| Brand New Science Fiction | 5.0 |
| Linkin Park Hybrid Theory | 5.0 |
| Linkin Park Meteora | 5.0 |
| Linkin Park The Hunting Party | 3.5 |
| Linkin Park One More Light | 2.5 |
| Ray LaMontagne Ouroboros | 5.0 |
| I contemplated this for a long time before deciding to rate it a 5, but I believe that it's entirely deserving of it. Ray delves into musical territory far deeper than anything he's done thus far. The album is consistent and I enjoy how the two parts contrast each other while still working together to create a cohesive whole. I will say that this is not an album that you just turn on, however, but one that you allow yourself to become immersed in. Also, I saw him perform the entire record live on his Ouroboros tour and it was possibly the closest thing to a religious experience that I've ever had. |
| From Indian Lakes Able Bodies | 4.0 |
| From Indian Lakes Absent Sounds | 4.0 |
| From Indian Lakes Everything Feels Better Now | 4.0 |
| Taking Back Sunday Tidal Wave | 4.0 |
| Nick Drake Pink Moon | 5.0 |
| The Beatles Rubber Soul | 4.5 |
| The Beatles Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band | 5.0 |
| The Beatles Let It Be | 3.5 |
| The Beatles Abbey Road | 5.0 |
| Harry Styles Harry Styles | 3.5 |
Arctic Monkeys/Last Shadow Puppets meets Bowie meets Vance Joy/*insert other mainstream folk
artist*
Really digging this, but still yet to be determined if this serious artistry or a media ploy.
3.7/5 |
| Logic Everybody | 4.0 |
| This is probably Logic's most cohesive and enjoyable project to date. Too many people on here feel the need to compare everything to Kendrick without appreciating individual artistry, especially with Logic. This isn't TPaB and never will be and that is not a bad thing. There are also too many people who are way too quick to throw out 1's on here for no apparent reason.rOverall, this whole album is strong and the message it has generally hits the mark. However, the whole "I'm black but I'm white but I'm black" theme can grow tiring and I wish Logic would stray from it a little more. Some of the skits also fall a little short, but they're nothing worse than what is present on any of his earlier efforts. The only track I have any reservations about would have to be 1-800. Can't decide if it's enjoyable or insipid attempt to cater to a crowd outside of Logic's norm. |
| The Maine Lovely Little Lonely | 4.0 |
| Since Forever Halloween, the Maine have been nothing if not consistently good. While this is not my favorite album of theirs, personally, it's great to see them continue to grow while simultaneously catering the desires of their fans and themselves. |
| John Mayer The Search for Everything | 4.0 |
| Fresh, honest, and excellently written. JM is back with an album that is unapologetically him at his best. My only reservation is that "Roll It On Home" disrupts the overall feel of the album and may have better served as a B-side. |
| Panic! at the Disco Death of a Bachelor | 3.5 |
| Jack's Mannequin Everything in Transit | 4.5 |
| Jack's Mannequin The Glass Passenger | 3.5 |
| Jack's Mannequin People and Things | 4.0 |
| Bon Iver Blood Bank | 4.5 |
| Bon Iver For Emma, Forever Ago | 5.0 |
| Bon Iver Bon Iver, Bon Iver | 5.0 |
| I feel like people are comparing this to For Emma too much. Justin Vernon isn't the same plaid-wearing recluse he was then and he wrote this album to show it. He's pulled himself together and in the process has written an album just as good as his debut, just in different aspects. |
| Underoath Ø (Disambiguation) | 4.5 |
| Death Cab for Cutie Plans | 4.0 |
| Death Cab for Cutie Transatlanticism | 4.0 |
| Taking Back Sunday Where You Want To Be | 4.0 |
| Brand New Daisy | 4.5 |
| Brand New Deja Entendu | 4.5 |
| August Burns Red Constellations | 4.0 |
| August Burns Red have made an album where every song doesn't sound the same. Unbelievable? Believe it. |
| The Lonely Island Incredibad | 3.5 |
| The Devil Wears Prada With Roots Above and Branches Below | 4.0 |
| I'm probably overrating it a bit, but honestly this is a huge improvement since Plagues. Sure, it's not original or anything new, but it's a great album. Vocals, especially clean vocals, are great as always and the album has a more synth-ish feel, which is a good thing. |
| Underoath The Changing of Times | 3.5 |
| Impending Doom The Serpent Servant | 3.5 |
| Taking Back Sunday Louder Now | 4.0 |
| Chiodos All's Well That Ends Well | 3.0 |
| Chiodos Bone Palace Ballet | 3.5 |
| Linkin Park Minutes to Midnight | 2.5 |
| This is a mix between awful and great, so it meets in the middle. There's alot of good ideas, they just aren't executed good. The Little Things Give You Away is what I would call Linkin Park's idea of "progressive" and honestly I think they did quite a good job on it. |
