Average Rating: 3.60 Rating Variance: 0.48 Objectivity Score: 71% (Fairly Balanced)
Sort by: Rating | Release Date | Rating Date | Name2022 Parius The Signal Heard Throughout Space3.5A prog metal sci-fi concept album, that largely delivers a great listen and interesting story. I was pleasantly surprised with this find. The standout track for me is "The Acid Lakes of Ganymede", it's been on high rotation since discovering it and with so many elements within the one track it keeps your interest after multiple listens.Clutch Sunrise On Slaughter Beach3.0Cyborg Octopus Between the Light and Air3.0When they push the envelope a bit their sound comes off unique and interesting. The change ups work well, though I'd say the harsh vocals are sometimes overdone, mainly because when they revert to verses with harsh vocals their sound comes across a little generic. Definitely worth checking out though, as they incorporate a saxophone and keys throughout songs which are sometimes subtle and other times central to the soundscape they are creating. "Trash Island" is straight out hilly billy rock/metal (reminds me of Maylene and the Sons of Disaster). The standout tracks for me are "Old Stories" and "The Projector".Machine Head Of Kingdom And Crown3.0Not really any "bad" songs on this album, however no real stand outs for me either. A solid album without anything really ground-breaking (or should that be head banging?). I know a few aren't happy with the political views of Robb on this album, however I feel that it actually adds to this album where the music is largely what you'd expect from Machine Head (without exerting too much effort). After a few more listens I might up my rating, but unless a track really stands out for me on repeat, I don't see it being anything better than "good".Spiritbox Rotoscope3.02021 Wide Eyes Oneironaut2.0I find instrumental bands can be very hit or miss, this album is a HUGE miss. The muscianship is fine, however the song writer is drab to say the least and after a minute of listening to any of the songs you're done (the first four tracks could have been condensed down to a single 4 minute song and you wouldn't have missed anything). The songs also don't flow at all together (although only a few of the songs change up the tempo and rhythm) ... it's pretty much the same track over and over and over. Maybe if you like mediocre bands trying to replicate Animals As Leaders (poorly) and then they over indulge in their mediocrity check out this album. Spiritbox Eternal Blue4.02019 Obsidian Tide Pillars of Creation3.5This album was quite a pleasant surprise, pretty sure I read a review on AngryMetalGuy that made me want to check it out. A progressive metal concept album that largely has clean vocals but harsh vocals are thrown in there too (though not the best ... but passable). The standout track for me is "Seven".2018 Modern Day Babylon Coma3.0A solid djent / ambient metal album that wouldn't be too bad having play in the background whilst you work, study or play around. Definitely lacking points of differences between the songs ... very much could play through as a single track. I personally like a bit more variety between songs, especially when they are instrumental as you need that point of difference to identify each one.rCould possibly rate higher after a few listens but nothing on this album really stood out to me on a first listen. Solid without really exploring their sound too much.Machine Head Catharsis2.0"Beyond the Pale" is decent track off this album, and definitely helped propel it up half a mark for me. The rest of the album is largely forgettable and a few songs are just plain right awful, "Behind a Mask" is a nice introspective song and shows Machine Head are getting better at writing the slower and softer songs.2017 Intervals The Way Forward2.5King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard Polygondwanaland4.02016 Gojira Magma4.0Haken Affinity4.02015 Caligula's Horse Bloom4.0Parkway Drive Ire3.0The Dear Hunter Act IV: Rebirth in Reprise2.5Soulfly Archangel3.0August Burns Red Found in Far Away Places3.0Leprous The Congregation4.0Native Construct Quiet World4.02014 Pain of Salvation Falling Home3.0Cavalera Conspiracy Pandemonium3.0Machine Head Bloodstone And