| 4.5 superb |
| 36 Crazyfists A Snow Capped Romance |
| 36 Crazyfists Rest Inside the Flames |
| 40 Watt Sun Wider than the Sky |
| 40 Watt Sun The Inside Room |
| 40 Watt Sun Little Weight |
| A.A. Williams Forever Blue |
| A.A. Williams As The Moon Rests |
| Alkaline Trio From Here to Infirmary |
| Alkaline Trio Crimson |
| All Faces Down Face The Truth |
I don't know how they've done it, because usually I run a mile from anything with such overt pop punk/emo influences, but these guys absolutely nail their sound. Nothing fancy or super technical, just an expert blend of metalcore, pop sensibilities and super, super catchy song writing.
Standout song: Hero of the Day |
| Amorphis Skyforger |
| Anaal Nathrakh Endarkenment |
| As December Falls Join The Club |
| This is the one. What an excellent slab of super-catchy, well-written pop punk. |
| At the Gates Terminal Spirit Disease |
| Avenged Sevenfold Waking The Fallen |
| AVRALIZE Freaks |
| AVRALIZE liminal |
| Ok, this is fucking great. Initial thoughts were that it might be a little too light on the 'metal', but it does enough and the rest buries itself within your skull and won't leave - so many super catchy parts on this. |
| Bad Religion The Process of Belief |
| Beastie Boys Licensed To Ill |
| Bleed Bleed |
| Blood Youth Starve |
| Blood Youth Visions Of Another Hell |
Currently my frontrunner for AOTY 2021 - absolutely stunning effort.
*EDIT* This IS my AOTY for 2021 and they released a beer to go along with it. Fuckin' ace. 4.7 |
| Bloodred Hourglass Your Highness |
This album is a delightful throwback to the mid-2000's, when melodeath was the love of my life and Children of Bodom were rocking my world.
There's still some heavy borrowing from both elements here (as has always been the way with this band), but on this album BRHG start to really make the sound their own. Beyond a few questionable song title choices, this is a fabulous listen.
4.3 |
| Bodom After Midnight Paint the Sky With Blood |
| Boundaries Burying Brightness |
| Brutus (BE) Unison Life |
| Bury Tomorrow The Union of Crowns |
| Bury Tomorrow Earthbound |
| Calvin Harris 18 Months |
| Carissa's Wierd Songs About Leaving |
| Carissa's Wierd Ugly But Honest: 1996-1999 |
| Carissa's Wierd You Should Be At Home Here |
| Children of Bodom Hate Crew Deathroll |
| Chuck Ragan Feast Or Famine |
| Chuck Ragan Love & Lore |
| Cold 13 Ways to Bleed On Stage |
| Crowbar Sonic Excess in Its Purest Form |
| Dark Tranquillity Moment |
| Dead Flesh (UK) Dehumanise |
| Deafheaven Lonely People With Power |
| Deafheaven Sunbather |
| Deathstars Termination Bliss |
| Deftones Koi No Yokan |
| Deftones private music |
| Devil Sold His Soul Loss |
| DevilDriver The Fury of Our Maker's Hand |
| Disturbed The Sickness |
| Disturbed Believe |
| DJ Shadow Endtroducing..... |
| Draconian Under A Godless Veil |
| Duster Together |
| Dvne Etemen Ænka |
| Earth Caller Degenerate |
| Eminem The Slim Shady LP |
| Emma Ruth Rundle Engine of Hell |
| Evanescence Fallen |
| Evergrey Escape Of The Phoenix |
| Evergrey Recreation Day |
| Fear Factory Aggression Continuum |
| Fear Factory Obsolete |
| Fit for an Autopsy The Nothing That Is |
| Fit for an Autopsy Oh What the Future Holds |
| Fit for an Autopsy The Sea of Tragic Beasts |
| Fleshwater We're Not Here To Be Loved |
| Frank Turner Sleep Is For The Week |
| Frank Turner Tape Deck Heart |
| Ghost (SWE) Prequelle |
| HEALTH RAT WARS |
| HIM Razorblade Romance |
| HIM And Love Said No |
| Hurts Happiness |
| Hurts Exile |
| Ice Cube Laugh Now, Cry Later |
| How has this album not got a review or even a sound-off!? Bar a little trimming here and there (21 tracks over nearly 80 minutes is a LOT of gangsta), this is mostly straight wall-to-wall, bitch-slappin' bangaz. |
| Ice Nine Kills Every Trick in the Book |
| Iress Sleep Now, In Reverse |
| Iron Maiden The Number Of The Beast |
| James Blunt All the Lost Souls |
| James Blunt Back To Bedlam |
| Jedi Mind Tricks Servants in Heaven, Kings in Hell |
| Jedi Mind Tricks Violent by Design |
| Jedi Mind Tricks Legacy of Blood |
| Jesse Sykes and The Sweet Hereafter Reckless Burning |
| Julien Baker Little Oblivions |
| Julien Baker Turn Out The Lights |
| Kelly Clarkson Breakaway |
| Killswitch Engage The End of Heartache |
| Killswitch Engage Alive or Just Breathing |
| Korn Life Is Peachy |
| Korn Follow the Leader |
| Korn Untouchables |
| Korn See You on the Other Side |
| Lamb of God Ashes of the Wake |
| Lighthouse Family Postcards From Heaven |
| Lil Jon and the East Side Boyz Crunk Juice |
| Linkin Park Meteora |
| Lorna Shore Pain Remains |
| Lorna Shore ...And I Return to Nothingness |
| Lorna Shore I Feel The Everblack Festering Within Me |
| Low I Could Live in Hope |
| Machine Head Burn My Eyes |
| Machine Head The More Things Change... |
| Machine Head Through The Ashes Of Empires |
| Machine Head The Blackening |
| Machine Head Bloodstone And Diamonds |
| Magnetic Man Magnetic Man |
| Make Them Die Slowly The Bodycount Continues |
| Make Them Die Slowly Ferox |
| How are more people not digging this on Sputnik!? It's basically Anaal Nathratkh with some additional horror movie vibes and few more tempo variations. What's not to love!? |
| Marianas Rest Auer |
| Doesn't quite reach the highs of Fata Morgana, but it's not very far off at all. Another excellent album by these guys - love their melodeath/doom sound. The whole thing is drenched in melancholy, sorrow, melody & anger. |
| Marianas Rest Fata Morgana |
| Mesh We Collide |
| Not really a genre I dabble in much, but this album is a sublime example of electro pop-rock done almost perfectly. At times spaced-out & introspective, others pumping & energetic, all whilst being melodic & catchy as hell throughout. |
| Meshuggah Chaosphere |
| Meshuggah The Violent Sleep of Reason |
| Metallica Ride The Lightning |
| Metallica Master Of Puppets |
| Motionless In White Infamous |
| Nate Dogg Music And Me |
| Norther Mirror of Madness |
| Northlane Discoveries |
| Obie Trice Cheers |
| One Minute Silence Available in All Colors |
| This band needs far more love - probably Britain's finest nu metal/rap metal export. Their debut album really showcases their talent - thick, groovy basslines, venomous, rapid-fire political bars from Yap Barry and some infectiously catchy guitar hooks and choruses. |
| One Minute Silence Buy Now...Saved Later |
| Opeth Blackwater Park |
| Opeth My Arms, Your Hearse |
| Opeth Damnation |
| Papa Roach Infest |
| Papa Roach F.E.A.R. |
| Papa Roach Greatest hits vol 2 |
| Papa Roach Time For Annihilation |
| Papa Roach 20/20 |
| Papa Roach Ego Trip |
| Everybody ignore SpideryMan, he's drunk off his own mother's breast milk. |
| Paradise Lost Obsidian |
| Paradise Lost Paradise Lost |
| Paradise Lost In Requiem |
| Paradise Lost Ascension |
| Paradise Lost Icon |
| Paradise Lost Icon 30 |
| Paradise Lost Faith Divides Us - Death Unites Us |
| Paramore Brand New Eyes |
| Passenger (SWE) Passenger |
| Pendulum Hold Your Colour |
| Pijn and Conjurer Curse These Metal Hands |
| Placebo Meds |
| Placebo Sleeping with Ghosts |
| Placebo Never Let Me Go |
| Plan B The Defamation Of Strickland Banks |
| Pupil Slicer Blossom |
| Rammstein Liebe Ist Für Alle Da |
| Rammstein Zeit |
| Rammstein Reise, Reise |
| Raunchy Death Pop Romance |
| Rise Against Siren Song of the Counter Culture |
| Rise Against The Sufferer and the Witness |
| Rise Against Appeal to Reason |
| Rivers of Nihil Where Owls Know My Name |
| Rolo Tomassi Time Will Die And Love Will Bury It |
| Sentenced The Funeral Album |
| Sentenced Crimson |
| Serj Tankian Elect the Dead |
| Shadow Of Intent Elegy |
| Shinedown Leave a Whisper |
| Skyfire Timeless Departure |
| Slipknot Iowa |
| Slipknot Slipknot |
| Snoop Dogg Doggystyle |
| Snowgoons Black Snow |
This is a sprawling mass of aggressive, symphonic & hard hitting hip hop which does exceptionally well to maintain a high level of consistency throughout the epic tracklist & run time. There are some 'softer' cuts on here to break up the onslaught, but this is quite relative.
