Swallow the Sun New Moon | 3.5 |
Novembre Materia | 4.0 |
Swallow the Sun Hope | 4.0 |
Insomnium One for Sorrow | 4.5 |
I was really worried that this band would follow in the footsteps of so many melodic death metal bands and compromise their sound over time, but they've stayed true to their roots while still growing as a solid metal band. |
Insomnium Across the Dark | 4.5 |
October Tide A Thin Shell | 3.5 |
The Receiving End of Sirens Between the Heart and the Synapse | 4.0 |
The Receiving End of Sirens The Earth Sings Mi Fa Mi | 3.5 |
Supertramp Breakfast in America | 4.5 |
Wynton Marsalis Black Codes (From the Underground) | 4.5 |
Wynton Marsalis Big Train | 5.0 |
Wynton Marsalis Wynton Marsalis | 4.5 |
Stan Getz and Joao Gilberto Getz/Gilberto | 4.5 |
Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Cole Porter Song Book | 4.5 |
Ella Fitzgerald Pure Ella (Ella Sings Gershwin) | 4.5 |
Duke Ellington Ellington Uptown | 4.5 |
Branford Marsalis Random Abstract | 5.0 |
Billie Holiday Lady In Satin | 5.0 |
Billie Holiday Billie Holiday Favorites | 5.0 |
Charlie Parker Jam Session | 5.0 |
John Coltrane Blue Train | 5.0 |
John Coltrane Giant Steps | 5.0 |
John Coltrane My Favorite Things | 4.5 |
Miles Davis Birth of the Cool | 5.0 |
Miles Davis Kind of Blue | 5.0 |
Miles Davis Tutu | 3.0 |
Charles Mingus Mingus Ah Um | 5.0 |
Badly Drawn Boy The Hour Of Bewilderbeast | 3.0 |
Alice in Chains Jar of Flies | 4.0 |
36 Crazyfists Bitterness the Star | 2.5 |
12 Stones 12 Stones | 3.5 |
4 Non Blondes Bigger, Better, Faster, More! | 3.0 |
Dio Dream Evil | 4.0 |
Dio Holy Diver | 4.0 |
Black Sabbath Heaven and Hell | 4.5 |
Ozzy Osbourne Bark at the Moon | 4.5 |
Ozzy Osbourne Diary of a Madman | 4.5 |
Ozzy Osbourne Blizzard of Ozz | 4.5 |
Queen A Night at the Opera | 5.0 |
Bad Company Bad Company | 4.5 |
Periphery Periphery | 4.0 |
Before The Dawn Deathstar Rising | 3.5 |
Ceremonial Perfection Alone in the End | 3.0 |
Cynic Traced in Air | 5.0 |
Cynic Focus | 4.0 |
Cynic Re-Traced | 4.0 |
Painted in Exile Revitalized | 3.5 |
Rishloo Terras Fames | 4.0 |
Rishloo Eidolon | 4.0 |
Rishloo Feathergun | 4.5 |
Boris Soundtrack from the Film Mabuta no Ura | 4.0 |
Boris Pink | 4.0 |
Garden of Shadows Heart of the Corona | 3.5 |
Garden of Shadows Oracle Moon | 4.5 |
Allegaeon Fragments of Form and Function | 4.0 |
Woe Of Tyrants Threnody | 4.0 |
Woe Of Tyrants Kingdom of Might | 4.5 |
Woe Of Tyrants Behold the Lion | 4.0 |
Accept Blood of the Nations | 3.5 |
King Crimson In the Court of the Crimson King | 4.5 |
The Mars Volta Frances the Mute | 3.5 |
Rush All the World's a Stage | 4.5 |
Rush Rush | 4.0 |
Recon (USA-NY) Welcome To Viper CIty | 2.5 |
A Plea for Purging A Critique of Mind and Thought | 3.0 |
Arch Enemy Doomsday Machine | 3.0 |
At the Gates Slaughter of the Soul | 3.5 |
Dark Tranquillity The Gallery | 3.5 |
Scar Symmetry Symmetric in Design | 3.5 |
Insomnium Above the Weeping World | 5.0 |
I can't get enough of this album. I get something new out of each track almost every time I listen to it. Metal brilliance! |
Iced Earth Something Wicked This Way Comes | 4.0 |
Iced Earth The Crucible of Man | 3.0 |
Heaven Shall Burn vs. Caliban The Split Program II | 4.0 |
Heaven Shall Burn Whatever It May Take | 3.0 |
Heaven Shall Burn Iconoclast (Part 1: The Final Resistance) | 3.5 |
Heaven Shall Burn Deaf to Our Prayers | 4.0 |
Heaven Shall Burn Asunder | 2.5 |
Heaven Shall Burn Antigone | 3.5 |
Firewind Allegiance | 3.5 |
Firewind The Premonition | 4.0 |
