| 4.5 superb |
| Adramelech Psychostasia |
| Advent Sorrow As All Light Leaves Her |
| Agalloch Ashes Against the Grain |
| Agalloch The White |
| Amorphis Tales from the Thousand Lakes |
| Amorphis Silent Waters |
| Amorphis Under the Red Cloud |
| Arghoslent Hornets of the Pogrom |
| Ash Borer 2009 Demo |
| Autopsy Mental Funeral |
| Bathory Blood Fire Death |
| Bathory Under the Sign of the Black Mark |
| Be'lakor The Frail Tide |
| Be'lakor Vessels |
| Black Sabbath Paranoid |
| Blind Guardian Somewhere Far Beyond |
| Brutality Screams of Anguish |
| Burzum Hvis Lyset Tar Oss |
| Burzum Filosofem |
| Candlemass Epicus Doomicus Metallicus |
| Children of Bodom Hatebreeder |
| Corrupted El Mundo Frio |
| Dark Tranquillity Damage Done |
| Dark Tranquillity The Mind's I |
| Dark Tranquillity Fiction |
| Dark Tranquillity Where Death Is Most Alive |
| Darkspace Dark Space III |
| Darkspace Dark Space III I |
| Darkthrone A Blaze in the Northern Sky |
| Death The Sound of Perseverance |
| Death Symbolic |
| Deathspell Omega Paracletus |
| For all those who are sick and tired of *insert well-know metal band here* having so much hype for their new album *insert album name here* that turns out to be boring and disappointing, just listen to Paracletus, and you will know that the late months of 2010 are not all lost. Deathspell Omega have released here what is arguably the most focused and consistent album of their career, one that takes the ideas of the first two albums in their trilogy Si Monumentum Requires, Circumspice and Fas - Ite, Maledicti, in Ignem Aeternum, sifts through them, and presents on Paracletus the very best of both worlds in a tidy 42 minutes. The mind-boggling technical guitar riffs work alongside slow melodies that aren't fruity and gay, but instead appeal to the album's distinct atmosphere. If you don't like Paracletus, then by all means return to the Marrow Of The Spirit circle jerk. You won't be missed over here, I can assure you that. |
| Demilich Nespithe |
| diSEMBOWELMENT Transcendence into the Peripheral |
| Dissection Storm of the Light's Bane |
| Dissection The Somberlain |
| Dissection Reinkaos |
| Downfall of Gaia Ethic of Radical Finitude |
| Drudkh Autumn Aurora |
| Emperor Anthems to the Welkin at Dusk |
| Ensiferum Iron |
| Entombed Left Hand Path |
| Ethereal Shroud Lanterns |
| Ethereal Shroud Trisagion |
| Falls of Rauros Vigilance Perennial |
| Falls of Rauros Patterns in Mythology |
| Fauna Avifauna |
| Garden of Shadows Oracle Moon |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor F♯ A♯ ∞ |
| Heaven Shall Burn Antigone |
| Heaven Shall Burn Of Truth and Sacrifice |
| get a girl who talks to you like hsb do at the end of expatriate |
| Immolation Close to a World Below |
| Incantation Onward to Golgotha |
| Insomnium In the Halls of Awaiting |
| Insomnium Across the Dark |
| Into Eternity Buried in Oblivion |
| Iron Maiden The Number of the Beast |
| Kalmah They Will Return |
| Kalmah Swampsong |
| Katatonia Dance of December Souls |
| Katatonia Dead End Kings |
| It seems that Katatonia realized that maybe Night is the New Day was just a bit too bland to keep their sound going for an 11-track album, so they went ahead and fixed that. On Dead End Kings, we have the same eleven tracks, but we also have substance that was nowhere near present on their previous effort. Vocals that are dialed in and on-point, riffing that is still minimalist but makes itself more flowing, running with the vocal melodies while still retaining a sense of individuality. Electric guitar solos to harmonious bridges to subtle, simple clean riffs, there is something tangible here that Katatonia have not displayed for quite some time. It is a clash of serenity and brutality, with the guitar solo in "Leech" showing a side that the thunderous chords of "Dead Letters" would not reveal. The stellar production that was placed on Night is the New Day is back, and this time even better given the fact that it has more to work with and so many different shades to accentuate. It is likely that the more this spins, the better it will get, so don't be surprised to see yourself becoming more and more enthralled. |
| Kauan Sorni Nai |
| Kauan Kaiho |
| M8L8TH By the Wing of Black |
| Manilla Road Crystal Logic |
| Metallica Master of Puppets |
| Moonsorrow Verisäkeet |
| Moonsorrow Jumalten aika |
| Morbus Chron Sweven |
| Ne Obliviscaris Portal of I |
| Nokturnal Mortum Goat Horns |
| Nokturnal Mortum The Voice of Steel |
| Obliteration Black Death Horizon |
| Olafur Arnalds ...And They Have Escaped The Weight Of Darkness |
| Opeth Morningrise |
| Opeth Blackwater Park |
| Panopticon Panopticon |
| Paysage d'Hiver Steineiche |
| Paysage d'Hiver Winterkälte |
| Peste Noire La Sanie des Siècles |
| Pestilence Consuming Impulse |
| Shadows Fall The War Within |
| Spectral Lore III |
| Summoning Minas Morgul |
| Swallow the Sun The Morning Never Came |
| Taake Hordalands Doedskvad |
| Tenhi Maaaet |
| Tool Lateralus |
| Ulcerate Stare Into Death and Be Still |
| Ulver Nattens Madrigal |
| Ulver Bergtatt - Et eeventyr i 5 capitler |
| Vali Forlatt |
| Vali Skogslandskap |
| Vinterland Welcome My Last Chapter |
| Weakling Dead as Dreams |
| Wolves in the Throne Room Two Hunters |
| Wolves in the Throne Room Primordial Arcana |
| Worship Last Tape Before Doomsday |
| 4.0 excellent |
| 1349 Beyond the Apocalypse |
| 1349 Hellfire |
| Aborted Goremageddon: The Saw and the Carnage... |
| Adramelech Spring of Recovery |
| Advent Sorrow Kali Yuga Crown |
| Agalloch Of Stone, Wind and Pillor |
| Alcest Écailles De Lune |
| Aldebaran Dwellers In Twilight |
| Aldebaran Embracing the Lightless Depths |
| Amon Amarth With Oden on Our Side |
| Amon Amarth Once Sent from the Golden Hall |
| Anaal Nathrakh The Codex Necro |
| Anaal Nathrakh Vanitas |
| Anaal Nathrakh Desideratum |
| Antestor Martyrium |
| Arghoslent Incorrigible Bigotry |
| Arghoslent Galloping Through the Battle Ruins |
| Arizmenda Within the Vacuum of Infinity... |
| Arizmenda Without Circumference Nor Center |
| Ash Borer Cold of Ages |
| Ash Pool Genital Tomb |
| Asunder A Clarion Call |
| Ataraxie Slow Transcending Agony |
| Ataraxie L'être et la Nausée |
| Atrium Carceri Phrenitis |
| Autopsy Severed Survival |
| Axeman Arrive |
| Bathory Bathory |
| Bathory Hammerheart |
| Bathory Twilight of the Gods |
| Bathory is a band which really covers a broad spectrum of emotions. They have their Black Metal stuff, which is really gritty, raw, and battle-themed, and then they have albums like Twilight Of The Gods. Like more of a viking power metal sounding album, this one features insanely epic atmospheres, powerful riffs and clean vocals. Now, Quorthon is NOT a good vocalist when it comes down to his singing, and that is clearly apparent as soon as they come in. His singing is usually off key, overly cheesy, and his transitions from a high to low pitch is quite rocky and obviously troublesome. Putting that aside, though, we have a marvel of epic viking metal with some of the most insane guitar work ever to come from this band. Solos and grandiose riffs abound in this amazing spectacle of what instruments are capable of doing to human emotions, and where they are able to take us. |
| Bathory Nordland I |
| Batushka Litourgiya |
| Be'lakor Stone's Reach |
| Beherit Drawing Down the Moon |
| Beyond The Embrace Against The Elements |
| Black Sabbath Master of Reality |
| Black Sabbath Black Sabbath |
| Blasphemy Fallen Angel of Doom |
| Blind Guardian Nightfall in Middle-Earth |
| Blind Guardian Tales from the Twilight World |
| Blood Incantation Starspawn |
| Bloodbath Nightmares Made Flesh |
| Blut Aus Nord Ultima Thulee |
| Bolt Thrower Those Once Loyal |
| Bolt Thrower The IVth Crusade |
| Borknagar True North |
| Boston Boston |
| Branikald Rdjandalir |
| Burzum Det Som Engang Var |
| Burzum Burzum/Aske |
| Caladan Brood Echoes Of Battle |
| Camel Mirage |
| Camel Moonmadness |
| Candlemass Nightfall |
| Candlemass Ancient Dreams |
| Carcass Heartwork |
| Carcass Surgical Steel |
| Celtic Frost To Mega Therion |
| Cenotaph (MX) The Gloomy Reflection of Our Hidden Sorrows |
| Children of Bodom Follow the Reaper |
| Children of Bodom Something Wild |
| Coercion Forever Dead |
| Converge Axe to Fall |
| Corrupted Se Hace Por Los Suenos Asesinos |
| Corrupted Garten Der Unbewusstheit |
| Cruciamentum Charnel Passages |
| Cryptopsy None So Vile |
| Cult of Luna Salvation |
| Cult of Luna Somewhere Along the Highway |
| Dark Tranquillity Projector |
| Dark Tranquillity Of Chaos and Eternal Night |
| Darkspace Dark Space II |
| Darkthrone Under a Funeral Moon |
| Darkthrone Panzerfaust |
| Darkthrone Arctic Thunder |
| Dawn of Solace The Darkness |
| Dead Congregation Graves of the Archangels |
| Dead Congregation Promulgation of the Fall |
| Death Human |
| Deathevokation The Chalice Of Ages |
| Deathspell Omega Drought |
| Deathspell Omega The Synarchy of Molten Bones |
| Deep Mountains Deep Mountains |
| Defeater Travels |
| Demigod Slumber of Sullen Eyes |
