| Porcupine Tree Fear of a Blank Planet | 3.5 |
| Waking The Cadaver Beyond Cops, Beyond God | 1.0 |
| Malefice Dawn Of Reprisal | 2.5 |
| Porcupine Tree Deadwing | 4.0 |
| Ahab The Divinity of Oceans | 4.5 |
| The Morningside Moving Crosscurrent of Time | 3.0 |
| Gorath MXCII | 4.0 |
| Ikuinen Kaamos Fall of Icons | 3.0 |
| Lantlos .neon | 4.0 |
| Forest Stream The Crown of Winter | 4.0 |
| Alcest Écailles De Lune | 4.5 |
| Gus Drax In Search Of Perfection | 3.0 |
| Periphery Periphery | 2.5 |
| Rimfrost Veraldar Nagli | 2.0 |
| Sade Soldier Of Love | 4.5 |
| Scar Symmetry Dark Matter Dimensions | 2.5 |
| Nokturnal Mortum The Voice of Steel | 3.5 |
| Arizmenda Within the Vacuum of Infinity... | 4.0 |
| Sworn Bastards and Conquerors | 4.0 |
| Dark Tranquillity We Are the Void | 3.5 |
| Immolation Majesty and Decay | 3.0 |
| Rotting Christ Aealo | 4.5 |
| In Mourning Monolith | 2.5 |
| Arkaik Reflections Within Dissonance | 2.5 |
| Fear Factory Mechanize | 4.0 |
| In Vain (NO) Mantra | 4.0 |
| Falls of Rauros Hail Wind and Hewn Oak | 5.0 |
| Fen Ancient Sorrow | 3.5 |
| Epica Design Your Universe | 3.0 |
| Katatonia Night Is the New Day | 4.5 |
| Miseration The Mirroring Shadow | 2.5 |
| Dethklok Dethalbum II | 3.5 |
| Rammstein Liebe Ist Für Alle Da | 4.5 |
| Nahemah A New Constellation | 4.5 |
| Devourment Unleash the Carnivore | 1.5 |
| Isole Silent Ruins | 3.5 |
| Be'lakor Stone's Reach | 4.5 |
| Wolves in the Throne Room Black Cascade | 4.0 |
| Tribulation The Horror | 3.5 |
| Absu Absu | 4.0 |
| Revocation Empire of the Obscene | 3.5 |
| Fen The Malediction Fields | 4.0 |
| SuidAkrA Crogacht | 2.5 |
| Before the Rain One Day Less | 4.0 |
| Darkane Demonic Art | 3.0 |
| Walknut Graveforests and Their Shadows | 4.5 |
| Hibria The Skull Collectors | 3.0 |
| The Eyes of a Traitor A Clear Perception | 3.5 |
| Obscura Cosmogenesis | 2.0 |
| Katy Perry One of the Boys | 1.0 |
| Sombres Forets Royaume De Glace | 4.0 |
| Coldworld Melancholie² | 4.5 |
| Solstafir Köld | 4.0 |
| Crocell The God We Drowned | 2.5 |
| Botch We Are the Romans | 3.0 |
| Solstafir Masterpiece of Bitterness | 3.5 |
| Alestorm Leviathan | 3.0 |
| Infester To the Depths... In Degradation | 4.0 |
| Early-styled tech death + doom = massive win. Transitions are incredible. The drums the drums the motherfucking drums!!! Shame this is the only thing the band ever did. Production is off but it works. Vocals might take some getting used to, but they work too. Epic stuff. |
| Godsmack Good Times...Bad Times | 2.5 |
| Aurora Black And The Skies Dream Infinite Sorrow | 4.5 |
| Emmure The Complete Guide To Needlework | 2.0 |
| Emmure The Respect Issue | 1.5 |
| Emmure Goodbye To The Gallows | 2.5 |
| ABACABB Survivalist | 2.0 |
| Shades of Dusk Quiescence | 3.0 |
| Deeds of Flesh Of What's to Come | 2.5 |
| Ablaze In Hatred The Quietude Plains | 4.0 |
| Flowing Tears Thy Kingdom Gone | 3.0 |
| Insomnium In the Halls of Awaiting | 3.0 |
| Weird Al Yankovic Bad Hair Day | 4.0 |
| Oh, Sleeper When I Am God | 2.5 |
| Uaral Lamentos A Poema Muerto | 3.0 |
| Wolves in the Throne Room Malevolent Grain | 4.0 |
| Melencolia Estatica Letum | 4.0 |
| Hellveto Neoheresy | 3.5 |
| Lunar Aurora Andacht | 4.0 |
| Impending Doom Nailed. Dead. Risen. | 2.0 |
| Officium Triste Giving Yourself Away | 3.0 |
| Saturnus Veronika Decides to Die | 2.5 |
| Paths Of Possession Promises in Blood | 2.5 |
| Paths Of Possession The End of the Hour | 3.0 |
| Oathean Regarding All The Sadness Of The World | 4.0 |
| Metallica ...And Justice for All | 3.5 |
| Le Grand Guignol The Great Maddening | 4.0 |
| Krallice Krallice | 3.0 |
| Combichrist Today We Are All Demons | 3.5 |
| Mourning Dawn Mourning Dawn | 3.5 |
| Nyktalgia Peisithanatos | 4.0 |
| Prince Purple Rain | 4.0 |
| Lantlos Lantlos | 4.5 |
| Thurisaz Circadian Rhythm | 4.5 |
| Simon and Garfunkel Bridge Over Troubled Water | 4.0 |
| Sting Ten Summoner's Tales | 4.0 |
| Eiffel 65 Europop | 3.5 |
| Amorphis Tales from the Thousand Lakes | 3.5 |
| Thurisaz Scent of a Dream | 4.0 |
| Inhale Exhale The Lost, the Sick, the Sacred | 2.5 |
| Architects Hollow Crown | 4.0 |
| Waking The Cadaver Demo | 1.5 |
| The Drowning This Bleak Descent | 3.0 |
| The Morningside The Wind, The Trees And The Shadows... | 4.5 |
| Odious Mortem Cryptic Implosion | 3.0 |
| Brain Drill The Parasites | 1.5 |
| As Blood Runs Black Allegiance | 2.0 |
| Kalmah For the Revolution | 2.5 |
| Kalmah The Black Waltz | 3.0 |
| Capharnaum Fractured | 4.0 |
| Intestine Baalism Ultimate Instinct | 3.5 |
| Gojira The Link | 3.5 |
| Intestine Baalism An Anatomy of the Beast | 3.0 |
| Martyr Feeding the Abscess | 3.0 |
| Panzerchrist Battalion Beast | 4.0 |
| The Arcane Order In The Wake of Collisions | 4.5 |
| Chthonic Seediq Bale | 4.0 |
| Darkflight Perfectly Calm | 5.0 |
| Nonpoint Vengeance | 1.5 |
| Bat For Lashes Fur and Gold | 3.5 |
| Iron Thrones Visions of Light | 4.0 |
| Bilocate Sudden Death Syndrome | 4.0 |
| Light This City Stormchaser | 3.0 |
| Six Feet Under 13 | 1.5 |
| Severed Savior Servile Insurrection | 3.0 |
| Averse Sefira Tetragrammatical Astygmata | 2.5 |
| Averse Sefira Advent Parallax | 2.5 |
| Incantation Primordial Domination | 3.5 |
| Draconian Arcane Rain Fell | 3.5 |
| Opeth Burden | 3.0 |
| Coldworker Rotting Paradise | 3.5 |
| Coldworker The Contaminated Void | 2.5 |
| Glass Casket Desperate Man's Diary | 4.0 |
| Burning The Masses Mind Control | 4.0 |
| Catamenia VIII - The Time Unchained | 2.0 |
| Catamenia Location:COLD | 2.5 |
| The Arcane Order The Machinery of Oblivion | 3.5 |
| Grand Alchemist Intervening Coma Celebration | 4.0 |
