| Benighted Icon | 4.5 |
| Dead Man In Reno Demo 2007 | 3.5 |
| Anaal Nathrakh Hell Is Empty and All the Devils Are Her | 3.5 |
| Blut Aus Nord MoRT | 2.0 |
| Korn MTV Unplugged: Korn | 2.0 |
| Korn Korn | 2.5 |
| Korn Follow the Leader | 3.0 |
| Korn Untouchables | 2.5 |
| Korn Take a Look in the Mirror | 2.0 |
| Korn See You on the Other Side | 1.0 |
| Avenged Sevenfold Avenged Sevenfold | 2.5 |
| Avenged Sevenfold City of Evil | 1.5 |
| Avenged Sevenfold Waking the Fallen | 3.0 |
| Avenged Sevenfold Sounding the Seventh Trumpet | 3.0 |
| Bloodlined Calligraphy They Want You Silent | 3.0 |
| Bleeding Through This Is Love, This Is Murderous | 2.5 |
| Bleeding Through The Truth | 2.5 |
| Burn in Silence Angel Maker | 3.5 |
| Abigail Williams Legend | 3.0 |
| Unearth The Stings of Conscience | 2.5 |
| Unearth The Oncoming Storm | 3.5 |
| Unearth Our Days of Eulogy | 2.5 |
| Unearth III: In the Eyes of Fire | 2.5 |
| Shadows Fall Of One Blood | 2.5 |
| Shadows Fall The Art of Balance | 3.5 |
| Shadows Fall The War Within | 2.5 |
| Shadows Fall The Art Of Touring (Drunk and S**ty in Every City) | 2.0 |
| Shadows Fall Fallout From The War | 2.0 |
| Shadows Fall Threads of Life | 2.5 |
| Killswitch Engage As Daylight Dies | 2.0 |
| Killswitch Engage Killswitch Engage: Remastered | 3.5 |
| Killswitch Engage The End of Heartache | 2.5 |
| Killswitch Engage Alive or Just Breathing | 3.0 |
| Killswitch Engage Killswitch Engage | 3.5 |
| Burn the Priest Burn the Priest | 3.5 |
| Lamb of God Sacrament | 2.0 |
| Lamb of God Killadelphia | 2.5 |
| Lamb of God Ashes of the Wake | 3.0 |
| Lamb of God As the Palaces Burn | 3.0 |
| Lamb of God New American Gospel | 3.5 |
| Arch Enemy Black Earth | 3.0 |
| Arch Enemy Stigmata | 2.5 |
| Arch Enemy Burning Bridges | 2.5 |
| Arch Enemy Rare and Unreleased | 2.0 |
| Arch Enemy Wages of Sin | 3.0 |
| Arch Enemy Anthems of Rebellion | 3.0 |
| Arch Enemy Doomsday Machine | 2.5 |
| Arch Enemy Live Apocalypse | 3.0 |
| Dark Tranquillity Haven | 3.0 |
| Dark Tranquillity Character | 3.5 |
| In Flames Whoracle | 3.0 |
| In Flames Colony | 3.0 |
| In Flames Lunar Strain | 3.5 |
| In Flames Soundtrack to Your Escape | 3.0 |
| In Flames Used & Abused...In Live We Trust | 2.0 |
| In Flames Come Clarity | 2.5 |
| Light This City Remains Of The Gods | 3.0 |
| Light This City Facing The Thousand | 3.5 |
| Lacuna Coil Comalies | 3.0 |
| Lacuna Coil Karmacode | 2.0 |
| The Haunted One Kill Wonder | 3.0 |
| The Haunted rEVOLVEr | 3.0 |
| The Haunted The Dead Eye | 3.0 |
| Type O Negative Bloody Kisses | 3.5 |
| Type O Negative October Rust | 3.5 |
| Type O Negative World Coming Down | 3.0 |
| Type O Negative Life Is Killing Me | 2.0 |
| Type O Negative Dead Again | 1.5 |
| Eighteen Visions Obsession | 2.5 |
| Soilwork Stabbing the Drama | 3.0 |
| As I Lay Dying Frail Words Collapse | 3.0 |
| The Red Chord Fused Together in Revolving Doors | 3.0 |
| The Red Chord Clients | 3.0 |
| The Red Chord Prey for Eyes | 3.0 |
| Beneath The Sky What Demons Do To Saints | 3.0 |
| The Agony Scene The Darkest Red | 2.5 |
| The Agony Scene The Agony Scene | 3.0 |
| With Blood Comes Cleansing Golgotha | 3.0 |
| Mnemic Passenger | 2.5 |
| Misery Index Discordia | 2.5 |
| Ozzy Osbourne Down to Earth | 3.5 |
| Guns N' Roses Appetite for Destruction | 3.5 |
| Guns N' Roses G N' R Lies | 2.5 |
| Guns N' Roses Use Your Illusion I | 3.5 |
| Guns N' Roses Use Your Illusion II | 3.5 |
