| 4.5 superb |
| A Day To Remember Common Courtesy |
| Aenigmatum Deconsecrate |
| Animals As Leaders Animals as Leaders |
| Arctic Monkeys Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not |
| Ascariasis Ocean of Colour |
| August Burns Red Rescue & Restore |
| With the rise of metalcore acts like Memphis May Fire, Miss May I, Emmure, and plenty of other generic breakdowns with a title, August Burns Red finally make a record that stands out from the pack. While at the forefront of the genre in 2009 with Constellation, 2011's Leveler showed a group ready to break free of their restraints but too timid to commit to the experimentation they were attempting. With Rescue and Restore, the band opens the door for the next stage of their careers. The addition of brass instruments somehow shows a completely new side of the group, ready to actively enhance their songwriting capabilities. My favorite song on the record, "Beauty in Tragedy," has possibly the best lyrics Jake Luhrs has ever written. While future releases show some experimentation and a willingness to continue to press the genre forward, ABR might never be able to recreate a metalcore powerhouse like this record again. |
| Between the Buried and Me The Parallax II: Future Sequence |
| Bill Evans Explorations |
| Billy Woods and Kenny Segal Maps |
| Black Flag Damaged |
| Born of Osiris The Discovery |
| Cassus Separation Anxiety |
| This album is a hidden gem among a sea of generic screamo bands. The ferocity on this album, the moments of beauty that give you a break from the soaring guitars, breakneck drumming, and screams that have so much heartbreak and loss. The songwriting is great, with songs gliding between sections effortlessly. This is not for everyone, but it's a great album. More than worth a listen, imo. |
| Chet Baker The Best of Chet Baker Sings |
| clipping. CLPPNG |
| clipping. Splendor and Misery |
| clipping. There Existed an Addiction to Blood |
| Converge Jane Doe |
| Converge Axe to Fall |
| Darkthrone A Blaze in the Northern Sky |
| Deafheaven Sunbather |
| Death Scream Bloody Gore |
| Dio The Last in Line |
| Earl Sweatshirt I Don't Like Shit, I Don't Go Outside |
| Eminem The Eminem Show |
| ERRA Augment |
| Every Time I Die Low Teens |
| Fawn Limbs Harm Remissions |
| Gorillaz Demon Days |
| Green Day Dookie |
| Icarus the Owl Icarus the Owl |
| Icarus the Owl Pilot Waves |
| Jeff Buckley Grace |
| Jeremy Soule The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Soundtrack |
| John Coltrane A Love Supreme |
| Lingua Ignota SINNER GET READY |
| Liturgy H.A.Q.Q. |
| Megadeth Rust in Peace |
| Meshuggah Destroy Erase Improve |
| Metallica Kill 'Em All |
| Metallica Ride the Lightning |
| Misfits Walk Among Us |
| Modern Baseball You’re Gonna Miss It All |
| Necrophagist Onset of Putrefaction |
| Nirvana In Utero |
| Panopticon Kentucky |
| PUP PUP |
| PUP The Dream Is Over |
| PUP Morbid Stuff |
| Radiohead Kid A |
| Refused The Shape Of Punk To Come |
| When I was much younger, I was a die hard punk and metal fan. If it wasn't a four piece band with just guitars, bass and drums, it was just bad music. Hearing "The Shape of Punk to Come" for the first time, I hated it. How could they call this punk? It had electronic elements and while indeed heavy at times, was never "heavy enough." As I have mellowed out and enjoyed a wider variety of music, this album has become a staple in my life. It's an incredibly inventive and innovative record, and its influence can still be felt to this day. It is a must listen. |
| Skullcrusher Quiet the Room |
| Sleep Dopesmoker |
| Sleep Sleep's Holy Mountain |
| Slipknot Vol. 3: The Subliminal Verses |
| SOUL GLO Songs To Yeet At The Sun |
| SOUL GLO Diaspora Problems |
| The rage and unfiltered energy this album releases is some of the best hardcore punk you'll ever hear. Everything is just at 11 the entire time. And the splashes of jazz and hip hop while making the whole thing feel consistent and cohesive? Crazy props to these guys. Great record. |
