | 4.0 |
| Thousand Below The Love You Let Too Close | 4.5 |
| Hans Zimmer and Benjamin Wallfisch Blade Runner 2049 | 4.5 |
| Crystal Lake Apollo | 4.0 |
| Dawn Ray'd The Unlawful Assembly | 4.0 |
| Kadavar (DE) Rough Times | 2.5 |
| 36 Crazyfists Lanterns | 3.0 |
| Wolf Alice Visions of a Life | 3.5 |
| Kublai Khan TX Nomad | 3.5 |
| Horrified (UK) Allure of the Fallen | 4.0 |
| Sleeping With Sirens Gossip | 1.0 |
| Enter Shikari The Spark | 3.0 |
| Mastodon Cold Dark Place | 3.0 |
| The Horrors V | 3.5 |
| Archspire Relentless Mutation | 3.5 |
| Counterparts You're Not You Anymore | 4.0 |
| Cradle of Filth Cryptoriana – The Seductiveness of Decay | 4.0 |
| Wolves in the Throne Room Thrice Woven | 4.0 |
| Chelsea Wolfe Hiss Spun | 4.5 |
| Kauan Kaiho | 4.5 |
| Foo Fighters Concrete and Gold | 2.5 |
| Nothing More The Stories We Tell Ourselves | 2.5 |
| Myrkur Mareridt | 3.5 |
| Belphegor Totenritual | 3.5 |
| Soror Dolorosa Apollo | 4.0 |
| Fleshkiller Awaken | 4.0 |
| Dyscarnate With All Their Might | 4.0 |
| Faceless Burial Grotesque Miscreation | 4.0 |
| Phoebe Bridgers Stranger in the Alps | 4.0 |
| Arch Enemy Will to Power | 2.5 |
| Stray from the Path Only Death Is Real | 3.0 |
| The National Sleep Well Beast | 4.0 |
| END (USA-NJ) From the Unforgiving Arms of God | 4.0 |
| Angelo Badalamenti Twin Peaks: Music from the Limited Event Series | 4.5 |
| Angelo Badalamenti Twin Peaks (Limited Series Soundtrack) | 4.5 |
| Perturbator New Model | 4.5 |
| Eyes Wide Open And So It Begins | 3.0 |
| Paradise Lost Medusa | 3.5 |
| Dalek Endangered Philosophies | 3.5 |
| Septicflesh Codex Omega | 4.0 |
| Grave Pleasures Motherblood | 4.5 |
| this is the album they should have released after Climax. |
| XXXTENTACION 17 | 1.0 |
| Turnover Good Nature | 3.0 |
| The Haunted Strength in Numbers | 3.0 |
| PVRIS All We Know of Heaven, All We Need of Hell | 4.0 |
| Leprous Malina | 4.0 |
| The War On Drugs A Deeper Understanding | 4.0 |
| Antichrist Siege Machine Morbid Triumph | 4.0 |
| Akercocke Renaissance in Extremis | 4.5 |
| Cloakroom Time Well | 3.5 |
| End of Green Void Estate | 3.5 |
| Thy Art Is Murder Dear Desolation | 4.0 |
| Billie Eilish dont smile at me | 3.0 |
| edgy enough to make fun of a 16 year old girl apparently |
| Incantation Profane Nexus | 3.5 |
| Hundred Suns The Prestaliis | 3.5 |
| Varials Pain Again | 3.5 |
| Dean Hurley Anthology Resource Vol. 1 | 4.0 |
| Paganizer Land Of Weeping Souls | 3.5 |
| Wage War Deadweight | 3.0 |
| Lana Del Rey Lust For Life | 3.0 |
| Converge I Can Tell You About Pain | 4.5 |
| Rings of Saturn Ultu Ulla | 1.5 |
| Joywave Content | 3.5 |
| Make Them Suffer Worlds Apart | 4.0 |
| Blood Stain Child Tri Odyssey | 2.5 |
| this band's descent from being among the best in the business of blending catchy modern metal with electronics into complete mediocrity is one of the biggest disappointments in music for me. Epsilon was such a fun and well-executed album, but this just continues the trend of eschewing the focus and songwriting present there in favor of being a complete clusterfuck of sounds. it's not as bad as Nexus, at least. |
| In This Moment Ritual | 1.5 |
| Wintersun The Forest Seasons | 2.5 |
| Decrepit Birth Axis Mundi | 3.5 |
| Nine Inch Nails Add Violence | 4.0 |
| Tyler, the Creator Flower Boy | 4.5 |
| Silverstein Dead Reflection | 3.5 |
| Dayseeker Dreaming Is Sinking /// Waking Is Rising | 3.5 |
| Decapitated Anticult | 3.0 |
| Impure Wilhelmina Radiation | 4.5 |
| The Acacia Strain Gravebloom | 3.0 |
| Shade Empire Poetry of the Ill-Minded | 4.0 |
| Denzel Curry 13 | 3.5 |
| Celldweller Offworld | 3.0 |
| Captain, We're Sinking The King of No Man | 2.5 |
| Dying Fetus Wrong One to Fuck With | 3.5 |
| Rozwell Kid Precious Art | 3.5 |
| Desultory Through Aching Aeons | 3.5 |
| Neurotech The Catalyst | 4.0 |
| Bones (USA-CA) NoRedeemingQualities | 4.0 |
| Nickelback Feed the Machine | 1.5 |
| Royal Blood How Did We Get So Dark? | 2.0 |
| Ride Weather Diaries | 3.5 |
| Zeta (UK) Zeta | 3.5 |
| Currents The Place I Feel Safest | 4.0 |
| Hundredth Rare | 4.0 |
| Lorde Melodrama | 4.5 |
| Suffocation …Of the Dark Light | 3.0 |
| Rise Against Wolves | 3.0 |
| Cigarettes After Sex Cigarettes After Sex | 3.5 |
| The Birthday Massacre Under Your Spell | 4.0 |
| Anathema The Optimist | 4.0 |
| Necrot Blood Offerings | 4.0 |
| Walpyrgus Walpyrgus Nights | 3.5 |
| Halsey hopeless fountain kingdom | 3.0 |
| Miss May I Shadows Inside | 3.0 |
| Byzantine The Cicada Tree | 3.5 |
| SikTh The Future In Whose Eyes? | 4.0 |
| Mutoid Man War Moans | 4.0 |
| Eighteen Visions XVIII | 4.0 |
| In Hearts Wake Ark | 3.0 |
| Solstafir Berdreyminn | 4.0 |
| In Reverence The Selected Breed | 4.0 |
| Wode Servants of the Countercosmos | 3.5 |
| Papa Roach Crooked Teeth | 1.0 |
| Linkin Park One More Light | 2.0 |
| blink-182 California (Deluxe Edition) | 3.0 |
| 3TEETH shutdown.exe | 3.5 |
| Trevor Something Die With You | 4.0 |
| Seether Poison The Parish | 3.5 |
| that album art is way too cool for this band. |
| Paramore After Laughter | 3.5 |
| Gideon Cold | 3.5 |
| Voice Of Ruin Purge and Purify | 3.5 |
| White Ward Futility Report | 4.5 |
| Nokturnal Mortum Verity | 1.0 |
| Motionless in White Graveyard Shift | 2.0 |
| Kingdom of Giants All the Hell You've Got to Spare | 3.0 |
| Hate Tremendum | 3.5 |
| The Afghan Whigs In Spades | 3.5 |
| God Dethroned The World Ablaze | 3.5 |
| Slaughter To Prevail Misery Sermon | 3.5 |
| INVSN The Beautiful Stories | 3.5 |
| Full of Hell Trumpeting Ecstasy | 4.0 |
| Slowdive Slowdive (LP) | 4.5 |
| Havukruunu Kelle Surut Soi | 4.5 |
| All That Remains Madness | 1.0 |
| Tetrafusion Dreaming Of Sleep | 3.0 |
| Noumena Myrrys | 3.5 |
| Life of Agony A Place Where There's No More Pain | 4.0 |
| Shadow Of Intent Reclaimer | 4.0 |
| Blood Command Cult Drugs | 4.0 |
| Ghost Bath Starmourner | 2.5 |
| First Moonlover, then Starmourner... they should call their next album Sunbather! Wait.. |
| While She Sleeps You Are We | 3.0 |
| Artificial Brain Infrared Horizon | 4.5 |
| Novembers Doom Hamartia | 3.5 |
| Sadistik Altars | 3.5 |
| Rope Sect Personae Ingratae | 4.0 |
| "great"-est album of all time? |
| Falling in Reverse Coming Home | 2.0 |
4. Fuck You and All Your Friends
5. I Hate Everyone
6. I'm Bad At Life |
| Dead by April Worlds Collide | 3.0 |
| Azarath In Extremis | 3.5 |
| Joey Badass ALL-AMERIKKKAN BADA$$ | 3.5 |
| Extremity Extremely Fucking Dead | 4.0 |
| Ulver The Assassination of Julius Caesar | 4.5 |
| Inferno (CZ) Gnosis Kardias (Of Transcension and Involution) | 4.0 |
| BackWordz Veracity | 1.0 |
| Front Porch Step I Never Loved Before I Found You | 1.0 |
| Demon Hunter Outlive | 3.0 |
| Nightrage The Venomous | 3.5 |
| Mastodon Emperor of Sand | 3.5 |
| Warbringer Woe to the Vanquished | 3.5 |
| Last Leaf Down Bright Wide Colder | 3.5 |
| A shoegaze band that cites contemporary Katatonia as their primary influence: It sounds exactly how you would expect that to be. Unfortunately, the band is held back by a rather weak vocalist who would probably benefit from some decongestant nasal spray. |
| Body Count Bloodlust | 4.0 |
| Memoriam For the Fallen | 3.0 |
| Creeper Eternity, In Your Arms | 3.5 |
| Pallbearer Heartless | 4.0 |
| Heretoir The Circle | 4.0 |
| Northlane Mesmer | 3.5 |
| Acrimonious Eleven Dragons | 4.0 |
| Obituary Obituary | 3.0 |
| Depeche Mode Spirit | 3.5 |
| Fit for an Autopsy The Great Collapse | 4.0 |
