| 4.0 excellent |
| A Day To Remember Common Courtesy |
| Aerosmith Aerosmith |
| Aerosmith Get Your Wings |
| AFI Burials |
| Alejandro Aranda Doom Hologram |
| Alice in Chains Facelift |
| All Time Low Don't Panic |
| All Time Low Don't Panic: It's Longer Now! |
| Alpha Wolf A Quiet Place to Die |
| Anberlin Silverline |
| Angels and Airwaves Lifeforms |
| Anna von Hausswolff Dead Magic |
| Avenged Sevenfold Life Is But a Dream... |
| This shit's all over the place and bombastic as hell. Can't want to see how polarizing it is on this site. |
| Avril Lavigne Let Go |
| Bad Nerves Bad Nerves |
| Bad Omens Finding God Before God Finds Me |
| It reminds me a lot of BMTH, but this is a more refined and improved version of their initial sound. Really impressive and some surprisingly heavy stuff. |
| Beck Guero |
| Black Veil Brides Set the World on Fire |
| blink-182 Blink-182 |
| Blondie Plastic Letters |
| Blondie Parallel Lines |
| Bo Burnham what. |
| Bo Burnham Inside (The Songs) |
| Do comedy albums qualify as AOTY contenders? Because with this release, they sure do now. Burnham has always been a good writer, but this album finds him honing his craft even further. You?ll laugh and you?ll cry with this one. |
| Brand New Daisy |
| Brand New The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me |
| Breathe Carolina Hello Fascination |
| Bring Me the Horizon Sempiternal |
| Bring Me the Horizon There Is a Hell, Believe Me I've Seen It... |
| Bring Me the Horizon Post Human: Survival Horror |
| Honestly, this is way better than it had any right to be. Easily their best work since Sempiturnal. |
| Carly Rae Jepsen Dedicated |
This essentially feels like Emotion 2.0 in a lot of ways, which isn't a bad thing. The album
finds itself in a grey area between being well-produced and overly produced though, and
there's maybe one or two songs I could've done without. Those things aside, it's catchy and
fun and a great follow up to Emotion. |
| Carly Rae Jepsen Dedicated Side B |
| Carly Rae Jepsen The Loneliest Time |
| Hot diggity damn this woman can do no wrong. I'm convinced she couldn't make a bad album even if she tried. |
| Carly Rae Jepsen The Loveliest Time |
Tough album to rate. There's a few top-tier CRJ tracks, but the rest is pretty wildly
inconsistent.
EDIT: Nevermind, album's a grower for sure. |
| Chevelle Sci-Fi Crimes |
| Chevelle Hats Off To The Bull |
| Chevelle NIRATIAS |
| Childish Gambino "Awaken, My Love!" |
| Chiodos Illuminaudio |
| CHVRCHES The Bones of What You Believe |
| CHVRCHES Every Open Eye |
| clipping. There Existed an Addiction to Blood |
| Coheed and Cambria Vaxis II: A Window of the Waking Mind |
| Converge Jane Doe |
| I can respect this for what it was at the time, and it's definitely hard hitting as HELL, but a lot of the songs sound the same and it can be hard to remember certain ones. |
| Converge The Dusk in Us |
| Crown the Empire The Resistance: Rise of the Runaways |
| Crystal Lake The Voyages |
| David Bowie Station to Station |
| David Bowie "Heroes" |
| David Bowie Hunky Dory |
| Death From Above 1979 The Physical World |
| Death Grips The Money Store |
| Deftones Around the Fur |
| Deftones Deftones |
| Deftones Saturday Night Wrist |
| Deftones Koi No Yokan |
| Demi Lovato Don't Forget |
| Denzel Curry TA13OO |
| Devil Sold His Soul Loss |
| Devon Kay and The Solutions Limited Joy |
| Disturbed Believe |
| Don Broco Amazing Things |
This was a fun and surprisingly heavy album. Just as goofy and catchy as theyve always been. Hearing a chorus
about a stressed out security guard is one of the highlights of my week. |
| Ebonivory The Long Dream I |
| Eisley Room Noises |
| Eminem The Marshall Mathers LP |
| Emma Ruth Rundle Marked for Death |
| Enter Shikari Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible |
| Envy On The Coast Lowcountry |
| Every Time I Die From Parts Unknown |
| Every Time I Die Gutter Phenomenon |
| Famous Last Words The Incubus |
| Fiona Apple Fetch the Bolt Cutters |
| Fleetwood Mac Rumours |
| Flyleaf Flyleaf |
| Flyleaf Memento Mori |
| Foo Fighters In Your Honor |
| Foo Fighters Foo Fighters |
| Foo Fighters Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace |
| Foo Fighters But Here We Are |
Damn, this is (emotionally) heavy, but
wonderfully made. This one's for Taylor. |
| Forgive Durden Wonderland |
| Four Year Strong Brain Pain |
| Frank Iero and The Future Violents Stomachaches |
| Frank Iero and The Future Violents Barriers |
| It gets off to a slow and kinda weird start, but once it gets going it stays consistently solid throughout. A lot more garage-rock sounding than past releases, with a few songs being reminiscent of bands like The White Stripes. Overall a really impressive album, best songs are Medicine State Garden, Fever Dream, and Great Party. |
| Garbage Garbage |
| Get Scared Built For Blame, Laced With Shame |
| Get Scared Demons |
| Get Scared The Dead Days |
| Glassjaw Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Silence |
| Glassjaw Coloring Book |
| Glassjaw Material Control |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven |
| Good Tiger Raised in a Doomsday Cult |
| Gospel The Loser |
| Green Day 21st Century Breakdown |
| Green Day Insomniac |
| Greyhaven Empty Black |
| Grouplove Never Trust A Happy Song |
| One of the better indie pop albums to come from the 2010's imo. Pure fun to listen to and full of energy. It maybe drops off by the end, but it's still a blast to hear. |
| Grouplove Big Mess |
| Guns N' Roses Appetite for Destruction |
| Hail the Sun Mental Knife |
| Hail the Sun New Age Filth |
| Hands Like Houses Unimagine |
| Hayley Williams Petals for Armor |
| Hayley Williams Petals For Armor I |
| Very creative and well-written stuff! Looking forward to the rest of the album if it's anything like this. |
| He Is Legend I Am Hollywood |
| Holding Absence The Noble Art of Self-Destruction |
| Hum You'd Prefer an Astronaut |
| I the Mighty Satori |
| Ice Nine Kills The Silver Scream |
| Innerpartysystem Innerpartysystem |
| Iron Maiden The Number of the Beast |
| Jack White Fear of the Dawn |
| Jeff Rosenstock NO DREAM |
| Jimmy Eat World Chase This Light |
| Jimmy Eat World Bleed American |
| Jimmy Eat World Surviving |
| Jimmy Eat World Clarity |
| Jimmy Eat World Static Prevails |
| KANGA You And I Will Never Die |
| Kate Bush The Kick Inside |
| Kendrick Lamar good kid, m.A.A.d city |
| Kendrick Lamar To Pimp a Butterfly |
| King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard K.G. |
| King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard L. W. |
| King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard PetroDragonic Apocalypse; or, Dawn of Eternal Night: An Annihilation of... |
| Knocked Loose A Tear in the Fabric of Life |
| Knocked Loose A Different Shade of Blue |
| Lady Gaga The Fame Monster |
| Lana Del Rey Born to Die |
| Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin II |
| Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin III |
| Led Zeppelin Physical Graffiti |
| Lights Little Machines |
| Limp Bizkit The Unquestionable Truth - Part I |
| Makari Continuum |
| Make Them Suffer How to Survive a Funeral |
| Marilyn Manson The Pale Emperor |
| Marilyn Manson Holy Wood |
| Marilyn Manson Portrait of an American Family |
| Massive Attack Mezzanine |
| Maybeshewill I Was Here For a Moment, Then I Was Gone |
| Mayday Parade Black Lines |
| Mayday Parade Sunnyland |
| Megadeth Youthanasia |
| Megadeth Killing Is My Business... and Business Is Good! |
| Megadeth Endgame |
| Melted Bodies Enjoy Yourself |
| Metallica Ride the Lightning |
| Metallica Kill 'Em All |
| Metallica Metallica |
| Michael Giacchino Let Me In |
| A truly haunting yet masterful collection of compositions to perfectly fit the movie that it accompanies. I'd recommend it to any one who liked the movie, or enjoys listening to classical music, as this is one of the best movie soundtracks I've ever listened to. |
| Motionless in White Scoring the End of the World |
| Some good old fashioned cheesy-ass tongue in cheek metalcore. God I love it. |
| Muse Black Holes & Revelations |
| My Chemical Romance Number Five |
| My Chemical Romance Number Three |
| My Chemical Romance Number Two |
| My Chemical Romance Conventional Weapons |
| My Chemical Romance May Death Never Stop You |
| My Chemical Romance The Black Parade: The B-Sides |
| Neon Trees Pop Psychology |
| Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds Skeleton Tree |
| Nick Cave and Warren Ellis Carnage |
| Nine Inch Nails Pretty Hate Machine |
| No Doubt Tragic Kingdom |
