| Tyr Hel | 4.0 |
| Volbeat Seal the Deal & Let's Boogie | 3.0 |
| Haken Affinity | 4.5 |
| Borknagar Winter Thrice | 4.0 |
| Ghost Brigade IV - One with the Storm | 4.5 |
| Carbon Leaf Echo Echo | 4.0 |
| Carbon Leaf Indian Summer | 4.0 |
| Blues Pills Blues Pills | 3.0 |
| Mastodon Once More 'Round the Sun | 4.5 |
| I-Exist Humanity Vol. IV | 4.0 |
| I-Exist Humanity Vol. III | 4.0 |
| I-Exist Humanity Vol. I | 4.0 |
| I-Exist Humanity Vol. II | 4.0 |
| Divinity Destroyed Eden In Ashes | 4.0 |
| The Ocean Pelagial | 4.0 |
| Orphaned Land The Never Ending Way Of ORwarriOR | 3.0 |
| Orphaned Land Mabool (The Story of the Three Sons...) | 4.5 |
| ASG ASG | 4.0 |
| ASG Blood Drive | 4.5 |
| Volbeat Outlaw Gentlemen & Shady Ladies | 4.5 |
| Mechina Empyrean | 5.0 |
| Atoma Skylight | 4.0 |
| Wintersun Time I | 4.5 |
| Machinae Supremacy Rise of a Digital Nation | 4.0 |
| I put the full review up for those that requested it. A.J. asked for one and seeing how there was no staff work on the album I decided to put one together. Hope you all enjoy. |
| Devin Townsend Project Epicloud | 5.0 |
| Mumford and Sons Babel | 4.0 |
| Cloudkicker Fade | 4.5 |
| Opeth Heritage | 4.5 |
| Between the Buried and Me The Parallax: Hypersleep Dialogues | 4.5 |
| Mercenary Metamorphosis | 3.0 |
| I'm largely unimpressed with this vs. their other stuff. It seems to be a little heavier but it lacks the soul of Hours that Remain and 11 Dreams. It's not that the music is bad, it falls squarely into "I've heard this before" and that's dangerous territory. I can't say the vocalist changes are an improvement, but I don't think they are a major drawback either, still kind of on the fence about this album |
| Omnium Gatherum New World Shadows | 4.0 |
| Adagio Archangels in Black | 3.5 |
| Stone Gods Silver Spoons & Broken Bones | 3.0 |
| Cradle of Filth Darkly, Darkly, Venus Aversa | 1.5 |
| The Ocean Precambrian | 4.5 |
| The Ocean Heliocentric | 5.0 |
| Orbs Asleep Next to Science | 4.0 |
| Metallica St. Anger | 1.0 |
| Cloudkicker Beacons | 5.0 |
| Enslaved Axioma Ethica Odini | 3.0 |
| Volbeat Beyond Hell/Above Heaven | 4.5 |
| DevilDriver Pray for Villains | 3.5 |
| Dimmu Borgir Abrahadabra | 2.5 |
| Omega Lithium Dreams In Formaline | 3.0 |
| Periphery Periphery | 4.5 |
| Anathema We're Here Because We're Here | 5.0 |
| Remembrance Fall, Obsidian Night | 2.5 |
| A forgettable addition to the genre. It's not badly composed but failed to grab me. It's really a shame that this wasn't better. |
| Devious Vision | 2.5 |
| Callisto Providence | 4.0 |
| Borknagar Universal | 4.0 |
| Stream Of Passion The Flame Within | 2.0 |
| Alcest Écailles De Lune | 4.0 |
Emotional, well composed, and generally pretty damn good. I'm impressed. DarkNoctus is right to a point. I get the feeling that the first half of the album is stronger than the last half, but that last half is still pretty damn good.
