| ERRA Cure | 3.5 |
| For sure their weakest overall record yet, which is not saying much, considering that ERRA is and always has been the spearhead of modern metalcore following the tried and true, cookie cutter formula of progressive riffs, breakdowns, growls and the obligatory clean chorus inbetween. Since 15 years they are basically doing the Killswitch Engage routine with better production, better technicality, and more hard-hitting emotional highs as well as bits of brutality. Their breakdowns are just heavier, as well as played more brainy - think Misery Signals (but not entirely on the level on the latter). Unfortunately though, all in all it's getting a bit stale by now. The formula has worn off. 2024's ERRA seem write songs as if they're on autopilot. As if the studio had said, we need a new album by tomorrow - get going guys! Which is a little sad because we as the listeners don't get banger hits like Snowblood, House of Glass, Breach, Skyline, Hybrid Earth, or White Noise anymore. Which is unfortunate, as I already said. Still worth your while though for sure, especially if you're into modern metalcore and just can't get enough from this particular muscial trope. |
| The Ghost Inside Searching for Solace | 3.0 |
Masterpieces like Death Grip and Split as well as the interesting experiment of Cityscapes
shake hands with the most mainstream copy of Linkin Park I have ever heard by any metalcore
band ever, namely Wash It Away. If you close your eyes while listening to the latter,
Chester literally becomes alive again. I am not even fucking kidding. Why a VERY well-
respected and basically unhateable band in the genre (not only because of coming back from
their haunting and soul-crushingly sad past) does a shitty choice like this and basically
betrays their own hardcore slash metal roots so much that it's pure sellout is beyond me,
but that is something they will have to work out for themselves. Maybe they got pressured by
the label, maybe they just want more money aka broaden their fanbase with a crowbar, or
maybe they just want to play Rock im Park now, I don't know. But it's a choice I will have
to tolerate for now. There are still many redeeming qualities to find on Searching for
Solace and I will give them the benefit of a doubt. If their next album is another Fury and
the Fallen Ones, we can all grab a cold one again together. |
| Northlane Mirror's Edge | 3.5 |
| Interesting experiment that equally excels in what it wants to achieve as that it fails. While Miasma is laughably bad and I couldn't care less about Let Me Disappear, Kraft and Dante on the other end of the spectrum are straight up amazing. Afterimage is a track I very much enjoy and that flows exactly in the middle of these two poles for me. Therefore, I can enjoy this for what it is - a fun little collection of ideas, a musical brainfart of sorts, where not every idea has been fully developed before recording it. Now let's make another album and show us if you're capable of greatness again, my fellow Aussies. |
| Eidola Eviscerate | 3.5 |
| The low-growled screams aren't the best from a technical standpoint tbh and the progressiveness is once more a bit too much for their own good, but other than that, it's another solid entry by Eidola. Just not as amazing as all their previous records. |
| Texas in July Without Reason | 3.0 |
| Dunno what collins is on, but this is neither Dient nor Deathcore, omegalul. It's bread and butter-Metalcore, played absolutely by the numbers. A bit boring for Texas in July standards, but it's nice to have them back at the ring. |
| Acres Burning Throne | 4.0 |
| Amazing record. Mitch can suck a horse's cock and go back to listening to pretentious, soulless technical black metal for music students. Enjoying Acres actually needs a heart, not only a mind. Let this sink in and think about it, it will all make sense after two spins of their discography. |
| Of Virtue Omen | 3.0 |
| Basically a death sentence to their own identity. There is nothing left of their earth-shattering brutality as well as their creative songwriting back in the Heartsounds- and Salvation-days. As hinted on the terrible What Defines You already and cranking this sonical choice up to one hundred, Of Virtue has gone full sellout now. Mainstream to appeal to the masses. Poppy choruses wherever you look, way less growls, way less heavy riffing, way fewer breakdowns, no more progressiveness, softer production...the list goes on and on. What you have to give them credit for is two things though. Firstly, they are still capable of writing absolute bangers that never leave your ear, even weeks after the first listen. And secondly, at least they're consistent in their new style and follow it through to the very end. The entirety of Omen sounds so consistent, you can skip from song two to song seven and know immediately that this is the same record, which is a positive in my opinion. The producer did a good job to at least give their new self a coherent style. Therefore I am changing my rating from a 2 to a 3. They found their niche and people who enjoy this kind of music, for instance fans of new Of Mice and Men, Dayshell, and the like, will most probably very much dig this. |
| Rivers of Nihil Where Owls Know My Name | 4.0 |
| Justin Timberlake Everything I Thought It Was | 4.0 |
| Leaving Man of the Woods in the dust, JT finally comes back to the heights of The 2020 Experience. A sexy, laid-back, and surprisingly self-aware record dealing with regret and mistakes regarding women. The oldest topic in the book, I know, but at least he shows some sense of repentance, which takes balls and is appreciated. He's still got the vocal chops of a generation and in the tracks where he isn't using autotune to pander to the modernity of the radio scene, he shows them big time. Kudos Justin, you crazy bastard - you turned it around. |
| PET NEEDS Intermittent Fast Living | 3.5 |
| Ghost Atlas Dust of the Human Shape | 4.0 |
| Static-X Project Regeneration Vol. 2 | 2.0 |
| By far their worst work yet. Gives Cult of Static a run for it's money, truly. It's slow, boring, samey, uninspired, and just rehashes the worst parts of Wayne's legacy. They should have ended with Vol. 1! Please avoid this one at all costs. It's for your own good. And this is coming from a die hard Static X fan since their debut. |
| Valleyheart Everyone I've Ever Loved | 4.0 |
| Shindy In meiner Blüte | 3.5 |
| Shindy Drama | 4.0 |
| The Ocean Holocene | 3.5 |
| Better Lovers God Made Me an Animal | 3.5 |
| Story of the Year Tear Me to Pieces | 2.0 |
| A bit too poppy for me tbh. At least regarding Story of the Year. |
| Veil of Maya [m]other | 3.0 |
| Carnifex Necromanteum | 2.0 |
| In This Moment Godmode | 1.0 |
| As Everything Unfolds Ultraviolet | 3.0 |
| No son, you can't go to the concert, we rhave Spiritbox at home. | - Spiritbox at rhome: |
| Code Orange The Above | 1.5 |
| Stop wasting my time with directionless garbage. Pure noise is not music. |
| Bury Tomorrow The Seventh Sun | 3.5 |
| Taking Back Sunday 152 | 3.5 |
| Dying Wish Symptoms of Survival | 4.0 |
| Svalbard The Weight of the Mask | 3.5 |
| Thy Art Is Murder Godlike | 3.0 |
| the new version definitely sounds weaker than the old one because the new vocalist is too silent and tries to copy CJ way too much instead of just doing his own thing and making the record his own. overall a big letdown, especially considering the fact that these guys basically were at the forefront of the whole deathcore genre for 5+ years constantly. justice for CJ - looking forward to his new band now. |
| Beartooth The Surface | 3.5 |
| The Gaslight Anthem History Books | 3.5 |
| Pierce the Veil The Jaws of Life | 3.0 |
| Fall Out Boy So Much (For) Stardust | 2.5 |
| Paramore This Is Why | 1.0 |
| Godsmack Lighting Up the Sky | 1.0 |
| TesseracT War of Being | 2.5 |
| Periphery Periphery V: Djent is Not a Genre | 2.5 |
| Polar Everywhere, Everything | 3.5 |
| Scar Symmetry The Singularity - Phase II: Xenotaph | 3.0 |
| Chelsea Grin Suffer In Heaven | 3.0 |
| Nasty Heartbreak Criminals | 3.0 |
| It's becoming a bit stale at this point. The relatively weak cleans don't change the fact that you can only play so many double bass, stopped by tons of beatdown breakdowns. Maybe change up the formula more? Or go back to the sheer brutality of older records. Idk. Kiss from a Rose isn't the answer by the way, that much I can tell you for sure. You're not Aerosmith guys. |
| Movements Ruckus! | 4.0 |
| The Used Toxic Positivity | 2.5 |
| As Friends Rust Any Joy | 3.0 |
| Casper nur liebe, immer. | 3.5 |
| Knocked Loose Upon Loss Singles | 3.5 |
| Distant Heritage | 3.0 |
| Night Verses Every Sound Has a Color...: Part I | 3.5 |
| PVRIS EVERGREEN | 3.5 |
| A step back in the right direction. The guitars, heaviness, and drive is gone, but at least it's creative and has some great ideas. Also, to have bangers like ANYWHERE BUT HERE on board isn't bad either haha. |
| blink-182 One More Time... | 3.5 |
| END (USA-NJ) The Sin of Human Frailty | 3.5 |
| END (USA-NJ) From the Unforgiving Arms of God | 4.0 |
| Spiritbox The Fear of Fear | 3.5 |
| Silent Planet Superbloom | 4.0 |
| Pantera Vulgar Display of Power | 4.5 |
| Foo Fighters Foo Fighters | 2.5 |
| Foo Fighters The Colour and the Shape | 3.0 |
| Foo Fighters There Is Nothing Left to Lose | 2.5 |
| Foo Fighters One by One | 4.0 |
| Foo Fighters In Your Honor | 3.5 |
| Second half unfortunately has way too many filler songs as well as slow ballads for my taste. Also most songs consist of repetition only. Aside from these two negatives, I really like the record. |
| Foo Fighters Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace | 4.0 |
| Foo Fighters Wasting Light | 3.5 |
| Foo Fighters Medicine at Midnight | 2.5 |
| Foo Fighters But Here We Are | 3.5 |
| Polaris Fatalism | 3.5 |
| Unearth The Wretched; The Ruinous | 3.0 |
| Boring and uninspired. I can't help but think I've heard this record already back in 2008. Fortunately it's Unearth, so the musicianship is there and saves The Wretched The Ruinous from true mediocrity. Final question - what on god's good earth happened to Trevor Phipps? He sounds so weak and tired...my god. These lows are so high and shallow, they can't even be called low growls anymore. A ghost of his former self. |
| The Word Alive Hard Reset | 2.5 |
| Of Mice and Men Cold World | 1.5 |
| Of Mice and Men EARTHANDSKY | 2.5 |
| Of Mice and Men Echo | 3.0 |
| Of Mice and Men Tether | 2.5 |
| Asking Alexandria Where Do We Go from Here? | 2.0 |
| Atreyu Baptize | 3.0 |
| Atreyu The Hope Of A Spark | 3.5 |
| Atreyu The Moment You Find Your Flame | 3.5 |
| Minus the Bear Farewell | 5.0 |
| Avenged Sevenfold Life Is But a Dream... | 4.5 |
| In Flames Foregone | 4.0 |
| Really good mainstream Melo Death. State of Slow Decay and Meet Your Maker bring the pain, while the second half of the album gives you catchy choruses and enough cool riffs to sway to. Digging it. |
| Queens of the Stone Age In Times New Roman... | 2.5 |
| My god. Six years for this? It's very, very tame. They're not rockers anymore, they're only stoners now. Chilling until their own end. Only providing the bare necessities. A huge disappointment. |
| Mammoth WVH Mammoth II | 4.0 |
Very by the numbers. Also the vocal harmonies have been recycled big time from his debut
album. What not only keeps this new record afloat but makes it great are the amazing solos.
Wolfgang van Halen is shredding like a pro on this one, kudos. Also, 'Another Celebration at
the End of the World' is simply one of the best songs of the year without any doubt. |
| Adventurer Pacifica | 4.0 |
| Dwellings Little Gardens | 4.0 |
| Coletta Idealism | 2.5 |
| Coletta Mind and Time | 2.0 |
| Hail the Sun Divine Inner Tension | 4.0 |
| blink-182 Take Off Your Pants And Jacket | 3.5 |
| Mammoth WVH Mammoth WVH | 4.0 |
| Currents The Death We Seek | 4.0 |
| Holding Absence The Noble Art of Self-Destruction | 3.5 |
| Styx Crash Of The Crown | 3.5 |
| Metallica Death Magnetic | 3.0 |
| Metallica 72 Seasons | 2.5 |
| It's not bad by any means, it's just a bit boring and uninspired. Especially in the second half of the record, many songs sound alike or blend into one big mush. There are even some complete duds on here. I honestly liked Hardwired better because it was a bit more aggressive and had more experiments and variety. |
| The Amity Affliction Not Without My Ghosts | 4.0 |
| Sleep Token Take Me Back to Eden | 4.0 |
| Young Lions Make a Rainbow and Put It in the Sky | 3.0 |
| The Acacia Strain Failure Will Follow | 2.0 |
| Juli Der Sommer ist vorbei | 3.5 |
| A Boogie Wit Da Hoodie Hoodie Szn | 1.5 |
| Gideon More Power. More Pain. | 4.0 |
| Picturesque IYKYK | 3.5 |
| Enter Shikari A Kiss For The Whole World | 4.0 |
| Invent Animate Heavener | 4.5 |
| August Burns Red Death Below | 3.5 |
| Fontaines D.C. Skinty Fia | 4.0 |
| Emarosa Sting | 4.0 |
| The new Emarosa is like a cupcake. You know you're sinning and eating tons of unhealthy sugar, but in the end it tastes sweet and good. The record is so consistently and catchily built around melody that it almost becomes cheesy. Musically, they move in the poppy waters of Michael Jackson meets Modern Talking. But you know what? It works. And it tastes good. For hits like Again or Rush alone, it's worth listening to. Just don't get turned off by the 80s flair that immediately presents itself. Have fun listening. |
| Ethel Cain Preacher's Daughter | 4.5 |
| Absent In Body Plague God | 2.5 |
| Boring af, good if you're sleepy. I know all musicians here are legends, know their instruments full well, and wanted to craft something epic here, but in doing so, they bit off a bit more than they could chew. Leave 8 minute+ songs to bands like Dream Theater or Tool, who know how to make them entertaining and engaging. Ambien. |
| Our Last Night Empires Fall | 1.5 |
| Rolo Tomassi Where Myth Becomes Memory | 4.0 |
| really dislike the opener and some musical choices on here, but songs like Closer, Drip or The End of Eternity are just majestic and deserve all the accolades. all in all it's a grower. give it some more spins... |
| Silverstein Misery Made Me | 3.0 |
| Static Dress Rouge Carpet Disaster | 3.0 |
| Bjork Fossora | 3.5 |
| A Hope For Home Years of Silicon | 2.5 |
| Bleed from Within Shrine | 3.0 |
| Vatican Ultra | 3.0 |
| Boundaries Burying Brightness | 3.0 |
| Inclination Unaltered Perspective | 3.5 |
| Motionless in White Scoring the End of the World | 2.0 |
| Comeback Kid Heavy Steps | 3.5 |
| thrown Extended Pain | 3.5 |
| Get The Shot Merciless Destruction | 3.0 |
| Solid brocore for friends of Nasty with a bigger metal-edge. |
| I Prevail TRUE POWER | 1.5 |
| The production screams loudness war more than your neighbors while you blast Slayer at full volume, the rap parts are laughable, the clean singer still sings with his nose held shut, the lyrics are still cringe as fuck, and the songwriting is still as uninspired as ever. This is cookie cutter popcorn Metalcore for people that have absolutely no clue about the genre. My god. That this band still exists is beyond me. Another proof that the masses are stupid and have no taste. |
| Malevolence Malicious Intent | 2.5 |
| After hearing Malicious Intent and especially Life Sentence I thought to myself, my god, this album slaps. The speed was way higher than expected and I had good fun with this bro-core style of writing. But then came pregnant with meaning midtempo garbage like On Broken Glass and Still Waters Run Deep which sounded like the worst Avenged Sevenfold-songs ever made, so they lost me right there. Higher Place then felt completely out of place - putting a Disturbed-ballad on a record might work for Disturbed, but not for self-declared roughnecks and whiskey-blasting pussy destroyers Malevolence. Neither Matt (Honeycott nor Heafy) could safe this mess. Sad one, the album had promise. |
| Fire from the Gods Soul Revolution | 3.0 |
| Thousand Below Hell Finds You Everywhere | 3.5 |
| Fit for a King The Hell We Create | 3.5 |
| Eyes Roll Back may very well be the hardest track they have ever released, even heavier than the stuff from their debut LP. An amazing listen. 10 out of 5 for me. Unfortunately, the rest of the album falls a bit flat and follows the same clean-laden formula that hold The Path back, too. There are some single sparks of greatness here and there, yes, but overall it's classic FFAK going soft. I hope the next record sounds more like Dark Skies again. Still give it a spin if you're into cookie cutter Metalcore. |
| Rammstein Zeit | 3.5 |
| FJORT nichts | 4.0 |
| Darko (US) Oni | 4.0 |
| We Came As Romans Darkbloom | 3.5 |
| He Is Legend Endless Hallway | 3.0 |
| Architects The Classic Symptoms of a Broken Spirit | 1.0 |
| Chris Turner Steezy | 4.0 |
| Dayseeker Sleeptalk | 3.5 |
| Dayseeker Dark Sun | 4.0 |
| Chelsea Grin Suffer In Hell | 4.0 |
| Lorna Shore ...And I Return to Nothingness | 4.0 |
| Lorna Shore Pain Remains | 3.5 |
| Pros - great technicality all-around, very versatile vocals, sick solos, some good songwriting ideas, sporadic bombast-feel of certain tracks. Cons - way too long, bad production, songs get samey after repeated listens, synths are overdone and annoying as hell, slightly uninspired breakdowns that seem to follow the same formula over and over. If you want better Death in your Deathcore but remain as technical, maybe give Brand of Sacrifice or Archspire a go. If you want better Core in your Deathcore and tone the instrumental wankery down a notch, try Thy Art Is Murder. All three are slightly better imho and just make music that is more consistent. Lorna Shore want too much at once here for my taste. That being said, Pain Remains is not a bad record by any means. I've just head better Deathcore albums during my lifetime. |
| Orbit Culture Nija | 3.0 |
| Outline In Color Coast is Clear | 3.5 |
| Thornhill Heroine | 3.5 |
| Counterparts A Eulogy for Those Still Here | 3.5 |
| Nothing More Spirits | 3.0 |
| Of Virtue Sinner | 3.0 |
| Bilmuri Goblin Hours | 4.0 |
| Amarionette [US] Gemini | 3.5 |
| Sleeping With Sirens Complete Collapse | 3.0 |
| Alter Bridge Pawns and Kings | 3.5 |
| For the Fallen Dreams No Heaven | 2.5 |
| In Hearts Wake Divination | 2.5 |
| Demon Hunter Exile | 3.0 |
| Demon Hunter Songs of Death and Resurrection | 2.0 |
| Demon Hunter Peace | 2.5 |
| Demon Hunter War | 3.0 |
| Demon Hunter Outlive | 2.0 |
| Demon Hunter Extremist | 4.0 |
| Demon Hunter True Defiance | 3.0 |
| Demon Hunter The World Is a Thorn | 2.5 |
| Demon Hunter Storm the Gates of Hell | 4.0 |
| Demon Hunter The Triptych | 3.5 |
| Demon Hunter Demon Hunter | 3.0 |
| Demon Hunter Summer of Darkness | 2.5 |
| Five Finger Death Punch Got Your Six | 1.0 |
| This is almost laughably bad. There are a myriad of other Hard Rock bands that dabble into different genres (Heavy Metal, Industrial, Crossover etc.) out there that do it way better and less cringeworthy like for instance Disturbed, Godsmack, Static-X, Demon Hunter, or Dry Kill Logic. |
| Slipknot The End, So Far | 3.5 |
| The Devil Wears Prada Dead Throne | 3.0 |
| Darko (US) Dethmask, Pt. 1 | 4.5 |
| The Devil Wears Prada Color Decay | 3.5 |
| Miss May I Curse of Existence | 3.0 |
| Stray from the Path Euthanasia | 3.5 |
| Novelists Déjà Vu | 4.0 |
I mean, let's be real here. Lost Cause is probably one of the best Metalcore songs ever
made, hands down. As is Heretic. Smoke Signals, Made by Design, and Terrorist are bangers.
The Answer and Track 10 are fine, you can take or leave them. But the five interludes are
just a bit much for a record running only 34 minutes in total, granted. Therefore, it should
better have been a 7-track-EP, then it would be a 4.5. Now it's just a 3.5 to 4. A bit sad
they didn't show us more regular tracks, because Deja Vu could have been an AOTY
contender... |
| Copeland Revolving Doors | 4.0 |
| Ektomorf Retribution | 3.5 |
| Machine Head Of Kingdom and Crown | 3.0 |
| Electric Callboy TEKKNO | 4.0 |
| Oceans Ate Alaska Disparity | 4.0 |
| Parkway Drive Darker Still | 1.0 |
| Stick to Your Guns Spectre | 2.5 |
| Oddly toothless for a cover prominently featuring two attack dogs. Goodness gracious. |
| Bjork Utopia | 2.5 |
| The Dangerous Summer Coming Home | 2.5 |
| SECRETS The Collapse | 3.0 |
| Hollow Front The Price of Dreaming | 3.5 |
| Jonny Craig The Places We'll Never Be | 3.0 |
| Bad Omens The Death of Peace of Mind | 3.0 |
| Rain City Drive Rain City Drive | 3.5 |
| Royal Coda To Only a Few at First | 3.5 |
| Royal Coda Compassion | 3.5 |
| Neaera Neaera | 3.5 |
| Palisades Reaching Hypercritical | 3.0 |
| Anthony Green Boom. Done. | 4.0 |
| Destroy Rebuild Until God Shows Destroy Rebuild | 4.0 |
| Dance Gavin Dance Jackpot Juicer | 4.0 |
| Alexisonfire Otherness | 3.5 |
| Polyphia Muse | 4.0 |
| Reflections The Fantasy Effect (Redux) | 4.0 |
| ten56. Downer Part 1 | 2.5 |
| Brand of Sacrifice Lifeblood | 2.5 |
| Spite Dedication To Flesh | 2.0 |
| Hollow Front Loose Threads | 5.0 |
| Placebo Never Let Me Go | 4.0 |
| Glaswing Like Water on a Glass Table | 3.5 |
| Glaswing I'm in the Checkout Line of My Life | 4.0 |
| Northlane Obsidian | 4.0 |
| Circa Survive A Dream About Death | 3.0 |
| Hellogoodbye Zombies! Aliens! Vampires! Dinosaurs! | 4.0 |
| H-Blockx Time To Move | 3.0 |
| A plain, totally obvious Rage against the Machine-fake. Nothing more and nothing less. If you dig old RATM and can overlook the open plagiarism, this could be a record for you. If you don't sign point one or two, you will probably despise this album. I am sitting right in the middle, loving RATM but hating unoriginality. Therefore I am giving Time To Move a 3. |
| WIZO DER | 2.5 |
| WIZO Uuaarrgh! | 2.5 |
| HAWK Tolerance's Paradox | 4.5 |
| Avril Lavigne Head Above Water | 3.5 |
| Avril Lavigne Love Sux | 3.0 |
| In Hearts Wake Kaliyuga | 3.5 |
| Underoath Voyeurist | 3.5 |
| Valiant Hearts Yonder | 2.5 |
| Knocked Loose A Tear in the Fabric of Life | 2.5 |
| The Hirsch Effekt Kollaps | 3.0 |
Their most easily accessible, but unfortunately
also their weakest album yet imho. The short
runtimes really hurt the creative possibilities
of the songs, most math-heavy prog is gone, and
the tonalities are all over the place as well.
There is no clear focus, no greater idea, while
electronics go hand-in-hand with Nu Metal- and
even Djent-ingratiations. Of course there are
occasional bright spots as well, like for
instance the ending of AGERA, the epic buildup of
TORKA, or the
grandiose title track KOLLAPS overall - but
firstly, this is a Hirsch Effekt record after
all, so did you really expect a complete failure
guys - and secondly, these are also three of the
only long tracks of the album. This speaks to the
theory that THE simply need longer songs to fully
shine. Anyway. It's a letdown considering their
amazing discography, but it's still better than
most contemporary German progressive post-
hardcore. Curious to see them live this year and
check out their energy iRL. |
| The Hirsch Effekt Eskapist | 4.0 |
| The Hirsch Effekt Holon: Agnosie | 3.5 |
| The Hirsch Effekt Holon: Anamnesis | 3.0 |
| The Hirsch Effekt Holon : Hiberno | 3.0 |
| Bullet for My Valentine Bullet For My Valentine | 3.5 |
| Annisokay Aurora | 3.5 |
| The Plot In You Swan Song | 2.5 |
| Turnstile Glow On | 3.5 |
| Ice Nine Kills The Silver Scream 2: Welcome to Horrorwood | 3.0 |
| Phinehas The Fire Itself | 3.0 |
| Coldplay Music of the Spheres | 2.5 |
| Every Time I Die Radical | 3.0 |
| Be'lakor Coherence | 3.0 |
| Circa Survive A Dream About Love | 2.5 |
| Was the drummer fired or what? Honestly curious. HMU if you know more, ty. |
| Archspire Bleed the Future | 4.5 |
| Limp Bizkit Still Sucks | 3.5 |
| Holding Absence The Greatest Mistake of My Life | 3.5 |
| Normandie Dark & Beautiful Secrets | 3.5 |
| Volumes Happier? | 2.0 |
| Imminence Heaven in Hiding | 2.5 |
| Spiritbox Eternal Blue | 3.5 |
| Hail the Sun New Age Filth | 4.0 |
| Slaughter To Prevail Kostolom | 4.0 |
| Tir Asleen Sand Through An Asphalt Hourglass | 3.5 |
| Disembarked Nothing's Wrong Here | 3.5 |
| Greaver Lineage & Legions | 4.5 |
| Wage War Manic | 3.0 |
| Wage War Pressure | 4.0 |
| Asking Alexandria See What's On the Inside | 2.0 |
| Asking Alexandria Like a House on Fire | 1.0 |
| Asking Alexandria Asking Alexandria | 3.0 |
| Eidola The Architect | 4.0 |
| Alter Bridge Live at the Royal Albert Hall Ft. Parallax Orch. | 3.0 |
| Alter Bridge Live at the O2 Arena + Rarities | 3.5 |
| Alter Bridge Live at Wembley | 3.0 |
| Alter Bridge Live from Amsterdam | 2.5 |
| City and Colour Live | 3.5 |
| Alexisonfire Live at Copps | 2.0 |
| Thrice Horizons/East | 3.5 |
| Bleed the Sky This Way Lies Madness | 3.0 |
| Portishead Dummy | 3.5 |
| Portishead Portishead | 3.0 |
| The Ghost of a Thousand New Hopes, New Demonstrations | 3.5 |
| Cruel Hand Lock and Key | 3.0 |
| Paramore Brand New Eyes | 4.0 |
| Sleeping Giant Sons of Thunder | 1.5 |
| Sleeping Giant Kingdom Days In an Evil Age | 1.5 |
| Slayer Seasons in the Abyss | 3.5 |
| Times of Grace Songs of Loss and Separation | 3.5 |
| While She Sleeps Sleeps Society | 4.0 |
| Beartooth Below | 3.5 |
| Sharks Keep Moving Sharks Keep Moving | 2.5 |
I love Minus the Bear, it's my favourite band of all time. I have most their albums and EP's
at a "5". I even like the first recordings of Jake's first band, State Route 522. This album
here however, was kind of a weak effort to me. It is very long and drawn-out, songs become
boring and repetitive quite quickly, the singing isn't nearly as prominently featured as in
Minus the Bear, and especially the samples threw me off completely. Listening to random
laughing skits from an unknown female midway into a ten minute instrumental epic isn't
exactly what I am looking for when wanting to chill and wanting to enjoy some Jake magic.
So, all in all, this was dead on arrival. Unfortunately. I'd rather listen to State Route
522 on repeat and miss out on Jake's vocals then revisit this pretentious
snoozefest again, I am sorry. 2.5 points for the musicianship. |
| State Route 522 Samson is Apollo | 3.0 |
| State Route 522 State Route 522 (Henry's Finest Recordings) | 3.5 |
| The Jjen The Jjen | 3.5 |
| Shoot The Girl First They Have Clocks, We Have Time | 2.5 |
| From First to Last From First to Last | 3.0 |
| Ten After Two If You Don't First | 3.5 |
| Set It Off Midnight | 4.0 |
| Tilian Factory Reset | 3.5 |
| A Day To Remember You're Welcome | 1.0 |
| ERRA ERRA | 4.0 |
| LANDMVRKS Lost in the Waves | 3.5 |
| Ingested Surpassing the Boundaries of Human Suffering | 2.5 |
| Faith No More King for a Day... Fool for a Lifetime | 4.0 |
| Jonny Craig Find Your Home | 3.0 |
| Architects For Those That Wish to Exist | 3.0 |
| Lydia I Was Someone Else | 3.5 |
So, I guess...Lydia is happy now, hum? Sounds interesting. It's definitely something else.