| Norma Jean Deathrattle Sing for Me |
| The individual songs kick so much ass, but there's something about the album's flow that just feels sort of...off? I don't know. I think there's a little too much filler/padding and some of the tonal shifts are a bit jarring. |
| Nothing More Nothing More |
| Of Mice and Men The Flood |
| Orbit Culture Nija |
| Origami Angel Gami Gang |
| Panic! at the Disco Vices & Virtues |
| Paradise Lost Obsidian |
| Paramore Riot! |
| Paramore Paramore |
| Paramore Singles Club |
| Paramore This Is Why |
There's things I could nitpick about this if I really wanted to, but this is still the best
Paramore/Hayley has sounded in years. |
| Pierce the Veil Selfish Machines |
| Pierce the Veil Misadventures |
| Pink Floyd Wish You Were Here |
| Pink Floyd The Dark Side of the Moon |
| Plini Impulse Voices |
| Poppy Choke |
| Poppy I Disagree (more) |
| Poppy Flux |
| Really solid stuff. Surprised by some of the turns it takes toward the second half. |
| Porter Robinson Nurture |
| Primus Frizzle Fry |
| Primus Sailing the Seas of Cheese |
| PRIZM All Night |
| Protest the Hero Palimpsest |
| Psychedelic Porn Crumpets Shyga! The Sunlight Mound |
| PVRIS All We Know of Heaven, All We Need of Hell |
| PVRIS Hallucinations |
| PVRIS White Noise (Deluxe Version) |
| Queen The Works |
| Queen Jazz |
| Queen A Day at the Races |
| Queen The Miracle |
| Queens of the Stone Age ...Like Clockwork |
| Radiohead OK Computer |
| Rage Against the Machine Evil Empire |
| Refused The Shape Of Punk To Come |
| Rina Sawayama Sawayama |
| Rise Against The Sufferer and the Witness |
| Rise Against Siren Song of the Counter Culture |
| Run the Jewels Run the Jewels 2 |
| Rush Moving Pictures |
| Saidan Onryo II: Her Spirit Eternal |
| Saosin Translating the Name |
| I can totally see the influence that this EP had on the genre, and most of it still holds up today. The only complaint I really have is that the songs start to sound a bit similar towards the end. |
| Satyr Locus |
| Say Anything Say Anything |
| Say Anything Hebrews |
| Say Anything I Don't Think It Is |
| Seahaven Halo of Hurt |
| Sex Pistols Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols |
| Sleeping With Sirens Let's Cheers to This |
| Sleeping With Sirens Madness |
| Sleigh Bells Treats |
| Slipknot Vol. 3: The Subliminal Verses |
| Slipknot We Are Not Your Kind |
| St. Vincent Strange Mercy |
| Static-X Project Regeneration Vol. 1 |
| Static-X Wisconsin Death Trip |
| Sum 41 All Killer No Filler |
| System of a Down Toxicity |
| System of a Down System of a Down |
| Taking Back Sunday Louder Now |
| Talking Heads More Songs About Buildings and Food |
| Tallah The Generation of Danger |
| Thank You Scientist Maps of Non-Existent Places |
| The All-American Rejects Move Along |
| The Almost Fear Inside Our Bones |
| The Clash The Clash |
| The Classic Crime Albatross |
| The Classic Crime The Silver Cord |
| The Classic Crime Phoenix |
| The Classic Crime Grim Age |
| The Damned Things Ironiclast |
| The Dear Hunter Blue |
| The Dear Hunter Red |
| The Dear Hunter Yellow |
| The Dear Hunter Black |
| The Dear Hunter Green |
| The Dear Hunter Orange |
| The Dear Hunter White |
| The Dear Hunter The Color Spectrum |
| The Dear Hunter Act III: Life and Death |
| The Dear Hunter Antimai |
| This is definitely their most bombastic album yet, but the hooks are so good it's hard not to love. The downside is that a few songs meander a bit too much for my liking, but for the most part this is another hit for them. |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Calculating Infinity |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan One of Us Is the Killer |
| The Dirty Nil Fuck Art |
| What a way to kick off the new year! This is one of the most upbeat and energetic pop punk albums I've heard in a while, and just about every song is catchy as hell too. |
| The Fall of Troy The Fall of Troy |
| The Fall of Troy Doppelganger |
| The Ghost Inside The Ghost Inside |
| The Hotelier Home, Like NoPlace Is There |
| The Mars Volta De-Loused in the Comatorium |
| The Mars Volta Frances the Mute |
| The Naked and Famous In Rolling Waves |
| The Ocean Phanerozoic II: Mesozoic | Cenozoic |
| The Raconteurs Consolers of the Lonely |
| The Smashing Pumpkins Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness |
| The Strokes The New Abnormal |
| The Used The Used |
| The Used The Canyon |
| Call me crazy, but this might be their best album. Way more creative and ambitious than I would have expected. Sure the production is a little wacky, but I like the raw feel to it. |
| The Used Artwork |
| The Wonder Years The Hum Goes on Forever |
| Thirty Seconds to Mars 30 Seconds To Mars |
| Thousand Foot Krutch The End Is Where We Begin |
| Tonight Alive What Are You So Scared Of? |
| Trivium What the Dead Men Say |
| Twenty One Pilots Vessel |
| Twenty One Pilots Twenty One Pilots |
| Vennart In The Dead, Dead Wood |
| Volbeat Servant Of The Mind |
| VUKOVI NULA |
| Great album, but would've been even better if they didn't end the album with arguably the worst song they've ever made. |
| Weezer Weezer |
| Weezer Everything Will Be Alright in the End |
| While She Sleeps Brainwashed |
| While She Sleeps You Are We |
| Within the Ruins Black Heart |
| Some of the fastest and most aggressive metalcore put out this year. Both instrumental tracks are great, but the closer leaves a little more to be desired. |
| Wolves at the Gate Eclipse |
| Yes Fragile |
| You Me At Six Hold Me Down |
| 3.5 great |
| A Day To Remember Homesick |
| A Day To Remember What Separates Me from You |
| A Day To Remember Bad Vibrations |
| Excellent follow up to Common Courtesy. Has some really good heavy songs and is good fun to listen to. The album peaks with "Exposed" and "Reassemble," with the only bad song being "We Got This." |
| Adele 21 |
| Aerosmith Just Push Play |
| AFI Sing the Sorrow |
| AFI AFI (The Blood Album) |
| Against The Current Infinity |
| Alex Lahey The Best of Luck Club |
| Alien Ant Farm ANThology |
| Alien Ant Farm TruANT |
| Alien Ant Farm Up in the Attic |
| All Time Low Nothing Personal |
| All Time Low Dirty Work |
| Angels and Airwaves The Dream Walker |
| Another Sky Music For Winter Vol. 1 |
| As I Lay Dying Shaped by Fire |
| Asking Alexandria From Death to Destiny |
| Avenged Sevenfold Nightmare |
| Avenged Sevenfold Avenged Sevenfold |
| Avenged Sevenfold The Stage |
| Avril Lavigne Under My Skin |
| Avril Lavigne Goodbye Lullaby |
| Bad Meets Evil Hell: The Sequel |
| Bad Omens The Death of Peace of Mind |
| Balance and Composure Too Quick to Forgive |
| Beach House Once Twice Melody |
| Beartooth Disgusting |
| Beartooth Disease |
| Beartooth B-Sides |
| Beck Mutations |
| Better Lovers God Made Me an Animal |
| Between the Buried and Me Colors II |
| Black Crown Initiate Violent Portraits of Doomed Escape |
| Black Veil Brides Wretched and Divine |
| Black Veil Brides Re-Stitch These Wounds |
| Black Veil Brides The Mourning |
| blink-182 Take Off Your Pants And Jacket |
| blink-182 Dogs Eating Dogs |
| Blondie Blondie |
| Blue Oyster Cult The Symbol Remains |
| Bo Burnham Words Words Words |
| Boston Manor Glue |
| Pretty frontloaded, but it has some damn great highlights. |
| Boys Like Girls Boys Like Girls |
| Breathe Carolina Hell Is What You Make It |
| BRKN Love BRKN Love |
| Very solid hard rock album that starts and ends with a lot of energy. Only downside is that the middle loses a little bit of steam. But overall, I'm really looking forward to hearing from this band in the future. |
| Bury Tomorrow Cannibal |
| Bury Tomorrow The Seventh Sun |
| Caligula's Horse Rise Radiant |
| Carly Rae Jepsen Emotion: Side B |
| Carly Rae Jepsen Tug of War |
| Chamber (USA) Cost of Sacrifice |
| Charli XCX How I'm Feeling Now |
| Chelsea Wolfe Hiss Spun |
| Chevelle Point #1 |
| Chiodos Devil |
| Circa Survive A Dream About Love |
| Circa Survive Violent Waves |
| clipping. CLPPNG |
| Coldrain Vena |
| Creeper Sex, Death and the Infinite Void |
| Very solid, well-written, and atmospheric blend of punk rock, indie, and post-punk. Only held back by an over-reliance on spoken word filler and occasionally below average instrumentation. |
| Crippled Black Phoenix Ellengaest |
| Crossfaith Species |
| Crown the Empire The Fallout |
| Crown the Empire Retrograde |
| Damone Out Here All Night |
| Daughters You Won't Get What You Want |
| David Bowie Low |
| David Bowie Earthling |
| Dead Poetic New Medicines |
| Dead Sara Dead Sara |
| Deafheaven Sunbather |
| Dear Youth Heirloom |
| Delain Apocalypse & Chill |
