| Bring Me the Horizon Post Human: Survival Horror | 4.0 |
| Boundaries Burying Brightness | 4.5 |
| Crosses Goodnight, God Bless, I Love U, Delete. | 4.0 |
| Horniest album I've ever heard |
| Stray from the Path Euthanasia | 4.5 |
| Stray has never really done much for me as a band, as much as I adore Craig Reynolds, but them leaning heavier into their metalcore sound with heaps of distortion and breakdowns makes me want to run up a fucking hill. I beg you, don't sleep on this record, it's their Long Live or whatever the fuck you kids say. |
| Ithaca They Fear Us | 4.0 |
| This album is fucking incredible, what the hell |
| Windwaker Love Language | 4.5 |
| I might just have to give this a review to show this album the respect it deserves. |
| Sleep Token Sundowning | 4.0 |
| Rolo Tomassi Where Myth Becomes Memory | 4.5 |
| Album is actually excellent wtf ?Prescience? is the hardest shit in the world |
| Refused Freedom | 3.0 |
| Threedom |
| Counterparts Nothing Left to Love | 4.5 |
| Tear the tears out of my open eyes for I no longer need to drown in the ocean of another |
| Amy Winehouse Back to Black | 5.0 |
| Turnover Peripheral Vision | 5.0 |
| Turnstile Glow On | 4.5 |
This is album of the year and I haven't even listened to it yet
Edit: I was right. |
| The Amity Affliction Everyone Loves You... Once You Leave Them | 2.0 |
| Idk how they did it but this is somehow worse than Misery. |
| Olivia Rodrigo Sour | 4.0 |
| Isaiah Rashad Cilvia Demo | 5.0 |
| RAMIREZ The Grey Gorilla | 4.0 |
| Palm Reader Sleepless | 4.5 |
| Architects For Those That Wish to Exist | 2.0 |
| I actually went into this wanting to give it a fair chance, and while it's not as bad as I was expecting, it is horribly one-note and monotonous. The majority of tracks follow the same structure of synth/electronic base track with a basic lead riff, then a heavy emphasis on the chorus, none of which are catchy enough to justify their overabundance. There are no real songs here that are cringe-inducing (Little Wonder does come close, the chorus of which is an almost tragic self-fulfilling prophecy for the band) but comparatively, none stand out on first listen, and all of the guest vocals feel terribly underutilized. It's a palatable album, sure, but very homogenous and uninspired. |
| Svalbard When I Die, Will I Get Better? | 4.5 |
This album fucks. There are so many moments throughout the record's 38-minute runtime
that really make you stop and go; "okay wait, that was sick". Not only is When I Die,
Will I Get Better? the band's crowning achievement to date but an absolute front
runner for metal AOTY. This whole album slaps, but my personal favourites are 'Open
Wound', 'Listen To Someone' and 'The Currency Of Beauty'. Gold star, Svalbard. |
| Deftones Gore | 3.5 |
| The Ghost Inside The Ghost Inside | 4.0 |
| At first I felt a little underwhelmed by this release, because despite everythign the band had gone through at that point, it felt like a safe release and I was expecting a little more. However, after listening to the 1333 Days podcast detailing the band's accident and return to form, it's hard not to see the album in a new light and appreciate the fact it exists to begin with. |
| Misery Signals Ultraviolet | 4.0 |
| 'Through Vales Of Blue Fire' not opening Ultraviolet is a legitimate head scratcher and the criticism toward the length of the album is valid. Still, this is quality material from Misery Signals, and we're pretty fortunate these songs came together at all. 'Old Ghosts', 'Redemption Key' and 'Cascade Locks' are all incredible and every track demands an attentive ear. I'm normally one for albums erring on the shorter side as I think it promotes replayability, but I do agree an extra song on here would not go amiss. |
| Make Them Suffer How to Survive a Funeral | 3.0 |
| I've appreciated everything the band has done up until this point, but truthfully I find this pretty underwhelming. Falling Ashes and Soul Decay are kinda cool, but nothing else really stands out that much aside from The Attendant, which is apparently a leftover cut from Worlds Apart. |
| MIGHTYSPOOK Greatest Hits | 4.5 |
| King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard Infest the Rats' Nest | 4.5 |
| Weyes Blood Titanic Rising | 5.0 |
| This is the best Lana Del Rey album since Born To Die. |
| Gravemind Conduit | 4.0 |
| Varied enough to not be monotonous to listen to. Pretty solid deathcore album. |
| Baroness Gold and Grey | 3.5 |
Despite the ill-fitting production and an overabundance of interlude tracks, Gold & Grey is
still a fitting swan song for Baroness' colour spectrum themed albums, with some of their best
tracks of their career to date. If you don't think 'Tourniquet' is one of the best songs they've ever
put to record, you're crooked (mile, lmao). |
| Architects Holy Hell | 3.5 |
| To be perfectly blunt, this record does sound a lot like All Our Gods... part 2, but considering the circumstances surrounding it, I guess that's kind of the point? I'd take this record with a grain of salt, as it doesn't take a huge step forward in sound, but certainly fulfills its purpose. Highlights: 'Hereafter', 'Royal Beggars', 'Modern Misery', 'The Seventh Circle'. |
| Bring Me the Horizon Amo | 4.0 |
| Honestly this album surprised the hell out of me. Pre-release singles felt a little bland but work well in the context of the album. I worry about the longevity of this record as I feel it might be something that I might get burnt out on, but for the time being it's pretty enjoyable. Highlights: 'Nihilist Blues', 'In The Dark', 'Wonderful Life', 'Sugar Honey Ice & Tea', 'Heavy Metal'. |
| Brand New Science Fiction | 4.5 |
| Brockhampton Iridescence | 4.0 |
| Jon Hopkins Singularity | 4.0 |
| Kali Uchis Isolation | 4.0 |
| Meg Myers Take Me To The Disco | 4.5 |
| As indicative by its "throwback" album cover, Myers is trying to capture a very niche early 00's sound, and she does it largely without fault. She has a dynamic range, straddling the line between delicate melodies and aggressive bangers. I love this album. |
| Pusha T DAYTONA | 4.5 |
| JID DiCaprio 2 | 4.0 |
| Mac Miller Swimming | 4.0 |
| I'll admit I never really listened to much of his work until after he died, but this album has been on repeat for a long while. The dichotomy of how chill and relaxed everything sounds with his vulnerable lyricism makes for a really engaging - and heartbreaking listen. |
| Endless Heights Vicious Pleasure | 4.5 |
| I enjoyed this record when it came out, but it's only going back to listen to it now that I realize how incredibly well put together it is. Definitely a grower. |
| Dork Outreach Food | 5.0 |
| Dork Outreach Welcome 2 The Program | 5.0 |
| The Amity Affliction Misery | 2.5 |
| Definitely an improvement over This Could Be Heartbreak but Misery still falls short of expectation as Amity refuse to shake up their sound by any great margin. Highlights: 'Holier Than Heaven', 'Kick Rocks', 'Drag The Lake'. |
| The Amity Affliction This Could Be Heartbreak | 2.0 |
| This Could Be Earache. Fiftygoddamnfuckingcharacterslolnah |
| Denzel Curry TA13OO | 4.5 |
| Kendrick better watch his fucking back.rHighlights: Black Balloons, Switch It Up, Sirens, Percs, Vengeance, Black Metal Terrorist. |
| Converge The Dusk in Us | 4.0 |
| Sleep The Sciences | 4.0 |
| Will Haven Muerte | 3.0 |
| I consider myself a big Will Haven fan but I have to say I'm a little disappointed by this so far. It's crushingly heavy and hard-hitting but the whole album sounds way too similar. Voir Dire was a much stronger album. |
| Lil Skies Life Of A Dark Rose | 3.5 |
| Rolo Tomassi Time Will Die And Love Will Bury It | 4.0 |
| Between the Buried and Me Automata I | 4.0 |
| Architects All Our Gods Have Abandoned Us | 4.0 |
| Counterparts You're Not You Anymore | 4.5 |
| YOU HAUNT ME. YOU HAUNT ME LIKE AN EMPTY HOME. PRICELESS POSSESSION, I BRING YOU WITH ME WHEREVER I GO. |
| Make Them Suffer Worlds Apart | 4.0 |
| Jaden Smith Syre | 3.0 |
| Big K.R.I.T. 4eva Is a Mighty Long Time | 4.5 |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Dissociation | 4.5 |
| Stray from the Path Only Death Is Real | 2.5 |
| Trophy Eyes Chemical Miracle | 4.0 |
| It's actually pretty ridiculous how much this actually slays. |
| Elzhi Lead Poison | 4.5 |
| Surprised this hasn't been reviewed yet. This shit is goddamn ridiculous. |
| Chance the Rapper Coloring Book | 3.5 |
| Kendrick Lamar untitled unmastered. | 4.0 |
| Kendrick Lamar To Pimp a Butterfly | 5.0 |
| Kendrick Lamar Section.80 | 4.0 |
| Chance the Rapper 10 Day | 4.0 |
| David Bowie Blackstar | 4.5 |
| Alice in Chains Jar of Flies | 4.0 |
| Alice in Chains Facelift | 4.0 |
| Baroness Purple | 4.0 |
| Fans of Baroness' earlier style rejoice; Purple sounds like an even spread of both Red Album and Blue Record. Funny that. |
| Horsehunter Caged In Flesh | 4.0 |
| For a bunch of dudes who just came out of high school, this release is fucking insane. Sludge and doom perfection that isn't too long or short in length. Can't wait to see what these guys do next. |
| System of a Down Hypnotize | 3.5 |
| System of a Down Mezmerize | 4.0 |
| System of a Down Steal This Album! | 3.5 |
| System of a Down Toxicity | 4.0 |
| System of a Down System of a Down | 4.0 |
| The Sword High Country | 3.0 |
| Stories (AUS) The Youth to Become | 4.5 |
| This is gradually becoming one of my favourite releases of 2015. Stories take obvious influence from Underoath, but add their own signature sounds to make for some metalcore that may not necessarily be unique, but moves from strength to strength across 11 tracks. |
| clipping. CLPPNG | 3.5 |
| Little Simz A Curious Tale Of Trials + Persons | 4.0 |
| Meshuggah Koloss | 3.5 |
| The World Is a Beautiful Place... Harmlessness | 5.0 |
| Nah fuck you cunts this album's a five Nah fuck you cunts this album's a five Nah fuck you cunts this album's a five Nah fuck you cunts this album's a five Nah fuck you cunts this album's a five Nah fuck you cunts this album's a five |
| Meshuggah Nothing | 3.5 |
| Meshuggah Chaosphere | 3.5 |
| Meshuggah Destroy Erase Improve | 4.0 |
| Meshuggah Contradictions Collapse | 3.0 |
| Underoath They're Only Chasing Safety | 3.0 |
| Action Bronson Mr. Wonderful | 3.5 |
| Action Bronson Dr. Lecter | 3.5 |
| While She Sleeps Brainwashed | 4.0 |
| This might be one of the only modern metalcore albums that is enhanced by the deluxe tracks. |
| Bring Me the Horizon That's the Spirit | 3.0 |
Fish absolutely shines on That's The Spirit, with the extensive sampling and electronics making up some
of the best tracks on the album in the form of 'Doomed', 'Throne', 'Avalanche' and 'Run'. Moreover, Sykes
ability to sing is never in doubt, meaning that the chorus heavy approach (for the most part) pays off. This is
why it's so interesting to gauge the level of experimentation the band uses. Tracks like 'What You Need' and
'Blasphemy' are borderline insufferable, despite following the same pattern as the majority of the album, while
the monumental closer of 'Oh No' somehow works - despite the most pop-friendly as Sykes echoes "Don't call
it a party, 'cause it never stops" before throwing us a curveball as we're played out by saxophone. That's The
Spirit is more or less a primer in radio rock - and if you don't mind a chorus stuck in your head for a day,
then you'll find quite a bit to enjoy here. |
| Storm The Sky Permanence | 2.5 |
| Jarrett is a more than a capable singer, and the production on the album is quite good for the most part. Problem is there's nothing much in the way of originality here. Standouts include 'Alive', 'Portraits' and 'Oh Sister'. |
| Defeater Abandoned | 3.5 |
Less accessible, yet more consistent than Letters Home, which unfortunately means the tracks tend to
bleed together a little bit. The album's second half is far better than the first few tracks, though there's
nothing downright unlistenable on here. 'Atonement' slays and the guest vocals on 'Borrowed & Blue'
(whomever they belong to) really add a nice flavour to the track. I can see this growing on me with a few more
listens. |