| Guns N' Roses The Spaghetti Incident? | 2.0 |
| Guns N' Roses Use Your Illusion | 2.0 |
| Guns N' Roses Live Era '87-'93 | 3.0 |
| Guns N' Roses Greatest Hits | 2.5 |
| Slayer Reign in Blood | 3.5 |
| Slayer South of Heaven | 3.0 |
| Slayer Seasons in the Abyss | 3.0 |
| Slayer Decade of Aggression | 2.0 |
| Slayer God Hates Us All | 2.5 |
| Slayer Soundtrack to the Apocalypse | 2.5 |
| Slayer Christ Illusion | 2.0 |
| Alice in Chains Jar of Flies | 3.0 |
| Alice in Chains Nothing Safe: Best of the Box | 3.0 |
| Alice in Chains Dirt | 3.5 |
| Alice in Chains Facelift | 3.0 |
| Black Label Society The Blessed Hellride | 3.0 |
| Black Label Society Mafia | 2.5 |
| Avril Lavigne Let Go | 3.0 |
| Avril Lavigne Under My Skin | 3.0 |
| Avril Lavigne The Best Damn Thing | 1.5 |
| The Black Crowes Shake Your Money Maker | 4.0 |
| Coheed and Cambria From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness | 2.5 |
| Coheed and Cambria In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3 | 3.0 |
| Coheed and Cambria No World for Tomorrow | 2.0 |
| Limp Bizkit New Old Songs | 2.0 |
| Limp Bizkit Three Dollar Bill Y'all | 2.5 |
| Limp Bizkit Significant Other | 2.5 |
| Limp Bizkit Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavored Water | 2.5 |
| Limp Bizkit Results May Vary | 3.0 |
| Kid Rock Devil Without a Cause | 2.5 |
| Kid Rock The History of Rock | 1.5 |
| Kid Rock Cocky | 2.5 |
| Story of the Year Page Avenue | 2.5 |
| Hootie and The Blowfish Cracked Rear View | 3.0 |
| Matchbox Twenty Exile on Mainstream | 2.0 |
| Matchbox Twenty More Than You Think You Are | 3.0 |
| Matchbox Twenty Mad Season | 3.0 |
| Matchbox Twenty Yourself or Someone Like You | 3.5 |
| Papa Roach Getting Away With Murder | 2.5 |
| Papa Roach lovehatetragedy | 3.5 |
| Papa Roach Infest | 3.0 |
| Goo Goo Dolls Let Love In | 2.0 |
| Goo Goo Dolls Gutterflower | 3.0 |
| Goo Goo Dolls Dizzy Up The Girl | 3.0 |
| Goo Goo Dolls A Boy Named Goo | 2.5 |
| Default The Fallout | 3.0 |
| Default One Thing Remains | 3.5 |
| Default Elocation | 3.5 |
| The Smashing Pumpkins Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness | 3.0 |
| The Smashing Pumpkins Siamese Dream | 3.0 |
| Hoobastank Hoobastank | 2.5 |
| Hoobastank The Reason | 2.0 |
| Incubus (USA-CA) A Crow Left of the Murder... | 1.5 |
| Incubus (USA-CA) Make Yourself | 3.0 |
| Incubus (USA-CA) Morning View | 3.0 |
| Theory of a Deadman Gasoline | 2.5 |
| Black Stone Cherry Black Stone Cherry | 2.5 |
| Paramore Riot! | 2.5 |
| Evanescence Anywhere But Home | 3.0 |
| Evanescence Fallen | 3.0 |
| Evanescence The Open Door | 2.0 |
| Flyleaf Flyleaf | 3.0 |
| Hinder Extreme Behavior | 2.5 |
| Puddle of Mudd Come Clean | 3.0 |
| Daughtry Daughtry | 2.5 |
| Days of the New Days of the New | 3.0 |
| Tantric After We Go | 2.5 |
| Tantric Tantric | 3.0 |
| Three Days Grace Three Days Grace | 2.5 |
| Three Days Grace One-X | 2.0 |
| Chevelle Wonder What's Next | 2.5 |
| Chevelle This Type Of Thinking (Could Do Us In) | 2.5 |
| Chevelle Vena Sera | 3.0 |
| 12 Stones Potter's Field | 2.5 |
| 12 Stones 12 Stones | 3.0 |
| Fuel Natural Selection | 2.5 |
| Fuel Something Like Human | 3.5 |
| Fuel Sunburn | 2.5 |
| Nickelback Silver Side Up | 3.0 |
| Nickelback The Long Road | 2.5 |
| Nickelback All the Right Reasons | 2.5 |
| Seether Disclaimer | 2.5 |
| Seether Disclaimer II | 3.0 |
| Seether Karma And Effect | 2.5 |
| Seether One Cold Night | 2.5 |
| Seether Finding Beauty In Negative Spaces | 2.5 |