| Suffocation Effigy of the Forgotten |
| Thank You Scientist Maps of Non-Existent Places |
| The Red Chord Fused Together in Revolving Doors |
| The Replacements Let It Be |
| The Story So Far Under Soil and Dirt |
| The Who Who's Next |
| Tool 10,000 Days |
| Wormrot Hiss |
| 4.0 excellent |
| A Lot Like Birds No Place |
| Affiance Blackout |
| Against Me! Transgender Dysphoria Blues |
| alt-J An Awesome Wave |
| Animals As Leaders The Joy of Motion |
| Anup Sastry Ghost |
| Anup Sastry Lion |
| Architects Nightmares |
| Arctic Monkeys AM |
| Armand Hammer and The Alchemist Haram |
| Artificial Brain Artificial Brain |
| August Burns Red Constellations |
| Baroness Purple |
| Beartooth Disgusting |
| Better Lovers God Made Me an Animal |
| Between the Buried and Me Automata I |
| Between the Buried and Me Automata II |
| Big|Brave nature morte |
| Bill Evans New Jazz Conceptions |
| Bill Evans Waltz for Debby |
| Billy Woods and Kenny Segal Hiding Places |
| Black Flag My War |
| Black Sabbath Dehumanizer |
| Blackbraid Blackbraid II |
| blink-182 Enema Of The State |
| Born of Osiris The New Reign |
| Bring Me the Horizon Sempiternal |
| Brockhampton The Family |
| Not an album where one song is the standout, but a complete piece of musical expression to explain why the group is no longer with us, and to stop any speculation from fans. I think the fact the album is the minimum length the label wanted helps trim any fat off this project, giving only the most raw, emotional performances Kevin Abstract has ever given. |
| Brutus (BE) Burst |
| Brutus (BE) Nest |
| Cage The Elephant Cage the Elephant |
| Carpenter Brut Trilogy |
| Cattle Decapitation Monolith of Inhumanity |
| Centuries Apart Malachi |
| Chat Pile God's Country |
| The anger of this record at the state of the world and, specifically, the U.S.A., is palpable. 'Why' is one of the most infuriating songs I've heard in a long while. While there is nothing "new" in this record, it's an incredibly well-written and thought provoking record. |
| Childish Gambino Because the Internet |
| Childish Gambino "Awaken, My Love!" |
| CHON Newborn Sun |
| CHON Woohoo! |
| clipping. Midcity |
| Converge No Heroes |
| Converge You Fail Me Redux |
| Converge The Dusk in Us |
| Converge Beautiful Ruin |
| Courtney Barnett sometimes i sit and think, and sometimes i just sit |
| Crown the Empire The Fallout |
| Crown the Empire The Resistance: Rise of the Runaways |
| Cult Leader Lightless Walk |
| Danger Mouse and Black Thought Cheat Codes |
| Black Thought is the greatest living MC and refuses to slow down. Danger Mouse brings his A-game and the features are great (RIP MF DOOM). This record rips. |
| Darkthrone Transilvanian Hunger |
| Darkthrone Under a Funeral Moon |
| Deafheaven New Bermuda |
| Deafheaven Ordinary Corrupt Human Love |
| Dream Unending Song of Salvation |
| Dreamdecay YÚ |
| Earl Sweatshirt Doris |
| Emery Rub Some Dirt on It |
| ERRA Andromeda |
| ERRA Impulse |
| Every Time I Die New Junk Aesthetic |
| Every Time I Die Ex Lives |
| Every Time I Die From Parts Unknown |
| Every Time I Die Radical |
| Flatbush Zombies 3001: A Laced Odyssey |
| Fredrik Thordendal's Special Defects Sol Niger Within |
| Frontierer The Collapse |
| Full of Hell Roots Of Earth Are Consuming My Home |
| Full of Hell Trumpeting Ecstasy |
| Gaza No Absolutes in Human Suffering |
| Ghost (SWE) Infestissumam |
| Ghost (SWE) If You Have Ghost |
| Gorillaz Gorillaz |
| Gorillaz Plastic Beach |
| Gorillaz Song Machine, Season One: Strange Timez |
| Green Day American Idiot |
| Haley Heynderickx I Need to Start a Garden |
| Heaven and Hell The Devil You Know |
| One of heaviest and bittersweet send offs to the king himself. Dio kills it on this record, his voice more powerful than ever while fighting the cancer that would eventually take him from us. Tony Iommi has put out riffs that rival anything he has put out since the late 70's. Bass is simple but adds a lot of depth, and the drumming is solid. Regardless, Iommi and Dio have created an incredible debut and final album for Heaven and Hell. |