| A bit bloated, and suffers from inconsistent production quality. Otherwise though, this is a solid album. 'Combustion' alone boosted this rating up a half point. |
| Destiny Potato Lun |
| Destroy Rebuild Until God Shows D.R.U.G.S. |
| Disturbed The Sickness |
| Disturbed Ten Thousand Fists |
| Disturbed Indestructible |
| Don Broco Priorities |
| Don Broco Automatic |
| Driveways Skeptic |
| Pretty solid stuff, but 'Sea In Storm' feels incredibly out of place here. |
| Emarosa 131 |
| Emery Rub Some Dirt on It |
| END Splinters From An Ever-Changing Face |
| Enter Shikari The Spark |
| Enter Shikari Rat Race |
| Enter Shikari A Kiss For The Whole World |
| ERRA ERRA |
| Evanescence The Bitter Truth |
| Every Time I Die Ex Lives |
| Every Time I Die The Big Dirty |
| Everything in Slow Motion Influence |
| Fall Out Boy Infinity on High |
| Falling in Reverse Just Like You |
| Finch What It Is to Burn |
| Fireworks Higher Lonely Power |
I have a lot of respect for the ambition of this record, though I think it would've benefitted
from a bit more focus. Regardless, there's a lot of high quality stuff here. A solid 3.5 in my
book. |
| Flying Lotus You're Dead! |
| Flyleaf New Horizons |
| Four Year Strong Enemy of the World |
| Foxy Shazam Introducing |
| Foxy Shazam Foxy Shazam |
| Frank Iero and The Future Violents Heaven is a Place, This is a Place |
| Frenzal Rhomb The Cup of Pestilence |
| Garbage Strange Little Birds |
| Get Scared Best Kind of Mess |
| Get Scared Everyone's Out To Get Me |
| Ghost (SWE) Seven Inches Of Satanic Panic |
| Ghost (SWE) Meliora |
| Ghostkid GHOSTKID |
| Gospel MVDM: Magick Volumes Of Dark Madder |
| Green Day Nimrod |
| Green Day Kerplunk |
| Green Day 39/Smooth |
| Greyhaven This Bright and Beautiful World |
| Greywind Afterthoughts |
| Grimes Miss Anthropocene |
| Grimes Visions |
| Grouplove This Is This |
| Gulch Impenetrable Cerebral Fortress |
| Hail the Sun Culture Scars |
| HAIM Women In Music, Pt. III |
| Hands Like Houses Dissonants |
| Hayley Williams Petals For Armor II |
| He Is Legend Endless Hallway |
| Hollywood Undead New Empire Vol. 1 |
| House Of Heroes The End is Not The End |
| Hum Inlet |
| I DON'T KNOW HOW BUT THEY FOUND ME Razzmatazz |
| I See Stars New Demons |
| I See Stars Anomaly / Drift |
| I the Mighty We Speak |
| Ice Nine Kills Every Trick in the Book |
| Injury Reserve By The Time I Get To Phoenix |
| Intervals Circadian |
| Invent Animate The Sun Sleeps, As If It Never Was |
| Invent Animate Heavener |
| This is about as technically impressive as modern metalcore is gonna get. It's just too bad that so many songs have that stereotypical djent-y sound that gets kinda boring by the end of the album. |
| Jack White Blunderbuss |
| Jane's Addiction Nothing's Shocking |
| Great instrumentation throughout, and the psychedelic influences are awesome. I just feel like the album doesn't flow very well, and some filler could've been cut. |
| Janus Red Right Return |
| Japanese Breakfast Jubilee |
| Jeff Rosenstock WORRY. |
| Jessie Ware What's Your Pleasure? |
| Jessie Ware That! Feels Good! |
| Jimmy Eat World Invented |
| Jimmy Eat World Stay on My Side Tonight |
| Johnny Booth Storyteller |
| Joyce Manor 40 oz. to Fresno |
| Justin Timberlake The 20/20 Experience |
| Kanye West Yeezus |
| Katy Perry Teenage Dream |
| Kendrick Lamar Mr. Morale and the Big Steppers |
| Kill the Lights (UK) The Sinner |
| Very solid modern metalcore record with progressive tendencies. Album is at its best when it commits fully to being progressive. |
| Killer Be Killed Reluctant Hero |
| King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard Infest the Rats' Nest |
| King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard Butterfly 3000 |
| King Mothership The Ritual |
| Has some noteworthy flaws (too much filler, inconsistent writing) but they're mostly rirrelevant considering how ambitions and interesting the rest of this album is. It has rgood vocals, unique (and great) instrumental work, and an absolutely KILLER back half. |
| Knocked Loose Laugh Tracks |
| Knocked Loose Pop Culture |
| Korn Requiem |
| Korn The Serenity of Suffering |
| Korn The Nothing |
| Every bit as consistently solid as TSoS, but with a few missteps along the way. The interludes really didn't need to be included at all, and the ending was very underwhelming. |
| L.S. Dunes Past Lives |
| Lady Gaga The Fame |
| Lamb of God Lamb of God |
| Lapsley Cautionary Tales of Youth |
| Limp Bizkit Still Sucks |
| Lindsey Stirling Lindsey Stirling |
| Linkin Park The Hunting Party |
| Lizzy McAlpine five seconds flat |
When she elevates her songs beyond the typical standard of minimalistic, breathy, folk-pop, the
album is REALLY GOOD. But the majority of the album is very typical melodramatic, boring folk
music that drags the rest of it down.
I don't know, I didn't love this as much as others and I never got the appeal of Phoebe Bridgers
either. Maybe folk just ain't my thing. |
| Loathe (UK) I Let It In And It Took Everything |
| Lorde The Love Club |
| Love, Robot Rebuild | Rebirth |
| Magdalena Bay Mercurial World |
| Marilyn Manson Heaven Upside Down |
| Marilyn Manson We Are Chaos |
| Certainly gonna polarize people, but Manson does a good job of mixing new sounds with old. Sure it's mostly in a softer direction, but that turned out to not be such a bad thing. |
| Marilyn Manson The Golden Age of Grotesque |
| Maybeshewill Not For Want Of Trying |
| Mayday Parade Mayday Parade |
| Mayday Parade What It Means To Fall Apart |
| Megadeth So Far, So Good... So What! |
| Megadeth Countdown to Extinction |
| Megadeth Cryptic Writings |
| Megadeth Dystopia |
| Miley Cyrus Plastic Hearts |
| Definitely the best thing she's ever made (although the bar isn't that high). The 80's sound really works well for her, but there are definitely some duds to be found here too. It feels like she's pandering a little too hard to the 80's crowd by having features from Billy Idol and Joan Jett, and some of the slower songs miss the mark, but the highlights are VERY good. |
| Moon Kissed I’d Like to Tell You Something Important |
| Has some outstanding highlights, but also has some boring/skippable tracks. Those two spoken word interludes are so unnecessary though and add nothing to the listening experience. |
| MSPAINT Post-American |
| Mt. Eddy Chroma |
| Mudvayne Lost and Found |
| Muse Showbiz |
| Muse The 2nd Law |
| Mutoid Man Mutants |
| My Chemical Romance I Brought You My Bullets, You Brought Me Your Love |
| My Chemical Romance Danger Days: The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys |
| My Chemical Romance Number Four |
| Neck Deep Life's Not Out To Get You |
| New Found Glory Forever + Ever x Infinity |
| Nirvana Nevermind |
| Norma Jean Meridional |
| Nothing But Thieves Moral Panic |
| Nova Twins Supernova |
| Of Mice and Men EARTHANDSKY |
| Of Mice and Men Restoring Force |
| Of Mice and Men Timeless |
| One Day as a Lion One Day as a Lion |
| Orbit Culture Descent |
| Origami Angel The Brightest Days |
| orphantwin Future Classic |
| Pale Waves Unwanted |
This is an improvement over their last album in almost everyway - sure it's still very much Avril
Lavigne-core, but they're pulling it off way better now. It's too bad the quality slowly dips
throughout the album, because the first handful of tracks are kick-ass. |
| Pale Waves My Mind Makes Noises |
| Pale Waves All the Things I Never Said |
| Palmist Fake Smiles |
| Panic! at the Disco Too Weird to Live, Too Rare to Die! |
| Paramore All We Know Is Falling |
| Parkway Drive Atlas |
| Pierce the Veil The Jaws of Life |
| Pinegrove 11:11 |
| Polaris (AUS) The Death of Me |
| Pom Poko Cheater |
| Poppy Am I a Girl? |
| Public Memory Illusion of Choice |
| Pull Down the Sun Of Valleys and Mountains |
| PUP The Unraveling of PUPTheBand |
| Queen News of the World |
| Queen The Game |
| Queens of the Stone Age Songs for the Deaf |
| Queens of the Stone Age In Times New Roman... |
| Rage Against the Machine Renegades |
| Rain City Drive To Better Days |
| Red (USA) Declaration |
| Relient K Forget and Not Slow Down |
| Rise Against Appeal to Reason |
| Robyn Body Talk |
| Rolo Tomassi Where Myth Becomes Memory |
| Royal Blood Royal Blood |
| Royal Blood Back to the Water Below |
| Save Face Another Kill for the Highlight Reel |
| Say Anything In Defense of the Genre |
| Sculpture of Violence Giver |
| Seaway Big Vibe |
| Seether Si Vis Pacem, Para Bellum |
| Selena Gomez Kiss & Tell |
| Senses Fail Hell Is in Your Head |
| Senses Fail Still Searching |
| Silverstein Dead Reflection |
