| Noisem Agony Defined | 4.0 |
| Watain The Wild Hunt | 4.0 |
| Mammoth Grinder Underworlds | 3.0 |
| Alice in Chains The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here | 2.5 |
| Darkthrone The Underground Resistance | 3.5 |
| Vhol Vhol | 4.0 |
| Kvelertak Meir | 3.0 |
| Intronaut Habitual Levitations | 3.0 |
| Uncle Acid and The Deadbeats Blood Lust | 4.0 |
| Uncle Acid and The Deadbeats Mind Control | 3.5 |
| Kylesa Ultraviolet | 3.0 |
| Cave In White Silence | 4.0 |
| Red Fang Murder the Mountains | 4.0 |
| Skeletonwitch Serpents Unleashed | 4.0 |
| Death Grips Government Plates | 4.0 |
| Locrian Return To Annihilation | 3.5 |
| Pissed Jeans Honeys | 3.5 |
| DJ Shadow Endtroducing..... | 4.5 |
| Red Fang Whales and Leeches | 3.5 |
| Trioscapes Separate Realities | 3.5 |
| Scale the Summit The Migration | 3.0 |
| The Ocean Pelagial | 4.5 |
| Protest the Hero Volition | 4.5 |
| Queens of the Stone Age ...Like Clockwork | 4.0 |
| Run the Jewels Run the Jewels | 4.0 |
| Exist In Mirrors | 3.5 |
| Gorguts Colored Sands | 4.5 |
| Sleigh Bells Bitter Rivals | 3.0 |
| Black Sabbath 13 | 3.5 |
| Vampire Weekend Modern Vampires of the City | 4.0 |
| Deafheaven Roads to Judah | 3.5 |
| Deafheaven Sunbather | 4.0 |
| Beastwars Blood Becomes Fire | 3.5 |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan One of Us Is the Killer | 3.5 |
| Sigh Scenes from Hell | 3.0 |
| Sigh Hangman's Hymn | 3.0 |
| Sigh Imaginary Sonicscape | 4.5 |
| Brain Drill Apocalyptic Feasting | 1.5 |
| KEN mode Entrench | 4.0 |
| Les Savy Fav Let's Stay Friends | 3.5 |
| Cave In Until Your Heart Stops | 4.0 |
| Howl Bloodlines | 2.0 |
| Should've called this one "Full of Crap." |
| Barn Burner Bangers | 3.5 |
| Barn Burner Bangers II: Scum of the Earth | 3.0 |
| Inter Arma Sundown | 3.0 |
| Beastwars Beastwars | 4.0 |
| Anciients Heart of Oak | 4.0 |
| This is way proggier than I anticipated. Fuck yeah. |
| Ghost (SWE) Infestissumam | 3.0 |
| Ghost (SWE) Opus Eponymous | 3.5 |
| The Black Dahlia Murder Ritual | 3.5 |
| Chelsea Light Moving Chelsea Light Moving | 3.5 |
| The Men New Moon | 3.5 |
| The Bronx The Bronx (IV) | 3.0 |
| Clutch Earth Rocker | 4.0 |
| Alice in Chains Black Gives Way to Blue | 3.5 |
| Morality Crisis Boats | 4.0 |
| Inter Arma Sky Burial | 4.5 |
| Inter Arma Destroyer | 3.5 |
| Zeke Flat Tracker | 3.0 |
| The Ponys Celebration Castle | 3.5 |
| Fucked Up The Chemistry of Common Life | 4.0 |
| Portal Vexovoid | 3.0 |
| Tame Impala Innerspeaker | 4.0 |
| Tame Impala Lonerism | 4.0 |
| Foxygen We Are The 21st Century Ambassadors... | 4.0 |
| Tomahawk Oddfellows | 4.0 |
| Tomahawk Anonymous | 1.5 |
| Tomahawk Tomahawk | 3.5 |
| Tomahawk Mit Gas | 4.0 |
| Ancient VVisdom Deathlike | 3.0 |
| Alice In Chains' Jar of Flies meets Opeth's Damnation. |
| Romero Take the Potion | 4.0 |
| Batillus Concrete Sustain | 4.5 |
| The songwriting has really developed, the electronics are more fleshed out and involved, and this is all somehow heavier than Furnace. They're really hitting their stride. Early AOTY contender. |
| High on Fire Snakes for the Divine | 2.5 |
| Ceremony (USA-CA) Zoo | 3.0 |
| David Byrne and St. Vincent Love This Giant | 3.5 |
| Propagandhi Failed States | 3.5 |
| Metz Metz | 3.0 |
| Cloud Nothings Attack on Memory | 3.5 |
| The xx xx | 4.0 |
| The xx Coexist | 3.5 |
| Animal Collective Feels | 3.5 |
| Animal Collective Centipede Hz | 3.0 |
| Witch Witch | 3.5 |
| Krallice Years Past Matter | 4.0 |
| Agoraphobic Nosebleed Agorapocalypse | 4.5 |
| Titus Andronicus The Airing of Grievances | 4.0 |
| Titus Andronicus Local Business | 3.5 |
| Murder Construct Results | 3.5 |
| A Life Once Lost Ecstatic Trance | 3.0 |
| Death Grips No Love Deep Web | 3.0 |
| Death Grips The Money Store | 4.0 |
| Christian Mistress Possession | 3.0 |
| ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead Lost Songs | 4.0 |
| Aldebaran Embracing the Lightless Depths | 3.0 |
| Black Pyramid II | 2.0 |
| Black Sheep Wall No Matter Where It Ends | 3.5 |