| Belle Haven Everything Ablaze | 2.5 |
| Northlane Node | 4.0 |
Don't go into this expecting regular Northlane because it's the furthest thing from Discoveries or
Singularity. 'Ohm', 'Leech' and the newly recorded 'Rot' all sound massive, and 'Animate' might be one of
my favourite Northlane tracks. |
| Counterparts Tragedy Will Find Us | 4.0 |
| Carry me back to your bed. My conscience is my coffin, and I swear sometimes I'd rather be dead. |
| Tame Impala Currents | 2.5 |
| I appreciate the change in direction and the idea of valuing risk instead of releasing the same record again, but suffice to say this is very disappointing. |
| M.I.A. Matangi | 4.0 |
| M.I.A. Maya | 3.5 |
| M.I.A. Kala | 4.0 |
| M.I.A. Arular | 4.0 |
| Neurosis Honor Found in Decay | 3.5 |
| Neurosis Given to the Rising | 3.5 |
| Title Fight Hyperview | 3.0 |
| Title Fight Floral Green | 4.0 |
| Title Fight Shed | 4.0 |
| Pallbearer Foundations of Burden | 4.0 |
| Pallbearer Sorrow And Extinction | 4.5 |
| Neurosis The Eye of Every Storm | 4.0 |
| Neurosis A Sun That Never Sets | 4.0 |
| Neurosis Times of Grace | 4.5 |
| Neurosis Through Silver in Blood | 4.0 |
| Neurosis Enemy of the Sun | 4.0 |
| Neurosis Souls at Zero | 3.5 |
| Neurosis The Word as Law | 2.5 |
| Neurosis Pain of Mind | 2.0 |
| August Burns Red Found in Far Away Places | 4.0 |
| Anybody who has even the slightest concern for the future of August Burns Red's career need to go listen to 'Martyr' right now. One of the most impressive metalcore records I've heard in ages. |
| Baths Ocean Death | 3.5 |
| Jamie xx In Colour | 4.0 |
| Earth Caller Degenerate | 4.0 |
| If you're craving a crushing hardcore release that doesn't make you sigh, thinking you've heard it all before, then Earth Caller have an album for you. Valiant and energetic, without dipping into homogenous territory or uninspired lyrics, Degenerate is a captivating listen from start to finish. |
| Make Them Suffer Old Souls | 4.0 |
It's not quite the leap forward from Neverbloom that I was hoping, but Old Souls proves to be much
more refined and consistent in sound, and the heavier lean on melody and orchestral elements help make this
so. 'Blood Moon' is the only song that really feels out of place here, and regrettably drags the rest of the
record down. Luckily the good outweighs the bad with the likes of 'Requiem', 'Let Me In', 'Scraping The Barrel'
and 'Timeless', the latter of which remains an emotional number, only just overshadowed by the album's
closing title track. |
| The Flaming Lips The Soft Bulletin | 4.5 |
| Gang of Youths The Positions | 4.5 |
| This is far and away one of the best debut albums I've heard in a long, long time. The concept is executed without flaw and each song drives such melody and emotion. |
| In Hearts Wake Skydancer | 3.5 |
| Frank Turner Tape Deck Heart | 3.5 |
| Frank Turner England Keep My Bones | 4.5 |
| Frank Turner Poetry of the Deed | 3.5 |
| Frank Turner Love, Ire & Song | 4.0 |
| Frank Turner Sleep Is For The Week | 3.5 |
| Lupe Fiasco Food & Liquor 2: The Great American Rap Album Pt.1 | 3.0 |
| Lupe Fiasco Tetsuo and Youth | 4.0 |
| Hellions Indian Summer | 4.0 |
| 'Nottingham' and 'Ghoul' absolutely slay. Colour me impressed. |
| Enter Shikari The Mindsweep | 4.0 |
| You know Shikari's progressing when they deliberately leave out a track that starts with Sss or Zzz! |
| Fleet Foxes Helplessness Blues | 4.0 |
| Fleet Foxes Fleet Foxes | 3.5 |
| Ne Obliviscaris Citadel | 4.0 |
| Glass Bones Loner | 4.0 |
| More like Boner amirite? Thisoundoffprobablyneedsmorecharacters |
| The Smashing Pumpkins Monuments to an Elegy | 3.0 |
| Monuments To An Elegy is a mostly pleasant, if somewhat mildly inoffensive release. |
| Circa Survive Descensus | 4.0 |
| Massive Attack Heligoland | 3.5 |
| Massive Attack 100th Window | 3.5 |
| Massive Attack Protection | 3.5 |
| Massive Attack Blue Lines | 4.0 |
| Single Mothers Negative Qualities | 4.0 |
| Dads I’ll Be The Tornado | 3.5 |
| Earth Primitive and Deadly | 4.0 |
| Job for a Cowboy Sun Eater | 4.0 |
| Jun Eater. fiftycharactersfiftycharactersfiftycharacters |
| The Ghost Inside Dear Youth | 3.0 |
| I'm so sick of TGI creating one stellar track that's leaps and bounds in front of the rest of the album. Who wants to bet which song that's going to be this time? [My money's on Phoenix Flame.] Having said that, why can't they just put out an album full of Shiner's, Chrono's and White Light's? |
| Chance the Rapper Acid Rap | 4.0 |
| Childish Gambino STN MTN | 2.5 |
| Kauai is slightly better than STN MTN, but as a whole, this is really unremarkable. |
| Childish Gambino EP | 3.5 |
| Orbs These People Are Animals | 4.0 |
| I LOVE MY WIFE AND CHILDREN. I LOVE MY NINE TO FIVE. |
| Run the Jewels Run the Jewels 2 | 4.0 |
| On first listen, RTJ2 seems like an inferior sequel to the duo's lively, accessible debut. I mean sure, the imaginative beats and sampling are there and the lyrics and rapping are still as humorous and tight as ever, but something was missing. My issue was that most of the tracks were slow-burners, which was a disappointment considering the amount of drunken nights I've had featuring the likes of 'Banana Clipper', 'Sea Legs' and 'Get It' among others. Even the fast-paced 'Close Your Eyes (And Count To Fuck)' seemed underwhelming in comparison, hence my disappointment. But then, it occurred to me - did I really want El-P and Killer Mike to make the same album over again? I guess in a sense, yes, a part of me did. However, I'm glad that they tried somewhat of a different approach this time around, while still retaining everything that made the first great. |
| The Acacia Strain Coma Witch | 3.5 |
| The Acacia Strain Death Is the Only Mortal | 3.5 |
| The Acacia Strain Wormwood | 2.5 |
| The Acacia Strain Continent | 3.0 |
| The Acacia Strain The Dead Walk | 3.5 |
| The Acacia Strain 3750 | 3.0 |
| The Acacia Strain ...And Life Is Very Long | 3.0 |
| Suicide Silence You Can't Stop Me | 3.0 |
| Glen Porter The Devil Is A Dancer, The Piper Is A Madman | 3.0 |
| Glen Porter Blessed By A Young Death | 3.5 |
| Glen Porter Falling Down | 4.0 |
| Kanye West 808s and Heartbreak | 4.0 |
| Kanye West Graduation | 3.5 |
| Kanye West Late Registration | 3.5 |
| Kanye West The College Dropout | 4.0 |
| Between the Buried and Me Future Sequence: Live at the Fidelitorium | 4.0 |
| Fantastically shot and edited, Live at the Fidelitorium is an intimate and intricate looks at the entirety of Future Sequence. Each member is covered greatly, and you really appreciate all the tiny details that go into each and every track, especially evident in the slew of guest musicians in the form of string and brass sections. |
| Between the Buried and Me Colors_Live | 4.0 |
| There's a few issues regarding camera coverage and the lack of crowd audio (making any attempt at audience sing-a-longs fall flat), but otherwise the entire set is performed near flawlessly. The second set comprised of some of the band's very best tracks is also a very nice addition, and clearly well picked. |
| Empire! Empire! (I Was a Lonely Estate) You Will Eventually Be Forgotten | 3.5 |
| Empire! Empire! (I Was a Lonely Estate) What It Takes to Move Forward | 4.0 |
| Modern Baseball You’re Gonna Miss It All | 4.0 |
| I've changed by stance on this, as the maturity of You're Gonna Miss It All breaks Modern Baseball into a new, refreshing emo sound. Sports initially was superior because of it's catchy hooks, but there's just something so real and human about this record. Definitely one of my favourite bands right now. Can't wait to see where they go next. |
| Northlane Hollow Existence | 3.0 |
| The Contortionist Language | 4.0 |
| Really impressed after the first listen. Everything sounds much more organic and natural as opposed to the manufactured sound of Intrinsic, and it manages to tread the line between beautiful and heavy. Also, 'Ebb & Flow' is a knockout! |
| Totem Skin Still Waters Run Deep | 4.0 |
| American Football American Football EP | 4.0 |
| Vices Between My Mind And The World | 3.5 |
| Trapped Under Ice Big Kiss Goodnight | 3.5 |
| Trapped Under Ice Secrets of the World | 3.0 |
| Trapped Under Ice Stay Cold | 3.5 |
| Nails Abandon All Life | 4.0 |
| Nails Unsilent Death | 4.0 |
| Godflesh Hymns | 3.5 |
| Godflesh Us and Them | 3.0 |
| Godflesh Songs of Love and Hate | 3.5 |
| Godflesh Selfless | 4.0 |
| Godflesh Pure | 4.0 |
| Godflesh Streetcleaner | 4.0 |
| Black Joe Lewis Electric Slave | 3.5 |
| Black Joe Lewis Scandalous | 3.5 |
| Black Joe Lewis Tell 'Em What Your Name Is | 4.0 |
| Confession Life and Death | 3.5 |
| It's really nothing groundbreaking, but if you're yearning for a good mosh-core album to nod your head along to, Life and Death brings the junz and brings them hard. Confession's best work. |
| Beartooth Disgusting | 3.5 |
| 'Beaten In Lips' would be so much better if the breakdown it ended on wasn't so pissweak. |
| Hellions Die Young | 4.0 |
| Fallujah The Flesh Prevails | 4.0 |
| Regrettably somewhat of a victim to the hype, Fallujah's sophomore album is still a complex and layered slab of technical death metal and arguably their best work. |
| Bury Tomorrow Runes | 3.5 |
| Bury Tomorrow The Union of Crowns | 3.5 |
| Bury Tomorrow On Waxed Wings | 3.0 |
| Bury Tomorrow Portraits | 3.0 |
| Bury Tomorrow The Sleep of the Innocents | 2.0 |
| King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard Oddments | 3.0 |
| King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard Float Along. Fill Your Lungs | 4.0 |
| King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard Eyes Like The Sky | 3.0 |
| King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard 12 Bar Bruise | 3.5 |
| King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard Willoughby's Beach | 3.5 |
| Betraying the Martyrs Phantom | 3.0 |
| The Contortionist Apparition | 3.5 |
| The Contortionist Shapeshifter | 3.0 |
| Black Rebel Motorcycle Club Specter At The Feast | 3.5 |
| Black Rebel Motorcycle Club Beat the Devil's Tattoo | 3.5 |
| Black Rebel Motorcycle Club The Effects of 333 | 1.5 |
| I don't even know what the hell this is meant to be. |
| Black Rebel Motorcycle Club Baby 81 | 3.0 |
| Black Rebel Motorcycle Club Howl | 4.0 |
| Black Rebel Motorcycle Club Take Them On, On Your Own | 3.0 |
| Black Rebel Motorcycle Club B.R.M.C. | 2.5 |
| Braid No Coast | 4.5 |
| Dope Body Saturday | 3.0 |
| Dope Body Natural History | 4.0 |
| Dope Body Nupping | 3.5 |
| David Bowie The Next Day | 4.0 |
| David Bowie Reality | 4.0 |
| David Bowie Heathen | 4.0 |
| David Bowie Hours | 3.0 |
| David Bowie Earthling | 3.5 |
| David Bowie Outside | 3.0 |
| David Bowie Black Tie White Noise | 3.0 |
| David Bowie Never Let Me Down | 2.5 |
| Every Time I Die From Parts Unknown | 4.5 |
| The Bermuda Triangle, Stonehenge, and how the fuck Every Time I Die are so damn good remain some of life's greatest mysteries.rSeriously guys, what the fuck. |
| David Bowie Tonight | 2.5 |
| David Bowie Let's Dance | 3.5 |
| David Bowie Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps) | 4.5 |
| David Bowie Lodger | 3.0 |
| David Bowie "Heroes" | 4.0 |
| David Bowie Low | 5.0 |
| David Bowie Station to Station | 4.5 |
| David Bowie Young Americans | 4.0 |
| David Bowie Diamond Dogs | 4.0 |
| David Bowie Pin Ups | 3.0 |
| David Bowie Aladdin Sane | 4.5 |
| David Bowie The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars | 4.5 |
| David Bowie Hunky Dory | 5.0 |
| David Bowie The Man Who Sold the World | 3.5 |
| David Bowie Space Oddity | 4.0 |
| David Bowie David Bowie | 2.5 |
| Fallujah Nomadic | 3.5 |
| Fallujah The Harvest Wombs | 4.0 |
| Mastodon Once More 'Round the Sun | 4.0 |
| I didn't really mind The Hunter but Jesus Christ this makes The Hunter look like shit. |
| Brand New Fight Off Your Demons (The Demos) | 4.0 |
| This is actually really fuckin good what the hell. |
| The Dead Weather Sea of Cowards | 4.0 |
| The Dead Weather Horehound | 4.0 |
| The White Stripes Icky Thump | 4.0 |
| The White Stripes Get Behind Me Satan | 4.0 |
| The White Stripes Elephant | 4.0 |
| The White Stripes White Blood Cells | 3.5 |