| Aghora Formless | 4.0 |
| Aghora Aghora | 3.5 |
| Abysmal Dawn Programmed to Consume | 2.0 |
| Nothingface Skeletons | 3.0 |
| Rage Against the Machine Rage Against the Machine | 4.0 |
| Carach Angren Lammendam | 3.5 |
| Svedhous Despair Poetry | 1.5 |
| Aeon Of Horus The Embodiment of Darkness and Light | 2.5 |
| Neutral Milk Hotel In the Aeroplane Over the Sea | 4.0 |
| Megadeth Rust in Peace | 3.0 |
| Thrice Live At The House Of Blues | 3.0 |
| Hieronymus Bosch Equivoke | 3.5 |
| Sworn Enemy Maniacal | 3.5 |
| Silentium Seducia | 3.5 |
| Neurosis Given to the Rising | 3.5 |
| This is a sick album. Sonorous and dark, infused with crazy ambiance and rounded out by some awesome stretches of straight smooth jamming (like in Fear and Sickness, Hidden Faces, and Water is Not Enough, amongst others). I've heard albums that plod, but this is different; this shambles along with a sinister, heavy drag, an evil smirk, and a crooked claw that reaches out and grabs you up at a moment's notice, and you can't help but enjoy the ride. I was expecting not to like this very much (2.5). One straight, thorough listen and I knew it was something to pay attention to. |
| Ne Obliviscaris The Aurora Veil | 4.0 |
| Mastodon Remission | 3.0 |
| Khoma The Second Wave | 4.0 |
| Kalisia Cybion | 4.0 |
An amazingly fluid album that encompasses an enormous array of sonic elements. It sometimes feels as if the inter-song change-ups and transitions are a bit forced and can leave the listener disoriented, but it retains a solid sense of itself and never goes so far outside the (very wide) boundaries that it's sets up for itself with the first few tracks that it ever sounds un-orderly. The "songwriting" is very thoughtful and patient; the album unfolds before you, step-by-step, and though it may seem all over the place at first listen, the soundscape matures and builds over the course the album and it all ends up being quite epic, even if they did try to do a little too much in some of the tracks. A genre-smashing, passion-filled effort that you can come back to again and again.
I have just one question. How in the blue hell are they gonna play this live? |
| Helheim Kaoskult | 4.0 |
| Hatecraft Lost Consolation | 3.5 |
| Funeral As The Light Does The Shadow | 2.5 |
| Frostmoon Eclipse Another Face Of Hell | 3.0 |
| Arkan Hilal | 3.0 |
| Weeping Birth Anosognosic Industry of the I | 3.5 |
| Hikaru Utada Ultra Blue | 4.0 |
| SIG:AR:TYR Sailing the Seas of Fate | 3.5 |
| Monstrosity Spiritual Apocalypse | 3.0 |
| Born of Osiris The New Reign | 2.0 |
| Veil of Maya The Common Man's Collapse | 2.0 |
| Dead Congregation Graves of the Archangels | 3.0 |
| Disarmonia Mundi Mind Tricks | 3.5 |
| Dog Fashion Disco Adultery | 3.5 |
| Ikuinen Kaamos Closure | 4.0 |
| Pantheist Journey Through Lands Unknown | 4.5 |
| Sol (DK) Let There Be A Massacre | 4.0 |
| Detonation Emission Phase | 3.5 |
| ASVA What You Don't Know Is Frontier | 4.0 |
| Abandon All Hope Where Life And Death Meet | 2.5 |
| Belenos Chemins de Souffrance | 4.0 |
| Belenos Chants De Bataille | 4.5 |
| Dir En Grey Uroboros | 3.5 |
| Empyrium Songs of Moors and Misty Fields | 4.0 |
| Empyrium Weiland | 3.5 |
| Sepultura Beneath the Remains | 3.5 |
| Belenos Spicilege | 4.0 |
| Hacksaw to the Throat Wastelands | 4.5 |
| Belenos Errances Oniriques | 3.5 |
| Lunarsea Route Code Selector | 4.5 |
| Brutal, technical, yet somehow silky smooth, this is one of the best melodic death albums I've ever heard. Everything here it tight (the drumming in particular is some of the best in the genre) but what really stands out is the songwriting. The flow and progression of each song is intelligent (and, dare I say, "fun", especially with some of the awesome soloing) without being pretentious, cheesy, or overwrought. Each transition feels natural and meaningful and as such, every song ends up interesting and enormously replayable and this is what really makes the album so good. Nothing is ever boring or repetitive; there is a similar feel to all the songs, and the sonic elements remain pretty much the same, but this only serves to strengthen the effect of the dynamic (and decidedly ardent) musicianship. This is an album you can play any track from randomly, or spin beginning to end and always come out satisfied, and though it may not be particularly innovative or hugely original (though it is somewhat both) it is so consistently good that though the term "flawless" is too strong, you would be hard pressed to highlight a weak spot. If you're looking for melo-death and haven been disappointed by the samy-ness of the genre as of late, this will put a big fat metal-tastic smile on your face. |
| Dragonland Astronomy | 4.0 |
| Korpiklaani Korven Kuningas | 3.5 |
| Serpentcult Weight of Light | 4.0 |
| Moss Sub Templum | 3.0 |
| Symbyosis On the Wings of Phoenix | 4.5 |
| Mudvayne The New Game | 1.5 |
| The Human Abstract Midheaven | 2.5 |
| Becoming The Archetype Dichotomy | 3.5 |
| Decrepit Birth Diminishing Between Worlds | 4.0 |
| Jars Of Clay Jars Of Clay | 3.5 |
| Grand Belial's Key Judeobeast Assassination | 3.0 |
| The Absence Riders of the Plague | 3.5 |
| Worship Last Tape Before Doomsday | 4.0 |
| Guillotine (SWE) Blood Money | 3.5 |
| Illnath Second Skin of Harlequin | 4.0 |
| Ensiferum Iron | 3.0 |
| Ensiferum Ensiferum | 3.5 |
| Beneath the Massacre Dystopia | 2.5 |
| Chiodos Bone Palace Ballet - The Grand Coda | 1.5 |
| Ayreon 01011001 | 3.0 |
| Coldplay A Rush of Blood to the Head | 2.0 |
| Coldplay Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends | 1.5 |
