Rishloo Living as Ghosts with Buildings as Teeth | 4.5 |
D'Angelo Black Messiah | 4.5 |
Ne Obliviscaris Citadel | 5.0 |
John Coltrane A Love Supreme | 5.0 |
Ludwig van Beethoven Piano Sonata No14 C-sharp minor,Op.27No2 | 4.5 |
Jethro Tull Thick as a Brick | 4.5 |
Sergei Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor, Op. 18 | 5.0 |
Bruce Springsteen Born to Run | 5.0 |
The Notorious B.I.G. Ready to Die | 4.5 |
GZA Liquid Swords | 4.5 |
Opeth Ghost Reveries | 4.5 |
Fallujah Nomadic | 4.5 |
Wu-Tang Clan Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) | 5.0 |
Nobuo Uematsu Final Fantasy VII: Original Soundtrack | 4.0 |
Megadeth Rust in Peace | 5.0 |
Nas Illmatic | 5.0 |
0edit Neotokyo | 5.0 |
Pink Floyd Wish You Were Here | 4.5 |
Opeth Blackwater Park | 5.0 |
Animals As Leaders The Joy of Motion | 5.0 |
The Smashing Pumpkins Siamese Dream | 4.0 |
Intervals A Voice Within | 4.5 |
Weezer Pinkerton | 5.0 |
Weezer Weezer | 5.0 |
Sithu Aye Pulse | 4.5 |
Misery Signals Absent Light | 4.0 |
Plini/Sithu Aye I | 4.5 |
Plini Sweet Nothings | 4.5 |
Periphery Icarus | 3.0 |
Periphery Clear | 3.5 |
Kashiwa Daisuke 88 | 4.5 |
Dream Theater Dream Theater | 4.0 |
Russian Circles Memorial | 4.5 |
Protest the Hero Fortress | 4.5 |
Scale the Summit The Migration | 4.5 |
David Maxim Micic Bilo | 4.0 |
David Maxim Micic Bilo 2.0 | 4.5 |
David Maxim Micic Bilo 3.0 | 4.5 |
Exivious Exivious | 4.0 |
Massive Attack Mezzanine | 4.5 |
Portishead Dummy | 4.5 |
Counterparts The Difference Between Hell and Home | 4.0 |
August Burns Red Rescue & Restore | 4.0 |
Pomegranate Tiger Entities | 4.0 |
Exivious Liminal | 5.0 |
Irepress Sol Eye Sea I | 4.5 |
Aphex Twin Selected Ambient Works 85-92 | 5.0 |
Senpai They Say Just Wait Till Morning | 4.5 |
Cryptopsy None So Vile | 5.0 |
Genesis The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway | 4.5 |
Dead Letter Circus The Catalyst Fire | 4.5 |
Allan Holdsworth Metal Fatigue | 4.5 |
Karnivool Asymmetry | 4.0 |
Death Individual Thought Patterns | 4.0 |
Death Human | 4.0 |
Genesis Selling England by the Pound | 5.0 |
Death Symbolic | 5.0 |
Death The Sound of Perseverance | 5.0 |
Kanye West My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy | 4.5 |
The Seatbelts Cowboy Bebop | 4.5 |
The Ocean Pelagial | 4.5 |
Wanzwa Wanzwa III | 4.5 |
Wanzwa Wanzwa II | 4.5 |
Sithu Aye Invent the Universe | 4.5 |
Sithu Aye 26 | 5.0 |
Camel Mirage | 5.0 |
Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin IV | 4.5 |
Tetrafusion Horizons | 4.5 |
Leprous Coal | 4.5 |
Misery Signals Controller | 5.0 |
Uyama Hiroto A Son of the Sun | 4.5 |
Nujabes Hydeout Productions 1st Collection | 4.5 |
Nujabes Hydeout Productions 2nd Collection | 5.0 |
Nujabes Spiritual State | 4.5 |
Nujabes Modal Soul | 4.5 |
TesseracT Concealing Fate | 5.0 |
TesseracT One | 4.5 |
TesseracT Altered State | 4.0 |
Intervals In Time | 4.5 |
Rush Moving Pictures | 4.5 |
Skyharbor Blinding White Noise: Illusion & Chaos | 4.5 |
Iced Earth Burnt Offerings | 5.0 |
Uneven Structure Februus | 4.5 |
Nujabes Metaphorical Music | 5.0 |
Kashiwa Daisuke Re: | 4.5 |
Miles Davis Kind of Blue | 5.0 |
Periphery Periphery (Instrumental) | 4.0 |
At the Drive-In Relationship of Command | 5.0 |
Queensryche Operation: Mindcrime | 4.5 |
King Crimson In the Court of the Crimson King | 4.5 |
Kashiwa Daisuke Program Music I | 5.0 |
Deftones Koi No Yokan | 5.0 |
Ne Obliviscaris Portal of I | 5.0 |
Periphery Periphery II: This Time It's Personal | 4.0 |
Periphery Periphery | 4.5 |
Zelliack Noir Tone | 4.5 |
Dead Letter Circus This Is The Warning | 4.5 |
Cloudkicker The Discovery | 4.5 |
Cloudkicker Beacons | 4.5 |
Cloudkicker Fade | 4.5 |
Tool Ænima | 5.0 |
Tool Lateralus | 5.0 |
Rush Clockwork Angels | 5.0 |
Corelia Nostalgia | 4.5 |
Halcyon Pastures | 4.5 |
Karnivool Sound Awake | 5.0 |
Deftones Diamond Eyes | 4.5 |
