| When Knives Go Skyward A Thousand Miles of Rope | 4.0 |
| Tony Danza Tapdance Extravaganza's guitarist Joshua Travis and Frontier's vocalist Chad Kapper were in a band back in the day, just found out.rThis is a mathcore match made in heaven. However, upon second listen it's not quite as incredible as previously thought - doesn't come quite as close to Frontierer. Still, worth checking out |
| Cephalic Carnage Anomalies | 4.5 |
| I put this on on a whim and accidentally wound up listening to the thing. I really underrated this album vs Lucid Interval, which I previously loved a lot. So much variety and yet it basically feels like it doesn't let up. Goddamn. |
| Tougher Than Nails Delusional Blasphemies Destroyed | 1.0 |
| Crisis Sigil Crisis Sigil | 4.5 |
| The Acacia Strain C | 3.0 |
| well now I have no idea what it's gonna spell. probably DECAY |
| The Acacia Strain D | 4.0 |
| The Acacia Strain E | 2.5 |
| thankful that they're giving us more, but D was better |
| The Acacia Strain It Comes in Waves | 4.0 |
| Damn, they had this in them? Incredible. It reminds me of the atmospheric moments on Death is the Only Mortal and their song Observer. Cool to see Vincent have a bit more range besides his usual deep growl (and rare high scream) too. I hope they make another album like this someday, because the Coma Witch style is getting old. Their best work as a whole since Continent. Also, they should keep self-producing their albums - because the production is on this is MUCH better than the last two. |
| Parkway Drive Atlas | 3.5 |
| The Body and Full Of Hell One Day You Will Ache Like I Ache | 4.0 |
| Full of Hell and Merzbow Full of Hell and Merzbow | 4.0 |
| Full of Hell Weeping Choir | 4.0 |
| Peosphoros Pink Metal | 1.0 |
| Oh great, just what we need - the Anal Cunt of black metal. |
| The Acacia Strain Money For Nothing | 4.5 |
| Despite this clearly being a cashgrab - this is quite a good collection of songs. "Money for Nothing" is a fun The Dead Walks B-side, "Global Warming" and "Stay Puft" are great Continent B-sides and the versions of "The Hills Have Eyes" and "Terminated" are superior to the ones that came out on Wormwood due to having a lot more energy - I kinda wish the rest of that album was closer to these versions. Of course, the band never consented to this release, so just torrent this shit instead of paying for it. |
| The Acacia Strain The Most Known Unknown | 4.5 |
| A great collection of live songs taken from the best era of The Acacia Strain (2004 - 2008), including some songs from 3750 that they rarely play live anymore. |
| Depeche Mode Violator | 4.5 |
| In Mourning Shrouded Divine | 3.5 |
| Juneva A Cambiata | 4.5 |
| A Day To Remember Resentment | 2.5 |
| Katatonia Viva Emptiness (10th Anniversary Version) | 4.5 |
| Dance Gavin Dance Dance Gavin Dance (Instrumental) | 5.0 |
| Dance Gavin Dance Downtown Battle Mountain II | 4.5 |
| Reel Big Fish Favourite Noise | 4.5 |
| Has most of the best songs from Turn the Radio Off and Why Do They Rock So Hard?, but you're better off getting them individually - this release lacks such great songs like Join the Club, Skatanic, All I Want is More, Say "Ten", Alternative Baby, Brand New Song, Thank You For Not Moshing, Everything is Cool, Scott's a Dork and Down in Flames. Why the hell is Snoop Dog, Baby here but those songs aren't? |
| Behold... The Arctopus Nano-Nucleonic Cyborg Summoning EP | 4.0 |
| Dystopia Human = Garbage | 4.5 |
| Circa Survive Blue Sky Noise | 4.0 |
| Circa Survive On Letting Go | 4.5 |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor 'Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend! | 4.0 |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor Luciferian Towers | 4.0 |
| Senses Fail If There Is Light, It Will Find You | 4.0 |
| Sugar Wounds Sugar Wounds | 4.0 |
| Adema Topple the Giants | 1.5 |
| Entombed Left Hand Path | 4.0 |
| This is killer when you combine with the old Doom games. Took awhile for the vocals to grow on me since I'm used to newer, deeper death growls but now I love them. Clandestine suffers as a result with the lack of vocals from L.G. Petrov. |
| Emmure Eternal Enemies | 1.5 |
| Deafheaven New Bermuda | 4.5 |
| Deafheaven Ordinary Corrupt Human Love | 4.5 |
| Deafheaven Sunbather | 4.0 |
| Deafheaven Roads to Judah | 4.0 |
| Farrah Abraham My Teenage Dream Ended | 4.0 |
| Baffling and yet surprisingly engaging. Unironically an accidental avant-pop masterwork. The best part of it is that she recorded her vocals to a click track and the beats were made after the fact - but it doesn't even seem they made beats that even matched up with what she was singing. I wouldn't have it any other way - her 2014 single Blowin' is much more conventional, with a beat that actually matches her vocals and as a result the charm is completely lost. Fans of 100 gecs should seek this out. |