If great or not, time will tell. This is a grower for sure. Not your average "rate-after-
one-listen" CD. You can clearly hear inspirations from The Cinema around every corner. |
| Amewu Leidkultur | 4.5 |
| Jamiroquai High Times (Singles 1992-2006) | 5.0 |
| If I Were You Radiant Dark | 3.5 |
| Hundredth Somewhere Nowhere | 3.0 |
| Enter Shikari Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible | 2.5 |
| Kingdom of Giants Passenger | 3.5 |
| Neck Deep All Distortions Are Intentional | 3.0 |
| Nasty Menace | 4.5 |
| Taylor Swift Evermore | 3.0 |
| Heaven Shall Burn Of Truth and Sacrifice | 3.0 |
| Emery White Line Fever | 2.5 |
| Are their mics behind pillows, or what happened here? I mean, wtf? Devin Shelton is way more quiet than Toby Morrell, which himself is too quiet for the instruments. My god. This mixing is way off guys. Back to an old producer please. |
| Movements No Good Left to Give | 2.0 |
| Miss Fortune Miss Fortune | 1.0 |
| Like Moths to Flames No Eternity in Gold | 4.0 |
| Sad that the production is so bad and mushy. Also some songs are a bit samey. In the end its a great record though and another stable from Like Moths to Flames, which rarely disappoint if you are looking for some standard formula-Metalcore. |
| Make Them Suffer How to Survive a Funeral | 4.0 |
| Inventure No Time to Waste | 4.0 |
| Svalbard When I Die, Will I Get Better? | 3.5 |
| Silverstein A Beautiful Place to Drown | 3.5 |
| The Used Heartwork | 3.5 |
| The amazing features (Jason Butler, Caleb Shlomo, Mark Hoppus, Travis Barker) as well as great sonic experiments like in Darkness Bleeds FOTF, Cathedral Bell, Gravity's Rainbow, or Clean Cut Heals keep it from being your run-of-the-mill-The Used record of late. It's mainstream now, sure, but definitely better than average and although featuring 16 tracks not that overly long as everyone says (46mins is totally fine imho). If you would insist, I could agree to cut some filler songs or stuff that didn't work like Paradise Lost, Big Wanna Be, My Cocoon, and Wow I Hate This Song(sic!). |
| Valiant Hearts Nu Soul | 3.5 |
| Trivium What the Dead Men Say | 2.5 |
| Katatonia City Burials | 3.0 |
| Crystal Lake The Voyages | 3.0 |
| Bury Tomorrow Cannibal | 3.0 |
| The screams have gotten considerably better and more versatile, but the rest is as stale as ever, unfortunately. Just another Bury Tomorrow record... |
| Before I Turn Lovelorn | 4.0 |
| this is the album, the other one is an EP guys. edited it for clarity. thanks for approval... |
| Sparta Trust the River | 1.5 |
| IDLES Ultra Mono | 3.5 |
| Upon a Burning Body Built From War | 3.5 |
| The Ocean Phanerozoic II: Mesozoic | Cenozoic | 3.5 |
| Alpha Wolf A Quiet Place to Die | 4.0 |
| Fit for a King The Path | 3.5 |
| Signals Death In Divide | 3.5 |
| Bring Me the Horizon Post Human: Survival Horror | 5.0 |
| Men Without Hats Love In the Age Of War | 1.0 |
| Men Without Hats No Hats Beyond This Point | 1.0 |
| Men Without Hats Sideways | 1.0 |
| Men Without Hats The Adventures of Women & Men ... | 1.0 |
| Men Without Hats Pop Goes the World | 1.0 |
| Men Without Hats Folk of the 80's (Part III) | 1.0 |
| Men Without Hats Rhythm of Youth | 1.0 |
| Electric Callboy MMXX | 3.5 |
| Alkaline Trio E.P. | 3.0 |
| Callejon Metropolis | 3.5 |
| The Oklahoma Kid Solarray | 4.0 |
| Sleep Token Sundowning | 4.5 |
| Mike Shinoda Dropped Frames, Vol. 1 | 3.0 |
| do I have a fake? only one track with vox, the rest are instrumentals. wtf? |
| Saviour A Lunar Rose | 4.5 |
| Taylor Swift Folklore | 3.5 |
| Rain City Drive To Better Days | 3.5 |
| Misery Signals Ultraviolet | 4.0 |
| The Acacia Strain Slow Decay | 3.5 |
| Static-X Project Regeneration Vol. 1 | 3.0 |
| Emmure Hindsight | 3.0 |
| Days Away Mapping An Invisible World | 4.0 |
| Default Genders main pop girl 2019 | 3.5 |
| PVRIS Use Me | 3.0 |
| Kendrick Lamar To Pimp a Butterfly | 4.0 |
| Ghost (SWE) Meliora | 1.0 |
| Denzel Curry Imperial | 4.0 |
| Disillusion The Liberation | 3.0 |
| Modern Talking The 1st Album | 3.5 |
| Betraying the Martyrs Rapture | 4.0 |
| Currents The Way It Ends | 3.5 |
| Run the Jewels RTJ4 | 3.5 |
| The Ghost Inside The Ghost Inside | 4.5 |
| Invent Animate Greyview | 3.5 |
| NF The Search | 4.5 |
| Picturesque Do You Feel O.K.? | 2.5 |
| Dance Gavin Dance Afterburner | 4.5 |
| Cloudkicker Unending | 4.0 |
| Tiny Moving Parts Breathe | 4.5 |
| Killswitch Engage Atonement | 4.0 |
| Knocked Loose A Different Shade of Blue | 3.0 |
| Touche Amore Dead Horse X | 4.0 |
| Alter Bridge Walk The Sky | 4.0 |
| A definite return to form after Fortress and The Last Hero felt a bit lackluster to me. Some Blackbird and ABIII vibes over here too. Imho it's a great listen. Give it a spin bois. |
| August Burns Red Guardians | 3.5 |
| Bjork Homogenic | 4.0 |
| The Word Alive Monomania | 3.5 |
| The Amity Affliction Everyone Loves You... Once You Leave Them | 3.5 |
| Landon Tewers Ai640 Pt. 3 | 3.0 |
| Polaris The Death of Me | 3.5 |
| Sepultura Quadra | 4.0 |
| blink-182 Enema Of The State | 3.5 |
| blink-182 Dude Ranch | 3.0 |
| blink-182 Cheshire Cat | 2.5 |
| blink-182 Buddha | 3.0 |
| Puddle of Mudd Welcome to Galvania | 3.5 |
| Sum 41 Order In Decline | 2.5 |
| Being as an Ocean PROXY: An A.N.I.M.O. Story | 3.5 |
| Anthony Green Would You Still Be With Strings | 4.0 |
| Novelists C'est La Vie | 3.5 |
| Issues Beautiful Oblivion | 3.0 |
| Valiant Hearts Odyssey | 3.5 |
| The Devil Wears Prada The Act | 4.0 |
| Thornhill The Dark Pool | 4.5 |
| Slipknot We Are Not Your Kind | 3.5 |
| Mallory Knox Mallory Knox | 1.0 |
| City and Colour A Pill For Loneliness | 3.0 |
| Thousand Below Gone in Your Wake | 3.0 |
| Amarionette [US] Evolution | 3.0 |
| As I Lay Dying Shaped by Fire | 4.0 |
| Counterparts Nothing Left to Love | 4.5 |
| Strawberry Girls Tasmanian Glow | 4.0 |
| Kitsune Nothing makes me happy anymore | 4.0 |
| blink-182 Nine | 3.5 |
| Keane Cause and Effect | 3.5 |
| The Contortionist Our Bones | 3.5 |
| It Prevails A Life Worth Living | 4.0 |
| Nova Charisma Exposition I | 3.0 |
| Keane Under The Iron Sea | 3.5 |
| Landon Tewers Withdrawals | 4.0 |
| War of Ages Void | 2.5 |
| Sleeping With Sirens How It Feels to Be Lost | 3.0 |
| Korn Korn | 3.0 |
| Korn Issues | 4.0 |
| Korn The Nothing | 3.5 |
| Crown the Empire Sudden Sky | 3.5 |
| Obey the Brave Balance | 3.5 |
| The Agonist Once Only Imagined | 4.0 |
| Too Close to Touch I'm Hard to Love, But So Are You, Vol. 2 | 3.0 |
| Wolves at the Gate Eclipse | 3.0 |
| more of the same and a bit generic. also way too long and not very many outstanding hits on here. it's not a bad record by any means, but I dug Types and Shadows way more. good listen for die hard fans for sure though. |
| Oh, Sleeper Bloodied/Unbowed | 3.5 |
| Taylor Swift Lover | 2.5 |
| Taylor Swift Reputation | 3.0 |
| Tool Fear Inoculum | 3.0 |
| Acres Lonely World | 4.5 |
This is easily one of the best records of the year and most certainly their greatest work to date.
It features many hits and has layers on layers of raw talent. A true gem. Listen to it. |
| Northlane Alien | 3.5 |
| Upon a Burning Body Southern Hostility | 3.5 |
| After the Burial Evergreen | 3.0 |
| Their weakest effort yet. Some songs are just plain annoying like the samey 'Behold The Crown' or the one-note Djentfest 'To Challenge Existence' and others are just neither catchy nor impressive (2, 3, 5, 6). It's bland metalcore with weak vocals galore. The only good songs are the pulsing 'The Great Repeat', the pounding closer 'A Pulse Exchanged' and - ironically - the instrumental interlude 'In Flux'. What a shame. After The Burial continue their downwards trend after all the member changes. |
| Thy Art Is Murder Human Target | 4.0 |
| Escape the Fate I Am Human | 3.5 |
| Escape the Fate Hate Me | 2.5 |
| Dance Gavin Dance People You Knew/Perfect | 3.0 |
| Brand of Sacrifice God Hand | 3.5 |
| State Faults Clairvoyant | 4.0 |
| Thank You Scientist Terraformer | 4.5 |
| Burial Claustro/State Forest | 2.5 |
| Comrades For We Are Not Yet, We Are Only Becoming | 4.0 |
| He Is Legend White Bat | 4.0 |
| He Is Legend I Am Hollywood | 3.5 |
| Belle Manoir Century Tree | 3.5 |
| Shin Guard 2020 | 3.0 |
| Osatia All In Time | 4.0 |
| Carousel Kings Charm City | 4.5 |
| In Flames I, the Mask | 4.0 |
| As Cities Burn Scream Through the Walls | 3.5 |
| It's better than this Sputnik Average makes it out to be or makes you think it is. 100 percent. A 3.75 would be more suitable. Blend out their older material and listen to it with a fresh mind guys, honestly. It's a great record. |
| Real Friends Even More Acoustic Songs | 4.0 |
| CHON CHON | 4.0 |
| Of Virtue What Defines You | 2.5 |
| Heart of a Coward The Disconnect | 4.0 |
| the production is bad, granted, but considering the songwriting, this is easily their best material yet. also superb tracklisting (e.g. number 7 fits perfectly). a great record, man. HOAC are at the height of their powers. |
| Heartist Sleep | 3.5 |
| August Burns Red Constellations (Remixed) | 4.5 |
| Carousel Kings Plus Ultra | 4.5 |
| The Dangerous Summer Mother Nature | 4.0 |
| One of the most consistent bands in the whole genre once again deliver an amazing record which might be one of their greatest - if not THE best - of their career. Astonishingly good. Scrapes the 4.5. |
| Cane Hill Kill The Sun | 3.5 |
| Secret Band LP2 | 3.5 |
| Defeater Defeater | 3.5 |
| Rammstein Untitled | 3.0 |
| Vampire Weekend Father Of The Bride | 4.0 |
| Volumes Coming Clean | 3.5 |
| Danny Worsnop Shades Of Blue | 3.5 |
| Listen to "Am I A Fool" with an open mind. Chances are, you will be pleasantly surprised. |
| Thrice The Artist in the Ambulance | 4.0 |
| Thrice Vheissu | 4.0 |
| Imminence Turn the Light On | 3.0 |
| Thrice Deeper Wells | 3.5 |
| Exumer Hostile Defiance | 3.5 |
| Silverstein Redux: The First 10 Years | 4.0 |
| Too Close to Touch I'm Hard to Love, But So Are You, Vol. 1 | 3.5 |
| Wow, The Fear Of Letting Go is an amazing song...my god. Sounds exactly like Dead Letter Circus, which is a good thing. |
| La Dispute Panorama | 4.0 |
| Hotel Books I'll Leave the Light On Just In Case | 3.0 |
| Outline In Color Outline In Color | 3.5 |
| Surroundings Glass Heart | 4.0 |
| Emarosa Peach Club | 3.5 |
| While She Sleeps So What? | 3.0 |
| Holding Absence Holding Absence | 4.0 |
| Copeland Blushing | 3.5 |
| Polyenso Year of the Dog | 3.0 |
| Thy Art Is Murder Holy War | 4.5 |
| Rain City Drive Revision | 4.0 |
| FEVER 333 Strength In Numb333rs | 3.0 |
| Tyler Carter Moonshine | 3.5 |
| Bring Me the Horizon Amo | 3.5 |
| War from a Harlots Mouth Falling Upstairs | 4.0 |
| Annotations Of An Autopsy Dark Days | 3.5 |
| Annotations Of An Autopsy II: The Reign of Darkness | 2.0 |
| Annotations Of An Autopsy Welcome To Sludge City | 2.5 |
| Elysia Masochist | 1.5 |
| Glass Casket Desperate Man's Diary | 3.0 |
| Last Chance to Reason Level 2 | 3.5 |
| Glass Casket We Are Gathered Here Today... | 1.0 |
| Whisteria Cottage Heathen | 3.0 |
| Embrace The End Ley Lines | 2.5 |
| Silent Planet When the End Began | 4.0 |
| Memphis May Fire Broken | 2.5 |
| Palisades Erase the Pain | 3.0 |
| P.O.D. Circles | 2.0 |
| I don't know what this means, I don't know what this album wants, the only thing I know is: it doesn't work. My god, this is really depressing at times. Where have P.O.D. gone? "Listening For The Silence" is the only glimpse of what this record could have been. The rest is pure disappointment. |
| Anthony Green Would You Still Be In Love | 3.5 |
| Eminem Kamikaze | 4.0 |
| The Parallel (CAN) Weaver | 3.5 |
| at parts extremely great, at parts a bit over-ambitious. they want too much at once. modern, proggy tech metalcore cousins Northlane, Invent Animate, Erra and the like...but also deathcore tunes like in Brand of Sacrifice or Chelsea Grin are prevalent here. even electronic bits can be found. it's just too much for a debut, it's not consistent. all this variation keeps it from true greatness. don't get me wrong: it's a good record and the drummer is an absolute beast - but give this band one or two more albums and we have 4.5+ potential right here. |
| If I Were You Inner Signals | 4.5 |
| Before I Turn Claustrophobic | 3.5 |
| Don Broco Technology | 3.5 |
| Kanye West ye | 3.5 |
| Wayste The Flesh and Blood | 4.0 |
| August Burns Red Messengers (Remixed) | 4.5 |
| Of Mice and Men Defy | 3.5 |
| God Is an Astronaut Epitaph | 2.0 |
| Mount Eerie Now Only | 3.0 |
| Pianos Become the Teeth Wait For Love | 3.5 |
| Hands Like Houses -Anon. | 2.5 |
| Atreyu In Our Wake | 3.0 |
| Rolo Tomassi Time Will Die And Love Will Bury It | 4.5 |
| Bury Tomorrow Black Flame | 2.5 |
| Bury Tomorrow Runes (Limited Edition) | 3.5 |
| TesseracT Sonder | 2.0 |
| Svalbard It's Hard to Have Hope | 4.0 |
| Self Defense Family Have You Considered Punk Music | 2.5 |
| Terror Total Retaliation | 2.0 |
| Hopesfall Arbiter | 3.5 |
| Impending Doom The Sin and Doom Vol. II | 3.0 |
| Walking Dead On Broadway Dead Era | 3.0 |
| Great when they use their ambient and epic background sounds (Punish the Poor, Standstill, Benevolent Warfare). The rest is standard deathcore. |
| Chelsea Grin Eternal Nightmare | 2.5 |
| It's fine but nothing more...Tom should have stayed at Lorna Shore. Imho it's their second worst album after My Damnation. Even their last record had more things to enjoy because of better singles and overall the better breakdowns. This is more death metal than deathcore at times, which is not where Chelsea Grin can shine. They were great when they added in melody like in Evolve and Ashes to Ashes OR without melody via pure breakdown-fests like in Desolation of Eden, their selftitled EP or Self Inflicted. Eternal Nightmare is neither here nor there. It's half-assed, boring, samey and just features the occasional tad of greatness, which is simply not enough. The production is good though and Tom mostly shines. That's about it. Solid, but you're better off with their other CDs. 2.75 or smth out of sympathy. |
| Chelsea Grin Self Inflicted | 3.0 |
| a bit boring and the vocals aren't as strong as in previous releases. dunno what happened. still solid breakdown-laden deathcore. |
| Our Hollow, Our Home In Moment // In Memory | 3.0 |
| The Browning Geist | 3.5 |
| A Perfect Circle Eat the Elephant | 4.5 |
| From Ashes To New The Future | 3.5 |
| Napoleon Epiphany | 3.5 |
| Currents I Let the Devil In | 3.5 |
| ourfathers. Funeral Pyre | 4.0 |
| Respire Denouement | 4.0 |
| Delta Sleep Ghost City | 3.5 |
| Greyhaven Empty Black | 3.0 |
| Gunship Dark All Day | 2.0 |
| Bloodbark Bonebranches | 1.0 |
| Sun Kil Moon This Is My Dinner | 3.5 |
| Foxing Nearer My God | 3.0 |
| Unreqvited Mosaic I: l'amour et l'ardeur | 4.5 |
| Sylvaine Atoms Aligned, Coming Undone | 4.0 |
| AFI The Missing Man | 4.0 |
| Denzel Curry TA13OO | 4.0 |
| Justin Timberlake Man of the Woods | 2.5 |
| Abstract Void Back to Reality | 4.5 |
| City Morgue HELL OR HIGH WATER VOL. 1 | 3.5 |
| The Black Queen Infinite Games | 2.0 |
| A Forest of Stars Grave Mounds and Grave Mistakes | 1.0 |
| Holy Fawn Death Spells | 4.0 |
| We Were Promised Jetpacks The More I Sleep The Less I Dream | 3.0 |
| Novo Amor Birthplace | 4.0 |
| Amazing, heartfelt music for dreamers. Honestly one of the best one man projects I have ever heard. If you like toned-down stuff like Slingshot Dakota, Weaver at the Loom or old Coldplay and don't want to lack the creativity of someone like Jonsi or Cloudkicker, look no further and get this record. |
| Crystal Lake The Sign | 3.5 |
| Crystal Lake Helix | 3.5 |
| Crystal Lake True North | 3.5 |
| IDLES Joy as an Act of Resistance | 4.0 |
| $uicideboy$ I Want To Die In New Orleans | 4.0 |
| Normandie White Flag | 4.0 |
| Unearth Extinction(s) | 3.5 |
| All That Remains Victim of the New Disease | 4.5 |
| Minus the Bear Fair Enough | 3.5 |
| Miss Fortune How the Story Ends | 3.5 |
| Ghost Key See This Through | 4.5 |
| Twenty One Pilots Trench | 3.0 |
| SHVPES Greater Than | 4.5 |
| August Burns Red Winter Wilderness | 3.5 |
| LANDMVRKS Fantasy | 4.5 |
| Architects Holy Hell | 3.5 |
| Coheed and Cambria Vaxis I: The Unheavenly Creatures | 4.0 |
| Emery Eve | 3.5 |
| Dead American The Shape of Punk is Dumb | 3.5 |
| Hail the Sun Mental Knife | 4.0 |
| Night Verses From the Gallery of Sleep | 4.0 |
| Anberlin Dancing Between the Fibers of Time | 4.0 |
| Beartooth Disease | 3.5 |
| Silverstein The Afterglow/Aquamarine | 4.0 |
| Tilian The Skeptic | 3.5 |
| The Story So Far Proper Dose | 3.5 |
| Invent Animate Stillworld (Instrumental) | 4.5 |
| Three Days Grace Outsider | 1.5 |
| Mayday Parade Sunnyland | 2.5 |
| The Amity Affliction Misery | 4.5 |
| Skyharbor Sunshine Dust | 2.5 |
| Thrice Palms | 4.0 |
| Fit for a King Dark Skies | 4.0 |
| Fall Out Boy M A N I A | 4.0 |
| Counterparts Private Room | 3.5 |
| Annisokay Arms | 3.5 |
| Black My Heart Fuck Hearts | 4.0 |
| Brand of Sacrifice Interstice | 4.0 |
| Tonight Alive Underworld | 3.5 |
| Tinashe Joyride | 4.0 |
| Real Friends Composure | 4.0 |
| Royal Coda Royal Coda | 3.0 |
| Tiny Moving Parts Swell | 4.0 |
| Shindy Dreams | 3.5 |
| Panic! at the Disco Pray for the Wicked | 4.0 |
| I See Stars Treehouse (Acoustic) | 3.5 |
| Moby Everything Was Beautiful and Nothing Hurt | 4.0 |
| Myles Kennedy Year of the Tiger | 3.0 |
| ERRA Neon | 4.0 |
| Hail the Sun Secret Wars | 4.0 |
| Thirty Seconds to Mars America | 2.5 |
| Bullet for My Valentine Gravity | 3.0 |
| Altars Opposition | 4.5 |
| Hollow Front Still Life | 4.0 |
| Gorillaz The Now Now | 3.5 |
| Janelle Monae Dirty Computer | 3.5 |
| Kylie Minogue Golden | 2.5 |
| Moose Blood I Don't Think I Can Do This Anymore | 3.5 |
| Dashboard Confessional Crooked Shadows | 3.5 |
| Lydia Liquor | 3.0 |
| Mike Shinoda Post Traumatic | 3.5 |
| Amarionette [US] AMVRI | 3.5 |
| Cane Hill Too Far Gone | 1.5 |
| I Am King Playing the Saint | 2.5 |
| Bullet for My Valentine The Poison | 4.0 |
| The Reign of Kindo Happy However After | 3.0 |
| Dance Gavin Dance Artificial Selection | 3.5 |
| The Afterimage Eve | 4.0 |
| The Afterimage Lumière | 4.0 |
| Dream On Dreamer It Comes and Goes | 3.5 |
| The Word Alive Violent Noise | 3.5 |
| Parkway Drive Reverence | 2.5 |
| Blessthefall Hard Feelings | 4.0 |
| Underoath Erase Me | 3.5 |
| Barely Civil We Can Live Here Forever | 3.5 |
| Stay Inside The Sea Engulfs Us and the Light Goes Out | 4.0 |
| SECRETS Secrets | 3.5 |
| Vox Vocis Star Meissa | 3.5 |
| Casey Where I Go When I Am Sleeping | 3.5 |
| Tua Raus | 3.5 |
| Kollegah Zuhältertape Volume 4 | 3.0 |
| Kollegah Alphagene | 4.0 |
| Thousand Below The Love You Let Too Close | 4.0 |
| The New Age Placebo | 4.0 |
| Thrice The Illusion of Safety | 3.5 |
| For the Fallen Dreams Six | 3.5 |
| Good Tiger We Will All be Gone | 3.5 |
| The Plot In You Dispose | 4.0 |
| Rain City Drive Beautiful Death | 4.5 |
| The Dangerous Summer The Dangerous Summer | 4.0 |
| Nothing More The Stories We Tell Ourselves | 4.0 |
| Kublai Khan TX Nomad | 3.0 |
| Awaken I Am Blind Love | 2.5 |
| Overproduced, compression rate: over 9000, autotuned at parts/oftentimes heavily layered vocals, singing is not on par with legends of the genre (like the 'similar bands' would like us to believe), etc...just too much to hate here. But at least the songwriting is great and truly innovative to be honest. So it's better than the critical mass of the genre, sure, but only barely. They need a new producer asap imo. |
| Ghost Atlas All Is in Sync... | 3.5 |
| Polaris The Mortal Coil | 3.5 |
| ALAZKA Phoenix | 4.0 |
| Stick to Your Guns True View | 3.5 |
| FJORT Couleur | 4.0 |
| I the Mighty Where the Mind Wants to Go / Where You Let it Go | 3.5 |
| Trivium The Sin and the Sentence | 4.5 |
| Within the Ruins Halfway Human | 3.5 |
| Veil of Maya False Idol | 3.5 |
| At the Drive-In in•ter a•li•a | 4.0 |
| nothing,nowhere. Reaper | 4.0 |
| My Ticket Home Unreal | 2.5 |
| Hotel Books Equivalency | 3.5 |
| Movements Feel Something | 4.0 |
| Kendrick Lamar DAMN. | 2.0 |
| Like Moths to Flames Dark Divine | 3.5 |
| We Came As Romans Cold Like War | 4.0 |
| Being as an Ocean Waiting For Morning To Come | 3.5 |
| Novelists Noir | 3.0 |
| Thy Art Is Murder Dear Desolation | 4.0 |
| The Acacia Strain Gravebloom | 3.0 |
| Electric Callboy The Scene | 3.5 |
| Enter Shikari The Spark | 3.5 |
| The Tidal Sleep Be Water | 4.0 |
| Adventurer Sacred Grove | 4.0 |
| Marilyn Manson Heaven Upside Down | 3.5 |
