Average Rating: 3.70 Rating Variance: 0.76 Objectivity Score: 72% (Fairly Balanced)
Sort by: Rating | Release Date | Rating Date | Name2014 Cynic Kindly Bent to Free Us3.52013 Daft Punk Random Access Memories5.02011 Cynic Carbon-Based Anatomy4.0Daft Punk Tron Legacy: Reconfigured2.52010 Daft Punk Tron: Legacy3.0Atheist Jupiter3.0Anathema We're Here Because We're Here5.0Cynic Re-Traced3.02009 Nirvana Live at Reading4.0Really brings the songs back to life, excellent show and I concur... Kurt at his peak hereBaroness Blue Record4.5Secret Chiefs 3 Traditionalists4.0ISIS Wavering Radiant2.5This is in no way better than the new Mastodon, which effectively saved the band from their post-Blood Mountain letdown. This pushes no boundaries and goes nowhere new. I'll need to give it a few more listens but as a HUGE fan of Panopticon and Oceanic, this is a let down. Even In the Absence of Truth had some good moments.Mastodon Crack the Skye4.5Thursday Common Existence3.02008 The Fall of Troy Phantom on the Horizon3.0Cynic Traced in Air5.0Bloodbath The Fathomless Mastery3.0Burst Lazarus Bird3.5Metallica Death Magnetic2.5Underoath Lost in the Sound of Separation2.5Anathema Hindsight4.5Sigur Ros Med Sud i Eyrum vid Spilum Endalaust4.5Scar Symmetry Holographic Universe2.5N.E.R.D. Seeing Sounds3.5Opeth Watershed3.0Secret Chiefs 3 Xaphan: Book of Angels Volume 94.0While not quite the sequel to "Book of Horizons", there's enough diversity in the material to live up to the last album. I don't know anything about Zorn, but if he had a part in this I'd check his work out for sure. The intro to "Akramachamarei" is one of the most ear-pleasing moments on the album, as is the funky bass intro on Balberith.The Roots Rising Down3.5Portishead Third4.0Atmosphere When Life Gives You Lemons...3.0Thrice The Alchemy Index Vols. III & IV4.0Protest the Hero Fortress3.0Gates of Winter Lux Aeterna3.02007 Daft Punk Alive 20075.0Avenged Sevenfold Avenged Sevenfold1.0Puscifer "V" Is For Vagina3.0Between the Buried and Me Colors5.0Justice †3.5Hawksley Workman Between the Beautifuls3.5The Cooper Temple Clause Make This Your Own3.02006 Between the Buried and Me The Anatomy Of4.52005 Shadow Gallery Room V4.5Just had to write in great favour of this album. Comfort Me is one of the defining emotional and melodic highlights where its motif is revisted nicely in Lamentia. Birth of a Daughter and Death of a Mother are 2 minute instrumentals that pair together very well. Torn has a great main guitar line and the song, especially in its closing moments, conveys the singer's emotional difficulties very well. Rain is a heavier point in the album and has great sections instrumentally, although it is hampered slightly by its rather obscure vocal work, notably too much time spent in the higher ranges. The album on its own is a 4.0 work - excellent, but still with a number of faults. The bonus disc is what sets this apart from the pack, if only for the epic 24-minute behemoth. Floydian Memories is one of the greatest things I've ever heard, even in the scope of progressive metal epics. Although it is a cover of multiple Pink Floyd songs, the transitions from one section to another is so seamless and clean that Shadow Gallery has made the piece their own. Highlights within it include its movement from Julia Dream's chorus to Comfortably Numb's solo, the vocal harmonizations in "Goodbye Blue Sky", and transforming sections of "Point me to the Sky" and "Your Possible Pasts" into something, well, listenable. If you're a fan of the peerless Pink Floyd, you owe it to yourself to download Floydian Memories if not this entire album. Daft Punk Human After All2.52004 A Perfect Circle eMOTIVe3.0ISIS Panopticon4.02003 The Cooper Temple Clause Kick up the fire.....3.5Anathema A Natural Disaster4.5A Perfect Circle Thirteenth Step4.5Hawksley Workman Lover/Fighter4.02002 The Cooper Temple Clause See This Through And Leave4.0Silverchair Diorama4.5ISIS Oceanic4.02001 Daft Punk Discovery5.01999 Mr. Bungle California4.01997 Daft Punk Homework4.51993 Atheist Elements5.0Cynic Focus5.01992 54-40 Dear Dear4.0Great band, somewhat forgotten but they have the formula down pat.1978 Thin Lizzy Live and Dangerous2.51973 Pink Floyd The Dark Side of the Moon4.5
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