Average Rating: 4.56 Rating Variance: 0.16 Objectivity Score: 33% (Poorly Balanced)
Sort by: Rating | Release Date | Rating Date | Name2014 D'Angelo Black Messiah4.5Rishloo Living as Ghosts with Buildings as Teeth4.5Ne Obliviscaris Citadel5.0Animals As Leaders The Joy of Motion5.0Intervals A Voice Within4.5Periphery Clear3.5Sithu Aye Pulse4.52013 Plini/Sithu Aye I4.5David Maxim Micic Bilo 3.04.5Exivious Liminal5.0Russian Circles Memorial4.5Plini Sweet Nothings4.5Dream Theater Dream Theater4.0Dead Letter Circus The Catalyst Fire4.5Karnivool Asymmetry4.0Counterparts The Difference Between Hell and Home4.0Misery Signals Absent Light4.0Sithu Aye 265.0August Burns Red Rescue & Restore4.0Scale the Summit The Migration4.5Wanzwa Wanzwa III4.5TesseracT Altered State4.0Leprous Coal4.5The Ocean Pelagial4.5Fallujah Nomadic4.5Pomegranate Tiger Entities4.02012 Kashiwa Daisuke Re:4.5Deftones Koi No Yokan5.0Intervals In Time4.5Sithu Aye Invent the Universe4.5Cloudkicker Fade4.5Periphery Periphery II: This Time It's Personal4.0Rush Clockwork Angels5.0Ne Obliviscaris Portal of I5.0David Maxim Micic Bilo 2.04.5Wanzwa Wanzwa II4.5Skyharbor Blinding White Noise: Illusion & Chaos4.5Senpai They Say Just Wait Till Morning4.5Sithu Aye Isles5.0Zelliack Noir Tone4.5Tetrafusion Horizons4.52011 Demetori Begierde Des Zauberer4.5Demetori made huge waves in the Touhou metal community when they announced their latest album. Many of the "classic" groups in the genre have adopted vocals or otherwise lost the magic touch which made them special; Demetori has never had a bad release so far, which made anticipation for this extreme. Sure enough, Demetori gives the Touhou metal community the instrumental breath of life it needs to survive. I wouldn't say the album is as good as Nada Upasanda Pundarika, but it's much better than what most of the metal groups are putting out now. The main issue is that the melody does not stand out as much as in the previous albums. I would say it's more balanced, but their previous albums were enjoyable because of the very strong melodies. The new tracks just aren't as memorable (though that might just be because I haven't listened to this album as many times). Most of the metal is presented straight up, sort of combining the extra distortion of Nada Upasana Pundarika with the songwriting of Il Mondo Dove e Finito Il Tempo. Demetori's technique remains unmatchable, and production values are still crystalline. Demetori hovers in place instead of pushing their boundaries even further, but they stand so high already that this is still a very solid metal album. Intervals The Space Between5.0Wanzwa Wanzwa4.5Nujabes Spiritual State4.5Animals As Leaders Weightless4.0Uneven Structure Februus4.5Sithu Aye Cassini4.5Yuki Kajiura Puella Magi Madoka Magica Vol 3.5.0This has the absolute masterpieces of the soundtrack, Surgam Identidam and Sagitta Luminis are simply amazing. There are no flaws to this OSTDream Theater A Dramatic Turn of Events4.0Corelia Nostalgia4.5Kashiwa Daisuke 884.5Yuki Kajiura Puella Magi Madoka Magica Vol 25.0Yuki Kajiura demonstrates that she's one of THE BEST anime composers in the business today. The music fit wonderfully in the anime and is strong enough to listen on its own.Eumeria Rebel Mind5.0Yuki Kajiura Puella Magi Madoka Magica Vol 1.4.5Mostly "background" tracks on this one, but sis puella magica and some of the others are superbly composed. A nice bonus for buying the blu-ray disc, but the other OSTS are the real meat of the soundtrackDavid Maxim Micic Bilo4.0Periphery Icarus3.0TesseracT One4.5Scale the Summit The Collective5.0Halcyon Pastures4.52010 Seventh Wonder The Great Escape5.0Kanye West My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy4.5Gru Cosmogenesis5.0TesseracT Concealing Fate5.0Angra Aqua3.5Cloudkicker Beacons4.5Sioum I Am Mortal, But Was Fiend5.0Dead Letter Circus This Is The Warning4.5Deftones Diamond Eyes4.5Periphery Periphery (Instrumental)4.0Periphery Periphery4.52009 Demetori Manenjushaka ~ Nada Upasana Pundarika5.0For it's status as a "hobby" band, Demetori has continued to put out some of the best metal in the world. Even with only 2 brothers in the band, it still holds its own against the world's greatest metal bands. Demetori always finds ways to make their new albums interesting, and Nada Upasana Pundarika does not disappoint. This album is MUCH more progressive and even heavier than their previous albums, it shows very clear latter-Dream Theater and Meshuggah influences. The riffs are more distorted and powerful than ever, and the energy is shockingly high. The songs strike a good balance between being musical and showing off both Tokunan's and Kyuuhouji's wicked skills. The album is definitely less straightforward than their previous releases; it's all the better for it. Demetori has mastered their songwriting, almost everything fits together so well. I still have to reserve complaints for the opening track Heian Alien, however; it had a very great foreboding atmosphere, but the screaming guitar "solo" was rather disappointing. Emotional Skyscraper and Higan Retour more than make up for that, however. Sky-high production values and insane musicmanship make this Demetori's best album.Chimp Spanner At the Dream's Edge4.0Dream Theater Black Clouds and Silver Linings4.0Karnivool Sound Awake5.0Exivious Exivious4.0Animals As Leaders Animals as Leaders5.00edit Neotokyo5.0Scale the