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2014
Decapitated Blood Mantra4.0
Darkest Hour Darkest Hour3.5
Wovenwar Wovenwar4.5

2013
Kataklysm Waiting for the End to Come4.0
Carcass Surgical Steel4.0
Misery Signals Absent Light4.0
Dark Tranquillity Construct3.5
Killswitch Engage Disarm the Descent3.5
Soilwork The Living Infinite4.0
Byzantine Byzantine4.0
WELCOME BACK BOYS! Figured they were gone for good after Oblivion...This is a really great comeback album that is flying under the radar with a similar but also different approach to their previous output. The clean vocals are cleaner, the harsh vocals not as harsh, and there are more creative interludes. Make no mistake though, these guys still do a great job of hammering you with steady diet of super heavy thrash riffs, tempo changes, and ripping solos. Psyched.

2012
Between the Buried and Me The Parallax II: Future Sequence4.0
Coheed and Cambria The Afterman: Ascension4.5
As I Lay Dying Awakened4.0
Prototype Catalyst3.5
The Faceless Autotheism4.0
Allegaeon Formshifter3.5
Prong Carved Into Stone3.0
Meshuggah Koloss4.0
Psycroptic The Inherited Repression4.0

2011
Megadeth Th1rt3en2.5
Nightrage Insidious4.0
Nightrage has remained refreshingly faithful to the Gothenburg melodic death metal sound over the years,
which can't be said of most of their contemporaries, and this album is no different. Heavy, laden with heavy
yet flexible slabs of rhythm guitar riffage, and enhanced with melodic lead guitar wizardry. Great replay
value as well.

I just downgraded to a 4 based on the not-so-hot clean vocals that don't always fit within the song
structures nor are executed very well. Kind of cheesy IMHO.
The Devil Wears Prada Dead Throne4.0
Chimaira The Age of Hell4.0
Scar Symmetry The Unseen Empire4.0
Believer Transhuman4.5
Protest the Hero Scurrilous4.0
Born of Osiris The Discovery4.0
The Haunted Unseen4.0
Before The Dawn Deathstar Rising4.0
Mercenary Metamorphosis4.5
I absolutely love the direction the band took with this album. Exactly what I hoped these guys would sound like with the new lineup and time passing. Still hitting on all cylinders with a heavy rhythm based attack, still bringing melodic choruses, still sprinkling in plenty of catchy hooks and soaring solos. This is simply a unique band with a special sound. Not sure how anyone could say it is derivative.
Darkest Hour The Human Romance4.0
Times of Grace The Hymn of a Broken Man4.5

2010
Evocation Apocalyptic4.0
Agreed. A really nice modern touch to the heyday melodeath coming from ATG/Gothenburg.
Helloween 7 Sinners2.0
The Sorrow The Sorrow4.0
Forbidden Omega Wave4.5
Wow this is just awesome thrash. Superb production really brings out the power of the riffs, etc. LOVE IT.
All That Remains ...For We Are Many4.0
Dawnbringer Nucleus4.5
unique, heavy, and addictive. no gimmicks, no formulas, no filler, just some awesome heavy metal like it is
supposed to be played.

one complaint though: I wish they wouldn't have ended "All I See" right in the middle of just a kick ass
galloping guitar solo/interlude. Just cuts right off at 2:53. Bummer!
The Absence Enemy Unbound4.0
Death Angel Relentless Retribution4.5
Amazing as it is to believe, the old dudes comprising Death Angel just released what I consider to be their
best album ever. I was absolutely shocked when I threw it in the cd player and heard it in all its thrash
awesomeness. As far as the traditional thrash kings go, I think the new Slayer is fairly ordinary, the new
Overkill is pretty good, the new Megadeth is bit better, the newest Metallica a cut above Mustaine's output,
and the new Exodus a great album above all the former. However, I put this effort at the top of the pile. I
realize how ridiculous/insane this reads, but I honestly haven't heard such great signature riffs, wicked
solos, and angry purposeful vocals since the 80s /90s thrash heyday. No shit. Pick it up and you'll hear
what I mean. Death Angel? Really? Oh, and one last thing: the vocals sound nothing like Overkill...
Cephalic Carnage Misled by Certainty3.5
The Sword Warp Riders4.5
Miss May I Monument3.0
Decrepit Birth Polarity4.0
Allegaeon Fragments of Form and Function4.5
This album gets better by the listen. I love me some Allegaeon.
Soilwork The Panic Broadcast4.0
Exodus Exhibit B: The Human Condition4.0
As I Lay Dying The Powerless Rise3.5
Misery Index Heirs to Thievery4.5
Say what you want about staleness of the grind/death core movement, but these guys somehow continue to find really wicked rhythms and grooves that elude legions of pretenders. Listening to it over and over and it pumps me up every time. Nice work.
Veil of Maya [id]3.0
Kalmah 12 Gauge4.0
Dark Tranquillity We Are the Void3.0
Arsis Starve for the Devil3.5
Outside of the painful opening track (WTF?), Arsis really moved in the right direction on this release. Really kick ass rhythm and lead guitar work throughout. Not sure where all this negativity is coming from -- I sense an agenda -- no wait, a conspiracy.
Charred Walls of the Damned Charred Walls of the Damned4.0
Richard Christy's "superband" plays an aggressive, heavy, and melodic brand of hybrid metal that causes involuntary head banging and regular repeat plays. The best characteristics of several genres are present and accounted for. CWOTD deftly leaves no stone unturned in their approach to bringing the soaring vocals and lyrics of power metal, the intricate rhythms interwoven with wicked double-bass drumming of progressive/technical death metal, and the lead guitar work (to include blistering solos) and choruses of traditional thrash. Really an excellent release.

