| Jethro Tull Bursting Out | 5.0 |
| Hands (US-ND) Give Me Rest | 4.0 |
| Converge Jane Doe | 5.0 |
| Nothing More Nothing More | 5.0 |
| Dispatch Bang Bang | 4.0 |
| Blind Melon Soup | 5.0 |
| Blind Melon Blind Melon | 5.0 |
| The Doobie Brothers Best of The Doobies | 5.0 |
| The Doors Strange Days | 5.0 |
| The Doors The Doors | 5.0 |
| Elton John In Australia With The Melbourne Symphony | 4.0 |
| Trivium Shogun | 4.0 |
| Coolio Gangsta's Paradise | 3.0 |
| The Trews House of Ill fame | 5.0 |
| King Crimson THRAK | 4.5 |
| Boysetsfire After The Eulogy | 5.0 |
| Depeche Mode Delta Machine | 3.5 |
| Deville Hydra | 3.5 |
| Nine Inch Nails With Teeth | 5.0 |
| Nine Inch Nails Pretty Hate Machine | 4.5 |
| Arctic Monkeys AM | 3.5 |
| Arctic Monkeys Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not | 4.5 |
| American Sharks American Sharks | 4.0 |
| Volbeat Outlaw Gentlemen & Shady Ladies | 4.0 |
| Justin Timberlake The 20/20 Experience | 4.0 |
| Red Fang Red Fang | 4.5 |
| Red Fang Murder the Mountains | 5.0 |
| Coldplay Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends | 4.0 |
| Marcy Playground Marcy Playground | 4.5 |
| Better Than Ezra Deluxe | 5.0 |
| Soundtrack (Film) Django Unchained | 5.0 |
| Soundtrack (Film) Man of Steel | 5.0 |
| Foo Fighters Skin and Bones | 4.0 |
| Foo Fighters One by One | 2.5 |
| Foo Fighters Foo Fighters | 5.0 |
| South Park Chef Aid: The South Park Album | 5.0 |
| Alter Bridge One Day Remains | 4.0 |
| Slash Apocalyptic Love | 3.0 |
| Deafheaven Sunbather | 3.0 |
| CZARFACE CZARFACE | 5.0 |
| NOFX White Trash, Two Heebs and a Bean | 4.5 |
| NOFX So Long and Thanks for All the Shoes | 5.0 |
| NOFX Punk in Drublic | 5.0 |
| Typhoon (USA-OR) White Lighter | 3.0 |
| Filter Title Of Record | 5.0 |
| Lorde Pure Heroine | 2.0 |
| J. Cole Born Sinner | 3.0 |
| Wale The Gifted | 3.5 |
| ASAP Rocky LONG.LIVE.A$AP | 3.5 |
| Tyler, the Creator Wolf | 4.5 |
| Deltron 3030 Event II | 4.0 |
| Armand Hammer Race Music | 4.5 |
| Arcade Fire Reflektor | 4.5 |
| Karnivool Asymmetry | 4.0 |
| Palms Palms | 4.5 |
| King Krule 6 Feet Beneath the Moon | 4.5 |
| Nine Inch Nails Hesitation Marks | 4.0 |
| Stone Sour House of Gold and Bones - Part 2 | 4.5 |
| Leprous Coal | 4.5 |
| Lapalux Nostalchic | 3.5 |
| Bonobo The North Borders | 3.5 |
| Da Mafia 6ix 6ix Commandments | 4.5 |
| Kurt Vile Wakin on a Pretty Daze | 4.0 |
| Sadistik Flowers for My Father | 4.5 |
| Danny Brown Old | 3.5 |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan One of Us Is the Killer | 3.5 |
| Chevelle Vena Sera | 4.0 |
| Incubus (USA-CA) S.C.I.E.N.C.E. | 4.5 |
| Kyuss Wretch | 4.0 |
| Kyuss Welcome to Sky Valley | 5.0 |
| Kyuss Blues for the Red Sun | 5.0 |
| Pantera Official Live: 101 Proof | 5.0 |
| David Maxim Micic Bilo 3.0 | 3.5 |
| Grand Funk Railroad Grand Funk | 5.0 |
| Seven Wiser Seven Wiser | 5.0 |
| "Life", "Good As You Think" and "Sick" are phenomenal songs that should have had tremendous success amongst fans of early Linkin Park and Autopilot Off. This is a great album full of outstanding songs that could be left on repeat for days. |
| Alter Bridge Fortress | 5.0 |
| Peter Fox Stadtaffe | 4.5 |
| Superheaven Jar | 5.0 |
| Red Fang Whales and Leeches | 4.0 |
| Haken The Mountain | 4.5 |
| Our Lady Peace Naveed | 5.0 |
| Eric Clapton Unplugged | 5.0 |
| Deltron 3030 Deltron 3030 | 5.0 |
| Moby Play | 4.0 |
| Incubus (USA-CA) Make Yourself | 5.0 |
| blink-182 Dude Ranch | 5.0 |
| Dropkick Murphys Do or Die | 5.0 |
| Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin | 4.0 |
| Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin II | 5.0 |
| Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin III | 4.5 |
| Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin IV | 5.0 |
