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Steerpike

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Reviews 24
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Album Ratings 70
Objectivity 62%

Last Active 09-14-14 2:10 am
Joined 05-08-04

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Average Rating: 3.98
Rating Variance: 0.73
Objectivity Score: 62%
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5.0 classic
Bandits of the Acoustic Revolution A Call To Arms
Bathory Blood Fire Death
Blind Guardian Nightfall In Middle-Earth
Dio Holy Diver
Ghost (SWE) Meliora
Judas Priest Painkiller
Mercyful Fate Melissa
Slough Feg Traveller
Tarot Suffer Our Pleasures
The Clash London Calling

4.0 excellent
Alestorm Captain Morgan's Revenge
Ancient Bards Soulless Child
Anders Manga Welcome to the Horror Show
Atmosphere Seven's Travels
Candlemass King of the Grey Islands
Danzig Danzig
Darkest of the Hillside Thickets Cthulhu Strikes Back
Edguy Space Police - Defenders Of The Crown
Ghost (SWE) Opus Eponymous
Ghost (SWE) Infestissumam
Michale Graves Punk Rock Is Dead
Modest Mouse The Moon & Antarctica
Nightwish Once
Savatage Streets: A Rock Opera
Savatage Dead Winter Dead
The 69 Eyes Devils
The Atomic Bitchwax The Atomic Bitchwax
Volbeat Guitar Gangsters & Cadillac Blood

3.5 great
Ancient Bards The Alliance of the Kings
Avenged Sevenfold City Of Evil
Abandoning the metalcore approach they started with, Avenged Sevenfold have taken more influences from hard rock and classic metal on City of Evil. The album is much more melodic than anything they've ever done and uses epic song structures frequently. Though the band is still working on fitting into this new direction, particularly vocalist M Shadows who is still growing into his actual competency (as opposed to the previous albums where he had no training whatsoever), they do show great promise with catchy hooks, clever songwriting, and blazingly melodic solos and harmonized leads.
Cathedral Hopkins (The Witchfinder General)
Green Day American Idiot
Green Day are getting a lot of flack lately. Terms like "sellouts" and "bandwagon jumpers" are being tossed around more than condoms at a coed frat party. All because of American Idiot. Though hardly their best album, it is still entertaining, and the concept isn't nearly as political as people seem to believe it is. American Idiot is a hook-filled, catchy, sing-along pop-punk album with a slightly different approach to songwriting than on the band's previous albums, as well as the same sort of snide social commentary they've built their whole careers on. Take it for what it is: a good album that's been unnecessarily demonized because of the oversaturation on the radio.
Human Fortress Defenders Of The Crown
Iced Earth The Glorious Burden
Nightwish Dark Passion Play
The Forces Of Evil Friend or FOE?
A vast improvement over Reel Big Fish, the vocalist of said band has formed a catchy, balls-to-the-wall ska band that seems to care only about having fun. Naturally, you don't look for deep lyrics as there aren't any. The musicianship is high quality, though the album is marred by a couple of filler tracks that break the pace.
The Network Money Money 2020

3.0 good
3 Inches of Blood Advance and Vanquish
Beyond Fear Beyond Fear
Dir En Grey The Marrow of a Bone
Dir en Grey occupy an interesting niche in J-rock, and Marrow of a Bone have pursued the metal/metalcore influences further than ever. The music is more punishing than on any previous release, and lead vocalist Kyo delivers a large pallette of harsh vocal styles, even going so far as to deliberately do it the wrong way to achieve a few seconds of a specific tone. This obsession with heaviness is the album's weak point, and it lacks much of the tact and subtle touches that made the previous album, Withering to Death such a great record. To sum up, not a bad album, but far from being Dir en Grey's best.
Dir En Grey The Marrow of a Bone (Limited Edition)
Human Fortress Lord Of Earth And Heavens Heir
My Chemical Romance The Black Parade

2.5 average
Green Day 21st Century Breakdown

2.0 poor
Metallica Master Of Puppets
Arguably the most overrated album in history, Master of Puppets is a parody of itself. The riffs are standard fair for a thrash/speed band. The songwriting is nothing special and gets rather predictable. Hetfield's voice is the most aggravating noise in the world since Chris Tucker's whine. The oft-praised Cliff Burton doesn't really do anything that impressive. And yes, I listened to Orion, but didn't understand what the big deal was. And I think we're all in agreement that in lack of talent, Lars is only surpassed by Meg White. In short, this is an over-hyped "right album, right time" deal that was already surpassed by its contemporaries and was swiftly left in the dust only a few short years later.

1.5 very poor
Iced Earth The Crucible Of Man
Trivium Ascendancy

1.0 awful
Human Fortress Eternal Empire

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