| Opeth Deliverance & Damnation Remixed | 3.0 |
I'll need to listen more closely to the Damnation remaster to tell the differences but
Deliverance's bass drums are far too prominent and they nearly ruin certain songs. The biggest
example of this is on Master's Apprentices. I never personally had a huge problem with
Deliverance's mix, it may not be as pristine as Blackwater Park's but it didn't hurt the album too
much IMO, whereas this one did. |
| Opeth Lamentations | 4.0 |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Under the Running Board | 4.0 |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan The Dillinger Escape Plan | 3.0 |
| Threatin Breaking the World | 1.5 |
| Heard a bit of it - it's not the worst thing in the world but definitely below par for metal. I don't think he's a lost cause in terms of musical talent but his career (if it ever had any hope of being alive) will be tainted forever from his antics. |
| ISIS Celestial | 4.5 |
| Anal Cunt Wearing Out Our Welcome | 1.0 |
| Anal Cunt Everyone Should Be Killed | 1.0 |
| Anal Cunt 40 More Reasons To Hate Us | 1.0 |
| Anal Cunt Top 40 Hits | 1.0 |
| Anal Cunt I Like It When You Die | 1.0 |
| Fuck Anal Cunt and fuck Seth Putnam. I'm glad this Nazi cunt who cloaked his edgy bigotry with irony is fucking dead. Good riddance. He gave grind a bad name and literally every single other band playing this style is better. Ethan from Primitive Man agrees - https://i.imgur.com/0mysjxN.jpg |
| Anal Cunt Picnic of Love | 1.0 |
| Anal Cunt It Just Gets Worse | 1.0 |
| Anal Cunt The 88 Song EP | 1.0 |
| Anal Cunt Defenders of the Hate | 1.0 |
| Anal Cunt 110 Song CD | 1.0 |
| Anal Cunt Fuckin' A | 1.0 |
| Vaginal Jesus Affirmative Apartheid | 1.0 |
| Sophie Oil of Every Pearl's Un-Insides | 4.5 |
| Cat Company Cat Company | 4.5 |
| SeeYouSpaceCowboy/secondgradeknifefight SYSC//SGKF Split | 4.5 |
| fail better, heal faster fail better, heal faster | 1.0 |
| The Acacia Strain Gravebloom | 2.0 |
| The songwriting's hasn't really changed much since Above/Below. maybe I'd bump this if I hadn't heard Coma Witch.rIt's strange expecting The Acacia Strain to do something different but I didn't expect them to do something that was exactly the same.rAt least the production is better this time around.rWhat's with Vincent's lyric patterns too? I think he's done this for awhile but it seems he rhymes every single word like AA/BB without fail. |
| Suicide Silence Suicide Silence | 1.5 |
| Emmure Look At Yourself | 2.5 |
| Anal Trump To All the Broads I've Nailed Before | 1.0 |
| Darke Complex Point Oblivion | 2.5 |
| HEALTH Get Color | 3.0 |
| A Day To Remember Bad Vibrations | 3.0 |
| The Faceless Planetary Duality | 4.0 |
| maudlin of the Well My Fruit Psychobells... A Seed Combustible | 3.5 |
| maudlin of the Well Leaving Your Body Map | 3.5 |
| maudlin of the Well Bath | 3.5 |
| Wormed Exodromos | 4.0 |
| Secret Band Secret Band EP | 4.0 |
| The Contortionist Intrinsic | 4.0 |
| Jeromes Dream Completed | 4.0 |
| Ampere All Our Tomorrows End Today | 4.0 |
| Godflesh A World Lit Only by Fire | 4.5 |
| Godflesh Streetcleaner | 3.5 |
| Saosin Translating the Name | 4.5 |
| Daughters Daughters | 4.0 |
| Daughters Hell Songs | 4.5 |
| Glass Cloud The Royal Thousand | 4.0 |
| Hands Like Houses Dissonants | 3.5 |
| Panic! at the Disco A Fever You Can't Sweat Out | 3.0 |
| Infant Annihilator The Elysian Grandeval Galèriarch | 3.5 |
| Mansun Six | 3.5 |
| Mansun Attack of the Grey Lantern | 4.0 |
| Rage Against the Machine Live at the Grand Olympic Auditorium (DVD) | 4.5 |
| Rage Against the Machine Evil Empire | 3.5 |
| Rage Against the Machine The Battle of Los Angeles | 3.5 |
| Rage Against the Machine Rage Against the Machine | 4.0 |
| The Amity Affliction Chasing Ghosts | 3.5 |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Calculating Infinity | 5.0 |
| A masterpiece in intricate intensity. They nailed the sound they were going for so hard that they had to switch sounds for their next album because there's no way they could have topped it. |
| Chief Keef Finally Rich | 3.0 |
| Clipse Hell Hath No Fury | 4.5 |
| The Underachievers Indigoism | 3.0 |
| Of Mice and Men Restoring Force | 3.0 |
| That's Outrageous! Teenage Scream | 3.0 |
| Bones (USA-CA) DEADBOY | 4.0 |
| Due to its short length and huge variety, "DEADBOY" manages to be the best Bones release. Solid songs across the board that take advantage of the excellent atmosphere. Lyrically it's nothing special, but if you're drawn in by the aforementioned atmosphere they can be ignored somewhat. |
| Flatbush Zombies BetterOffDEAD | 3.5 |
| Despised Icon Beast | 2.0 |