2009
Napalm Death Time Waits for No Slave4.5
The Red Chord Fed Through the Teeth Machine3.5
3 (USA) Revisions4.5
Evergreen Terrace Almost Home4.0
Megadeth Endgame2.5
Someone please find Dave Mustaine and Megadeth, because either they are lost for good jumping the shark or I am insane. This certainly is not the Megadeth comeback album that critics/fans at this and other sites keep proclaiming. Riffs that are quick and tight - check! (nothing memorable though). Technically impressive rhythms and numerous face melting solos -- check! (but nothing that really stands out). Choruses -- check! (pretty uninspiring though). The bottom line is this album has all the individual components that one would think would create one hell of an album; however, this is a clear instance of the whole not equaling the sum of its parts. Everything is forced, like Dave just tried so hard, too hard, and it has resulted in a morass of check-the-box unremarkable metal. This album without the name Megadeth stamped on it would be getting trashed. Please be objective, look yourself in the mirror, and admit that Megadeth is DED. RIP. Although it pains him, the keyser has spoken, let it be so...
Threat Signal Vigilance4.0
Insomnium Across the Dark3.0
Behemoth Evangelion3.5
Caliban Say Hello to Tragedy4.0
DevilDriver Pray for Villains3.0
August Burns Red Constellations4.5
Job For A Cowboy Ruination2.5
Born of Osiris A Higher Place3.0
Killswitch Engage Killswitch Engage (2009)3.0
Nightrage Wearing a Martyr's Crown4.0
Miss May I Apologies Are for the Weak3.0
Dream Theater Black Clouds and Silver Linings4.0
Darkest Hour The Eternal Return4.5
Amorphis Skyforger3.5
Susperia Attitude2.5
A completely unsatisfying rip off of older Testament.
Unholy (USA-NY) New Life Behind Closed Eyes3.0
The Devil Wears Prada With Roots Above and Branches Below4.5
Heaven and Hell The Devil You Know3.5
Daath The Concealers3.5
Chimaira The Infection3.5
Hacride Lazarus3.5
Broadcast the Nightmare Twenty Twelve3.0
Success Will Write Apocalypse Across... The Grand Partition & The Abrogation Of Idolatry3.5
The Sorrow Origin of the Storm4.5
The bottom line is if you don't like metalcore you won't like this album -- don't even bother checking them out. But if you like that style of metal (and I can take it or leave it), Origin of the Storm is a must have. Amazing production values really bring out a non-stop barrage of ridiculously heavy and pummeling riffs -- but with a really unique touch of melody and emotion not often heard in traditional metalcore circles. These guys have a really great feel for their craft -- demonstrated on this and their previous effort, Blessings From a Blackened Sky...I am very impressed.
Lamb of God Wrath3.5
Malefice Dawn Of Reprisal4.0
Sepultura A-Lex2.0
Woe Of Tyrants Kingdom of Might4.0

2008
The Faceless Planetary Duality4.0
Adversary Singularity4.0
Sylosis Conclusion of an Age4.0
Unearth The March4.0
Gojira The Way of All Flesh4.5
Psycroptic Ob(Servant)3.5
This or the Apocalypse Monuments3.5
All That Remains Overcome4.5
Metallica Death Magnetic4.0
Into Eternity The Incurable Tragedy3.5
Misery Signals Controller4.0
Scar Symmetry Holographic Universe4.0
Judas Priest Nostradamus2.5
10 Years Division3.5
Testament The Formation of Damnation4.0
Kalmah For the Revolution4.0
Shadows Fall Of One Blood [Reissue]4.0
In Flames A Sense of Purpose3.0
Mercenary Architect of Lies4.5
Meshuggah obZen4.0
Death Angel Killing Season3.5
Byzantine Oblivion Beckons3.5