Diamonds3.5Slipknot .5: The Gray Chapter3.0Somali Yacht Club The Sun4.0"Loom" hooked me in straight away and really enjoyed every track on the album. The tracks all are around the 8 minute mark, but you don't really notice the length. There is enough variety across each track that it doesn't become monotonous (a bit of a trap maybe post bands fall into). The vocal interludes break up the largely instrumental based tracks nicely. "Loom" and "Sun" are the standout tracks for me.King 810 Memoirs of a Murderer2.5Mastodon Once More 'Round the Sun3.0Chevelle La Gárgola4.02013 David Maxim Micic Bilo 3.04.0Obscure Sphinx Void Mother4.0Prospekt The Colourless Sunrise3.0Very similar sound to Dream Theater in parts (a little less complex). Most of the sounds have good riffs and get you going, however there is nothing spectacular on the album. It is a very enjoyable listen and is a good solid album, without really being a stand out. No real poor songs on the album.Sepultura The Mediator Between Head and Hands Must Be the Heart3.0Epysode Fantasmagoria3.0I am not a big fan of the power metal genre, and more checked it out for the progressive elements. There is a good range of vocals (for a variety of artists), and there are different musical influences throughout. However the Euro power metal dominates. No "bad" songs, but no real stand out songs for me.Soulfly Savages3.0Caligula's Horse The Tide, the Thief and River's End4.5Haken The Mountain4.0Karnivool Asymmetry3.5August Burns Red Rescue & Restore3.5Palms Palms3.5Leprous Coal4.0The Ocean Pelagial (Instrumental)4.0The Ocean Pelagial4.5Anciients Heart of Oak4.0Clutch Earth Rocker3.5Soilwork The Living Infinite4.02012 Parkway Drive Atlas3.5Serj Tankian Harakiri3.0Gojira L'Enfant Sauvage3.5Ne Obliviscaris Portal of I4.5Soulfly Enslaved3.02011 Haken Visions4.0Mastodon The Hunter3.5Machine Head Unto The Locust4.0Opeth Heritage4.5Dream Theater A Dramatic Turn of Events3.0Leprous Bilateral4.0Incubus (USA-CA) If Not Now, When?2.5Wolverine Communication Lost4.0Caligula's Horse Moments from Ephemeral City4.5Cavalera Conspiracy Blunt Force Trauma3.5Mastodon Live at the Aragon2.5Radiohead The King of Limbs2.52010 Kings of Leon Come Around Sundown3.0Serj Tankian Imperfect Harmonies3.0Parkway Drive Deep Blue3.5Soulfly Omen3.0Pain of Salvation Road Salt One4.0Deftones Diamond Eyes4.0Bleeding Through Bleeding Through3.02009 Pain of Salvation Linoleum3.0Pelican What We All Come to Need3.0Baroness Blue Record3.5Alice in Chains Black Gives Way to Blue3.5Parkway Drive The DVD4.5Dream Theater Black Clouds and Silver Linings4.0Karnivool Sound Awake4.5Leprous Tall Poppy Syndrome4.0Mastodon Crack the Skye5.0Static-X Cult Of Static2.5Lamb of God Wrath3.0Sepultura A-Lex3.52008 Unearth The March3.0Gojira The Way of All Flesh4.5Bleeding Through Declaration3.5Kings of Leon Only By The Night3.5Metallica Death Magnetic3.0Slipknot All Hope Is Gone4.5Cog Just Visiting (Part 1 & 2)4.5Soulfly Conquer3.5Opeth Watershed4.0Cog Sharing Space3.5Cavalera Conspiracy Inflikted3.52007 Serj Tankian Elect the Dead3.0Radiohead In Rainbows2.5Parkway Drive Horizons4.0Down Down III: Over the Under3.5Korn Untitled2.0Pelican City of Echoes3.0Dream Theater Systematic Chaos4.0Nine Inch Nails Year Zero3.0Kings of Leon Because Of The Times4.0Chevelle Vena Sera3.5Machine Head The Blackening5.02006 Incubus (USA-CA) Light Grenades3.5Deftones Saturday Night Wrist4.0Mastodon Blood Mountain4.0Lamb of God Sacrament4.0The Butterfly Effect Imago3.0Tool 10,000 Days4.0Dog Fashion Disco Adultery4.5In Flames Come Clarity3.0Parkway Drive Don't Close Your Eyes [Reissue]3.02005 Korn See You on the Other Side3.0System of a Down Hypnotize3.5Slipknot 9.0: Live3.5Deftones B-Sides and Rarities4.0Soulfly Dark Ages4.0Parkway Drive Killing with a Smile4.0Opeth Ghost Reveries4.5Static-X Start A War3.5Dream Theater Octavarium3.0Pelican The Fire in Our Throats Will Beckon...4.0Gorillaz Demon Days3.0System of a Down Mezmerize3.5Team Sleep Team Sleep3.5Nine Inch Nails With Teeth4.0Cog The New Normal4.0Pelican March Into the Sea4.0Mudvayne Lost and Found3.0Fantomas Suspended Animation2.0Red Sparowes At The Soundless Dawn3.5Karnivool Themata4.0Gojira From Mars to Sirius4.52004 Incubus (USA-CA) Alive at Red Rocks4.5A Perfect Circle eMOTIVe2.5Kings of Leon Aha