| Obsidian Tide Pillars of Creation | 3.5 |
| This album was quite a pleasant surprise, pretty sure I read a review on AngryMetalGuy that made me want to check it out. A progressive metal concept album that largely has clean vocals but harsh vocals are thrown in there too (though not the best ... but passable). The standout track for me is "Seven". |
| Somali Yacht Club The Sun | 4.0 |
| "Loom" hooked me in straight away and really enjoyed every track on the album. The tracks all are around the 8 minute mark, but you don't really notice the length. There is enough variety across each track that it doesn't become monotonous (a bit of a trap maybe post bands fall into). The vocal interludes break up the largely instrumental based tracks nicely. "Loom" and "Sun" are the standout tracks for me. |
| Machine Head Of Kingdom And Crown | 3.0 |
| Not really any "bad" songs on this album, however no real stand outs for me either. A solid album without anything really ground-breaking (or should that be head banging?). I know a few aren't happy with the political views of Robb on this album, however I feel that it actually adds to this album where the music is largely what you'd expect from Machine Head (without exerting too much effort). After a few more listens I might up my rating, but unless a track really stands out for me on repeat, I don't see it being anything better than "good". |
| Machine Head Catharsis | 2.0 |
| "Beyond the Pale" is decent track off this album, and definitely helped propel it up half a mark for me. The rest of the album is largely forgettable and a few songs are just plain right awful, "Behind a Mask" is a nice introspective song and shows Machine Head are getting better at writing the slower and softer songs. |
| Parius The Signal Heard Throughout Space | 3.5 |
| A prog metal sci-fi concept album, that largely delivers a great listen and interesting story. I was pleasantly surprised with this find. The standout track for me is "The Acid Lakes of Ganymede", it's been on high rotation since discovering it and with so many elements within the one track it keeps your interest after multiple listens. |
| Cyborg Octopus Between the Light and Air | 3.0 |
When they push the envelope a bit their sound comes off unique and interesting. The change
ups work well, though I'd say the harsh vocals are sometimes overdone, mainly because when
they revert to verses with harsh vocals their sound comes across a little generic. Definitely
worth checking out though, as they incorporate a saxophone and keys throughout songs which
are sometimes subtle and other times central to the soundscape they are creating. "Trash
Island" is straight out hilly billy rock/metal (reminds me of Maylene and the Sons of
Disaster). The standout tracks for me are "Old Stories" and "The Projector". |
| Spiritbox Eternal Blue | 4.0 |
| Spiritbox Rotoscope | 3.0 |
| David Maxim Micic Bilo 3.0 | 4.0 |
| Clutch Earth Rocker | 3.5 |
| Clutch Sunrise On Slaughter Beach | 3.0 |
| earthtone9 Omega | 4.0 |
| earthtone9 Lo-Def(inition) Discord | 3.0 |
| earthtone9 Off Kilter Enhancement | 3.0 |
| Wide Eyes Oneironaut | 2.0 |
| I find instrumental bands can be very hit or miss, this album is a HUGE miss. The muscianship is fine, however the song writer is drab to say the least and after a minute of listening to any of the songs you're done (the first four tracks could have been condensed down to a single 4 minute song and you wouldn't have missed anything). The songs also don't flow at all together (although only a few of the songs change up the tempo and rhythm) ... it's pretty much the same track over and over and over. Maybe if you like mediocre bands trying to replicate Animals As Leaders (poorly) and then they over indulge in their mediocrity check out this album. |