Highlight tracks: Black Snow, Who?, Hold Up & The Hatred |
| Sonata Arctica Ecliptica |
| Songs: Ohia Axxess and Ace |
| Soulfly Primitive |
| Spectral Wound A Diabolic Thirst |
| Spectral Wound Songs of Blood and Mire |
| Spiritbox The Fear of Fear |
| Static-X Project Regeneration Vol. 1 |
| Static-X Shadow Zone |
| Static-X Machine |
| Static-X Wisconsin Death Trip |
| Svalbard When I Die, Will I Get Better? |
| Svalbard The Weight of the Mask |
| System of a Down System of a Down |
| Tetrarch Unstable |
| The Avalanches Since I Left You |
| The Birthday Massacre Fascination |
| The Callous Daoboys God Smiles Upon the Callous Daoboys |
| The Callous Daoboys I Don't Want to See You in Heaven |
| The Great Deceiver Terra Incognito |
| The Notorious B.I.G. Ready to Die |
| The Notorious B.I.G. Life After Death |
| The Offspring Conspiracy of One |
| The Smiths Strangeways, Here We Come |
| The Smiths The Smiths |
| Trespassers William Different Stars |
| Trivium In the Court of the Dragon |
| Trivium Ascendancy |
| Uada Djinn |
| Unjust Glow |
| Unjust To Lose a Name |
| VNV Nation Judgement |
| Voices Breaking the Trauma Bond |
| Void of Vision Hyperdaze |
| Void of Vision Chronicles |
| Nu Metal is fucking back baby! And this is a superb example of it. |
| Whitechapel Kin |
| Whitechapel The Valley |
| Winterfylleth The Imperious Horizon |
| Wintersun Wintersun |
| Xzibit Restless |
| 4.0 excellent |
| ...and Oceans Cosmic World Mother |
| ...and Oceans As in Gardens, So in Tombs |
| ...and Oceans A.M.G.O.D. |
| ...and Oceans The Regeneration Itinerary |
| 156/Silence Narrative |
| 36 Crazyfists Bitterness the Star |
| 36 Crazyfists The Tide and Its Takers |
| A.A. Williams A.A. Williams |
| A.A. Williams arco |
| Aborted ManiaCult |
| Aborted Vault of Horrors |
| Adept Sleepless |
| Adept Silence The World |
| Aesop Rock Spirit World Field Guide |
| After the Burial Dig Deep |
| Agalloch Ashes Against the Grain |
| Alaska (FR) Subsequent |
| Alcest Spiritual Instinct |
| Alexisonfire Otherness |
| Alkaline Trio Goddamnit |
| Alkaline Trio Maybe I'll Catch Fire |
| Alkaline Trio My Shame Is True |
| Alkaline Trio Is This Thing Cursed? |
| Alkaline Trio Agony and Irony |
| Alkaline Trio Damnesia |
| Alkaline Trio Blood, Hair, and Eyeballs |
| Allegaeon Damnum |
| Allegaeon Fragments of Form and Function |
| Alustrium A Monument to Silence |
| Amon Amarth Fate of Norns |
| Amorphis Halo |
| Amorphis Tuonela |
| Amorphis Eclipse |
| Amorphis Silent Waters |
| Amorphis Circle |
| Amorphis Under the Red Cloud |
| Amorphis Queen of Time |
| Anaal Nathrakh The Whole of the Law |
| Architects Holy Hell |
| Architects All Our Gods Have Abandoned Us |
| Architects Lost Forever // Lost Together |
| Army Of The Pharaohs The Torture Papers |
| More like a 3.7/8, but I can't give that and, when AOTP is up in this muthafucka, you gotta be generous. |
| As Everything Unfolds Within Each Lies The Other |
| Asinhell Impii Hora |
| At the Gates At War with Reality |
| At the Gates To Drink from the Night Itself |
| At the Gates The Nightmare of Being |
| August Burns Red Guardians |
| August Burns Red Rescue & Restore |
| AVOID The Burner |
| Bad Religion No Control |
| Bayside There Are Worse Things Than Being Alive |
| Be'lakor Coherence |
| Beastie Boys Paul's Boutique |
| Behemoth I Loved You at Your Darkest |
| Biffy Clyro Only Revolutions |
| Billy Talent Billy Talent II |
| Bizarrekult Vi Overlevde |
| Black Coast Black Coast |
| Black Coast Outworld |
| What a deliciously faithful slab of early-00's nu-metal. |
| Black Sabbath Black Sabbath |
| Black Sabbath Paranoid |
| Bleed Somebody's Closer |
| Bleed from Within Fracture |
| Bleed from Within Shrine |
| Bleed from Within Era |
| Bloodred Hourglass Nightmares Are Dreams Too |
| Bloodred Hourglass Heal |
| Bloodywood Rakshak |
| Bluetile Lounge Lowercase |
| Bolt Thrower Those Once Loyal |
| Boogie Down Productions Criminal Minded |
| Born of Osiris Angel or Alien |
| Boundaries Death Is Little More |
| Brand of Sacrifice Lifeblood |
| Brand of Sacrifice Between Death and Dreams |
| Bring Me The Horizon Suicide Season |
| Brutus (BE) Burst |
| Brutus (BE) Nest |
| Burden of the Sky Cinis Ad Cinis |
PUSH IT PUSH IT CLOSER TO THE EDDDGGGGGEEEEEE!
It's a shame they don't utilise the harsh vocals a bit more throughout this album but, despite this, Burden of the Sky have crafted a polished, engaging, super tight hard rock/alt metal debut album. |
| Burden of the Sky Sine Timore |
Goes harder than their debut with a greater vocals range displayed and a higher overall level of aggression. The album feels a little more homogenous in comparison, but subtleties & nuances between the tracks might reveal themselves on repeated listens. It's
certainly a consistent & well-executed album, steering slightly more toward the metal aspect of their sound (as opposed to the hard rock aspects).
Stand out tracks: Catalyst & Sirens. |
| Burned In Effigy Rex Mortem |
| Bury Tomorrow Cannibal |
| Bury Tomorrow Runes |
| Caliban Elements |
| Cane Hill Cane Hill |
| Cane Hill Smile |
| Cane Hill Too Far Gone |
| Cane Hill Krewe D’Amour, Vol. II |
| Carcass Surgical Steel |
| Carnifex Graveside Confessions |
| Carpenter Brut Leather Terror |
| Chase and Status More Than Alot |
| Children of Bodom Are You Dead Yet? |
| Chris de Burgh Into the Light |
| Chuck Ragan Gold Country |
| Chuck Ragan Covering Ground |
| Chuck Ragan The Flame In The Flood (Soundtrack) |
| Chuck Ragan The Winter Haul Live |
| Clipse Let God Sort Em Out |
| Codeine The White Birch |
| Conjurer Pathos |
| Continents LIFELINE |
| Continents Idle Hands |
| Counterparts A Eulogy for Those Still Here |
| Crawlers Crawlers EP |
| A very strong 12 minute, 4 track introduction to the band. The opener, Come Over (Again) gives off some almost dreamy, 90's alt rock vibes for the first half of the track, before kicking things up a notch in the second with a bit of distorted emotion. MONROE lays down a thick, ominous bassline which Breathe takes on and gives it a jaunty twist. Statues rounds things out with some 00's indie rock guitar work before ripping into a huge chorus to take things to a new, more aggressive level. |
| Crawlers Loud Without Noise |
| With 2 extra tracks and 7 additional minutes of runtime to play with, Crawlers spread their wings a little bit from their debut EP, bringing in a wider array of influences & styles and dialling up the attitude. The basslines are still audible and thicc, something which tracks such as Fuck Me (I Didn't Know What To Say) & Too Soon exemplify perfectly. There's a raw fuzziness permeating throughout the EP which is rather captivating, save for Hang Me Like Jesus, which rounds things off with a post punk-tinged acoustic number. It's probably the weakest cut of them all, but provides a nice contrast all the same & showcases a different side to the band. |
| Crowbar Zero And Below |
| Cult of Luna The Long Road North |
| Currents The Way It Ends |
| Currents The Place I Feel Safest |
| Cypress Hill Cypress Hill |
| Danger Mouse and Black Thought Cheat Codes |
| Dark Tranquillity Atoma |
| Darkane Expanding Senses |
| Darkane Inhuman Spirits |
| Darkest Hour Perpetual | Terminal |
| Darkher The Buried Storm |
| Darknet The Internet |
| Darknet [self-titled 2] |
| Darwin's Waiting Room Orphan |
| Innosense is complete trash but, other than that single misguided song, this is a joyous romp through every nu metal cliche going. They take heavy influences from every big nu metal band at the time (particularly Limp Bizkit) but somehow keep it fun and interesting. |
| Deafheaven New Bermuda |
| Deafheaven Ordinary Corrupt Human Love |
| Death Blooms You Are Filth |
| Death Blooms Death Blooms |
| Death Blooms Life Is Pain |
| deathcrash Return |
| Deathstars Night Electric Night |
| Deathstars The Perfect Cult |
| Deathstars Everything Destroys You |
| I might be overrating this a tad, but OH BOI is it good to have these guys back in action. Absolutely nothing at all outside of their well-established wheelhouse, but sounding fresh, energetic & catchy as ever. |
| Deftones Around the Fur |
| Deftones White Pony |
| Deftones Deftones |
| Deftones Saturday Night Wrist |
| Deftones Diamond Eyes |
| Denzel Curry and Kenny Beats Unlocked |
| DevilDriver DevilDriver |
| DevilDriver The Last Kind Words |
| Dissection Reinkaos |
| Dissection Storm of the Light's Bane |
| Disturbed Ten Thousand Fists |
| Don Broco Amazing Things |
| Dr. Dre 2001 |
| Draconian Turning Season Within |
| Dream State Recovery |
| Dream State Primrose Path |
| Drown In Sulphur Vengeance |
| Drudkh All Belong to the Night |
| Dry Kill Logic Of Vengeance and Violence |
| Dry Kill Logic The Darker Side Of Nonsense |
| Duran Duran Duran Duran |
| Duster Stratosphere |
| Duster In Dreams |
| Duster Contemporary Movement |
| Duster Duster |
| Dying Fetus Reign Supreme |
| Dying Wish Fragments of a Bitter Memory |
| Ahhh back to the days when those melodeath influences were more prominent in metalcore. No single song has stood out to me much so far, but overall this is a good listen. One to revisit for sure. |
| Earth Caller Crystal Death |
| Earth Caller Crook |
| The first half of the EP sees a move more towards a nu-metalcore sound with hardcore overtones. Good to see them shake their sound up a bit, but the sound from Crystal Death comes roaring in with the last two tracks to strike a nice blend of the old & new. |
| Ed Rush Light of the Void |
| Editors EBM |
| Eminem The Eminem Show |
| Emma Ruth Rundle Marked for Death |
| Emma Ruth Rundle and Thou May Our Chambers Be Full |
| Enforced Kill Grid |
| ERRA ERRA |
| ERRA Impulse |
| ERRA Drift |
| Evergrey A Heartless Portrait (The Orphéan Testament) |
| Evergrey In Search Of Truth |
| Evergrey Monday Morning Apocalypse |
| Evergrey Torn |
| Fear Factory Demanufacture |
| Fit for an Autopsy The Great Collapse |
| Fleetwood Mac Rumours |
| Foxblood (AUS) The Devil, The Dark and The Rain |
| Frank Turner Love, Ire & Song |
| Frank Turner FTHC |
| Fukpig Spewings From A Selfish Nation |
| Ghosts of Atlantis 3.6.2.4 |
| It took me a while to get into the symphonic side of things & the clean vocals, but it all clicked on the second spin. This is a sweet listen. Lots of different influences & styles going on here. |
| Graphic Nature Who Are You When No One Is Watching? |
This is the step-up I was hoping they would take with this album. Even though the turnaround from the previous album is tight, they've made several small but significant improvements to bring a (slightly) more diverse sound, greater use of electronics/turntables and (somehow) even heavier, monumentally huge breakdowns.
Another track or two in a similar vein to the closer (For You - minus the JD-esque crying) would be the cherry on the cake.
4.2 |
| Greyhaven This Bright and Beautiful World |
| Greyhaven Stereo Grief |
| Guilt Trip (UK) Severance |
| gyrofield A Faint Glow of Bravery |
| GZA Liquid Swords |
| Halestorm Back from the Dead |
This brand of hard rock often leaves me cold...but somehow this is hitting all the right
spots.
3.8 |
| Half Me Soma |
| HammerFall Crimson Thunder |
| HANABIE. Girl's Reform Manifest |
| The second half of this album, in particular, is great. |
| Hath Of Rot And Ruin |
| Hath All That Was Promised |
| HAWXX You're Only as Loud as You Shout Right Now |
The band name is pretty questionable, the EP title is dreadful and there are overtones of catchy hard rock here and there. But man, do those riffs go HARD. There is a perfect blend of beauty and brutality here that the band capture almost perfectly.
Excited to see where this lot go. |
| High Contrast The Agony And The Ecstasy |
| HIM Love Metal |
| HIM Deep Shadows And Brilliant Highlights |
| Hot Water Music Feel the Void |
| Hurts Surrender |
| Ice Cube Lethal Injection |
| Ice Nine Kills The Silver Scream 2: Welcome to Horrorwood |
| Ice Nine Kills The Silver Scream |
| Idaho Year After Year |
| Ill Nino Revolution/Revolucion |
| Ill Nino Confession |
| Imminence This Is Goodbye |
| Imminence Turn the Light On |
| Imminence The Black |
Overall, this is a damn good album that has more than a few really good songs (e.g. Desolation, Heaven Shall Burn, The Black). This also do pretty well to try and make the album stand out a little bit from the rest of the pack, albeit they're not as 'progressive' as they might think they are & there's definitely still several cookie cutter moments here.
Definitely has the components to make a great metalcore album, just needs a little trimming and better use of the interludes.