| Hippo Campus Bashful Creatures EP |
| Hippo Campus South |
| Hippo Campus landmark |
| Hot Mulligan You'll Be Fine |
| Idles Joy as an Act of Resistance |
| Incendiary Cost of Living |
| Incendiary Thousand Mile Stare |
| Incendiary Change The Way You Think About Pain |
| Album rips. Does it change the genre and completely revitalize it? No. It's a hardcore record through and through, but the songwriting is strong and the riffage is constantly gnarly. I recommend listening to Echo of Nothing into Host/Parasite to see Incendiary at their best. Anything new from Incendiary is an event, and this is no different. Every window deserves a brick! |
| Interpol Antics |
| Intervals The Space Between |
| Intervals In Time |
| Issues Issues |
| Jamie's Elsewhere They Said a Storm Was Coming |
| Japandroids Celebration Rock |
| Jeromes Dream The Gray In Between |
| Most consistent and thought out recorded from the JD crew. I like LP and Present a lot, but this feels more like a realization of their sound. Big recommend. |
| John Coltrane Ascension |
| Joyce Manor Joyce Manor |
| JPEGMAFIA Veteran |
| JPEGMAFIA and Danny Brown Scaring the Hoes |
| Judas Priest Firepower |
| Knocked Loose A Different Shade of Blue |
| Knocked Loose A Tear in the Fabric of Life |
| Knoll Interstice |
| Knoll Metempiric |
| Lingua Ignota Caligula |
| Linkin Park Hybrid Theory |
| Liturgy Origin of the Alimonies |
| Liturgy 93696 |
| Mannequin Pussy Patience |
| Mayday Parade A Lesson In Romantics |
| Merzbow Pulse Demon |
| Meshuggah Chaosphere |
| Meshuggah Koloss |
| Metallica Metallica |
| Miles Davis Milestones |
| Misfits Earth A.D./Wolf's Blood |
| Misfits Static Age |
| Modern Baseball Sports |
| Modern Baseball Holy Ghost |
| Modest Mouse Good News for People Who Love Bad News |
| Motionless in White Creatures |
| Movements Feel Something |
| Mumford and Sons Sigh No More |
| Necrophagist Epitaph |
| Nirvana Bleach |
| Nirvana With the Lights Out |
| Of Mice and Men Of Mice and Men |
| Of Mice and Men The Flood |
| Origami Angel Somewhere City |
| Panopticon Collapse |
| Panopticon Autumn Eternal |
| Panopticon Collapse (remixed and remastered) |
| Pantera Vulgar Display of Power |
| Periphery Periphery |
| Pierce the Veil Collide with the Sky |
| Point Below Zero Point Below Zero |
| Polyphia New Levels New Devils |
| Power Trip Nightmare Logic |
| Radiohead The Bends |
| Radiohead A Moon Shaped Pool |
| Radiohead Spectre |
| Rage Against the Machine Evil Empire |
| Rage Against the Machine Rage Against the Machine |
| Redeem/Revive Redeem/Revive |
| Remo Drive Greatest Hits |
| Rush Fly by Night |
| Rush Hemispheres |
| Shakey Graves And The War Came |
| Skrillex Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites |
| Skrillex More Monsters and Sprites |
| Skrillex Bangarang |
| Sleep Volume One |
| Sleep The Sciences |
| Slipknot Slipknot |
| Soilwork The Living Infinite |
| Soreption Jord |
| REALLY digging this. This is one of the grooviest death metal records since Monolith of Inhumanity. A big fat recommendation from me. |
| SOUL GLO The Nigga In Me Is Me |
| Structures All of the Above |
| Substructure Monolith |
| Sudan Archives Natural Brown Prom Queen |
| Suffocation Breeding the Spawn |
| Suicide Silence The Cleansing |
| SZA Ctrl |
| Tarim The Philosopher King |
| Texas in July Bloodwork |
| Thank You Scientist Stranger Heads Prevail |
| Thantifaxath Thantifaxath |
| Thantifaxath Sacred White Noise |
| Thantifaxath Void Masquerading as Matter |
| The Body No One Deserves Happiness |
| The Body I have fought against it, But I can’t any longer |
| The Body and Big|Brave Leaving None But Small Birds |
| The Chariot Long Live |
| The Chariot One Wing |
