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2021
Tougher Than Nails Delusional Blasphemies Destroyed1.0

2020
The Acacia Strain C3.0
well now I have no idea what it's gonna spell. probably DECAY
The Acacia Strain E2.5
thankful that they're giving us more, but D was better
The Acacia Strain D4.0

2019
The Acacia Strain It Comes in Waves4.0
Damn, they had this in them? Incredible. It reminds me of the atmospheric moments on Death is the Only Mortal and their song Observer. Cool to see Vincent have a bit more range besides his usual deep growl (and rare high scream) too. I hope they make another album like this someday, because the Coma Witch style is getting old. Their best work as a whole since Continent. Also, they should keep self-producing their albums - because the production is on this is MUCH better than the last two.
Dance Gavin Dance Dance Gavin Dance (Instrumental)5.0
A Day To Remember Resentment2.5
Full of Hell Weeping Choir4.0
Crisis Sigil Crisis Sigil4.5

2018
Deafheaven Ordinary Corrupt Human Love4.5
Sophie Oil of Every Pearl's Un-Insides4.5
Cat Company Cat Company4.5
Peosphoros Pink Metal1.0
Oh great, just what we need - the Anal Cunt of black metal.
Senses Fail If There Is Light, It Will Find You4.0
SeeYouSpaceCowboy/secondgradeknifefight SYSC​/​/​SGKF Split4.5

2017
Sugar Wounds Sugar Wounds4.0
Godspeed You! Black Emperor Luciferian Towers4.0
fail better, heal faster fail better, heal faster1.0
Threatin Breaking the World1.5
Heard a bit of it - it's not the worst thing in the world but definitely below par for metal. I don't think he's a lost cause in terms of musical talent but his career (if it ever had any hope of being alive) will be tainted forever from his antics.
The Acacia Strain Gravebloom2.0
The songwriting's hasn't really changed much since Above/Below. maybe I'd bump this if I hadn't heard Coma Witch.rIt's strange expecting The Acacia Strain to do something different but I didn't expect them to do something that was exactly the same.rAt least the production is better this time around.rWhat's with Vincent's lyric patterns too? I think he's done this for awhile but it seems he rhymes every single word like AA/BB without fail.
Emmure Look At Yourself2.5
Suicide Silence Suicide Silence1.5
Anal Trump To All the Broads I've Nailed Before1.0

2016
Darke Complex Point Oblivion2.5
A Day To Remember Bad Vibrations3.0
Infant Annihilator The Elysian Grandeval Galèriarch3.5
Despised Icon Beast2.0
This would have been mediocre in the mid 2000s and doesn't fare any better nowadays. "The Aftermath", "One Last Martini" (a re-recording of a song written 10 years ago) and the title track are highlights, but most of the songs here show their death metal-injected style of deathcore to sound terribly one note. "Bad Vibes" is absolutely awful - it makes me wonder if the people who accused them of being tough guy stereotypes after "MVP" came out were right.
The Body and Full Of Hell One Day You Will Ache Like I Ache4.0
Hands Like Houses Dissonants3.5

2015
Opeth Deliverance & Damnation Remixed3.0
I'll need to listen more closely to the Damnation remaster to tell the differences but
Deliverance's bass drums are far too prominent and they nearly ruin certain songs. The biggest
example of this is on Master's Apprentices. I never personally had a huge problem with
Deliverance's mix, it may not be as pristine as Blackwater Park's but it didn't hurt the album too
much IMO, whereas this one did.
Deafheaven New Bermuda4.5
Northlane Node4.0
Northlane (mostly) break from their metalcore trappings and stereotypes to deliver a fulfilling release. Hopefully they will continue to tear away, as the experimentation and melodic elements on this album are its biggest accomplishments, making Northlane likely one of the most adventurous bands in the scene at the moment. While they're losing their "heaviness", it isn't necessarily for pop accessibility a la modern BMTH, they seem interested in crafting some interesting music. Soma, Obelisk, Leech and Animate come through as the best songs on the album, while Impulse falls short with generic lyrics about how we're all too connected to the digital world at the moment. Very insightful, grandpa.
ASAP Rocky At.Long.Last.A$AP2.0
Dance Gavin Dance Instant Gratification3.5
Kendrick Lamar To Pimp a Butterfly4.5