| The White Stripes De Stijl | 3.0 |
| The White Stripes The White Stripes | 3.0 |
| Say Anything Hebrews | 3.5 |
| Once you get past the gimmicky absence of guitars, Hebrews is an album that features some of the group's best songs to date. After the train-wreck that was Anarchy, My Dear I was very concerned about Say Anything's future, but luckily enough to be proved wrong. |
| Code Orange Cycles | 3.0 |
| Code Orange Embrace Me // Erase Me | 2.5 |
| Buried in Verona Faceless | 2.5 |
| Buried in Verona Notorious | 2.0 |
| The Amity Affliction Let the Ocean Take Me | 3.0 |
| Arguably their darkest release yet, while still maintaining their catchy, pop punk chorus hooks. Let The Ocean Take Me isn't immediately wowing as the likes of Youngbloods or even Chasing Ghosts due to it housing absolutely no surprises whatsoever. There's some great tracks on here, with the one-two punch of 'Never Alone' and 'Death's Hand' as well as the penultimate 'Forest Fire' being some of the album's best cuts, but ultimately, it's the same Amity you've heard before. |
| Confession The Long Way Home | 3.0 |
| Confession Cancer | 3.0 |
| Confession Can't Live, Can't Breathe | 2.5 |
| Young and in the Way When Life Comes to Death | 4.0 |
| Coheed and Cambria The Afterman: Descension | 4.0 |
| Coheed and Cambria The Afterman: Ascension | 3.5 |
The album feels much tighter as a whole, even if some tracks are stronger than others. My only real complaint
is that it's very short, especially by Coheed standards, but this is just half of a double album so it's to be
expected. Both albums played one after the other will sound mindblowing though. |
| Coheed and Cambria Year of the Black Rainbow | 3.5 |
| Coheed and Cambria No World for Tomorrow | 4.0 |
| Coheed and Cambria From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness | 4.5 |
| Coheed and Cambria In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3 | 5.0 |
| Coheed and Cambria The Second Stage Turbine Blade | 4.0 |
| Refused Songs To Fan The Flames Of Discontent | 4.0 |
| Refused This Just Might Be... The Truth | 3.5 |
| Boards of Canada Tomorrow's Harvest | 3.5 |
| Boards of Canada The Campfire Headphase | 3.5 |
| Boards of Canada Geogaddi | 4.0 |
| Structures Life Through a Window | 3.0 |
| Much more structured than their debut, and the new vocalist is an improvement. |
| Structures Divided By | 2.5 |
| Adding sweeps to chug-laden metalcore does not make you progressive. |
| Boards of Canada Music Has the Right to Children | 4.5 |
| Braid Frame & Canvas | 4.5 |
| Braid The Age of Octeen | 4.0 |
| Braid Frankie Welfare Boy Age Five | 4.0 |
| The Rose Line Consequences | 3.5 |
| The Rose Line Arrival | 3.0 |
| Betraying the Martyrs The Hurt, the Divine, the Light | 3.0 |
| Betraying the Martyrs Breathe In Life | 3.5 |
| The Ocean Pelagial | 4.0 |
| The Ocean Anthropocentric | 3.5 |
| The Ocean Aeolian | 4.0 |
| The Ocean Fluxion | 4.0 |
| The Hotelier Home, Like NoPlace Is There | 4.0 |
| Swans To Be Kind | 4.5 |
| In Hearts Wake Earthwalker | 3.5 |
| Michael Jackson Bad | 4.5 |
| Michael Jackson Thriller | 4.5 |
| Cult of Luna The Beyond | 4.0 |
| Cult of Luna Cult of Luna | 4.0 |
| Michael Jackson Off the Wall | 4.0 |
| Agalloch The Serpent and the Sphere | 4.0 |
| Is everyone here on drugs? This rules. Classic Agalloch. |
| Closure in Moscow Pink Lemonade | 4.0 |
| Misfits The Devil's Rain | 2.5 |
| Misfits Famous Monsters | 3.0 |
| Misfits Static Age | 4.0 |
| Misfits American Psycho | 4.0 |
| Misfits Earth A.D./Wolf's Blood | 4.0 |
| Misfits Walk Among Us | 4.0 |
| The Atlas Moth An Ache for the Distance | 4.5 |
| The Atlas Moth A Glorified Piece of Blue Sky | 4.0 |
| Tool 10,000 Days | 4.0 |
| Tool Lateralus | 3.5 |
| Tool Ænima | 4.0 |
| Tool Undertow | 3.5 |
| Baths Obsidian | 4.0 |
| Baths Cerulean | 3.5 |
| Yuck Southern Skies | 3.5 |
| La Dispute Rooms of the House | 4.0 |
| High on Fire De Vermis Mysteriis | 4.0 |
| High on Fire Snakes for the Divine | 4.0 |
| High on Fire Death Is This Communion | 3.5 |
| High on Fire Blessed Black Wings | 4.0 |
| High on Fire Surrounded by Thieves | 3.0 |
| High on Fire Art of Self-Defense | 4.0 |
| Killer Be Killed Killer Be Killed | 4.0 |
| Honestly, it's really refreshing to hear a supergroup that actually sounds like an equal divide between the musicians. Everyone here gets their moment in the spotlight, making it a varied listen without sacrificing the sense of identity it builds for itself over its 45 minute runtime. |
| Earth Angels of Darkness, Demons of Light II | 3.5 |
| Earth Angels of Darkness, Demons of Light I | 4.0 |
| Earth The Bees Made Honey in the Lion's Skull | 4.5 |
| Earth Hibernaculum | 3.5 |
| Earth Hex: Or Printing In the Infernal Method | 3.5 |
| Earth Pentastar: In The Style Of Demons | 4.0 |
| Earth Phase 3: Thrones and Dominions | 3.5 |
| Earth Earth 2: Special Low Frequency Version | 4.0 |
| Zao Awake? | 3.5 |
| Zao The Fear Is What Keeps Us Here | 4.0 |
| Zao All Else Failed (2003) | 3.0 |
| Zao Parade of Chaos | 4.5 |
| Zao (Self-Titled) | 3.0 |
| Zao Liberate Te Ex Inferis | 4.0 |
| Zao Where Blood and Fire Bring Rest | 4.0 |
| Zao The Splinter Shards the Birth of Separation | 3.0 |
| Zao All Else Failed | 3.5 |
| Darkthrone Transilvanian Hunger | 4.0 |
| Darkthrone Under a Funeral Moon | 3.5 |
| Darkthrone A Blaze in the Northern Sky | 4.0 |
| Darkthrone Soulside Journey | 3.5 |
| More Than Life Brave Enough To Fail | 3.5 |
| More Than Life Prelude | 3.5 |
| Once you get past the kind of unorthodox vocals, this is a solid hardcore punk release. |
| More Than Life What's Left of Me | 3.5 |
| Truth be told, this is exactly what I wanted in a follow up to Love Let Me Go. Some may argue that rthey've softened up but the new approach is much more emotionally open, which is a subtle change in rdirection but a welcome one, and Jimmy's heart-wrenching vocals certainly reflect that. |
| Nirvana In Utero | 4.0 |
| Nirvana Nevermind | 3.5 |
| Nirvana Bleach | 3.0 |
| Deadguy Fixation on a Coworker | 4.5 |
| The Strokes Is This It | 4.0 |
| Wu-Tang Clan 8 Diagrams | 3.0 |
| Wu-Tang Clan Iron Flag | 3.5 |
| Wu-Tang Clan The W | 3.0 |
| Wu-Tang Clan Wu-Tang Forever | 4.0 |
| Wu-Tang Clan Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) | 4.5 |
| Foxy Shazam Gonzo | 2.5 |
| If this is what Gonzo's all about, you can count me out, baby count me out. Just count me out. |
| Wolfmother New Crown | 2.5 |
| Wolfmother Cosmic Egg | 3.0 |
| Wolfmother Wolfmother | 3.5 |
| Pixies Indie Cindy | 3.0 |
| It's not classic Pixies, but it's not hat bad. Well, except for 'Ring The Bell'. Seriously, what the fuck is up with that song. |
| Pixies Trompe Le Monde | 3.0 |
| Pixies Bossanova | 4.0 |
| Pixies Doolittle | 4.5 |
| Pixies Surfer Rosa | 5.0 |
| Pixies Come On Pilgrim | 4.0 |
| Ceres I Don't Want To Be Anywhere But Here | 4.0 |
| Turns out my hometown of Melbourne can get emo too! A must listen. |
| The Smashing Pumpkins Oceania | 4.0 |
| The Smashing Pumpkins Teargarden by Kaleidyscope, Vol. 2 | 3.0 |
| The Smashing Pumpkins Teargarden by Kaleidyscope, Vol. 1 | 3.0 |
| The Smashing Pumpkins Zeitgeist | 2.5 |
| The Smashing Pumpkins Machina II/The Friends & Enemies of Modern Music | 3.0 |
| The Smashing Pumpkins Machina/The Machines of God | 3.5 |
| The Smashing Pumpkins Adore | 3.5 |
| The Smashing Pumpkins Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness | 4.5 |
| Morbid Angel Domination | 3.5 |
| The Smashing Pumpkins Siamese Dream | 5.0 |
| The Smashing Pumpkins Gish | 3.5 |
| Morbid Angel Covenant | 4.0 |
| Morbid Angel Blessed Are the Sick | 4.0 |
| Morbid Angel Altars of Madness | 4.5 |
| Yndi Halda Enjoy Eternal Bliss | 4.5 |
| The Antlers Hospice | 4.5 |
| Rinoa An Age Among Them | 4.5 |
| T.R.A.M. Lingua Franca | 4.0 |
| Led Zeppelin In Through the Out Door | 3.5 |
| Led Zeppelin Presence | 3.5 |
| Led Zeppelin Physical Graffiti | 5.0 |
| Led Zeppelin Houses of the Holy | 4.0 |
| Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin IV | 5.0 |
| Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin III | 4.5 |
| Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin II | 4.0 |
| Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin | 4.5 |
| Black Sabbath Sabotage | 4.0 |
| Black Sabbath Sabbath Bloody Sabbath | 4.0 |
| Black Sabbath Vol. 4 | 4.0 |
| Black Sabbath Paranoid | 5.0 |
| Black Sabbath Master of Reality | 4.5 |
| Black Sabbath Black Sabbath | 4.5 |
| Propagandhi Failed States | 4.0 |
| Propagandhi Supporting Caste | 4.0 |
| Propagandhi Less Talk, More Rock | 3.5 |
| Propagandhi Potemkin City Limits | 4.0 |
| Propagandhi Today's Empires, Tomorrow's Ashes | 4.5 |
| Propagandhi How to Clean Everything | 3.5 |
| Animals As Leaders The Joy of Motion | 4.0 |
| Really good. 'Lippincott', 'Physical Education' and 'Para Mexer' are some outstanding tracks. |
| Strapping Young Lad The New Black | 3.5 |
| Strapping Young Lad Alien | 4.5 |
| Strapping Young Lad Strapping Young Lad | 3.5 |
| Strapping Young Lad City | 4.0 |
| Strapping Young Lad Heavy as a Really Heavy Thing | 3.0 |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Irony Is a Dead Scene | 4.0 |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Under the Running Board | 3.0 |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan The Dillinger Escape Plan | 3.5 |
| Kid Cudi Satellite Flight: The Journey to Mother Moon | 3.5 |
| Arguably what 2013's Indicud should have been, Satellite Flight is a much fuller, more concise effort, and while it doesn't reach the peaks of either his Man on the Moon full-lengths, it's far from terrible. 'Going To The Ceremony' and 'Too Bad I Have To Destroy You Now' are proof that Mescudi can still create some killer tracks, of which were few and far between on his last full-length. |
| The Beatles Let It Be | 3.5 |
| The Beatles Abbey Road | 5.0 |
| The Beatles Yellow Submarine | 3.0 |
| The Beatles The Beatles | 4.0 |
| The Beatles Magical Mystery Tour | 3.5 |
| The Beatles Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band | 5.0 |
| The Beatles Revolver | 4.5 |
| The Beatles Rubber Soul | 4.0 |
| The Beatles Help! | 3.5 |
| The Beatles Beatles for Sale | 3.5 |
| The Beatles A Hard Day's Night | 3.0 |
| The Beatles With the Beatles | 3.0 |
| The Beatles Please Please Me | 3.5 |
| Glassjaw Coloring Book | 4.0 |
| Glassjaw Our Color Green (The Singles) | 4.0 |
| Glassjaw El Mark | 3.5 |
| Glassjaw Worship and Tribute | 4.0 |
| Glassjaw Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Silence | 4.0 |
| Glassjaw Kiss Kiss Bang Bang | 3.0 |
| maudlin of the Well Part the Second | 4.0 |
| maudlin of the Well Leaving Your Body Map | 4.0 |
| maudlin of the Well Bath | 4.5 |
| maudlin of the Well My Fruit Psychobells... A Seed Combustible | 4.0 |
| Dangers 5 O'Clock Shadows At The Edge Of The Western World | 3.5 |
| This is really awesome, it's just a shame it's so short. I kinda wished they saved this material for a third full-length. Still, this is classic Dangers. |
| Architects Lost Forever // Lost Together | 3.5 |
| Architects really caught me off guard with this one. Disregarding the kinda average song titles, Lost Forever // Lost Together is the closest thing they've come to sounding like their Hollow Crown glory days. The album is very solid, and has a nice atmosphere littered throughout that doesn't sound too political or too personal found on the likes of Daybreaker and The Here And Now, respectively. It's still very much a chug-a-thon metalcore record, but going in expecting disappointment has left me quite surprised. A fine return to form. |
| Arcade Fire Reflektor | 3.5 |
| Arcade Fire The Suburbs | 4.0 |
| Arcade Fire Neon Bible | 4.0 |
| Arcade Fire Funeral | 3.5 |
| Arctic Monkeys AM | 2.5 |
| Arctic Monkeys Suck It and See | 3.0 |
| Arctic Monkeys Humbug | 3.5 |
| Arctic Monkeys Favourite Worst Nightmare | 3.5 |
| Arctic Monkeys Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not | 3.5 |
| Clams Casino Instrumental Mixtape 3 | 3.5 |
| Crosses Crosses | 3.5 |
If you ignore that fact that 66% of the album has been available for years, then the album is really very solid.