| Evocation The Shadow Archetype | 3.5 |
| Black Map In Droves | 3.5 |
| Wormwood Ghostlands - Wounds From A Bleeding Earth | 4.0 |
| Darkest Hour Godless Prophets and the Migrant Flora | 4.0 |
| Emmure Look At Yourself | 1.5 |
| Wolfheart Tyhjyys | 3.5 |
| Gorephilia Severed Monolith | 3.5 |
| Junius Eternal Rituals For The Accretion of Light | 3.5 |
| Our Hollow, Our Home Hartsick | 4.0 |
| Tyler Bates and Joel J. Richard John Wick: Chapter 2 | 4.0 |
| Suicide Silence Suicide Silence | 1.0 |
| A Breach of Silence Secrets | 2.5 |
| Disperse Foreword | 3.5 |
| Persefone Aathma | 4.0 |
| Immolation Atonement | 4.0 |
| King Woman Created in the Image of Suffering | 4.0 |
| Power Trip Nightmare Logic | 4.0 |
| Xibalba Diablo, Con Amor.. Adios | 3.5 |
| Lorna Shore Flesh Coffin | 4.0 |
| Overkill The Grinding Wheel | 3.0 |
| Nidingr The High Heat Licks Against Heaven | 3.5 |
| Mutiny Within Origins | 3.5 |
| Brutus (BE) Burst | 4.0 |
| Serenity in Murder The Eclipse | 4.0 |
| Train A Girl A Bottle A Boat | 1.0 |
| Kreator Gods of Violence | 3.5 |
| Aborym Shifting.Negative | 2.0 |
| Code Lost Signal | 4.0 |
| Neil Cicierega Mouth Moods | 3.5 |
| Turia Dede Kondre | 4.0 |
| AFI AFI (The Blood Album) | 3.5 |
| Emptiness Not For Music | 3.5 |
| Palisades Palisades | 3.5 |
| Drab Majesty The Demonstration | 4.0 |
| Mors Principium Est Embers of a Dying World | 4.0 |
| Sepultura Machine Messiah | 3.5 |
| Pareidolon Aporía | 3.5 |
| Ryujin Northern Hell Song | 3.5 |
| Miss Vincent Somewhere Else | 3.5 |
| Mechina As Embers Turn To Dust | 4.0 |
| JID The Never Story | 4.0 |
| Katatonia Live In Bulgaria With Plovdiv Orchestra | 4.0 |
| Jotnar Connected/Condemned | 4.0 |
| 2016 |
| Run the Jewels Run the Jewels 3 | 4.0 |
| Nine Inch Nails Not the Actual Events | 3.5 |
| Echelon The Brimstone Aggrandizement | 3.5 |
| Grave Pleasures Funeral Party | 4.0 |
| Machinae Supremacy Into the Night World | 3.5 |
"Think Avenged Sevenfold-esque guitar solos meeting Commodore 64 sound effects, and you've got this album."
that's a great way to make it sound way worse than it actually is |
| Dreamshade Vibrant | 2.5 |
| Sentient Horror Ungodly forms | 3.5 |
| Zao The Well-Intentioned Virus | 4.5 |
| Bethlehem Bethlehem | 3.5 |
| Crystal Lake True North | 3.5 |
| Childish Gambino "Awaken, My Love!" | 4.0 |
| Klimt 1918 Sentimentale Jugend | 4.5 |
| Convulsing Errata | 4.0 |
| The Weeknd Starboy | 3.5 |
| Bolzer Hero | 3.5 |
| Words of Farewell A Quiet World | 4.0 |
| Metallica Hardwired...To Self-Destruct | 3.0 |
| Stiu Nu Stiu Fake End | 5.0 |
| In Flames Battles | 2.0 |
| Seasons After Manifesto | 3.0 |
This band's debut was something of a high school guilty pleasure of mine, but in hindsight, that album wasn't good. While the band has thankfully improved little by little with each release since, for the most part they're still stuck playing pretty generic radio-friendly alt-metal mixed with melodic metalcore along with some of the most tepid and ham-fisted lyrics you'll hear all year. That said, it's mostly pretty inoffensive and actually manages to have some catchy and enjoyable melodies and choruses, so it ends up leveling out to just barely above-average in the end.
(Note: would've given this a 2.7 if I could've. I decided to be generous and round up, not down.) |
| Trees of Eternity Hour of the Nightingale | 4.0 |
| Attila Chaos | 1.0 |
| Dark Tranquillity Atoma | 3.5 |
| Wolves at the Gate Types & Shadows | 3.5 |
| Vader The Empire | 3.5 |
| Soulemission Tales of Inevitable Death | 4.0 |
| Testament Brotherhood of the Snake | 3.5 |
| Krypts Remnants of Expansion | 3.5 |
| Avenged Sevenfold The Stage | 3.5 |
| Serpentine Dominion Serpentine Dominion | 4.0 |
| Anaal Nathrakh The Whole of the Law | 4.0 |
| Ulcerate Shrines of Paralysis | 4.5 |
| King Dude Sex | 3.5 |
| Darke Complex Point Oblivion | 1.5 |
| Amaranthe Maximalism | 2.5 |
| I Prevail Lifelines | 2.5 |
| Destrage A Means to No End | 3.5 |
| The Mission Another Fall from Grace | 3.5 |
| Lady Gaga Joanne | 3.5 |
| Korn The Serenity of Suffering | 4.0 |
| Jimmy Eat World Integrity Blues | 4.0 |
| Porcupine State of the Union | 1.0 |
| Sloppily-performed and abysmally-produced even by DIY standards, secondhand embarrassment is the name of the game with Porcupine's debut EP. The band's handful of supporters will be quick to highlight the "controversy" over their lyrical themes as a sign of great things, but the real problem lies less with the band's subject matter and more with the fact that each song reads like a collection of cringe-worthy catchphrases and strung-together buzzwords that are far too poorly-written to be either shocking or thought-provoking. Even ignoring the argument to be made that representing an overtly traditionalist mindset is by definition the opposite of "punk", State of the Union is simply too stereotypical, heavy-handed, one-dimensional and confrontational to be intellectually challenging. A word to the wise: if you want to upset the status quo, this is not the way to do it. |
| Alaskalana Safe From Harm | 4.0 |
| Sonic Syndicate Confessions | 1.0 |
| Darkthrone Arctic Thunder | 3.5 |
| Super Unison Auto | 3.5 |
| Venom Prison Animus | 3.5 |
| Kero Kero Bonito Bonito Generation | 3.5 |
| I listened to Try Me on repeat the night before a job interview and got offered the job on the spot. Thanks, Kero Kero Bonito! |
| Trophy Eyes Chemical Miracle | 4.0 |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Dissociation | 4.5 |
| Jeff Rosenstock WORRY. | 5.0 |
| Urzeit Anmoksha | 4.0 |
| Agatus The Eternalist | 3.5 |
| Dance Gavin Dance Mothership | 2.0 |
| can't wait to see Anthony Fantano's review of this |
| Green Day Revolution Radio | 2.0 |
| Balance and Composure Light We Made | 3.0 |
| Dayshell Nexus | 3.5 |
| The Devil Wears Prada Transit Blues | 3.5 |
| Joyce Manor Cody | 3.5 |
| Alter Bridge The Last Hero | 3.5 |
| Fit for a King Deathgrip | 3.5 |
| Gatecreeper Sonoran Depravation | 4.0 |
| Meshuggah The Violent Sleep Of Reason | 4.5 |
| The Agonist Five | 2.0 |
| Opeth Sorceress | 2.5 |
| Jenny Hval Blood Bitch | 3.5 |
| Epica The Holographic Principle | 3.5 |
| Asphyx Incoming Death | 3.5 |
| Banks The Altar | 3.5 |
| GosT Non Paradisi | 3.5 |
| Boston Manor Be Nothing. | 3.5 |
| Kestrels Kestrels | 3.5 |
| Alcest Kodama | 4.5 |
| Oathbreaker Rheia | 4.5 |
| Danny Brown Atrocity Exhibition | 4.5 |
| Emma Ruth Rundle Marked for Death | 5.0 |
| Every Time I Die Low Teens | 4.0 |
| Insomnium Winter's Gate | 4.0 |
| Neurosis Fires Within Fires | 4.0 |
| Allegaeon Proponent for Sentience | 4.0 |
| Usurpress The Regal Tribe | 4.0 |
| Master Boot Record C:\>CHKDSK /F | 4.0 |
| Wife Standard Nature | 4.0 |
| In the Woods... Pure | 3.5 |
| Heaven Shall Burn Wanderer | 3.5 |
| Aephanemer Memento Mori | 3.5 |
| Sumerlands Sumerlands | 3.5 |
| Knocked Loose Laugh Tracks | 4.0 |
| Pain (SWE) Coming Home | 2.5 |
| Breakdown of Sanity Coexistence | 3.5 |
| Norma Jean Polar Similar | 4.0 |
| Evergrey The Storm Within | 4.0 |
| Wovenhand Star Treatment | 4.0 |
| clipping. Splendor and Misery | 4.0 |
| Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds Skeleton Tree | 4.5 |
| A Day To Remember Bad Vibrations | 3.0 |
| Devin Townsend Project Transcendence | 3.5 |
| Master Boot Record C:\FIXMBR | 4.0 |
Some unholy fusion of chiptunes, metal, and synthesizers that sounds like the soundtrack to a boss battle against a leviathan from the depths of Hell itself.