2014
Ne Obliviscaris Citadel4.5
Full of Hell and Merzbow Full of Hell and Merzbow4.0
The Acacia Strain Coma Witch3.5
Superior songwriting to the last full-length, but the production isn't as heavy as it should be. It sounds incredibly muddy, which is a shame as the excellent production of their previous album was its biggest strengths. Despite being 33% longer than "Death Is the Only Mortal", it actually feels a lot shorter. Highlights are mainly around the first half of the album, but the second half is no slouch either, with the 27-minute experimental final track working surprisingly well for them. Their sound is starting to lose its potency however, so here's hoping they'll come back with some killer stuff on their next one.
Godflesh A World Lit Only by Fire4.5
Emmure Eternal Enemies1.5
ScHoolboy Q Oxymoron3.5
Of Mice and Men Restoring Force3.0
Bones (USA-CA) DEADBOY4.0
Due to its short length and huge variety, "DEADBOY" manages to be the best Bones release. Solid songs across the board that take advantage of the excellent atmosphere. Lyrically it's nothing special, but if you're drawn in by the aforementioned atmosphere they can be ignored somewhat.

2013
The Acacia Strain Above/Below3.5
Katatonia Viva Emptiness (10th Anniversary Version)4.5
Danny Brown Old3.5
A Day To Remember Common Courtesy2.5
Too much filler to surpass their previous excellent three releases, with few standouts. Best tracks are the first 4 tracks, "Violence" and "The Document..." Too many similar acoustic tracks and "Life Lessons..." feels so obligatory so they can have a heavy track like "2nd Sucks" but... I guess the 2nd (example) sucks.
Juneva A Cambiata4.5
The Devil Wears Prada 8:184.0
Flatbush Zombies BetterOffDEAD3.5
ASAP Ferg Trap Lord3.5
Attila About That Life1.0
Their previous stuff was tolerable for what it was but this album just falls into self-parody. Absolutely awful stuff.
August Burns Red Rescue & Restore4.5
Deafheaven Sunbather4.0
Adema Topple the Giants1.5
Bring Me the Horizon Sempiternal4.0
Nails Abandon All Life4.0
Wormed Exodromos4.0
IDYLLS Indian Circle2.0
in comparison to how amazing Farewell All Joy was, this is just an awful change in style. Props for experimenting, but it doesn't work in this case.
Safe Hands Montenegro4.5
Perspectives Blind2.5
The lyrics really bring this whole thing down, since they're really unignorable... the repetition of the word "blind" just annoys me to no end.
The Acacia Strain Money For Nothing4.5
Despite this clearly being a cashgrab - this is quite a good collection of songs. "Money for Nothing" is a fun The Dead Walks B-side, "Global Warming" and "Stay Puft" are great Continent B-sides and the versions of "The Hills Have Eyes" and "Terminated" are superior to the ones that came out on Wormwood due to having a lot more energy - I kinda wish the rest of that album was closer to these versions. Of course, the band never consented to this release, so just torrent this shit instead of paying for it.
The Underachievers Indigoism3.0
Cult of Luna Vertikal3.5
ASAP Rocky LONG.LIVE.A$AP3.0

2012
Circle Takes the Square Decompositions: Volume Number One3.5
Blends together too much that it's an incredibly overwhelming listen. You really have to listen to this one in sessions. I appreciate their newer sludgey heavy sound, but there isn't quite as much variety as there was on Roots.
Chief Keef Finally Rich3.0
Amenra Mass V5.0
AMENRA surpass their influences/peers to truly come into their own on Mass V. For its four track, 42 minute length, they don't waste a moment, using every single second to create an omnious, brooding atmosphere towards its crushing crescendos. I was originally had gripes with the (somewhat grating at first) vocals, but after listening through this a couple of times, they've truly grown on me.