Wanzwa Wanzwa | 4.5 |
Dream Theater Live at Budokan | 4.0 |
Dream Theater Score | 4.5 |
Dream Theater A Change of Seasons | 5.0 |
Sioum I Am Mortal, But Was Fiend | 5.0 |
Gru Cosmogenesis | 5.0 |
Intervals The Space Between | 5.0 |
Animals As Leaders Weightless | 4.0 |
Sithu Aye Isles | 5.0 |
Sithu Aye Cassini | 4.5 |
Porcupine Tree Deadwing | 5.0 |
Demetori Begierde Des Zauberer | 4.5 |
Demetori made huge waves in the Touhou metal community when they announced their latest album. Many of the "classic" groups in the genre have adopted vocals or otherwise lost the magic touch which made them special; Demetori has never had a bad release so far, which made anticipation for this extreme. Sure enough, Demetori gives the Touhou metal community the instrumental breath of life it needs to survive. I wouldn't say the album is as good as Nada Upasanda Pundarika, but it's much better than what most of the metal groups are putting out now. The main issue is that the melody does not stand out as much as in the previous albums. I would say it's more balanced, but their previous albums were enjoyable because of the very strong melodies. The new tracks just aren't as memorable (though that might just be because I haven't listened to this album as many times). Most of the metal is presented straight up, sort of combining the extra distortion of Nada Upasana Pundarika with the songwriting of Il Mondo Dove e Finito Il Tempo. Demetori's technique remains unmatchable, and production values are still crystalline. Demetori hovers in place instead of pushing their boundaries even further, but they stand so high already that this is still a very solid metal album. |
Demetori Manenjushaka ~ Nada Upasana Pundarika | 5.0 |
For it's status as a "hobby" band, Demetori has continued to put out some of the best metal in the world. Even with only 2 brothers in the band, it still holds its own against the world's greatest metal bands. Demetori always finds ways to make their new albums interesting, and Nada Upasana Pundarika does not disappoint. This album is MUCH more progressive and even heavier than their previous albums, it shows very clear latter-Dream Theater and Meshuggah influences. The riffs are more distorted and powerful than ever, and the energy is shockingly high. The songs strike a good balance between being musical and showing off both Tokunan's and Kyuuhouji's wicked skills. The album is definitely less straightforward than their previous releases; it's all the better for it. Demetori has mastered their songwriting, almost everything fits together so well. I still have to reserve complaints for the opening track Heian Alien, however; it had a very great foreboding atmosphere, but the screaming guitar "solo" was rather disappointing. Emotional Skyscraper and Higan Retour more than make up for that, however. Sky-high production values and insane musicmanship make this Demetori's best album. |
Demetori Sendaisoushi ~ Offering to The Sukhavati | 4.5 |
Demetori's production got even better for this album, but there's a few holes here which prevent it from nailing a perfect. The opening track Kid's Festival is one of Demetori's best songs, perfect composition and style. ZUN would be proud of such a great remix of his theme! Greenwich in the Sky has a great liveliness to it, and of course Septette for the Dead Princess is magnificent. The amount of energy Demetori puts into their songs is unmatchable. The only problem is that a few of the tracks feel a bit cheesy or dull; Oriental Dark Flight and Tengu is Watching are probably the worst culprits. They're still good songs, it's just they're not up to the standards of the best tracks here. The Mound Where the Flowers Reflect also was bland for its length, would have been better as a short in-between. Still, this is Demetori; calling the album anything but great would be an insult |