| For an album officially 10 years old, the staying power of the Chariot's One Wing is immense. It is still one fo the more dissonant and dense records of the 2010's, and one of my personal favorites. The more I have listened to it, the more I find something to appreciate. Whether it be the guitar work, the steady rhythm section, or Scogin's vocals that feel as if he is gargling razorblades, this record RIPS. |
| The Chats Get This In Ya |
| The Chats Get Fucked |
| This is the most solid punk album in decades. The Australian blokes are not reinventing the wheel, but god damn did I have a great time listening to this. Better than their debut and EPs, while adding a few new ideas into the mix. If you want solid, heart-pumping, meat and potatoes punk, these guys got your back. |
| The Contortionist Language |
| The Dear Hunter Act II: The Meaning of, & All Things Regarding Ms. Leading |
| The Devil Wears Prada Zombie |
| The Fray How to Save a Life |
| The Hotelier Home, Like NoPlace Is There |
| The Northern Imperium |
| The Replacements Tim |
| The Story So Far What You Don't See |
| The Strokes Room on Fire |
| The Vines Highly Evolved |
| Title Fight The Last Thing You Forget |
| Title Fight Shed |
| Tool Ænima |
| Tool Undertow |
| Twenty One Pilots Vessel |
| Twenty One Pilots Blurryface |
| U2 War |
| Veil of Maya [id] |
| Veil of Maya Eclipse |
| Vildhjarta Måsstaden |
| Volumes Via |
| Watsky Nothing Like The First Time |
| Watsky Live! From The Troubadour |
| Weezer Everything Will Be Alright in the End |
| Weezer The White Album |
| Whitechapel The Somatic Defilement |
| Whitechapel Whitechapel |
| Wormrot Noise |
| Wormrot Voices |
| Zeal and Ardor Stranger Fruit |
| 3.5 great |
| A Day To Remember Homesick |
| A Lot Like Birds Conversation Piece |
| Action Bronson Dr. Lecter |
| AFX Analord 01 |
| Animals As Leaders Parrhesia |
| Artificial Brain Labyrinth Constellation |
| Artificial Brain Infrared Horizon |
| As Eden Burns The Great Celestial Delusion |
| Attack Attack! This Means War |
| awakebutstillinbed what people call low self-esteem is really... |
| AWOLNATION Megalithic Symphony |
| Bad Meets Evil Hell: The Sequel |
| Beartooth Sick |
| Between the Buried and Me Coma Ecliptic |
| Bill Evans We Will Meet Again |
| Blackbraid Blackbraid I |
| Good debut. The album is at it's best when it leans more heavily into the Native American instrumentation, but it does have relentless blast beats and shredding guitars. Production is better than most black metal record. Will be keeping my eye out for their next release. |
| Born of Osiris A Higher Place |
| Bring Me the Horizon There Is a Hell, Believe Me I've Seen It... |
| Brockhampton TM |
Less of a statement and more of a vibe. A bittersweet end, and to see the rest of the group
again even if it's at the end is comfortingly full circle. "We said all we can. Goodbye." |
| Brutus (BE) Unison Life |
| Cage The Elephant Thank You Happy Birthday |
| Cage The Elephant Melophobia |
| Chat Pile This Dungeon Earth |
| Chat Pile Remove Your Skin Please |
| Chelsea Grin My Damnation |
| I was a huge Chelsea Grin fan nearly 10 years ago now (begin existential crisis), but have continually struggled to return to the albums I used to love. (i)My Damnation(i) has aged poorly and only has a few moments of true inspiration, and Ashes to Ashes feels like (i)The Discovery(i) lite. This is a unique experience compared to the rest of the 2010s deathcore. The use of black metal influences and atmosphere have helped this album age incredibly well for a record I thought was worse than their earlier releases, even just a couple years ago. |
| Chelsea Grin Evolve |
| Childish Gambino Camp |
| Childish Gambino Kauai |
| clipping. Wriggle |
| Cloud Nothings Attack on Memory |
| Converge You Fail Me |
| Converge All We Love We Leave Behind |
| Counterparts A Eulogy for Those Still Here |
| Courtney Barnett Tell Me How You Really Feel |
| Crossfaith Zion |
| Crown the Empire Limitless |
| Darkthrone Total Death |
| Probably my favorite mid-era Darkthrone record. While Panzerfaust has some really strong moments, I think Total Death shows off some of the best atmosphere and songwriting. Highly recommend. |