| The Rolling Stones Beggars Banquet | 5.0 |
| Anathema Judgement | 5.0 |
| Alexisonfire Crisis | 4.5 |
| Alexisonfire Watch Out! | 5.0 |
| Pixies Doolittle | 5.0 |
| Fugees The Score | 5.0 |
| Mobb Deep The Infamous | 5.0 |
| Black Star Black Star | 5.0 |
| A Tribe Called Quest Midnight Marauders | 5.0 |
| 2Pac 2Pacalypse Now | 5.0 |
| 2Pac Me Against the World | 4.5 |
| The Stone Roses The Stone Roses | 5.0 |
| The Clash London Calling | 5.0 |
| Soundgarden Louder Than Love | 5.0 |
| Mudvayne L.D. 50 | 5.0 |
| Graveyard (SWE) Lights Out | 5.0 |
| Blues Traveler Live From The Fall | 5.0 |
| Eazy-E It's On (Dr. Dre) 187um Killa | 4.5 |
| Eazy-E Eazy-Duz-It | 4.5 |
| Killswitch Engage The End of Heartache | 4.0 |
| Fuel Sunburn | 4.0 |
| Fuel Something Like Human | 4.0 |
| Filter Short Bus | 4.0 |
| Pink Floyd The Piper at the Gates of Dawn | 5.0 |
| Anberlin Never Take Friendship Personal | 4.0 |
| Kadavar (DE) Abra Kadavar | 5.0 |
| Monster Truck Furiosity | 5.0 |
| Denzel Curry Nostalgic 64 | 5.0 |
| Wu-Tang Clan Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) | 5.0 |
| The Doppelgangaz HARK | 5.0 |
| Ugly Heroes Ugly Heroes | 5.0 |
| Clint Lowery's Hello Demons... Meet Skeletons Choices | 5.0 |
Outstanding from start-to-finish, Hello Demons Meet Skeletons final EP, Choices, is a
breath-taker in every way shape and form. Part of the acoustic attributes from the first
instalment are still intact here, but overall this is a straight-up rock album and it
thrills from the start to the hilarious closing three or so minutes of "The Curtain Burns"
with a seemingly improvised number known as "Walking the Streets at Night". While Chills
ended with Lowery rambling, this instalment's rambling is much more focused and enjoyable to
listen to. "I Give Up", "Your Ghost" and "Caved In" are the best tracks here, but they are
all fantastic in all senses possible: lyrically, vocally and instrumentally as well. Give it
a shot, it may just surprise you as much as it did me. |
| Clint Lowery's Hello Demons... Meet Skeletons Chills | 4.5 |
| While it can run a bit slow at certain points, this EP is highly enjoyable, especially considering that it was made in a week while on-the-road. This project is a clear-cut home-run, a six-track EP that delivers whatever you were expecting from it's members, and then so, it packs a punch. "Devil in a Cage" is the best song in my eyes, but "It's Been Fun" and "Hell's Next Door" are up there as well. Give this EP a shot and you may be in for the under-the-radar surprise hit of 2008. |
| Radiohead Pablo Honey | 2.5 |
| Atomship The Crash of `47 | 5.0 |
| Twelve Foot Ninja Silent Machine | 5.0 |
| Digital Summer Breaking Point | 4.0 |
| Captain, We're Sinking The Future Is Cancelled | 4.0 |
| Canibus Rip The Jacker | 5.0 |
| Loading Data Double Disco Animal Style | 4.5 |
| Queensryche Queensryche | 2.5 |
| Kanye West Yeezus | 4.5 |
| Eddie Vedder Into the Wild | 4.5 |
| Protest the Hero Fortress | 4.5 |
| Therapy? Crooked Timber | 4.0 |
| Hans Zimmer Inception | 4.0 |
| Hostage Calm Hostage Calm | 3.0 |
| Big Boi Sir Lucious Left Foot | 4.5 |
| Rival Sons Head Down | 5.0 |
| Gary Clark Jr. The Bright Lights | 4.0 |
| Cliff Martinez Drive | 4.0 |
| Chaos Divine The Human Connection | 4.5 |
| Death Grips The Money Store | 4.0 |
| Headspace I Am Anonymous | 4.5 |
| L'Orange The Mad Writer | 3.5 |
| Deftones Koi No Yokan | 5.0 |
| Killer Mike R.A.P. Music | 5.0 |
| Ghostface Killah Twelve Reasons to Die | 4.5 |
| Listener Time Is A Machine | 4.5 |
| Polyenso One Big Particular Loop | 4.0 |
| Hookworms Pearl Mystic | 3.5 |
| "Form and Function" is an incredible song, one of the best of the year so far I'd say. The rest is good, but it wanders around a bit too much in its experimentations at times. Still, when it shines, it shines bright. |
