| 2009 |
| Vektor Black Future | 5.0 |
| Gaza He Is Never Coming Back | 3.5 |
| Coalesce OX EP | 4.0 |
| Katatonia Night Is the New Day | 4.0 |
| Keith Merrow The Arrival | 2.0 |
| Pelican What We All Come to Need | 3.5 |
| The Red Chord Fed Through the Teeth Machine | 3.5 |
| Between the Buried and Me The Great Misdirect | 5.0 |
| Russian Circles Geneva | 4.0 |
| Baroness Blue Record | 3.0 |
| Lye By Mistake Fea Jur | 4.0 |
| A drastic improvement over their first release and one that is more than capable of standing alone without vocals. This is a group that can seriously shred, and they rarely let up. Their experimentation and style makes for a enjoyable listen even while being a bit show-off'ish. The tracks mainly consist of five, six, or seven plus minute jam sessions featuring a incredibly wide array of instrumentation styles (like Flamenco, Jazz, Acoustic, Progressive, etcetera), which should satisfy anyone looking for a complex instrumental record to make them think a little. |
| The Arusha Accord The Echo Verses | 3.5 |
| HORSE the band Desperate Living | 2.0 |
| Latitudes Agonist | 3.5 |
| Irreversible Light | 3.0 |
| Converge Axe to Fall | 4.0 |
Don't be quick to judge this collaboration effort as a normal collaboration album. Converge deserves an open mind rather than just a label of incohesive since it features a wide array of hardcore artists. Axe To Fall is a great album in the correct context.
At this point in their legendary career Converge are spreading the wealth, so to speak. This album is being released simply because Converge can and still will do what they enjoy, that is playing hardcore music. It does expand the boundaries of Converge's sound somewhat with more noticeable influences from post-metal and even a acoustic track, but it doesn't feel as legitimately experimental as some of their previous works. Or in other words, it isn't meant to be their magnum opus.
If you're looking for Converge with their ambition, creativity, and chemistry at it's peak refer back to Jane Doe. If you're looking for an enjoyable continuation of a legendary career give Axe To Fall a few spins.
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| Revocation Existence Is Futile | 2.5 |
| Doomriders Darkness Come Alive | 3.5 |
| Vitalic Flashmob | 3.5 |
| Alice in Chains Black Gives Way to Blue | 4.5 |
| Despised Icon Day Of Mourning | 3.0 |
| A Storm Of Light Forgive Us Our Trespasses | 3.5 |
| Pearl Jam Backspacer | 3.5 |
| Protest the Hero Gallop Meets the Earth | 2.5 |
| After the Burial Rareform (Re-release) | 2.5 |
| Caspian Tertia | 3.0 |
| Every Time I Die New Junk Aesthetic | 3.0 |
| Megadeth Endgame | 4.0 |
| BATS Red In Tooth and Claw | 4.5 |
| Third Eye Blind Ursa Major | 2.5 |
| Burnt By the Sun Heart of Darkness | 4.5 |
| Divine Heresy Bringer of Plagues | 2.5 |
| Cave In Planets of Old | 4.0 |
| Augury Fragmentary Evidence | 4.5 |
| Arsonists Get All the Girls Portals | 3.0 |
| Surprisingly, there are times here where the band sounds pretty focused. The keyboards are actually interesting, well-played, and well-used throughout but the major shock comes at the end since the album features arguably the worst closing track ever in modern music. |
| The Hope Conspiracy True Nihilist | 3.0 |
| The Waters Deep Here Sunden | 5.0 |
| Admiral Angry Buster | 4.5 |
| The Armed These Are Lights | 3.5 |
| The Psyke Project Dead Storm | 4.5 |
| Atheist Unquestionable Presence: Live At Wacken | 5.0 |
| Obituary Darkest Day | 2.0 |
| La Roux La Roux | 3.0 |
| A Textbook Tragedy Rain City State of Mind - EP | 3.0 |
| Dream Theater Black Clouds and Silver Linings | 4.0 |
| Drudkh Microcosmos | 4.5 |
| Gorod Process of a New Decline | 4.0 |
| Coalesce OX | 5.0 |
| Pelican Ephemeral | 3.0 |
| Karnivool Sound Awake | 3.5 |
| Kerretta Vilayer | 3.5 |
| Minsk With Echoes in the Movement of Stone | 2.5 |
| Gnostic Engineering the Rule | 4.5 |
| maudlin of the Well Part the Second | 4.0 |
| Narrows New Distances | 3.5 |
| Exivious Exivious | 5.0 |
| El Grupo Nuevo de Omar Rodriguez Lopez Cryptomnesia | 1.0 |
| The Chariot Wars and Rumors of Wars | 2.0 |
| Unholy Matrimony Croire, Decroitre | 4.5 |
| Keith Merrow Lonestar Transcend | 2.5 |
| Animals As Leaders Animals as Leaders | 3.5 |
| Heaven and Hell The Devil You Know | 4.5 |
| War from a Harlots Mouth In Shoals | 3.0 |
| ISIS Wavering Radiant | 3.5 |
| Earth Crisis To the Death | 3.0 |
| Hacride Lazarus | 4.0 |
| Keelhaul Keelhaul's Triumphant Return To Obscurity | 3.0 |
| Ulcerate Everything Is Fire | 2.0 |
| Gory Blister Graveyard of Angels | 3.5 |
| Cloudkicker Portmanteau | 5.0 |
| The Heartland Frontier | 2.0 |
| Wolves in the Throne Room Black Cascade | 4.0 |
| Mastodon Crack the Skye | 4.5 |
| No Made Sense The Epillanic Choragi | 4.5 |
| Static-X Cult Of Static | 1.5 |
| Into the Moat The Campaign | 3.0 |
| Paria The Barnacle Cordious | 4.0 |
| If These Trees Could Talk Above the Earth, Below the Sky | 4.0 |
| The Number Twelve Looks Like You Worse Than Alone | 3.5 |
| Propagandhi Supporting Caste | 4.5 |
| Buried Inside Spoils Of Failure | 3.5 |
| Fleshgod Apocalypse Oracles | 4.0 |
| Callisto Providence | 2.0 |
| Psyopus Odd Senses | 2.0 |
| Obscura Cosmogenesis | 4.5 |
| Scale the Summit Carving Desert Canyons | 4.5 |
| Black Ships Omens | 4.0 |
| P.O.S Never Better | 5.0 |
| Architects Hollow Crown | 3.0 |
| Into the Ocean Ruins | 2.0 |
| The Orange Man Theory Satan Told Me I´m Right | 2.5 |
| Ignominious Incarceration Of Winter Born | 3.5 |