Moody and atmospheric and the new track order flows really well. Probably the closest thing we'll get to a new
Team Sleep record. |
| Shane Carruth Upstream Color | 4.0 |
| Absolutely stunning. The score to Upstream Color is engrossing, beautiful and proves Carruth's talent as a composer as well as filmaker. |
| Shane Carruth Primer | 3.5 |
It's a little on the short side, but Carruth demonstrates his knack for creating ambient and emotional pieces
that perfectly reflect the genius film of Primer. |
| I Killed the Prom Queen Beloved | 3.5 |
Nothing too radically different from what they were putting out before their breakup. Jamie Hope retains his
reputation as an excellent vocalist, and Weinhofen's cleans continue to impress. Simply put, if you were a fan
already, you'll likely find something to enjoy here, but it's a shame the band can't put out an album full of
Melior's, Kj�rlighet's and Brevity's. |
| I Killed the Prom Queen Music for the Recently Deceased | 3.5 |
| IKTPQ build upon the promise shown on their debut to impressive lengths. Ed Butcher is a much better vocalist than Michael Crafter, even if his range is a little minimal. Each song brings its own without ever becoming stale. The only downside is that they can start to blend a little, but other than that, a solid album. |
| Cynic Kindly Bent to Free Us | 2.5 |
| Kindly prog to prog us is a disappointing affair. Kind of like when mum cheated on dad with Gavin from work and he turned out to be a real bummer. Probably cause he listened to this album. Poor Gavin. |
| Bohren und der Club of Gore Piano Nights | 4.0 |
| I Killed the Prom Queen When Goodbye Means Forever | 2.5 |
Truth be told, if it wasn't for Michael Crafter's horrible vocals and the muddied production, this would be a
solid metalcore record. In fact, from a songwriting perspective, it's actually quite impressive for a debut. Not
every song sounds the same, and instrumentally, it's a lot less generic than most metalcore of that time.
Having said that, the vocals and lyrics do weigh it down a lot, making it only just listenable. |
| Heaven Shall Burn Invictus (Iconoclast III) | 3.0 |
| Heaven Shall Burn Iconoclast (Part 2: Bildersturm) | 3.5 |
| Heaven Shall Burn Iconoclast (Part 1: The Final Resistance) | 4.5 |
| Heaven Shall Burn Deaf to Our Prayers | 4.0 |
| Heaven Shall Burn Antigone | 4.0 |
| Heaven Shall Burn Whatever It May Take | 3.0 |
| Heaven Shall Burn Asunder | 3.0 |
| Grouper Dragging a Dead Deer Up a Hill | 4.5 |
| Raised Fist Veil Of Ignorance | 3.5 |
| Raised Fist Sound of the Republic | 4.0 |
| Raised Fist Dedication | 4.0 |
| Raised Fist Ignoring The Guidelines | 3.5 |
| Have a Nice Life The Unnatural World | 4.0 |
| 'Emptiness Will Eat The Witch' is song of the year material. |
| Raised Fist Fuel | 3.5 |
| letlive. Speak Like You Talk | 3.0 |
| letlive. Exhaustion, Salt Water, And Everything In Between | 2.5 |
| Mr. Bungle California | 4.5 |
| Arguably their best, California maintains Mr. Bungle's signature sound of insanity and improves on it tenfold. |
| Mr. Bungle Disco Volante | 3.5 |
| This shit is lame, it's just random noises. Why anyone would listen to this is beyond? hey, why can't I stop nodding my head? |
| Mr. Bungle Mr. Bungle | 4.0 |
Listening to this album is kind of like taking eccies while being blown by that hot teacher you had a thing for
in high school, except she's dressed as a clown. |
| A Different Breed of Killer I, Colossus | 3.0 |
| Of Mice and Men The Flood | 3.0 |
| Periphery Clear | 3.0 |
| Of Mice and Men Of Mice and Men | 2.5 |
| John Steinbeck's novella is classic piece of American literature and arguably one of the most important books ever written. |
| Carpathian Wanderlust | 3.5 |
| Red Fang Whales and Leeches | 4.0 |
| Red Fang Murder the Mountains | 4.0 |
| Red Fang Red Fang | 3.5 |
| Clams Casino Instrumental Mixtape 2 | 3.5 |
| Alcest Shelter | 4.0 |
| Oh Neige, stroke my hair and tell me I'm beautiful... |
| CHVRCHES The Bones of What You Believe | 3.0 |
| La Dispute Conversations | 3.0 |
| Compromise Yesterday Was Everything | 4.0 |
| As Tall As Lions You Can't Take It With You | 4.0 |
| Compromise Compromise | 3.5 |
| As Tall As Lions Into The Flood | 3.0 |
| As Tall As Lions Lafcadio | 4.0 |
| As Tall As Lions Blood And Aphorisms | 3.5 |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor 'Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend! | 4.0 |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor Yanqui U.X.O. | 4.0 |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven | 4.5 |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor Slow Riot For New Zero Kanada | 4.5 |
| 7 Angels 7 Plagues Jhazmyne's Lullaby | 4.5 |
| Manners Escapism | 3.5 |
| Manners Pale Blue Light | 4.5 |
| Drown yourself in your own shame, sink or swim it's all the same. |
| Swarms Old Raves End | 4.0 |
| Burial Rival Dealer | 4.5 |
| Just when you think you have him pinned down, Burial pulls some shit like this. With Rival Dealer, we get to see the more dance and hip-hop side to William Bevan, in a way that might not necessarily be flooring, but intriguing all the same. 'Come Down To Us' is exceptional though. |
| Burial Truant/Rough Sleeper | 4.0 |
| Burial Kindred | 4.5 |
| Burial Street Halo | 4.0 |
| Burial Ghost Hardware | 3.0 |
| Burial Distant Lights | 3.0 |
| Burial South London Boroughs | 4.0 |
| La Dispute Here, Hear. III | 4.0 |
| La Dispute Here, Hear. II | 3.0 |
| La Dispute Here, Hear. | 3.0 |
| La Dispute Untitled | 4.0 |
| La Dispute Vancouver | 3.5 |
| Will Haven The Hierophant | 3.5 |
| Will Haven Carpe Diem | 4.5 |
| Will Haven WHVN | 3.5 |
| Will Haven El Diablo | 4.0 |
| Portugal. The Man Evil Friends | 4.0 |
| Slint Spiderland | 4.5 |
| Beastmilk Climax | 4.5 |
| One of the catchiest and most memorable records this year. Post-punk lives! |
| Art By Numbers Reticence: The Musical | 3.0 |
| The Stooges Raw Power | 4.5 |
| sleepmakeswaves ...and so we destroyed everything | 3.5 |
| Glass Casket Desperate Man's Diary | 4.0 |
| Glass Casket We Are Gathered Here Today... | 4.0 |
| Twilight Monument To Time End | 4.0 |
| Young and in the Way V. Eternal Depression | 3.5 |
| Young and in the Way I Am Not What I Am | 4.0 |
| Weezer Weezer | 4.5 |
| The World Is a Beautiful Place... Whenever, If Ever | 4.5 |
| I've changed my mind, the second half of Getting Sodas is just too damn good for this not to be a 4.5. |
| Born of Osiris A Higher Place | 3.0 |
| Born of Osiris The New Reign | 3.0 |
| Pond (AUS) Beard, Wives, Denim | 4.0 |
| Foxygen We Are The 21st Century Ambassadors... | 4.0 |
| Atheist Jupiter | 4.0 |
| Atheist Elements | 4.0 |
| Atheist Unquestionable Presence | 4.5 |
| Atheist Piece of Time | 4.0 |
| Childish Gambino Because the Internet | 3.5 |
Donald Glover takes a stab at creating a Channel Orange inspired album that is neither as consistent nor as
remarkable as Channel Orange. |
| Snowing I Could Do Whatever I Wanted If I Wanted | 4.0 |
| Snowing Fuck Your Emotional Bullshit | 4.5 |
| The Cure Disintegration | 4.5 |
| This is a good album to have sex to.rThere's no punch-line here, I'm deadly serious. |
| Death The Sound of Perseverance | 5.0 |
| Death Symbolic | 5.0 |
| Death Individual Thought Patterns | 4.0 |
| Death Human | 5.0 |
| Death Spiritual Healing | 4.0 |
| Death Leprosy | 4.5 |
| Death Scream Bloody Gore | 4.0 |
| Thrice Major/Minor | 4.0 |
| Thrice Beggars | 3.5 |
| Thrice The Alchemy Index Vols. III & IV | 4.0 |
| Thrice The Alchemy Index Vols. I & II | 4.0 |
| Thrice Vheissu | 4.5 |
| Thrice The Artist in the Ambulance | 4.5 |
| Thrice The Illusion of Safety | 4.0 |
| Thrice Identity Crisis | 3.5 |
| Kylesa Ultraviolet | 3.5 |
| Kylesa Spiral Shadow | 4.0 |
| Kylesa Static Tensions | 4.0 |
| Kylesa Time Will Fuse Its Worth | 3.5 |
| Kylesa To Walk A Middle Course | 3.5 |
| Kylesa Kylesa | 3.0 |
| David Dallas Falling Into Place | 4.0 |
| Closure in Moscow First Temple | 4.5 |
| Closure in Moscow The Penance and the Patience | 4.0 |
| Loom Selva Molhada | 3.5 |
| It's a refreshing sound that unfortunately grows a bit stale by the end of the album's runtime. 'Eons' is a heck of a closer though. |
| Thundercat Apocalypse | 3.0 |
| Thundercat The Golden Age Of Apocalypse | 3.0 |
| Jeff Buckley Sketches for My Sweetheart the Drunk | 4.5 |
| An exciting and promising look at what could have been. |
| The Jimi Hendrix Experience Electric Ladyland | 4.5 |
| The Jimi Hendrix Experience Axis: Bold as Love | 4.5 |
| The Jimi Hendrix Experience Are You Experienced | 4.0 |
| Protest the Hero Volition | 4.0 |
| Apart from the fact that 'Plato's Tripartite' sounds like a B-side, this is pretty solid. |
| Death Grips Government Plates | 3.5 |
| Gillian Welch The Harrow And The Harvest | 4.0 |
| Agalloch Marrow of the Spirit | 4.0 |
| Agalloch The Mantle | 4.5 |
| Agalloch Pale Folklore | 4.5 |
| Cynic Carbon-Based Anatomy | 3.0 |
| Cynic Traced in Air | 4.0 |
| Cynic Focus | 4.5 |
| Alcest Les Voyages De L'Âme | 4.5 |
| Alcest Écailles De Lune | 4.5 |
| Alcest Souvenirs D'Un Autre Monde | 4.0 |
| Vildhjarta Måsstaden | 3.5 |
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When a picture does indeed speak a thousand words. |
| These Arms Are Snakes Tail Swallower and Dove | 3.5 |
| These Arms Are Snakes Easter | 3.5 |
| These Arms Are Snakes Oxeneers or the Lion Sleeps When Its Antelope Go Home | 4.0 |
| These Arms Are Snakes This Is Meant To Hurt You | 3.5 |
| 'Drinking From The Necks Of The Ones You Love' is just too damn good. |
| Future of the Left How To Stop Your Brain In An Accident | 4.0 |
| Future of the Left The Plot Against Common Sense | 4.0 |
| Future of the Left Travels With Myself And Another | 3.5 |
| Future of the Left Curses | 3.5 |
| Deafheaven Sunbather | 4.5 |
| Deafheaven Roads to Judah | 4.0 |
| Parkway Drive Atlas | 3.5 |
| Parkway Drive's songwriting skills have improved tenfold with Atlas, and the experimentation with guest vocals and orchestral arrangements make this quite an enjoyable metalcore record. |
| Parkway Drive Deep Blue | 3.0 |
| It's interesting to think that Parkway Drive's most recognised and well-known album is also probably their worst, musically. It's still a fun romp, with tracks like 'Sleepwalker', 'Karma' and 'Home Is For The Heartless' being particular highlights. |
| Parkway Drive Horizons | 4.0 |
| Not as good as their debut, Horizons is still a fun album, with some of the band's most recognised material on display in the form of 'Boneyards', 'Idols And Anchors' and of course, 'Carrion'. |
| Parkway Drive Killing with a Smile | 4.0 |
| Admittedly, I'm probably blinded by nostalgia on this one, but I still think Killing With A Smile is a lot of fun. For it's time, it was probably miles ahead of its metalcore peers, so it's nice to see it hasn't aged terribly. |
| Parkway Drive Don't Close Your Eyes | 3.0 |
| Sleep Dopesmoker | 4.0 |
| Do you think these guys are into weed or nah |
| Sleep Jerusalem | 3.5 |
| Sleep Sleep's Holy Mountain | 4.5 |
| Sleep Volume One | 3.5 |
| Manilla Road Crystal Logic | 4.0 |
| While She Sleeps The North Stands for Nothing | 3.5 |
| Drake So Far Gone | 3.5 |
| Coerce Genome | 4.0 |
| Coerce Ethereal Surrogate Saviour | 4.0 |
| Coerce Silver Tongued Life Licker | 4.0 |
| Botch An Anthology of Dead Ends | 4.0 |
| Botch We Are the Romans | 4.5 |
| Botch American Nervoso | 4.0 |
| Botch The Unifying Themes of Sex, Death, and Religion | 3.5 |
| The Saddest Landscape After The Lights | 4.0 |
| The Saddest Landscape You Will Not Survive | 5.0 |
| The Saddest Landscape Lift Your Burdens High For This is Where We Cross | 3.5 |
