| 2014 |
| Ennoven Redemption | 3.0 |
| Whitey Morgan & The 78's Granpa's Guitar | 3.0 |
| Cretin Stranger | 3.0 |
| Mors Principium Est Dawn of the 5th Era | 3.5 |
| Baring Teeth Ghost Chorus Among Old Ruins | 2.5 |
| Desecravity Orphic Signs | 4.0 |
| Centinex Redeeming Filth | 3.5 |
| Bloodbath Grand Morbid Funeral | 3.5 |
| Satanic Warmaster Fimbulwinter | 4.0 |
| Job For A Cowboy Sun Eater | 3.5 |
| Street Cleaner Payback | 3.5 |
| Genethliac Genethliac | 3.5 |
| Ne Obliviscaris Citadel | 4.0 |
| Nader Sadek The Malefic: Chapter III | 3.0 |
| Sidious Revealed in Profane Splendour | 3.0 |
| Soen Tellurian | 4.0 |
| Mare Cognitum Phobos Monolith | 5.0 |
| Inconcessus Lux Lucis Crux Lupus Corona | 3.0 |
| Hideous Divinity Cobra Verde | 3.0 |
| Very similar to Hour of Penance, though not as good. |
| Thy Darkened Shade Liber Lvcifer I: Khem Sedjet | 4.0 |
| Anaal Nathrakh Desideratum | 3.5 |
| Abysmal Dawn Obsolescence | 2.5 |
| At the Gates At War with Reality | 2.0 |
| Nero di Marte Derivae | 3.0 |
| Annihilated XIII Steps to Ruination | 4.0 |
| Horrendous Ecdysis | 4.0 |
| Bloodshot Dawn Demons | 3.5 |
| Beyond Creation Earthborn Evolution | 3.5 |
| Starkill Virus of the Mind | 3.0 |
| Carnality Dystopia | 3.0 |
| Revocation Deathless | 4.0 |
| Exodus Blood In, Blood Out | 3.0 |
| Winterfylleth The Divination Of Antiquity | 4.5 |
| Audrey Horne Pure Heavy | 3.5 |
| Northern Oak Of Roots and Flesh | 3.5 |
| Black Crown Initiate The Wreckage of Stars | 3.5 |
| Decapitated Blood Mantra | 2.5 |
| Joe Bonamassa Different Shades of Blue | 4.0 |
| Calm Hatchery Fading Reliefs | 4.0 |
| Cannibal Corpse A Skeletal Domain | 3.0 |
| Emeth Aethyr | 4.0 |
| Hums In The Dark Resurrection (2014) | 3.0 |
| In Flames Siren Charms | 1.5 |
| Hod Book of the Worm | 3.0 |
| Darkspace Dark Space III I | 4.0 |
| Aspherium The Fall of Therenia | 3.5 |
| Dark Fortress Venereal Dawn | 4.0 |
| Code Orange I Am King | 3.0 |
| Disentomb Misery | 4.0 |
| Sweet GA Brown Wordsmith | 3.0 |
| Lucette Black is the Color | 2.5 |
| Opeth Pale Communion | 3.5 |
| Belphegor Conjuring The Dead | 3.0 |
| Panopticon Roads to the North | 3.5 |
| Those Who Bring the Torture Piling Up | 3.0 |
| Gorgasm Destined to Violate | 2.5 |
| Justin Payne No Place Lower Than High | 3.5 |
| King of Asgard Karg | 3.0 |
| Fallujah The Flesh Prevails | 3.0 |
Solid album but it is another overrated album by many in the sputnik community. It has a
nice atmosphere and a good flow, but it really doesn't excel at anything. The solos are
mediocre, the riffs are pretty good but nothing special, the drumming is fairly good as
well, but it isn't really progressive. However, I don't understand the complaints
