| Death The Sound of Perseverance | 4.0 |
| Death Human | 4.0 |
| Arcane Roots Heaven and Earth | 4.0 |
| Arcane Roots Blood and Chemistry | 4.0 |
| Frank Turner England Keep My Bones | 4.0 |
| Cloudkicker Unending | 3.5 |
| Her Name Is Calla Animal Choir | 4.0 |
| Falls of Rauros Patterns in Mythology | 4.0 |
| Tomb Mold Planetary Clairvoyance | 3.5 |
| Joliette Luz Devora | 4.0 |
| Mastodon Live at the Aragon | 4.0 |
| Mastodon The Workhorse Chronicles [DVD] | 4.0 |
| Mastodon Emperor of Sand | 3.5 |
| Mastodon Once More 'Round the Sun | 3.5 |
| Baroness Purple | 4.0 |
| Baroness Gold and Grey | 3.5 |
| Nick Johnston Remarkably Human | 4.0 |
| Nick Johnston Wide Eyes in the Dark | 4.0 |
| Jambinai ONDA | 3.5 |
| Pelican Nighttime Stories | 3.5 |
| Thank You Scientist Terraformer | 3.5 |
| Anderson .Paak Ventura | 3.5 |
| Secret Band LP2 | 3.5 |
| Circa Survive The Amulet | 3.5 |
| U.K. U.K. | 4.0 |
| Dream Theater The Astonishing | 2.0 |
| Dream Theater Distance Over Time | 3.0 |
| Cangaço Rastros | 4.0 |
| Sylosis Conclusion of an Age | 3.5 |
| Vektor Terminal Redux | 3.5 |
| Black Peaks All That Divides | 3.5 |
| Horrendous Idol | 3.5 |
| Haken Vector | 3.0 |
| Pusha T DAYTONA | 3.5 |
| Kids See Ghosts Kids See Ghosts | 4.0 |
| Buckethead Poseidon | 4.0 |
| Buckethead Hold Me Forever (In memory of my mom) | 4.0 |
| Buckethead Heaven Is Your Home (For My Father...) | 4.0 |
| Mar De Grises Draining The Waterheart | 4.0 |
| Gojira Magma | 3.5 |
| Outcast Awaken The Reason | 3.5 |
| Scale the Summit In a World of Fear | 3.0 |
| Animals As Leaders The Madness of Many | 3.5 |
| Sithu Aye Set Course for Andromeda | 4.0 |
| Plini Other Things | 4.0 |
| Plini Sweet Nothings | 4.0 |
| Plini The End of Everything | 4.0 |
| Jakub Zytecki Feather Bed | 3.5 |
| Jakub Zytecki Ladder Head | 3.5 |
| Hooded Menace Ossuarium Silhouettes Unhallowed | 3.5 |
| Tribulation Down Below | 3.5 |
| Between the Buried and Me Automata I | 3.0 |
| Rolo Tomassi Time Will Die And Love Will Bury It | 3.5 |
| Slugdge Esoteric Malacology | 4.0 |
| CHON Grow | 3.5 |
| Leprous Malina | 3.5 |
| Jeff Rosenstock POST- | 3.5 |
| Plini Handmade Cities | 4.0 |
| Revocation Great Is Our Sin | 3.5 |
| Russian Circles Guidance | 3.0 |
| Thank You Scientist Stranger Heads Prevail | 3.0 |
| Chevelle The North Corridor | 3.0 |
| Earthside A Dream In Static | 4.0 |
| Everything Everything Get to Heaven | 4.0 |
| Deftones Gore | 3.5 |
| Failure Fantastic Planet | 4.0 |
| OutKast Aquemini | 4.0 |
| Crowhurst Crowhurst | 3.5 |
| The Antlers Hospice | 3.5 |
| Lost Horizon Awakening the World | 3.5 |
| Lost Horizon A Flame to the Ground Beneath | 4.0 |
| Latitudes Old Sunlight | 3.5 |
| R.E.M. Murmur | 3.5 |
| Intronaut The Direction of Last Things | 4.0 |
| Panopticon Autumn Eternal | 3.5 |
| Totem Skin Still Waters Run Deep | 3.5 |
| Slugdge Dim and Slimeridden Kingdoms | 3.5 |
| Scale the Summit V | 3.0 |
| Alter Bridge Fortress | 3.5 |
| My Dying Bride Feel the Misery | 3.0 |
| Aspherium The Veil of Serenity | 4.0 |
| Aspherium The Fall of Therenia | 4.0 |
| Arghoslent Hornets of the Pogrom | 3.5 |
| Riverside Love, Fear and the Time Machine | 3.0 |
| Amorphis Under the Red Cloud | 3.0 |
| Ethereal Shroud They Became the Falling Ash | 3.0 |
| Ahab The Boats of the Glen Carrig | 4.0 |
| Soilwork The Ride Majestic | 4.0 |
| Alustrium A Tunnel to Eden | 3.0 |
| VOLA Inmazes | 3.0 |
| Cathedral Forest of Equilibrium | 3.5 |
| Cathedral The Ethereal Mirror | 3.5 |
| Ghost (SWE) Meliora | 3.0 |
| Renaissance Scheherazade and Other Stories | 4.0 |
| Lamb of God VII: Sturm und Drang | 3.0 |
| We Lost the Sea Departure Songs | 3.5 |
| Tame Impala Currents | 3.5 |
| Depeche Mode Violator | 4.5 |
| Between the Buried and Me Coma Ecliptic | 3.0 |
| The Replacements Let It Be | 3.5 |
| Failure The Heart Is a Monster | 3.5 |
| Rosetta Quintessential Ephemera | 3.5 |
| Maserati Pyramid of the Sun | 3.0 |
| Make Them Suffer Old Souls | 3.0 |
| ASAP Rocky LONG.LIVE.A$AP | 3.0 |
| ASAP Rocky At.Long.Last.A$AP | 3.5 |
| Maserati The Language Of Cities | 3.5 |
| Maserati Inventions for the New Season | 3.5 |
| Maserati Maserati VII | 3.5 |
| Leprous Bilateral | 3.5 |
| The Dismemberment Plan Emergency & I | 3.5 |
| Sleater-Kinney No Cities to Love | 3.5 |
| Akhlys The Dreaming I | 3.5 |
| Braid The Age of Octeen | 3.0 |
| Turnover Peripheral Vision | 3.5 |
| Ufomammut Ecate | 3.0 |
| Novembre Materia | 3.0 |
| Tribulation The Children of the Night | 3.5 |
| Jeff Rosenstock We Cool? | 3.0 |
| Leviathan Scar Sighted | 3.5 |
| Minsk The Crash and the Draw | 4.0 |
| Endlesshade Wolf Will Swallow The Sun | 3.5 |
| Jakub Zytecki Wishful Lotus Proof | 3.5 |
| Kendrick Lamar To Pimp a Butterfly | 4.5 |
| Rozwell Kid Too Shabby | 3.5 |
| Statues Together We're Alone | 3.0 |
| Arcane Known/Learned | 3.5 |
| Chris Christodoulou Risk Of Rain | 4.0 |
| Sleater-Kinney One Beat | 3.5 |
| Turnstile Nonstop Feeling | 3.5 |
| Minus the Bear Highly Refined Pirates | 3.0 |
| Minus the Bear Menos El Oso | 3.0 |
| Bear Hands Distraction | 3.0 |
| Terrorizer World Downfall | 3.5 |
| Modest Mouse The Moon & Antarctica | 4.0 |
| Modest Mouse The Lonesome Crowded West | 4.0 |
| Modest Mouse This Is a Long Drive for Someone with Nothing to Think About | 3.5 |
| Witch Mountain Mobile of Angels | 3.0 |
| Run the Jewels Run the Jewels 2 | 3.0 |
| PRhyme PRhyme | 3.0 |
| The Graviators Motherload | 3.0 |
| Thou Heathen | 3.5 |
| The Wounded Kings In the Chapel of the Black Hand | 3.5 |
| Darkest Era Severance | 3.5 |
| Doctor Smoke The Witching Hour | 3.5 |
| Silent Planet The Night God Slept | 3.0 |
| Dir En Grey Kisou | 3.0 |
| Dir En Grey Macabre | 3.0 |
| Dir En Grey Uroboros | 3.5 |
| The War On Drugs Lost in the Dream | 3.5 |
| Haken Restoration | 3.0 |
| Echo and The Bunnymen Ocean Rain | 3.5 |
| Job For A Cowboy Sun Eater | 3.0 |
| Caribou Our Love | 3.0 |
| Skyharbor Guiding Lights | 3.0 |
| Foo Fighters Sonic Highways | 3.0 |
| Ben Howard I Forget Where We Were | 4.0 |
| Gates (USA-NJ) Bloom and Breathe | 3.0 |
| Eden Circus Marula | 3.5 |
| Revocation Deathless | 3.0 |
| Hail the Sun Wake | 3.0 |
| STRFKR Starfucker | 3.5 |
| Interpol El Pintor | 3.0 |
| alt-J This Is All Yours | 4.0 |
| Pallbearer Foundations of Burden | 4.0 |
| Superheaven Jar | 4.0 |
| P.O.S Never Better | 4.0 |
| P.O.S Audition | 4.0 |
| Basement Colourmeinkindness | 4.0 |
| Basement I Wish I Could Stay Here | 4.0 |
| Fallujah The Flesh Prevails | 3.0 |