The Faceless Planetary Duality | 3.5 |
Eradication (UK) Dreams of Reality | 4.0 |
Immortal Battles in the North | 3.0 |
Dissection Storm of the Light's Bane | 3.5 |
Dimmu Borgir Enthrone Darkness Triumphant | 4.0 |
People In Planes Beyond the Horizon | 3.5 |
OneRepublic Waking Up | 3.5 |
OneRepublic Dreaming Out Loud | 3.5 |
OK Go Of The Blue Colour Of The Sky | 3.0 |
OK Go Oh No | 3.5 |
OK Go OK Go | 4.0 |
Young the Giant Shake My Hand | 4.0 |
Swan Lake Beast Moans | 4.0 |
Margot and the Nuclear So and So's The Dust of Retreat | 4.5 |
Joe Hisaishi Spirited Away | 5.0 |
Absolutely one of the greatest composers of today. Even if you haven't seen of the movies, he captures an imaginative, fantastical approach to music that is lacking in much classical compositions of today. It is a jovial escape! |
George Winston Forest | 5.0 |
If you love solo piano, these playful compositions will most likely soothe your craving. It's not the most intricately composed or even packed with talent... it's just, really enjoyable. |
George Winston December | 5.0 |
Burden of a Day Pilots & Paper Planes | 3.5 |
Burden of a Day OneOneThousand | 3.5 |
Brand New Deja Entendu | 3.5 |
Brand New The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me | 4.0 |
Boy In Static Violet | 3.5 |
Born of Osiris A Higher Place | 4.0 |
Born of Osiris The New Reign | 3.5 |
Born of Osiris Rosecrance | 3.0 |
Blood, Sweat and Tears Blood, Sweat & Tears | 4.0 |
Blood Stain Child Mozaiq | 3.5 |
Blinded Colony Bedtime Prayers | 3.5 |
The Bled Silent Treatment | 3.0 |
Beneath The Sky What Demons Do To Saints | 4.0 |
Before Their Eyes Untouchable | 2.5 |
Before Their Eyes The Dawn of My Death | 3.5 |
Before Their Eyes Before Their Eyes | 3.5 |
Bassnectar Cozza Frenzy | 3.5 |
Army Navy Army Navy | 3.5 |
Armor For Sleep Smile For Them | 3.0 |
Armor For Sleep What To Do When You Are Dead | 3.5 |
Angels and Airwaves We Don't Need to Whisper | 2.5 |
Much like the title, the entire album is much like a 99cent romance novel. It's kinda fun to listen to once, but after you know the plot and read all the juicy bits, you're ready to just stack it on your self and let it gather dust... or simply throw it away. It leaves no great impression and is easily forgotten. |
Anberlin Cities | 3.0 |
Anberlin New Surrender | 3.0 |
Amorphis Skyforger | 3.5 |
Amorphis Silent Waters | 4.0 |
Alpha Come From Heaven | 3.5 |
Chick Corea Now He Sings, Now He Sobs | 4.0 |
Yes The Yes Album | 5.0 |
Yes Close to the Edge | 5.0 |
Camel Camel | 5.0 |
Camel Mirage | 5.0 |
War of Ages Eternal | 4.5 |
War of Ages Arise and Conquer | 4.5 |
War of Ages Fire From the Tomb | 4.5 |
War of Ages Pride of the Wicked | 3.5 |
War of Ages War of Ages | 4.5 |
War of Ages Unite Us All | 4.5 |
Vanna A New Hope | 4.5 |
Vanna The Search Party Never Came | 3.5 |
Strapping Young Lad The New Black | 5.0 |
Out of so many albums that Townsend has created through Strapping Young Lad, this one is my favorite. I just ... love it. |
The Squirrel Nut Zippers The Inevitable | 4.0 |
The Squirrel Nut Zippers Perennial Favorites | 4.0 |
The Squirrel Nut Zippers Bedlam Ballroom | 4.0 |
The Smashing Pumpkins Machina/The Machines of God | 3.5 |
The Smashing Pumpkins Adore | 5.0 |
Yet another highly prolific band, and yet, I think Adore just breathes sensuality and morbid curiosity... It's like the bad boy your mom always warns you about, but you always secretly fantasize over when no one's watching. |
The Smashing Pumpkins Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness | 3.5 |
