| 4.0 excellent |
| Amon Amarth Twilight of the Thunder God |
| Amorphis Tales From The Thousand Lakes |
| Ayreon The Human Equation |
| Behemoth The Satanist |
| Behemoth I Loved You at Your Darkest |
| Bloodbath Nightmares Made Flesh |
| Burzum Hvis Lyset Tar Oss |
| Burzum Det Som Engang Var |
| Cattle Decapitation Death Atlas |
| Children of Bodom Hatebreeder |
| Children of Bodom Hate Crew Deathroll |
| Children of Bodom Hexed |
| Cradle of Filth Midian |
| Cradle of Filth Cryptoriana – The Seductiveness of Decay |
| Cradle of Filth Nymphetamine |
| Darkthrone Panzerfaust |
| Darkthrone The Cult Is Alive |
| Deafheaven Sunbather |
| Death Spiritual Healing |
| Death Leprosy |
| Death Scream Bloody Gore |
| Deicide Once Upon the Cross |
| Deicide Legion |
| Dethklok Dethalbum II |
| Dimmu Borgir Stormblåst |
| Dimmu Borgir Puritanical Euphoric Misanthropia |
| Dozer Through the Eyes of Heathens |
| Dream Theater Black Clouds and Silver Linings |
| Dream Theater Distance Over Time |
| Dream Theater Train of Thought |
| Dream Theater Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence |
| Dream Theater Octavarium |
| Eluveitie Slania |
| Eluveitie Origins |
| Eminem The Eminem Show |
| Emperor IX Equilibrium |
| Genesis Nursery Cryme |
| Ghost (SWE) Meliora |
| Haken Visions |
| Haken Vector |
| Haken Aquarius |
| Ihsahn After |
| Ihsahn Amr |
| Immortal Sons of Northern Darkness |
| Iron Maiden Dance Of Death |
| Iron Maiden A Matter Of Life And Death |
| Iron Maiden Brave New World |
| Kreator Pleasure to Kill |
| Leprous The Congregation |
| Leprous Malina |
| Megadeth Countdown To Extinction |
| Metallica S&M |
| Metallica ...And Justice For All |
| Metallica Metallica |
| Morbid Angel Blessed Are the Sick |
| Morbid Angel Covenant |
| Ne Obliviscaris Urn |
| Obituary Slowly We Rot |
| Obituary The End Complete |
| Opeth Deliverance |
| Opeth Morningrise |
| Opeth Watershed |
| Periphery Periphery |
| Rotting Christ A Dead Poem |
| Rush 2112 |
| Slayer Seasons In The Abyss |
| Steven Wilson The Raven That Refused to Sing (And Other Stories) |
| Tool 10,000 Days |
| Trivium The Sin and the Sentence |
| This album holds a pretty special place in my heart, so there may be a degree of bias here. I vividly remember sitting in a waiting room, waiting to be called in to see my at-the-time councilor. I had a single earbud in my left ear, and I was carelessly scrolling through my recommended videos on YouTube, trying to find something new to listen to, to pass the time and to potentially liven the mood for my own sake. I came across "The Sin and The Sentence." The thumbnail caught my eye, and I decided to say fuck it and give the track a try. Quite frankly, it sent a chill down my spine. The almost epic soundscape that that song provides through the mostly simplistic melody lines and the anything but simplistic drums made me crack a smile. Watching the music video, although I shouldn't compose my personal views on music off of music videos, made me feel like a child constructing his own definitions on what he considers to be "cool." Needless to say, the secondary earbud was soon in and the volume was all the way up. I have since listened to Trivium's entire discography, and I can say that this is far and away their best album. Other than the title tack, The Revanchist, Thrown Into The Fire and Beauty In The Sorrow absolutely steal the show. A solid effort by Trivium, |
| Vektor Outer Isolation |
| Whitechapel The Valley |
| Winterfylleth The Hallowing Of Heirdom |
| Winterfylleth The Threnody Of Triumph |
