| 2008 |
| Baphomet's Blood Second Strike | 3.5 |
| Intestine Baalism Ultimate Instinct | 3.5 |
| Lich King Toxic Zombie Onslaught | 4.5 |
| Exodus Let There Be Blood | 1.5 |
| Cynic Traced in Air | 4.5 |
| Darkthrone Dark Thrones and Black Flags | 3.0 |
| The Devil's Blood Come, Reap | 4.0 |
| Deathchain Death Eternal | 2.0 |
| I guess they think they had a winning formula with "Cult of Death" or something. More death metal and less thrash metal just does not suit Deathchain, and "Death Eternal" is just more proof of that. The opener is dull and lifeless, and the whole thing just drones on after that. The production is still hollow, as if they were trying to sound like a 90's Flordia death metal act. If this is the best you've got now Deathchain, then it's time to throw in the towel. No use in shaming yourselves anymore. |
| Amon Amarth Twilight Of The Thunder God | 4.0 |
| Helstar The King of Hell | 4.0 |
| Metallica Death Magnetic | 3.5 |
| Adebisi Shank This Is The Album Of A Band Called Adebisi Shank | 3.5 |
| Iced Earth The Crucible Of Man | 1.5 |
| Blessed by a Broken Heart Pedal to the Metal | 1.5 |
| Toxic Holocaust An Overdose of Death... | 4.0 |
| Master Slaves To Society | 4.0 |
| Destruction D.E.V.O.L.U.T.I.O.N. | 2.5 |
| Demonizer Triumphator | 3.5 |
| Motorhead Motorizer | 4.5 |
| Slipknot All Hope Is Gone | 3.5 |
| Vindicator There Will Be Blood | 4.0 |
| Cross Examination Menace II Sobriety | 3.0 |
| Exmortus In Hatred's Flame | 4.5 |
| Trench Hell Southern Cross Ripper | 3.5 |
| Tech N9ne Killer | 3.0 |
| Cryptopsy The Unspoken King | 1.0 |
| Arckanum Antikosmos (LP) | 4.0 |
| The Offspring Rise and Fall, Rage and Grace | 3.0 |
| Gama Bomb Citizen Brain | 3.5 |
| Unleashed Hammer Battalion | 4.0 |
| Opeth Watershed | 2.0 |
| Sabaton The Art of War | 3.0 |
| Headhunter (DEU) Parasite of Society | 2.5 |
| StormLord Mare Nostrum | 3.5 |
| Hail of Bullets ...Of Frost and War | 4.0 |
| Malignant Tumour In Full Swing | 3.5 |
| Bonded by Blood Feed the Beast | 3.5 |
| Nyktalgia Peisithanatos | 3.5 |
| Testament The Formation Of Damnation | 2.5 |
| Average. I can't think of a better word to describe "The Formation of Damnation" than that. With the return of the classic line-up and the inclusion of Paul Bostaph on drums, one would expect the gates of metal heaven to open and bestow upon the world something great. Instead, we get two-minute long breakdowns on the title track, and lackluster riffs scattered throughout, sans "Henchman", "More Than Meets the Eye", and "F.E.A.R.". It's not so much that this album is terrible, it's really not...it's just painfully average. |
| Torture Squad Hellbound | 4.0 |
| Kalmah For The Revolution | 4.0 |
| Children of Bodom Blooddrunk | 1.5 |
| Arsis We Are the Nightmare | 4.5 |
| In Flames A Sense of Purpose | 1.5 |
| Cavalera Conspiracy Inflikted | 1.5 |
| Malus The Beauty of Doom | 3.5 |
| Meshuggah obZen | 2.0 |
| Zimmer's Hole When You Were Shouting at the Devil... | 3.0 |
| Arghoslent Hornets of the Pogrom | 4.5 |
| Rookwood You Worship Shit | 4.0 |
| Death Angel Killing Season | 1.5 |
| Eluveitie Slania | 2.5 |
| Winds Of Plague Decimate The Weak | 1.0 |
| Warbringer War Without End | 3.5 |
| Protest the Hero Fortress | 3.0 |
| Alestorm Captain Morgan's Revenge | 4.0 |
| Weapon Para Bhakti... Salvation | 4.5 |
| 2006 |
| Killswitch Engage As Daylight Dies | 3.5 |
| +44 When Your Heart Stops Beating | 3.5 |
| Arsis United in Regret | 2.5 |
| Tech N9ne Everready (The Religion) | 4.5 |
| Damien Rice 9 | 3.5 |
| Decadence 3rd Stage of Decay | 2.0 |
| The Haunted The Dead Eye | 2.5 |
| Converge No Heroes | 1.5 |
| My Chemical Romance The Black Parade | 1.5 |
| Going off the overall impression that I recieved of this album from this site, I figured I should just give this a shot for good times sake. I honestly wish I hadn't now. My Chemical Romance certainly isn't a band that can be accessible to everyone, including myself, and that's even more-so on The Black Parade. Sure, there's some catchy hooks here or there, but for the most part, the final picture is rather dull and lacks colour. The songs themselves seem to be of the same structure, and I really wouldn't call ripping-off some of Queen's sound 'progressing'; I'd just call it somewhat smart. Because on their own, My Chemical Romance really accomplishes nothing that interests me on this album, but when they mix it with other sounds like on the title track, it does catch me. But songs like "Dead!" and especially "Cancer" just kill anything this album had going for it. |
| Torture Squad Chaos Corporation | 3.0 |
| Children of Bodom Chaos Ridden Years - Stockholm Knockout | 4.0 |
| Kingdom of Salvation Lost in Chaos | 3.0 |
| Alestorm Terror on the High Seas | 4.0 |
| Trivium The Crusade | 1.5 |
| Brand New Sin Tequila | 3.0 |
| Amon Amarth With Oden On Our Side | 4.0 |
