| Tyr Battle Ballads | 3.5 |
| ERRA Cure | 3.5 |
| Myrkur Ragnarok (Original Soundtrack) | 3.5 |
| Myrkur Spine | 3.0 |
| Darkest Hour Perpetual | Terminal | 4.0 |
| Orbit Culture The Forgotten | 3.0 |
| While it is cool that they're constantly pumping out new stuff, there's only so much of it that I can really listen to seeing how they haven't changed their style since Nija |
| Earthside Let The Truth Speak | 4.0 |
| Spiritbox The Fear of Fear | 4.0 |
| Silent Planet Superbloom | 5.0 |
| Gunship Unicorn | 4.5 |
| Red (USA) Rated R | 3.0 |
| Polaris Fatalism | 4.0 |
| TesseracT War of Being | 4.0 |
| Orbit Culture Descent | 4.5 |
| Blackscape Suffocated By The Sun | 3.5 |
| nothing groundbreaking, but still some solid melodeath with a slight side of thrash mixed in. |
| Anberlin Convinced | 4.0 |
| Nothing But Thieves Dead Club City | 4.0 |
| Sigur Ros ÁTTA | 4.5 |
| Scar Symmetry The Singularity - Phase II: Xenotaph | 4.0 |
| Avenged Sevenfold Life Is But a Dream... | 3.0 |
| Foo Fighters But Here We Are | 4.0 |
| The Acacia Strain Step Into The Light | 3.0 |
| Sleep Token Take Me Back to Eden | 4.0 |
| Ne Obliviscaris Exul | 4.5 |
| August Burns Red Death Below | 4.0 |
| Invent Animate Heavener | 3.5 |
| Kamelot The Awakening | 4.0 |
| It's nothing really new compared to most post-Khan Kamelot records, but it seems like they're pushing their symphonic foot forward a bit more which makes this a lot more refreshing. |
| Periphery Periphery V: Djent is Not a Genre | 3.0 |
| Haken Fauna | 4.0 |
| Haken are attempting their own version of a Bored Ape |
| Insomnium Anno 1696 | 4.5 |
| Paramore This Is Why | 3.5 |
| In Flames Foregone | 3.5 |
| Allegaeon Elements of the Infinite | 4.0 |
| Circa Survive A Dream About Love | 4.0 |
| Rolo Tomassi Where Myth Becomes Memory | 4.0 |
| Disturbed Divisive | 2.0 |
"This shit is heavy and rocking not like the other pussy shit on this site."
this IS pussy shit lmao |
| Devin Townsend Nightwork | 4.0 |
| Devin Townsend Lightwork | 4.5 |
| Demon Hunter Exile | 2.0 |
| Architects The Classic Symptoms of a Broken Spirit | 2.0 |
| Dragonland The Power of the Nightstar | 3.5 |
| Alter Bridge Pawns and Kings | 3.0 |
| Lamb of God Omens | 3.5 |
| Fallujah Empyrean | 4.0 |
| The Devil Wears Prada Color Decay | 3.5 |
| Soundtrack (Video Game) Metal: Hellsinger | 4.0 |
| May not hit as hard as the Doom soundtracks, but damnit this is a great soundtrack |
| Parkway Drive Darker Still | 1.0 |
| The Callous Daoboys Celebrity Therapist | 4.5 |
| Blind Guardian The God Machine | 4.0 |
| Anberlin Silverline | 4.0 |
| Machine Head Of Kingdom And Crown | 4.0 |
| Muse Will of the People | 3.5 |
| Becoming The Archetype Children of the Great Extinction | 4.0 |
"Becoming the archetype of a boring metalcore band that should've broken up after terminate damnation"
And your mother should've terminated her pregnancy before she gave birth to you lololol gotem
album is great btw |
| Soilwork Overgivenheten | 4.5 |
| Arch Enemy Deceivers | 4.0 |
| definitely their best album in years, by far Alissa's best performance, some decently strong songwriting and Jeff Loomis finally getting a chance to let loose on his guitar a bit, makes for a solid MDM record |
| The Halo Effect Days of the Lost | 3.0 |
| Norma Jean Deathrattle Sing for Me | 5.0 |
| Fight the Fade APOPHYSITIS | 4.0 |
| The Dear Hunter Antimai | 4.0 |
| Shinedown Planet Zero | 3.5 |
| Porcupine Tree Closure/Continuation | 3.0 |
| Coheed and Cambria Vaxis II: A Window of the Waking Mind | 3.5 |
| Act of Denial Negative | 4.0 |
definitely more reminiscent of Soilwork's pre-Figure Number Five era
for those thinking that Soilwork have gone too soft, this record is for you |
| Seventh Wonder The Testament | 4.0 |
"best album they released in 9 years"
I don't recall them releasing something in 2013 |
| Thornhill Heroine | 3.0 |
| Ibaraki Rashomon | 3.5 |
maybe tagging this as black metal was a mistake lmao
decent album tho |
| Rammstein Zeit | 4.0 |
| Northlane Obsidian | 4.5 |
| Monuments (UK) In Stasis | 4.0 |
| Serenity in Murder Reborn | 4.0 |
| Meshuggah Immutable | 4.0 |
| Step aside Periphery-pussies, time to show how a real band djunz m/ |
| Animals As Leaders Parrhesia | 3.0 |
| Ghost (SWE) Impera | 3.5 |
| Wolves at the Gate Eulogies | 3.5 |
| Devin Townsend Dark Matters | 3.5 |
| Devin Townsend Project Sky Blue | 4.0 |
| Allegaeon Damnum | 5.0 |
| Bad Omens The Death of Peace of Mind | 4.5 |
| Amorphis Halo | 4.5 |
| Persefone Metanoia | 4.0 |
| Pridelands Light Bends | 4.0 |
| Shadow Of Intent Elegy | 4.5 |
| Skillet Dominion | 2.5 |
| Underoath Voyeurist | 3.5 |
| better than Erase Me but how much is that saying? |
| Fit for an Autopsy Oh What the Future Holds | 4.5 |
| Rising Insane Afterglow | 3.5 |
| Trophy Scars Astral Pariah | 4.0 |
| Omnium Gatherum Origin | 4.0 |
| Cynic Ascension Codes | 3.5 |
| Failure Wild Type Droid | 4.0 |
| Devin Townsend The Puzzle | 3.5 |
| honestly I'm just glad that he released something different other than releasing another DTP album for the nth time |
| Rhapsody of Fire Glory For Salvation | 3.0 |
| what happened to the production? everything on this record sounds so flat, which is a real shame because there's some good stuff on here. |
| Swallow the Sun Moonflowers | 4.0 |
| Converge Bloodmoon: I | 4.0 |
| Silent Planet Iridescent | 5.0 |
| Bullet for My Valentine Bullet For My Valentine | 2.5 |
| band is still stuck in the late 2000s I see |
| Black Veil Brides The Phantom Tomorrow | 2.5 |
| when in the fuck was this a thing? |
| Limp Bizkit Still Sucks | 2.5 |
| Beast In Black Dark Connection | 4.0 |
| Be'lakor Coherence | 4.5 |
| Mastodon Hushed and Grim | 4.5 |
| Whitechapel Kin | 4.5 |
| Every Time I Die Radical | 4.5 |
| Dream Theater A View from the Top of the World | 4.0 |
| Starset Horizons | 2.0 |
| It's nothing but the same crap they've been writing since Vessels. The songwriting, the production, the instrumentation, it's all the same. Nothing has changed at all. |
| Ice Nine Kills The Silver Scream 2: Welcome to Horrorwood | 4.0 |
| The World Is a Beautiful Place... Illusory Walls | 4.5 |
| Trivium In the Court of the Dragon | 5.0 |
| Teramaze And the Beauty They Perceive | 4.0 |
| Man these guys really are squirting out albums left and right, but at least it's solid stuff |
| Orbit Culture Shaman | 4.0 |
| Asking Alexandria See What's On the Inside | 2.0 |
| Sleep Token This Place Will Become Your Tomb | 4.0 |
| Thrice Horizons/East | 3.5 |
| Tremonti Marching in Time | 4.0 |
| Tremonti's best album to date |
| Rivers of Nihil The Work | 3.0 |
| Angels and Airwaves Lifeforms | 4.0 |
| Spiritbox Eternal Blue | 4.0 |
| Spiritbox Singles Collection | 3.5 |
| Pentakill III: Lost Chapter | 4.5 |
| Definitely a different Pentakill album than the previous two, leaning more towards progressive/heavy metal rather than the power/thrash angle than before. It really does suit them, but the choice of Tyler Smith of The Word Alive as the third vocalist is certainly an odd one. |
| Iron Maiden Senjutsu | 4.0 |
| Phinehas The Fire Itself | 4.0 |
| Leprous Aphelion | 5.0 |
| I'm convinced that the people who say Leprous is an Einar solo project only ever listened to 3 songs off of Bilateral before Pitfalls ever dropped |
| Between the Buried and Me Colors II | 4.5 |
| Enigmatic Entrance Becoming Daylight | 4.0 |
| Good metal album if you're into stuff like Soilwork and The Unguided and shit like that |
| Helloween Helloween | 4.0 |
| Powerwolf Call of the Wild | 3.0 |
| Wizardthrone Hypercube Necrodimensions | 4.0 |
Children of Bodom but science fiction
it's actually pretty great |
| Times of Grace Songs of Loss and Separation | 3.0 |
70% of this album is basically KSE ballads
not bad but nothing really worth going back to |
| Born of Osiris Angel or Alien | 3.0 |
| At the Gates The Nightmare of Being | 3.5 |
| Beartooth Below | 3.0 |
| Modest Mouse The Golden Casket | 4.0 |
| Light the Torch You Will Be the Death of Me | 3.0 |
| Howard Jones sounds great but that's pretty much it |
| Teramaze Sorella Minore | 4.0 |
| Fear Factory Aggression Continuum | 4.0 |
| Machine Head Arrows in Words from the Sky | 4.0 |
| The Devil Wears Prada 8:18 | 3.5 |
| The Devil Wears Prada ZII | 4.0 |
| The Devil Wears Prada Zombie | 3.5 |
| Royal Blood Typhoons | 3.5 |
| Manchester Orchestra The Million Masks of God | 4.5 |
| Gojira Fortitude | 4.0 |
| Bring Me the Horizon Post Human: Survival Horror | 4.0 |
| Greta Van Fleet The Battle at Garden's Gate | 3.0 |
| it's still by the numbers dad rock that heavily relies on the nostalgia factor...but unlike before, there seems to be some actual creativity in the music, and I'm not gonna lie, it's really not all bad. |
| Zao The Crimson Corridor | 4.0 |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor G_d's Pee AT STATE'S END! | 4.5 |
| Evanescence The Bitter Truth | 2.5 |
| ERRA ERRA | 4.0 |
| Ra Intercorrupted | 3.0 |
| some good stuff in here for sure, but unfortunately they seemed to have traded off their unique sound in favor of whatever Starset seem to be doing nowadays. |
| Ra Black Sun | 4.0 |
| Ra Duality | 3.5 |
| Ra From One | 3.5 |
| It certainly shows its age through it's production and songwriting, but that's part of it's charm |
| Demon Hunter Songs of Death and Resurrection | 4.0 |
| Chevelle NIRATIAS | 4.5 |
you never know, it could be a 3.9
Edit: and God said, let it be a 3.9
Edit 2: I hate you all |
| Epica Omega | 4.0 |
| Architects For Those That Wish to Exist | 2.0 |
| God Is an Astronaut Ghost Tapes #10 | 3.0 |
| slightly better than the horrendously mixed Epitaph, but...at the end of the day it's just another post rock album |
| Foo Fighters Medicine at Midnight | 2.5 |
| Steven Wilson The Future Bites | 2.5 |
| Front Line Assembly Mechanical Soul | 3.5 |
| Daniel Tompkins Ruins | 4.0 |
| This album makes TesseracT even more 2-dimensional than they already are |
| Killer Be Killed Reluctant Hero | 4.5 |
| Dark Tranquillity Moment | 4.5 |
| Blue Stahli Quartz | 3.0 |
| System of a Down Protect The Land/Genocidal Humanoidz | 3.5 |
| Gorillaz Song Machine, Season One: Strange Timez | 3.5 |
| Nothing But Thieves Moral Panic | 4.0 |
| Soilwork A Whisp of the Atlantic | 4.0 |
| Sevendust Blood and Stone | 4.0 |
| The Unguided Father Shadow | 4.0 |
| Richard is still a hit or miss vocalist but I won't lie that this album is a ton of fun. |
| Teramaze I Wonder | 4.0 |
| IDLES Ultra Mono | 4.0 |
| Ayreon Transitus | 3.0 |
| The Ocean Phanerozoic II: Mesozoic | Cenozoic | 4.5 |
| Deftones Ohms | 5.0 |
| Fit for a King The Path | 3.0 |
| 10 Years Violent Allies | 2.0 |
| This album is proof on why Howard Benson is an absolute shit stain in the music industry. |
| The Acacia Strain Slow Decay | 3.5 |
| Soilwork The Feverish Trinity | 4.0 |
| Epica The Quantum Enigma B-Sides | 4.5 |
| Speech Patterns Without a Sound | 4.0 |
| Pain of Salvation Panther | 4.0 |
| Ulver Flowers of Evil | 4.0 |
| This feels more like a spiritual successor to Assassination of Julius Caesar, which is a slight disappointment seeing how much these guys tend to experiment with their sound. Still though, a lot of catchy tunes on this record. |
| Seether Si Vis Pacem, Para Bellum | 4.0 |
| SIAMES Home | 4.0 |
| Black Crown Initiate Violent Portraits of Doomed Escape | 4.0 |
| Reminds me more of Between The Buried And Me than Opeth but this is still some solid stuff. |
| Orbit Culture Nija | 4.5 |
| The James Hetfield-esque clean vocals are gonna urk a few people here but this is still a fantastic record. |
| Dawn Of Ashes The Antinomian | 4.0 |
| Haken Virus | 4.5 |
| Not sure if this is better or worse than Vector, but regardless this album rules |
| Lamb of God Lamb of God | 3.0 |
| Currents The Way It Ends | 3.5 |
| Run the Jewels RTJ4 | 4.5 |
| Bleed from Within Fracture | 4.0 |
| Soilwork Underworld | 4.5 |
| Caligula's Horse Rise Radiant | 4.0 |
| Asking Alexandria Like a House on Fire | 1.0 |
| maybe we should stop asking Alexandria |
| Paradise Lost Obsidian | 4.0 |
| Hayley Williams Petals for Armor | 3.5 |
| Silent Planet The Night God Slept (Redux) | 4.0 |
| Polaris The Death of Me | 4.0 |
| Polaris The Mortal Coil | 4.0 |
| Killswitch Engage Atonement II B-Sides for Charity | 3.5 |
| When the B-sides are better than the album they were meant for |
| Invent Animate Greyview | 4.0 |
| O'Brother You and I | 4.5 |
| Dance Gavin Dance Afterburner | 2.5 |
| Andrew Judah Impossible Staircase | 4.5 |
| Trivium What the Dead Men Say | 4.0 |
| Ulcerate Stare Into Death and Be Still | 4.5 |
| Enter Shikari Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible | 4.0 |
| Code Orange Underneath | 4.0 |
| Suicide Silence Become The Hunter | 3.0 |
| Conception State of Deception | 4.0 |
| August Burns Red Guardians | 4.0 |
| Red (USA) Declaration | 3.5 |
| Had this been mixed properly this would've been much better, as it stands now though it's better than their last two records but not much else. |