| '68 In Humor and Sadness | 3.0 |
| Mingle Harde Mongol Horde | 3.5 |
| Anubis Hitchhiking to Byzantium | 3.0 |
| SKATERS Manhattan | 3.5 |
| Astralnaut Thieves, Beggars and Swine | 3.0 |
| Frank Turner Love, Ire & Song | 4.0 |
| Million Dead A Song to Ruin | 4.0 |
| Lantlos Melting Sun | 4.0 |
| Humanfly Awesome Science | 3.5 |
| Triptykon Melana Chasmata | 3.5 |
| SubRosa (US) More Constant Than The Gods | 3.5 |
| Exivious Liminal | 3.5 |
| Dead Congregation Promulgation of the Fall | 3.5 |
| Knuckle Puck The Weight That You Buried | 3.0 |
| Wishbone Ash Argus | 3.5 |
| Rush Grace Under Pressure | 3.0 |
| Epica The Quantum Enigma | 3.5 |
| Epica The Divine Conspiracy | 3.0 |
| Epica Design Your Universe | 3.0 |
| Obscure Sphinx Void Mother | 3.0 |
| Foo Fighters Foo Fighters | 3.5 |
| The Wonder Years The Greatest Generation | 3.0 |
| Trophy Scars Holy Vacants | 3.0 |
| The Fall of Every Season Amends | 3.0 |
| Kauan Pirut | 3.0 |
| Avatarium Avatarium | 3.5 |
| Queens of the Stone Age ...Like Clockwork | 3.0 |
| Trophy Scars Never Born, Never Dead | 4.0 |
| Sleep Dopesmoker | 3.5 |
| Sleep Sleep's Holy Mountain | 4.0 |
| Chevelle La Gárgola | 3.0 |
| The Great Old Ones Tekeli-Li | 3.5 |
| Future Islands Singles | 3.0 |
| Animals As Leaders The Joy of Motion | 4.0 |
| The Weakerthans Reconstruction Site | 3.0 |
| CHON Woohoo! | 3.0 |
| CHON Newborn Sun | 3.0 |
| The Hotelier Home, Like NoPlace Is There | 3.5 |
| St. Vincent St. Vincent | 3.0 |
| Jeff Buckley Grace | 4.0 |
| The Visit Between Worlds | 3.0 |
| The Vision Bleak Carpathia | 3.0 |
| The Strokes First Impressions of Earth | 3.5 |
| Shade Empire Omega Arcane | 3.5 |
| Thy Light No Morrow Shall Dawn | 3.5 |
| Saor Roots | 3.5 |
| Jex Thoth Blood Moon Rise | 3.0 |
| HRVRD The Inevitable And I | 3.5 |
| HRVRD From the Bird's Cage | 4.0 |
| Ovid's Withering Scryers of the Ibis | 3.5 |
| Obliteration Black Death Horizon | 3.5 |
| Thank You Scientist Maps of Non-Existent Places | 3.0 |
| Skeletonwitch Serpents Unleashed | 3.0 |
| A Lot Like Birds No Place | 3.0 |
| Protest the Hero Volition | 3.5 |
| Pelican Forever Becoming | 3.0 |
| Kurt Vile Wakin on a Pretty Daze | 3.5 |
| Kurt Vile Smoke Ring For My Halo | 3.5 |
| Cloudkicker Subsume | 3.5 |
| Wanzwa Wanzwa III | 3.0 |
| Abnormal Thought Patterns Manipulation Under Anesthesia | 3.0 |
| Tyr Valkyrja | 3.0 |
| Dream Theater Dream Theater | 3.0 |
| Austra Feel It Break | 3.0 |
| Austra Olympia | 3.0 |
| Mac DeMarco Rock and Roll Night Club | 3.0 |
| Haken Visions | 3.5 |
| Haken Aquarius | 3.5 |
| Haken The Mountain | 3.5 |
| Kayo Dot Hubardo | 3.0 |
| Portugal. The Man Evil Friends | 3.0 |
| alt-J An Awesome Wave | 4.0 |
| Savages Silence Yourself | 3.5 |
| Pearl Jam Lost Dogs | 3.5 |
| Anata The Conductor's Departure | 3.0 |
| Hacksaw to the Throat Wastelands | 3.5 |
| Unknown Mortal Orchestra Unknown Mortal Orchestra | 4.0 |
| Unknown Mortal Orchestra II | 3.5 |
| O'Brother Disillusion | 3.0 |
| Stake The Hutch | 4.0 |
| Rush Fly by Night | 3.5 |
| Rush Caress of Steel | 3.5 |
| Extol Extol | 3.0 |
| Heljareyga Heljareyga | 3.0 |
| Tides of Man Dreamhouse | 3.0 |
| Mouth Of The Architect Dawning | 3.5 |
| letlive. The Blackest Beautiful | 3.0 |
| Jon Hopkins Immunity | 3.0 |
| Gaytheist Hold Me... But Not So Tight | 3.5 |
| Kanye West Yeezus | 2.5 |
| Empyrium Weiland | 3.5 |
| Aquilus Griseus | 3.5 |
| Kalmah Seventh Swamphony | 3.0 |
| Kalmah 12 Gauge | 3.0 |
| Black Sabbath 13 | 3.0 |
| Scale the Summit The Migration | 3.5 |
| Captain, We're Sinking The Future Is Cancelled | 3.0 |
| Deafheaven Sunbather | 3.0 |
| Memory Garden Tides | 3.5 |
| Leprous Coal | 3.0 |
| Mouth Of The Architect Quietly | 3.5 |
| TesseracT Altered State | 3.0 |
| Augury Concealed | 3.5 |
| Chance the Rapper Acid Rap | 4.0 |
| Illuminati The Core | 3.0 |
| Burzum Det Som Engang Var | 3.5 |
| Burzum Filosofem | 3.0 |
| Cathedral The Last Spire | 3.0 |
| The Ocean Pelagial | 3.5 |
| Altar of Plagues Teethed Glory and Injury | 3.5 |
| Thrawsunblat Wanderer on the Continent of Saplings | 3.5 |
| The Ocean Precambrian | 3.5 |
| Ghost (SWE) Infestissumam | 3.0 |
| Northlane Singularity | 2.5 |
| Senses Fail Renacer | 3.0 |
| Universe 217 Never | 3.0 |
| The Story So Far What You Don't See | 3.5 |
| The Dear Hunter Migrant | 3.5 |
| Justin Timberlake The 20/20 Experience | 3.0 |
| Intronaut Habitual Levitations | 3.0 |
| Coheed and Cambria From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness | 3.0 |
| Coheed and Cambria The Second Stage Turbine Blade | 3.5 |
| In Vain (NO) Aenigma | 3.5 |
| Coheed and Cambria The Afterman: Ascension | 2.5 |
| Coheed and Cambria The Afterman: Descension | 2.5 |
| The Wonder Years Suburbia I've Given You All and Now I'm Nothing | 3.0 |
| The Story So Far Under Soil and Dirt | 3.5 |
| Atoms for Peace Amok | 3.0 |
| Forgotten Tomb ...And Don't Deliver Us from Evil | 3.0 |
| Rotting Christ Theogonia | 3.5 |
| We Lost the Sea The Quietest Place on Earth | 3.0 |
| Rorcal Vilagvege | 3.0 |
| Training for Utopia Plastic Soul Impalement | 3.5 |
| Hypocrisy Virus | 3.5 |
| Kendrick Lamar good kid, m.A.A.d city | 4.0 |
| Caladan Brood Echoes Of Battle | 3.5 |
| Intronaut Prehistoricisms | 3.5 |
| Hacride Lazarus | 3.5 |
| Mors Principium Est ...And Death Said Live | 3.0 |
| Bleeding Oath Bleeding Oath | 3.0 |
| TTNG This Town Needs Guns | 3.0 |
| Tiluland Axes of the Universe | 3.5 |
| TTNG Animals | 3.5 |
| TTNG 13.0.0.0.0 | 3.5 |
| Pomegranate Tiger Entities | 3.5 |
| Everything Everything Arc | 3.5 |
| Dub Trio IV | 4.0 |
| Dub Trio Exploring The Dangers Of | 3.5 |
| Dub Trio New Heavy | 3.5 |
| Dub Trio Cool Out And Coexist | 3.5 |
| Dub Trio Another Sound Is Dying | 4.0 |
| The Odious Joint Ventures | 2.5 |
| Chronographs Nausea | 2.5 |
| Wizard Rifle Speak Loud Say Nothing | 3.0 |
| Joy Division Closer | 3.0 |
| Joy Division Unknown Pleasures | 3.0 |
| The Walkmen Heaven | 3.0 |
| Xanthochroid Blessed He With Boils | 3.5 |
| Macklemore and Ryan Lewis The Heist | 3.0 |
| Admiral Angry Buster | 2.5 |
| DMX It's Dark and Hell Is Hot | 3.0 |
| Circle of Contempt Entwine the Threads | 2.5 |
| Peace'd Out Peace'd Out | 3.0 |
| Kids These Days Traphouse Rock | 3.0 |
| Circle of Contempt Artifacts in Motion | 3.0 |
| Beyond Creation The Aura | 3.0 |
| Riverside Out of Myself | 3.0 |
| Mourning Beloveth The Sullen Sulcus | 3.5 |
| Kowloon Walled City Container Ships | 3.5 |
| Abnormality Contaminating the Hive Mind | 3.0 |
