| Dc Talk Intermission | 3.5 |
| Jars Of Clay If I Left The Zoo | 3.0 |
| Jars Of Clay Good Monsters | 3.5 |
| Tenth Avenue North Over and Underneath | 4.0 |
| Tenth Avenue North The Light Meets The Dark | 3.5 |
| Needtobreathe The Outsiders | 4.0 |
| Needtobreathe Rivers In The Wasteland | 4.0 |
| Needtobreathe The Heat | 3.5 |
| mewithoutYou Other Stories | 4.5 |
| Thrice The Alchemy Index Vol. IV: Earth | 4.0 |
| Thrice The Alchemy Index Vol. III: Air | 3.5 |
| Thrice The Alchemy Index Vol. II: Water | 4.0 |
| Thrice The Alchemy Index Vol. I: Fire | 4.0 |
| Dustin Kensrue This Good Night Is Still Everywhere | 3.0 |
| Dustin Kensrue The Water and the Blood | 4.0 |
| Dustin Kensrue Carry the Fire | 3.5 |
| Noah Gundersen Ledges | 4.0 |
| Noah Gundersen Saints & Liars | 4.5 |
| Noah Gundersen Family | 4.5 |
| Showbread Cancer | 4.0 |
| Sanctus Real We Need Each Other | 3.0 |
| Sanctus Real Pieces of a Real Heart | 4.0 |
| Thrice Anthology | 4.5 |
| Burlap to Cashmere Anybody Out There? | 3.5 |
| Burlap to Cashmere Burlap to Cashmere | 4.0 |
| The Tallest Man on Earth The Tallest Man on Earth | 4.0 |
| The Tallest Man on Earth Sometimes The Blues Is Just A Passing Bird | 4.0 |
| The Tallest Man on Earth Shallow Grave | 4.0 |
| The Tallest Man on Earth The Wild Hunt | 4.0 |
| Of Monsters and Men My Head is an Animal | 4.0 |
| Showbread The Fear of God | 4.0 |
| Showbread Who Can Know It? | 4.0 |
| Showbread Age of Reptiles | 4.0 |
| Showbread No Sir, Nihilism Is Not Practical | 4.0 |
| mewithoutYou Ten Stories | 4.0 |
| Ludo Prepare the Preparations | 4.0 |
| Ludo Broken Bride EP | 5.0 |
| Ludo Ludo | 3.0 |
| My Chemical Romance The Black Parade | 3.5 |
| Thrice Major/Minor | 4.0 |
| Modest Mouse Good News for People Who Love Bad News | 4.0 |
| Rubik Dada Bandits | 4.0 |
| mewithoutYou I Never Said That I Was Brave | 3.5 |
| mewithoutYou A to B: Life | 4.0 |
| mewithoutYou Catch For Us the Foxes | 4.5 |
| mewithoutYou Brother, Sister | 5.0 |
| mewithoutYou It's All Crazy! It's All False! It's All A Dream! It's Alright! | 4.0 |
| Paramore Brand New Eyes | 4.0 |
| Thrice Beggars | 4.0 |
| Muse Black Holes & Revelations | 4.0 |
| Soundtrack (Television) Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog | 4.0 |
| Protest the Hero Fortress (Instrumental) | 4.0 |
| Sparta Threes | 3.5 |
| Finch Say Hello to Sunshine | 4.0 |
| Coldplay Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends | 3.5 |
| Seether Finding Beauty In Negative Spaces | 3.5 |
| Norma Jean The Anti Mother | 2.5 |
| Thrice The Alchemy Index Vols. III & IV | 4.5 |
| Enter Shikari Take to the Skies | 4.0 |
| Ashes Divide Keep Telling Myself It's Alright | 4.0 |
| Senses Fail Still Searching | 4.0 |
| Protest the Hero Kezia | 4.0 |