| Into Eternity The Scattering of Ashes | 4.5 |
| Violator Chemical Assault | 4.0 |
| Weird Al Yankovic Straight Outta Lynwood | 3.5 |
| Ahab Call Of The Wretched Sea | 3.0 |
| Jedi Mind Tricks Servants In Heaven, Kings In Hell | 4.5 |
| Black Label Society Shot to Hell | 2.0 |
| Mastodon Blood Mountain | 4.0 |
| Motorhead Kiss of Death | 3.5 |
| Hatebreed Supremacy | 3.5 |
| Iron Maiden A Matter of Life and Death | 4.5 |
| Lamb of God Sacrament | 3.0 |
| Insomnium Above the Weeping World | 4.0 |
| All Shall Perish The Price Of Existence | 1.5 |
| Breaking Benjamin Phobia | 2.0 |
| Slayer Christ Illusion | 3.5 |
| It's hard to compress my individual thoughts on this album in such a small space, but I'll try. But where to begin? I have a list so long as to what is so right about this album, that I feel like now the only appropriate way would be to say: Slayer is back. The malicous tone, the grinding guitars, insane drums, and with the lyrics to boot. Songs like 'Flesh Storm', 'Supremist', and 'Jihad' should be looked at as what they are: New classics in the era of Slayer. The lyrics as well, are still full of hate, as Tom's rabid mouth fires them out without heisitation. And Kerry and Jeff, while still shredding off mindless solos that have no feel whatsoever, actually have some quality ones on here like on 'Consfearacy' and 'Supremist'. And the taste of success is only made sweeter with the madman Dave Lombardo returning to his rightful spot on drums, as he pounds this album straight into the ground with unimaginable fills and beats. Slayer has retaken their throne, and 'Christ Illusion' was the key to it all. |
| Agalloch Ashes Against the Grain | 3.5 |
| Silversun Pickups Carnavas | 4.0 |
| Johnny Cash American V: A Hundred Highways | 4.5 |
| Metal Church A Light in the Dark | 4.0 |
| Regina Spektor Begin To Hope | 3.0 |
| Slayer Eternal Pyre | 2.5 |
| Deicide The Stench of Redemption | 3.5 |
| Ghoul Splatterthrash | 4.5 |
| Tankard The Beauty and the Beer | 4.0 |
| Raise Hell City Of The Damned | 2.5 |
| Viking Skull Born in Hell | 3.0 |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers Stadium Arcadium | 4.0 |
| Vader Impressions In Blood | 4.0 |
| Ares Kingdom Return to Dust | 4.0 |
| Rebel Meets Rebel Rebel Meets Rebel | 4.0 |
| Torchbearer Warnaments | 4.0 |
| Sodom Sodom | 3.5 |
| Alestorm Battleheart | 3.0 |
| Summoning Oath Bound | 4.0 |
| Flesh Made Sin Dawn of the Stillborn | 3.5 |
| Atreyu A Deathgrip On Yesterday | 1.5 |
| Venom Metal Black | 2.0 |
| From First To Last Heroine | 2.0 |
| Cannibal Corpse Kill | 3.0 |
| Army Of The Pharaohs The Torture Papers | 4.0 |
| Sepultura Dante XXI | 1.5 |
| Dismember The God That Never Was | 4.0 |
| Kalmah The Black Waltz | 4.0 |
| Mendeed This War Will Last Forever | 2.5 |
| In Flames Come Clarity | 4.0 |
| High School Musical High School Musical | 3.0 |
| Legion of the Damned Malevolent Rapture | 1.5 |
| DragonForce Inhuman Rampage | 2.0 |
| Demiricous One (Hellbound) | 1.5 |
| The Pink Spiders Teenage Graffiti | 1.5 |
| Eluveitie Spirit | 3.0 |
| My Own Grave Unleash | 3.0 |
| The Legion Revocation | 3.5 |
| Evil Army Evil Army | 3.5 |
| Drudkh Blood In Our Wells | 4.0 |
| Myrkskog Deathmachine | 4.0 |
| Repugnant Epitome of Darkness | 4.0 |
| 1982 |
| Judas Priest Screaming for Vengeance | 4.0 |
| Iron Maiden The Number of the Beast | 5.0 |
| The first album to feature the mighty Bruce Dickinson on vocals, The Number of the Beast is an epic Metal ride for all who claim to be fans of the genre. The riffs are imaginative, the bass is second to none, the solos are gold, and the vocals wail. The title track and 'Run to the Hills' are some of Maiden's finest work, and who can leave out one of the all-time greatest songs ever written, the amazing 'Hallowed Be Thy Name'. |
| Discharge Hear Nothing See Nothing Say Nothing | 4.0 |
| Motorhead Iron Fist | 5.0 |
| After releasing four albums of nearly unmatchable quality, Motorhead did what many others could only dream of: They topped those four albums with one. That album is 'Iron Fist'. Combining the best elements from the past, 'Iron Fist' aims to hit you below the belt and keep on swingin'. It's fast, it's rude, it's Motorhead. It was also here that Lemmy and Eddie teamed up to create a melodic atmosphere on tracks like 'Go to Hell' and 'America', something which had been very rare for them. But just cause it was more melodic doesn't mean it wasn't brash. The title track, 'Speedfreak', and 'I'm the Doctor' are all gritty Hard Rock/Metal classics that will keep your horns in the hair and your head banging. Eddie's solos own this album and will catch your attention almost as fast as Lemmy's thickly distorted bass and throaty vocals. And backed by madman Phil on drums, it all spells success. This is, in my honest opinion, Motorhead's finest work and shouldn't be missed. |
| Venom Black Metal | 3.5 |