| Nightwish HUMAN. :II: NATURE. | 4.0 |
| Heaven Shall Burn Of Truth and Sacrifice | 4.0 |
| This would've made for a kickass 10-11 track record. Music itself is nothing that special but it's still good for what it is. |
| Myrkur Folkesange | 4.0 |
| I love most of her black metal stuff, but this is equally as awesome. |
| Intronaut Fluid Existential Inversions | 3.5 |
| Fight the Fade In Love. in Hope. in Peace. | 3.5 |
| Sylosis Cycle of Suffering | 4.0 |
| Caspian On Circles | 4.5 |
| Poppy I Disagree | 3.5 |
| what the fuck is this and why do I like it? |
| The Acacia Strain It Comes in Waves | 4.0 |
| Thornhill Butterfly | 4.5 |
| Coldplay Everyday Life | 3.5 |
| Shadecrown Riven | 4.0 |
| Production lacks a bit of bite and can get a bit samey at times, but for those that really enjoy this brand of Scandinavian melodeath, you'll definitely be pleased. |
| Highly Suspect MCID | 2.0 |
| Counterparts Nothing Left to Love | 5.0 |
| Subway To Sally HEY! | 4.0 |
| Kinda like Rammstein, you have no idea what the lyrics mean but you just go along for the ride and you end up having a great time anyways. |
| Rings of Saturn Gidim | 1.0 |
| I wonder how many riffs they stole to make this record |
| Alcest Spiritual Instinct | 4.0 |
| Thornhill The Dark Pool | 4.5 |
| Bad Wolves N.A.T.I.O.N. | 3.0 |
| Saint Asonia Flawed Design | 3.0 |
| another day, another standard alt rock album |
| Norma Jean All Hail | 5.0 |
| Leprous Pitfalls | 4.5 |
| Jinjer Macro | 3.5 |
| Tatianna's vocals are great but this production on this is total ass. |
| Fit for an Autopsy The Sea of Tragic Beasts | 4.5 |
| Uneven Structure Paragon | 4.0 |
| Clean vocals are still kinda ass but overall this is much better than La Partition |
| Alter Bridge Walk The Sky | 3.5 |
| it's just more Alter Bridge, which isn't necessarily a bad thing, but they really need to start tweaking their sound a bit more and get a different producer if they want to stay relevant. |
| Jimmy Eat World Surviving | 4.0 |
| Toothgrinder I Am | 2.0 |
| Three Days Grace sure are consistent aren't they? |
| Lacuna Coil Black Anima | 3.5 |
| The Devil Wears Prada The Act | 4.0 |
| This is their best album so far. Mike's harsh vocals are still shit, but everything else sounds good. They're actually beginning to develop their own sound. |
| BABYMETAL Metal Galaxy | 3.5 |
| The Menzingers Hello Exile | 3.0 |
| Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds Ghosteen | 5.0 |
| We Lost the Sea Triumph and Disaster | 3.0 |
| Insomnium Heart Like a Grave | 4.0 |
| Joyous Wolf Place in Time | 3.5 |
| Really nice little EP, has an old classic rock kinda style to it, vocalist is pretty good too |
| Dayseeker Sleeptalk | 3.5 |
| Ghost (SWE) Seven Inches Of Satanic Panic | 3.5 |
| Borknagar True North | 4.0 |
| Opeth In Cauda Venenum | 2.5 |
| Of Mice and Men EARTHANDSKY | 3.5 |
| Norma Jean Bless the Martyr and Kiss the Child | 3.5 |
| The Agonist Orphans | 3.0 |
| Cult of Luna A Dawn to Fear | 4.0 |
| The Devin Townsend Band Synchestra | 4.0 |
| As I Lay Dying Shaped by Fire | 3.0 |
| Well, it's very representative of mid-2000s metalcore for sure. |
| Belzebubs Pantheon of the Nightside Gods | 4.0 |
| Insomnium One for Sorrow | 4.0 |
| Sonata Arctica Talviyo | 1.5 |
| Teramaze Anhedonia | 3.5 |
| Starset Divisions | 1.5 |
| Korn The Nothing | 3.5 |
| Sleeping With Sirens How It Feels to Be Lost | 2.5 |
| going from electro-pop to mainstream radio rock, I guess it's an improvement? |
| Sylosis Edge of the Earth | 4.0 |
| Wage War Pressure | 2.5 |
| Tool Fear Inoculum | 2.0 |
| 7empest might as well be one of their best songs to date, and Chocolate Chip Trip is a fun little instrumental, shame I can't say the same with the rest of the album, everything else is just so goddamn boring. |
| DragonForce Extreme Power Metal | 2.5 |
| the Marc Hudson version of "Ultra Beatdown" |
| ERRA Moments of Clarity | 3.5 |
| Insomnium Across the Dark | 4.0 |
| Off With Their Heads Be Good | 4.0 |
| The Butterfly Effect Begins Here | 3.5 |
| Moron Police Defenders of the Small Yard | 4.0 |
| This is one of the dumbest albums I've ever heard in my life and yet I just can't stop listening to it |
| Moron Police Boat on the Sea | 4.0 |
| Just a really fun, uplifting, feel-good power pop record. Listen to it whenever you're in a down mood. |
| The Offering Home | 4.5 |
| Teramaze Her Halo | 4.0 |
| Shadow Of Intent Melancholy | 5.0 |
| Ditching the Halo theme was the smartest move they ever did. By far their best album to date. |
| Teramaze Are We Soldiers | 4.5 |
| definitely could've benefited from a 15-20 minute cut, but this is still one of the best prog metal albums of the year |
| Teramaze Esoteric Symbolism | 4.5 |
| Killswitch Engage Atonement | 3.0 |
| The Signal Fire and The Crownless King are cool jams but almost everything else is just been-there-done-that metalcore. Nothing awful other than the fact that KSE are stuck in their own complacency |
| The Contortionist Our Bones | 2.5 |
| Crown the Empire Sudden Sky | 2.0 |
| The Black Dahlia Murder Ritual | 4.0 |
| Slipknot We Are Not Your Kind | 3.0 |
| Why the fuck does this have a 100 on Metacritic? |
| Tool Undertow | 3.0 |
| As Cities Burn Scream Through the Walls | 3.5 |
| Northlane Singularity | 4.0 |
| Skillet Victorious | 2.5 |
| I mean, it's a Skillet album. But for a Skillet album, there's some surprisingly solid stuff in here. |
| Bad Omens Finding God Before God Finds Me | 4.0 |
These guys can't escape the BMTH comparisons the same way that no one can stop comparing Greta Van Fleet to Led Zeppelin.
Still though, this is great |
| Northlane Discoveries | 3.5 |
| Northlane Alien | 4.5 |
| There's practically an industrial metal vibe to this and it suits them really nicely. It's their best album with Marcus, and might be their best album overall. |
| Sylosis Conclusion of an Age | 4.0 |
| Children of Bodom Follow the Reaper | 4.0 |
| Machine Head The More Things Change... | 3.5 |
| Wolves at the Gate Eclipse | 3.5 |
| Definitely their most "mainstream" record. It's got good production, nice melodies and great performances from both vocalists, yet at the same time there's nothing here that other bands haven't done before, some even better. It's a solid record, but nothing really blew me away. |
| The Raven Age Conspiracy | 3.0 |
| Oh, Sleeper Bloodied/Unbowed | 4.0 |
| State Faults Clairvoyant | 4.5 |
| The Callous Daoboys Die on Mars | 4.0 |
| It's like TDEP and Every Time I Die came together and had Jon Mess made lyrics for them. It's VERY tongue-in-the-cheek but a good amount of fun |
| Thank You Scientist Terraformer | 4.5 |
| Baroness Gold and Grey | 3.5 |
| mixing is kinda ass and it's 15 minutes too long, still a pretty decent record overall |
| Daniel Tompkins Castles | 2.5 |
| just take the guitars out of Tesseract and what your left with is this |
| Rammstein Untitled | 4.0 |
| The National I Am Easy to Find | 4.0 |
| Rammstein Mutter | 4.0 |
| The Hypothesis Origin | 3.5 |
| Artificial Fear Death By Machines | 4.0 |
| Amon Amarth Berserker | 2.5 |
| Rammstein Reise, Reise | 4.0 |
| Allegaeon Apoptosis | 4.0 |
| Thrice Deeper Wells | 3.0 |
| TesseracT Concealing Fate | 4.0 |
| PUP Morbid Stuff | 4.0 |
| Periphery Clear | 3.0 |
| Periphery Periphery IV: Hail Stan | 4.0 |
| I Prevail TRAUMA | 3.0 |
| album reminds me of Fever 333, good vocalists, good energy, and good instrumentation that's bogged down by cringey lyrics and really odd songwriting choices. still though there are some legit good songs on here. |
| Whitechapel The Valley | 4.0 |
| Devin Townsend Empath | 5.0 |
| Battle Beast No More Hollywood Endings | 3.5 |
| Cut this by about 10-15 minutes and you have yourself a really solid, fun as fuck pop-metal album. Noora's vocals only add to this. |
| Haywyre Panorama: Form | 3.5 |
| Fallujah Undying Light | 3.5 |
| album is totally fine. sure a bit monotonous, but completely fine. |
| Baroness Red Album | 3.5 |
| Orbit Culture Odyssey | 4.0 |
| Orbit Culture In Medias Res | 4.5 |
| Tyr Hel | 3.5 |
| Marianas Trench Phantoms | 4.0 |
| definitely one of the better pop rock albums in recent years |
| Children of Bodom Hexed | 4.0 |
| The National Trouble Will Find Me | 4.0 |
| While She Sleeps So What? | 3.0 |
| Queensryche The Verdict | 3.5 |
| In Flames I, the Mask | 2.5 |
| Did the Jester just turn into a mummified vagina? |
| Badflower OK, I’M SICK | 4.0 |
| Rhapsody of Fire The Eighth Mountain | 4.0 |
| Giacomo has warmed up to me for sure. Still, no one can replace Fabio for me, and Giacomo can be a little whiny for sure, but I think he did a good job with this record. Album is a lot of fun for those who are in the mood for some good cheese. |
| Dream Theater Distance Over Time | 4.0 |
| Dream Theater's best album in 17 years, hands down. |
| Avantasia Moonglow | 4.5 |
| Soen Lotus | 3.5 |
| Beast In Black From Hell With Love | 4.5 |
| I was afraid from the first two singles that this was going to be another one of those shitty "80s nostalgia throwback" albums that we've been getting a lot of recently, but thankfully that isn't the case at least for the most part. They still retain that metal edge here, and man this album is album is fucking fun. |
| Front Line Assembly Wake Up the Coma | 4.0 |
| it's nothing that really goes outside FLA's comfort zone, but nonetheless another fine addition to their mostly excellent discography |
| Emarosa Peach Club | 2.0 |
| another pop rock album that sounds like every pop rock album out there |
| Dream Theater Train of Thought | 3.5 |
| Astronoid Astronoid | 4.0 |
| Breathe Atlantis Soulmade | 3.5 |
| Manchester Orchestra Cope | 3.5 |
| Within Temptation Resist | 3.5 |
| a very fun pop-metal album. great vocals with a very polished production and good instrumentation. though I do wish the guitars had a bit more punch to them. |
| Swallow the Sun When a Shadow Is Forced into the Light | 4.0 |
| Bring Me the Horizon Amo | 2.5 |
| Kanye West did this album art way better tbh |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Miss Machine | 4.5 |
| Too Close to Touch I'm Hard to Love, But So Are You, Vol. 1 | 3.0 |
| Hopefully they won't stick to this direction entirely. They're good at mixing their pop with their rock, but I feel like they should stick with mixing them if they want to stay relevant. |
| Subway To Sally Bastard | 4.0 |
| FEVER 333 Strength In Numb333rs | 3.0 |
| Demon Hunter Peace | 3.5 |
| Demon Hunter War | 4.0 |
| Gojira L'Enfant Sauvage | 4.0 |
| Born of Osiris The Simulation | 3.0 |
| It's another Born of Osiris album. It's fun, well produced, and catchy, but that's really all it is in the end which doesn't amount to much. Though the short album length does benefit. |
| Orbit Culture Rasen | 4.5 |
| Orbit Culture Redfog | 4.0 |
| Breathe Atlantis Futurestories | 3.5 |
| Breathe Atlantis Shorelines | 3.0 |
| Soilwork Verkligheten | 4.5 |
| you're talking about a guy who thinks that Bring Me The Horizon is the new Jesus. what else were you expecting? |
| Currents I Let the Devil In | 3.5 |
| pretty good stuff, nothing really too out of the ordinary but solid overall. |
| Within Temptation The Unforgiving | 4.0 |
| Lovebites Clockwork Immortality | 4.5 |
| Powerwolf The Sacrament of Sin | 3.5 |
| Haywyre Panorama: Discover | 3.5 |
| This guys always is always a ball of fun to listen to and this EP is another example. Nothing too out of the ordinary but still a joy to listen to regardless. |
| Conception My Dark Symphony | 4.0 |
| Roy sounds like he never left |
| Omnium Gatherum The Burning Cold | 4.0 |
| Thousand Below The Love You Let Too Close | 3.5 |
| pretty solid, straight forward alt-rock/post hardcore. Nothing really special but these guys definitely have a lot of potential ahead of them |
| Memphis May Fire Broken | 2.5 |
| as someone who never really gave a shit about this band, I found this to be completely 100% average. Nothing awful, nothing great, just your typical post-hardcore/hard rock album that literally does nothing new or exciting. |
| Asking Alexandria Reckless and Relentless | 3.5 |
| Failure Fantastic Planet | 4.0 |
| Greta Van Fleet Anthem of the Peaceful Army | 2.0 |
I'm really getting tired of these "retro-70s/80s throwback rock" bands
it's getting old and stale, much like the music they're playing |
| Voices from the Fuselage Odyssey: The Founder of Dreams | 4.0 |
| A great debut album that's followed by an even better sophomore effort. These guys are definitely on the road to great things. |
| Imagine Dragons Origins | 1.0 |
| Muse Simulation Theory | 1.0 |
| I didn't know Matt Bellamy was going direct Ready Player Two |
| Architects Holy Hell | 4.0 |
"Hey mods can you do your job and remove all these premature 5s?? It's fucking up the 2018 best of chart, no reason this should be #2. Album will be average as always these dudes have been releasing the same song for years."