| Classixx Hanging Gardens | 4.5 |
| Sevendust Retrospective 2 | 4.0 |
| R.A. The Rugged Man Legends Never Die | 5.0 |
| The Winery Dogs The Winery Dogs | 3.5 |
| The National Trouble Will Find Me | 5.0 |
| Fair to Midland Arrows and Anchors | 5.0 |
| Clutch Earth Rocker | 5.0 |
| Sevendust Black Out the Sun | 4.5 |
| This is a near-perfect album, their upcoming acoustic album will be amazing. |
| Shabazz Palaces Black Up | 5.0 |
| Walk the Moon Walk the Moon | 4.0 |
| Metric Fantasies | 3.5 |
| Tremonti All I Was | 4.5 |
| The Strokes Is This It | 4.5 |
| Tom Petty Full Moon Fever | 4.0 |
| Tom Petty Wildflowers | 5.0 |
| I Mother Earth Scenery & Fish | 4.0 |
| Matchbox Twenty Yourself or Someone Like You | 4.5 |
| Matchbox Twenty Mad Season | 3.5 |
| Pearl Jam Live On Ten Legs | 3.0 |
| Dropkick Murphys Live on St. Patrick's Day from Boston | 5.0 |
| Soundtrack (Film) The Crow | 3.5 |
| Soundtrack (Film) The Crow: City of Angels | 3.5 |
| Soundtrack (Film) Queen of the damned | 3.5 |
| Soundtrack (Film) Daredevil: The Album | 2.5 |
| Soundtrack (Film) Spider-Man | 3.0 |
| Soundtrack (Film) Freddy Vs. Jason | 3.5 |
| Sevendust's "Leech" is the best song on here. |
| Anathema Weather Systems | 4.5 |
| Thank You Scientist Maps of Non-Existent Places | 4.0 |
| Less Than Jake Losing Streak | 4.5 |
| The Black Keys Brothers | 4.0 |
| Turbowolf Turbowolf | 3.5 |
| Big Wreck Albatross | 5.0 |
| John Legend Get Lifted | 4.0 |
| The Weeknd Echoes of Silence | 4.0 |
| The Gaslight Anthem Sink or Swim | 4.5 |
| Tally Hall Good & Evil | 4.0 |
| Rival Sons Pressure And Time | 4.5 |
| alt-J An Awesome Wave | 4.5 |
| Deerhunter Halcyon Digest | 2.5 |
| Punch Brothers Who's Feeling Young Now? | 5.0 |
| Projected Human | 4.5 |
| K'naan The Dusty Foot Philosopher | 4.5 |
| Manchester Orchestra Mean Everything to Nothing | 3.5 |
| El-P Cancer 4 Cure | 5.0 |
| Breaking Orbit The Time Traveller | 5.0 |
| Accept Stalingrad: Brothers In Death | 5.0 |
| The National High Violet | 5.0 |
| Kendrick Lamar good kid, m.A.A.d city | 5.0 |
| Our Lady Peace Clumsy | 4.0 |
| Our Lady Peace Happiness... | 5.0 |
| Soundgarden King Animal | 3.0 |
| Gnarls Barkley St. Elsewhere | 3.5 |
| Live Throwing Copper | 3.5 |
| Stone Temple Pilots Purple | 5.0 |
| Blur Parklife | 5.0 |
| Crash Test Dummies God Shuffled His Feet | 4.5 |
| Porno For Pyros Porno For Pyros | 4.0 |
| Cypress Hill Black Sunday | 5.0 |
| MC5 Kick Out the Jams | 5.0 |
| Finger Eleven The Greyest of Blue Skies | 4.0 |
| Nas Illmatic | 5.0 |
| Seven Mary Three Rock Crown | 3.5 |
| The Odds Good Weird Feeling | 5.0 |
| System of a Down Hypnotize | 4.5 |
| System of a Down Mezmerize | 4.5 |
| System of a Down System of a Down | 5.0 |
| Living Colour Stain | 5.0 |
| The Offspring Rise and Fall, Rage and Grace | 3.0 |
| The Offspring Americana | 4.0 |
| Yellowcard Ocean Avenue | 2.5 |
| Yellowcard When You're Through Thinking, Say Yes | 3.0 |
| blink-182 Enema Of The State | 4.5 |
| blink-182 Blink-182 | 5.0 |
| Eve 6 Eve 6 | 3.5 |
| Frank Ocean channel ORANGE | 4.0 |
| Michael Jackson Thriller | 4.5 |
| LL Cool J Mama Said Knock You Out | 4.0 |
| Jay-Z The Black Album | 5.0 |
| Jay-Z The Blueprint | 5.0 |
| The Roots undun | 5.0 |
| Snoop Dogg Doggystyle | 4.0 |
| OutKast Stankonia | 4.0 |
| Ice Cube AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted | 4.0 |
| Dr. Dre The Chronic | 3.5 |
| CunninLynguists Oneirology | 4.0 |
| Run-D.M.C. Raising Hell | 5.0 |
| Eric B and Rakim Paid in Full | 5.0 |
| Eminem The Marshall Mathers LP | 4.0 |
| Mos Def Black on Both Sides | 5.0 |
| Cypress Hill Cypress Hill | 4.5 |
| Jay-Z Reasonable Doubt | 5.0 |
| Electric Light Orchestra A New World Record | 5.0 |