2007
Coheed and Cambria No World for Tomorrow4.5
Shadows Fall Seeking the Way: Greatest Hits4.5
Prong Power of the Damager3.5
Arch Enemy Rise of the Tyrant3.0
Atreyu Lead Sails Paper Anchor4.5
As I Lay Dying An Ocean Between Us4.5
The Absence Riders of the Plague4.5
The Sorrow Blessings From a Blackened Sky4.5
Metalcore = yes. Great metalcore = absolutely. A freight train of aggressive riffage pummelling your skull with reckless abandon = no doubt. I really disagree these guys represent the typical "core" sound out there right now. They play with a remarkable focus/purpose that is lacking these days. The Sorrow's two albums just keep rolling round and round in my iPod.
The Red Chord Prey for Eyes3.5
3 (USA) The End is Begun5.0
Darkest Hour Deliver Us4.0
August Burns Red Messengers4.0
Anterior This Age of Silence4.5
Pelican City of Echoes3.5
Megadeth United Abominations2.5
Caliban The Awakening3.0
Dark Tranquillity Fiction4.0
Shadows Fall Threads of Life3.5
Machine Head The Blackening4.5
Nightrage A New Disease Is Born4.5
Entombed Serpent Saints: The Ten Amendments4.0
Neaera Armamentarium4.0

2006
Killswitch Engage As Daylight Dies4.0
Trivium The Crusade2.5
Into Eternity The Scattering of Ashes4.0
Napalm Death Smear Campaign3.5
Iron Maiden A Matter of Life and Death3.5
Threat Signal Under Reprisal4.0
Misery Signals Mirrors4.5
Mercenary The Hours That Remain5.0
Lamb of God Sacrament4.0
Insomnium Above the Weeping World3.5
Slayer Christ Illusion3.5
Unearth III: In the Eyes of Fire4.5
All That Remains The Fall of Ideals4.0
Shadows Fall Fallout From The War4.0
Neaera Let The Tempest Come4.0
Atreyu A Death-Grip on Yesterday4.0
Sepultura Dante XXI3.0
Caliban The Undying Darkness4.0
In Flames Come Clarity3.5

2005
3 (USA) Wake Pig3.5
Coheed and Cambria From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness5.0
Hypocrisy Virus3.5
10 Years The Autumn Effect4.0
Arch Enemy Doomsday Machine4.0
Byzantine ...And They Shall Take Up Serpents4.5
As I Lay Dying Shadows Are Security4.0
Trivium Ascendancy4.5
Gojira From Mars to Sirius4.0

2004
Lamb of God Ashes of the Wake4.5
Shadows Fall The War Within4.5
Megadeth The System Has Failed2.0
Mercenary 11 Dreams4.5
Misery Signals Of Malice and the Magnum Heart4.0
Unearth The Oncoming Storm4.5
Killswitch Engage The End of Heartache4.0
In Flames Soundtrack to Your Escape3.0
All That Remains This Darkened Heart3.5
Prong Scorpio Rising3.5

2003
Machine Head Through the Ashes of Empires4.0
Coheed and Cambria In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 33.5
As I Lay Dying Frail Words Collapse5.0
Metallica St. Anger2.5
Sepultura Roorback2.5
Lamb of God As the Palaces Burn5.0

2002
Napalm Death Order of the Leech4.0
In Flames Reroute to Remain4.5
Atreyu Suicide Notes and Butterfly Kisses3.5
Coheed and Cambria The Second Stage Turbine Blade3.0

2001
Testament First Strike Still Deadly4.0
Machine Head Supercharger2.5
Entombed Morning Star4.0
Megadeth The World Needs a Hero2.0
Sepultura Nation2.5

2000
In Flames Clayman4.0
Queensryche Greatest Hits4.5
Iron Maiden Brave New World4.5

1999
Megadeth Risk2.0
Machine Head The Burning Red3.0
Testament The Gathering4.5
In Flames Colony5.0
Hypocrisy Hypocrisy5.0

1998
Metallica Garage Inc.4.0
Entombed Same Difference3.5
Napalm Death Words from the Exit Wound4.0
Sepultura Against2.5
Death The Sound of Perseverance4.5
Slayer Diabolus in Musica3.0

1997
In Flames Whoracle4.5
Megadeth Cryptic Writings3.0
Machine Head The More Things Change...3.0
Testament Demonic3.5
Napalm Death Inside the Torn Apart4.0

1996
Carcass Wake Up and Smell the Carcass4.5
Rush Test for Echo2.5
Metallica Load3.0
Sepultura Roots3.0
In Flames The Jester Race3.5
Napalm Death Diatribes4.5
Prong Rude Awakening4.0

