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5.0 classic
Amorphis Silent Waters
Atlantean Kodex The Course of Empire
Blind Guardian A Night at the Opera
Crimson Glory Transcendence
Crimson Glory Crimson Glory
Disillusion Back to Times of Splendor
Disillusion Alea
This song is just perfect. Now I'm super eager for them to make an entire album again.
Dream Theater Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes from a Memory
Enslaved Axioma Ethica Odini
Evergrey Solitude Dominance Tragedy
Fates Warning Awaken the Guardian
Fates Warning Disconnected
Gargoyle 解識 ~Geshiki~
I seriously had neck cramps once after listening to this record because IT'S SO FREAKING AWESOME! Non stop headbanging madness at a breakneck pace. How this band managed to achieve this so late in their career is beyond me.
Hands Of Despair Well of the Disquieted
Heathen Victims of Deception
Iron Maiden Seventh Son of a Seventh Son
Karnivool Sound Awake
Leprous Live At Rockefeller Music Hall
Manilla Road Voyager
Metallica Ride the Lightning
Mortanius Till Death Do Us Part
Native Construct Quiet World
Nokturnal Mortum The Voice of Steel
Opeth Blackwater Park
Opeth Still Life
Orphaned Land Unsung Prophets and Dead Messiahs
Pain of Salvation The Perfect Element, Part 1
Savatage Hall of the Mountain King
Thank You Scientist Terraformer
Vanden Plas Christ 0
Vanden Plas The God Thing
Vanden Plas The Ghost Xperiment - Illumination
Virgin Steele The Marriage of Heaven And Hell: Part I
Virgin Steele The Marriage of Heaven and Hell: Part II
Virgin Steele Invictus

4.5 superb
A-Z A-Z
Alter Bridge Fortress
Alter Bridge Blackbird
Arcane Known/Learned
Arkona (RUS) Goi, Rode, Goi!
Blind Guardian Imaginations from the Other Side
Caligula's Horse The Tide, the Thief and River's End
Caligula's Horse In Contact
Cautiva Human
Children of Bodom Follow the Reaper
Daydream XI The Circus Of The Tattered And Torn
DGM The Passage
Disillusion The Liberation
Dream Theater Images and Words
Dream Theater Breaking the Fourth Wall
Dream Theater Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence
Dvne Asheran
Enslaved Eld
Enslaved Below the Lights
Enslaved Mardraum - Beyond the Within
Enslaved Blodhemn
Evergrey In Search Of Truth
Fates Warning Theories of Flight
Fates Warning A Pleasant Shade of Gray
Fates Warning The Spectre Within
Future Corpse Culture Ruins Everything Around Me
Future Corpse Another World to Consume
Gargoyle Natural
Gargoyle 誑 ~Taburakashi~
Gargoyle Future Drug
Haken Virus
Holocaust (UK) Covenant
Ibaraki Rashomon
Iced Earth Burnt Offerings
Iron Maiden A Matter of Life and Death
Iron Maiden Dance of Death
Kingcrow The Persistence
Linkin Park Hybrid Theory
Maestrick Espresso Della Vita: Solare
Maladie ...Still...
Manilla Road Crystal Logic
Marillion Brave
Megadeth Rust in Peace
Mekong Delta In a Mirror Darkly
Metallica ...And Justice for All
Metallica Master of Puppets
Motorpsycho The Death Defying Unicorn
Need Norchestrion: Α Song For The End
Nevermore This Godless Endeavor
Nokturnal Mortum Verity
Nokturnal Mortum To Lunar Poetry
Nokturnal Mortum Weltanschauung
Novena Eleventh Hour
Opeth Ghost Reveries
Well, I went for a walk in the park next to my school when I had the time and I tried to catch every note that was in the moment while trying to not expect anything. I must say, I wasn't disappointed. On the contrary, I was amazed. This album is really kicking some ass now. Listening to it with full attention makes it so much better. Like five thousand times better. I gave this a four at first, now it's an absolute five star album. There's just so much depth to this. These songs never grow old or boring.
Orphaned Land Mabool (The Story of the Three Sons...)
Orphaned Land The Never Ending Way Of ORwarriOR
Pain of Salvation Remedy Lane
Pain of Salvation In the Passing Light of Day
Porcupine Tree In Absentia
Psychotic Waltz A Social Grace
Ray Alder What The Water Wants
Redemption The Art of Loss
Riot Immortal Soul
Riot The Privilege of Power
Riot Thundersteel
Riverside Anno Domini High Definition
Riverside Second Life Syndrome
Sieges Even The Art of Navigating by the Stars
Sieges Even Sophisticated
Subterranean Masquerade Vagabond
Symphony X The Divine Wings of Tragedy
Symphony X Paradise Lost
Taramis Queen of Thieves
Threshold Subsurface
Threshold Critical Mass
Threshold Hypothetical
Tremonti Dust
Vanden Plas The Seraphic Clockwork
Vanden Plas Beyond Daylight
Vanden Plas The Ghost Xperiment: Awakening
Venus in Fear The Dot Above the Eye
Vicious Rumors Welcome to the Ball
Witherfall Nocturnes and Requiems
Zierler ESC
A stunning prog metal album. It's hilariously over the top and pretentious, but it doesn't take itself seriously. However despite its cheese there are still some very serious themes in the lyrics like relationship addiction, depression, etc. rThe music is fantastic. It's heavy, diverse, technical and emotive. This is everything one looks for in a prog metal album. Traditional prog metal done right.