| Dave Matthews Band Under The Table And Dreaming | 2.0 |
| A Perfect Circle eMOTIVe | 2.0 |
| A Perfect Circle aMOTION | 2.5 |
| A Perfect Circle Thirteenth Step | 3.0 |
| A Perfect Circle Mer de Noms | 3.5 |
| Arctic Monkeys Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not | 2.5 |
| Interpol Turn on the Bright Lights | 4.5 |
| Interpol Antics | 3.5 |
| Interpol Our Love to Admire | 3.5 |
| Joy Division Closer | 4.0 |
| The Cranberries Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can't We? | 4.0 |
| Sex Pistols Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols | 1.0 |
| In This Moment The Dream | 2.5 |
| Abigail Williams In the Shadow of a Thousand Suns | 4.0 |
| Deathchain Death Eternal | 2.0 |
| Vespers Descent Reality Dysfunction | 3.0 |
| Arsis As Regret Becomes Guilt | 2.5 |
| Arsis We Are the Nightmare | 3.0 |
| The Faceless Planetary Duality | 3.5 |
| As Eden Burns The Great Celestial Delusion | 3.0 |
| Dreaming In Oceans | 1.5 |
| Bloodbath Breeding Death | 3.0 |
| Bloodbath Resurrection Through Carnage | 3.0 |
| Deadlock Manifesto | 3.0 |
| Wolfchant A Pagan Storm | 4.0 |
| Kronos The Hellenic Terror | 4.0 |
| Marionette Spite | 2.0 |
| Iskald Revelations Of Reckoning Day | 3.0 |
| Alcest Souvenirs D'Un Autre Monde | 3.5 |
| William Control Hate Culture | 1.0 |
| Dark Empire Humanity Dethroned | 4.0 |
| Neaera Armamentarium | 4.0 |
| Misery Speaks Catalogue Of Carnage | 4.0 |
| Misery Signals Mirrors | 3.5 |
| Misery Signals Of Malice and the Magnum Heart | 3.5 |
| Skepticism Alloy | 3.5 |
| Eternal Tears of Sorrow A Virgin and a Whore | 3.5 |
| Eternal Tears of Sorrow Before the Bleeding Sun | 3.5 |
| Will of the Ancients Will of the Ancients | 4.0 |
| Torchbearer Warnaments | 3.5 |
| Hell Within Shadows of Vanity | 2.0 |
| Sonic Syndicate Love and Other Disasters | 2.5 |
| Odious Mirror of Vibrations | 4.0 |
| Melechesh Emissaries | 4.0 |
| Janvs Vega | 4.5 |
| See You Next Tuesday Intervals | 2.0 |
| Forefather Steadfast | 4.0 |
| Estatic Fear Somnium Obmutum | 4.0 |
| War of Ages Arise and Conquer | 3.5 |
| Sounds just like Five Finger Death Punch. Only good. Nice melodies, cool vocals, sweet solos. Nothing spectacular, but solid all around. |
| Zonaria The Cancer Empire | 3.0 |
| Anaal Nathrakh Hell Is Empty and All the Devils Are Her | 4.0 |
| Pyramaze Legend of the Bone Carver | 3.5 |
| Pyramaze Immortal | 4.0 |
| The Kovenant Nexus Polaris | 2.5 |
| Nortt Galgenfrist | 4.0 |
| Scars on Broadway Scars on Broadway | 2.0 |
| Chevelle Vena Sera | 2.5 |
| Immortal Sons of Northern Darkness | 3.5 |
| Hanging Garden Inherit the Eden | 4.5 |
| Isole Bliss of Solitude | 4.0 |
| No Doubt Tragic Kingdom | 3.5 |
| Mournful Gust The Frankness Eve | 4.0 |
| Artefact Ruins | 4.0 |
| Gorath Misotheism | 4.0 |
| Red Harvest A Greater Darkness | 2.5 |
| SuidAkrA Caledonia | 3.0 |
| Exmortus In Hatred's Flame | 3.5 |
| After the Burial Rareform | 3.0 |
| Nile Ithyphallic | 2.0 |
| Oceans of Sadness The Arrogance Of Ignorance | 4.0 |
| Baroness Red Album | 3.5 |
| August Burns Red Messengers | 3.0 |
| Summoning Oath Bound | 4.0 |
| Skyfire Spectral | 4.0 |
| Unearth The March | 4.0 |
| Gojira The Way of All Flesh | 4.0 |
| Unearth Endless | 3.5 |
| Unearth Above the Fall of Man | 3.0 |
| The Gaslight Anthem The '59 Sound | 3.5 |
| This or the Apocalypse Monuments | 3.0 |
| Trapt Only Through the Pain | 1.5 |
| Dope Life | 2.0 |
| Shape of Despair Angels of Distress | 3.5 |
| Jeff Loomis Zero Order Phase | 3.5 |
| Children of Bodom Blooddrunk | 2.0 |
| Urfaust Verräterischer, Nichtswürdiger Geist | 1.5 |
| Bring Me the Horizon Suicide Season | 2.5 |
| Mourning Beloveth A Murderous Circus | 3.0 |
| Consummatum Est Funeral Procession | 3.0 |
| Goo Goo Dolls Dizzy Up The Girl | 3.5 |
| Third Eye Blind Third Eye Blind | 3.5 |
| Nickelback The State | 2.5 |
| Nickelback All the Right Reasons | 1.5 |
| Nickelback The Long Road | 3.0 |
| Nickelback Silver Side Up | 3.0 |
| Green Day American Idiot | 2.0 |
| Green Day Dookie | 3.5 |
| Chiodos Bone Palace Ballet | 1.5 |
| Shadows Fall Threads of Life | 2.0 |
| Cry For Silence The Glorious Dead | 4.0 |
| Made Out of Babies The Ruiner | 4.0 |
| Intronaut Prehistoricisms | 3.5 |
| Mors Principium Est Liberation = Termination | 3.0 |
| Unleashed Hammer Battalion | 3.0 |
| Mael Mordha Gealtacht Mael Mórdha | 3.5 |
| Transcending Bizarre? The Serpent's Manifolds | 4.0 |
| Motorhead Motorizer | 3.5 |
| Metro Station Metro Station | 1.5 |
| Cynic Traced in Air | 5.0 |
Damn it all, this thing is just perfect. The flow, the musicianship, the songwriting, the vocals, the acoustic sections/breaks, the solos, the ambiance, the keys, the riffs, the base, the drums...you get the idea. It just all comes together in a nigh impenetrable 34 minute package of pure awesomeness that, because of its brevity, begs to be replayed over and over. And as you do, you pick up nuance and subtly after glorious nuance and subtly. Each track is unique and each is fabulous in its own way. Excruciatingly exciting riffs that boast ever so slight tuning changes quiver up and down a rolling wave of precise, catchy bass work, and a never ending barrage of liquid-like drum fills and intelligently employed, powerful double pedaling. The vocals flow perfectly and the mixture of the high-pitched vocoder cleans and the stark, powerful growls create an oxymoron, a unified contrast that will often pleasantly distract you from the furious instrumentation. Additionally, the lyricism is, from what I've been able to gather, of the highest order. I can't wait for a hard copy and a lyric's-laden, artful booklet.