| Staind Tormented | 3.0 |
| Staind Dysfunction | 3.0 |
| Staind Break The Cycle | 3.5 |
| Staind 14 Shades of Grey | 2.5 |
| Staind Chapter V | 2.5 |
| Staind The Singles: 1996-2006 | 2.5 |
| Cold Cold | 2.5 |
| Cold 13 Ways to Bleed On Stage | 3.0 |
| Cold Year Of The Spider | 3.0 |
| Cold A Different Kind of Pain | 3.0 |
| Alter Bridge One Day Remains | 2.5 |
| Creed My Own Prison | 2.5 |
| Creed Human Clay | 2.5 |
| Creed Weathered | 2.5 |
| Creed Greatest Hits | 2.5 |
| Hatebreed Satisfaction Is The Death Of Desire | 2.5 |
| Hatebreed Perseverance | 3.0 |
| Hatebreed Rise of Brutality | 3.0 |
| Metallica Kill 'Em All | 2.5 |
| Metallica Ride the Lightning | 3.5 |
| Metallica Master of Puppets | 3.5 |
| Metallica ...And Justice for All | 3.0 |
| Metallica Metallica | 3.5 |
| Metallica Live Shit: Binge & Purge | 3.0 |
| Metallica Load | 2.5 |
| Metallica Reload | 2.5 |
| Metallica Garage Inc. | 2.5 |
| Metallica S&M | 3.5 |
| Metallica The Unnamed Feeling | 1.5 |
| Metallica St. Anger | 2.0 |
| Metallica Some Kind of Monster | 1.5 |
| Poison Greatest Hits: 1986-1996 | 3.0 |
| Marilyn Manson Holy Wood | 3.0 |
| Marilyn Manson Lest We Forget | 2.5 |
| Shinedown Leave a Whisper | 3.0 |
| Shinedown Us and Them | 2.0 |
| Bullet for My Valentine The Poison | 3.0 |
| Bullet for My Valentine Hand of Blood | 3.0 |
| Dry Kill Logic The Darker Side Of Nonsense | 2.5 |
| Dry Kill Logic The Dead and Dreaming | 3.0 |
| Otep Sevas Tra | 3.0 |
| Otep House of Secrets | 2.0 |
| Breaking Benjamin Phobia | 2.5 |
| Breaking Benjamin We Are Not Alone | 3.0 |
| Breaking Benjamin Saturate | 3.0 |
| The Kovenant In Times Before the Light | 3.0 |
| Dissection The Past Is Alive (The Early Mischief) | 2.5 |
| Dissection Storm of the Light's Bane | 2.5 |
| Dissection The Somberlain | 2.5 |
| Wolves in the Throne Room Two Hunters | 3.0 |
| Marduk Heaven Shall Burn... When We Are Gathered | 3.0 |
| Catamenia Winternight Tragedies | 3.0 |
| Behexen Rituale Satanum | 3.0 |
| Behexen By the Blessing of Satan | 3.0 |
| Unleashed Where No Life Dwells | 3.5 |
| Insect Warfare Endless Execution Thru Violent Restit... | 3.5 |
| Insect Warfare World Extermination | 3.5 |
| Daath The Hinderers | 2.5 |
| Entombed Left Hand Path | 3.0 |
| Decapitated The Negation | 2.5 |
| Decapitated Organic Hallucinosis | 2.5 |
| Despised Icon Consumed By Your Poison | 2.0 |
| Meshuggah Catch Thirtythree | 2.5 |
| Meshuggah Nothing (Re-Release) | 3.5 |
| Beneath the Massacre Mechanics of Dysfunction | 2.5 |
| Angelcorpse Of Lucifer and Lightning | 2.5 |
| The Black Dahlia Murder Unhallowed | 3.5 |
| The Black Dahlia Murder Miasma | 3.0 |
| Torture Killer Swarm! | 3.0 |
| Six Feet Under Bringer of Blood | 2.5 |
| Six Feet Under 13 | 2.5 |
| Six Feet Under Commandment | 3.0 |
| Bloodbath Resurrection Through Carnage | 2.5 |
| Bloodbath Nightmares Made Flesh | 2.5 |
| Cannibal Corpse The Bleeding | 2.5 |
| Cannibal Corpse Gallery of Suicide | 2.5 |
| Cannibal Corpse Gore Obsessed | 3.0 |
| Cannibal Corpse The Wretched Spawn | 3.5 |
| Cannibal Corpse Kill | 2.5 |
| Cannibal Corpse Worm Infested | 3.5 |
| Aborted Slaughter & Apparatus: A Methodical Overture | 3.5 |
| Deicide Legion | 2.5 |
| Deicide Deicide | 2.5 |
| Deicide Scars of the Crucifix | 3.5 |
| Deicide The Stench of Redemption | 3.5 |
| Behemoth The Apostasy | 3.0 |
| Behemoth Demigod | 3.5 |
| Amon Amarth Once Sent from the Golden Hall | 3.0 |
| Amon Amarth The Avenger | 3.0 |