| He continues the course of the last record, without getting as epic as it was back then. Still fine music though, if you condone the lyrics. |
| Volumes Different Animals | 3.0 |
| Kingdom of Giants All the Hell You've Got to Spare | 4.0 |
| In Hearts Wake Ark | 4.0 |
| August Burns Red Phantom Anthem | 4.0 |
| Wolf and Bear Everything Is Going Grey | 3.5 |
| Lights Skin and Earth | 4.0 |
| House Vs. Hurricane Filth | 2.5 |
| Conveyer No Future | 3.5 |
| Oceano Revelation | 3.0 |
| Foo Fighters Concrete and Gold | 2.5 |
| Neck Deep The Peace And The Panic | 3.5 |
| Tilian Patient | 3.5 |
| Sleeping With Sirens Gossip | 2.5 |
| Emarosa 131 (Reimagined) | 2.0 |
| Counterparts You're Not You Anymore | 4.0 |
| Circa Survive The Amulet | 4.5 |
| Angels and Airwaves We Don't Need to Whisper | 3.5 |
| Angels and Airwaves We Don't Need to Whisper Acoustic EP | 3.5 |
| Casper Lang lebe der Tod | 2.5 |
| Strawberry Girls Italian Ghosts (Re-Recorded) | 3.0 |
| Scale the Summit In a World of Fear | 3.5 |
| PVRIS All We Know of Heaven, All We Need of Hell | 3.0 |
| Oceans Ate Alaska Hikari | 3.5 |
| Young Lions Mr. Spaceman | 4.5 |
| Hundredth Rare | 3.0 |
| Snoop Dogg Neva Left | 3.0 |
| Eidola To Speak, to Listen | 4.5 |
| Wage War Deadweight | 3.5 |
| Falling in Reverse Coming Home | 3.5 |
| Oddly enough, this record is fairly good. Interesting songwriting with some nice ideas here and there...overall their best output for sure. 3.5 for now, dunno about 4.0 though. |
| Miss May I Shadows Inside | 3.5 |
| Foster the People Sacred Hearts Club | 4.0 |
| The Menzingers After the Party | 2.5 |
| Greeley Estates Calling All The Hopeless | 3.5 |
| To Speak Of Wolves Dead in the Shadow | 3.0 |
| Bergthron Jagdheim | 3.0 |
| Cirith Gorgor Onwards to the Spectral Defile | 3.5 |
| Septicflesh The Great Mass | 4.0 |
| Crom The Fallen Beauty | 2.0 |
| Dayseeker Dreaming Is Sinking /// Waking Is Rising | 4.5 |
| Currents The Place I Feel Safest | 3.5 |
| Anathema The Optimist | 3.5 |
| Picturesque Back to Beautiful | 4.5 |
| Picturesque Monstrous Things | 4.0 |
| CHON Homey | 3.0 |
| Our Last Night Selective Hearing | 2.5 |
| Envy On The Coast Ritual | 4.0 |
| Silverstein Dead Reflection | 3.5 |
| Ed Sheeran ÷ | 3.5 |
| Conveyer When Given Time To Grow | 4.0 |
| Rise Against Wolves | 4.0 |
| Phoenix (FRA) Ti Amo | 3.5 |
| Portugal. The Man Woodstock | 3.5 |
| Obey the Brave Mad Seasons | 3.0 |
| Dead Letter Circus The Endless Mile | 4.0 |
| Soundtrack (Film) Guardians of the Galaxy: Awesome Mix Vol. 2 | 4.0 |
| Sithu Aye Senpai EP II: The Noticing | 4.5 |
| Excellent riffing. In 2017, instrumental music won't get better than this (except maybe Strawberry Girls drop another bomb). |
| Pictures of Vernon Pictures Of Vernon | 4.5 |
| Gideon Cold | 3.5 |
| Better than Calloused, worse than Milestone. ~3.75 for me. |
| A Lot Like Birds DIVISI | 3.5 |
| This Wild Life Low Tides | 3.0 |
| This Wild Life Clouded | 3.5 |
| Malevolent Creation The Fine Art of Murder | 2.5 |
| Korpiklaani Tervaskanto | 3.0 |
| The Maine Lovely Little Lonely | 3.0 |
| Incubus (USA-CA) 8 | 3.5 |
| Saosin Come Close | 3.5 |
| While She Sleeps You Are We | 4.0 |
| Bilderbuch Schick Schock | 3.5 |
| Stolas Stolas | 3.5 |
| Jamiroquai Automaton | 2.5 |
| Acres In Sickness and Health | 3.0 |
| Mallory Knox Wired | 3.5 |
| Hearts Like Lions If I Never Speak Again | 4.0 |
| Eisley I'm Only Dreaming | 2.5 |
| Fit for an Autopsy The Great Collapse | 2.5 |
| The Northern Solstice | 4.0 |
| Perspectives Stay For Those Who Care | 3.5 |
| Northlane Mesmer | 3.5 |
| Emmure Look At Yourself | 3.5 |
| Droughts Stay Behind | 4.0 |
| Ghost Key If I Don't Make It | 3.5 |
| Lorna Shore Flesh Coffin | 3.5 |
| Suicide Silence Suicide Silence | 1.0 |
| Casey Fade | 3.5 |
| Aversions Crown Xenocide | 3.5 |
| Young Lions Blue Isla | 3.0 |
| Linkin Park One More Light | 2.0 |
| Minus the Bear VOIDS | 4.0 |
| Saviour Let Me Leave | 3.5 |
| Deaf Havana All These Countless Nights | 3.0 |
| dangerkids Blacklist_ | 3.5 |
| An almost mature output. Certainly an improvement from Collapse in every way. |
| Betraying the Martyrs The Resilient | 4.0 |
| The Dear Hunter Act V: Hymns with the Devil in Confessional | 3.5 |
| Palisades Palisades | 3.5 |
| Devin Shelton Sensation | 1.5 |
| Polar No Cure No Saviour | 3.5 |
| We the Wild From The Cities We Fled | 3.5 |
| 65daysofstatic No Man's Sky: Music for an Infinite... | 3.5 |
| Run the Jewels Run the Jewels 3 | 3.5 |
| Sienna Skies A Darker Shade of Truth | 3.0 |
| Sienna Skies Seasons | 3.5 |
| The Deluxe Reissue really elevates it. These last tracks are amazing, damn. |
| The Hotelier Goodness | 3.5 |
| Old Gray Slow Burn | 3.0 |
| Animals As Leaders The Madness of Many | 3.0 |
| Wolves at the Gate Types & Shadows | 4.0 |
| Alesana Confessions | 3.5 |
| badXchannels WHYDFML | 3.5 |
| The Black Queen Fever Daydream | 4.0 |
| Everyone Dies In Utah Everyone Dies In Utah | 3.5 |
| Rage Against the Machine The Battle of Los Angeles | 5.0 |
| The Devil Wears Prada Transit Blues | 4.5 |
| Metallica Hardwired...To Self-Destruct | 3.5 |
| Storm The Sky Sin Will Find You | 3.5 |
| Cane Hill Smile | 2.0 |
| The Color Morale Desolate Divine | 3.5 |
| I Prevail Lifelines | 3.5 |
| who is snide and why is he even relevant for core lol. 0.5k-ratings circlejerk inc. |
| The Narrative Golden Silence | 3.5 |
| Tinashe Nightride | 3.5 |
| Korn Untitled | 3.0 |
| Dayshell Nexus | 4.0 |
| Fit for a King Deathgrip | 4.0 |
| Jimmy Eat World Integrity Blues | 3.5 |
| Periphery Periphery III: Select Difficulty | 3.5 |
| Mayday Parade Tales Told By Dead Friends | 3.5 |
| Mayday Parade Tales Told By Dead Friends (Anniversary) | 3.5 |
| Above Us The Waves (GR) Anchors Aweigh | 2.5 |
| A Feast For Kings Hell On Earth | 3.5 |
| Kings of Leon Walls | 3.5 |
| Ghost/Aeon Metanoia | 3.5 |
| Memphis May Fire This Light I Hold | 3.5 |
| Travis The Man Who | 3.5 |
| Coldplay Mylo Xyloto | 3.0 |
| Coldplay X&Y | 4.0 |
| Coldplay A Head Full of Dreams | 2.0 |
| Korn The Serenity of Suffering | 3.0 |
| Silverstein I Am Alive In Everything I Touch | 3.0 |
| Yellowcard Yellowcard | 4.5 |
| Alter Bridge The Last Hero | 3.5 |
| Gift Giver Daddy Issues EP | 1.0 |
| Gift Giver Shitlife | 1.0 |
| I the Mighty Oil In Water | 3.5 |
| Artifex Pereo Passengers | 3.0 |
| Kurt Travis Split EP | 4.0 |
| My god. "Grow" might easily be one of the best songs of 2016. And "Stay Close" is also wonderful. Sad to hear that the vocal track of "Stay Please" is mixed so low...could have been 4.5-material. Anyway, new stuff from Kurt is always good. Hoping for Everything is Beautiful pt.2 someday! |
| Comrades Lone/Grey | 3.5 |
| Anthony Green Pixie Queen | 3.0 |
| Balance and Composure Light We Made | 3.5 |
| Stick to Your Guns Better Ash Than Dust | 4.0 |
| Breakdown of Sanity Coexistence | 4.0 |
| Norma Jean Polar Similar | 4.0 |
| Dance Gavin Dance Mothership | 4.0 |
| sadly but certainly my least favourite DGD LP so far. it's not bad by any means, but they rsimply wanted too much at once with this one. completely random, loony tracks that don't rfit like young robot, flossie dickey bounce(!) or petting zoo justice; mellow tilian rsoloartist-songs like here comes the winner(!) or exposed; balladesque songs like man of rthe year; or stadium-singalong-baits like frozen one/chocolate jackalope. god damn. if it rweren't for good old DGD epicness like in chucky..., deception, philosopher king or rinspire the liars, I would think this is just a hasty output, rushed by studio bosses in rthe background. - next time more time will! make us wait and make it worth the wait. |
| The Amity Affliction This Could Be Heartbreak | 3.5 |
| Twelve Foot Ninja Outlier | 2.5 |
| La Dispute Tiny Dots | 3.0 |
| FJORT Kontakt | 4.0 |
| A Day To Remember Bad Vibrations | 3.5 |
| Ought More Than Any Other Day | 3.5 |
| Moose Blood Blush | 4.0 |
| Aaron Gillespie Out of the Badlands | 2.5 |
| Wow, that was bland. A bunch of covers and many tracks just being samey Bon Jovi-fakes? Gosh, Aaron. Please get your act together and publish some great, upbeat drumwork again. |
| Russian Circles Guidance | 4.0 |
| Rae Sremmurd SremmLife 2 | 3.5 |
| Real Friends The Home Inside My Head | 3.5 |
| Real Friends Put Yourself Back Together | 3.5 |
| The 1975 I Like It When You Sleep, For You Are So Beautiful Yet So Unaware of It | 2.0 |
| After the Burial Dig Deep | 4.0 |
| Thank You Scientist Stranger Heads Prevail | 4.0 |
| Sianvar Stay Lost | 4.5 |
| O'Brother Endless Light | 4.0 |
| TTNG Disappointment Island | 4.0 |
| Frameworks Smother | 4.0 |
| Forevermore Integral | 4.0 |
| Trade Wind You Make Everything Disappear | 3.5 |
| Invent Animate Stillworld | 5.0 |
| Sithu Aye Set Course for Andromeda | 3.5 |
| Silent Planet Everything Was Sound | 4.0 |
| Night Verses Into the Vanishing Light | 4.0 |
| Biffy Clyro Ellipsis | 3.0 |
| Emarosa 131 | 3.5 |
| Basement Promise Everything | 2.0 |
| Lights Little Machines | 4.0 |
| blink-182 California | 2.5 |
| Normandie Inguz | 3.5 |
| Wolf & Bear X Adventurer Wolf & Bear X Adventurer | 3.5 |
| Gates (USA-NJ) Parallel Lives | 3.5 |
| Circle of Contempt Structures for Creation | 3.5 |
| Stuck Mojo Here Come the Infidels | 4.0 |
stuck mojo return after eight years of silence and deliver their best record since snappin'
necks. a little muddy in the middle, but the rest is more than solid rap metal like in the
good old days. be sure to check out the title track. |
| Hotel Books Run Wild, Stay Alive | 3.5 |
| Hail the Sun Culture Scars | 4.5 |
| Imho not deserving the hate. It's more than on par with Wake. "Body Damage" may be one of their best songs of all time and bridges like in "Burn Nice and Slow (The Formative Years)" even bring tears on Will Swans face for all I know. Damn it's good. Please give it another spin guys! |
| letlive. If I'm the Devil... | 3.5 |
| Autechre elseq 5 | 3.5 |
| Autechre elseq 4 | 3.5 |
| Autechre elseq 2 | 4.0 |
| Autechre elseq 1 | 4.0 |
| Autechre elseq 3 | 4.5 |
| Autechre elseq 1-5 | 4.5 |
| I See Stars Treehouse | 4.5 |
| Napoleon Newborn Mind | 3.5 |
| Beartooth Aggressive | 3.5 |
| Greaver The Faun | 4.0 |
| Halfpace Me Against I | 4.0 |
| Thrice The Alchemy Index Vols. I & II | 4.0 |
| Sleeping With Sirens Live and Unplugged | 3.5 |
| Thrice To Be Everywhere Is to Be Nowhere | 4.5 |
| Issues Headspace | 3.5 |
| Architects All Our Gods Have Abandoned Us | 4.5 |
| Pierce the Veil Misadventures | 3.5 |
| Craig Owens Las Vegas Sessions | 3.0 |
| Saosin Along the Shadow | 4.0 |
| Dance Gavin Dance Tree City Sessions | 4.5 |
| Outline In Color Struggle | 3.0 |
| It's simply not enough anymore. I've heard this kind of record a billion times by now. Stagnation sometimes is great in a sense, but Outline in Color have never been the Michael Jordan of their game anyway, so....a "meh" record with some occasional ups here and there. Merciful 3 points. |
| Polaris The Guilt & The Grief | 3.5 |
| Killswitch Engage Incarnate | 4.0 |
| The Fall of Troy OK | 3.5 |
| Angels and Airwaves Chasing Shadows | 3.5 |
| Northlane and In Hearts Wake Equinox | 4.0 |
| Panic! at the Disco Death of a Bachelor | 4.0 |
| Asking Alexandria The Black | 3.5 |
| Polyenso Pure In The Plastic | 3.5 |
| ERRA Drift | 4.5 |
| Hands Like Houses Dissonants | 4.0 |
| The Word Alive Dark Matter | 3.5 |
| Yashin Put Your Hands Where I Can See Them | 3.5 |
| Panopticon Autumn Eternal | 4.5 |
| Ghost Bath Moonlover | 2.0 |
| Deathspell Omega Paracletus | 1.0 |
| Enslaved In Times | 1.0 |
| Ethereal Shroud They Became the Falling Ash | 2.5 |
| Marduk Frontschwein | 2.5 |
| Midnight Odyssey Shards of Silver Fade | 2.0 |
| Krallice Ygg Huur | 2.0 |
| Thantifaxath Sacred White Noise | 4.0 |
| Downfall of Nur Umbras de Barbagia | 4.5 |
| Nightbringer Ego Dominus Tuus | 3.5 |
| Lychgate An Antidote for the Glass Pill | 2.0 |
| Erraunt The Portent | 3.0 |
| Leviathan Scar Sighted | 3.0 |
| Leviathan Massive Conspiracy Against All Life | 2.0 |
| Akhlys The Dreaming I | 4.5 |
| Surroundings Of Bane, Burden & Change | 4.5 |
| Surroundings (AU) Of Bane, Burden & Change | 4.5 |
| Textures Drawing Circles | 3.5 |
| Textures Phenotype | 2.5 |
| Adept Sleepless | 4.0 |
| Dry Kill Logic The Dead and Dreaming | 4.0 |
| State Champs Around the World and Back | 3.0 |
| State Champs The Finer Things | 3.5 |
| Landscapes Life Gone Wrong | 4.0 |
| SSIO 0,9 | 4.0 |
| Justin Bieber Purpose | 4.0 |
| The World Is a Beautiful Place... Harmlessness | 4.0 |
| Hotel Books Run Wild, Young Beauty | 3.0 |
| From First to Last Dead Trees | 3.0 |
| Dream On Dreamer Songs of Solitude | 3.5 |
| Ling Tosite Sigure es or s | 3.5 |
| Before Their Eyes Midwest Modesty | 4.0 |
| SECRETS Everything That Got Us Here | 4.0 |
| their best output yet. 2015's EP was shit, this in comparison is gold though. really some great melodies. |
| Foxing Dealer | 4.5 |
| Grimes Art Angels | 3.5 |
| Tilian Perfect Enemy | 3.5 |
| Ellie Goulding Delirium | 3.0 |
| Picturesque Picturesque EP | 4.0 |
| Bushido Carlo Cokxxx Nutten 3 | 3.0 |
| Selfmade Records Chronik 3 | 4.0 |
| Bushido & Shindy Cla$$ic | 3.5 |
| SSIO B.B.U.M.S.S.N. | 4.5 |
| Cloudkicker Woum | 3.5 |
| Defeater Abandoned | 4.0 |
| Strawberry Girls American Graffiti | 4.0 |
| Endon Mama | 4.0 |
| Dream On Dreamer Loveless | 4.0 |
| Dream On Dreamer Hope | 3.5 |
| Dream On Dreamer Heartbound | 3.5 |
| Novelists Souvenirs | 4.5 |
| The Plot In You Happiness in Self Destruction | 4.5 |
| The Saddest Landscape Darkness Forgives | 4.0 |
| Shreddy Krueger Deeper Darker | 5.0 |
| Like Moths to Flames The Dying Things We Live For | 4.0 |
| LGND LGND | 3.0 |
| Sean Hall Terrestrial | 3.5 |
| Born of Osiris Soul Sphere | 3.0 |
| I See Stars Phases | 4.5 |
| Hundredth Free | 4.0 |
| Machine Gun Kelly General Admission | 4.0 |
| Polyenso EP 1 | 4.0 |
| Lydia Run Wild | 4.0 |
| loving it. their best since Illuminate. give it time and it will grow on you, I promise. |
| Elitist Elitist | 3.0 |
| Hail the Sun Pow! Right in the Kisser! | 3.5 |
| Mayday Parade Black Lines | 3.0 |
| mature? yes. but catchy? not really. mayday parade sold their soul to show progress, but I really don't know if this is a good thing for a band that has a legendary-status in jolly pop punk. I'd rather have another Lesson in Romantics than this bleak gloomfest.rtl;dr: it's a good record still, but it's just not for me or for oldschool MP-fans I guess. |
| Disturbed Immortalized | 3.0 |
| Axis Show Your Greed | 3.5 |
| Landon Tewers Ai640 | 2.5 |
| P.O.D. The Awakening | 3.5 |
| A Skylit Drive ASD | 3.5 |
| For Today Wake | 4.0 |
| Scale the Summit V | 3.5 |
| Bjork Vulnicura | 4.5 |
| Better Off Milk | 3.5 |
| City and Colour If I Should Go Before You | 4.0 |
| Fit for a King Descendants | 3.5 |
| Atreyu Long Live | 3.5 |
| K.I.Z. Hurra die Welt geht unter | 4.0 |
| Deichkind Niveau Weshalb Warum | 3.5 |
| Deichkind Befehl von ganz unten | 2.5 |
| Parkway Drive Ire | 3.5 |
| Bring Me the Horizon That's the Spirit | 5.0 |
| Dealey Plaza Deliver Us | 3.5 |
| Minus the Bear Interpretaciones Del Oso | 2.5 |
| Minus the Bear This is What I Know About Being Gigantic | 3.5 |
| Minus the Bear Hold Me Down | 4.0 |
| Minus the Bear They Make Beer Commercials Like This | 4.0 |
| Slipknot Vol. 3: The Subliminal Verses | 4.0 |
| ISIS In the Absence of Truth | 4.0 |
| Neurosis Given to the Rising | 4.0 |
| Mono Hymn to the Immortal Wind | 3.5 |
| This Will Destroy You Young Mountain | 3.5 |
| I the Mighty Connector | 4.5 |
| Emarosa This Is Your Way Out | 3.5 |
| Emarosa Versus (Reimagined) | 4.0 |
| Rain City Drive Routine Breathing | 4.5 |
| Dead Letter Circus Aesthesis | 3.5 |
| Neck Deep Life's Not Out To Get You | 3.5 |
| Empires Fade The Edge Of Existence | 4.0 |
| For All Eternity Metanoia | 3.5 |
| Monster Magnet 4-Way Diablo | 3.0 |
| Northlane Node | 4.0 |
| Chunk! No, Captain Chunk! Get Lost, Find Yourself | 3.5 |
| Chunk! No, Captain Chunk! Pardon My French | 3.5 |
| God Is an Astronaut Helios/Erebus | 4.0 |
| their best work to date. it's close to a 4.5. really atmospheric and well laid-out tunes. also the song 'Helios Erebus' itself is a masterpiece. check it out! |
| Feed Her to the Sharks Fortitude | 3.0 |
| Counterparts Tragedy Will Find Us | 4.0 |
| Too Close to Touch Nerve Endings | 2.5 |
| Puddle of Mudd Come Clean | 4.0 |
| Being as an Ocean Being As An Ocean | 4.0 |
| Rivalries Translation Lost | 3.0 |
| P.O.D. SoCal Sessions | 3.0 |
| Haste the Day Coward | 4.5 |
| Absztrakkt Bodhiguard | 3.5 |
| Of Virtue Salvation | 5.0 |
| Blind Witness I Am Hell | 4.0 |
| Eidola Degeneraterra | 4.0 |
| Jarrod Alonge Beating a Dead Horse | 4.5 |
| Taylor Swift 1989 | 4.5 |
| Taylor Swift Red | 3.0 |
| August Burns Red Found in Far Away Places | 3.5 |
| We Came As Romans We Came As Romans | 2.5 |
| Our Last Night Younger Dreams | 4.0 |
| Dayseeker Origin | 4.0 |
| Brand New Deja Entendu | 3.5 |
| Walking With Strangers Terra | 4.0 |
| Amazing record. Their best work to date. |
| ASAP Rocky At.Long.Last.A$AP | 3.0 |
| For All Eternity Beyond the Gates | 4.0 |
| Muse Drones | 3.5 |
| Excision Codename X | 3.5 |
| Zedd True Colors | 3.5 |
| Devin Shelton Life And Death | 2.0 |
| Inventure Parallel || Design | 3.0 |
| Emery You Were Never Alone | 4.0 |
| CHON Grow | 3.5 |
| Real Friends More Acoustic Songs | 3.0 |
| Twenty One Pilots Blurryface | 3.5 |
| The Story So Far The Story So Far | 3.0 |
| ALAZKA Values & Virtues | 4.0 |
| Idlehands Dena Mora | 3.5 |
Their old problem: no real hits. The sound is more In:Aviate-ish by now (which is fine), but
the vocal melodies and harmonies are all over the place again. No big choruses, no
catchiness...damn. It could have been huge. Circa Survive-huge.
Gotta wait for their next output then. |
| We Are The Ocean Ark | 3.5 |
| Three Days Grace Human | 3.0 |
| Forever Losing Sleep I Lost Myself Again | 4.5 |
| Conducting from the Grave Trials of the Forsaken | 1.0 |
| Four Year Strong Four Year Strong | 1.5 |
| Young and in the Way When Life Comes to Death | 3.0 |
| Dance Gavin Dance Instant Gratification | 4.5 |
| Frontside (PL) Zmierzch bogów. Pierwszy krok do mentalnej rewoluc | 3.5 |
| AWOLNATION Run | 3.0 |
| Make Them Suffer Neverbloom | 3.5 |
| The Narrative Just Say Yes | 2.5 |
| SECRETS Renditions | 2.0 |
| Polaris Dichotomy | 3.5 |
| While She Sleeps Brainwashed | 4.0 |
| Architects of Evolution Global | 4.5 |
| Jonny Craig The Le Cube Sessions | 2.5 |
| Veil of Maya Matriarch | 4.5 |
| have you heard "Mikasa"? XD oh. my. lord. these cleans, these innovative and amazing rbreakdowns, licks from outer space...everything. veil of maya - welcome to metalcore olymp. rthe record has to be a strong contender for AOTY, at least from a heavy, core-loving rperspective. |
| Sleeping With Sirens Madness | 3.0 |
| Max Richter Disconnect | 4.0 |
| Prose Go And Leave It All Like That | 3.0 |
| Gates (USA-NJ) Bloom and Breathe | 4.0 |
| Real Friends Maybe This Place Is the Same and We're Just Changing | 3.5 |
| As Oceans Willows | 4.0 |
| Traitors The Hate Campaign | 3.0 |
| Nasty Shokka | 3.5 |
| Nasty Aggression | 4.0 |
| Casper Hin Zur Sonne | 3.0 |
| Broadway Contexture: Gods, Men & The Infinite Cosmos | 4.0 |
| Make Do and Mend Don't Be Long | 3.0 |
| Falling in Reverse Just Like You | 3.5 |
| All That Remains The Order of Things | 2.5 |
| Danko Jones Fire Music | 3.0 |
| Rae Sremmurd SremmLife | 3.0 |
| Oceans Ate Alaska Lost Isles | 4.0 |
| Ghost Iris Anecdotes of Science & Soul | 4.5 |
| Steven Wilson Hand. Cannot. Erase. | 3.5 |
| Stick to Your Guns Disobedient | 4.0 |
| Cloudkicker Live with Intronaut | 4.5 |
| Mallory Knox Asymmetry | 4.0 |
| dangerkids collapse | 2.5 |
what fool have I been, tricking myself into thinking that other soundoffs could speak the
truth about certain pieces of music and that this particular cd could actually be good. man.
it isn't. it is merely a boring piece of standard metalcore with some rapping on it. yeah,
the MC does sound a little bit like mike shinoda - so what? this linkin park reference of
yours is just a distraction from the reality: that most of you haven't listened to classic
LP in a really long time; because hybrid theory, meteora & co eat this dangerkids record
alive and with ease. furthermore, I have heard at least fourty modern metalcore/post-
hardcore albums in the last two years that are far superior to this bland, boring, generic
and uncatchy dangerkids-mess. my goodness. just listen to our last night, memphis may fire,
palisades, dream on dreamer, issues, old woe is me etc etc. it's all the same, but better.