There is a sound everywhere you listen, but it never comes off disorganized or purposeless. Everything is right where it should be. The snare and symbols fill in gaps while the bass keeps the tempo and the guitars and vocals whirl around it all; it's like watching a master painter brush out a tapestry before your eyes of the utmost precision, beauty and intent. The emotion found here (but most prominently in the wonderful soloing) is astounding and the fact that such emotion can be felt through an almost mechanically precise and well thought out method of songwriting is even more amazing. As if that weren't enough, frequent transitions from the soft to the heavy and back (some delectably jarring like in Integral Birth, others painstakingly smooth like in The Space for This and King of Those Who Know), a couple of slightly odd time-signatures (like in Adam's Murmur) and strange but enticing stop-starts and almost tribal-like beats (with a modern feel, like in The Unknown Guest and Evolutionary Sleeper) round out the sound of the album that, to me, covers virtually every sonic aspect my ears crave from the kind of music I listen to.
I liked Focus very much, but wondered what all the fuss was about. Then I thought about how it was released in 1993 and was simply far ahead of it's time in many ways. I wondered if Cynic would be able to duplicate that kind of effect in 2008 when so much has already been done. Well they didn't duplicate it. They improved upon it, and created an album whose impact is, at least to me, greater than that of Focus, and indeed is one of the all around best metal albums I've ever had the pleasure of listening to about 30 times in less than a week. The entire album is a highlight really, but if I had to narrow it down, The Space for This, Integral Birth, Adam's Murmur, and King of Those Who Know are supremely spectacular. Also, the album's opener and closer are two of the most beautiful songs I've heard and are much like succinct summaries of the sound and feel that Cynic has poured their hearts and souls into producing. Can I give this more than a 5? No? Shucks. Get this now. |
| Stone Sour Come What(ever) May | 2.5 |
| Stone Sour Stone Sour | 2.0 |
| Dark Tranquillity The Gallery | 4.0 |
| Evergrey Torn | 2.5 |
| Metallica Death Magnetic | 2.5 |
| Burst Lazarus Bird | 4.5 |
An absolute work of art, Burst slowly layers instruments, rhythmic patterns, various sounds and tones, pitches and melodies, not so much in each song as they do over the course of the album. Each song seems to build on the one before it (much as Tyler's review states) and everything seems exactly where it needs to be and sounds exactly how it needs to sound.
From the helter-skelter opening track to the powerful and focused closer (the last 3 minutes will leave you breathless, just not how you think), Burst never gives you a chance to avert your attention while never overwhelming you. It may take quite a few listens to really "get" this album, but once it all sinks in, you'll start to remember almost every moment from it, and realize how inspirationally fantastic everything is, from the instrumentation, to the ambiance, the songwriting (flow and progression of the songs and the album as a whole), even the vocals will grow on you if you let them, and end up sounding perfect for the odd yet intelligent and altogether moving breaks from soft to heavy and back again.
This will take you on a journey that, I can say with confidence, will feel new and vigorous every time you take it. Few albums I've heard put forth as much effort, emotion, precision, thoughtful progression of sound, and overall quality. A masterpiece. |
| Burst Prey on Life | 3.5 |
| Bloodbath The Fathomless Mastery | 4.0 |
| All That Remains Overcome | 3.5 |
| Malefice Entities | 2.5 |
| Eminem Encore | 2.0 |
| Eminem The Eminem Show | 4.0 |
| Eminem The Marshall Mathers LP | 4.0 |
| Paris Hilton Paris | 1.0 |
| Turisas The Varangian Way | 3.0 |
| Turisas Battle Metal | 2.5 |
| DoomThrone Skeleton Veiled in Flesh | 1.0 |
| Enslaved Vertebrae | 4.0 |
| Underoath Define the Great Line | 3.5 |
| Omnium Gatherum The Redshift | 3.5 |
| Iced Earth The Crucible of Man | 1.5 |
| Ghost Brigade Guided By Fire | 3.5 |
| Unearthly Trance The Trident | 2.5 |
| Darkspace Dark Space III | 4.0 |
| Leviathan Massive Conspiracy Against All Life | 4.0 |
| This albums sounds to me like what it would be like to very slowly go insane, to be aware of the transformation, and unable to stop it. With a black metal heart and some truly creeped out ambiance intelligently distributed across the album, the (long) running time will hardly be noticeable. This really pulls you in to the point where even though there's some very complex instrumentation going on (the bass is deceptively present and maliciously effective) you don't need to listen that carefully for this to give you the full impact of it's sound, and the feeling of a desperate downward spiral that it conveys so well. There's a lot more to say about this blackened art set piece, but I fear I've not the words, nor the musical knowledge. |
| Intronaut Void | 3.5 |
| Ihsahn angL | 3.5 |
| Degradead Til Death Do Us Part | 2.0 |
| Dark Lunacy The Diarist | 3.0 |
| Blessed In Sin Melancholia | 3.5 |
| Apotheosis Farthest from the Sun | 4.0 |
| Arcturus The Sham Mirrors | 3.0 |
| Wall Of Sleep (HUN) ...And Hell Followed With Him | 2.5 |
| Undivine A Deceitful Calm | 4.0 |
| Solar Dawn Equinoctium | 4.0 |
| Nachtmystium Instinct: Decay | 2.5 |
| Mar De Grises Draining The Waterheart | 3.5 |
| Martriden The Unsettling Dark | 3.5 |
| Kronos Colossal Titan Strife | 4.0 |
| Intestine Baalism Banquet in the Darkness | 3.5 |
| Elite We Own the Mountains | 4.0 |
| Haggard Tales of Ithiria | 3.0 |
| Withered Folie Circulaire | 3.5 |
| William Hung Hung For The Holidays | 1.0 |
| Profane The Day We Scorched The Sky | 5.0 |
| Metallica Kill 'Em All | 3.5 |
| Dark Tranquillity Skydancer/Of Chaos And Eternal Night | 3.0 |
| Cryptopsy The Unspoken King | 1.5 |
| Nachtmystium Assassins: Black Meddle Pt.1 | 1.5 |
| Underoath Lost in the Sound of Separation | 4.0 |
| De Lirium's Order Diagnosis | 4.5 |
| Benea Reach Monument Bineothan | 3.5 |
| Benea Reach Alleviat | 3.5 |
| All Shall Perish Awaken the Dreamers | 3.0 |
| Into Eternity The Incurable Tragedy | 3.0 |
| Arch Enemy Rise of the Tyrant | 2.5 |
| The Used The Used | 3.0 |
| Whitechapel This Is Exile | 2.5 |
| Deathchain Deathrash Assault | 4.0 |
| Nahemah The Second Philosophy | 4.5 |