| UFO Force It | 4.0 |
| The Cult Love | 5.0 |
| The Mothers of Invention Freak Out! | 5.0 |
| Boston Boston | 5.0 |
| Nick Drake Five Leaves Left | 3.5 |
| Thin Lizzy Jailbreak | 4.5 |
| Lynyrd Skynyrd Pronounced Leh-Nerd Skin-Nerd | 5.0 |
| Thrice The Artist in the Ambulance | 4.5 |
| The Offspring Smash | 3.5 |
| The Gaslight Anthem The '59 Sound | 4.5 |
| Sublime 40 Oz. to Freedom | 4.0 |
| Jimmy Eat World Clarity | 5.0 |
| City and Colour Bring Me Your Love | 3.0 |
| The National Alligator | 5.0 |
| Modest Mouse The Moon & Antarctica | 3.5 |
| The National Boxer | 4.5 |
| "Start a War" is a song I remember vividly from the excellent movie Warrior, and it's stuck with me ever since. It truly is The National's best song, featured in an album that is a real champion of sorts. |
| Electric Wizard Dopethrone | 3.5 |
| Nine Inch Nails The Fragile | 4.0 |
| A Tribe Called Quest The Low End Theory | 5.0 |
| Bad Brains Bad Brains | 4.5 |
| Miles Davis In a Silent Way | 4.0 |
| The Who Who's Next | 5.0 |
| Queensryche Operation: Mindcrime | 5.0 |
| Nine Inch Nails The Downward Spiral | 4.5 |
| Camel Mirage | 5.0 |
| The Jimi Hendrix Experience Electric Ladyland | 4.0 |
| Beastie Boys Paul's Boutique | 5.0 |
| Tom Waits Rain Dogs | 5.0 |
| The Who Quadrophenia | 5.0 |
| Bob Dylan Blood on the Tracks | 4.5 |
| Black Sabbath Paranoid | 3.5 |
| John Coltrane A Love Supreme | 3.5 |
| The Beatles Abbey Road | 5.0 |
| Pink Floyd The Wall | 3.5 |
| Pink Floyd Animals | 5.0 |
| Pink Floyd Meddle | 5.0 |
| Pink Floyd Wish You Were Here | 5.0 |
| Pink Floyd The Dark Side of the Moon | 4.0 |
| Fugazi Repeater | 4.5 |
| X Japan Art of Life | 5.0 |
| U2 Achtung Baby | 4.0 |
| Three Days Grace One-X | 2.0 |
| Seether Disclaimer II | 3.5 |
| Emanuel and the Fear Hands | 4.0 |
| Bad Brains I Against I | 5.0 |
| Truckfighters Phi | 5.0 |
| The Soul Rebels Unlock Your Mind | 5.0 |
| A wonderful blend of hip-hop, jazz and rock, songs like "504" and "I Made It" make these guys an immediate success. Classic album, a must-listen. |
| Fugazi The Argument | 5.0 |
| Catch 22 Keasbey Nights | 5.0 |
| Royal Crown Revue Caught In The Act | 5.0 |
| Daft Punk Homework | 4.0 |
| Daft Punk Discovery | 4.0 |
| Daft Punk Alive 2007 | 5.0 |
| GZA Liquid Swords | 5.0 |
| Kanye West My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy | 4.5 |
| 3 Doors Down The Better Life | 3.5 |
| Social Distortion Social Distortion | 5.0 |
| AC/DC High Voltage (Australia) | 4.0 |
| AC/DC Let There Be Rock | 4.5 |
| Jet Get Born | 3.5 |
| Wolfmother Wolfmother | 3.5 |
| Staind 14 Shades of Grey | 2.5 |
| NOFX The Decline | 5.0 |
| Bad Religion No Control | 5.0 |
| Bad Religion Recipe for Hate | 5.0 |
| Rise Against Siren Song of the Counter Culture | 4.5 |
| Rise Against The Sufferer and the Witness | 5.0 |
| Queens of the Stone Age Songs for the Deaf | 5.0 |
| Maroon 5 Songs About Jane | 3.5 |
| Living Colour Vivid | 5.0 |
| Jeff Buckley Sketches for My Sweetheart the Drunk | 5.0 |
| Jeff Buckley Grace | 5.0 |
| Bruce Springsteen Working on a Dream | 3.5 |
| Bruce Springsteen Born to Run | 4.0 |
| Bruce Springsteen Wrecking Ball | 3.5 |
| Huey Lewis and the News Greatest Hits | 4.5 |
| Huey Lewis and the News Fore! | 4.0 |
| Huey Lewis and the News Sports | 5.0 |
| Skid Row Slave to the Grind | 5.0 |
| Skid Row Skid Row | 4.5 |
| Guns N' Roses Chinese Democracy | 3.0 |
| Guns N' Roses Appetite for Destruction | 3.5 |
| Third Eye Blind Third Eye Blind | 5.0 |
| Eve 6 Horrorscope | 4.0 |
| Eve 6 It's All In Your Head | 5.0 |
| Depeche Mode Music for the Masses | 4.5 |
| Depeche Mode Songs of Faith and Devotion | 5.0 |
| Depeche Mode Violator | 4.0 |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers Blood Sugar Sex Magik | 5.0 |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers Californication | 4.5 |
