| Cardiacs Day is Gone | 4.5 |
| Kishi Bashi Lighght | 4.5 |
| Carly Rae Jepsen Emotion: Side B | 4.0 |
| Carly Rae Jepsen Emotion | 4.0 |
| Tim Smith Tim Smith's Extra Special OceanLandWorld | 4.5 |
| A wonderful collection of pop songs written and performed entirely by Cardiacs front man Tim Smith. Less zany and breakneck than a Cardiacs album, but all of Tim's trademark creativity and energy is still here in buckets. The beautiful melodies and dense, addictive chord progressions are born of a unique mind, and give me hope that one day we will have another songwriter/composer who can deliver so many ideas and emotions in such a tight, compelling package. |
| Faust Faust | 4.0 |
| Amon Duul II Phallus Dei | 4.0 |
| Amon Duul II Yeti | 5.0 |
| Meshuggah obZen | 4.0 |
| Cardiacs Songs for Ships and Irons | 4.0 |
| Cardiacs A Little Man and a House and the Whole World Window | 4.5 |
| Cardiacs The Special Garage Concerts Vol I | 5.0 |
| Cardiacs Guns | 4.5 |
| Ghost (SWE) Meliora | 4.0 |
| American Hi-Fi Blood & Lemonade | 3.0 |
| Cardiacs Heaven Born and Ever Bright | 4.5 |
| The December Sound The Silver Album | 4.5 |
| The Mothers of Invention One Size Fits All | 5.0 |
| Cardiacs On Land and in the Sea | 5.0 |
| The Avalanches Wildflower | 4.5 |
| The Avalanches Since I Left You | 5.0 |
| Cardiacs Sing to God | 5.0 |
| My Bloody Valentine Loveless | 5.0 |
| Gary Numan Dead Son Rising | 4.5 |
| Vektor Terminal Redux | 5.0 |
| Disturbed The Sickness | 2.0 |
| Death Grips The Money Store | 4.0 |
| The Riverboat Gamblers To the Confusion of Our Enemies | 3.0 |
| Linkin Park The Hunting Party | 2.5 |
| A Wilhelm Scream Partycrasher | 4.0 |
| Celldweller Celldweller | 3.0 |
| Nujabes Metaphorical Music | 4.5 |
| Mindflowers IMPROgressive | 4.5 |
| Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds | 4.0 |
| Children of Bodom Halo of Blood | 3.5 |
| Alice in Chains The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here | 4.5 |
| The Lawrence Arms Oh! Calcutta! | 4.5 |
| Daft Punk Random Access Memories | 3.0 |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan One of Us Is the Killer | 3.5 |
| Binary Star Light Years Apart | 4.5 |
| Laura Stevenson Wheel | 4.5 |
| Streetlight Manifesto The Hands That Thieve | 4.5 |
| Neutral Milk Hotel In the Aeroplane Over the Sea | 4.5 |
| Bonobo The North Borders | 4.0 |
| Steven Wilson The Raven That Refused to Sing (And Other Stories) | 4.0 |
| Rush Clockwork Angels | 4.5 |
| The Jimi Hendrix Experience Electric Ladyland | 5.0 |
| Bad Religion True North | 4.5 |
| Cypress Hill Black Sunday | 4.0 |
| MC Xander Eyeopeness | 4.0 |
| Uzbeks Goggles and Flipflops | 4.0 |
| Frank Zappa Hot Rats | 5.0 |
| Streetlight Manifesto Everything Goes Numb | 4.5 |
| Soilwork Natural Born Chaos | 2.5 |
| Green Day ¡UNO! | 1.5 |
| Converge Axe to Fall | 4.5 |
| Converge All We Love We Leave Behind | 4.5 |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor 'Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend! | 4.5 |
| Propagandhi Supporting Caste | 4.0 |
| Propagandhi Failed States | 4.5 |
| Propagandhi Today's Empires, Tomorrow's Ashes | 5.0 |
| A Wilhelm Scream Career Suicide | 4.5 |
| Cloudkicker Beacons | 4.5 |
| Cloudkicker Fade | 4.0 |
| Linkin Park Living Things | 2.0 |
| Napalm Death Time Waits for No Slave | 4.5 |
| Feeder Generation Freakshow | 4.0 |
| The Dear Hunter The Color Spectrum (Complete Collection) | 5.0 |
| Pennywise All or Nothing | 4.0 |
| Lostprophets Weapons | 3.0 |
| Killing Joke MMXII | 4.5 |
| Strapping Young Lad City | 5.0 |
| Blotted Science The Machinations of Dementia | 4.5 |
| Arghoslent Incorrigible Bigotry | 5.0 |
| Arghoslent Hornets of the Pogrom | 5.0 |
| The Ocean Precambrian | 5.0 |
| Requiem (US) Always and Forever | 2.5 |
| Bad Religion Generator | 4.5 |