The Smashing Pumpkins Siamese Dream | 4.0 |
The Number Twelve Looks Like You Worse Than Alone | 3.5 |
The Number Twelve Looks Like You Nuclear. Sad. Nuclear. | 4.0 |
I have to listen to this album in small doses and only when I'm in a certain mood, but guaranteed, every single time I do listen to it, I'm amazed by the creativity and the experimentation of this band. They don't pull any punches and they take a lot of chances-- and they're musical talent bleeds through! |
Apocalyptica Inquisition Symphony | 4.5 |
Apocalyptica Plays Metallica by Four Cellos | 4.5 |
Maylene and the Sons of Disaster II | 4.5 |
Maylene and the Sons of Disaster Maylene and the Sons of Disaster | 4.5 |
Kittie Paperdoll | 3.5 |
Kittie Until The End | 4.5 |
Kittie Oracle | 3.5 |
Kalmah 12 Gauge | 4.5 |
I Hate Kate Embrace the curse | 3.5 |
Incubus (USA-CA) Light Grenades | 4.5 |
Incubus (USA-CA) Make Yourself | 4.0 |
Green Day 21st Century Breakdown | 1.0 |
Green Day American Idiot | 1.0 |
"I'm going to write trite songs about how much I disrespect our current president and pretend like I'm being hardcore punk and totally original!"... Watch me be completely unimpressed. Another decent band turns into worthless crap... |
Green Day Nimrod | 3.5 |
Gojira From Mars to Sirius | 5.0 |
From First to Last Heroine | 4.5 |
From Autumn to Ashes Holding A Wolf By The Ears | 3.5 |
From Autumn to Ashes Abandon Your Friends | 4.0 |
Flyleaf Memento Mori | 3.0 |
Flyleaf Flyleaf | 3.5 |
Devin Townsend Project Addicted | 5.0 |
Most likely, Townsend is the greatest, most prolific creative music genius this metal world has ever seen. He's one ugly bastard, but damn if he doesn't make me cream myself with every new record he produces/creates! |
Deas Vail Birds & Cages | 3.5 |
Deas Vail All The Houses Look The Same | 4.0 |
A Day To Remember Homesick | 2.5 |
Children of Bodom Are You Dead Yet? | 4.0 |
Possibly the only truly great album this band has put out. It always seemed like Bodom was desperately working their way up to SOMETHING spectacular, but always falling short of that mark. Then, their stuff got terribly repetitive and lacked ALL sense of creativity. While this is far from metal perfection, I think it embodies all the band could possibly amount to. |
Children of Bodom Hate Crew Deathroll | 3.5 |
Children of Bodom Follow the Reaper | 3.5 |
Children of Bodom Hatebreeder | 3.5 |
Children of Bodom Something Wild | 3.5 |
Chevelle This Type Of Thinking (Could Do Us In) | 3.5 |
Chevelle Wonder What's Next | 4.0 |
Breaking Benjamin Dear Agony | 3.5 |
Breaking Benjamin Phobia | 4.0 |
Breaking Benjamin We Are Not Alone | 3.5 |
Breaking Benjamin Saturate | 3.5 |
Blackfield Blackfield | 4.5 |
Blackfield Blackfield II | 4.5 |
Protest the Hero Kezia | 2.5 |
Between the Buried and Me Colors | 4.0 |
Between the Buried and Me The Silent Circus | 4.0 |
Between the Buried and Me Between the Buried and Me | 4.0 |
Between the Buried and Me Alaska | 4.5 |
Coldplay Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends | 4.0 |
Coldplay X&Y | 4.0 |
Coldplay Parachutes | 4.5 |
Coldplay A Rush of Blood to the Head | 5.0 |
I return to this CD time and time again, and now I'm not even sure if what keeps me coming back is more about the quality of the music or the nostalgia that comes flooding in with every track. Either way, it is a beautiful album. |
Bell X1 Blue Lights On the Runway | 3.0 |
Bell X1 Flock | 4.0 |
Disturbed Ten Thousand Fists | 3.0 |
Disturbed The Sickness | 2.5 |