This is coming from a guy who rated this a month before it was released |
| All That Remains Victim of the New Disease | 3.0 |
| Fit for a King Deathgrip | 3.5 |
| Time, The Valuator How Fleeting, How Fragile | 4.5 |
| It's like taking the best parts of Hands Like Houses, Dead Letter Circus, TesseracT and Monuments and mixing them into one album, and it's absolutely fantastic. |
| The Ocean Phanerozoic I: Palaeozoic | 4.0 |
| Witherfall A Prelude to Sorrow | 3.0 |
| it's certainly heavier and more technical than their last album, but at the same time I feel like a lot of the fun moments are just sucked out at the same time. This was actually pretty boring for the most part. |
| Svavelvinter Mörkrets Tid | 4.0 |
| the best Christian Alvestam album since Holographic Universe |
| Daughters You Won't Get What You Want | 4.5 |
| Fucked Up Dose Your Dreams | 3.0 |
| This would be a lot better if it was literally cut in half, but fuck me there's no way I can sit through 90 minutes of this. |
| Dream On Dreamer Loveless | 3.5 |
| Fit for an Autopsy Absolute Hope Absolute Hell | 4.0 |
| Dream On Dreamer It Comes and Goes | 3.5 |
| more or less an album for those who are disappointed in what Hands Like Houses are doing right now. Still a solid little post-hardcore album regardless. |
| Bad Omens Bad Omens | 3.5 |
"a Sempiternal copycat band."
still better than Sempiternal tbh |
| Fight The Fury Still Breathing | 3.0 |
| definitely a shit ton better than what Skillet are doing now. Nothing really original or even unfamiliar for them in general, but still a fun little hard rock EP nonetheless. |
| Devour The Day Signals | 3.0 |
| still not original by any means, but there are some good moments on here. a much needed improvement over their last snooze-fest |
| Behemoth The Satanist | 4.0 |
| Haken Vector | 4.5 |
| Haken tone down their awful keyboard work from last time and shorten down the album length, and in return we end up with one of the best prog albums of the year. |
| Northward Northward | 2.5 |
| Floor Jensen is such a great vocalist, but this is just another complete waste of her talent |
| Soulfly Ritual | 3.0 |
| Silent Planet When the End Began | 5.0 |
| Nothing But Thieves What Did You Think When You Made Me This Way? | 4.0 |
| these guys are on a roll |
| Amaranthe Helix | 2.5 |
| I've always wondered why people found this band so average, now I know |
| Disturbed Evolution | 1.0 |
| ironic album title tbh |
| All That Remains This Darkened Heart | 3.5 |
| Atreyu In Our Wake | 3.0 |
| Seventh Wonder Tiara | 3.5 |
| typical prog metal tbh, but certainly fun for sure |
| Mycelia Apex | 4.5 |
| not as good as Dawn, but still it still solidifies Mycelia as one of the best and most overlooked death metal acts out there |
| Chevelle 12 Bloody Spies: B-Sides and Rarities | 4.0 |
| Poets of the Fall Ultraviolet | 4.0 |
| can't recall the last time we've gotten a really good pop rock record |
| Hands Like Houses -Anon. | 4.0 |
| this is a completely different band that released Dissonants and Unimagine, though I'm not gonna lie, this album is fucking FUN. |
| Estrons You Say I'm Too Much, I Say You're Not Enough | 2.5 |
| sounds like Paramore if they tried to make a post-punk record |
| Unprocessed Covenant | 3.5 |
| this thing is groovy as fuck, though the vocals aren't really that interesting |
| Behemoth I Loved You at Your Darkest | 4.0 |
| Ice Nine Kills The Silver Scream | 4.5 |
| It's the type of ridiculous tongue-in-the-cheek, cheesy metalcore that we've come to hate within the past few years, but Ice Nine Kills for the most part manages to make it work in the best way possible and I have no idea why. |
| Twenty One Pilots Trench | 3.5 |
| Coheed and Cambria Vaxis I: The Unheavenly Creatures | 4.5 |
| Monuments (UK) Phronesis | 3.0 |
| Sacrificing most of their djenty grooves in favor of a more meat-and-potatoes metalcore sound, a sad disappointment indeed. Though the album isn't without some pretty darn good bangers. |
| Ice Nine Kills Every Trick in the Book | 4.0 |
| Ice Nine Kills The Predator Becomes the Prey | 3.5 |
| Poets of the Fall Signs of Life | 4.0 |
| mewithoutYou [Untitled] | 4.5 |
| If Sowing doesn't 5 this I'll be disappointed |
| Soilwork A Predator's Portrait | 4.0 |
| Beartooth Disease | 3.0 |
| Hands Like Houses Ground Dweller | 3.5 |
| Riverside Wasteland | 4.0 |
| Beartooth Disgusting | 3.5 |
| Fit for a King Dark Skies | 4.0 |
| Voivod The Wake | 4.0 |
| Why hasn't Voivod rated this album yet? |
| Mnemic Mechanical Spin Phenomena | 4.0 |
| Dead Letter Circus Dead Letter Circus (2018) | 3.5 |
| a definite improvement over their last album. it's like there's actual energy that was put into here, though they're still trying to stick to the bland indie radio rock sound in a few songs. |
| SIAMES Bounce Into The Music | 4.0 |
| Thrice Palms | 3.5 |
| Lovebites Awakening From Abyss | 4.5 |
| an all female Japanese power metal act? I think I found the perfect album for Gyro |
| IDLES Joy as an Act of Resistance | 4.5 |
| The Night Flight Orchestra Sometimes The World Ain't Enough | 4.0 |
| Hespera In Absence | 4.5 |
| I'm pretty sure Bjorn Strid has become my favorite vocalist now |
| Omethi Drown In Sacred Waterfalls | 3.5 |
| It sounds like a Soilwork demo, but I'm totally ok with that because it's still pretty damn good. |
| Olafur Arnalds re:member | 4.0 |
| This guy never fails to disappoint, one of the most gorgeous albums I've heard this year. |
| Alice in Chains Rainier Fog | 3.5 |
| mewithoutYou [untitled] e.p. | 4.5 |
| Dark Tranquillity Construct | 4.0 |
| Venues Aspire | 3.5 |
| another young post-hardcore/alt-metal band that shows promise, but for fucks sake they need a new harsh vocalist. |
| Foxing Nearer My God | 4.0 |
| ERRA Impulse | 3.5 |
| ERRA Neon | 4.0 |
their most diverse album to date, which also makes it their best album to date
It's called an opinion sweetheart, I have mine and you have yours. Deal with it. |
| ERRA Augment | 4.0 |
| Crossfaith Ex_Machina | 2.0 |
| The Mercury Tree Cryptic Tree | 4.0 |
| Skeletonwitch Serpents Unleashed | 4.0 |
| Skeletonwitch Devouring Radiant Light | 4.5 |
| Distorted Harmony A Way Out | 3.5 |
| would enjoy it more if the vocalist was actually good tbh |
| The Agony Scene Tormentor | 3.5 |
| album is fierce and heavy as fuck if a bit samey. Pretty good over all, albeit a bit underwhelming. |
| Between the Buried and Me Automata II | 4.0 |
| Hopesfall Arbiter | 4.0 |
| Definitely a solid record for sure, but being honest there isn't really all that much that particularly blew me away. They've established a solid atmosphere for this album (as per usual) with great instrumentation and a decent lead vocal performance, but it all feels a bit one-dimensional at times. |
| Monuments (UK) Gnosis | 3.0 |
| Monuments (UK) The Amanuensis | 4.0 |
| Front Line Assembly Warmech | 4.0 |
| Converge Beautiful Ruin | 4.0 |
| Dark Tranquillity Damage Done | 4.5 |
| Bullet for My Valentine Gravity | 2.0 |
| time to tag this band as 'alternative rock' now I guess |
| Gorillaz The Now Now | 3.5 |
| definitely their best album since Plastic Beach |
| Nine Inch Nails Bad Witch | 4.0 |
| Mike Shinoda Post Traumatic | 3.5 |
| For an album that's supposed to reflect on what Mike has gone through over the past year I was expecting something more powerful and emotionally resonant. Not saying that it doesn't have it's moments for sure, but I feel like he should've gone the extra mile here. |
| Mike Shinoda Post Traumatic EP | 3.0 |
| Tremonti A Dying Machine | 3.0 |
| Dance Gavin Dance Artificial Selection | 3.5 |
| FINALLY! A NEW DGD ALBUM THAT DOESN'T FEATURE WILL SWANS SHITTY RAPPING! |
| Head with Wings From Worry To Shame | 3.0 |
| Ghost (SWE) Prequelle | 3.5 |
| CHVRCHES Love Is Dead | 3.0 |
| Andrew W.K. You're Not Alone | 2.0 |
| Alkaloid Liquid Anatomy | 4.5 |
| Five Finger Death Punch And Justice for None | 1.0 |
| Follow the Cipher Follow the Cipher | 3.5 |
| pretty predictable yet enjoyable power metal/melodeath record. It's fun, well performed and slickly produced, just nothing really particularly original |
| Amorphis Queen of Time | 5.0 |
| At the Gates To Drink from the Night Itself | 4.0 |
"It's solid, but it'll do nothing to win new fans."
I'm a new fan and I dug the shit out of this. |
| Bad Wolves Disobey | 3.0 |
If they did less of the harsh rap-like vocals and had better production then they have to potential to release a damn good album.
Honestly, this is a weird album, but I kinda like it. |
| Jon Hopkins Singularity | 4.5 |
| Shinedown Leave a Whisper | 3.0 |
| Sevendust All I See Is War | 3.0 |
| It's Sevendust 3/5 |
| Parkway Drive Reverence | 1.5 |
| why do we drive in parkways and park in driveways? |
| Shinedown Attention Attention | 4.0 |
| Definitely their best since Sound of Madness. That being said, there are a few songs that had them carry over their pop-influences from their last album which isn't entirely a good thing. |
| Godsmack When Legends Rise | 2.0 |
| At the Gates At War with Reality | 3.5 |
| At the Gates Slaughter of the Soul | 4.5 |
| Hopesfall The Satellite Years | 4.0 |
| God Is an Astronaut Epitaph | 3.0 |
| From Ashes To New The Future | 1.5 |
| A Perfect Circle Eat the Elephant | 4.5 |
| looks like somebody went through mommy's makeup again |
| Heaven Shall Burn Deaf to Our Prayers | 3.5 |
| Underoath Lost in the Sound of Separation | 4.5 |
| Wild Fire Revolt | 3.5 |
| Imagine if Red and Breaking Benjamin came together, went political, and had guitar solos |
| TesseracT Sonder | 2.5 |
The tracklists are getting shorter and shorter. Next thing you know they'll release an empty disc and call it an album.
"Can someone please explain to toondude that longer tracklist =/= better music"
lol, that's not why I didn't like it. I didn't like this because it's boring af. |
| Bleed from Within Era | 4.0 |
| This is the album to help ease the pain from Parkway Drive's new album, and this came out a month before it. |
| Breaking Benjamin Ember | 4.0 |
| Thirty Seconds to Mars America | 1.0 |
| credit to hansoloshotfirst: https://media.giphy.com/media/GrZqYAu8izPQk/giphy.gif |
| Kamelot The Shadow Theory | 4.0 |
"It's a Kamelot album that isn't Karma, Epica or The Black Halo."