4.0 excellent
Alter Bridge One Day Remains
Alter Bridge AB III
Amorphis Under the Red Cloud
Amorphis Skyforger
Arcane Chronicles of the Waking Dream
Artillery Penalty by Perception
Avenged Sevenfold Nightmare
Between the Buried and Me Coma Ecliptic
Blind Guardian At the Edge of Time
Blind Guardian Battalions of Fear
Caligula's Horse Bloom
Children of Bodom Halo of Blood
Dark Tranquillity Character
Dream Theater Black Clouds and Silver Linings
My favorite DT album so far. The Shattered Fortress is epic even though it has so much self-plagiarism.
Dream Theater A Dramatic Turn of Events
Dream Theater Train of Thought
Dream Theater When Dream and Day Unite
Dream Theater Distance Over Time
Enslaved Ruun
Enslaved Vertebrae
Enslaved In Times
Enslaved Frost
Enslaved Vikingligr Veldi
Enslaved Isa
Enslaved Utgard
Epica Design Your Universe
Evergrey Hymns for the Broken
Fates Warning Perfect Symmetry
Fates Warning Inside Out
Fates Warning Parallels
Fates Warning Long Day Good Night
Galneryus Advance To The Fall
Gloryhammer Tales from the Kingdom of Fife
Green Carnation Leaves Of Yesteryear
Haken The Mountain
Hands Of Despair Hereafter
Hands Of Despair Bereft
Intronaut Void
Intronaut The Direction of Last Things
Iron Maiden Powerslave
Iron Maiden Brave New World
Iron Maiden Somewhere in Time
Iron Maiden Killers
Iron Maiden The Book of Souls
Kamelot Karma
Kingcrow Eidos
Kingcrow Phlegethon
Legendry The Wizard and the Tower Keep
Leprous The Congregation
Leprous Bilateral
Macklemore and Ryan Lewis The Heist
Maestrick Unpuzzle
Manilla Road The Deluge
Manilla Road Mystification
Manilla Road Spiral Castle
Manilla Road Atlantis Rising
Manticora To Live to Kill to Live
Metallica Death Magnetic
Metallica Metallica
Monotheist Scourge
Nautilus The Oceanwalker
Nebulae Come Sweet De Lumiére
Need Hegaiamas: A Song For Freedom
Nokturnal Mortum Twilightfall
Nokturnal Mortum Lunar Poetry
Opeth Orchid
Opeth In Cauda Venenum
Pain of Salvation Be
Pain of Salvation Scarsick
Pain of Salvation Entropia
Pain of Salvation One Hour by the Concrete Lake
Phendrana Sanctum: Sic Transit Gloria Mundi
Psychotic Waltz The God-Shaped Void
Redemption Snowfall on Judgment Day
Riot V Unleash The Fire
Set It Off Cinematics
Sieges Even Paramount
Slash World On Fire
Soen Lotus
Soen Lykaia
Subterranean Masquerade The Great Bazaar
Sweven (SWE) The Eternal Resonance
Symphony X Twilight in Olympus
Symphony X V: The New Mythology Suite
Symphony X Underworld
Thence We Are Left with a Song
Threshold Wounded Land
Threshold Dead Reckoning
Tool Fear Inoculum
Tremonti Cauterize
Better in all aspects than All I Was, but Mark's still holding back.
Vanden Plas Chronicles of the Immortals: Netherworld (Path 1)
Vanden Plas Chronicles of the Immortals: Netherworld II
Vanden Plas Far Off Grace
Vanden Plas Colour Temple
Vicious Rumors Digital Dictator
Yes Drama