| Diabolical Masquerade Ravendusk in my Heart |
| Diocletian War of All Against All |
| Diocletian Gesundrian |
| Discharge Hear Nothing See Nothing Say Nothing |
| Discordance Axis The Inalienable Dreamless |
| Disgrace (FIN) Inside the Labyrinth of Depression |
| Disma Towards the Megalith |
| Dismember Like an Ever Flowing Stream |
| Dissection Live Legacy |
| Dissection Rebirth Of Dissection |
| Doom Formation Definition of Evil |
| Dragged Into Sunlight Hatred For Mankind |
| Drudkh Blood In Our Wells |
| Drudkh Microcosmos |
| Drudkh They Often See Dreams About The Spring |
| Drudkh All Belong To The Night |
| Edge of Sanity Crimson |
| Edge of Sanity Purgatory Afterglow |
| Elder (USA-MA) Dead Roots Stirring |
| Electrocution Inside the Unreal |
| Elend A World in Their Screams |
| Eminem The Marshall Mathers LP |
| Emperor Emperor |
| Empyrium Where at Night the Wood Grouse Plays |
| Empyrium Weiland |
| Encoffination Ritual Ascension Beyond Flesh |
| Enochian Crescent Black Church |
| Entombed Clandestine |
| Entrails (SWE) Tales from the Morgue |
| Esoteric Paragon of Dissonance |
| Estatic Fear A Sombre Dance |
| Estatic Fear Somnium Obmutum |
| Eucharist Mirrorworlds |
| Evoken Atra Mors |
| Explosions in the Sky The Earth Is Not a Cold Dead Place |
| Eyehategod Dopesick |
| Falls of Rauros The Light That Dwells in Rotten Wood |
| Fell Voices Fell Voices |
| Fell Voices Untitled |
| Forseti Erde |
| Funebrarum Beneath the Columns of Abandoned Gods |
| Funebrarum The Sleep of Morbid Dreams |
| Garden of Shadows Heart of the Corona |
| Genesis Selling England by the Pound |
| Genesis The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway |
| Ghost (SWE) Meliora |
| Gorement The Ending Quest |
| Gorgoroth Pentagram |
| Gorguts Considered Dead |
| Gorguts From Wisdom to Hate |
| Gorguts Colored Sands |
| Grand Belial's Key Judeobeast Assassination |
| Hacksaw to the Throat Wastelands |
| Hanging Garden Inherit the Eden |
| Hate Forest Battlefields |
| Heaven Shall Burn Deaf to Our Prayers |
| Heaven Shall Burn Iconoclast (Part 1: The Final Resistance) |
| Heaven Shall Burn Iconoclast (Part 2: Bildersturm) |
| Heaven Shall Burn Veto |
| Hetsheads We Hail the Possessed... |
| Hooded Menace Fulfill the Curse |
| Horrendous Ecdysis |
| Horrendous Anareta |
| Horrendous Idol |
| Hypocrite Into the Halls of the Blind |
| Iced Earth Burnt Offerings |
| Ikuinen Kaamos Closure |
| Immolation Here in After |
| Immolation Dawn of Possession |
| Immolation Majesty and Decay |
| Immolation Providence |
| Impetuous Ritual Relentless Execution of Ceremonial Excrescence |
| In Flames The Jester Race |
| In Flames Whoracle |
| In Mourning Shrouded Divine |
| In Mourning The Weight of Oceans |
| In the Woods... Heart of the Ages |
| In Vain (NO) Mantra |
| Incantation Diabolical Conquest |
| Incantation Mortal Throne of Nazarene |
| Infester To the Depths... In Degradation |
| Iniquity Serenadium |
| Innsmouth Consumed By Elder Sign |
| Insomnium Demo '99 |
| Insomnium Shadows of the Dying Sun |
| Integrity Humanity is the Devil |
| Integrity Those Who Fear Tomorrow |
| Interment Into the Crypts of Blasphemy |
| Intestine Baalism Banquet in the Darkness |
| Inverloch Dusk|Subside |
| Iron Maiden Iron Maiden |
| Judas Iscariot Distant In Solitary Night |
| Kalisia Cybion |
| Kalmah Swamplord |
| Kalmah 12 Gauge |
| Karnarium Karnarium |
| Katatonia Brave Murder Day |
| Katatonia Teargas |
| Katatonia December Songs: A Tribute To Katatonia |
| Kauan Pirut |
| Kreator Enemy of God |
| Krypts Open the Crypt |
| Krypts Unending Degradation |
| Leviathan Scar Sighted |
| Lord Mantis Death Mask |
| Loss Despond |
| Lurk Lurk |
| Lustmord Heresy |
| M8L8TH Unbreakable Faith |
| Majesties Vast Reaches Unclaimed |
| Manilla Road Open the Gates |
| Mar De Grises Streams Inwards |
| Marduk Those of the Unlight |
| Marduk Opus Nocturne |
| Martial Barrage Call of the Serapeum |
| Massacra Final Holocaust |
| Mayhem Live in Leipzig |
| Megiddo The Devil and the Whore |
| Mercenary The Hours That Remain |
| Metallica Ride the Lightning |
| Miasmal Miasmal |
| Minenwerfer Alpenpässe |
| Mist of Misery Severance |
| Mitochondrion Archaeaeon |
| Mitochondrion Parasignosis |
| Moonsorrow Voimasta ja kunniasta |
| Moonsorrow Viides luku - Hävitetty |
| Morbid Angel Altars of Madness |
| Mournful Congregation The Book of Kings |
| Musk Ox Woodfall |
| Musk Ox Inheritance |
| My Dying Bride The Dreadful Hours |
| My Dying Bride Turn Loose the Swans |
| Nest (FIN) Woodsmoke |
| Neun Welten Vergessene Pfade |
| Neurosis The Eye of Every Storm |
| Neurosis A Sun That Never Sets |
| Neurosis Given to the Rising |
| Nightwish Oceanborn |
| Nokturnal Mortum Lunar Poetry |
| Nokturnal Mortum Weltanschauung |
| Nokturnal Mortum Twilightfall |
| Novembre Classica |
| Novembre Ursa |
| Oado Life Era |
| Obliteration Nekropsalms |
| Obtained Enslavement Witchcraft |
| October Falls Tuoni |
| October Falls The Womb of Primordial Nature |
| October Falls A Collapse of Faith |
| Olafur Arnalds Eulogy for Evolution |
| Opeth Orchid |
| Opeth Still Life |
| Opeth Damnation |
| Opeth Watershed |
| Panopticon Collapse |
| Panopticon Roads to the North |
| Pantera Cowboys from Hell |
| Pantera Vulgar Display of Power |
| Paysage d'Hiver Nacht |
| Paysage d'Hiver Paysage d'Hiver |
| Paysage d'Hiver Kerker |
| Paysage d'Hiver Das Tor |
| Peste Noire Ballade cuntre lo Anemi francor |
| Pig Destroyer Phantom Limb |
| Portal Seepia |
| Portal Outre |
| Prevalent Resistance Dynamics of Creation |
| Primordial To the Nameless Dead |
| Rage Against the Machine Rage Against the Machine |
| Rapture Futile |
| Ravenmoon Sanctuary Winter Desolation of Death |
| Rippikoulu Musta Seremonia |
| Runemagick Enter the Realm of Death |
| Runemagick The Supreme Force of Eternity |
| Sarcofago I.N.R.I. |
| Satyricon Dark Medieval Times |
| Scar Symmetry Symmetric in Design |
| Scar Symmetry Holographic Universe |
| Sentenced The Cold White Light |
| Sentenced Amok |
| Sermon of Foulness The Jericho Drifter |
| Shining (SWE) V - Halmstad |
| Shining (SWE) VI - Klagopsalmer |
| Silencer (SWE) Death - Pierce Me |
| Skepticism Alloy |
| Skepticism Stormcrowfleet |
| Sodom Agent Orange |
| Sodom In War and Pieces |
| Solitude Aeturnus Into the Depths of Sorrow |
| Sombres Forets Royaume De Glace |
| Sorcery Bloodchilling Tales |
| Sororicide The Entity |
| Spectral Lore II |
| Stench of Decay Where Death and Decay Reign |
| Steve Von Till If I Should Fall to the Field |
| Steve Von Till A Grave Is a Grim Horse |
| Suffocation Pierced from Within |
| SuidAkrA The Arcanum |
| Summoning Stronghold |
| Summoning Nightshade Forests |
| Summoning Dol Guldur |
| Summoning Old Mornings Dawn |
| Sun of the Blind Skullreader |
| Sunn O))) Black One |
| Sunn O))) Dømkirke |
| Sunn O))) and Ulver Terrestrials |
| Swallow the Sun Ghosts of Loss |
| Swallow the Sun Hope |
| Swallow the Sun Plague of Butterflies |
| Swallowed Lunarterial |
| Taake Nattestid Ser Porten Vid |
| Taake Over Bjoergvin Graater Himmerik |
| Tenhi Kauan |
| Tenhi Vare |
| The Halo Effect Days of the Lost |
| The Morningside The Wind, The Trees And The Shadows... |
| The Ruins of Beverast Rain Upon the Impure |
| Thergothon Stream From The Heavens |
| Thou Summit |
| Thou/Leech We Pass Like Night, From Land to Land |
| Tiamat Wildhoney |
| Tiamat A Deeper Kind of Slumber |
| Tool 10,000 Days |
| Torchure Beyond the Veil |
| Torture Chain Time is but a Doorway to the Incinerator |
| Transcending Bizarre? The Serpent's Manifolds |
| Ulcerate Everything Is Fire |
| Ulcerate The Destroyers of All |
| Ulcerate Shrines of Paralysis |
| Ulver Kveldssanger |
| Uncanny Splenium For Nyktophobia |
| Undergang Indhentet af Døden |
| Unearth The Oncoming Storm |
| Unleashed Where No Life Dwells |
| Various Artists Whom The Moon A Nightsong Sings |
| Various Artists Der Wanderer über Dem Nebelmeer |
| Vein.fm Errorzone |
| Vektor Terminal Redux |
| Vektor Outer Isolation |
| Vindensang Terminus: Rebirth in Eight Parts... |
| Vital Remains Dechristianize |
| Vlad Tepes / Belketre March To The Black Holocaust |
| Vordr I |
| Vordr II |
| Walknut Graveforests And Their Shadows |
| Watch Me Fall Worn |
| Watchtower Control and Resistance |
| Wedrujacy Wiatr Tam, Gdzie Miesiac Oplakuje Swit |
| Wheel (DE) Preserved in Time |
| Windfaerer Solar |
| Windir Likferd |
| Winter Into Darkness |
| Wintersun Wintersun |
| Wodensthrone Curse |
| Wolves in the Throne Room Diadem of 12 Stars |
| Woods of Desolation Toward the Depths |
| Woods of Desolation Torn Beyond Reason |
| Woods of Desolation As the Stars |
