| Cynic Re-Traced | 3.0 |
| Cynic Carbon-Based Anatomy | 4.0 |
| Cynic Kindly Bent to Free Us | 3.5 |
| Cynic Focus | 5.0 |
| Daft Punk Tron Legacy: Reconfigured | 2.5 |
| Daft Punk Tron: Legacy | 3.0 |
| Daft Punk Alive 2007 | 5.0 |
| Daft Punk Homework | 4.5 |
| Daft Punk Discovery | 5.0 |
| Daft Punk Human After All | 2.5 |
| Daft Punk Random Access Memories | 5.0 |
| Atheist Elements | 5.0 |
| Atheist Jupiter | 3.0 |
| Anathema We're Here Because We're Here | 5.0 |
| Hawksley Workman Lover/Fighter | 4.0 |
| Hawksley Workman Between the Beautifuls | 3.5 |
| 54-40 Dear Dear | 4.0 |
| Great band, somewhat forgotten but they have the formula down pat. |
| Nirvana Live at Reading | 4.0 |
| Really brings the songs back to life, excellent show and I concur... Kurt at his peak here |
| Baroness Blue Record | 4.5 |
| Secret Chiefs 3 Traditionalists | 4.0 |
| The Cooper Temple Clause Kick up the fire..... | 3.5 |
| The Cooper Temple Clause See This Through And Leave | 4.0 |
| The Cooper Temple Clause Make This Your Own | 3.0 |
| Silverchair Diorama | 4.5 |
| Mr. Bungle California | 4.0 |
| A Perfect Circle Thirteenth Step | 4.5 |
| A Perfect Circle eMOTIVe | 3.0 |
| Anathema A Natural Disaster | 4.5 |
| ISIS Oceanic | 4.0 |
| ISIS Panopticon | 4.0 |
| Thursday Common Existence | 3.0 |
| The Fall of Troy Phantom on the Horizon | 3.0 |
| Metallica Death Magnetic | 2.5 |
| Protest the Hero Fortress | 3.0 |
| Mastodon Crack the Skye | 4.5 |
| ISIS Wavering Radiant | 2.5 |
| This is in no way better than the new Mastodon, which effectively saved the band from their post-Blood Mountain letdown. This pushes no boundaries and goes nowhere new. I'll need to give it a few more listens but as a HUGE fan of Panopticon and Oceanic, this is a let down. Even In the Absence of Truth had some good moments. |
| Anathema Hindsight | 4.5 |
| Secret Chiefs 3 Xaphan: Book of Angels Volume 9 | 4.0 |
| While not quite the sequel to "Book of Horizons", there's enough diversity in the material to live up to the last album. I don't know anything about Zorn, but if he had a part in this I'd check his work out for sure. The intro to "Akramachamarei" is one of the most ear-pleasing moments on the album, as is the funky bass intro on Balberith. |
| Burst Lazarus Bird | 3.5 |
| Justice † | 3.5 |
| Thin Lizzy Live and Dangerous | 2.5 |
| Atmosphere When Life Gives You Lemons... | 3.0 |
| Gates of Winter Lux Aeterna | 3.0 |
| Sigur Ros Med Sud i Eyrum vid Spilum Endalaust | 4.5 |
| Scar Symmetry Holographic Universe | 2.5 |
| Opeth Watershed | 3.0 |
| Underoath Lost in the Sound of Separation | 2.5 |
| Portishead Third | 4.0 |
| The Roots Rising Down | 3.5 |
| Thrice The Alchemy Index Vols. III & IV | 4.0 |
| Bloodbath The Fathomless Mastery | 3.0 |
| N.E.R.D. Seeing Sounds | 3.5 |
| Cynic Traced in Air | 5.0 |
| Pink Floyd The Dark Side of the Moon | 4.5 |
| Shadow Gallery Room V | 4.5 |
Just had to write in great favour of this album. Comfort Me is one of the defining emotional and melodic highlights where its motif is revisted nicely in Lamentia. Birth of a Daughter and Death of a Mother are 2 minute instrumentals that pair together very well. Torn has a great main guitar line and the song, especially in its closing moments, conveys the singer's emotional difficulties very well. Rain is a heavier point in the album and has great sections instrumentally, although it is hampered slightly by its rather obscure vocal work, notably too much time spent in the higher ranges.
The album on its own is a 4.0 work - excellent, but still with a number of faults. The bonus disc is what sets this apart from the pack, if only for the epic 24-minute behemoth. Floydian Memories is one of the greatest things I've ever heard, even in the scope of progressive metal epics. Although it is a cover of multiple Pink Floyd songs, the transitions from one section to another is so seamless and clean that Shadow Gallery has made the piece their own. Highlights within it include its movement from Julia Dream's chorus to Comfortably Numb's solo, the vocal harmonizations in "Goodbye Blue Sky", and transforming sections of "Point me to the Sky" and "Your Possible Pasts" into something, well, listenable.
If you're a fan of the peerless Pink Floyd, you owe it to yourself to download Floydian Memories if not this entire album. |
| Between the Buried and Me Colors | 5.0 |
| Between the Buried and Me The Anatomy Of | 4.5 |
| Puscifer "V" Is For Vagina | 3.0 |
| Avenged Sevenfold Avenged Sevenfold | 1.0 |