| Calvin Harris 18 Months | 3.0 |
| iNTRiKeT The Woods | 3.0 |
| Nine Inch Nails The Downward Spiral | 3.5 |
| I Am Abomination Let The Future Tell The Truth | 3.5 |
| Hacktivist Hacktivist | 2.5 |
| Vinterland Welcome My Last Chapter | 3.5 |
| Darkspace Dark Space III | 3.5 |
| Paysage d'Hiver Paysage d'Hiver | 3.0 |
| Ayreon Into the Electric Castle | 3.5 |
| Deftones Koi No Yokan | 3.0 |
| Kamelot Silverthorn | 2.5 |
| Water's Edge An Abstract Collapse | 3.0 |
| Orphaned Land The Never Ending Way Of ORwarriOR | 3.0 |
| Sylvan Posthumous Silence | 3.0 |
| Sybreed God Is an Automaton | 3.0 |
| My Dying Bride A Map of All Our Failures | 3.5 |
| Dethklok Dethalbum III | 3.0 |
| Sithu Aye Invent the Universe | 3.5 |
| Wintersun Time I | 3.5 |
| I cannot tell a lie. I still have a raging boner for this album after all this time. |
| The Tony Danza Tapdance Extravaganza Danza IIII: The Alpha - The Omega | 3.0 |
| Daylight Dies A Frail Becoming | 3.0 |
| Coheed and Cambria In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3 | 3.5 |
| Muse The 2nd Law | 2.5 |
| I don't even want to try listening to this album. |
| Therion Theli | 3.5 |
| Therion Les Fleurs du Mal | 2.0 |
| Enslaved Axioma Ethica Odini | 3.5 |
| Blut Aus Nord The Work Which Transforms God | 3.0 |
| This or the Apocalypse Dead Years | 2.5 |
| Stolen Babies Naught | 2.0 |
| Stolen Babies There Be Squabbles Ahead | 2.5 |
| Devil Sold His Soul Blessed & Cursed | 3.0 |
| Between the Buried and Me The Parallax II: Future Sequence | 3.0 |
| Moonsorrow Viides luku - Hävitetty | 3.0 |
| HORSE the band The Mechanical Hand | 3.0 |
| HORSE the band Desperate Living | 3.0 |
| Soen Cognitive | 3.0 |
| Wretched (USA-NC) Son of Perdition | 3.0 |
| Gatling Beforemath | 3.0 |
| Sithu Aye Cassini | 3.5 |
| Sithu Aye Isles | 3.5 |
| Swans The Seer | 2.5 |
| Gamma Ray No World Order | 3.5 |
| Prototype Catalyst | 3.0 |
| Fanisk Die and Become | 2.0 |
| Devin Townsend Project Epicloud | 3.0 |
| letlive. Fake History | 3.0 |
| Third Eye Blind Third Eye Blind | 3.5 |
| The first half of the record (not just the obvious singles) is wonderful. The second half (7-12) kind of drops off for me as it drags on a bit before picking up again with the last two tracks. |
| The Gathering Disclosure | 3.0 |
| Monuments (UK) Gnosis | 3.0 |
| White Arms of Athena Astrodrama | 3.5 |
| Propagandhi Failed States | 3.5 |
| The Faceless Autotheism | 3.0 |
| The very first time I heard the Autotheist suite I went "Wait, this is Devin Townsend riffage... okay now an attempt at Devin Townsend vocals... oh shit now it's a latter Opeth mellotron interlude? Ooh that is some tasty guitar tone... Is that a Mikael Akerfeldt guest solo?rTo be honest, "Devin Townsend mixed with Opeth" would at first sound like a potential incredible thing... but not when it is so blatantly derivative and separated/exposed (here is the Devin section, and now the Opeth section etc). This album is pretty underwhelming. |
| Suede Suede | 3.0 |
| This or the Apocalypse Haunt What's Left | 2.5 |
| Testament Dark Roots of Earth | 2.5 |
| Cloudkicker Loop | 3.0 |
| Cloudkicker Fade | 3.5 |
| Your Memorial Redirect | 2.5 |
| It's too bad the songs and songwriting is so uninteresting and mediocre, because just about everything else is really awesome. There is a lot of potential in this band and their sound if they take it in the right direction, drop some of the bullshit metalcore trope crap, and start writing better songs. |
| Dark Time Sunshine ANX | 3.0 |
| Lykathea Aflame Elvenefris | 3.5 |
| FACT burundanga | 3.0 |
| Hands Like Houses Ground Dweller | 2.5 |
| Dying Fetus Reign Supreme | 3.0 |
| Frank Ocean channel ORANGE | 3.0 |
| Substructure Monolith | 3.5 |
| The Contortionist Intrinsic | 3.0 |
| Baroness Yellow and Green | 3.5 |
| Dance Gavin Dance Downtown Battle Mountain | 3.5 |
| Hope For The Dying Dissimulation | 3.0 |
| A Lot Like Birds Conversation Piece | 3.0 |
| The Ghost Inside Get What You Give | 2.5 |
| Periphery Periphery II: This Time It's Personal | 2.5 |
| Guided by Voices Alien Lanes | 3.5 |
| Agalloch Faustian Echoes | 3.0 |
| Epica Requiem for the Indifferent | 3.0 |
| Exotic Animal Petting Zoo I Have Made My Bed in Darkness | 3.0 |
| Skyclad Prince of the Poverty Line | 3.0 |
| Witch Mountain Cauldron Of The Wild | 3.5 |
| Gojira L'Enfant Sauvage | 3.5 |
| The Agonist Prisoners | 3.0 |
| Rush Clockwork Angels | 3.5 |
| Steely Dan Aja | 3.0 |
| Be'lakor Of Breath and Bone | 3.5 |
| A Forest of Stars The Corpse of Rebirth | 2.0 |
| Caribou Swim | 3.0 |
| Kvelertak Kvelertak | 3.5 |
| Ana Kefr The Burial Tree (II) | 3.5 |
| Bilocate Sudden Death Syndrome | 3.0 |
| Public Enemy Fear of a Black Planet | 3.0 |
| Art By Numbers Reticence: The Musical | 2.5 |
| O'Brother Garden Window | 3.0 |
| Parkway Drive Killing with a Smile | 3.0 |
| Shadows Fall Fire From the Sky | 2.5 |
| Trioscapes Separate Realities | 3.0 |
| Storm Corrosion Storm Corrosion | 3.0 |
| Dead Kennedys Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables | 3.5 |
| Annihilator Never, Neverland | 3.5 |
| Annihilator Alice in Hell | 3.0 |
| Killer Mike R.A.P. Music | 3.5 |
| Ne Obliviscaris Portal of I | 3.5 |
| The Kindred Lore | 3.0 |
| Propagandhi Today's Empires, Tomorrow's Ashes | 3.0 |
| Propagandhi Potemkin City Limits | 3.0 |
| Paradise Lost Tragic Idol | 3.0 |
| Propagandhi Supporting Caste | 3.5 |
| A Wilhelm Scream Career Suicide | 3.5 |
| Minus the Bear Planet of Ice | 3.5 |
| Hypocrisy Hypocrisy | 3.5 |
| Insomnium Since the Day It All Came Down | 3.5 |
| Exivious Exivious | 3.0 |
| Tenacious D Rize of the Fenix | 3.0 |
| Tenacious D The Pick of Destiny | 3.0 |
| Tenacious D Tenacious D | 4.0 |
| The Cribs In the Belly of the Brazen Bull | 3.0 |
| Anathema Weather Systems | 3.5 |
| Paradise Lost Faith Divides Us - Death Unites Us | 3.0 |
| Paradise Lost Icon | 3.0 |
| Paradise Lost Draconian Times | 3.0 |
| Katatonia Jhva Elohim Meth | 3.0 |
| Katatonia Viva Emptiness | 3.0 |
| Katatonia Last Fair Deal Gone Down | 3.0 |
| Katatonia Discouraged Ones | 2.5 |
| Someday this will likely become a 3 for me, but no more. To me this is an awkward transition phase for Katatonia where they hadn't quite found their stride with the new direction. Nixing the harsh vocals left Renske having to rely on his weak clean vocal delivery. He sounds timid and unsure of himself as he struggles to hit notes quietly, which is different than sounding melancholic. rLater releases show him projecting and singingly more confidently and intensely while still being melancholic and soft. He never belts it, really, but at this point his vocal abilities weren't there yet and this album suffers for it for me.rThe songwriting and the riffs, while good, just doesn't seem the be up to the solid and memorable level of later releases. |