| Modern Day Babylon Coma | 3.0 |
| A solid djent / ambient metal album that wouldn't be too bad having play in the background whilst you work, study or play around. Definitely lacking points of differences between the songs ... very much could play through as a single track. I personally like a bit more variety between songs, especially when they are instrumental as you need that point of difference to identify each one.rCould possibly rate higher after a few listens but nothing on this album really stood out to me on a first listen. Solid without really exploring their sound too much. |
| Intervals The Way Forward | 2.5 |
| King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard Polygondwanaland | 4.0 |
| Gojira Magma | 4.0 |
| Gojira The Link | 3.0 |
| earthtone9 Arc'tan'gent | 4.5 |
| Metallica S&M | 3.0 |
| King 810 Memoirs of a Murderer | 2.5 |
| Palms Palms | 3.5 |
| Team Sleep Team Sleep | 3.5 |
| Chevelle Vena Sera | 3.5 |
| Chevelle La Gárgola | 4.0 |
| Chevelle This Type Of Thinking (Could Do Us In) | 3.5 |
| Chevelle Wonder What's Next | 4.5 |
| Incubus (USA-CA) Alive at Red Rocks | 4.5 |
| Incubus (USA-CA) If Not Now, When? | 2.5 |
| Incubus (USA-CA) Light Grenades | 3.5 |
| Incubus (USA-CA) S.C.I.E.N.C.E. | 4.0 |
| Incubus (USA-CA) Make Yourself | 4.5 |
| Incubus (USA-CA) Morning View | 4.5 |
| Incubus (USA-CA) A Crow Left of the Murder... | 4.0 |
| (hed) p.e. Blackout | 3.5 |
| (hed) p.e. Broke | 3.5 |
| (hed) p.e. (hed) p.e. | 3.0 |
| Leprous The Congregation | 4.0 |
| Leprous Coal | 4.0 |
| Leprous Tall Poppy Syndrome | 4.0 |
| Leprous Bilateral | 4.0 |
| Haken Affinity | 4.0 |
| Haken Visions | 4.0 |
| Caligula's Horse Bloom | 4.0 |
| Sepultura The Mediator Between Head and Hands Must Be the Heart | 3.0 |
| Sepultura A-Lex | 3.5 |
| Cavalera Conspiracy Pandemonium | 3.0 |
| Cavalera Conspiracy Blunt Force Trauma | 3.5 |
| Cavalera Conspiracy Inflikted | 3.5 |
| Soulfly Savages | 3.0 |
| Soulfly Archangel | 3.0 |
| Limp Bizkit Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavored Water | 2.5 |
| Limp Bizkit Significant Other | 3.0 |
| Limp Bizkit Three Dollar Bill Y'all | 3.5 |
| Slipknot 9.0: Live | 3.5 |
| Slipknot .5: The Gray Chapter | 3.0 |
| Mudvayne The Beginning of All Things to End | 2.5 |
| Mudvayne Lost and Found | 3.0 |
| Mudvayne The End of All Things to Come | 4.0 |
| Mudvayne L.D. 50 | 4.0 |
| System of a Down Hypnotize | 3.5 |
| System of a Down Mezmerize | 3.5 |
| System of a Down Steal This Album! | 3.0 |
| System of a Down Toxicity | 4.5 |
| System of a Down System of a Down | 4.5 |
| Wolverine Communication Lost | 4.0 |
| In Flames Come Clarity | 3.0 |
| Soilwork Figure Number Five | 3.0 |
| Soilwork The Living Infinite | 4.0 |
| Soilwork Natural Born Chaos | 4.0 |
| Red Sparowes At The Soundless Dawn | 3.5 |
| Pelican March Into the Sea | 4.0 |
| The Ocean Pelagial (Instrumental) | 4.0 |
| Native Construct Quiet World | 4.0 |
| The Dear Hunter Act IV: Rebirth in Reprise | 2.5 |
| Blur Blur | 4.0 |
| Radiohead The King of Limbs | 2.5 |
| Radiohead In Rainbows | 2.5 |
| Radiohead OK Computer | 5.0 |
| Gorillaz Demon Days | 3.0 |
| Gorillaz Gorillaz | 3.0 |
| The Prodigy The Fat of the Land | 3.5 |
| The Prodigy Experience | 3.5 |
| The Prodigy Music for the Jilted Generation | 4.0 |
| Pitchshifter www.pitchshifter.com | 3.0 |
| Fear Factory Digimortal | 3.0 |
| Fear Factory Obsolete | 3.5 |
| Fear Factory Demanufacture | 3.5 |
| Fear Factory Soul of a New Machine | 3.0 |
| Machine Head Bloodstone And Diamonds | 3.5 |
| August Burns Red Rescue & Restore | 3.5 |