| The Saddest Landscape The Sound Of The Spectacle | 3.5 |
| Iceage You're Nothing | 3.5 |
| Team Sleep Team Sleep | 3.5 |
| Iceage New Brigade | 3.5 |
| Elliott Smith From a Basement on the Hill | 4.0 |
| Elliott Smith XO | 4.5 |
| Elliott Smith Either/Or | 4.5 |
| Elliott Smith Elliott Smith | 4.5 |
| Elliott Smith Roman Candle | 4.0 |
| Heaven Shall Burn Veto | 4.0 |
| Ne Obliviscaris The Aurora Veil | 4.0 |
| Devin Townsend Project Epicloud | 4.0 |
| Devin Townsend Project Ghost | 4.0 |
| Devin Townsend Project Deconstruction | 3.5 |
| Devin Townsend Project Addicted | 4.0 |
| Dads The Essential John Denver EP | 3.0 |
| Dads Brush Your Teeth, Again ;) | 3.5 |
| Jessy Lanza Pull My Hair Back | 4.0 |
| Karnivool Asymmetry | 3.5 |
| Pelican Forever Becoming | 3.5 |
| Russian Circles Memorial | 4.5 |
| Words can't really do justice how completely jaw-dropping this is. Russian Circles have completely outdone themselves with Memorial. |
| Eleventh He Reaches London Banhus | 4.0 |
| Not quite as good as Hollow Be My Name, but still an impressive record, and perhaps more accessible for most. |
| Run the Jewels Run the Jewels | 4.0 |
| Janelle Monae The Electric Lady | 3.5 |
| Janelle Monae The ArchAndroid | 3.5 |
| Janelle Monae Metropolis: The Chase Suite | 3.0 |
| Have a Nice Life Deathconsciousness | 4.5 |
| Bohren und der Club of Gore Beileid | 4.0 |
| The main point of contention for Bohren has been the length of some of their albums; Midnight Radio is the main culprit for being too long, and yet, it's Beileid that feels too short in comparison. Maybe the length was what I got used to, but I kind of wish this wasn't over so quickly. |
| Bohren und der Club of Gore Dolores | 4.0 |
| Bohren und der Club of Gore Geisterfaust | 4.0 |
| Sleigh Bells Bitter Rivals | 3.5 |
| Sleigh Bells Reign of Terror | 3.0 |
| Sleigh Bells Treats | 4.0 |
| Bohren und der Club of Gore Black Earth | 4.5 |
| Bohren und der Club of Gore Midnight Radio | 3.5 |
I runs on perhaps a little too long, but I suppose that's the point. This is the perfect soundtrack to play when
you're pulling a late one. |
| Bohren und der Club of Gore Gore Motel | 3.5 |
| Job for a Cowboy Demonocracy | 3.0 |
| Job for a Cowboy Gloom | 2.5 |
| Job for a Cowboy Ruination | 3.5 |
| Job for a Cowboy Genesis | 3.0 |
| Genesis has a few outstanding tracks ('Bearing The Serpent's Lamb', 'Embedded', 'The Divine Falsehood') but is weighed down by a lot of tracks that are neither good or bad, and are just "there". |
| Job for a Cowboy Doom | 2.5 |
| Job for a Cowboy Demo 2004 | 3.5 |
| Truth be told, this release has some awesome songwriting, accompanying a raw, gritty sound. An impressive deathcore release. |
| Ulver Messe I.X-VI.X | 4.0 |
| Ulver Wars of the Roses | 4.0 |
| Ulver Shadows of the Sun | 4.0 |
| Ulver Blood Inside | 3.5 |
| Ulver Perdition City | 3.5 |
| Ulver Themes From William Blake's The Marriage of Heaven and Hell | 3.5 |
| Ulver Nattens Madrigal | 4.0 |
| Ulver Kveldssanger | 4.0 |
| Touche Amore Is Survived By | 4.0 |
| The Human Abstract Moonlight Sonata | 3.5 |
| Bjork Biophilia | 3.5 |
| Bjork Volta | 3.5 |
| Bjork Medulla | 3.0 |
| Bjork Vespertine | 3.5 |
| Bjork Homogenic | 4.0 |
| Bjork Post | 3.5 |
| Bjork Debut | 3.5 |
| Drake Nothing Was the Same | 3.0 |
| New Drake > New The Weeknd. rWhat the fuck is going on. |
| Swans Soundtracks for the Blind | 4.0 |
| Swans My Father Will Guide Me Up a Rope to the Sky | 4.0 |
| Swans The Great Annihilator | 4.0 |
| Jesu Everyday I Get Closer to the Light from Which I Came | 4.5 |
| Jesus fucking christ. I mean...jesus fucking christ. |
| Swans Love of Life | 4.0 |
| Swans White Light From the Mouth of Infinity | 4.5 |
| Yuck Glow and Behold | 3.5 |
| Swans The Burning World | 3.5 |
| Swans Children of God | 4.0 |
| Swans Holy Money | 3.0 |
| Swans Greed | 3.0 |
| Swans Cop | 3.5 |
| Swans Filth | 3.5 |
| Beartooth Sick | 3.5 |
| Nothing groundbreaking, but a pretty fun EP. Much more mature and focused than anything Attack Attack! ever did, although Shomo's vocals still have some room for improvement. I'm interested to see where this band goes. |
| The Red Chord Fed Through the Teeth Machine | 3.5 |
| The Red Chord Prey for Eyes | 4.0 |
| The Red Chord Clients | 3.5 |
| The Red Chord Fused Together in Revolving Doors | 4.0 |
| Balance and Composure The Things We Think We're Missing | 4.5 |
| Vampire Weekend Modern Vampires of the City | 3.0 |
| Vampire Weekend Contra | 2.5 |
| Vampire Weekend Vampire Weekend | 3.0 |
| MGMT MGMT | 4.0 |
| Not gonna lie; 'A Good Sadness' and 'Mystery Disease' give me a semi. |
| The Devil Wears Prada 8:18 | 3.5 |
| i give this an 8:18 out of 5rLelYour soundoff was too short, it has to be at least 50 characters |
| Close Your Eyes Empty Hands and Heavy Hearts | 3.0 |
| Close Your Eyes We Will Overcome | 3.0 |
| The Weeknd Kiss Land | 3.0 |
| Madvillain Madvillainy | 4.5 |
| JJ DOOM Key To The Kuffs | 3.5 |
| Viktor Vaughn (VV:2) Venomous Villain | 3.5 |
| Viktor Vaughn Vaudeville Villain | 4.0 |
| Redcoats Redcoats | 4.0 |
| Redcoats Redcoats EP | 3.5 |
| DangerDoom The Occult Hymn | 3.0 |
| DangerDoom The Mouse And The Mask | 4.0 |
| Iwrestledabearonce Late for Nothing | 3.0 |
| The Postal Service Give Up | 3.5 |
| King Geedorah Take Me to Your Leader | 3.5 |
| MF DOOM Born Like This | 3.0 |
| MF DOOM MM.. Food | 4.5 |
| Radiohead The King of Limbs | 3.0 |
| Radiohead In Rainbows | 4.0 |
| Radiohead Hail to the Thief | 3.5 |
| Radiohead Amnesiac | 4.0 |
| Radiohead Kid A | 4.5 |
| Radiohead OK Computer | 4.5 |
| Radiohead The Bends | 4.0 |
| Radiohead Pablo Honey | 3.0 |
| All Shall Perish Awaken the Dreamers | 3.5 |
| All Shall Perish The Price of Existence | 3.5 |
| All Shall Perish Hate. Malice. Revenge | 3.0 |
| At the Drive-In In/Casino/Out | 4.0 |
| At the Drive-In Acrobatic Tenement | 3.5 |
| David Dallas Buffalo Man | 3.5 |
| David Dallas The Rose Tint | 4.0 |
| David Dallas Something Awesome | 3.5 |
| The Mars Volta Noctourniquet | 2.5 |
| The song-writing on this album is really solid, with a few really standout tracks ('The Whip Hand', 'Dyslexicon', 'Zed and Two Naughts'), but I can't shake the the notion of how forced this whole album feels. It doesn't necessarily come across as lazy, but you kind of get the vibe that none of the members really want to be there. It's odd really, and to be perfectly honest, this would probably worth a 3.5 or maybe even a 4 if it weren't for the whole unconvincing charade going on underneath the music. |
| The Mars Volta Octahedron | 3.5 |
| The Mars Volta The Bedlam in Goliath | 4.0 |
| The Mars Volta Amputechture | 4.5 |
| The Mars Volta Frances the Mute | 5.0 |
| The Mars Volta De-Loused in the Comatorium | 5.0 |
| The Smiths Strangeways, Here We Come | 3.5 |
| The Smiths The Queen Is Dead | 4.0 |
| The Smiths Meat Is Murder | 3.5 |
| The Smiths The Smiths | 4.0 |
| Burial Burial | 4.5 |
| Mastodon The Hunter | 3.5 |
| Make Them Suffer Neverbloom | 3.5 |
| Belle Haven Onus | 2.0 |
| Belle Haven Chapter 0 | 1.5 |
| Mastodon Blood Mountain | 4.0 |
| Mastodon Leviathan | 4.5 |
| Mastodon Remission | 4.0 |
| Crystal Castles Crystal Castles III | 4.0 |
| Crystal Castles Crystal Castles II | 4.0 |
| Crystal Castles Crystal Castles | 3.5 |
| Ceremony (USA-CA) Zoo | 3.0 |
| Ceremony (USA-CA) Rohnert Park | 4.5 |
| Ceremony (USA-CA) Still Nothing Moves You | 3.5 |
| Ceremony (USA-CA) Violence Violence | 4.0 |
| Ceremony (USA-CA) Ruined | 3.5 |
| Short, but sweet. Or bitter, rather. Very fucking bitter. |
| Pelican Ataraxia/Taraxis | 3.0 |
| Pelican What We All Come to Need | 3.5 |
| Pelican City of Echoes | 3.5 |
| Born of Osiris Tomorrow We Die Alive | 2.5 |
| It's not terrible, but you might as well just listen to The Discovery. |
| Pelican The Fire in Our Throats Will Beckon... | 4.0 |
| Pelican Australasia | 4.0 |
| Pelican Pelican | 3.5 |
| The Chariot One Wing | 5.0 |
| "Oh busy, busy bee, walking to and fro. What if we close our eyes? What if we don't wake up?" |
| The Chariot Long Live | 4.5 |
| The Chariot Wars and Rumors of Wars | 4.0 |
| The Chariot The Fiancee | 4.0 |
| The Chariot Everything Is Alive, Everything Is... | 3.5 |
| Earl Sweatshirt Doris | 4.0 |
| Rosetta The Anaesthete | 3.5 |
| Rosetta A Determinism of Morality | 4.0 |
| Rosetta Wake/Lift | 3.5 |
| Rosetta The Galilean Satellites | 4.5 |
| The idea of playing both discs at once for full effect might come off as gimmicky, but the fact is, they couldn't fit together any better - the end result being a truly remarkable slab of Post Metal. Of course, all this would mean nothing if they weren't fluent to begin with, but luckily the respective discs can hold their own when played separately. |
| Black Flag In My Head | 3.5 |
| Black Flag Loose Nut | 3.5 |
| Black Flag Slip It In | 4.0 |
| Black Flag Family Man | 3.0 |
| Black Flag My War | 4.0 |
| Black Flag Damaged | 4.0 |
| Modern Life Is War Fever Hunting | 4.0 |
| Modern Life Is War Midnight in America | 3.5 |
| Modern Life Is War Witness | 4.0 |
| Modern Life Is War My Love. My Way. | 3.5 |
| Dead Letter Circus The Catalyst Fire | 3.5 |
| Dads Pretty Good | 5.0 |
| This shit is amazing. Holy fuck. EP of the year. |
| Dads American Radass (This Is Important) | 4.0 |
| My Bloody Valentine m b v | 4.0 |
| My Bloody Valentine Loveless | 5.0 |
| My Bloody Valentine Isn't Anything | 4.0 |
| Antagonist A.D. Nothing From No One | 3.5 |
| Antagonist A.D. We Are The Dead | 3.0 |
| Antagonist A.D. These Cities, Our Graves | 3.5 |
| Hands Like Houses Unimagine | 3.5 |
| Rage Against the Machine Renegades | 3.5 |
| Rage Against the Machine The Battle of Los Angeles | 4.0 |
| Modern Baseball Sports | 4.0 |
| Rage Against the Machine Evil Empire | 4.0 |
| Rage Against the Machine Rage Against the Machine | 4.5 |
| We Came As Romans Tracing Back Roots | 2.5 |
| They've made some improvements in their abilities. Kyle's vocals, while still not great, are a huge improvement than previous attempts and the addition of Dave's clean singing is a nice touch as well, as his voice is much easier to listen to. Having said that, the songwriting and lyrics seems to have regressed, resulting in more generic, 'anthemic' songs. |
| Kisschasy Seizures | 3.0 |
| Kisschasy Hymns for the Nonbeliever | 3.5 |
| Kisschasy United Paper People | 2.5 |
| Counterparts The Difference Between Hell and Home | 4.5 |
| The Difference Between Hell and Home combines the best parts of Counterparts previous two full-lengths, resulting in some of their strongest material. Every track is in a league of its own, with some exceptional highlights being 'Compass', 'Slave' and 'Soil'. Remarkable album. |
| Defeater Letters Home | 3.5 |
| As a huge Defeater fanboy, I feel compelled to love this, but truth be told, I'm finding it hard to. The fact that half of the tracks share the same 'No' prefix make it hard to distinguish between them, while the remainder of the tracks are solid but very few outstanding. A few exceptions being 'Bastards', 'No Relief' and 'Rabbit Foot' which save the album from being average. Ambition was what kept Empty Days and Sleepless Nights from becoming stale, but to much disappointment, on Letters Home, it feels like the band have regressed somewhat. Is it a bad album? No. Is it disappointing? Unfortunately, yeah, it is. |
| Misery Signals Absent Light | 4.5 |
| If the songwriting on Absent Light proves anything, it's that even after a five year absence, Misery Signals are the frontrunners for modern metalcore and still miles ahead of their contemporaries. |