| Deafheaven Roads to Judah |
| DOMi & JD BECK NOT TiGHT |
The vibe of the album is incredible. Everything feels very chill. The transitions from a
more mellow tempo to the breakneck speed that Domi and JD are known for are very natural and
none feel the same. Was hoping for a more instrumental album, but the vocals aren't terrible
(with features from Anderson Paak. and Thundercat, how can you fuck it up?). Speaking of
features, everyone who appears on the record adds an interesting spin to the songs they
appear on. The bass from Thundercat on "Bowling" and "Not Tight" is awesome, Herbie
Hancock's solo on "Moon" is mind-boggling, and Anderson Paak. makes each song a bop. Idk
what else to say other than this is a promising debut and hoping for more sooner rather than
later. |
| Earl Sweatshirt Sick! |
| Earth Crisis Destroy the Machines |
| Earth Crisis Vegan For The Animals |
| Electric Six Fire |
| Eminem Recovery |
| ERRA ERRA |
| Escape the Fate Dying Is Your Latest Fashion |
| Fawn Limbs Thrum |
| Fawn Limbs Languor |
| Fawn Limbs Their Holes Aroused by the Splinters Carved.... |
| Fawn Limbs Sleeper Vessels |
| Fawn Limbs Darwin Falls |
| From First to Last Dear Diary, My Teen Angst Has a Body Count |
| Fugitive (USA-TX) Maniac |
| Promising debut. Feels a little generic at times, but if they got Blake from Power Trip, I'm excited about the future. |
| Full of Hell Rudiments of Mutilation |
| Full of Hell Amber Mote In The Black Vault |
| Full of Hell Weeping Choir |
| Full of Hell Garden of Burning Apparitions |
| Full of Hell Aurora Leaking From An Open Wound |
| Gatecreeper Sonoran Depravation |
| Just super solid Old School Death Metal. No bells and whistles, just straight forward, face-ripping heaviness. Enjoyed this a lot (obviously) |
| Gatecreeper Deserted |
| Gaza He Is Never Coming Back |
| Gorillaz Humanz |
| If you buy into the premise that this album is like a radio station for the end of the world, it's a pretty fun listen. Definitely a little messy in its pacing, and a lot of the features are the highlights of the albums. I enjoyed this more than I thought I would considering the pretty negative reviews I've seen. |
| Grima Frostbitten |
| High Vis Blending |
| Hissing Hypervirulence Architecture |
| Hot Mulligan Opportunities |
| Hot Mulligan Pilot |
| Hot Mulligan I Won't Reach Out to You |
| Human Garbage Straight Not Giving A Fuck |
| I Set My Friends On Fire You Can't Spell Slaughter Without Laughter |
| Icarus the Owl Rearm Circuits |
| Idles Brutalism |
| Impending Doom Baptized in Filth |
| Imperial Triumphant Spirit of Ecstasy |
| In The Midst of Lions The Heart of Man |
| Infant Annihilator The Palpable Leprosy of Pollution |
| Issues Black Diamonds |
| Issues Diamond Dreams |
| After listening to it a few more times, this EP is pretty good. Their LP was a fun listen but after a while it got repetitive. This breaks up the formula a little bit and allows Tyler Carter to show how smooth his voice is. Overall, not great, but a great break from constant chugging and disc jockey nonsense. |
| Jakey Romcom |
| Jeromes Dream Completed |
| Jeromes Dream Presents |
| Jeromes Dream LP |
| Jesus Piece Only Self |
| Joyce Manor 40 oz. to Fresno |
| JPEGMAFIA and Danny Brown SCARING THE HOES: DLC PACK |
| Definitely B-Sides but these are better than most songs released this year. |
| Katy Kirby Cool Dry Place |
| Super catchy mix of folk and indie rock. There are some stylistic choices I'm not the hugest fan of (Autotune used on the vocals in Traffic! is my least favorite moment on the album), but when she focuses on bouncy choruses with quirky lyrics, the album is a lot of fun. |
| Kauan Muistumia |
| Knocked Loose Pop Culture |
| Knocked Loose Laugh Tracks |
| Kublai Khan TX Lowest Form of Animal |
honestly some of the nastiest hardcore I've heard in a while. Vocalist has always been
gnarly but he's really stepping up how gravely his voice can be. Dude sounds like he's
installed a wood chipper in his throat.