| August Burns Red Found in Far Away Places | 3.0 |
| Parkway Drive Don't Close Your Eyes [Reissue] | 3.0 |
| Parkway Drive The DVD | 4.5 |
| Parkway Drive Atlas | 3.5 |
| Parkway Drive Ire | 3.0 |
| Mastodon Once More 'Round the Sun | 3.0 |
| Anciients Heart of Oak | 4.0 |
| The Ocean Pelagial | 4.5 |
| Melvins The Bootlicker | 3.0 |
| Melvins The Maggot | 3.0 |
| Melvins The Crybaby | 3.0 |
| Fantomas Delìrium Còrdia | 2.0 |
| Fantomas Suspended Animation | 2.0 |
| Pain of Salvation Falling Home | 3.0 |
| Pain of Salvation The Perfect Element, Part 1 | 4.0 |
| Pain of Salvation Remedy Lane | 4.0 |
| Pain of Salvation Be | 4.0 |
| Pain of Salvation Road Salt One | 4.0 |
| Pain of Salvation One Hour by the Concrete Lake | 4.0 |
| Pain of Salvation Entropia | 4.0 |
| Pain of Salvation Linoleum | 3.0 |
| Karnivool Asymmetry | 3.5 |
| Haken The Mountain | 4.0 |
| Epysode Fantasmagoria | 3.0 |
| I am not a big fan of the power metal genre, and more checked it out for the progressive elements. There is a good range of vocals (for a variety of artists), and there are different musical influences throughout. However the Euro power metal dominates. No "bad" songs, but no real stand out songs for me. |
| Alter Bridge One Day Remains | 2.5 |
| Alien Ant Farm ANThology | 3.0 |
| Alexisonfire Watch Out! | 3.0 |
| Alexisonfire Alexisonfire | 3.0 |
| Gentle Giant Octopus | 4.0 |
| Caligula's Horse Moments from Ephemeral City | 4.5 |
| Caligula's Horse The Tide, the Thief and River's End | 4.5 |
| Prospekt The Colourless Sunrise | 3.0 |
| Very similar sound to Dream Theater in parts (a little less complex). Most of the sounds have good riffs and get you going, however there is nothing spectacular on the album. It is a very enjoyable listen and is a good solid album, without really being a stand out. No real poor songs on the album. |
| Obscure Sphinx Void Mother | 4.0 |
| Gojira From Mars to Sirius | 4.5 |
| Gojira The Way of All Flesh | 4.5 |
| Gojira L'Enfant Sauvage | 3.5 |
| Serj Tankian Elect the Dead | 3.0 |
| Serj Tankian Imperfect Harmonies | 3.0 |
| Serj Tankian Harakiri | 3.0 |
| Ne Obliviscaris Portal of I | 4.5 |
| ISIS Celestial | 3.0 |
| ISIS Oceanic | 4.0 |
| ISIS Panopticon | 4.5 |
| Pelican What We All Come to Need | 3.0 |
| Pelican City of Echoes | 3.0 |
| Pelican The Fire in Our Throats Will Beckon... | 4.0 |
| Pelican Australasia | 4.0 |
| Katatonia Viva Emptiness | 4.0 |
| Opeth Heritage | 4.5 |
| Opeth Watershed | 4.0 |
| Opeth Damnation | 4.5 |
| Opeth Ghost Reveries | 4.5 |
| Opeth Blackwater Park | 5.0 |
| Down Down III: Over the Under | 3.5 |
| Down Down II: A Bustle in Your Hedgerow | 4.5 |
| Down NOLA | 4.5 |
| Lamb of God Wrath | 3.0 |
| Lamb of God Sacrament | 4.0 |
| Lamb of God Ashes of the Wake | 3.5 |
| Lamb of God As the Palaces Burn | 4.0 |
| Mushroomhead XIII | 2.5 |
| Mushroomhead XX | 4.0 |
| Slipknot All Hope Is Gone | 4.5 |
| Slipknot Vol. 3: The Subliminal Verses | 4.0 |
| Slipknot Iowa | 3.0 |
| Slipknot Slipknot | 3.5 |
| Korn Greatest Hits Vol. 1 | 3.0 |
| Korn Untitled | 2.0 |
| Korn See You on the Other Side | 3.0 |
| Korn Take a Look in the Mirror | 4.0 |
| Korn Untouchables | 3.0 |
| Korn Issues | 3.0 |
| Korn Follow the Leader | 3.5 |
| Korn Life Is Peachy | 3.0 |
| Korn Korn | 5.0 |
| Soulfly Enslaved | 3.0 |
| Soulfly Omen | 3.0 |
| Soulfly Conquer | 3.5 |
| Soulfly Prophecy | 3.5 |
| Soulfly Primitive | 3.5 |
| Soulfly Dark Ages | 4.0 |
| Soulfly Soulfly | 3.5 |
| Sepultura Nation | 3.5 |
| Sepultura Against | 3.5 |
| Sepultura Roots | 4.5 |
| Sepultura Chaos A.D. | 4.0 |
| Static-X Cult Of Static | 2.5 |
| Static-X Start A War | 3.5 |
| Static-X Shadow Zone | 3.0 |