| Ereb Altor By Honour | 4.0 |
| Windir Likferd | 4.5 |
| Windir 1184 | 4.5 |
| Windir Arntor | 4.5 |
| Windir Soknardalr | 4.0 |
| Avenged Sevenfold Sounding the Seventh Trumpet | 2.0 |
| Creed Weathered | 1.5 |
| Creed My Own Prison | 2.5 |
| Creed Human Clay | 3.0 |
| P.O.D. Satellite | 2.5 |
| Cynic Focus | 4.0 |
| Amon Amarth Twilight of the Thunder God | 3.5 |
| Converge No Heroes | 2.0 |
| Darkest Era The Journey Through Damnation | 4.0 |
| Anterior This Age of Silence | 3.5 |
| Deathchain Cult of Death | 1.5 |
| DragonForce Ultra Beatdown | 2.0 |
| Slipknot All Hope Is Gone | 3.5 |
| Arkona (RUS) Ot Serdtsa K Nebu | 3.5 |
| Doom VS Aeternum Vale | 3.5 |
| Hellyeah Hellyeah | 1.5 |
| Mudvayne The Beginning of All Things to End | 2.0 |
| Oceana The Tide | 2.5 |
| Bloodbath Unblessing the Purity | 3.5 |
| Disturbed Indestructible | 3.5 |
| Phalanx (AUS) Psychosis | 4.0 |
| Daylight Dies Lost to the Living | 4.5 |
| Daylight Dies Dismantling Devotion | 4.0 |
| Forest Stream Tears of Mortal Solitude | 4.0 |
| Striborg Nefaria/A Tragic Journey Towards... | 1.0 |
| Remembrance Silencing The Moments | 3.5 |
| Kiuas The New Dark Age | 2.0 |
| Quo Vadis Defiant Imagination | 4.0 |
| Esoteric The Maniacal Vale | 4.0 |
| Reverend Bizarre III: So Long Suckers | 2.0 |
| The Kovenant S.E.T.I. | 1.5 |
| Cor Scorpii Monument | 4.0 |
| Equilibrium Sagas | 4.5 |
| This album is basically perfect. Track for track, minute for minute, Equilibrium showers you with blazing riffage, exciting drumming, solid bass work, killer vocals, and as if that weren't enough, slap a gigantic helping of folk-influenced/themed orchestral sections that alternate between featuring in and blending with the instrumentation, and inspiring choruses/keys that lift the band's sound to a level attainable by few musicians. The first 7 tracks will be the most epic thing you've ever heard, and then the last 6 (the 16 minute instrumental closer being the crown jewel of this masterpiece) will blow that away. I've said enough. Get this. Like right the hell now. |
| All Shall Perish The Price of Existence | 4.5 |
| Equilibrium Turis Fratyr | 4.0 |
| Misery Signals Controller | 4.0 |
| Dissection The Somberlain | 4.0 |
| Cryptopsy None So Vile | 4.0 |
| Scar Symmetry Holographic Universe | 3.5 |
| Opeth Watershed | 4.5 |
| Communic Conspiracy In Mind | 4.0 |
| Communic Payment of Existance | 4.5 |
| Following in the bright footsteps of their previous material, Communic stays on target and on point, releasing another amazing album. At first it sounds very similar, almost a clone of Waves of Visual Decay, but with repeated listens, you will (most likely) find that the majority of the tracks here change up a lot more than on their previous offerings and strike an effective balance between slower and faster passages, lighter and heavier ones. They don't linger on a particular pattern for any length of time (except in a couple of instances) but still retain a core sound on a track-by-track basis, and over the course of the album. Simplicity is still the key here, and they manage to make even more small changes, fine tunings, and employ ambient effects (there's some sweet keyboard work here that sits complacently in the background) to a much greater effect. Whereas before they sounded like add-ons, here the blend seamlessly with the rest of the instrumentation. All this adds up to an album even more lively and exciting than Waves. And possibly even better. Those bored or unimpressed by the band's previous material will find nothing to sway them here but for fans of Communic, this is just what the gods ordered. |
| Moonspell Night Eternal | 3.5 |
| Mourning Beloveth A Disease for the Ages | 4.0 |
| Ikuinen Kaamos The Forlorn | 4.5 |
| Brain Drill Apocalyptic Feasting | 2.0 |
| Ancient Mad Grandiose Bloodfiends | 1.0 |
| Estatic Fear A Sombre Dance | 4.5 |
| Manegarm Vargstenen | 3.0 |
| KYPCK Черно (Black) | 5.0 |
| Mirrorthrone Gangrene | 4.0 |
| Eluveitie Spirit | 3.5 |
| Rotting Christ Theogonia | 5.0 |
| Rotting Christ Non Serviam | 3.5 |
| Machinae Supremacy Overworld | 3.5 |
| SikTh Death of a Dead Day | 4.0 |
| Distorted Voices From Within | 2.5 |
| Limp Bizkit Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavored Water | 1.5 |
| Limp Bizkit Significant Other | 2.5 |
| Limp Bizkit Three Dollar Bill Y'all | 2.0 |
| Eucharist Mirrorworlds | 4.0 |
| Oceans of Sadness Mirror Palace | 4.0 |
| Textures Silhouettes | 3.0 |
| Powerglove Metal Kombat for the Mortal Man | 3.5 |
| Moonsorrow Tulimyrsky | 4.0 |
| Another 30 minute song!? Whoo yeah, bring it on! Not quite up to par with the material on V: Havitetty, but it's extremely wonderful to see that Moonsorrow still has a few of these uber-epic, multi-dimensional giganto-tracks in them, and Tulimyrsky (the song) is indeed epic. It goes through a huge amount of changes/transitions and incorporates dozens of sound elements that build, break, and re-build the song, keeping you interested and engaged throughout. The covers and re-records are all extremely well done and though I've never heard the original Merciless song (Back to North), Moonsorrow's performance there is nearly as good at the title track. Great stuff all around, can't wait for their next full length album. |
| In Vain (NO) The Latter Rain | 4.0 |
| Garden of Shadows Oracle Moon | 3.5 |
| Eternal Deformity Frozen Circus | 4.0 |
| Amon Amarth With Oden on Our Side | 3.0 |
| Deadlock Wolves | 3.5 |
| Septicflesh Communion | 3.0 |
| Atreyu Lead Sails Paper Anchor | 2.0 |
| Unearthly Trance Electrocution | 3.0 |
| The Monolith Deathcult Trivmvirate | 2.5 |
| Dan Swano Moontower | 4.0 |
| Origin Antithesis | 4.0 |
| Novembers Doom The Pale Haunt Departure | 3.0 |
| Novembers Doom The Novella Reservoir | 3.5 |
| Funeral From These Wounds | 4.0 |
| Funeral In Fields of Pestilent Grief | 3.0 |
| Six Feet Under Graveyard Classics | 1.0 |
| The Sword Gods of the Earth | 4.0 |
A step up from Age of Winters, the vocals are still boring and uninspired (though slightly improved), but the riffs are tighter, more dynamic, and the overall feel of the album is more confident and energetic. The production is still off, but it kind of works for these guys, and it matters less on this album as the instrumentation has notably improved. The drumming takes a back seat (once again) but there's enough cool fills and simple but solid patterns to keep you bouncing without distracting you from the great guitar playing. The final two tracks are the best material The Sword has written.