about it being overly techy, it isn't. |
| Overkill White Devil Armory | 3.5 |
| Bastard Feast Osculum Infame | 3.5 |
| Defilementory The Dismal Ascension | 3.0 |
| Drowned Idola Specus | 2.5 |
| Distorted Harmony Chain Reaction | 3.5 |
| Origin Omnipresent | 4.0 |
| Blood Thirsty Sanguine River Absolution | 3.5 |
| Halberd Remnants of Crumbling Empires | 3.5 |
| Old Crow Medicine Show Remedy | 3.5 |
| Slugdge Gastronomicon | 4.5 |
| Illdisposed With the Lost Souls on Our Side | 4.0 |
| Septicflesh Titan | 3.0 |
| Kelsey Waldon The Goldmine | 3.5 |
| Allegaeon Elements of the Infinite | 4.0 |
| Nunslaughter Angelic Dread | 3.5 |
| Inanimate Existence A Never-Ending Cycle of Atonement | 3.5 |
| Tankard R.I.B. | 3.5 |
| Humaniac Abandon the Eternity | 2.5 |
| Darkest Era Severance | 4.0 |
| Mayhem Esoteric Warfare | 3.0 |
| Trap Them Blissfucker | 2.5 |
| Saor Aura | 4.5 |
| Skaphe Skáphe | 3.5 |
| Satariel White Ink: Chapter One | 3.0 |
| Luke Bell Don’t Mind If I Do | 3.5 |
| Rude Soul Recall | 2.5 |
| Vader Tibi et Igni | 4.0 |
| Widek Outside the Universe | 4.0 |
| John Fullbright Songs | 4.0 |
| Marty Friedman Inferno | 3.0 |
| Emptiness Nothing but the Whole | 2.0 |
| Kvalvaag Noema | 3.0 |
| Misery Index The Killing Gods | 4.0 |
| Diocletian Gesundrian | 4.0 |
| This album is vicious. The riffs, the tone, the attitude. Vicious. |
| Sinister The Post-Apocalyptic Servant | 3.5 |
| Id (USA-TX) Philosofia | 3.0 |
| Hoth Oathbreaker | 3.5 |
| Casualties of Cool Casualties of Cool | 2.5 |
| I like country and rock but I find this album does nothing great in either, especially country. The album has diversity and decent songwriting but not much else. |
| Hour of Penance Regicide | 3.5 |
| Sturgill Simpson Metamodern Sounds In Country Music | 5.0 |
| Agalloch The Serpent and the Sphere | 3.0 |
| Matt Woods With Love From Brushy Mountain | 2.5 |
| Dead Congregation Promulgation of the Fall | 4.0 |
| Spectral Lore III | 4.5 |
| Beneath (IS) The Barren Throne | 4.0 |
| This and Near Death Condition's latest are neck and neck for best death metal album of 2014. |
| Joseph Huber The Hanging Road | 4.0 |
| Autopsy Tourniquets, Hacksaws and Graves | 3.0 |
| Abysmal Torment Cultivate The Apostate | 4.0 |
| Mekong Delta In a Mirror Darkly | 3.5 |
| Schammasch Contradiction | 3.5 |
| Insomnium Shadows of the Dying Sun | 3.5 |
There are maybe 2 songs on here that are average for Insomnium and one, "While We Sleep",
which is good. The rest is certainly not up to par to their older stuff. This album is less
dynamic, less emotionally provocative, less interesting, and there isn't enough diversity.