| Static-X Machine | 3.0 |
| Bleeding Through Bleeding Through | 3.0 |
| Bleeding Through Declaration | 3.5 |
| Bleeding Through This Is Love, This Is Murderous | 3.0 |
| Unearth The March | 3.0 |
| Unearth The Oncoming Storm | 3.5 |
| Unearth The Stings of Conscience | 3.5 |
| Parkway Drive Deep Blue | 3.5 |
| Parkway Drive Horizons | 4.0 |
| Parkway Drive Killing with a Smile | 4.0 |
| Dog Fashion Disco The Embryo's In Bloom | 2.5 |
| Dog Fashion Disco Experiments in Alchemy | 2.5 |
| Dog Fashion Disco Anarchists of Good Taste | 3.5 |
| Dog Fashion Disco Adultery | 4.5 |
| Baroness Blue Record | 3.5 |
| Kings of Leon Come Around Sundown | 3.0 |
| Kings of Leon Only By The Night | 3.5 |
| Kings of Leon Because Of The Times | 4.0 |
| Kings of Leon Aha Shake Heartbreak | 3.5 |
| Kings of Leon Youth and Young Manhood | 2.5 |
| Faith No More We Care a Lot | 2.5 |
| Jane's Addiction Nothing's Shocking | 4.5 |
| Pearl Jam Touring Band 2000 DVD | 4.0 |
| Pearl Jam Ten | 5.0 |
| Nirvana MTV Unplugged in New York | 4.5 |
| Nirvana From the Muddy Banks of the Wishkah | 3.0 |
| Nirvana In Utero | 4.5 |
| Nirvana Nevermind | 5.0 |
| Alice in Chains MTV Unplugged | 4.5 |
| Alice in Chains Black Gives Way to Blue | 3.5 |
| Alice in Chains Alice in Chains | 4.0 |
| Alice in Chains Facelift | 4.0 |
| Alice in Chains Dirt | 5.0 |
| The Butterfly Effect Begins Here | 3.5 |
| The Butterfly Effect Imago | 3.0 |
| Cog Sharing Space | 3.5 |
| Cog The New Normal | 4.0 |
| Cog Just Visiting - Part 2 | 4.5 |
| Cog Just Visiting - Part 1 | 4.5 |
| Cog Just Visiting (Part 1 & 2) | 4.5 |
| Karnivool Persona | 4.0 |
| Karnivool Themata | 4.0 |
| Nine Inch Nails Year Zero | 3.0 |
| Nine Inch Nails With Teeth | 4.0 |
| Nine Inch Nails The Fragile | 3.5 |
| Nine Inch Nails The Downward Spiral | 3.0 |
| Nine Inch Nails Pretty Hate Machine | 4.5 |
| Tool 10,000 Days | 4.0 |
| Tool Lateralus | 5.0 |
| Tool Ænima | 5.0 |
| Tool Undertow | 3.0 |
| Tool Opiate | 3.0 |
| A Perfect Circle Thirteenth Step | 4.0 |
| A Perfect Circle Mer de Noms | 4.0 |
| A Perfect Circle eMOTIVe | 2.5 |
| Deftones B-Sides and Rarities | 4.0 |
| Deftones Diamond Eyes | 4.0 |
| Deftones Saturday Night Wrist | 4.0 |
| Deftones Deftones | 3.5 |
| Deftones White Pony | 4.5 |
| Deftones Around the Fur | 4.5 |
| Deftones Adrenaline | 3.0 |
| Metallica Death Magnetic | 3.0 |
| Metallica St. Anger | 2.0 |
| Metallica Load | 2.5 |
| Metallica Metallica | 5.0 |
| Metallica ...And Justice for All | 4.5 |
| Metallica Master of Puppets | 5.0 |
| Metallica Ride the Lightning | 4.5 |
| Metallica Kill 'Em All | 3.5 |
| Machine Head Hellalive | 3.5 |
| Machine Head Burn My Eyes | 5.0 |
| Machine Head The More Things Change... | 3.0 |
| Machine Head The Burning Red | 3.0 |
| Machine Head Supercharger | 2.5 |
| Machine Head Through The Ashes Of Empires | 5.0 |
| Machine Head The Blackening | 5.0 |
| Machine Head Unto The Locust | 4.0 |
| Mastodon Live at the Aragon | 2.5 |
| Mastodon The Hunter | 3.5 |
| Mastodon Crack the Skye | 5.0 |
| Mastodon Blood Mountain | 4.0 |
| Mastodon Leviathan | 4.5 |
| Mastodon Remission | 3.0 |
| Dream Theater Once in a LIVEtime | 3.5 |
| Dream Theater Images and Words | 4.5 |
| Dream Theater Awake | 3.5 |
| Dream Theater Falling into Infinity | 3.0 |
| Dream Theater Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes from a Memory | 4.0 |
| Dream Theater Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence | 4.0 |
| Dream Theater Train of Thought | 4.5 |
| Dream Theater Systematic Chaos | 4.0 |
| Karnivool Sound Awake | 4.5 |
| Dream Theater Black Clouds and Silver Linings | 4.0 |
| Dream Theater Octavarium | 3.0 |
| Dream Theater A Dramatic Turn of Events | 3.0 |