| Single File Common Struggle |
| This album is solid, if unremarkable, but the real question is who tf labeled this as jazz lmao |
| Sleeping With Sirens Complete Collapse |
| Sleigh Bells Texis |
| Slipknot Slipknot |
| Slipknot All Hope Is Gone |
| slowthai UGLY |
| Sordid Pink Sordid Pink |
| Static-X Machine |
| Static-X Start A War |
| Strapping Young Lad City |
| Stray from the Path Euthanasia |
| Svalbard When I Die, Will I Get Better? |
| Taking Back Sunday Happiness Is |
| Taking Back Sunday Tidal Wave |
| Taking Back Sunday New Again |
| Talking Heads Little Creatures |
| Teenage Wrist Earth Is A Black Hole |
| Thank You Scientist Terraformer |
| The All-American Rejects Kids in the Street |
| The Amity Affliction Not Without My Ghosts |
| It's solid, but nothing amazing - probably somewhere between a 3 and 3.5. I'll round up since this is a big step up from their last few albums. |
| The Armed Perfect Saviors |
| The Armed Ultrapop |
| The Atomic Bitchwax Scorpio |
| The Callous Daoboys Celebrity Therapist |
| The Dead Rabbitts Shapeshifter |
| The Dear Hunter Migrant |
| The Dear Hunter Indigo |
| The Dear Hunter Act I: The Lake South, the River North |
| The Dear Hunter All Is As All Should Be |
| The Devil Wears Prada The Act |
| The Devil Wears Prada Color Decay |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Ire Works |
| The Dismemberment Plan Emergency & I |
| The Fall of Troy Mukiltearth |
| The Joy Formidable The Big Roar |
| The Maine Lovely Little Lonely |
| The Raconteurs Help Us Stranger |
| The Tallest Man on Earth The Wild Hunt |
| The Used Vulnerable |
| The Used Lies for the Liars |
| The Venetia Fair The Venetia Fair... Basically Just Does Karaoke |
| The White Stripes Get Behind Me Satan |
| Thirty Seconds to Mars A Beautiful Lie |
| Thirty Seconds to Mars This Is War |
| thrown Extended Pain |
| Tonight Alive The Other Side |
| Trophy Eyes Suicide and Sunshine |
| Turnstile Glow On |
| Underoath They're Only Chasing Safety |
| Underoath Voyeurist |
| Vein.fm This World Is Going to Ruin You |
| Vexes Imagine What We Could Destroy / If Only Given Time |
| VUKOVI VUKOVI |
| Wednesday Rat Saw God |
| This is good! I'm not as huge on it as some of the other people on this site, but to be fair I would've never guessed that I'd like a shoegaze-y country album as much as this. And yeah, Bull Believer really is something else. |
| Weezer SZNZ: Autumn |
| Easily the best of the SZNZ's EPs. Sure that wasn't a high bar to clear, but it's nice to hear Weezer sounding catchy and energized again. |
| Weezer Maladroit |
| Weezer Hurley |
| Weezer OK Human |
| Yeah Yeah Yeahs Cool It Down |
| Yeah Yeah Yeahs It's Blitz! |
| Yellowcard Paper Walls |
| Yours Truly Self Care |
| 3.0 good |
| 100 Gecs 10,000 gecs |
| Quality kinda drops off a cliff by the last few songs but this is still way better than their debut. |
| AC/DC Power Up |
| AFI Decemberunderground |
| AFI Crash Love |
| AFI Bodies |
| Against The Current In Our Bones |
| Alex Lahey The Answer Is Always Yes |
| Alien Ant Farm Always and Forever |
| All Time Low The Party Scene |
| All Time Low Future Hearts |
| All Time Low Wake Up, Sunshine |
| Though probably a third of this album could have been cut (including the abysmal and stupid closing track), most of this is a fun, if relatively safe, pop-punk album. There are some pretty catchy tracks to be found here. |
| Amarionette [US] Sunset On This Generation |
| Angels and Airwaves We Don't Need to Whisper |
| Anneke van Giersbergen The Darkest Skies Are The Brightest |
| Annisokay Aurora |
| Antarctigo Vespucci Love in the Time of E-Mail |
| As Everything Unfolds Ultraviolet |
| The highlights are awesome (especially the heavier tracks) but there's too many dull/boring songs in between that drag the score down. The band has potential to be great though. |
| Asking Alexandria The Black |
| Avenged Sevenfold Hail to the King |
| Avril Lavigne The Best Damn Thing |
| Bad Omens Bad Omens |
| Beach Bunny Blame Game |
| Beartooth Below |
| Beastie Boys Ill Communication |
| Beck Colors |
| Beck The Information |
| Beck Modern Guilt |
| Billie Eilish dont smile at me |
| Decent enough debut EP, Eilish has a ton of potential. She kinda feels like a one-trick pony though, and clearly has room to grow and mature as an artist. Awesome start though! |
| Billie Joe Armstrong No Fun Mondays |
| A fun and harmless covers album. Kinda funny that this blows 'Father of All' out of the goddamn water though. |
| Black Veil Brides The Night |
| Black Veil Brides The Phantom Tomorrow |
Can?t help but feel like the ratings are a LITTLE inflated...but still this isn?t bad. Kinda forgettable, but pretty
inoffensive. |
| Blaqk Audio Beneath the Black Palms |
| blink-182 Enema Of The State |
| Blood Command Praise Armageddonism |
| This rating would probably be much higher if it weren't for one thing - the absolutely GRATING screams. Has some really catchy hooks and slaps quite a bit when she's using her cleans, but the screaming is absolutely awful. |
| Blood on the Dance Floor Bad Blood |
| Blue Stahli Copper |
| Boys of Fall Distance |
| Decent, but inconsistent. There's a lot of talent in this band that's unfortunately weighed down by poor songwriting and constant tonal changes. |
| Bring Me the Horizon That's the Spirit |
| Bring Me the Horizon Amo |
| Broadside Into the Raging Sea |
| Bruno Mars Doo-Wops & Hooligans |
| Bruno Mars Unorthodox Jukebox |
| Bullet for My Valentine Bullet For My Valentine |
| Honestly not bad, especially compared to their last album. They're still as inconsistent as they've always been, but a lot of this slaps pretty hard. Just ignore that drum production...that part sucks. |
| Cage The Elephant Melophobia |
| Caroline Polachek Desire, I Want To Turn Into You |
| It's not bad - there's a few pleasant songs here. But this feels like pop music that's allergic to hooks, and because of that so many songs just sorta come and go without leaving any impression, good or bad. |
| Charli XCX Crash |
| Chunk! No, Captain Chunk! Gone Are The Good Days |
| Circa Survive Two Dreams |
| Circa Survive A Dream About Death |
| clipping. Splendor and Misery |
| Code Orange Underneath |
| Coheed and Cambria Vaxis I: The Unheavenly Creatures |
| Coheed and Cambria The Color Before The Sun |
| Coldrain Nonnegative |
| I've liked their past releases so I was hoping I'd like this more. And really it's not bad, but they could've afforded more variety since all the songs sort of blend together by the end. And the cover of Don't Speak was very disappointing, I thought they'd do literally ANYTHING different from the original song, but nope. |
| Counterparts A Eulogy for Those Still Here |
| Be a lot cooler if every song didn't sound exactly the same. |
| Covet technicolor |
| Criteria Years |
| Crossfaith Xeno |
| Dagny Strangers/Lovers |
| Dance Gavin Dance Afterburner |
| Danny Brown Atrocity Exhibition |
| Dead! The Golden Age of Not Even Trying |
| Death From Above 1979 Is 4 Lovers |
| Deftones Adrenaline |
| Destroy Rebuild Until God Shows Destroy Rebuild |
| Devon Kay and The Solutions Grieving Expectation |
| Drug Church CHEER |
| Drug Church Hygiene |
| Dua Lipa Future Nostalgia |
| Not quite sure if I understand the hype behind this one. This ranges from retro-sounding dance pop to your typical modern pop fare. Some tracks are great, but others are simply bland and forgettable. Unfortunately the weak ending doesn't help either. |
| Elwood Stray Gone With the Flow |
| Emarosa Peach Club |
| Emarosa Emarosa |
| Enter Shikari A Flash Flood of Colour |
| Escape the Fate Escape the Fate |
| Escape the Fate Ungrateful |
| Ethel Cain Preacher's Daughter |
| Has its moments, and it's very well written, but so many songs are overlong and feel almost unfinished. This was a nice experience, but I probably won't be returning. |
| Evanescence Fallen |
| Listened to this in full for the first time since like '05...were there always this many ballads??? |
| Every Time I Die Last Night in Town |
| Fall Out Boy Save Rock and Roll |
| Fall Out Boy Folie a Deux |
| Fall Out Boy From Under the Cork Tree |
| Fall Out Boy So Much (For) Stardust |
| I've listened to this and I can confidently say that I am whelmed. Closer is cool though. |
| Falling in Reverse Fashionably Late |
| Finch Back to Oblivion |
| Fiona Apple Tidal |
| Fit for a King The Path |
| Foreign Hands Bleed the Dream |
| Gerard Way Hesitant Alien |
| Glass Tides In Between |
Solid enough launching pad for this band. Hopefully with some time and experience they
can grow into something that stands out a bit more.