| With As The Stars, Australia's Woods of Desolation continue to stage a departure from their debut LP Toward The Depths, but as with Torn Beyond Reason that isn't necessarily a bad thing. This album continues on that stylistic road, while imparting a more hopeful, optimistic mood than its predecessor. It's not upbeat to point of daftness like, say, Deafheaven, and it's not as fundamentally sterile as they are either. The production is rough and raw, yet the music surprisingly melodic through the tremolo-laden whir that the mix allows to come forth. It may be a bit too brazen for those who didn't like the direction taken on Torn Beyond Reason, but then again it may also sway some naysayers of that album with its refreshing change in attitude. Woods of Desolation are running that fine line between raw black metal and this new monstrosity of so-called "post black metal", but thankfully things err on the side of the former. |
| Worship Dooom |
| Wyrd Heathen |
| 3.5 great |
| 1349 Liberation |
| 1349 Massive Cauldron of Chaos |
| 3 Inches of Blood Advance and Vanquish |
| A Forest of Stars The Corpse of Rebirth |
| A Perfect Circle Thirteenth Step |
| Abyssal (UK) Denouement |
| Adversarial All Idols Fall Before the Hammer |
| Adversarial Prophetic Plain of Abyssal Revelation |
| Adversary (Swe) Remains of an Art Forgotten |
| Aeternus ...and So the Night Became |
| Aethyrvorous Demo |
| Agalloch From Which of This Oak |
| Agalloch The Compendium Archive |
| Agalloch Faustian Echoes |
| Agalloch and Nest Split |
| Aghast (NOR) Hexerei Im Zwielicht der Finsternis |
| Ainulindale Nevrast |
| Alcest Les Voyages De L'Âme |
| Alcest Spiritual Instinct |
| All That Remains The Fall of Ideals |
| Amon Amarth Fate of Norns |
| Amon Amarth Versus the World |
| Amon Amarth Twilight of the Thunder God |
| Amon Amarth Surtur Rising |
| Amon Amarth Deceiver of the Gods |
| Amon Amarth Jomsviking |
| Amorphis Elegy |
| Amorphis Circle |
| Anaal Nathrakh In the Constellation of the Black Widow |
| Anacrusis Manic Impressions |
| Ancient Svartalvheim |
| Antediluvian Through the Cervix of Hawaah |
| Arghoslent Arsenal of Glory |
| Arghoslent/Martial Barrage Send Forth The Best Ye Breed |
| Arthemesia Devs Iratvs |
| As Serenity Fades Lowering Sunset |
| Ascended Temple of Dark Offerings |
| Ascended The Art of Necromancy |
| Ash Borer Tour Rehearsal Demo |
| Ash Borer Ash Borer |
| Ash Borer and Fell Voices Split |
| Ash Pool World Turns On Its Hinge |
| Ash Pool Cremation is Irreversible |
| Ashdautas/Bone Awl Split |
| At the Gates The Red in the Sky Is Ours |
| Ataraxy Revelations of the Ethereal |
| Autopsy The Tomb Within |
| Autopsy Macabre Eternal |
| Autumn Leaves As Night Conquers Day |
| Ayr Circling |
| Ayr Eternal Sustain |
| Baphomet (NY) The Dead Shall Inherit |
| Barathrum Eerie |
| Barghest Barghest |
| Barren Earth Curse of the Red River |
| Bathory The Return of the Darkness and Evil |
| Bathory Blood on Ice |
| Be'lakor Of Breath and Bone |
| Behemoth And the Forests Dream Eternally |
| Behemoth The Satanist |
| Beherit The Oath Of Black Blood |
| Belphegor Pestapokalypse VI |
| Bethlehem Dark Metal |
| Beyond The Embrace Insect Song |
| Bilskirnir Atavismus Des Glaubens |
| Black Boned Angel Verdun |
| Blaspherian Allegiance to the Will of Damnation |
| Blaspherian Infernal Warriors of Death |
| Blind Guardian A Night at the Opera |
| Blind Guardian Imaginations from the Other Side |
| Blind Guardian At the Edge of Time |
| Blood Incantation Hidden History of the Human Race |
| Bloodbath Resurrection Through Carnage |
| Bloodbath Unblessing the Purity |
| Blut Aus Nord Memoria Vetusta III - Saturnian Poetry |
| Blut Aus Nord Memoria Vetusta II - Dialogue With The Stars |
| Blut Aus Nord Hallucinogen |
| Bolt Thrower Realm of Chaos |
| Bone Awl Meaningless Leaning Mess |
| Borknagar The Olden Domain |
| Borknagar Borknagar |
| Brand New The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me |
| Branikald Kvelduv |
| Brutality Ruins of Humans |
| Burzum Draugen - Rarities |
| Burzum Burzum |
| Camulos Der Untermensch (Mit Namen Christ) |
| Canis Dirus A Somber Wind from a Distant Shore |
| Cannabis Corpse From Wisdom to Baked |
| Carcass Necroticism: Descanting the Insalubrious |
| Carcass Swansong |
| Carpathian Forest Through Chasm, Caves And Titan Woods |
| Catamenia Location:COLD |
| Cattle Decapitation Monolith of Inhumanity |
| Celtic Frost Morbid Tales |
| Celtic Frost Into the Pandemonium |
| Celtic Frost Monotheist |
| Chapel of Disease The Mysterious Ways of Repetitive Art |
| Children of Bodom Hate Crew Deathroll |
| Children of Bodom Chaos Ridden Years - Stockholm Knockout |
| Cold Body Radiation The Great White Emptiness |
| Coldworld Melancholie² |
| Converge All We Love We Leave Behind |
| Convulse World Without God |
| Cornigr Relics of Inner War |
| Cruciamentum Engulfed In Desolation |
| Cryptopsy Blasphemy Made Flesh |
| Dahlia's Tear Harmonious Euphonies For Supernatural Traumas Mesm |
| Dan Swano Moontower |
| Dark Forest Aurora Borealis |
| Dark Tranquillity Character |
| Definetly good, but I much perfer old Dark Tranquillity a la "The Gallery", "The Minds I" and "Skydancer/Of Chaos And Eternal Night". This album is nothing more than another solid release, if not a bit sub-par for their usual display of impressive songwriting and sheer emotion. Sure, there are tracks like the impressive "Lost To Apathy" or the modern "The New Build", but seriously, everything else sort of blends into something like a bunch of B-Sides off of "Damage Done". Each song melds into the previous one before doing much the same to the next track. The album is, instrumentally, solid, but in terms of genre overhauling (something DT is known for) this is pretty much a shot in the dark, and a complete miss. Well worth a listen, but keep in the back of your mind the fact that this band has done MUCH better things with their talents. |
| Dark Tranquillity Haven |
| I strongly disagree, this is classic Dark Tranquillity. I picked up this CD today and I was very impressed, it was all I had hoped it to be. I also disagree with "self-indulgent" and "radio ready", this CD is perhaps the most overlooked DT album out there, and yet some songs here are so good they are DT classics.rIf you are a fan of DT you will enjoy this a lot. I recommend:rThe Wonders At Your FeetrFeast Of BurdenrThe SamerEgo Drama |
| Dark Tranquillity Skydancer/Of Chaos And Eternal Night |
| Dark Tranquillity Exposures: In Retrospect And Denial |
| Dark Tranquillity Skydancer |
| Dark Tranquillity Zero Distance |
| Dark Tranquillity Construct |
| Dark Tranquillity Atoma |
| Dark Tranquillity Moment |
| Darkest Hour Undoing Ruin |
| Darkest Hour Deliver Us |
| Darkspace Dark Space I |
| Darkthrone Transilvanian Hunger |
| Darkthrone Soulside Journey |
| Darkthrone F.O.A.D. |
| Darkthrone Too Old, Too Cold |
| Day Of Suffering The Eternal Jihad |
| Daylight Dies Dismantling Devotion |
| Deaf Center Pale Ravine |
| Deafheaven Demo |
| who are these guys and why are they so awesome |
| Deafheaven Roads to Judah |
| Death Scream Bloody Gore |
| Death Spiritual Healing |
| Death Leprosy |
| Death Individual Thought Patterns |
| Deathspell Omega Si Monvmentvm Reqvires Circvmspice |
| Deathspell Omega Veritas Diaboli Manet in Aeternum |
| Decapitated Winds of Creation |
| Defeater Empty Days and Sleepless Nights |
| Deicide The Stench of Redemption |
| Demon Hunter The Triptych |
| Demonic Rage Evoking the Pestilence |
| Demonic Sacrifice Enter the Realm of Pure Darkness |
| Depravity (FIN) Silence of the Centuries |
| Der Sturmer A Banner Greater than Death |
| Desultory Into Eternity |
| Desultory Counting Our Scars |
| Diabolical Masquerade Nightwork |
| Dimmu Borgir Stormblåst |
| Dir En Grey Uroboros |
| Disciples of Mockery Prelude to Apocalypse |
| Discordance Axis Jouhou |
| Disillusion Back to Times of Splendor |
| Dismember Massive Killing Capacity |
| Dissection Maha Kali |
| Dissection The Past Is Alive (The Early Mischief) |
| Dragonland Astronomy |
| Dropkick Murphys The Warrior's Code |
| Drudkh Forgotten Legends |
| Drudkh Estrangement |
| Drudkh The Swan Road |
| Drudkh Songs of Grief and Solitude |
| Drudkh Eternal Turn of the Wheel |
| Ea Ea Taesse |
| Earth Crisis Firestorm |
| Edge of Sanity Crimson II |
| Edge of Sanity The Spectral Sorrows |
| Electrocution/Hypocrite Split |
| Elend The Umbersun |
| Eluveitie Spirit |
| Eluveitie Slania |
| Eluveitie Helvetios |
| Eminem The Slim Shady LP |
| Eminem The Eminem Show |
| Emperor Wrath of the Tyrant |
| Empyrium Songs of Moors and Misty Fields |
| Encoffination O Hell, Shine In Thy Whited Sepulchres |
| Enochian Crescent NEF.VI.LIM |
| Ensiferum Dragonheads |
| Ensiferum From Afar |
| One listen to Ensiferum's new album "From Afar" and one thing is clearly apparent: this isn't the tentative Petri Lindroos who released the deceivingly comfortable album "Victory Songs" a few years ago. No, this is a new era for Ensiferum, a distinct sampling of their older material when Jari was around, yet undoubtedly an innovation in their sound. There are no more tracks which sound exactly like the one which preceded it. Instead, we are left with a daunting amalgam of folk metal compositions which simply work together like nothing since their self-titled album. From the absolutely brilliant and serene female vocals of "Twilight Tavern" to the extended, guitar-solo laden epics of "Heathen Throne" and "The Longest Journey (Heathen Throne Part II)" to the pure- Finnish interlude "Tumman Virran Taa", this is a career-defining album. Without a doubt one of the top 5 of 2009, this is exactly the album both Ensiferum and their fans were looking for; one hour of nothing but the highest-quality folk metal in the world. |