I would write a review for this, but honestly, I see no point. If you have an interest in atmospheric metal/rock, this is a must-listen. Don't waste your time reading a lengthy review, go listen to it now!
Parkway Drive Atlas3.5
Ill Nino Epidemia4.0
I'm pleasantly surprised by this release; I didn't like Dead New World as much as everybody else seemed to, but this one is a true step up from that. It retains certain similarities except it's actually heavy, yet feels organic in comparison to that. And no awful unnecessary covers of Smashing Pumpkins this time, which is always a plus.
Kendrick Lamar good kid, m.A.A.d city4.5
Godspeed You! Black Emperor 'Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend!4.0
Aoria The Constant4.5
Listened to it once; it's a lot like Katatonia, but with superior songwriting. The potential they've alluded to on their EPs has been delivered on, and it is wonderful. Shame this will be overshadowed. Definitely going to be one of the most overlooked releases in 2012.
Converge All We Love We Leave Behind5.0
The Acacia Strain Death Is the Only Mortal3.0
The Amity Affliction Chasing Ghosts3.5
Farrah Abraham My Teenage Dream Ended4.0
Baffling and yet surprisingly engaging. Unironically an accidental avant-pop masterwork. The best part of it is that she recorded her vocals to a click track and the beats were made after the fact - but it doesn't even seem they made beats that even matched up with what she was singing. I wouldn't have it any other way - her 2014 single Blowin' is much more conventional, with a beat that actually matches her vocals and as a result the charm is completely lost. Fans of 100 gecs should seek this out.
The Chariot One Wing4.5
Hand of Mercy Last Lights2.5
BREAKDOWNS BREAKDOWNS BREAKDOWNS. There are some decent songs on it, however.
The Contortionist Intrinsic4.0
Glass Cloud The Royal Thousand4.0
Ne Obliviscaris Portal of I4.0
IDYLLS Farewell All Joy4.5
Joyce Manor Of All Things I Will Soon Grow Tired3.5
While their debut embodies youthful energy, this release (with the exception of their fast-paced cover of "Video Killed the Radio Star") is an expression of feeling so tired, so tired that they couldn't be bothered to record an album beyond 13 minutes long. If you compare it to their self-titled (as most people naturally will do), it falls short but on its own it's a very emotional interesting indie rock release, even if it doesn't feel quite as fleshed out as it should. The first four tracks flow incredibly well together but the tracks after don't quite mesh together the same. It's hard to dislike an album with a song as relatable as "I'm Always Tired".
Emmure Slave To The Game2.5
Enter Shikari A Flash Flood of Colour4.0
Kayo Dot Gamma Knife3.5
I don't know how I was able to put up with the production quality of the metal tracks on here.
There's so many interesting ideas on here and this music is so dense that it DEMANDS higher
fidelity. It frustrates me in the same way Ulver's Nattens Madgrial does - any sense of atmosphere
gained by an oppressive, unclean recording is overshadowed by a feeling that these incredibly
interesting songs just aren't been served by their recording quality. Considering the financial
cost of recording music as dense and detailed as Kayo Dot's, it's understandable why they went
with this route but thank god they crowdfunded for Hubardo.

2011
Glass Bones Seasons4.5
ASAP Rocky Live.Love.A$AP.3.0
Russian Circles Empros4.5
Massive Attack vs. Burial Four Walls/Paradise Circus3.5
Kerser The Nebulizer1.0
Typical generic Aussie hip-hop that doesn't have anything special going for it.
The Devil Wears Prada Dead Throne4.0
IDYLLS Amps For God/Plague Hell4.5
Secret Band Secret Band EP4.0
Danny Brown XXX5.0
That's Outrageous! Teenage Scream3.0
Suicide Silence The Black Crown3.0
Kendrick Lamar Section.804.0
The Dear Hunter White4.5
The Dear Hunter Violet4.5
The Dear Hunter Indigo4.5
The Dear Hunter Blue4.5
The Dear Hunter Green4.0
The Dear Hunter Yellow4.5
The Dear Hunter Orange4.0
The Dear Hunter Red4.5
The Wonder Years Suburbia I've Given You All and Now I'm Nothing4.5
The Dear Hunter Black4.5
The Dear Hunter The Color Spectrum (Complete Collection)4.5
Battles Gloss Drop4.0
Deafheaven Roads to Judah4.0
Trap Them Darker Handcraft4.5
Defeater Empty Days and Sleepless Nights4.5
Dance Gavin Dance Downtown Battle Mountain II4.5
Radiohead The King of Limbs4.0
Joyce Manor Joyce Manor4.5
Anal Cunt Fuckin' A1.0
Glass Bones The Hope In Forgiving & Giving Up Hope4.5

2010
Kanye West My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy4.5
A Day To Remember What Separates Me from You4.0
The Ocean Anthropocentric2.0
Anal Cunt Wearing Out Our Welcome1.0
Ill Nino Dead New World1.5
Ghost (SWE) Opus Eponymous4.0
Hand of Mercy The Fallout4.0
Bring Me the Horizon There Is a Hell, Believe Me I've Seen It...3.0
Opeth In Live Concert at the Royal Albert Hall5.0
Cloudkicker Beacons3.0
Very overrated. You'd think that instrumental music would be a little less repetitive and try to keep your attention through its constantly changing nature. Beacons doesn't do this exactly, it always seems like sections drag on for far too long.
Kendrick Lamar Overly Dedicated4.0
Disturbed Asylum1.5
Murderdolls Women and Children Last1.5
Chimaira Coming Alive4.0
The Acacia Strain Wormwood3.5
Parkway Drive Deep Blue2.5
Tame Impala Innerspeaker4.0
Attack Attack! Attack Attack!3.5
Rosetta A Determinism of Morality4.5
Pendulum Immersion4.0
Deftones Diamond Eyes4.0
Circa Survive Blue Sky Noise4.0
Daughters Daughters4.0
Nails Unsilent Death4.0
The Acacia Strain The Most Known Unknown4.5
A great collection of live songs taken from the best era of The Acacia Strain (2004 - 2008), including some songs from 3750 that they rarely play live anymore.
Dangers Messy, Isn't It?4.5

