| 2013 |
| Sleep Kit Sleep Kit | 3.0 |
| Always wanted War C.R.E.A.M. | 3.5 |
| Night Sins To London Or The Lake | 3.5 |
| Evergreen Terrace Dead Horses | 2.5 |
| Their / They're / There Analog Weekend | 3.0 |
| Remembering Never This Hell Is Home | 2.0 |
| Messer Die Unsichtbaren | 3.0 |
| State Faults Resonate/Desperate | 3.0 |
| Black Flag What The... | 1.5 |
| A Wilhelm Scream Partycrasher | 3.0 |
| Stella Research Committee Post-Grippo Empire | 3.0 |
| Bad Religion Christmas Songs | 3.0 |
| Bars of Gold Wheels | 2.5 |
| The Body Christs, Redeemers | 3.5 |
| Fall Of Minerva Seasons | 3.0 |
| Heartsounds Internal Eyes | 2.5 |
| Rainmaker Alienation | 2.5 |
| Touche Amore Is Survived By | 4.5 |
| Ojne Undici/Dodici | 3.0 |
| Courtesy Drop Songs To Drive To; Cry, and Make Love To | 3.5 |
| Safewords Safewords | 3.0 |
| Balance and Composure The Things We Think We're Missing | 2.5 |
| Native Wildlife A Simple Life, A Quiet Mind | 4.0 |
| Youth Funeral Symptom of Time | 4.0 |
| Modern Life Is War Fever Hunting | 4.0 |
| War Generation Start Somewhere Never Surrender | 2.5 |
| Denzel Curry Nostalgic 64 | 4.5 |
| The Rodeo Idiot Engine Consequences | 3.0 |
| Joliette Principia | 3.5 |
| Kyrest Fractures | 3.0 |
| Nayru Recollections | 4.0 |
| Greaver Clockwork, Creatures | 4.5 |
| Native Orthodox | 4.0 |
| Oathbreaker Eros|Anteros | 2.5 |
| Tentacles (emo) Cogita Mori | 3.5 |
| Dowsing I Don't Even Care Anymore | 2.5 |
| Terrible Feelings Backwoods | 3.0 |
| I Love Your Lifestyle I Love Your Lifestyle | 4.0 |
| Dead in the Dirt The Blind Hole | 3.5 |
| Sed Non Satiata Mappo | 3.0 |
| No Tongue Body + Mind | 3.5 |
| Harm's Way (USA-IL) Blinded | 2.0 |
| Misery Signals Absent Light | 2.5 |
| Crash of Rhinos Knots | 3.0 |
| Jungbluth Part Ache | 3.0 |
| Continents. in streams of light doth linger | 3.5 |
| Puig Destroyer Puig Destroyer EP | 3.5 |
| Defeater Letters Home | 3.0 |
| Carrion Spring Indiscretions//v.1 | 4.0 |
| For Want Of Smoke | 3.0 |
| Pariso Consanguinity | 2.5 |
| Brighter Arrows Dreamliner | 3.0 |
| Giver Choking on Pride | 3.5 |
| Baklavaa Spiral Cramp | 3.0 |
| Delos s/t | 3.5 |
| Elway Leavetaking | 3.0 |
| No Sir I Won't The Door | 3.5 |
| Pity Sex Feast of Love | 3.0 |
| Renounced Conditioned from Birth | 2.5 |
| Gatherer Caught Between a Rock and a Sad Place | 2.5 |
| Xerxes Would you understand? | 3.5 |
| Guns Love Stories A Terrestrial Journey | 3.5 |
| The World Is a Beautiful Place... Whenever, If Ever | 2.5 |
| Two Inch Astronaut Bad Brother | 3.0 |
| Gnarwolves Funemployed | 3.0 |
| Boysetsfire While A Nation Sleeps... | 2.5 |
| Integrity Suicide Black Snake | 3.0 |
| Citizen Youth | 3.0 |
| Jimmy Eat World Damage | 2.0 |
| The Most Sad Subjectivity//Objectivity | 3.5 |
| Kilgore Trout Immemorial | 3.5 |
| Queens of the Stone Age ...Like Clockwork | 3.0 |
| Full of Hell Rudiments of Mutilation | 3.0 |
| Indulgist Perspectives | 2.5 |
| Rough Hands Rough Hands | 3.5 |
| Sonsett Days Wasted | 3.0 |