BEST: Crawling, The Past Is Dead, Happy
WORST: Sympathy, Mirrors |
| Graphic Nature A Mind Waiting to Die |
| Green Day ¡UNO! |
| Green Day Warning |
| Green Day Revolution Radio |
| This is surely a fun album to listen to, with some great stand-out tracks. However, there are also a few points where the album stoops down to mediocrity. Overall, this is by no means a bad album, but isn't as good as it had the potential to be. |
| Greg Puciato Child Soldier: Creator of God |
| Grey Daze Amends |
| Grouplove Spreading Rumours |
| Grouplove Healer |
| Grouplove I Want It All Right Now |
| Halestorm The Strange Case Of... |
| Harry Styles Harry's House |
| Hayley Williams FLOWERS for VASES / descansos |
| The climax in 'Just a Lover' is what single handedly bumped this from a 3.5 to a 4. What ra great way to end an album. rEDIT: Eh, the album doesn't stick as well I was hoping it would. Still definitely has rsome great highlights though. |
| Head Automatica Decadence |
| Hot Mulligan You'll Be Fine |
| I really wish I liked this more, but I can't get over how similar they sound to just about every midwestern emo band in existence. |
| I Prevail TRUE POWER |
| I the Mighty Where the Mind Wants to Go / Where You Let it Go |
| Idles Ultra Mono |
| In Hearts Wake Kaliyuga |
| Instilled in Me The Shape of Life |
| Ithaca They Fear Us |
| Jack White Lazaretto |
| Jack White Boarding House Reach |
| Jack White Entering Heaven Alive |
| Janelle Monae Dirty Computer |
| Jesus Piece ...So Unknown |
| Jetty Bones Push Back |
| Jimmy Eat World Damage |
| Joy Division Unknown Pleasures |
Remove the rose-colored glasses, and what you get is a decent (but off putting) post-punk
album. The vocals are grating, and the minimalistic instrumentals get boring pretty fast.
The writing and atmosphere of the album is worth noting though. |
| Kanye West Graduation |
| Katy Perry One of the Boys |
| King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard Omnium Gatherum |
| Finally got around to listening to this, and I'm pretty disappointed. For starters, it probably wasn't a good idea to release the best song on the album first, because it all seems to go downhill once you finish the opener. And this is WAY too disjointed - KGLW has proven to be a versatile band, but hearing the album jump from psychedelic, to indie pop, to thrash, to rap, and back again is incredibly exhausting. I'd honestly prefer either of their last three albums to this one. |
| Kingdom of Giants Passenger |
| Knuckle Puck 20/20 |
| Knuckle Puck Disposable Life |
| Korn Korn |
| Lady Gaga Chromatica |
| LANDMVRKS Lost in the Waves |
| Lights Siberia |
| Having just listened to this for the first time in 2022, I can understand why this was so well-received at the time. With that said, I feel like the over-the-top dubstep hasn't aged particularly well. Lights is still a great artist though. |
| Lights PEP |
| The first and last few songs are really solid, but pretty much the entire middle portion is skippable. |
| Limp Bizkit Significant Other |
| Lindsey Stirling Brave Enough |
| Linkin Park Living Things |
| Lmfao Sorry For Party Rocking |
| Love and Death Perfectly Preserved |
| Ludo You're Awful, I Love You |
| Maneskin Rush! |
| Bla Bla Bla is a terrible song but I kinda like it. |
| Marilyn Manson Eat Me, Drink Me |
| Marmozets Knowing What You Know Now |
| Certainly not a bad album by any means, but my goodness this is a step down from their stellar debut. The ferocity and edge of their first album has almost all been replaced by generic-sounding hard rock that any other band could have done. The saving grace for this album is that at least it's hard rock that's pretty fun to listen to. |
| Matchbook Romance Voices |
| Mayday Parade Anywhere But Here |
| Nothing great, but also nothing terrible either. Certainly a fun and catchy album to listen to, but nothing really stands out as a highlight. It's a step down from their debut, but most things probably would be. |
| Mayday Parade Monsters in the Closet |
| Mayday Parade Out Of Here |
| Megadeth The Sick, the Dying... and the Dead! |
"must be stone deaf"
I'M FUCKING DYING HOLY SHIT |
| Memphis May Fire Remade in Misery |
| Misery Signals Ultraviolet |
| Motionless in White Creatures |
| Motionless in White Graveyard Shift |
| Motionless in White Disguise |
| Mrs. Piss Self-Surgery |
| Muse Drones |
| My Chemical Romance The Black Parade Is Dead! |
| Neon Trees Picture Show |
| New Found Glory Resurrection |
| Nicolas Rage Personal Party |
| No Doubt Return of Saturn |
| No Pressure No Pressure |
| Noija Through Fire All Things Are Renewed |
| This had so much potential; the vocals and songwriting and wonderful, but the album is held back by its bland, generic instrumentals and the overwhelming feeling of sameness from song to song that results from it. |
| Nothing More The Stories We Tell Ourselves |
| Not bad - has some good songs. The whole album feels bloated though, and though many songs are "good" I would hesitate to call any of them "great." |
| Nova Twins Who Are The Girls? |
| Of Mice and Men Defy |
| Olivia Rodrigo Sour |
| Olivia Rodrigo Guts |
It's a marginal improvement over Sour, but is weighed down by pretty much all the same things. The
songwriting is wildly inconsistent, with the low points being REALLY low. And there are far too
many ballads that screw with the album's flow.