| Amon Amarth The Crusher | 3.0 |
| Amon Amarth Versus the World | 3.5 |
| Amon Amarth Fate of Norns | 3.0 |
| Amon Amarth With Oden on Our Side | 3.0 |
| Nile Ithyphallic | 3.5 |
| Nile Annihilation of the Wicked | 3.0 |
| Nile In Their Darkened Shrines | 3.0 |
| Nile In The Beginning | 2.5 |
| Kataklysm Shadows and Dust | 3.0 |
| Kataklysm Epic: The Poetry of War | 3.5 |
| Kataklysm Serenity in Fire | 3.0 |
| Kataklysm In the Arms of Devastation | 4.0 |
| Pig Destroyer Prowler in the Yard | 3.0 |
| Pig Destroyer Phantom Limb | 3.5 |
| Napalm Death Harmony Corruption | 2.5 |
| Napalm Death Scum | 3.0 |
| Napalm Death Words from the Exit Wound | 2.5 |
| Napalm Death The Code Is Red...Long Live the Code | 3.0 |
| Napalm Death Smear Campaign | 2.5 |
| Necrophobic Hrimthursum | 3.0 |
| Watain Sworn to The Dark | 2.5 |
| Dark Funeral Vobiscum Satanas | 3.5 |
| Gorgoroth Destroyer | 2.5 |
| Darkthrone A Blaze in the Northern Sky | 3.0 |
| Darkthrone Goatlord | 2.0 |
| Darkthrone Total Death | 2.0 |
| Xasthur Subliminal Genocide | 2.5 |
| Naglfar Harvest | 3.0 |
| Naglfar Pariah | 3.0 |
| Naglfar Sheol | 3.5 |
| Immortal Blizzard Beasts | 3.0 |
| Immortal Damned In Black | 2.0 |
| Immortal At the Heart of Winter | 3.0 |
| Tsjuder Desert Northern Hell | 2.5 |
| Old Man's Child In Defiance of Existence | 3.5 |
| Old Man's Child Vermin | 3.0 |
| Burzum Burzum/Aske | 3.5 |
| Burzum Burzum | 4.0 |
| Burzum Det Som Engang Var | 4.5 |
| Burzum Hvis Lyset Tar Oss | 4.0 |
| Burzum Filosofem | 3.5 |
| Burzum Daudi Baldrs | 1.5 |
| Burzum Hlidskjalf | 2.5 |
| Enslaved Isa | 2.0 |
| Rotting Christ Sleep of the Angels | 3.0 |
| Rotting Christ Genesis | 3.5 |
| Rotting Christ Thy Mighty Contract | 3.5 |
| Rotting Christ Khronos | 2.5 |
| Rotting Christ Sanctus Diavolos | 2.5 |
| Rotting Christ A Dead Poem | 2.5 |
| Rotting Christ Triarchy of The Lost Lovers | 3.0 |
| Rotting Christ Passage to Arcturo | 3.5 |
| Rotting Christ Non Serviam | 3.5 |
| Dimmu Borgir Godless Savage Garden | 2.5 |
| Dimmu Borgir Puritanical Euphoric Misanthropia | 3.0 |
| Celtic Frost Monotheist | 1.5 |
| Belphegor Pestapokalypse VI | 3.5 |
| Bathory Blood Fire Death | 3.0 |
| Bathory Under the Sign of the Black Mark | 3.0 |
| Akercocke Words That Go Unspoken... | 2.5 |
| Anaal Nathrakh Eschaton | 2.5 |
| Agalloch Ashes Against the Grain | 4.0 |
| Gorguts The Erosion of Sanity | 2.5 |
| Gorguts Considered Dead | 2.5 |
| Gojira From Mars to Sirius | 2.5 |
| All Shall Perish Hate. Malice. Revenge | 2.5 |
| Satyricon Dark Medieval Times | 3.0 |
| Satyricon Nemesis Divina | 3.0 |
| Satyricon Volcano | 2.5 |
| Satyricon Now, Diabolical | 2.5 |
| Gorgoroth Ad Majorem Sathanas Gloriam | 3.0 |
| Cradle of Filth Cruelty and the Beast | 3.0 |
| Cradle of Filth Midian | 3.0 |
| Cradle of Filth Dusk... and Her Embrace | 3.0 |
| Cradle of Filth From the Cradle to Enslave | 3.0 |
| Cradle of Filth Lovecraft & Witch Hearts | 2.5 |
| Cradle of Filth Live Bait for the Dead | 2.5 |
| Cradle of Filth Damnation and a Day | 3.0 |
| Cradle of Filth Nymphetamine | 3.0 |
| Heaven Shall Burn Whatever It May Take | 3.5 |
| Heaven Shall Burn Antigone | 3.5 |
| Heaven Shall Burn Deaf to Our Prayers | 3.5 |
| Dead Man In Reno Dead Man In Reno | 3.0 |
| Godsmack Godsmack | 2.5 |
| Godsmack Awake | 2.5 |
| Godsmack Faceless | 2.5 |
| Godsmack The Other Side | 2.5 |
| Godsmack IV | 2.0 |
| Disturbed Ten Thousand Fists | 2.0 |
| Various Artists Music as a Weapon II | 2.5 |