The acoustic breaks are less prevalent here and the album suffers because of it. The build-
up to climaxes is nowhere near what it was on previous albums. Sure, they add blast-beats
but it doesn't add much musically other than it is different. The emphasis on clean vocals
reminds me of Noumena's direction, though with the same results: the band is no longer as
good. The only thing I like better is the addition of more solos, which are fantastic. This
album doesn't compare to their older stuff, and in my opinion, is definitely the worst thing
they have ever released, minus the EP last year. Saying this album is a classic, superb, or
even excellent is a stretch and unworthy of that sort of recognition. Insinuating that this
is as good as their other stuff is akin to saying Mercenary's latest is as well. It simply
isn't. It is still better than what most bands release however. |
| Qrixkuor Consecration of the Temple | 3.0 |
| Vermin Womb Permanence | 3.0 |
| Skinfather None Will Mourn | 2.5 |
| Harakiri for the Sky Aokigahara | 3.5 |
| Vader Go To Hell | 3.5 |
| The Great Old Ones Tekeli-Li | 4.0 |
| Emmure Eternal Enemies | 1.0 |
| Triptykon Melana Chasmata | 4.0 |
| Enthroned Sovereigns | 3.5 |
| Left Lane Cruiser Slingshot | 3.0 |
| Cormorant Earth Diver | 4.0 |
| Lost Society Terror Hungry | 3.5 |
| Pallor Mortis The Art Of Terror | 3.5 |
| Pretty Little Flower Ultimate Whirlwind of Incineration | 3.5 |
| Binah A Triad of Plagues | 3.0 |
| Chevelle La Gárgola | 3.5 |
| Locktender Rodin | 3.0 |
| Jeff Black Folklore | 2.5 |
| Iron Reagan Spoiled Identity | 3.0 |
| IDYLLS Prayer for Terrene | 4.0 |
| Winter Of Sin Violence Reigns Supreme | 4.0 |
Black/death with a significant touch of melody. Sounds a bit like God Dethroned. Not
surprising seeing as Henri Sattler fronts and Michiel Van Der Picht drums for the band. |
| Animals As Leaders The Joy of Motion | 3.0 |
| Johnny Cash Out Among the Stars | 3.5 |
| Karen Jonas Oklahoma Lottery | 3.0 |
| Simple songs which highlight her voice and songwriting ability. |
| Internal Rot Mental Hygiene | 3.0 |
| Brutally Deceased Black Infernal Vortex | 3.0 |
| Grim Legion Unholy Resurrection | 3.0 |
| Near Death Condition Evolving Towards Extinction | 4.0 |
| Excellent death metal record. The riffs are good, the tempo is fast and unforgiving, the vocals are quality, the album is diverse enough to keep my attention, but the programmed drums take away from the overall quality. It feels less organic, but still a great record. |
| Ringworm Hammer of the Witch | 2.5 |
| Alterbeast Immortal | 3.0 |
| Tellusian Collision | 3.0 |
| Beyond Mortal Dreams Lamia | 4.0 |
| Don Williams Reflections | 4.0 |
| Savage Messiah The Fateful Dark | 3.0 |
| Fenris Across the Darkened Skies | 3.0 |
| Eli Young Band 10,000 Towns | 2.5 |
| Just about the only poppish-country I can stand. They make good love songs and they haven`t ventured far enough from their core sound to turn me off yet. |
| Morbus Chron Sweven | 3.5 |
| The Furor Impending Revelation | 3.5 |
| If anything is noteworthy, it's those fucking solos. |
| Dephosphorus Ravenous Solemnity | 3.0 |
| Words of Farewell The Black Wild Yonder | 2.5 |
| Dierks Bentley Riser | 2.5 |
| Ags Connolly How About Now | 3.0 |
| Jig-Ai Rising Sun Carnage | 4.0 |
| A Sense of Gravity Travail | 3.0 |
| Vanden Plas Chronicles of the Immortals: Netherworld (Path 1) | 3.5 |
| Ass to Mouth Degenerate | 3.0 |
| Pretty solid grind in the vein of Jig-Ai, who they also made a split album with. It`s a little back heavy but worth a lesson. |
| GridLink Longhena | 4.5 |
