| All Shall Perish Awaken the Dreamers | 4.0 |
| All Shall Perish The Price of Existence | 3.0 |
| Iwrestledabearonce It's All Happening | 4.0 |
| John Coltrane A Love Supreme | 4.0 |
| Elliott Smith Either/Or | 5.0 |
| Bury Your Dead Bury Your Dead | 2.5 |
| Bury Your Dead It's Nothing Personal | 2.0 |
| Elliott Smith New Moon | 4.0 |
| Bring Me the Horizon Suicide Season | 3.5 |
| The Beatles Abbey Road | 4.0 |
| After the Burial Rareform | 3.0 |
| Fear Before The Always Open Mouth | 5.0 |
| MyChildren MyBride Unbreakable | 3.5 |
| The Chariot The Fiancee | 1.5 |
First off, this is not metalcore. This is just really crazy hardcore, there's no metallic edge or anything you'd find on an Unearth/Parkway Drive album.
The Chariot remind me of Every Time I Die, if they couldn't control their feedback, or actually scream in anything resembling a tasteful form. The southern rock sound that was popular back when also links them to ETID, but pairs riffing with dissonant chord shrieks.
I can almost excuse their non-use of structure, because I liken the progression of the album to someone telling a story; there's no choruses in stories. What this story was trying to tell, I've no idea. The screams are unintelligible, and my concentration was lost sorting through the mashup of guitars.
This is actually one of the few albums that's given me a headache. In fact, it actually started to hurt my eyes after a while (no clue on how that works). I'm no stranger to this sort of music, but this goes over the line.
The only positive thing I can say about this album is it definitely has that old southern/western feel to it. Listening to the album is sort of like stepping on a rusty nail, or getting squeezed by a pair of spurs. |
| Miles Davis Kind of Blue | 4.5 |
| Refused The Shape Of Punk To Come | 5.0 |
| The Number Twelve Looks Like You Worse Than Alone | 5.0 |
| Fall Out Boy Take This to Your Grave | 4.0 |
| Radiohead In Rainbows | 4.0 |
| Mutemath Spotlight | 4.0 |
| A Day To Remember For Those Who Have Heart (Reissue) | 3.5 |
| A Day To Remember Homesick | 3.5 |
Third of the time, this album is really distracting because the vocalist sounds like he is doing his best impression of Blink 182. Another third of the time, they have really embarrassing moments (the 'ahem' in track 3, beginning of track 1, the really overly macho chants), and the other third is some really cool drums parts (track), original sounding choruses, and "creative" breakdowns.
So it's fun to just listen to every once in a while, and laugh at the songwriting goofs, mistakes, and the stuff you were meant to laugh at. |
| Daft Punk Discovery | 5.0 |
| Unearth III: In the Eyes of Fire | 3.5 |
| The Thirty Years War Martyrs Among the Casualties | 3.5 |
| Tera Melos Idioms, Vol. 1 | 3.5 |
| Boston Greatest Hits | 4.0 |
| Charles Mingus The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady | 3.0 |
| Ornette Coleman The Shape of Jazz to Come | 4.0 |
| Necrophagist Onset of Putrefaction | 4.0 |
| I think it's great that Muhammed's vocals are more varied on this than Epitaph, and it really lends power to some passages. The guitar playing is feels more varied than on Epitaph, too, and although the solos aren't quite as good, the riffs and grooves are much better than on Epitaph. |
| Silversun Pickups Carnavas | 3.5 |
| The Killers Hot Fuss | 3.5 |
| Valient Thorr Legend of the World | 3.0 |