| Disturbed Believe | 3.5 |
| Disturbed The Sickness | 3.0 |
| Drowning Pool Sinner | 2.5 |
| Stone Sour Stone Sour | 3.0 |
| Stone Sour Come What(ever) May | 3.0 |
| Slipknot Mate. Feed. Kill. Repeat. | 2.5 |
| Slipknot 9.0: Live | 1.5 |
| Slipknot Vol.3: The Subliminal Verses [Reissue] | 1.5 |
| Slipknot Vol. 3: The Subliminal Verses | 1.5 |
| Slipknot Disasterpieces | 2.0 |
| Slipknot Iowa | 3.0 |
| Slipknot Slipknot | 2.5 |
| Mudvayne L.D. 50 | 2.0 |
| Mudvayne The End of All Things to Come | 3.5 |
| Mudvayne Lost and Found | 3.0 |
| Vital Remains Let Us Pray | 3.0 |
| Vital Remains Into Cold Darkness | 3.0 |
| Vital Remains Dechristianize | 4.5 |
| Vital Remains Icons of Evil | 3.0 |
| 1349 Hellfire | 3.5 |
| Goatwhore A Haunting Curse | 3.5 |
| 40 Below Summer The Mourning After | 3.0 |
| 40 Below Summer Invitation to the Dance | 2.0 |
| Trivium Ember to Inferno | 3.0 |
| Trivium Ascendancy | 3.5 |
| Trivium The Crusade | 2.0 |
| Vehemence God Was Created | 4.0 |
| Job For A Cowboy Genesis | 3.5 |
| As Blood Runs Black Allegiance | 3.0 |
| Opeth Blackwater Park | 3.5 |
| All Shall Perish The Price of Existence | 3.0 |
| Impending Doom Nailed. Dead. Risen. | 4.0 |
| Five Finger Death Punch The Way Of The Fist | 2.5 |
| Element Eighty Element Eighty | 2.0 |
| This was perhaps the most boring, uninspiring, uncreative piece of music I have ever purchased. Out of curiousity after having heard the first single, "Broken Promises". I looked into and purchased it, hoping for something good. I love good, straightforward rock, but this album is truly two words: generic and boring. |
| Cradle of Filth Thornography | 2.0 |
| This is an absolutely horrid excuse for a Cradle of Filth album. There is absolutely nothing catchy, nothing heavy, nothing creative here. The guitars and melodies are uninspiring, the vocals have completely dropped off the map, and the production was less than stellar. The only salvation is that, as usual, Dani Filth is a brilliant lyricist. It's a shame that didn't transduce into a decent album. If anything, this is the album that will kill CoF for good. |
| Dimmu Borgir In Sorte Diaboli | 4.0 |
| This album is certainly a breath of fresh air to me, considering the monotony and boredom of thier past few releases. The band clearly shows a very consise, straightforward theme, well-written music, and potent delivery, and a sound very clear and unique for the band. The best DB release to date. |
| Dry Kill Logic Of Vengeance and Violence | 3.5 |
| Anaal Nathrakh The Codex Necro | 3.5 |
| This is the album that got me into the band. Although thier earlier material exhibits more interesting rythms and vocals, this is still an extremely brutal and interesting release, one that I would recommend for anyone looking to get into black/grind music. |
| The Black Dahlia Murder Nocturnal | 3.5 |
| Another great album from TBDM, though as with the others, the songs tend to run into each other and become monotonous. Also, short album legnth disappoints me as well. Trev's new high vocals style is questionable, and very much of an acquired listen. Having said all that, I think this is a well written, well performed album. 'Tis a nice addition to an already impressive discography. |
| Chimaira Pass Out of Existence | 2.0 |
This album was absolutely horrid. Had this been the first Chimaira album I listened to, I would have never given them another chance. Thankfully, they stepped up and dropped the nu-metal out of things on their next record.