| Soreption Engineering The Void | 3.5 |
| Artificial Brain Labyrinth Constellation | 3.0 |
| Howls of Ebb Vigils of the 3rd Eye | 2.5 |
| Woods of Desolation As the Stars | 4.0 |
| Sun Worship Elder Giants | 4.0 |
| Robert Ellis The Lights from the Chemical Plant | 3.0 |
| Human Infection Curvatures in Time | 3.5 |
| Separatist Closure | 3.5 |
| Whispered Shogunate Macabre | 3.5 |
| Separatist Motionless | 3.0 |
| Kriegsmaschine Enemy of Man | 3.0 |
| Behemoth The Satanist | 4.0 |
| Exmortus Slave To The Sword | 4.0 |
| Corpsessed Abysmal Thresholds | 4.0 |
| Scott H. Biram Nothin' But Blood | 2.5 |
| Hannes Grossmann The Radial Covenant | 3.5 |
| Inferi (USA) The Path of Apotheosis | 3.5 |
| The Lawrence Arms Metropole | 3.0 |
| Kampfar Djevelmakt | 3.5 |
| Burial Hordes Incendium | 3.5 |
| Northern Plague Manifesto | 3.5 |
| Another fine blackened death metal act from Poland. This isn`t quite as good as Behemoth`s latest record or Winter of Sin`s, but it is close. |
| Jason Eady Daylight & Dark | 3.0 |
| Lvcifyre Svn Eater | 3.5 |
| The Kennedy Veil Trinity of Falsehood | 2.0 |
| This album is about as generic as a death metal album can get. |
| Persuader The Fiction Maze | 4.0 |
| Graveborne Through the Window of the Night | 3.0 |
| Aenaon Extance | 4.0 |
| Valtari Hunter's Pride | 3.5 |
| Engutturalment Cephaloslamectomy 8.1.2. | 3.0 |
| Cody Johnson Cowboy Like Me | 3.5 |
| Legion of the Damned Ravenous Plague | 2.5 |
| I thought a few songs were pretty good, especially "Doom Priest", but I agree that it really doesn`t differentiate itself much from the genre or their other stuff. |
| Domains Sinister Ceremonies | 2.5 |
| 2013 |
| Smothered The Inevitable End | 4.5 |
| This is some of the best old-school Swedish death I have heard in a long time. |
| Crypticus The Barrens | 3.5 |
| Voidhanger Working Class Misanthropy | 4.5 |
| A few of the makers of Infernal War bring you, Voidhanger. |
| Artillery Legions | 3.0 |
| Deicide In the Minds of Evil | 4.0 |
| Kauan Pirut | 3.5 |
| Torture Division The Sacrifice | 3.5 |
| Insomnium Ephemeral | 2.5 |
| David Maxim Micic Bilo 3.0 | 4.5 |
| Pestilence Obsideo | 3.0 |
| Valkyrja The Antagonist's Fire | 4.0 |
| One of the best black metal albums of 2013 in my opinion. |
| Exivious Liminal | 4.0 |
| Obliteration Black Death Horizon | 4.0 |
| Thunderwar The Birth of Thunder | 3.0 |
| Avatarium Avatarium | 4.0 |
| Unhuman Unhuman | 3.5 |
| Falkenbach Asa | 4.0 |
| One of my favorite releases of 2013. There are some gorgeous songs on here. The vocals are noteworthy as they add positive musical value to the record. A wonderful mix of black/folk metal. |
| Warbringer IV: Empires Collapse | 2.5 |
| Toxic Holocaust Chemistry of Consciousness | 4.0 |
| Grind grew up in the wrong era. He continuously writes solid album after solid album and not just in Toxic Holocaust. |
| Skeletonwitch Serpents Unleashed | 4.0 |
| Best thrash metal of 2013. Great blackened vocals, as always. The solos, songwriting, and riffs have all improved. |
| Bad Religion Christmas Songs | 2.5 |
| Hail of Bullets III: The Rommel Chronicles | 4.0 |
| Russian Circles Memorial | 3.5 |
| Man Must Die Peace Was Never An Option | 4.0 |
| Necrophobic Womb of Lilithu | 3.0 |
| Inquisition Obscure Verses for the Multiverse | 4.0 |
| Exhumer Degraded By Sepsis | 3.5 |
| Will Hoge Never Give In | 3.0 |
| Wolfheart Winterborn | 4.5 |