Summit Carving Desert Canyons4.5Irepress Sol Eye Sea I4.52008 Demetori Sendaisoushi ~ Offering to The Sukhavati4.5Demetori's production got even better for this album, but there's a few holes here which prevent it from nailing a perfect. The opening track Kid's Festival is one of Demetori's best songs, perfect composition and style. ZUN would be proud of such a great remix of his theme! Greenwich in the Sky has a great liveliness to it, and of course Septette for the Dead Princess is magnificent. The amount of energy Demetori puts into their songs is unmatchable. The only problem is that a few of the tracks feel a bit cheesy or dull; Oriental Dark Flight and Tengu is Watching are probably the worst culprits. They're still good songs, it's just they're not up to the standards of the best tracks here. The Mound Where the Flowers Reflect also was bland for its length, would have been better as a short in-between. Still, this is Demetori; calling the album anything but great would be an insultSeventh Wonder Mercy Falls5.0Misery Signals Controller5.0Uyama Hiroto A Son of the Sun4.5Cloudkicker The Discovery4.5Protest the Hero Fortress4.52007 Demetori Il Mondo dove e finito il Tempo5.0Demetori went so wild for this album, I just have to give it a 5 even with the moderately cheesy speed metal songs. Suwa Foughten Field is one of Demetori's best tracks EVER, it's simply full of win. Cemetery of Onbashira and Mystic Oriental Dream show that Demetori's not just about speed, the technique and general soundscape are superb. Even the more speed metalish tracks (Faith is for the Transient People and the ever popular Necrofantasia) are still well executed for the genre. Definitely deserves to be one of the most treasured Touhou metal albums of all time.Nujabes Hydeout Productions 2nd Collection5.0Kashiwa Daisuke Program Music I5.0Symphony X Paradise Lost4.0Dream Theater Systematic Chaos3.5Porcupine Tree Fear of a Blank Planet5.02006 Demetori Sinen ni Nozomu ga Gotoshi5.0For their 2nd album, Demetori went towards a more rock-ish style. Overall, it works very well, there's very nice flowing sections with some technical sections that are simply delicious. The album has a very nice mix of styles, there's lighter and heavier tracks. Crimson Belvedere can get kind of dull in some sections, but it's a very fitting closer. A fine listen overallAngra Aurora Consurgens4.0Demetori Shout at the Devil4.0For a first effort, it's a very solid effort but it's clearly a junior album. Production is solid but not as good as their later works. Some tracks kind of get bogged down in speed metal, but some tracks (like Paradise ~ Deep Mountain and the Crimson Belvedere Acoustic Demo) are absolutely stunning.Dream Theater Score4.5Guthrie Govan Erotic Cakes5.02005 Nujabes Modal Soul4.5Opeth Ghost Reveries4.5Dream Theater Octavarium3.5Porcupine Tree Deadwing5.0John Petrucci Suspended Animation4.52004 Dream Theater Live at Budokan4.0Angra Temple of Shadows5.02003 Dream Theater Train of Thought4.5Muse Absolution4.0Nujabes Metaphorical Music5.0Nujabes Hydeout Productions 1st Collection4.52002 Porcupine Tree In Absentia5.0Dream Theater Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence4.52001 Muse Origin of Symmetry4.0Tool Lateralus5.0Opeth Blackwater Park5.02000 Symphony X V: The New Mythology Suite4.0At the Drive-In Relationship of Command5.01999 Dream Theater Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes from a Memory5.0Liquid Tension Experiment Liquid Tension Experiment 24.0Vinnie Moore The Maze5.01998 Death The Sound of Perseverance5.0The Seatbelts Cowboy Bebop4.5Massive Attack Mezzanine4.5Liquid Tension Experiment Liquid Tension Experiment4.01997 Symphony X The Divine Wings of Tragedy4.5Nobuo Uematsu Final Fantasy VII: Original Soundtrack4.01996 Tool Ænima5.0Weezer Pinkerton5.0Cryptopsy None So Vile5.0Angra Holy Land4.01995 GZA Liquid Swords4.5Dream Theater A Change of Seasons5.0Iced Earth Burnt Offerings5.0Death Symbolic5.01994 Dream Theater Awake5.0Portishead Dummy4.5Weezer Weezer5.0Nas Illmatic5.0The Notorious B.I.G. Ready to Die4.51993 Wu-Tang Clan Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)5.0X Japan Art of Life5.0The Smashing Pumpkins Siamese Dream4.0Death Individual Thought Patterns4.01992 Dream Theater Images and Words5.0Aphex Twin Selected Ambient Works 85-925.01991 Death Human4.01990 Megadeth Rust in Peace5.0Steve Vai Passion and Warfare5.01988 Metallica ...And Justice for All4.0Queensryche Operation: Mindcrime4.51986 Yngwie Malmsteen Trilogy4.5Metallica Master of Puppets4.51985 Yngwie Malmsteen Marching Out4.0Allan Holdsworth Metal Fatigue4.51984 Yngwie Malmsteen Rising Force5.0Metallica Ride the Lightning4.5Dio The Last in Line4.51983 Dio Holy Diver5.01981 Rush Moving Pictures4.51975 Pink Floyd Wish You Were Here4.5Bruce Springsteen Born to Run5.01974 Genesis The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway4.5Camel Mirage5.01973 Genesis Selling England by the Pound5.01972 Yes Close to the Edge5.0Jethro Tull Thick as a Brick4.51971 Yes Fragile4.5Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin IV4.51969 King Crimson In the Court of the Crimson King4.51965 John Coltrane A Love Supreme5.01959 Miles Davis Kind of Blue5.01901 Sergei Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor, Op. 185.01801 Ludwig van Beethoven Piano Sonata No14 C-sharp minor,Op.27No24.5
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