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now please get back on track and listen to "the real", good old linkin park again or at
least stop bothering with sub-par modern post-hardcore/metalcore mixes that can't keep up in
this already crowded genre. |
| Entities Novalis | 3.0 |
| Shokran Supreme Truth | 3.5 |
| Deftones Around the Fur | 3.5 |
| The Narrative The Narrative | 4.0 |
| Twenty One Pilots Vessel | 4.5 |
| Marilyn Manson The Pale Emperor | 4.5 |
| Papa Roach F.E.A.R. | 3.0 |
| Papa Roach Getting Away With Murder | 4.0 |
| Novelists Demos (2013–2014) | 4.0 |
| A Skylit Drive Rise: Ascension | 3.0 |
| Funeral for a Friend Chapter and Verse | 4.0 |
| Fall Out Boy American Beauty/American Psycho | 3.0 |
| Ghost Atlas Immortal Youth | 3.5 |
| It Prevails Perdition | 4.5 |
| Raised Fist From the North | 2.5 |
| Enter Shikari The Mindsweep | 3.0 |
| Storm The Sky Permanence | 3.5 |
| Palisades Mind Games | 3.5 |
| Rise Of The Northstar Welcame | 3.0 |
| Flying Lotus You're Dead! | 3.5 |
| Outlaw Most Wanted | 3.0 |
| Love, Robot B.A.D. | 3.0 |
| Tyler Carter Leave Your Love | 3.5 |
| Carousel Kings Unity | 3.5 |
| Emmure Eternal Enemies | 3.5 |
| Tilian Future Friends | 3.5 |
| The Cinema Talking In Your Sleep | 4.0 |
| Attila Guilty Pleasure | 3.5 |
| Nicki Minaj The Pinkprint | 3.0 |
| Whether, I Catalyst | 3.0 |
| Angels and Airwaves The Dream Walker | 3.0 |
| Pink Floyd The Endless River | 3.5 |
| The World Is a Beautiful Place... Between Bodies | 3.0 |
| He Is Legend Heavy Fruit | 3.5 |
| Climates Body Clocks | 3.5 |
| As Blood Runs Black Ground Zero | 2.5 |
| Job for a Cowboy Sun Eater | 3.5 |
| Dayseeker What It Means to Be Defeated | 3.5 |
| Silbermond Himmel auf | 3.5 |
| Silbermond Nichts passiert | 4.5 |
| Silbermond Laut gedacht | 3.5 |
| Stolas Allomaternal | 3.5 |
| Silbermond Verschwende deine Zeit | 4.0 |
| Juli Insel | 4.5 |
| Kingdom of Giants Ground Culture | 4.0 |
| Issues Diamond Dreams | 3.5 |
| Circa Survive Descensus | 4.0 |
| Transit Joyride | 4.0 |
| Brent Walsh 7 | 3.5 |
| Copeland Ixora | 4.0 |
| Nickelback No Fixed Address | 2.0 |
| Unearth Watchers of Rule | 3.5 |
| Unearth Darkness in the Light | 3.5 |
| Foo Fighters Sonic Highways | 3.0 |
| ERRA Moments of Clarity | 3.5 |
| The Hotelier Home, Like NoPlace Is There | 4.0 |
| The Story So Far Songs Of | 3.5 |
| Silent Planet The Night God Slept | 4.0 |
| The Ghost Inside Dear Youth | 4.0 |
| PVRIS White Noise | 3.5 |
| Heart in Hand A Beautiful White | 5.0 |
| Hand of Mercy Resolve | 3.5 |
| State Champs The Acoustic Things | 3.0 |
| Kollegah King | 3.0 |
| Shindy FUCKBITCHESGETMONEY | 3.5 |
| Shindy NWA | 4.0 |
| Run the Jewels Run the Jewels 2 | 3.5 |
| There For Tomorrow Pages | 3.5 |
| There For Tomorrow Nightscape | 4.0 |
| Fit for a King Slave to Nothing | 4.0 |
| Gideon Calloused | 3.5 |
| Yellowcard Lift a Sail | 4.0 |
| Minus the Bear Lost Loves | 3.5 |
| Tiny Moving Parts Pleasant Living | 3.5 |
| Kathleen Mae On Earth As It Is In Heaven | 3.0 |
| Matty Mullins Matty Mullins | 3.0 |
| Hands Like Houses Reimagine | 3.5 |
| Finch Back to Oblivion | 4.0 |
| Helia The Great Divide | 3.5 |
| Exotype Exotype | 3.5 |
| Capture Reign of Terror | 3.5 |
| Heartist Feeding Fiction | 4.0 |
| Come the Dawn Light of the World | 3.5 |
| Favorite Weapon Sixty Saragossa | 3.5 |
| Iselia II: Dawn | 3.5 |
| Self Defense Family Duets | 3.5 |
| Famous Last Words Council Of The Dead | 3.0 |
| Steve Aoki Neon Future I | 2.0 |
| In Flames Siren Charms | 3.0 |
| The Contortionist Language | 3.0 |
| Hail the Sun Wake | 4.0 |
| Trophy Scars Holy Vacants | 4.0 |
| Suicide Silence You Can't Stop Me | 3.0 |
| The Helix Nebula Meridian | 4.0 |
| I Wish We Were Robots I Wish We Were Robots | 2.5 |
| Sleepwave Broken Compass | 3.5 |
| Anathema Distant Satellites | 4.0 |
| Texas in July Bloodwork | 4.0 |
| my goodness! |
| Obey the Brave Salvation | 3.5 |
| Dead Letter Circus Stand Apart | 4.0 |
| The New Age Think Too Much; Feel Too Little | 4.0 |
| Volumes No Sleep | 3.0 |
| Soundtrack (Film) Pulp Fiction | 4.5 |
| Soundtrack (Film) The Matrix | 5.0 |
| Soundtrack (Film) Queen of the damned | 3.5 |
| Soundtrack (Film) Blade 2 | 4.0 |
| Soundtrack (Film) Ocean's 12 OST | 4.5 |
| Soundtrack (Film) Guardians of the Galaxy: Awesome Mix Vol. 1 | 4.5 |
| Emarosa Versus | 3.5 |
| Chelsea Grin Ashes To Ashes | 4.0 |
| Ill Nino Till Death, La Familia | 3.0 |
| Within the Ruins Phenomena | 3.5 |
| Face Your Maker Bloodtides | 3.5 |
| The Color Morale Hold On Pain Ends | 3.5 |
| Me vs Hero I'm Completely Fine | 3.5 |
| This Will Destroy You Another Language | 4.0 |
| Outline In Color Masks | 3.5 |
| Invent Animate Everchanger | 4.5 |
no quantum flux, but a quantum leap. haha.
no seriously, it's huge. it's like erra fucking with northlane and having a baby child called errlane. or northra. there are even volumes-vibes over here...
man, I love this record. stellar modern metalcore-release. |
| Godsmack 1000hp | 3.0 |
| Lana Del Rey Ultraviolence | 3.0 |
| Zomboy The Outbreak | 2.5 |
| Taken And They Slept | 3.5 |
| The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus 4 | 2.5 |
| ASAP Rocky LONG.LIVE.A$AP | 3.0 |
| ASAP Rocky Live.Love.A$AP. | 4.0 |
| Kathleen Mae Clandestine | 4.0 |
| downset. One Blood | 4.0 |
| a comeback after 10 years of abstinence? holy shit, that is one hell of a task. but downset. are back with full force, gathering the original lineup with shouter Rey and bringing (back) the pain, just like in the old days. easiest 4.0 of my life, nostalgia bonus included. |
| Keyes Wandermere | 3.5 |
| Guest House I'll Get Over It I Guess | 4.0 |
| Silent Screams Hope for Now | 4.0 |
| I used to hate them but this release completely took me by surprise. The cleans - altough cheesy - have gotten decidedly better, the guitar work chugs right through your brain and the growls are crisp and not overproduced. One of the easiest and most fun listens of this year, or, in other words: THE surprise of 2014 so far. |
| Forevermore Telos | 3.5 |
| no sojourner, but still fine. |
| Forevermore Sojourner | 4.0 |
| Upon a Burning Body The World Is My Enemy Now | 3.0 |
| Our Last Night Oak Island Acoustic | 3.5 |
| Secret Band Secret Band | 3.5 |
| Miss May I Rise of the Lion | 3.0 |
| Three Crowns Weathered | 4.0 |
| Monuments (UK) The Amanuensis | 3.5 |
| Betraying the Martyrs Phantom | 3.5 |
| I, the Breather Life Reaper | 4.0 |
| Nero Welcome Reality | 3.5 |
| 50 Cent Animal Ambition | 2.0 |
| Anberlin Lowborn | 3.5 |
| Everley The Tyger and the Lamb | 4.0 |
| Confession Life and Death | 3.5 |
| Jason Lancaster As You Are | 4.0 |
| Ed Sheeran x | 3.0 |
| Self Defense Family Try Me | 4.0 |
| Neck Deep Rain in July | 3.5 |
| Neck Deep A History of Bad Decisions | 3.0 |
| Linkin Park The Hunting Party | 3.5 |
| More Than Life What's Left of Me | 4.0 |
| Try Me/Love Me Death | 3.0 |
| Nightmares Suspiria | 3.5 |
| Beartooth Disgusting | 3.5 |
| For All Those Sleeping Incomplete Me | 3.0 |
| The Word Alive Real. | 3.5 |
| Conditions Missing Hours | 3.0 |
| Bushido Sonny Black | 2.5 |
| Rain City Drive Through Art We Are All Equals | 4.5 |
| record rules, stop bitchin'. "Starving For Friends" may possibly be the best post-hardcore song in a really long time - "Those Who Stand For Nothing Fall For Everything" falls just a little bit short in that regard. also, who of you guys knew that their drummer was in Four Letter Lie and that jonnys sister can sing too, hm? I bet no one. now hush hush, off with you to hipster-hateland. and don't forget to hide your precious macbooks, because the king is finally back on track. |
| Artifex Pereo Time in Place | 4.0 |
| The Amity Affliction Let the Ocean Take Me | 3.5 |
| Goodtime Boys Rain | 3.5 |
| Visitors BLUESHIFT | 3.0 |
| Black Tongue Born Hanged | 3.0 |
| Sworn In The Death Card | 2.5 |
| Killwhitneydead Suffer My Wrath | 3.5 |
| fun as usual. still digging the movie quotes. a guilty pleasure. |
| Secret Band Secret Band EP (Remastered) | 4.0 |
| Animals As Leaders The Joy of Motion | 3.5 |
| In Hearts Wake Earthwalker | 3.5 |
| Kurt Travis Everything Is Beautiful | 4.5 |
| Bane Don't Wait Up | 3.5 |
| Coldplay Ghost Stories | 4.0 |
| Miss Fortune A Spark To Believe | 3.5 |
| surprisingly enjoyable. digging his vocals, he's kind of a jonny craig-heir. |
| Closure in Moscow Pink Lemonade | 3.5 |
| Kublai Khan TX Balancing Survival and Happiness | 3.0 |
| Martyr Defiled No Hope No Morality | 3.5 |
| 2014 - 'the year without good deathcore releases' is no more. No Hope No Morality marks the first bearable effort, even if it is just a decent rip-off of some old Suicide Silence and Chelsea Grin material. Tl;dr: fuck me, it's still enjoyable. DEMONS IN THE MIST brings the pain. |
| Neck Deep Wishful Thinking | 4.0 |
| Structures Life Through a Window | 3.0 |
| Matter Teraphim | 4.0 |
| Bury Tomorrow Runes | 3.5 |
| Being as an Ocean How We Both Wondrously Perish | 3.5 |
| Close Your Eyes Prepackaged Hope | 3.0 |
| Skrillex Recess | 2.5 |
| his personal lowlight so far. sad to see. |
| Adestria Gilded Hearts | 3.5 |
| tracks 5-9 rule. still no second CHAPTERS though. |
| Nas Illmatic XX | 3.5 |
| Maps and Atlases Perch Patchwork | 1.5 |
| Hawthorne Heights The Silence in Black and White (Acoustic) | 2.0 |
| Hundredth Resist | 4.0 |
| Galactic Pegasus Mirage | 3.0 |
| Elenora Luna Amante | 3.0 |
| Katatonia Kocytean | 3.5 |
| Jamie's Elsewhere Rebel - Revive | 3.0 |
| The Seeking Yours Forever | 3.0 |
| Clipse Hell Hath No Fury | 3.0 |
| Genesis Invisible Touch | 3.5 |
| Whether, I Dreamcatcher | 2.0 |
| The Used Imaginary Enemy | 3.0 |
| Acres Solace | 4.0 |
| Alesana The Decade EP | 3.5 |
| Chiodos Devil | 3.5 |
| For the Fallen Dreams Heavy Hearts | 4.0 |
| Azriel The Miles Between | 3.5 |
| XTRMST XTRMST | 3.0 |
| The Overseer Rest and Let Go | 4.0 |
| Taking Back Sunday Happiness Is | 3.5 |
| Moose Blood Moving Home | 3.0 |
| Like Wolves Prey For The Weak | 3.0 |
| Artist Vs Poet Sake Of Love | 3.0 |
| Memphis May Fire Unconditional | 3.5 |
| Foster the People Supermodel | 3.5 |
| La Dispute Rooms of the House | 4.0 |
| Intervals A Voice Within | 4.0 |
| The Rolling Stones Forty Licks | 4.5 |
| Carnifex Die Without Hope | 2.5 |
| Aside from the closer, this is by far the most boring Deathcore record I have heard in the last 5+ years. If somebody really thinks this is any good, I would give him the well-meant advice to stop listening to bullshit and to try out really outstanding deathcore CDs instead, like for instance Thy Art Is Murder's "Hate", Whitechapel's selftitled, Fit For An Autopsy's "The Process of Human Extermination" or the last three Impending Doom albums. And no, this is by no means generic Carnifex-hate, I used to enjoy these guys back then and have been following the whole genre since it's formation. |
| The Jezabels The Brink | 3.5 |
| CHON Woohoo! | 4.0 |
| We Are The In Crowd Weird Kids | 3.0 |
| After a somewhat slow and mediocre start (1-4), Weird Kids manages to deliver a really solid middle part (5-7) and finishes with a decent but not overly convincing ending section (9-10). All in all, this is neither 'must have' nor 'shit', which leaves We Are The In Crowd's newest CD plainly in the forgettable/skippable-segment, just slightly above the average Pop Punk these days. Ps. Yes - there is slight progression - but it simply isn't enough to reach the finish line this time. |
| Comeback Kid Die Knowing | 3.5 |
| Buried in Verona Faceless | 3.5 |
| Machine Head The Burning Red | 3.5 |
| Machine Head The More Things Change... | 4.0 |
| Pharrell Williams G I R L | 3.5 |
| Architects Lost Forever // Lost Together | 4.0 |
| You Me At Six Cavalier Youth | 4.0 |
| I really don't understand all the hate that this album gets. "Room To Breathe" is arguably the best song YMA6 has ever done and features an astonishingly great Dead Letter Circus-vibe. Also "Win Some, Lose Some" is an excellent track plus "Wild Ones" marks the best closer in a long, long while. Then we have tracks 1, 4, 7, 8, 9 who are just hella fun and bring spring right into your minds....idk. Ultimately there is just so little filler material (10, 11) that I would strongly recommend you to give Cavalier Youth another spin or two. Blend out the name(s) and reputation, just for once. |
| Arcade Fire Her | 4.0 |
| the tunes worked better in the movie, but screw this..it's fine music for itself too .) |
| Sithu Aye Pulse | 3.5 |
| Icarus the Owl Icarus the Owl | 4.0 |
| Throwdown Intolerance | 3.5 |
| Periphery Clear | 2.5 |
| Polar Shadowed by Vultures | 3.0 |
| Abandon All Ships Malocchio | 2.5 |
| Ice Nine Kills The Predator Becomes the Prey | 3.5 |
| Liferuiner Sons of Straight Edge | 3.5 |
| Capture Live Life | 2.5 |
| Issues Issues | 3.0 |
| CD is a good 3.25 but nothing compared to genre highlights like Palisades - Outcasts or Woe, Is Me - Numbers. Try again, generi(c)core. |
| Yuth Forever 10 Code | 3.0 |
| I Killed the Prom Queen Beloved | 3.5 |
| Prepared Like a Bride Overcomer | 4.5 |
| Tides of Man Young and Courageous | 3.5 |
| Ed Sheeran + | 3.0 |
| For Today Fight the Silence | 3.5 |
| Action Bronson Saaab Stories | 3.5 |
| Tim Hecker Virgins | 3.5 |
| The Heliocentrics 13 Degrees Of Reality | 3.0 |
| Okkyung Lee Ghil | 1.5 |
| Jakob Ullmann Fremde Zeit Addendum 4 | 1.0 |
| Dennis Johnson November | 3.5 |
| Dawn of Midi Dysnomia | 4.0 |
| Polar Bear Club Death Chorus | 3.5 |
| Old Gray An Autobiography | 3.0 |
| The Black Dahlia Murder Ritual | 3.0 |
| The Black Dahlia Murder Everblack | 2.5 |
| The Ocean Pelagial | 3.0 |
| Kvelertak Meir | 3.5 |
| Deafheaven Sunbather | 4.0 |
| Barrow Though I'm Alone | 1.5 |
| Dir En Grey The Unraveling | 3.0 |
| Ling Tosite Sigure I'mperfect | 3.5 |
| Electric Callboy We Are the Mess | 2.5 |
| Last Chance to Reason Level 3 | 2.0 |
| Modern Day Babylon Travelers | 4.0 |
| Placenta Missgunst und Neid | 3.5 |
| Gorillaz Demon Days | 3.5 |
| No Omega Shame | 3.5 |
| Comadre Comadre | 2.0 |
| Grader Underheaven | 4.0 |
| Soilwork The Living Infinite | 4.0 |
| Manners Pale Blue Light | 3.5 |
| Boiling Point, Family Portrait, Rent, Binge, Equinox, Living Will. Very nice. The rest feels a bit filler, but that's probably just me. A great record, very close to excellent. 3.75 for now |
| The World Is a Beautiful Place... Whenever, If Ever | 3.5 |
| Liferuiner Future Revisionists | 3.5 |
| Annisokay The Lucid Dream[er] | 3.5 |
| Of Mice and Men Restoring Force | 3.5 |
| Akissforjersey New Bodies | 4.0 |
| Empty Handed A Memory That No One Clings Onto | 3.0 |
| Tsaars Foreword | 2.0 |
| Serianna Define Me | 3.5 |
| Vampire Weekend Modern Vampires of the City | 3.5 |
| Volor Flex Sabo | 4.0 |
| Aerolyn Revive | 2.5 |
| Young Lions Burn | 4.0 |
| Coheed and Cambria The Afterman: Descension | 3.5 |
| Mogwai Rave Tapes | 2.5 |
| Transit Young New England | 3.0 |
| Man Overboard Heart Attack | 3.0 |
| Alkaline Trio My Shame Is True | 2.5 |
| After the Burial Wolves Within | 4.0 |
| Of Virtue Learn​/​Love | 4.0 |
| Sianvar Sianvar | 4.0 |
| Thees Uhlmann #2 | 1.0 |
| Persefone Spiritual Migration | 3.0 |
| 3.25 |
| Treebeard Stars Over Somber Skies | 4.5 |
| We The Kings Somewhere Somehow | 2.5 |
| I Exalt Vessel | 3.5 |
| Burial Rival Dealer | 4.0 |
| Evergreen Terrace Dead Horses | 3.5 |
| Transit Futures and Sutures | 4.0 |
| Volor Flex Unlit | 3.5 |
| Arsonists Get All the Girls Listen to the Color | 2.5 |
| kinda cool, but not as great as their last three. sad development for them, dunno. |
| Aristeia Demoralization Of The Luminary | 3.5 |
| State Faults Resonate/Desperate | 4.0 |
| Hacktivist Hacktivist | 3.5 |
| Moderat II | 3.0 |
| Ghost Atlas Gold Soul Coma | 3.5 |
| The Venetia Fair Every Sick, Disgusting Thought... | 3.5 |
| This Romantic Tragedy The Illusion of Choice | 3.5 |
| Vildhjarta Thousands Of Evils | 3.5 |
| I dislike the production on this one, it features way too many highs. Especially the cymbals sound terrible. Aside from that it's a nice CD and Vildhjarta showcases great, creative songwriting as always. |
| Portugal. The Man Evil Friends | 4.0 |
| Sorrow (UK) Dreamstone | 4.0 |
| Samsas Traum Tineoidea Oder: Die Folgen Einer Nacht | 1.0 |
| Samsas Traum A. Ura Und Das Schnecken.Haus | 1.0 |
| Daughter If You Leave | 4.0 |
| Touche Amore Is Survived By | 4.0 |
| Shai Hulud Reach Beyond the Sun | 3.0 |
| Trivium In Waves | 4.0 |
| Trivium Vengeance Falls | 2.0 |
| Heart of a Coward Severance | 3.5 |
| worse than Hope And Hindrance and really generic till the end, but I'm always in for a little chug, so..count me guilty. it's okay. 3.25 |
| Blessthefall Hollow Bodies | 4.0 |
| Sights and Sounds Silver Door | 3.5 |
| Impending Doom Death Will Reign | 4.0 |
| The Acacia Strain Above/Below | 3.5 |
| back on track. |
| The Devil Wears Prada 8:18 | 3.0 |
| Close Your Eyes Line in the Sand | 4.0 |
| Crossfaith Apocalyze | 2.5 |
| Our Last Night Oak Island | 4.0 |
| Anthony Green Young Legs | 3.0 |
| Get Scared Everyone's Out To Get Me | 3.5 |
| Various Artists (Punk) Punk Goes Christmas | 2.5 |
| Avril Lavigne Avril Lavigne | 3.5 |
| Humanity's Last Breath Humanity's Last Breath | 3.5 |
| Eminem The Marshall Mathers LP 2 | 4.0 |
| Linkin Park Recharged | 1.0 |
| Haftbefehl Blockplatin | 2.5 |
| City of Ghosts The Calm In The Current | 4.0 |
| Reflections exi(s)t | 3.0 |
| Shai Hulud Misanthropy Pure | 3.5 |
| Jefre Cantu-Ledesma Bloodstream Sermon | 3.5 |
| Protest the Hero Volition | 3.5 |
| Protest the Hero Scurrilous | 4.0 |
| A Lot Like Birds No Place | 4.0 |
| ERRA Augment | 4.0 |
| Worse than Impulse but still great. Guitarwork is stellar. |
| Kataklysm Shadows and Dust | 3.5 |
| The Browning Hypernova | 3.0 |
| Glass Cloud Perfect War Forever | 1.5 |
| The Doppelgangaz HARK | 3.5 |
| Breakdown of Sanity Perception | 4.0 |
| I See Stars New Demons | 3.5 |
| siding with thomas sanborn. "murder mitten", "we're not in kansas anymore" and "judith rules" are the best tracks on this record. it's easy to tell why: all cheesiness/catchiness aside, they have ambitious dubstep parts that technically outsmart the simple looped electro beats and samples on all the other tracks. you have to have your brain available to get this though, so some ppl might be out for this one. their best record to date. 3.75 |
| mewithoutYou It's All Crazy! It's All False! It's All A Dream! It's Alright! | 2.0 |
| Myka Relocate Lies to Light the Way | 3.0 |
| CHON Newborn Sun | 3.0 |
| Korn The Paradigm Shift | 2.5 |
| ***damn guys, calm down. Yes, Untitled was horrible and yes, The Path of Totality totally lay out of their comfort zone, but: See You On The Other Side definitely broadened their musical horizon plus Korn III was definitely not bad either, what ultimately leaves us with just two out of their four last records being shit. Just because Head himself came back, everyone that stopped after Untouchables crawls out of their holes again and thinks their opinion truly matters. Gosh...now get your facts straight, catch up on these last albums and rate this one again - afterwards. If you would honestly do so, The Paradigm Shift would never in life get ratings above 3.5 - a CD featuring barely 50% tolerable material. I mean come on...Lullaby For A Sadist is the easy carry here and they wrote the song without Head. Also: if you turn the volume up and for one time stick to your good headphones, you would hear the loudness war that goes on in nearly every track, outshining the vocals and disturbing any harmony there is, for instance and especially prevalent with the dissonant synths at the chorus of Track 08, timestamps 1:11-1:33. They are fine before and after, but in the chorus, it just kills your ears. Plain and easy as that. Tl;dr: no guys, instead of listening to this mediocre record, I rather cry for my 'daddy' and 'follow the leader'...jm2c. |
| Saviour First Light to My Death Bed | 4.5 |
| Dayshell Dayshell | 3.0 |
| A Day To Remember Common Courtesy | 4.0 |
| A Loss For Words The Kids Can't Lose | 2.5 |
| Four Year Strong Enemy of the World | 3.0 |
| New Found Glory Coming Home | 2.0 |
| New Found Glory Catalyst | 2.0 |
| Mayday Parade Monsters in the Closet | 3.0 |
| What Rad Crawlson said. Not as bad as Anywhere But Here but still quite disappointing for their standards. |
| Dance Gavin Dance Acceptance Speech | 3.5 |
| Panic! at the Disco Too Weird to Live, Too Rare to Die! | 3.5 |
| Alter Bridge Fortress | 3.5 |
| Oceans Red Hold Your Breath | 1.0 |
| Dustin Kensrue The Water and the Blood | 3.5 |
| Justin Timberlake The 20/20 Experience: The Complete Experience | 4.0 |
| Justin Timberlake The 20/20 Experience - 2 of 2 | 4.0 |
| The Great Commission Cast The First Stone | 2.0 |
| nothing new or appealing, very badly produced...what can I say? a poor record and sad development for The Great Commission, a band that even in the beginning heavily struggled to find an independent identity. |
| TRC Nation | 4.0 |
| Night Verses Lift Your Existence | 4.5 |
| Oneohtrix Point Never R Plus Seven | 3.5 |
| Casper Hinterland | 4.0 |
| A Skylit Drive Rise | 3.5 |
| Apollo We Must Be Feeling The Full Moon | 3.5 |
| Phon.o Schn33/Go | 3.5 |
| Jonny Craig Find What You Love And Let It Kill You | 3.0 |
| Kings of Leon Mechanical Bull | 3.5 |
| Minus the Bear Acoustics II | 4.5 |
| 50 Cent Get Rich or Die Tryin' | 4.0 |
| Cloudkicker Subsume | 4.0 |
| Conducting from the Grave Conducting from the Grave | 3.5 |
| Stray from the Path Anonymous | 3.0 |
| 65daysofstatic Wild Light | 3.0 |
| The first song "Heat Death Infinity Splitter" is so badass, I can't even believe my ears. I love it. Unfortunately, the rest of the record is as bland and boring as it can get. 5 to 7+ minute tracks only that get more repetitive and thoughtless with every skip. tl;dr: 65daysofstatic continue to spiral downwards, which is a complete bummer. |
| Saves the Day Saves the Day | 2.5 |
| Nine Inch Nails Hesitation Marks | 3.5 |
| Deaf Havana Old Souls | 3.0 |
| Travis The Invisible Band | 4.5 |
| Travis Where You Stand | 4.0 |
| The Dangerous Summer Golden Record | 4.0 |
| Fit for an Autopsy Hellbound | 3.0 |
| why death metal? and why now? - the jobforacowboy effect. aside from this treason to oldschool fans, Hellbound is a pretty solid release and does nicely in the newly set genre borders. |
| Haken The Mountain | 2.0 |
| Fit for an Autopsy The Process of Human Extermination | 3.5 |
| My Ticket Home Strangers Only | 3.5 |
| somehow...it works. strange. |
| TTNG Animals | 3.5 |
| Woe, Is Me American Dream | 3.0 |
| Our Last Night Summer Of Covers | 3.5 |
| Moving Mountains Moving Mountains | 2.0 |
| lolbad. what happened to this band?!? this isn't the same MM than on Pneuma (post-rock) or Waves (alternative/post-hardcore) - this is mushy, drowsy bullshit, not making any effort to please one single fan at all. I'd even call this trolling, If I wouldn't know it better...jesus christ. keep Hudson, delete the rest. biggest disappointment in 2013 so far aside from Paramore. |
| The Safety Fire Mouth of Swords | 4.0 |
| Placebo Placebo | 3.5 |
| Placebo Once More with Feeling | 4.5 |
| Placebo Loud Like Love | 3.5 |
| Placebo Without You I'm Nothing | 4.0 |
| Placebo Black Market Music | 4.0 |
| Placebo Meds | 4.0 |
| Placebo Sleeping with Ghosts | 4.0 |
| Tonight Alive The Other Side | 3.5 |
| Ef Ceremonies | 3.5 |
| God Is an Astronaut Origins | 4.0 |
| Kayo Dot Hubardo | 3.5 |
| Run the Jewels Run the Jewels | 5.0 |
| Balance and Composure The Things We Think We're Missing | 4.0 |
| Shreddy Krueger The Grieving | 4.0 |
| Wolf Down Stray From The Path | 4.0 |
| O'Brother Disillusion | 3.5 |
| Norma Jean Wrongdoers | 4.0 |
| Modern Life Is War Fever Hunting | 4.0 |
| The Cold Harbour Seasons | 3.0 |
| Born of Osiris Tomorrow We Die Alive | 4.0 |
| Dead Letter Circus The Catalyst Fire | 3.5 |
| Speak Of The Devil Speak Of The Devil | 1.5 |
| His Statue Falls Collisions | 3.5 |
| Deez Nuts Stay True | 3.0 |
| Deez Nuts Rep Your Hood | 2.5 |
| Deez Nuts Bout It | 3.0 |
| Rolo Tomassi Astraea | 3.0 |
| Like Moths to Flames An Eye for an Eye | 3.0 |
| letlive. The Blackest Beautiful | 4.5 |
| Elitist Between The Balance | 3.5 |
| Better than Caves, worse than Earth & Reshape Reason. Dunno what is happening to their vocals though - they seem to change heavily from CD to CD. Caves was very hardcoreish, Earth crazy brutal/low and since one year we mostly get this half-high Northlane-like screams. No one can change his fronter this often. I guess he must have gotten out of puberty or something... Overall an interesting release that mixes Djent with Metal and Metalcore without getting too generic, always pulling something like a solo, melodic keys or the like off the cuff. Even while not catching me to a one hundred per cent degree at all times, Between The Balance definitely marks their most versatile and mature effort yet. |
| Asking Alexandria From Death to Destiny | 3.0 |
| The Reign of Kindo Play With Fire | 3.0 |
| Beartooth Sick | 3.0 |
| SECRETS Fragile Figures | 3.5 |
| Bring Me Solace The Sightless Inquisition | 3.5 |
| We Came As Romans Tracing Back Roots | 4.0 |
| The Saddest Landscape Exit Wounded | 3.5 |
| Confide All Is Calm | 3.5 |
| Defeater Letters Home | 4.0 |
| Hands Like Houses Unimagine | 3.0 |
| Maeckes Kids | 3.0 |
| Sigur Ros Kveikur | 4.5 |
| basically the opposite of Valtari. heartfelt, deep, challenging and not one bad song. wow! |
| Misery Signals Absent Light | 4.5 |
| Counterparts The Difference Between Hell and Home | 4.0 |
| Minus the Bear Acoustics | 4.0 |
| Attila About That Life | 3.0 |
| Imagine Dragons Night Visions | 2.0 |
| The Used The Ocean Of The Sky | 1.5 |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan One of Us Is the Killer | 3.5 |
| Kyary Pamyu Pamyu Nandacollection | 4.0 |
| Sithu Aye 26 | 3.5 |
| Shinto Katana Redemption | 3.5 |
| Oh, Sleeper The Titan | 3.5 |
| The Plot In You Could You Watch Your Children Burn | 2.0 |
| Kingdom of Giants Every Wave of Sound | 3.5 |
| surprisingly good for such a generic band and especially considering the loss of their trademark clean-singer (which was just way above average!). you have to spin it with low expectiations though. not working otherwise.. ,) |
| Hopes Die Last Wolfpack | 2.0 |
| United Nations Illegal UN | 3.5 |
| Sido Ich und meine Maske | 3.5 |
| Sido Ich | 3.5 |
| Sido Maske | 4.0 |
| Falling in Reverse Fashionably Late | 3.0 |
| Four Tet 0181 | 3.0 |
| downset. Downset | 4.5 |
| Kanye West Yeezus | 4.0 |
| Scale the Summit The Migration | 3.5 |
| August Burns Red Rescue & Restore | 4.0 |
| Boysetsfire While A Nation Sleeps... | 2.5 |
| 3OH!3 Omens | 1.0 |
| by far the worst piece of shit in recent music history. it's hard to even call this music.. |
| Nujabes Metaphorical Music | 4.0 |
| I the Mighty Satori | 4.5 |
| Even while considering their already convincing EP 'Karma Never Sleeps', this debut(!) record has become something astonishingly great. Thank you I the Mighty for all the dedication and honesty you have put into this, there are way too many gems on here. |
| Jimmy Eat World Damage | 2.5 |
| After the Burial This Life Is All We Have | 3.5 |
| My Autumn The Lost Meridan | 2.0 |
| AJJ Knife Man | 2.0 |
| Neaera Ours Is The Storm | 3.5 |
| Altars Something More | 3.0 |
| Altars Conclusions | 3.5 |
| Climates Reconcile | 4.0 |
| Climates What Means The Most | 1.0 |
| Sleeping With Sirens Feel | 3.5 |
| Sigur Ros Brennisteinn | 4.0 |
| Bonobo The North Borders | 4.0 |
| City and Colour The Hurry and the Harm | 3.5 |
| TesseracT Altered State | 3.5 |
| Palisades Outcasts | 4.5 |
| Queens of the Stone Age ...Like Clockwork | 4.0 |
| Queens of the Stone Age Songs for the Deaf | 4.5 |
| Thirty Seconds to Mars Love Lust Faith + Dreams | 3.0 |
| Lifeforms Multidimensional | 4.0 |
| heavily underrated and misunderstood. technically brilliant, even the breakdowns. sick and complex meters wherever you lay an eye on. give it two spins and open your ears ppl. |
| Escape the Fate Ungrateful | 3.0 |
| Phoenix (FRA) Bankrupt! | 3.5 |
| Sepultura Dante XXI | 3.0 |
| Sepultura Roorback | 3.0 |
| Sepultura The Best Of | 3.5 |
| Sepultura Under A Pale Grey Sky | 3.0 |
| Sepultura Live in Sao Paulo | 2.5 |
| Sepultura Bestial Devastation | 1.5 |
| Sepultura Morbid Visions | 1.5 |
| Sepultura Schizophrenia | 2.0 |
| Sepultura Beneath the Remains | 2.5 |
| Sepultura Arise | 3.5 |
| Sepultura Roots | 3.5 |
| Soulfly Tribe | 3.0 |
| Soulfly Soulfly Digipak | 3.5 |
| Heights Old Lies For Young Lives | 1.0 |
| Heights Dead Ends | 1.0 |
| Heights These Streets / Gold Coast | 1.0 |
| Heights The Land, The Ocean, The Distance | 1.0 |
| Set Your Goals Burning At Both Ends | 3.5 |
| Saves the Day Stay What You Are | 4.0 |
| Strawberry Girls French Ghetto | 5.0 |
| Laura Stevenson Wheel | 4.0 |
| The Cat Empire Cities | 1.5 |
| The Story So Far What You Don't See | 4.5 |
| Heaven Shall Burn Veto | 3.5 |
| Killswitch Engage Disarm the Descent | 3.5 |
| Deftones Diamond Eyes | 4.0 |
| Idlehands Common Soul | 3.5 |
| Fall Out Boy Save Rock and Roll | 3.0 |
| King Conquer 1776 | 3.0 |
| nothing has changed. |
| Paramore Paramore | 2.0 |
| Kurt Travis Kurt Travis | 3.5 |
| Terror Live By The Code | 3.5 |
| Hundredth Revolt | 3.5 |
| The Dear Hunter Migrant | 4.0 |
| The Color Morale Know Hope | 4.0 |
| harder breakdowns, crisper cleans, MUCH harsher and angrier shouts, better melodies, more ideas and innovations...I always liked TCM but this record represents their breakthrough. a unique vocal performance and constant nodding does it for me. it's generic at times (sure), but come on guys - it's a metalcore record in the year of 2013. what did you expect? ...4! |
| PVRIS Paris | 3.5 |
| For Today Prevailer | 3.5 |
| Cartel Collider | 3.5 |
| Three Crowns Commodity | 4.0 |
| Justin Timberlake The 20/20 Experience | 4.0 |
| Conditions Full of War | 3.0 |
| lol@ these numbers. maybe listen to their brilliant EPs before rating such pseudo-mature rock mush over 3.5 guys. | a steady decline for Conditions, cumulating in their worst record to date. it's not bad, it's simply not Conditions anymore. pop & rock are not melodic post-hardcore. a definite letdown for longterm fans. any newfag will happily consume this with his brains off though, sure. |
| Adept Silence The World | 3.5 |
| Lydia Devil | 3.5 |
| Paint It Golden 2. |
| Tilian Material Me | 4.5 |
It's great at what it wants to achieve: being catchy. This is the candyland of catchiness. Literally.