| Children of Bodom Follow the Reaper | 3.5 |
| Children of Bodom Are You Dead Yet? | 2.5 |
| The Flatliners Destroy To Create | 4.0 |
| The Mars Volta Frances the Mute | 4.0 |
| The Mars Volta De-Loused in the Comatorium | 4.0 |
| Firewind Burning Earth | 3.0 |
| Ludo You're Awful, I Love You | 4.0 |
| Sparta Wiretap Scars | 4.0 |
| Winger IV | 2.5 |
| Dio Holy Diver - Live | 3.0 |
| Anthrax Persistence of Time | 2.5 |
| Protest the Hero Fortress | 4.0 |
| Sum 41 All Killer No Filler | 3.5 |
| Steve Vai Infinite Steve Vai: An Anthology | 3.0 |
| Paramore All We Know Is Falling | 4.0 |
| Thrice The Illusion of Safety | 4.5 |
| System of a Down Mezmerize | 4.5 |
| Demon Hunter Storm the Gates of Hell | 3.5 |
| Beastie Boys Licensed to Ill | 3.0 |
| At the Drive-In Relationship of Command | 4.5 |
| Fair to Midland Inter.Funda.Stifle | 4.0 |
| Between the Buried and Me Colors | 4.5 |
| Crossfade Crossfade | 4.0 |
| Puddle of Mudd Life On Display | 4.0 |
| Nickelback The Long Road | 3.0 |
| Thrice The Alchemy Index Vols. I & II | 4.0 |
| Crossfade Falling Away | 2.5 |
| Lostprophets Liberation Transmission | 4.5 |
| Rise Against The Unraveling | 4.0 |
| Refused Songs To Fan The Flames Of Discontent | 4.5 |
| Thrice Red Sky | 4.0 |
| Dinosaur Jr. Bug | 4.0 |
| Fair to Midland Fables From a Mayfly: What I Tell You Three Times is True | 4.5 |
| Jimmy Eat World Bleed American | 3.0 |
| Fefe Dobson Fefe Dobson | 2.5 |
| Destroyer 666 Phoenix Rising | 3.5 |
| Anthrax Spreading the Disease | 3.0 |
| AFI Sing the Sorrow | 3.0 |
| blink-182 Enema Of The State | 3.5 |
| Thrice The Artist in the Ambulance | 4.5 |
| New Found Glory From the Screen to Your Stereo Part II | 1.5 |
| Tad Morose Matters of the Dark | 3.5 |
| Lostprophets The Fake Sound Of Progress | 3.5 |
| Exodus Bonded by Blood | 3.0 |
| Elvenking The Scythe | 4.5 |
Frankly, I just can't find the right words to express my love for this album. It's got everything that a catchy lyric-crazed power metal listener could want, and more. A very radio-friendly metal album to say the least, but that doesn't make this any less enjoyable. Everything is done well, and while no instrument sticks out in particular, they all fit together in such a way that the final product is amazing.
All that being said, I can completely understand why one would dislike this album. For one, it's a bit too radio-friendly, to the point where the catchiness and sheer lack of originality and technicality could possibly be its downfall. This is most likely not for br00tal metal fans, and from what I've heard from others, this is a bit of a change from past Elvenking releases.
Bottom line, this is an overall great album that is at least worth looking into for any (lighter) metal fans.