| This would have been mediocre in the mid 2000s and doesn't fare any better nowadays. "The Aftermath", "One Last Martini" (a re-recording of a song written 10 years ago) and the title track are highlights, but most of the songs here show their death metal-injected style of deathcore to sound terribly one note. "Bad Vibes" is absolutely awful - it makes me wonder if the people who accused them of being tough guy stereotypes after "MVP" came out were right. |
| Fall Out Boy From Under the Cork Tree | 3.5 |
| Set Your Goals Mutiny! | 4.5 |
| ASAP Ferg Trap Lord | 3.5 |
| ASAP Rocky At.Long.Last.A$AP | 2.0 |
| ASAP Rocky Live.Love.A$AP. | 3.0 |
| ASAP Rocky LONG.LIVE.A$AP | 3.0 |
| Kendrick Lamar To Pimp a Butterfly | 4.5 |
| Mr. Bungle California | 4.5 |
| ScHoolboy Q Oxymoron | 3.5 |
| Nails Abandon All Life | 4.0 |
| Nails Unsilent Death | 4.0 |
| Northlane Node | 4.0 |
| Northlane (mostly) break from their metalcore trappings and stereotypes to deliver a fulfilling release. Hopefully they will continue to tear away, as the experimentation and melodic elements on this album are its biggest accomplishments, making Northlane likely one of the most adventurous bands in the scene at the moment. While they're losing their "heaviness", it isn't necessarily for pop accessibility a la modern BMTH, they seem interested in crafting some interesting music. Soma, Obelisk, Leech and Animate come through as the best songs on the album, while Impulse falls short with generic lyrics about how we're all too connected to the digital world at the moment. Very insightful, grandpa. |
| The Acacia Strain Above/Below | 3.5 |
| The Acacia Strain Coma Witch | 3.5 |
| Superior songwriting to the last full-length, but the production isn't as heavy as it should be. It sounds incredibly muddy, which is a shame as the excellent production of their previous album was its biggest strengths. Despite being 33% longer than "Death Is the Only Mortal", it actually feels a lot shorter. Highlights are mainly around the first half of the album, but the second half is no slouch either, with the 27-minute experimental final track working surprisingly well for them. Their sound is starting to lose its potency however, so here's hoping they'll come back with some killer stuff on their next one. |
| Danny Brown Old | 3.5 |
| Danny Brown XXX | 5.0 |
| Deftones Saturday Night Wrist | 4.5 |
| Cult of Luna Vertikal | 3.5 |
| Bring Me the Horizon Sempiternal | 4.0 |
| A Day To Remember Halos for Heros, Dirt for the Dead | 2.5 |
| Agoraphobic Nosebleed Frozen Corpse Stuffed With Dope | 4.0 |
| Dance Gavin Dance Instant Gratification | 3.5 |
| Dance Gavin Dance Dance Gavin Dance | 5.0 |
Although Happiness would feature some of their finest songs, this is their finest album. Kurt
Travis is my favourite DGD singer precisely because he's not a "perfect" singer like Jonny and
Tilian are, and a fantastic match for the angular yet melodic style DGD are known for. Harsh
vocalist Jon's vocalists are considerably less harsh on this release, and while he'll peak as a
vocalist on Downtown Battle Mountain II, here he's a lot less obnoxious and overbearing. The
songwriting has also been stepped up considerably and is much less repetitive, with everything
blending together relatively well for the band. |
| Dance Gavin Dance Happiness | 4.0 |
| A sublime first half let down by an inconsistent second. If this album ended at the title track, it would be a full, hard 5. |
| Dance Gavin Dance Downtown Battle Mountain | 3.5 |
| Circle Takes the Square As the Roots Undo | 4.5 |
| Glass Bones The Hope In Forgiving & Giving Up Hope | 4.5 |
| Shoji Meguro Shin Megami Tensei III Nocturne OST | 4.5 |
| Shoji Meguro Persona 3 OST | 4.0 |
| Shoji Meguro Persona 4 OST | 3.5 |
| Underoath They're Only Chasing Safety | 4.0 |
| August Burns Red Rescue & Restore | 4.5 |
| A Day To Remember Common Courtesy | 2.5 |
| Too much filler to surpass their previous excellent three releases, with few standouts. Best tracks are the first 4 tracks, "Violence" and "The Document..." Too many similar acoustic tracks and "Life Lessons..." feels so obligatory so they can have a heavy track like "2nd Sucks" but... I guess the 2nd (example) sucks. |
| Ne Obliviscaris Citadel | 4.5 |
| Ne Obliviscaris Portal of I | 4.0 |
| Between the Buried and Me Colors | 4.0 |
| Ulver Perdition City | 4.5 |
| As Cities Burn Son, I Loved You at Your Darkest | 4.0 |
| IDYLLS Amps For God/Plague Hell | 4.5 |
| The Devil Wears Prada 8:18 | 4.0 |
| The Devil Wears Prada Dead Throne | 4.0 |
| The Devil Wears Prada With Roots Above and Branches Below | 3.5 |
| Attack Attack! Attack Attack! | 3.5 |
| Kanye West Late Registration | 4.5 |
| Kanye West The College Dropout | 4.5 |
| Kendrick Lamar Overly Dedicated | 4.0 |
| Kendrick Lamar good kid, m.A.A.d city | 4.5 |
| Kendrick Lamar Section.80 | 4.0 |
| Joyce Manor Of All Things I Will Soon Grow Tired | 3.5 |
