| 4.5 superb |
| Aether Realm Redneck Vikings From Hell |
| Agalloch The Mantle |
| Agalloch The White |
| Agrypnie 16[485] |
| Agrypnie Grenzgænger |
| Alcest Les Voyages De L'Âme |
| Alcest Shelter |
| Amaranthe Amaranthe |
| Amaranthe The Nexus |
| Amaranthe Massive Addictive |
| Amaranthe Maximalism |
| Amorphis Eclipse |
| Amorphis The Beginning of Times |
| Amorphis Circle |
| Amorphis Borderland |
| An Abstract Illusion Illuminate the Path |
| An Abstract Illusion Woe |
| An Abstract Illusion The Sleeping City |
| Andromida The Void |
| Oh how amazingly beautiful this album was, some cross between Mechina and Enshine. Unfortunately everything went downhill afterwards and there's barely any hope of hearing anything this good from them. |
| Atoma Skylight |
| Be'lakor Stone's Reach |
| Be'lakor Coherence |
| Blind Guardian A Twist In The Myth |
| Brymir Wings of Fire |
| If you like Wintersun's Time I, check this out immediately. |
| Brymir Voices in the Sky |
| Can Bardd Devoured by the Oak |
| Blows anything by Saor out of the water. Epic, dramatic, melodic and simply bloody brilliant. |
| Dark Tranquillity We Are the Void |
| Delain April Rain |
| Der Weg Einer Freiheit Innern |
| Disarmonia Mundi The Dormant Stranger |
Stellar comeback, never thought they still had it in them. High octane melodeath as usual but
this time packed with top level melodies, best cleans they ever had, crazy lead guitar work and
superb scifi synths, missing for 20 years. Crossroads to Eternity is among the catchiest stuff
ever written! |
| DragonForce Ultra Beatdown |
| Draugnim Verum Malum |
| Went completely under the radar everywhere as I see but is among the best things 2024 for me. Dark and primal yet melodic and magnificent. Every song is a journey to the sinister corners of man's heart and soul. Be sure to check the lyrics. |
| Eluveitie Slania |
| Enshine Origin |
| Enshine Singularity |
| Enshine Elevation |
| Trademark excellent cosmic Lindholm material |
| Equilibrium Rekreatur |
| Eternal Tears of Sorrow Before the Bleeding Sun |
| Evergrey Escape Of The Phoenix |
Woa, the first song is the best thing here. 2 and 3 are great as well. Overall way better than The
Atlantic. |
| Evergrey A Heartless Portrait (The Orphéan Testament) |
| On par with the excellent Escape of the Phoenix, even better in a way |
| Finsterforst Zum Tode Hin |
| Finsterforst Rastlos |
| Finsterforst Jenseits |
| Gaerea Mirage |
| Gaerea Coma |
| Just as excellent as Mirage and with more calmer parts which are very much welcome |
| Galneryus Resurrection |
| Galneryus Angel of Salvation |
| Ghost Brigade Isolation Songs |
| Harakiri for the Sky Aokigahara |
| One of the better post-bm albums out there. There's gotta be some reason the German-speaking scene is so good at this. |
| Heretoir The Circle |
| Heretoir Wastelands |
| Heretoir Nightsphere |
| Heretoir Solastalgia |
| Iapetus The Body Cosmic |
If you love Wintersun, Agalloch, Insomnium Ne Obliviscaris or Be'lakor do yourself a favor and check this out IMMEDIATELY. An album of incredible quality out of nowhere with huge 10-15 min coherent songs, quite above-the-average melodies and top-
notch playing. Feat. Daniel Presland from, well, Ne Obliviscaris. All 70 minutes are connected in an uninterrupted flow of music. + Fascination Street production. |
| In Dread Response From the Oceanic Graves |
| In Flames Soundtrack to Your Escape |
| Insomnium Across the Dark |
| Insomnium Heart Like a Grave |
| Iron Maiden Brave New World |
| Kauan Tietäjän Laulu |
| Kauan Pirut |
| Machinae Supremacy Redeemer (Underground Edition) |
| Machinae Supremacy Overworld |
| Masterplan Aeronautics |
| Masterplan Time To Be King |
| Mechina Progenitor |
| Mechina As Embers Turn To Dust |
| Mechina Bellum Interruptum |
| Memphis May Fire Remade in Misery |
| Mors Principium Est The Unborn |
| Mors Principium Est Liberation = Termination |
| Mors Principium Est ...And Death Said Live |
| myGRAIN myGRAIN |
| One of the most intricate and technically superb modern melodeath albums. |
| Neurotech Evasive |
| Nightwish Dark Passion Play |
| Omnium Gatherum Grey Heavens |
| Pyramaze Epitaph |