| Kowloon Walled City Container Ships | 4.0 |
| Gojira L'Enfant Sauvage | 2.0 |
| Revocation Teratogenesis | 3.5 |
| The Chariot One Wing | 3.0 |
| Deftones Koi No Yokan | 3.5 |
| Royal Thunder CVI | 3.5 |
| Witch Mountain Witch Mountain EP | 3.5 |
| Witch Mountain Cauldron Of The Wild | 4.0 |
| The Sword Apocryphon | 4.0 |
| High on Fire De Vermis Mysteriis | 4.0 |
| Exotic Animal Petting Zoo Tree of Tongues | 4.0 |
| Enabler All Hail the Void | 3.5 |
| Between the Buried and Me The Parallax II: Future Sequence | 4.0 |
| Bell Witch Longing | 3.5 |
| Bosse-de-Nage III | 4.0 |
| Killer Mike R.A.P. Music | 4.0 |
| El-P Cancer 4 Cure | 4.0 |
| Sylosis Monolith | 3.0 |
| Atriarch Ritual of Passing | 3.5 |
| Converge All We Love We Leave Behind | 4.0 |
| Pig Destroyer Book Burner | 4.0 |
| Ash Borer Cold of Ages | 4.0 |
| Wizard Rifle Speak Loud Say Nothing | 4.0 |
| Admiral Sir Cloudesley Shovell Don't Hear It... Fear It | 3.5 |
| Pilgrim Misery Wizard | 3.0 |
| Rosetta A Determinism of Morality | 3.5 |
| Battlefields Thresholds Of Imbalance | 3.5 |
| Poney Seamyth | 3.5 |
| Ihsahn Eremita | 4.0 |
| Ihsahn After | 3.5 |
| Deerhunter Halcyon Digest | 3.5 |
| Deerhunter Microcastle | 4.0 |
| Nachtmystium Silencing Machine | 3.5 |
| Nachtmystium Instinct: Decay | 3.5 |
| Baroness Yellow and Green | 4.5 |
| Sleigh Bells Reign of Terror | 3.5 |
| Sleigh Bells Treats | 4.0 |
| The Men Open Your Heart | 4.5 |
| The Men Leave Home | 4.0 |
| Pallbearer Sorrow And Extinction | 2.5 |
| The Mars Volta Noctourniquet | 2.0 |
| Vektor Outer Isolation | 3.5 |
| Vektor Black Future | 4.0 |
| Spawn of Possession Incurso | 4.0 |
| Absu Absu | 3.5 |
| Every Time I Die Ex Lives | 3.5 |
| Morality Crisis North | 4.5 |
| Morality Crisis Love And Passion | 3.0 |
| Liturgy Renihilation | 3.0 |
| Black Breath Sentenced To Life | 4.0 |
| Black Breath Heavy Breathing | 3.0 |
| Black Breath Razor To Oblivion | 4.0 |
| Exhorder The Law | 3.5 |
| Exhorder Slaughter in the Vatican | 2.5 |
| East of the Wall Ressentiment | 3.5 |
| Hank Williams III Hillbilly Joker | 1.5 |
| of Montreal Skeletal Lamping | 3.0 |
| of Montreal False Priest | 3.0 |
| of Montreal Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer? | 4.0 |
| of Montreal Satanic Panic in the Attic | 3.5 |
| Wormrot Dirge | 2.5 |
| Refused The Shape Of Punk To Come | 4.5 |
| Skeletonwitch Breathing the Fire | 3.5 |
| Skeletonwitch Beyond the Permafrost | 4.0 |
| Birds of Prey The Hellpreacher | 3.0 |
| Haarp The Filth | 3.0 |
| Kvelertak Kvelertak | 3.5 |
| Clutch Strange Cousins From The West | 3.0 |
| Priestess Prior to the Fire | 4.0 |
| Torche Harmonicraft | 4.5 |
| Irepress Sol Eye Sea I | 3.5 |
| Darkest Hour The Human Romance | 2.5 |
| The Red Chord Clients | 4.0 |
| The Red Chord Fused Together in Revolving Doors | 2.5 |
| Cephalic Carnage Misled by Certainty | 3.0 |
| Battle Of Mice A Day of Nights | 4.5 |
| Meshuggah Koloss | 4.0 |
| Meshuggah obZen | 2.5 |
| Meshuggah Chaosphere | 4.0 |
| Dawnbringer Nucleus | 3.5 |
| Howl Full of Hell | 3.5 |
| Shining (NOR) Blackjazz | 3.5 |
| Made Out of Babies The Ruiner | 4.0 |
| The Chariot Long Live | 3.5 |
| Kylesa To Walk A Middle Course | 2.5 |
| Kylesa Spiral Shadow | 4.0 |
| Horseback The Invisible Mountain | 3.5 |
| Nachtmystium Addicts: Black Meddle Pt. 2 | 4.0 |
| Deftones Diamond Eyes | 4.0 |
| The Tony Danza Tapdance Extravaganza Danza III: Series of Unfortunate Events | 3.5 |
| The Tony Danza Tapdance Extravaganza Danza II: The Electric Boogaloo | 3.0 |
| Raekwon Only Built 4 Cuban Linx... Pt II | 3.5 |
| Pelican What We All Come to Need | 3.5 |
| High on Fire Death Is This Communion | 4.0 |
| High on Fire Blessed Black Wings | 3.5 |
| High on Fire Surrounded by Thieves | 4.0 |
| The Sword Warp Riders | 4.0 |
| Torche Songs for Singles | 2.5 |
| Torche Torche | 3.5 |
| Bleeding Through Bleeding Through | 1.5 |
| Born of Osiris The Discovery | 4.0 |
| Batillus Furnace | 4.0 |
| Beastie Boys Hot Sauce Committee Part Two | 4.0 |
| Liberteer Better to Die on Your Feet... | 4.0 |