| Ensorcelor Crucifuge |
| Entombed Wolverine Blues |
| Eternal Tears of Sorrow Before the Bleeding Sun |
| Evilfeast Lost Horizons of Wisdom |
| Evoken Antithesis of Light |
| Evoken A Caress of the Void |
| Exhorder Slaughter in the Vatican |
| Extermination Order The Siege of Ascalon |
| Fall of Serenity Bloodred Salvation |
| Falls of Rauros Hail Wind and Hewn Oak |
| Falls of Rauros Believe in No Coming Shore |
| Fauna The Hunt |
| Fell Voices 2010 Tour CD-R |
| Forefather Steadfast |
| Forest Like a Blaze Above the Ashes |
| Forest Stream Tears of Mortal Solitude |
| Forgotten Tomb Songs to Leave |
| Forgotten Tomb Springtime Depression |
| From Autumn to Ashes The Fiction We Live |
| Funebrarum/Undergang The Dead Of Winter |
| Gallowbraid Ashen Eidolon |
| Geist Galeere |
| Ghost (SWE) Opus Eponymous |
| Ghost (SWE) Prequelle |
| Ghost Brigade Until Fear No Longer Defines Us |
| Gnaw Their Tongues L'arrivée de la Terne Mort Triomphante |
| God Forbid Gone Forever |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven |
| Gorgoroth Under the Sign of Hell |
| Gorgoroth Antichrist |
| Gorguts Obscura |
| Gorguts The Erosion of Sanity |
| Graveland The Celtic Winter |
| Grendel (ITA) Beowulf |
| Grief Dismal |
| Gris Il Était Une Forêt... |
| Hanging Garden Blackout Whiteout |
| Hanging Garden I Am Become |
| Heathen Foray The Passage |
| Heaven Shall Burn Asunder |
| Heaven Shall Burn vs. Caliban The Split Program II |
| Hell (USA) I |
| Hooded Menace Never Cross the Dead |
| Hooded Menace Effigies of Evil |
| Howls of Ebb Vigils of the 3rd Eye |
| Hypocrite Edge of Existence |
| Iced Earth Something Wicked This Way Comes |
| Ignivomous Death Transmutation |
| Ihsahn The Adversary |
| Ihsahn Eremita |
| Ildjarn Forest Poetry |
| Ildjarn Ildjarn |
| Ill Omen Divinity Through Un-Creation |
| Immortal At the Heart of Winter |
| Immortal Pure Holocaust |
| Immortal Diabolical Fullmoon Mysticism |
| Impetuous Ritual Unholy Congregation of Hypocritical Ambivalence |
| In Flames Colony |
| In Flames Subterranean |
| In the Woods... Omnio |
| Innsmouth The Departure Of Shub-Niggurath |
| Insomnium Winter's Gate |
| Iron Maiden Piece of Mind |
| Iron Maiden Killers |
| Iron Maiden A Matter of Life and Death |
| Iron Maiden The Book of Souls |
| ISIS Oceanic |
| Iskald Revelations Of Reckoning Day |
| Iskra Iskra |
| Janvs Vega |
| Kalmah The Black Waltz |
| Kalmah For the Revolution |
| Kalmah Seventh Swamphony |
| Kalmah Kalmah |
| Kamelot The Black Halo |
| Katatonia Viva Emptiness |
| Katatonia Last Fair Deal Gone Down |
| Katatonia Dethroned & Uncrowned |
| Katatonia Kocytean |
| Take this for what it is: a limited-edition vinyl containing a collection of b-sides from the past 8 years released exclusively for record store day. The layout of the artwork and packaging is phenomenal - perhaps the greatest artwork of any Katatonia release - and the songs are crisp, evocative tunes ranging from the mellow (and I daresay genius) "Unfurl" to the more aggressive "Ashen", and everywhere in between. It shows evolution of sound in a very clear light, with the differences between years audible in the riffing and vocals. The best part is that these b-sides are all incredibly solid, efficient cuts that form a chronology of a band that has transitioned more in the past few years than many people realize, giving this limited-edition release more purpose than a record store day exclusive would lead you to believe. |
| Kauan Kuu.. |
| Kauan Ice Fleet |
| Kenny Wayne Shepherd Band Trouble Is... |
| Killswitch Engage The End of Heartache |
| Kreator Hordes of Chaos |
| Kroda Cry To Me River |
| Krypts Krypts |
| KYPCK Имена на стене (Name on the Wall) |
| Leech [US] Ten Black Hymns |
| Leviathan The Tenth Sub Level of Suicide |
| Leviathan Tentacles of Whorror |
| Leviathan Howl Mockery At The Cross |
| Leviathan The Blind Wound |
| Lifelover Konkurs |
| Lja Til Avsky For Livet |
| Loneshore From Presence to Silence |
| Marduk Fuck Me Jesus |
| Marduk Nightwing |
| Marduk Frontschwein |
| Marianas Rest Fata Morgana |
| Martriden Martriden EP |
| Martyr Hopeless Hopes |
| Massacre From Beyond |
| Mayhem De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas |
| Mayhem Wolf's Lair Abyss |
| Mayhem Deathcrush |
| Mayhem Dawn of the Black Hearts |
| Mercenary Architect of Lies |
| Merrimack Of Entropy and Life Denial |
| Metallica Kill 'Em All |
| Metallica ...And Justice for All |
| Metallica Metallica |
| Mgla Exercises in Futility |
| Midnight Odyssey Funerals from the Astral Sphere |
| Mirrorthrone Carriers of Dust |
| Moonsorrow Suden uni |
| Moonsorrow Kivenkantaja |
| Moonsorrow Varjoina kuljemme kuolleiden maassa |
| For those who know Moonsorrow, Varjoina Kuljemme Kuolleiden Maassa won't be too much of a surprise, simply because it doesn't change a whole lot from Moonsorrow's already firmly established style. Even though the band have left the notion of Vikings behind in favor of a post-apocalyptic theme that was also present on V: Havitetty, their core sound remains the same. For those who have always disliked Moonsorrow, their opinions will not be swayed, and purists who cage themselves in the realm of only the most "serious" black metal business need not apply either, lest they wish to senselessly vent their anger. For those who want an engaging folk black metal record that is not only solid in its composition and execution but also a hell of a good time to listen to, Varjoina Kuljemme Kuolleiden Maassa provides that and more. Ville Sorvali's vocals are as sharp as ever, the song structures continue to pile riff after riff into an increasingly epic mountain, and the overall theme of the album is unwavering throughout. Take all that and wrap it in an excellent production that incorporates the bass well in the mix and drops the keyboards back so they contribute wonderfully to the atmosphere without strangling you with their oppressiveness and you have an album that knows what it wants to do and gets it done, a trait Moonsorrow have displayed for many years. |
| Morbus Chron Splendour of Disease (Demo) |
| Morbus Chron Sleepers in the Rift |
| Morker Hostmakter |
| Morpheus Descends Chronicles of the Shadowed Ones |
| Moss Cthonic Rites |
| Mount Eerie Wind's Poem |
| Mount Eerie Clear Moon |
| My Dying Bride The Light at the End of the World |
| Myrkgrav Trollskau, Skromt og Kolabrenning |
| Nachtmystium Instinct: Decay |
| Naglfar Sheol |
| Naglfar Harvest |
| Nails Unsilent Death |
| Nails Abandon All Life |
| Nechochwen Heart of Akamon |
| Necroccultus Encircling the Mysterious Necrorevelation |
| Necropsy Another World (demo) |
| Necropsy Go All the Way of Flesh (demo) |
| Necrovation Breed Deadness Blood |
| Nerlich Defabricated Process |
| Nest (FIN) Trail of the Unwary |
| Neun Welten Destrunken |
| Neurosis Souls at Zero |
| Neurosis Honor Found in Decay |
| Nightbringer Death And The Black Work |
| Nightwish Once |
| Nokturnal Mortum To the Gates of Blasphemous Fire |
| Nokturnal Mortum NeChrist |
| Nonpoint Recoil |
| Norther Mirror of Madness |
| Novembers Doom The Novella Reservoir |
| Novembre Novembrine Waltz |
| Ocean Here Where Nothing Grows |
| October Falls Marras |
| October Falls The Streams Of The End |
| October Falls The Plague of a Coming Age |
| October Falls A Fall of an Epoch |
| October Falls Syys |
| October Tide Rain Without End |
| October Tide A Thin Shell |
| October Tide Tunnel of No Light |
| Olafur Arnalds Living Room Songs |
| Old Graves Like Straining Boughs |
| Opeth My Arms, Your Hearse |
| Panic Circles |
| Panopticon On the Subject of Mortality |
| Panopticon Autumn Eternal |
| Panopticon The Scars of Man on the Once Nameless Wilderness |
| Panopticon/Lake of Blood Split |
| Panopticon/Wheels Within Wheels Panopticon/Wheels Within Wheels |
| Pantera Far Beyond Driven |
| Paysage d'Hiver Schattengang |
| Paysage d'Hiver Kristall und Isa |
| Pelican City of Echoes |
| Pelican Ephemeral |
| Peste Noire Folkfuck Folie |
| Peste Noire L'Ordure a l'etat Pur |
| Point Of No Return Centelha |
| Point Of No Return Liberdade Imposta, Liberdade Conquistada |
| Portal Swarth |
| Primordial Storm Before Calm |
| Primordial Redemption at the Puritan's Hand |
| Prosanctus Inferi Pandemonic Ululations of Vesperic... |
| Prosanctus Inferi Red Streams of Flesh |
| Prosanctus Inferi Noctambulous Jaws Within Sempiternal Night |
| Pyramids with Nadja Pyramids with Nadja |
| Ra From One |
| Rage Against the Machine The Battle of Los Angeles |
| Ragnarok Diabolical Age |