| Moxiebeat EP | 3.5 |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan One of Us Is the Killer | 2.5 |
| Captain, We're Sinking The Future Is Cancelled | 3.5 |
| Highness Hold | 2.5 |
| nouns Still Bummed | 3.5 |
| Retox YPLL | 3.5 |
| These Branches Beliefs | 3.5 |
| American Thunder Band Neither Here Nor Thayer | 3.5 |
I liked their lo-fi approach on their last ep, i liked their sick ideas, i liked the honest
feeling they created... go and listen to songs like "Teamwork" or "Love Rhymes with
Boehners". This new album here has not much left of what i loved about their ep. Now they
sound like every other emo/screamo outfit. Still good though but i did expect more! |
| Gillian Carter Lost Ships Sinking With The Sunset | 3.5 |
| The Body Master, We Perish | 4.0 |
| Amber Lovesaken | 3.5 |
| Go Deep Counseling | 4.0 |
| Martin The Worst Part | 4.0 |
| Loma Prieta/Raein Split | 3.0 |
| I Kill Giants I Kill Giants | 3.0 |
| Grant Kirkhope Banjo-Tooie | 4.0 |
| Octaves Which Way the Wind Blows | 2.5 |
| Turnover Magnolia | 3.0 |
| Former States Heritage | 4.0 |
| Have to up this to a 4! Great performance, great songs though the melody in "Leaph Street" seems the same as JEW's "Goodby Sky Harbour". In that Pop-Punk goes Indie-Emo-Style one of the best releases of the year! FFO: Balance and Composure, Basement, Souvenirs. |
| ANCST The Humane Condition | 3.0 |
| Disembarked I Do Nothing but Regret the Fact That I Left | 2.5 |
| Viva Belgrado El Invierno | 3.5 |
| Swain Howl | 3.0 |
| Rival Schools Found | 3.5 |
| Paint It Black Invisible | 4.5 |
| Grant Kirkhope Banjo-Kazooie | 4.5 |
| Nails Abandon All Life | 3.0 |
| Survival Survival | 3.5 |
| Dominic Persona | 3.5 |
| Depeche Mode Delta Machine | 3.5 |
| Caravels Lacuna | 3.0 |
| Senses Fail Renacer | 3.0 |
| AC4 Burn The World | 3.5 |
| Nai Harvest Whatever | 2.5 |
| Incendiary Cost of Living | 2.5 |
| Ruined Families Blank Language | 3.0 |
| Off With Their Heads Home | 3.0 |
| Old Gray An Autobiography | 2.5 |
| June Paik June Paik (EP) | 3.0 |
| Foxmoulder Lethe | 3.5 |
| Braid/Balance and Composure Split | 3.0 |
| Old Wounds From Where We Came Is Where We'll Rest | 3.5 |
| Lasting Traces Elements | 3.0 |
| Shai Hulud Reach Beyond the Sun | 3.5 |
| Capacities There Is No Neutral | 3.5 |
| Rika How to Draw a River, Step by Step | 3.5 |
| HRVRD From the Bird's Cage | 3.0 |
| Bastions Bedfellows pt.1 | 3.0 |
| Moose Blood Moving Home | 3.5 |
| This Is Hell Enforcer | 2.0 |
| Turnstile Step 2 Rhythm | 4.5 |
| La Parade Diez Mil Rostros | 4.0 |
| Primitive Man Scorn | 3.5 |
| Things Fall Apart "All of My Friends Hate Your Band." | 4.0 |
| Bad Religion True North | 3.5 |
| TTNG 13.0.0.0.0 | 2.5 |
| Cloud Rat Moksha | 3.0 |
| Fights & Fires We Could All Be Dead Tomorrow | 3.0 |
| For All I Am Skinwalker | 2.5 |
| The Black Heart Rebellion Har Nevo | 3.0 |
| United Nations Illegal UN | 3.5 |
| The Plot In You Could You Watch Your Children Burn | 2.0 |
| Tiny Moving Parts This Couch Is Long & Full of Friendship | 3.5 |