Review Rating: 4
Personal Rating: 4.5
Check These Out: The Scythe, Lost Hill Of Memories, Poison Tears, The Divided Heart, Dominhate. |
| Nevermore This Godless Endeavor | 3.5 |
| Nevermore Dreaming Neon Black | 3.5 |
| Rise Against Siren Song of the Counter Culture | 4.0 |
| Sonata Arctica Silence | 3.5 |
| Savatage Hall of the Mountain King | 3.5 |
| Firefly Summer The Classic EP | 3.5 |
| Jag Panzer Thane to the Throne | 3.5 |
| Dir En Grey The Marrow of a Bone | 3.0 |
| Emanuel Black Earth Tiger | 3.0 |
| Atreyu Lead Sails Paper Anchor | 3.0 |
| Ensiferum Victory Songs | 3.5 |
| Explosions in the Sky How Strange, Innocence | 3.5 |
| Gamma Ray Majestic | 3.5 |
| Panic! at the Disco A Fever You Can't Sweat Out | 4.0 |
| Trapt Trapt | 3.5 |
| Deadlock Wolves | 4.0 |
| Savatage Edge of Thorns | 3.5 |
| Alexisonfire Alexisonfire | 3.0 |
| The Fall of Troy Doppelganger | 4.0 |
| Machinae Supremacy Redeemer (Underground Edition) | 4.0 |
| Daitro Laisser Vivre Les Squelettes | 4.0 |
| Thursday Full Collapse | 3.5 |
| Neutral Milk Hotel On Avery Island | 2.5 |
| Kamelot Epica | 3.5 |
| Daitro Des Cendres, Je Me Consume | 4.0 |
| Drop Dead, Gorgeous Worse Than A Fairy Tale | 3.0 |
| Kamelot The Black Halo | 4.0 |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Irony Is a Dead Scene | 3.0 |
| Rush Test for Echo | 3.5 |
| Tad Morose Modus Vivendi | 4.0 |
| Carbon Based Lifeforms Hydroponic Garden | 3.5 |
| Deceased Supernatural Addiction | 3.5 |
| Catch 22 Keasbey Nights | 3.5 |
| Blacklisted Peace On Earth, War On Stage | 3.0 |
| Andromeda Extension of the Wish | 3.5 |
| Russell Allen Atomic Soul | 3.5 |
| Alcest Souvenirs D'Un Autre Monde | 3.5 |
| Circle Takes the Square As the Roots Undo | 4.5 |
| Twain Harte A Sunny Place for Shady People | 3.5 |
| I Mother Earth Scenery & Fish | 3.0 |
| Decyfer Down End of Grey | 4.5 |
| Mae Singularity | 3.0 |
| Deathchain Deathrash Assault | 3.5 |
| Bathory Blood Fire Death | 3.0 |
| Anthrax Among the Living | 4.0 |
| Quiet Riot Super Hits | 3.5 |
| Falling Up Crashings | 4.0 |
| Limp Bizkit Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavored Water | 2.0 |
| Kid Rock Devil Without a Cause | 2.0 |
| Scott Stapp The Great Divide | 2.0 |
| Hawthorne Heights If Only You Were Lonely | 2.0 |
| NSYNC Celebrity | 2.0 |
| New Found Glory Coming Home | 2.0 |
| Pink Floyd The Dark Side of the Moon | 2.5 |
| Weezer Pinkerton | 2.5 |
| Norma Jean O' God, the Aftermath | 2.5 |
| Limp Bizkit Significant Other | 2.5 |
| Hawthorne Heights The Silence in Black and White | 2.5 |
| The All-American Rejects The All-American Rejects | 2.5 |
| Van Halen Fair Warning | 2.5 |
| Seven Mary Three American Standard | 2.5 |
| Trivium The Crusade | 2.5 |
| Third Eye Blind Third Eye Blind | 3.0 |
| Underoath They're Only Chasing Safety | 3.0 |
| Creed My Own Prison | 3.0 |
| The Black Dahlia Murder Unhallowed | 3.0 |
| As I Lay Dying Frail Words Collapse | 3.0 |
| Simple Plan Still Not Getting Any... | 3.0 |
| Good Charlotte The Chronicles of Life and Death | 3.0 |
| Disturbed Believe | 3.0 |
| Nickelback Silver Side Up | 3.0 |
| Gorillaz Gorillaz | 3.0 |
| Finger Eleven Finger Eleven | 3.0 |
| Jet Get Born | 3.0 |
| Relient K Mmhmm | 3.0 |