Yes it's overproduced, yes it has autotune, yes it's simply 'too much of everything', but boy - Tilian can sing. And he will hook you, no matter what. So...
This should be on the radio.[2] |
| Your Demise Cold Chillin' | 2.5 |
| Northlane Singularity | 4.5 |
| Stolas Living Creatures | 3.5 |
| Worse than A Lot Like Birds, worse than Hail The Sun, worse than Dance Gavin Dance but still way above average. They did not get everything out of the features imo and also they did kind of a fail tracklisting, giving four of the five features away in tracks 7-10 instead of being smart and mixing them more apart from each other. Aside from 'Our Last Night On Earth' and 'Year Of The Light' also lacking real hits for me...dunno. If this would have been a random band, not pushed and hyped that much (e.g. by Will Swan himself) I would not even give them several more spins. A semi-letdown for me in 2013. |
| Justin Timberlake FutureSex/LoveSounds | 3.5 |
| Justin Timberlake Justified | 4.0 |
| Fit for a King Fit for a King | 2.0 |
| Funeral for a Friend Conduit | 3.0 |
| Fit for a King Creation | Destruction | 4.0 |
| Skyharbor Blinding White Noise: Illusion & Chaos | 3.5 |
| Bring Me the Horizon Sempiternal | 4.0 |
| Mogwai Les Revenants OST | 3.0 |
| HRVRD From the Bird's Cage | 4.5 |
| Long Distance Calling The Flood Inside | 4.0 |
| official stream is up: http://www.spiegel.de/kultur/musik/amtlich-spezial-long-distance-calling-neues-album-the-flood-inside-a-885109.html great record. very superb tunes, just slightly worse than their all-time masterpiece Avoid The Light. |
| Silverstein This Is How the Wind Shifts | 4.0 |
| My Chemical Romance Conventional Weapons | 2.5 |
| fiddling. |
| The Acacia Strain Money For Nothing | 3.0 |
| Black My Heart Before The Devil | 3.5 |
| Within the Ruins Elite | 3.5 |
| naaaah bloc, Invade was much rougher, sounding way more evil and not even coming close to the catchiness of this one. it's a step up for Within The Ruins, without bringing anything original to the table. 'I, Blaspheme' is a nice highlight with the programmed guitars but that's about it. from 3 to 3.5 for me. |
| Thy Art Is Murder Hate | 4.5 |
| Ligeia Welcome to Palm City | 3.0 |
| Ligeia Your Ghost Is A Gift | 3.0 |
| Ligeia Bad News | 3.5 |
| Shinedown Amaryllis | 3.5 |
| Heart in Hand Almost There | 4.0 |
| Narrow Hearts Make This Yours | 3.5 |
| Polyenso One Big Particular Loop | 3.5 |
| Hatebreed The Divinity of Purpose | 3.5 |
| 3.75 it's great for what it wants to achieve. Honor Never Dies and Own Your World are my favourite tracks. |
| Mallory Knox Signals | 4.5 |
| first definite AOTY contender 2013. astonishingly beautiful release. catchy, heartfelt, mature, talented...these guys have it all. hats off! |
| Auras Panacea | 4.0 |
| TTNG 13.0.0.0.0 | 4.0 |
| Converge All We Love We Leave Behind | 3.5 |
| Close To Home Momentum | 3.0 |
| Code Orange Love Is Love // Return To Dust | 4.0 |
| Departures Teenage Haze | 3.0 |
| Defiler Nematocera | 3.0 |
| Brutality Will Prevail Scatter the Ashes | 3.0 |
| CityCop / Les Doux Family Ties/Labors of Love | 3.5 |
| Quiet Steps Secular | 2.5 |
| Perfect Future Old Wounds: Warmth In The Winter Of 1914-1915 | 3.0 |
| Alaska (USA) palcaptain | 3.5 |
| Cloud Nothings Attack on Memory | 3.5 |
| Worthwhile Carry On Kid | 3.5 |
| Vales Clarity | 4.0 |
| Kyuss Blues for the Red Sun | 4.0 |
| wow, this is actually pretty great. groundbreaking tunes. |
| Between the Buried and Me The Parallax II: Future Sequence | 4.0 |
| The Holy Guile FSU | 2.0 |
| lol at these vocals. I never heard something shittier, never in my life. you all can't be serious with these ratings, sorry guys. trolling 2.0. ah sry: trolling greater than, slash three. |
| Being as an Ocean Dear G-d | 4.0 |
| Capture Til Death | 2.5 |
| Skrillex Leaving | 3.0 |
| Devil Sold His Soul Empire of Light | 3.0 |
| Parachutes (DE) Blueprints | 3.0 |
| Exotic Animal Petting Zoo Tree of Tongues | 3.5 |
| Traeos Apollon | 3.5 |
| "ever sea born" is one hell of a song, also "leader in disguise" kicks some serious ass - but why in hell does "try to break light in pieces" drag so long...also the two interlude songs bring nothing meaningful to the table and are mainly filler material. all in all a great effort but not excellent at all - a little unfortunate for the german post-hc gods traeos. |
| Art By Numbers Reticence: The Musical | 3.5 |
| Butthole Surfers Electriclarryland | 3.5 |
| Coma Regalia/Vowel Split | 3.0 |
| track 1 is simply unbearable - coma regalia just suck in hard mode. |
| We Had A Deal Dialectics | 3.5 |
| cool. |
| From the Mouth of the Sun Woven Tide | 4.0 |
| Callejon Blitzkreuz | 3.5 |
| basically Videodrom Pt. 2 - nothing really groundbreaking or outstanding here. nevertheless Callejon remain enjoyable at what they do. |
| The Chariot One Wing | 4.0 |
| Burial Truant/Rough Sleeper | 3.5 |
| Bellarive The Heartbeat | 4.0 |
| a nice continuation of what they started with the EP. props to these guys. |
| Mala Mala In Cuba | 2.0 |
| Hail the Sun Elephantitis | 4.5 |
| Francis Harris Leland | 4.0 |
| Neurosis Honor Found in Decay | 3.5 |
| Call Me No One Last Parade | 4.0 |
| Circle of Contempt Entwine the Threads | 3.5 |
| technically brilliant as usual, but a little too chaotic, overall missing the catchy parts. "Dare To Defy" is skippable btw, what makes Entwine The Threads basically a 4-song EP rather than a 5-track one. 20 percent filler? not that great, especially at such a short playtime (19 minutes). a good 3.5, nothing more. calm down guys. |
| Antagonist A.D. Nothing From No One | 3.5 |
| Body Count Body Count | 4.0 |
| Anchor and Braille The Quiet Life | 2.5 |
| unfortunately much worse than Felt. too tame, too boring, altogether uninspired. |
| Deftones Koi No Yokan | 3.5 |
| Goodtime Boys What's Left To Let Go | 4.5 |
| even better than 'Are We Now, Or Have We Ever Been'. a hilariously superb release, especially for a debut album. just mindblowing. |
| Coheed and Cambria The Afterman: Ascension | 3.5 |
| If These Trees Could Talk Red Forest | 4.0 |
| Flying Lotus Until the Quiet Comes | 3.5 |
| Alexisonfire Death Letter | 3.0 |
| Lana Del Rey Born to Die | 3.0 |
| Ellie Goulding Bright Lights | 4.0 |
| Ellie Goulding Halcyon | 3.5 |
| Slingshot Dakota Dark Hearts | 4.0 |
| Not as epic and touching as "Their Dreams Are Dead,But Ours Is The Golden Ghost", but still beautiful. Slingshot Dakota know their tricks, routines and themes well enough to craft another gem of heartfelt music about love, life and passion that instantly grabs you by the scruff of your neck and throws you into the deep sea of every possible emotion that is perceivable for a human being. Wonderful sounds. |
| I Am Abomination Let The Future Tell The Truth | 3.0 |
| Motionless in White Infamous | 3.0 |
| Kashiwa Daisuke Re: | 4.5 |
| Try Me/Love Me 'Young Love' | 3.5 |
| Asking Alexandria Under the Influence | 3.5 |
| you would not believe it. asking alexandria sounding nothing like asking alexandria while being enjoyable at coversongs. a novelty in nowadays modern metalcore/post-hardcore. give it a try and look out for songs three and four. t-up. |
| The Classic Crime Phoenix | 2.5 |
| Four Tet Pink | 3.5 |
| Bring Me the Horizon Suicide Season Cut Up! | 2.5 |
| Love, Robot Rebuild | Rebirth | 3.5 |
| Greeley Estates The Narrow Road | 3.5 |
| Actually quite great and rock solid in what it wants to achieve. After you finished the first song and adjusted to their "new" sound, it only gets better. Doomsday is a nice ending track, too. T-Up. |
| Affiance The Campaign | 1.0 |
| I hate the ones that created this site. How can anyone with a non-damaged brain POSSIBLY compare them to _AUGUST BURNS RED_ or _MISERY SIGNALS_?!??? What-the-fuck guys? The lead vocalist sounds like a first class power metal faggot and boom, goes the dynamite. Er, the band. Can't get worse in metalcore vocalists, sorry. |
| Crown the Empire The Fallout | 1.5 |
| Issues Black Diamonds | 2.0 |
| it's bad. seriously now. not even worth comparing to old(!) Woe Is Me. |
| Her Bright Skies Rivals | 3.5 |
| Sienna Skies The Constant Climb | 3.5 |
| Sienna Skies Truest Of Colours | 3.0 |
| SECRETS The Ascent | 2.5 |
| Woe, Is Me Genesi[s] | 2.5 |
| War from a Harlots Mouth Voyeur | 4.0 |
| Twelve Foot Ninja Silent Machine | 4.0 |
| Ill Nino Epidemia | 3.0 |
| Intervals In Time | 3.5 |
| Various Artists (Punk) Punk Goes Pop 5 | 3.5 |
| Anberlin Lost Songs | 3.0 |
| Anberlin Vital | 4.5 |
| Parkway Drive Atlas | 4.0 |
| Bleeding Through Bleeding Through | 3.0 |
| Bleeding Through This Is Love, This Is Murderous | 3.0 |
| Bleeding Through Declaration | 3.0 |
| Bleeding Through The Truth | 3.5 |
| Hatebreed Hatebreed | 3.0 |
| Hatebreed Supremacy | 3.5 |
| Hatebreed Rise of Brutality | 4.0 |
| Hatebreed Perseverance | 3.5 |
| Shadows Fall Threads of Life | 2.5 |
| Anchor and Braille Felt | 3.5 |
| Arch Enemy Rise of the Tyrant | 3.0 |
| Kalmah The Black Waltz | 3.0 |
| Children of Bodom Are You Dead Yet? | 3.5 |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor 'Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend! | 1.5 |
| Outline In Color Jury of Wolves | 3.5 |
| chris [2]. |
| Callejon Willkommen Im Beerdigungscafé | 4.0 |
| No Bragging Rights Cycles | 3.5 |
| post-hardcore -> heavy metalcore -> hardcore. this band can't decide at all. I wouldn't call it progression either...it's simply constant change. I don't know what to think about this, but each record for itself is pretty solid. Seen as a band, this is heavily inconsistent :D |
| Demoraliser A Living Nightmare | 3.5 |
| All Time Low Don't Panic | 2.0 |
| Expire Pendulum Swings | 2.5 |
| basically TRC without being british, brutal or technical. solid but ultimately boring 90s hc, especially considering the riffing. |
| That's Outrageous! Psycho | 3.0 |
| While She Sleeps This Is the Six | 3.5 |
| Come Wind Grow My Roots | 4.0 |
| Jon Mess Defying Gravity | 3.0 |
| Heart on My Sleeve Stand​ ​by, We're Going In For Life | 4.0 |
| Onward To Olympas Indicator | 3.5 |
| Better than This World Is Not My Home and worse than The War Within Us. A good mosh effort with some filler material and too much cleans that dive between 'wow' and plain 'bad/annoying'. |
| In Fear and Faith In Fear and Faith | 3.5 |
| The Amity Affliction Chasing Ghosts | 4.0 |
| August Burns Red Sleddin' Hill | 3.5 |
| Texas in July Texas in July | 3.5 |
| Blessthefall Awakening | 3.5 |
| Three Days Grace Transit of Venus | 3.5 |
| The Acacia Strain Death Is the Only Mortal | 3.0 |
| Elitist Reshape Reason | 4.0 |
| Phon.o Black Boulder | 3.5 |
| Sent By Ravens Mean What You Say | 3.5 |
| Miss May I At Heart | 3.5 |
| This or the Apocalypse Dead Years | 4.0 |
| As I Lay Dying Awakened | 4.0 |
| At the Skylines To Build An Empire | 3.0 |
| at the skylines should stick to acoustic songs. they suck in normal mode. |
| We Are The Ocean Maybe Today, Maybe Tomorrow | 4.0 |
| Pink Floyd The Dark Side of the Moon | 5.0 |
| Lakeview Live Before You Die | 4.0 |
| Bury Tomorrow The Union of Crowns | 3.5 |
| For All Those Sleeping Cross Your Fingers | 3.0 |
| For All Those Sleeping Outspoken | 2.5 |
| Propagandhi Failed States | 3.5 |
| Abandon All Ships Infamous | 1.0 |
| Abandon All Ships Geeving | 2.0 |
| Monuments (UK) Gnosis | 4.0 |
| As The Sky Awaits Rebirth | 4.0 |
| 50 Lions Where Life Expires | 3.0 |
| 50 Lions Nowhere To Run | 1.5 |
| Betraying the Martyrs Breathe In Life | 3.0 |
| Betraying the Martyrs The Hurt, the Divine, the Light | 2.5 |
| Eminem The Marshall Mathers LP | 4.5 |
| Eminem The Eminem Show | 4.5 |
| Genesis We Can't Dance | 3.5 |
| Yellowcard Southern Air | 4.0 |
| Our Last Night Age Of Ignorance | 4.0 |
| Obey the Brave Young Blood | 4.5 |
| Lynyrd Skynyrd Last Of A Dyin' Breed | 1.5 |
| I don't know what happened to this band, but this bird is not even near being free. It's caged. |
| The Faceless Autotheism | 1.0 |
| Doesn't get any worse this year. Roflmao..20 seconds and I'm done. |
| From Atlantis Pedestals | 1.0 |
Don't take time to write, take time to disband. Please. I promise that this LP will receive
the lowest overall rankings of any record. Ever. |
| Katatonia Dead End Kings | 4.0 |
| Continents. .​.​.​and silence anchored our feet in granite | 4.5 |
| Foxes and Iselia Split | 3.5 |
| Withered Eyes Through A Fractured Pane, Collective and Standstill are worth the rating. We all know that the rest is filler material. |
| Hoobastank Fight or Flight | 2.5 |
| In This Moment Blood | 3.5 |
| Minus the Bear Infinity Overhead | 5.0 |
| Take some time off, smoke something and then listen to Toska on repeat. You wont notice how one single song fades to one magnificent opus and how five minutes become fifty. Before you are finally able to close the player or your eyes, you're on Mars. Lost in space. Literally. |
| Lead By Legacy Embrace Your Revival | 3.0 |
| solid mosh, nothing groundbreaking. |
| Hand of Mercy Last Lights | 4.5 |
| Solace (CAN) Call & Response | 4.0 |
| Cloudkicker Fade | 4.0 |
| American Me III | 2.0 |
| Its so bad...their worst actually. I don't know what they did with the vocals but it sounds worse than beatdown music, both - technique and productionwise (funny thing is that the guitars and drums are fine..). Not even several guest appearances can't help American Me...they are past remedy. Time to break up. |
| Gloria Victis EP 2012 | 3.5 |
| junz only. weak vocal production and generic times three, but in any case these newcomers bring the destruction. strong breakdowns, overall heavily reminiscent of Walking With Strangers. 3.25 |
| Converge No Heroes | 1.5 |
| Ghost Cat Cave Sounds | 4.0 |
| Heart of a Coward Hope and Hindrance | 3.5 |
| Volumes 2 with better cleans and nice ideas here and there. I like it quite much, even if I did not anticipate this before. 3.75 |
| As Bold As Lions Deliverance | 3.5 |
| Climates Waiting To Exhale | 1.0 |
| Sithu Aye Isles | 4.0 |
| The Afterimage Formless | 3.5 |
| Circa Survive Violent Waves | 5.0 |
| APOSTATE Against All Odds | 4.5 |
| Acadiana Until Lambs Become Lions | 3.5 |
| Aegaeon Being | 3.5 |
| Advocates Mindless | 3.5 |
| With Life In Mind 2, literally. A little more mosh and less melody, but only listen to "Deadweight" for once - its a masterpiece, nothing else. Kick the fillers "Mindless" and "Giants" and you have a great 4-track EP of a promising newcomer band. |
| A Bullet for Pretty Boy Symbiosis | 3.0 |
| unfortunately its not as diverse as Revision:Revise was and additionally there are only two or three songs which aren't generic and boring at all. also the cleans have gone worse - don't ask me why..basically you get what you expect by purchasing this record: nothing groundbreaking nor fun, but a slight-above-average modern post-hc/metalcore output from a band that constantly seems to match the genre mean. |
| Bersarin Quartett II | 3.5 |
| its certainly a great record, but sometimes it tends to be a bit sluggish/depressing and you definitely have to be in the (right) mood for it while listening. a good 3.5. |
| Everyone Dies In Utah Polarities (+//-) | 2.5 |
| Burial Kindred | 4.5 |
| Go Radio Lucky Street | 3.5 |
| Bermuda The Wandering | 3.5 |
| Prose Salty Sea (Polaroid Evening) | 3.5 |
| It's reeeeeeally good. Just a little too long. Maybe two or three less fillers next time and the next one will be easy 4.5-material. |
| The Tidal Sleep The Tidal Sleep | 4.0 |
| Brighter Arrows Division and What It Is to Abide | 2.5 |
| Foxes Five-Track 2012 | 3.0 |
| Young Legionnaire Wreckonomics | 3.5 |
| House Vs. Hurricane Crooked Teeth | 4.0 |
| The Early November In Currents | 3.5 |
| Make Do and Mend Everything You Ever Loved | 3.5 |
| Woe, Is Me Number[s] (Deluxe) | 4.5 |
| A Hero a Fake The Future Again | 1.5 |
| Periphery Periphery II: This Time It's Personal | 4.0 |
| The Contortionist Intrinsic | 3.5 |
| It's not what I expected, nor what I hoped for. This does not necessarily mean that the record is bad, not by any means, but it is certainly not anything fans or long time Contortionist listeners would most likely demand from them. EXOPLANET was a heavy deathcore experience with intelligent time signatures, crisp breakdowns and crystal clear ambient/progressive elements, maintaining a good balance between clean singing and harsh growling and/or screaming. But INTRINSIC is more of a progressive metal record that relies heavily on spacy and lofty riffing, keys and ambient tuning while giving a lot of room for cleans only. Comparing these two, one definitely finds a certain lack of heavy parts, featuring very little breakdowns and growled segments at all. Also, when The Contortionist tries to be brutal on INTRINSIC (e.g. on SOLIPSIS or at the middle of CORTICAL) they fail, completely exaggerating it on the brawly, noisy side. So all in all I did not know or could have imagined that TC were going fully progressive/ambient after their first album snippets, but it is not the change I had longed for, at least not in such extent. Finally, INTRINSIC is not average at all and actually pretty good in what it wants to deliver, but it does just not appease my musical appetite and all in all it's just too dull and constant to fully grab or entertain me. In other words: it's a bit boring in all it's consistency. 'Lost in space', one could say. |
| For the Fallen Dreams Wasted Youth | 3.5 |
| Thank god it's better than Back Burner. The cleans are often times misplaced but not as annoying as they were used to be. Lowlights are certainly weaklings like NO ONE TO BLAME or WAKING UP ALONE but fortunately the album also features tracks like YOUR FUNERAL, SOBER or WHEN PUSH COMES TO SHOVE which showcase that not all talent of a former "genre/niche giant" is lost. A bearable listen for die hard junz-fans that are capable to fade out some choruses here and there plus people that have swallowed the bitter pill of FOR THE FALLEN DREAMS' kind of "downhill progression", if you even want to call it like that. |
| The Elijah I Loved I Hated I Destroyed I Created | 3.5 |
| City of Ghosts Daylight | 4.0 |
| P.O.D. Murdered Love | 3.5 |
| Omar Rodriguez-Lopez Saber, Querer, Osar y Callar | 3.0 |
| Lions Lions To Carve Our Names | 4.0 |
| Gideon Milestone | 4.5 |
| I am sorry for all 'generic'-proclaimers but this record is not mindless chugging, it's chugging on purpose. On purpose of emotion, anger and hope. It utilizes brutality to showcase feelings and it does damn well. Consider records like FURY AND THE FALLEN ONES (The Ghost Inside), CHANGES (For The Fallen Dreams) or MESSENGERS (August Burns Red) - yes, it's that good of a chugfest. If The Ghost Inside would play great breakdowns on their new CD (which they don't!), these would sound like the Gideon ones over here. Awesome intervals and time signatures e.g. like at the end of "Bad Blood" aren't the usual metalcore listen, because not every band is capable of bringing technical skills to the table when it comes to junz. What's left is a hilariously straight forward record that features some of the finest modern mosh moments imaginable. A huge improvement from COSTS and definitely a record that makes you wanna break stuff afterwards and/or during the listen. Give it a spin and don't hesitate to move your body. Brain off, junz on. |
| Icarus the Owl Love Always, Leviathan | 4.5 |
| Strangers Holding Water | 3.0 |
| for a KARL SCHUBACH production, the sound of this EP is total shit. everything is just too quiet and only the first 29 seconds of the opening track really shine in terms of mastering. after these I thought to myself 'dear god, what will follow now?' and then I had to face this particular disappointment. Whatever, the songs LAKE NYOS and SEVEN PERSONS really stand out and don't fail to disappoint at all, so ultimately the cd comes out as a little dig of mine. |
| Narrow Hearts Strive To Change | 3.0 |
| TesseracT Perspective | 3.5 |
| Constellations Constellations | 2.5 |
| solid output by the germans, for the future they only need a good producer and better mastering. also their main shouter isn't the best, maybe he should attend some vocal courses to improve his range, drive and especially his entry tactfulness. |
| Minus the Bear Bands Like It When You Yell YAR at Them | 4.0 |
| Minus the Bear Daytrotter Session | 3.5 |
| Minus the Bear Your Private Sky/South Side Life | 4.0 |
| Pierce the Veil Collide with the Sky | 3.5 |
| Your Memorial Redirect | 4.0 |
| my first YOUR MEMORIAL experience - an impressive one. |
| Memphis May Fire Challenger | 4.0 |
| Minus the Bear Highly Refined Pirates | 4.5 |
| The Word Alive Life Cycles | 3.5 |
| 3.75 - pretty solid, but worse than DECEIVER. |
| Sleeping With Sirens If You Were a Movie, This Would Be Your Soundtrack | 3.5 |
| 3.75 |
| His Statue Falls Mistaken For Trophies | 3.0 |
| 3.25 pretty solid for a german band, even it often feels too "scene". |
| Bomfunk Mc's Burnin' Sneakers | 4.0 |
| Linkin Park Living Things | 2.5 |
| what deviant said. just boring. also they have no drummer anymore, it's fully electronic. huge disappointment, especially after all the hype. victimized is a bad joke. |
| Tenacious D Rize of the Fenix | 4.0 |
| Three Crowns MMXII | 4.0 |
| For fans of Misery Signals, Of Virtue and For The Fallen Dreams. Great newcomers from Canada. Unfortunately the EP just features three songs...Keep an eye on them in the future guys! |
| Broadway Gentleman's Brawl | 3.5 |
| Chelsea Grin Evolve | 4.0 |
| 3.75. a nice change for them, implementing progressive elements as well as keys and some cleans. also by all means a return to form with MY DAMNATION being one of the worst records of 2011. |
| Madball Rebellion | 2.5 |
| Madball Empire | 3.0 |
| Madball Infiltrate The System | 3.5 |
| From The Eyes Of Servants Change The World | 3.5 |
| 3.25+. Improvement from the EP. Especially the second half of the record shines. |
| The Story So Far Under Soil and Dirt | 4.0 |
| great, great record. damn catchy. 4.25 |
| Sepultura Chaos A.D. | 4.0 |
| Slayer World Painted Blood | 3.5 |
| Metallica Kill 'Em All | 4.0 |
| Metallica St. Anger | 3.5 |
| Metallica Metallica | 4.5 |
| Fear My Thoughts Vulcanus | 3.0 |
| Fear My Thoughts Isolation | 1.5 |
| Callejon Chronos EP | 4.0 |
| Callejon Videodrom | 3.5 |
| Callejon Zombieactionhauptquartier | 1.5 |
| Whitechapel Whitechapel | 4.0 |
| easily their best output so far, great improvement in every section. only two real fillertracks. 3.75ish but a 4 to raise the mark a bit. |
| State Faults Desolate Peaks | 4.5 |
| From The Eyes Of Servants self-titled EP | 3.0 |
| Intohimo Winter Sun | 3.5 |
| their best output so far. swedish post-hardcore done right. worth to keep an eye on. |
| Apart Gray Light | 4.0 |
| Cavities 64 Years | 4.0 |
| 3.75 |
| The Rendering Voices | 3.0 |
| A slight improvement from Protector, but for their next output they should get rid of the synths and massive scene approaches. 3.25 because they know how to play their instruments and have some Legend/Acacia Strain vibes at times (e.g. listen to "End" in full). |
| The Ghost Inside Get What You Give | 3.5 |
| Napoleon What We See | 3.5 |
| Architects Daybreaker | 4.0 |
| Sigur Ros Valtari | 3.5 |
| For Today Immortal | 4.5 |
| No Turning Back Take Control | 1.0 |
| Breakdown of Sanity Mirrors | 4.0 |
| To Speak Of Wolves Find Your Worth, Come Home | 4.0 |
| P.O.D. Fundamental Elements of Southtown | 3.5 |
| Hands (US-ND) Give Me Rest | 3.0 |
| Impending Doom Baptized in Filth | 4.0 |
| Job for a Cowboy Demonocracy | 3.5 |
| Florence and the Machine Ceremonials | 4.0 |
| 65daysofstatic Silent Running | 3.5 |
| Anathema Weather Systems | 4.0 |
| Every Bridge Burned Aun Aprendo | 3.0 |
| Aspirin Rose Stay In Your Hearts | 1.5 |
Bearable music and technique but their main singer is just outrageously bad. I cannot stand
his cleans because they are often shockingly off-key and because he uses a pitch I just find