| Jedward Planet Jedward | 1.0 |
| Jesuit Discography | 4.0 |
| Thrice Vheissu | 4.0 |
| Thrice The Artist in the Ambulance | 4.5 |
| Thrice The Illusion of Safety | 4.5 |
| Del Tha Funkee Homosapien Both Sides of the Brain | 4.5 |
| Del Tha Funkee Homosapien No Need For Alarm | 3.5 |
| Wu-Tang Clan Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) | 4.0 |
| The Pharcyde Bizarre Ride II the Pharcyde | 4.0 |
| Hieroglyphics 3rd Eye Vision | 4.0 |
| Cyne Evolution Fight | 4.0 |
| Ice Cube The Predator | 3.5 |
| Ice Cube Death Certificate | 4.0 |
| Ice Cube AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted | 4.0 |
| N.W.A. Straight Outta Compton | 4.0 |
| Jurassic 5 Power in Numbers | 3.5 |
| Beastie Boys Check Your Head | 4.0 |
| Deltron 3030 Deltron 3030 | 4.5 |
| Souls of Mischief 93 'til Infinity | 4.0 |
| Del Tha Funkee Homosapien I Wish My Brother George Was Here | 4.0 |
| Beastie Boys Hot Sauce Committee Part Two | 4.5 |
| Sum 41 Screaming Bloody Murder | 2.5 |
| From what I've heard so far this has a chance of being Sum 41's best album to date. Seriously intrigued as to how this will turn out! |
| Radiohead The King of Limbs | 4.0 |
| Killing Joke Absolute Dissent | 4.0 |
| Bad Religion The Dissent of Man | 4.0 |
| Linkin Park A Thousand Suns | 2.0 |
| Truly "average" at best. A catchy but hugely pretentious album whose watered-down pop/arena rock sound has been manufactured for one purpose: Singles, singles, singles. Still, not quite as dismal as MtM. |
| Da Lench Mob Guerillas in tha Mist | 4.0 |
| Nickelback The Long Road | 1.5 |
| Nickelback Silver Side Up | 2.0 |
| Nickelback Dark Horse | 1.0 |
| Nickelback All the Right Reasons | 2.0 |
| Cannibal Corpse The Bleeding | 3.5 |
| Cannibal Corpse Tomb of the Mutilated | 4.0 |
| Cannibal Corpse Gore Obsessed | 3.0 |
| Cannibal Corpse The Wretched Spawn | 3.0 |
| Cannibal Corpse Evisceration Plague | 2.5 |
| Cannibal Corpse Kill | 4.0 |
| American Hi-Fi Fight The Frequency | 3.5 |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Miss Machine | 3.5 |
| OPM Golden State of Mind | 3.5 |
| Lostprophets The Betrayed | 3.5 |
| Tribulation The Horror | 3.5 |
| Megadeth Endgame | 4.5 |
| Atheist Unquestionable Presence | 4.5 |
| Cyanide Breed Shoutout To Satan | 4.5 |
| Sick of It All Based on a True Story | 4.0 |
| Scar Symmetry Holographic Universe | 4.0 |
| Brown Brigade In the Mouth of Badd(d)ness | 3.0 |
| Circle Takes the Square As the Roots Undo | 4.5 |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor F♯ A♯ ∞ | 5.0 |
| Black Flag Damaged | 4.5 |
| Sick of It All Death to Tyrants | 3.5 |
| Refused The Shape Of Punk To Come | 5.0 |
| Poison the Well The Opposite of December | 4.0 |
| Knut Challenger | 4.0 |
| Botch American Nervoso | 3.5 |
| In Flames The Jester Race | 4.0 |
| Dark Tranquillity Fiction | 4.0 |
| Equilibrium Rekreatur | 3.5 |
| The new album is, quite honestly, a bit disappointing. Basically it sounds like Sagas part 2 minus anything new. Needless to say it's still a thoroughly enjoyable album with plenty of frantic instrumental passages, though it feels a bit vapid at times, with fewer quiet moments than Sagas. Overall a decent release, but Equilibrium set the bar too high with their last album. I just hope this doesn't mean they're stuck in a rut. |
| Burzum Hvis Lyset Tar Oss | 4.0 |
| Mayhem De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas | 3.5 |
| Dissection Storm of the Light's Bane | 4.5 |
| Beck Sea Change | 3.0 |
| Beck Midnite Vultures | 3.5 |
| Beck Guero | 3.5 |
| Beastie Boys Solid Gold Hits | 3.0 |
| Beastie Boys To the 5 Boroughs | 3.5 |
| Beastie Boys Hello Nasty | 3.0 |
| Bad Religion How Could Hell Be Any Worse? | 4.0 |
| Bad Religion No Control | 5.0 |
| Bad Religion The Empire Strikes First | 4.0 |
| Avril Lavigne The Best Damn Thing | 2.5 |