Name-your-price: http://masterbootrecord.bandcamp.com/ |
| Sodom Decision Day | 3.0 |
| Ablaze My Sorrow Black | 3.5 |
| Any Given Day Everlasting | 3.5 |
| The Veils Total Depravity | 4.0 |
| New Model Army Winter | 4.0 |
| Puppy Vol. II | 4.0 |
| Despite their cute name, what we get on London-based band Puppy's second EP is a really interesting mixture of doomy metal and heavier grunge, not unlike a combination of Ghost and Alice in Chains. There are some really great tracks here, particularly the killer power-ballad single "Arabella" and the closer "Here at Home", which display a band with a lot of potential for even bigger and better things in the future. |
| Crystal Castles Amnesty (I) | 3.0 |
| Skeletonwitch The Apothic Gloom | 3.5 |
| Bad Omens Bad Omens | 3.5 |
| Soilwork Death Resonance | 4.0 |
| Ritual Howls Into The Water | 4.0 |
| Darkher Realms | 4.0 |
| Blood Incantation Starspawn | 4.5 |
| The Amity Affliction This Could Be Heartbreak | 2.5 |
| Lacrimas Profundere Hope Is Here | 3.0 |
| Porcupine Demo | 1.0 |
| Skillet Unleashed | 1.0 |
| Trevor Something Soulless Computer Boy and the Eternal Render | 3.5 |
| Carnifex Slow Death | 4.0 |
| Blood Stain Child Nexus | 2.5 |
| Mist of Misery Absence | 4.0 |
| Despised Icon Beast | 3.5 |
| The Birthday Massacre Imagica (Remaster) | 3.5 |
| Elemantra Foreign Breath | 4.0 |
| Cane Hill Smile | 3.0 |
| Movie Brain Movie Brain | 4.0 |
| Chevelle The North Corridor | 4.0 |
| Invent Animate Stillworld | 4.0 |
| blink-182 California | 2.5 |
| Defeated Sanity Disposal Of The Dead // Dharmata | 4.0 |
| Silent Planet Everything Was Sound | 4.0 |
| Whitechapel Mark of the Blade | 2.5 |
| Be'lakor Vessels | 4.5 |
| Nails You Will Never Be One of Us | 3.0 |
| Gojira Magma | 3.5 |
| Ricinn Lian | 4.0 |
| Converge You Fail Me Redux | 4.5 |
| G.L.O.S.S. Trans Day Of Revenge | 3.0 |
| letlive. If I'm the Devil... | 1.5 |
| Garbage Strange Little Birds | 3.5 |
| Astronoid Air | 3.5 |
| Neurotech In Remission | 3.5 |
| Beartooth Aggressive | 2.5 |
| Tegan and Sara Love You to Death | 3.0 |
| Volbeat Seal the Deal & Let's Boogie | 3.0 |
| The Vision Bleak The Unknown | 4.0 |
| Lacuna Coil Delirium | 3.0 |
| Thrice To Be Everywhere Is to Be Nowhere | 3.0 |
| Death Angel The Evil Divide | 4.0 |
| Architects All Our Gods Have Abandoned Us | 4.0 |
| PUP The Dream Is Over | 4.0 |
| Issues Headspace | 1.5 |
| Tiger Army V•••- | 2.5 |
| In Mourning Afterglow | 3.5 |
| In Letter Form Fracture. Repair. Repeat. | 3.5 |
| Marissa Nadler Strangers | 4.0 |
| Katatonia The Fall of Hearts | 4.0 |
| Saosin Along the Shadow | 4.0 |
| Oak Pantheon In Pieces | 4.5 |
| Kvelertak Nattesferd | 2.5 |
| Chance the Rapper Coloring Book | 3.0 |
| Nothing Tired of Tomorrow | 3.5 |
| Avatar Feathers and Flesh | 3.5 |
| Subliminal Fear Escape from Leviathan | 3.5 |
| While not quite up to par with any of that band's albums, this blatant-but-well-executed soundalike shows promise and should fill the Sybreed-shaped hole in many people's hearts nicely. |
| Gorguts Pleiades' Dust | 4.0 |
| Radiohead A Moon Shaped Pool | 4.0 |
| Vektor Terminal Redux | 1.0 |
| Perturbator The Uncanny Valley | 4.0 |
| Death Grips Bottomless Pit | 4.0 |
| Victor Love Technomancy | 4.0 |
| Pity Sex White Hot Moon | 3.5 |
| Emily Jane White They Moved in Shadow All Together | 4.0 |
| The 69 Eyes Universal Monsters | 3.5 |
| Dalek Asphalt For Eden | 3.5 |
| October Tide Winged Waltz | 3.5 |
| Eths Ankaa | 3.5 |
| This Ending Garden of Death | 3.5 |
| The Fall of Troy OK | 3.0 |
| Evans Blue Letters from the Dead | 2.5 |
| The Foreshadowing Seven Heads Ten Horns | 3.5 |
| John Carpenter Lost Themes II | 4.0 |
| Sturgill Simpson A Sailor's Guide To Earth | 4.0 |
| Loathe The Cold Sun | 4.0 |
| M83 Junk | 3.0 |
| Deftones Gore | 3.5 |
| ahhhh, new Deftones and people calling each other virgins. feels like middle school all over again :') |
| Wode Wode | 3.5 |
| Zhrine Unortheta | 4.0 |
| Sinistro Semente | 4.0 |
| Uada Devoid of Light | 4.0 |
| Cult of Luna and Julie Christmas Mariner | 4.5 |
| BryanStars Follow Your Dreams | 1.0 |
| In Dying Arms Original Sin | 3.0 |
| The Grindmother Age Of Destruction | 3.0 |
| Hamburger Helper Watch the Stove | 3.5 |
| Slice the Cake Odyssey to the West | 4.0 |
| Chelsea Wolfe Hypnos / Flame | 4.0 |
| Weezer The White Album | 4.5 |
| Novembre Ursa | 4.5 |
| Moonsorrow Jumalten aika | 4.5 |
| Recode the Subliminal The Cost of Every Man | 3.5 |
| Setentia Darkness Transcend | 4.0 |
| Caliban Gravity | 3.0 |
| Amon Amarth Jomsviking | 3.5 |
| The Joy Formidable Hitch | 3.5 |
| The Sun Days Album | 3.5 |
| Horrified (UK) Of Despair | 3.5 |
| O'Brother Endless Light | 4.0 |
| The Word Alive Dark Matter | 3.0 |
| Killswitch Engage Incarnate | 3.0 |
| Normandie Inguz | 3.5 |
| Orbit Culture Rasen | 3.5 |
| Denzel Curry Imperial | 4.0 |
| Ihsahn Arktis. | 4.0 |
| Oceans of Slumber Winter | 4.0 |
| Circle of Dust Circle of Dust (Remastered) | 4.0 |
| Lemon Demon Spirit Phone | 3.5 |
| Death Index Death Index | 3.5 |
| The Unguided Lust and Loathing | 3.5 |
| Anthrax For All Kings | 3.5 |
| Votum :KTONIK: | 4.0 |
| Oranssi Pazuzu Värähtelijä | 4.0 |
| Charli XCX Vroom Vroom | 3.5 |
| Skaphe Skáphe² | 3.5 |
| Wild Nothing Life of Pause | 3.0 |
| After the Burial Dig Deep | 3.5 |
| Adept Sleepless | 3.5 |
| Omnium Gatherum Grey Heavens | 3.5 |
| JPEGMAFIA Black Ben Carson | 3.5 |
| Rotting Christ Rituals | 3.0 |
| Within Destruction Void | 3.5 |
| The Cult Hidden City | 3.5 |
| Fleshgod Apocalypse King | 3.5 |
| Deformatory Malediction | 4.0 |
| Hyperion (SWE) Seraphical Euphony | 4.5 |
| Bury Tomorrow Earthbound | 2.5 |
| Bloc Party Hymns | 3.0 |
| Basement Promise Everything | 3.0 |
| Hexvessel When We Are Death | 3.0 |
| Toothgrinder Nocturnal Masquerade | 3.5 |
| The Black Queen Fever Daydream | 4.0 |
| Polaris The Guilt & The Grief | 4.0 |
| Saul Williams MartyrLoserKing | 4.0 |
| Megadeth Dystopia | 2.0 |