All things considered, some will find this mind-numbingly dull, others will marvel at the gritty, heavy, ass-kicking riffing. Personally I find it enormously refreshing to hear this kind of "old school" metal done so well in 2008. |
| Inborn Suffering Wordless Hope | 4.0 |
| Mourning Beloveth The Sullen Sulcus | 4.0 |
| Arghoslent Hornets of the Pogrom | 3.0 |
| Insomnium Above the Weeping World | 4.5 |
| Biomechanical The Empires of the Worlds | 2.5 |
| Insomnium Since the Day It All Came Down | 4.0 |
| Avenged Sevenfold Avenged Sevenfold | 1.5 |
| Avenged Sevenfold City of Evil | 2.5 |
| Agalloch The Mantle | 3.0 |
| Job For A Cowboy Genesis | 2.0 |
| Burst Origo | 4.0 |
| High on Fire Death Is This Communion | 3.5 |
| Scar Symmetry Pitch Black Progress | 3.0 |
| Draconian Turning Season Within | 4.0 |
| Blood Red Throne Come Death | 2.5 |
| Orphaned Land Mabool (The Story of the Three Sons...) | 3.5 |
| Wyrd Kammen | 4.0 |
| Malodorous Amarathine Redolence | 1.5 |
| The Faceless Akeldama | 3.0 |
| Agalloch Ashes Against the Grain | 3.5 |
| Ataraxie Slow Transcending Agony | 3.5 |
| Iced Earth Burnt Offerings | 3.5 |
| Bloodbath Nightmares Made Flesh | 3.5 |
| Ulver Bergtatt - Et eeventyr i 5 capitler | 5.0 |
| Gates of Winter Lux Aeterna | 3.0 |
| Evoken A Caress of the Void | 4.5 |
| Evoken Antithesis of Light | 5.0 |
| The dark emotional depth of this album is practically unfathomable. It will haunt your dreams, waking and not; the sheer magnitude of the depressive force that oozes from every corner and crevasse of the sound Evoken spills on you will drag you down and pull you apart...slowly. I would describe individual instruments or techniques, but in the most sincerest honesty, I've listened to this album over 20 times and for the life of me I could not tell you what does what and when. There's simply too much unrelenting pressure on my psyche, on my innermost thoughts and feelings, to pick anything out. It's one of the few albums that I can almost completely zone out to, and yet somehow still hear and comprehend its message, in this case, one of darkness and despair. It's a staggering whirl of blackness, of horrid visions, and a terrible, overwhelming sense of complete and utter nothingness. The most depressing thing I've ever heard and, therefore, the best doom album I've ever had the twisted pleasure of experiencing. A masterpiece. |
| Heaven Shall Burn Iconoclast (Part 1: The Final Resistance) | 2.5 |
| Worship Dooom | 4.0 |
| Primordial To the Nameless Dead | 3.0 |
| Five Finger Death Punch The Way Of The Fist | 2.5 |
| Opeth My Arms, Your Hearse | 4.0 |
| DevilDriver The Last Kind Words | 4.0 |
| Warbringer War Without End | 2.0 |
| Winds of Plague Decimate the Weak | 2.5 |
| Death Angel Killing Season | 2.0 |
| Bullet for My Valentine Hand of Blood | 3.5 |
| Warning Watching from a Distance | 3.5 |
| Biomechanical Cannibalised | 2.0 |
| Darkest Hour Deliver Us | 3.5 |
| Katatonia The Great Cold Distance | 4.0 |
| Ahab The Call of the Wretched Sea | 4.0 |
| Blotted Science The Machinations of Dementia | 3.0 |
| Meshuggah obZen | 4.0 |
| Flaw Through the Eyes | 2.5 |
| Fear Factory Burn EP | 1.5 |
| Eluveitie Slania | 4.5 |
| Trivium The Crusade | 2.0 |
| In Mourning Shrouded Divine | 4.0 |
| Good Charlotte Good Morning Revival | 1.0 |
| To-Mera Delusions | 2.0 |
| Edge of Sanity When All Is Said | 4.5 |
| Ensiferum Victory Songs | 4.0 |
| Miseration Your Demons ~ Their Angels | 4.0 |
| Slipknot Vol. 3: The Subliminal Verses | 4.5 |
| Death Individual Thought Patterns | 4.0 |
| Nevermore This Godless Endeavor | 3.5 |
| X Japan Art of Life | 3.5 |
| Death Human | 4.0 |
| Death Symbolic | 4.5 |
| Disillusion Back to Times of Splendor | 5.0 |
| Where to begin. This album went from a 3.5, to a 4, to a 4.5, to a 5; with each successive listen I simply couldn't believe how much emotion, how many change-ups and different sound elements, how many vocal transitions, and layers of melody, how technical and brutal, how beautiful and serene the things I was hearing were, and how natural and un-forced it all felt. This is something that I often look for in music, but rarely find; something that naturally creates a mood, and holds your attention to it, causing you to think about nothing but the music, not forcefully, but gracefully, tastefully, and dynamically. This album is a good as everyone says. Better even perhaps, for it took me nearly a dozen listens just to begin to understand the depth of musicianship, songwriting mastery, technical prowess, and natural emotion that, no, not permeates this album, IS this album. |
| Disillusion Gloria | 3.5 |
| Gorod Leading Vision | 4.5 |
| Devil Sold His Soul A Fragile Hope | 3.0 |
| Atreyu The Best of Atreyu | 1.0 |
| Protest the Hero Fortress | 3.0 |
| Bullet for My Valentine Scream Aim Fire | 2.0 |
| Alestorm Captain Morgan's Revenge | 4.0 |
| Anata The Conductor's Departure | 4.0 |
| Paradise Lost In Requiem | 3.0 |
| Disavowed Stagnated Existence | 2.0 |
| Deathspell Omega Fas - Ite, Maledicti, In Ignem Aeternum | 2.5 |
| Dissection Storm of the Light's Bane | 4.0 |
| Communic Waves Of Visual Decay | 4.0 |