| While their debut embodies youthful energy, this release (with the exception of their fast-paced cover of "Video Killed the Radio Star") is an expression of feeling so tired, so tired that they couldn't be bothered to record an album beyond 13 minutes long. If you compare it to their self-titled (as most people naturally will do), it falls short but on its own it's a very emotional interesting indie rock release, even if it doesn't feel quite as fleshed out as it should. The first four tracks flow incredibly well together but the tracks after don't quite mesh together the same. It's hard to dislike an album with a song as relatable as "I'm Always Tired". |
| Attila About That Life | 1.0 |
| Their previous stuff was tolerable for what it was but this album just falls into self-parody. Absolutely awful stuff. |
| Thursday Common Existence | 5.0 |
| Joyce Manor Joyce Manor | 4.5 |
| Ghost (SWE) Opus Eponymous | 4.0 |
| Perspectives Blind | 2.5 |
| The lyrics really bring this whole thing down, since they're really unignorable... the repetition of the word "blind" just annoys me to no end. |
| The Wonder Years Suburbia I've Given You All and Now I'm Nothing | 4.5 |
| A Day To Remember Homesick (Special Deluxe Edition) | 5.0 |
| This rating is for the package, not for the actual album (which is a 4/5 for me.) Even though I don't feel great about giving Victory Records money, this release contains the original CD with two extra tracks, a DVD with live tracks, music videos and a documentary and a nice booklet to tie it all together. It's very good value if you feel like buying any music nowadays, but if you want to support the band, consider just buying the special edition of their newest album "Bad Vibrations". |
| Thursday War All the Time | 4.5 |
| Thursday Full Collapse | 4.5 |
| United Nations United Nations | 4.5 |
| IDYLLS Indian Circle | 2.0 |
| in comparison to how amazing Farewell All Joy was, this is just an awful change in style. Props for experimenting, but it doesn't work in this case. |
| IDYLLS Farewell All Joy | 4.5 |
| mewithoutYou Brother, Sister | 4.5 |
| mewithoutYou Catch For Us the Foxes | 4.5 |
| Dangers Anger | 5.0 |
| Dangers Messy, Isn't It? | 4.5 |
| Blacklisted Heavier Than Heaven, Lonelier Than God | 4.5 |
| Safe Hands Montenegro | 4.5 |
| Glass Bones Seasons | 4.5 |
| Circle Takes the Square Decompositions: Volume Number One | 3.5 |
| Blends together too much that it's an incredibly overwhelming listen. You really have to listen to this one in sessions. I appreciate their newer sludgey heavy sound, but there isn't quite as much variety as there was on Roots. |
| A Day To Remember Old Record | 3.0 |
| A Day To Remember For Those Who Have Heart (Reissue) | 4.0 |
| Amenra Mass V | 5.0 |
AMENRA surpass their influences/peers to truly come into their own on Mass V. For its four track, 42 minute length, they don't waste a moment, using every single second to create an omnious, brooding atmosphere towards its crushing crescendos. I was originally had gripes with the (somewhat grating at first) vocals, but after listening through this a couple of times, they've truly grown on me.
I would write a review for this, but honestly, I see no point. If you have an interest in atmospheric metal/rock, this is a must-listen. Don't waste your time reading a lengthy review, go listen to it now! |
| The Acacia Strain Death Is the Only Mortal | 3.0 |
| The Acacia Strain Continent | 4.5 |
Their best album - which is unfortunately paired with muddy production. Not album ruining, and you
can get past it but if only this had the production job of The Dead Walk. |
| The Acacia Strain The Dead Walk | 4.0 |
| Between the Buried and Me The Silent Circus | 3.5 |
| Kanye West My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy | 4.5 |
| Converge All We Love We Leave Behind | 5.0 |
| Ill Nino Epidemia | 4.0 |
| I'm pleasantly surprised by this release; I didn't like Dead New World as much as everybody else seemed to, but this one is a true step up from that. It retains certain similarities except it's actually heavy, yet feels organic in comparison to that. And no awful unnecessary covers of Smashing Pumpkins this time, which is always a plus. |
| Aoria The Constant | 4.5 |
| Listened to it once; it's a lot like Katatonia, but with superior songwriting. The potential they've alluded to on their EPs has been delivered on, and it is wonderful. Shame this will be overshadowed. Definitely going to be one of the most overlooked releases in 2012. |
| Botch American Nervoso | 4.0 |
| Botch We Are the Romans | 4.5 |
| The Chariot One Wing | 4.5 |
| Emmure Slave To The Game | 2.5 |
| Hand of Mercy Last Lights | 2.5 |
| BREAKDOWNS BREAKDOWNS BREAKDOWNS. There are some decent songs on it, however. |
| Kayo Dot Dowsing Anemone With Copper Tongue | 4.0 |
| Modern Life Is War Witness | 5.0 |
| Kayo Dot Gamma Knife | 3.5 |
I don't know how I was able to put up with the production quality of the metal tracks on here.