| Savages Adore Life | 3.5 |
| Cypecore Identity | 3.5 |
| Grieved Grieved | 3.5 |
| Various Artists Utamonogatari: Monogatari Series Theme Songs | 4.0 |
| Daughter Not to Disappear | 4.0 |
| David Bowie Blackstar | 4.5 |
| Islander Power Under Control | 2.5 |
| Centinex Doomsday Rituals | 3.0 |
| Eglise Église | 3.5 |
| Rosemary Fairweather Heavenly | 4.0 |
| A short but oh-so-sweet indie/dream pop album that lives up to its name. Rosemary has a beautiful, airy voice that glides perfectly atop the chilled-out beats (using real drums!) and reverby, often Cure-esque guitar lines. Now that she's signed to Universal Canada and released two excellent singles from her upcoming sophomore album, I predict Rosemary Fairweather will become an artist on everybody's radar in the new year. |
| 2015 |
| Spinebreaker Ice Grave | 3.5 |
| Baroness Purple | 2.5 |
| Before Their Eyes Midwest Modesty | 3.0 |
| Nice Hooves The Gall | 4.0 |
| 1914 Eschatology of War | 3.5 |
| Ice Nine Kills Every Trick in the Book | 3.5 |
| SikTh Opacities | 4.0 |
| Batushka Litourgiya | 4.5 |
| Wage War Blueprints | 3.5 |
| Brenthrone Upon a Blasphemed Funeral Mound of Evil Badness... | 5.0 |
| Swallow the Sun Songs from the North I, II & III | 4.0 |
| Neurotech Evasive | 4.0 |
| The Mortal I Am Mortal | 4.5 |
| Celldweller End of an Empire | 3.5 |
| Grimes Art Angels | 3.5 |
| Nicole Saboune Miman | 4.0 |
| Morbid Saint Destruction System | 3.5 |
| Low and Behold Uppers | 3.0 |
| Get Scared Demons | 3.5 |
| Draconian Sovran | 3.5 |
| Pinkish Black Bottom of the Morning | 3.5 |
| Goodbye to Gravity Mantras of War | 3.5 |
| Caligula's Horse Bloom | 4.0 |
| Frontierer Orange Mathematics | 4.0 |
| Opeth Deliverance & Damnation Remixed | 4.5 |
| Cloudkicker Woum | 2.5 |
| Horrendous Anareta | 4.0 |
| Cane Hill Cane Hill | 3.5 |
| Killing Joke Pylon | 3.5 |
| Vehemence Forward Without Motion | 4.0 |
| Trevor Something Death Dream | 4.0 |
| Earthside A Dream In Static | 4.5 |
| Abigail Williams The Accuser | 3.5 |
| Kauan Sorni Nai | 4.5 |
| Havukruunu Havulinnaan | 4.0 |
| Coheed and Cambria The Color Before The Sun | 2.5 |
| Dinosaur Pile-Up Eleven Eleven | 3.5 |
| The Plot In You Happiness in Self Destruction | 3.5 |
| Beach House Thank Your Lucky Stars | 3.5 |
| Fightstar Behind the Devil's Back | 4.0 |
| Cult Leader Lightless Walk | 4.0 |
| Panopticon Autumn Eternal | 4.5 |
| Totem Skin Weltschmerz | 4.0 |
| Hath Hive | 4.0 |
| Selena Gomez Revival | 3.5 |
| Crystal Lake The Sign | 3.5 |
| Nicole Dollanganger Natural Born Losers | 4.0 |
| Like Moths to Flames The Dying Things We Live For | 3.0 |
| For Today Wake | 2.5 |
| Entwine Chaotic Nation | 2.5 |
| Children of Bodom I Worship Chaos | 3.0 |
| Loma Prieta Self Portrait | 3.5 |
| Sevendust Kill the Flaw | 3.5 |
| Trivium Silence in the Snow | 3.5 |
| Queensryche Condition Human | 3.5 |
| Fit for an Autopsy Absolute Hope Absolute Hell | 3.5 |
| Clutch Psychic Warfare | 4.0 |
| Deafheaven New Bermuda | 4.0 |
| Kylesa Exhausting Fire | 4.0 |
| Parkway Drive Ire | 2.5 |
| Silversun Pickups Better Nature | 3.5 |
| CHVRCHES Every Open Eye | 3.5 |
| Black Breath Slaves Beyond Death | 3.5 |
| Native Tongue Driftwood Head | 3.5 |
| Hanging Garden Blackout Whiteout | 4.0 |
| No Devotion Permanence | 4.5 |
| Slugdge Dim and Slimeridden Kingdoms | 4.0 |
| Shinedown Threat to Survival | 1.5 |
| Crossfaith Xeno | 3.0 |
| Atreyu Long Live | 3.0 |
| Lana Del Rey Honeymoon | 3.0 |
| The Black Dahlia Murder Abysmal | 3.5 |
| My Dying Bride Feel the Misery | 4.0 |
| Non Opus Dei Diabel | 4.0 |
| Bring Me the Horizon That's the Spirit | 3.0 |
| Five Finger Death Punch Got Your Six | 1.5 |
| Grave Pleasures Dreamcrash | 3.0 |
| Iron Maiden The Book of Souls | 4.0 |
| Riverside Love, Fear and the Time Machine | 4.0 |
| Dynatron Aeternus | 4.0 |
| Amorphis Under the Red Cloud | 4.5 |
| Cruciamentum Charnel Passages | 4.5 |
| Beach House Depression Cherry | 3.5 |
| Nile What Should Not Be Unearthed | 3.5 |
| The Weeknd Beauty Behind the Madness | 3.5 |
| Halsey Badlands | 3.5 |
| Soilwork The Ride Majestic | 4.5 |
| the GazettE Dogma | 3.0 |
| Hate Eternal Infernus | 4.0 |
| Disturbed Immortalized | 2.5 |
| Act of Defiance Birth and the Burial | 3.0 |
| The Devil Wears Prada Space | 3.5 |
| Ghost (SWE) Meliora | 4.0 |
| Wolfheart Shadow World | 4.0 |
| Dark Sermon The Oracle | 4.0 |
| Publicist UK Forgive Yourself | 4.0 |
| one of the best modern post-punk albums I've heard in a long time. this is what Grave Pleasures should've been. |
| Bullet for My Valentine Venom | 2.5 |
| Soulfly Archangel | 3.5 |
| Melanie Martinez Cry Baby | 3.5 |
| Stories (AUS) The Youth to Become | 4.0 |
| Deathwhite Solitary Martyr | 4.0 |
| Advent Sorrow As All Light Leaves Her | 4.0 |
| Miss May I Deathless | 2.5 |
| Sirens and Sailors Rising Moon : Setting Sun | 3.5 |
| Buried in Verona Vultures Above, Lions Below | 3.5 |
| Cattle Decapitation The Anthropocene Extinction | 4.0 |
| Fear Factory Genexus | 4.0 |
| HEALTH Death Magic | 4.0 |
| Chelsea Wolfe Abyss | 5.0 |
| Kataklysm Of Ghosts and Gods | 3.5 |
| We Came As Romans We Came As Romans | 2.5 |
| Counterparts Tragedy Will Find Us | 3.5 |
| Lamb of God VII: Sturm und Drang | 3.5 |
| Orpheus Omega Partum Vita Mortem | 3.5 |
| Northlane Node | 4.0 |
| Gunship Gunship | 4.0 |
| Grave Babies Holographic Violence | 4.0 |
| Highly Suspect Mister Asylum | 3.5 |
| Cradle of Filth Hammer of the Witches | 4.5 |
| Zao Xenophobe/Fear Itself | 3.5 |
| Phinehas Till the End | 4.0 |
| Christian Death The Root of all Evilution | 1.0 |
| Bitter End (USA-TX) Illusions Of Dominance | 3.0 |
| Refused Freedom | 3.0 |
| Jungle Rot Order Shall Prevail | 3.0 |
| Thy Art Is Murder Holy War | 3.5 |
| Senses Fail Pull the Thorns from Your Heart | 3.5 |
| Failure The Heart Is a Monster | 4.0 |
| Author and Punisher Melk En Honing | 4.0 |
| August Burns Red Found in Far Away Places | 3.5 |