| It's certainly a shame that a band with such talent as Norway's Ragnarok goes completely under the radar. They bring a fresh, more modern and sophisticated sense to the older style of pure, raw Black Metal. With their album Diabolical Age, Ragnarok take the raw ferocity of early '90's Norwegian Black Metal and work in some sweet melodies and atmospheric touches. Whether it's with keyboards or the guitars, there is always something of interest going on. In a day and age where Black Metal bands are a dime a dozen, it's nice to see one of these relatively unknown bands put out something as good as this. Whether it's with the pummeling intricacy of "Heart Of Satan", the sheer energy of "It's War", or the mesmerizing, breathtaking keyboard harmonies of "Diabolical Age", Ragnarok give me a breath of fresh air in a scene full of look (and sound) alike bands. Certainly worth your time, money, and attention. Full review to come. |
| Rammstein Mutter |
| Rammstein Liebe Ist Für Alle Da |
| Rippikoulu Ulvaja |
| Rise Against Appeal to Reason |
| Ritual Necromancy Oath of the Abyss |
| Rotting Christ A Dead Poem |
| Ruin Lust Demo 2011 |
| Sacramentum Far Away from the Sun |
| Sacrilege GBG The Fifth Season |
| Samael Ceremony Of Opposites |
| Saor Guardians |
| Sargeist Let The Devil In |
| Satanic Warmaster Strength & Honour |
| Satyricon Nemesis Divina |
| Satyricon The Shadowthrone |
| Scott Kelly The Wake |
| Seance Fornever Laid to Rest |
| Sentenced The Funeral Album |
| Sentenced Down |
| Sentenced Crimson |
| Shadows Fall Of One Blood |
| Shadows Fall Somber Eyes to the Sky |
| Shining (SWE) IV - The Eerie Cold |
| Shining (SWE) VII: Fodd Forlorare |
| SIG:AR:TYR Sailing the Seas of Fate |
| Sigh Scorn Defeat |
| Skagos Anarchic |
| Skagos/Panopticon Split |
| Skyfire Mind Revolution |
| Skyfire Spectral |
| Slipknot Slipknot |
| Slipknot Vol. 3: The Subliminal Verses |
| Slipknot We Are Not Your Kind |
| Slumber Fallout |
| Soilwork The Chainheart Machine |
| Soilwork A Predator's Portrait |
| Soilwork The Panic Broadcast |
| Soilwork The Living Infinite |
| Sons of Crom Riddle of Steel |
| Spectral Lore I |
| Stench of Decay Stench Of Decay |
| Stench of Decay Visions Beyond Death |
| Steve Von Till As the Crow Flies |
| SuidAkrA Caledonia |
| Sumerlands Ageless Life |
| Summoning Let Mortal Heroes Sing Your Fame |
| Sump Taken Dead |
| Sunn O))) Oracle |
| Sunn O))) and Boris Altar |
| Swallow the Sun New Moon |
| Swallowed Swallowed |
| Swashbuckle Back To The Noose |
| Symptom Caverns Of Katabasis |
| Taake Taake |
| Temnozor (RUS-1) Folkstorm of the Azure Nights |
| Tempest (Can) Passages |
| The Absence Riders of the Plague |
| The Black (SWE) Alongside Death |
| The Fall of Every Season From Below |
| The Morningside Yellow |
| The Ruins of Beverast Unlock the Shrine |
| The Unseen State Of Discontent |
| The Wakedead Gathering Tenements of Ephemera |
| Thorngoth Leere |
| Thou Heathen |
| Threnos By Blood and By Earth |
| Thurisaz Circadian Rhythm |
| "Circadian Rhythm" is an album which encompasses all that can be great about atmospheric metal. It flawlessly combines elements of avant-garde, death metal, and atmospheric black metal to create a near masterpiece which leaves a lasting impression. The album is melodic while incorporating the harshness of black metal and the brutality of death metal, but at the same time is incredibly progressive in nature. It incorporates syths and clean vocals, as well as the relatively frequent time signature changes and abnormal song structures to create a sound which is truly unclassifiable. The only really effective way of describing it is original. It is not an album you've heard before, and in a time when almost every metal album is a re-hash of old ideas, I think that originality means everything, and Thurisaz's "Circadian Rhythm" is the most refreshingly original album I have heard in years. |
| Todeskult Als Die Farben Alter Wurden |
| Tool Ænima |
| Tool Fear Inoculum |
| Torture Chain Mountains of Hate |
| Torture Chain Across Great Landscapes to a Legacy of Blood |
| Towards Darkness Solemn |
| Transcending Bizarre? The Misanthrope's Fable |
| Twilight Monument To Time End |
| Ulcerate Of Fracture and Failure |
| Ulcerate Vermis |
| Ulver Shadows of the Sun |
| Unearth The March |
| Unearth Darkness in the Light |
| United Nations United Nations |
| Vasaeleth Crypt Born & Tethered To Ruin |
| Venom Black Metal |
| Vermyapre Kommando Vermyapre Kommando |
| Vintersorg Till Fjälls |
| Vordr MLP |
| Vreid Milorg |
| Vuyvr Eiskalt |
| Warning Watching from a Distance |
| Weekend Nachos Unforgivable |
| Winterfylleth The Hallowing of Heirdom |
| Wintersun Time I |
| Wodensthrone Loss |
| Wolfbrigade Damned |
| Wolfchant A Pagan Storm |
| Wolves in the Throne Room Celestite |
| Wolves in the Throne Room Thrice Woven |
| Wolves in the Throne Room Crypt of Ancestral Knowledge |
| Wombbath Internal Caustic Torments |
| Woods of Desolation Sorh |
| Wormrot Abuse |
| Wormrot Dirge |
| Worship Terranean Wake |
| Wyrd The Ghost Album |
| Wyrd Huldrafolk |
| Xysma Swarming of the Maggots |
| Zyklon-B Blood Must Be Shed |
| 3.0 good |
| 1349 Demonoir |
| A Perfect Circle Mer de Noms |
| Aborted Strychnine.213 |
| Aeternus Beyond the Wandering Moon |
| Agalloch The Grey |
| Agalloch Tomorrow Will Never Come |
| Ainulindale The Lay of Leithian |
| Alda Alda |
| All Out War For Those Who Were Crucified |
| All That Remains This Darkened Heart |
| Altar of Plagues White Tomb |
| Amon Amarth The Crusher |
| Amon Amarth The Avenger |
| Amorphis Far from the Sun |
| Amorphis Eclipse |
| Amorphis Tuonela |
| Amorphis The Karelian Isthmus |
| Amorphis The Beginning of Times |
| Amorphis Queen of Time |
| An Autumn For Crippled Children Lost |
| Anaal Nathrakh When Fire Rains Down From the Sky... |
| Anaal Nathrakh Domine Non Es Dignus |
| Ancient Wisdom For Snow Covered the Northland |
| Angantyr/Nasheim Split |
| Arafel For Battles Once Fought |
| Arch Enemy Anthems of Rebellion |
| Arckanum Kostogher |
| Arghoslent The Entity |
| Arghoslent The Imperial Clans |
| Arsis A Celebration of Guilt |
| As I Lay Dying An Ocean Between Us |
| As Serenity Fades Earthborn |
| Ash Borer Bloodlands |
| Ash Pool Together They Serve To Define The Process |
| Asmegin Hin Vordende Sod & Sø |
| At the Gates Slaughter of the Soul |
| At the Gates Terminal Spirit Disease |
| Atrum Tempestas Neant |
| August Burns Red Constellations |
| Austere To Lay Like Old Ashes |
| Austlune Austlune |
| Autopsy The Headless Ritual |
| Ayr The Dark |
| Basilisk Vintyrhell |
| Bathory Jubileum Volume III |
| Bathory Nordland II |
| Behemoth Evangelion |
| Black Horizons A Dream's Funeral |
| Blind Guardian A Twist in the Myth |
| Blind Guardian Beyond the Red Mirror |
| Bloodsimple A Cruel World |
| Blut Aus Nord The Work Which Transforms God |
| Blut Aus Nord 777 - Sect(s) |
| Bullet for My Valentine Scream Aim Fire |
| Burzum Aske |
| Burzum Belus |
| Belus is certainly not what I was expecting. On the one hand, we have the regressive nature of Vikernes as he sticks to murky, tremolo-picked riffs for a large portion of the album, and also utilizes a less-unique scream than what fans were used to on Hvis Lyset Tar Oss and the like. On the other, Belus shows the signs of over a decade of maturity, utilizing muffled clean vocals and a large heap of melody which is rather out-of-character for a Burzum release. The production, not surprisingly, hasn't evolved much from the likes of Burzum's releases in the early 1990's, but isn't inherently terrible or off-putting. Not a masterpiece in any sense, but then again not a complete failure, Belus closes the book on the mystery of where Vikernes' sound would go upon his release from prison. |
| Burzum Fallen |
| Cannibal Corpse Tomb of the Mutilated |
| Carach Angren Death Came Through a Phantom Ship |
| Carcharoth (AUS) From The Cavern Come |
| Catamenia Winternight Tragedies |
| Catamenia Chaos Born |
| Cattle Decapitation The Harvest Floor |
| Children of Bodom Trashed, Lost & Strungout |
| Children of Bodom Are You Dead Yet? |
| Children of Bodom Halo of Blood |
| Children of Bodom Hexed |
| Cobalt Gin |
| Converge Petitioning the Empty Sky |
| Converge Jane Doe |
| Converge/Napalm Death Split |
| Crimfall As the Path Unfolds... |
| Cryptic Wintermoon Of Shadows...And The Dark Things You Fear |
| Cryptopsy The Book of Suffering - Tome 1 |
| Cynic Focus |
| Dark Age Acedia |
| Dark Fortress Eidolon |
| Dark Fortress Seance |
| Dark Funeral Diabolis Interium |
| Dark Funeral Angelus Exuro pro Eternus |
| Dark Funeral In The Sign... |
| Dark Tranquillity Live Damage |
| Dark Tranquillity Enter Suicidal Angels |
| Dark Tranquillity We Are the Void |
With We Are The Void, the concrete sound which Dark Tranquillity have kept since 2000's Haven begins to show slight cracks. While the toss-ups include a slew of guitar solos which are rather out-of-character for DT, they work in favor of keeping things different than what fans are used to. Also, the wonderful screams add a heap of emotion and the improved clean vocals of Stanne work wonders the few times they are implemented, and compliment the more depressed atmosphere with gratifying precision. Songs like the diverse and satisfying "Iridium" show just how much DT have experimented with their songwriting, often to great effect.