| Avril Lavigne Under My Skin | 3.0 |
| Avril Lavigne Let Go | 2.0 |
| Avenged Sevenfold City of Evil | 3.0 |
| Autumn Leaves As Night Conquers Day | 3.5 |
| At the Gates Suicidal Final Art | 2.5 |
| At the Gates Slaughter of the Soul | 4.0 |
| Apoptygma Berzerk Rocket Science | 2.0 |
| Apoptygma Berzerk You and Me Against the World | 3.5 |
| Alkaline Trio From Here to Infirmary | 3.0 |
| Alkaline Trio Crimson | 3.0 |
| Alkaline Trio This Addiction | 2.5 |
| Napalm Death Scum | 3.5 |
| Agoraphobic Nosebleed Agorapocalypse | 3.5 |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Option Paralysis | 5.0 |
| Botch We Are the Romans | 5.0 |
| Underoath Define the Great Line | 3.5 |
| Killswitch Engage The End of Heartache | 3.0 |
| Converge Jane Doe | 5.0 |
| Between the Buried and Me The Great Misdirect | 3.0 |
| Between the Buried and Me Colors | 4.0 |
| Scar Symmetry Dark Matter Dimensions | 3.5 |
| Behemoth Demigod | 3.5 |
| Deicide The Stench of Redemption | 4.0 |
| Benighted Icon | 4.0 |
| The New Pornographers Twin Cinema | 5.0 |
| Bad Religion Suffer | 4.0 |
| Bad Religion New Maps of Hell | 3.5 |
| Hard-Fi Stars Of CCTV | 2.5 |
| Arctic Monkeys Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not | 4.0 |
| blink-182 Dude Ranch | 2.5 |
| blink-182 Blink-182 | 3.0 |
| Rage Against the Machine Evil Empire | 3.0 |
| Rage Against the Machine Renegades | 3.0 |
| Audioslave Audioslave | 3.0 |
| Audioslave Out of Exile | 3.5 |
| Audioslave Revelations | 2.5 |
| Tokio Hotel Schrei | 1.0 |
| Coalesce OX EP | 4.0 |
| Coalesce OX | 4.0 |
| Beck Odelay | 4.0 |
| Diablo Swing Orchestra Sing-Along Songs for the Damned & Delirious | 3.0 |
| Green Day Dookie | 3.0 |
| Green Day Warning | 3.0 |
| Green Day American Idiot | 2.5 |
| The Offspring Ixnay on the Hombre | 3.5 |
| Weezer Pinkerton | 4.0 |
| Bomb the Music Industry! Album Minus Band | 4.0 |
| Billy Talent Billy Talent III | 2.0 |
| Chimaira Resurrection | 3.5 |
| System of a Down Toxicity | 4.0 |
| Diablo Eternium | 3.0 |
| Killing Joke Killing Joke (2003) | 4.0 |
| Protest the Hero Fortress | 4.0 |
| Bad Religion Against the Grain | 5.0 |
| Rancid ...And Out Come the Wolves | 3.5 |
| Saliva Every Six Seconds | 3.0 |
| Sex Pistols Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols | 4.0 |
| Shinedown The Sound of Madness | 3.5 |
| Cryptopsy And Then You'll Beg | 3.0 |
| Cryptopsy None So Vile | 5.0 |
| Carcass Heartwork | 4.5 |
| Hypocrisy Virus | 4.0 |
| Simple Plan Simple Plan | 1.5 |
| brokeNCYDE I'm Not a Fan, but the Kids Like It! | 1.0 |
| In Flames Soundtrack to Your Escape | 2.5 |
| In Flames Whoracle | 4.0 |
| In Flames Colony | 4.5 |
| In Flames Reroute to Remain | 3.5 |
| In Flames A Sense of Purpose | 2.0 |
| Jimmy Eat World Bleed American | 3.5 |
| Feeder Silent Cry | 4.0 |
| Feeder Comfort In Sound | 3.0 |
| Feeder Echo Park | 3.5 |
| Feeder The Singles | 4.0 |
| Weezer The Green Album | 2.5 |
| Weezer The Red Album (Deluxe Edition) | 3.0 |
| Weezer Weezer | 4.0 |
| Weezer Christmas with Weezer | 1.0 |
| Busted A Present For Everyone | 1.0 |
| Busted Busted | 2.0 |
| Towers of London Blood, Sweat and Towers | 2.0 |
| Green Day 21st Century Breakdown | 2.0 |
| Tokio Hotel Scream | 1.0 |
| Having lived in Germany for some time, I have had the opportunity to experience a plethora of European bands, and I must say, this attempt at an international release is one of the most horrendous atrocities I have ever had the misfortune to hear. Their alleged army of ghost writers and producers have done an even poorer job adapting and translating the songs into English than the talentless 3 boys (and girl) have done performing them (which is saying something). All in all, this "album" is a laughable adolescent farce from start to finish, focusing on today's unhealthy modern ideals of borderline androgeny and glamour rather than anything remotely musical. And to think they come from the same country as Equilibrium... |