| Blaze of Perdition Near Death Revelations | 4.0 |
| Human Serpent Inhumane Minimalism | 4.0 |
| Breaking Benjamin Dark Before Dawn | 3.0 |
| Citizen Everybody Is Going to Heaven | 3.5 |
| High on Fire Luminiferous | 4.0 |
| Wolf Alice My Love Is Cool | 4.0 |
| Abyssal (UK) Antikatastaseis | 4.5 |
| The Armed Untitled | 4.5 |
| Familiar in all the right ways while still feeling like a step to the next level for The Armed. Absolutely rips. If you're disappointed by the new Refused, maybe this will help restore your faith in punk to come. |
| Dagoba Tales of the Black Dawn | 3.5 |
| mewithoutYou Pale Horses | 2.0 |
| Hundredth Free | 3.5 |
| Disarmonia Mundi Cold Inferno | 3.5 |
| Rise to Fall End vs. Beginning | 3.5 |
| The Night Flight Orchestra Skyline Whispers | 3.5 |
| Neurotech Stigma | 4.0 |
| Archivist Archivist | 4.0 |
| My Dead Girlfriend hades (the nine stages of change...) | 3.5 |
| Florence and the Machine How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful | 3.5 |
| Four Year Strong Four Year Strong | 3.5 |
| Paradise Lost The Plague Within | 4.5 |
| Make Them Suffer Old Souls | 4.0 |
| Leprous The Congregation | 4.0 |
| Ceremony (USA-CA) The L-Shaped Man | 3.0 |
| Silverstein I Am Alive In Everything I Touch | 3.5 |
| Faith No More Sol Invictus | 3.5 |
| Emery You Were Never Alone | 3.5 |
| Haste the Day Coward | 4.0 |
| George Kollias Invictus | 3.5 |
| The Story So Far The Story So Far | 3.5 |
| Veil of Maya Matriarch | 2.5 |
| Superheaven Ours Is Chrome | 3.5 |
| Turnover Peripheral Vision | 5.0 |
| In Hearts Wake Skydancer | 3.0 |
| Inacave Inacave | 2.5 |
| Nightrage The Puritan | 3.0 |
| Westkust Last Forever | 4.0 |
| 10 Years From Birth to Burial | 3.0 |
| Joywave How Do You Feel Now? | 3.5 |
| Dayseeker Origin | 3.5 |
| As It Is Never Happy, Ever After | 3.0 |
| Shining (SWE) IX: Everyone, Everything, Everywhere, ends. | 4.0 |
| Every Time I Die Salem | 3.5 |
| Makthaverskan Witness | 4.0 |
| Forgotten Tomb Hurt Yourself and the Ones You Love | 3.0 |
| Tribulation The Children of the Night | 4.5 |
| Gallows (UK) Desolation Sounds | 3.5 |
| Akhlys The Dreaming I | 4.5 |
| GosT Behemoth | 3.5 |
| Marriages Salome | 4.0 |
| Byzantine To Release Is to Resolve | 4.0 |
| Like Moths to Flames The Dream Is Dead | 3.5 |
| Sulphur Aeon Gateway to the Antisphere | 4.0 |
| Red Death Permanent Exile | 3.5 |
| The Soft Moon Deeper | 4.0 |
| Death Grips The Powers That B | 4.0 |
| Katatonia Sanctitude | 4.5 |
| No Fealty They Love the Soil Which Makes Their Graves | 3.5 |
| Liturgy The Ark Work | 1.0 |
| The Bloodline We Are One | 2.5 |
| While She Sleeps Brainwashed | 4.0 |
| Kendrick Lamar To Pimp a Butterfly | 4.5 |
| Cemetery (US) Wind and Shadows | 4.0 |
| Moonspell Extinct | 3.5 |
| Melechesh Enki | 3.5 |
| Harm's Way (USA-IL) Rust | 3.5 |
| Klone Here Comes The Sun | 3.5 |
| Enslaved In Times | 4.0 |
| Swervedriver I Wasn't Born to Lose You | 3.5 |
| Leviathan Scar Sighted | 4.0 |
| Jeff Rosenstock We Cool? | 4.0 |
| Soko My Dreams Dictate My Reality | 4.0 |
| Rozwell Kid Good Graphics | 3.5 |
| Code Mut | 3.5 |
| Ryujin Black Bride | 3.0 |
| AngelMaker Dissentient | 3.5 |
| All That Remains The Order of Things | 2.0 |
| Red (USA) Of Beauty and Rage | 2.5 |
| The Agonist Eye of Providence | 2.5 |
| Torche Restarter | 4.0 |
| Ethereal Shroud They Became the Falling Ash | 4.5 |
| 36 Crazyfists Time and Trauma | 3.5 |
| Sarpanitum Blessed Be My Brothers | 4.0 |
| Dope Stars Inc. Terapunk | 2.5 |
| Hate Crusade: Zero | 3.5 |
| Feed Her to the Sharks Fortitude | 4.0 |
| Misthyrming Söngvar elds og óreiðu | 5.0 |
| Blind Guardian Beyond the Red Mirror | 3.5 |
| John Carpenter Lost Themes | 4.0 |
| Thulcandra Ascension Lost | 4.0 |
| Xibalba Tierra y Libertad | 3.5 |
| Napalm Death Apex Predator - Easy Meat | 4.0 |
| Belle and Sebastian Girls in Peacetime Want to Dance | 3.5 |
| Sleater-Kinney No Cities to Love | 3.5 |
| Cloakroom Further Out | 3.5 |
| Preoccupations Viet Cong | 4.0 |
| Enter Shikari The Mindsweep | 3.5 |
| G.L.O.S.S. Demo | 3.0 |
| Turnstile Nonstop Feeling | 3.0 |
| Sylosis Dormant Heart | 3.5 |
| Defaced (CHE) Forging the Sanctuary | 4.0 |
| Shattered Sun Hope Within Hatred | 3.0 |
| Swain Heavy Dancing | 3.5 |
| Rest Among Ruins Fugue | 4.0 |
| Supreme Carnage Sentenced by the Cross | 4.0 |
| 2014 |
| I Prevail Heart vs. Mind | 3.0 |
| Charli XCX Sucker | 3.5 |
| Conflict (RUS) Transform Into a Human | 3.5 |
| Dir En Grey Arche | 5.0 |
| The Smashing Pumpkins Monuments to an Elegy | 3.0 |
| The Banner Greying | 4.0 |
| Season Of Ghosts The Human Paradox | 3.5 |
| Mors Principium Est Dawn of the 5th Era | 4.0 |
| Engel Raven Kings | 3.5 |
| Primordial Where Greater Men Have Fallen | 4.0 |
| Rise Of The Northstar Welcame | 2.0 |
| The Duskfall Where the Tree Stands Dead | 3.0 |
| Varathron Untrodden Corridors of Hades | 3.5 |
| Centinex Redeeming Filth | 3.5 |
| The Ghost Inside Dear Youth | 3.5 |
| In This Moment Black Widow | 2.0 |
| Bloodbath Grand Morbid Funeral | 3.5 |
| Emigrate Silent So Long | 3.0 |
| Raunchy Vices.Virtues.Visions. | 3.5 |
| The Birthday Massacre Superstition | 3.5 |
| Job for a Cowboy Sun Eater | 4.0 |
| Carcass Surgical Remission/Surplus Steel | 3.5 |
| Silent Planet The Night God Slept | 4.5 |
| Ghost Brigade IV - One with the Storm | 4.0 |
| Ne Obliviscaris Citadel | 4.0 |
| Kenn Nardi Dancing With the Past | 4.5 |
| Kauan Muistumia | 4.5 |
| Soen Tellurian | 4.0 |
| PVRIS White Noise | 4.0 |
| Machine Head Bloodstone and Diamonds | 3.5 |
| Behemoth Xiadz | 3.5 |
| Last Leaf Down Fake Lights | 3.5 |
| Full of Hell and Merzbow Full of Hell and Merzbow | 4.0 |
| Obituary Inked in Blood | 3.0 |
| At the Gates At War with Reality | 3.0 |
| Anaal Nathrakh Desideratum | 3.5 |
| Run the Jewels Run the Jewels 2 | 4.0 |
| Devin Townsend Project Z2 | 3.5 |
| Taylor Swift 1989 | 4.0 |
| Horrendous Ecdysis | 4.0 |
| Neurotech Infra Versus Ultra | 4.0 |