| Katatonia For Funerals to Come... | 3.0 |
| Dry The River Shallow Bed | 3.0 |
| The Safety Fire Grind the Ocean | 3.5 |
| Eluvium Copia | 3.0 |
| Skyharbor Blinding White Noise: Illusion & Chaos | 2.5 |
| Death Grips The Money Store | 3.0 |
| Death Grips Exmilitary | 3.0 |
| 7 Horns 7 Eyes Throes Of Absolution | 3.0 |
| Solitude Aeturnus Downfall | 2.5 |
| Solitude Aeturnus Through the Darkest Hour | 3.0 |
| Solitude Aeturnus Beyond the Crimson Horizon | 2.5 |
| Solitude Aeturnus Into the Depths of Sorrow | 3.0 |
| In Mourning The Weight of Oceans | 3.0 |
| Torche Harmonicraft | 3.0 |
| Be'lakor Stone's Reach | 3.5 |
| Demon Hunter True Defiance | 3.0 |
| Atoma Skylight | 3.5 |
| Jeff Loomis Plains of Oblivion | 3.5 |
| Pelican Ataraxia/Taraxis | 3.0 |
| DragonForce Valley of the Damned | 2.5 |
| Tetrafusion Horizons | 3.0 |
| Tetrafusion Altered State | 3.0 |
| Nickel Creek Nickel Creek | 3.5 |
| High on Fire De Vermis Mysteriis | 3.0 |
| Portal (Cynic) Portal | 3.5 |
| Cynic The Portal Tapes | 3.5 |
| Ovid's Withering The Cloud Gatherer | 3.0 |
| Supercar Highvision | 3.5 |
| Meshuggah Koloss | 3.0 |
| L'arc-en-Ciel Ark | 3.5 |
| Chimp Spanner Imperium Vorago | 3.5 |
| Orion Where Whales Go To Die | 3.5 |
| Spawn of Possession Incurso | 3.0 |
| The Omega Experiment Karma EP | 3.0 |
| Pallbearer Sorrow And Extinction | 3.0 |
| In the Woods... Omnio | 3.0 |
| Imminent Sonic Destruction Recurring Themes | 3.0 |
| Drudkh Eternal Turn of the Wheel | 3.0 |
| L'arc-en-Ciel Butterfly | 2.5 |
| L'arc-en-Ciel Kiss | 2.5 |
| Allegaeon Fragments of Form and Function | 3.0 |
| Kevin Gilbert The Shaming of The True | 3.0 |
| Revocation Existence Is Futile | 3.0 |
| Helms Alee Weatherhead | 3.0 |
| Corelia Nostalgia | 3.5 |
| The Omega Experiment The Omega Experiment | 3.0 |
| Howler America Give Up | 2.5 |
| Sleigh Bells Reign of Terror | 3.0 |
| Darkthrone Transilvanian Hunger | 3.0 |
| Mayhem De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas | 3.0 |
| Chimp Spanner All Roads Lead Here | 3.5 |
| Deathspell Omega Paracletus | 3.0 |
| Psycroptic The Scepter of the Ancients | 3.5 |
| Orange Goblin Healing Through Fire | 2.5 |
| High on Fire Death Is This Communion | 2.5 |
| Every Time I Die Hot Damn! | 2.5 |
| Tragedy Vengeance | 3.5 |
| Dodecahedron Dodecahedron | 3.5 |
| Ghost (SWE) Opus Eponymous | 3.0 |
| Foo Fighters Wasting Light | 3.0 |
| Foo Fighters There Is Nothing Left to Lose | 3.0 |
| Ion Dissonance Breathing Is Irrelevant | 3.0 |
| Eluveitie Slania | 3.0 |
| Iniquity Serenadium | 3.0 |
| Soulfly Dark Ages | 3.0 |
| Swallow the Sun Emerald Forest and the Blackbird | 3.0 |
| Tristania Beyond the Veil | 3.0 |
| Sydonia Given To Destroyers | 3.0 |
| At the Gates Slaughter of the Soul | 3.0 |
| Pagan's Mind Heavenly Ecstasy | 3.5 |
| Alcest Les Voyages De L'Âme | 3.5 |
| Pianos Become the Teeth The Lack Long After | 3.0 |
| Glass Bones Seasons | 3.0 |
| Watchtower Control and Resistance | 3.5 |
| My Dying Bride 34.788%... Complete | 2.5 |
| Thy Catafalque Rengeteg | 3.0 |
| Cormorant Metazoa | 3.0 |
| Cormorant Dwellings | 3.0 |
| The Roots undun | 3.0 |
| ERRA Impulse | 3.0 |
| Ever Forthright Ever Forthright | 3.5 |
| Pretty sick album that shows a lot of potential. Chris Baretto is an insanely talented vocalist and is the source of most of the album's enjoyability. A number of songs are longer than they ought to be, and as a result the album is too long as a whole. Many songs have their creative and memorable moments but then stagnate too much in less interesting metalcor-ish breakdowns or dent riffage. If they duplicated the overall quality this effort and cut the fat, they would have something truly great. |
| My Dying Bride The Barghest o’ Whitby | 3.0 |
| Talk Talk Spirit of Eden | 3.0 |
| Talk Talk Laughing Stock | 3.5 |
| Slint Spiderland | 3.5 |
| Nameless Coyote Devoured by the Swirling Night | 3.0 |
| Solstafir Svartir Sandar | 2.5 |
| Theocracy As the World Bleeds | 2.5 |
| Nightwish Imaginaerum | 2.5 |
| OMG I've heard the album almost once! 5.0!!!! |
| Fallujah The Harvest Wombs | 3.0 |
| Vektor Black Future | 3.0 |
| Vildhjarta Måsstaden | 3.5 |
| Cynic Carbon-Based Anatomy | 3.0 |
| Animals As Leaders Weightless | 3.5 |
| Esoteric Paragon of Dissonance | 3.5 |
| The Project Hate MCMXCIX The Lustrate Process | 3.0 |
| Circus of Dead Squirrels Indoor Recess | 3.5 |
| Circus of Dead Squirrels The Pop Culture Massacre | 2.5 |
| Tad Morose Modus Vivendi | 3.0 |
| Martyr Feeding the Abscess | 3.0 |
| Mother Mother Touch Up | 3.0 |
| Mother Mother Eureka | 3.0 |
| In Vain (NO) The Latter Rain | 4.0 |
| Russian Circles Empros | 3.5 |
| Lantlos .neon | 3.0 |
| Death Symbolic | 4.0 |
| Martyr Warp Zone | 4.0 |
| Steel Panther Balls Out | 2.0 |
| Giant Squid Cenotes | 3.0 |
| Myrath Hope | 3.0 |
| Myrath Tales of the Sands | 3.0 |
| Blotted Science The Animation of Entomology | 3.5 |
| Structures Divided By | 2.5 |
I haven't even finished the first song so I cannot comment on the content, but my god the
production/recording quality is shit. It sounds like they botched all the guitar recordings and just tried to
cover up the unintentional clipping fuzz and distortion. |
| TesseracT One | 4.0 |
| Uneven Structure Februus | 3.5 |
| FACT In the Blink of an Eye | 3.0 |
| FACT Never Turn Out The Light To Keep Myself | 3.0 |
| Counterparts The Current Will Carry Us | 3.0 |
| Lou Reed and Metallica Lulu | 1.5 |
| Lights Siberia | 3.0 |
| Forever Never Forever Never | 2.5 |
| Will Haven Voir Dire | 3.0 |
| Insomnium Above the Weeping World | 3.5 |
| Immortal At the Heart of Winter | 3.5 |
| Carcass Heartwork | 3.5 |
| Carcass Necroticism: Descanting the Insalubrious | 3.0 |
| Cephalic Carnage Anomalies | 3.5 |
| Defeater Travels | 3.0 |
| La Dispute Somewhere at the Bottom of the River Between Vega and Altair | 3.0 |
| Tiamat Wildhoney | 3.5 |
| The Receiving End of Sirens Between the Heart and the Synapse | 3.5 |
| Andy McKee Art of Motion | 3.5 |
| Mastodon The Hunter | 3.5 |
| mewithoutYou Brother, Sister | 3.0 |
| Volumes The Concept of Dreaming | 2.5 |