3.8 |
| Immortal War Against All |
| In Flames The Jester Race |
| In Flames Whoracle |
| In Flames Reroute to Remain |
| In Flames Come Clarity |
| Infected Rain Endorphin |
| InMe Overgrown Eden |
| Invent Animate Greyview |
Gave this a solid re-visit this evening. Super solid, djenty metalcore album that's probably just a shade too long, otherwise it might be close to a 4.5. Cutting 2 or 3 of the more 'samey' tracks would enhance this further I feel.
Dark, Cloud Cascade, Shapeshifter & Monarch are my stand-out tracks.
4.0 |
| Invent Animate Heavener |
| Iotunn Access All Worlds |
| Iress Flaw |
| Iress Prey |
| Iron Maiden Iron Maiden |
| Iron Maiden Piece Of Mind |
| Iron Maiden Powerslave |
| Iron Maiden Somewhere In Time |
| Iron Maiden Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son |
| Ithaca They Fear Us |
| James Blunt The Afterlove |
| James Blunt Moon Landing |
| James Blunt The Stars Beneath My Feet (2004-2021) |
| Jay-Z and Linkin Park Collision Course |
| Jedi Mind Tricks Visions of Gandhi |
| Jesse Sykes and The Sweet Hereafter Oh, My Girl |
| John Coltrane A Love Supreme |
| Karnivool Themata |
| Katatonia City Burials |
| Katatonia Sky Void of Stars |
| Katatonia The Fall of Hearts |
| Katatonia Brave Murder Day |
| Katatonia Last Fair Deal Gone Down |
| Kauan Ice Fleet |
| Kauan Aava Tuulen Maa |
| Kauan ATM Revised |
| Killer Be Killed Reluctant Hero |
| Knocked Loose You Won't Go Before You're Supposed To |
| Korn Greatest Hits Vol. 1 |
| Korn Take a Look in the Mirror |
| Korn Untitled |
| Korn The Paradigm Shift |
| Korn The Serenity of Suffering |
| Korn The Nothing |
| Korn Requiem |
| Kraftwerk The Man-Machine |
| La Roux La Roux |
| Lamb of God As the Palaces Burn |
| Lamb of God Omens |
| Lighthouse Family Ocean Drive |
| Lik Misanthropic Breed |
| Lik Necro |
| Lil Jon and the East Side Boyz Kings of Crunk |
| Limp Bizkit Significant Other |
| Limp Bizkit Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavored Water |
| Limp Bizkit Still Sucks |
| Limp Bizkit Three Dollar Bill Y'all |
| LL Cool J Bigger and Deffer |
| Loathe (UK) I Let It In And It Took Everything |
| Loathe (UK) The Cold Sun |
| Lord of the Lost Blood & Glitter |
| Lorna Shore Immortal |
| Love and Death Between Here And Lost |
| Love and Death Perfectly Preserved |
| Lowlives Burn Forever |
This is an excellent EP and immediately led me to check out everything else they've released since. Great band and hyped for their debut album dropping next month.
*EDIT* - downgraded to mild hype, the singles off the album are a slight step down from their other singles and this EP. Heading more towards generic hard rock territory. |
| Lowlives Freaking Out |
| Lupe Fiasco Samurai |
| Machine Head Supercharger |
| Machine Head Of Kingdom And Crown |
| Machine Head Unto The Locust |
| Magnolia Electric Co Magnolia Electric Co |
| Malevolence Malicious Intent |
| Malevolence Reign of Suffering |
| Marduk Panzer Division Marduk |
| Marilyn Manson We Are Chaos |
| Mastodon Hushed and Grim |
| Matrix & Futurebound Universal Truth |
| Maverick Sabre Lonely Are the Brave |
| McKinley Dixon Magic, Alive! |
| Mesh A Perfect Solution |
| Meshuggah Catch Thirtythree |
| Meshuggah Destroy Erase Improve |
| Meshuggah Koloss |
| Metallica Kill 'Em All |
| Metallica Metallica |
| Midas Fall Cold Waves Divide Us |
| Ministry Psalm 69 |
| Misery Index Complete Control |
| Mnemic The Audio Injected Soul |
| Mogwai As the Love Continues |
| Mojave 3 Ask Me Tomorrow |
| Mol Diorama |
| Monuments (UK) In Stasis |
| Monuments (UK) The Amanuensis |
| Motionless In White Reincarnate |
| Motionless In White Scoring the End of the World |
| Muse Black Holes & Revelations |
| Muse Absolution |
| Muse Showbiz |
| Muse Origin of Symmetry |
| Nas Illmatic |
| Nas It Was Written |
| Nas King's Disease III |
| Nas King's Disease II |
| Nero Welcome Reality |
| Nickelback Silver Side Up |
| Night Crowned Hädanfärd |
| Night Crowned Impius Viam |
| This is right up my strasse. A couple of tracks are weirdly quieter than the others (Unholy Path, Beneath No-One), but this is a wild, fun ride (if a shade too long). |
| Nightrage Sweet Vengeance |
| Nightrage Abyss Rising |
| In my mind, In Flames would sound something like this today if they never deviated from their sound after Clayman. |
| Nightrage Remains of a Dead World |
| NOISIA Split The Atom |
| Norther Solution 7 |
The solo on Day Zero is *chefs kiss*
Worth listening to the whole thing just for that, but the rest of the EP is pretty good as well. Cleans fit in reasonably well to their sound (although a bit OTT on Chasm). |
| Norther Dreams of Endless War |
| Northlane Alien |
| Nova Twins Parasites & Butterflies |
| These two don't miss, another super solid album. |
| Nova Twins Supernova |
| Nova Twins Who Are The Girls? |
| One Minute Silence One Lie Fits All |
| Opeth Morningrise |
| Opeth Still Life |
| Opeth Deliverance |
| Opeth Ghost Reveries |
| Opeth Watershed |
| Ophidian I Desolate |
| OutKast ATLiens |
| OutKast Aquemini |
| OutKast Stankonia |
| Palm Reader Sleepless |
| Pantera Vulgar Display of Power |
| Pantera Far Beyond Driven |
| Papa Roach lovehatetragedy |
| Papa Roach The Connection |
| Papa Roach Crooked Teeth |
| Papa Roach Naked and Fearless |
| Paradise Lost Tragic Idol |
| Paradise Lost Symbol Of Life |
| Paradise Lost Host |
| Paramore All We Know Is Falling |
| Parkway Drive Killing With A Smile |
| Persefone Metanoia |
| Phil Spector A Christmas Gift For You From Philles Records |
| Phinehas The Fire Itself |
| Pijn From Low Beams Of Hope |
| Placebo Loud Like Love |
| Placebo Battle for the Sun |
| Placebo Placebo |
| Poisonblack Lust Stained Despair |
| Poisonblack A Dead Heavy Day |
| Polaris Fatalism |
| Polaris The Mortal Coil |
| Pridelands Light Bends |
| Rage Against the Machine Rage Against the Machine |
| Rammstein Sehnsucht |
| Rammstein Untitled |
| Rammstein Herzeleid |
| Rammstein Rosenrot |
| Rammstein Live Aus Berlin |
| Rammstein Paris |
| Raunchy Wasteland Discotheque |
| Raunchy A Discord Electric |
| Rex C |
| Rise Against The Unraveling |
| Rise Against Revolutions per Minute |
| Rise Against RPM10 |
| Rise Against Endgame |
| RJD2 Deadringer |
| Rob Zombie Hellbilly Deluxe |
| Rolo Tomassi Where Myth Becomes Memory |
| Royksopp Profound Mysteries |
| Royksopp Melody A.M. |
| Royksopp Profound Mysteries II |
| Run the Jewels RTJ4 |
| Run-D.M.C. Raising Hell |
| senses (US) take me out of here |
| Sentenced Frozen |
| Sentenced Buried Alive |
| Shadow Of Intent Melancholy |
| Sigur Ros ( ) |
| Sigur Ros Takk... |
| Silent Civilian Rebirth of the Temple |
| Silent Planet Iridescent |
| Silly Goose Bad Behavior |
| Slift Ilion |
| Slipknot Vol. 3: The Subliminal Verses |
| Slipknot .5: The Gray Chapter |
| Slipknot We Are Not Your Kind |
| Slowdive Souvlaki |
| So Hideous None But a Pure Heart Can Sing |
| Soilwork Figure Number Five |
| Soilwork Natural Born Chaos |
| Soilwork Stabbing the Drama |
| Solstafir Endless Twilight of Codependent Love |
| Solstafir Hin Helga Kvöl |
| Solstafir Köld |
| Solstafir Svartir Sandar |
| Solstafir Otta |
| Solstafir Berdreyminn |
| Songs: Ohia Didn't It Rain |
| Soul Blind Feel It All Around |
| Soulfly Soulfly |
| Spineshank Anger Denial Acceptance |
| Spiritbox Eternal Blue |
| Spiritbox Spiritbox |
| Spiritbox Singles Collection |
| Split Chain motionblur |
| Stabbing Westward Chasing Ghosts |
| Really enjoyed this, great to see these guys back after so long, and with such a strong effort. |
| State Faults Children of the Moon |
| Static-X Start A War |
| Static-X Project Regeneration Vol. 2 |
| Stick to Your Guns Disobedient |
| Stick to Your Guns True View |
| Stray From The Path Euthanasia |
| Weird how a load of accounts who hadn't rated anything for well over a year all came back & logged in on exactly the same date just to rate this a 1... |
| Stray From The Path Clockworked |
| Svalbard It's Hard to Have Hope |
| Svalbard One Day All This Will End |
| Sylosis Cycle of Suffering |
| Sylosis Conclusion of an Age |
| System of a Down Steal This Album! |
| Tallah The Generation of Danger |
| Teethe Magic Of The Sale |
| Teethe Teethe |
| Tetrarch Freak |
| Tetrarch The Ugly Side of Me |
| The All-American Rejects When the World Comes Down |
| The All-American Rejects Move Along |
| The Amity Affliction Not Without My Ghosts |
| The Avalanches We Will Always Love You |
| The Birthday Massacre Diamonds |
| The Browning End of Existence |
| The Browning OMNI |
| The Cure Galore |
| The Cure Songs of a Lost World |
| The Devil Wears Prada ZII |
| The Halo Effect Days of the Lost |
| The Haunted The Haunted |
| The Haunted rEVOLVEr |
| The Kovenant S.E.T.I. |
| The Ocean Phanerozoic II: Mesozoic | Cenozoic |
| The Ocean Pelagial |
| The Ocean Phanerozoic I: Palaeozoic |
| The Offspring Smash |
| The Offspring Ixnay on the Hombre |
| The Offspring Americana |
| The One Hundred Chaos + Bliss |
| The Plot In You Dispose |
| The Plot In You Swan Song |
| The Plot In You Vol. 1 |
| The Plot In You Vol. 2 |
| The Smiths Meat Is Murder |
| Thelonious Monk Brilliant Corners |
| Thrice The Artist in the Ambulance |
| Thrice The Illusion of Safety |
| Thrice Horizons/East |
| Thrice The Artist in the Ambulance (Revisited) |
| Thy Art Is Murder Godlike |
| Thy Art Is Murder Hate |
| Thy Art Is Murder / The Acacia Strain / Fit for an Autopsy The Depression Sessions |
| Tigress (UK) Pura Vida |
| Tigress (UK) Human |
| A really strong debut EP with significant Paramore overtones (Brand New Eyes-era to be more specific) yet still retains it's own sound. |
| Tigress (UK) Are You B-O-R-E-D? |
| Till Lindemann Zunge |
| Trenches The Tide Will Swallow Us Whole |
| Trivium What the Dead Men Say |
| Trivium Shogun |
| Trna Istok |
| Really enjoyed this album, some great soundscapes created with their music. The one song with vocals, Shining, was the strongest and would like to hear a little more vocal work scattered throughout the runtime. Not sure why they need to tack on an instrumental of the same song at the end though. |
| Uada Crepuscule Natura |
I really like this bright, heavy metal-tinged brand of melodic black metal that Uada have got going for them. This feels like a nice hybrid of their past two albums, although slightly let-down by the vocals being somewhat buried in the mix. I know Djinn wasn't really a fan favourite, but I enjoy the crystal clear production for this type of sound.