2009
First Signs Of Frost Atlantic3.5
Defeater Lost Ground4.5
Gaza He Is Never Coming Back4.5
A Day To Remember Homesick (Special Deluxe Edition)5.0
This rating is for the package, not for the actual album (which is a 4/5 for me.) Even though I don't feel great about giving Victory Records money, this release contains the original CD with two extra tracks, a DVD with live tracks, music videos and a documentary and a nice booklet to tie it all together. It's very good value if you feel like buying any music nowadays, but if you want to support the band, consider just buying the special edition of their newest album "Bad Vibrations".
Russian Circles Geneva4.5
Rammstein Liebe Ist Für Alle Da3.0
Converge Axe to Fall4.0
Five Finger Death Punch War Is The Answer2.0
Muse The Resistance2.0
HEALTH Get Color3.0
Scarred by Beauty We Swim4.0
Emmure Felony3.0
Dance Gavin Dance Happiness4.0
A sublime first half let down by an inconsistent second. If this album ended at the title track, it would be a full, hard 5.
The Devil Wears Prada With Roots Above and Branches Below3.5
NOFX Coaster4.0
ISIS Wavering Radiant4.5
Chimaira The Infection3.5
Snowing Fuck Your Emotional Bullshit4.0
Mastodon Crack the Skye4.0
Static-X Cult Of Static1.0
It's sad that this is the album they ended the band on. Very few redeeming qualities on this release. The lyrics are abysmal and clunky, which matches the restrictively mechanical instrumentals. We're talking mechanical in terms of a rusted, dangerous factory machine, not a well-oiled sleek machine like Meshuggah. The vocals are the most monotonous I've ever heard as well. The only decent songs on here that rise above this dreadful sludge were the ones co-written with Tony Campos (Lunatic, Z28 and Stringwray) as the rest were written solely by Wayne Static. I bought this album on release and I have no idea why I haven't just thrown it out, it's that worthless.
Opeth The Candlelight Years4.5
Thursday Common Existence5.0
A Day To Remember Homesick4.0
Milking the Goatmachine Back From The Goats3.0
this is like the most brutal goat-related death metal I have ever heard, it makes me horny for goats

2008
Opeth Burden2.0
Shoji Meguro Persona 4 OST3.5
Anal Cunt 110 Song CD1.0
The Faceless Planetary Duality4.0
A Day To Remember Old Record3.0
Bloodbath The Fathomless Mastery4.0
Bring Me the Horizon Suicide Season3.5
Defeater Travels4.5
North What You Were3.5
United Nations United Nations4.5
Hollywood Undead Swan Songs1.5
Undead, Sell Your Soul, Young and Black Dahila are great catchy songs (despite their childish lyrics)... however, the rest of the album is just incredibly awful hip-hop, like low-tier Eminem.
The Acacia Strain Continent4.5
Their best album - which is unfortunately paired with muddy production. Not album ruining, and you
can get past it but if only this had the production job of The Dead Walk.
Dance Gavin Dance Dance Gavin Dance5.0
Although Happiness would feature some of their finest songs, this is their finest album. Kurt
Travis is my favourite DGD singer precisely because he's not a "perfect" singer like Jonny and
Tilian are, and a fantastic match for the angular yet melodic style DGD are known for. Harsh
vocalist Jon's vocalists are considerably less harsh on this release, and while he'll peak as a
vocalist on Downtown Battle Mountain II, here he's a lot less obnoxious and overbearing. The
songwriting has also been stepped up considerably and is much less repetitive, with everything
blending together relatively well for the band.
Cult of Luna Eternal Kingdom4.5
My Dying Bride An Ode to Woe3.5
Opeth Watershed4.0
Disturbed Indestructible2.5
Pendulum In Silico4.0
Nine Inch Nails The Slip3.0
Bloodbath The Wacken Carnage4.5
Septicflesh Communion4.0
Blacklisted Heavier Than Heaven, Lonelier Than God4.5
Bloodbath Unblessing the Purity4.0
A Day To Remember For Those Who Have Heart (Reissue)4.0
In Mourning Shrouded Divine3.5
Hand of Mercy Thrash The Party3.0

