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Average Rating: 4.01
Rating Variance: 0.48
Objectivity Score: 57%
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5.0 classic
Devil Sold His Soul Blessed & Cursed
Gallows (UK) Orchestra Of Wolves
Jonsi Go
Madsen Goodbye Logik
Mastodon Emperor of Sand
Mastodon Crack the Skye
Misery Signals Controller
Paper Rival Dialog

4.5 superb
Authority Zero Ollie Ollie Oxen Free
Genuinely their best, and most 'mature' album to date. All killer no filler - except for maybe A New Day. rAZ, you don't need a feckin acoustic song on every album.
Better Lovers God Made Me an Animal
Blind Witness I Am Hell
Devil Sold His Soul A Fragile Hope
Dylan LeBlanc Paupers Field
Enter Shikari The Spark
Foxy Shazam Foxy Shazam
From Sorrow To Serenity Antithesis
Hundredth Rare
Immanu El Hibernation
Madsen Wo es beginnt
Manchester Orchestra A Black Mile to the Surface
MUCC Shion
Propagandhi Victory Lap
Slice the Cake Odyssey to the West
Sorrow Plagues Homecoming
Two words. Fucking. Amazing. A black metal record with a saxophone? It works, trust me.
The Black Dahlia Murder Nightbringers
Trivium The Sin and the Sentence

4.0 excellent
Bloodywood Nu Delhi
Something about Indian drums that just enhances a beatdown
Breaking Benjamin Ember
It's the same Breaking Benjamin album as always. But, at this point, that's what you want from them tbh. It's weird, there's always two camps of folk; those who want bands to progress their sound and those who want them to sound like themselves. It's a fine line between the two to try and appease everyone. Breaking Benjamin don't seem to give a shit and will just do what they've been doing forever and it works. Why change now?
Comeback Kid Heavy Steps
Deafheaven New Bermuda
Hiss Golden Messenger Heart Like a Levee
Holy Esque Submission
It Bites The Tall Ships
Leif Vollebekk Twin Solitude
Matthew Sweet 100% Fun
Mesarthim .- -​.​.​. .​.​. . -. -​.​-​. .
Starts with a bang, sustains the bang, ends with a bang. Pure uplifting black metal madness from the get go. If you're into black metal, and you're having a good day, this will only make it 100x better.
Misery Signals Absent Light
Obitus Slaves of the Vast Machine
Absolute mastery of the Black Metal arts. 45 minute long song with no breaks. Total beatdown. Your
body will be drained.
Propagandhi Supporting Caste
Puppy Vol. II
Puppy Puppy
Ryan Adams Prisoner
The three singles from this album that are already released made me feel very skeptical about this
album, and so far I don't think I was wrong. It is good, it's just not great. Ashes & Fire was a
return to form, and the self titled was a supersonic push towards the new Ryan. But this feels
like it got so caught up in the ethereal, misty sound it gives off that it doesn't know where it's
going. The lyrics feel more obvious than usual too. Highlights of the album are definitely;
Prisoner, Haunted House, Doomsday and Broken Anyway. Solid album, just not from DRA. - *EDIT* I
have listened to it a little bit more and it's actually pretty good. Still not as good as his
previous efforts, but like most Ryan albums, it'll grow on me and it will be a 5 in no time.
Stephen Wilson Jr. son of dad
How anyone could rate this less than AT LEAST a 3 is mental to me. Earnest lyrics, deep and
meaningful blasted with a dstinct sounding guitar style to go along with it. The country
tinged Springsteen-esque vocals are great too.

Highlights: Grief Is Only Love, Cuckoo, Father's Son
The Devil Wears Prada Transit Blues
Twin Atlantic Meltdown
The mixing is very 2006, and not in a good way. They've thrown away the stadium rock, they've thrown away.....whatever that last album was. A return to form, but in a new direction. rNot as musically forward as Vivarium or the early EPs, but it's catchy as all hell
Wormrot Voices

3.5 great
Black Fast Terms of Surrender
It is an incredible album, but they do have three songs that are basically the same song. They could've just thrown in the slightly different riffs from each song and made one long epic closer. But no one seems to like 8min+ songs any more.
Deafheaven Sunbather
Devil Sold His Soul Darkness Prevails
Falling in Reverse Coming Home
Doesn't bring ANYTHING new to the table, but sometimes that's what makes a record great. If you were a little emo kid in the early 2000's and listened to pre-Mabbit Escape the Fate then this album will be instant nostalgia. And it's actually fucking good in comparison to everything between the debut and now, all of which have been absolute garbaggio.
From Sorrow To Serenity Remnant of Humanity
Funeralbloom Petals
An absolute monster in the Blackgaze universe. Alcest might have been the forefathers, with Deafheaven becoming the masters of the forefront. But this is TRUE Blackgaze, and it is one hell of a journey from start to finish. The shortest song is 9 minutes long, and even at that it feels like you've gone through Mordor and back. rHighlight: Cherry Orchard.
Ghost Bath Moonlover
Kris Drever Black Water
Leif Vollebekk North Americana
Misery Signals Of Malice and the Magnum Heart
Misery Signals Mirrors
MUCC Kyuutai

3.0 good
Ghost Bath Starmourner
Leif Vollebekk Inland
Moron Police Pachinko
It's still Moron Police, so it's GOOD. But, I think it is trying to hard to be a Boat On The Sea 2, and it fails quite heavily. There is nothing on this that is as catchy as anything on BOTS and it feels like it is trying too hard, and sometimes it just feels messy in the more prog passages.

2.5 average
Devil Sold His Soul Empire of Light
MUCC Gokusai
The Midnight Heroes
Legitimately their worst album, and it's not even close.

1.5 very poor
Authority Zero Thirty Years: Speaking to the Youth
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