| Havok Time Is Up | 3.5 |
| Obscura Omnivium | 3.5 |
| Obscura Cosmogenesis | 4.0 |
| Revocation Chaos of Forms | 3.5 |
| Revocation Existence Is Futile | 3.5 |
| Last Chance to Reason Level 2 | 3.5 |
| Bon Iver Bon Iver, Bon Iver | 3.5 |
| Bon Iver For Emma, Forever Ago | 3.5 |
| Opeth Heritage | 3.0 |
| Liturgy Aesthethica | 4.0 |
| Black Cobra Invernal | 3.5 |
| Boris Heavy Rocks (2011) | 3.5 |
| Boris Attention Please | 3.5 |
| Boris New Album | 4.0 |
| Mastodon The Hunter | 4.0 |
| Trap Them Darker Handcraft | 4.5 |
| The Atlas Moth An Ache for the Distance | 4.5 |
| Protest the Hero Scurrilous | 4.5 |
| Fleet Foxes Helplessness Blues | 4.5 |
| Fleet Foxes Fleet Foxes | 4.0 |
| The Human Abstract Nocturne | 3.0 |
| The Human Abstract Midheaven | 2.5 |
| The Human Abstract Digital Veil | 4.5 |
| Krallice Diotima | 4.0 |
| Indian Guiltless | 4.0 |
| Giant Squid Cenotes | 3.5 |
| Grayceon All We Destroy | 3.5 |
| Ha Ha Tonka Death of a Decade | 4.0 |
| Fear Factory Archetype | 2.5 |
| Fear Factory Demanufacture | 3.5 |
| Ministry Psalm 69 | 3.5 |
| The Ocean Anthropocentric | 4.0 |
| Goes Cube In Tides And Drifts | 4.0 |
| Gonna review this soon; it's almost as good as their previous. |
| Krallice Dimensional Bleedthrough | 4.0 |
| Girl Talk All Day | 4.0 |
| Hank Williams III Rebel Within | 3.5 |
| Intronaut Valley of Smoke | 3.0 |
| Mouth Of The Architect The Violence Beneath | 3.5 |
| Cloudkicker Beacons | 3.5 |
| Cave In Jupiter | 4.0 |
| Zoroaster Matador | 4.0 |
| Avenged Sevenfold Nightmare | 3.0 |
| Blitzen Trapper Destroyer Of The Void | 3.5 |
| Sole and the Skyrider Band Plastique | 3.0 |
| Periphery Periphery | 4.0 |
| The Ocean Heliocentric | 2.5 |
| Cancer Bats Hail Destroyer | 4.0 |
| Son of Aurelius The Farthest Reaches | 3.5 |
| Titus Andronicus The Monitor | 4.5 |
| Cobalt Gin | 4.0 |
| Gaza He Is Never Coming Back | 3.5 |
| Madvillain Madvillainy | 4.0 |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Option Paralysis | 4.0 |
| The Dismemberment Plan Emergency & I | 4.5 |
| Celeste Misanthrope(s) | 3.5 |
| Man or Astro-Man? Destroy All Astro-Men!! | 3.5 |
| Lye By Mistake Fea Jur | 4.0 |
| These guys can play their asses off. Fans of Behold... The Arctopus or similar instrumetal stuff will dig this. Even the more fusion segments are made listenable through their metallic filter. Great songwriting, instrumentation, presentation, production (at first the mix turned me off, but after a couple listens it made more sense), and album art. Does have moments of "Hey look at me play!" stuff that seems more appropriate for an artist like Steve Vai or Paul Gilbert, but most of it feels like a cohesive group effort. |
| Stone Temple Pilots Core | 3.0 |
| Stone Temple Pilots Purple | 4.0 |
| Justice †| 4.0 |
| Lamb of God Wrath | 2.5 |
| Giant Squid The Ichthyologist | 4.5 |
| Disappearer The Clearing | 4.0 |
| Sonic Youth The Eternal | 3.5 |
| The Number Twelve Looks Like You Worse Than Alone | 4.0 |
| Ha Ha Tonka Novel Sounds of the Nouveau South | 4.0 |
| Ha Ha Tonka Buckle in the Bible Belt | 4.5 |
| Saviours Into Abaddon | 4.0 |
| The Red Chord Fed Through the Teeth Machine | 4.0 |
| Between the Buried and Me The Great Misdirect | 3.5 |
| This took a while to grow on me. It essentially would have taken a miracle for the band to surpass the bar they've rset for themselves with Colors, and we all know how often miracles come around. It's overall an excellent album, rbut has its obvious flaws. "Desert of Song" does nothing to The Great Misdirect's benefit except give you time to get ryourself a beer from the fridge or smoke a cigarette. The rest of the tracks are awesome, but at times show the rband getting a bit stale ("Obfuscation" sounds like a Colors b-side) and pretentious (some of the segments and rtransitions on "Disease, Injury, Madness" and "Fossil Genera" are sub-par for BTBAM standards, disrupting flow and rgiving the songs a sort of "We're trying to write a long song" feel). "Swim to the Moon" is an indication that the band rstill has the ability to blow listeners away. It's like a mini Colors - it flows extremely well and takes listeners on a rworth-while auditory trip. At the same time, it also shows what the rest of The Great Misdirect could have been. |