4.1 |
| Uada Cult of a Dying Sun |
| Uada Devoid of Light |
| Urne A Feast On Sorrow |
| Vein.fm Errorzone |
| Vended What Is It//Kill It |
So...err...who's idea was it to release a turn of the century Slipknot EP under a new band name in 2021?
Not complaining mind, shit slaps for the most part. |
| VEXED (UK) Culling Culture |
| This is a thick, heavy slab of fully djentrified metalcore. Really solid stuff & worth checking out. |
| Vnder A Crvmbling Moon I: Oblivion |
A positively huge sounding album that weaves itself through several soundscapes in its 5-track, 51 minute journey. The foundations are primarily doom metal with scattered post, black & sludge metal elements throughout. Slow & crushing, yet never ponderous or monotonous. Contains a nice blend of vicious harsh vocals and haunting cleans as well.
There's even a few flourishes of that desperate, wailing guitar tone that gothic-doom overlord Gregor Macintosh (of Paradise lost fame) has perfected over the years, which I'm an absolute sucker for.
4.2 |
| Vnder A Crvmbling Moon II: Aging & Formless |
| VNV Nation Electric Sun |
| Void of Vision Chronicles I: Lust |
| Void of Vision Chronicles II: Heaven |
| Void of Vision Disturbia |
| Void of Vision Children of Chrome |
| Warning Watching from a Distance |
| Whispering Gallery Shades of Sorrow |
| White Lies To Lose My Life |
| Whitechapel Whitechapel |
| Wiegedood De Doden Hebben Het Goed III |
| Witch Fever Congregation |
| Within the Ruins Black Heart |
| YONAKA Don't Wait 'Til Tomorrow |
| Youth Code and King Yosef A Skeleton Key in the Doors of Depression |
| Zebrahead MFZB |
| 3.5 great |
| '68 Give One Take One |
| 40 Below Summer Invitation to the Dance |
| A Night in Texas The Divine Dichotomy - Chapter II |
| A decent slab of modern deathcore. Wore a little thin by the end though, despite the sub half hour running time. Unsure if this will get better or worse with repeated listens. |
| A Tribe Called Quest The Low End Theory |
| A Tribe Called Quest Midnight Marauders |
| A.A. Williams/MONO Exit in Darkness |
| Aesop Rock Integrated Tech Solutions |
| Afterlife (USA-FL) Breaking Point |
I'm unashamedly a nu-metal apologist, so I found this record a pretty fun listen. It's fairly basic and a little cringe in places, but overall it's got enough crunch and attitude to keep my attention throughout. I know nu metal is hardly known for it's maturity, but there's still room to grow within the genre for these guys. Promising debut.
3.3 |
| Afterlife (USA-FL) Part of Me |
A very promising start with the first three tracks and pretty solid finish as well, however there is some rocky ground mid-album. Not Giving It Up & Part Of Me contain some iffy stylistic choices but mostly hold it together. Miles Away should never have made it off the cutting room floor though. I appreciate that these guys are trying to change up their sound a bit to keep the album fresh & varied, but leaning more into the Hollywood Undead influences was not the direction to take.
3.3 |
| Alcest Les Chants de L'Aurore |
| Alexisonfire Crisis |
| Alexisonfire Watch Out! |
| Alkaline Trio Good Mourning |
| Alkaline Trio This Addiction |
| All Faces Down Forevermore |
A definite step-down from their debut. The new clean vocalist just doesn't have the same character and everything just feels a lot more generic. It's still an enjoyable listen in a lot of places, but the rawer, metalcore edges have been sanded down even further and the pop-punk choruses amplified. Sadly these choruses also come across as tired and 'heard it all before' (although a few still hit the mark), with all their musical influences converging on well-trodden middle ground rather than bringing anything fresh to the party.
Don't get me wrong, their debut was hardly ground-breaking, but it was a lot fresher than this, their sophomore effort. |
| All Faces Down AWOL |
| Alpha Wolf A Quiet Place to Die |
| A little homogenous in places, but the 'default' sound is chuggy, heavy & tasty, with songs such as Bleed 4 You & Don't Ask... elevating the whole album slightly. |
| Alterant Honor System |
| Amenra De Doorn |
| Amorphis Am Universum |
| Amorphis The Beginning of Times |
| Anaal Nathrakh A New Kind of Horror |
| And So I Watch You From Afar Megafauna |
| Annisokay Arms |
| Pretty enjoyable, catchy metalcore. Album starts strong but loses its way slightly towards the end. Private Paradise is pretty trash, cut that and maybe one more track and you potentially have a 4* metalcore release on your hands. |
| Annisokay Devil May Care |
| Architects Nightmares |
| Architects Hollow Crown |
| As December Falls Everything's On Fire But I'm Fine |
| As December Falls Happier. |
Take early/golden-era Paramore, only make Hayley's vocals a little bit irritating in places.
3.4 |
| As December Falls As December Falls |
| As Everything Unfolds Ultraviolet |
| Asking Alexandria The Black |
| Atramentus Stygian |
| August Burns Red Death Below |
| Author and Punisher Kruller |
| This drags very slightly in places, but overall it creates a heavy, dense industrial atmosphere which borders on crushing at times. Misery is the stand out song. |
| Avenged Sevenfold City Of Evil |
| AVIIRA Relentless |
| AVIIRA Avalanche |
| AVOID Alone |
| AVOID Cult Mentality |
| Avril Lavigne Love Sux |
| Avril Lavigne Let Go |
| Avril Lavigne Under My Skin |
| Backxwash His Happiness Shall Come First... |
| Beartooth Below |
| Beauty School Dropout We Made Plans & God Laughed |
| Young, dumb, pop-punk-rock fun. Not usually my wheelhouse, but this has several catchy moments across the short runtime. |
| Bedhead WhatFunLifeWas |
| Behemoth Evangelion |
| Behemoth The Satanist |
| Behemoth Opvs Contra Natvram |
| Biffy Clyro Futique |
| Biffy Clyro The Myth of the Happily Ever After |
| Billy Talent Billy Talent |
| Biohazard Urban Discipline |
| Bizarrekult Den Tapte Krigen |
| Black Stone Cherry Screamin' at the Sky |
Surprisingly I quite enjoyed this. Nothing ground-breaking, but most of the choruses are catchy and there's a few good riffs here and there.
3.3 |
| Black Thought Streams of Thought, Vol. 3: Cane and Abel |
| Bleed from Within Uprising |
| Bleed from Within Zenith |
| blink-182 One More Time... |
| Blood Youth Beyond Repair |
| Bloodred Hourglass How's The Heart? |
Hmm.
Taking things in a more metalcore direction here. Still has those early-mid 00's melodeath flavours, only this time they're bit more Sonic Syndicate (if they were actually...good) than they are Children of Bodom or In Flames. |
| Bloodred Hourglass Godsend |
| Pretty standard melodeath with a fair bit of Children of Bodom worship going on, but that's not necessarily a bad thing. Could definitely benefit from a bit more variety in the song structures and/or pace of songs as things homogenise a bit, but overall a decent listen. |
| Bloodywood Nu Delhi |
| Body Count Carnivore |
| Bodyjar New Rituals |
| Boldy James and Sterling Toles Manger On Mcnichols |
| Boldy James and The Alchemist The Price Of Tea In China |
| Bon Iver For Emma, Forever Ago |
| Borknagar Fall |
| Bring Me The Horizon Count Your Blessings |
| Bury Tomorrow Black Flame |
| Bury Tomorrow The Seventh Sun |
| Caliban Dystopia |
Only had one of spin of this so far but first impressions are fairly strong. Nothing massively out-of-the-box for this genre (and indeed a few overly melodic & poppy tropes that could have been avoided), but for the most part it's tight, well-crafted metalcore.
Highlights on the the first trip round the sun are VirUS, Darkness I Became, Hibernate & mOther.
3.6 |
| Caliban Gravity |
| Cancer Bats Psychic Jailbreak |
| Cane Hill Krewe De La Mort, Vol. I |
| Cane Hill A Piece of Me I Never Let You Find |
| Carcass Heartwork |
| Caskets Lost Souls |
| Caskets Ghost Like You |
| A solid mini-slab of catchy, well written & executed popcore. |
| Cattle Decapitation Terrasite |
| Cave In Heavy Pendulum |
| Chase and Status No More Idols |
| Chase and Status What Came Before |
| Chelsea Wolfe She Reaches Out to She Reaches Out to She |
| Children of Bodom Something Wild |
| Chris de Burgh Man on the Line |
| Chuck Ragan Till Midnight |
| City and Colour The Love Still Held Me Near |
| A nice album, just a little long and a bit too samey in places. Easy to switch off in a few places but still certainly worth your time and attention. |
| Clutch Robot Hive / Exodus |
| Code Orange Underneath |
| Continents Reprisal |
| Cradle of Filth Existence Is Futile |
| Crawlers The Mess We Seem To Make |
| Crippled Black Phoenix Ellengaest |
| Crosses Goodnight, God Bless, I Love U, Delete. |
It gets a little repetitive in places and I think the album as a whole would benefit from 2, 3...maybe even 4 of the 'samey' tracks being cut to create a leaner, more varied listen.
Having said that, I do really enjoy the sound this album aims for.
3.4 |
| Cryptic Shift Visitations from Enceladus |
| Cryptosis Bionic Swarm |
| Currents The Death We Seek |
| Cypress Hill Back In Black |
| Daft Punk Random Access Memories |
| Dan Andriano & the Bygones Dear Darkness |
| Dan Andriano in the Emergency Room Hurricane Season |
| Dance Gavin Dance Jackpot Juicer |
| Dark Tranquillity Endtime Signals |
Personally, I feel this marks a small, but mildly significant expansion of DT's sound. Moment essentially took the sound of Atoma and raised it to a new level with stronger song writing. Here, we find the band increasing the range of their sound at both ends - the 'softer' side is enhanced and the album includes two ballads to showcase this. Equally, at least 2 or 3 songs are quite dark & aggressive and definitely go harder than anything on the previous two albums.
It's not a perfect marriage and I don't think the song writing is as strong as it was on Moment. It's also still undeniably DT - they continue to operate safely within their wheelhouse here.
3.7 |
| Darknet trashworld |
| Dayseeker Dreaming Is Sinking /// Waking Is Rising |
| Dayseeker Sleeptalk |
| Deafheaven Infinite Granite |
| Death Blooms Fuck Everything |
Nu Metal is certainly alive and well in 2021. Nothing ground-breaking here and would probably get a little tiresome over a full LP length without changing things up a little bit, but for 15 and a half minutes it's pretty fun.
Anger is probably the standout here and quite rightly made it onto the debut LP. However Life is Pain also not only sneaked on as well, but is also the t/t - probably the weakest song on this EP.
3.1 |
| deathcrash Less |
| Deathstars Synthetic Generation |
| Decapitated Cancer Culture |
| Defects Modern Error |
Definitely needs a bit of work in finding it's own identity in the very homogenous field of modern melodic metalcore, but there's some good stuff to be found here. This album gave me Bury Tomorrow vibes in several places which is no bad thing at all.