Edit: While they aren't doing anything new or super innovative, the production and delivery
of each song is so vile and disgusting that I can't help but want to smash something. Just
pure intensity. |
| Lamb of God Ashes of the Wake |
| Linkin Park The Hunting Party |
| Liturgy The Ark Work |
| Macklemore The Unplanned Mixtape |
| Macklemore and Ryan Lewis The Heist |
| Mandy, Indiana I've Seen a Way |
| Marilyn Manson The Pale Emperor |
| Mayday Parade Mayday Parade |
| Merzbow Venereology |
| Merzbow Mercurated |
| Meshuggah I |
| Metallica ...And Justice for All |
| MF DOOM Born Like This |
| Miss May I At Heart |
| Modest Mouse We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank |
| Modest Mouse No One's First, and You're Next |
| Motionless in White When Love Met Destruction |
| Movements No Good Left to Give |
| My Chemical Romance The Black Parade |
| Nightmarer Monolith of Corrosion |
| Of Mice and Men Restoring Force |
| Panopticon Roads to the North |
| Panopticon ...And Again into the Light |
| Pantera Cowboys from Hell |
| Parkway Drive Killing with a Smile |
| Parkway Drive Deep Blue |
| Periphery Periphery (Instrumental) |
| Periphery Clear |
| Periphery Juggernaut: Alpha |
| Pierce the Veil Selfish Machines |
| Polyphia Inspire |
| Polyphia Resurrect |
| Polyphia Renaissance |
| Polyphia Remember That You Will Die |
| Portrayal of Guilt Suffering is a Gift |
| Power Trip Manifest Decimation |
| PUP The Unraveling of PUPTheBand |
| Radiohead Hail to the Thief |
| Radiohead The King of Limbs |
| Rings of Saturn Dingir |
| Rush Caress of Steel |
| Sanguisugabogg Homicidal Ecstasy |
| Serdce Timelessness |
| Shakey Graves Roll The Bones |
| Shakey Graves Donor Blues |
| Signal The Firing Squad Abnegate |
| Skullcrusher Skullcrusher |
| While not as textually dense as her debut album, this EP shows the early promise of Skullcrusher. Very strong folk songs with natural crests and troughs. |
| Slipknot All Hope Is Gone |
| Slipknot .5: The Gray Chapter |
| For the seven songs that itunes has given me so far, i am really enjoying this album. I really like Corey's screams and the drumming as improved dramatically. I wish that is sounded a little less clean but too late for them to change it so its okay as it is. |
| SOUL GLO Untitled EP |
| SZA S.O.S. |
| Texas in July One Reality |
| Texas in July Texas in July |
| The Body I’ve Seen All I Need To See |
| The Chats The Chats |
| The Chats High Risk Behaviour |
| The Dear Hunter Act I: The Lake South, the River North |
| The Ghost Inside Get What You Give |
| The Smile A Light For Attracting Attention |
| The Strokes First Impressions of Earth |
| The Strokes Angles |
| The Strokes The New Abnormal |
| Thom Yorke Anima |
| Thy Art Is Murder Hate |
| Thy Art Is Murder Dear Desolation |
| Title Fight Floral Green |
| Undeath Lesions of a Different Kind |
| Undeath It's Time...To Rise From the Grave |
| Uneven Structure Februus |
| Volumes The Concept of Dreaming |
| Volumes No Sleep |
| Wage War Blueprints |
| Whitechapel This Is Exile |
| Whitechapel A New Era of Corruption |
| Yes Relayer |
| Zeal and Ardor Devil is Fine |
| 3.0 good |
| A Day To Remember What Separates Me from You |
| All Shall Perish Awaken the Dreamers |
| Animals As Leaders Weightless |
| As I Lay Dying Awakened |
| Attack Attack! Attack Attack! |
| Attila Rage |
| August Burns Red Leveler |
| Although there this is nowhere near the level of musicianship in Rescue and Restore, the album has grown on me over the past four years. It's still a fun listen. |
| Avenged Sevenfold Avenged Sevenfold |
| Chelsea Grin Chelsea Grin |
| Chelsea Grin Desolation Of Eden |
| Chelsea Grin Ashes To Ashes |
| Crossfaith The Dream, The Space |
| Darkthrone Panzerfaust |
| Darkthrone Ravishing Grimness |
| Emmure Speaker Of The Dead |
| Falling in Reverse The Drug in Me Is You |
| Fawn Limbs Towing Heads |
| Gorillaz The Now Now |
| Idles Ultra Mono |
| Idles Crawler |
| Imagine Dragons Continued Silence |
| Imagine Dragons Hear Me |
| Lupe Fiasco Lasers |