| Death (USA-MI) ...For the Whole World to See | 4.0 |
| Converge Axe to Fall | 4.0 |
| Megadeth United Abominations | 3.0 |
| Megadeth Endgame | 4.0 |
| Baroness Blue Record | 4.5 |
| an enjoyable listen throughout (definitely not for fans of the "shuffle" option, there's a lot of thematics and variations being taken from licks/riffs here and there). great riffs, awesome harmonies, and most importantly... it SOUNDS awesome. the fuzzed out solos, the bass presence, their ability to be a little more minimalist, and the vocal layering are just some of the features this record has that the red album doesn't. at the same time, i think they forgot how epic some of those heavy parts were on the red album, thus making it about an equal listen. thank god they didn't release the same thing twice. |
| Pearl Jam Backspacer | 3.5 |
| Doomriders Darkness Come Alive | 4.0 |
| The Cancer Conspiracy Omega | 3.5 |
| Cloudkicker The Map Is Not the Territory | 3.5 |
| Silversun Pickups Swoon | 4.0 |
| Every Time I Die New Junk Aesthetic | 4.0 |
| Shadows Fall Retribution | 3.5 |
| Cloudkicker The Discovery | 4.0 |
| Goes Cube Another Day Has Passed | 4.5 |
| The Faceless Planetary Duality | 4.0 |
| Intronaut Prehistoricisms | 4.0 |
| Iron Age The Sleeping Eye | 4.0 |
| Thrash with doomy tinges. Truly unique balances between blistering speed and crushing slow-tempo sections with some stoner atmospherics. Solos abound and impressive. |
| The Faceless Akeldama | 3.5 |
| Lyrics Born Same !@#$ Different Day | 3.0 |
| Darkest Hour The Eternal Return | 2.0 |
| Poison the Well The Tropic Rot | 4.5 |
| Born of Osiris A Higher Place | 3.0 |
| A Higher Place plays like a mix-tape of modern technical metal - They seem to emulate the sounds of anyone worth imitating (Between the Buried and Me, Protest the Hero, At the Gates, etc.) and in turn create an album thats "good," but truly lacks identity and breaks virtually no new ground. Instrumentally, this band demonstrates that they can do pretty much anything they set their minds to, but the lack of song development (not a single song breaks 4 minutes and many end awkwardly/abruptly) and average vocals oftentimes leave listeners in a stupor and ultimately prevent this album from being a must-have. It is a treat to hear such a flexible group of musicians, but they still need some time to mature and hone their skills. |
| The Mars Volta Octahedron | 3.0 |
| The Number Twelve Looks Like You Put On Your Rosy Red Glasses | 3.0 |
| Gallows (UK) Grey Britain | 3.0 |
| Gallows (UK) Orchestra Of Wolves | 3.5 |
| Scale the Summit Monument | 3.5 |
| Scale the Summit Carving Desert Canyons | 3.5 |
| Animals As Leaders Animals as Leaders | 4.0 |
| Poison the Well I/III / II/III / III/III | 3.5 |
| Avenged Sevenfold Sounding the Seventh Trumpet | 2.5 |
| Lazarus A.D. The Onslaught (Re-release) | 4.5 |
| Herb Alpert And The Tijuana Brass Whipped Cream And Other Delights | 5.0 |
| I will never turn down a listen to this album. Ever. |
| Chimaira Chimaira | 2.5 |
| Chimaira Pass Out of Existence | 1.0 |
| Chimaira The Impossibility of Reason | 4.0 |
| Mastodon Crack the Skye | 4.5 |
| Behold... The Arctopus Nano-Nucleonic Cyborg Summoning | 3.5 |
| Jucifer L'autrichienne | 4.5 |
| Kylesa Static Tensions | 4.5 |
| Blitzen Trapper Furr | 4.0 |
| God Forbid Earthsblood | 4.0 |
| Psyopus Odd Senses | 3.5 |
| Animal Collective Merriweather Post Pavilion | 4.5 |
| Animal Collective Water Curses | 4.0 |
| Sylosis Conclusion of an Age | 3.0 |
| all that remains + metallica + some kerry king influence + a smidgen of prog = this album. pretty good for early 20 year olds. |
| Psyopus Ideas of Reference | 3.0 |
| Valient Thorr Immortalizer | 3.5 |
| Guns N' Roses Chinese Democracy | 4.0 |