| The Calling Two | 3.0 |
| Maroon 5 Songs About Jane | 3.0 |
| Seether Karma And Effect | 3.0 |
| Beatallica Beatallica | 3.0 |
| Weezer Make Believe | 3.0 |
| Gorillaz Demon Days | 3.0 |
| Third Eye Blind Blue | 3.0 |
| Creed Human Clay | 3.0 |
| The All-American Rejects Move Along | 3.0 |
| 3 Doors Down Away from the Sun | 3.0 |
| Creed Weathered | 3.0 |
| Hootie and The Blowfish Cracked Rear View | 3.0 |
| Staind Chapter V | 3.0 |
| Aerosmith Toys in the Attic | 3.0 |
| 3 Doors Down Seventeen Days | 3.0 |
| Switchfoot Nothing is Sound | 3.0 |
| Aerosmith Just Push Play | 3.0 |
| Thirty Seconds to Mars A Beautiful Lie | 3.0 |
| HIM Dark Light | 3.0 |
| Backstreet Boys Millennium | 3.0 |
| Aerosmith Get a Grip | 3.0 |
| Evanescence Fallen | 3.0 |
| Stutterfly And We Are Bled Of Color | 3.0 |
| Korn See You on the Other Side | 3.0 |
| Anberlin Blueprints for the Black Market | 3.0 |
| Flyleaf Flyleaf | 3.0 |
| Trapt Someone in Control | 3.0 |
| Puddle of Mudd Come Clean | 3.0 |
| Goo Goo Dolls A Boy Named Goo | 3.0 |
| Nickelback The State | 3.0 |
| Nickelback Curb | 3.0 |
| Hinder Extreme Behavior | 3.0 |
| Tool 10,000 Days | 3.0 |
| Will Smith Big Willie Style | 3.0 |
| Scorpions Unbreakable | 3.0 |
| Van Halen OU812 | 3.0 |
| Saliva Every Six Seconds | 3.0 |
| NSYNC No Strings Attached | 3.0 |
| Van Halen Women and Children First | 3.0 |
| ZZ Top Recycler | 3.0 |
| Falling Up Dawn Escapes | 3.0 |
| Backstreet Boys Black and Blue | 3.0 |
| The Black Eyed Peas Elephunk | 3.0 |
| Soundtrack (Film) The Spongebob Squarepants Movie - Music | 3.0 |
| KISS Gold | 3.0 |
| Will Smith Willennium | 3.0 |
| Overflow A Better Place | 3.0 |
| Jeremy Camp Restored | 3.0 |
| Chevelle Vena Sera | 3.0 |
| Third Day Offerings II: All I Have To Give | 3.0 |
| Led Zeppelin Best Of, Vol. 1: Early Days | 3.5 |
| Linkin Park Meteora | 3.5 |
| Good Charlotte The Young And The Hopeless | 3.5 |
| System of a Down Toxicity | 3.5 |
| Godsmack Awake | 3.5 |
| Cold Year Of The Spider | 3.5 |
| Slipknot Vol. 3: The Subliminal Verses | 3.5 |
| New Found Glory Catalyst | 3.5 |
| Atreyu The Curse | 3.5 |
| Pantera Vulgar Display of Power | 3.5 |
| Franz Ferdinand Franz Ferdinand | 3.5 |
| Van Halen For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge | 3.5 |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers Greatest Hits | 3.5 |
| Breaking Benjamin We Are Not Alone | 3.5 |
| Avril Lavigne Under My Skin | 3.5 |
| Guns N' Roses Greatest Hits | 3.5 |
| Velvet Revolver Contraband | 3.5 |
| Skindred Babylon | 3.5 |
| Led Zeppelin Early Days/Latter Days | 3.5 |
| Switchfoot The Beautiful Letdown | 3.5 |
| Haste the Day When Everything Falls | 3.5 |
| Led Zeppelin Best Of, Vol. 2: Latter Days | 3.5 |
| Smash Mouth Astro Lounge | 3.5 |
| Smash Mouth Smash Mouth | 3.5 |
| Van Halen Van Halen II | 3.5 |
| Barenaked Ladies Stunt | 3.5 |
| Creed Greatest Hits | 3.5 |
| Story of the Year Page Avenue | 3.5 |
| Shinedown Us and Them | 3.5 |
| Nickelback All the Right Reasons | 3.5 |
| Demon Hunter Demon Hunter | 3.5 |
| Yellowcard Lights and Sounds | 3.5 |
| Avril Lavigne Let Go | 3.5 |
| DragonForce Inhuman Rampage | 3.5 |