But when the album hits, my goodness does it hit. She knows how to write a killer hook. Tons of
potential - hoping she can reach it someday. |
| Palaye Royale The Bastards |
| Pale Waves Who Am I? |
| Palisades Reaching Hypercritical |
| Palm Reader Sleepless |
| Panic! at the Disco A Fever You Can't Sweat Out |
| Panic! at the Disco Death of a Bachelor |
| Paramore After Laughter |
| Paramore The Summer Tic |
| Parkway Drive Reverence |
| Parkway Drive Ire |
| Phoebe Bridgers Punisher |
| Pierce the Veil A Flair for the Dramatic |
| Point North Brand New Vision |
| Pretty solid, and could've probably gotten a half point more if it weren't so overproduced. Has some quality highlights, but also some very skippable moments. Looking forward to this band's future though. |
| Polaris (AUS) Fatalism |
| Pom Poko This Is Our House |
| Poppy Stagger |
| Compared to her last few releases, this is pretty disappointing. FYB, Shapes, and Stagger are all pretty average. Pocket is a banger though. |
| Porter Robinson Worlds |
| Portrayal of Guilt We Are Always Alone |
| Queens of the Stone Age Villains |
| Radiohead Pablo Honey |
| Rain City Drive Beautiful Death |
| Rebecca Black Rebecca Black Was Here |
| Rebecca Black Let Her Burn |
| My man just used "nu metal guitars" and "Britney Spears vocals" in the same sentence to describe a Rebecca Black album. Now I REALLY gotta check this shit out. |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers Unlimited Love |
| Regina Spektor Home, Before and After |
| Rina Sawayama Hold The Girl |
| Rise Against Nowhere Generation |
| Not bad by any means, but it's pretty unremarkable. |
| Royal Blood Typhoons |
| Say Anything Oliver Appropriate |
| I wanted to like this album a whole lot more, but it felt like it was lacking something. Too many of the songs are over before you really get the chance to enjoy them, though the album has some amazing high points. Some of my favorites were 'Pink Snot,' 'Ew Jersey,' and 'It's A Process.' |
| Selena Gomez When the Sun Goes Down |
| Shinedown Planet Zero |
| Silverstein Misery Made Me |
| Sleeping With Sirens With Ears to See and Eyes to Hear |
| Sleeping With Sirens How It Feels to Be Lost |
| Far and away a step up from Gossip, but it's held back by pretty mediocre songwriting, and the whole thing feels kinda rushed. Thankfully a step back in the right direction though. |
| Slipknot The End, So Far |
| Slipknot .5: The Gray Chapter |
| Slothrust The Pact |
| Spiritbox Eternal Blue |
| Spiritbox Rotoscope |
| This ain't even bad. At least they're doing something different, instead of that boring album they put out last year. |
| State Champs Kings of the New Age |
| Static-X Shadow Zone |
| Static-X Cannibal |
| Steven Wilson The Future Bites |
| Stick to Your Guns Spectre |
| Suicide Silence Become The Hunter |
| Suicide Silence Remember...You Must Die |
| System of a Down Protect The Land/Genocidal Humanoidz |
| System of a Down Mezmerize |
| Taking Back Sunday Taking Back Sunday |
| Talking Heads True Stories |
| Talking Heads Naked |
| Taylor Swift 1989 |
| Teenage Wrist Counting Flies |
| The 1975 The 1975 |
| The Acacia Strain Slow Decay |
| The All-American Rejects The All-American Rejects |
| The All-American Rejects Send Her To Heaven |
| Send Her to Heaven was outstanding, DGAF is sorta cringey and forgettable, and Demons was pretty solid. Definitely a surprise for this band to out such a solid release in 2019. |
| The Beatles Please Please Me |
| The Black Keys Let's Rock |
| The Casket Lottery Short Songs For End Times |
| The Classic Crime Vagabonds |
| The Classic Crime How to Be Human |
| The Classic Crime Patterns in the Static |
| The Color Morale Hold On Pain Ends |
| The Devil Wears Prada Space |
| The Dirty Nil Free Rein to Passions |
| The Dirty Nil Master Volume |
| The Killers Sam's Town |
| The Killers Day & Age |
| The Killers Imploding the Mirage |
| The Lawrence Arms Skeleton Coast |
| The Naked and Famous Simple Forms |
| The Used In Love and Death |
| The Weeknd After Hours |
| The White Stripes Elephant |
| The White Stripes Icky Thump |
| This Will Destroy You Vespertine |
| Tigers Jaw I Won't Care How You Remember Me |
| Ulcerate Stare Into Death and Be Still |
| VersaEmerge Fixed at Zero |
| VUKOVI Fall Better |
| Wargasm (UK) The Mixxxtape |
| Not bad, but pretty much all of their individual singles before this release are more memorable. |
| Weezer Van Weezer |
| Weezer The White Album |
| Weezer The Teal Album |
| Weezer The Green Album |
| While She Sleeps Sleeps Society |
| Yellowcard Childhood Eyes |
| You Me At Six Cavalier Youth |
| You Me At Six Sinners Never Sleep |
| You Me At Six Night People |
| You Me At Six Truth Decay |
| It's definitely nothing new/revolutionary, and there's still a handful of songs they could've cut, but it's a lot of fun and this is sure as shit better than their last album. |
| Zedd Clarity |
| 2.5 average |
| 10 Years From Birth to Burial |
| 100 Gecs 1000 gecs |
| A Day To Remember For Those Who Have Heart |
| Against The Current Gravity |
| All Time Low So Wrong, It's Right |
| Angels and Airwaves I-Empire |
| Architects For Those That Wish to Exist |
| Architects The Classic Symptoms of a Broken Spirit |
| Atreyu Baptize |
| Atreyu The Moment You Find Your Flame |
| Man, this would've been pretty good if they cut like half the shit on here. It's all pretty stupid and formulaic, but there's a few solid tracks. |
| Ava Max Diamonds and Dancefloors |
| AWOLNATION Angel Miners and the Lightning Riders |
| Banks Arcade Future Lovers |
| Beartooth Aggressive |
| Beck Mellow Gold |
| Beware of Darkness Orthodox |
| Black Veil Brides We Stitch These Wounds |
| Black Veil Brides Black Veil Brides |
| Black Veil Brides Vale |
| Blessthefall Hollow Bodies |
| Blind Channel Violent Pop |
| Blood on the Dance Floor Anthem of the Outcast |
| Bring Me the Horizon Suicide Season |
| Bring Me the Horizon Count Your Blessings |
| Carly Rae Jepsen Kiss |
| Chat Pile God's Country |
| Crossfaith Ex_Machina |
| Crown the Empire Sudden Sky |
| Painfully short, yet still finds a way to add unnecessary filler. The high points feature some of their best songs, but there's too many boring ones that counter them. |
| David Bowie David Bowie |
| Disturbed Divisive |
| Dragged Under Upright Animals |
| Really generic, and only has a couple standouts. I'm sure this will do well on the Octane charts though. |
| Eat Your Heart Out Florescence |
| Eminem Music to Be Murdered By |
| Escape the Fate Dying Is Your Latest Fashion |
| Escape the Fate Hate Me |
| Fake Names Fake Names |
| Fall Out Boy Take This to Your Grave |
| Fall Out Boy Lake Effect Kid |
| Falling in Reverse Coming Home |
| Credit where credit is due, it legit sounds like Falling In Reverse is trying to become better, and you can really hear it. It has a lot of the same problems as previous albums, but is definitely an improvement in lyricism/vocals/overall fun. Went back and forth between 3 and 3.5, would give it a 3.2 if I could. |
| Fireflight Who We Are: The Head And The Heart |
| Foxy Shazam The Heart Behead You |
| Foxy Shazam The Church of Rock and Roll |
| Green Day iTRE! |
| Guns N' Roses Use Your Illusion I |
| Halestorm Into the Wild Life |
| Halsey Manic |
| Hands Like Houses -Anon. |
| Hollywood Undead Swan Songs |
| Hollywood Undead Notes From the Underground |
| I See Stars Digital Renegade |
| If I Were You Radiant Dark |
| Has a few highlights, but the bulk of the album can't do anything to stand out from any other metalcore album you've heard in the last 10 years. |
| Issues Black Diamonds |
| Jimmy Eat World Jimmy Eat World |
| Jonas Brothers Happiness Begins |
| Justin Bieber Purpose |
| Kailee Morgue Here In Your Bedroom |
| Some glimmers of potential can be found here, but she'll definitely benefit from some experience and maturity with her songwriting. |
| Katy Perry Smile |
| I want to like this as much as everyone else here apparently does, but it just doesn't do it for me. Perry has shown signs of maturity and higher quality songwriting, sure, but the album is too consistently uninteresting to keep you hooked. A couple compelling highlights and some newfound maturity isn't enough to keep this from feeling painfully average. |
| Kesha Animal |
| Kesha Warrior |
| Like Moths to Flames No Eternity in Gold |
| Linkin Park A Thousand Suns |
| Lmfao Party Rock |
| Marina Ancient Dreams in a Modern Land |
| Memphis May Fire This Light I Hold |
| Mike Shinoda Dropped Frames, Vol. 3 |
| Miss May I Curse of Existence |
| Eh, starts off decent enough but this is about as formulaic as metalcore gets. Though that doesn't automatically make an album bad, in this case it kinda feels like you're hearing the same song done 10 different times. |
| Motionless in White When Love Met Destruction |
| Motionless in White Infamous |
| Movements No Good Left to Give |
| Has some stand outs, but does little to impress as a whole. The songwriting is good, but too many songs just don't do anything to remain interesting. As a whole, there's little reason to go back to this one. |
| Muse The Resistance |
| Muse Will of the People |
| Mushroomhead A Wonderful Life |
| Neon Trees I Can Feel You Forgetting Me |
| Nirvana Bleach |
| No Doubt Push and Shove |
| Panic! at the Disco Pretty. Odd. |
| Poppy Poppy.Computer |
| Primus Conspiranoid |
| Queen Hot Space |
| R.A.P. Ferreira bob's son: R.A.P. Ferreira in the garden level |
| Ramones Ramones |
| An undeniably important album in the world of punk music, but man this hasn't aged well. It's catchy as hell, but the same four chords get pretty exhausting by the end of the album. |
| Sleeping With Sirens Feel |
| Sleigh Bells Jessica Rabbit |
| Stand Atlantic F.E.A.R. |
| Sum 41 Underclass Hero |
| Taylor Swift Red |