| Neutral Milk Hotel In the Aeroplane Over the Sea | 4.0 |
| Gallows (UK) Orchestra Of Wolves | 4.0 |
| The Saddest Landscape Exit Wounded | 3.5 |
| American Football American Football | 5.0 |
| The Avalanches Since I Left You | 4.5 |
| OFWGKTA The OF Tape Vol. 2 | 3.5 |
| OFWGKTA Radical | 3.5 |
| OFWGKTA The Odd Future Tape | 3.0 |
| Earl Sweatshirt EARL | 3.5 |
| If you're at all a fan of Tyler or Odd Future, then EARL will be right up your alley. Points are deducted for a lack of depth as well as a short runtime (25 mins), but hopefully those faults will be built upon with Doris. |
| Palms Palms | 3.5 |
| As a massive fan of both Isis and Deftones, Palms debut album is enjoyable but falls into the trap of sounding pretty much exactly like what you'd expect it to. I'm sure it could grow on me more if given the chance, but its predictability dampens the once promising impact. |
| Listener Time Is A Machine | 4.5 |
| Listener Return to Struggleville | 3.5 |
| letlive. The Blackest Beautiful | 4.0 |
| IF HOME IS WHERE THE HEART IS, THEN WHAT DO I DO WITH THIS EMPTY CHEST!? |
| Five Star Prison Cell Matriarch | 4.0 |
| Five Star Prison Cell Slaves of Virgo | 3.0 |
| Five Star Prison Cell The Complete First Season | 3.0 |
| House Vs. Hurricane Forfeiture | 3.0 |
| August Burns Red Rescue & Restore | 4.0 |
| This has grown on me a lot. From the meaningful and inspirational lyrics to the the diverse and wide variety of musical experimentation, August Burns Red have really taken a step forward as a band, resulting in their most consistent release yet. |
| The Devil Wears Prada Zombie | 3.5 |
| Kanye West Yeezus | 4.0 |
| Yeezy takes us on an incredible aural journey because he "understands culture". |
| The Sword Apocryphon | 3.5 |
| The Sword Warp Riders | 4.5 |
| If this album doesn't make you want to bang your head then you probably don't have a fuckin head |
| The Sword Gods of the Earth | 4.0 |
| The Sword Age of Winters | 4.0 |
| Jesu Ascension | 4.0 |
| Jesu Infinity | 3.5 |
| Jesu Conqueror | 4.0 |
| The Black Dahlia Murder Everblack | 3.5 |
| Pretty much what you'd expect from The Black Dahlia Murder. 'In Hell Is Where She Waits For Me' and 'Every Rope A Noose' are killer tracks. |
| Jesu Jesu | 4.0 |
| Porcupine Tree Fear of a Blank Planet | 5.0 |
| The Flaming Lips Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots | 3.5 |
| Alice in Chains The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here | 4.0 |
| Not as immediately awesome as Black Gives Way To Blue was but still a fantastic record. While the first half of the album is stronger than the second, 'Phantom Limb' is easily the album's standout. Something akin to 'A Looking In View'. |
| Listener Wooden Heart | 5.0 |
| I've had this album for a while, but it's only until very recently that it fully clicked with me. Give it some time and you'll be sweetly rewarded. |
| Alcoa Bone & Marrow | 4.0 |
| If you felt the acoustic tracks on ED&SN felt out of place, then this album is for you. If you legitimately enjoyed Archambault's acoustic ventures on ED&SN, then this album is for you. |
| Every Time I Die Ex Lives | 4.0 |
| Every Time I Die New Junk Aesthetic | 4.5 |
| Every Time I Die The Big Dirty | 4.0 |
| Every Time I Die Gutter Phenomenon | 3.5 |
| Every Time I Die Hot Damn! | 4.0 |
| August Burns Red Leveler | 3.0 |
| August Burns Red Constellations | 4.5 |
| August Burns Red Messengers | 3.5 |
| August Burns Red Thrill Seeker | 4.0 |
| Converge No Heroes | 4.0 |
| Converge When Forever Comes Crashing | 4.0 |
| Converge Petitioning the Empty Sky | 4.5 |
| Converge Halo in a Haystack | 3.0 |
| Tyler, the Creator Wolf | 3.5 |
| Tyler, the Creator Goblin | 4.5 |
| Tyler, the Creator Bastard | 4.0 |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan One of Us Is the Killer | 4.0 |
| I wasn't terribly keen on the pre-release tracks so this was honestly such a surprise. |
| Streetlight Manifesto The Hands That Thieve | 4.0 |
| Streetlight Manifesto Somewhere in the Between | 3.5 |
| Streetlight Manifesto Everything Goes Numb | 4.0 |
| Flume Flume | 3.0 |
| The Tallest Man on Earth There's No Leaving Now | 4.0 |
| The Tallest Man on Earth The Wild Hunt | 4.0 |
| The Tallest Man on Earth Shallow Grave | 3.5 |
| Tame Impala Lonerism | 4.0 |
| Kid Cudi Indicud | 3.5 |
| Damn Scott, you shoulda named this RidiCuDilous cause that's what this is! |
| Kid Cudi Man on the Moon II: The Legend of Mr. Rager | 4.0 |
| Kid Cudi Man on the Moon: The End of Day | 4.0 |
| While She Sleeps This Is the Six | 4.0 |
| Truth be told, this is an impressive metalcore release. Every member performs exceptionally, and Lawrence Taylor's meaningful lyrics make this a stand out amongst others of the genre. A little more vocal variety would've made it more so, however. |
| Youth Lagoon Wondrous Bughouse | 4.0 |
| Youth Lagoon The Year of Hibernation | 4.0 |
| Frank Ocean channel ORANGE | 5.0 |
Sure, the production is good, and Ocean's singing and beats certainly accentuate this, but it's something
about the atmosphere this album generates that solidify Channel Orange as one of the most important
RnB records released in the past ten years. |
| Frank Ocean Nostalgia, Ultra. | 4.0 |
| Wil Wagner Laika | 4.0 |
| The soundtrack to accepting that you're a piece of shit and not giving a fuck. |
| Amia Venera Landscape The Long Procession | 4.5 |
| The Black Dahlia Murder Ritual | 4.0 |
| The Black Dahlia Murder Deflorate | 3.5 |
| The Black Dahlia Murder Nocturnal | 4.5 |
| The Black Dahlia Murder Miasma | 3.5 |
| The Black Dahlia Murder Unhallowed | 4.0 |
| Saul Williams Volcanic Sunlight | 2.0 |
| Saul Williams The Inevitable Rise and Liberation of Niggy Tardust | 3.5 |
| Saul Williams Saul Williams | 4.0 |
| Saul Williams Amethyst Rock Star | 4.5 |
| Russian Circles Empros | 4.0 |
| Pianos Become the Teeth The Lack Long After | 4.0 |
| Pianos Become the Teeth Old Pride | 4.0 |
| The Wombats This Modern Glitch | 2.0 |
| The Wombats A Guide to Love, Loss and Desperation | 2.5 |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Ire Works | 3.5 |
| Has some great songs, but the whole middle is practically filler. |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Miss Machine | 4.0 |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Calculating Infinity | 4.0 |
| Gojira L'Enfant Sauvage | 4.0 |
| Listening to this album may create The Heaviest Boner of the Universe. |
| Gojira The Way of All Flesh | 4.0 |
| Gojira From Mars to Sirius | 4.5 |
| Gojira The Link | 3.5 |
| Gojira Terra Incognita | 3.0 |
| Kvelertak Meir | 3.5 |
| Northlane Singularity | 3.5 |
| Not as good as Discoveries, but still a solid album. The one/two punch of Windbreaker and Worldeater is one the band's strongest moments on record and despite Masquerade having some uninspired lyrics, it's catchy as hell. |
| Brand New Daisy | 4.0 |
| Brand New The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me | 4.5 |
| Brand New Your Favorite Weapon | 3.5 |
| Death Grips No Love Deep Web | 3.0 |
| Death Grips The Money Store | 4.0 |
| Death Grips Exmilitary | 3.5 |
| Elbow Build A Rocket Boys! | 4.0 |
| Elbow The Seldom Seen Kid | 4.5 |
| Tangled Thoughts of Leaving Failed by Man and Machine | 3.5 |
| Bring Me the Horizon This Is What the Edge of Your Seat Was Made For | 2.0 |
| Circa Survive Violent Waves | 3.5 |
| Circa Survive Blue Sky Noise | 4.5 |
| Circa Survive On Letting Go | 4.0 |
| Circa Survive Juturna | 3.5 |
| Bring Me the Horizon Sempiternal | 3.5 |
| ...Well, fuck. I don't think anyone was expecting that. |
| Shai Hulud Reach Beyond the Sun | 4.5 |
| With the return of Chad Gilbert on vocals, and the consistently stellar guitar work of Matt Fox, Shai Hulud have arguably created their finest piece of music in the entirety of their eighteen year career. |
| Shai Hulud Misanthropy Pure | 4.0 |
| Definitely their most diverse and technically proficient to date, albeit a little less memorable than their other work. |
| Shai Hulud That Within Blood Ill-Tempered | 4.5 |
| Arguably the band's darkest release yet, 'That Within Blood...' is a remarkable follow up to their legendary debut. |
| Shai Hulud Hearts Once Nourished With Hope... | 4.5 |
Perhaps one of the best debut albums to have ever be released. Hardcore punk has never sounded so sincere,
and 'Hearts Once Nourished...' is a perfect example of pushing boundaries within a genre. |
| Oh, Sleeper Children of Fire | 3.0 |
| Oh, Sleeper Son of the Morning | 3.0 |
| Oh, Sleeper When I Am God | 2.0 |
| Touche Amore Parting The Sea Between Brightness And Me | 4.0 |
| Touche Amore ...To the Beat of a Dead Horse | 4.0 |
| Dark Time Sunshine ANX | 4.0 |
| Foals Holy Fire | 4.0 |
| More like Holy Fuck, amirite?????????????????????? |
| Single Mothers Single Mothers | 4.0 |
| Another excellent release. The chorus of 'Hell (Is My Backup Plan)' is infectious. |
| Single Mothers Wild Party | 4.5 |
| An absolute gem of a Post-Hardcore/Screamo style EP. |
| The Jezabels Prisoner | 4.0 |
| The Jezabels Dark Storm | 4.5 |
| The Jezabels She's So Hard | 4.0 |
| The Jezabels The Man Is Dead | 4.0 |
| Touche Amore/Pianos Become the Teeth Split | 3.5 |
| It's a shame the band limit themselves to just one song each on this split, as this is clearly some of their best work to date. Both songs are very impressive. |
| CityCop / Les Doux Family Ties/Labors of Love | 3.5 |
| Soundtrack (Film) Scott Pilgrim vs. The World | 4.5 |
| Wasn't a fan of the film, but the soundtrack is amazing. A great collection of song's for a summer's day. Perfect roadtrip mix. |
| Cult of Luna Vertikal | 4.5 |
| Less than a week in to the year and I already have my AOTY. |
| Drake Take Care | 3.5 |
| Drake improves immensly. A much more consistent record than his first, but it's still not something I'd spin that often. |
| Drake Thank Me Later | 2.5 |
| Not an inherently bad album, it has some mildly enjoyable moments, but there's nothing here that will knock you flat and leave you genuinely impressed. |
| The Weeknd Echoes of Silence | 4.0 |
| Echoes Of Silence is Tesfaye's darkest, most open offering yet. |
| The Weeknd Thursday | 4.0 |
| Not quite as consistent as House Of Balloons, but still an amazing record. |
| The Weeknd House of Balloons | 5.0 |
| The perfect late-night chill out album. Its atmosphere is one of a kind. |
| Circle Takes the Square Decompositions: Volume Number One | 4.5 |
| Hey Dev, is it cool if I change my end of year list? |
| Captain Murphy Duality | 4.0 |
| Duality > good kid, m.a.a.d. city. I'll fucking fight you. |
| Ne Obliviscaris Portal of I | 4.5 |
| The fact that Ne Obliviscaris managed to make a 70 minute full-length album that never sounds too over indulgent is quite a feat. Especially for this type of music. |
| Kendrick Lamar good kid, m.A.A.d city | 4.5 |
| This is nowhere near as awesome as everyone's making it out to be. |
| Dead Letter Circus This Is The Warning | 4.0 |
| Oceansize Self Preserved While The Bodies Float Up | 4.0 |
| Oceansize Frames | 4.0 |
| Oceansize Everyone Into Position | 4.5 |
| Oceansize Effloresce | 4.5 |
| The Broderick Free to Rot, Free of Sin | 4.5 |
| More Than Life Love Let Me Go | 4.5 |
| Iwrestledabearonce Ruining It for Everybody | 2.5 |
| Iwrestledabearonce tighten their sound, proving that their gimmicky songwriting is the only thing making them worth listening to. |
| Iwrestledabearonce It's All Happening | 3.0 |
| If you can accept that it's just a band playing fun, even schizophrenic metalcore, then you'll enjoy it for what it is. Krysta's vocals have improved as well. |