| The Fall of Troy Phantom on the Horizon | 4.0 |
| The Mars Volta The Bedlam in Goliath | 2.5 |
| Saosin Saosin | 3.0 |
| Rise Against Siren Song of the Counter Culture | 3.5 |
| Deep Purple Machine Head | 3.5 |
| The Beatles Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band | 4.0 |
| Foo Fighters In Your Honor | 3.5 |
| Killswitch Engage As Daylight Dies | 3.0 |
| System of a Down Lonely Day | 3.5 |
| The Jimi Hendrix Experience Electric Ladyland | 5.0 |
| Sky Eats Airplane Everything Perfect on the Wrong Day | 2.0 |
| The Raconteurs Consolers of the Lonely | 3.5 |
| The Raconteurs Broken Boy Soldiers | 4.0 |
| Panic! at the Disco A Fever You Can't Sweat Out | 3.0 |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers Greatest Hits | 3.5 |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers Stadium Arcadium | 5.0 |
| The Sword Gods of the Earth | 3.0 |
| Boston Boston | 4.0 |
| Nirvana Nevermind | 3.0 |
| Behold... The Arctopus Skullgrid | 3.0 |
| Led Zeppelin Best Of, Vol. 1: Early Days | 4.0 |
| Led Zeppelin Best Of, Vol. 2: Latter Days | 3.5 |
| Avenged Sevenfold Waking the Fallen | 3.0 |
| Avenged Sevenfold City of Evil | 4.0 |
| Incubus (USA-CA) Light Grenades | 3.5 |
| Incubus (USA-CA) Make Yourself | 2.5 |
| Incubus (USA-CA) A Crow Left of the Murder... | 2.5 |
| Jimi Hendrix Experience Hendrix: The Best of Hendrix | 4.0 |
| The Jimi Hendrix Experience Axis: Bold as Love | 4.5 |
| Wolfmother Wolfmother | 3.5 |
| Switchfoot The Beautiful Letdown | 4.0 |
| Switchfoot Nothing is Sound | 4.0 |
| Switchfoot Oh! Gravity. | 3.5 |
| Interpol Turn on the Bright Lights | 3.5 |
| Circle Takes the Square As the Roots Undo | 4.0 |
| Meshuggah obZen | 3.0 |
| United Nations United Nations | 4.0 |
| Dream Theater Systematic Chaos | 2.0 |
| Grateful Dead Skeletons From The Closet : The Best Of | 3.5 |
| Dethklok The Dethalbum | 3.5 |
| Protest the Hero Kezia | 4.5 |
| Mastodon Blood Mountain | 3.0 |
| Fear Before Fear Before | 3.5 |
| Unearth The March | 3.5 |
| The most surprising thing about The March is it's ability to sound like power metal, but with shouted vocals. The guitar leads are really uplifting, and almost sound like something DragonForce would do, but more tasteful. Grave of Opportunity really shows this, and is my favorite song on this CD. My biggest complaint is that some of the bluesy guitar solos sound pretty forced. Other than that, it's a good CD for getting pumped, if nothing else. |
| Damiera M(US)IC | 4.0 |
| Porcupine Tree In Absentia | 4.0 |
| Between the Buried and Me Colors_Live | 3.5 |
Most of the complaints I have deal with the cameras. They don't show the drummer nearly enough, even when he's seriously playing his ass off, they don't show the crowd or mosh pits or anything, and when the cameras occasionally go out of focus, it's a real eye sore. You can't hear the crowd during the few shout-alongs, which was kind of disappointing. The snare could have been louder, because you can't hear it during his blast beats.
Prequel to the Sequel obviously wasn't the same without Adam Fisher to do the quest part, which brought that part down a little, but they did a good job without him anyway. Beyond a few effects and tone issues I have during solos and the polka break, they really played everything really well. I'm surprised Tommy can keep his voice after screaming like that for 2 hours or so.