3.5 great
A Tear Beyond Humanitales
Alter Bridge The Last Hero
It's basically Slash' arena rock and Tremonti's heavyness mashed over Alter Bridge - to very inconsistent results. Some of their best ever tracks but also some of their worst.
Arcane Ashes
Blind Guardian Beyond the Red Mirror
Breaking Benjamin Dear Agony
Bullet for My Valentine Scream Aim Fire
Caligula's Horse Rise Radiant
Circus Maximus The 1st Chapter
Darkwater Human
Daydream XI The Grand Disguise
Devin Townsend Ocean Machine: Biomech
Dream Theater Dream Theater
Dream Theater - compact edition. This one suffers from a lack of originality and formulaicness, but it's still Dream Theater and their technical skill alone makes up for a great album. First 3/4 tracks and Illumination Theory are stand-outs. The rest is just ok.
Dream Theater Systematic Chaos
Dream Theater Octavarium
Dream Theater The Astonishing
Album is great when you can look past the cheese. It's varied and original. Doesn't reach really big heights, but there are some excellent tracks in there like Three Days and Ravenskill.
End Amen Your Last Orison
Enslaved E
Enslaved RIITIIR
Fates Warning FWX
Galneryus Beyond the End of Despair...
Galneryus The Flag Of Punishment
Haken Vector
Haken Affinity
Howling Sycamore Howling Sycamore
Iced Earth Something Wicked This Way Comes
Intervals The Shape of Colour
Intronaut Habitual Levitations
Intronaut Valley of Smoke
Iron Maiden Fear of the Dark
Iron Maiden Piece of Mind
Iron Maiden Iron Maiden
Kingcrow In Crescendo
Kingcrow Insider
Korn Korn
Maladie ...of Harm and Salvation
Nokturnal Mortum Marble Moon
Nokturnal Mortum NeChrist
Nokturnal Mortum To the Gates of Blasphemous Fire
Opeth Watershed
Opeth Deliverance
Opeth My Arms, Your Hearse
Orphaned Land All Is One
Pain of Salvation Panther
Porcupine Tree Stupid Dream
Redemption The Fullness of Time
Redemption The Origins of Ruin
Riviere Passage
Set It Off Horrible Kids
Sieges Even A Sense of Change
Sieges Even Uneven
Subterranean Masquerade Suspended Animation Dreams
Symphony X The Odyssey
Symphony X Iconoclast
The Aurora Project World of Grey
The Ocean Holocene
Threshold Psychedelicatessen
Threshold Extinct Instinct
Threshold Legends of the Shires
Threshold For The Journey
Threshold Clone
Tremonti All I Was
Tremonti A Dying Machine
Tyranny of Hours Darkling

3.0 good
Baroness Gold and Grey
Death Symbolic
Devin Townsend Terria
Dream Theater Awake
Dream Theater Falling into Infinity
Earthside A Dream In Static
Enslaved Monumension
Galneryus One For All - All For One
Iced Earth The Dark Saga
Intronaut Fluid Existential Inversions
Iron Maiden The Number of the Beast
Isa Chimera
Karnivool Themata
Megadeth Endgame
Metallica Hardwired...To Self-Destruct
Opeth Pale Communion
Porcupine Tree Lightbulb Sun
Redemption This Mortal Coil
Set It Off Duality
Slash Apocalyptic Love
Symphony X The Damnation Game
Threshold March of Progress
Tool 10,000 Days

2.5 average
Fates Warning Darkness in a Different Light
Kingcrow Timetropia
Manilla Road Open the Gates
Opeth Damnation
Opeth Heritage
Sieges Even Steps

2.0 poor
Ayreon The Human Equation
Haken Fauna
Intronaut Prehistoricisms

1.5 very poor
Sieges Even Life Cycle

1.0 awful
Bullet for My Valentine Temper Temper
Lou Reed and Metallica Lulu
While Heaven Wept Vast Oceans Lachrymose
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