| Cake Comfort Eagle | 4.0 |
| Cake Fashion Nugget | 4.0 |
| Cake Motorcade Of Generosity | 3.0 |
| Tom Petty Wildflowers | 4.5 |
| Tom Petty Full Moon Fever | 4.0 |
| Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers Greatest Hits | 4.0 |
| Tom Petty Highway Companion | 2.5 |
| Nachtmystium Assassins: Black Meddle Pt.1 | 4.0 |
| The Black Angels Passover | 3.5 |
| Origin Antithesis | 3.0 |
| Judas Priest Metalogy | 4.5 |
| Screw the rest; this box set has EVERYTHING. 4 discs covering the high points of their discography, a live DVD from the 80s that is also nothing short of stellar, and a large book with some slick photographs detailing the career of the band. |
| The Smashing Pumpkins Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness | 4.0 |
| The Smashing Pumpkins Siamese Dream | 4.5 |
| The Smashing Pumpkins Gish | 3.5 |
| Radiohead In Rainbows | 4.0 |
| Radiohead Kid A | 2.5 |
| Radiohead OK Computer | 4.5 |
| Radiohead The Bends | 4.0 |
| Radiohead Pablo Honey | 3.0 |
| Thursday War All the Time | 3.5 |
| King Crimson In the Court of the Crimson King | 4.0 |
| Rush Snakes & Arrows | 3.5 |
| Rush Moving Pictures | 4.0 |
| Rush Caress of Steel | 3.5 |
| Rush 2112 | 5.0 |
| Pink Floyd The Division Bell | 3.0 |
| Pink Floyd A Momentary Lapse of Reason | 3.0 |
| Pink Floyd Pulse | 3.5 |
| Pink Floyd The Wall | 4.0 |
| Pink Floyd Animals | 4.5 |
| Pink Floyd Wish You Were Here | 3.5 |
| Pink Floyd The Dark Side of the Moon | 5.0 |
| Pink Floyd Meddle | 4.0 |
| The Agony Scene The Darkest Red | 2.5 |
| The Agony Scene The Agony Scene | 2.0 |
| Slayer Christ Illusion | 3.0 |
| Slayer Reign in Blood | 3.5 |
| Slayer Seasons in the Abyss | 3.5 |
| Slayer God Hates Us All | 2.0 |
| Melvins Nude With Boots | 3.5 |
| Misery Signals Controller | 3.5 |
| Dizzee Rascal Maths and English | 3.5 |
| Dizzee Rascal Boy In Da Corner | 3.0 |
| Cynic Traced in Air | 4.5 |
| Cynic Focus | 4.5 |
| United Nations United Nations | 3.5 |
| Burst Lazarus Bird | 4.5 |
| Early Man Closing In | 3.5 |
| The Budos Band The Budos Band II | 4.0 |
| Fuck Buttons Street Horrrsing | 4.0 |
| Vampire Weekend Vampire Weekend | 4.0 |
| Unearth III: In the Eyes of Fire | 4.0 |
| Unearth The Oncoming Storm | 3.0 |
| Unearth The Stings of Conscience | 2.0 |
| Torche Meanderthal | 4.5 |
| Tool 10,000 Days | 4.0 |
| Tool Lateralus | 5.0 |
| Tool Salival | 3.5 |
| Tool Ænima | 4.5 |
| Tool Undertow | 4.0 |
| Tool Opiate | 3.5 |
| Thrice The Alchemy Index Vols. III & IV | 4.0 |
| Thrice The Alchemy Index Vols. I & II | 4.0 |
| Thrice Vheissu | 4.5 |
| Thrice The Artist in the Ambulance | 3.5 |
| Thrice The Illusion of Safety | 4.0 |
| Thrice Identity Crisis | 2.5 |
| Thin Lizzy Jailbreak | 4.5 |
| Temple of the Dog Temple of the Dog | 3.5 |
| System of a Down Hypnotize | 4.0 |
| System of a Down Mezmerize | 4.0 |
| System of a Down Steal This Album! | 3.0 |
| System of a Down Toxicity | 4.0 |
| System of a Down System of a Down | 3.5 |
| The Sword Gods of the Earth | 3.0 |
| The Sword Age of Winters | 4.0 |
| The Strokes First Impressions of Earth | 4.0 |
| The Strokes Room on Fire | 4.0 |
| The Strokes Is This It | 4.0 |
| Soundgarden Down on the Upside | 4.0 |
| Soundgarden Superunknown | 4.0 |
| Soundgarden Badmotorfinger | 4.0 |
| Strapping Young Lad The New Black | 4.0 |
| Strapping Young Lad Alien | 3.5 |
| Strapping Young Lad Strapping Young Lad | 4.0 |
| Strapping Young Lad Heavy as a Really Heavy Thing | 3.0 |
| Sonic Youth Murray Street | 4.0 |
| Sonic Youth Washing Machine | 4.0 |
| Sonic Youth Dirty | 4.0 |
| Sonic Youth Goo | 3.5 |
| Sonic Youth Daydream Nation | 4.5 |
| Sonic Youth Rather Ripped | 4.0 |
| Soilwork Stabbing the Drama | 3.0 |
| Soilwork Natural Born Chaos | 3.5 |
| Shadows Fall Threads of Life | 2.5 |
| Shadows Fall Fallout From The War | 3.0 |
| Shadows Fall The War Within | 3.5 |
| Shadows Fall The Art of Balance | 4.5 |
| Shadows Fall Of One Blood | 3.5 |