| Bon Iver Blood Bank | 3.0 |
| Bon Iver For Emma, Forever Ago | 3.5 |
| Blues Traveler Four | 5.0 |
| Autopilot Off Make A Sound | 5.0 |
| Autopilot Off Looking Up | 2.0 |
| Alice in Chains Jar of Flies | 5.0 |
| Project 86 Drawing Black Lines | 5.0 |
| Rush 2112 | 4.5 |
| Rush Hemispheres | 5.0 |
| Rush Moving Pictures | 5.0 |
| Rush Clockwork Angels | 5.0 |
| College Teenage Color | 4.0 |
| College A Real Hero | 5.0 |
| College Secret Diary | 2.5 |
| Kavinsky 1986 | 4.0 |
| Miami Nights 1984 Turbulence | 4.5 |
| Lazerhawk Visitors | 4.0 |
| Grum Heartbeats | 3.0 |
| Clutch Robot Hive/Exodus | 5.0 |
| Clutch Blast Tyrant | 5.0 |
| Big Wreck In Loving Memory Of... | 4.0 |
| Thornley Come Again | 4.5 |
| The Tragically Hip Road Apples | 5.0 |
| The Tragically Hip Fully Completely | 5.0 |
| Nirvana MTV Unplugged in New York | 5.0 |
| Nirvana Bleach | 4.5 |
| Nirvana Nevermind | 3.0 |
| Nirvana In Utero | 3.5 |
| Jerry Cantrell Boggy Depot | 2.5 |
| Jerry Cantrell Degradation Trip | 4.5 |
| Alice in Chains Dirt | 5.0 |
| Alice in Chains Facelift | 5.0 |
| Lo-Pro The Beautiful Sounds of Revenge | 1.5 |
| Deftones Deftones | 4.0 |
| Deftones Adrenaline | 5.0 |
| Deftones Around the Fur | 4.0 |
| Deftones White Pony | 3.5 |
| Deftones Saturday Night Wrist | 3.0 |
| Deftones Diamond Eyes | 5.0 |
| Chevelle Wonder What's Next | 4.5 |
| Chevelle Hats Off To The Bull | 3.5 |
| Chevelle Sci-Fi Crimes | 4.0 |
| Karnivool Sound Awake | 5.0 |
| Kings of Leon Only By The Night | 3.0 |
| InMe Daydream Anonymous | 3.0 |
| Black Stone Cherry Folklore and Superstition | 4.5 |
| Black Stone Cherry Black Stone Cherry | 4.0 |
| Breaking Benjamin Saturate | 4.5 |
| Breaking Benjamin Dear Agony | 2.5 |
| Hurt Vol. II | 5.0 |
| Hurt Vol. 1 | 4.0 |
| Smile Empty Soul Anxiety | 4.0 |
| Smile Empty Soul Smile Empty Soul | 4.5 |
| Motley Crue Girls, Girls, Girls | 3.5 |
| Motley Crue Dr. Feelgood | 3.0 |
| Motley Crue Shout at the Devil | 4.0 |
| AC/DC Powerage | 5.0 |
| Metallica S&M | 5.0 |
| Metallica Ride the Lightning | 4.5 |
| Metallica Master of Puppets | 4.0 |
| Metallica Metallica | 3.0 |
| Metallica ...And Justice for All | 5.0 |
| Metallica St. Anger | 1.5 |
| Metallica Death Magnetic | 2.0 |
| The Killers Sawdust | 4.0 |
| The Killers Day & Age | 2.0 |
| The Killers Hot Fuss | 3.5 |
| The Killers Sam's Town | 3.0 |
| Oasis Definitely Maybe | 3.5 |
| Oasis Dig Out Your Soul | 2.5 |
| Oasis (What's the Story) Morning Glory? | 4.5 |
| Faith No More The Real Thing | 5.0 |
| Faith No More Angel Dust | 4.5 |
| Faith No More King for a Day... Fool for a Lifetime | 4.0 |
| Faith No More Album of the Year | 5.0 |
| Radiohead The Bends | 5.0 |
| Radiohead In Rainbows | 3.5 |
| Radiohead Kid A | 4.0 |
| Cold 13 Ways to Bleed On Stage | 3.5 |
| Cold Year Of The Spider | 4.0 |
| Call Me No One Last Parade | 4.0 |
| The album rocks hard. Songs like "All's Well", "The World Is Dead" and "Pleased to Meet You" rule hard. It's definitely flawed (it has a terrible song to close things off with), but it rocks more than it stumbles and that's a good thing. |
| Sevendust Southside Double-Wide: Acoustic Live | 5.0 |
| Sevendust Next | 5.0 |
| Sevendust Alpha | 5.0 |
| Sevendust Home | 4.5 |
| Sevendust Seasons | 4.5 |
| Sevendust Chapter VII: Hope and Sorrow | 4.5 |
| Sevendust Cold Day Memory | 4.5 |
| The songs rock, but Sevendust is back and they're at their peek. |
| Staind Break The Cycle | 4.5 |
| Staind Staind | 4.5 |
| Tonic Lemon Parade | 4.5 |
| David Lee Roth Eat 'em And Smile | 4.5 |
| Van Halen Van Halen II | 3.0 |
| Van Halen Van Halen | 3.5 |
| Rage Against the Machine Rage Against the Machine | 4.0 |