There's so many interesting ideas on here and this music is so dense that it DEMANDS higher
fidelity. It frustrates me in the same way Ulver's Nattens Madgrial does - any sense of atmosphere
gained by an oppressive, unclean recording is overshadowed by a feeling that these incredibly
interesting songs just aren't been served by their recording quality. Considering the financial
cost of recording music as dense and detailed as Kayo Dot's, it's understandable why they went
with this route but thank god they crowdfunded for Hubardo. |
| Kayo Dot Choirs of the Eye | 5.0 |
| Emmure Goodbye To The Gallows | 3.5 |
| Emmure Felony | 3.0 |
| The Acacia Strain 3750 | 4.0 |
| The Acacia Strain Wormwood | 3.5 |
| Russian Circles Geneva | 4.5 |
| Russian Circles Empros | 4.5 |
| The Red Chord Clients | 4.0 |
| Thrice The Alchemy Index Vols. I & II | 4.5 |
| Massive Attack Protection | 4.0 |
| Enter Shikari A Flash Flood of Colour | 4.0 |
| mewithoutYou A to B: Life | 5.0 |
| Kerser The Nebulizer | 1.0 |
| Typical generic Aussie hip-hop that doesn't have anything special going for it. |
| A Day To Remember And Their Name Was Treason | 2.5 |
| A Day To Remember Homesick | 4.0 |
| blink-182 Enema Of The State | 4.0 |
| The Red Chord Fused Together in Revolving Doors | 4.5 |
| Massive Attack vs. Burial Four Walls/Paradise Circus | 3.5 |
| Weezer Pinkerton | 4.0 |
| Thrice Vheissu | 5.0 |
| Callisto Ordeal Of The Century | 4.0 |
| Very different from their later material - this is more of a straight-forward early 2000s metalcore release than the post-metal sound that they would later lean on. Whereas the harsh vocals in the next two albums don't fit so well, on this album on they blend together great with the aggressive instrumentals. The final track is probably the only track that features any post-metal elements, but it's still a lot heavier than any of their later material. Worth a check out if you're a fan of the band and want to see where they came from, or if you're a fan of bands such as Converge, Botch and early Cave In. |
| Bloc Party Silent Alarm | 4.0 |
| Suffocate For Fuck Sake Blazing Fires and Helicopters... | 4.5 |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor Slow Riot For New Zero Kanada | 4.5 |
| Arcade Fire Funeral | 4.0 |
| Burial Untrue | 5.0 |
| Burial Burial | 4.5 |
| Aoria If I Slow Down Everything Will Disappear | 4.0 |
| The Dear Hunter The Color Spectrum (Complete Collection) | 4.5 |
| The Dear Hunter Yellow | 4.5 |
| The Dear Hunter White | 4.5 |
| The Dear Hunter Orange | 4.0 |
| The Dear Hunter Violet | 4.5 |
| The Dear Hunter Blue | 4.5 |
| The Dear Hunter Red | 4.5 |
| The Dear Hunter Green | 4.0 |
| The Dear Hunter Black | 4.5 |
| The Dear Hunter Indigo | 4.5 |
| Suicide Silence The Black Crown | 3.0 |
| My Chemical Romance Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge | 4.0 |
| Battles Gloss Drop | 4.0 |
| The Cure Disintegration | 4.5 |
| Pantera Vulgar Display of Power | 3.5 |
| Muse Showbiz | 3.0 |
| Korn Deuce DVD | 3.5 |
| Chimaira Coming Alive | 4.0 |
| Borknagar The Olden Domain | 4.0 |
| Bloodbath Unblessing the Purity | 4.0 |
| Bloodbath The Wacken Carnage | 4.5 |
| Cult of Luna Cult of Luna (EP) | 3.0 |
| Snowing Fuck Your Emotional Bullshit | 4.0 |
| Between the Buried and Me Between the Buried and Me | 3.0 |
| Agalloch From Which of This Oak | 3.5 |
| Parkway Drive Horizons | 4.0 |
| Hand of Mercy Thrash The Party | 3.0 |
| Hand of Mercy The Fallout | 4.0 |
| Robinson The Great City | 3.5 |
| Radiohead Amnesiac | 4.0 |
| Radiohead Kid A | 4.0 |
| Radiohead Hail to the Thief | 4.0 |
| Radiohead The King of Limbs | 4.0 |
| Chimaira The Infection | 3.5 |
| Gaza He Is Never Coming Back | 4.5 |
| The Angelic Process Weighing Souls With Sand | 4.5 |
| Between the Buried and Me Alaska | 4.0 |
| Intronaut Void | 4.0 |
| The Angelic Process We All Die Laughing | 4.5 |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor F♯ A♯ ∞ | 4.5 |
| Whitechapel The Somatic Defilement | 3.5 |
| North What You Were | 3.5 |
| Trap Them Darker Handcraft | 4.5 |
| Defeater Travels | 4.5 |
| Defeater Empty Days and Sleepless Nights | 4.5 |
| Defeater Lost Ground | 4.5 |
| Ill Nino The Undercover Sessions EP | 2.5 |
| Ill Nino Dead New World | 1.5 |
| Katatonia Live Consternation | 4.0 |
| NOFX Coaster | 4.0 |
| Godsmack Faceless | 2.0 |
| Job For A Cowboy Doom | 2.5 |
| Akercocke Words That Go Unspoken... | 4.0 |
| Callisto True Nature Unfolds | 4.0 |