| Rodrigo y Gabriela Rodrigo y Gabriela | 4.0 |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers Stadium Arcadium | 3.5 |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers By the Way | 2.0 |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers Californication | 3.0 |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers Blood Sugar Sex Magik | 4.5 |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers Mother's Milk | 3.5 |
| The Red Chord Prey for Eyes | 4.0 |
| Rage Against the Machine Renegades | 3.0 |
| Rage Against the Machine The Battle of Los Angeles | 4.0 |
| Rage Against the Machine Evil Empire | 4.0 |
| Rage Against the Machine Rage Against the Machine | 4.5 |
| Queens of the Stone Age Era Vulgaris | 4.0 |
| Queens of the Stone Age Lullabies to Paralyze | 3.0 |
| Queens of the Stone Age Songs for the Deaf | 4.0 |
| Queens of the Stone Age Rated R | 4.0 |
| Psyopus Our Puzzling Encounters Considered | 4.0 |
| Protest the Hero Fortress | 3.5 |
| Protest the Hero Kezia | 3.0 |
| Primus Sailing the Seas of Cheese | 4.0 |
| Primus The Brown Album | 4.0 |
| Primus Tales from the Punchbowl | 3.5 |
| Priestess Hello Master | 3.5 |
| Porcupine Tree Fear of a Blank Planet | 3.5 |
| Porcupine Tree In Absentia | 4.0 |
| Poison the Well Versions | 4.0 |
| Poison the Well You Come Before You | 4.0 |
| Poison the Well Tear From the Red | 4.0 |
| Pearl Jam Pearl Jam | 4.5 |
| Pearl Jam Lost Dogs | 4.0 |
| Pearl Jam Riot Act | 4.0 |
| Pearl Jam Touring Band 2000 DVD | 3.5 |
| Pearl Jam Binaural | 3.0 |
| Pearl Jam Live On Two Legs | 3.0 |
| Pearl Jam Yield | 3.5 |
| Pearl Jam No Code | 4.5 |
| Pearl Jam Vitalogy | 3.0 |
| Pearl Jam Vs. | 4.0 |
| Pearl Jam Ten | 3.0 |
| Pantera Reinventing the Steel | 3.5 |
| Pantera The Great Southern Trendkill | 4.5 |
| Pantera Far Beyond Driven | 4.0 |
| Pantera Vulgar Display of Power | 3.5 |
| Pantera Cowboys from Hell | 3.5 |
| Overkill Horrorscope | 4.0 |
| Overkill W.F.O. | 3.5 |
| Oasis The Masterplan | 2.5 |
| Oasis (What's the Story) Morning Glory? | 4.0 |
| Oasis Definitely Maybe | 4.0 |
| Nirvana MTV Unplugged in New York | 3.5 |
| Nirvana In Utero | 3.5 |
| Nirvana Nevermind | 3.0 |
| Nirvana Bleach | 4.0 |
| Nine Inch Nails The Slip | 4.0 |
| Nine Inch Nails Year Zero | 3.5 |
| Nine Inch Nails With Teeth | 3.5 |
| Nine Inch Nails The Fragile | 4.0 |
| Nine Inch Nails The Downward Spiral | 4.0 |
| Nine Inch Nails Broken | 4.0 |
| Nine Inch Nails Pretty Hate Machine | 4.0 |
| Muse Black Holes & Revelations | 4.0 |
| Muse Absolution | 4.0 |
| Muse Origin of Symmetry | 4.0 |
| Muse Showbiz | 3.5 |
| Municipal Waste The Art of Partying | 3.5 |
| Municipal Waste Hazardous Mutation | 3.5 |
| Motley Crue Decade of Decadence | 2.5 |
| Motley Crue Theatre of Pain | 1.5 |
| Motley Crue Shout at the Devil | 3.5 |
| Motley Crue Too Fast for Love | 3.0 |
| Mother Love Bone Mother Love Bone | 4.5 |
| Misfits Famous Monsters | 2.5 |
| Misfits Earth A.D./Wolf's Blood | 3.5 |
| Metallica St. Anger | 1.0 |
| Metallica S&M | 3.0 |
| Metallica Load | 2.0 |
| Metallica Reload | 2.0 |
| Metallica ...And Justice for All | 3.5 |
| Metallica Master of Puppets | 4.0 |
| Metallica Ride the Lightning | 4.0 |
| Metallica Kill 'Em All | 3.5 |
| Megadeth Countdown to Extinction | 3.0 |
| Megadeth Rust in Peace | 4.5 |
| Megadeth Peace Sells... but Who's Buying? | 4.5 |
| Megadeth Killing Is My Business... and Business Is Good! | 3.0 |
| The Mars Volta The Bedlam in Goliath | 3.5 |
| The Mars Volta Amputechture | 3.0 |
| The Mars Volta Frances the Mute | 3.5 |
| The Mars Volta De-Loused in the Comatorium | 5.0 |
| Mad Season Above | 4.0 |
| Lupe Fiasco Food & Liquor | 4.0 |
| A Life Once Lost Iron Gag | 4.0 |
| A Life Once Lost Hunter | 3.5 |
| A Life Once Lost A Great Artist | 3.5 |
| Led Zeppelin Houses of the Holy | 3.5 |
| Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin IV | 3.0 |
| Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin III | 3.0 |
| Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin II | 4.5 |
| Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin | 4.0 |