| Wolves in the Throne Room Two Hunters | 4.0 |
| Arsis A Celebration of Guilt | 3.5 |
| Arsis A Diamond for Disease | 3.0 |
| Arsis United in Regret | 2.0 |
| With Blood Comes Cleansing Horror | 2.0 |
| Wolves in the Throne Room Diadem of 12 Stars | 3.5 |
| Static-X Start A War | 2.0 |
| Static-X Beneath... Between... Beyond | 2.0 |
| Static-X Cannibal | 2.5 |
| Static-X Shadow Zone | 2.0 |
| Static-X Machine | 1.5 |
| Static-X Wisconsin Death Trip | 2.5 |
| Children of Bodom Tokyo Warhearts | 3.0 |
| Death The Sound of Perseverance | 4.0 |
| Chimaira Chimaira | 4.0 |
| Opeth The Roundhouse Tapes | 3.5 |
| Threat Signal Under Reprisal | 2.5 |
| Be'lakor The Frail Tide | 4.5 |
| Papa Roach Infest | 2.5 |
| Raintime Flies and Lies | 4.0 |
| Architects Nightmares | 3.0 |
| Nine Inch Nails Beside You in Time | 2.5 |
| Architects Ruin | 4.0 |
| Kayo Dot Dowsing Anemone With Copper Tongue | 2.5 |
| Kayo Dot Choirs of the Eye | 3.0 |
| Orthrelm Iorxhscimtor | 1.0 |
| Zao The Fear Is What Keeps Us Here | 2.0 |
| Zao The Funeral of God | 3.0 |
| Zao Where Blood and Fire Bring Rest | 3.0 |
| Zao Liberate Te Ex Inferis | 3.5 |
| Opeth Morningrise | 3.5 |
| Opeth Orchid | 3.0 |
| Opeth Deliverance | 4.0 |
| Opeth Damnation | 3.5 |
| Marilyn Manson Lest We Forget | 3.5 |
| Rhapsody of Fire Symphony of Enchanted Lands II | 3.0 |
| Waking The Cadaver Perverse Recollections Of A Necromangler | 1.5 |
| Machine Head The Blackening | 3.0 |
| Ulver Shadows of the Sun | 3.0 |
| Moonsorrow Verisäkeet | 4.5 |
| Moonsorrow Kivenkantaja | 4.0 |
| Moonsorrow Voimasta ja kunniasta | 3.5 |
| Moonsorrow Suden uni | 3.0 |
| Novembre The Blue | 3.0 |
| Amorphis Silent Waters | 4.0 |
| Wintersun Wintersun | 4.5 |
| Swallow the Sun Hope | 3.5 |
| Otep The_Ascension | 3.5 |
| Epica The Divine Conspiracy | 3.5 |
| Skeletonwitch Beyond the Permafrost | 4.0 |
Thrash at its best. Honestly. Some songs drag a bit (Cast into the Open Sea, Remains of the Dead), others blister forth with an enthusiasm and intensity that I've rarely seen in any band (The first four tracks, Soul Thrasing Black Sorcery) and the closer (Within My Blood) is very possibly the best thrash song I've ever heard (yeah, including Metallica and Slayer, I said it  . Though some might say that their style is very derived, I feel there is a certain flair and a unique power to their constant change-ups, and the choppy chuggs at a 180mph, something that captures the essence of thrash established by previous bands without actually stealing it. This is a powerful, fun, technically proficient, musically exciting and generally original offering amidst a sea of wankers and copycats. |
| Dream Theater Systematic Chaos | 2.0 |
| Moonsorrow Viides luku - Hävitetty | 5.0 |
| To many this may seem an exercise in excess, a chore to listen to, and a waste of time to get into to. That's them. For me, this is the pinnacle of sound, the peak of instrumental performance, the epitome of elemental fusion, the album to end all albums. Never in my life have I heard a collection of music during which I was completely and gleefully engaged every single second I was listening. There was always a boring section, a weak track, an oddball waste-of-space filler, ect. Not here. Moonsorrow has managed to change the way I perceive, no, not metal, but music itself, what it truly means to me, and what it can truly be: all-encompassing, emotionally stirring, mentally entrancing, and, ultimately, moving, in every possible way one can be moved. Everything I listen to from now on will be judged against this standard. This may not tell you whether or not you will like this. But I hope I have told you why I think this is the greatest music I've ever heard. |
| Between the Buried and Me Colors | 3.0 |
| The Black Dahlia Murder Nocturnal | 3.0 |
| Suicide Silence The Cleansing | 2.5 |
| Dark Tranquillity Fiction | 4.5 |
| Dark Tranquillity Character | 3.5 |
| Dark Tranquillity Damage Done | 3.5 |
| Dark Tranquillity Haven | 3.5 |
| Dark Tranquillity Projector | 3.0 |
| Dark Tranquillity The Mind's I | 3.0 |
| Symphony X Symphony X | 2.5 |
| Children of Bodom Something Wild | 3.0 |
| Symphony X V: The New Mythology Suite | 3.5 |
| Children of Bodom Are You Dead Yet? | 4.0 |
| Children of Bodom Trashed, Lost & Strungout | 3.0 |
| Shadows Fall The War Within | 3.0 |
| Shadows Fall The Art of Balance | 3.0 |
| Killswitch Engage As Daylight Dies | 3.0 |
| All That Remains Behind Silence and Solitude | 2.5 |
| Nobuo Uematsu Final Fantasy VII: Original Soundtrack | 4.0 |
| Nobuo Uematsu Final Fantasy VIII: Original Soundtrack | 4.0 |
| Children of Bodom Hate Crew Deathroll | 4.0 |
| Children of Bodom Hatebreeder | 3.0 |
| Children of Bodom Follow the Reaper | 3.5 |
| Hans Zimmer Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest | 3.5 |
| Eminem The Slim Shady LP | 3.5 |
| Six Feet Under Commandment | 2.0 |
| Behemoth The Apostasy | 3.0 |
| Sevendust Sevendust | 3.0 |
| Sevendust Seasons | 3.5 |
| Sevendust Next | 2.5 |
| Sevendust Alpha | 2.0 |
| 3 Inches of Blood Fire Up The Blades | 2.5 |
| Nightwish Dark Passion Play | 3.0 |
| Iced Earth Framing Armageddon | 2.0 |