| Touche Amore/Pianos Become the Teeth Split | 2.0 |
| Comadre Comadre | 3.5 |
| Heiress Early Frost | 3.0 |
| Children of God We Set Fire to the Sky | 4.0 |
| Todos Caeran 4 Way Split | 3.5 |
| Secret Smoker Terminal Architecture | 4.0 |
| 2009 |
| Akira Yamaoka Silent Hill: Shattered Memories | 2.5 |
| Damezumari Hope Inscribed on Handbills | 3.5 |
| Blacklisted No One Deserves To Be Here More Than Me | 3.5 |
| Them Crooked Vultures Them Crooked Vultures | 3.5 |
| Elder (USA-PA) Reflect | 3.5 |
| Defeater Lost Ground | 4.0 |
| Gaza He Is Never Coming Back | 3.0 |
| Coalesce OX EP | 3.5 |
| Cold Cave Love Comes Close | 4.0 |
| The Lawrence Arms Buttsweat and Tears | 3.5 |
| Tegan and Sara Sainthood | 3.5 |
| Captain Planet Inselwissen | 4.5 |
| Daitro Y | 4.0 |
| Thrice Beggars | 4.0 |
| Tubelord Our First American Friends | 3.0 |
| Our Time Down Here Live, Love, Let Go | 3.0 |
| The Fall of Troy In the Unlikely Event | 2.0 |
| HORSE the band Desperate Living | 4.0 |
| Converge Axe to Fall | 3.0 |
| Strung Out Agents of the Underground | 3.0 |
| AFI Crash Love | 2.0 |
| Evergreen Terrace Almost Home | 3.0 |
| Empire! Empire! (I Was a Lonely Estate) What It Takes to Move Forward | 4.0 |
| Portraits Of Past Cypress Dust Witch | 4.5 |
| Brand New Daisy | 3.5 |
| Ruiner Hell is Empty | 4.0 |
| Maths Descent | 3.5 |
| Nine Eleven City of Quartz | 3.0 |
| Lewd Acts Black Eye Blues | 3.5 |
| Litany For The Whale Dolores | 4.5 |
| Banner Pilot Collapser | 3.0 |
| The Used Artwork | 1.5 |
| BATS Red In Tooth and Claw | 5.0 |
| Soul Control Cycles | 2.5 |
| Emmure Felony | 1.5 |
| Paint It Black Surrender | 3.5 |
| Balance and Composure Only Boundaries | 3.5 |
| Blakfish Champions | 4.5 |
| Dead Swans Sleepwalkers | 2.5 |
| Billy Talent Billy Talent III | 3.0 |
| Poison the Well The Tropic Rot | 2.0 |
| Maybe I'm the only one who can't get into this record. I mean, it really bores me so far. I like a few songs ("Pamplemousse" or "Antarctica inside me") but as a whole "The Tropic Rot" is really pointless. Moreira's singing-voice is annoying and the songwriting consists too much on the "shout+hard part followed by singing+soft part followed by..."-formula. This get's old after a few listens. Also the production from Henricsson/Lovstrom on "Versions" was better than this one. I really liked "Versions", but in my opinion "The Tropic Rot" doesn't reach the same atmospheric level... |
| Battle Of Wolf 359 The Death Of Affect | 4.0 |
| Pianos Become the Teeth Old Pride | 2.5 |
| Touche Amore ...To the Beat of a Dead Horse | 5.0 |
| Danse Macabre Einerseits, Andererseits | 3.0 |
| Alexisonfire Old Crows / Young Cardinals | 3.0 |
| Paint It Black Amnesia | 4.0 |
| Enter Shikari Common Dreads | 3.0 |
| Coalesce OX | 3.5 |
| Comadre A Wolf Ticket | 4.0 |
| Mutiny On The Bounty Danger Mouth | 3.0 |
| Taking Back Sunday New Again | 2.0 |
| Rancid Let the Dominoes Fall | 2.5 |
| The Ghost of a Thousand New Hopes, New Demonstrations | 2.5 |