| Sukkonen's latest effort is the best melodic album of 2013. The ebbs and flows created by his songwriting; the strong vocal performance; the riffs, which are not only more interesting than other bands within the same genre, but convey a greater sense emotion than others; and the variation in tempo from song to song and within songs themselves, which lends a great deal to building climaxes for which Sukkonen is good at. At times you may hear an interesting solo or a nice instrumental passage. The drumming, though not stellar, suits the music well. This is one of the few records I have heard which comes close to Insomnium`s records. Again, my favorite melodic album of 2013. It topped the latest efforts from October Tide, Children of Bodom, Dark Tranquility, Amon Amarth, Amorphis, In Vain, Viikate, Eternal Tears of Sorrow, Omnium Gatherum, Noumena, Mercenary, Hypocrisy, Rotting Christ, Kalmah(only slightly), Arsis, and Soilwork. Yes, I listened to all of those records. |
| Plini Sweet Nothings | 3.0 |
| Lindi Ortega Tin Star | 4.5 |
| With a voice sounding like a mix of Harris and Parton this girl sounds awfully good, but that isn`t it, the music matches. Female artists have put out some great country albums this years--Rose, Monroe, and Musgraves to name a few, but Ortega`s is the best. |
| Argus (USA-PA) Beyond The Martyrs | 3.5 |
| Old-school sounding heavy metal with doom influences. |
| Caligula's Horse The Tide, the Thief and River's End | 4.5 |
| Hank Williams III Brothers Of The 4X4 | 3.0 |
| Torture Division The Army of Three | 3.5 |
| Bliss of Flesh Beati Pauperes Spiritu | 2.5 |
| Alan Jackson The Bluegrass Album | 4.0 |
| Excellent songwriting against a backdrop of solid bluegrass instrumentation, plus Jackson`s smooth voice. It equals a great bluegrass album. |
| Onslaught VI | 4.0 |
| In a year with few solid thrash metal releases, this album was one. Fast-paced, quality riffage with a nice thick tone, tight drumming, face-melting solos, and solid songwriting define this record. It`s a nice addition to their discography. |
| Bodyfarm The Coming Scourge | 3.5 |
| Demonical Darkness Unbound | 3.0 |
| Totemwolf Totemwolf | 3.0 |
| Grave Upheaval Untitled | 1.5 |
| Otargos Apex Terror | 2.5 |
| This album starts off with an absolutely crushing track but then dwells in inconsistency. There are some good things that they do on this but again, the inconsistency and ill-meshing of ideas lets it down. This album is more blackened-death then a straight up black metal record. |
| Calculated Barbarity Alkaline Hydrolysis | 3.5 |
| Tyr Valkyrja | 3.5 |
| Carcass Surgical Steel | 3.5 |
| The White Buffalo Shadows, Greys & Evil Ways | 4.0 |
| Katatonia Dethroned & Uncrowned | 3.5 |
| Gorguts Colored Sands | 3.5 |
| Haken The Mountain | 4.5 |
| Nhor Within the Darkness Between the Starlight | 3.5 |
| Robbie Fulks Gone Away Backward | 3.5 |
| Fleshgod Apocalypse Labyrinth | 3.5 |
| Boal Infinite Deprivation | 3.0 |
| Revocation Revocation | 3.0 |
| Witherscape The Inheritance | 4.0 |
| Dead in the Dirt The Blind Hole | 3.5 |
| Exhumed Necrocracy | 4.0 |
| Mercenary Through Our Darkest Days | 3.0 |
| Leonidas Into The Abyss Of Time | 3.0 |
| Mammoth Grinder Underworlds | 3.5 |
| More raw energy than Black Breath but they lack their riff writing. |
| Black Crown Initiate Song of the Crippled Bull | 3.5 |
| Evan Brewer Your Itinerary | 3.0 |
| The Aristocrats Culture Clash | 4.0 |
| Panzerchrist 7th Offensive | 3.0 |
| A venture away from the black metal influence of their last album and back to their old straight up death metal ways. The production on this album is significantly better than the last and there is a melodic tinge to the guitar tone. Solid record. |
| Ferocity The Sovereign | 3.0 |
| Deamon Condemned to Darkness | 4.0 |