very hard to listen to. He honestly ruins the whole cd. If this would be my band I would
either kick him out or collect money to sponsor singing lessons for him.. |
| Between Seas Shorelines | 2.0 |
| Mostly terrible, unexperienced and uninspired, but not entirely inaudible, e.g. as the song "Midnight Terminator" truly shines out with it's epic atmospheric outro. Props for that. |
| Destruction of a Rose It's Alive | 3.5 |
| Dear Reader Replace why with funny | 3.5 |
| Corelia Nostalgia | 3.5 |
| Bassnectar VAVA VOOM | 2.5 |
| Rage Against the Machine Rage Against the Machine | 4.5 |
| Invent Animate Waves | 3.0 |
| Converge Jane Doe | 2.0 |
| Upon a Burning Body Red. White. Green. | 3.5 |
| Attack Attack! This Means War | 3.0 |
| the first half annoys me, even if it tries to be original and innovative. the second half is more scene and generic, but honestly that is what someone expects of Attack Attack!, nothing more/else. that is what they are able to pull off. |
| Artifex Pereo Ailments & Antidotes | 4.0 |
| At the Skylines The Secrets To Life | 2.0 |
| Aside from "143 Princess", "Turbulence" and the leastwise catchy "Chapter 7" this is pure rubbish. It's hard to even bear the first three songs of this disc. Imagine a bastard of Asking Alexandria, Enter Shikari and Cartel. Sounds retarded? It is. Brutal scenecore takes turns with cheesy, poorly sung pop punk. Thank god they borrowed Kellin Quinn from Sleeping With Sirens which tries to make a brave rescue effort at the end of the record...only the light of his presence keeps this longplayer above total squits-material in the 1.0/1.5-regions. |
| I the Mighty Karma Never Sleeps | 4.0 |
| Seasons Everything You Never Knew | 3.5 |
| Britney Spears Britney | 3.0 |
| Like Moths to Flames When We Don't Exist | 3.5 |
| Adestria Chapters | 4.0 |
| This is about as good as a scene band can get.[2] Digging it big time. Great breakdowns, nice shouter range and definitely an improvement considering their EP. Would prefer them over any other "scenecore" band at the moment. |
| blink-182 Neighborhoods | 3.0 |
| The Used Vulnerable | 3.5 |
| Poison the Well The Tropic Rot | 4.0 |
| Nirvana Bleach | 3.5 |
| Nirvana In Utero | 4.0 |
| Nirvana Nevermind | 4.5 |
| Shinedown The Sound of Madness | 3.5 |
| Trapt Someone in Control | 3.0 |
| Woodkid Iron | 2.0 |
| Bush Golden State | 3.5 |
| We Are The Ocean Look Alive | 2.5 |
| U2 The Best Of 1980-1990 | 4.0 |
| Fear Before The Always Open Mouth | 3.5 |
| The Fall of Troy In the Unlikely Event | 3.0 |
| Converge Axe to Fall | 3.5 |
| See You Next Tuesday Intervals | 3.0 |
| See You Next Tuesday Parasite | 3.5 |
| The Irish Front Universe | 2.0 |
| Salt The Wound Carnal Repercussions | 4.0 |
| Animosity Empires | 3.0 |
| All Shall Perish Hate. Malice. Revenge | 4.0 |
| Misery Index Traitors | 3.0 |
| Misery Index Discordia | 3.5 |
| Full Blown Chaos Full Blown Chaos | 3.0 |
| Full Blown Chaos Heavy Lies The Crown | 3.0 |
| Full Blown Chaos Within The Grasp Of Titans | 3.0 |
| Light This City Facing The Thousand | 3.0 |
| Life in Your Way Kingdoms | 4.0 |
| Stick to Your Guns For What It's Worth | 3.5 |
| Before Their Eyes Redemption | 3.0 |
| Before Their Eyes Untouchable | 2.5 |
| Before Their Eyes The Dawn of My Death | 3.0 |
| Before Their Eyes Before Their Eyes | 3.5 |
| Hopes Die Last Trust No one | 2.5 |
| Hopes Die Last Six Years Home | 3.5 |
| Hopes Die Last Your Face Down Now | 3.5 |
| Make Me Famous It's Now or Never | 3.0 |
| Electric Callboy Bury Me in Fucking Vegas | 3.0 |
| Morgan's Accident There's No Sun Where We're Going | 2.5 |
most likely the most generic thing I have heard for years, but funnily enough it seems
bearable. the sky eats airplane connection dswhite85 made is not too bad, even if Morgan's
Accident are much less technical and innovative. a bland popcorn newschool scenecore release
to switch off your mind for a while, haha. |
| Lifestory: Monologue Drag Your White Fur - Make It Grey | 3.0 |
| Stick to Your Guns Diamond | 4.5 |
| Lifestory: Monologue Hold Me In The Wind, My Friend | 3.5 |
| Lifestory: Monologue The Thornberry EP | 3.5 |
| Hands (US-ND) Creator | 3.0 |
| Silence The Messenger Buried | 2.0 |
| Bellarive The Being Human Project...Start Listening | 3.5 |
| the Orphan, the Poet In Brevity | 3.0 |
| 3.25 alt/indie/rock/post-hc mix with nice ideas. cool band overall. |
| Your Demise The Golden Age | 3.0 |
| Transcends Breathing In Oceans | 3.5 |
| Empires Fade Reflection | 4.5 |
| Ektomorf Outcast | 3.5 |
| Emmure Slave To The Game | 2.5 |
| Agent Fresco A Long Time Listening | 3.5 |
| Ektomorf What Doesn't Kill Me... | 2.5 |
| Slingshot Dakota Their Dreams Are Dead,But Ours Is The Golden Ghost | 4.5 |
| Silverstein Short Songs | 2.5 |
| Recon (USA-NY) Hell | 3.0 |
| The Mars Volta Noctourniquet | 4.0 |
| I See Stars Digital Renegade | 3.5 |
| Hands Like Houses Ground Dweller | 4.5 |
| Weaver At The Loom Before Now, Was Then | 4.0 |
| TRC Bright Lights | 3.5 |
| really great and versatile effort, even while maintaining consistency. I dig it big time. more like a 3.75 though, as it is close to a 4 apparently. |
| Walking With Strangers Buried, Dead & Done | 3.0 |
| Legacy With Peace In Mind | 3.5 |
| Vowel All the Sad Songs | 4.0 |
| Job for a Cowboy Ruination | 3.0 |
| My Ticket Home To Create a Cure | 3.0 |
| Veil of Maya Eclipse | 3.5 |
| by far their best work up to date. engaging listen. |
| My Ticket Home The Opportunity To Be | 3.0 |
| Burial Distant Lights | 4.0 |
| Burial Street Halo | 3.0 |
| Burial and Four Tet Moth/Wolf Cub | 3.5 |
| Caliban I Am Nemesis | 3.5 |
| I, the Breather Truth and Purpose | 4.0 |
| Iselia Life From Dead Limbs | 4.5 |
| Juli In Love | 3.5 |
| Stick to Your Guns Comes From the Heart | 3.5 |
| Massive Attack Mezzanine | 4.0 |
| Juli Ein neuer Tag | 4.0 |
| Juli Es ist Juli | 5.0 |
| a true german pop-rock classic. |
| Substructure Monolith | 4.0 |
| Vildhjarta MÃ¥sstaden | 4.0 |
| Aristeia Era Of The Omnipotent | 4.0 |
| Palisades I'm Not Dying Today | 3.5 |
| Five Minute Ride - Bathroom Walls... Lipstick Secrets | 3.0 |
| Five Minute Ride The World Needs Convincing... | 3.5 |
| Tooth and Claw World War | 4.0 |
| Anthony Green Beautiful Things | 3.0 |
| Kurt Travis Wha Happen? | 3.0 |
| Gideon Costs | 3.5 |
| pretty solid tbh. I also like the production in particular. |
| Strawberry Girls Do Peace | 3.0 |
| Sonic Youth The Eternal | 4.0 |
| Strawberry Girls Italian Ghosts | 3.5 |
| The Saddest Landscape After The Lights | 4.5 |
| Intervals The Space Between | 4.0 |
| The Higher It's Only Natural | 3.5 |
| Enter Shikari A Flash Flood of Colour | 4.0 |
| The Destiny Program Subversive Blueprint | 4.5 |
| Destiny The Tracy Chapter | 4.0 |
| ATB Seven Years 1999-2005 | 4.0 |
| Us, From Outside Revived | 3.0 |
| Skrillex Bangarang | 3.0 |
| VersaEmerge Fixed at Zero | 3.0 |
| Korn The Path of Totality | 2.5 |
| Maylene and the Sons of Disaster IV | 2.0 |
| James Blake James Blake | 2.5 |
| Dir En Grey Dum Spiro Spero | 4.0 |
| Thrice Major/Minor | 4.0 |
| States Room To Run | 3.0 |
| Departures When Losing Everything Is Everything You Wanted | 4.0 |
| Pianos Become the Teeth The Lack Long After | 4.0 |
| this is superb. |
| The Holy Guile Guardians 2.0 | 1.5 |
| Touche Amore Parting The Sea Between Brightness And Me | 3.5 |
| A Hope For Home In Abstraction | 4.5 |
| La Dispute Wildlife | 4.5 |
| Against the Flood Home Truths | 4.0 |
| Aegaeon Dissension | 3.5 |
| Cloudkicker Let Yourself Be Huge | 3.0 |
| A Plea for Purging The Life & Death of A Plea For Purging | 3.5 |
| without a doubt their best record up to date. |
| Rose Funeral Gates of Punishment | 1.5 |
| Suffokate Return to Despair | 3.5 |
| Cloudkicker Loop | 2.5 |
| Barrow Being Without | 4.5 |
| Glass Bones Seasons | 4.0 |
| even if I dislike 'bluebird' and 'spring' a little, 'summer', 'fall' and 'winter' are far too epic to get a 4 denied. an interesting and charming listen. |
| Tasters Reckless ‘Till The End | 3.5 |
| solid firstling, a little uninspired but nice technique at times. also fail track order, because all the best songs are in the middle of the record - start and finish are lacking a bit of quality. |
| Apollo Lighthouse | 4.5 |
| Apollo Apollo EP | 4.0 |
| Travels Life | 4.0 |
| Jordan Blake and Etienne Sin The Legend, The Leader | 1.5 |
| ERRA Impulse | 4.5 |
| Asking Alexandria Stepped Up and Scratched | 3.0 |
| Glassjaw Coloring Book | 3.0 |
| Cartel In Stereo | 3.5 |
| Once Nothing First Came the Law | 2.5 |
| Lower Than Atlantis Far Q | 2.5 |
| Verse Aggression | 4.0 |
| Drake Take Care | 3.0 |
| quite bland for a selftitled aoty contestant and nowhere near kanyes last effort My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy. west 1, drake 0. |
| Our Last Night We Will All Evolve | 3.0 |
| Our Last Night The Ghosts Among Us | 3.5 |
| This or the Apocalypse Haunt What's Left | 3.5 |
| Misery Speaks Misery Speaks | 3.5 |
| Misery Speaks Disciples Of Doom | 3.0 |
| Mayday Parade Mayday Parade | 4.0 |
| a definite return to form. now make jason lancaster come back and conquer the world with an instant "5"-record, haha. |
| The Maine Pioneer | 3.0 |
| the maine finally start to progress and mature. listen to the bridge of "When I'm At Home" or "Waiting For My Sun To Shine" to get your proof. unfortunately there are overall too many fillertracks for a 3.5-rating. |
| Angels and Airwaves Love - Part II | 3.0 |
| riffs begin to sound redundant...I feel like I've heard this record for ten times, even if it is my first listen. not that great. |
| Burning Skies Murder By Means Of Existence | 3.5 |
| Burning Skies Desolation | 4.0 |
| To Speak Of Wolves Following Voices | 3.0 |
| To Speak Of Wolves Myself < Letting Go | 3.5 |
| Funeral for a Friend See You All In Hell | 3.0 |
| brokeNCYDE Guilty Pleasure | 2.0 |
| Adept The Rose Will Decay | 3.5 |
| Adept When The Sun Gave Up The Sky | 3.0 |
| Walking With Strangers Hardships | 3.5 |
| Various Artists (Punk) Punk Goes Acoustic | 3.0 |
| Various Artists (Punk) Punk Goes Pop 2 | 2.5 |
| Various Artists (Punk) Punk Goes Pop | 1.0 |
| Various Artists (Punk) Punk Goes Pop 4 | 3.0 |
| Jamie's Elsewhere They Said a Storm Was Coming | 3.0 |
| O'Brother Garden Window | 4.0 |
| Madison Affair Teenage Time | 3.5 |
| Arms Like Yours .Architect. | 4.0 |
| I cannot remember the last time I instantly loved a clean voice. It seems apparent that .Architect. changed this estimation. The present day marks the turning point: Arms Like Yours are perfectly able to capture my emotions and carry them through to my heart. A marvellous listen for a sad and melancholic night alone. Five spins of this EP and you are lost in their heartfelt sound. |
| Mureau Rumors and Reputations | 3.0 |
| As I Lay Dying Decas | 4.0 |
| Keyes Therefore/Without | 3.5 |
| Counterparts The Current Will Carry Us | 4.0 |
| Die Aerzte 13 | 3.5 |
| Die Aerzte Die Bestie in Menschengestalt | 4.0 |
| Die Aerzte Runter mit den Spendierhosen, Unsichtbarer! | 4.5 |
| Castle Grayskull To Live as Brutes | 1.5 |
| hi generictown. the listen was so boring that I turned it off after five songs. and I normally never turn off records, unimportant how bad they are..*yawn* |
| Northlane Discoveries | 4.5 |
| The Dead Lay Waiting We Rise | 1.5 |
| Lands Emperor | 3.5 |
| a definite grower. 3.75 for now, most probably going to rise in no time. incredible newcomers from the island of choice. hardcore with progressive, ambient and post-metal touches. original. |
| Structures Divided By | 3.5 |
| Here I Come Falling Oh Grave, Where Is Thy Victory | 3.5 |
| 3.75 |
| The Elijah A Son : A Disease | 3.5 |
| Elitist Earth | 4.0 |
| for sure better than caves. also the instrumentals are a nice feature. |
| Life in Your Way Kingdom of God | 4.0 |
| Life in Your Way Kingdom of Darkness | 4.0 |
| Life in Your Way Kingdom of Man | 3.5 |
| Bjork Biophilia | 4.5 |
| Goodtime Boys Are We Now, Or Have We Ever Been | 4.0 |
| a huge release. semi-"underground" post-hardcore/screamo from cardiff. definitely keep an eye on them - they're worth it! |
| Helia 2036 | 2.5 |
| a truly average output. they had potential and wasted it. "memento mori" showcases what they COULD have been. but no, they still preferred genericness, overediting and bad screams. |
| Alesana A Place Where the Sun is Silent | 4.0 |
| The Crimson Armada Conviction | 3.5 |
| Casper XOXO | 4.5 |
| A Lot Like Birds Conversation Piece | 4.5 |
| I Set My Friends On Fire Astral Rejection | 2.0 |
| The Jezabels Prisoner | 4.0 |
| The Eyes of a Traitor The Disease | 3.5 |
| Wayne Static Pighammer | 3.0 |
| The Cinema My Blood is Full of Airplanes | 4.0 |
| Billy Talent Billy Talent II | 3.5 |
| Billy Talent Billy Talent III | 3.0 |
| Ark of the Covenant Separation | 3.0 |
| Lydia Paint it Golden | 3.5 |
| Deas Vail Birds & Cages | 3.5 |
| Make Me Famous Keep This in Your Music Player | 2.5 |
| Lydia This December; It's One More and I'm Free | 3.5 |
| Demolisher Recognition | 3.0 |
| bearable acacia strain-fake. generic as hell but at least you know what you get. |
| Confession The Long Way Home | 3.0 |
| this record is much better than CANCER but it ultimately fails at copying Parkway Drive appropriate. |
| Jes Unleash The Beat | 3.5 |
| Jes High Glow | 2.0 |
| a boring, poor and generic effort in mainstream-pop/electro of a songstress that was a constant once. |
| Jes Hits Disconnected | 3.0 |
| 3.25 |
| Jes Disconnect | 4.5 |
| Hundredth Let Go | 3.5 |
| 3.75 - muuuuuuuuuuuuuuuch better than When Will We Surrender...vocal work+breakdowns+melodies improved _drastically_. huge t-up! next record will be groundbreaking I suppose/hope. |
| Rammstein Mutter | 4.0 |
| Monster Magnet Powertrip | 4.0 |
| The Hellacopters High Visibility | 4.5 |
| after turbonegro's "apocalypse dudes", this disc is my favourite rock('n'roll) record. |
| Gluecifer Tender is the Savage | 4.0 |
| one of the coolest rock records ever written. the opener "I Got War" alone speaks for itself. |
| Skream Skream EP | 2.5 |
| Zomboy Game Time | 3.0 |
| Turbonegro Apocalypse Dudes | 4.5 |
| Flux Pavilion Lines in Wax | 2.5 |
| Skrillex More Monsters and Sprites | 3.0 |
| Skrillex Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites | 3.5 |
| Skrillex My Name Is Skrillex | 3.0 |
| Anathema Falling Deeper | 3.0 |
| an interesting and calming listen. very gentle and scarce instrumentation. finally I get to know what the term 'turned down' really means, even I ultimately would prefer sigur ros' records over this one any day. |
| Volumes Via | 3.5 |
| more near to a 3 than to a 4. two fillerintro's, two rehashed tracks and six forgettable songs, leaving us with only two new outstanders from this record which is much too less considering their previous work. our sad result: the EP was much better, not productionwise but in terms of musicianship and consistency. nevertheless this is no bad listen at all and still one of the flagship's of modern day's djent. but as we see they wasted tons of their potential... |
| Basement I Wish I Could Stay Here | 3.5 |
| We're Not Friends Anymore You Are Television | 3.5 |
| a huge step in the right direction. the very short intro seems to be waste.com, but the four songs that follow really show progression and musicianship. I hope they will release an album in the near future.. |
| We're Not Friends Anymore The Constant Dreamer | 3.0 |
| interesting and honest first EP, unfortunately not autotune-free. |
| Thrice Beggars | 4.0 |
| We Came As Romans Understanding What We've Grown to Be | 3.5 |
| The Word Alive Deceiver | 4.0 |
| The Word Alive Empire | 3.5 |
| Secret Band Secret Band EP | 3.5 |
| solid dgd, missing some cleans. |
| Polar Bear Club The View, The Life | 3.5 |
| solid PBC material in the usual manner. |
| I, the Breather These Are My Sins | 4.5 |
| Oh, Sleeper Children of Fire | 3.5 |
| This seems like a typical grower to me. Despite of 3-4 tracks, Children of Fire is not really accessible and furthermore not as catchy as expected. A long term listen. For now, it's a good 3.5 for me. Might grow and advance to a finite 4, but as I said - this will most probably need some time and concentration/focus. At the moment it is slightly behind Son of the Morning. |
| Bayonet Bayonet | 4.0 |
| true hardcore like it has to be played. strong, harsh, wild and nothing but straight-forward. great vocalist, great lyrics...heartfelt stuff. slightly behind this year's killer release of heart in hand. a good 4 over here. |
| The Venetia Fair The Pits | 4.0 |
| very fresh, even if it's reminding me of older chiodos and newer panic! at the disco. either way I like it. a 3.8-thing, which seems like a weak 4, basically. |
| Of Virtue Heartsounds | 4.5 |
| me-lo-dy. misery signals 2. karl schubach himself would have been proud of this. |
| Circle Takes the Square Rites of Initiation | 4.0 |
| excellent. this is excellent. and it is the first time these sputnik rating words fit more than perfectly. the greatest improvement of a band in the last ten years, facing the fact that I probably hated ATRU more than any other record on the planet. |
| Beneath The Sky In Loving Memory | 3.5 |
| The Mars Volta The Bedlam in Goliath | 4.5 |
| Alexisonfire Old Crows / Young Cardinals | 3.0 |
| It Prevails Stroma | 3.5 |
| 3.75 with my expectations this could have been better.. |
| Betrayal Abandonment | 3.0 |
| a rock-solid moshcore record - nothing more, nothing less. if you like Legend, For The Fallen Dreams or Altars, you might dig this. the track 'Abandonment' shines most because of the TGI-guest vocal spot. 3.25 |
| This Romantic Tragedy Reborn | 3.5 |
| Motions and Miles Grace | 3.5 |
| great EP but unfortunately nowhere near real In:Aviate material. it seems the drummer had a bigger impact on the band than someone would have thought. also sad they seemed to split again...let's wait and hope for a final reunion, I heard some rumours about this one or two months ago. |
| The Paramedic The Devil in Me | 2.0 |
| 2.25 |
| Then Falls Caesar Survive The Night | 2.5 |
| boring. the cleans are the only outstanding thing about them imo. he sounds much like jordan blake, jagmin, ryan randall, stephen rezza and all the other modern emocore/post-hardcoresque countertenors. maybe stop the shitty metalcore parts and follow an original path...dunno. 2.25 |
| Across Five Aprils Tragedy in Progress | 3.5 |
| the problem with mr. higgins is, that he always speaks the truth. not okay, really not okay fellas...seriously. classy record. mainstream metalcore oldschool². 3.75 |
| I Am Abomination The Passion Of The Heist | 1.5 |
| boring, soft and the opposite of catchy. 1.75 |
| That's Outrageous! Teenage Scream | 3.0 |
| listen to my mate chris higgins, he speaks the truth. this record is hella fun and shouldn't be taken serious at all. 200% flippancy. |
| APOSTATE Seaborne | 4.0 |
| a bit hereof, a tad thereof...Apostate know how to steal and whom to steal from. but they do it in a technical, versatile and mature way, far away from genericness, so that you don't a priori notice that they aren't the most original band in the world. a recommendation for fans of maroon and august burns red. technical metalcore done the right way. 3.75-4 |
| All Shall Perish This Is Where It Ends | 3.5 |
| more like a 3.75. this record is really great. close to awaken the dreamers but more straightforward, even with the memberchanges. slightly worse than suicide silence's new though. and no competition with BoO/beheading of a king/circle of contempt because ASP are deathcore and want to be deathcore, no future-tech-ambient-chugridden-metal-deathcore ,) these bands can coexist without any difficulty. ps: I forgot - the record itself is definitely too long. |
| Suicide Silence The Black Crown | 4.0 |
| thank god it's better than no time to bleed .> suicide silence are back, remembering their cleansing-roots while bringing some new fruits to the table like guest appearances (korn, suffokate), whispered vocals and more guitar diversity. it's not the quality-record and instant "blow your ears up"-cd like their firstling but ultimately they are back on the right path, finally leaving the trail of fail that NTTB was, haha. good for them. |
| Chelsea Grin My Damnation | 2.5 |
| album is really weak compared to Desolation Of Eden+EP. without the comparison it's still nothing special and just a boring deathcore record tbh. sad one for CG, to me it felt they had huge potential.. |
| The Dangerous Summer War Paint | 4.0 |
| The Crimson Armada Guardians | 3.0 |
| MyChildren MyBride Lost Boy | 2.0 |
| Tangled Thoughts of Leaving Tiny Fragments - EP | 3.5 |
| Forevermore Moths And Rust | 3.0 |
| Breathe Carolina Hell Is What You Make It | 2.5 |
even facing heavy inconsistencies in musicianship plus generic and mainstream
instrumentation/singing, this record can at least be considered as a bearable effort and a
step into the right direction. maybe it will need another three records for them to really
produce something true and original, but that is not the point. the point is that these guys
are slowly waking up. slowly but steadily. |
| We Are The In Crowd Guaranteed To Disagree | 3.0 |
| some shiners but very short and a little bit boring overall. with a paramore-like songstress and old mayday parade'sk dual vocals there could have been done much more tbh. |
| Falling in Reverse The Drug in Me Is You | 3.0 |
| Crossfade We All Bleed | 3.5 |
| consider me epicly stoked. one of my guiltiest pleasures in youth music history. |
| There For Tomorrow The Verge | 3.5 |
| Alkaline Trio Damnesia | 3.5 |
| Alkaline Trio This Addiction | 3.0 |
| The Air I Breathe Great Faith In Fools | 3.5 |
| comparable with for the fallen dreams', better than eyes have seen the glory's but slightly worse than altars' new record. overall a nice piece of generic metalcore/moshcore. |
| Beheading of a King Quasar: Preserving Legacy | 3.5 |
| Heart in Hand Only Memories | 4.5 |
| fresh, innovative, original, atmospheric, heartfelt, promising, huge, awesome. in short: a great record. nearly perfect for a debut. |
| Voices (US) Anchors | 3.0 |
| it prevails fake with weak breakdowns, boring cleans, solid shouting but huge melody and riffing potential. also the track fade out's/in's are hilariously good. overall no standout firstborn but definitely a band to keep an eye on, especially if they get a good producer for their full length. |
| Oh, Sleeper Son of the Morning | 4.0 |
| Rooks Infinite II | 3.0 |
| not bad but not nearly as great as Infinite I's approach on a vague term like post metalcore. definitely needs a certain amount of spins to shape a trustworthy opinion. |
| Carry Your Ghost Decisions | 2.0 |
| weak, bumptious and hubristic for the fallen dreams-rip off with no feeling for time signatures at all. guitar and drum production are an 1:1 copy of FtfD's "Changes" and fifty percent of the breakdowns are horrible. some enjoyable moments of guitar harmony save this record from the tales of 1.X-newschool faggotry. these guys should seriously rethink their musical future. |
| Of Mice and Men The Flood | 4.5 |
| Dream Theater Octavarium | 3.5 |
| Dream Theater Train of Thought | 4.0 |
| Limp Bizkit Gold Cobra | 4.0 |
| Blindside With Shivering Hearts We Wait | 3.0 |
| Coerce Ethereal Surrogate Saviour | 3.0 |
| Maybeshewill I Was Here For a Moment, Then I Was Gone | 3.5 |
| As I Lay Dying A Long March: The First Recordings | 2.5 |
| Death Cab for Cutie Codes and Keys | 3.5 |
| August Burns Red Leveler | 3.0 |
| A Bullet for Pretty Boy Revision: Revise | 3.5 |
| Incubus (USA-CA) If Not Now, When? | 3.0 |
| Eyes Like Diamonds Frequencies | 3.5 |
| Destruction of a King Consumed | 3.5 |
| Scar Symmetry The Unseen Empire | 3.0 |
it's definitely a suitable record for scar symmetry, even if they are too much trying to copy their older sound. The Unseen Empire stands above their latest effort Dark Matter Dimensions, but does ultimately not reach the quality of Aelvestam-material (their first three records).