| brokeNCYDE BC 13 | 1.0 |
| brokeNCYDE The Broken | 1.5 |
| Oh, Sleeper When I Am God | 3.5 |
| Radiohead OK Computer | 4.5 |
| A Day To Remember And Their Name Was Treason | 3.0 |
| A Day To Remember For Those Who Have Heart (Reissue) | 3.5 |
| A Day To Remember For Those Who Have Heart | 3.0 |
| A Day To Remember Homesick | 3.0 |
| Atreyu Lead Sails Paper Anchor | 2.5 |
| Atreyu A Death-Grip on Yesterday | 3.0 |
| Atreyu The Curse | 1.5 |
| Atreyu Suicide Notes and Butterfly Kisses | 1.5 |
| Misery Signals Controller | 3.5 |
| Modest Mouse The Moon & Antarctica | 4.5 |
| Modest Mouse Good News for People Who Love Bad News | 3.5 |
| Emmure The Respect Issue | 2.0 |
| Underoath Survive Kaleidoscope | 4.0 |
| Underoath 777 (DVD) | 3.5 |
| Taking Back Sunday Tell All Your Friends | 4.0 |
| Mayday Parade A Lesson In Romantics | 4.0 |
| Brand New The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me | 5.0 |
| After much listening I've come to the conclusion that Brand New is one of the best bands I have ever listened to. Every time I listen to something new by them, I am impressed. And the more I listen to what I have already hear by them, the more I like it and the more impressed I am. And out of all of their music, this album does that to me the most. This is truly a masterpiece. |
| mewithoutYou Brother, Sister | 4.5 |
This is a real grower. I hated it at first, went to thinking it was meh, went to ok, then
good. I think it's a little over-rated, but these guys definitely are good musicians.
Aaron's voice annoys me, but it's very interesting all the same. I'm sure it'll grow on
me more since I listen to a track every day just b/c of the originality. |
| P.O.S Never Better | 4.0 |
| Silverstein Discovering the Waterfront | 3.5 |
| Metallica Master of Puppets | 3.5 |
Easily the most over-rated album, probably ever. It's not bad at all, but far too
over-rated. There's alot of talent here. Alot of great riffs & solos. But, the riffs get
slightly repetitive & James' vocals are annoying. Lars does a good job with his drumming,
but being born into a generation where it's nothing I haven't heard I guess I can't
understand it's amazing mark on music history. Still, songs like Welcome Home
(Sanitarium) & most of Master of Puppets are quality tracks. Battery has probably the
greatest intro I have ever heard, but the rough transition to heavy metal & James' vocals
ruin the potential it had. Still, though, I wasn't born in Metallica's generation & all
the rip-offs I've heard have made this album a little boring. There's some great stuff
though, so I recommend it to anybody who likes good ol' heavy metal. |
| Parkway Drive Horizons | 3.5 |
| Solid album that suffers unoriginality & repetitiveness. Far too reminiscent of Killswitch Engage & it's sad when the most powerful part of the album is the breakdown on 'Boneyards'. |
| Avenged Sevenfold Diamonds in the Rough | 3.5 |
| Flo Rida Mail on Sunday | 1.5 |
| Trivium Ascendancy | 3.5 |
| Soulja Boy iSouljaBoyTellEm | 1.0 |
| Guns N' Roses Chinese Democracy | 3.5 |
| Becoming The Archetype The Physics of Fire | 4.0 |
| Killswitch Engage Killswitch Engage | 3.5 |
| Killswitch Engage Alive or Just Breathing | 4.0 |
| Killswitch Engage The End of Heartache | 3.5 |
| Killswitch Engage As Daylight Dies | 4.0 |
| Inhale Exhale The Lost, the Sick, the Sacred | 3.0 |
| Aly and AJ Into The Rush (Deluxe Edition) | 1.5 |
| Stone Sour Come What(ever) May | 3.5 |
| Becoming The Archetype Dichotomy | 4.0 |
| Escape the Fate Dying Is Your Latest Fashion | 2.0 |
| Escape the Fate This War Is Ours | 2.0 |
| Steve Vai Alien Love Secrets | 4.5 |
| Bullet for My Valentine The Poison | 3.0 |
| Bullet for My Valentine Scream Aim Fire | 3.5 |
| Alesana Where Myth Fades to Legend | 3.0 |
| Alesana On Frail Wings of Vanity and Wax | 3.0 |
| Austrian Death Machine Total Brutal | 3.5 |
| War of Ages Pride of the Wicked | 3.5 |
| Paramore Riot! | 3.0 |
| Hopes Die Last Your Face Down Now | 3.0 |
| The Almost Southern Weather | 3.0 |
| Between the Buried and Me Colors | 4.0 |
| Becoming The Archetype Terminate Damnation | 4.0 |
| War of Ages Fire From the Tomb | 3.5 |
| August Burns Red Messengers | 3.5 |
| Alexisonfire Crisis | 3.5 |
| Saosin Saosin | 3.5 |
| Iwrestledabearonce Iwrestledabearonce | 2.5 |
| Pink Floyd The Dark Side of the Moon | 3.5 |
| Haste the Day Dreamer | 3.5 |
| Haste the Day Pressure the Hinges | 3.0 |
| Metallica Death Magnetic | 4.0 |