Everything is polished & dialled in with some good vocals, both clean & harsh.
3.6 |
| Deftones Ohms |
| Deftones Gore |
| Denzel Curry Melt My Eyez See Your Future |
| DevilDriver Dealing With Demons Vol. II |
| DevilDriver Dealing With Demons I |
| DevilDriver Pray for Villains |
| Dope Stars Inc. ://Neuromance |
| Dr. Colossus I'm a Stupid Moron With an Ugly Face and a Big... |
| Draconian Arcane Rain Fell |
| Dream State Untethered |
| Dream State Still Dreaming |
| Dream State Consequences |
| Dream Theater A View From The Top Of The World |
| Drowning Pool Sinner |
| Dry Kill Logic The Dead and Dreaming |
| Duran Duran All You Need Is Now |
| Duran Duran Future Past |
| Duster Transmission, Flux |
| Duster 1975 |
| Dying Fetus Make Them Beg for Death |
| Dying Wish Symptoms of Survival |
| Earth Caller Renormalization |
| The experimenting continues with Earth Caller's latest EP, heading on into melodic metalcore territory. Soaring clean choruses & synths ala Motionless In White aplenty here, with the hardcore elements of their sound dialled quite far down. Not my favourite iteration of their music, but still a fun EP nonetheless. |
| Element Eighty Element Eighty |
| Element Eighty A.D. |
| Emma Ruth Rundle On Dark Horses |
| Emma Ruth Rundle Some Heavy Ocean |
| Emma Ruth Rundle Orpheus Looking Back |
| I really quite like Pump Organ Song. The other two are nice enough as well, although sound a little like Engine Of Hell songs that didn't quite make the cut. |
| Employed To Serve Conquering |
| Employed To Serve The Warmth Of A Dying Sun |
| Employed To Serve Eternal Forward Motion |
| END (USA-NJ) Splinters From An Ever-Changing Face |
| Enforced At The Walls |
| Epica Omega |
| ERRA Cure |
| Ethel Cain Preacher's Daughter |
| Evergrey Solitude Dominance Tragedy |
| Evergrey Theories Of Emptiness |
| Every Time I Die Radical |
| Ex Deo Romulus |
| Falls of Rauros Key to a Vanishing Future |
| Falset We Follow or Lead the Way |
Totally within the safe, safe realms of generi-core but, for the most part, they pull it off pretty well. Whilst not particularly distinct, the singer can certainly...sing and even adequately growl on the odd occasion.
There's a couple of missteps along the way (Give, 9 Minute Drive) but, if you're into the more radio-friendly side of alt-metal-core then there's plenty here to enjoy.
3.4 - Please note, this rating completely ignores the lyric "ring around the rosie, I've got the ashes, so break out the posies" which nearly made me insta 1 this. |
| Fear Factory Digimortal |
| Fear Factory Archetype |
| Fear Factory Genexus |
| FEVER 333 Strength in Numb333rs |
| Fit for an Autopsy Absolute Hope Absolute Hell |
| Fit For An Autopsy / Thy Art is Murder / Malevolence The Aggression Sessions |
| Flaw Through the Eyes |
| Fleshwater Sounds of Grieving |
| Fleshwater 2000: In Search of the Endless Sky |
| Forgetting The Memories Vemod |
| Fractal Universe The Impassable Horizon |
| Frank Turner Poetry of the Deed |
| fromjoy fromjoy |
| Frostbitt Machine Destroy |
| Frostbitt Frostbitt |
| Fukpig Belief Is the Death of Intelligence |
| Future Palace Escape |
| A fairly generic, but still pretty fun & enjoyable slice of synth-driven post hardcore from Germany. Definite Dream State vibes from this. |
| Future Palace Run |
| Future Prophecies Warlords Rising |
| Gaerea Limbo |
| Garganjua Toward the Sun |
| Gemini Syndrome 3rd Degree - The Raising |
| Godsmack Faceless |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven |
| Gojira Fortitude |
| Gojira From Mars to Sirius |
| Graphic Nature A Mind Waiting to Die |
| Green Lung Black Harvest |
| HammerFall Hammer Of Dawn |
Everything you expect, and indeed need or want, from a HammerFall record. The title track in particular is elite cheesy power metal.
THUNDER! LIGHTNING!
HAMMER! FIGHTING! |
| HANABIE. Reborn Superstar! |
| Harakiri for the Sky Maere |
| Not a lot to say that builds on what others have said really. There's some top tier, 4/4.5 music here, I really love the sound these guys have going on & each individual track is epic in its own right. As a whole album though, the runtime is huge & sadly there is a lack of variability. The only real change up is on Silver Needle // Golden Dawn with a more mid-tempo groove, but even that's a bit too little, too late to make much of a difference.rMajor props for the Placebo cover though, fucking love that song & it's intriguing hearing it recreated in this style. |
| HAWXX Deadlands |
Interesting production on this EP - the drums, bass & rhythm guitar are pushed back in the mix and given a muddy, slightly lo-fi sound, whereas (some of) the leads and vocals are pushed right the front and sound pretty clear. Whether that was intentional or simply dictated by the (likely) low budget for a debut EP, I don't know.
What is known though is that this is pretty good - a nice crunch to the riffs and plenty of melody to be found to strike a nice balance. |
| Hayley Williams Ego Death at a Bachelorette Party |
| He Is Legend White Bat |
| HEALTH VOL. 4 :: SLAVES OF FEAR |
| HEALTH DISCO4 :: Part II |
| Hellripper The Affair Of The Poisons |
| Hemlock Ernst, Kenny Segal Back At The House |
| Heriot Profound Morality |
| This EP is equal parts haunting & utterly, utterly bludgeoning. |
| HIM Greatest Love Songs Vol. 666 |
| Holding Absence The Noble Art of Self-Destruction |
| Hollow Front Loose Threads |
| Given the numerous comparisons to Polaris, I actually think this is a bit better than the latest release by the aforementioned band. Nothing ground-breaking for sure, but an enjoyable metalcore record nonetheless. |
| Hollow Front Still Life |
| Hollow Front The Price of Dreaming |
| Host IX |
| Hot Water Music Vows |
| Ibaraki Rashomon |
| Idaho This Way Out |
| Idaho Lapse |
| Iglooghost Tidal Memory Exo |
| Imminence Heaven in Hiding |
| In Flames Soundtrack to Your Escape |
| In Flames Foregone |
| Infected Rain Ecdysis |
| Infected Rain Embrace Eternity |
A sizeable improvement over their debut. The nu-metal influences are prominently worn again (not everything was discarded from their first effort) but the song writing seems to be a bit more mature, with better use of melody and less of the gimmicky side of the genre. Still packing plenty of meaty riffs though.
3.4 |
| Infected Rain 86 |
86 has a few catchy hooks and memorable riffs, which builds on the promise of their previous effort. Fundamentally it's a better album overall, but some of the 'nu metal experimentalisms' return in greater numbers. They land a little better than on their debut, but there's still more than a couple misguided moments that should have been left off the record.
3.6 |
| Inferi (USA) Vile Genesis |
| Insomnium Anno 1696 |
| Intronaut Fluid Existential Inversions |
| Invent Animate Everchanger |
| InVisions Deadlock |
| Lyrical maturity over the course of their three releases might be minimal, but this is still good quality, by-the-book, djenty metalcore. |
| InVisions Never Nothing |
| A super solid djenty metalcore release let down badly by juvenile lyrics seemingly written by a 9 year old that's just discovered the word fuck. A shame really as the musical compositions are about as good as you'll hear for your generic/mainstream metalcore release of this variety. Plus the vocalist has plenty of variety and range...just can't write lyrics for shit. |
| Iress Solace |
| Iron Maiden Killers |
| James Blunt Once Upon a Mind |
| James Blunt Some Kind of Trouble |
| Johnny Goth The Great Awakening |
The first 4 tracks and the album closer are pretty strong, the rest just leans a little too far into cheesy goth, faux-spooky territory for me.
3.4 |
| JPEGMAFIA and Danny Brown Scaring the Hoes |
| Julien Baker Sprained Ankle |
| Karen Elson The Ghost Who Walks |
| Karen Elson Double Roses |
| Karnivool Sound Awake |
| Kataklysm Unconquered |
| Katatonia The Great Cold Distance |
| Katatonia Viva Emptiness |
| Kerry King From Hell I Rise |
| Killswitch Engage This Consequence |
| Killswitch Engage As Daylight Dies |
| Killswitch Engage Incarnate |
| Kingdom of Giants Passenger |
| Kingdom of Giants All the Hell You've Got to Spare |
| Kittie Spit |
| Knocked Loose A Tear in the Fabric of Life |
| Korn MTV Unplugged: Korn |
| Korn Live and Rare |
How many people out there like TO FUCK!?
Great live tracks but, even if you're counting
the two songs from Woodstock as 'rare', then
that's only 4 tracks total - needs way more to
justify the title. |
| Korn Neidermeyers Mind |
| Kottonmouth Kings Royal Highness |
| Definitely could do with a fair bit of trimming (Big Hoss, Dog's Life & Psychedelic Funk immediately come to mind), but overall this is a pretty great, eclectic, Cypress Hill meets Beastie Boys meets West Coast rap meets...something album. |
| Kublai Khan TX Exhibition of Prowess |
| L.S. Dunes Violet |
| Lamb of God Lamb of God |
| Limp Bizkit Gold Cobra |
| Lindemann Skills In Pills |
| Linkin Park Reanimation |
| Linkin Park From Zero |
| LizZard Eroded |
| LL Cool J Radio |
| Lord of the Lost Judas |
Now sure how I ended up listening to a 104 minute, Judas-themed, double concept album by an unheard of (to me) German, gothic/industrial metal band...but here we are.
And it's pretty fucking good. Like a bastard hybrid of HIM, Deathstars & Rammstein with a sprinkling of Nightwish on top. The only thing preventing a higher rating is that it doesn't quite justify it's extravagant length. |
| Lupe Fiasco Drill Music in Zion |
| Machine Head The Burning Red |
| Machine Head Arrows in Words from the Sky |
| Make Them Suffer How to Survive a Funeral |
| Malevolence Self Supremacy |
| Maruja Pain to Power |
| Mental Cruelty A Hill to Die Upon |
An interesting hybrid of symphonic black metal & deathcore, with the former being noticeably
better done than the latter. A few of the breakdowns, riffs & downtempo sections are pretty good,
but quite often they are fairly uninspired and are just heavy for the sake of being heavy. They
miss the mark too many times, which often lets down the epic black metal sections the precede it.
More black metal, more atmospheric passages & less deathcore please. If they could get the blend
right, there could be something epic here - at the moment it's good, but a bit too confused. They
can do it for sure - The Left Hand Path is epic.
The stupid pig squeals can just fucking do one though. |
| Meshuggah Nothing |
| Meshuggah obZen |
| Meshuggah Immutable |
| Meshuggah Contradictions Collapse |
| Metallica ...And Justice For All |
| Metallica Reload |
| Metallica Death Magnetic |
| Metallica Hardwired...To Self-Destruct |
| Ministry The Mind Is a Terrible Thing to Taste |
| Ministry Moral Hygiene |
| Misery Index Retaliate |
| Mizmor and Thou Myopia |
| Mogwai Come On Die Young |
| Mondaze Late Bloom |
| Monolord No Comfort |
| Monolord Your Time To Shine |
| Monuments (UK) Gnosis |
| Monuments (UK) Phronesis |
| Moodring Showmetherealyou |
| Moodring Stargazer |
| Morrissey You Are the Quarry |
| Morrissey Ringleader of the Tormentors |
| Motionless In White Graveyard Shift |
| Mountainscape Iridescent |
| Mountainscape Atoms Unfurling |
| Mr. Bungle The Raging Wrath Of The Easter Bunny |
| Mudvayne L.D. 50 |
| Muse Will of the People |
| Nas King’s Disease |
| Nate Dogg Nate Dogg |
| Ne Obliviscaris Exul |
| Nero Into the Unknown |
| never easy it never gets easier |
The Deftones-inspired, shoegazey brand of alt/nu metal continues to gain traction and never easy enter the market with their short, enjoyable but slightly homogenous debut album.