2007
Waking The Cadaver Perverse Recollections Of A Necromangler4.0
Awful and yet strangely enjoyable. Misogynistic and abhorrent lyrics for sure, but thankfully they're unintelligble. It's honestly better to imagine that he's talking about shredded wheat or some shit.
Opeth The Roundhouse Tapes4.5
Burial Untrue5.0
Serj Tankian Elect the Dead3.0
Thrice The Alchemy Index Vols. I & II4.5
Radiohead In Rainbows5.0
Parkway Drive Horizons4.0
Four Year Strong Rise Or Die Trying4.0
Between the Buried and Me Colors4.0
Suicide Silence The Cleansing2.5
Songs such as Unanswered, Hands of a Killer, No Pity For A Coward and Bludgeoned to Death are pretty fun, but the rest of the album doesn't vary enough from this template to remain interesting.
Korn Untitled2.0
Whitechapel The Somatic Defilement3.5
Reel Big Fish Monkeys for Nothin' and The Chimps...3.0
Circa Survive On Letting Go4.5
Akercocke Antichrist4.0
Katatonia Live Consternation4.0
The Angelic Process Weighing Souls With Sand4.5
Dance Gavin Dance Downtown Battle Mountain3.5
Linkin Park Minutes to Midnight3.5
When Knives Go Skyward A Thousand Miles of Rope4.0
Tony Danza Tapdance Extravaganza's guitarist Joshua Travis and Frontier's vocalist Chad Kapper were in a band back in the day, just found out.rThis is a mathcore match made in heaven. However, upon second listen it's not quite as incredible as previously thought - doesn't come quite as close to Frontierer. Still, worth checking out
Static-X Cannibal2.0
Chimaira Resurrection3.5
Emmure Goodbye To The Gallows3.5
A Day To Remember For Those Who Have Heart4.0
Ill Nino Enigma3.5
Suffocate For Fuck Sake Blazing Fires and Helicopters...4.5

2006
Aoria I Know You Came Here to Erase Me4.0
This band needs to make a full album sometime, and they definitely need to be more well-known than they are.
Linkin Park Underground 62.5
Clipse Hell Hath No Fury4.5
Reel Big Fish Greatest Hit... And More1.0
Fuck this album and fuck Jive, what a total cashgrab.
Ill Nino The Undercover Sessions EP2.5
Battle Of Mice A Day of Nights4.0
Deftones Saturday Night Wrist4.5
Converge No Heroes4.0
The Angelic Process We All Die Laughing4.5
Gaza I Don't Care Where I Go When I Die4.0
mewithoutYou Brother, Sister4.5
Mastodon Blood Mountain4.0
Reel Big Fish Our Live Album Is Better Than Your Live 4.5
Daughters Hell Songs4.5
Muse Black Holes & Revelations3.5
Set Your Goals Mutiny!4.5
Shoji Meguro Persona 3 OST4.0
The Acacia Strain The Dead Walk4.0
Falls of Rauros Into the Archaic (Demo)4.0
Dangers Anger5.0
Burial Burial4.5
Callisto Noir4.5
An incredibly excellent album - the vocals are however a tad too harsh and don't really fit with the more serene, melancholic music. The song Backwoods is also mere filler.
Architects Nightmares4.0
Intronaut Void4.0
Godsmack IV1.0
Honestly doesn't live up to Awake and their S/T, and completely forgettable.
Cult of Luna Somewhere Along the Highway5.0
Robinson The Great City3.5
Aoria If I Slow Down Everything Will Disappear4.0
Waking The Cadaver Demo4.5
EVERYTHING SOUNDS SO MUCH MORE BROOTAL ON THIS RELEASE, Perverse Recollections of a Necromangler fucked up the sound. They are incompetent musicians to be sure at this point in time, but that's part of the fun.
God Is an Astronaut A Moment of Stillness3.5
Arctic Monkeys Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not4.5
Kayo Dot Dowsing Anemone With Copper Tongue4.0
If These Trees Could Talk If These Trees Could Talk4.0