Yeah, its called The Shadow Theory, so it's not those albums. |
| Caliban Elements | 3.0 |
| Typical metalcore release. Never really got into this band I'm not sure how it stacks up to the rest of their discog but I thought this was pretty decent, albeit generic |
| August Burns Red Messengers (Remixed) | 4.5 |
| The Wonder Years Sister Cities | 4.5 |
| Underoath Erase Me | 3.0 |
| The Republic of Wolves shrine | 3.5 |
| Light the Torch Revival | 3.5 |
| Blessthefall Hard Feelings | 1.5 |
| Persefone In Lak'Ech | 2.5 |
| Gojira The Way of All Flesh | 4.0 |
| Stone Temple Pilots Stone Temple Pilots (2018) | 3.0 |
| Rivers of Nihil Where Owls Know My Name | 4.5 |
| Of Mice and Men Defy | 3.0 |
| Epica Epica vs Attack on Titan Songs | 3.5 |
| Voyager Ghost Mile | 3.5 |
| The Republic of Wolves Varuna | 4.0 |
| Myles Kennedy Year of the Tiger | 3.0 |
| Three Days Grace Outsider | 2.0 |
| just a jump to the left |
| Judas Priest Firepower | 4.0 |
| easily their best album in years |
| Between the Buried and Me The Parallax: Hypersleep Dialogues | 4.0 |
| Between the Buried and Me Automata I | 4.0 |
| Mastodon Leviathan | 4.0 |
| Cypecore The Alliance | 4.0 |
| Meshuggah obZen | 4.0 |
| Norma Jean Meridional | 4.0 |
| Underoath Define the Great Line | 4.5 |
| Senses Fail If There Is Light, It Will Find You | 3.0 |
| Peruse Being Human | 3.0 |
| https://peruse.bandcamp.com/album/being-human |
| Pianos Become the Teeth Wait For Love | 3.5 |
| some of the best moments on this site are when people get so angry at people because they didn't like an album they liked. |
| Faunts M4 | 4.0 |
| Pianos Become the Teeth The Lack Long After | 4.0 |
| Good Tiger We Will All be Gone | 3.0 |
| Sonic Syndicate Confessions | 1.0 |
| Sybreed The Pulse of Awakening | 4.0 |
| Recode the Subliminal Disconnected | 4.0 |
| Despite a few questionable production choices and some rather cheesy lyrics, Disconnected is a definite improvement over their debut album as they finally begin to find the sound that they're comfortable with. |
| Arch Enemy Doomsday Machine | 4.0 |
| Lione/Conti Lione/Conti | 3.0 |
| it's nice to see Fabio is still around. The album is certainly fun, but there's really no surprises if you're familiar with his career. |
| Dark Tranquillity Character | 4.5 |
| Invent Animate Stillworld | 3.5 |
| In Vain (NO) Currents | 4.0 |
| Machine Head Catharsis | 3.5 |
| and with this now we die |
| Scar Symmetry Symmetric in Design | 4.0 |
| Fight the Fade Masks | 4.0 |
| By far their heaviest release yet. While the production does tend to be over-saturated at times this is still really enjoyable while Zene Smith continues to be one of the best vocalists in the genre. |
| Dead Letter Circus The Catalyst Fire | 4.0 |
| Black Veil Brides Vale | 2.5 |
"Possibly one of my favorite albums of all time."
you say that about every BVB album that comes out |
| Fit for an Autopsy The Great Collapse | 4.0 |
| Devin Townsend Project Epiclouder | 3.5 |
| Machine Head Through The Ashes Of Empires | 4.0 |
| Machine Head Burn My Eyes | 4.5 |
| The Dark Element The Dark Element | 3.0 |
| Imagine if the current In Flames had female vocals. That's pretty much this album in a nutshell. And surprisingly enough, it's pretty solid. |
| Arch Enemy War Eternal | 3.5 |
| Arcane Roots Left Fire | 4.0 |
| Norma Jean Redeemer | 4.0 |
| Asking Alexandria Asking Alexandria | 3.0 |
| The Unguided Lust and Loathing | 4.0 |
| Ignea The Sign of Faith | 4.0 |
| It's like Amorphis but with a female singer. Surprisingly enough it's pretty damn good. |
| Machine Head Unto The Locust | 4.0 |
| Machine Head Bloodstone And Diamonds | 4.5 |
| Machine Head The Blackening | 4.5 |
| The Unguided Fragile Immortality | 3.5 |
| it's certainly catchier than their last album and Richard's vocals are constantly improving with every album, but this band can't help but touch the EDM button a few too many times. |
| The Menzingers After the Party | 3.5 |
| Fifth Density Dominion of the Sun | 4.0 |
It's as if the sounds of Haken and TesseracT merged together. It's a little overlong, but it's damn good.
And the fact that it's name your own price on their Bandcamp makes it doubly sweet. |
| Icarus the Owl Rearm Circuits | 3.5 |
| Good stuff, nothing phenomenal but nothing bad either. |
| The Dear Hunter All Is As All Should Be | 4.5 |
| Glassjaw Material Control | 4.0 |
| Mycelia Nova | 4.5 |
| Ghost Atlas All Is in Sync... | 3.0 |
singer sounds a LOT like Cove Reber
don't know why everyone is losing their shit over this. It's not bad but it's not really noteworthy |
| Myrkur Mareridt | 4.0 |
| Bjork Utopia | 3.5 |
| Sonic Syndicate Sonic Syndicate | 2.5 |
| Sonic Syndicate Love and Other Disasters | 3.5 |
| is it bad to say that this is probably their best album? Sure it's generic and poppy, but in terms of those two attributes you could do a lot worse. |
| Sonic Syndicate Only Inhuman | 3.5 |
| Becoming The Archetype Celestial Completion | 3.5 |
| Threat Signal Disconnect | 3.5 |
| Toothgrinder Phantom Amour | 3.5 |
| I actually like this more than their last album, which wasn't very memorable to me. It may not be as original, but it's sure a lot more interesting. |
| Face The King Once More Is All I Am | 4.0 |
| For those disappointed in what Thirty Seconds to Mars is doing, this might be something worth digging into. |
| The Unguided And The Battle Royale | 3.5 |
| Sleeping With Sirens Gossip | 1.5 |
| Ulver Sic Transit Gloria Mundi | 4.0 |
| Evanescence Synthesis | 3.5 |
| Would've been much better if this was a 5-6 track EP, that being said some of these reworkings are gorgeous and the new songs are fantastic. |
| Seventh Wonder The Great Escape | 4.0 |
| Beast In Black Berserker | 4.0 |
| It's exactly what you expect. It's dumb, lame and over the top, but it's still manages to be damn good fun without it ever feeling too cringey. |
| Ulver Messe I.X-VI.X | 4.0 |
| Converge The Dusk in Us | 4.5 |
| Zao Pyrrhic Victory | 4.0 |
| Zao are on a fucking roll |
| Ne Obliviscaris Urn | 4.0 |
| Weezer Pacific Daydream | 2.5 |
| Red (USA) Gone | 3.0 |
| Rise Against Wolves | 3.0 |
| 10 Years (How to Live) As Ghosts | 4.0 |
| Their best since The Autumn Effect. Wantland's return, Rasckulinecz's production, and what might be Jesse's best vocal performance to date, (how to live) As Ghosts not only marks a return to form for 10 Years, but a new chapter for the band that contains a very bright future. |
| Arch Enemy Will to Power | 3.5 |
| Veil of Maya False Idol | 1.5 |
| False Periphery |
| We Came As Romans Cold Like War | 3.0 |
| The Black Dahlia Murder Nightbringers | 4.0 |
| I the Mighty Where the Mind Wants to Go / Where You Let it Go | 4.0 |
| Trivium The Sin and the Sentence | 4.5 |
| Thank You Scientist Maps of Non-Existent Places | 4.5 |
| The Black Dahlia Murder Nocturnal | 4.0 |
| Suicide Silence Suicide Silence | 2.0 |
| The Contortionist Exoplanet | 4.0 |
| Battle Beast Bringer of Pain | 3.0 |
| The World Is a Beautiful Place... Always Foreign | 4.5 |
| Caligula's Horse In Contact | 4.0 |
| Circa Survive Blue Sky Noise | 4.0 |
| Amorphis Skyforger | 4.0 |
| Mastodon Cold Dark Place | 4.0 |
| Circa Survive The Amulet | 4.0 |
| Wolves in the Throne Room Thrice Woven | 4.0 |
| August Burns Red Phantom Anthem | 4.5 |
| Arcane Roots Blood and Chemistry | 5.0 |
| Arcane Roots Melancholia Hymns | 5.0 |
| Whoever says this has no emotion hasn't listened to this album. By far my favorite of the year. |
| The Contortionist Clairvoyant | 2.5 |
| artsy-fartsy TesseracT worship, and it's about as boring as you would think. |
| Foo Fighters Concrete and Gold | 4.0 |
| Just realized the symbol on the cover are two F's |
| Nothing More The Stories We Tell Ourselves | 2.0 |
| The nu-metal influences in this practically ruin this. |
| Nigel Stanford Automatica | 4.0 |
| Hundred Suns The Prestaliis | 3.5 |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor Luciferian Towers | 4.5 |
| Threshold Dead Reckoning | 4.0 |
| Mycelia Obey | 4.5 |
| Threshold Legends of the Shires | 4.5 |
| Mutemath Play Dead | 4.0 |
| best played while under the influence of some good ole weed |
| Nothing But Thieves Broken Machine | 4.5 |
| dare I say, this band is better than anything that Muse as ever done. |
| The National Sleep Well Beast | 4.5 |
| Epica The Solace System | 3.5 |
| Nothing But Thieves Nothing But Thieves | 4.5 |
| Leprous Malina | 4.5 |
| Leprous (almost) completely abandon their heavier side for a more moody and ambient sound. It may be a bit disappointing for fans of their earlier work, but the album is still loaded with gorgeous moments, particularly in the second half. |
| Neck Deep The Peace And The Panic | 3.0 |
| It's pretty much everything you would expect from a pop-punk outfit. Nothing offensive, but nothing really worth sinking your teeth into. |
| Brand New Science Fiction | 4.5 |
| Sowing's Brand New blue balls have finally been cured |
| Leprous The Congregation | 4.5 |
| Leprous Coal | 4.5 |
| Leprous Bilateral | 5.0 |
| Leprous Tall Poppy Syndrome | 5.0 |
| Mycelia Dawn | 5.0 |
| This album, which features a deathcore/djent band, has a 13 minute song called "Drop The Baby", and it's one of the best metal songs of the year. |
| Queens of the Stone Age Villains | 4.0 |
| Fatal FE New Horizon | 4.0 |
| finally realizing their potential, this is their best release yet. |
| Paradise Lost Medusa | 3.5 |
| Pentakill II: Grasp of The Undying | 5.0 |
| Say what you will about a virtual band based on League of Legends and how cheesy/dumb it is, this is one of the best metal albums of the year. |
| The National Boxer | 4.0 |
| Converge Axe to Fall | 4.5 |
| Converge You Fail Me | 4.5 |
| Less Art Strangled Light | 3.5 |
| Manchester Orchestra A Black Mile to the Surface | 4.5 |
| Mudvayne L.D. 50 | 4.0 |
| Celldweller Offworld | 3.0 |
| it's not so much risk taking as it's more of a nice change of pace from a guy who's been waving his electronic cock at us for the past five years. |
| Steven Wilson To the Bone | 4.5 |
| Manchester Orchestra Simple Math | 3.5 |
| Manchester Orchestra Mean Everything to Nothing | 4.0 |
| Converge I Can Tell You About Pain | 4.5 |
| Scar Symmetry Pitch Black Progress | 4.0 |
| Scar Symmetry Holographic Universe | 4.5 |
| Nine Inch Nails Add Violence | 4.0 |
| Silverstein Dead Reflection | 3.0 |
| Dayseeker Dreaming Is Sinking /// Waking Is Rising | 3.5 |
| great melodies and excellent vocal performance, now they just need less breakdowns |
| Oh, Sleeper Children of Fire | 4.5 |
| As I Lay Dying Shadows Are Security | 3.5 |
| Stone Sour Hydrograd | 4.0 |
| "Song #3" isn't song number 3 |
| Moonsorrow Verisäkeet | 4.5 |
| Anathema The Optimist | 3.5 |
| Moonsorrow Kivenkantaja | 4.5 |
| Galneryus One For All - All For One | 4.0 |
| Motorhead Bad Magic | 3.0 |
| Imagine Dragons ƎVOLVE | 1.0 |
| Linkin Park already released the worst album of the year, we didn't need another one |
| Persefone Core | 4.5 |
| Amorphis The Beginning of Times | 4.0 |
| Stone Sour Audio Secrecy | 3.5 |
| Nickelback Feed the Machine | 2.5 |
| Dark Tranquillity We Are the Void | 3.5 |
| Royal Blood How Did We Get So Dark? | 3.0 |
| Miss May I Shadows Inside | 3.0 |
| Iron Maiden Seventh Son of a Seventh Son | 4.5 |
| Progenie Terrestre Pura oltreLuna | 3.5 |
| Really interesting sci-fi black metal/ambient record. If I do have one problem it's that some of the song structures and mixing are rather messy. |
| The Mercury Tree Freeze In Phantom Form | 4.5 |
| This band really is the next "Porcupine Tree" in the best way possible, and this album proves it. 'Proteus' is arguably one of the best prog/psychedelic rock songs in recent memory. |
| Stevens/Dessner/Muhly/McAlister Planetarium | 5.0 |
| Pathfinder Beyond the Space, Beyond the Time | 4.0 |
| Iron Maiden Powerslave | 5.0 |
| Iron Maiden The Number of the Beast | 4.5 |
| SikTh The Future In Whose Eyes? | 4.5 |
| Flogging Molly Life Is Good | 3.5 |
| Jorn Life on Death Road | 4.0 |
| It's almost like a modern take on the pinnacle of rock and metal from the 80s |
| SikTh The Trees Are Dead and Dried Out, Wait for Something Wild | 4.0 |
| The Mercury Tree Countenance | 4.5 |
| Rhapsody of Fire Legendary Years | 2.5 |
| I'm still not convinced if Giacomo is the right replacement for Fabio as the vocalist. While he certainly is a better singer and I'll give him credit that he's not trying to sound like Fabio, I don't think he fits in very well with the music. |
| The Mercury Tree Permutations | 4.5 |
| It's almost as if Animals as Leaders fused with Thank You Scientist and Porcupine Tree. It's technically brilliant, visceral, and weird as fuck. I love it. |
| Devin Townsend Project Holding Patterns | 4.5 |
| Harry Styles Harry Styles | 3.5 |
| DragonForce Reaching into Infinity | 4.0 |
| Linkin Park One More Light | 1.0 |
| An album that is so inoffensive that it's actually offensive |
| Seether Poison The Parish | 3.5 |
| Paramore After Laughter | 3.5 |
| While She Sleeps You Are We | 2.5 |
| Swallow the Sun New Moon | 4.0 |
| Uneven Structure La Partition | 3.5 |
| Mew Visuals | 4.0 |
| Ayreon The Source | 4.0 |
| Artuma is too hipster for this |
| All That Remains Madness | 2.0 |
"'Madness is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting something to change.'