something between a 3 and a 3.5 for me. |
| City and Colour Little Hell | 4.0 |
| Endwell Punishment | 3.5 |
| Maroon The Cold Heart Of The Sun | 2.0 |
| Trivium Ember to Inferno | 3.0 |
| HRVRD The Inevitable And I | 4.0 |
| really great listen. a band like a sea between the coasts of circa survive and minus the bear. tame and interesting post-hardcore with good ideas, huge emotions and a fine production. unfortunately a bit vast in it's length, what leaves the record a tad dull. outstanding tracks are "on with disease", "ghost" and especially "the earth" & "what we had". |
| For the Fallen Dreams Back Burner | 3.0 |
| listen to what steven spedding said, he speaks the truth. the cleans are annoying, the songwriting is weak and it's easily For The Fallen Dreams' worst album so far. sad development for them. |
| Sleepingdog With Our Heads in the Clouds... | 2.0 |
| one great and one bearable song aren't able to override six weak songs with obtrusive ambient parts, too extreme volume changes and overall evident boredom & mediocrity. everything that shined back in "Polar Life" (piano arrangements, vocal harmonies, perceptible emotions) is gone, what automatically leaves "With Our Heads In The Clouds And Our Hearts In The Fields" as the biggest letdown in 2011's music history so far. |
| House Vs. Hurricane Forfeiture | 2.5 |
| House Vs. Hurricane Perspectives | 3.5 |
| LGND The Pale Horse | 3.5 |
| Caliban Coverfield | 3.5 |
| actually a bearable listen for nowadays caliban standards. they should become a full cover band, lawl. |
| Caliban Say Hello to Tragedy | 3.0 |
| Moving Mountains Waves | 4.0 |
| Bermuda Isolationist(s) | 3.0 |
| good and promising debut EP of a band I would like to rename into "Little Volumes". they kind of rely on the sound of last-mentioned band in 2-3 of their songs and even deliver a feature with the Volumes-shouter on one of them. unfortunately the actual djent parts are very rare and sparely used which could be an issue to fix for a possibly following full length. all in all the deathcore portion is still too high to really shine in a crowded and flooded genre like this. |
| Arsonists Get All the Girls Motherland | 3.5 |
| considering the sound, ideas and stuff, this is basically Portals 2. first half is kinda boring, the second is more varied. especially "will someone please turn down the ocean?", "tempest" and the beautiful "west cliffs" rule as fuck. unfortunately the rest can't keep up with these killer tracks. still a great record. |
| Katatonia The Great Cold Distance | 4.0 |
| Monuments (UK) We Are the Foundation | 3.0 |
| dredg Chuckles and Mr. Squeezy | 2.0 |
| aside from chillout tracks six, seven and eight (which really stand out) this record is just plain boring and weak. a shame for standard dredg material. |
| Sleeping With Sirens Let's Cheers to This | 4.5 |
| Defiler Pangaea | 2.0 |
| poor record from a technically bad band that get's a little bit better in the last tracks, saving it from a 1-1.5 rating. |
| Consider the Thief Signs and Wonders | 4.0 |
| interesting and musically great thrice fake lacking some hits. |
| In Fear and Faith Symphonies | 3.5 |
| Here Comes the Kraken Hate, Greed & Death | 3.0 |
| interesting and kind of solid deathcore with experiments and poor vocals. more like a 2-2.5 - dunno...in the end they are bearable/listenable. |
| The Rise of Science Casey | 2.5 |
| after comparisons with tides of man, closure in moscow and even circa survive, this was a huge letdown for me. tame music, boring vocals, awkward song lengths and flows, many good ideas but poor execution. also the phone calls(wtf!!!!?!?!!) are killing me. never heard such annoying and disturbing rubbish on a record. |
| In League Where the Silence Is Easy | 3.0 |
| no bad record for a first release, featuring some real standout tracks, but all in all too bland and unexperienced to really shine/satisfy. |
| A Lot Like Birds Plan B | 4.0 |
| The Destiny Program Gathas | 4.0 |
| Memphis May Fire The Hollow | 4.0 |
| Memphis May Fire finally get loose of their southern experiments and go "scene" - but do good at it. a new Woe, Is Me is born, equipped with more ideas, enthusiasm and versatility. unfortunately a bit weaker produced than WIM's straightforward "Number(s)". |
| We Are The Ocean Go Now And Live | 4.0 |
| Texas in July Uncivilized | 3.0 |
| Texas in July One Reality | 3.0 |
| Killswitch Engage Killswitch Engage (2009) | 2.5 |
| Motionless in White Creatures | 3.5 |
| I'm not able to not enjoy the junz. vocals are fine, too. also huge improvement for them, as far as I remember the EP's were shitty as hell. the goth passages are annoying at times though. |
| The Plot In You First Born | 3.5 |
| really enjoyable for a "standard" newschool/scene metalcore record. nice cleans and overall interesting for the fallen dreams-fake with a weaker shouter but less breakdownwanking. |
| Minus the Bear Menos El Oso | 5.0 |
| Circle Takes the Square As the Roots Undo | 1.5 |
| Holiday Unheard Of Carta Marina | 4.0 |
| Lady Radiator Party With Villains | 4.5 |
| EP is epic and even better than their full length. "uglywoman" kills me, this song is just soo~o good. sad that they are dead and the singer left for 'the murder and the harlot'. poor destiny. |
| Lady Radiator Bounce Energy Hear Me Out | 4.0 |
| Between the Buried and Me The Parallax: Hypersleep Dialogues | 4.5 |
| brilliant release. the first BTBAM that instantly grabbed me. |
| Guano Apes Bel Air | 2.5 |
| seriously. it's bad - for apes standards. 2-3 really enjoyable tracks, the rest is washed-out & mushy pop. easy forgettable, but sad for a comeback try. ps: the fact that the best track on the record (Fire) is just one of two bonus tracks on the deluxe edition symptomatically speaks for the many false decisions the band made on this record. |
| Limp Bizkit Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavored Water | 4.5 |
| Limp Bizkit Significant Other | 3.0 |
| August Burns Red Looks Fragile After All | 3.5 |
| Parkway Drive The DVD | 2.5 |
| Guano Apes Planet of the Apes | 4.5 |
| Guano Apes Don't Give Me Names | 2.0 |
| Guano Apes Proud Like A God | 4.0 |
| Guano Apes Walking On A Thin Line | 4.5 |
| Protest the Hero Gallop Meets the Earth | 2.0 |
| Crossfade Falling Away | 4.0 |
| Crossfade Crossfade | 4.5 |
| Three Days Grace Life Starts Now | 2.5 |
| Three Days Grace One-X | 3.5 |
| Three Days Grace Three Days Grace | 4.0 |
| Adeste In Parables | 4.0 |
| Bruno Mars Doo-Wops & Hooligans | 3.0 |
| The Blackout Hope | 3.5 |
| definitely their best work up to date. enjoyable record, reasy to listen. |
| Thursday No Devolucion | 4.0 |
| Thursday Common Existence | 2.0 |
| Born of Osiris The Discovery | 4.0 |
| Aglacia Generator. Operator. Destroyer. | 4.5 |
| grows and grows and grows and grows and grows on me. |
| Various Artists (Punk) Punk Goes Pop 3 | 4.0 |
| Asking Alexandria Reckless and Relentless | 4.0 |
| It's not out nor leaked yet, so stop rating this record or I will butt fuck the shit out of your mother. Guaranteed. |
| If I Die Today Liars | 3.5 |
| Emery We Do What We Want | 3.5 |
| a letdown considering In Shallow Seas. I hate Devin Shelton for leaving this band, seriously. the circumstance of two clean vocalists was the key factor that made Emery special, just like e.g. Mayday Parade. both bands screwed it. good job. not. aside from all that the record is fine in what it does. but it is just sad that they wasted so much potential. hopefully this will turn out as a grower in the end. |
| Sum 41 Screaming Bloody Murder | 3.5 |
| Panic! at the Disco Vices & Virtues | 4.0 |
| who would have thought they come back with an album like _this_. it's so versatile and chameleonic...wow. I love the quirky moments and most of the diverse song outros. I would recommend anyone: listen to this record and form your own opinion. ps: my 700th albumrating - YEAH! :D |
| Memphis May Fire Sleepwalking | 3.5 |
| Ten After Two Truth Is... | 3.5 |
| Underrated with a 3, overrated with a 3.5. Probably a 3.25-thing. Even if they come with great technique and good ideas, Ten After Two aren't able to grab me at first listen. They certainly delivered a fine record here, but I would heavily suggest them to work on their catchiness and accessibilty. |
| Everyone Dies In Utah Seeing Clearly | 4.0 |
| a good candidate for the introduction of the numerical value 3.75 here on sputnik. it's really not 'excellent', but surely kind of better than 'great'. it does not feel generic, even by definitely being generic at some parts. it's neither fish nor fowl. it's just a catchy record that clearly overshadowes the previously released EP of a band that hugely showcases something what - in the majority of cases - we like to call: potential. |
| Silverstein Rescue | 4.0 |
| Moby Play | 4.5 |
| Moby 18 | 4.0 |
| Aiden Disguises | 2.0 |
| As Blood Runs Black Allegiance | 2.5 |
| As Blood Runs Black Instinct | 3.0 |
| Salt The Wound Kill the Crown | 3.5 |
| I Am Empire Kings | 3.0 |
| Avril Lavigne Goodbye Lullaby | 3.0 |
| Me vs Hero Days That Shape Our Lives | 3.5 |
| really enjoyable pop punk record. makes me smile. the singer sam sounds a bit like the old mayday parade singer john lancaster(now in go radio). |
| We Are Defiance Trust in Few | 2.5 |
| what IAmKickass said. sometimes he is so right that it get's scary. few words, huge outcome. |
| Destroy Rebuild Until God Shows D.R.U.G.S. | 3.0 |
| Adam Kills Eve They Almost Killed us With Their Hypocrisy | 1.5 |
| hurts my ears. bad riffs, bad timing, bad singing...wtf. terribad ./ can't get into them, even if I try very hard to do so. actually one of the first times I had to stop a cd shortly before the end because it annoyed and disappointed me so much. at least it features one more or less 'good' song with Ready Steady Save The World. When Icarus Met John Nash is bearable too. |
| Lions Lions The Path We Take EP | 3.5 |
| nice listen along the way. next full length will be very interesting and certainly a record to look out for. |
| Impending Doom There Will Be Violence | 3.5 |
| Big Chocolate I'm Shot | 2.5 |
| Tides of Man Empire Theory | 4.0 |
| Chunk! No, Captain Chunk! Something for Nothing | 3.5 |
| The Murder and the Harlot These Hands Wrote the Bastard In Me | 4.0 |
| Conditions Fluorescent Youth | 3.5 |
| Yellowcard When You're Through Thinking, Say Yes | 3.5 |
| Onward To Olympas The War Within Us | 4.0 |
| Tonight Is Glory The Vision and Reality | 3.0 |
| ^ What my bro IAmKickass said. Nearly perfect summary. Plus: huge guest appearances over here. (Nick Moore of Before Their Eyes, Telle Smith of Greeley Estates, Chris Roetter of Agraceful) |
| Transit Something Left Behind | 2.0 |
| did not work out for me, even if I am a sucker for acoustic music and cheesy pop punk. the guitars are quite plain and not technical & catchy enough for me plus the singer annoys me at times because he is off-key so often that it hurts my ears .Drmaybe or most probably it is a disadvantage not to know their older songs & outputs yet...dunno. all in all there are like 2-3 good songs on here but that is definitely not a strong reason for me to listen to this record like on a daily basis or so. |
| Funeral for a Friend Welcome Home Armageddon | 4.0 |
| Funeral for a Friend Memory and Humanity | 2.0 |
| Long Distance Calling Long Distance Calling | 3.0 |
| overall a disappointment. especially considering their epic forerunner 'avoid the light'. |
| Rise Against Endgame | 4.0 |
| Surprisingly catchy. Grabs you at first listen. |
| Scale the Summit The Collective | 4.0 |
| Awesome post rock/metal-mix, beats the shit out of the new Long Distance Calling record. |
| The Color Morale My Devil In Your Eyes | 3.5 |
| Adept Death Dealers | 4.5 |
| Dance Gavin Dance Downtown Battle Mountain II | 4.5 |
| Lena Good News | 2.5 |
| This sophomore effort alarmingly showcases what is meant by the common term 'wasted potential', especially for a skilled songstress like Lena. 'Good News' features boring & tame songwriting and feels kinda rushed with this abrupt ending. On top of that it lacks the bluesy/jazzy touch of the forerunner and is not able to compensate the erstwhile hit frequency on 'My Cassette Player'. Apart from all that Lena is overall fortunately able to cover up the writing and carry the record with her warm voice and singing abilities. For the Eurovision Song Contest 2011, I would definitely have suggested to choose "A Million And One", which is easily the best song on the record. The song they have chosen ("Taken By A Stranger") is the only track that is kinda different from the others on the album and hence marks a bearable, but not a winning alternative. |
| I See Stars The End of the World Party | 3.0 |
| Defeater Dear Father | 4.0 |
| Defeater Empty Days and Sleepless Nights | 4.0 |
| Suffokate No Mercy, No Forgiveness | 2.5 |
| Death Becomes Her Last Chance For Forgiveness | 3.0 |
| generic but solid deathcore. a better oceano, a weaker chelsea grin. |
| Lena My Cassette Player | 3.0 |
| Times of Grace The Hymn of a Broken Man | 3.5 |
| A Skylit Drive Identity on Fire | 3.5 |
| Not as classy as the EP and less hits than Wires..., in short: a better Adelphia. |
| Emmure Speaker Of The Dead | 4.5 |
| Surprisingly interesting output by a band that reached it's bottom with their latest record 'Felony'. On the one hand 'Speaker Of The Dead' is an incredibly brutal and heavy ride with some outstanding tracks like 4 Poisons 3 Words, Lights Bring Salvation and their two singles. And on the other hand it features weak, replaceable material like Area 64-66 or My Name Is Thanos and shows a kind of undeniable redundancy in breakdowns and overall musicianship after examining the whole length and consistency of the record in detail. In terms of production, it's easily Sturgis' best work ever. The bass lines are perfectly audible, dubstep elements, electronic parts and samples fit nicely and the general groove knows how to be hypnotizing and tight at once. All in all not really an excellent record, but a great one for Palmeri & Sons. Their third best, placing shortly after 'The Respect Issue'. 3.8 |
| Lower Definition The Infinite Et Cetera | 4.5 |
| Parachutes (DE) The Working Horse | 4.0 |
| Beheading of a King Beheading of a King | 3.0 |
| Monsters Monsters | 2.5 |
| years spent cold/emmure rip off with annoying rap/nu metal parts apart from nice mosh moments. some skippable songs, but overall worth a listen - especially for genre 'fans'. |
| Rooks Infinite I | 4.5 |
| Like Moths to Flames Sweet Talker | 3.5 |
| Attila Rage | 2.5 |
| King Conquer America's Most Haunted | 3.0 |
| American Me Heat | 3.0 |
| Kingdom of Giants Abominable | 4.0 |
| Inlow selftitled EP | 3.0 |
| Sights and Sounds Monolith | 4.5 |
| While She Sleeps The North Stands for Nothing | 3.5 |
| Ghost Runner on Third Speak Your Dreams | 3.0 |
| Lead Hands Lead Hands | 4.0 |
| Architects The Here and Now | 3.5 |
| No Bragging Rights Illuminator | 3.5 |
| Watchout! Theres Ghosts Ghost Town | 2.0 |
| Trances The Alphament | 3.5 |
| Taylor Swift Speak Now | 3.5 |
| Taylor Swift Fearless | 3.5 |
| Seasons Seasons | 3.0 |
| Seladora The Restless Wanderers | 3.5 |
| Six Gallery Breakthroughs in Modern Art | 4.0 |
| Tides of Man Dreamhouse | 4.0 |
| Glassjaw Our Color Green (The Singles) | 4.5 |
| Finch Epilogue | 3.5 |
| More Than A Thousand Vol. 4 Make Friends and Enemies | 2.0 |
| Killing The Dream Lucky Me | 4.5 |
| The Carrier Blind To What Is Right | 3.5 |
| Russian Circles Geneva | 3.5 |
| The Chariot Long Live | 4.5 |
| The Ocean Anthropocentric | 4.0 |
| Destruction of a King Destruction of a King | 3.0 |
| Amia Venera Landscape The Long Procession | 4.5 |
| Bring Me the Horizon There Is a Hell, Believe Me I've Seen It... | 4.0 |
| The Reign of Kindo Rhythm, Chord & Melody | 4.0 |
| System of a Down Mezmerize | 4.5 |
| System of a Down Hypnotize | 4.0 |
| System of a Down Toxicity | 4.5 |
| Asking Alexandria Life Gone Wild | 2.0 |
| Glassjaw Worship and Tribute | 4.5 |
| letlive. Fake History | 4.0 |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Option Paralysis | 4.0 |
| Touche Amore/La Dispute Searching for a Pulse/The Worth of the World | 4.0 |
| Kanye West My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy | 4.0 |
| Haste the Day Attack of the Wolf King | 3.5 |
| Celeste Nihiliste(s) | 3.5 |
| We Are The Emergency Whispers and Fragments | 4.0 |
| Lydia Assailants | 3.5 |
| Suicide Silence No Time to Bleed | 2.0 |
| Edguy Hellfire Club | 3.5 |
| Dioramic Technicolor | 3.5 |
| Pretty solid drumming, incredible time signatures, really nice guitarwork, good ideas - but all in all too much for one record, paired with astonishingly bad vocals (screams/growls/cleans - everything is poor as hell). Wasted potential, squared. |
| Sed Non Satiata Sed Non Satiata | 4.0 |
| Awesome, emotional and atmospheric record, unfortunately written in a non familiar language and lacking standout tracks/real catchy hits. Also you need to be in the right mood to fully enjoy this album. |
| Conducting from the Grave Revenants | 3.0 |
| Circus Circus Brooklyn Nightlife | 3.5 |
| The Dream the Chase Found Again | 4.5 |
| Structures All of the Above | 3.0 |
| Volumes The Concept of Dreaming | 4.5 |
| Misery Signals Misery Signals | 3.5 |
| August Burns Red Lost Messengers: The Outtakes | 3.5 |
| As We Draw Lines Breaking Circles | 4.0 |
| Man Overboard Real Talk | 3.0 |
| The Amity Affliction Youngbloods | 3.5 |
| I, the Breather Demo 2009 | 3.0 |
| Onward To Olympas This World Is Not My Home | 3.5 |
| Avril Lavigne The Best Damn Thing | 3.5 |
| Avril Lavigne Let Go | 4.0 |
| Avril Lavigne Under My Skin | 4.5 |
| Silverstein A Shipwreck in the Sand | 3.5 |
| Silverstein Transitions | 3.5 |
| The Amity Affliction Severed Ties | 3.5 |
| The Amity Affliction The Amity Affliction | 3.5 |
| The Amity Affliction High Hopes | 4.0 |
| The Amity Affliction Glory Days | 4.0 |
| Miss May I Apologies Are for the Weak | 3.5 |
| Scarlett O'Hara Lost In Existence | 3.5 |
| Woe, Is Me Number[s] | 4.5 |
| Architects Ruin | 3.5 |
| Circa Survive Appendage | 4.5 |
| Circa Survive Juturna | 4.0 |
| Circa Survive On Letting Go | 4.5 |
| Gospel The Moon Is a Dead World | 4.0 |
| Tesa Heartbeatsfromthesky | 4.0 |
| After the Burial In Dreams | 3.5 |
| After the Burial Rareform (Re-release) | 3.0 |
| Elitist Caves | 3.0 |
| More Than Life Love Let Me Go | 3.5 |
| Kerouac Cold and Distant, Not Loving | 4.5 |
| Kvelertak Kvelertak | 4.0 |
| My Chemical Romance Danger Days: The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys | 1.5 |
| Atreyu Congregation of the Damned | 1.5 |
| Escapado Hinter den Spiegeln | 4.0 |
| Escapado Montgomery Mundtot | 4.5 |
| Escapado Initiale | 4.5 |
| Arsis Starve for the Devil | 1.0 |
| Oceano Contagion | 2.0 |
| Underoath Ø (Disambiguation) | 3.5 |
| A Day To Remember What Separates Me from You | 3.0 |
| Calmer and softer than Homesick, coevally feeling kinda rushed. Overall a quite catchy pop-punk output with very few core elements left and a really short running time. I don't know if I am liking this direction much. Leaving it a 3.5 for now, maybe downgrading it to 2.5-3 after the next few listens. |
| Iwrestledabearonce It's All Dubstep | 3.0 |
| The Saddest Landscape You Will Not Survive | 3.5 |
| War from a Harlots Mouth MMX | 3.5 |
| Since the Flood Valor and Vengance | 3.5 |
| Memphis May Fire Between the Lies | 3.0 |
| Carpathian Wanderlust | 4.0 |
| States Line 'Em Up | 4.0 |
| Escape the Fate Escape the Fate | 3.0 |
| First Blood Silence Is Betrayal | 4.0 |
| A step up from diverting Killafornia. Atmospheric quotations paired with pure hate - vocalwise, lyricwise and on instrumental terms. Definitely worth a listen in nowadays hardcore. |
| 65daysofstatic Heavy Sky | 3.5 |
| Alexisonfire Dog's Blood | 4.0 |
| This EP seems to be pensive, thoughtful and overall kinda meditative. I like this aspect. It reminds me of old Alexisonfire days like when 'rough hands' and 'happiness by the kilowatt' were their standouts. A good change for them and a huge step up from the mediocre 'Old Crows/Young Cardinals'. Let's see what the next full length can pull off .) |
| It Prevails Findings | 3.5 |
| Conducting from the Grave When Legends Become Dust | 3.5 |
| Neaera Forging The Eclipse | 3.0 |
| Ill Nino Dead New World | 2.5 |
| Neaera Omnicide: Creation Unleashed | 2.0 |
| Emmure Demo '05 | 1.5 |
| Emmure Nine Eleven Zero Four | 2.5 |
| Cloudkicker Beacons | 4.5 |
| Amia Venera Landscape Amia Venera Landscape | 4.5 |
| Ion Dissonance Cursed | 4.0 |
| I Am Abomination To Our Forefathers | 3.5 |
| I Am Abomination Jaw Dropper | 3.0 |
| Vanna The Honest Hearts EP | 3.5 |
| The Ghost Inside Returners | 4.5 |
| Coldplay Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends | 3.5 |
| Coldplay Parachutes | 4.0 |
| Coldplay A Rush of Blood to the Head | 5.0 |
| Your Demise The Kids We Used To Be | 3.5 |
| Mae (e)vening | 4.5 |
| Dance Gavin Dance Whatever I Say Is Royal Ocean | 3.5 |
| 36 Crazyfists Collisions and Castaways | 2.5 |
| Alter Bridge AB III | 4.0 |
| All That Remains ...For We Are Many | 3.5 |
| Trapt No Apologies | 2.5 |
| Solid at first, but all in all turning out to be kinda boring and forgettable. |
| Devil Sold His Soul Blessed & Cursed | 4.5 |
| Anathema We're Here Because We're Here | 4.5 |
| With Life In Mind Grievances | 4.0 |
| Miss May I Monument | 3.0 |
| For Today Breaker | 4.5 |
| Fort Minor The Rising Tied | 4.5 |
| Self Defense Family Sincerely | 3.5 |
| Self Defense Family You Are Beneath Me | 4.0 |
| Conditions You Are Forgotten | 4.0 |
| Chiodos Bone Palace Ballet | 3.0 |
| Chiodos All's Well That Ends Well | 3.5 |
| The Contortionist Shapeshifter | 3.5 |
| The Contortionist Exoplanet | 4.0 |
| The Contortionist Apparition | 4.5 |
| Disturbed Asylum | 3.0 |
| The Devil Wears Prada Zombie | 3.5 |
| Chiodos Illuminaudio | 4.5 |
| Various Artists The Matrix: Music From The Motion Picture | 4.5 |
| The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus The Hell or High Water | 3.0 |
| Within the Ruins Invade | 3.0 |
| Anberlin Dark Is the Way, Light Is a Place | 3.5 |
| Royksopp Senior | 3.5 |
| Linkin Park A Thousand Suns | 3.0 |
| Polar Bear Club Chasing Hamburg | 4.0 |
| Terror Keepers of the Faith | 3.0 |
| In The Midst of Lions The Heart of Man | 3.0 |
| Florence and the Machine Lungs | 4.0 |
| Them Crooked Vultures Them Crooked Vultures | 4.0 |
| The Acacia Strain Wormwood | 3.5 |
| Chimaira Coming Alive | 3.5 |
| Solid live output of a band playing relatively consistent over the last couple of years. One song more out of "Impossibility Of Reason" for one "Infection"-song would not have been that bad, but overall nice choice of hits. Tone quality is fine, DVD with 7 hours+ bonus material is sick. All in all a very pleasing collection for a fan and nicely intriguing to newcomers. |
| Ellie Goulding Lights | 4.0 |
| The Reign of Kindo This Is What Happens | 5.0 |
| A versatile, mature and heartfelt symphony of melodies and honest emotions, paired with astonishingly beautiful jazzy moments. Fine musicians crafted a lasting, inspiring and fleet-footedly delivered piece of art that really seems to deserve the term 'art' more than any other record in 2010. I am speechless looking in the face of this magnificent work. |
| The Eyes of a Traitor Breathless | 3.5 |
| The Rendering Protector | 3.0 |
| Sent By Ravens The Effects of Fashion and Prayer | 3.5 |
| Death Cab for Cutie Transatlanticism | 4.0 |
| Mozart Season Nightmares | 2.5 |
| Mozart Season Apotheosis | 3.0 |
| Brandon Boyd The Wild Trapeze | 2.5 |
| Eye Alaska Yellow & Elephant | 3.5 |
| The Maine Black & White | 2.0 |
| just another mushy output of a band that softens and gets more mainstream with every new release. black & white covers finest major label pop punk material for every girl that has not yet hit the 'age-of-15 mark'. if you like to hear another easy forgettable, reduced-calorie diet record for slimming cure listeners, then black & white is your CD. |
| Rolo Tomassi Cosmology | 3.5 |
| Norma Jean Meridional | 4.0 |
| Hundredth When Will We Surrender | 3.0 |
| Jawbreaker Dear You | 3.5 |
| Ice Nine Kills Safe Is Just a Shadow | 3.0 |
| In Fear and Faith Imperial | 3.0 |
| Her Bright Skies Causing A Scene | 4.0 |
| The Tony Danza Tapdance Extravaganza Danza III: Series of Unfortunate Events | 3.0 |
| A Hope For Home Realis | 2.5 |
| Counterparts Prophets | 4.5 |
| A Plea for Purging The Marriage Of Heaven And Hell | 3.5 |
| Surprisingly good and nice atmosphere over here. Definitely a huge step up from the mediocre and bland 'Depravity', which also had a much creepier production. The vocals are fine, the breakdowns enjoyable and the meshuggah riffing continues for the better. No milestone and nothing new at all, but in terms of progression, color me surprised. |
| A Plea for Purging Depravity | 2.0 |
| Soilwork The Panic Broadcast | 3.5 |
| Korn Korn III: Remember Who You Are | 4.0 |
| United Nations Never Mind the Bombings, Here's Your Six Figures | 4.5 |
| Apparat Walls | 3.5 |
| awesome german electronica - unfortunately a bit tiring after a while, peppered with mediocre vocals (when they are used) and despite of "you don't know me" lacking real hits/outstanders. overall nice tunes. a good 3.5. |
| Go Radio Do Overs and Second Chances | 3.0 |
| Go Radio Welcome to Life | 2.5 |
| Emarosa Emarosa | 4.0 |
| Pierce the Veil Selfish Machines | 4.0 |
| Heaven Shall Burn Invictus (Iconoclast III) | 3.0 |
| Attack Attack! Attack Attack! | 3.0 |
| Parkway Drive Deep Blue | 4.0 |
| a solid, brute and mature output - finally. this is the record 'horizons' wanted to be. anyway, 'killing with a smile' will remain their masterpiece. too many fillers and computer work on the voice ruin deep blue's ultimate leap to real epicness. |
| Oceana Clean Head | 4.5 |
| A Voice Like Rhetoric Ethos | 3.0 |
| LGND Valediction | 3.5 |
| Cartel Cycles | 4.0 |
| Static-X Cult Of Static | 2.5 |
| Stick to Your Guns The Hope Division | 4.0 |
| Static-X Start A War | 4.0 |
| Eyes Set to Kill Broken Frames | 2.5 |
| Whitechapel A New Era of Corruption | 3.0 |
"If you enjoyed This Is Exile then you will like this, if you didn't then you'll hate it."