Compared to "This is where the fight begins" this is quiet overproduced. The first record
thrives on the raw aggression and the fucked up vocals. "New hopes, new demonstrations" can't
live up to that. Don't get me wrong: musically this is definitely richer than the first
record, but some bands don't need this melody-, interlude- and singing-shit. The Ghost of a
Thousand is one of them. In the end "New Hopes" is more varied than "This is..." but it's
polished to the mark of generic HC. |
| Alpinist Minus.Mensch | 3.5 |
| The Brass Homosapien | 4.0 |
| Kerretta Vilayer | 3.5 |
| All Teeth I Am Losing | 3.5 |
| Pour Habit Suiticide | 4.0 |
| CIV Solid Bond: The Complete Discography | 4.0 |
| Green Day 21st Century Breakdown | 1.5 |
| Narrows New Distances | 3.0 |
| The Chariot Wars and Rumors of Wars | 3.0 |
| Gallows (UK) Grey Britain | 5.0 |
| Loma Prieta Dark Mountain | 2.5 |
| Soundtrack (Video Game) Infamous | 3.0 |
| Japandroids Post-Nothing | 4.0 |
| As Cities Burn Hell or High Water | 2.0 |
| Depeche Mode Sounds Of The Universe | 2.5 |
| Valina A Tempo! A Tempo! | 4.0 |
| Everyone Everywhere A Lot Of Weird People Standing Around | 3.0 |
| grace.will.fall Second Album | 3.5 |
| Hand to Hand Design the End/Follow the Horizon | 2.0 |
| Snowing Fuck Your Emotional Bullshit | 3.5 |
| Silverstein A Shipwreck in the Sand | 1.5 |
| Trophy Scars Bad Luck | 2.5 |
| Age Sixteen Open Up Finders, Please | 3.5 |
| Brainworms Brainworms II: Swear To Me | 3.5 |
| The Number Twelve Looks Like You Worse Than Alone | 3.0 |
| Cursive Mama, I'm Swollen | 3.0 |
| Propagandhi Supporting Caste | 3.5 |
| New Found Glory Not Without a Fight | 2.5 |
| Kaospilot Shadows | 4.0 |
| I have to agree with the reviewer. Kaospilot created a very unique album that combines elements of Orchid-styled Screamo, New School Hardcore in the vein of old JR Ewing and Bulldozer Hardcore a la Converge or Curl Up and Die. Add a few metal riffs and a punishing, but also very atmospheric sound and you have "Shadows". Despite the songs were written in 2005 they sound quiet fresh. Definitely one of the best screamo-records of 2009! |
| Drowning With Our Anchors You can never go home again | 4.5 |
| ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead The Century of Self | 3.0 |
| Thursday Common Existence | 3.5 |
| The Sleeping What It Takes | 2.0 |
| The Blackout Argument Remedies | 3.0 |
| Heaven In Her Arms Duplex-Coated Obstruction | 4.0 |
| Jon Lajoie You Want Some Of This? | 3.5 |
| Architects Hollow Crown | 3.5 |
| L'Antietam Arthur Carr | 2.5 |
| Kidcrash Snacks | 3.0 |
| Wolves/Transistor Transistor Split | 3.5 |
| Amalthea Decisions Should Be A Desert, Bright And Clear | 3.5 |
| Black Kites Advancement to Ruins | 4.0 |
| AC4 AC4 | 4.0 |
| Mixtapes Maps | 3.5 |
| Dominic Nord | 3.5 |
| Brainworms Which is Worse? | 3.0 |
| Divider At Twilight | 2.5 |
| Reign Supreme Testing The Limits Of Infinite | 2.5 |
| Cult Ritual Cult Ritual | 3.5 |
| Perfect Future Perfect Future | 3.0 |
| Archives Decline | 3.0 |