| The Twilight Sad Nobody Wants To Be Here And Nobody Wants To Leave | 4.5 |
| Unearth Watchers of Rule | 4.5 |
| Amaranthe Massive Addictive | 3.0 |
| Kingdom of Giants Ground Culture | 3.5 |
| Slipknot .5: The Gray Chapter | 3.0 |
| Exodus Blood In, Blood Out | 3.0 |
| The Acacia Strain Coma Witch | 3.0 |
| Fit for a King Slave to Nothing | 3.5 |
| Blut Aus Nord Memoria Vetusta III - Saturnian Poetry | 4.0 |
| Weezer Everything Will Be Alright in the End | 4.0 |
| Iceage Plowing into the Field of Love | 4.0 |
| Scar Symmetry The Singularity - Phase I: Neohumanity | 3.5 |
| Zex Fight For Yourself | 3.5 |
| Rozwell Kid Too Shabby | 4.0 |
| 1349 Massive Cauldron of Chaos | 3.5 |
| Finch Back to Oblivion | 3.5 |
| Black Crown Initiate The Wreckage of Stars | 3.5 |
| Nightbringer Ego Dominus Tuus | 4.5 |
| Sinmara Aphotic Womb | 4.0 |
| Decapitated Blood Mantra | 3.0 |
| Evergrey Hymns for the Broken | 4.0 |
| Soilwork Beyond the Infinite | 4.0 |
| Motionless in White Reincarnate | 3.0 |
| The Pineapple Thief Magnolia | 3.5 |
| Sleepwave Broken Compass | 3.5 |
| Texas in July Bloodwork | 3.5 |
| Xerath III | 3.5 |
| In Flames Siren Charms | 2.5 |
| Interpol El Pintor | 4.0 |
| Banks Goddess | 4.0 |
| The Haunted Exit Wounds | 3.5 |
| Disentomb Misery | 4.0 |
| Solstafir Otta | 4.5 |
| Opeth Pale Communion | 2.5 |
| Invent Animate Everchanger | 4.0 |
| Royal Blood Royal Blood | 2.5 |
| The Matador (AU) Destroyer | 3.5 |
| Punch They Don’t Have To Believe | 4.0 |
| The Dwarves The Dwarves Invented Rock-N-Roll | 4.0 |
| Belphegor Conjuring The Dead | 3.5 |
| Darkest Hour Darkest Hour | 2.5 |
| Wovenwar Wovenwar | 3.5 |
| Cold World How The Gods Chill | 3.5 |
| Fallujah The Flesh Prevails | 2.5 |
| Ill Nino Till Death, La Familia | 3.0 |
| Overkill White Devil Armory | 3.5 |
| War of Ages Supreme Chaos | 3.5 |
| Anberlin Lowborn | 4.0 |
| Neil Cicierega Mouth Silence | 3.5 |
| Rise Against The Black Market | 2.5 |
| Morrissey World Peace Is None of Your Business | 3.5 |
| Bleachers Strange Desire | 3.5 |
| I, the Breather Life Reaper | 3.5 |
| Novembers Doom Bled White | 4.0 |
| United Nations The Next Four Years | 4.0 |
| Judas Priest Redeemer of Souls | 3.0 |
| Wolves in the Throne Room Celestite | 3.0 |
| Chelsea Grin Ashes To Ashes | 3.5 |
| Islander Violence and Destruction | 3.5 |
| Sonic Syndicate Sonic Syndicate | 2.5 |
| Seether Isolate And Medicate | 3.0 |
| Sadistik Ultraviolet | 3.5 |
| Every Time I Die From Parts Unknown | 4.0 |
| The Morningside Letters From The Empty Towns | 3.0 |
| Slugdge Gastronomicon | 4.0 |
| Nothing More Nothing More | 3.5 |
| Septicflesh Titan | 3.5 |
| Allegaeon Elements of the Infinite | 3.5 |
| Mastodon Once More 'Round the Sun | 3.5 |
| Lana Del Rey Ultraviolence | 3.5 |
| Perturbator Dangerous Days | 4.0 |
| Linkin Park The Hunting Party | 4.0 |
| The Austerity Program Beyond Calculation | 4.0 |
| Deathstars The Perfect Cult | 3.0 |
| The Word Alive Real. | 3.0 |
| Arch Enemy War Eternal | 3.0 |
| Mayhem Esoteric Warfare | 3.5 |
| Anathema Distant Satellites | 3.5 |
| Body Count Manslaughter | 3.5 |
| Beartooth Disgusting | 3.5 |
| Trap Them Blissfucker | 3.5 |
| clipping. CLPPNG | 4.0 |
| Incantation Dirges of Elysium | 4.0 |
| Trevor Something Trevor Something Does Not Exist | 3.5 |
| Stiu Nu Stiu Ultra Silvam | 4.5 |
| Mixed by Kurt Ballou (Converge) and mastered by Magnus Lindberg (Cult of Luna), Ultra Silvam is the debut album by this Swedish supergroup-of-sorts, featuring members of post-rock band Jeniferever, post-punk revivalists The Search, and goth-folk project Promise and the Monster. In a way, the album feels like a combination of all of the members' various backgrounds, mixing dark alternative and post-punk with a couple surprising detours into sludgy post-metal territory as well. While this can make for somewhat of an inconsistent listen, it's still an excellent album and one of my favorites of 2014. |
| Satariel White Ink: Chapter One | 4.0 |
| Skaphe Skáphe | 4.0 |
| The Amity Affliction Let the Ocean Take Me | 3.5 |
| Peter Murphy Lion | 4.0 |
| Deathwhite Ethereal | 3.5 |
| Vader Tibi et Igni | 4.0 |
| Sharon Van Etten Are We There | 4.0 |
| Emptiness Nothing but the Whole | 4.5 |
| Bury Tomorrow Runes | 3.5 |
| My Dying Bride The Vaulted Shadows | 3.5 |
| Misery Index The Killing Gods | 4.0 |
| Emma Ruth Rundle Some Heavy Ocean | 4.5 |
| Hoth Oathbreaker | 4.5 |
| Sabaton Heroes | 3.5 |
| Avatar Hail the Apocalypse | 3.5 |
| Casualties of Cool Casualties of Cool | 4.5 |
| Sylar To Whom It May Concern | 2.0 |
| Agalloch The Serpent and the Sphere | 3.5 |
| Epica The Quantum Enigma | 4.0 |
| Vallenfyre Splinters | 4.0 |
| Killer Be Killed Killer Be Killed | 3.5 |
| Noneuclid Metatheosis | 3.5 |
| BADBADNOTGOOD III | 4.0 |
| Dead Congregation Promulgation of the Fall | 4.5 |
| In Hearts Wake Earthwalker | 3.5 |
| Wolf Alice Creature Songs | 3.5 |
| Miss May I Rise of the Lion | 2.0 |
| Whitechapel Our Endless War | 3.0 |
| Wovenhand Refractory Obdurate | 4.0 |
| Thine The Dead City Blueprint | 3.5 |
| Insomnium Shadows of the Dying Sun | 4.0 |
| Neil Cicierega Mouth Sounds | 3.5 |
| Katatonia Kocytean | 4.0 |
| Cult Leader Nothing for Us Here | 3.5 |
| The Afghan Whigs Do to the Beast | 3.5 |
| Thantifaxath Sacred White Noise | 5.0 |
| Triptykon Melana Chasmata | 5.0 |
| Nostalghia (MEX) Chrysalis | 4.0 |
| The Used Imaginary Enemy | 2.5 |
| Lacuna Coil Broken Crown Halo | 2.5 |
| Chevelle La Gárgola | 4.0 |
| Thou Heathen | 4.0 |
| Future Islands Singles | 4.0 |
| Taking Back Sunday Happiness Is | 3.0 |
| The Pretty Reckless Going to Hell | 3.0 |
| Demon Hunter Extremist | 3.5 |
| The War On Drugs Lost in the Dream | 4.5 |
| Architects Lost Forever // Lost Together | 4.0 |
| Buried in Verona Faceless | 3.5 |
| Carnifex Die Without Hope | 3.5 |
| Nothing Guilty of Everything | 4.0 |
| Destrage Are You Kidding Me? No. | 4.0 |
| Words of Farewell The Black Wild Yonder | 4.0 |