2005
Korn See You on the Other Side2.5
System of a Down Hypnotize3.0
Job for a Cowboy Doom2.5
Rammstein Rosenrot3.0
Thrice Vheissu5.0
Explosions in the Sky The Rescue4.0
Akercocke Words That Go Unspoken...4.0
Ill Nino One Nation Underground4.0
Their second greatest album, behind "Revolution Revolucion", and their heaviest until "Epidemia". A good mix of the heavy side of nu metal and metalcore with pop rock sensibility leads to success here, as opposed as a lot of the dreadful tracks on "Confession". "This is War", "My Resurrection" and "Violent Saint" exemplify their heavier side, whereas "What You Deserve" and "All I Ask For" embody the pop rock side.
Panic! at the Disco A Fever You Can't Sweat Out3.0
Sigur Ros Takk...4.0
Parkway Drive Killing with a Smile3.5
Between the Buried and Me Alaska4.0
Opeth Ghost Reveries4.5
Kanye West Late Registration4.5
The Aquabats Charge!!3.5
As Cities Burn Son, I Loved You at Your Darkest4.0
Static-X Start A War4.0
System of a Down Mezmerize3.5
The Red Chord Clients4.0
A Day To Remember And Their Name Was Treason2.5
Fall Out Boy From Under the Cork Tree3.5
Ampere All Our Tomorrows End Today4.0
Reel Big Fish We're Not Happy 'Till You're Not Happy3.5
Lacks a lot of the fun from their previous albums. I mean, sure, it still is, but their bitterness is palpable and seeps through all of the music. Still pretty good though, and beats all the stuff they released after this.
Cephalic Carnage Anomalies4.5
I put this on on a whim and accidentally wound up listening to the thing. I really underrated this album vs Lucid Interval, which I previously loved a lot. So much variety and yet it basically feels like it doesn't let up. Goddamn.
Behold... The Arctopus Nano-Nucleonic Cyborg Summoning EP4.0
Bloc Party Silent Alarm4.0
God Is an Astronaut All Is Violent, All Is Bright4.0
Jeromes Dream Completed4.0
Modern Life Is War Witness5.0
2004
Cult of Luna Salvation5.0
ISIS Panopticon4.5
mewithoutYou Catch For Us the Foxes4.5
Bloodbath Nightmares Made Flesh4.0
Converge You Fail Me4.5
Arcade Fire Funeral4.0
Mastodon Leviathan4.0
Borknagar Epic2.5
Underoath They're Only Chasing Safety4.0
My Chemical Romance Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge4.0
Slipknot Vol. 3: The Subliminal Verses3.5
Drowning Pool Desensitized1.5
Fear Factory Archetype3.0
Callisto True Nature Unfolds4.0
Has some good ideas, but overall the band seems like they are in a rush. They have yet to learn how to build atmosphere effectively through repetition and transitions. However, they get it more or less right on their next album, Noir.
Orphaned Land Mabool (The Story of the Three Sons...)2.5
Circle Takes the Square As the Roots Undo4.5
Disillusion Back to Times of Splendor3.5
Caninus Now The Animals Have A Voice4.5
This is obviously a joke - I mean why would they have a track called "Studio Guy Gets Pissed" if they weren't a joke. I'm rating this 4.5 just to bump the rating up higher. R.I.P. Basil the dog
The Acacia Strain 37504.0
Kanye West The College Dropout4.5
A Day To Remember Halos for Heros, Dirt for the Dead2.5

2003
Rage Against the Machine Live at the Grand Olympic Auditorium (DVD)4.5
Korn Take a Look in the Mirror3.0
Dream Theater Train of Thought3.5
Kayo Dot Choirs of the Eye5.0
Between the Buried and Me The Silent Circus3.5
Static-X Shadow Zone3.5
Muse Absolution4.0
Ill Nino Confession2.5
Opeth Lamentations4.0
Thursday War All the Time4.5
Torsofuck Erotic Diarrhea Fantasy3.0
Torsofuck are an example of how not to use samples. I'm fairly certain that over half the album is just the samples. Shame, because I like the music within - it's just a pain to skip through the fucking samples to get to the actual songs.
Adema Unstable3.5
At first I was disappointed that most of the songs weren't nu metal like their last album. However - the lighter songs grew on me quite a lot. They feel incredibly honest and while Mark's voice is usually quite similar to his half-brother Jonathan Davis, it's a lot sweeter in songs like these and fits the music very well. "Unstable" is a better nu metal song than anything from their debut, "Rip the Heart Out of Me" is decent but pretty repetitive, "Needles" is easily their heaviest song by far with Marky's vicious screams all throughout the song and "Stand Up", which features the same themes of domestic violence as The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus's "Face Down" has lyrics so on-the-nose that it makes that song seem like absolute poetry.
Saosin Translating the Name4.5
Radiohead Hail to the Thief4.0
Deftones Deftones4.0
Cult of Luna The Beyond4.0
Chimaira The Impossibility of Reason3.0
Opeth Damnation4.5
Katatonia Viva Emptiness4.0
Godsmack Faceless2.0
Agoraphobic Nosebleed Altered States of America4.0
Linkin Park Meteora4.5
Shoji Meguro Shin Megami Tensei III Nocturne OST4.5
Akercocke Choronzon2.5
A bloated album, with pointless pompous interludes that are impossible to take seriously. However, "Praise the Name of Satan" is simply Akercocke's best song, blending their earlier extremity with their later progressive sound. "Leviathan", "Valley of the Crucified" and "Son of the Morning" are also very interesting tracks. The rest are either interludes or incredibly mediocre "heavy" tracks - four of the tracks here sound like they have the same intro for crying out loud!
Spineshank Self Destructive Pattern4.0