| Lamb of God Sacrament | 2.5 |
| Lamb of God Ashes of the Wake | 3.0 |
| Lamb of God As the Palaces Burn | 3.5 |
| Lamb of God New American Gospel | 3.0 |
| Kylesa Time Will Fuse Its Worth | 4.0 |
| Killswitch Engage As Daylight Dies | 2.5 |
| Killswitch Engage The End of Heartache | 3.0 |
| Killswitch Engage Alive or Just Breathing | 4.0 |
| Jurassic 5 Feedback | 4.0 |
| Jurassic 5 Quality Control | 4.0 |
| Ihsahn angL | 4.0 |
| HORSE the band A Natural Death | 3.5 |
| Himsa Summon In Thunder | 3.5 |
| Himsa Hail Horror | 3.5 |
| Himsa Courting Tragedy & Disaster | 3.5 |
| Helmet Meantime | 3.5 |
| Head Automatica Decadence | 3.0 |
| Hank Williams III Straight to Hell | 4.0 |
| Hank Williams III Lovesick, Broke & Driftin´ | 3.5 |
| Guns N' Roses Use Your Illusion II | 2.0 |
| Guns N' Roses Use Your Illusion I | 3.0 |
| Guns N' Roses G N' R Lies | 3.0 |
| Guns N' Roses Appetite for Destruction | 5.0 |
| God Forbid IV: Constitution of Treason | 3.5 |
| God Forbid Gone Forever | 3.0 |
| Gojira The Way of All Flesh | 4.5 |
| Gojira From Mars to Sirius | 4.0 |
| Glassjaw Worship and Tribute | 4.5 |
| Glassjaw Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Silence | 3.5 |
| Girl Talk Feed the Animals | 4.0 |
| Girl Talk Night Ripper | 4.0 |
| Girl Talk Unstoppable | 3.0 |
| Foo Fighters Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace | 3.0 |
| Foo Fighters One by One | 3.0 |
| Foo Fighters There Is Nothing Left to Lose | 2.5 |
| Foo Fighters The Colour and the Shape | 3.5 |
| Foo Fighters Foo Fighters | 4.0 |
| The Flaming Lips At War with the Mystics | 3.5 |
| The Flaming Lips Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots | 4.5 |
| Faith No More King for a Day... Fool for a Lifetime | 4.0 |
| Faith No More Angel Dust | 4.0 |
| Faith No More The Real Thing | 3.5 |
| Every Time I Die The Big Dirty | 3.5 |
| Every Time I Die Gutter Phenomenon | 4.0 |
| Every Time I Die Last Night in Town | 3.5 |
| Every Time I Die Hot Damn! | 3.0 |
| dredg Catch Without Arms | 3.0 |
| dredg El Cielo | 3.5 |
| Down Down III: Over the Under | 3.5 |
| Down Down II: A Bustle in Your Hedgerow | 4.0 |
| Down NOLA | 3.5 |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Ire Works | 4.0 |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Miss Machine | 4.0 |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Irony Is a Dead Scene | 3.0 |
| Deftones Saturday Night Wrist | 4.0 |
| Deftones Deftones | 2.0 |
| Deftones White Pony | 4.5 |
| Deftones Around the Fur | 3.5 |
| Deftones Adrenaline | 3.0 |
| Darkest Hour Deliver Us | 4.0 |
| Darkest Hour Undoing Ruin | 4.0 |
| Darkest Hour Hidden Hands of a Sadist Nation | 3.5 |
| Darkest Hour The Mark of the Judas | 2.5 |
| Converge No Heroes | 4.0 |
| Converge You Fail Me | 4.0 |
| Converge Jane Doe | 4.0 |
| Coheed and Cambria From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness | 4.0 |
| Coheed and Cambria In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3 | 3.0 |
| Coheed and Cambria The Second Stage Turbine Blade | 4.0 |
| Clutch From Beale Street to Oblivion | 4.0 |
| Clutch Robot Hive/Exodus | 3.0 |
| Clutch Blast Tyrant | 4.0 |
| Children of Bodom Are You Dead Yet? | 3.0 |
| Children of Bodom Hate Crew Deathroll | 3.0 |
| Children of Bodom Follow the Reaper | 4.0 |
| Children of Bodom Hatebreeder | 3.5 |
| Children of Bodom Something Wild | 3.0 |
| Butthole Surfers Independent Worm Saloon | 3.5 |
| The Blood Brothers Crimes | 4.0 |
| The Blood Brothers ...Burn, Piano Island, Burn | 4.0 |
| Bleeding Through Wolves Among Sheep | 2.5 |
| Bleeding Through Declaration | 4.0 |
| Bleeding Through The Truth | 3.5 |
| Bleeding Through This Is Love, This Is Murderous | 3.5 |
| Bleeding Through Portrait of the Goddess | 1.5 |
| Black Sabbath Sabotage | 4.5 |
| Black Sabbath Sabbath Bloody Sabbath | 4.5 |
| Black Sabbath Vol. 4 | 4.0 |
| Black Sabbath Master of Reality | 4.0 |
| Black Sabbath Paranoid | 3.5 |
| Black Sabbath Black Sabbath | 3.5 |
| Black Mountain In the Future | 4.0 |