| Death Magnetic is the first Metallica album I ever listened to in full. Ya, I heard tracks like "One","Enter Sandman", "Fuel", & "Master of Puppets" from around, but this is the first album I listened to by the biggest metal name in the world. And since then I have gone back & listen to the critically acclaimed & fan-loved Master of Puppets & honestly, I can say with every bit of sanity in me that this is better. The riffs aren't repetitive & while the riffs overall have the same basic sound, each track has something added to it to make stand out. Drumming's good of course & their new bassist does a good job. I think James' vocals are actually very good here. Unlike on MoP, they are not harsh & annoying. There's even a small southern sound to his voice on the softer parts that sounds great. The lyrics & production could be better, but they're still a big step up from the old stuff. I'm not really in the mood to right an in-depth review, so I will end by saying Unforgiven III is probably the best on here. |
| Casting Crowns Casting Crowns | 3.5 |
| He Is Legend 91025 | 3.5 |
| He Is Legend Suck Out the Poison | 3.5 |
| He Is Legend I Am Hollywood | 3.5 |
| Bring Me the Horizon Suicide Season | 2.5 |
| Bring Me the Horizon Count Your Blessings | 3.5 |
| Trivium Shogun | 4.0 |
| Impending Doom Nailed. Dead. Risen. | 3.0 |
| Winds of Plague Decimate the Weak | 3.5 |
| Soulja Boy Souljaboytellem.com | 1.0 |
| War of Ages Arise and Conquer | 4.0 |
| Avenged Sevenfold Waking the Fallen | 4.0 |
| Avenged Sevenfold Sounding the Seventh Trumpet | 3.5 |
| Avenged Sevenfold City of Evil | 4.0 |
| Avenged Sevenfold Avenged Sevenfold | 2.5 |
| Underoath Act of Depression | 3.0 |
| Flyleaf Flyleaf | 3.5 |
| Underoath Cries of the Past | 3.5 |
| Underoath Define the Great Line | 4.5 |
| So nobody expected this: an album by a slightly above average post-hardcore band that automatically sent them to the top of their genre. On TOCS , Aaron wrote about 90% of the lyrics and sang about about 50% of the vocals, I guess they decided Spencer needed more recognition since he was the lead vocalist; so they let him write about 80% of the lyrics and do about 75% of the vocals. That is probably the single most important thing Underoath has ever done. With Spencer playing a bigger role, the band was sure to change directions and they did. Spencer has gone through far many problems than Aaron has (abuse, substance abuse, etc.) and that clearly show in the music. So I'm guessing that with the more mature lyrics and vocals, the instrumentation needed change too. And that one little change made Underoath one of the most recognizable & respected names in harder music. Define The Great Line is an emotional, complex, melodic, yet brutal masterpiece. |
| Underoath They're Only Chasing Safety | 3.5 |
Good post-hardcore album with sometimes annoying screaming. Not original, but definite
signs of what came with DTGL & LITSOS. |
| Underoath Lost in the Sound of Separation | 5.0 |
Lost In The Sound Of Separation is a painting. As the album progresses, you have a mental
picture of exactly what is happening. The lyrics portray a man who is completely lost,
everything he believes is a lie. His inner conscience and the world are eating him up.
The lyrics portray a man who is completely lost, but finds hope in something spiritual.
On "Desolate Earth :: The End Is Here", his pains and trials finally are over as he
screams "You said there was nothing left down here. Well I roamed around the wasteland.
And I swear I found something. I found hope, I found God. I found the dreams of the
believers. Oh, God! Save us all!". As the album goes on, the album becomes softer and
more ambient, portraying the picture of this man's life becoming easier. The guitars,
drums, keyboard, and bass fill the atmosphere, bringing color to the sketch the lyrics
brought. They don't settle for completely generic riffs and song structures, but instead
make something unique. And finally, the vocals bring so much emotion, they shade in and
give depth to the painting. The masterpiece which is Lost In The Of Separation.
At least that's what happens when I listen to it... |
| The Devil Wears Prada Plagues | 3.5 |
| The Devil Wears Prada Dear Love: A Beautiful Discord | 3.0 |
| Blessthefall His Last Walk | 3.5 |
| Linkin Park Hybrid Theory EP | 3.5 |
| Brian Head Welch Save Me From Myself | 3.0 |
| It's a great album, but most of the lyrics are easily the worst I've seen. |
| All That Remains Overcome | 3.5 |
I thought it was pretty good, my thoughts changed after listening to it again though &
it's not as good as I thought. Some good vocals, guitar work, & drumming help make up a
bit for flaws, though. |
| Slipknot All Hope Is Gone | 4.0 |
| Great, amazing even, album. The songs don't necessarily flow together though & that's the big flaw. |