However, the opposite end of the spectrum poses a number of issues which DT have had lingering for quite some time, but always kept at bay with interesting riffs and solid musicianship and songwriting. The overbearing use of Martin Brandstrom's keys work wonders in some tracks, yet bore the listener to tears or even irritate in others. It goes without saying that the vast majority of the "melodic" part of their melodic death metal sound emanates from the synth, while the guitars concentrate on heavy chords to keep rhythm or provide rather interesting guitar solos, only periodically emerging to the forefront as the driving force of the music. The work of Henriksson and Sundin is vastly underwhelming, as the riffs of such tracks as "Lost To Apathy" or "Monochromatic Stains" are devoid from the album (let's not get into comparing the riffs here with the ones put forth on The Gallery, because I can assure you I will break into tears). Overall, though, this is another good DT release, nothing more, nothing less. |
| Dark Tranquillity A Memory Construct |
| Darkest Hour The Eternal Return |
| Darkest Hour The Human Romance |
| Darkspace Dark Space -II |
| Darkthrone The Cult Is Alive |
| Darkthrone Total Death |
| Darkthrone Ravishing Grimness |
| Darkthrone Circle the Wagons |
| Deathspell Omega Fas - Ite, Maledicti, In Ignem Aeternum |
| Decomposed (UK) Hope Finally Died... |
| Deep Mountains Lake of Solace |
| Defeater Letters Home |
| Deicide Legion |
| Demonic Resurrection A Darkness Descends |
| Desire (POR) Locus Horrendus - The Night Cries Of A Sullen Soul |
| DevilDriver The Fury of Our Maker's Hand |
| Diadem Crimson Sunset |
| Diadem Empyreal Dusk |
| Diecast Internal Revolution |
| Dimmu Borgir Enthrone Darkness Triumphant |
| Dir En Grey Withering to Death |
| Dissection Where Dead Angels Lie |
| Disturbed Believe |
| Draconian Arcane Rain Fell |
| Draconian The Burning Halo |
| Draconian Turning Season Within |
| Dream Theater Images and Words |
| Ea Ea II |
| Earth Crisis Destroy the Machines |
| Edge of Sanity Infernal |
| Edge of Sanity Nothing But Death Remains |
| Eisbrecher Eisbrecher |
| Eluveitie Evocation I: The Arcane Dominion |
| Eluveitie Everything Remains As It Never Was |
| Eluveitie Origins |
| Elvenking The Scythe |
| Elysian Blaze Cold Walls And Apparitions |
| Eminem Recovery |
| Empyrium A Wintersunset |
| Encoffination Temples Descend Below The Earth |
| Ensiferum Victory Songs |
| Enslaved Frost |
| Enslaved Isa |
| Enslaved Axioma Ethica Odini |
| Enslaved RIITIIR |
| Entrails (SWE) The Tomb Awaits |
| Equilibrium Sagas |
| Eternal Tears of Sorrow A Virgin and a Whore |
| Eternal Tears of Sorrow Children of the Dark Waters |
| Ethereal Beauty/Shyy/Heretoir/Soliness The World Comes To An End In The End Of A Journey |
| Fall of Serenity The Crossfire |
| Falls of Rauros Into the Archaic (Demo) |
| Falls of Rauros Of Stone and the Stars in the Sky |
| Farsot IIII |
| Fauna Rain |
| Finntroll Nifelvind |
| Flaw Through the Eyes |
| Flourishing The Sum of All Fossils |
| Fluisterwoud Langs Galg En Rad |
| Forest As a Song in the Harvest of Grief |
| Forest Mysticism Forest Mysticism |
| Forest Silence Philosophy Of Winter |
| Forest Stream The Crown of Winter |
| Frost Like Ashes Tophet |
| Frozen Eternity Forgotten Past |
| Gaza He Is Never Coming Back |
| Gaza No Absolutes in Human Suffering |
| Ghost (SWE) Infestissumam |
| God Forbid IV: Constitution of Treason |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor 'Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend! |
| Gojira From Mars to Sirius |
| Gojira The Way of All Flesh |
| Gorgoroth Quantos Possunt ad Satanitatem Trahunt |
| Graveland Impaler's Wolves |
| Graveland/Nokturnal Mortum The Spirit Never Dies |
| Gwynbleidd Nostalgia |
| Hacksaw to the Throat Tear My Eyes Out... |
| Hanging Garden TEOTWAWKI |
| TEOTWAWKI, an acronym for "The End Of The World As We Know It", marks Finnish melodic death/doom band Hanging Garden's second full-length album. Following up 2007's Inherit The Eden, TEOTWAWKI is an album which only lives up to its superb predecessor in the instrumental department. Wonderful musicianship and songwriting are present at the core of the album, with the instrumentation seeping out of the walls. Hugely melodic guitar riffs and beautifully atmospheric acoustic movements drive the album in a brilliant manner. Sadly, the vocals threaten to ruin everything which the instruments bring to the table. Instead of the deep, doomy growls which you may remember from Inherit The Eden, we are instead treated to a forced, shout-like vocal display. While barely a scream at all, most of the vocals are a blemish on an otherwise perfect album, a disheartening downside to a release with so much promise. While there are moments where his much superior scream is present, it provides no excuse for the lackluster performance on most of the other tracks. Everything else is there, the atmosphere, the musicianship, the originality, the production. It's like that beautiful girl you met back in college with the hottest body you've ever seen in your life. However, upon approaching her she opens her mouth to reveal a set of rotted black teeth. Case in point, it's only good to admire from a distance, because if you linger too closely you are reminded why you stayed away in the first place. |
| Heaven Shall Burn In Battle There Is No Law |
| Heol Telwen An Deiz Ruz |
| Ihsahn After |
| Ikuinen Kaamos The Forlorn |
| Ikuinen Kaamos Fall of Icons |
| Fall Of Icons is not the album which Closure was hinting at. It is not a masterpiece and, to be honest, it is barely above-average. The tracks mash together in ways which almost strike away any unique features within them, and only during small moments of glory (for example, the clean vocals in "Condemned") does the album deliver on the lofty expectations set for it. The riffing is bland and all-too familiar, the variety in the vocals aren't used to their full potential, and the atmosphere isn't as profound as that of Closure. What promises were made with the massive success of Closure are strangely forgotten, and what we are left with is a lifeless shell of an album which lacks exactly what made Closure stand out from anything else in this genre: a soul. |
| Immolation Shadows in the Light |
| Immolation Kingdom of Conspiracy |
| Immortal Blizzard Beasts |
| Immortal All Shall Fall |
| In Flames Clayman |
| In Flames Lunar Strain |
| In Mourning Monolith |
| In Mourning Afterglow |
| In Vain (NO) The Latter Rain |
| Insomnium One for Sorrow |
| Insomnium Ephemeral |
| Insomnium Heart Like a Grave |
| Isengard Høstmørke |
| It Dies Today The Caitiff Choir |
| Judas Iscariot Heaven In Flames |
| Kalmah Palo |
| Kalter Spiritual Angel |
| Kamelot Ghost Opera |
| Kamelot Poetry for the Poisoned |
| Kataklysm In the Arms of Devastation |
| Katatonia The Great Cold Distance |
| Katatonia Discouraged Ones |
| Katatonia For Funerals to Come... |
| Katatonia Night Is the New Day |
| Katatonia The Fall of Hearts |
| A restrained, incohesive collection of tracks that, when added together, amount to very little indeed. There is little sincerity in the arching cleans as they reach high and dig down low, and there is scarce instrumental flair to catch your ear. It is a smattering of very safe songwriting wrapped in the guise of a well-produced, thoughtful record. Be assured, though, that The Fall of Hearts is deceptively simple; a facade of thoughtfulness that quickly collapses when looking for anything that truly has substance. |
| Kauan Lumikuuro |
| Kayo Dot Choirs of the Eye |
| Keep of Kalessin Reptilian |
| Kroda Fimbulvinter |
| KYPCK Черно (Black) |
| Lake Of Blood Heed The Primal Calling |
| Lamb of God New American Gospel |
| Lamb of God As the Palaces Burn |
| Lay Down Rotten Gospel Of The Wretched |
| Leviathan Massive Conspiracy Against All Life |
| Leviathan A Silhouette in Splinters |
| Linkin Park Hybrid Theory |
| Manegarm Nordstjärnans Tidsålder |
| Manegarm Dodsfard |
| Mar De Grises Draining The Waterheart |
| Marduk Heaven Shall Burn... When We Are Gathered |
| Marduk Plague Angel |
| Marduk Blackcrowned |
| Marduk Serpent Sermon |
| Martriden Encounter The Monolith |
| maudlin of the Well Bath |
| Mayhem Chimera |
| Mayhem Ordo ad Chao |
| Megaherz Kopfschuss |
| Mercenary Metamorphosis |
| Metallica Death Magnetic |
| Midnight Odyssey Firmament |
| Miseration Your Demons ~ Their Angels |
| Molested Blod Draum |
| Mondstille Am Ende... |
| Monogrim Realm |
| Moonsorrow Tulimyrsky |
| Moonspell Memorial |
| Mors Principium Est The Unborn |
| Mount Eerie Black Wooden Ceiling Opening |
| Mount Eerie Lost Wisdom |
| Mount Eerie Ocean Roar |
| My Dying Bride The Angel and the Dark River |
| Nachtfalke Doomed To Die |
| Nachtmystium Worldfall |
| Naglfar Teras |
| Nebelung Palingenesis |
| Necropsy Never to Be Forgotten |
| Neurosis Through Silver in Blood |
| Nevermore This Godless Endeavor |
| Nightrage A New Disease Is Born |
| Nightshade Wielding The Scythe |
| Nightwish Angels Fall First |
| Nightwish Dark Passion Play |
| Noctes Pandemonic Requiem |
| Nokturnal Mortum The Taste Of Victory |
| Nokturnal Mortum Verity |
| Norther Death Unlimited |
| Norther Till Death Unites Us |
| Nortt Gudsforladt |
| Noumena Absence |
| Nyktalgia Nyktalgia |
| Obsidian Tongue A Nest of Ravens in the Throat of Time |