| Taylor Swift Lover |
| It's better than Reputation, and has a few good songs. But it's too all over the place, like she wants to satisfy everybody, and her songwriting hasn't changed or improved in like 15 years. |
| Tegan and Sara Hey, I'm Just Like You |
| The All-American Rejects When the World Comes Down |
| The Bunny The Bear Afterglow |
| The Courteeners More. Again. Forever. |
| The Dead Rabbitts The Emptiness |
| The Early November Lilac |
| The Front Bottoms In Sickness and In Flames |
| In more ways than one, the production is this album?s downfall. Which is a shame, since there?s some quality tracks here. ?Jerk? and ?Bus Beat? are both some of the most annoyingly repetitive songs they?ve ever made though. |
| The Killers Battle Born |
| The Maine The Maine |
| Meh, listen to the first couple tracks and you'll know how the whole album sounds. Pretty mediocre stuff. |
| The Mars Volta The Mars Volta |
| The Naked and Famous Recover |
| The Network Money Money 2020 |
| The Prize Fighter Inferno Half Measures |
| The World Is a Beautiful Place... Illusory Walls |
| THICK 5 Years Behind |
| Painfully average punk-rock album. Hides their lack of any real fresh ideas behind progressive messages that lack any true subtlety or meaning. |
| Tonight Alive Underworld |
| Twenty One Pilots Blurryface |
| Villain of the Story Bloodshot |
| We Came As Romans Darkbloom |
| We Set Signals Ordo |
| Perhaps one of the most frustrating albums of the year so far. Should have been great; it has some quality hooks and instrumental performances. However, the production is this album's greatest downfall. Autotune where it shouldn't be, vocals drowned out in the mix, and the breakdowns are handled just horribly. Hopefully they can put out a more polished album next time. |
| Weezer SZNZ: Summer |
| Weezer The Red Album |
| Does something that no other Weezer album does: features some good epics of 5+ minutes, but pretty much everything else sounds like it's on autopilot. Features some of the worst songwriting of Weezer's career up until this point. |
| While She Sleeps So What? |
| XTRMST XTRMST |
| Yours Truly is this what i look like? |
| 2.0 poor |
| Amaranthe Manifest |
| Anti-Flag Lies They Tell Our Children |
| As It Is The Great Depression |
| Asking Alexandria Asking Alexandria |
| Avril Lavigne Love Sux |
| Lol why is Avril Lavigne being praised so much for doing the same things that other aging pop-punk artists have been criticized for? Sure, there's some guilty pleasures, but the songwriting is cringey and disingenuous as hell, the features are horrible and unnecessary, and it just feels like she's trying WAY too hard. I guess this is better than her last two albums, but that is a hilariously low bar to clear. |
| Beautiful Bodies Battles |
At the end of the last song, Solombrino sings the line "I wish I could be better" over and over
and I'm like, yeah I wish this album was better too. |
| Billie Eilish When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? |
| Breathe Carolina It's Classy Not Classic |
| Breathe Carolina Savages |
| Breathe Carolina Deadthealbum |
| It has some fun moments, and I guess is better than it could have been, but it's still bogged down by over-production and recycled beats. |
| Bring Me the Horizon This Is What the Edge of Your Seat Was Made For |
| Bullet for My Valentine Temper Temper |
| CHVRCHES Love Is Dead |
Listening to song 1: "How are the reviews for this so bad?? I don't understand"
Listening to songs 2-13: "Oh I see..." |
| Coletta Idealism |
| Death Spells Nothing Above, Nothing Below |
| Demi Lovato Holy Fvck |
I'll just be up front - I do NOT like Demi Lovato and she annoys the hell out of me a lot of the
time. With that said, I was fully expecting this album to be straight trash and it definitely
isn't that, so I'll get her some credit.
It's still not that good though, and it reeks of that sort of try-hard eDgInEsS and overproduction
that so many artists in this new wave of pop-punk have been guilty of. If she continues in this
direction though it should yield some interesting results. |
| Eat Your Heart Out Can't Stay Forever |
| Eleventyseven Basic Glitches |
At its worst, it's cringey !3OH3!-esque dance pop with mind-numblingly bad writing, and
at its best it's surprisingly well-made and catchy pop music. Unfortunately, it tips
more toward the bad side, even though there are some notable highlights that keep it
from being fully terrible.
BEST: Skip, Letterman Jacket, Natsunoyo
WORST: Cookie, Battlecats, Fear the Fire, Killing My Vibe |
| Emarosa Sting |
| Escape the Fate This War Is Ours |
| Falling in Reverse The Drug in Me Is You |
| Falling in Reverse Drugs |
| Fear No Empire Fear No Empire |
| Foo Fighters Sonic Highways |
| Foo Fighters Medicine at Midnight |
| For the Fallen Dreams For the Fallen Dreams |
| Heart Attack Man Freak Of Nature |
| Hollywood Undead New Empire Vol. 2 |
| As cheesy as it is, 'Idol' is the only thing keeping this from a lower rating. It may be dumb and outdated, but at least it's fun. |
| Hollywood Undead Hotel Kalifornia |
| Hot Chelle Rae Whatever |
| Kanye West 808s and Heartbreak |
| Lady Gaga Born This Way |
| Lana Del Rey Did You Know That There's a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd |
| Jfc this is such a boring and pretentious album. Lana's schtick was already getting old even before she dropped this 80-minute behemoth. |
| Linkin Park Minutes to Midnight |
| Marilyn Manson The High End of Low |
| Mike Shinoda Dropped Frames, Vol. 1 |
| Mike Shinoda Dropped Frames, Vol. 2 |
| Neck Deep All Distortions Are Intentional |
| First and last songs are probably the best, but yeesh the production on this is rough. Too much autotune throughout, and there are some effects used that would sound cheesy on mid-2000's dance-pop album. Hopefully the band can bounce back from this obvious misstep. |
| Ocean Grove Flip Phone Fantasy |
| Osatia All In Time |
| Our Last Night Let Light Overcome |
| Our Last Night Overcome the Darkness |
| Papa Roach Ego Trip |
| Powerman 5000 The Noble Rot |
| PVRIS Use Me |
| Their first major misstep. Starts off well enough, but the fact of the matter is that if it weren't for the middle three songs (Death of Me, Hallucinations, and Old Wounds), which all came out last year, this would be a major disappointment. The non-singles just can't do anything interesting to stay on par with everything else, aside from maybe January Rain. |
| PVRIS EVERGREEN |
| Queen A Kind of Magic |
| Relient K The Anatomy of Tongue In Cheek |
| I don't fully understand the higher average for this album compared to their debut. While this isn't fully awful, it doubles down on the jesus loving and repetition, leaving me feel like they didn't really improve that much at all, despite some of the songs being catchy. |
| Relient K Relient K |
| Say Anything Anarchy, My Dear |
| Selena Gomez Stars Dance |
| Silverstein A Beautiful Place to Drown |
| Sleep Token Take Me Back to Eden |
| Not gonna lie, I fuck with The Summoning, and that's the main reason this isn't a 1.5 (but the rest of this is such a snooze fest jfc) |
| Sleeping With Sirens Live and Unplugged |
| Decent enough music, but the album as a whole feels like little more than a quick paycheck for the band. Also, with the entire album being acoustic, it's not a very exciting listen. |
| Story of the Year Tear Me to Pieces |
| I'm all for pop-punk veterans continuing to use the sound that made them a success to begin with, but good golly these lyrics are so cringey and pandering. Only one or two songs I could see myself coming back to. |
| Sum 41 Screaming Bloody Murder |
| SycAmour Substance Abuse |
| Taylor Swift Fearless (Taylor’s Version) |
| Taylor Swift Red (Taylor’s Version) |
| Taylor Swift Speak Now (Taylor’s Version) |
| The Killers Wonderful Wonderful |
| The Offspring Let the Bad Times Roll |
| The Smashing Pumpkins Cyr |
| The Used Heartwork |
| The Used Toxic Positivity |
| Damn, so The Canyon really was just a one-off fluke huh |
| The Word Alive MONOMANIA |
| Thirty Seconds to Mars Love Lust Faith + Dreams |
| Twenty One Pilots Scaled and Icy |
| VUKOVI It Looked So Good on Me... |
| Yeah...this is pretty rough. I'll give them a pass because this was their debut EP and they would definitely go on to refine their sound over time, but I can't see myself going back to any of these songs if I'm being honest. |
| Weezer SZNZ: Spring |
| Weezer Make Believe |
| Weezer Raditude |
| This is just the musical equivalent to that picture of Steve Buscemi with a skateboard over his back saying "how do you do fellow youths?" |
| Weezer Pacific Daydream |
| Weezer The Black Album |
| Zedd True Colors |
| 1.5 very poor |
| 3OH!3 Want |
| 3OH!3 Streets of Gold |
| Ada Rook UGLY DEATH NO REDEMPTION ANGEL CURSE I LOVE YOU |
| All Time Low Last Young Renegade |
| All Time Low Tell Me I'm Alive |
| All Time Low lately has had a pattern of releasing something decent, then something dogshit, and so-and-so back and forth. Since their last album was decent, it only makes scientific sense that this one is dogshit. |
| Andy Black The Shadow Side |
| Ashnikko Demidevil |
| Asking Alexandria Stand Up and Scream |
| Asking Alexandria Like a House on Fire |
| Asking Alexandria See What's On the Inside |
What a boring, lifeless album. Every time they start to do something remotely interesting, they
resort back to the same, bland, Sirius XM bullshit they've been doing for the last few years. I
would say I'm disappointed but I think even they knew this album was gonna suck; can't remember
the last time a band released only one song prior to an album's release. |
| Asking Alexandria Where Do We Go from Here? |
Opener was kinda cool, but I've otherwise lost all hope in AA turning things around at this point.