At best, a few songs sound like they could cut it as a half-way decent Misery Signals tracks. The rest are
wrought with very generic breakdowns and often skirt around bro-core garbage territory. These guys
need to choose who they want their audience to be, either bro moshers or people who want 2nd-tier Misery
Signals knockoffs, and stick with it. |
| Anubis Gate A Perfect Forever | 3.0 |
| Anubis Gate Anubis Gate | 3.0 |
| ICS Vortex Storm Seeker | 2.5 |
| Oh, Sleeper Children of Fire | 3.5 |
| Opeth Heritage | 3.0 |
I just wish Mikael could have at least made an attempt to compose smooth and musical transitions between
sections. For example, "I Feel The Dark" has a ton of abrupt and awkward lurches between vastly different
sections. This kind of writing technique is common in progressive music, and has a place in Opeth's music,
but this album contains lazy amounts of crossfade transitions between unrelated musical ideas. That said,
on a first listen there is a lot to digest and there are already some identifiably solid moments. |
| Dream Theater A Dramatic Turn of Events | 3.0 |
| Thrice Major/Minor | 4.0 |
| Woe Of Tyrants Kingdom of Might | 3.0 |
| Moving Mountains Pneuma | 3.0 |
| O'Brother The Death of Day | 3.5 |
| Tyr The Lay of Thrym | 3.0 |
| Tyr How Far to Asgaard | 3.0 |
| YOB Atma | 3.0 |
| Cee Lo Green The Lady Killer | 3.0 |
| Forgotten Tomb Under Saturn Retrograde | 3.0 |
| The Dear Hunter The Color Spectrum | 4.5 |
| Portishead Dummy | 3.5 |
| Kashiwa Daisuke Program Music I | 3.5 |
| Into Eternity Buried in Oblivion | 3.0 |
| Dir En Grey Dum Spiro Spero | 3.0 |
| The Contortionist Exoplanet | 3.5 |
| Beheading of a King Quasar: Preserving Legacy | 3.0 |
| Aspid Extravasation | 3.0 |
| Misfits Static Age | 4.0 |
| Ludicra Another Great Love Song | 3.5 |
| Amogh Symphony The Quantum Hack Code | 3.0 |
| Toxic Holocaust Conjure and Command | 2.5 |
| The Horrors Skying | 3.0 |
| The Horrors Primary Colours | 3.0 |
| Fair to Midland Fables From a Mayfly: What I Tell You Three Times is True | 3.0 |
| Cult of Luna Salvation | 3.5 |
| Today Is the Day Temple of the Morning Star | 3.0 |
| *shels Plains Of The Purple Buffalo | 3.5 |
| *shels Sea of the Dying Dhow | 3.5 |
| *shels Wingsfortheirsmiles | 3.0 |
| Disma Towards the Megalith | 3.0 |
| Fair to Midland Arrows and Anchors | 3.0 |
| Dickkicker Somniloquent | 3.0 |
| Behemoth Demigod | 3.0 |
| OSI Office of Strategic Influence | 3.0 |
| Dir En Grey Gauze | 3.0 |
| Dir En Grey Vulgar | 3.0 |
| Ulver Perdition City | 3.5 |
| Ulver Bergtatt - Et eeventyr i 5 capitler | 3.5 |
| Elvenking Heathenreel | 3.0 |
| Elvenking The Winter Wake | 2.5 |
| Elvenking The Scythe | 2.5 |
| Burzum Hvis Lyset Tar Oss | 3.5 |
| The Dear Hunter The Color Spectrum (Complete Collection) | 4.5 |
| The Dear Hunter Branches | 3.0 |
| The Dear Hunter White | 4.5 |
| The Dear Hunter Violet | 3.5 |
| The Dear Hunter Indigo | 4.0 |
| The Dear Hunter Blue | 3.5 |
| The Dear Hunter Green | 4.0 |
| The Dear Hunter Yellow | 4.0 |
| The Dear Hunter Orange | 4.5 |
| The Dear Hunter Red | 3.0 |
| The Dear Hunter Black | 4.0 |
| Everything Everything Man Alive | 4.0 |
| Unexpect Fables of the Sleepless Empire | 3.0 |
| Devin Townsend The Hummer | 3.0 |
| Devin Townsend Project Ghost | 4.0 |
| Devin Townsend Project Deconstruction | 3.5 |
| Arch Enemy Khaos Legions | 2.0 |
| Therion Secret of the Runes | 3.5 |
| Boris Attention Please | 3.5 |
| Boris Heavy Rocks (2011) | 3.0 |
| Dream Theater Live Scenes From New York | 3.5 |
| Dream Theater Chaos in Motion | 3.0 |
| Dream Theater Live at Budokan | 3.5 |
| The Lonely Island Incredibad | 3.5 |
| Glassjaw Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Silence | 2.5 |
| Glassjaw Worship and Tribute | 3.0 |
| Dimmu Borgir Enthrone Darkness Triumphant | 3.5 |
| Borknagar Empiricism | 3.5 |
| Texas in July One Reality | 2.0 |
| Blotted Science The Machinations of Dementia | 3.5 |
| Behold... The Arctopus Skullgrid | 3.0 |
| Samael Lux Mundi | 3.0 |
| Minsk With Echoes in the Movement of Stone | 3.0 |
| Last Chance to Reason Level 2 | 3.0 |
| Counterparts Prophets | 2.5 |
| Deafheaven Roads to Judah | 3.5 |
| An Endless Sporadic Ameliorate | 3.5 |
| Septicflesh Communion | 3.0 |
| No Doubt Return of Saturn | 3.5 |
| Senses Fail The Fire | 2.5 |
| Thrice Beggars | 3.5 |
| Thrice The Artist in the Ambulance | 4.0 |
| Deafheaven Demo | 3.0 |
| Akercocke Words That Go Unspoken... | 4.0 |
| Mitochondrion Parasignosis | 2.5 |
| Spiral Architect A Sceptic's Universe | 3.0 |
| Zero Hour The Towers of Avarice | 3.0 |
| Andromeda Extension of the Wish | 3.0 |
| Dan Swano Moontower | 3.5 |
| Florence and the Machine Lungs | 3.0 |
| Dark Suns Existence | 3.0 |
| Finntroll Nattfodd | 3.0 |
| Calvin Harris Ready For The Weekend | 3.0 |
| Graviton Massless | 3.5 |
| A Perfect Circle eMOTIVe | 3.0 |
| A Perfect Circle aMOTION | 3.0 |
| Deftones Saturday Night Wrist | 3.0 |
| Deftones Around the Fur | 3.0 |
| Beardfish Sleeping in Traffic: Part Two | 3.0 |
| At The Soundawn Shifting | 3.0 |
| Temple of the Dog Temple of the Dog | 3.5 |
| Audioslave Revelations | 2.5 |
| Audioslave Out of Exile | 2.5 |
| Audioslave Audioslave | 3.5 |
| Arcade Fire Funeral | 3.0 |
| Karnivool Sound Awake | 3.5 |
| Gojira Possessed (as Godzilla) | 3.0 |
| My Dying Bride Turn Loose the Swans | 3.5 |
| Anathema We're Here Because We're Here | 3.5 |
| My Bloody Valentine Loveless | 3.0 |
| Amon Amarth Surtur Rising | 2.5 |
| Between the Buried and Me The Parallax: Hypersleep Dialogues | 3.5 |
| Chimp Spanner At the Dream's Edge | 3.5 |
| Sylosis Edge of the Earth | 3.0 |
| Within Temptation The Unforgiving | 2.5 |
| Born of Osiris The Discovery | 3.0 |
| I imagine that this is what Tim Burton's death metal album would sound like. |
| Twilight Monument To Time End | 3.0 |
| Birds Of Tokyo Birds Of Tokyo | 3.0 |
| The Angelic Process Weighing Souls With Sand | 3.0 |
| Symphony X The Divine Wings of Tragedy | 3.5 |
| Symphony X The Odyssey | 3.5 |
| Symphony X Paradise Lost | 3.0 |
| Explosions in the Sky The Earth Is Not a Cold Dead Place | 4.0 |
| High on Fire Snakes For The Divine | 2.5 |
| Portal Swarth | 2.0 |
| I'm all for experimentation and atmosphere, but it's gonna take a lot of effort on my part to get my head in the right place for this. It's difficult to listen to 41 minutes of muddy tremolo picking. It will take many more difficult listens for me to even begin to tell songs apart from eachother or have any sense of what is happening. Nature of the beast I guess. |