As expected, classic late Pyramaze with a touch of melancholy, great vocal lines, subtle keys,
trademark Hansen production and excellent melodies. And the duet with Hayes ia absolutely killer. |
| Raintime Flies And Lies |
| Rise to Fall End vs. Beginning |
| Saor Forgotten Paths |
| Serenity Fallen Sanctuary |
| Shade Empire Intoxicate O.S. |
| Shade Empire Sunholy |
| Shinedown The Sound of Madness |
| Shinedown Amaryllis |
| Silent Descent Turn To Grey |
| Apparently not this site's cup of tea but I enjoyed this immensely the year it was released and I still do. Superb modern metal with awesome melodies on all fronts. |
| Solution .45 For Aeons Past |
| Starset Vessels |
| Thence These stones cry for the earth |
| This band is so underground that I can't believe it. While this is a stellar almost 1 hour long track featuring among other things a 5 min guitar / hammond / sax solo. And no one knows about it. Shame, really. |
| Wintersun Wintersun |
| Wintersun The Forest Seasons |
| Within Temptation Resist |
| 3.5 great |
| Alcest Kodama |
| Alcest Spiritual Instinct |
| Quite enjoyable, focused, clear and firm. This is basically Kodama without almost all the fluffy shit. |
| Andy Gillion Neverafter |
| Andy James C.S.I.L. |
| Not as thorough as Arrival but still no one does this kind of thing better than Andy |
| Austere Corrosion of Hearts |
| Austere The Stillness of Dissolution |
| Be'lakor Vessels |
| Before The Dawn Deadlight |
| Before The Dawn Soundscape Of Silence |
| Before The Dawn Deathstar Rising |
| Blood Stain Child Idolator |
| Blood Stain Child Mozaiq |
| Blood Stain Child Amateras |
| Finally something reasonable from these guys after years of turmoil. Especially glad to see Sadew back. |
| Bob Katsionis Rest in Keys |
| Bob Katsionis Prognosis & Synopsis |
| Borealis Purgatory |
| Borealis The Offering |
| One of the last remaining good power metal bands out there. Probably will go down now as well after the departure of their keobyard player, synths and orchestrations played a huge role in their sound. |
| Catamenia Location:COLD |
| Chaosbay ASYLUM |
| Cyhra No Halos In Hell |
| A bit worse than the debut, quite a few tracks go straight to the trash bin, still there are enough enjoyable songs. Jake needs to introduce more diversity next time though. |
| Dark Tranquillity Atoma |
| Dawn of Solace Waves |
Yep the Insomnium guitars are quite delicious. However 40 mins runtime really hurts Tuomas' albums.
Mikko's vocals don't always connect with the music, Lars' performance in Choice is much better. |
| Dead by April Let the World Know |
| Dead by April Worlds Collide |
| Delain We Are The Others |
| Der Weg Einer Freiheit Stellar |
| Great album, just a tad below Unstille, first two songs are very cold and mechanical, it gets better after that though. Slightly artificial sound on drums this time around. Idyll is a great bonus final instrumental. |
| Der Weg Einer Freiheit Noktvrn |
| Disarmonia Mundi The Isolation Game |
| Disarmonia Mundi Cold Inferno |
| Draugnim Vulturine |
| Duskmourn Of Shadow and Flame |
| Dynazty The Dark Delight |
| One of the few solid works in power metal these days. Finally the guys got their shit together and played it right. |
| Ensiferum Ensiferum |
| Ensiferum Thalassic |
Good album, fireworks kind of riffs are back, Montin is off most of the time but that high pitch in
Crushing Tide and Cold Northland are ace. Bogren is on point as always. Where have the solos gone
though? |
| Equilibrium Erdentempel |
| Eternal Tears of Sorrow Saivon Lapsi |
| Falkenbach Tiurida |
| Harakiri for the Sky Maere |
| I dropped 3 tracks out of 9 (the cover doesn't count obviously) and it feels much better now. Doesn't medicate the mentioned 'unfocusedness' though but still good shit. |
| In Flames Reroute to Remain |
| In Flames I, the Mask |
| Kamelot Haven |
| Katatonia The Fall of Hearts |
| Katatonia Sky Void of Stars |
| Machinae Supremacy Phantom Shadow |
| Magnus Karlsson's Free Fall We Are The Night |
| How is it exactly literally no one notices this? Classic heavy metal with some very clever feats |
| Masterplan Novum Initium |
| Mechina Acheron |