Apparently, All That Remains didn't get the memo."
Snide, considering you do the same thing with your music, I don't think you got it either |
| Shadow Of Intent Reclaimer | 3.5 |
| there needs to be an instrumental version of this |
| Gorillaz Humanz | 3.0 |
| Kendrick Lamar DAMN. | 3.0 |
| Ulver The Assassination of Julius Caesar | 5.0 |
| Falling in Reverse Coming Home | 2.0 |
| Witherfall Nocturnes and Requiems | 4.0 |
| Fen Winter | 4.5 |
| Mastodon Emperor of Sand | 4.0 |
| Demon Hunter Outlive | 3.0 |
| Easily their softest and most melodic album. It would work, if only Clark sounded like he gave a damn and they had gotten a different producer. Still though, I'm probably going to buy this just for the nostalgia. |
| Northlane Mesmer | 3.5 |
| It is what it is, atmospheric prog metalcore/djent with a few great moments and a few bad ones. |
| sleepmakeswaves Made Of Breath Only | 4.0 |
| Olafur Arnalds Eulogy for Evolution | 4.0 |
| Disperse Foreword | 4.0 |
| Ex Deo The Immortal Wars | 3.5 |
| another well-composed melodic death metal record that showcases some really awesome talent, despite its short length and somewhat unoriginal sound. |
| Persefone Shin-Ken | 4.5 |
| Persefone Aathma | 4.0 |
| Persefone Spiritual Migration | 4.0 |
| Darkest Hour Godless Prophets and the Migrant Flora | 5.0 |
| Mutiny Within Origins | 3.5 |
| Serenity in Murder The Eclipse | 4.5 |
| Relient K Truly Madly Deeply EP | 3.0 |
| Sybreed Antares | 4.0 |
| Nine Inch Nails Hesitation Marks | 4.0 |
| Pain of Salvation In the Passing Light of Day | 4.0 |
| Starset Vessels | 3.0 |
| Justin Hurwitz La La Land OST | 4.5 |
| Stone Sour Come What(ever) May | 3.5 |
| Gone Is Gone Echolocation | 3.5 |
| Certainly a lot more atmospheric and dense than their debut EP. It's actually a really cool listen, but damnit I just wish Troy Sanders sounded like he actually gives a damn. |
| Veil of Maya The Common Man's Collapse | 3.5 |
| Insomnium Since the Day It All Came Down | 4.0 |
| Nine Inch Nails Not the Actual Events | 4.0 |
| Far Beyond A Frozen Flame of Ice | 4.0 |
| A great mixture of some of the best elements of melodic death metal and power metal put together into one album. It's almost as if Wintersun and Rhapsody of Fire had a child. Plus the song about Skyrim is fucking rad. |
| Soilwork Natural Born Chaos | 4.5 |
| Roly Porter Third Law | 4.0 |
| Katatonia The Fall of Hearts | 3.5 |
| Every Time I Die Low Teens | 4.0 |
| Saor Guardians | 4.0 |
| Alcest Kodama | 4.0 |
| Circle of Dust Machines Of Our Disgrace | 3.5 |
| Zao Liberate Te Ex Inferis | 4.5 |
| Zao The Funeral of God | 4.0 |
| Neurosis Fires Within Fires | 3.0 |
| Zao The Well-Intentioned Virus | 4.5 |
| Dark Tranquillity Fiction | 4.5 |
| Toothgrinder Nocturnal Masquerade | 3.0 |
| Metallica Hardwired...To Self-Destruct | 3.5 |
| August Burns Red Sleddin' Hill | 4.0 |
| Caspian Waking Season | 4.5 |
| Caspian Dust and Disquiet | 5.0 |
| The Unguided Hell Frost | 4.0 |
| Animals As Leaders The Madness of Many | 4.5 |
| In Flames Battles | 1.5 |
| Insomnium Shadows of the Dying Sun | 4.0 |
| Face The King The Sound EP | 3.5 |
| Face The King The Burning and The Falling Down | 4.0 |
| Insomnium Above the Weeping World | 4.5 |
| Dark Tranquillity Atoma | 4.0 |
| Insomnium Winter's Gate | 4.5 |
| Wolves at the Gate Types & Shadows | 3.5 |
| It took a long time, but this record has grown on me a lot since this came out. What I took as a cop out of mid-era Thrice sound, I realized that this is their most mature record. The vocal performances are what makes this, especially Steven's clean vocals. While I still like the other two records more, I can safely say that this is a great record. |
| Sybreed Slave Design | 4.0 |
| Vektor Black Future | 4.5 |
| Jimmy Eat World Integrity Blues | 4.0 |
| Avenged Sevenfold The Stage | 2.5 |
| Metallica's releasing a new album this year, does this mean that this band can fuck off now? |
| Wovenwar Honor Is Dead | 2.5 |
| Devin Townsend Physicist | 3.5 |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Dissociation | 4.5 |
| Meshuggah The Violent Sleep Of Reason | 4.5 |
| The Devil Wears Prada Transit Blues | 3.5 |
| Dance Gavin Dance Mothership | 3.5 |
| Meshuggah Catch Thirtythree | 4.0 |
| Alter Bridge The Last Hero | 3.5 |
| typical Alter Bridge, though it still manages to contain some great material |
| Epica The Holographic Principle | 4.0 |
| Yellowcard Yellowcard | 4.0 |
| Too Close to Touch Haven't Been Myself | 3.5 |
| Opeth Sorceress | 2.0 |
| Meshuggah Chaosphere | 4.5 |
| Heaven Shall Burn Wanderer | 3.5 |
| Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds Skeleton Tree | 4.5 |
| Norma Jean Polar Similar | 5.0 |
| The Dear Hunter Act V: Hymns with the Devil in Confessional | 5.0 |
| Solution .45 Nightmares in the Waking State, Pt. 2 | 3.5 |
| Gojira From Mars to Sirius | 4.5 |
| Devin Townsend Project Transcendence | 5.0 |
| NYVES Pressure | 3.5 |
| Definitely better than the debut, though it still leaves a bit more to be desired. |
| Argyle Park Misguided (Remastered) | 4.0 |
| Soilwork Death Resonance | 4.0 |
| Deadly Circus Fire The Hydra’s Tailor | 3.5 |
| a bit too much filler here but overall some genuinely great songs that show a lot of potential |
| Amorphis Circle | 4.0 |
| Skillet Unleashed | 1.0 |
| desperately appealing to the lowest common denominator the same way Michael Bay appeals to penises and Stephanie Meyer appeals to vaginas |
| Thank You Scientist Stranger Heads Prevail | 4.5 |
| Crown the Empire Retrograde | 2.5 |
| rather dull and predictable, by the fourth track it all just ends up sounding the same |
| Relient K Air For Free | 4.0 |
| Periphery Periphery III: Select Difficulty | 3.0 |
| Gone Is Gone Gone Is Gone | 3.0 |
| Emarosa 131 | 2.5 |
| Chevelle The North Corridor | 4.0 |
| Fates Warning Theories of Flight | 4.0 |
| Fight the Fade Fight The Fade | 4.0 |
| Fight the Fade mature their sound to deliver an excellent sophomore effort, but more importantly, a surprisingly unique record for it's genre. |
| Silent Planet Everything Was Sound | 4.5 |
| This blows their debut completely out of the water. |
| David Bowie Blackstar | 4.0 |
| Thousand Foot Krutch Exhale | 2.0 |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers The Getaway | 3.0 |
"Could you guys actually WAIT for the album instead of already rating it?"
once the album leaks the ratings are legitimate stop complaining |
| O'Brother The Death of Day | 4.0 |
| O'Brother Disillusion | 4.5 |
| Gates (USA-NJ) Parallel Lives | 3.0 |
| Gojira Magma | 3.5 |
| far from their best, but still a very enjoyable album |
| Gates (USA-NJ) Bloom and Breathe | 4.0 |
| O'Brother Garden Window | 5.0 |
| Silent Planet Lastsleep (1944–1946) | 4.0 |
| Circle of Dust Brainchild (Remastered) | 4.0 |
| Lacuna Coil Delirium | 3.0 |
| Architects All Our Gods Have Abandoned Us | 4.0 |
| Thrice To Be Everywhere Is to Be Nowhere | 4.0 |
| Thrice The Illusion of Safety | 4.0 |
| Dance Gavin Dance Tree City Sessions | 1.5 |
| I'm probably going to offend people by saying this but this is terrible |
| The Hotelier Goodness | 3.5 |
| Never would've thought a bunch of old naked people would warrant a 4.3 average |
| Throw The Fight Transmissions | 3.0 |
| The Devin Townsend Band Accelerated Evolution | 4.0 |
| Sylvaine Wistful | 4.0 |
| fucking gorgeous |
| Pierce the Veil Misadventures | 2.5 |
| Meshuggah Destroy Erase Improve | 4.0 |
| Hatebreed The Concrete Confessional | 3.0 |
| it's another Hatebreed album |
| Skinny Puppy Last Rights | 3.5 |
| Symphony X Paradise Lost | 4.0 |
| Saosin In Search Of Solid Ground | 3.5 |
| Saosin Along the Shadow | 4.0 |
| There are a couple songs that feel a little too much like Circa Survive but everything else is pretty solid |
| Saosin Saosin | 3.5 |
| Radiohead OK Computer | 4.0 |
| Nothing Tired of Tomorrow | 3.5 |
| Radiohead A Moon Shaped Pool | 4.5 |
| Vektor Terminal Redux | 5.0 |
| Andy Black The Shadow Side | 2.5 |
| Given the constant mockery that Black Veil Brides gets, it's at least commendable for Andy Biersack to at least attempt something different in comparison to his other works. However, despite a few decent moments, The Shadow Side is ultimately an empty and forgettable affair that borrows the same elements from other and more popular pop artists out there, and is most likely not going to change your mind about Biersack in general. |
| Front Line Assembly Civilization | 3.5 |
| Karnivool Sound Awake | 4.0 |
| Front Line Assembly FLAvour of the Weak | 3.0 |
| Skinny Puppy VIVIsectVI | 4.5 |
| Skinny Puppy Too Dark Park | 4.5 |
| Front Line Assembly Epitaph | 3.5 |
| The National High Violet | 4.5 |
| Fallujah Dreamless | 4.0 |
| Darkest Hour The Human Romance | 3.5 |
| Haken The Mountain | 4.0 |
| Darkest Hour The Eternal Return | 3.5 |
| Tremonti Dust | 3.5 |
| Radical Face The Family Tree: The Leaves | 4.5 |
| All Human Teenagers, You Don't Have to Die | 4.5 |
| Darkest Hour Darkest Hour | 4.0 |
| Darkest Hour Deliver Us | 4.5 |
| Darkest Hour Undoing Ruin | 4.5 |
| Radical Face The Family Tree: The Bastards | 4.0 |
| Radical Face The Family Tree: The Branches | 4.5 |
| Fallujah The Flesh Prevails | 4.5 |
| Veil of Maya [id] | 3.0 |
| Radical Face The Family Tree: The Roots | 4.5 |
| Sigur Ros Agætis byrjun | 4.5 |
| The Fall of Troy OK | 4.0 |
| Haken Affinity | 2.0 |
diet Dream Theater
The synths are so glaringly awful, the production is incredibly bland and the vocal performance is so uninspired. Why do people like this again? |
| Nine Inch Nails With Teeth | 3.5 |
| ERRA Drift | 3.5 |
| CHVRCHES The Bones of What You Believe | 3.5 |
| Disturbed Believe | 3.0 |
| The Dear Hunter The Migrations Annex | 4.0 |
| Sevendust Chapter VII: Hope and Sorrow | 3.0 |
| Linkin Park Hybrid Theory EP | 3.5 |
| Adept Sleepless | 3.0 |
| nothing really new here, but the vocalist is pretty good. |
| Brand New Daisy | 4.0 |
| BABYMETAL Metal Resistance | 3.0 |
| Deftones Gore | 4.0 |
| Strapping Young Lad City | 4.5 |
| Devin Townsend Project Z2 | 4.0 |
| The Wonder Years The Greatest Generation | 4.5 |
| Devour The Day S.O.A.R. | 2.0 |
| Devin Townsend Ziltoid the Omniscient | 4.0 |
| Asking Alexandria From Death to Destiny | 3.5 |
| Weezer The White Album | 3.0 |
| Norma Jean Wrongdoers | 4.0 |
| Nine Lashes Ascend | 1.0 |
| O'Brother Endless Light | 4.5 |
| Recode the Subliminal The Cost of Every Man | 3.5 |
| Far from innovative, but enjoyable and well-put together metal album |
| Blind Guardian Imaginations from the Other Side | 4.0 |
| Asking Alexandria The Black | 3.5 |
| Devin Townsend Infinity | 4.0 |
| Amon Amarth Jomsviking | 2.5 |
| The World Is a Beautiful Place... Long Live Happy Birthday | 3.5 |