| Skyfire Mind Revolution | 3.0 |
| Seventh Wonder Mercy Falls | 3.0 |
| Mother Mother O My Heart | 3.5 |
| Birds Of Tokyo Universes | 3.5 |
| The National Boxer | 3.0 |
| The National High Violet | 3.5 |
| Norther Mirror of Madness | 3.0 |
| Draconian Where Lovers Mourn | 3.0 |
| Dethklok Dethalbum II | 3.5 |
| Dethklok The Dethalbum | 3.5 |
| Big Dumb Face Duke Lion Fights the Terror!! | 3.5 |
| The Strokes Angles | 3.0 |
| Wolvhammer Black Marketeers of World War III | 2.5 |
| The Butterfly Effect Begins Here | 3.0 |
| Augury Fragmentary Evidence | 3.5 |
| Orbs Asleep Next to Science | 3.0 |
| Drudkh Autumn Aurora | 3.0 |
| Drudkh Blood In Our Wells | 3.0 |
| Botch We Are the Romans | 3.0 |
| The Fall of Every Season From Below | 3.5 |
| I can tell this album will grow on me with time. The clean vocal delivery is shaky and timid, which is kind of disappointing to me at the moment. I find the more comfortable-range growls and higher shrieks to be the most palatable here. The deep growls (such as those used in the opening vocals of the title track) don't do it for me because they don't feel as genuine in the midst of such genuine music. One of the things I really like is the layout of the album, with the three dense and long songs separated by the two short, soft pieces! It makes a lot of sense and helps the cohesiveness of the album. |
| Deadlock Wolves | 2.5 |
The formula of rhythmic chuggy riffs with Johannes' growls, followed by open chords or harmonized guitars
and Sabine's clean singing (repeat) gets tiresome. I understand that isn't outside the norm for the style of
music, but it doesn't make it any less predictable or weary.
Loser's Ballet sounds like a Dimmu Borgir impersonation and doesn't much fit with the metalcore/melodic
death metal sound of the rest of the album. Lastly, I am rarely interested in lyrics but they are quite bad in
a readily apparent and consistent fashion here. "Oh how I wish that I could die, You faggot you ruined the
code of honor "... seriously come on.
Otherwise, it is a collection of decently harmless songs (with beautiful singing from Sabine of course). |
| Between the Buried and Me The Anatomy Of | 3.0 |
| System of a Down System of a Down | 3.5 |
| Winterhorde Underwatermoon | 3.0 |
| Circa Survive Blue Sky Noise | 3.0 |
| Dornenreich Flammentriebe | 3.5 |
| Lazarus A.D. Black Rivers Flow | 2.0 |
| Woods of Desolation Torn Beyond Reason | 3.5 |
With this flavor of black metal, it's all about atmosphere and capturing the momentary pairings of places
and emotions. Torn Beyond Reason generously delivers in this aspect and manages to do so without boring
me to tears in the process. |
| Scale the Summit The Collective | 4.5 |
| The Agonist Lullabies for the Dormant Mind | 3.0 |
| Immolation Close to a World Below | 3.0 |
| Deadlock Bizarro World | 2.5 |
| FACT Fact | 4.0 |
| Immolation Majesty and Decay | 2.5 |
| Mirrorthrone Gangrene | 3.0 |
| dredg El Cielo | 3.5 |
| The Mayan Factor In Lake 'CH | 3.0 |
| At the Drive-In Relationship of Command | 3.5 |
| Les Discrets/Alcest Split | 3.5 |
| Alcest Souvenirs D'Un Autre Monde | 3.5 |
| Alcest Écailles De Lune | 3.5 |
| Protest the Hero Scurrilous | 3.5 |
One of the key things that allowed me to warm up to the sometimes abrasive/annoying vocals of Rody
Walker were all the damn catchy and memorable vocal lines and the frequency with which new and fresh
sing-alongable melodies were presented.
These stick-in-your-head moments permeate nearly every song of Kezia and Fortress, and are devastatingly
absent in Scurrilous, which leaves their third effort with little redeeming value for me. |
| Radiohead The King of Limbs | 3.5 |
| I hope to have a change of heart after listening to this much more... but at this point I can't foresee this being any better than a "good" album. I'd say, at best, it's got 5 good songs and 3 okay songs. I just don't see how they will ever rise above that for me. *crosses fingers that a revelation is had soon* |
| Metallica S&M | 4.0 |
| Metallica Kill 'Em All | 3.0 |
| Metallica Death Magnetic | 2.5 |
| Metallica Reload | 2.5 |
| Metallica Load | 2.5 |
| Metallica Metallica | 4.0 |
| Metallica Master of Puppets | 4.0 |
| Metallica Ride the Lightning | 4.0 |
| Metallica ...And Justice for All | 4.0 |
| Metallica St. Anger | 2.0 |
| Graveworm Engraved in Black | 3.0 |
| Ayreon 01011001 | 3.0 |
| Ayreon The Human Equation | 3.5 |
| Skeletonwitch Breathing the Fire | 2.5 |
| Skeletonwitch Beyond the Permafrost | 4.0 |
| Empire Of The Sun Walking On A Dream | 2.5 |
| Gorillaz Demon Days | 3.5 |
| Gorillaz Plastic Beach | 3.0 |
| Communic Waves Of Visual Decay | 3.0 |
| Elbow The Seldom Seen Kid | 3.0 |
| Miike Snow Miike Snow | 3.0 |
| Massive Attack Mezzanine | 4.0 |
| In Mourning Shrouded Divine | 3.0 |
| Emancipator Safe In The Steep Cliffs | 3.0 |
| Emancipator Soon It Will Be Cold Enough | 3.0 |
| Amia Venera Landscape The Long Procession | 3.5 |
| X Japan Art of Life | 3.5 |
| Yyrkoon Unhealthy Opera | 3.0 |
| Tyr By the Light of the Northern Star | 3.0 |
| Tyr Land | 3.0 |
| Tyr Ragnarok | 4.5 |
| Tyr Eric The Red | 4.0 |
| Sybreed Antares | 3.0 |
| Sybreed Slave Design | 3.5 |
| Shadow of the Colossus Shadow of the Colossus | 3.0 |
| R.E.M. Automatic for the People | 3.5 |
| Portugal. The Man Waiter: ''You Vultures!'' | 3.0 |
| Pinback Autumn of the Seraphs | 3.5 |
| Pagan's Mind Enigmatic: Calling | 4.0 |
| Pagan's Mind Celestial Entrance | 4.0 |
| Pagan's Mind God's Equation | 3.5 |
| Outworld Outworld | 3.0 |
| Porcupine Tree In Absentia | 3.5 |
| Porcupine Tree Deadwing | 3.5 |
| Porcupine Tree Fear of a Blank Planet | 3.5 |
| OSI Free | 3.0 |
| No Doubt Tragic Kingdom | 3.5 |
| Nile Annihilation of the Wicked | 3.0 |
| Mors Principium Est The Unborn | 3.5 |
| Mirrorthrone Carriers of Dust | 3.5 |
| Mirrorthrone Of Wind and Weeping | 3.0 |
| Martriden Encounter The Monolith | 3.0 |
| Martriden Martriden EP | 3.5 |
| Lazarus A.D. The Onslaught (Re-release) | 3.0 |
| Lamb of God Wrath | 3.0 |
| Katatonia Tonight's Decision | 2.5 |
| Katatonia Brave Murder Day | 3.5 |
| Katatonia The Great Cold Distance | 3.5 |
| Kalisia Cybion | 3.0 |
| John Petrucci Suspended Animation | 4.0 |
| The Ocean Anthropocentric | 3.5 |
| Intronaut Valley of Smoke | 3.5 |
| Ihsahn After | 3.5 |
| Heaven Shall Burn Antigone | 4.0 |
| Haggard Awaking the Centuries | 3.0 |
| Nightwish Once | 3.5 |