| In Flames Come Clarity | 4.0 |
| Rage Against the Machine The Battle of Los Angeles | 4.0 |
| Rage Against the Machine Rage Against the Machine | 4.5 |
| Paramore Riot! | 2.0 |
| Wintersun Wintersun | 4.5 |
| Ensiferum Victory Songs | 3.5 |
| Ensiferum Ensiferum | 4.0 |
| Fall Out Boy Folie a Deux | 2.5 |
| Weezer The Red Album | 3.0 |
| Scar Symmetry Pitch Black Progress | 4.0 |
| Elvenking The Winter Wake | 3.5 |
| Catamenia Winternight Tragedies | 3.5 |
| Arch Enemy Anthems of Rebellion | 3.0 |
| In Flames Clayman | 4.5 |
| Equilibrium Turis Fratyr | 4.0 |
| Equilibrium Sagas | 4.0 |
| Children of Bodom Are You Dead Yet? | 3.0 |
| Children of Bodom Follow the Reaper | 4.0 |
| Sum 41 Underclass Hero | 3.0 |
Being a Sum 41 fan from the very beginning, I awaited their new album with great anticipation. I had actually heard
Underclass Hero and March Of The Dogs weeks before the album was released and loved them, which raised my
expectations even further. When I finallly went and bought the album and listened to it, I was slightly disappointed. I
got the faint feeling that I'd heard similar stuff somewhere before. After listening to it a couple more times, I decided
that the similarity to previous tracks was unimportant, and that ultimately, this is a pretty decent pop-punk album
that doesn't try to be anything more than it is. Highlights include the singles Underclass Hero and Walking Disaster,
but Count Your Last Blessings, Speak Of The Devil and King of Condratiction are also excellent tracks, delivering
exactly what people have come to love about Sum 41. I think Chuck and All Killer No Filler are both slightly better,
but this is still a more-than-welcome addition to their repetoire of pop-punk. |
| Good Charlotte Good Charlotte | 2.0 |
| Good Charlotte The Chronicles of Life and Death | 2.0 |
| Fort Minor The Rising Tied | 3.0 |
| Queens of the Stone Age Lullabies to Paralyze | 4.0 |
| Billy Talent Billy Talent II | 3.5 |
| Killradio Raised on Whipped Cream | 4.0 |
| Angels and Airwaves We Don't Need to Whisper | 2.5 |
| Bloodhound Gang Use Your Fingers | 3.5 |
| Bloodhound Gang One Fierce Beer Coaster | 4.0 |
| Bloodhound Gang Hooray For Boobies | 3.5 |
| Bloodhound Gang Hefty Fine | 3.0 |
| Lit Atomic | 3.0 |
| OPM California Poppy | 3.5 |
| OPM Menace To Sobriety | 4.0 |
| Panic! at the Disco A Fever You Can't Sweat Out | 2.5 |
| Fall Out Boy From Under the Cork Tree | 3.5 |
| Fall Out Boy Take This to Your Grave | 3.5 |
| Fall Out Boy Infinity on High | 3.0 |
| Linkin Park Hybrid Theory | 3.0 |
| Linkin Park Reanimation | 3.0 |
| Linkin Park Minutes to Midnight | 2.0 |
| Linkin Park Meteora | 2.5 |
| Sum 41 Half Hour Of Power | 3.5 |
| Sum 41 Does This Look Infected? | 4.0 |
| Sum 41 Chuck | 4.0 |
| Sum 41 All Killer No Filler | 4.0 |
| Sum 41 are the greatest! I know lots of people automatically connect the pop-punk genre with the antics of Good Charlotte and co, but to compare this album to them is just wrong! This energetic, action-packed album simply spits in your face and walks off defiantly, which is not a bad thing! It is longer than "Half Hour Of Power", the Sums' debut offering, and not as repetitive as the newer "Does This Looks Infected?". Highlights include the singles Fat Lip, Motivation and In Too Deep, but Handle This and the fantastic Pain For Pleasure are also great. There are a couple of weaker songs like Crazy Amanda Bunkface and Never Wake Up, but the better tracks outweigh them by miles. Oh, excellent intro, too! In short: this album misses the threshold of snotty, defiant pop-punk perfection by less than a millimetre (yes, I'm British). Buy it! |