| Devin Townsend Terria | 4.0 |
| Devin Townsend Project Epicloud | 3.5 |
| Yndi Halda Under Summer | 4.0 |
| Devin Townsend Project Deconstruction | 4.5 |
| Votum :KTONIK: | 4.5 |
| Devin Townsend Ocean Machine: Biomech | 4.5 |
| Devin Townsend Project Ki | 4.0 |
| Devin Townsend Project Ghost | 3.0 |
| Devin Townsend Project Addicted | 5.0 |
| Killswitch Engage Incarnate | 4.0 |
| Ray LaMontagne Ouroboros | 3.5 |
| Wintergatan Wintergatan | 4.5 |
| this is a really really fun album |
| Circle of Dust Circle of Dust (Remastered) | 4.0 |
| Hands Like Houses Dissonants | 4.0 |
| Bring Me the Horizon There Is a Hell, Believe Me I've Seen It... | 2.5 |
| Anchor and Braille Songs for the Late Night Drive Home | 2.5 |
| Can't help but feel bored by this. It's a nice album, but nice doesn't really cut it. |
| Hands Like Houses Unimagine | 3.5 |
| Haywyre Two Fold - Part 2 | 3.5 |
| Haywyre manages to branch out from his normal sound and it works on occasion, at the cost of his originality unfortunately. |
| Toby Fox Undertale OST | 4.5 |
| Avantasia Ghostlights | 4.0 |
| Dream Theater The Astonishing | 3.0 |
| Steven Wilson 4 1/2 | 4.0 |
| Failure Anthem First World Problems | 3.0 |
| Megadeth Dystopia | 3.5 |
| Shadow Of Intent Primordial | 3.5 |
| for an independently produced album the production on this is fantastic |
| Rhapsody of Fire Into The Legend | 4.0 |
| Front Line Assembly Implode | 4.0 |
| Front Line Assembly Gashed Senses & Crossfire | 4.0 |
| Front Line Assembly Millennium | 4.0 |
| Hurt Vol. II | 4.0 |
| Hurt Vol. 1 | 3.5 |
| We Lost the Sea Departure Songs | 3.5 |
| Earthside A Dream In Static | 5.0 |
| where the fuck did this come from? |
| Karnivool Themata | 4.0 |
| Justin Bieber Purpose | 2.5 |
| Fightstar Be Human | 3.5 |
| Coldplay A Head Full of Dreams | 2.0 |
| Fightstar Grand Unification | 3.0 |
| Foo Fighters Saint Cecilia | 3.0 |
| Solution .45 Nightmares In The Waking State Pt. 1 | 2.5 |
| one of the most boring metal records of the year |
| Adele 25 | 2.5 |
| pretty generic, even for Adele's standards. |
| Swallow the Sun Songs from the North I, II & III | 5.0 |
| Celldweller Wish Upon A Blackstar (Deluxe Edition) | 4.0 |
| Thursday No Devolucion | 4.0 |
| The Contortionist Language | 3.5 |
| Mutemath Vitals | 4.0 |
| Born of Osiris Soul Sphere | 3.5 |
| BABYMETAL BABYMETAL | 4.0 |
| Intronaut The Direction of Last Things | 4.0 |
| Light the Torch They Bleed Red (as Devil You Know) | 3.0 |
| A slight improvement compared to their last album, but it still doesn't make up for Howard's obnoxious cleans and dated production. |
| Celldweller End of an Empire | 4.0 |
| FKA Twigs M3LL155X | 3.5 |
| Good Tiger A Head Full of Moonlight | 3.0 |
| can't really see what's so great about this |
| Dream Theater A Dramatic Turn of Events | 3.5 |
| Foxing Dealer | 3.5 |
| Front Line Assembly Artificial Soldier | 4.0 |
| Mutemath Odd Soul | 3.5 |
| Fightstar One Day Son This Will All Be Yours | 4.0 |
| Kill Paris Galaxies Between Us | 3.5 |
| Nine Inch Nails Broken | 4.5 |
| Nine Inch Nails The Fragile | 4.5 |
| The Icarus Complex Horizons of Endless Gray | 3.0 |
| Arcane Roots Heaven and Earth | 4.5 |
| Nine Inch Nails Pretty Hate Machine | 4.5 |
| Fightstar Behind the Devil's Back | 4.0 |
| So Hideous Laurestine | 4.0 |
| Blind Guardian Nightfall in Middle-Earth | 4.5 |
| I the Mighty Satori | 4.0 |
| Icarus the Owl Pilot Waves | 3.5 |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Ire Works | 4.0 |
| Uneven Structure Februus | 4.0 |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan One of Us Is the Killer | 4.5 |
| Amorphis Silent Waters | 4.5 |
| Nightwish Endless Forms Most Beautiful | 3.5 |
| Imperative Reaction Imperative Reaction | 3.5 |
| I-Exist Humanity Vol. I | 3.5 |
| Sleeping With Sirens Madness | 3.0 |
| Sevendust Cold Day Memory | 3.5 |
| A Perfect Circle Thirteenth Step | 4.0 |
| Coheed and Cambria The Color Before The Sun | 3.5 |
| Sevendust Kill the Flaw | 3.5 |
| Sevendust Black Out the Sun | 3.5 |
| CHVRCHES Every Open Eye | 3.5 |
| Scale the Summit V | 3.0 |
| Disarmonia Mundi Cold Inferno | 4.0 |
| Blue Stahli The Devil | 3.0 |
| pretty much a more generic version of the s/t. it's got catchy parts but the lyrics are rather cringey at times |
| Dream Theater Dream Theater | 3.5 |
| Trivium Silence in the Snow | 3.0 |
| I guess this is the year for incredibly bland album art |
| Oranges Taxonomy | 3.0 |
| it's like a less shittier version of Dance Gavin Dance, neat! |
| Northlane Node | 3.5 |
| Gorillaz Demon Days | 4.0 |
| Sonic Syndicate We Rule the Night | 1.5 |
| Parkway Drive Ire | 3.0 |
| Incubus (USA-CA) S.C.I.E.N.C.E. | 3.5 |
| Low and Behold Uppers | 3.0 |
| Ryan Clark continues to experiment with other sounds and genres, once again producing passable results. |
| Sonic Syndicate Eden Fire | 3.5 |
| Celldweller Blackstar: Original Score | 3.0 |
| Periphery Juggernaut: Alpha / Omega | 3.0 |
| The World Is a Beautiful Place... Harmlessness | 4.0 |
| Dream Theater Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence | 4.0 |
| Dream Theater A Change of Seasons | 4.0 |
| Shinedown Threat to Survival | 2.0 |
| As I Lay Dying An Ocean Between Us | 4.0 |
| Breaking Orbit Transcension | 3.5 |
| TesseracT Polaris | 4.0 |
| Blessthefall To Those Left Behind | 2.0 |
| Fight the Fade Second Horizon: Reimagined | 3.5 |
| Breaking Orbit The Time Traveller | 4.0 |
| Angels and Airwaves Love - Part II | 3.5 |
| Fatal FE Transfornation | 3.5 |
| Fatal FE Speed Of Light | 3.0 |
| Fatal FE Renaissance | 3.0 |
| Thespian Through Hardships To The Stars | 3.5 |
| Bring Me the Horizon That's the Spirit | 1.5 |
| Angels and Airwaves Love | 3.5 |
| Front Line Assembly Improvised Electronic Device | 3.5 |
| Amorphis Under the Red Cloud | 4.5 |
| Front Line Assembly Hard Wired | 4.0 |
| Front Line Assembly Echogenetic | 4.0 |
| A Slow Descent Encased in Ice and Sealed in Snow | 4.0 |
| The Wonder Years No Closer to Heaven | 4.0 |
| While there are very few hit songs, everything flows together so well and the lyrics are fatalistically depressing. |
| Bring Me the Horizon Sempiternal | 3.5 |
| Titus Andronicus The Most Lamentable Tragedy | 3.5 |
| As I Lay Dying The Powerless Rise | 4.0 |
| The Dear Hunter Act IV: Rebirth in Reprise | 4.5 |
| Iron Maiden The Book of Souls | 3.5 |
| Soilwork Figure Number Five | 3.0 |
| Soilwork The Ride Majestic | 5.0 |
| Mechina Acheron | 2.5 |
| All That Remains The Fall of Ideals | 4.0 |
| Device Device | 3.0 |
| Angels and Airwaves The Dream Walker | 3.5 |
| P.O.D. The Awakening | 2.5 |
| A lot of the fun, aggression, and catchiness seems to have been sucked out in favor for a conceptual religious statement that doesn't even constitute as subtle. Seems like they're finally starting to hit the bottom. |
| Front Line Assembly Caustic Grip | 4.0 |
| Coheed and Cambria Year of the Black Rainbow | 4.0 |
| Dharmata Cycles | 3.5 |
| Better songwriting and less nu-metal riffs make for a more pleasurable experience, though the production does suffer a bit. |
| Dharmata Dharmata | 3.0 |
| It's like a mix between Sevendust and Disturbed. It's decent but hardly innovative. |
| Dead Letter Circus Aesthesis | 2.5 |
| P.U. this reeks of generic all over the place |
| Agent Fresco Destrier | 4.0 |
| Voicians A Matter of Time | 3.5 |
| Not much variety, but as it is, it's pretty decent. |
| Disturbed Immortalized | 3.0 |
| if this disturbs you then walk away |
| Bullet for My Valentine Venom | 2.5 |
| Underoath Ø (Disambiguation) | 4.0 |
| Disturbed Indestructible | 2.0 |
| Blind Guardian At the Edge of Time | 4.0 |
| Blind Guardian Beyond the Red Mirror | 3.5 |
| Fight the Fade What We Know | 3.5 |
| Fight the Fade Second Horizon | 4.0 |
| Awful band name aside, this is a surprisingly enjoyable record that's both memorable and consistent, and contains one hell of a vocal performance. |
| Fear Factory Genexus | 3.5 |
| Dream Theater Octavarium | 4.0 |
| Disturbed Asylum | 3.0 |
| Dream Theater Images and Words | 4.0 |
| Paradise Lost The Plague Within | 3.0 |
| Front Line Assembly Tactical Neural Implant | 5.0 |
| Sugary Sweet Machines Deformity Disco | 4.0 |
| Saint Asonia Saint Asonia | 2.5 |
| X Japan Art of Life | 4.0 |
| Symphony X Iconoclast | 3.5 |
| Symphony X Underworld | 3.5 |
| Lamb of God VII: Sturm und Drang | 4.0 |
| Celldweller End of an Empire - Chapter 04: Death | 3.5 |
| Enter Shikari The Mindsweep | 4.0 |
| ...From the Deep The Absurd Horror | 3.5 |
| Coheed and Cambria No World for Tomorrow | 4.0 |
| Dance Gavin Dance Dance Gavin Dance | 3.5 |
| Rosetta A Determinism of Morality | 4.0 |
| The Dear Hunter Migrant | 3.5 |
| Zao Xenophobe/Fear Itself | 3.5 |
| Between the Buried and Me Coma Ecliptic | 3.0 |
| Lamb of God Ashes of the Wake | 4.0 |
| Nine Inch Nails The Downward Spiral | 4.0 |
| Zao Where Blood and Fire Bring Rest | 4.5 |
| X Ambassadors VHS | 1.0 |
| I think I've found an album that's worse than Tru-Kvlt-Metal |
| Dream Theater Awake | 3.5 |
| Coheed and Cambria In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3 | 3.5 |
| Protest the Hero Kezia | 4.0 |
| God Is an Astronaut Helios/Erebus | 3.0 |
| Rosetta Quintessential Ephemera | 4.0 |
| August Burns Red Found in Far Away Places | 5.0 |
| Voices from the Fuselage Odyssey: The Destroyer of Worlds | 4.0 |
| Dance Gavin Dance Downtown Battle Mountain II | 2.5 |
| Muse Origin of Symmetry | 4.0 |
| NYVES Anxiety | 3.0 |
| This lacks a creative edge from both the production and Ryan's vocals. I feel like there should be a lot more to this than what we're getting so far. |
| The Dear Hunter The Color Spectrum | 4.0 |
| The Dear Hunter The Color Spectrum (Complete Collection) | 4.5 |
| The Dear Hunter White | 4.0 |
| The Dear Hunter Violet | 4.5 |
| 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 | 3.5 |
| Breaking Benjamin Dark Before Dawn | 4.0 |
| The Dear Hunter Red | 4.0 |
| The Dear Hunter Black | 4.5 |
| The Dear Hunter Act III: Life and Death | 4.0 |
| Blessthefall Hollow Bodies | 3.0 |
| King 810 Proem | 1.0 |
| Muse Absolution | 3.5 |
| King 810 Memoirs of a Murderer | 1.0 |
| Crown the Empire The Fallout | 2.5 |
| mewithoutYou Pale Horses | 4.5 |
| definitely their best since Brother, Sister |
| mewithoutYou Ten Stories | 4.0 |
| mewithoutYou It's All Crazy! It's All False! It's All A Dream! It's Alright! | 3.5 |
| Dance Gavin Dance Acceptance Speech | 3.0 |
| Wolves at the Gate Reprise | 3.5 |
| I the Mighty Connector | 3.5 |
| mewithoutYou A to B: Life | 4.0 |
| Muse The Resistance | 3.0 |
| Muse Drones | 3.5 |
| Muse The 2nd Law | 3.5 |
| The World Is a Beautiful Place... Whenever, If Ever | 3.5 |