| Nightwish Century Child | 3.0 |
| Nightwish Wishmaster | 3.0 |
| Nightwish Oceanborn | 3.5 |
| The Gathering Nighttime Birds | 3.5 |
| The Gathering Home | 3.0 |
| Fuck... I'm Dead Bring on the Dead | 1.0 |
| John Frusciante The Empyrean | 3.5 |
| John Frusciante Curtains | 4.0 |
| Forgotten Tomb Songs to Leave | 3.5 |
| Forgotten Tomb Springtime Depression | 3.5 |
| Forgotten Tomb Love's Burial Ground | 3.5 |
| Forgotten Tomb Negative Megalomania | 3.5 |
| My Dying Bride The Angel and the Dark River | 3.5 |
| My Dying Bride The Light at the End of the World | 3.5 |
| My Dying Bride Songs of Darkness, Words of Light | 3.5 |
| My Dying Bride The Dreadful Hours | 4.5 |
| My Dying Bride A Line of Deathless Kings | 4.5 |
| My Dying Bride For Lies I Sire | 3.0 |
| Draconian Arcane Rain Fell | 3.5 |
| Draconian Turning Season Within | 4.0 |
| What a solid album. Every song is excellent and easily differentiated with great riffs and vocal melodies that are both memorable and tasteful. This is one band that gets the doom harsh/clean male/female dynamic right. |
| Disillusion Three Neuron Kings | 3.0 |
| Disillusion Back to Times of Splendor | 4.5 |
| Disillusion Gloria | 2.5 |
| System of a Down Mezmerize | 3.0 |
| System of a Down Toxicity | 3.5 |
| Tool 10,000 Days | 4.0 |
| Tool Lateralus | 4.5 |
| Tool Ænima | 4.5 |
| Tool Undertow | 4.0 |
| Tool Opiate | 3.5 |
| A Perfect Circle Mer de Noms | 3.0 |
| A Perfect Circle Thirteenth Step | 4.0 |
| Deftones White Pony | 4.0 |
| Deftones Diamond Eyes | 3.5 |
| The Decemberists Picaresque | 3.5 |
| The Decemberists The Tain | 3.5 |
| The Decemberists The Crane Wife | 3.5 |
| The Decemberists The Hazards of Love | 3.0 |
| The Dear Hunter Act III: Life and Death | 4.0 |
| The Dear Hunter Act II: The Meaning of, & All Things Regarding Ms. Leading | 4.5 |
| The Dear Hunter Act I: The Lake South, the River North | 4.0 |
| TesseracT Tesseract Demo | 3.0 |
| TesseracT Concealing Fate | 4.0 |
| Periphery Periphery | 2.5 |
| Periphery Periphery (Instrumental) | 3.0 |
| Cloudkicker The Map Is Not the Territory | 3.5 |
| Cloudkicker Portmanteau | 3.5 |
| Cloudkicker A New Heavenly Body | 3.5 |
| Cloudkicker ]]][[[ | 3.5 |
| Cloudkicker Beacons | 4.0 |
| Cloudkicker The Discovery | 3.0 |
| Bruce Dickinson The Chemical Wedding | 3.0 |
| Borknagar Origin | 3.5 |
| Blind Guardian Nightfall in Middle-Earth | 3.5 |
| Bleed from Within Empire | 3.0 |
| Black Sabbath Black Sabbath | 4.0 |
| Ozzy Osbourne Blizzard of Ozz | 3.5 |
| Ozzy Osbourne Diary of a Madman | 3.5 |
| Ozzy Osbourne Bark at the Moon | 3.5 |
| Ozzy Osbourne No More Tears | 4.0 |
| Ozzy Osbourne Ozzmosis | 3.5 |
| Black Label Society The Blessed Hellride | 3.5 |
| Theatre Of Tragedy Velvet Darkness They Fear | 3.5 |
| Swallow the Sun The Morning Never Came | 3.5 |
| Barren Earth Curse of the Red River | 3.0 |
| The Cribs Ignore The Ignorant | 3.0 |
| The Cribs Men's Needs, Women's Needs, Whatever | 4.0 |
| Interpol Antics | 3.5 |
| Interpol Turn on the Bright Lights | 4.0 |
| The Vines Winning Days | 3.5 |
| The Vines Highly Evolved | 3.5 |
| The Strokes Room on Fire | 3.5 |
| The Strokes Is This It | 3.5 |
| Pelican Australasia | 3.5 |
| Pelican The Fire in Our Throats Will Beckon... | 3.5 |
| ISIS In the Absence of Truth | 3.5 |
| ISIS Oceanic | 4.0 |
| ISIS Panopticon | 4.0 |
| ISIS Wavering Radiant | 3.5 |
| Thrice The Illusion of Safety | 4.0 |
| This is an incredible album. The only major thing holding it back is that Dustin had not yet grown out of his whiny pop-punk singing phase yet. rFor the most part the thin production actually does a lot for the uniqueness of this record, so I won't count the fact the production could have been better against it. |
| Thrice Vheissu | 4.0 |
| Thrice The Alchemy Index Vols. III & IV | 3.5 |
| Thrice The Alchemy Index Vols. I & II | 3.5 |
| Misery Signals Of Malice and the Magnum Heart | 3.5 |
| Misery Signals Controller | 3.5 |
| Textures Silhouettes | 4.0 |
| Gojira The Way of All Flesh | 3.5 |
| Gojira From Mars to Sirius | 4.0 |
| Gojira The Link | 4.0 |
| Gojira Terra Incognita | 4.5 |
| Gojira The Link Alive | 3.5 |
| The Pillows Little Busters | 3.5 |
| The Pillows Runners High | 3.5 |
| The Pillows Happy Bivouac | 3.5 |
| L'arc-en-Ciel Real | 3.5 |
| L'arc-en-Ciel Smile | 3.5 |
| L'arc-en-Ciel Awake | 4.0 |
| Asian Kung-Fu Generation Sol-fa | 3.5 |
| Cynic Focus | 3.5 |
| Cynic Traced in Air | 3.5 |
| Atheist Piece of Time | 3.5 |
| Atheist Unquestionable Presence | 4.0 |
| Atheist Elements | 3.5 |
| Atheist Jupiter | 3.0 |
| The Project Hate MCMXCIX Hate, Dominate, Congregate, Eliminate | 4.0 |
| The Project Hate MCMXCIX Cybersonic Superchrist | 3.5 |
| Orphaned Land Mabool (The Story of the Three Sons...) | 3.5 |
| Edge of Sanity Crimson | 4.0 |
| Edge of Sanity Crimson II | 4.0 |
| Daylight Dies No Reply | 3.0 |
| Daylight Dies Dismantling Devotion | 4.0 |
| Daylight Dies Lost to the Living | 3.5 |
| Wolves in the Throne Room Two Hunters | 3.5 |
| Wolves in the Throne Room Diadem of 12 Stars | 3.0 |
| Agalloch From Which of This Oak | 3.0 |
| Agalloch Of Stone, Wind and Pillor | 3.5 |
| Agalloch The Grey | 3.0 |
| Agalloch The White | 3.5 |
| Agalloch Pale Folklore | 4.0 |
| Agalloch The Mantle | 4.0 |
| Agalloch Ashes Against the Grain | 4.5 |
| Agalloch Marrow of the Spirit | 3.0 |
| Necrophagist Onset of Putrefaction | 3.5 |
| Necrophagist Epitaph | 4.0 |
| The Faceless Akeldama | 3.0 |
| The Faceless Planetary Duality | 3.5 |
| Devin Townsend Project Ki | 4.0 |
| Devin Townsend Project Addicted | 4.5 |
| Devin Townsend Ocean Machine: Biomech | 4.0 |
| Devin Townsend Infinity | 3.0 |
| Devin Townsend Physicist | 3.0 |
| Devin Townsend Terria | 4.0 |
| The Devin Townsend Band Accelerated Evolution | 4.5 |
| The Devin Townsend Band Synchestra | 3.0 |
| Devin Townsend Ziltoid the Omniscient | 4.0 |
| Strapping Young Lad Alien | 4.0 |
| Strapping Young Lad City | 4.0 |
| Protest the Hero Fortress | 4.5 |
| Protest the Hero Kezia | 4.5 |
| Between the Buried and Me Between the Buried and Me | 3.0 |
| Between the Buried and Me The Silent Circus | 3.0 |
| Between the Buried and Me Alaska | 3.5 |
| Between the Buried and Me Colors | 4.0 |
| Between the Buried and Me The Great Misdirect | 3.0 |
| Meshuggah I | 3.5 |
| Meshuggah Nothing | 3.5 |
| Meshuggah Chaosphere | 3.5 |
| Meshuggah Destroy Erase Improve | 3.5 |
| Meshuggah Catch Thirtythree | 3.5 |
| Meshuggah obZen | 3.5 |