| Animosity Shut It Down | 3.0 |
| Animosity Animal | 4.0 |
| Animosity Empires | 3.5 |
| Opeth Still Life | 5.0 |
| Symphony X The Damnation Game | 3.0 |
| Symphony X Twilight in Olympus | 3.5 |
| The Prodigy Always Outnumbered, Never Outgunned | 2.5 |
| The Prodigy The Fat of the Land | 4.5 |
| The Prodigy Music for the Jilted Generation | 3.0 |
| Powerman 5000 Destroy What You Enjoy | 2.0 |
| KMFDM Angst | 3.5 |
| KMFDM WWIII | 3.0 |
| KMFDM XTORT | 3.0 |
| Trapt Someone in Control | 1.5 |
| Trapt Trapt | 2.0 |
| Matchbox Twenty Exile on Mainstream | 2.0 |
| Matchbox Twenty Mad Season | 3.0 |
| Matchbox Twenty Yourself or Someone Like You | 3.5 |
| 3 Doors Down Seventeen Days | 2.5 |
| 3 Doors Down The Better Life | 3.0 |
| Soulfly 3 | 1.5 |
| Drowning Pool Full Circle | 2.5 |
| Drowning Pool Sinner | 3.0 |
| Six Feet Under True Carnage | 1.5 |
| Symphony X The Divine Wings of Tragedy | 4.0 |
| Arch Enemy Doomsday Machine | 3.0 |
| Converge Jane Doe | 3.5 |
| Godsmack IV | 3.0 |
| Opeth Ghost Reveries | 4.0 |
| Opeth Blackwater Park | 3.5 |
| Breaking Benjamin Phobia | 3.0 |
| Pantera Cowboys from Hell | 3.5 |
| Pantera Vulgar Display of Power | 3.5 |
| Pantera Reinventing the Steel | 3.0 |
| Pantera Reinventing Hell: The Best of Pantera | 3.5 |
| Metallica Ride the Lightning | 3.5 |
| Metallica Metallica | 3.0 |
| Metallica Load | 2.5 |
| Metallica Reload | 2.0 |
| Metallica St. Anger | 1.5 |
| Sepultura Nation | 2.0 |
| Sepultura Roorback | 2.5 |
| Sepultura Schizophrenia | 3.0 |
| Lamb of God New American Gospel | 3.0 |
| Lamb of God As the Palaces Burn | 3.5 |
| Lamb of God Ashes of the Wake | 3.0 |
| Lamb of God Killadelphia | 3.5 |
| Mudvayne L.D. 50 | 3.5 |
| Mudvayne The End of All Things to Come | 3.0 |
| Mudvayne Lost and Found | 2.0 |
| Tool 72826 | 3.5 |
| Tool Salival | 3.5 |
| Tool Undertow | 3.5 |
| Tool Opiate | 3.5 |
| Chimaira Pass Out of Existence | 2.0 |
| Chimaira The Impossibility of Reason | 2.5 |
| As I Lay Dying Beneath the Encasing of Ashes | 2.5 |
| As I Lay Dying Frail Words Collapse | 3.0 |
| As I Lay Dying Shadows Are Security | 3.5 |
| All That Remains This Darkened Heart | 3.0 |
| Symphony X The Odyssey | 3.0 |
| Symphony X Paradise Lost | 5.0 |
| Rammstein Völkerball | 3.5 |
| DragonForce Valley Of The Damned (Demo) | 2.5 |
| DragonForce Valley of the Damned | 3.0 |
| DragonForce Inhuman Rampage | 3.0 |
| DragonForce Sonic Firestorm | 3.0 |
| Gojira From Mars to Sirius | 3.5 |
| Dethklok The Dethalbum | 4.0 |
| Slipknot Iowa | 3.5 |
| Metallica Master of Puppets | 4.0 |
| Metallica S&M | 3.5 |
| Sepultura Roots | 3.5 |
| Sepultura Chaos A.D. | 4.0 |
| Sepultura Arise | 3.5 |
| Stabbing Westward Darkest Days | 3.0 |
| Stabbing Westward Wither Blister Burn & Peel | 3.5 |
| Avenged Sevenfold Waking the Fallen | 3.0 |
| Bullet for My Valentine The Poison | 3.0 |
| Unearth Our Days of Eulogy | 3.0 |
| Fear Factory Transgression | 3.0 |
| Fear Factory Hatefiles | 3.0 |
| Fear Factory Concrete | 2.5 |
| Fear Factory Digimortal | 4.0 |
| Fear Factory Obsolete | 2.5 |
| Fear Factory Demanufacture | 3.5 |
| Fear Factory Soul of a New Machine | 3.0 |
| Korn Untitled | 3.0 |
| Korn See You on the Other Side | 3.5 |
| Korn Take a Look in the Mirror | 4.0 |
| Korn Untouchables | 3.0 |
| Korn Issues | 4.0 |
| Korn Follow the Leader | 3.5 |
| Korn Life Is Peachy | 3.0 |
| Korn Korn | 4.0 |
| Ill Nino Confession | 3.0 |
| Rage Against the Machine The Battle of Los Angeles | 3.5 |
| Rage Against the Machine Evil Empire | 3.5 |
| Chevelle Wonder What's Next | 3.0 |
| Evanescence The Open Door | 2.5 |
| Evanescence Fallen | 3.5 |
| Evanescence Anywhere But Home | 2.5 |
| Godsmack Awake | 3.5 |
| Godsmack Godsmack | 3.5 |
| Godsmack Faceless | 2.0 |
| Pitchshifter www.pitchshifter.com | 3.5 |
| Powerman 5000 Tonight the Stars Revolt | 3.5 |
| Rob Zombie The Sinister Urge | 2.5 |
| Rob Zombie Hellbilly Deluxe | 3.5 |
| Linkin Park Meteora | 3.5 |
| Linkin Park Hybrid Theory | 3.0 |
| Linkin Park Reanimation | 2.0 |
| Linkin Park Minutes to Midnight | 1.5 |
| Megadeth United Abominations | 3.5 |
| The Haunted The Dead Eye | 3.5 |
| The Sword Age of Winters | 3.5 |
| Otep Jihad | 3.0 |
| Otep House of Secrets | 2.5 |
| Otep Sevas Tra | 3.0 |
| Unearth The Stings of Conscience | 2.5 |
| Disturbed The Sickness | 3.0 |
| Disturbed Believe | 3.5 |
| Tool Ænima | 5.0 |
| Tool Lateralus | 4.5 |
| Chimaira Resurrection | 2.0 |
| Rammstein Rosenrot | 3.5 |
| Rammstein Reise, Reise | 3.5 |
| Rammstein Mutter | 4.0 |
| Rammstein Live aus Berlin | 4.0 |
| Rammstein Sehnsucht | 4.5 |
| Rammstein Herzeleid | 3.5 |
| System of a Down System of a Down | 3.5 |
| Slipknot Slipknot | 3.5 |
| System of a Down Steal This Album! | 3.5 |
| System of a Down Hypnotize | 4.0 |
| System of a Down Mezmerize | 4.0 |
| System of a Down Toxicity | 3.5 |
| Unearth III: In the Eyes of Fire | 4.5 |
| Unearth The Oncoming Storm | 3.5 |
| All That Remains The Fall of Ideals | 3.5 |
| As I Lay Dying An Ocean Between Us | 3.5 |
| Fear Factory Archetype | 3.5 |
| Disturbed Ten Thousand Fists | 3.5 |
| Lamb of God Sacrament | 3.5 |
| Tool 10,000 Days | 5.0 |