| Black Mountain Black Mountain | 3.0 |
| The Black Dahlia Murder Nocturnal | 4.0 |
| The Black Dahlia Murder Miasma | 3.0 |
| The Black Dahlia Murder Unhallowed | 2.5 |
| Between the Buried and Me Colors | 5.0 |
| Between the Buried and Me Alaska | 4.0 |
| Between the Buried and Me The Silent Circus | 2.5 |
| Beastie Boys Licensed to Ill | 3.5 |
| Beastie Boys Paul's Boutique | 4.0 |
| Beastie Boys Check Your Head | 4.0 |
| Beastie Boys Ill Communication | 4.0 |
| Beastie Boys Hello Nasty | 3.5 |
| Beastie Boys To the 5 Boroughs | 2.5 |
| Beastie Boys The Mix Up | 4.5 |
| Avenged Sevenfold Diamonds in the Rough | 2.5 |
| Avenged Sevenfold Avenged Sevenfold | 2.0 |
| Avenged Sevenfold City of Evil | 4.0 |
| Avenged Sevenfold Waking the Fallen | 3.5 |
| Atreyu Lead Sails Paper Anchor | 2.5 |
| Atreyu A Death-Grip on Yesterday | 2.0 |
| Atreyu The Curse | 2.0 |
| Atreyu Suicide Notes and Butterfly Kisses | 3.5 |
| At the Gates Slaughter of the Soul | 4.5 |
| ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead So Divided | 2.5 |
| ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead Worlds Apart | 3.5 |
| ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead Source Tags and Codes | 4.0 |
| Alice in Chains MTV Unplugged | 3.5 |
| Alice in Chains Alice in Chains | 4.0 |
| Alice in Chains Jar of Flies | 3.5 |
| Alice in Chains Dirt | 3.5 |
| Alice in Chains Facelift | 3.5 |
| A Perfect Circle Thirteenth Step | 4.0 |
| A Perfect Circle Mer de Noms | 3.0 |
| A Perfect Circle eMOTIVe | 1.5 |
| Lupe Fiasco The Cool | 4.0 |
| Spoon Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga | 4.5 |
| Scars on Broadway Scars on Broadway | 3.0 |
| It's not the most complicated or pretentious album in recent memory, but it attacks in a simple manner. The songs are very simple in structure, relying primarily on hooks, but this allows for listeners to immediately grasp and remember the song. Much like the Beatles, this album can be sung along to in about 2 listens, which is its greatest strength. It's a FUN listen. It's essentially metal and punk infused pop-rock, but experimental moments do come into play. This is especially interesting because the electronic bits and bites add freshness to what could have been an average stale rock album. The contrast created by this is what makes tracks like "Chemicals," "3005," and "Cute Machines," the most blatantly experimental tracks, so intriguing. This album plays like SOAD took a few hints from Bruce Springsteen and the Beatles. Not any less powerful by any means, but just more accessible. |
| Sir Richard Bishop Polytheistic Fragments | 4.5 |
| Pig Destroyer Phantom Limb | 4.5 |
| Mr. Bungle California | 4.0 |
| Mr. Bungle Disco Volante | 4.0 |
| Mr. Bungle Mr. Bungle | 4.0 |
| Opeth Still Life | 3.5 |
| Opeth My Arms, Your Hearse | 3.5 |
| Opeth Blackwater Park | 4.0 |
| Opeth Watershed | 4.5 |
| Opeth Damnation | 4.5 |
| Opeth Deliverance | 3.5 |
| Opeth Ghost Reveries | 3.0 |
| The Ocean Precambrian | 5.0 |
| Pelican Australasia | 4.0 |
| Pelican The Fire in Our Throats Will Beckon... | 4.0 |
| Pelican City of Echoes | 4.0 |
| Baroness Red Album | 4.5 |
| Mastodon Blood Mountain | 5.0 |
| Mastodon Leviathan | 4.5 |
| Mastodon Remission | 3.5 |
| ISIS Panopticon | 4.5 |
| ISIS In the Absence of Truth | 4.0 |
| The End (CAN) Elementary | 4.0 |
| No Age Nouns | 4.5 |
| Boris Smile | 4.5 |
| Boris Pink | 5.0 |
| Battles Mirrored | 5.0 |
| Animal Collective Strawberry Jam | 4.5 |
| Disfear Live the Storm | 4.5 |
| To my recollection, it's the first non-Zeke album that utilizes all of the best elements of punk - speed, grittiness, gang vocals, and badass pick slides ;) But seriously, this album is quality through and throughout, and everything is LOUD!!! It's as if Motorhead took steroids and started hanging out in seedy alleyways. Perfect for thrash and punk fans, maybe too simple for prog-heads, and probably too difficult for the average listener to get past the dominating vocal presence and the sheer loudness of everything. |