| Iwrestledabearonce Iwrestledabearonce | 3.5 |
| There's enough going on in each track to keep you hooked but not too much to make it sound overstuffed. It does come off as really gimmicky though. |
| Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds No More Shall We Part | 4.5 |
| Misery Signals Of Malice and the Magnum Heart | 5.0 |
| Only truly appreciating this album more than three years after first listening to it, Of Malice and the Magnum Heart is the true definition of a slow burner. For an album to remain relevant in my life for all that time and for me to still find new things to love about it? That's why it deserves a 5.0. That, and the outro to 'Five Years' is just the best goddamn thing ever. |
| Swans The Seer | 4.5 |
| As hauntingly beautiful as this is, at 2 hours long, it's very overwhelming. |
| SikTh The Trees Are Dead and Dried Out, Wait for Something Wild | 4.5 |
| In Hearts Wake Divination | 3.0 |
| Cult of Luna Eternal Kingdom | 4.0 |
| Between the Buried and Me The Parallax: Hypersleep Dialogues | 3.5 |
| Deftones Koi No Yokan | 4.0 |
| Seven albums in and Deftones show no signs of slowing down. Koi No Yokan is remarkably consistent. The only tracks that don't do anything for me are the album finishers of 'Goon Squad' and 'What Happened To You?', and they're not even bad, just underwhelming in comparison to the rest of the record. |
| Eleventh He Reaches London Hollow Be My Name | 4.5 |
| Dangers Messy, Isn't It? | 4.0 |
| Dangers Anger | 4.5 |
| Jeff Buckley Grace | 5.0 |
| Code Orange Love Is Love // Return To Dust | 2.5 |
| A poor man's Converge. Props to them though, being young and all, but I just don't think this record is too engaging. |
| Counterparts The Current Will Carry Us | 4.5 |
| Counterparts Prophets | 4.0 |
| As Tall As Lions As Tall As Lions | 4.5 |
| Less of a breakup album than the soundtrack to being in love, As Tall As Lions self-titled record perfectly captures the ups and downs of a relationship. From its heart racing conception, to the inevitable split up of two people; this album spans its entirety. Superb. |
| Deftones Adrenaline | 3.5 |
| Deftones Deftones | 3.5 |
| Deftones Around the Fur | 4.0 |
| Protest the Hero Scurrilous | 3.5 |
| Protest the Hero Fortress | 4.0 |
| Protest the Hero Kezia | 4.5 |
| Titus Andronicus The Airing of Grievances | 3.5 |
| Titus Andronicus The Monitor | 4.0 |
| Titus Andronicus Local Business | 3.0 |
| If The Monitor is a huge night out of fun, great music and memorable moments, then Local Business is like a hangover the morning after. Weak, sluggish and tired in comparison. |
| Macklemore and Ryan Lewis The Heist | 4.5 |
| Is calling this 'album of the year' too ambitious? |
| SBTRKT SBTRKT | 3.5 |
| Lana Del Rey Born to Die | 4.0 |
| Honest to god don't know why I like this, but I do. I really do. |
| Converge Axe to Fall | 4.0 |
| Converge You Fail Me | 4.5 |
| Ellie Goulding Halcyon | 2.5 |
| See what you get when you start dating Skrillex?rYour soundoff was too short, it has to be at least 50 charactersYour soundoff was too short, it has to be at least 50 charactersYour soundoff was too short, it has to be at least 50 charactersYour soundoff was too short, it has to be at least 50 charactersYour soundoff was too short, it has to be at least 50 characters |
| Converge All We Love We Leave Behind | 4.0 |
| Legitimately awesome...like we expected anything less. The one, two punch of 'Sadness Comes Home' and 'Empty On The Inside' is phenomenal and 'Coral Blue' might just be one of their best tracks to date. Not to mention the title-track. Excellent album. |
| The Mountain Goats Transcendental Youth | 4.5 |
| Between the Buried and Me The Parallax II: Future Sequence | 4.0 |
| Incredibly solid album. Pretty standard for BTBAM but still amazing. 'Silent Flight Parliament' for song of the year. |
| The Killers Battle Born | 2.5 |
| A few decent tracks but pretty underwhelming. Doesn't look like I'll be getting another Sam's Town anytime soon. |
| The Amity Affliction Chasing Ghosts | 4.0 |
| The xx Coexist | 3.5 |
| Still have no idea why this isn't called Coexxist. |
| January I Heard Myself In You | 5.0 |
| It's hard to describe why I Heard Myself In You is such a phenomenal album. It doesn't do anything out of the ordinary by any means, but it evokes such a wide array of emotions in me when I listen to it. A sense of fading nostalgia, soon followed by the regret of lost youth and anxiety of growing up, but with a brief hint of hope that the future will turn out just fine. Maybe not as you expected, but still great. Much like this album. |
| Refused The Shape Of Punk To Come | 5.0 |
| Weezer Pinkerton | 5.0 |
| Irrelevant I'll Be OK | 3.5 |
| Not as consistent and memorable as one would hope, but still an enjoyable album overall. 'Flicker' is a killer track. |
| Grimes Visions | 4.0 |
| Gotye Making Mirrors | 3.5 |
| Gotye Like Drawing Blood | 4.0 |
| Gotye Boardface | 3.0 |
| The Faceless Autotheism | 3.5 |
| Blindead Affliction XXIX II MCMXCVI | 4.5 |
One of the darkest, most haunting albums I've listened to in a long while and also, quite simply, one of the
best. |
| Architects Daybreaker | 3.0 |
| It's a solid record overall, but the band really fail to create any standout tracks, save for a few decent pre-release ones. Architects have regained some of their lost ground, but aren't quite all the way there yet. |
| House Vs. Hurricane Crooked Teeth | 2.5 |
| A few good tracks but nothing truly spectacular. Perspectives was ten times better than this. |
| Baroness Yellow and Green | 4.5 |
| The Contortionist Intrinsic | 3.0 |
| Massive Attack Mezzanine | 5.0 |
| The Contortionist Exoplanet | 4.0 |
| Attack Attack! Attack Attack! | 2.0 |
| Entirely forgettable, generic and sometimes perplexing, AA!'s sophomore album is an improvement nonetheless. |
| Attack Attack! Someday Came Suddenly | 1.5 |
| It's a pretty bold move to mix metalcore and electronica elements with absolutely no attempt at subtlety, but the fact is it just fails to work at all. I think what's worse is on their own, these parts actually sound halfway decent, but when they come together, it invokes a horrible mess. |
| Periphery Periphery II: This Time It's Personal | 3.5 |
| Their next album will round out the trilogy. 'Peripherthree' is coming soon. |
| Sigh In Somniphobia | 3.5 |
| After Scenes From Hell, I thought Sigh had lost the plot, descending into a endless void of wankery and cheap gimmicks. So, listening to this with zero expectations whatsoever, I was really quite surprised. Their flaws are still here, as prominent as ever, but they're on their upward climb back to the top. 'Amnesia' is hands down, one of my top tracks for this year. |
| Will Haven Voir Dire | 4.5 |
| Kvelertak Kvelertak | 4.5 |
| Baroness Blue Record | 4.0 |
| Baroness Red Album | 4.0 |
| The Ghost Inside Get What You Give | 3.5 |
| Another excellent album to add to their discography. The one-two punch of Dark Horse/White Light is probably the best thing they've ever done. |
| Childish Gambino Camp | 3.5 |
| Realistically, this album is probably worth a 3 but I always end up listening to it a lot more than I expect to. |
| Say Anything Anarchy, My Dear | 1.5 |
| It's a depressing thought that Max's songwriting skills were far superior when he was miserable. |
| Say Anything Baseball | 3.0 |
| Say Anything Say Anything | 4.0 |
| Say Anything In Defense of the Genre | 4.5 |
| Clams Casino Rainforest | 4.5 |
| One of the best pieces of ambient work to come out in a long while. It's got a great atmosphere with a running theme and shying just under 20 minutes; it's the perfect length for when you just need to chill out for a moment. |
| Clams Casino Instrumental Mixtape | 4.0 |
| MF DOOM Operation: Doomsday | 5.0 |
| Kashiwa Daisuke Program Music I | 5.0 |
| Every Time I Die Last Night in Town | 4.0 |
| Dead Meadow Dead Meadow | 4.5 |
| Jeremy Soule Secret of Evermore Soundtrack | 5.0 |
| This kid was fucking 19 when he composed this beautiful game. Better than Secret Of Mana. Fuck you. |
| Hands Like Houses Ground Dweller | 3.0 |
| With the exception of 'Antarctica' this is terribly underwhelming. |
| Psycroptic The Inherited Repression | 3.0 |
| Meshuggah obZen | 4.5 |
| Animals As Leaders Weightless | 3.5 |
| A much darker and heavier interpretation is still technically and musically proficient, even if it isn't as memorable as its lighter counterpart. |
| Animals As Leaders Animals as Leaders | 4.0 |
| A beautifully technical album that excels in both songwriting as well as creating atmosphere, all without ever descending into wankery. |
| Break Even The Bright Side | 4.5 |
| Callahan Callahan | 3.0 |
| A unique sound, albeit not the most interesting record. Some killer tracks on here among a bit of filler. 'Say Goodnight And Go' is a fucking wicked song. |
| Skrillex My Name Is Skrillex | 3.0 |
| Glass Bones Seasons | 4.5 |
| A Fantastic EP, every song is a winner. Would legit be a 5 if it was a full length. |
| Glass Bones The Hope In Forgiving & Giving Up Hope | 4.5 |
| This is simply, an amazing record. My only regret is not learning about them sooner. |
| Kanye West My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy | 5.0 |
| The Damned Things Ironiclast | 3.5 |
| Balance and Composure Separation | 3.5 |
| Not a particularly original sounding album but hey, it gets the job done. |
| Zao The Funeral of God | 5.0 |
| As an Atheist, it may seem shocking to give an album that is pro-God a perfect 5, but this is an absolutely stellar album, as well as Zao's best work to date. |
| letlive. Fake History | 5.0 |
| One of the greatest Post-Hardcore albums ever released. |
| Secret And Whisper Teenage Fantasy | 4.0 |
| Secret And Whisper Great White Whale | 4.0 |
| Millionaires Bling Bling Bling! | 1.0 |
| I can, and actually HAVE made better tracks on Garageband at home. |
| Foxy Shazam The Flamingo Trigger | 4.0 |
| Foxy Shazam Introducing | 3.5 |
| Foxy Shazam Foxy Shazam | 4.5 |
| Foxy Shazam The Church of Rock and Roll | 4.0 |
| Northlane Discoveries | 4.0 |
| An excellent debut release from a band with heaps of potential. If they continue improving on their strengths, they're bound to go far. |
| Enter Shikari A Flash Flood of Colour | 4.0 |
| At first I was skeptical of this album, due to the lack of the once promised 'Destabilise' and 'Quelle Surprise', both of which are fantastic songs. But as it turns out, this record is innovative, meaningful and above all, a lot of fun. No filler and not one skippable track. Even my once hated 'Gandhi Mate, Gandhi' works well within the context of the album, and 'Warm Smiles Do Not Make You Welcome Here' might be my favourite ever Enter Shikari song. |
| Asking Alexandria Stand Up and Scream | 1.5 |
| Generic, in every sense of the word. This is basically your cookie-cutter Synth/Metalcore band with nothing going for them. I know that sounds harsh, but it's accurate; the record is actually much worse than I had expected it to be. The only tolerable track is 'Final Episode (Let's Change The Channel)' but that is drastically brought down by generic lyrics, generic instrumentation and a disjointed song structure, making it feel like 3 separate segments as opposed to a whole. Terrible. |
| Attack Attack! This Means War | 2.5 |
| Despite their minor progression, Caleb's vocal technique is cringeworthy at points, the instrumentation is as bland as ever and the song structure is uninspired. 'The Wretched' is the standout track on the album but definitely a step in the right direction. More songs like that is the way to go. |