Rating Upped; the more I listen to it the more I'm impressed with this album. |
| Adagio Sanctus Ignis | 4.5 |
| Ablaze In Hatred The Quietude Plains | 3.5 |
| Ablaze In Hatred Deceptive Awareness | 3.0 |
| 5ive Hesperus | 4.0 |
| 3 (USA) Revisions | 4.5 |
| 3 (USA) The End is Begun | 4.5 |
| Winds The Imaginary Direction of Time | 3.5 |
| VNV Nation Matter and Form | 3.5 |
| VNV Nation Judgement | 4.0 |
| VNV Nation Of Faith, Power and Glory | 5.0 |
| Virgin Black Sombre Romantic | 4.0 |
| Virgin Black Elegant and Dying | 3.5 |
| Virgin Black Requiem - Fortissimo | 4.0 |
| Virgin Black Requiem - Mezzo Forte | 4.5 |
| Up-C Down-C Left-C Right-C ABC + Start And The Battle Is Won | 4.0 |
| Unexpect _We, Invaders | 4.0 |
| Unexpect In a Flesh Aquarium | 3.5 |
| Ulver Kveldssanger | 4.5 |
| Ulver Blood Inside | 4.0 |
| Ulver Shadows of the Sun | 4.5 |
| Tyr Eric The Red | 3.5 |
| Tyr Ragnarok | 3.5 |
| Tyr By the Light of the Northern Star | 4.0 |
| Trans-Siberian Orchestra Night Castle | 3.0 |
| Trans-Siberian Orchestra Beethoven's Last Night | 4.5 |
| Throes of Dawn Quicksilver Clouds | 3.0 |
| Throes of Dawn The Great Fleet of Echoes | 3.0 |
| Tenhi Vare | 4.0 |
| Tenhi Airut: Aamujen | 4.0 |
| Tearwave Tearwave | 4.0 |
| Tearwave Different Shade of Beauty | 4.0 |
| Subterranean Masquerade Suspended Animation Dreams | 3.5 |
| Solefald Black For Death: An Icelandic Odyssey Part 2 | 3.5 |
| Solefald Red For Fire: An Icelandic Odyssey Part 1 | 3.5 |
| Solefald In Harmonia Universali | 4.5 |
| Sigh Scenes from Hell | 4.0 |
| Sieges Even Paramount | 3.5 |
| Sieges Even The Art of Navigating by the Stars | 4.5 |
| Serdce The Alchemy Of Harmony | 3.0 |
| Sculptured Embodiment | 3.5 |
| Riverside Second Life Syndrome | 4.0 |
| Riverside Rapid Eye Movement | 4.0 |
| The Reasoning Dark Angel | 3.5 |
| The Reasoning The Awakening | 2.5 |
| Ram-Zet Neutralized | 3.5 |
| Pressure Points Remorses to Remember | 3.0 |
| Upon further listening I become less impressed. Perhaps a bit over-optimistic to begin with. This album is just another 'progressive' Death metal band and this album falls squarely into the "haven't I heard this before?" category. It's not a bad album, but it's not terribly innovative. |
| The Pineapple Thief Tightly Unwound | 3.5 |
| Persefone Shin-Ken | 4.0 |
| Pelican What We All Come to Need | 3.5 |
| Paradise Lost Faith Divides Us - Death Unites Us | 3.5 |
| Obscura Cosmogenesis | 4.0 |
| O.A.R. In Between Now And Then | 3.5 |
| O.A.R. The Wanderer | 4.0 |
| O.A.R. All Sides | 2.5 |
| Neaera Omnicide: Creation Unleashed | 3.5 |
| Nahemah A New Constellation | 4.0 |
| Nahemah The Second Philosophy | 4.5 |
| My Dying Bride For Lies I Sire | 3.5 |
| My Dying Bride Songs of Darkness, Words of Light | 4.0 |
| Mostly Autumn Glass Shadows | 3.5 |
| Mnemic The Audio Injected Soul | 4.0 |
| Mechanical Poet Woodland Prattlers | 3.5 |
| Mastodon Blood Mountain | 4.5 |
| Mastodon Remission | 4.0 |
| Mastodon Leviathan | 5.0 |
| Mastodon Crack the Skye | 5.0 |
| Machinae Supremacy Overworld | 4.0 |
| Machinae Supremacy Redeemer (Underground Edition) | 4.5 |
| Machinae Supremacy Jets'n'Guns Soundtrack | 4.0 |
| Mercenary 11 Dreams | 4.0 |
| Mercenary The Hours That Remain | 4.0 |
| Mercenary Architect of Lies | 4.0 |
| Luna Mortis The Absence | 3.5 |
| Lunatic Soul Lunatic Soul | 5.0 |
| Lumsk Troll | 3.5 |
| Lumsk Asmund Fraegdegjevar | 3.5 |
| Lumsk Det Vilde Kor | 3.5 |
| Live Songs From Black Mountain | 2.5 |
| Live The Distance To Here | 3.5 |
| Live Throwing Copper | 4.0 |
| Leprous Tall Poppy Syndrome | 4.5 |
| John Petrucci Suspended Animation | 4.5 |
| Infected Mushroom Legend Of The Black Shawarma | 4.0 |
| Infected Mushroom Vicious Delicious | 4.5 |
| Indricothere Indricothere | 4.5 |
| Ikuinen Kaamos The Forlorn | 4.0 |
| Ikuinen Kaamos Closure | 4.5 |
| High on Fire Snakes for the Divine | 3.5 |
| Heaven Shall Burn Iconoclast (Part 1: The Final Resistance) | 4.0 |
| Ihsahn After | 4.0 |
| Ihsahn angL | 4.0 |
| Hardingrock Grimen | 4.5 |
| Gwynbleidd Amaranthine | 4.0 |
| Gwynbleidd Nostalgia | 4.5 |
| Grayceon This Grand Show | 4.0 |
| Katatonia Viva Emptiness | 3.5 |