Enjoy the sound this duo create, although the short track lengths potentially suggest they lack the ability to flesh their (good) ideas out into full 3, 4, 5+ minute songs. It feels like several songs just end when they should be progressing or evolving. It might just be a stylistic choice, it might not be - demo-type vibes.
3.4 |
| Norma Jean Deathrattle Sing for Me |
| Normandie Inguz |
| Norther Death Unlimited |
| Norther Till Death Unites Us |
| Norther N |
| Northlane Singularity |
| Northlane Mirror's Edge |
| Nova Twins Nova Twins EP |
| Oceans Ate Alaska Disparity |
| Odraza Rzeczom |
| Solid black metal album. Starts well but loses its way through tracks 3-5, before regaining momentum in the second half, finishing with an excellent final track. Some interesting influences and ideas scattered throughout - some work, some really don't. |
| Of Mice and Men Echo |
| Olivia Dean Messy |
| One Minute Silence Fragmented Armageddon |
| Opeth Orchid |
| Palaye Royale Fever Dream |
| Paleface Swiss Cursed |
| Pantera Cowboys from Hell |
| Papa Roach 5 Tracks Deep |
| Papa Roach Let 'Em Know |
| Paradise Lost The Plague Within |
| Paradise Lost Medusa |
| Paradise Lost One Second |
| Paradise Lost Believe In Nothing |
| Paramore Paramore |
| Perturbator Lustful Sacraments |
| Pest Control Don't Test the Pest |
| Phinehas Dark Flag |
| Phoebe Bridgers Punisher |
| Pijn Loss |
| Pinkshift Love Me Forever |
| Placebo Black Market Music |
| Placebo Without You I'm Nothing |
| Polar Everywhere, Everything |
| Polaris The Death of Me |
| Pridelands Natives |
| Pridelands Any Colour You Desire |
| Profiler Profiler |
| Profiler A Digital Nowhere |
| Public Enemy It Takes A Nation (...) To Hold Us Back |
| Public Enemy Fear Of A Black Planet |
| Pusha T It's Almost Dry |
| Queens of the Stone Age Songs for the Deaf |
| Raekwon Only Built 4 Cuban Linx... |
| Red Fang Arrows |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers Unlimited Love |
| Rex 3 |
| Rise Against The Black Market |
| Rise Against Nowhere Generation |
| Rivers of Nihil The Work |
| Rolo Tomassi Astraea |
| Rolo Tomassi Grievances |
| Run-D.M.C. Run DMC |
| Seether Si Vis Pacem, Para Bellum |
| Sentenced Down |
| Sentenced Shadows Of The Past |
| Septicflesh Modern Primitive |
| Septicflesh Communion |
| Shadow Of Intent Primordial |
| Shallowater God's Gonna Give You a Million Dollars |
| Shape of Despair Return To The Void |
| She Must Burn Umbra Mortis |
| She Said Destroy Succession |
| Siamese Home |
| Sigur Ros ÁTTA |
| Sigur Ros Agætis byrjun |
| Silent Planet Superbloom |
| Silly Goose The Streets Heard It First |
| SiM Thank God... |
| Skindred Smile |
| Skrillex F*ck U Skrillex You Think Ur Andy Warhol… |
| Slayer God Hates Us All |
| Slint Spiderland |
| Slipknot All Hope Is Gone |
| Slipknot The End, So Far |
| Slowdive Just for a Day |
| Slowdive Pygmalion |
| Soen Imperial |
| Soilwork A Predator's Portrait |
| Soilwork Overgivenheten |
| Songs: Ohia Ghost Tropic |
| Soulfly 3 |
| Soulfly Prophecy |
| Soulfly Dark Ages |
| Soulfly Totem |
| Soundtrack (Film) Judgement Night |
| Speed (AUS) Gang Called Speed |
| Speed (AUS) Only One Mode |
| Spineshank Strictly Diesel |
| It took me quite a while to get into this album and fully enjoy it (many years in fact). I always thought it was just 'alright' but, over time, the whole rawness of the album starts to hit home a bit more. Unpolished? Definitely, but there's plenty of industrial-tinged moments on here to enjoy. |
| Spiritbox Tsunami Sea |
| Stain the Canvas God Made Hell |
| A very decent, if not particularly groundbreaking metalcore album. Draws more from the melodic side of the genre although does definitely have its heavier moments. Even a couple of gothic tinges here & there to keep things mildly interesting. Worth a listen. |
| Stand Atlantic F.E.A.R. |
| Best release from these guys so far. Brings a more aggressive, confrontational attitude compared to their previous two albums, yet somehow manages to dial up the catchiness even further. |
| Static-X Cannibal Killers Live |
| Stick to Your Guns Spectre |
| Sum 41 Heaven :x: Hell |
| Swallow the Sun Moonflowers |
| Sweet Pill Where the Heart Is |
Take Paramore's 'Brand New Eyes', dial down the pop punk, turn up the emo then add some twinkly, twiddly guitars.
I like it.
3.7 |
| Sweet Spine C-Section |
| Sylosis A Sign of Things to Come |
| Sylvaine Nova |
| System of a Down Mezmerize |
| System of a Down Hypnotize |
| Taylor Swift Speak Now |
| Teen Suicide Honeybee Table at the Butterfly Feast |
| Telomere (CAN) Where Are We Still |
| The Acacia Strain Wormwood |
| The Acacia Strain Slow Decay |
| The Acacia Strain The Dead Walk |
| The Animal In Me Words & Actions |
| The Animal In Me Who's Laughing Now |
| The Avalanches Wildflower |
| The Black Dahlia Murder Verminous |
| The Black Dahlia Murder Miasma |
| The Blackout The Best in Town |
| The Callous Daoboys Celebrity Therapist |
| The Chemical Brothers For That Beautiful Feeling |
| The Crown Royal Destroyer |
| This is a fun listen. Didn't even realise these guys were still about, so nice surprise to hear them still sounding strong. I checked out after 'Crowned in Terror' as I was a bit of a Tomas Lindberg fan back in the day (Deathrace King was pretty great as well), but this has inspired me to check out everything else they done in that time. As for the album - great thrash-death with a few melodeath flourishes here and here. Pretty relentless throughout. |
| The Distillers Coral Fang |
| The Haunted Made Me Do It |
| The Haunted One Kill Wonder |
| The Haunted Songs Of Last Resort |
| The Knife Silent Shout |
| The Ocean Holocene |
| The Ocean Precambrian |
| The Offspring The Offspring |
| The Offspring Rise and Fall, Rage and Grace |
| The Smashing Pumpkins Siamese Dream |
| The Weight of Atlas The Art of Letting Go Pt. 1 |
| The Word Alive Dark Matter |
| The Young Hearts Everything We Left Behind |
| The Young Hearts Honestly, I’m Just Thinking |
| The Young Hearts The Modern State |
The sounds of the early EPs mostly translate well into a full length of similar quality. There's a few choice cuts on here that are worth checking out (e.g. London, Fool's Gold, Anchors) and there's nothing outright bad on here, just a few dull and/or
pedestrian moments that prevent this from taking the next step.
3.4 |
| Thergothon Stream From The Heavens |
| Thrice Vheissu |
| Throes (USA) In The Hands Of An Angry God |
Saw that these guys are playing a gig locally, so gave this a spin to check them out.
What I found was a thicc, relentless, sludgy assault on the senses. Just enough variation with frenetic pace of Bat Meat & Fang and the lighter touches of Disillusions to balance to the soupy riffs & breakdowns that form the majority of this record.
Buying tickets now. |
| Thy Art Is Murder Human Target |
| Thy Catafalque Vadak |
| Tigercub The Perfume of Decay |
| Tigress (UK) Like It Is |
| Tigress (UK) Who Cares |
| Tim Hecker No Highs |
| Touche Amore Lament |
| Tribulation Where The Gloom Becomes Sound |
| Trivium The Sin and the Sentence |
| Trivium In Waves |
| Ulcerate Stare Into Death and Be Still |
| Underside Satan In Your Stereo |
| Uniform Shame |
| Loud, abrasive & obnoxious music with more than a hint of Keith Flint at his most aggressive in the vocal delivery. Some tasty black metal & thrash passages thrown into the cacophony of industrial noise for good measure as well. |
| Unreqvited Beautiful Ghosts |
| Unreqvited A Pathway to the Moon |
| Vader Solitude in Madness |
| VCTMS Vol. IV: Numb The Ache |
| Vein.fm This World Is Going to Ruin You |
| Venom Prison Erebos |
| Vince Guaraldi Trio A Charlie Brown Christmas |
| Vitalic Voyager |
| Voices London |
| Voices Frightened |
| Void of Vision Broken // Bones |
| Void of Vision What I'll Leave Behind |
A decent effort by the band, but I can't help feeling slightly disappointed with it. The album picks up right where the 'Chronicles' EPs/compilation left off which is great, but things slowly get mellower and a little poppier as the album progresses, like you're hearing the band make a slight transformation into modern day Architects. Don't get me wrong, their sound has hardly been far from the mainstream, but this is them at their most overt with pop metal tendencies.
There's plenty of good moments throughout this album but, as the other soundoff mentioned, the album ends with an absolute dud that leaves a bit of a sour taste in the mouth.
3.4 |
| Volbeat Servant of the Mind |
At times I get the feeling that I'm listening to two separate albums fused together...and not always perfectly so. Still an enjoyable listen for the most part though, very Metallica-esque in places.