2002
System of a Down Steal This Album!3.0
Mudvayne The End of All Things to Come3.0
Bloodbath Resurrection Through Carnage4.0
Opeth Deliverance4.5
Callisto Ordeal Of The Century4.0
Very different from their later material - this is more of a straight-forward early 2000s metalcore release than the post-metal sound that they would later lean on. Whereas the harsh vocals in the next two albums don't fit so well, on this album on they blend together great with the aggressive instrumentals. The final track is probably the only track that features any post-metal elements, but it's still a lot heavier than any of their later material. Worth a check out if you're a fan of the band and want to see where they came from, or if you're a fan of bands such as Converge, Botch and early Cave In.
Porcupine Tree In Absentia3.5
Disturbed Believe2.0
Reel Big Fish Cheer Up!3.5
mewithoutYou A to B: Life5.0
Korn Deuce DVD3.5
Agoraphobic Nosebleed Frozen Corpse Stuffed With Dope4.0
Mastodon Remission3.5
Between the Buried and Me Between the Buried and Me3.0
Cult of Luna Cult of Luna (EP)3.0
The Red Chord Fused Together in Revolving Doors4.5
Reel Big Fish Favourite Noise4.5
Has most of the best songs from Turn the Radio Off and Why Do They Rock So Hard?, but you're better off getting them individually - this release lacks such great songs like Join the Club, Skatanic, All I Want is More, Say "Ten", Alternative Baby, Brand New Song, Thank You For Not Moshing, Everything is Cool, Scott's a Dork and Down in Flames. Why the hell is Snoop Dog, Baby here but those songs aren't?
Agalloch The Mantle4.0
God Is an Astronaut The End of the Beginning3.0
Korn Untouchables2.5

2001
maudlin of the Well Leaving Your Body Map3.5
Dope Life2.0
Thursday Full Collapse4.5
Converge Jane Doe5.0
System of a Down Toxicity5.0
Radiohead Amnesiac4.0
Chimaira Pass Out of Existence3.5
Adema Adema 4.0
Cult of Luna Cult of Luna4.0
Not the sound Cult of Luna features today, but still excellent in its own way.
Spineshank The Height of Callousness4.5
Muse Origin of Symmetry4.5
maudlin of the Well Bath3.5
Drowning Pool Sinner4.5
One of the finest nu metal albums ever recorded (well, probably as good as nu metal can get anyway). They took an incredible nosedive after this release into hard rock mediocrity after this release that they have never recovered from. The songs are still incredibly memorable to this day, even if Bodies is laughable.
Static-X Machine4.0
Akercocke The Goat of Mendes3.0
Opeth Blackwater Park5.0
Almost perfect release, but would be improved with the removal of Dirge for November and The Funeral Portrait. Dirge for November is a simply boring song, whereas The Funeral Portrait feels more like Opeth going through the motions compared to the rest of the album's triumphs. There's still so many moments that are captivating on every listen, which usually come from the more melodic sections on the album (Bleak's chorus, Harvest, The Drapery Falls) but they wouldn't feel as impactful without the more punishing moments on here that still strike a balance between the brutality and the beautiful.
Ill Nino Revolution/Revolucion4.5
Novembre Novembrine Waltz3.5
Anal Cunt Defenders of the Hate 1.0

2000
Godspeed You! Black Emperor Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven4.5
Linkin Park Hybrid Theory5.0
Radiohead Kid A4.0
In Flames Clayman3.5
Deftones White Pony5.0
ISIS Celestial4.5
Ulver Perdition City4.5
Disturbed The Sickness2.0
Bloodbath Breeding Death4.5
Godsmack Awake3.0
Vaginal Jesus Affirmative Apartheid1.0