| Faith No More Angel Dust | 4.5 |
| Yuck Yuck | 4.5 |
| Design the Skyline Nevaeh | 1.5 |
| Everything wrong with deathcore now with hideous autotuned vocals and overwhelming synth. It's definitely not as bad as you may think, nor is it as bad as their demo.They've learnt that song structure is in fact essential, and you can see some shape starting to form. Lead single 'Break Free From Your Life' has the most basic song structure, resulting in their best, or most tolerable track from the album. There are a few other moments scattered throughout which shine in comparison (the intro of 'Witch of The Woods' as well as the instrumental of 'Reverie') but fall flat overall. |
| The Dear Hunter The Color Spectrum (Complete Collection) | 5.0 |
| Skrillex Bangarang | 2.5 |
| With 'Bangarang' Skrillex absolutely refuses to evolve musically. Whether you'll like it is determined by if you enjoyed his previous releases. It's only a bit of fun though, right? |
| Say Anything ...Is a Real Boy | 5.0 |
| Sylosis Edge of the Earth | 4.5 |
| Burial Untrue | 5.0 |
| Gallows (UK) Death Is Birth | 2.0 |
| La Dispute Wildlife | 4.0 |
| The Mountain Goats Tallahassee | 4.5 |
| Witch Blood Wounderom | 3.5 |
| We Came As Romans Understanding What We've Grown to Be | 2.5 |
| Essentially To Plant A Seed 2.0, albeit with a bit more filler. If you enjoyed their first album, you'll enjoy this. |
| Down I Go Gods | 4.5 |
| Cynic Re-Traced | 2.5 |
| What you get here is essentially dumbed down versions of half of the tracks from 'Traced In Air' which comes off as both lazy and baffling. It sounds fine, no complaints on that front, but the whole thing just screams redundancy considering they were practically perfect the first time around. Despite all this though, 'Wheels Within Wheels' is an incredible song and dare I say, one of the best tracks they've ever written. |
| Manners Apparitions | 4.0 |
| Boris the Blade Tides of Damnation | 2.5 |
| Ulver Bergtatt - Et eeventyr i 5 capitler | 4.5 |
| Devin Townsend Project Ki | 4.5 |
| A fantastic album to get lost in its dark, yet reassuring atmosphere. Superb. |
| Karnivool Sound Awake | 4.5 |
| Karnivool Themata | 4.5 |
| Joy Division Unknown Pleasures | 4.5 |
| Opeth Heritage | 3.5 |
| People would assume that the negative reception comes from the viewpoint of hardcore Opeth fans, thinking Heritage is a betrayal of Opeth's classic sound. Damnation was different and is one of my most adored Opeth albums. The reason this is a bit of a disappointment is not because it's different, but because it's not a terribly engaging record overall. The best word to describe it would be "underwhelming" but that's not to say it's entirely bad - it has its redeeming tracks and memorable moments. |
| The Devil Wears Prada Dead Throne | 3.5 |
| Formulaic and uninvolved it may be, Dead Throne is still a harmless and largely enjoyable metalcore record. |
| Delusion Twin A Damaged Machine | 4.0 |
| Cerebral Ballzy Cerebral Ballzy | 3.0 |
| All Shall Perish This Is Where It Ends | 3.0 |
| Orbs Asleep Next to Science | 4.5 |
| Misery Signals Controller | 4.5 |
| Misery Signals Mirrors | 4.5 |
| Russian Circles Geneva | 4.0 |
| Russian Circles Station | 4.0 |
| Russian Circles Enter | 4.0 |
| The Grates Teeth Lost, Hearts Won | 3.0 |
| The Grates Gravity Won't Get You High | 4.0 |
| The Grates Secret Rituals | 2.5 |
| Thomas Giles Pulse | 3.0 |
| With the exception of 'Sleep Shake', most of Pulse struggles with identity and misdirection. It's a competent album, just not an overly memorable one. |
| The Human Abstract Nocturne | 4.0 |
| The Human Abstract Midheaven | 1.5 |
| Though musically and vocally competent, Midheaven is weighed down by its atrocious songwriting and lyrical content. It might not necessarily be one of the worst albums I've ever heard, but it's truly one of the most disappointing. |
| We Came As Romans To Plant a Seed | 2.5 |
| Tangled Thoughts of Leaving Deaden The Fields | 4.0 |
| The xx xx | 4.5 |
| One of my best and most fondest memories is driving in my car on a night much like tonight; the sun was low, just peaking off the horizon and everywhere was quiet. I had this album playing and the two moulded together in my brain and never left. This record...this is something special. |
| At the Drive-In Relationship of Command | 5.0 |
| Lupe Fiasco The Cool | 3.5 |
| Lupe Fiasco Food & Liquor | 4.5 |
| Suicide Silence The Black Crown | 3.0 |
| Bon Iver Bon Iver, Bon Iver | 4.5 |
| Bon Iver For Emma, Forever Ago | 4.0 |
| Circle Takes the Square As the Roots Undo | 5.0 |
| Fear Before Fear Before | 3.5 |
| Fear Before Odd How People Shake | 4.0 |
| Fear Before Art Damage | 4.0 |
| Fear Before The Always Open Mouth | 4.5 |
| Gallows (UK) Grey Britain | 5.0 |
| Converge Jane Doe | 5.0 |
| I held off giving this a 5 for so long but I just don't think it deserves anything less. One of the most brutally honest and ferocious displays of raw human emotion. |
| Antagonist A.D. Old Bones Make New Blooms | 3.5 |
| The Human Abstract Digital Veil | 4.5 |
| Skrillex More Monsters and Sprites | 2.5 |
| The lack of new material brings this down a bit, as good as some of the remixes are. |
| Skrillex Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites | 3.0 |
| Excellent music to put on for a party or gathering. |
| The Ocean Precambrian | 4.5 |
| Bohren und der Club of Gore Sunset Mission | 5.0 |
| Bring Me the Horizon Suicide Season | 2.5 |
| "I guess we'd rather have a large fan-base of teenage girls than any real talent." |
| Bring Me the Horizon Count Your Blessings | 3.0 |
| Not the worst lyrics ever written, not the most repetitive instrumentation ever used and the one time where they weren't a complete copy of Architects. |
| Ellie Goulding Lights | 4.0 |
| Septicflesh The Great Mass | 4.0 |
| A beautifully dark and orchestral piece of work from Greek Death Metal kings. On par with Communion. |
| Born of Osiris The Discovery | 4.0 |
| A massive step up in terms of quality. Say goodbye to standard deathcore and say hello to beautifully crafted technical death metal that utilizes keyboard and synth to make a good album great. |
| The Mountain Goats All Eternals Deck | 4.5 |
| Easily Darnielle's best album since The Sunset Tree. |
| House Vs. Hurricane Perspectives | 4.0 |
| It's taken me a while to get into this, but I'm really happy I gave it my time. Despite, sounding cliche, it really is something different in the scene. The album takes more of an ambient approach over a heavy one which makes it something to easily get carried away by. Even to such the extent that it's something I could picture myself falling asleep to. Recommended, but it is a massive grower. |
| Enter Shikari Common Dreads | 3.5 |
| Architects The Here and Now | 2.5 |
| Defeater Empty Days and Sleepless Nights | 4.5 |
| Defeater Lost Ground | 4.5 |
| Defeater Travels | 4.5 |
| The Aquabats Hi-Five Soup! | 4.0 |
| Lupe Fiasco Lasers | 2.5 |
| It's pretty decent, but it also doesn't really feel like it came from Lupe himself, which explains why it's so manufactured. Apart from a few exceptional tracks (Words I Never Said, State Run Radio, All Black Everything) it's all pretty generic hip hop. Not a bad cd by any means but a bit average sandwich. |
| Brand New Deja Entendu | 5.0 |
| Meshuggah Catch Thirtythree | 4.5 |
| Secrets In Scale Secrets In Scale | 3.5 |
| Dntel Dumb Luck | 3.5 |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers Stadium Arcadium | 5.0 |
| Elliott Smith Figure 8 | 5.0 |
| Deftones White Pony | 4.5 |
| Deftones Saturday Night Wrist | 4.5 |
| ISIS Celestial | 4.0 |
| ISIS Wavering Radiant | 4.0 |
| ISIS In the Absence of Truth | 4.5 |
| ISIS Oceanic | 4.5 |
| Alice in Chains Black Gives Way to Blue | 4.5 |
| Alice in Chains Dirt | 5.0 |
| Agalloch Ashes Against the Grain | 5.0 |
| Foals Total Life Forever | 5.0 |
| This one is interesting. At first I thought very little of it. Then I pushed it up to 4 once I discovered its potential. After repeated listens, along with some personal memories of mine that are attached to it - I feel that I personally need to give this a 5. |
| Foals Antidotes | 4.0 |
| Suicide Silence The Cleansing | 3.0 |
| MGMT Congratulations | 4.0 |
| The Amity Affliction Youngbloods | 4.0 |
| The Amity Affliction Severed Ties | 3.5 |
| Tame Impala Innerspeaker | 4.5 |
| The Ghost Inside Fury and the Fallen Ones | 4.0 |
| The Ghost Inside Returners | 3.5 |
| Chiodos Illuminaudio | 4.0 |
| Bring Me the Horizon There Is a Hell, Believe Me I've Seen It... | 3.0 |
| A mildly enjoying album that could have been more so. |
| The Mountain Goats The Sunset Tree | 5.0 |
| MGMT Oracular Spectacular | 4.5 |
| The Red Shore The Avarice Of Man | 3.5 |
| La Dispute Somewhere at the Bottom of the River Between Vega and Altair | 4.0 |
| Thy Art Is Murder The Adversary | 2.5 |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Option Paralysis | 4.5 |
| Between the Buried and Me Between the Buried and Me | 4.0 |
| Between the Buried and Me The Great Misdirect | 4.0 |
| Between the Buried and Me The Silent Circus | 4.5 |
| Septicflesh Communion | 4.0 |
| Sigh Hangman's Hymn | 4.5 |
| An absolutely breathtaking album. Shit, this might even be a 5. |
| Periphery Periphery | 3.5 |
| Deftones Diamond Eyes | 4.5 |
| I'm admittedly not the longest Deftones fan as I've only gotten into them recently, but this album is beyond incredible. You'll be hard pressed to find a bad song on here. |
| Into the Ocean Ruins | 5.0 |
Perhaps the best combination of Metalcore and Synth, dare I say...ever?
Even after spinning this EP years after its release, I still struggle to find comparison to another band. Totally
original, and experts in their field, Into The Ocean created an amazing slab of music with Ruins where
every track is an absolute cracker. |
| Soundtrack (Film) Reservoir Dogs: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack | 3.5 |
| Cult of Luna Salvation | 5.0 |
| Walls of Jericho The American Dream | 4.0 |
| Cult of Luna Fire Was Born | 4.5 |
| Without a doubt, one of the best Live Sets I have ever witnessed. |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor F♯ A♯ ∞ | 5.0 |
| The Ocean Heliocentric | 3.0 |
| Only a first listen but I am very impressed. New vocals are different albeit very powerful. In my opinion, we have here a strong contender for best metal album of 2010. |
| Tangled Thoughts of Leaving Tiny Fragments - EP | 4.5 |
Spastic, Epic, Nostalgic, Goddamn Incredible.
My new favourite band. |
| Dntel Life is Full of Possibilities | 5.0 |
| Enter Shikari Take to the Skies | 3.5 |
| Chiodos Bone Palace Ballet | 3.5 |
| Chiodos All's Well That Ends Well | 3.0 |
| Architects Hollow Crown | 4.0 |
| Architects Ruin | 4.5 |
| Architects' best album is the only one that's missing from Spotify???? |
| Architects Nightmares | 4.0 |
| Eternal Lord Blessed Be This Nightmare | 3.5 |
| Carpathian Isolation | 4.0 |
| Carpathian Nothing To Lose | 3.0 |
| Carpathian Carpathian | 2.5 |
| The Red Shore Lost Verses | 3.5 |
| The Red Shore Salvaging What's Left | 4.0 |
| Opeth Blackwater Park | 5.0 |
| Cult of Luna Somewhere Along the Highway | 5.0 |
| Between the Buried and Me Colors | 4.5 |
| Suicide Silence No Time to Bleed | 2.0 |
| Even for a genre that doesn't do well on its own, this album is really boring. |
| The Faceless Planetary Duality | 4.0 |
| The Faceless Akeldama | 4.0 |
| Mastodon Crack the Skye | 4.5 |
| Opeth Still Life | 5.0 |
| The Red Shore Unconsecrated | 4.5 |
| Between the Buried and Me Alaska | 5.0 |
| ISIS Panopticon | 5.0 |