Bullet for My Valentine Scream Aim Fire | 2.0 |
Bullet for My Valentine The Poison | 3.0 |
Avenged Sevenfold Nightmare | 2.5 |
Avenged Sevenfold Avenged Sevenfold | 2.5 |
Avenged Sevenfold City of Evil | 2.5 |
Avenged Sevenfold Waking the Fallen | 3.0 |
Audioslave Out of Exile | 5.0 |
Audioslave Audioslave | 5.0 |
Insomnium Since the Day It All Came Down | 4.5 |
Insomnium In the Halls of Awaiting | 5.0 |
This album is what made me an Insomnium fan. The slightly eerie atmosphere, the superb vocals, and the overall composition of each song is so beautiful and solid. Every song is awesome. |
Amon Amarth Twilight of the Thunder God | 4.5 |
Amon Amarth Surtur Rising | 4.5 |
Panic! at the Disco A Fever You Can't Sweat Out | 1.0 |
I will never EVER understand how a band THIS shitty ever sold so many copies of this worthless album. If there ever was an album I loathed more than this one, I'd probably have to throw up all over it. |
Panic! at the Disco Pretty. Odd. | 1.0 |
Fall Out Boy Infinity on High | 1.0 |
If there was a way to cut out this kid's jugular and sell it to the squealing lil scene children ... I would do it in a heartbeat. I think i equate these guys with a Backstreet Boys of my generation. They aren't even worth being called N*Sync... they're THAT bad. |
Fall Out Boy Folie a Deux | 1.0 |
Shadows Fall Threads of Life | 3.0 |
Lamb of God Ashes of the Wake | 4.0 |
Lamb of God Sacrament | 4.0 |
The Devil Wears Prada With Roots Above and Branches Below | 4.0 |
Mastodon Leviathan | 2.5 |
Times of Grace The Hymn of a Broken Man | 4.0 |
Search The City A Fire So Big The Heavens Can See It | 3.0 |
Upon a Burning Body The World Is Ours | 3.5 |
In Fear and Faith Your World On Fire | 4.5 |
In Fear and Faith Imperial | 4.5 |
Deadmau5 For Lack of a Better Name | 4.0 |
Sent By Ravens Our Graceful Words | 3.5 |
Coheed and Cambria Year of the Black Rainbow | 3.0 |
This album has some good moments, but it's a step down from their last album. It seems to lack depth and moves into an almost post-rock kind of territory, where simplicity is replaced with bland, empty tracks and platitudes. I was hoping for greater progressive epics, but I was deeply dissatisfied. |
Coheed and Cambria No World for Tomorrow | 4.5 |
This album is very reticent of Pink Floyd. Many of the songs have lengthy, progressive solos that sound ethereal and contain a lot of depth. It was an impressive direction for the band in my opinion. |
Coheed and Cambria In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3 | 4.5 |
Coheed and Cambria From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness | 4.0 |
It's always an obvious answer: Welcome Home is an epic track worth recognition, but I think this band has a lot more room to grow. |
Coheed and Cambria The Second Stage Turbine Blade | 4.0 |
Black Sabbath Sabbath Bloody Sabbath | 5.0 |
Led Zeppelin Houses of the Holy | 5.0 |
Pink Floyd The Dark Side of the Moon | 5.0 |
Pink Floyd Animals | 5.0 |
Pink Floyd Wish You Were Here | 5.0 |
Pink Floyd The Wall | 5.0 |
Portishead Dummy | 4.0 |
Portishead Portishead | 4.0 |
Portishead Third | 4.0 |
Once Nothing First Came the Law | 4.5 |
It's so raw. It's southern metal that's charged with vital frustration and punched with retribution. He sounds so damn pissed off, and all i want to do is stand behind him as he charges through the city in revolt. |
Thirty Seconds to Mars A Beautiful Lie | 1.5 |
This band is nothing more than a waste of time. They're gimmicky and cater to that ever growing emo crowd that think if a lead singer wears eyeliner and plugs, he MUST be badass and therefore, his music MUST be good. I cry bs. |