| A Nest of Ravens... is an album that is at its best when it strays away from the rather progressive atmospheric black metal dirges that it stubbornly insists on dragging on. The band is talented and has vision, but clearly has some issues in crafting an identity based on those aspirations, instead opting to break more frequently into dreary, tiresome heaviness that permeates the album's core. Things become truly interesting, though, when Obsidian Tongue slow things down and become deliberate, because in these moments the weary tremolos fade and become displaced by massive atmospheres. The title track is the prime example of this breakthrough, because through the use of extremely simple melody and masterful pacing the track rises into a marvelous beast of its own. Driven by John Haughm's session vocals, the track shows what Obsidian Tongue have hidden beneath the cliches and the lack of true identity in a scene that is almost entirely dependent upon creativity in order to thrive. Build on that, and Obsidian Tongue are a force to be reckoned with. |
| Obtained Enslavement Centuries of Sorrow |
| Omnium Gatherum The Burning Cold |
| Opeth Ghost Reveries |
| Opeth Pale Communion |
| Panopticon/Wheels Within Wheels II |
| Papa Roach Infest |
| Paysage d'Hiver Einsamkeit |
| Paysage d'Hiver Geister |
| Plainwords ...A New World Lies In The Ashes Of... |
| Portal Vexovoid |
| Preludium Impending Hostility |
| Primordial The Gathering Wilderness |
| Rammstein Sehnsucht |
| Rammstein Reise, Reise |
| Rammstein Rosenrot |
| Reverend Bizarre In The Rectory Of The Bizarre Reverend |
| Rotting Christ Aealo |
| Scar Symmetry Pitch Black Progress |
| Sentenced Frozen |
| Shadows Fall The Art of Balance |
| Shadows Fall Threads of Life |
| Shining (SWE) Redefining Darkness |
| SIG:AR:TYR Godsaga |
| Skinless Trample the Weak, Hurdle the Dead |
| Skyfire Esoteric |
| Slayer Divine Intervention |
| Slipknot Iowa |
| Soilwork Natural Born Chaos |
| Sombres Forets Quintessence |
| Sorcier Des Glaces Snowland |
| Sterbend Dwelling Lifeless |
| Stillhet Gjemt I Skyggene |
| Stormrider First Battle Won |
| SuidAkrA Signs for the Fallen |
| Summoning Oath Bound |
| Summoning Lugburz |
| Summoning With Doom We Come |
| Sunn O))) Monoliths and Dimensions |
| Sunn O))) LA Reh 012 |
| Swallow the Sun Songs from the North I, II & III |
| Sykdom Mjollnir |
| Symphony X The Odyssey |
| Taake Noregs Vaapen |
| there's a banjo solo on this fucking record |
| Taake Stridens hus |
| Taake Kong Vinter |
| Tarja Turunen What Lies Beneath |
| Temnozor (RUS-1) Haunted Dreamscapes |
| The Absence From Your Grave |
| The Body All The Waters Of The Earth Turn To... |
| The Old Dead Tree The Nameless Disease |
| Thou To The Chaos Wizard Youth |
| Thought Industry Mods Carve the Pig |
| Tiamat Clouds |
| Torchbearer Warnaments |
| Trelldom Til et Annet... |
| Trivium Ascendancy |
| Tyr Valkyrja |
| Ulver Perdition City |
| Ulver Blood Inside |
| Ulver A Quick Fix of Melancholy |
| Ulver Wars of the Roses |
| Undergang Til Doden Os Skiller |
| Unearth III: In the Eyes of Fire |
| Unearth The Stings of Conscience |
| Unfathoms and Blasphymartyr Votre Cote Mon Cote |
| Urgehal Ikonoklast |
| Various Artists (Hip Hop) 8 Mile OST |
| Vastum Carnal Law |
| Vigrid Throne of Forest |
| Vindensang The Descent of Man |
| Vintersorg Solens Rotter |
| Vordr III |
| Vreid V |
| Whispered Shogunate Macabre |
| Windir Arntor |
| Winterhorde Underwatermoon |
| Wolves in the Throne Room Malevolent Grain |
| Wolves in the Throne Room Black Cascade |
| Wolves in the Throne Room Celestial Lineage |
| Wyrd Kammen |
| Wyrd Rota |
| 2.5 average |
| 3 Inches of Blood Here Waits Thy Doom |
| A Forest of Stars Opportunistic Thieves of Spring |
| A Perfect Circle eMOTIVe |
| Abigail Williams In the Absence of Light |
| Abyssos Fhinsthanian Nightbreed |
| Agalloch Marrow of the Spirit |
| It's difficult to call Marrow Of The Spirit a wholly unique experience, and when compared to its attempt to incorporate multitude of influences, the final product comes up far short of expectations. The welcome addition of a sharper black metal edge is indeed a refreshing element, but unfortunately the creative fervor so present on Agalloch's previous releases is eerily absent. The riffs are stagnant; a fragment of the memorable melodies found on Pale Folklore or The Mantle. The classical guitar piece on "Black Lake Nidstang" is the only thing that even approaches unexpected in terms of the guitar department, the rest sort of holds back in humble restraint as the extracurricular inclusion of electronics, piano, cello, and nature samples drive the creative force of the album. Only a few simple guitar melodies on "Ghosts Of The Midwinter Fires" and "Black Lake Nidstang" and a handful of solos keep things afloat, as the overbearing and shameful nods at Godspeed You! Black Emperor in the closer "To Drown" reminds me of a mix between building post-rock epics and a bad Ridley Scott film. Couple that with an average vocal performance by Haughm, whose clean vocals appear momentarily in "The Watcher's Monolith" with a weakly performed verse (picked up only by the unexpected cries in "Black Lake Nidstang" that are reminiscent of depressive black metal) and whose rasps show little emotion, and you have an album that wastes incredible potential with recycled ideas masked by irregular shots at innovation and ingenuity. |
| Alcest Souvenirs D'Un Autre Monde |
| Alestorm Captain Morgan's Revenge |
| All That Remains Behind Silence and Solitude |
| Altar of Plagues Mammal |
| Amon Amarth Berserker |
| Amorphis Am Universum |
| Amorphis Skyforger |
| Antestor The Forsaken |
| Arch Enemy Doomsday Machine |
| Arcturus The Sham Mirrors |
| Arghoslent Bastard Son of One Thousand Whores |
| Arsis A Diamond for Disease |
| Arsis We Are the Nightmare |
| As I Lay Dying Frail Words Collapse |
| As I Lay Dying Shadows Are Security |
| As I Lay Dying The Powerless Rise |
| Ash Pool Saturns Slave |
| At the Gates With Fear I Kiss the Burning Darkness |
| At the Gates At War with Reality |
| Atoma Skylight |
| Bathory Destroyer of Worlds |
| Before The Dawn Deathstar Rising |
| Behemoth Demigod |
| Behemoth The Apostasy |
| Belphegor Blood Magick Necromance |
| Between the Buried and Me Colors_Live |
| Bloodbath The Fathomless Mastery |
| Blut Aus Nord 777 - The Desanctification |
| Blut Aus Nord 777 - Cosmosophy |
| Boreal The Battle of Vosad |
| Borknagar The Archaic Course |
| Bullet for My Valentine Hand of Blood |
| Burzum Hlidskjalf |
| Burzum From the Depths of Darkness |
| Burzum Sol austan, Mani vestan |
| Burzum The Ways of Yore |
| Cannae Gold Becomes Sacrifice |
| Cannibal Corpse Evisceration Plague |
| Carpathian Forest Morbid Fascination of Death |
| Carpathian Forest Fuck You All!!!! |
| Catamenia Halls Of Frozen North |
| Children of Bodom Relentless Reckless Forever |
| It's better than Blooddrunk..... if that really means anything. |
| Children of Bodom I Worship Chaos |
| Chimaira The Impossibility of Reason |
| Chthonic Seediq Bale |
| Coldworld The Stars Are Dead Now |
| Coldworld Autumn |
| Cradle of Filth Godspeed on the Devil's Thunder |
| Cynic Traced in Air |
| Dark Funeral Attera Totus Sanctus |
| Darkthrone Sardonic Wrath |
| Darkthrone Goatlord |
| Darkthrone Plaguewielder |
| Deafheaven New Bermuda |
| Deicide Till Death Do Us Part |
| Dethklok The Dethalbum |
| DevilDriver DevilDriver |
| Diablo Mimic 47 |
| Diabolical Masquerade Deaths Design |
| Disillusion The Liberation |
| Disturbed Ten Thousand Fists |
| Disturbed Indestructible |
| Divine Souls The Bitter Selfcaged Man |
| Dornenreich Flammentriebe |
| Draconian A Rose for the Apocalypse |
| DragonForce Sonic Firestorm |
| Dream Theater Systematic Chaos |
| Drudkh Handful of Stars |
| It would be easy to pass this off as another Drudkh album, but the fact is that Handful Of Stars is eerily rlacking the atmosphere, songwriting prowess and overall lasting power of previous releases. The riffs are rcycles of tremolo picked notes that slide repeatedly up and down the fretboard without care or cauase, and rthe guitar solos that litter the run time only add the confusion. With a distinct lack of variety and precious few rmoments that rise above "decent", the vast majority of Handful Of Stars lies in a place that Drudkh really rhaven't been in their amazingly consistent career: mediocrity. |
| Drudkh Eastern Frontier in Flames |
| Emerson Lake and Palmer Love Beach |
| Enfold Darkness Our Cursed Rapture |
| Ensiferum One Man Army |
| Enslaved Ruun |
| Enslaved Blodhemn |
| Enslaved Vertebrae |
| Enslaved Thorn |
| Enslaved In Times |
| Equilibrium Rekreatur |
| Eternal Tears of Sorrow Chaotic Beauty |
| Fear Factory Demanufacture |
| Fen The Malediction Fields |
| Fen Epoch |
| Fen Winter |
| Gehenna First Spell |
| God Dethroned Lair of the White Worm |
| Gojira The Link |
| Gorgoroth Destroyer |
| Heaven Shall Burn Invictus (Iconoclast III) |
| Heaven Shall Burn Wanderer |