1999
Botch We Are the Romans4.5
Korn Issues4.0
Dream Theater Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes from a Memory3.5
The Aquabats . . . Vs. the Floating Eye of Death!3.5
Opeth Still Life4.5
The Dillinger Escape Plan Calculating Infinity5.0
A masterpiece in intricate intensity. They nailed the sound they were going for so hard that they had to switch sounds for their next album because there's no way they could have topped it.
Dope Felons And Revolutionaries2.5
Anal Cunt It Just Gets Worse1.0
Powerman 5000 Tonight the Stars Revolt2.0
Mr. Bungle California4.5
Muse Showbiz3.0
blink-182 Enema Of The State4.0
Godspeed You! Black Emperor Slow Riot For New Zero Kanada4.5
Static-X Wisconsin Death Trip3.0
Novembre Classica4.0
Rage Against the Machine The Battle of Los Angeles3.5
maudlin of the Well My Fruit Psychobells... A Seed Combustible3.5

1998
The Dillinger Escape Plan Under the Running Board4.0
Borknagar The Archaic Course3.5
Spineshank Strictly Diesel3.5
Could have done with trimming, particularly near the end of the album and some of the songs sound kinda similar. Still pretty great though. They definitely improved a lot later.
Godsmack Godsmack3.0
It sounds pretty good at first but gets old fast. However - Moon Baby, Whatever and Voodoo still kick immense amounts of arse.
Korn Follow the Leader4.0
Opeth My Arms, Your Hearse4.5
Fear Factory Obsolete2.0
Anal Cunt Picnic of Love1.0
System of a Down System of a Down4.0
Massive Attack Mezzanine4.0
Mansun Six3.5
Botch American Nervoso4.0
Neutral Milk Hotel In the Aeroplane Over the Sea5.0
Reel Big Fish Why Do They Rock So Hard?4.0

1997
Deftones Around the Fur3.5
The Aquabats The Fury of the Aquabats!3.5
Godspeed You! Black Emperor F♯ A♯ ∞4.5
Snot Get Some2.5
Radiohead OK Computer5.0
Ulver Nattens Madrigal4.5
The biggest joke Ulver ever played on us was crafting an album of masterful black metal, and just
pairing it with a notoriously deliberately awful production job. If this had decent production, it
would still be considered a masterpiece even sans its current reputation. Thankfully there was a
remaster released recently that's still not exactly hi-fi, but nonetheless it's no longer ear-
splitting after too long. This score is for that version. The original gets a 3.5 - similar
reasons for my score on Kayo Dot's Gamma Knife.
Coal Chamber Coal Chamber1.5
Anal Cunt I Like It When You Die1.0
Fuck Anal Cunt and fuck Seth Putnam. I'm glad this Nazi cunt who cloaked his edgy bigotry with irony is fucking dead. Good riddance. He gave grind a bad name and literally every single other band playing this style is better. Ethan from Primitive Man agrees - https://i.imgur.com/0mysjxN.jpg
Mansun Attack of the Grey Lantern4.0
Borknagar The Olden Domain4.0
The Dillinger Escape Plan The Dillinger Escape Plan3.0

1996
Korn Life Is Peachy3.0
Marilyn Manson Antichrist Superstar2.5
Agalloch From Which of This Oak3.5
Weezer Pinkerton4.0
Reel Big Fish Turn the Radio Off4.0
The Aquabats The Return of the Aquabats3.0
Opeth Morningrise4.0
Rage Against the Machine Evil Empire3.5
Neurosis Through Silver in Blood4.5
Anal Cunt 40 More Reasons To Hate Us1.0

1995
Deftones Adrenaline3.5
Filter Short Bus2.5
Opeth Orchid3.5
Radiohead The Bends3.5
Ulver Bergtatt - Et eeventyr i 5 capitler4.5
Fear Factory Demanufacture3.5
Reel Big Fish Everything Sucks3.0
Anal Cunt Top 40 Hits1.0

1994
Korn Korn4.0
Massive Attack Protection4.0
Nine Inch Nails The Downward Spiral3.5
Opeth Apostle in Triumph3.5
Dystopia Human = Garbage4.5
Anal Cunt Everyone Should Be Killed1.0

1992
Rage Against the Machine Rage Against the Machine4.0
Pantera Vulgar Display of Power3.5

1990
Depeche Mode Violator4.5
Entombed Left Hand Path4.0
This is killer when you combine with the old Doom games. Took awhile for the vocals to grow on me since I'm used to newer, deeper death growls but now I love them. Clandestine suffers as a result with the lack of vocals from L.G. Petrov.

1989
The Cure Disintegration4.5
Godflesh Streetcleaner3.5
Anal Cunt The 88 Song EP1.0

1973
Pink Floyd The Dark Side of the Moon4.0
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