| Has some good ideas, but overall the band seems like they are in a rush. They have yet to learn how to build atmosphere effectively through repetition and transitions. However, they get it more or less right on their next album, Noir. |
| Caninus Now The Animals Have A Voice | 4.5 |
| This is obviously a joke - I mean why would they have a track called "Studio Guy Gets Pissed" if they weren't a joke. I'm rating this 4.5 just to bump the rating up higher. R.I.P. Basil the dog |
| Muse The Resistance | 2.0 |
| Disillusion Back to Times of Splendor | 3.5 |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven | 4.5 |
| Architects Nightmares | 4.0 |
| Radiohead In Rainbows | 5.0 |
| Powerman 5000 Tonight the Stars Revolt | 2.0 |
| Massive Attack Mezzanine | 4.0 |
| Nine Inch Nails The Slip | 3.0 |
| Filter Short Bus | 2.5 |
| Snot Get Some | 2.5 |
| Reel Big Fish Greatest Hit... And More | 1.0 |
| Fuck this album and fuck Jive, what a total cashgrab. |
| Reel Big Fish Our Live Album Is Better Than Your Live | 4.5 |
| Adema Unstable | 3.5 |
| At first I was disappointed that most of the songs weren't nu metal like their last album. However - the lighter songs grew on me quite a lot. They feel incredibly honest and while Mark's voice is usually quite similar to his half-brother Jonathan Davis, it's a lot sweeter in songs like these and fits the music very well. "Unstable" is a better nu metal song than anything from their debut, "Rip the Heart Out of Me" is decent but pretty repetitive, "Needles" is easily their heaviest song by far with Marky's vicious screams all throughout the song and "Stand Up", which features the same themes of domestic violence as The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus's "Face Down" has lyrics so on-the-nose that it makes that song seem like absolute poetry. |
| Adema Adema | 4.0 |
| Linkin Park Underground 6 | 2.5 |
| Linkin Park Meteora | 4.5 |
| Linkin Park Minutes to Midnight | 3.5 |
| Linkin Park Hybrid Theory | 5.0 |
| Scarred by Beauty We Swim | 4.0 |
| Converge No Heroes | 4.0 |
| Converge Axe to Fall | 4.0 |
| Waking The Cadaver Demo | 4.5 |
| EVERYTHING SOUNDS SO MUCH MORE BROOTAL ON THIS RELEASE, Perverse Recollections of a Necromangler fucked up the sound. They are incompetent musicians to be sure at this point in time, but that's part of the fun. |
| Tame Impala Innerspeaker | 4.0 |
| If These Trees Could Talk If These Trees Could Talk | 4.0 |
| Parkway Drive Deep Blue | 2.5 |
| Parkway Drive Killing with a Smile | 3.5 |
| Sigur Ros Takk... | 4.0 |
| Arctic Monkeys Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not | 4.5 |
| Falls of Rauros Into the Archaic (Demo) | 4.0 |
| Borknagar Epic | 2.5 |
| Borknagar The Archaic Course | 3.5 |
| Milking the Goatmachine Back From The Goats | 3.0 |
| this is like the most brutal goat-related death metal I have ever heard, it makes me horny for goats |
| Murderdolls Women and Children Last | 1.5 |
| Bloodbath The Fathomless Mastery | 4.0 |
| Bloodbath Nightmares Made Flesh | 4.0 |
| Pendulum In Silico | 4.0 |
| Rosetta A Determinism of Morality | 4.5 |
| Septicflesh Communion | 4.0 |
| Serj Tankian Elect the Dead | 3.0 |
| Slipknot Vol. 3: The Subliminal Verses | 3.5 |
| Spineshank Strictly Diesel | 3.5 |
| Could have done with trimming, particularly near the end of the album and some of the songs sound kinda similar. Still pretty great though. They definitely improved a lot later. |
| Spineshank Self Destructive Pattern | 4.0 |
| Spineshank The Height of Callousness | 4.5 |
| Suicide Silence The Cleansing | 2.5 |
| Songs such as Unanswered, Hands of a Killer, No Pity For A Coward and Bludgeoned to Death are pretty fun, but the rest of the album doesn't vary enough from this template to remain interesting. |
| System of a Down Mezmerize | 3.5 |
| System of a Down Hypnotize | 3.0 |
| System of a Down Steal This Album! | 3.0 |
| System of a Down Toxicity | 5.0 |
| System of a Down System of a Down | 4.0 |
| The Aquabats Charge!! | 3.5 |
| The Aquabats . . . Vs. the Floating Eye of Death! | 3.5 |
| The Aquabats The Fury of the Aquabats! | 3.5 |
| The Aquabats The Return of the Aquabats | 3.0 |
| The Ocean Anthropocentric | 2.0 |
| Torsofuck Erotic Diarrhea Fantasy | 3.0 |
| Torsofuck are an example of how not to use samples. I'm fairly certain that over half the album is just the samples. Shame, because I like the music within - it's just a pain to skip through the fucking samples to get to the actual songs. |
| Waking The Cadaver Perverse Recollections Of A Necromangler | 4.0 |