| The Hotelier Home, Like NoPlace Is There | 4.0 |
| Ready Set Fall! Memento | 3.5 |
| GridLink Longhena | 4.0 |
| I Killed the Prom Queen Beloved | 4.0 |
| Angel Olsen Burn Your Fire for No Witness | 4.0 |
| Artificial Brain Labyrinth Constellation | 4.0 |
| TrenchRot Necronomic Warfare | 4.5 |
| Cynic Kindly Bent to Free Us | 3.0 |
| Impure Wilhelmina Black Honey | 4.0 |
| Crosses Crosses | 4.0 |
| Whispered Shogunate Macabre | 4.0 |
| For Today Fight the Silence | 1.0 |
| Marissa Nadler July | 4.0 |
| Death of Lovers Buried Under A World Of Roses | 4.0 |
| Behemoth The Satanist | 5.0 |
| Dark Tranquillity A Memory Construct | 3.5 |
| Have a Nice Life The Unnatural World | 4.0 |
| Within Temptation Hydra | 2.5 |
| The Unguided Fragile Immortality | 3.0 |
| Blood Stain Child Last Stardust | 3.5 |
| Caliban Ghost Empire | 3.0 |
| Ice Nine Kills The Predator Becomes the Prey | 3.5 |
| Against Me! Transgender Dysphoria Blues | 4.0 |
| Alcest Shelter | 4.0 |
| Indian From All Purity | 4.0 |
| Hexis Abalam | 3.5 |
| Aephanemer Know Thyself | 3.5 |
| Noctiferia PAX | 3.0 |
| Machinae Supremacy Phantom Shadow | 3.5 |
| 2001 |
| Enslaved Monumension | 3.5 |
| Every Time I Die Last Night in Town | 3.5 |
| Himsa Death Is Infinite | 3.0 |
| Rob Zombie The Sinister Urge | 3.5 |
| To/Die/For Epilogue | 3.5 |
| Sevendust Animosity | 4.0 |
| My Dying Bride The Dreadful Hours | 4.5 |
| Benediction Organised Chaos | 3.0 |
| Summoning Let Mortal Heroes Sing Your Fame | 4.0 |
| Poe Haunted | 4.0 |
| Emperor Prometheus: The Discipline of Fire... | 4.0 |
| Anaal Nathrakh The Codex Necro | 4.0 |
| Thursday Full Collapse | 4.5 |
| Ozzy Osbourne Down to Earth | 2.5 |
| Anathema A Fine Day to Exit | 3.5 |
| Angelo Badalamenti Mulholland Drive | 4.5 |
| Akira Yamaoka Silent Hill 2 | 5.0 |
| Machine Head Supercharger | 2.0 |
| Garbage Beautiful Garbage | 3.0 |
| The Strokes Is This It | 4.0 |
| Kreator Violent Revolution | 4.0 |
| Incubus (USA-CA) Morning View | 4.0 |
| Evergrey In Search Of Truth | 4.5 |
| 7 Angels 7 Plagues Jhazmyne's Lullaby | 5.0 |
| P.O.D. Satellite | 3.0 |
| System of a Down Toxicity | 3.5 |
| Converge Jane Doe | 4.5 |
| A while back Sowing was putting together a Jane Doe retrospective in which various Sput members would do write-ups for different songs, but it seems as if that project is dead in the water. A such, here is the write-up I would've contributed, for Heaven in Her Arms:rSometimes nothing can be more powerful - or devastating - than three simple words. To me, perhaps more than any other track, "Heaven in Her Arms" epitomizes what Jane Doe is about. It is among the more straightforward tracks on the album, both musically - boasting an assult-on-the-senses barrage of some of the grooviest riffs Converge ever put to tape alongside Jacob Bannon at his most tortured and dehumanized - and especially lyrically, in a way that makes it all the more effective. Where other tracks on the album are more opaque in their imagery, "Heaven in Her Arms" is blunt, poignant, and conveys the idea of heartbreak at its most basic. The beauty of its simplicity is that it makes it one of the most universally relatable songs on an album renowned for its relatability. The song reaches its climax with a breakdown, in both the musical and emotional senses, in which Bannon proclaims "Three simple words bled me dry, bled us dry". In my judgment, it is one of the most desperate yet cathartic moments on the entire album and the perfect way to round off one of my favorite songs in Converge's large and impressive discography. |
| Radiohead Amnesiac | 3.5 |
| Slipknot Iowa | 3.5 |
| New Order Get Ready | 3.0 |
| Bjork Vespertine | 4.5 |
| Chimaira Pass Out of Existence | 3.0 |
| Hypocrisy 10 Years of Chaos and Confusion | 4.0 |
| The Damned Grave Disorder | 4.0 |
| Being their first album with the axe-wielding lunatic Captain Sensible since 1982's Strawberries, it ends up sounding very much like a counterpart to that album - and, similarly, ends up being an underrated jewel within The Damned's discography. |
| Ozma Rock and Roll Part Three | 4.5 |
| Undoubtedly, the best album Weezer never released. |
| Michelle Branch The Spirit Room | 3.5 |
| From Autumn to Ashes Too Bad You're Beautiful | 4.0 |
| Cult of Luna Cult of Luna | 4.0 |
| Hopesfall No Wings To Speak Of | 4.0 |
| Darkest Hour So Sedated, so Secure | 3.5 |
| Enthroned Armoured Bestial Hell | 3.5 |
| Neurosis A Sun That Never Sets | 4.5 |
| Avenged Sevenfold Sounding the Seventh Trumpet | 3.0 |
| Jimmy Eat World Bleed American | 4.0 |
| Saves the Day Stay What You Are | 4.0 |
| Stone Temple Pilots Shangri-La-Dee-Da | 3.0 |
| Devin Townsend Terria | 4.5 |
| As I Lay Dying Beneath the Encasing of Ashes | 3.0 |
| blink-182 Take Off Your Pants And Jacket | 4.0 |
| Absu Tara | 4.5 |
| Stabbing Westward Stabbing Westward | 2.5 |
| Sum 41 All Killer No Filler | 3.5 |
| Depeche Mode Exciter | 3.0 |
| Weezer The Green Album | 3.5 |
| Tool Lateralus | 4.0 |
| Megadeth The World Needs a Hero | 2.5 |
| Bleeding Through Dust to Ashes | 3.0 |
| Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds No More Shall We Part | 4.5 |
| Amorphis Am Universum | 3.0 |
| Alkaline Trio From Here to Infirmary | 5.0 |
| Arch Enemy Wages of Sin | 4.0 |
| Melechesh Djinn | 4.0 |
| Akercocke The Goat of Mendes | 3.5 |
| Sepultura Nation | 3.0 |
| Luti-Kriss Throwing Myself | 3.5 |
| Remnants of the Deftones-inspired sound of the 5 EP still remain, but the roots of what the band would become with Norma Jean are much more obvious on Luti-Kriss' first and only full-length. The end result is a well-executed, if unrefined, mixture of raw metalcore and alternative metal that doesn't let up until the untitled, hidden finale, a mellow semi-acoustic number showing a whole new side to the band and particularly frontman Josh Scogin's vocals. Overall, Throwing Myself is a vast improvement over the EP and an oft-overlooked gem worth checking out. |
