| Windir 1184 | 4.5 |
| Windir Arntor | 4.0 |
| Winterkyla Uppland | 3.5 |
| Empyrium A Wintersunset | 3.0 |
| Fell Voices Fell Voices | 4.0 |
| Obsidian Gate The Nightspectral Voyage | 3.5 |
| Wintersun Time I | 4.0 |
| Heid Alba | 2.5 |
This doesn't really sound like black metal to me. More like melodic death. Folky
guitars/recorders/fiddles adorn adept and cleanly-produced metal. Or else comprise entire
tracks.
Seems kind of upbeat. Some interesting guitar work (solos etc.) but the songs overall are
lacking a bit in memorability. |
| Megiddo The Devil and the Whore | 4.0 |
| Strawberry Girls American Graffiti | 2.0 |
| Witchcraft Nucleus | 3.5 |
| Schammasch Triangle | 4.0 |
| Witchery In His Infernal Majesty's Service | 4.0 |
| Witchery... I always thought they had a lot of potential and they seem to finally fulfill that here. At least for what I wanted out of them. Angry and driving, clean production but deep and buzzing, infectious lyrical moments, songs with structural variety, technicality and musicality. Above all: not boring! At least a 4. |
| Katatonia Dead End Kings | 3.5 |
This didn't stand out to me at first but grew on me quite a bit. There are lots of intricate details in each song. The vocals are perhaps a weak point in terms of variety, although it sounds good. Also could criticize the overall sameness in their sound going back a number of years now.
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| The Mars Volta Noctourniquet | 2.5 |
| Scale the Summit The Collective | 3.5 |
| Burst Lazarus Bird | 4.5 |
| The Beatles Let It Be… Naked | 4.0 |
| The Beatles Let It Be | 3.5 |
| Mithras Forever Advancing... Legions | 3.0 |
| Mithras Time Never Lasts | 3.5 |
| Metallica Death Magnetic | 3.0 |
| Metallica Reload | 2.5 |
| Metallica Load | 3.0 |
| Metallica Metallica | 3.5 |
| Metallica Garage Inc. | 4.0 |
| Weezer Raditude | 2.0 |
| Weezer The Green Album | 2.5 |
| Weezer Make Believe | 2.0 |
| Weezer The Red Album | 2.0 |
| Bruce Springsteen Born in the U.S.A. | 4.0 |
| Buena Vista Social Club Buena Vista Social Club | 4.0 |
| Nirvana Nevermind | 3.5 |
| Weezer Weezer | 3.5 |
| Weezer Pinkerton | 3.0 |
| Weezer Maladroit | 4.0 |
| Primus Green Naugahyde | 3.5 |
| Primus Animals Should Not Try To Act Like People | 3.5 |
| Primus Frizzle Fry | 4.0 |
| Primus Antipop | 3.5 |
| Primus The Brown Album | 4.0 |
| Black Sabbath Never Say Die! | 1.5 |
| Black Sabbath Technical Ecstasy | 2.0 |
| U2 Achtung Baby | 3.0 |
| U2 How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb | 2.5 |
| U2 No Line on the Horizon | 2.5 |
| Katatonia Night Is the New Day | 3.5 |
| Slayer Reign in Blood | 4.0 |
| ABBA Voulez-Vous | 4.0 |
| ABBA Super Trouper | 4.5 |
| Wintersun Wintersun | 4.5 |
| Moonsorrow Voimasta ja kunniasta | 3.5 |
| Insomnium Since the Day It All Came Down | 3.5 |
| Insomnium Above the Weeping World | 4.0 |
| ISIS Panopticon | 4.0 |
| Stan Getz and Joao Gilberto Getz/Gilberto | 4.5 |
| Nile Annihilation of the Wicked | 4.0 |
| Moby Play | 3.5 |
| Moby Destroyed | 3.5 |
| The Beatles Rubber Soul | 4.5 |
| The Beatles A Hard Day's Night | 4.5 |
| The Beatles Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band | 4.5 |
| The Beatles Abbey Road | 5.0 |
| The Field From Here We Go Sublime | 4.0 |
| Radiohead OK Computer | 3.5 |
| Radiohead In Rainbows | 4.5 |
| Ali Farka Toure and Toumani Diabate In the Heart of the Moon | 4.0 |
| Bjork Vespertine | 3.5 |
| Bjork Homogenic | 4.5 |
| Nada Surf High/Low | 3.5 |
| Nada Surf Lucky | 3.0 |
| Nada Surf The Weight Is a Gift | 3.5 |
| Nada Surf Let Go | 4.5 |
| Anata Under a Stone With No Inscription | 3.5 |
| Anata The Conductor's Departure | 4.0 |
| Metallica St. Anger | 3.0 |
| Metallica ...And Justice for All | 4.5 |
| Metallica Ride the Lightning | 4.0 |
| Metallica Master of Puppets | 5.0 |
| Johann Sebastian Bach Goldberg Variations, BWV 988 | 5.0 |
| Johann Sebastian Bach Cello Suite No. 1 in G major, BWV 1007 | 5.0 |
| Johann Sebastian Bach Mass in B minor, BWV 232 | 4.5 |
| Meshuggah Koloss | 3.5 |
| Takacs Quartet Beethoven: Late String Quartets | 5.0 |
| Animals As Leaders Weightless | 4.0 |
| Mithras Behind the Shadows Lie Madness | 4.0 |
| Mithras Worlds Beyond the Veil | 4.0 |
| Demigod Slumber of Sullen Eyes | 4.0 |
| The Caesars Love for the Streets | 3.0 |
| This is similar in quality to their Paper Tigers album. I appreciate that each song has character, even if a few are a bit silly, and a few I like a lot. Many bands sound good, but few actually write interesting songs. Common comments about this band apply to this release, for me primarily relating to the lyrics. The songs are fun and catchy which is no mean feat in this world. But the lyrics are sometimes embarrassing. And the raw sound can drag if you listen too long. Mixing the best from here with the best from Paper Tigers results in an excellent set of songs. |