| Mannequin Pussy Romantic |
| Mannequin Pussy Perfect |
| Merzbow Noise Mass |
| Motionless in White Reincarnate |
| Motionless in White When Love Met Destruction (Album Version) |
| Mumford and Sons Babel |
| Pantera Far Beyond Driven |
| Parkway Drive Atlas |
| Periphery Periphery II: This Time It's Personal |
| Periphery Juggernaut: Omega |
| Polyphia Muse |
| Polyphia Muse (Re-release) |
| PUP This Place Sucks Ass |
| Radiohead Pablo Honey |
| Skrillex My Name Is Skrillex |
| Sleep Token Take Me Back to Eden |
| Would i recommend this to my friends who listen to metal regularly? Absolutely not. BUT I did recommend this to my "normie" friends and nearly all of them have at least given this a few more listens than anything else I have recommended them. So it's a good gateway album. It is catchy enough that I haven't fully put it down yet. It is still over processed, with cringey lyrics, and a vocalist that seems determined to say some words just different enough that I'm annoyed occasionally. |
| Starbomb Starbomb |
| Suicide Silence The Black Crown |
| The Replacements Sorry Ma, Forgot to Take Out the Trash |
| The Strokes Comedown Machine |
| Tool Fear Inoculum |
| unnecessarily long at times but honestly when this album is on in the background, it has some of the most hypnotic rhythms i've ever heard. still too long. |
| Vildhjarta Måsstaden Under Vatten |
| Look...I have been waiting for another Vildhjarta for YEARS, and it's finally here. AND....it's too fucking long. I have always had an issue with double albums, as they take what you like about an artist and then ask you to wait twice as long for the usual 5 - 6 good songs. But now, you have to trudge through nearly 2 hours for only about 20-30 minutes of actually distinct songs that I can actually name. On a positive note, the songwriting through it strong. These guys know how to make the most off kilter music without it feeling disjointed and like a wall of noise. There are enjoyable moments, I just can't make the commitment this album asks for on a regular basis. |
| Whitechapel The Valley |
| 2.5 average |
| Animals As Leaders The Madness of Many |
| Crossfaith Apocalyze |
| Earl Sweatshirt Feet of Clay |
| Eminem Relapse |
| Gorillaz Cracker Island |
| The Gorillaz release another Gorillaz album made by the Gorillaz, who are, in fact not, not Gorillas. It's alright. |
| Hearts and Hands Hearts and Hands |
| Motionless in White Infamous |
| Motionless in White Graveyard Shift |
| Periphery Periphery III: Select Difficulty |
| Radiohead Amnesiac |
| The two to three actually entertaining songs on this record did not warrant an album release with Radiohead's weakest material to date. There is a reason these were not released, and honestly I would have been okay not hearing the 80% of this record that fails to deliver on the promise of "Kid A B-sides." |
| Suicide Silence No Time to Bleed |
| Thantifaxath Hive Mind Narcosis |
Look, I cannot for the life of me explain why, but this album isn't working for me. I loved
Sacred White Noise and Void Masquerading as Matter, but this one just feels either
incomplete or bloated. There are moments where I am immersed in the music, but I can't help
but be uninterested most of the time. I have listened to it like 6 times, trying to love it.
I wish I could give a definitive answer as to what's wrong. |
| Veil of Maya [m]other |
| This album is fine, but it is Veil of Maya on autopilot. They have essentially made AI music without even having to go to the AI program. On first listen, it feels like there is substance and ingenuity, a hint of something new that could reinvigorate their sound from the lazy False Idols; in reality, there is a strong lack of progression, and a staggering amount of riffs that feel outdated and lazy. While not necessarily bad or boring, I'm disappointed that the band who put out Common Man's Collapse, [id], Eclipse, and Matriarch is now too scared to change their sound once again. If I wanted to listen to metalcore from 2016, I will listen to their earlier output, not this. |
