Average Rating: 3.75 Rating Variance: 0.59 Objectivity Score: 68% (Fairly Balanced)
Sort by: Rating | Release Date | Rating Date | Name5.0 classicDream Theater Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes from a MemoryJudas Priest Stained ClassJudas Priest PainkillerJudas Priest Sad Wings Of Destiny4.5 superbBlind Guardian Nightfall In Middle-EarthBlind Guardian Somewhere Far BeyondBlind Guardian Imaginations From The Other SideBlind Guardian Tales From The Twilight WorldBlind Guardian Beyond The Red MirrorBullet For My Valentine VenomI believe this is the best effort BFMV has released since SAF, and beats that record in certain aspects (but not all). Temper Temper only had a few decent songs, and Fever and SAF had great songs with a few fillers. Venom doesn't feel fillerish. It shows the return of outstanding muscianship from all of the guys. No Way Out, The Harder The Heart (The Harder It Breaks), and Skin are all stand out tracks for me, but the entire album is really good. Venom has to be one of the best tracks they've written, feels like the proper continuation of Tears Dont Fall, overall best album they've written in a while! It won't match The Poison, but honestly, does it have to? This is the new bullet sound, and I'm glad they are back to being the great band that they are.DragonForce Maximum OverloadDream Theater Images And WordsDream Theater The AstonishingIced Earth Burnt OfferingsIced Earth Horror ShowIron Maiden The Book Of SoulsTruly, a wonderful Iron Maiden album, better than The Final Frontier, and their best since Bruce rejoined the band with Brave New World as previously mentioned. Every song is very solid, and has vigor that Iron Maiden hasn't showed in a while. Tremendous guitar work, instrumentation and vocals on this album, very impressed. Various tempo changes, surprises (as previously mentioned again), melodies, layering and just everything that make this great. Standout tracks for me are If Eternity Should Fail (just get past the beginning), The Red and The Black, The Book of Souls, and Empire of the Clouds. Empire of the Clouds is actually quite an amazing epic by them. Its about the 1930 R101 crash. It doesn't have anything extremely flashy, and doesn't overtake Rime of the Ancient Marnier, but does it have to? Once you get in tap with the lyrics, and listen to the song again, the song makes so much sense, and really pulls on the heartstrings, with the music mirroring everything from the beginning of its maiden voyage to its tragic crash. Truly wonderful song and album, hope this isn't their last. But if it is, Empire of the Clouds is a wonderful sendoff, along with a full inventory of tracks that displays the best Iron Maiden has for quite sometime. Judas Priest Defenders Of The FaithJudas Priest Screaming For VengeanceJudas Priest Redeemer Of SoulsNightwish Endless Forms Most BeautifulThe Darkness Permission to LandThe Darkness Last of Our KindTrivium Shogun4.0 excellentBlind Guardian Follow The BlindBlind Guardian At The Edge Of TimeBullet For My Valentine The PoisonDragonForce Valley Of The DamnedDragonForce Sonic FirestormDragonForce The Power WithinDream Theater Six Degrees of Inner TurbulenceDream Theater AwakeDream Theater Black Clouds and Silver LiningsDream Theater A Dramatic Turn of EventsDream Theater Dream TheaterIced Earth Night Of The StormriderIced Earth The Dark SagaIced Earth Something Wicked This Way ComesIced Earth DystopiaIced Earth Plagues Of BabylonJudas Priest British SteelJudas Priest Sin After SinJudas Priest Killing MachineMuse AbsolutionMuse Origin of SymmetryMuse The 2nd LawMuse DronesDead Inside is great, very Undisclosed Desires like. Pyscho is alright, I love the riff, just don't love that it repeats over and over again, but maybe thats how its supposed to be story wise? Mercy is a grower, but essentially Starlight like. Reapers is super kick ass, very much what I wanted to hear. The Handler is one of the best songs on this album, very dark and very old Muse like. Defector is like heavy muse playing with Queen, love it. I might change my opinion, but for now, Revolt isn't good at all. Extremely poppy. Revolting doesn't sound like that. Aftermath is haunting and heavenly, totally wedding like and its great. The Globalist (imo) is another one of the best tracks of the album. The beginning sounds very soothing, goes into absolute prog madness, and ends once again very soothing, in a triumphant kind of way. I believe that the middle is not as long because, well, it doesnt take that long to blow up the world with bombs does it? Drones cleansed my soul, Matt used great layered vocals for that. Much better than the past few albums they have come out with.Queensryche QueensrycheVolbeat Seal the Deal & Let's Boogie3.5 greatBlind Guardian A Night At The OperaBullet For My Valentine Scream Aim FireBullet For My Valentine FeverDragonForce Inhuman RampageDragonForce Ultra BeatdownDream Theater OctavariumIced Earth The Glorious BurdenJudas Priest Angel Of RetributionMuse Black Holes & RevelationsRoadstar Glass MountainThe Darkness Hot CakesTrivium AscendancyTrivium In WavesTrivium Vengeance FallsTrivium Silence in the SnowThis is just there at 3.5, a bit of a stretch. I am not in any way trying to get on the band for anything. I even defended Vengeance Falls, there is something weird with this album. Like when I heard Silence in the Snow (song) and Blind Leading the Blind, there was some hope. Sure it wasn't Trivium of the past, but it showed some evolution (matt's singing mostly) and I was looking forward to it. Well, there are certainly some standouts for me besides the two singles (The Ghost That's Haunting You and Breathe In The Flames), and some in betweeners, but this overall wasn't the full evolution I wasn't hoping for. Now yes I loved Heafy's screams in the past, and I think this album needed some, not just because its signature Trivium (not knocking for them for trying clean), but because there were some parts of the album that felt like that could have added so much to it. The guitars are on and off, sometimes I get the tiniest Shogun feel, or just good feeling from it, and other times i'm just looking the other way. Overall, there are some real growers on here, some actually great Trivium tracks, but will most likely disappoint fans of Shogun-esque Trivium, and most likely will not bring in a giant wave of new fans. But it doesn't have to. Matt's voice is certainly great, and I think sounds really great clean, just need to give it some direction!3.0 goodBlind Guardian A Twist In The MythDream Theater Train of ThoughtDream Theater Falling Into InfinityJudas Priest JugulatorJudas Priest TurboJudas Priest NostradamusMuse The ResistanceThe Darkness One Way Ticket To Hell And BackTrivium The Crusade2.5 averageBullet For My Valentine Temper TemperDream Theater Systematic ChaosIced Earth Framing ArmageddonIced Earth The Crucible Of ManJudas Priest Ram It DownJudas Priest Rocka RollaTrivium Ember to Inferno2.0 poorDream Theater When Dream And Day UniteJudas Priest Point Of Entry1.0 awfulJudas Priest Demolition
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