| Rage Against The Machine make a fine debut, songs like "Wake Up" and "Killing In The Name" most definitely rule. |
| Rage Against the Machine Evil Empire | 4.5 |
| Rage Against the Machine The Battle of Los Angeles | 5.0 |
| "Testify" is one of the best songs in the world, and it's reason enough for this album to rule over anyone brave enough to hear it. |
| Audioslave Revelations | 3.5 |
| Audioslave Out of Exile | 4.0 |
| Temple of the Dog Temple of the Dog | 4.0 |
| Pearl Jam Ten Redux | 5.0 |
| The remix is fine. It isn't better than the original, nor is it worse. It succeeds in providing a brand new way to experience this already outstanding masterpiece. |
| Pearl Jam Yield | 4.5 |
| Pearl Jam Vitalogy | 5.0 |
| Pearl Jam Vs. | 5.0 |
| Probably my favourite album from Pearl Jam. "Go" owns, so does "Leash". |
| Unwritten Law Here's to the Mourning | 4.0 |
| Unwritten Law Elva | 5.0 |
| Unwritten Law Unwritten Law | 4.5 |
| Foo Fighters The Colour and The Shape (Expanded) | 4.0 |
| Foo Fighters The Colour and the Shape | 4.0 |
| Foo Fighters There Is Nothing Left to Lose | 4.5 |
| Foo Fighters In Your Honor | 3.0 |
| Foo Fighters Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace | 2.5 |
| Bush Sixteen Stone | 4.0 |
| Velvet Revolver Contraband | 3.5 |
| Brand New The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me | 3.5 |
| Jimmy Eat World Bleed American | 3.5 |
| Weezer Pinkerton | 3.5 |
| Soundgarden Superunknown | 4.5 |
| Soundgarden Down on the Upside | 4.0 |
| The Smashing Pumpkins Oceania | 4.0 |
| The Smashing Pumpkins Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness | 4.0 |
| The Smashing Pumpkins Siamese Dream | 3.5 |
| The Smashing Pumpkins Gish | 4.5 |
| A Perfect Circle Thirteenth Step | 3.5 |
| Tool Ænima | 5.0 |
| Disturbed Asylum | 2.5 |
| Disturbed Indestructible | 4.5 |
| Disturbed The Sickness | 2.0 |
| AC/DC Highway To Hell | 4.5 |
| AC/DC Back In Black | 4.5 |
| AC/DC T.N.T. | 5.0 |
| AC/DC's best album. My favourite songs are "Rock 'N Roll Singer", "It's A Long Way To The Top (If Ya Wanna Rock 'N Roll)" and "Live Wire". |
| Stroke 9 Nasty Little Thoughts | 5.0 |
| Lazerhawk Redline | 5.0 |
| Fast, energetic, imagine an '80s soundtrack, a beautiful car, drive it until it can't drive no more. That sets the pace for the awesomeness contained in this wonderful first effort by the wonderfully-named Lazerhawk. |
| Arkells Michigan Left | 5.0 |
| The Arkells beat the sophomore slump by a wide-margin. |
| Mr. Big Lean Into It | 4.5 |
| Nostalgia comes with something good sometimes and this album is incredibly good, in fact, it's superb from start-to-finish. Lean Into It is simple '80s delight. |
| Talking Heads Remain in Light | 5.0 |
| Absurd, yet maniacally genius, Remain in Light is an odd-ball masterpiece with some of the catchiest, weird songs of all-time. It's beautiful. |
| Revis Places For Breathing | 5.0 |
| A brilliant debut. One that will make 90s rock fans excited over an album that should've existed at that time. |
| Anberlin Cities | 3.5 |
| With a strong handful of amazing songs, the album sometimes fails to be consistent in over-experimenting and fear of exploring their well-written lyrics further. Either way, Cities is a great album that closes on a powerful three-song home run. |
| The Black Eyed Peas The E.N.D. (The Energy Never Dies) | 1.0 |
| The most abysmal piece of non-music ever to be released. |
| The Black Eyed Peas The Beginning | 1.0 |
| Who knew the beginning would be worse than the end... |
| Sevendust Sevendust | 5.0 |
| With incredible lyrics, vocals, instrumentals and more, Sevendust craft a terrific debut that is powerful in every way. |
| 3 Doors Down 3 Doors Down | 1.5 |
| The "been there, done that" album for 3 Doors Down. |
| 3 Doors Down Time of My Life | 3.5 |