| Animals As Leaders Animals as Leaders | 4.0 |
| Scale the Summit Carving Desert Canyons | 4.0 |
| Scale the Summit Monument | 3.0 |
| Dark Tranquillity Fiction | 3.5 |
| Dark Tranquillity Character | 3.5 |
| Arch Enemy Anthems of Rebellion | 3.5 |
| Arch Enemy Wages of Sin | 3.5 |
| Kalmah Swampsong | 4.0 |
| Kalmah They Will Return | 4.0 |
| Wintersun Wintersun | 4.0 |
| Equilibrium Sagas | 3.0 |
| Bloodbath Nightmares Made Flesh | 3.5 |
| Bloodbath The Fathomless Mastery | 3.5 |
| Probot Probot | 3.5 |
| Incubus (USA-CA) Make Yourself | 3.0 |
| Incubus (USA-CA) Fungus Amongus | 3.0 |
| Incubus (USA-CA) S.C.I.E.N.C.E. | 4.0 |
| Incubus (USA-CA) Morning View | 3.5 |
| Incubus (USA-CA) A Crow Left of the Murder... | 3.5 |
| Incubus (USA-CA) Light Grenades | 3.5 |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers Off the Map | 3.5 |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers One Hot Minute | 3.0 |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers Blood Sugar Sex Magik | 4.5 |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers Californication | 4.0 |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers By the Way | 3.5 |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers Stadium Arcadium | 3.5 |
| Foo Fighters The Colour and the Shape | 3.5 |
| Nirvana Bleach | 3.5 |
| Nirvana In Utero | 3.5 |
| Nirvana Nevermind | 3.5 |
| Pearl Jam Pearl Jam | 3.5 |
| Pearl Jam Riot Act | 3.0 |
| Pearl Jam Ten | 4.0 |
| Stone Temple Pilots Thank You | 3.5 |
| Stone Temple Pilots Purple | 3.5 |
| Stone Temple Pilots Tiny Music... Songs From the Vatican Gift Shop | 3.5 |
| Stone Temple Pilots No. 4 | 4.0 |
| Stone Temple Pilots Core | 4.0 |
| Stone Temple Pilots Shangri-La-Dee-Da | 3.5 |
| Alice in Chains Jar of Flies | 4.0 |
| Alice in Chains Alice in Chains | 3.5 |
| Alice in Chains Facelift | 3.5 |
| Alice in Chains Dirt | 4.0 |
| Alice in Chains Black Gives Way to Blue | 3.0 |
| Soundgarden Louder Than Love | 3.0 |
| Soundgarden Ultramega OK | 3.0 |
| Soundgarden Down on the Upside | 3.5 |
| Soundgarden Badmotorfinger | 3.5 |
| Soundgarden Superunknown | 4.5 |
| Rush R30: 30th Anniversary Tour | 4.0 |
| Rush Snakes & Arrows Live | 4.0 |
| Rush 2112 | 4.5 |
| Rush A Farewell to Kings | 4.5 |
| Rush Hemispheres | 4.5 |
| Rush Permanent Waves | 4.5 |
| Rush Moving Pictures | 4.5 |
| Rush Signals | 3.5 |
| Rush Vapor Trails | 3.0 |
| Rush Snakes & Arrows | 3.5 |
| Jethro Tull Aqualung | 4.0 |
| Jethro Tull Thick as a Brick | 4.0 |
| Jethro Tull Minstrel in the Gallery | 4.0 |
| Jethro Tull Roots to Branches | 3.5 |
| Jethro Tull The Jethro Tull Christmas Album | 3.5 |
| King Crimson Discipline | 4.0 |
| King Crimson Red | 4.0 |
| King Crimson In the Court of the Crimson King | 4.0 |
| Liquid Tension Experiment Liquid Tension Experiment 2 | 4.0 |
| Liquid Tension Experiment Liquid Tension Experiment | 3.5 |
| Symphony X V: The New Mythology Suite | 4.5 |
| Mastodon Crack the Skye | 4.0 |
| Mastodon Blood Mountain | 4.0 |
| Mastodon Leviathan | 5.0 |
| What else can I say, this is a fucking classic record. |
| Mastodon Remission | 4.5 |
| Mastodon Lifesblood | 3.0 |
| Baroness Blue Record | 4.0 |
| Baroness Red Album | 4.0 |
| Baroness Second | 3.5 |
| Baroness First | 4.0 |
| Baroness First & Second | 4.0 |
| Amon Amarth The Crusher | 3.0 |
| Amon Amarth The Avenger | 3.0 |
| Amon Amarth Once Sent from the Golden Hall | 3.5 |
| Amon Amarth Versus the World | 4.0 |
| Amon Amarth Fate of Norns | 3.5 |
| Amon Amarth With Oden on Our Side | 4.0 |
| Amon Amarth Twilight of the Thunder God | 2.5 |
| Muse Hullabaloo | 4.0 |
| Muse Showbiz | 3.5 |
| Muse Origin of Symmetry | 4.5 |
| Muse Absolution | 4.5 |
| Muse Black Holes & Revelations | 4.0 |
| Muse The Resistance | 2.0 |
| Radiohead Amnesiac | 4.0 |
| Radiohead Pablo Honey | 3.0 |
| Radiohead The Bends | 4.5 |
| Radiohead OK Computer | 4.5 |
| Radiohead Kid A | 4.5 |
| Radiohead Hail to the Thief | 4.0 |
| Radiohead In Rainbows | 4.0 |
| Opeth The Roundhouse Tapes | 3.5 |
| Opeth Lamentations | 4.0 |
| Opeth In Live Concert at the Royal Albert Hall | 4.0 |
| Opeth Orchid | 4.0 |
| Opeth Morningrise | 4.5 |
| Opeth My Arms, Your Hearse | 4.5 |
| Opeth Still Life | 4.5 |
| Opeth Blackwater Park | 4.5 |
| Opeth Deliverance | 4.0 |
| Opeth Damnation | 4.5 |
| Opeth Ghost Reveries | 4.5 |
| Opeth Watershed | 3.5 |
| Therion Sirius B | 4.0 |
| Therion Lemuria | 4.0 |
| Therion Gothic Kabbalah | 4.0 |
| Therion Sitra Ahra | 2.0 |
| Dream Theater Awake | 3.5 |
| Dream Theater A Change of Seasons | 3.5 |
| Dream Theater When Dream and Day Unite | 3.0 |
| Dream Theater Falling into Infinity | 3.5 |
| Dream Theater Images and Words | 4.5 |
| Dream Theater Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes from a Memory | 4.5 |
| Dream Theater Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence | 4.0 |
| Dream Theater Train of Thought | 4.0 |
| Dream Theater Octavarium | 3.5 |
| Dream Theater Systematic Chaos | 3.5 |
| Dream Theater Black Clouds and Silver Linings | 3.5 |
This album is definitely back-heavy, and gets better and better with the last 3 songs. It also definitely cant's
be touched by the new album unfortunately. A Nightmare To Remember has some great parts such as the
middle section. They beat the introductory riff and gothic shit to death throughout the song for far too long
though, and Portnoy's vocal section always elicits a face-palm. A Rite Of Passage is the weakest and lamest
song on the album, and Wither is an okay (if not very tame and generic) ballad. The Shattered Fortress is a
retread of many of the suite's motifs and doesn't bring much that is new and interesting to the table, but I
forgive it because it is still pretty epic and succeeds in the nostalgia department. The Best Of Times is a
great song and gets points for the inherent emotional quality of the subject matter. The Count of Tuscany is
an epic end to the album, with some of the best songwriting, riffs, transitions, instrumental sections and
melodies the band has produced in a long while. I really dig the Rush and King Crimson vibes from the
second half of this album. |
| Dimmu Borgir Death Cult Armageddon | 3.5 |
| Dimmu Borgir Puritanical Euphoric Misanthropia | 4.0 |
| Dimmu Borgir In Sorte Diaboli | 3.0 |
| Dimmu Borgir Abrahadabra | 2.5 |
| Kamelot The Black Halo | 4.0 |
| Kamelot Epica | 3.5 |
| Kamelot Karma | 4.0 |
| Kamelot Ghost Opera | 3.5 |
| Kamelot Poetry for the Poisoned | 2.5 |