| Glasses Self-Titled | 3.5 |
| Thoughts Paint The Sky Hier spielt die Musik | 3.0 |
| Trainwreck Of Concrete Canyons And Inner Wastelands | 3.5 |
| The Third Memory The Third Memory | 3.5 |
| Dyse Lieder Sind Brüder Der Revolution | 3.0 |
| Amber Daybreak Sentinels | 3.5 |
| 2006 |
| In First Person Lost Between Hands Held Tight | 4.5 |
| Disco Ensemble First aid kit | 3.5 |
| Brand New The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me | 4.5 |
| Soundtrack (Video Game) The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess OST | 4.0 |
| ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead So Divided | 2.0 |
| +44 When Your Heart Stops Beating | 2.5 |
| I Killed the Prom Queen Music for the Recently Deceased | 2.5 |
| Ultra Dolphins Mar | 3.0 |
| Scars of Tomorrow The Failure in Drowning | 2.0 |
| Endwell Homeland Insecurity | 1.5 |
| Deftones Saturday Night Wrist | 2.5 |
| Converge No Heroes | 2.5 |
| Sparta Threes | 3.0 |
| My Chemical Romance The Black Parade | 1.5 |
| I Hate Sally Don't Worry Lady | 2.5 |
| The Blood Brothers Young Machetes | 2.5 |
| These Arms Are Snakes Easter | 2.5 |
| Suis La Lune Quiet, Pull the Strings! | 3.0 |
| Gaza I Don't Care Where I Go When I Die | 3.0 |
| mewithoutYou Brother, Sister | 2.5 |
| Saosin Saosin | 2.0 |
| Imperial We Sail At Dawn | 2.5 |
| Samiam Whatever's got You Down | 2.0 |
| Gallows (UK) Orchestra Of Wolves | 2.5 |
| Verse From Anger and Rage | 3.5 |
| Life at These Speeds To Your Health | 2.5 |
| Fear Before The Always Open Mouth | 3.0 |
| Norma Jean Redeemer | 3.5 |
| Envy Insomniac Doze | 2.5 |
| Heavy Heavy Low Low Everything's Watched, Everyone's Watchin | 2.5 |
| The Falcon Unicornography | 3.0 |
| Alexisonfire Crisis | 3.0 |
| Shai Hulud A Profound Hatred of Man [Reissue] | 4.5 |
| Heaven Shall Burn Deaf to Our Prayers | 3.5 |
| Cursive Happy Hollow | 2.5 |
| Misery Signals Mirrors | 2.5 |
| The Human Abstract Nocturne | 3.5 |
| Latterman ...We Are Still Alive | 3.0 |
| Self Defense Family Sincerely | 3.0 |
| Have Heart The Things We Carry | 3.5 |
| Comadre Burn Your Bones | 4.5 |
| Death Before Disco Barricades | 2.5 |
| Daughters Hell Songs | 3.5 |
| The Jonbenet Ugly/Heartless | 3.0 |
| JR Ewing Maelstrom | 3.0 |
| Odd Project Lovers Fighters Sinners Saints | 2.5 |
| Across Five Aprils Collapse | 1.0 |
| From A Second Story Window Delenda | 2.5 |
| Glory of This The Lover, the Liar, the Ruse | 3.0 |
| 108 Creation. Sustenance. Destruction. | 3.5 |
| Billy Talent Billy Talent II | 4.0 |
| Ceremony (USA-CA) Violence Violence | 3.5 |
| Graf Orlock Destination Time Yesterday | 3.0 |
| Underoath Define the Great Line | 3.5 |
| Anterrabae And Our Heart Beat In Our Fingertips, Without Reas | 2.5 |
| The Warriors Beyond The Noise | 3.5 |
| Trophy Scars Alphabet Alphabets | 3.0 |
| Genghis Tron Dead Mountain Mouth | 3.5 |
| I Would Set Myself On Fire For You Believes In Patterns | 3.0 |
| AFI Decemberunderground | 3.0 |
| Head Automatica Popaganda | 2.5 |
| Dangers Anger | 4.5 |