| Katatonia July | 4.0 |
| Katatonia Live Consternation | 3.5 |
| Katatonia My Twin | 4.5 |
| Katatonia The Great Cold Distance | 4.5 |
| Katatonia Night Is the New Day | 4.5 |
| Ghost Brigade Isolation Songs | 4.0 |
| Ghost Brigade Guided By Fire | 3.5 |
| Flowing Tears Razorbliss | 2.5 |
| Flowing Tears Thy Kingdom Gone | 3.5 |
| Flogging Molly Float | 3.5 |
| Flogging Molly Drunken Lullabies | 4.0 |
| Fightstar One Day Son This Will All Be Yours | 4.0 |
| Fightstar Be Human | 3.5 |
| In Mourning Monolith | 4.0 |
| In Mourning Shrouded Divine | 4.0 |
| Empyrean Sky The Snow White Rose of Paradise | 4.0 |
| Eluveitie Ven | 3.5 |
| Eluveitie Spirit | 4.0 |
| Eluveitie Slania | 4.0 |
| Eluveitie Evocation I: The Arcane Dominion | 3.0 |
| Eluveitie Everything Remains As It Never Was | 4.5 |
| Dropkick Murphys The Meanest of Times | 4.0 |
| Draconian The Burning Halo | 4.0 |
| Draconian Turning Season Within | 4.5 |
| Dol Theeta The Universe Expands | 3.0 |
| Disillusion Gloria | 4.0 |
| Disillusion Back to Times of Splendor | 5.0 |
| Diablo Swing Orchestra Sing-Along Songs for the Damned & Delirious | 4.0 |
| Diablo Swing Orchestra The Butcher's Ballroom | 4.5 |
| Strapping Young Lad City | 5.0 |
| Strapping Young Lad Alien | 5.0 |
| Strapping Young Lad The New Black | 4.0 |
| Devin Townsend Project Ki | 4.0 |
| Devin Townsend Project Addicted | 5.0 |
| Devin Townsend Infinity | 4.0 |
| The Devin Townsend Band Synchestra | 4.5 |
| Devin Townsend Ziltoid the Omniscient | 4.5 |
| Dark Lunacy The Diarist | 4.0 |
| Cynic Traced in Air | 4.5 |
| Conjure One Extraordinary Ways | 3.5 |
| Conjure One Conjure One | 4.0 |
| Cloudkicker The Map Is Not the Territory | 4.0 |
| Cloudkicker Portmanteau | 4.0 |
| Cloudkicker ]]][[[ | 4.0 |
| Cloudkicker The Discovery | 4.5 |
| Coheed and Cambria The Second Stage Turbine Blade | 4.5 |
| Coheed and Cambria In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3 | 4.5 |
| Coheed and Cambria From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness | 4.5 |
| Coheed and Cambria No World for Tomorrow | 4.0 |
| The Chronicles of Israfel Starborn, Tome I | 4.5 |
| Maserati 37:29:24 | 3.5 |
| Maserati The Language Of Cities | 3.5 |
| Maserati Inventions for the New Season | 4.0 |
| Buckethead A Real Diamond In The Rough | 4.5 |
| Buckethead Shadows Between The Sky | 4.5 |
| Blotted Science The Machinations of Dementia | 5.0 |
| Between the Buried and Me The Great Misdirect | 4.5 |
| Between the Buried and Me Alaska | 4.5 |
| Between the Buried and Me Colors | 5.0 |
| Benighted Identisick | 4.5 |
| Benighted Icon | 4.0 |
| Be'lakor Stone's Reach | 4.0 |
| Volbeat The Strength/The Sound/The Songs | 4.0 |
| Volbeat Rock The Rebel/Metal The Devil | 4.0 |
| Volbeat Guitar Gangsters & Cadillac Blood | 4.0 |
| ASG Amplification Of Self Gratification | 4.5 |
| ASG Feeling Good is Good Enough | 4.0 |
| ASG Win Us Over | 4.5 |
| Opeth Orchid | 4.0 |
| Opeth Morningrise | 4.5 |
| Opeth My Arms, Your Hearse | 4.5 |
| Opeth Still Life | 5.0 |
| Opeth Blackwater Park | 5.0 |
| Opeth Deliverance | 4.5 |
| Opeth Damnation | 5.0 |
| Opeth Watershed | 4.0 |
| Opeth Ghost Reveries | 4.5 |
| Shining (NOR) Blackjazz | 3.5 |
| Whirling Faceless Phenomena | 2.0 |
Whirling is what you could call a blend of experimental, avant-garde, with a touch of post-black metal from Germany. there is not a lot of information about the band out, but I was intrigued so decided to give it a try.
I tend to like odd and experimental music. I didn't like this one. I wanted to like this album. While the instrumental work is innovative at points, the guitar tuning itself really starts to grate on you the more you listen to. To be fair to this album and those of you that are really into the avant-garde genre, this might be a good listen.
The first decent song I heard was the third track and after 3 minutes of it I found I didn't enjoy it anymore. After giving the album a double digit number of listens I found that my perception of the album had not improved, but then again it hadn't worsened either.
All-in-all, this is a mediocre addition to the avant-garde genre. |