That, and the second set completely owns. They picked some of the very best songs from their backlog, and I was especially pleased to see Ad a Dglgmut and Backwards Marathon. I really wished they could have put the second set on a CD too. How great would a 3 disk set be from them, amirite? |
| Between the Buried and Me The Silent Circus | 4.0 |
| Mutemath Mutemath | 4.0 |
| Coheed and Cambria From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness | 4.0 |
| HORSE the band The Mechanical Hand | 4.0 |
| Coheed and Cambria No World for Tomorrow | 4.5 |
| Heavy Heavy Low Low Courtside Seats… | 1.0 |
| Rodrigo y Gabriela re-Foc | 3.5 |
| Gorillaz Demon Days | 4.0 |
| Hot Cross Risk Revival | 3.5 |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Irony Is a Dead Scene | 2.5 |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Calculating Infinity | 3.0 |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Miss Machine | 4.5 |
| Every Time I Die The Big Dirty | 3.5 |
| Muse Absolution | 3.5 |
| Lost Horizon Awakening the World | 4.0 |
| HORSE the band R. Borlax | 4.0 |
| DragonForce Ultra Beatdown | 4.5 |
| It's really fun and more varied than Inhuman Rampage, but you can always tell when they've done something before on another album. But the fact that they revisit their past work just makes this more enjoyable. I don't really take them seriously as a band, they just make fun, insanely technical music. |
| Audioslave Audioslave | 2.0 |
| Iwrestledabearonce Iwrestledabearonce | 3.5 |
| Between the Buried and Me Colors | 5.0 |
| The Black Keys Attack & Release | 4.0 |
For a Black Keys album, this is kinda strange. The electronic elements added on this album are a little out of place, especially considering that everything else this band has done is very raw and sparsely produced. The influence Danger Mouse had on this album is a little distracting, IMO. More slow songs than rockers, but this isn't a bad thing. Psychotic Girl is a fantastic song, showcasing their many talents, guitar, banjo, and drums.
For anybody else besides The Black Keys, this would be a great album. Heartfelt, moody, atmospheric, grooving, this album has it all. The Rolling Stone, hipster crown will probably eat this up, as well they should. Great music on here, much better than the previous release, Magic Potion. |
| Queens of the Stone Age Songs for the Deaf | 5.0 |
| The Number Twelve Looks Like You Mongrel | 3.5 |
| Rodrigo y Gabriela Rodrigo y Gabriela | 4.0 |
| Muse Black Holes & Revelations | 4.0 |
| Weezer Weezer | 4.0 |
| Bang Camaro Bang Camaro | 3.5 |
| As Blood Runs Black Allegiance | 3.5 |
| Grae Metropolis A Collective Overture | 3.0 |
| Necrophagist Epitaph | 4.5 |
| Parkway Drive Horizons | 3.5 |
| Parkway Drive Killing with a Smile | 4.0 |
| Priestess Hello Master | 3.5 |
| Queens of the Stone Age Era Vulgaris | 4.0 |
| All That Remains The Fall of Ideals | 3.5 |
| Unearth The Oncoming Storm | 4.0 |
| Tera Melos Untitled | 4.0 |
| Tera Melos Drugs to the Dear Youth | 5.0 |
| By The End Of Tonight/Tera Melos Complex Full of Phantoms | 4.5 |
| Metallica Kill 'Em All | 4.0 |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Ire Works | 4.5 |
| The Black Keys Thickfreakness | 4.0 |
| The Black Keys Magic Potion | 3.0 |
| The Black Keys Rubber Factory | 4.5 |
| The White Stripes The White Stripes | 3.5 |
| The White Stripes Get Behind Me Satan | 3.5 |
| The White Stripes De Stijl | 4.0 |
| The White Stripes Elephant | 4.0 |
| The White Stripes White Blood Cells | 4.5 |
| The White Stripes Icky Thump | 4.0 |
| Chiodos Bone Palace Ballet | 2.0 |
| DragonForce Sonic Firestorm | 4.0 |
| DragonForce Inhuman Rampage | 4.0 |
| System of a Down Steal This Album! | 3.0 |
| System of a Down Toxicity | 4.5 |
| System of a Down Mezmerize | 4.5 |
| System of a Down Hypnotize | 4.0 |
| System of a Down System of a Down | 3.5 |
| The Fall of Troy The Fall of Troy | 4.0 |
| The Fall of Troy Ghostship Demos | 4.0 |
| The Fall of Troy Doppelganger | 4.5 |
| The Fall of Troy Manipulator | 4.0 |
| Protest the Hero Fortress | 4.0 |
| Between the Buried and Me Alaska | 4.0 |