| Deftones Back to School (Mini Maggit) | 3.0 |
| Daft Punk Discovery | 3.5 |
| Skyfire Timeless Departure | 4.0 |
| Dimmu Borgir Puritanical Euphoric Misanthropia | 4.5 |
| Alien Ant Farm ANThology | 3.5 |
| Darkane Insanity | 3.5 |
| Tiger Army II: Power of Moonlite | 4.0 |
| Gorguts From Wisdom to Hate | 4.5 |
| Sodom M-16 | 5.0 |
| Susperia Predominance | 3.5 |
| Opeth Blackwater Park | 4.5 |
| Zao (Self-Titled) | 4.0 |
| Soilwork A Predator's Portrait | 4.5 |
| Blood Has Been Shed Novella Of Uriel | 3.5 |
| Ill Nino Revolution/Revolucion | 3.5 |
| Lacuna Coil Unleashed Memories | 4.0 |
| Gardenian Sindustries | 3.5 |
| Ensiferum Ensiferum | 4.5 |
| Unearth The Stings of Conscience | 3.5 |
| Martyr AD The Human Condition in Twelve Fractions | 3.5 |
| Novembre Novembrine Waltz | 4.5 |
| Grand Belial's Key Judeobeast Assassination | 1.0 |
| Creed Weathered | 2.0 |
| Deicide In Torment in Hell | 2.5 |
| Fear Factory Digimortal | 3.0 |
| Manic Street Preachers Know Your Enemy | 3.0 |
| Paradise Lost Believe In Nothing | 3.0 |
| God Dethroned Ravenous | 3.0 |
| Anti-Flag Underground Network | 3.5 |
| The Cult Beyond Good and Evil | 3.5 |
| Moonspell Darkness and Hope | 3.5 |
| Gojira Terra Incognita | 3.5 |
| Bolt Thrower Honour - Valour - Pride | 3.5 |
| Kataklysm Epic: The Poetry of War | 3.5 |
| Deeds of Flesh Mark of the Legion | 3.5 |
| Funebrarum Beneath the Columns of Abandoned Gods | 3.5 |
| Caliban Vent | 3.5 |
| Feeder Echo Park | 4.0 |
| Amon Amarth The Crusher | 4.0 |
| Lacrimas Profundere Burning: A Wish | 4.0 |
| M83 M83 | 4.0 |
| Fugazi The Argument | 4.5 |
| Thorns Thorns | 4.5 |
| Dark Fortress Tales from Eternal Dusk | 4.5 |
| Pig Destroyer Prowler in the Yard | 5.0 |
| Katatonia Last Fair Deal Gone Down | 5.0 |
| HIM Deep Shadows and Brilliant Highlights | 3.0 |
| 1994 |
| Bush Sixteen Stone | 3.0 |
| Pearl Jam Vitalogy | 3.5 |
| Marduk Opus Nocturne | 4.0 |
| Megadeth Youthanasia | 3.5 |
| Kitchens Of Distinction Cowboys and Aliens | 3.5 |
| Veruca Salt American Thighs | 3.5 |
| Bauhaus 1979 - 1983 | 4.5 |
| Dead Can Dance Toward the Within | 4.5 |
| Tiamat Wildhoney | 5.0 |
| Queensryche Promised Land | 4.0 |
| The Cult The Cult | 2.5 |
| Gorgoroth Pentagram | 4.0 |
| Korn Korn | 4.0 |
| Front Line Assembly Millennium | 4.0 |
| Cranes Loved | 4.0 |
| Rotting Christ Non Serviam | 4.5 |
| Dream Theater Awake | 3.0 |
| Danzig Danzig 4 | 4.0 |
| The Cranberries No Need to Argue | 5.0 |
| Edge of Sanity Purgatory Afterglow | 4.5 |
| Testament Low | 3.5 |
| R.E.M. Monster | 3.0 |
| Corrosion of Conformity Deliverance | 4.0 |
| Napalm Death Fear, Emptiness, Despair | 4.0 |
| The Smashing Pumpkins Pisces Iscariot | 4.0 |
| Amorphis Tales from the Thousand Lakes | 5.0 |
| Bad Religion Stranger Than Fiction | 4.0 |
| Manic Street Preachers The Holy Bible | 5.0 |
| The Jesus and Mary Chain Stoned & Dethroned | 3.5 |
| Jeff Buckley Grace | 5.0 |
| Portishead Dummy | 5.0 |
| Machine Head Burn My Eyes | 4.0 |
| Sponge Rotting Piñata | 3.5 |
| Killing Joke Pandemonium | 4.0 |
| Enslaved Frost | 4.5 |
| Hybernoid The Last Day Begins? | 4.5 |
| How is this not more widely recognized as a cult classic? It's fuzzy, jangly, spacey, heavy, and doomy all in one. Probably the purest blend of metal, post-punk, and shoegaze ever put to tape. |
| Emperor As the Shadows Rise | 4.0 |
| Asphyx Asphyx | 3.5 |
| At the Gates Terminal Spirit Disease | 4.0 |
| Kyuss Welcome to Sky Valley | 4.5 |
| Desultory Bitterness | 4.0 |
| Helmet Betty | 4.5 |
| Darkthrone Transilvanian Hunger | 5.0 |
| Rancid Let's Go | 4.0 |
| Emperor In the Nightside Eclipse | 5.0 |
| Stone Temple Pilots Purple | 4.5 |
| Crematory ...Just Dreaming | 3.5 |
| Sonic Youth Experimental Jet Set, Trash, and No Star | 3.0 |
| Weezer Weezer | 5.0 |
| Gorement The Ending Quest | 5.0 |
| Live Throwing Copper | 3.5 |
| Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds Let Love In | 4.5 |
| Nas Illmatic | 5.0 |
| The Offspring Smash | 4.0 |
| Soundtrack (Film) The Crow | 4.0 |
| Collective Soul Hints, Allegations, and Things Left Unsaid | 3.0 |
| Morrissey Vauxhall and I | 4.5 |
| Incantation Mortal Throne of Nazarene | 4.5 |
| Nine Inch Nails The Downward Spiral | 4.5 |
| Failure Magnified | 4.5 |
| Soundgarden Superunknown | 5.0 |
| Samael Ceremony Of Opposites | 4.5 |
| Gehenna First Spell | 4.5 |
| Stabbing Westward Ungod | 3.5 |
| Pavement Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain | 4.0 |
| Benediction The Grotesque / Ashen Epitaph | 3.5 |
| Green Day Dookie | 4.0 |
| Enslaved Vikingligr Veldi | 5.0 |
| Alice in Chains Jar of Flies | 5.0 |
| Sodom Get What You Deserve | 2.5 |
| The Cramps Flamejob | 3.0 |
| Behemoth And the Forests Dream Eternally | 3.5 |
| Gorefest Erase | 3.5 |
| Katatonia For Funerals to Come... | 3.5 |
| The Chasm Procreation of the Inner Temple | 3.5 |
| Prong Cleansing | 4.0 |
| Beastie Boys Ill Communication | 4.0 |
| In Flames Lunar Strain | 4.0 |
| The Jesus Lizard Down | 4.0 |
| Cemetary Black Vanity | 4.0 |
| A stellar gothic doom metal release that sits comfortably (both stylistically and historically) alongside albums such as Paradise Lost's "Icon" and Tiamat's "Wildhoney". Not quite a classic but an overlooked gem for sure. Bonus points for album art by the great Dave McKean. |
| Circle of Dust Brainchild | 4.0 |
| Sunny Day Real Estate Diary | 4.5 |
| Cryptopsy Blasphemy Made Flesh | 4.5 |
| Dystopia Human = Garbage | 4.5 |
| Jawbreaker 24 Hour Revenge Therapy | 4.5 |
| Bolt Thrower ...For Victory | 4.5 |
| Dawn Nær Solen Gar Nider For Evogher | 4.5 |
| Bethlehem Dark Metal | 4.5 |
| Depressive Age Lying in Wait | 4.5 |
| Septicflesh Mystic Places of Dawn | 4.5 |
| Therapy? Troublegum | 5.0 |
| Mayhem De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas | 5.0 |
| Vangelis Blade Runner Soundtrack | 5.0 |
| Acid Bath When the Kite String Pops | 5.0 |
| Hypocrisy The Fourth Dimension | 4.0 |