Demetori Il Mondo dove e finito il Tempo | 5.0 |
Demetori went so wild for this album, I just have to give it a 5 even with the moderately cheesy speed metal songs. Suwa Foughten Field is one of Demetori's best tracks EVER, it's simply full of win. Cemetery of Onbashira and Mystic Oriental Dream show that Demetori's not just about speed, the technique and general soundscape are superb. Even the more speed metalish tracks (Faith is for the Transient People and the ever popular Necrofantasia) are still well executed for the genre. Definitely deserves to be one of the most treasured Touhou metal albums of all time. |
Demetori Sinen ni Nozomu ga Gotoshi | 5.0 |
For their 2nd album, Demetori went towards a more rock-ish style. Overall, it works very well, there's very nice flowing sections with some technical sections that are simply delicious. The album has a very nice mix of styles, there's lighter and heavier tracks. Crimson Belvedere can get kind of dull in some sections, but it's a very fitting closer. A fine listen overall |
Demetori Shout at the Devil | 4.0 |
For a first effort, it's a very solid effort but it's clearly a junior album. Production is solid but not as good as their later works. Some tracks kind of get bogged down in speed metal, but some tracks (like Paradise ~ Deep Mountain and the Crimson Belvedere Acoustic Demo) are absolutely stunning. |
Yuki Kajiura Puella Magi Madoka Magica Vol 3. | 5.0 |
This has the absolute masterpieces of the soundtrack, Surgam Identidam and Sagitta Luminis are simply amazing. There are no flaws to this OST |
Yuki Kajiura Puella Magi Madoka Magica Vol 2 | 5.0 |
Yuki Kajiura demonstrates that she's one of THE BEST anime composers in the business today. The music fit wonderfully in the anime and is strong enough to listen on its own. |
Yuki Kajiura Puella Magi Madoka Magica Vol 1. | 4.5 |
Mostly "background" tracks on this one, but sis puella magica and some of the others are superbly composed. A nice bonus for buying the blu-ray disc, but the other OSTS are the real meat of the soundtrack |
Yngwie Malmsteen Trilogy | 4.5 |
Yngwie Malmsteen Marching Out | 4.0 |
Yngwie Malmsteen Rising Force | 5.0 |
Yes Close to the Edge | 5.0 |
Yes Fragile | 4.5 |
X Japan Art of Life | 5.0 |
Vinnie Moore The Maze | 5.0 |
Symphony X Paradise Lost | 4.0 |
Symphony X V: The New Mythology Suite | 4.0 |
Symphony X The Divine Wings of Tragedy | 4.5 |
Steve Vai Passion and Warfare | 5.0 |
Seventh Wonder The Great Escape | 5.0 |
Seventh Wonder Mercy Falls | 5.0 |
Scale the Summit The Collective | 5.0 |
Scale the Summit Carving Desert Canyons | 4.5 |
Eumeria Rebel Mind | 5.0 |
Porcupine Tree In Absentia | 5.0 |
Porcupine Tree Fear of a Blank Planet | 5.0 |
Muse Absolution | 4.0 |
Muse Origin of Symmetry | 4.0 |
Metallica ...And Justice for All | 4.0 |
Metallica Ride the Lightning | 4.5 |
Metallica Master of Puppets | 4.5 |
Liquid Tension Experiment Liquid Tension Experiment 2 | 4.0 |
Liquid Tension Experiment Liquid Tension Experiment | 4.0 |
John Petrucci Suspended Animation | 4.5 |
Dio The Last in Line | 4.5 |
Dio Holy Diver | 5.0 |
Animals As Leaders Animals as Leaders | 5.0 |
Angra Holy Land | 4.0 |
Angra Temple of Shadows | 5.0 |
Angra Aurora Consurgens | 4.0 |
Angra Aqua | 3.5 |
Chimp Spanner At the Dream's Edge | 4.0 |
Guthrie Govan Erotic Cakes | 5.0 |
Dream Theater A Dramatic Turn of Events | 4.0 |
Dream Theater Black Clouds and Silver Linings | 4.0 |
Dream Theater Systematic Chaos | 3.5 |
Dream Theater Octavarium | 3.5 |
Dream Theater Train of Thought | 4.5 |
Dream Theater Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence | 4.5 |
Dream Theater Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes from a Memory | 5.0 |
Dream Theater Awake | 5.0 |
Dream Theater Images and Words | 5.0 |