Thirty Seconds to Mars This Is War | 1.0 |
A bad band getting worse. How unexpected! An album full of poppy, vapid tracks lacking all creativity. No wonder it hit so high on the charts. |
There For Tomorrow A Little Faster | 3.0 |
August Burns Red Thrill Seeker | 4.0 |
August Burns Red Constellations | 4.5 |
August Burns Red Messengers | 4.0 |
Ace Augustine The Absolute | 3.0 |
Right Away, Great Captain! The Bitter End | 3.0 |
Right Away, Great Captain! The Eventually Home | 3.0 |
Viatrophy Viatrophy | 4.0 |
Jamie's Elsewhere They Said a Storm Was Coming | 3.0 |
Jamie's Elsewhere Guidebook for Sinners Turned Saints | 4.0 |
Dead Silence Hides My Cries The Wretched Symphony | 4.0 |
Darkest Hour The Human Romance | 3.5 |
Fei Comodo They All Have Two Faces | 4.0 |
All Shall Perish Awaken the Dreamers | 3.0 |
All Shall Perish Hate. Malice. Revenge | 3.0 |
All Shall Perish The Price of Existence | 4.0 |
I get a lot of grief for diggin this band, but I actually like the insanely high pitched screams and I think their is certainly a good amount of decent guitar work and the drummer has some talent worth noting. |
Circa Survive Blue Sky Noise | 4.0 |
Circa Survive On Letting Go | 4.5 |
Circa Survive Juturna | 4.5 |
Bury Tomorrow Portraits | 4.0 |
Like Moths to Flames Sweet Talker | 2.0 |
Thrice The Alchemy Index Vols. III & IV | 4.5 |
Thrice The Alchemy Index Vols. I & II | 4.5 |
Thrice Vheissu | 5.0 |
Every single track on this entire bloody album is amazing. From the lyrics, to the riffs, to the vocals... every OUNCE of this album is worth listening to time and time again. I get something different out of it each time I listen to it. It never stops inspiring me. |
Sleeping With Sirens With Ears to See and Eyes to Hear | 4.0 |
Wild Sweet Orange We Have Cause To Be Uneasy | 3.5 |
All That Remains ...For We Are Many | 3.0 |
All That Remains Overcome | 3.0 |
All That Remains The Fall of Ideals | 3.5 |
All That Remains This Darkened Heart | 4.0 |
Sadly, I really believe this is exactly where the band peaked. With wonderful instrumentals and a strong lead guitarist, I think this band was heading towards good potential, but after losing their awesome drummer and caving into the demands of scene kids asking for more watered down metal, this band lost it's edge. |
Parkway Drive Horizons | 4.0 |
Parkway Drive Killing with a Smile | 4.5 |
Parkway Drive Deep Blue | 4.5 |
Sleeping at Last Storyboards | 4.0 |
Sleeping at Last Keep No Score | 4.0 |
Sleeping at Last Ghosts | 4.0 |
Sleeping at Last Christmas Collection 2010 | 3.5 |
Sleeping at Last Capture | 4.0 |
Windsor Drive Meet The Tide | 4.5 |
It's a bit tragic this band doesn't get more credit. This album contains one of my most favorite songs: The Forest. It's a bit simple, but the lyrics are creative and imaginative and the piano work is light and provocative. |
For Today Ekklesia | 4.5 |
For Today Portraits | 4.0 |
For Today Breaker | 3.5 |
Confide Recover | 3.5 |
In Flames Lunar Strain | 3.5 |
In Flames The Jester Race | 5.0 |
Powerful guitar work, from the first track to the last! If this album doesn't make you drool all over yourself in feverish excitement, then you should check your pulse. |
In Flames Colony | 5.0 |
This is by far one of the absolute best albums the band has put out. I think they really embodied the heart and soul of melodic death metal in a good chunk of this album. The original lead guitarist featured on here definitely proved his glaring talent. |