That's not correct, sir. "This Is Exile" wasn't mine but the new output kicks some serious ass'. They progressed much imo. |
| Deez Nuts This One's For You | 3.5 |
| Ef Mourning Golden Morning | 4.0 |
| Confide Recover | 3.5 |
| Confide Shout the Truth (Re-Issue) | 3.5 |
| Dead Letter Circus This Is The Warning | 4.5 |
| We Butter The Bread With Butter Der Tag An Dem Die Welt Unterging | 2.5 |
| ten times better than their last, but still bland, no technique and playback all day. |
| Silent Civilian Ghost Stories | 4.0 |
| Hopesfall Magnetic North | 3.5 |
| Hopesfall A Types | 3.5 |
| Hopesfall The Satellite Years | 4.5 |
| Hopesfall No Wings To Speak Of | 4.0 |
| The Chariot Wars and Rumors of Wars | 4.0 |
| God Is an Astronaut Age of the Fifth Sun | 4.0 |
| Godsmack The Oracle | 2.5 |
| Bullet for My Valentine Fever | 3.0 |
| Bullet for My Valentine Scream Aim Fire | 1.0 |
| Mae (a)fternoon | 3.5 |
| Incubus (USA-CA) Monuments and Melodies | 4.0 |
| Incubus (USA-CA) Fungus Amongus | 2.5 |
| As I Lay Dying The Powerless Rise | 3.5 |
| Upon a Burning Body The World Is Ours | 2.5 |
| The Maine The Way We Talk EP | 2.5 |
| The Maine ...And a Happy New Year | 1.5 |
| The Maine Can't Stop, Won't Stop | 3.5 |
| Minus the Bear Into the Mirror | 4.5 |
| Minus the Bear Planet of Ice | 5.0 |
| Confession Cancer | 2.0 |
| Alesana The Emptiness | 4.0 |
| Alesana Try This With Your Eyes Closed | 3.5 |
| With Life In Mind The Human Condition | 4.0 |
| Winds of Plague The Great Stone War | 1.5 |
| Tool 10,000 Days | 4.5 |
| Tool Lateralus | 4.0 |
| Threat Signal Vigilance | 2.5 |
| The Dangerous Summer Reach for the Sun | 3.5 |
| The Color Morale We All Have Demons | 3.5 |
| The Carrier No Love Can Save Me | 4.0 |
| The Black Dahlia Murder Deflorate | 3.0 |
| better instruments but weaker vocals than ritual. overall the same rating for me. very neaera-esque btw. |
| Texas in July I Am | 4.0 |
| Texas in July Salt Of The Earth | 4.5 |
| Salt The Wound Ares | 4.0 |
| Mew No More Stories | 4.0 |
| Jonny Craig A Dream Is A Question You Don't Know How To Answer | 3.0 |
| In:Aviate 1985 | 4.5 |
| Holding Onto Hope Of The Sea | 3.5 |
| For the Fallen Dreams Relentless | 4.0 |
| Evergreen Terrace Almost Home | 3.0 |
| Disillusion Gloria | 4.5 |
| Despised Icon Day Of Mourning | 3.0 |
| Despised Icon The Ills Of Modern Man | 3.5 |
| Despised Icon The Healing Process | 4.0 |
| Craig Owens With Love | 4.0 |
| Callahan Callahan | 4.0 |
| too bad they disbanded...they had so much potential. sad one. love this record. its unique in its own way. |
| Azriel A Will Of Fire | 3.0 |
| Arsonists Get All the Girls Portals | 3.5 |
| Arsonists Get All the Girls The Game Of Life | 4.0 |
| At the Drive-In Relationship of Command | 4.0 |
| As Tall As Lions You Can't Take It With You | 4.5 |
| The Higher On Fire | 4.0 |
| Of Virtue To Breathe Again | 4.0 |
| Blind Witness Nightmare on Providence Street | 3.5 |
| Angels and Airwaves Love | 3.5 |
| A Hero a Fake Let Oceans Lie | 3.5 |
| A Hero a Fake Volatile | 3.0 |
| Of Mice and Men Of Mice and Men | 3.5 |
| We Came As Romans To Plant a Seed | 3.0 |
| We Came As Romans Dreams | 3.5 |
| We Are The Ocean Cutting Our Teeth | 3.0 |
| The Almost Monster, Monster | 3.5 |
| The Almost Monster EP | 4.0 |
| Saosin In Search Of Solid Ground | 3.0 |
| Hail Archer Leave Your Body Behind | 3.5 |
| Hail Archer Hail Archer EP | 4.0 |
| Four Letter Lie A New Day | 2.0 |
| Four Letter Lie What A Terrible Thing To Say | 3.5 |
| Four Letter Lie Let Your Body Take Over | 4.0 |
| Creed Full Circle | 2.5 |
| Creed Weathered | 3.5 |
| Bury Tomorrow Portraits | 3.0 |
| Between the Buried and Me The Great Misdirect | 4.0 |
| Alter Bridge Blackbird | 4.0 |
| Alter Bridge One Day Remains | 4.5 |
| Kylie Minogue Ultimate Kylie | 4.0 |
| The Ocean Heliocentric | 3.0 |
| The Classic Crime Albatross | 3.0 |
| The Classic Crime The Silver Cord | 4.0 |
| The Classic Crime Vagabonds | 3.5 |
| The Audition Great Danger | 3.5 |
| Take The Crown Relapse React | 3.0 |
| Portugal. The Man American Ghetto | 3.5 |
| Long Distance Calling Avoid The Light | 4.5 |
| Isles and Glaciers The Hearts of Lonely People | 3.5 |
| Four Tet There is Love in You | 3.5 |
| Emancipator Safe In The Steep Cliffs | 4.0 |
| Emancipator Soon It Will Be Cold Enough | 3.5 |
| Coheed and Cambria Year of the Black Rainbow | 4.0 |
| Born of Osiris A Higher Place | 2.0 |
| Circle of Contempt Artifacts in Motion | 4.0 |
| Adept Another Year of Disaster | 5.0 |
| Thirty Seconds to Mars This Is War | 3.5 |
| Chelsea Grin Chelsea Grin | 3.5 |
| Chelsea Grin Desolation Of Eden | 4.5 |
| Weaver At The Loom I Was Searching and I Found | 4.5 |
| Azure Ray Azure Ray | 4.0 |
| The Messenger Let's Get Dangerous! | 4.5 |
| A Skylit Drive Adelphia | 3.0 |
| Periphery Periphery | 3.5 |
| Minus the Bear Omni | 5.0 |
| a perfect summer chill-vibe record featuring only hits. anyone who rated this lower than a 4 is just a moping and offended fanboy of the old days. |
| From the Shallows Beyond the Unknown | 4.0 |
| Kingdoms Daughters of Atlas | 3.5 |
| liking this quite much, lawl. generic but fun and no bad technique at all. |
| Evita Minutes and Miles | 3.0 |
| pretty solid for their first full length. cool guitars and good clean vocals. nothing new anyway. mb give them 2 years and see what they can pull off. |
| 65daysofstatic We Were Exploding Anyway | 4.0 |
| Circa Survive Blue Sky Noise | 5.0 |
| Broadway Kingdoms | 4.5 |
| Emmure Felony | 2.0 |
| Secret And Whisper Teenage Fantasy | 4.0 |
| Scar Symmetry Dark Matter Dimensions | 2.5 |
| We Butter The Bread With Butter Das Monster Aus Dem Schrank | 1.0 |
| Sleeping With Sirens With Ears to See and Eyes to Hear | 4.5 |
| Asking Alexandria Stand Up and Scream | 4.5 |
| Jonsi Go | 4.5 |
| Mayday Parade Anywhere But Here | 1.5 |
| Mayday Parade A Lesson In Romantics | 5.0 |
| For Today Portraits | 4.0 |
| August Burns Red Constellations | 4.5 |
| Mae (m)orning | 4.5 |
i love this ep and i love this band.
its incredible how they go their own way, stay theirselves, but still develop their sound further and further...
so much wonderful songs on this EP...can't get enough.
once the new EP's will be out I will cry some yells of delight =)
regards |
| The Mars Volta Octahedron | 4.0 |
| Daft Punk Musique Vol. 1 (1993-2005) | 4.0 |
| Mae Destination: B-Sides | 4.0 |
| Copeland Know Nothing Stays The Same | 3.5 |
| Copeland Beneath Medicine Tree | 3.0 |
| Rediscover Call Me When You Get This | 4.0 |
| Walls of Jericho The American Dream | 3.5 |
| Walls of Jericho With Devils Amongst Us All | 3.0 |
| Walls of Jericho All Hail The Dead | 4.0 |
| Underoath The Changing of Times | 4.0 |
| Underoath They're Only Chasing Safety | 3.5 |
| Underoath Define the Great Line | 4.0 |
| Underoath Lost in the Sound of Separation | 4.5 |
| Twelve Tribes The Rebirth of Tragedy | 3.5 |
| Twelve Tribes Midwest Pandemic | 4.0 |
| Throwdown Venom & Tears | 3.5 |
| Throwdown Vendetta | 3.0 |
| Throwdown Haymaker | 4.0 |
| The Used Maybe Memories | 4.0 |
| The Used In Love and Death | 4.0 |
| The Sorrow Origin of the Storm | 3.0 |
| The Sorrow Blessings From a Blackened Sky | 3.5 |
| The Fall of Troy Manipulator | 4.0 |
| The Fall of Troy Doppelganger | 4.0 |
| The Devil Wears Prada With Roots Above and Branches Below | 3.5 |
| The Devil Wears Prada Dear Love: A Beautiful Discord | 3.5 |
| The Devil Wears Prada Plagues | 4.0 |
| The Black Dahlia Murder Nocturnal | 2.0 |
| The Black Dahlia Murder Unhallowed | 3.5 |
| The Black Dahlia Murder Miasma | 4.0 |
| Soilwork Sworn to a Great Divide | 4.0 |
| Soilwork The Chainheart Machine | 3.0 |
| Soilwork A Predator's Portrait | 3.5 |
| Soilwork Natural Born Chaos | 3.5 |
| Soilwork Figure Number Five | 4.0 |
| Soilwork Stabbing the Drama | 4.5 |
| Panic! at the Disco Pretty. Odd. | 3.0 |
| Panic! at the Disco A Fever You Can't Sweat Out | 4.0 |
| On The Last Day Meaning In The Static | 3.5 |
| Mnemic Passenger | 3.0 |
| Mnemic The Audio Injected Soul | 4.0 |
| Mnemic Mechanical Spin Phenomena | 3.5 |
| Misery Speaks Catalogue Of Carnage | 1.5 |
| Mendeed This War Will Last Forever | 2.0 |
| Mendeed The Dead Live By Love | 2.5 |
| Terror Always the Hard Way | 4.0 |
| Machinemade God Masked | 3.0 |
| Machinemade God The Infinity Complex | 3.5 |
| Korn Life Is Peachy | 3.5 |
| Korn Follow the Leader | 4.0 |
| Korn See You on the Other Side | 4.0 |
| Korn Take a Look in the Mirror | 2.5 |
| Korn Untouchables | 4.5 |
| Kingston Falls Armada On Mercury | 2.0 |
| Ill Nino Enigma | 3.5 |
| Ill Nino The Undercover Sessions EP | 3.0 |
| Ill Nino One Nation Underground | 4.0 |
| Ill Nino Confession | 4.0 |
| Ill Nino Revolution/Revolucion | 4.5 |
| In Flames A Sense of Purpose | 3.5 |
| In Flames Come Clarity | 4.0 |
| I Killed the Prom Queen Music for the Recently Deceased | 3.5 |
| Hell Within Shadows of Vanity | 2.0 |
| Hell Within Asylum Of The Human Predator | 4.0 |
| Have Heart Songs to Scream at the Sun | 3.0 |
| Have Heart The Things We Carry | 3.5 |
| Fall of Serenity Bloodred Salvation | 3.0 |
| Fall of Serenity Royal Killing | 2.5 |
| Fall of Serenity The Crossfire | 2.0 |
| Enter Shikari Common Dreads | 3.5 |
| Enter Shikari Take to the Skies | 4.0 |
| Endwell Consequences | 3.0 |
| Endwell Revenge Is A Healthy Motive | 3.5 |
| Endwell Homeland Insecurity | 4.0 |
| Darkest Hour Deliver Us | 3.5 |
| Darkest Hour Undoing Ruin | 4.0 |
| Clawfinger Life Will Kill You | 3.5 |
| Clawfinger Zeroes & Heroes | 4.5 |
| Clawfinger Deaf Dumb Blind | 4.0 |
| Calico System Outside Are The Vultures | 3.0 |
| Chimaira Resurrection | 3.0 |
| Chimaira Chimaira | 3.5 |
| Chimaira The Impossibility of Reason | 4.5 |
| Burning Skies Greed.Filth.Abuse.Corruption | 3.0 |
| Bridge to Solace Where Nightmares And Dreams Unite | 3.5 |
| Born from Pain War | 3.5 |
| Bloodsimple Red Harvest | 1.5 |
| Bloodsimple A Cruel World | 4.0 |
| Bloodlined Calligraphy Ypsilanti | 3.5 |
| Beneath The Sky The Day the Music Died | 3.0 |
| Beneath The Sky What Demons Do To Saints | 4.0 |
| Atreyu Suicide Notes and Butterfly Kisses | 3.5 |
| Atreyu Lead Sails Paper Anchor | 3.5 |
| Atreyu The Best of Atreyu | 4.5 |
| Atreyu A Death-Grip on Yesterday | 4.5 |
| Atreyu The Curse | 4.5 |
| All That Remains Overcome | 2.0 |
| All That Remains The Fall of Ideals | 4.5 |
| All That Remains This Darkened Heart | 4.0 |
| Thirty Seconds to Mars A Beautiful Lie | 4.5 |
| Winter Solstice The Fall of Rome | 3.5 |
| War from a Harlots Mouth Transmetropolitan | 3.5 |
| War from a Harlots Mouth In Shoals | 3.5 |
| Settle The Sky Now That We're Waiting | 3.5 |
| Secret And Whisper Great White Whale | 4.5 |
| Lower Definition Moths | 3.5 |
| Protest the Hero Fortress | 3.5 |
| Protest the Hero Kezia | 4.0 |
| Parkway Drive Horizons | 4.0 |
| Parkway Drive Killing with a Smile | 5.0 |
| Oh, Sleeper When I Am God | 3.5 |
| Of Machines As If Everything Was Held In Place | 5.0 |
| Nickelback Dark Horse | 3.0 |
| Nickelback The Long Road | 3.0 |
| Nickelback Silver Side Up | 3.5 |
| Nickelback All the Right Reasons | 3.5 |
| Maroon Order | 3.5 |
| Maroon When Worlds Collide | 4.5 |
| Life in Your Way Ignite and Rebuild | 4.0 |
| Life in Your Way Waking Giants | 4.5 |
| Lamb of God Sacrament | 3.0 |
| Killwhitneydead Stocking Stuffher EP | 4.5 |
| In Fear and Faith Voyage | 3.0 |
| In Fear and Faith Your World On Fire | 4.0 |
| For Today Ekklesia | 3.5 |
| For the Fallen Dreams Changes | 5.0 |
| From A Second Story Window Delenda | 3.5 |
| From A Second Story Window Conversations | 4.5 |
| Fall Out Boy From Under the Cork Tree | 3.5 |
| Fall Out Boy Folie a Deux | 3.5 |
| Fall Out Boy Infinity on High | 4.5 |
| Escape the Fate This War Is Ours | 2.0 |
| Escape the Fate Dying Is Your Latest Fashion | 4.5 |
| Dustin Kensrue This Good Night Is Still Everywhere | 3.5 |
| Dustin Kensrue Please Come Home | 3.5 |
| Disturbed The Sickness | 3.5 |
| Disturbed Believe | 2.5 |
| Disturbed Indestructible | 4.0 |
| Disturbed Ten Thousand Fists | 4.5 |
| Destroy the Runner I, Lucifer | 2.5 |
| Destroy the Runner Saints | 3.5 |
| Deadlock Manifesto | 4.0 |
| Deadlock Earth.Revolt | 3.5 |
| Deadlock Wolves | 4.0 |
| Cataract Cataract | 3.0 |
| Cataract Kingdom | 4.0 |
| Burial Ghost Hardware | 4.0 |
| Burial Burial | 5.0 |
| Burial Untrue | 5.0 |
| Born of Osiris The New Reign | 5.0 |
| Blessed by a Broken Heart All is Fair in Love and War | 3.5 |
| Blessed by a Broken Heart Pedal to the Metal | 3.5 |
| Beneath the Massacre Mechanics of Dysfunction | 3.5 |
| Bleed the Sky Murder The Dance | 2.5 |
| Bleed the Sky Paradigm In Entropy | 5.0 |
| Angels and Airwaves I-Empire | 5.0 |
| Akissforjersey Keep Your Head Above the Water | 3.0 |
| Akissforjersey Victims | 3.5 |
| Agraceful The Great I Am | 3.0 |
| After the Burial Rareform | 3.5 |
| After the Burial Forging a Future Self | 4.0 |
| A Day To Remember Homesick | 4.0 |
| A Day To Remember For Those Who Have Heart | 3.5 |
| Buried Inside Spoils Of Failure | 4.0 |
| Attack Attack! Someday Came Suddenly | 3.5 |
| Sky Eats Airplane Sky Eats Airplane | 3.5 |
| Sky Eats Airplane Everything Perfect on the Wrong Day | 4.0 |
| I See Stars 3D | 3.5 |
| It Prevails Capture & Embrace | 4.5 |
| It Prevails The Inspiration | 4.0 |
| Burden of a Day OneOneThousand | 3.5 |
| Burden of a Day Blessed Be Our Ever After | 4.0 |
| Bury Your Dead It's Nothing Personal | 2.5 |
| It Dies Today The Caitiff Choir | 3.5 |
| It Dies Today Sirens | 4.0 |
| Haste the Day When Everything Falls | 3.5 |
| Confide Shout the Truth | 4.0 |
| United Nations United Nations | 4.5 |
| Daft Punk Discovery | 4.5 |
its nearly a classic .)
two or three more "hits" and it would have been one .)
nonetheless a wonderful record for every time of the year...
regards |
| Oceana The Tide | 4.0 |
| Oceana Birth.Eater | 3.5 |
nice album, but not that excellent like its forerunner.
regards |
| Maybeshewill Not For Want Of Trying | 3.5 |
| Maybeshewill Sing The Word Hope In Four-Part Harmony | 4.0 |
| Ektomorf Destroy | 3.0 |
| Slayer Christ Illusion | 4.0 |
| Ektomorf Instinct | 4.0 |
| Slayer Reign in Blood | 4.0 |
| Slayer South of Heaven | 4.0 |
| Soulfly Dark Ages | 3.0 |
| Soulfly Conquer | 4.0 |
| Soulfly Prophecy | 3.5 |
| Machine Head The Blackening | 3.5 |
| Machine Head Through the Ashes of Empires | 3.0 |
| Soulfly 3 | 3.5 |
| Machine Head Hellalive | 4.0 |
| Soulfly Soulfly | 3.5 |
| Soulfly Primitive | 4.5 |
| Static-X Cannibal | 3.0 |
| Static-X Beneath... Between... Beyond | 4.0 |
| Static-X Shadow Zone | 5.0 |
| teen guilty pleasure. never changing these old 5's, sorry. |
| Static-X Wisconsin Death Trip | 4.0 |
| Static-X Machine | 3.0 |
| Linkin Park Minutes to Midnight | 3.0 |
| Linkin Park Reanimation | 5.0 |
| Linkin Park Live In Texas | 3.5 |
| P.O.D. When Angels and Serpents Dance | 3.0 |
| P.O.D. Testify | 4.0 |
| P.O.D. Satellite | 5.0 |
| Linkin Park Meteora | 5.0 |
| Linkin Park Hybrid Theory | 4.5 |
| My Autumn Inexpressible Words | 3.5 |
| Job for a Cowboy Genesis | 2.5 |
| Job for a Cowboy Doom | 4.5 |
| All Shall Perish Awaken the Dreamers | 3.5 |
| All Shall Perish The Price of Existence | 4.5 |
| Bring Me the Horizon This Is What the Edge of Your Seat Was Made For | 3.5 |
| Bring Me the Horizon Suicide Season | 3.5 |
| Bring Me the Horizon Count Your Blessings | 5.0 |
| Suicide Silence The Cleansing | 5.0 |
| Suicide Silence Suicide Silence (EP) | 4.0 |
| Blind Witness Silences Are Words | 4.0 |
| Emmure The Complete Guide To Needlework | 3.0 |
| Emmure The Respect Issue | 4.0 |
| Emmure Goodbye To The Gallows | 4.5 |
| This or the Apocalypse Monuments | 5.0 |
| The Ghost Inside Fury and the Fallen Ones | 5.0 |
| Evergreen Terrace Wolfbiker | 4.0 |
| Evergreen Terrace Sincerity is an Easy Disguise in this Business | 4.5 |
| Evergreen Terrace Writer's Block | 3.5 |
| Killswitch Engage As Daylight Dies | 3.5 |
| Killswitch Engage Alive or Just Breathing | 3.5 |
| Caliban Shadow Hearts | 3.5 |
| Caliban The Awakening | 3.0 |
| Caliban The Undying Darkness | 3.5 |
| Caliban The Opposite From Within | 4.5 |
| Heaven Shall Burn Iconoclast (Part 1: The Final Resistance) | 4.5 |
| Neaera Armamentarium | 3.5 |
| Heaven Shall Burn Deaf to Our Prayers | 4.5 |
| Neaera Let The Tempest Come | 4.0 |
| Heaven Shall Burn Antigone | 4.0 |
| Neaera The Rising Tide of Oblivion | 4.5 |
| MEANS To Keep Me From Sinking | 4.0 |
| MEANS Sending you Strength | 3.5 |
| City and Colour Bring Me Your Love | 4.5 |
| City and Colour Sometimes | 5.0 |
| Cinematic Sunrise A Coloring Story Book And A Long-Playing | 4.5 |
| Lydia Illuminate | 5.0 |
| We Are The Ocean We Are The Ocean | 4.5 |
| Conditions Conditions EP | 4.5 |
| Anberlin New Surrender | 5.0 |
| Anberlin Cities | 4.0 |
| Anberlin Never Take Friendship Personal | 4.5 |
| Mae Singularity | 3.5 |
| Mae The Everglow | 5.0 |
| Mae Destination: Beautiful | 4.0 |
| Dance Gavin Dance Happiness | 4.5 |
| Dance Gavin Dance Dance Gavin Dance | 4.5 |
| Dance Gavin Dance Downtown Battle Mountain | 5.0 |
| Emarosa Relativity | 4.5 |
| Incubus (USA-CA) Light Grenades | 3.5 |
| Incubus (USA-CA) A Crow Left of the Murder... | 5.0 |
| Incubus (USA-CA) Morning View | 4.5 |
| Incubus (USA-CA) Make Yourself | 4.0 |
| Incubus (USA-CA) S.C.I.E.N.C.E. | 3.5 |
| First Blood Killafornia | 4.5 |
| Catherine The Naturals | 3.0 |
| Catherine Rumor Has It | 4.0 |
| Threat Signal Under Reprisal | 4.0 |
| Alesana Where Myth Fades to Legend | 2.0 |
| Alesana On Frail Wings of Vanity and Wax | 5.0 |
| A Skylit Drive Wires...and the Concept of Breathing | 4.5 |
| A Skylit Drive She Watched the Sky | 5.0 |
| In:Aviate Speak | 5.0 |
| Scar Symmetry Holographic Universe | 3.5 |
| Scar Symmetry Symmetric in Design | 4.0 |
| Scar Symmetry Pitch Black Progress | 4.5 |
| Alexisonfire Alexisonfire | 3.5 |
| Alexisonfire Watch Out! | 4.5 |
| Alexisonfire Crisis | 5.0 |
| Saosin Translating the Name | 5.0 |
| Saosin Saosin | 4.5 |
| Saosin The Grey | 3.5 |
| Lower Definition The Greatest of All Lost Arts | 5.0 |
| Copeland In Motion | 3.5 |
| Copeland Eat, Sleep, Repeat | 4.0 |
| Copeland You Are My Sunshine | 5.0 |
| Years Spent Cold Moving Heaven To Hell | 5.0 |
| Copeland The Grey Man EP | 3.5 |
| Haste the Day Pressure the Hinges | 4.0 |
| August Burns Red Thrill Seeker | 4.0 |
| Haste the Day Dreamer | 2.0 |
| Trivium Shogun | 3.0 |
| August Burns Red Messengers | 5.0 |
| Trivium The Crusade | 1.5 |
| Trivium Ascendancy | 4.5 |
| Unearth The March | 2.5 |
| Unearth The Oncoming Storm | 4.0 |
| Unearth III: In the Eyes of Fire | 4.5 |
| Killswitch Engage The End of Heartache | 4.5 |
| As I Lay Dying Frail Words Collapse | 4.5 |
| As I Lay Dying Shadows Are Security | 4.0 |
| As I Lay Dying An Ocean Between Us | 2.5 |
| Misery Signals Mirrors | 4.0 |
| Thrice The Alchemy Index Vols. III & IV | 4.5 |
| Misery Signals Of Malice and the Magnum Heart | 4.5 |
| VersaEmerge Perceptions | 4.5 |
| Misery Signals Controller | 5.0 |
| VersaEmerge VersaEmerge | 4.0 |
| The Eyes of a Traitor A Clear Perception | 4.0 |
| Architects Hollow Crown | 4.0 |
| Closure in Moscow The Penance and the Patience | 4.5 |
| Closure in Moscow First Temple | 4.0 |
| Emery ...In Shallow Seas We Sail | 4.5 |