| Oddly hated by many Sputnikmusic users, Time Of My Life is an otherwise solid array of tracks from 3 Doors Down that neither offend nor disrespect. This is the kind of solid music that the band is known for and they succeed considerably more than their past two records. Give it a chance and you could really enjoy it. |
| Radiohead OK Computer | 3.5 |
| Gets very boring fast because of it's fascination to cram in as much as inhumanly possible. There are a lot of sounds and noises that just don't work for me, and it causes me to re-analyse the material for what it truly is: experimentation. Sure, it's honourable. But it's not as phenomenal as the praise it gets. |
| Default One Thing Remains | 5.0 |
| On the level of Foo Fighter's recent Wasting Light album, One Thing Remains is a terrific modern-rock gem to be found from the past decade. It will not disappoint. |
| Motorhead Ace of Spades | 5.0 |
| There's nothing fancy about the way Motorhead rocks, they just do. Ace of Spades is simply splendid in that it doesn't waste time building up nothing, like most related musicians would do, but instead builds up nothing and leaves it to incredible riffs and the vocalist's bad-ass voice to satisfying your taste for extremely rockin' music. |
| Foo Fighters Wasting Light | 5.0 |
| The best Foo Fighters album so far finally revives the ever-so-talented band themselves. |
| U2 The Joshua Tree | 3.0 |
| Quite good, especially the first three tracks, but it does get quite boring as it progresses. |
| Weezer Weezer | 4.0 |
| Richly entertaining nerd music that never gets old; "Buddy Holly" is a masterstroke. |
| Arcade Fire Funeral | 4.0 |
| Could be a tough listen for some with it's super slow build-up, but Arcade Fire's Funeral remains one of the strongest debut pieces for a band ever. |
| Daughtry Daughtry | 2.0 |
| Painfully generic and easy to pick on. Certain songs are interesting, but a large percentage of the album is filler. Painfully generic, bottom of the barrel, radio-play fodder. |
| Nickelback The Long Road | 1.5 |
| A long, dreadful listen. Boring. Lazy. Sleazy.... Nickelback, ladies and gentlemen! |
| Nickelback All the Right Reasons | 3.0 |
| Hypnotically likable entry into a mediocre band's library. Nickelback's best album, ladies and gentlemen! |
| Sevendust Animosity | 5.0 |
| Outstandingly consistent and emotionally sincere, Animosity is an absolute masterpiece. |
| Emanuel and the Fear Listen | 5.0 |
| Juggling a great deal of individuals and diversity in their debut LP, Listen finds equilibrium. |
| Disturbed Believe | 5.0 |
| Presenting their very best to the world, Believe has been beautifully arranged and features the constant presence of emotion. Raw and real in every way. |
| Sufjan Stevens Illinois | 5.0 |
| The song titles are charming enough, but Sufjan Steven's Illinois is charming all around. The twenty-two track CD is a nutritiously-delicious buffet. |
| Animal Collective Merriweather Post Pavilion | 4.0 |
| Not just a simple collection of songs and singles, but a single effort that's focused on achieving one primary goal: an engaging album. Merriweather Post Pavilion succeeds in creating a world for the listener to explore. |
| Sam Roberts Band We Were Born In A Flame | 5.0 |
| One of the best light-rock albums of all-time. We Were Born In A Flame is as consistent as it is classic. |
| Tool 10,000 Days | 4.0 |
| 10,000 Days is unique and satisfying, but lacks the consistency of Lateralus as an album. |
| Tool Lateralus | 5.0 |
| Metal at it's best. Lateralus is a complex and layered masterpiece. |
| Soundgarden Badmotorfinger | 5.0 |
| Badmotorfinger is holy awesome in every way shape and form. |
| Rise Against Appeal to Reason | 3.0 |