| Awful and yet strangely enjoyable. Misogynistic and abhorrent lyrics for sure, but thankfully they're unintelligble. It's honestly better to imagine that he's talking about shredded wheat or some shit. |
| Ulver Bergtatt - Et eeventyr i 5 capitler | 4.5 |
| Ulver Nattens Madrigal | 4.5 |
The biggest joke Ulver ever played on us was crafting an album of masterful black metal, and just
pairing it with a notoriously deliberately awful production job. If this had decent production, it
would still be considered a masterpiece even sans its current reputation. Thankfully there was a
remaster released recently that's still not exactly hi-fi, but nonetheless it's no longer ear-
splitting after too long. This score is for that version. The original gets a 3.5 - similar
reasons for my score on Kayo Dot's Gamma Knife. |
| Rammstein Rosenrot | 3.0 |
| Rammstein Liebe Ist Für Alle Da | 3.0 |
| Radiohead OK Computer | 5.0 |
| Radiohead The Bends | 3.5 |
| Porcupine Tree In Absentia | 3.5 |
| Pendulum Immersion | 4.0 |
| Pink Floyd The Dark Side of the Moon | 4.0 |
| Orphaned Land Mabool (The Story of the Three Sons...) | 2.5 |
| Opeth The Candlelight Years | 4.5 |
| Opeth The Roundhouse Tapes | 4.5 |
| Opeth Apostle in Triumph | 3.5 |
| Opeth Burden | 2.0 |
| Opeth In Live Concert at the Royal Albert Hall | 5.0 |
| Novembre Novembrine Waltz | 3.5 |
| Novembre Classica | 4.0 |
| Neurosis Through Silver in Blood | 4.5 |
| My Dying Bride An Ode to Woe | 3.5 |
| Nine Inch Nails The Downward Spiral | 3.5 |
| Mudvayne The End of All Things to Come | 3.0 |
| Mastodon Crack the Skye | 4.0 |
| Mastodon Blood Mountain | 4.0 |
| Mastodon Leviathan | 4.0 |
| Mastodon Remission | 3.5 |
| Marilyn Manson Antichrist Superstar | 2.5 |
| Korn Take a Look in the Mirror | 3.0 |
| Korn Untitled | 2.0 |
| Korn See You on the Other Side | 2.5 |
| Korn Untouchables | 2.5 |
| Korn Issues | 4.0 |
| Korn Follow the Leader | 4.0 |
| Korn Life Is Peachy | 3.0 |
| Korn Korn | 4.0 |
| In Flames Clayman | 3.5 |
| Ill Nino Enigma | 3.5 |
| Ill Nino One Nation Underground | 4.0 |
| Their second greatest album, behind "Revolution Revolucion", and their heaviest until "Epidemia". A good mix of the heavy side of nu metal and metalcore with pop rock sensibility leads to success here, as opposed as a lot of the dreadful tracks on "Confession". "This is War", "My Resurrection" and "Violent Saint" exemplify their heavier side, whereas "What You Deserve" and "All I Ask For" embody the pop rock side. |
| Ill Nino Confession | 2.5 |
| Ill Nino Revolution/Revolucion | 4.5 |
| God Is an Astronaut The End of the Beginning | 3.0 |
| God Is an Astronaut All Is Violent, All Is Bright | 4.0 |
| God Is an Astronaut A Moment of Stillness | 3.5 |
| Reel Big Fish Monkeys for Nothin' and The Chimps... | 3.0 |
| Reel Big Fish We're Not Happy 'Till You're Not Happy | 3.5 |
| Lacks a lot of the fun from their previous albums. I mean, sure, it still is, but their bitterness is palpable and seeps through all of the music. Still pretty good though, and beats all the stuff they released after this. |
| Reel Big Fish Cheer Up! | 3.5 |
| Reel Big Fish Why Do They Rock So Hard? | 4.0 |
| Reel Big Fish Turn the Radio Off | 4.0 |
| Reel Big Fish Everything Sucks | 3.0 |
| Four Year Strong Rise Or Die Trying | 4.0 |
| Five Finger Death Punch War Is The Answer | 2.0 |
| First Signs Of Frost Atlantic | 3.5 |
| Fear Factory Archetype | 3.0 |
| Fear Factory Obsolete | 2.0 |
| Fear Factory Demanufacture | 3.5 |
| Katatonia Viva Emptiness | 4.0 |
| Explosions in the Sky The Rescue | 4.0 |
| Dream Theater Train of Thought | 3.5 |
| Dream Theater Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes from a Memory | 3.5 |
| Drowning Pool Desensitized | 1.5 |
| Drowning Pool Sinner | 4.5 |
| One of the finest nu metal albums ever recorded (well, probably as good as nu metal can get anyway). They took an incredible nosedive after this release into hard rock mediocrity after this release that they have never recovered from. The songs are still incredibly memorable to this day, even if Bodies is laughable. |
| Dope Life | 2.0 |
| Dope Felons And Revolutionaries | 2.5 |
| Disturbed The Sickness | 2.0 |
| Disturbed Believe | 2.0 |
| Disturbed Indestructible | 2.5 |
| Disturbed Asylum | 1.5 |
| Deftones Diamond Eyes | 4.0 |
| Deftones Deftones | 4.0 |
| Deftones White Pony | 5.0 |
| Deftones Around the Fur | 3.5 |
| Deftones Adrenaline | 3.5 |
| Coal Chamber Coal Chamber | 1.5 |
| Cloudkicker Beacons | 3.0 |