| DragonForce, known for their cheesy lyrics, lightning-fast guitar solos, mindblowing keyboard solos, and heart pounding drum beats. They prove they're the best at what they do, in only 8 songs. Just one downside, half of these songs sound about the same. Don't get me wrong, Inhuman Rampage is a great album, full of ZP's great lyrics, Sam and Herman's amazing dual-solos, Dave's speedy drumming, Vadim's beautiful keyboarding (shown in 'Trail of Broken Hearts', and even Frederic shows some bass talents in 'Body Breakdown'. If you think this is one of those albums that you will be hooked on from the beginning, you may be wrong. This could turn out to be one of those albums that takes awhile for you to get hooked on, but will hold its place in your heart for a long time. |
| Atreyu A Death-Grip on Yesterday | 3.5 |
| Korn Greatest Hits Vol. 1 | 3.5 |
| SOiL Scars | 3.5 |
| Bowling for Soup A Hangover You Don't Deserve | 3.5 |
| Taking Back Sunday Louder Now | 3.5 |
| Van Halen Diver Down | 3.5 |
| Bon Jovi Slippery When Wet | 3.5 |
| Aerosmith Greatest Hits | 3.5 |
| Aerosmith Big Ones | 3.5 |
| Aerosmith A Little South of Sanity | 3.5 |
| Collective Soul Collective Soul | 3.5 |
| Hootie and The Blowfish The Best of Hootie & The Blowfish (1993-2003) | 3.5 |
| AFI Decemberunderground | 3.5 |
| Gatsby's American Dream Gatsby's American Dream | 3.5 |
| Ozzy Osbourne The Essential Ozzy Osbourne | 3.5 |
| Lynyrd Skynyrd 20th Century Masters | 3.5 |
| Dream Evil Evilized | 3.5 |
| Various Artists Tooth & Nail vs. Solid State | 3.5 |
| Scorpions Scorpions 20th Century Masters | 3.5 |
| Jeremy Camp Stay | 3.5 |
| Daughtry Daughtry | 3.5 |
| Fall Out Boy Infinity on High | 3.5 |
| Haste the Day Pressure the Hinges | 3.5 |
| Avril Lavigne The Best Damn Thing | 3.5 |
| Dio Dream Evil | 3.5 |
| The Jimi Hendrix Experience Smash Hits | 3.5 |
| Metallica Master of Puppets | 4.0 |
| Linkin Park Hybrid Theory | 4.0 |
| Lostprophets Start Something | 4.0 |
| Iron Maiden The Number of the Beast | 4.0 |
| Green Day International Superhits | 4.0 |
| Van Halen Van Halen | 4.0 |
| Godsmack Faceless | 4.0 |
| Green Day Nimrod | 4.0 |
| Rush Moving Pictures | 4.0 |
| Matchbox Twenty Yourself or Someone Like You | 4.0 |
| Papa Roach Getting Away With Murder | 4.0 |
| Green Day American Idiot | 4.0 |
| AC/DC Back In Black | 4.0 |
| Alice in Chains Greatest Hits | 4.0 |
| Disturbed The Sickness | 4.0 |
| Nirvana Nirvana | 4.0 |
| Three Days Grace Three Days Grace | 4.0 |
| Armor For Sleep What To Do When You Are Dead | 4.0 |
| Coheed and Cambria The Second Stage Turbine Blade | 4.0 |
| Fall Out Boy From Under the Cork Tree | 4.0 |
| Stone Temple Pilots Thank You | 4.0 |
| AC/DC For Those About To Rock We Salute You | 4.0 |
| Matchbox Twenty More Than You Think You Are | 4.0 |
| Disturbed Ten Thousand Fists | 4.0 |
| Stevie Ray Vaughan Greatest Hits | 4.0 |
| Green Day Bullet In A Bible | 4.0 |
| Godsmack IV | 4.0 |
| Element Eighty The Bear | 4.0 |
| The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus Don't You Fake It | 4.0 |
| Will Smith Lost and Found | 4.0 |
| Nat King Cole The Christmas Song | 4.0 |