| The album feels disjointed (at times), but it gets the job done and sends the messenger. |
| Linkin Park Hybrid Theory | 3.5 |
| A solid debut, but it all goes downhill after this. |
| Gorillaz Gorillaz | 4.0 |
| Individual songs stand as classics. But the album is all over the map, with hit-and-misses from left to right. Still, it's hard to resist not going back to play it through every now-and-then either. Tons of replay value, even with its flaws (which later albums, I found, swiftly improved). |
| Gorillaz Demon Days | 5.0 |
| As diverse as a bowl of Smarties, Demon Days succeeds in being a masterfully-crafted experiment. |
| Gorillaz Plastic Beach | 5.0 |
| Plastic Beach is a fun ride that is guaranteed to put one, big 'ol smile across your face and keep you returning for more. |
| Kings of Leon Because Of The Times | 5.0 |
| Kings of Leon at their best. Every song feels complete and arranged perfectly, align with one-another at all times. Because Of The Times as a whole is a terrific piece. |
| Kings of Leon Aha Shake Heartbreak | 5.0 |
| Quick and simple. Aha Shake Heartbreak is a delightful listen that builds with repeated listens. |
| Shinedown The Sound of Madness | 3.0 |
| The Sound Of Madness shines in forming a radio-friendly, yet heart-felt, collection of songs. |
| 3 Doors Down Seventeen Days | 2.0 |
| Seventeen Days is consistent, but it's also 3 Doors Down at their worst (behind their self-titled album). The songs are dull and boring, making the album a rough listening experience. |
| Audioslave Audioslave | 3.5 |
| While far from classic, Audioslave collectively form to create a unique group and a highly entertaining debut. |
| 3 Doors Down Away from the Sun | 4.5 |
| While it may be repetitive at times, the lyrics are moving and packed with truth. Away From The Sun is an uplifting and beautiful record. |
| AC/DC Black Ice | 2.0 |
| With time left to let the message sink in, Black Ice was a dreadfully lazy effort from AC/DC. A disappointment to be forgotten, but "Rock 'N Roll Train" is one saving grace to an otherwise boring array of songs from AC/DC's D-sides collection. |
| Pearl Jam Ten | 5.0 |
| Pearl Jam's essential record, Ten is a five-star masterpiece of the Grunge-world. |
| Pearl Jam Backspacer | 4.5 |
| Just because a band's having fun, doesn't mean their product will suck. If they have fun the proper way: it will rock. This, ladies and gentlemen, rocks. |
| Breaking Benjamin Phobia | 3.5 |
| It may take a while to get used to, but Phobia works as both a singles and all around solid album as it is. |
| Alter Bridge Blackbird | 4.0 |
| While not perfect, this down to the bones album bleeds with heart and soul. |
| Disturbed Ten Thousand Fists | 3.0 |
| Some of the band's very best songs make appearance on this album, but the album is uneven and feels incomplete. However, the album shines with an outstanding mid-section. |
| The Bravery The Sun and the Moon Complete | 3.5 |
| The Moon Version improves tremendously upon the original '07 release, but the '07 release is still included for variety. |
| Breaking Benjamin We Are Not Alone | 4.5 |
| We Are Not Alone is a solid effort from Breaking Benjamin. As an album, it's sturdy and consistently paced; featuring themes that pop a spark in your imagination. The band's best offering thus far in their career. |
| Chris Cornell Scream | 2.5 |
| One of the greatest vocalists of all-time (produced by Timbaland) delivers a train-wreck of guilty pleasure. While it is an awkward mix of talents, the songs are catchy and entertaining to listen to (when given a chance). |
| Emanuel and the Fear Emanuel and the Fear | 4.5 |
| Refreshingly inspired, just as they are original, this debut EP is a showcase of marvelous talent which leaves you with a positive feeling in the end. |