| Very overrated. You'd think that instrumental music would be a little less repetitive and try to keep your attention through its constantly changing nature. Beacons doesn't do this exactly, it always seems like sections drag on for far too long. |
| Static-X Cult Of Static | 1.0 |
| It's sad that this is the album they ended the band on. Very few redeeming qualities on this release. The lyrics are abysmal and clunky, which matches the restrictively mechanical instrumentals. We're talking mechanical in terms of a rusted, dangerous factory machine, not a well-oiled sleek machine like Meshuggah. The vocals are the most monotonous I've ever heard as well. The only decent songs on here that rise above this dreadful sludge were the ones co-written with Tony Campos (Lunatic, Z28 and Stringwray) as the rest were written solely by Wayne Static. I bought this album on release and I have no idea why I haven't just thrown it out, it's that worthless. |
| Static-X Cannibal | 2.0 |
| Static-X Start A War | 4.0 |
| Static-X Shadow Zone | 3.5 |
| Static-X Machine | 4.0 |
| Static-X Wisconsin Death Trip | 3.0 |
| Chimaira Resurrection | 3.5 |
| Chimaira The Impossibility of Reason | 3.0 |
| Chimaira Pass Out of Existence | 3.5 |
| Muse Black Holes & Revelations | 3.5 |
| Muse Absolution | 4.0 |
| Gaza I Don't Care Where I Go When I Die | 4.0 |
| Battle Of Mice A Day of Nights | 4.0 |
| Aoria I Know You Came Here to Erase Me | 4.0 |
| This band needs to make a full album sometime, and they definitely need to be more well-known than they are. |
| Opeth Orchid | 3.5 |
| Opeth Morningrise | 4.0 |
| Opeth My Arms, Your Hearse | 4.5 |
| Opeth Still Life | 4.5 |
| Opeth Deliverance | 4.5 |
| Opeth Ghost Reveries | 4.5 |
| Opeth Damnation | 4.5 |
| Opeth Watershed | 4.0 |
| Akercocke Antichrist | 4.0 |
| Akercocke Choronzon | 2.5 |
| A bloated album, with pointless pompous interludes that are impossible to take seriously. However, "Praise the Name of Satan" is simply Akercocke's best song, blending their earlier extremity with their later progressive sound. "Leviathan", "Valley of the Crucified" and "Son of the Morning" are also very interesting tracks. The rest are either interludes or incredibly mediocre "heavy" tracks - four of the tracks here sound like they have the same intro for crying out loud! |
| Akercocke The Goat of Mendes | 3.0 |
| Agoraphobic Nosebleed Altered States of America | 4.0 |
| ISIS Wavering Radiant | 4.5 |
| ISIS Panopticon | 4.5 |
| Neutral Milk Hotel In the Aeroplane Over the Sea | 5.0 |
| Agalloch The Mantle | 4.0 |
| Converge You Fail Me | 4.5 |
| Bloodbath Resurrection Through Carnage | 4.0 |
| Bloodbath Breeding Death | 4.5 |
| Hollywood Undead Swan Songs | 1.5 |
| Undead, Sell Your Soul, Young and Black Dahila are great catchy songs (despite their childish lyrics)... however, the rest of the album is just incredibly awful hip-hop, like low-tier Eminem. |
| Godsmack Awake | 3.0 |
| Godsmack Godsmack | 3.0 |
| It sounds pretty good at first but gets old fast. However - Moon Baby, Whatever and Voodoo still kick immense amounts of arse. |
| Godsmack IV | 1.0 |
| Honestly doesn't live up to Awake and their S/T, and completely forgettable. |
| Cult of Luna Cult of Luna | 4.0 |
| Not the sound Cult of Luna features today, but still excellent in its own way. |
| Cult of Luna The Beyond | 4.0 |
| Cult of Luna Eternal Kingdom | 4.5 |
| A Day To Remember For Those Who Have Heart | 4.0 |
| A Day To Remember What Separates Me from You | 4.0 |
| Bring Me the Horizon There Is a Hell, Believe Me I've Seen It... | 3.0 |
| Bring Me the Horizon Suicide Season | 3.5 |
| Callisto Noir | 4.5 |
| An incredibly excellent album - the vocals are however a tad too harsh and don't really fit with the more serene, melancholic music. The song Backwoods is also mere filler. |
| Cult of Luna Salvation | 5.0 |
| Cult of Luna Somewhere Along the Highway | 5.0 |
| Opeth Blackwater Park | 5.0 |
| Almost perfect release, but would be improved with the removal of Dirge for November and The Funeral Portrait. Dirge for November is a simply boring song, whereas The Funeral Portrait feels more like Opeth going through the motions compared to the rest of the album's triumphs. There's still so many moments that are captivating on every listen, which usually come from the more melodic sections on the album (Bleak's chorus, Harvest, The Drapery Falls) but they wouldn't feel as impactful without the more punishing moments on here that still strike a balance between the brutality and the beautiful. |
| Muse Origin of Symmetry | 4.5 |
| Converge Jane Doe | 5.0 |