Shake Heartbreak3.5ISIS Panopticon4.5Pain of Salvation Be4.0Korn Greatest Hits Vol. 13.0Lamb of God Ashes of the Wake3.5Chevelle This Type Of Thinking (Could Do Us In)3.5Mastodon Leviathan4.5Alter Bridge One Day Remains2.5Unearth The Oncoming Storm3.5Alexisonfire Watch Out!3.0Slipknot Vol. 3: The Subliminal Verses4.0Soulfly Prophecy3.5Incubus (USA-CA) A Crow Left of the Murder...4.0Fantomas Delìrium Còrdia2.0The Butterfly Effect Begins Here3.52003 Machine Head Through The Ashes Of Empires5.0Korn Take a Look in the Mirror4.0Dream Theater Train of Thought4.5Pelican Australasia4.0Static-X Shadow Zone3.0Bleeding Through This Is Love, This Is Murderous3.0A Perfect Circle Thirteenth Step4.0Kings of Leon Youth and Young Manhood2.5Metallica St. Anger2.0Gojira The Link3.0Deftones Deftones3.5Soilwork Figure Number Five3.0Opeth Damnation4.5Katatonia Viva Emptiness4.0(hed) p.e. Blackout3.5Machine Head Hellalive3.5Mushroomhead XIII2.5Lamb of God As the Palaces Burn4.02002 System of a Down Steal This Album!3.0Mudvayne The End of All Things to Come4.0Alexisonfire Alexisonfire3.0Chevelle Wonder What's Next4.5Cog Just Visiting - Part 24.5Mastodon Remission3.0earthtone9 Omega4.0Down Down II: A Bustle in Your Hedgerow4.5Cog Just Visiting - Part 14.5Pain of Salvation Remedy Lane4.0Dream Theater Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence4.0ISIS Oceanic4.0Soilwork Natural Born Chaos4.0Korn Untouchables3.02001 Mushroomhead XX4.0Machine Head Supercharger2.5Incubus (USA-CA) Morning View4.5System of a Down Toxicity4.5Slipknot Iowa3.0Mudvayne The Beginning of All Things to End2.5Static-X Machine3.0Tool Lateralus5.0Pearl Jam Touring Band 2000 DVD4.0Gorillaz Gorillaz3.0Karnivool Persona4.0Sepultura Nation3.5Alien Ant Farm ANThology3.0Opeth Blackwater Park5.0Unearth The Stings of Conscience3.5Dog Fashion Disco Anarchists of Good Taste3.5Fear Factory Digimortal3.02000 Soulfly Primitive3.5earthtone9 Arc'tan'gent4.5Mudvayne L.D. 504.0Deftones White Pony4.5ISIS Celestial3.0A Perfect Circle Mer de Noms4.0Melvins The Crybaby3.0Dog Fashion Disco The Embryo's In Bloom2.5Pain of Salvation The Perfect Element, Part 14.0Limp Bizkit Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavored Water2.5(hed) p.e. Broke3.51999 Metallica S&M3.0Korn Issues3.0Dream Theater Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes from a Memory4.0Pain of Salvation One Hour by the Concrete Lake4.0Nine Inch Nails The Fragile3.5Melvins The Bootlicker3.0Machine Head The Burning Red3.0earthtone9 Off Kilter Enhancement3.0Incubus (USA-CA) Make Yourself4.5Slipknot Slipknot3.5Limp Bizkit Significant Other3.0Melvins The Maggot3.01998 Dream Theater Once in a LIVEtime3.5Sepultura Against3.5Korn Follow the Leader3.5earthtone9 Lo-Def(inition) Discord3.0Fear Factory Obsolete3.5System of a Down System of a Down4.5Soulfly Soulfly3.5Dog Fashion Disco Experiments in Alchemy2.5Pitchshifter www.pitchshifter.com3.01997 Deftones Around the Fur4.5Dream Theater Falling into Infinity3.0Incubus (USA-CA) S.C.I.E.N.C.E.4.0(hed) p.e. (hed) p.e.3.0Pain of Salvation Entropia4.0Limp Bizkit Three Dollar Bill Y'all3.5Radiohead OK Computer5.0Machine Head The More Things Change...3.0Blur Blur4.0The Prodigy The Fat of the Land3.51996 Korn Life Is Peachy3.0Tool Ænima5.0Nirvana From the Muddy Banks of the Wishkah3.0Alice in Chains MTV Unplugged4.5Metallica Load2.5Sepultura Roots4.51995 Alice in Chains Alice in Chains4.0Deftones Adrenaline3.0Down NOLA4.5Fear Factory Demanufacture3.51994 Nirvana MTV Unplugged in New York4.5Korn Korn5.0Dream Theater Awake3.5Machine Head Burn My Eyes5.0The Prodigy Music for the Jilted Generation4.0Nine Inch Nails The Downward Spiral3.01993 Nirvana In Utero4.5Tool Undertow3.0Sepultura Chaos A.D.4.01992 The Prodigy Experience3.5Alice in Chains Dirt5.0Fear Factory Soul of a New Machine3.0Dream Theater Images and Words4.5Tool Opiate3.01991 Nirvana Nevermind5.0Pearl Jam Ten5.0Metallica Metallica5.01990 Alice in Chains Facelift4.01989 Nine Inch Nails Pretty Hate Machine4.51988 Metallica ...And Justice for All4.5Jane's Addiction Nothing's Shocking4.51986 Metallica Master of Puppets5.01985 Faith No More We Care a Lot2.51984 Metallica Ride the Lightning4.51983 Metallica Kill 'Em All3.51972 Gentle Giant Octopus4.0
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