| The Sleeping Question & Answers | 4.0 |
| Neaera Let The Tempest Come | 2.5 |
| This Is Hell Sundowning | 3.5 |
| Ignite Our Darkest Days | 3.0 |
| The Sound of Animals Fighting Lover, the Lord Has Left Us... | 3.0 |
| Lye By Mistake Arrangements for Fulminating Vective | 3.0 |
| A Fine Boat that Coffin! The Second Nail | 3.5 |
| Thursday A City By the Light Divided | 4.0 |
| Life at These Speeds Life at These Speeds | 3.5 |
| Drop Dead, Gorgeous In Vogue | 1.5 |
| None More Black This Is Satire | 3.5 |
| Taking Back Sunday Louder Now | 1.5 |
| Martin O'Donnell Halo 2, Vol. 2 OST | 4.0 |
| Refused Refused Are Fucking Dead | 4.0 |
| Versus The Mirror Home | 3.5 |
| Sick of It All Death to Tyrants | 3.0 |
| Moneen The Red Tree | 2.0 |
| Between the Wars Less We Believe | 3.0 |
| The Streets The Hardest Way To Make An Easy Living | 2.5 |
| Anam Cara Ready To Live | 3.0 |
| Pyramids (PA) Following the Tracks, Forcing Motion Thr | 3.5 |
| June Paik June Paik | 3.0 |
| Tribute to Nothing How Many Times Did We Live? | 3.5 |
| Ligeia Your Ghost Is A Gift | 3.0 |
| Yakuza Samsara | 3.5 |
| From First to Last Heroine | 2.0 |
| Bleeding Kansas Dead Under Decor | 3.0 |
| Fightstar Grand Unification | 1.5 |
| Placebo Meds | 3.0 |
| Folly Resist Convenience | 3.5 |
| The Lawrence Arms Oh! Calcutta! | 5.0 |
| Rise and Fall Into Oblivion | 3.5 |
| Daitro Laisser Vivre Les Squelettes | 3.5 |
| After the Burial Forging a Future Self | 4.0 |
| Gantz La Chambre Des Morts | 2.5 |
| Serapis Serapis | 4.5 |
| Spitfire Self-Help | 3.0 |
| Boysetsfire The Misery Index: Notes From The Plague | 5.0 |
| Hell Is For Heroes Transmit Disrupt | 2.5 |
| November Coming Fire Dungeness | 4.0 |
| Waterdown All Riot | 1.0 |
| Portugal. The Man Waiter: ''You Vultures!'' | 4.0 |
| Danse Macabre Synkopenleben, Nein Danke. | 4.0 |
| Scarlet This Was Always Meant To Fall Apart | 3.0 |
| Bury Your Dead Beauty and the Breakdown | 2.0 |
| Drop Dead, Gorgeous Be Mine, Valentine | 2.5 |
| La Quiete Tenpeun 01.05 | 3.5 |
| Cease Upon the Capitol Cease Upon the Capitol | 2.5 |
| Twelve Tribes Midwest Pandemic | 4.0 |
| Sinking Ships Disconnecting | 3.0 |
| Carpathian Nothing To Lose | 2.5 |
| Fire in the Attic I'll beat you, City | 2.0 |
| L'Antietam Family | 3.0 |
| Algernon Cadwallader Demo | 3.5 |
| Haram Haram | 3.0 |
| The Death of Anna Karina New Liberalistic Pleasures | 2.5 |
| Some Girls Heaven's Pregnant Teens | 3.0 |
| Stolen Babies There Be Squabbles Ahead | 3.5 |
| Celeste Pessimiste(s) | 3.5 |
| 1905 Voice | 3.0 |
| Mass Movement Of The Moth Outerspace | 2.5 |
| Kidcrash Demo CDR | 4.5 |
| Dead Hearts Bitter Verses | 4.0 |
| Jet Black The Dead End | 4.5 |
| The Sons Of Saturn You'll Never Want To Do Anything Else Ever Again | 3.5 |
| Snoras Heart of Weakness | 3.0 |
| Blackmail Aerial View | 3.5 |
| Dominic Dominic | 4.0 |
| Damezumari Hitheringandthithering Waters Of | 3.5 |
| Trainwreck Trainwreck | 3.0 |
| Soundtrack (Video Game) Bully: Original Soundtrack | 3.0 |