| No One Gets Out Alive Widowmaker | 4.0 |
| If vegan German brutal death metal with a banjo tickles your fancy. This will do. |
| All Pigs Must Die Nothing Violates This Nature | 3.0 |
| Amon Amarth Deceiver of the Gods | 3.0 |
| House of Atreus Into the Brazen Bull | 3.5 |
| Kalmah Seventh Swamphony | 4.0 |
| Mumakil Flies Will Starve | 3.0 |
| Children of Bodom Halo of Blood | 3.0 |
| Best record they have released in a long time. I enjoy the darker tone of this album and less emphasis on guitar wankery. They focused on riffs and memorable songwriting. |
| Power Trip Manifest Decimation | 3.5 |
| Jason Isbell Southeastern | 5.0 |
| Sturgill Simpson High Top Mountain | 4.5 |
| Black Sabbath 13 | 3.0 |
| Torture Division The Worship | 4.0 |
| Vomitous Empires of Great Enslavement | 3.0 |
| Kylesa Ultraviolet | 3.5 |
| Dark Tranquillity Construct | 2.0 |
| One of the worst records I have heard in 2013. These songs trudge along at mid-pace with few interesting riffs and melodies. This album lacks dynamism and the climax building that was more prevalent in their previous works. |
| Spawn From Deceit Woven Promises - Unraveled Victims | 3.5 |
| Blood Red Throne Blood Red Throne | 4.0 |
| Great rebound album after a major disappointment in their last effort. I love the guitar tone on this album, it is thick and plain ol` sinister. The songwriting is great; the drumming is heavy on the double-bass; the bass is more prominent in this album; and the solos add character. |
| Thou Art Lord The Regal Pulse of Lucifer | 3.5 |
| Eric Strickland and the B-Sides I`m Bad for You | 4.0 |
| From ballads to bar rousers, this album has it all. |
| Bolzer Aura | 3.5 |
| Immolation Kingdom of Conspiracy | 3.5 |
| Gama Bomb The Terror Tapes | 3.0 |
| Cerekloth In the Midst of Life We Are In Death | 3.5 |
| These Danes produce mid-paced sinister sounding death metal. |
| Deeds of Flesh Portals to Canaan | 3.0 |
| Arsis Unwelcome | 4.0 |
| Compared to most bands within the same genre, Arsis` musicianship is head and shoulders above. They wield their instruments with an uncanny technical prowess. These traits, combined with some of their best songwriting, best riff writing, the most interesting drumming to date, and face-melting solos is a concoction for an excellent record. Their second best full-length in my opinion. |
| Amorphis Circle | 3.5 |
| Another very good effort from a band of enviable consistency. The melodies on this record are beautiful and the variation from track to track keeps one interested. |
| Starkill Fires of Life | 3.5 |
| Sodom Epitome of Torture | 2.5 |
| Rob Zombie Venomous Rat Regeneration Vendor | 2.5 |
| Jayke Orvis and the Broken Band Bless This Mess | 4.5 |
| No filler tracks on this one, every song is very good. The songwriting is great; the instrumentation is interesting(not surprising seeing as Orvis was in the .357 String Band) with two great instrumental tracks; and an outlaw flair that should attract fans of Hank III. Oh, and one the better covers of Hank William`s classic in "Kaw-Liga". |
| Noumena Death Walks With Me | 2.5 |
| The over-abundance of clean sung vocals mixed with mediocre, mid-paced riffs haunts this album. |
| Eyeconoclast Drones of the Awakening | 3.0 |
| Saor Roots | 4.0 |
| Verminous The Unholy Communion | 3.0 |
| Purgatory (DE) DEATHKVLT - Grand Ancient Arts | 4.0 |
| Very similar to Fleshcrawl, Vomitory, and Sulphur Aeon. Lots of very heavy tremolo picked riffs with vocals similar to Fleshcrawls. |
| Alkaline Trio My Shame Is True | 3.5 |
| Wardruna Runaljod - Yggdrasil | 4.5 |