Wait A Minute My Girl needs to be killed with fire though. The fuck is that song even doing on the album, let alone track #2? |
| VUKOVI NULA |
| Wage War Blueprints |
| Wage War Deadweight |
| Wargasm (UK) Venom |
| Warning The Strength to Dream |
| Warren G Regulate...G Funk Era |
| We Came As Romans Cold Like War |
| We Came As Romans Darkbloom |
| Wheatus Wheatus |
| While She Sleeps So What? |
| White Lies As I Try Not to Fall Apart |
| Whitechapel A New Era of Corruption |
| Whitechapel Our Endless War |
| Whitechapel Hymns in Dissonance |
| Wiegedood De Doden Hebben Het Goed |
| Wiegedood De Doden Hebben Het Goed II |
| Winterfylleth The Reckoning Dawn |
| Within the Ruins Phenomena II |
| Wode Burn in Many Mirrors |
| Wolves in the Throne Room Primordial Arcana |
| Wu-Tang Clan Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) |
| Xzibit Man vs. Machine |
| Year of No Light Consolamentum |
| Zebrahead III.II. |
| Zulu A New Tomorrow |
| 3.0 good |
| '68 Yes, and... |
| ...and Oceans Cypher |
| 1914 Where Fear and Weapons Meet |
| 36 Crazyfists In the Skin |
| A.A. Williams Songs from Isolation |
| Accept Too Mean To Die |
| Adema Adema |
| After the Burial Rareform |
| Afterlife (USA-FL) Vicious Cycle |
| Alkaline Trio E.P. |
| Alkaline Trio/Hot Water Music Alkaline Trio/Hot Water Music Split |
| All Them Witches Nothing as the Ideal |
| Alpha Wolf Half Living Things |
| Amon Amarth The Great Heathen Army |
| Amorphis The Karelian Isthmus |
| Amorphis Tales From The Thousand Lakes |
| Amorphis Elegy |
| Anaal Nathrakh Desideratum |
| Any Given Day Everlasting |
| Architects The Classic Symptoms of a Broken Spirit |
| Architects Daybreaker |
| Architects The Sky, the Earth & All Between |
| At the Gates With Fear I Kiss the Burning Darkness |
| Atreyu The Beautiful Dark of Life |
| Atreyu Baptize |
| Audn Vökudraumsins fangi |
| Avenged Sevenfold Avenged Sevenfold |
| BABYMETAL The Other One |
| Badflower This Is How the World Ends |
| Bambie Thug Cathexis |
| Biffy Clyro A Celebration of Endings |
| Biffy Clyro Puzzle |
| Black Thought and El Michels Affair Glorious Game |
| BLACKGOLD BLACKGOLD |
| Promising nu & rap metal tinged EP. A bit cringe & immature in places but the riffs are thick & it's mostly a fun ride throughout. |
| Body Void Bury Me Beneath This Rotting Earth |
| Brand of Sacrifice God Hand |
| Breakdowns At Tiffany's Eternal Lords |
| Brian Head Welch Save Me From Myself |
| Bring Me The Horizon POST HUMAN: SURVIVAL HORROR |
| Brodequin Harbinger of Woe |
| Bullet For My Valentine Bullet for My Valentine |
| Burial ANTIDAWN EP |
| Bury Tomorrow Will You Haunt Me, With That Same Patience |
| Calva Louise Over The Threshold |
| Cannibal Corpse Violence Unimagined |
| Carcass Torn Arteries |
| Caribou Honey |
| Carnifex Necromanteum |
| Caskets Reflections |
| Celestial Sanctuary Insatiable Thirst For Torment |
| Chase and Status Brand New Machine |
| Chat Pile God's Country |
| Cirith Ungol Forever Black |
| Cirith Ungol Half Past Human |
| Clutch Sunrise On Slaughter Beach |
| Cober Mouth Cober Mouth |
| Cober Mouth Untethered |
| Code Orange The Above |
| Corey Taylor CMF2 |
| CRASHFACE HEAVY INFECTIOUS |
| Cynic Ascension Codes |
| Danny Brown Quaranta |
| Dark Funeral We Are the Apocalypse |
| Darko (US) Darko |
| Dead Sara Ain't It Tragic |
| Death Angel The Evil Divide |
| Ded School of Thought |
| A couple of really dodgy tracks, but mostly this is a fun listen. Definitely the lowest common denominator nu-metal with plenty of radio-friendly overtones and some cringy lyrics, but there's a few meaty riffs scattered throughout and it's hella catchy in places. |
| Demon Hunter True Defiance |
| Denzel Curry Zuu |
| Denzel Curry TA13OO |
| Denzel Curry King of the Mischievous South Vol. 2 |
| Depeche Mode Memento Mori |
| Dinosaur Pile-Up Celebrity Mansions |
| Disturbed Indestructible |
| Dope Life |
| Dope Blood Money Part Zer0 |
| Dope Stars Inc. Gigahearts |
| Dustin Kensrue Desert Dreaming |
| Elder (USA-MA) Omens |
| Electric Callboy TEKKNO |
| Eminem The Death of Slim Shady (Coup De Grâce) |
| Employed To Serve Greyer than You Remember |
| END (USA-NJ) The Sin of Human Frailty |
| Esprit D'Air Oceans |
| Evergrey The Dark Discovery |
| Evergrey The Inner Circle |
| Ex Deo The Thirteen Years of Nero |
| Explosions in the Sky End |
| Eyes Set to Kill Eyes Set to Kill |
| Fatboy Slim You've Come A Long Way, Baby |
| Fear and The Nervous System Fear and The Nervous System |
| Fever Ray Radical Romantics |
| Fit for a King The Hell We Create |
| Fit for a King The Path |
| Fit for an Autopsy Hellbound |
Definitely an improvement over the debut. A
couple of really good tracks, but overall not a
whole lot to keep me coming back for repeated
listens. I don't mind deathcore, but it needs
more for it to really grab my attention.
3.2 |
| Florence Black Bed Of Nails |
| Unless there's a Merthyr Tydfil in Tennessee or Alabama or something, you'd never guess these guys are from Wales. Southern tinged butt rock designed is the order of the day here and, despite a couple of missteps (e.g. Taxman), is generally pretty competently done with its fair share of hooks and riffs. |
| Flyleaf Flyleaf |
| Four Tet Three |
| Frank Turner England Keep My Bones |
| Frank Turner Positive Songs for Negative People |
| Frank Turner Undefeated |
| Freddie Gibbs and The Alchemist Alfredo |
| Gel (USA-NJ) Only Constant |
| Gel (USA-NJ) Violent Closure |
| Ghost (SWE) Impera |
| Ghost (SWE) Infestissumam |
| Ghost (SWE) Meliora |
| Godsmack Godsmack |
| Godsmack Awake |
| Good Night and Good Morning Narrowing Type |
| Graphic Nature New Skin |
| Harsh, abrasive & djenty industrialized nu-metalcore...type thing. Lacks refinement but it sure is a fun 4-track blast. |
| Greg Puciato Child Soldier: Creator of God |
| Halocene Vita Nova |
| Hatebreed Weight of the False Self |
| HEALTH DISCO4 :: Part I |
| Heart of a Coward This place only brings death |
| Helpless Debt |
| Helpless Caged In Gold |
Supporting Throes tomorrow. Blistering start to the album but wore me out a bit towards its conclusion. Will return to this again when I feel refreshed.
3.2 |
| HIM Dark Light |
| Hum Inlet |
| Ice Cube War & Peace Vol. 1 (The War Disc) |
| Ill Nino One Nation Underground |
| Immolation Acts of God |
| In Flames I, the Mask |
| In Flames Lunar Strain |
| In Flames Sounds of a Playground Fading |
| Incubus (USA-CA) S.C.I.E.N.C.E. |
| Inhuman Condition Rat°God |
| InMe White Butterfly |
| InVisions Between You & Me |
| Iron Maiden Senjutsu |
| James Blake Playing Robots Into Heaven |
| James Blunt Who We Used to Be |
| James Brown James Brown's Funky Christmas |
| Jesse Sykes and The Sweet Hereafter Like, Love, Lust & the Open Halls of the Soul |
| Jesse Sykes and The Sweet Hereafter Forever, I've Been Being Born |
| Jinjer Wallflowers |
| Jonathan Hulten Chants from Another Place |
Came back to this for a couple of spin in light of his upcoming new release. Starts off well for the first 3-4 tracks, but wavers a little bit mid-record and then mostly loses me by the end.
3.1 |
| Jonathan Hulten Eyes Of The Living Night |
| Joy Division Unknown Pleasures |
| Joy Division Closer |
| JPEGMAFIA LP! |
| Julien Baker and Torres Send a Prayer My Way |
| Katatonia Nightmares as Extensions of the Waking State |
| Killswitch Engage Atonement |
| Korn Korn III: Remember Who You Are |
| Korn The Path of Totality |
| Kulk It Gets Worse |
| Kvelertak Splid |
| L.S. Dunes Past Lives |
| Lewis Capaldi Divinely Uninspired to a Hellish Extent |
| Light the Torch You Will Be the Death of Me |
| Limp Bizkit The Unquestionable Truth - Part I |
| Lindemann F And M |
| LLNN Unmaker |
| Low Hey What |
| Machine Head Catharsis |
| Make Them Suffer Make Them Suffer |
| Metallica Load |
| Metallica St. Anger |
| Metallica 72 Seasons |
| Mimi Barks DEADGIRL |
| Mobb Deep The Infamous |
| Mogwai The Bad Fire |
| Morrissey I Am Not a Dog on a Chain |
| Motionless In White Creatures |
| Motionless In White Disguise |
| Mountainscape Acceptance |
| Municipal Waste Electrified Brain |
| Muse The Resistance |
| Muse Drones |
| N.E.R.D. In Search Of |
| Napalm Death Throes of Joy in the Jaws of Defeatism |
| Northlane Obsidian |
| Northlane Node |
| Northlane Mesmer |
| Oceans of Slumber Oceans of Slumber |
| Some very good moments on this album, but it is very long & does drag in places. Could definitely do with some trimming. Having said that, I feel this album could reward me further with repeated listens, so will return at some point. |
| Omnium Gatherum Origin |
| Opeth Pale Communion |
| Opeth In Cauda Venenum |
| Opeth The Last Will and Testament |
| P.O.D. Fundamental Elements of Southtown |
| Palaye Royale The Bastards |
| Panopticon ...And Again into the Light |
| Papa Roach Metamorphosis |
| Papa Roach Who Do You Trust? |
| Paramore This Is Why |
| Parkway Drive Reverence |
| Pijn Floodlit |
| Poppy Flux |
| Queens of the Stone Age In Times New Roman... |
| Red House Painters Red House Painters |
| Replicant Malignant Reality |
| Revocation Netherheaven |
| Rise Against Wolves |
| Rob Zombie The Lunar Injection Kool Aid Eclipse Conspiracy |
| Rope Sect The Great Flood |
| Royal Republic Club Majesty |
| Run-D.M.C. King Of Rock |
| ScHoolboy Q Blue Lips |
| Scowl (USA-CA) How Flowers Grow |
| Sentenced Amok |
| Sentenced North From Here |
| Sentinels (US) Collapse by Design |
| Sepultura Quadra |
| Seven Spires Gods Of Debauchery |
Have to agree with Panzerchrist, there is lots of enjoyment to be found within this album, but it's about 30 minutes too long. It really starts to drag after a while, no matter how bombastic the music might be.
And yes, Lightbringer is a fucking dreadful song. |
| Sevendust Sevendust |
| Shadow Of Intent Reclaimer |
| Signs Of The Swarm Amongst The Low And Empty |
| Slaughter To Prevail Kostolom |
| Deathcore Slipknot is about right for this record. Also got some deathcore Bloodywood vibes at times which I found pretty amusing. |
| Slayer World Painted Blood |
| Sleep Token This Place Will Become Your Tomb |
| Sleep Token Take Me Back to Eden |
| Snoop Dogg and Dr. Dre Missionary |
| Sonic Syndicate Only Inhuman |
| SOUL GLO Diaspora Problems |
| Spiritbox Rotoscope |
| Spite Dedication to Flesh |
| Stand Atlantic Skinny Dipping |
| Static-X Cannibal |
| Static-X Beneath... Between... Beyond |
| Stepa Stepa |
| Taylor Swift The Life of a Showgirl |
| Taylor Swift Midnights |
| Taylor Swift Folklore |
| Testament Titans of Creation |
| The Acacia Strain Step Into The Light |
| The All-American Rejects Kids in the Street |
| The Bronx The Bronx VI |
| The Cure The Cure |
| The Hunna The Hunna |
| The Offspring Let the Bad Times Roll |
Put this on again as a pre-cursor to the new album. I still think it's pretty decent and a fair bit of fun, although can totally appreciate the flaws this thing has. Strip out the crap (We Never have Sex Anymore, In The Hall... & Lullaby) and you're left with a pretty tight, 9 track selection. However, what's left is also sub-28 minutes which is very lean for a full LP, particularly for one 9 years in the making. Couple that with one song being a 6-year old (at the time) single and another being a re-make of an older song and you're not left with much new material.
I think this would have landed pretty well if it had better production and was released as a 6/7-track EP. But they added some filler and let Bob Rock fly the plane...so here we are.