They've been on a downward spiral ever since Warsnop returned. |
| Avril Lavigne Head Above Water |
| Beach Slang The Deadbeat Bang Of Heartbreak City |
| blink-182 California |
| Cardi B Invasion of Privacy |
| Corey Taylor CMFT |
| Have any of us bothered to stop and ask...what does Corey Taylor think of this??? |
| Crown the Empire DOGMA |
Step 1: Fire your original screamer
Step 2: Get exposed for essentially being the scene version of Milli Vanilli
Step 3: Make a watered down, shittier version of what every other Risecore band does
Step 4: Profit?
Album is dogshit. |
| Disturbed Evolution |
| Echosmith Lonely Generation |
| A very repetitive, boring album from a band that once showed decent potential. This has some of the most boring instrumentation I've heard in a long time, and every song has some word or phrase that's repeated in the chorus over and over and over again. I wanted to at least enjoy it a little, but even the songwriting is boring and cheesy throughout the whole album. |
| Ellie Goulding Brightest Blue |
Side A: Boring and slow pop-ballads, way more filler than should be legally allowed, and
a few bright spots.
Side B: Repetitive and uninteresting beats, terrible songwriting, and an overwhelming
feeling of desperation to stay relevant in the mainstream pop scene.
This album makes one hour feel like three. |
| Escape the Fate I Am Human |
| Escape the Fate Chemical Warfare |
| This is just a mess. Maybe it isn't as much of a dumpster fire album that it could've been, but this band just doesn't know what it wants to do anymore. |
| Escape the Fate Out Of The Shadows |
| Fall Out Boy American Beauty/American Psycho |
| Flyleaf Between the Stars |
| From Ashes To New Panic |
| This band wants so badly to be the bastard love-child of Hollywood Undead and Linkin Park. They normally say to not judge an album by its cover, but this is one of the rare instances where you can. |
| Glass Animals Dreamland |
| Issues Issues |
| Justin Bieber Believe |
| Kesha High Road |
| Linkin Park One More Light |
| Lorde Solar Power |
| Love, Robot B.A.D. |
| Imagine if they took Paramore's sound but with worse vocals and non-existent hooks. Each song went by without any memorability to them. As a pop-punk album this is pretty much an utter failure. |
| Machine Gun Kelly Tickets to My Downfall |
| Turns out the album is pretty well represented by the cover: Machine Gun Kelly does his best Blink-182-esque pop-punk impression while maintaining all the same habits he had as a rapper, including horrible writing, over production, and needless filler. |
| Madonna Madame X |
| Metro Station Metro Station |
| Miley Cyrus Breakout |
| Muse Simulation Theory |
| Nicki Minaj Pink Friday |
| Of Mice and Men Cold World |
| This makes Restoring Force look like a masterpiece. Such a disappointment. |
| Our Last Night Let Light Overcome The Darkness |
| A combination of two mediocre EPs - that were already difficult to get through on their own. This has some of the worst songwriting in the genre, and it's just so boring and uninspired. If you've heard any post-hardcore band from the 2010's that have nose-dived in recent years, then you'll know what you're in for. |
| Panic! at the Disco Pray for the Wicked |
| Panic! at the Disco Viva Las Vengeance |
Not quite as bad as the initial onslaught of 1's would have you think, but this still isn't great.
Sounds like Urie is running out of ideas and is just rehashing old ones, but hardly anything
stands out in a meaningful way.
EDIT: Okay, after giving it another listen and paying attention to the lyrics more, this is pretty
trash. |
| Picturesque Do You Feel O.K.? |
| Poppy A Very Poppy Christmas |
| PVRIS Use Me (Deluxe) |
| Selena Gomez Rare |
| Sleeping With Sirens How It Feels to Be Lost (Deluxe) |
| Album's decent enough, but this deluxe reissue is a pretty shameless cash grab. Only one new song?? That's a joke. |
| Sophie Oil of Every Pearl's Un-Insides |
| I just don't get it. Most songs just repeat their title over and over again, and it's just weird for the sake of being weird. And some of the noisier parts are legitimately hard to get through. I don't know, maybe I'll try this again in a year or two and see if anything changes. |
| Stand Atlantic Pink Elephant |
| One of the biggest and most disappointing sophomore album nose-dives in a LONG time. Over-produced, poorly written, and a complete lack of flow in the second half make this one of the worst pop-punk albums (if you can even call it that) of the year so far. |
| Static-X Cult Of Static |
| Taylor Swift Reputation |
| The 1975 Notes on a Conditional Form |
| The Hunna I'd Rather Die Than Let You In |
| The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus 4 |
| The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus Don't You Fake It |
| The Used Imaginary Enemy |
| THISTOWNISADISASTER! yeah right, get real. |
| Three Days Grace Human |
| Tones and I Welcome to the Madhouse |
| Trapt Shadow Work |
| Various Artists (Punk) Rock Sound Presents: The Black Parade |
| With the exception of a few tracks, all the covers are very forgettable. In the end, this compilation album should have never been made. |
| You Me At Six Suckapunch |
| I just can't warrant giving this any higher of a rating. It feels like some weird cross between Bring Me the Horizon's 'Amo' and modern Imagine Dragons. Mix in some horrible and bland songwriting, and a ton of confusing production choices, and you have this mess of an album. |
| 1.0 awful |
| 6ix9ine TattleTales |
| Blood on the Dance Floor has officially passed the "horrible pedo POS" torch to 6ix9ine |
| A Day To Remember You're Welcome |
| Asking Alexandria Never Gonna Learn |
| Avenged Sevenfold The Best of 2005-2013 |
| Avril Lavigne Avril Lavigne |
| Blood on the Dance Floor Evolution |
| Complete garbage. Blood On the Dance Floor is one of those 'music' groups who shouldn't exist. I can't understand why anyone would want to listen to this trash. |
| Blood on the Dance Floor EPIC |
| Blood on the Dance Floor All the Rage |
| Blood on the Dance Floor Let's Start a Riot |
| Bring Me the Horizon Music to Listen to... |
| Bring Me the Horizon Suicide Season Cut Up! |
| brokeNCYDE I'm Not a Fan, but the Kids Like It! |
| Corey Feldman Angelic 2 The Core |
| Emmure Hindsight |
| Fall Out Boy M A N I A |
| Yeesh, this album is a mess. It's like they took the few things that they're last two albums got right and replaced them with all the things they're last few albums got wrong. Not one song is memorable in any good way, and this can't help but feel like a waste of talent for Patrick Stump, who still remains a great singer through all this. |
| FEVER 333 Wrong Generation |
| This was made with the best of intentions, but let's be real: Jason Butler is a terrible rapper, the lyrics are incredibly repetitive and predictable, and there are no interesting beats or instrumental moments to supplement Butler's grating vocals. Thankfully this wasn't longer, but it's still a slog to get through. |
| Grant MacDonald Superhot Harry |
| Green Day Father of All Motherfuckers |
| It's painfully obvious how little care and effort when into this, and that's probably worse than any of the actual songs on here. |
| Green Day iDOS! |
| Iggy Azalea The New Classic |
| John Lennon Unfinished Music No.1: Two Virgins |
| Justin Bieber My World 2.0 |
| Justin Bieber Changes |
| Kanye West Jesus Is King |
| Kiiara Lil Kiiwi |
| Easily the worst pop album of the year. I don't have the patience to sit down and write a review for this, so here are the cliffnotes: Some of the worst and most cliche songwriting (maybe ever), the same recycled minimalistic trap beats are used OVER AND OVER, and the hooks are honestly just annoying more often than not. The production is slick like any other pop record, but just about none of this actually works in any satisfying way for the listener. |
| Kim Petras Slut Pop |
| Lou Reed and Metallica Lulu |
| Machine Gun Kelly Mainstream Sellout |
| Maroon 5 Jordi |
| Meghan Trainor Thank You |
| Meghan Trainor Title |
| Miley Cyrus Bangerz |
| Miley Cyrus Can't Be Tamed |
| Miley Cyrus Miley Cyrus and Her Dead Petz |
| My Chemical Romance The Black Parade/Living with Ghosts |
| Nothing more than a collection of scrapped, horribly-produced tracks. Feels like absolutely no effort was put into this 10th anniversary re-release. |
| Nicki Minaj Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded |
| Paris Hilton Paris |
| Poppy Music to Scream To |
| Psycho Synner Torch The Faith |
| Robin Thicke Paula |
| Sleeping With Sirens Gossip |
| I've been a fan of SWS for years now but holy shit this is horrible. |
| Suicide Silence Suicide Silence |
| Thirty Seconds to Mars America |
| If this is American then get me the f**k out of here. |
| Thirty Seconds to Mars It's the End of the World But It's a Beautiful Day |
| I knew that Jared Leto has an ego but he literally QUOTES GOD. I must really hate myself to have listened to this all the way through. |
| Ticket For Famous Unbroken |
| Even with me trying to be nice, this album's a chore to finish. Uses every overdone idea from the early 2010's metalcore/post-hardcore scene, but doesn't add anything new or interesting. Maybe this band would've picked up some steam had they released this in 2011 or something. |