In Flames A Sense of Purpose | 3.5 |
Oh how the might fall. It never stops being disappointing. |
As I Lay Dying Beneath the Encasing of Ashes | 3.5 |
As I Lay Dying Frail Words Collapse | 4.5 |
As I Lay Dying Shadows Are Security | 4.0 |
As I Lay Dying An Ocean Between Us | 4.5 |
As I Lay Dying The Powerless Rise | 4.5 |
Memphis May Fire Between the Lies | 3.5 |
Memphis May Fire Memphis May Fire | 4.5 |
Some of the tracks on here, like Cowbell's, have an almost progressive metalcore feel. The vocals are strong, but don't overpower the definitely strength in guitar work and drum work. Their later albums, unfortunately, don't carry through with that same "badass" creativity and experimentation. |
Burden of a Day Blessed Be Our Ever After | 4.5 |
Broadway Kingdoms | 4.5 |
A Skylit Drive She Watched the Sky | 4.0 |
A Skylit Drive Adelphia | 2.5 |
A Skylit Drive Wires...and the Concept of Breathing | 4.0 |
Alesana On Frail Wings of Vanity and Wax | 3.5 |
Alesana Where Myth Fades to Legend | 3.0 |
Alesana The Emptiness | 2.0 |
Chiodos All's Well That Ends Well | 3.5 |
Chiodos Bone Palace Ballet | 2.5 |
Chiodos Illuminaudio | 4.0 |
I think the band made a wise change when they replaced their old lead singer. He may have had talent, but the change has obviously forced the band to step it up a notch. Where laziness was reigning, creativity and experimentation are moving on in... It'll be interesting to see their next moves. |
Emarosa Emarosa | 3.0 |
Emarosa Relativity | 4.0 |
When Johnny first stepped into the band, he was raw talent without much of that prideful bravado. It seemed like he had found a good niche in Emarosa, and a lot of the tracks on this album are actually pretty damn solid, but it's sadly the best they'll ever be. |
Emarosa This Is Your Way Out | 4.5 |
Before Johnny came in and took over the whole damn band, Emarosa was definitely heading in a pretty solid direction. With tracks like Epoch Coda, they showed they new how a progressive track COULD be constructed. It's a shame they didn't continue on in the vein. |
Pierce the Veil A Flair for the Dramatic | 4.0 |
I know that this is totally classified as a crazy guilty pleasure, but for some reason I really love this album. The vocals are pretty unique, if not a little odd, but what really shines out is the talent of the lead guitarist and bassist. These guys jam hard and aren't afraid to really grow and push themselves. I hope to see even better work, compositionally, from them in the future. |
Pierce the Veil Selfish Machines | 4.0 |
Isles and Glaciers The Hearts of Lonely People | 3.0 |
Just another opportunity for Johnny "Eat Me" Craig to show off his "amazing" vocals to the ever-gasping, squealing hardcore crowd. I'll be thankful when he's not producing music anymore. |
My Bitter End The Renovation | 2.0 |
Attack Attack! Someday Came Suddenly | 4.5 |
Attack Attack! Attack Attack! | 4.0 |
A Skylit Drive Identity on Fire | 3.0 |
In Flames Soundtrack to Your Escape | 5.0 |
In Flames Whoracle | 5.0 |
This is probably the album that MOST metalheads can all agree was pretty damn good. Even if you don't dig melodic, you gotta dig the subtle death metal riffs and vocals throughout this entire album. It's so goooood! |
In Flames Clayman | 5.0 |
In Flames Reroute to Remain | 5.0 |
In Flames Come Clarity | 5.0 |
Once again, definitely one of my top favorite albums by this band. Oh how I wish they were still this damn good. |