| Dream Theater Black Clouds and Silver Linings | 3.5 |
| 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 |
| Anberlin Blueprints for the Black Market | 3.0 |
| Disturbed The Sickness | 3.0 |
| Idlehands Dena Mora | 3.5 |
| For what it is, it's pretty solid, even if it isn't exactly original. The vocals are great and the music is executed well. An overall solid entry into this year's alt rock category. |
| Blue Stahli The Devil: Chapter 2 | 3.5 |
| Blue Stahli Blue Stahli | 4.0 |
| Blue Stahli The Devil: Chapter 01 | 3.5 |
| Queens of the Stone Age Lullabies to Paralyze | 4.5 |
| Haste the Day Coward | 3.0 |
| It's too safe and there really isn't anything that memorable to make this album stand out. In general, it's just another metalcore album. |
| Hiatus Kaiyote Choose Your Weapon | 4.0 |
| Veil of Maya Matriarch | 1.5 |
| another day, another shitty deathcore band |
| And So I Watch You From Afar Heirs | 3.0 |
| Stone Sour Meanwhile In Burbank... | 3.0 |
| There really isn't much to talk about when it comes to this. You know the songs, guitar riffs, drumming, and the lyrics. It's all a matter of how well they perform them. Stone Sour does fine, but in the end it makes you want to listen to the original versions. |
| Kamelot Haven | 4.5 |
| Coheed and Cambria The Afterman: Descension | 4.0 |
| Circa Survive Descensus | 4.0 |
| From First to Last Dead Trees | 2.5 |
| sounds like a metalcore version of Periphery...oh wait |
| xSPONGEXCOREx How Tough Are Yah? | 1.0 |
| Haste the Day Attack of the Wolf King | 4.0 |
| mewithoutYou Catch For Us the Foxes | 4.0 |
| Skrillex Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites | 4.0 |
| Skrillex More Monsters and Sprites | 2.5 |
| P.O.D. Murdered Love | 3.5 |
| TesseracT Altered State | 4.0 |
| Disturbed Ten Thousand Fists | 4.0 |
| TesseracT One | 4.0 |
| 10 Years From Birth to Burial | 3.5 |
| It's solid, but something's missing |
| Mew +- | 4.0 |
| sleepmakeswaves Love of Cartography | 4.5 |
| sleepmakeswaves ...and so we destroyed everything | 4.0 |
| Coheed and Cambria The Afterman: Ascension | 4.0 |
| Sufjan Stevens Carrie and Lowell | 4.0 |
| Dance Gavin Dance Happiness | 3.0 |
| Coheed and Cambria From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness | 4.5 |
| Dance Gavin Dance Downtown Battle Mountain | 3.5 |
| Dance Gavin Dance Instant Gratification | 2.5 |
| still don't see too much of the appeal with this band |
| Celldweller Soundtrack for the Voices in My Head Vol. 02 | 2.0 |
| Celldweller Soundtrack for the Voices in My Head | 3.0 |
| Three Days Grace Human | 1.5 |
| Too Close to Touch Nerve Endings | 4.0 |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor 'Asunder, Sweet and Other Distress' | 4.5 |
| Celldweller Celldweller | 4.0 |
| Celldweller Wish Upon a Blackstar | 3.5 |
| Kendrick Lamar To Pimp a Butterfly | 2.5 |
| Arcane Chronicles of the Waking Dream | 3.5 |
| pure and simple Dream Theater worship, but even then it's still pretty solid |
| A Slow Descent Dance With Me Upon His Secret Ocean | 3.5 |
| While She Sleeps Brainwashed | 3.5 |
| Celldweller End of an Empire - Chapter 03: Dreams | 3.5 |
| Celldweller End of an Empire - Chapter 02: Love | 3.5 |
| Celldweller End of an Empire - Chapter 01: Time | 3.5 |
| Bjork Vulnicura | 4.5 |
| As Cities Burn Come Now Sleep | 4.0 |
| Neutral Milk Hotel In the Aeroplane Over the Sea | 4.5 |
| Foo Fighters Wasting Light | 4.0 |
| Foo Fighters Sonic Highways | 4.0 |
| Tool Ænima | 4.5 |
| Andrew W. Gold Fool's Gold | 3.5 |
| mewithoutYou Brother, Sister | 5.0 |
| Periphery Periphery | 3.0 |
| Modest Mouse Strangers to Ourselves | 4.0 |
| Modest Mouse We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank | 3.0 |
| Modest Mouse The Moon & Antarctica | 4.0 |
| Steven Wilson Hand. Cannot. Erase. | 4.5 |
| Killer Be Killed Killer Be Killed | 4.0 |
| Steven Wilson The Raven That Refused to Sing (And Other Stories) | 4.0 |
| Fear Factory Obsolete | 4.0 |
| All That Remains The Order of Things | 1.0 |
| Fear Factory Demanufacture | 4.5 |
| Fear Factory Digimortal | 3.0 |
| Fear Factory Archetype | 3.5 |
| Fear Factory Transgression | 2.0 |
| Fear Factory Mechanize | 4.0 |
| Fear Factory The Industrialist | 3.5 |
| Coheed and Cambria The Second Stage Turbine Blade | 4.0 |
| Brand New Deja Entendu | 4.0 |
| Imagine Dragons Smoke + Mirrors | 2.0 |
| Arcane Known/Learned | 4.0 |
| Troy Baker Sitting In the Fire | 3.5 |
| Overall, there isn't really anything that's particularly groundbreaking, but there are some really great songs on here nonetheless. |
| Bjork Homogenic | 4.5 |
| Red (USA) Of Beauty and Rage | 3.5 |
| Nigel Stanford Solar Echoes | 4.5 |
| Animals As Leaders Animals as Leaders | 4.0 |
| Corelia Nostalgia | 4.0 |
| Periphery Juggernaut: Omega | 3.5 |
| Periphery Juggernaut: Alpha | 2.5 |
| Sigur Ros Med Sud i Eyrum vid Spilum Endalaust | 4.0 |
| Thrice Beggars | 2.5 |
| Hey Rosetta! Into Your Lungs (And Around in Your Heart and on | 4.0 |
| Soilwork Beyond the Infinite | 4.0 |
| Thrice The Alchemy Index Vols. III & IV | 3.5 |
| Thrice The Alchemy Index Vol. IV: Earth | 3.5 |
| Thrice The Alchemy Index Vol. III: Air | 3.0 |
| Sigur Ros Takk... | 5.0 |
| Thrice The Alchemy Index Vol. II: Water | 4.5 |
| Thrice The Alchemy Index Vols. I & II | 4.5 |
| Thrice The Alchemy Index Vol. I: Fire | 4.0 |
| Periphery Periphery II: This Time It's Personal | 3.5 |
| Hans Zimmer Interstellar | 4.5 |
| movie and soundtrack rule |
| Silent Planet The Night God Slept | 3.5 |
| Nickelback The Best of Nickelback Volume 1 | 1.0 |
| no...just no |
| Nickelback No Fixed Address | 1.5 |
| Heaven Shall Burn Whatever It May Take | 4.0 |
| Lost Ubikyst in Apeiron Abstruse Imbeciles Nailed on Slavery | 4.5 |
| Damien Rice My Favourite Faded Fantasy | 5.0 |
| Heaven Shall Burn Iconoclast (Part 1: The Final Resistance) | 4.0 |
| Converge Jane Doe | 5.0 |
| Heaven Shall Burn Veto | 4.5 |
| Wovenwar Wovenwar | 4.0 |
| Converge All We Love We Leave Behind | 4.5 |
| Black Veil Brides Black Veil Brides | 2.5 |
| Thespian An Open Canvas | 4.0 |
| Hey Rosetta! Second Sight | 4.0 |
| Thrice Vheissu | 4.5 |
| Thrice Major/Minor | 4.0 |
| Amon Amarth Twilight of the Thunder God | 4.0 |
| xSPONGEXCOREx Don't Mess With TexXxas | 1.0 |
| Sweet, an objectivity booster! |
| Dream Theater Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes from a Memory | 4.5 |
| Mastodon Once More 'Round the Sun | 3.5 |
| Queens of the Stone Age Rated R | 4.0 |
| Anberlin Never Take Friendship Personal | 3.5 |
| Queens of the Stone Age Songs for the Deaf | 5.0 |
| Evanescence The Open Door | 3.0 |
| Disciple (USA-TN) Attack | 3.5 |
| Ill Nino Till Death, La Familia | 3.0 |
| Capture Reign of Terror | 2.5 |
| Royal Blood Royal Blood | 3.0 |
| Black Veil Brides We Stitch These Wounds | 1.5 |
| Black Veil Brides Set the World on Fire | 2.0 |
| Sugary Sweet Machines Controlled Breathing | 4.0 |
| Converge No Heroes | 4.5 |
| Sugary Sweet Machines Tours of the Bleak | 3.5 |
| Crown the Empire The Resistance: Rise of the Runaways | 3.5 |
| In Flames Siren Charms | 2.5 |
| Queens of the Stone Age ...Like Clockwork | 4.5 |
| Olafur Arnalds ...And They Have Escaped The Weight Of Darkness | 4.5 |
| Thousand Foot Krutch The Art of Breaking | 2.5 |
| Thousand Foot Krutch Oxygen: Inhale | 1.0 |
| DragonForce The Power Within | 3.5 |
| Low Roar 0 | 5.0 |
| Egypt Central Murder in the French Quarter: Rare & Unreleased | 3.5 |
| DragonForce Maximum Overload | 3.0 |
| DragonForce Ultra Beatdown | 2.5 |
| This Cold Life Fallacy | 3.5 |
| Anberlin Devotion | 5.0 |
| Nothing More Nothing More | 4.0 |
| Kamelot One Cold Winter's Night | 4.5 |
| Family Force 5 Time Stands Still | 1.5 |
| What in the actual fuck happened to these guys? |
| Agalloch The Mantle | 3.5 |
| Trophy Scars Holy Vacants | 5.0 |
| Hey Rosetta! Plan Your Escape | 4.5 |
| Epica Design Your Universe | 3.0 |
| Theory of a Deadman Savages | 2.0 |
| It may not change your opinion on Theory of a Deadman, but admittedly enough it's a vast improvement over their last three albums. |
| Hey Rosetta! Seeds | 4.5 |
| DragonForce Sonic Firestorm | 3.5 |
| Anberlin Dark Is the Way, Light Is a Place | 4.0 |
| DragonForce Inhuman Rampage | 3.5 |
| Anberlin Vital | 4.5 |
| Epica The Divine Conspiracy | 3.0 |
| Epica Consign to Oblivion | 2.5 |
| Epica Requiem for the Indifferent | 3.0 |
| Anberlin Lowborn | 4.0 |
| Starset Transmissions | 3.0 |
| This is a really, really over-produced record. I like it. |
| Epica The Phantom Agony | 1.5 |
| Anberlin New Surrender | 4.0 |
| Judas Priest Redeemer of Souls | 3.0 |
| Wolves in the Throne Room Celestite | 3.5 |
| Porcupine Tree On the Sunday of Life | 2.0 |
| Anberlin Cities | 4.5 |
| Sigur Ros Valtari | 4.5 |
| Seether Isolate And Medicate | 2.5 |
| Seether Finding Beauty In Negative Spaces | 2.0 |
| Seether Karma And Effect | 3.0 |
| Seether Disclaimer II | 3.5 |
| Seether Disclaimer | 3.0 |
| Sigur Ros Kveikur | 4.5 |
| Sigur Ros ( ) | 4.5 |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor Yanqui U.X.O. | 4.0 |
| Wolves at the Gate VxV | 4.5 |
| Linkin Park The Hunting Party | 4.0 |
| Not exactly a "return to base form" as everyone would think. |
| Spider Island Morals of a Dead Wave | 3.5 |
| 10 Years Killing All That Holds You | 3.5 |
| Rhapsody of Fire The Cold Embrace of Fear | 3.0 |
| Porcupine Tree Stupid Dream | 4.0 |
| Pentakill Smite and Ignite | 3.5 |
| Actually pretty impressive for a band based off of a video game such as League of Legends. |
| Alcest Écailles De Lune | 3.5 |
| Linkin Park Reanimation | 3.0 |
| Wolves in the Throne Room Two Hunters | 4.5 |
| There Will Be Fireworks The Dark, Dark Bright | 4.0 |
| Alter Bridge One Day Remains | 2.5 |
| Brand New The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me | 4.5 |
| Animals As Leaders The Joy of Motion | 4.5 |
| In Flames Black-Ash Inheritance | 3.5 |
| Relient K Relient K | 3.0 |
| Hinder All American Nightmare | 1.0 |
| Nickelback Curb | 1.0 |
| Nickelback The State | 1.0 |
| Nickelback The Long Road | 1.5 |
| Nickelback All the Right Reasons | 1.0 |
| August Burns Red Constellations | 4.0 |
| 10 Years Into the Half Moon | 3.0 |
| Tool Lateralus | 4.0 |
| My Chemical Romance Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge | 2.5 |
| My Chemical Romance Danger Days: The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys | 1.5 |
| Alexandre Desplat Godzilla | 4.0 |
| Kamijo Symphony of the Vampire | 3.5 |
| Epica The Quantum Enigma | 4.5 |
| Rhapsody of Fire Dark Wings of Steel | 3.0 |
| Rhapsody of Fire From Chaos to Eternity | 4.0 |
| Evanescence Evanescence | 3.5 |
| Rhapsody of Fire Dawn of Victory | 4.0 |
| Rhapsody of Fire Triumph or Agony | 3.5 |