If it was ever possible for a debut major label release to be worse than a self-released EP, this is it. How Chimira could put out such a blistering EP, This Present Darkness, on thier own time and money, and then put out the wierdest, most uncomfortable feeling album when the opportunity was handed to them on a silver planet is beyond me. Choppy, lack of any flow, and lack of any kind of songwriting structure or talent are all things that describe this record. Thankfully, they learned thier lesson and grew enormously as musicians after this record. |
| Chimaira Chimaira | 3.5 |
| By far the most mature album from this band to date. A great follow-up to The Impossibility of Reason, which established the band as a solid metal entity. Why they have fallen by the wayside and reverted to thier old way with the new album is beyond me. This self-titled disc is a great solid post-thrash record, with great grooves and finally some good solos from Rob Arnold. Mark's lyrics are definitely a lot more mature on this release as well. Kevin Talley's drumming definitely brought something new, heavier, and tighter to the band, though not nearly as inventibe as re-hired drummer Andols Herrick. A good album overall. |
| All That Remains Behind Silence and Solitude | 2.5 |
| All That Remains The Fall of Ideals | 4.0 |
| Rotting Christ Theogonia | 4.5 |
| While continuing to strive further away from thier black metal roots, this is still an extremely interesting album. Melodic yet aggressive, this band continues to amaze me with every album. This album is unique in so many ways, both for the band and the blackened death genre. I continue to be impressed by the continued evolution of this band, and am sadddened that they still do not have the recognition they deserve. |
| All That Remains This Darkened Heart | 3.5 |
| Lyrically masterful, and the songwriting is worlds better than thier debut. However, the album as a whole gets a little monotonous after a while. This album still showed that some maturing needed to be done, though the talent and potential is evident in this band with this release. |
| Arch Enemy Rise of the Tyrant | 2.5 |
| Extremely average and uninspiring. Has some cool moments, but not enough to make up for the sheer disinterest that this album invokes. I was hoping the return of the Amott duo would bring out the best in Arch Enemy, but it appears that laziness and age have completely taken over. I do enjoy some of the soloing, but other than that, this is quite a forgettable album. |
| Vehemence Helping the World to See | 4.0 |
| Perhaps the best album from my favorite band. Extremely skillful mesh of melody and brutality a style that has since been beaten into the ground unecessarily by other American death metal bands. I have the fortunate experience of being a student of the album's producer/mixer/engineer. "Trinity Broadcasting (Know Your Enemy)" and "Spirit of the Soldier" are by far the best tracks. |
| Dark Tranquillity Fiction | 3.5 |
| Yet another positive notch in a long and illustrious career for this band. I have been consistently impressed with each and every album, and this album proves no difference. Extremely solid, though a bit boring after a while. "Nothing to No One" and "Icipher" are great songs. The album as a whole is very well written, just nothing particularly catchy past the album's midway point. |