3.2 |
| The Offspring Ignition |
| The Offspring Splinter |
| The Offspring Supercharged |
| The Struts Pretty Vicious |
| It's a little uneven and it's certainly not a genre of rock that I'm much of a fan of...but I liked this more than I thought I would, with one or two genuinely great tracks. |
| The Veer Divide The Blackened Sky |
| The Weeknd Dawn FM |
| The Word Alive Deceiver |
| The Young Hearts Somewhere Through The Night |
| Thou Umbilical |
| Three Days Grace Three Days Grace |
| Three Days Grace Explosions |
| Times of Grace Songs of Loss and Separation |
| Trenches Reckoner |
| Underoath Voyeurist |
| Until I Wake Inside My Head |
| Venom Prison Samsara |
| VV (FIN) Neon Noir |
| Wargasm (UK) The Mixxxtape |
| Wayne Static Pighammer |
| While She Sleeps You Are We |
| White Lies Ritual |
| Whitechapel The Somatic Defilement |
| Whitechapel This Is Exile |
| Whitechapel Mark of the Blade |
| Wiegedood There's Always Blood at the End of the Road |
| Witterquick Witterquick |
| Wizardthrone Hypercube Necrodimensions |
Imagine listening to Children of Bodom and thinking there's not nearly enough pomp, keyboards & cheese in their songs.
Wizardthrone did something about that. |
| Wormwitch Wormwitch |
| Xzibit Weapons Of Mass Destruction |
| YONAKA Seize The Power |
| A bit forgettable through the first few tracks, but livens up enough for the second half to make it a short but decent listen. |
| Zao The Crimson Corridor |
| Zulu My People... Hold On |
| 2.5 average |
| 213 The Hard Way |
| A Forest of Stars Grave Mounds and Grave Mistakes |
| A Wilhelm Scream Lose Your Delusion |
| Alien Weaponry Tangaroa |
| Lacks a bit of immediacy & conciseness - some tracks drag on for a bit too long without developing enough and the album itself is fairly lengthy. The production and overall sound gives me late-90's groove/nu metal vibes - it's nostalgic and echoes early Sevendust for me, but ultimately it leaves a lot of tracks lacking punch. |
| Alter Bridge Pawns and Kings |
| Amanda Tenfjord In Hindsight |
| Amorphis Far from the Sun |
| An Autumn As The Morning Dawns We Close Our Eyes |
I quite like the overall sound of this album & the general musical direction, but the vocals just do not fit with at least 80% of the material composed on this album. The synths, layered instruments & general mood of the album just don't work with the raw, lo-fi, black metal screams.
Occasionally the music ups the tempo and the atmosphere darkens enough for the two to come closer together, but not nearly often enough. |
| AngelMaker Dissentient |
| Any Given Day Limitless |
| Architects For Those That Wish to Exist |
| Architects The Here and Now |
| Archspire Bleed the Future |
| Asking Alexandria See What's On the Inside |
| Some really cringey bits, some really catchy bits...and a whole truckload of middling, derivative, average hard rock bits. |
| At the Gates The Red in the Sky Is Ours |
| Avatar Dance Devil Dance |
| Bad Omens The Death of Peace of Mind |
| Beauty School Dropout READY TO EAT |
| Between the Buried and Me Colors II |
| Beyond Grace Our Kingdom Undone |
| Billy Talent Crisis Of Faith |
| Black Stone Cherry The Human Condition |
| Blood Command Praise Armageddonism |
| Blut Aus Nord Disharmonium - Undreamable Abysses |
| Blut Aus Nord Disharmonium – Nahab |
| Bon Iver SABLE, fABLE |
| Bring Me The Horizon POST HUMAN: NeX GEn |
| Burden of the Sky Burn |
| Calvin Harris Funk Wav Bounces Vol. 2 |
Definitely some decent smooth & funky beats on here but, like other's have said, the guest features are mostly pretty terrible.
And that's before we get the borderline offensive overuse of autotune and vocal effects... |
| Cane Hill Kill the Sun |
| Chappell Roan The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess |
| Charlotte Sands can we start over? |
| Chase and Status Tribe |
| Chelsea Grin Suffer In Hell |
| Chuck Ragan It's Better In The Wind (Soundtrack) |
| Converge Bloodmoon: I |
| Crippling Alcoholism With Love from a Padded Room |
| Darkthrone Astral Fortress |
| Dayseeker Dark Sun |
| DeathbyRomy Entropy |
| Deathspell Omega The Long Defeat |
| Deftones Adrenaline |
| Not entirely sure why people are claiming this is anything more than a very average n metal debut album, more so considering the savaging that particular genre gets. |
| Disturbed Asylum |
| Disturbed Evolution |
| Disturbed Immortalized |
| Disturbed Divisive |
| Duran Duran Danse Macabre |
| Earl Sweatshirt Sick! |
| Eighteen Visions 1996 |
| Elvis Presley Christmas Album |
| Employed To Serve Fallen Star |
| Empyrium Über den Sternen |
| Enslaved Utgard |
| Everything Everything Mountainhead |
| Evile Hell Unleashed |
| Faith No More Angel Dust |
| fallfiftyfeet Twisted World Perspective |
| Fit for an Autopsy The Process of Human Extermination |
| Flying Lotus Flamagra |
| Foxblood (AUS) Grief and Mercy Sleep |
| A definite step down from their debut. The new vocalist just isn't as strong as the previous one and the whole album takes a bit of a hit. It's not bad and might take another spin or two to sink in, but it's hardly drawing me back to it. |
| Fragment Soul Axiom Of Choice |
| Frank Carter and the Rattlesnakes Dark Rainbow |
| Frank Turner Be More Kind |
| Front Line Assembly Mechanical Soul |
| Galaxie 500 On Fire |
| Ghost (SWE) Opus Eponymous |
| Godsmack Lighting Up The Sky |
| Guano Apes Proud Like A God |
| GWAR The New Dark Ages |
| Haken Fauna |
| Heilung Drif |
| Hinder Extreme Behavior |
| Holding Absence The Greatest Mistake of My Life |
| Hoobastank Hoobastank |
| HotWax A Thousand Times |
| Hundred Reasons Glorious Sunset |
| Hurts Faith |
| A definite cut above Desire, with a moodier atmosphere and some nods to their earlier work (always welcome). Still some serious missteps on here still, but overall it just about shows these guys aren't dead just yet. |
| Hypocrisy The Arrival |
| I Prevail TRUE POWER |
| I Prevail TRAUMA |
| In Flames A Sense of Purpose |
| Infected Rain Asylum |
Save for some of the dubstep influences in 'At The Bottom Of The Bottle', this album mostly sounds like it was recorded in 1998, not 2011. I don't know if the nu-metal craze hit Moldova later than most places, but this draws on almost all of turn-of-the-century tropes from said genre, for better and for worse.
Turntable scratching, funky basslines, rapped verses, hip hop influences, thick, down-tuned riffs - they're all here. There's definitely some promise evident, but it's rough round the edges and there are more than one or two misguided ideas (e.g. Butterfly). It's also quite a long record which makes things quite bloated given the musical direction taken lends itself better to shorter, punchier tracks. This is reflected in the better tracks tend to be on the shorter side. Trim the fat off a couple of songs and leave 2 or 3 on the cutting room floor and you would have a more cohesive package I feel.
2.7 |
| Ingested Ashes Lie Still |
| InMe Jumpstart Hope |
| Jesse Sykes and The Sweet Hereafter Marble Son |
| Jonathan Davis Black Labyrinth |
| Karen Elson Green |
| Kendrick Lamar Mr. Morale and the Big Steppers |
| LANDMVRKS Lost in the Waves |
| Linkin Park Living Things |
| Linkin Park The Hunting Party |
| Machine Head Civil Unrest |
| Magdalena Bay Imaginal Disk |
| Mastiff Leave Me The Ashes Of The Earth |
| MGMT Loss of Life |
| Midnight Rebirth by Blasphemy |
| Mike and Tony Seltzer Pinball |
| Mojave 3 Out Of Tune |
| Moonspell Hermitage |
| Mr. Bungle California |
| Muse The 2nd Law |
| Mushroomhead XIII |
| Necrot Mortal |
| Noctule Wretched Abyss |
| Normandie Dopamine |
| Normandie Dark & Beautiful Secrets |
| Of Mice and Men Tether |
| Omerta Hyperviolence |
| Opeth Sorceress |
| Opeth Heritage |
| Orgy Vapor Transmission |
| Osiah Kairos |
| Our Hollow, Our Home Burn in the Flood |
The music here is (mostly) alright, but those cheesy, generic pop-punk clean vocals scattered all over this thing are just horrible. Shit like Better Daze (and, to a lesser extent Nerv) are prime examples of this, although they are capable of bangers like Children of Manus. How both are placed on the same album is perplexing and beyond me.
I might have missed it earlier in the album, but they introduce a couple of rapped verses in the last two tracks, one being some disgusting acousto-rap aberration.
A VERY mixed bag. |
| P.O.D. Satellite |
| Pallbearer Forgotten Days |
| Parkway Drive Darker Still |
| Powerman 5000 Tonight the Stars Revolt |
| Powerwolf Blood of the Saints |
| Pupil Slicer Mirrors |
| Puscifer Existential Reckoning |
| Sallow Moth Stasis Cocoon |
| Set It Off Elsewhere |
| Sharptooth Transitional Forms |
| Shinedown Planet Zero |
| Silverstein Misery Made Me |
| Slaughter To Prevail Misery Sermon |
| Smile Empty Soul Black Pilled |
| Soft Play Acts of Fear and Love |
| Soundtrack (Film) Spawn: The Album |
| Spirit Adrift Enlightened In Eternity |
| Stand Atlantic Pink Elephant |
| Stand Atlantic Was Here |
Disappointed. Feels like they've leaned too far into their genre-mashing and forgot to include their base ingredient - pop punk. I liked their previous album and there's some decent bits on here, but the bad outweighed the good on the first listen. I will return to see if anything else sinks in, but for now...
2.4 |
| Suffering Hour The Cyclic Reckoning |
| Suicide Silence Become The Hunter |
| Suicide Silence Remember...You Must Die |
| Swedish House Mafia Paradise Again |
| Tendrils (UK) LONG DEAD |
| The Amity Affliction Everyone Loves You... Once You Leave Them |
| The Armed Ultrapop |
| The Blue Stones Pretty Monster |
| The Disaster Area Alpha // Omega |
| The For Carnation The For Carnation |
| The Gathering Beautiful Distortion |
| The Offspring Days Go By |
| The Pretty Reckless Death By Rock and Roll |
| The Ruins of Beverast The Thule Grimoires |
| The Word Alive Monomania |
| Those Damn Crows Inhale/Exhale |
A couple of bright(ish) spots on this album, but overall just your standard, run of the mill butt rock album.
2.6 |
| Tiesto Drive |
| Turnstile Glow On |
| Tyler, the Creator Call Me If You Get Lost |
| Undeath It's Time...To Rise From the Grave |
| Venom Prison Animus |
| Videodrone Videodrone |
| Extra +0.5 for the JD & Fred Durst guest spots & the L.A.P.D. cover. The rest is pretty poor & loooooonnng. |
| Volumes Happier? |
| Wage War Pressure |
| Wage War Manic |
| Wardruna Kvitravn |
| Waxahatchee Tigers Blood |
| While She Sleeps Sleeps Society |
| White Lies Night Light |
| Wilderun Epigone |
| Wildways Anna |
| For every track that shows promise, there's another that is pretty trash. Shame, because there's a bit of variety on this album and the dual language approach works quite nicely. |
| Zeal and Ardor Zeal and Ardor |