| Rhapsody of Fire Rain of a Thousand Flames | 2.5 |
| God Is an Astronaut All Is Violent, All Is Bright | 4.0 |
| Rhapsody of Fire Power of the Dragonflame | 5.0 |
| Rhapsody of Fire Symphony of Enchanted Lands | 4.0 |
| Rhapsody of Fire The Frozen Tears of Angels | 4.5 |
| Rhapsody of Fire Symphony of Enchanted Lands II | 4.5 |
| Rhapsody of Fire Legendary Tales | 4.0 |
| Linkin Park Recharged | 1.0 |
| Framing Hanley The Sum of Who We Are | 3.0 |
| Porcupine Tree The Incident | 4.0 |
| Crosses Crosses | 4.0 |
| Relient K The Bird and the Bee Sides | 3.5 |
| Relient K Forget and Not Slow Down | 4.0 |
| Relient K Five Score and Seven Years Ago | 4.5 |
| dredg El Cielo | 4.0 |
| Porcupine Tree Deadwing | 4.5 |
| Becoming The Archetype The Physics of Fire | 4.5 |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor Slow Riot For New Zero Kanada | 5.0 |
| Nickelback Silver Side Up | 2.0 |
| Alter Bridge AB III | 4.0 |
| Soilwork Sworn to a Great Divide | 3.0 |
| Wolves at the Gate Captors | 4.0 |
| Between the Buried and Me Colors | 5.0 |
| Soilwork Stabbing the Drama | 4.0 |
| Porcupine Tree Signify | 4.0 |
| Red (USA) Release the Panic: Recalibrated | 1.5 |
| Unnecessary, acts more of an apology letter to their fanbase, and the strings are more of a distraction rather than part of their style. It just flat out sucks. |
| Light the Torch The Beauty of Destruction(Devil You Know | 3.0 |
| Porcupine Tree In Absentia | 4.5 |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor 'Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend! | 4.0 |
| Save Us From The Archon Thereafter | 3.5 |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor F♯ A♯ ∞ | 4.5 |
| Dragonland Starfall | 3.5 |
| Dragonland Astronomy | 4.5 |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven | 5.0 |
| Deftones Adrenaline | 3.0 |
| System of a Down Hypnotize | 4.5 |
| System of a Down Steal This Album! | 4.0 |
| Deftones Around the Fur | 4.0 |
| Staind Staind | 3.5 |
| Deftones Koi No Yokan | 4.5 |
| Dragonland Under the Grey Banner | 4.0 |
| Dragonland Holy War | 3.5 |
| Dragonland The Battle of the Ivory Plains | 3.5 |
| Haywyre Two Fold - Part 1 | 3.5 |
| Deftones Saturday Night Wrist | 3.5 |
| Chevelle Point #1 | 2.0 |
| Mercury Switch Time to Shine | 3.5 |
| Mercury Switch If You Love Me, You'd Take Me to the City | 4.5 |
| Heaven Shall Burn vs. Caliban The Split Program II | 4.0 |
| Heaven Shall Burn Antigone | 4.5 |
| Chevelle This Type Of Thinking (Could Do Us In) | 3.0 |
| Chevelle La Gárgola | 4.0 |
| Deftones Deftones | 4.0 |
| Chevelle Wonder What's Next | 3.5 |
| Believer Gabriel | 3.0 |
| Demon Hunter Extremist | 4.5 |
| Black Veil Brides Wretched and Divine | 3.0 |
| Dead Letter Circus This Is The Warning | 4.5 |
| Nothing Guilty of Everything | 3.5 |
| 10 Years Minus the Machine | 3.5 |
| 10 Years Feeding the Wolves | 4.0 |
| Times of Grace The Hymn of a Broken Man | 3.5 |
| Haywyre Encompassing EP | 4.0 |
| 10 Years Division | 4.0 |
| Decyfer Down Scarecrow | 2.0 |
| My Chemical Romance The Black Parade | 4.0 |
| System of a Down System of a Down | 4.5 |
| Deftones Diamond Eyes | 4.5 |
| Cold Year Of The Spider | 4.0 |
| Soilwork The Panic Broadcast | 4.0 |
| Ready Set Fall! Memento | 4.0 |
| Kamelot The Fourth Legacy | 3.5 |
| Deftones White Pony | 4.0 |
| Chevelle Hats Off To The Bull | 3.5 |
| Pearl Jam Ten | 5.0 |
| Nine Lashes From Water to War | 2.0 |
| Alter Bridge Blackbird | 4.5 |
| Evanescence Origin | 3.5 |
| Paul Simon Graceland | 5.0 |
| Devour The Day Time & Pressure (Re-Release) | 3.0 |
| Thousand Foot Krutch Welcome to the Masquerade | 4.5 |
| System of a Down Mezmerize | 3.5 |
| Paramore Brand New Eyes | 3.5 |
| Chevelle Vena Sera | 4.0 |
| Family Force 5 Business Up Front, Party In The Back | 3.5 |
| Family Force 5 III | 1.5 |
| Family Force 5 ReAnimated | 1.5 |
| Thirty Seconds to Mars A Beautiful Lie | 4.0 |
| Thirty Seconds to Mars 30 Seconds To Mars | 4.0 |
| Living Sacrifice Ghost Thief | 4.5 |
| We As Human We As Human | 2.0 |
| Chevelle Sci-Fi Crimes | 4.0 |
| Soilwork The Living Infinite | 5.0 |
| Devour The Day Time & Pressure | 3.0 |
| Steven Price Gravity OST | 5.0 |
| Nine Lashes Escape | 4.0 |
| Ra Critical Mass | 4.0 |
| August Burns Red Rescue & Restore | 4.5 |
| Trivium Vengeance Falls | 3.0 |
| System of a Down Toxicity | 5.0 |
| Paramore Riot! | 4.0 |
| Thousand Foot Krutch The Flame in All of Us | 3.0 |
| Red (USA) Innocence and Instinct | 4.5 |
| Evanescence Fallen | 4.5 |
| Alter Bridge Fortress | 4.5 |
| Totally worth your time. Just an overall great album. |
| Red (USA) End of Silence | 4.0 |
| Thousand Foot Krutch Phenomenon | 4.0 |
| Disturbed The Lost Children | 3.5 |
| Red (USA) Until We Have Faces | 3.5 |
| Thirty Seconds to Mars Love Lust Faith + Dreams | 3.5 |
| Nine Lashes World We View | 3.5 |
| Relient K Apathetic | 3.5 |
| Relient K Mmhmm | 3.5 |
| Relient K The Anatomy of Tongue In Cheek | 4.0 |
| Relient K Two Lefts Dont Make a Right But Three Do | 4.5 |
| Relient K Collapsible Lung | 2.5 |
| Skillet Rise | 3.0 |
| Their new song sounds weird. It's got some good guitar parts but the vocals seem a little...awkward. It's probably just me. |
| August Burns Red Thrill Seeker | 3.5 |
| August Burns Red Leveler | 3.5 |
| August Burns Red Messengers | 4.0 |
| August Burns Red Lost Messengers: The Outtakes | 3.5 |
| Theory of a Deadman Theory of a Deadman | 2.5 |
| 10 Years The Autumn Effect | 4.5 |
| Kamelot Poetry for the Poisoned:Live From Wacken | 3.0 |
| Kamelot Ghost Opera: The Second Coming | 3.5 |
| Red (USA) Release the Panic | 4.0 |
| Lastwatch Leave a Light On | 2.0 |
| Disciple (USA-TN) O God Save Us All | 3.0 |
| Paramore Paramore | 3.0 |
| The Afters Life Is Beautiful | 1.5 |
| Becoming The Archetype Dichotomy | 3.5 |
| Becoming The Archetype Terminate Damnation | 5.0 |
| Shinedown The Sound of Madness | 4.0 |
| Shinedown Amaryllis | 3.5 |
| Stone Sour House of Gold and Bones - Part 1 | 4.0 |
| Stone Sour House of Gold and Bones - Part 2 | 4.0 |
| Killswitch Engage Disarm the Descent | 4.0 |
| Thousand Foot Krutch The End Is Where We Begin | 3.5 |
| Egypt Central White Rabbit | 4.0 |
| Soundtrack (Film) The Hunger Games | 4.0 |
| Soundtrack (Film) The Transformers The Movie | 3.0 |
| One of the few reasons why this film is even notable in the first place. The soundtrack is way too dependant on other artists to help the film gain popularity, even if some of the songs are fun to listen to. It's a decent soundtrack all the same despite it belonging to a film that only appealed to a cult following. |
| Kamelot Ghost Opera | 3.5 |
| Sorry For Nothing Psycho Monster Ressurection | 2.5 |
| Sorry For Nothing Reverse Evolution | 3.5 |
| Kamelot Poetry for the Poisoned | 3.5 |
| Living Sacrifice The Infinite Order | 3.5 |
| Living Sacrifice Conceived In Fire | 4.0 |
| Living Sacrifice The Hammering Process | 4.0 |
| Ready Set Fall! Buried | 3.5 |
| Kamelot Silverthorn: Limited Edition | 4.0 |
| Theory of a Deadman The Truth Is... | 1.0 |
| Theory of a Deadman Scars and Souvenirs | 2.0 |
| Their slower songs are much better than their faster songs. Their faster songs sound like a country band that is trying to turn rock. |
| Living Sacrifice Reborn | 4.5 |
| Skinbound Between Blood And Angels | 2.0 |
| Skillet Collide | 3.5 |
| Skillet Comatose | 3.5 |
| Imagine Dragons Night Visions | 3.0 |
| Flogging Molly Swagger | 4.0 |
| Flogging Molly Drunken Lullabies | 4.5 |
| Flogging Molly Within a Mile of Home | 4.5 |
| Flogging Molly Float | 3.5 |
| Flogging Molly Speed of Darkness | 3.5 |
| Disciple (USA-TN) My Daddy Can Whip Your Daddy | 2.5 |
| Haywyre Draw The Line | 4.5 |
| Ashes Remain Chirstmas | 4.0 |
| Cherri Bomb This Is the End of Control | 3.5 |
| Killswitch Engage Killswitch Engage | 4.0 |
| Ashes Remain What I've Become | 3.0 |
| Short Term Eternity A Black Hole To Paradise | 3.0 |
| AtteroTerra Humanicide Directive | 4.0 |
| Skrillex Bangarang | 2.5 |
| Skillet Awake | 3.5 |
| Disciple (USA-TN) Southern Hospitality | 4.0 |
| Relient K Is for Karaoke Pt. 2 EP | 2.5 |
| Relient K Is for Karaoke EP | 2.5 |
| Killswitch Engage Killswitch Engage (2009) | 2.5 |
| Killswitch Engage As Daylight Dies | 4.5 |
| Killswitch Engage The End of Heartache | 4.0 |
| Killswitch Engage Alive or Just Breathing | 4.5 |
| Trivium In Waves | 4.0 |
| Trivium Shogun | 4.5 |
| Trivium The Crusade | 3.0 |
| Trivium Ascendancy | 4.0 |
| Trivium Ember to Inferno | 2.5 |
| The Afters When The World Is Wonderful | 3.0 |
| The Afters Light Up The Sky | 2.5 |
| The Afters Never Going Back To Okay | 4.5 |
| The Afters I Wish We All Could Win | 3.5 |
| In Flames Trigger | 3.5 |
| In Flames Sounds of a Playground Fading | 3.5 |
| In Flames A Sense of Purpose | 3.0 |
| In Flames Come Clarity | 4.0 |
| In Flames Soundtrack to Your Escape | 4.0 |
| In Flames Clayman | 4.0 |
| In Flames Colony | 5.0 |
| In Flames Whoracle | 4.5 |
| In Flames The Jester Race | 4.5 |
| In Flames Lunar Strain | 3.0 |
| In Flames Reroute to Remain | 5.0 |
| Demon Hunter True Defiance | 4.5 |
| Demon Hunter The World Is a Thorn | 3.5 |
| Demon Hunter Storm the Gates of Hell | 4.0 |
| Demon Hunter The Triptych | 4.5 |
| Demon Hunter Summer of Darkness | 4.0 |
| Demon Hunter Demon Hunter | 3.5 |
| Crossfade We All Bleed | 4.0 |
| Crossfade Falling Away | 3.0 |
| Crossfade Crossfade | 2.5 |
| Cold A Different Kind of Pain | 3.5 |
| Kamelot Silverthorn | 4.0 |
| I may have only listened to one song, but I can tell, this'll be a great album. Tommy sounds so much like Roy, it's amazing. |
| Kamelot The Black Halo | 5.0 |
| Kamelot Epica | 5.0 |
| Kamelot Karma | 5.0 |
| Thirty Seconds to Mars This Is War | 3.5 |
| Nickelback Dark Horse | 1.0 |
| Nickelback Here and Now | 2.0 |
| I don't really think it's as bad as Dark Horse, but it's still pretty bad. "This Means War" and "When We Stand Together" are the only songs I find tolerable. |
| Breaking Benjamin Shallow Bay: The Best Of Breaking Benjamin | 3.5 |
| Breaking Benjamin Breaking Benjamin | 3.0 |
| Breaking Benjamin So Cold | 3.5 |
| Breaking Benjamin Dear Agony | 4.0 |
| Breaking Benjamin Phobia | 4.5 |
| Breaking Benjamin We Are Not Alone | 4.0 |
| Breaking Benjamin Saturate | 3.5 |
| Linkin Park Living Things | 4.0 |
| Linkin Park Hybrid Theory | 5.0 |
| Linkin Park Meteora | 5.0 |
| Linkin Park Minutes to Midnight | 2.0 |
| Linkin Park A Thousand Suns | 2.0 |
| Three Days Grace Three Days Grace | 3.0 |
| Three Days Grace Life Starts Now | 3.5 |
| Three Days Grace Transit of Venus | 3.5 |
| Three Days Grace One-X | 4.0 |
| Haywyre Of Mellows And Revelations | 3.5 |
| Haywyre Dubsonic | 3.0 |
| Haywyre The Voyage | 4.5 |
| Haywyre Infinite | 4.5 |