1995
Meshuggah Destroy Erase Improve4.0
Megadeth Hidden Treasures3.5
Carcass Swansong5.0
Death Symbolic5.0

1994
Megadeth Youthanasia4.0
Queensryche Promised Land3.0
The Cult The Cult3.5
Testament Low3.5
Slayer Divine Intervention3.0
Napalm Death Fear, Emptiness, Despair5.0
Overkill W.F.O.3.5
Machine Head Burn My Eyes5.0
Pantera Far Beyond Driven4.5
Prong Cleansing5.0

1993
Metallica Live Shit: Binge & Purge4.0
Overkill I Hear Black3.0
Death Individual Thought Patterns4.5
Anthrax Sound of White Noise3.5
Believer Dimensions3.0
There will always be a track reserved for "No Apology" on every metal mix I make.
Sepultura Chaos A.D.4.5
Entombed Wolverine Blues4.5
Carcass Heartwork5.0

1992
Megadeth Countdown to Extinction4.5
Testament The Ritual5.0
Pantera Vulgar Display of Power5.0

1991
Death Human4.5
Slayer Decade of Aggression5.0
Rush Roll the Bones2.5
Metallica Metallica3.5
Sepultura Arise5.0
The Cult Ceremony3.5
Overkill Horrorscope4.5
Entombed Clandestine4.5
Corrosion of Conformity Blind5.0

1990
Slayer Seasons in the Abyss4.5
Testament Souls of Black3.0
Megadeth Rust in Peace5.0
Judas Priest Painkiller3.5
Queensryche Empire4.0
Death Angel Act III5.0

1989
Rush Presto3.5
Overkill The Years of Decay5.0
Testament Practice What You Preach3.0
Sepultura Beneath the Remains5.0
Firmly cemented in the keyserfunk all-time top 10 metal albums. This is by definition a groundbreaking release in that it was born during the critical late 80s/early 90s period of metal -- just when grunge threatened to bore all headbangers to death. The impact of Beneath the Remains cannot be underestimated; it filled that crucial metal void by bridging the gap between the tired, dying thrash metal scene on life support (see increasingly irrelevant Metallica, Megadeth, and Anthrax releases) and the growing domestic and foreign death metal movement (see Florida-born Death and Morbid Angel and European juggernauts Carcass, Entombed, and many, many others). Every single track stands on its own as a classic; harsh, growling, and deathy yet accessible vocals are combined with the power of countless memorable thrash-like crushing riffs, hooks, tempo changes, and transitions as well as skillful yet melodic solos that send chills down the spine. I defy you to play air guitar or drums and keep up with these renegades. And fear not, despite being spawned from a little-known outfit from Brazil, the production values are more than solid -- the drums and rhythms sound tight and razor sharp, but they won't cut you too badly since they are encased in a warm yet rattling buzz of just enough bass to shake your speaker system OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER...
The Cult Sonic Temple4.5
Rush A Show of Hands4.5

1988
Anthrax State of Euphoria4.0
Metallica ...And Justice for All4.5
Slayer South of Heaven5.0
Judas Priest Ram It Down3.0
Queensryche Operation: Mindcrime5.0
Iron Maiden Seventh Son of a Seventh Son4.0
Megadeth So Far, So Good... So What!4.5

1987
Rush Hold Your Fire4.0
Testament The Legacy4.5
The Cult Electric4.0
Sepultura Schizophrenia4.0

1986
Slayer Reign in Blood4.5
Iron Maiden Somewhere in Time4.0
Megadeth Peace Sells... but Who's Buying?5.0
Judas Priest Turbo4.5
Metallica Master of Puppets5.0

1985
Anthrax Spreading the Disease4.0
Iron Maiden Live After Death (DVD)4.5
The Cult Love5.0
Iron Maiden Live After Death4.5
Megadeth Killing Is My Business... and Business Is Good!4.5
Ratt Invasion of Your Privacy4.5

1984
Iron Maiden Powerslave3.5
Metallica Ride the Lightning5.0
Rush Grace Under Pressure4.5
Judas Priest Defenders of the Faith4.5
1983
Metallica Kill 'Em All5.0
Iron Maiden Piece of Mind3.5
1982
Rush Signals5.0
Judas Priest Screaming for Vengeance5.0
Iron Maiden The Number of the Beast5.0

1981
Rush Exit...Stage Left4.5
Rush Moving Pictures5.0
Iron Maiden Killers5.0

1980
Judas Priest British Steel4.5
Rush Permanent Waves4.5
1978
Rush Hemispheres5.0
1976
Rush 21125.0
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