| This was probably the first Christmas album I've ever listened to. Now I'm not a fan of jazz at all, but Nat King Cole's singing is great. He makes the songs calm and serene, which adds to the overall effect of the relaxing songs. The orchestras and chorus in the background provide an unneeded assist to Nat's singing. In the album, he covers many Christmas songs that are popular around the world. A must have for anyone who loves jazz, or just listening to Christmas songs during the holidays. |
| Journey The Essential Journey | 4.0 |
| Firewind Allegiance | 4.0 |
| blink-182 Blink-182 | 4.5 |
| Avenged Sevenfold Waking the Fallen | 4.5 |
| Shinedown Leave a Whisper | 4.5 |
| Thrice If We Could Only See Us Now | 4.5 |
| Avenged Sevenfold City of Evil | 4.5 |
| The Offspring Greatest Hits | 4.5 |
| AC/DC Live | 4.5 |
| Coheed and Cambria From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness | 4.5 |
| Element Eighty Element Eighty | 4.5 |
| Thrice Vheissu | 4.5 |
| Beautiful album, although highly deceiving to those who first heard about this album through the single 'Image of the Invisible'. The first song starts out leading you to believe the majority of the album is purely hardcore, when in truth, it is more of a calm-verse and slightly hardcore-chorus type album. I'd recommend 'The Earth Will Shake', 'Music Box', and 'Red Sky' as they are a few of my personal favorites. Awesome album, well worth the $10-15 if you're into the slower stuff. |
| Demon Hunter Summer of Darkness | 4.5 |
| Yellowcard Ocean Avenue | 4.5 |
| Demon Hunter The Triptych | 4.5 |
| Three Days Grace One-X | 4.5 |
| Rise Against The Sufferer and the Witness | 4.5 |
| Poison The Best Of Poison: 20 Years Of Rock | 4.5 |
| Paramore Riot! | 4.5 |
| Rage Against the Machine Rage Against the Machine | 5.0 |
| Rush 2112 | 5.0 |
| Metallica Metallica | 5.0 |
| Dream Evil The Book of Heavy Metal | 5.0 |
| Machinae Supremacy Deus Ex Machinae | 5.0 |
DragonForce, eat your hearts out.
These guys truly know how to rock the synths, incorporating a special sound module called the Sid Station. The Sid Station is based off of the SID synthesizer chip used in the Commodore 64 computer. What all this means is that Machinae Supremacy can provide the videogame-ish sound that DragonForce themselves have become known for.
MaSu's talent, however, does not end there. Robert Stjarnstrom has a unique voice (at least to me), that is different from the high-pitched power metal vocalists that I've heard in DragonForce and Dream Evil. Quite possibly my favorite member of the band, Jonas Rorling the lead guitarist, shows he can write amazing riffs and solos on tracks like 'Insidious' and 'Player One', sometimes rivaling the speed and sound of Herman Li and Sam Totman from DragonForce. Andreas, Johan, and Tomas, on keyboards, bass, and drums, respectively, while are talented, do not showcase their skills much in this album.
Overall, this is an essential power metal album for those who like the genre.
Recommended Tracks: Insidious, Dreadnaught, Flagcarrier, Player One, Deus Ex Machinae... Never mind, just get the entire album.
NOTE: There being only 2,000 copies of this album made, there isn't much of a chance you'll find this in stores, but you can download the first 14 songs off of MaSu's Last.FM page, and the 15th song off of their official website, www.machinaesupremacy.com
4.8/5 |