| Nails Abandon All Life | 3.5 |
| Persefone Spiritual Migration | 2.5 |
| Kvelertak Meir | 3.0 |
| Wormed Exodromos | 3.5 |
| October Tide Tunnel of No Light | 3.0 |
| For those not familiar(I`m sure there aren`t many), this sounds much like old Katatonia and they don`t lag behind far behind in terms of musicianship. Worth a listen if you enjoyed Katatonia`s older stuff. |
| Hypocrisy End of Disclosure | 3.0 |
| Kacey Musgraves Same Trailer Different Park | 3.0 |
| Jungle Rot Terror Regime | 3.0 |
| In Vain (NO) Aenigma | 3.5 |
| Soilwork The Living Infinite | 4.0 |
| After venturing further and further down a more rock orientated road, they return with an album closer to their first 3 releases. And seeing as they released a double-album, it was an inspired attempt. The result: one of the strongest melodic metal releases not only of their career but in all of 2013. The album is chalk full of interesting melodic riffs; varied vocals(highs and lows); variation in the songs, both in tempo and structure; and drumming that fits well. Certainly a record worth listening to. |
| Ashley Monroe Like a Rose | 3.5 |
| Rotting Christ Kata Ton Demona Eaftou | 3.5 |
| Tribulation The Formulas of Death | 3.5 |
| Darkthrone The Underground Resistance | 4.0 |
| Caitlin Rose The Stand In | 3.0 |
| Omnium Gatherum Beyond | 3.5 |
| One of the better melodic metal albums produced this year. Though the growls are below par, the music itself is quite good. These Finnish bands are very good in their ability to invoke emotional landscapes in the listeners head--taking one from the depths of sadness and despair to the triumphs of life and overcoming the negative. And sometimes it is physical landscapes which manifest themselves in one`s mind as well. When one listens to any number of Finnish melodic bands, I`m certain one`s mind leads them to cold and dreary, snow-filled surroundings. Omnium Gatherum is better than many other bands in the region at conveying this and this album highlights it. |
| Eternal Tears of Sorrow Saivon Lapsi | 3.0 |
| If you like keyboards to dictate melody in your metal you should enjoy this record. The intertwining of keyboard and guitar leads adds a nice element. |
| Lost Soul Genesis - XX Years of Chaoz | 4.5 |
| Bullet for My Valentine Temper Temper | 1.5 |
| Audrey Horne Youngblood | 4.0 |
| Defeated Sanity Passages Into Deformity | 3.5 |
| Hate Solarflesh | 3.0 |
| Rings of Saturn Dingir | 2.5 |
| Holly Williams The Highway | 3.5 |
| The Steeldrivers Hammer Down | 3.5 |
| Calculated Barbarity The Age of Depravity | 4.0 |
| Cultes Des Ghoules Henbane | 4.0 |
| Blockheads This World Is Dead | 4.0 |
| Bad Religion True North | 4.0 |
| Gary Allan Set You Free | 3.5 |
| Ludovico Einaudi In a Time Lapse | 4.0 |
| Sorcery Arrival At Six | 3.5 |
| Jeff Black B-Sides And Confessions, Vol. 2 | 2.5 |
| Joel Grind The Yellowgoat Sessions | 4.0 |
| Katalepsy Autopsychosis | 4.5 |
| Corpus Mortale Fleshcraft | 3.0 |
| Sulphur Aeon Swallowed by the Ocean's Tide | 4.0 |
| Pretty Little Flower Devious Persecution And Wholesale Slaughter | 3.5 |
| Plaga Magia gwiezdnej entropii | 4.0 |
| Excellent record. Similar to Mgla, this band writes some simple yet memorable riffs and this album is nothing short on atmosphere, which is dark. The atmosphere is aided by raw production but not of the lo-fi sort--everything is clearly discernible. The drumming is quite good as well but the bass is drowned out. Those Poles make some fine black metal. |
| Septicflesh Mystic Places of Dawn (Reissue) | 4.0 |
| Abyssal (UK) Novit Enim Dominus Qui Sunt Eius | 3.0 |