| This is the point where Mechina got interesting. Stuff like On the Wings of Nefeli or Ode to the Forgotten Few is gold. |
| Mechina Siege |
| Moonsorrow Jumalten Aika |
| Mors Principium Est Embers of a Dying World |
| Mors Principium Est Seven |
Have to admit, initially I was too harsh with 2.0 on this one. It's actually very decent and
offers some great tracks like Lost In a Starless Aeon or Master of The Dead. Overall not worse
than Embers. Andy's leads are great as ever. The drum sound is a weird choice though. Might be
not their strongest but still way better than what they did on Darkness Invisible. |
| Nickelback Feed the Machine |
| Omnium Gatherum May the Bridges We Burn Light the Way |
| It's very good, better than Origin, also with better sound. My Pain and Barricades are exemplary OG pieces. Lacks one more song to round it up. They should also stop with stuff like Darkest City, not the first time this kind of track turns out to be the weakest. And how did Vanhala come with an idea he can do good cleans? |
| Pyramaze Disciples of the Sun |
| Raintime Psychromatic |
| Saor Guardians |
| Shade Empire Zero Nexus |
| Shade Empire Poetry Of The Ill-Minded |
| Silent Skies Nectar |
| Solence Brothers |
| One of the good pop metal examples with big choruses, competent singing, quite some guitar solos, catchy electronics and even some riffs. Basically a heavier and better version of Normandie. |
| Starset Divisions |
| Starset SILOS |
| The Unguided Hell Frost |
| The Unguided Fragile Immortality |
| White Ward False Light |
| Wilderun Veil of Imagination |
| Wolfheart Shadow World |
| 3.0 good |
| Agalloch Marrow of the Spirit |
| Agalloch The Serpent and the Sphere |
| Agrypnie Metamorphosis |
| Alcest Les Chants de L'Aurore |
| Amaranthe The Catalyst |
| Battle Beast Circus of Doom |
| Blood Stain Child Epsilon |
| Bring Me The Horizon amo |
| Brymir Breathe Fire to the Sun |
| Can Bardd The Last Rain |
| Chaosbay 2222 |
| Countless Skies New Dawn |
| Dark Empire From Refuge to Ruin |
| Dead by April Dead by April |
| Dead by April Incomparable |
| Eluveitie Everything Remains As It Never Was |
| Eluveitie Helvetios |
| Ensiferum Unsung Heroes |
| Ensiferum Two Paths |
| Equilibrium Armageddon |
| Fallujah Dreamless |
| Horrizon World of Pain |
| In Flames A Sense of Purpose |
| In Flames Sounds of a Playground Fading |
| In Flames Foregone |
| In Mourning Afterglow |
| Insomnium Anno 1696 |
| Iron Maiden A Matter Of Life And Death |
| Kingdom of Giants Passenger |
| Ok let's start with 'good', decent Annisokay worship on this one, although definitely hit and miss kind of |
| Machinae Supremacy Rise of a Digital Nation |
| Mechina Telesterion |
Can't believe I'm saying it but this album is a waste, worthy are only the singles, the rest is
forgettable garbage. Such a damn shame. Things def went wrong after that Compendium wreck.
Don't get it wrong, it's listenable and maybe even good by the overall standard but Mechina can do
so much better. |
| Nightland Umbra Astra Luna |
| A pretty competent sympho album with some solid melodies and well-done arrangements. |
| Nightwish Endless Forms Most Beautiful |
| Noumena Anima |
| Yes it IS muddy, not as abysmal as the previous one but still far from adequate. The album itself is a slight improvement, some very good guitar work here. |
| Omnium Gatherum The Redshift |
| Omnium Gatherum Origin |
| PSOTY Sunless |
| Sounds a lot like last year's The Ever Living but with more dynamics. Same producer though, so no wonder. |
| Ranges The Ascensionist |
| Ranges Babel |
| Saor Origins |
| Serenity Codex Atlanticus |
| Silent Line Shattered Shores |
| Soilwork Sworn to a Great Divide |
| Soilwork The Panic Broadcast |
| Sonic Syndicate Sonic Syndicate |
| The Moth Gatherer Esoteric Oppression |
| The Unguided And The Battle Royale |
| Tides From Nebula Eternal Movement |
| Brisk, uplifting, airy and with lots of good melodies added. Nice album. |
| Tides From Nebula From Voodoo to Zen |
| Quite an enjoyrable electronic post-rock. I wish the album was all done like the first three tracks though. |
| VOLA Applause of a Distant Crowd |
| VOLA Witness |