| A solid, one-dimensional record that is Heaven Shall Burn through and through, but little else. It lacks the unabashed riffage of their early era a la Whatever it May Take and also loses the visceral heaviness of their more recent material. What is left for Heaven Shall Burn is a highly streamlined, often cliche distillation of their own sound that is neither engaging nor very dynamic aside from a few outliers. There is little that deviates from what has become the norm - the same steady-state mindset that made Invictus so monumentally dull. It is still quality metalcore, and still carries their trademark political underpinnings, but the sincerity of their more notable works is eerily absent on Wanderer. With little fanfare yet notable length the album presses forth, forging little in the way of progress for a band that hasn't pushed the limits in 12 years. Fans of the band will find some moments to praise, but as a whole the album takes a seat firmly in the lower tier of Heaven Shall Burn's growing catalogue. |
| Hell Within Asylum Of The Human Predator |
| Hypocrisy Virus |
| Illnath Cast Into Fields of Evil Pleasure |
| Immortal Sons of Northern Darkness |
| Immortal Battles in the North |
| Immortal Damned In Black |
| Impaled Nazarene Rapture |
| In Flames Soundtrack to Your Escape |
| In Flames Come Clarity |
| In Flames Sounds of a Playground Fading |
| Insomnium Argent Moon |
| Insomnium Anno 1696 |
| Into Eternity Dead or Dreaming |
| Into Eternity The Scattering of Ashes |
| Isengard Vinterskugge |
| ISIS Mosquito Control |
| Katatonia Tonight's Decision |
| Korpiklaani Tervaskanto |
| Kroda Towards the Firmaments Verge of Life |
| Lamb of God Ashes of the Wake |
| Lantlos Melting Sun |
| Limbonic Art Moon In The Scorpio |
| Lunar Aurora Andacht |
| Manegarm Vargstenen |
| Mar De Grises The Tatterdemalion Express |
| Marduk La Grande Danse Macabre |
| Marduk Wormwood |
| Marduk Iron Dawn |
| Marduk Viktoria |
| Massacre Back from Beyond |
| Mastodon Blood Mountain |
| Mayhem Grand Declaration of War |
| Metallica Reload |
| Metallica Hardwired...To Self-Destruct |
| Mindless Self Indulgence Frankenstein Girls Will Seem Strangely Sexy |
| Mirrorthrone Gangrene |
| My Dying Bride For Lies I Sire |
| Naglfar Pariah |
| Nevermore The Politics of Ecstasy |
| Nightrage Wearing a Martyr's Crown |
| Nightwish Wishmaster |
| Norther N |
| Nortt Galgenfrist |
| Omnium Gatherum Spirits And August Light |
| Omnium Gatherum The Redshift |
| Omnium Gatherum New World Shadows |
| Opeth Deliverance |
| Opeth The Roundhouse Tapes |
| Orphaned Land Mabool (The Story of the Three Sons...) |
| Oskoreien Oskoreien |
| Panopticon Kentucky |
| Paysage d'Hiver Die Festung |
| Pentagram Pentagram |
| Pillorian Obsidian Arc |
| Protest the Hero Kezia |
| Protest the Hero Fortress |
| Rammstein Herzeleid |
| Roadrunner United The All-Star Sessions |
| Sargeist Feeding the Crawling Shadows |
| Satyricon The Age Of Nero |
| Sentenced North from Here |
| Slayer Christ Illusion |
| Slayer World Painted Blood |
| Slipknot All Hope Is Gone |
| Slipknot .5: The Gray Chapter |
| Soilwork Stabbing the Drama |
| Sonata Arctica Unia |
| Sonata Arctica The Days of Grays |
| Strapping Young Lad Alien |
| Swallow the Sun Emerald Forest and the Blackbird |
| Swallow the Sun When a Shadow Is Forced into the Light |
| Swallow the Sun have a recent tendency to sandwich weak vocal melodies in between even weaker guitar melodies, and while When a Shadow... does momentarily break from this trend, things remain more or less on auto-pilot for the core sound of these venerable Finns as they have for almost 10 years now. Fleeting moments like the soaring latter half of "The Crimson Crown" or the screams of "Here on the Black Earth" that lead into an out-of-character guitar solo are understandably the most interesting moments of an otherwise one-dimensional plod through droning clean singing wading in a slurry of riffs that hardly ever make themselves known. The album's mood is utterly bleak not only in its solemn atmosphere but in its striking refusal to do anything at all that is interesting. |
| Swans The Seer |
| The Faceless Akeldama |
| The Howling Wind Into The Cryosphere |
| The Morningside Moving Crosscurrent of Time |
| The Red Chord Clients |
| Thorr's Hammer Dommedagsnatt |
| Tiamat The Astral Sleep |
| Tool Undertow |
| Tristania Beyond the Veil |
| Trivium Ember to Inferno |
| Twilight III: Beneath Trident's Tomb |
| Tyranny Tides of Awakening |
| Ulver Vargnatt |
| Ulver Lyckantropen Themes OST |
| Ulver Messe I.X-VI.X |
| Warning The Strength to Dream |
| Watain Lawless Darkness |
| Winterfylleth The Mercian Sphere |
| Wintersun The Forest Seasons |
| Woe Quietly, Undramatically |
| Woods of Ypres Woods 4: The Green Album |
| Xanthochroid Blessed He With Boils |
| 2.0 poor |
| Addaura Addaura |
| Agalloch The Serpent and the Sphere |
| Alcest Shelter |
| Alestorm Leviathan |
| Alestorm Black Sails at Midnight |
| All That Remains Overcome |
| All That Remains ...For We Are Many |
| An Autumn For Crippled Children Everything |
| Anaal Nathrakh Passion |
| Arch Enemy Rise of the Tyrant |
| Arch Enemy The Root of All Evil |
| Arch Enemy Khaos Legions |
| Arch Enemy War Eternal |
| I can think of no better example of everything wrong with modern melodic death metal than Arch Enemy, and War Eternal is just another album that, with 13 tracks, overstays a welcome that wasn't really there to begin with. |
| Arsis Starve for the Devil |
| Avenged Sevenfold Nightmare |
| Behemoth Thelema.6 |
| Between the Buried and Me The Silent Circus |
| Between the Buried and Me The Great Misdirect |
| Between the Buried and Me The Parallax: Hypersleep Dialogues |
| Borknagar Universal |
| Brain Drill Quantum Catastrophe |
| Burzum Umskiptar |
| Caliban The Awakening |
| Catamenia Cavalcade |
| Children of Bodom Blooddrunk |
| Children of Bodom Skeletons in the Closet |
| Coal Chamber Dark Days |
| Cold Body Radiation A Clear Path |
| Cradle of Filth Darkly, Darkly, Venus Aversa |
| Cynic Kindly Bent to Free Us |
| Dark Funeral The Secrets of the Black Arts |
| Darkthrone Dark Thrones and Black Flags |
| Dawn Slaughtersun (Crown of the Triarchy) |
| Deafheaven Sunbather |
| Demon Hunter The World Is a Thorn |
| Dethklok Dethalbum II |
| Devin Townsend Project Deconstruction |
| Dimmu Borgir Death Cult Armageddon |
| Dimmu Borgir Abrahadabra |
| Disturbed The Sickness |
| Disturbed Asylum |
| DragonForce Inhuman Rampage |
| DragonForce Ultra Beatdown |
| Drowning the Light Through The Noose of Existence |
| Drudkh A Furrow Cut Short |
| Let's start this off with a quick summation: there is exactly one memorable riff on this record and it occurs on the very first track. The rest of A Furrow Cut Short is lethargic and in dire need of some invigorating lift to bring the muddy, grey riffing back to life. It's a ceaseless dirge of cyclical guitar patterns and monochromatic moods that runs its course before the album escapes from its opener. The production is heavy and loud, swallowing the once-legendary bass lines Drudkh unleashed as recently as a few albums ago and opting to replace them with thundering drumming that envelop any attempt at dissidence to the one-dimensional songwriting. To put it in plain words, A Furrow Cut Short is Drudkh's worst album to date, supplanting even A Handful of Stars which, unlike the alarming display of stagnation here, at least attempted to try to achieve more than this...this...pure mediocrity. The only melancholy here is that instilled in the listener by the fact that Roman Saenko, who is capable of so, so much more, appears a fragment of his former self. |
| Eminem Relapse |
| Emmure Goodbye To The Gallows |
| Ensiferum Unsung Heroes |
| Enslaved Below the Lights |
| Enslaved Eld |
| Enslaved Vikingligr Veldi |
| Fragments of Unbecoming Skywards: A Sylphe's Ascension |
| God Forbid Earthsblood |
| Gojira Terra Incognita |
| Hell Within Shadows of Vanity |
| Heretoir Heretoir |
| Hypocrisy Into the Abyss |
| Ihsahn angL |
| Impending Doom Nailed. Dead. Risen. |
| In Flames Reroute to Remain |
| Into Eternity Into Eternity |
| Job for a Cowboy Doom |
| Krallice Dimensional Bleedthrough |
| Kvist For Kunsten Maa Vi Evig Vike |
| Leviathan True Traitor, True Whore |
| Lo-Ruhamah The Glory of God |
| Lurker Of Chalice Lurker Of Chalice |
| Lykathea Aflame Elvenefris |
| Mastodon Crack the Skye |
| Metallica Load |
| My Dying Bride 34.788%... Complete |
| My Dying Bride Bring Me Victory |
| Nargaroth Black Metal Ist Krieg (A Dedication Monument) |
| Nightrage Sweet Vengeance |
| Nightwish Century Child |
| Nile Ithyphallic |
| Norther Circle Regenerated |
| Obscura Cosmogenesis |
| Opeth Burden |
| Opeth Heritage |
| Opeth Sorceress |
| Orphaned Land The Never Ending Way Of ORwarriOR |
| Ov HELL The Underworld Regime |
| Pestilence Doctrine |
| Primal Fear Devil's Ground |
| Protest the Hero Scurrilous |
| Satyricon Now, Diabolical |
| Scar Symmetry The Unseen Empire |
| Shadows Fall Fallout From The War |
| Shai Hulud Misanthropy Pure |
| Sigh Imaginary Sonicscape |
| Sigh Scenes from Hell |
| Sigh In Somniphobia |
| Skagos Ast |
| Slayer God Hates Us All |
| Soilwork Sworn to a Great Divide |
| Stormrider Lucifer Rising |
| Sunn O))) White1 |
| Temnozor (RUS-1) Horizons... |
| The Absence Enemy Unbound |
| The Autumn Offering Embrace the Gutter |
| The Haunted rEVOLVEr |
| The Vision Bleak The Wolves Go Hunt Their Prey |
| Tiamat Sumerian Cry |
| Tsjuder Demonic Possession |
| Tsjuder Desert Northern Hell |
| Ulver Svidd Neger OST |
| Ulver The Assassination of Julius Caesar |
| Universum Mortuus Machina |
| Watain The Wild Hunt |
| When Bitter Spring Sleeps When Bitter Spring Sleeps |
| Whitechapel This Is Exile |
| Winter Solstice The Fall of Rome |
| Within Temptation Mother Earth |
| Woods of Ypres Pursuit of the Sun & Allure of the Earth |
| Woods of Ypres Woods III: Deepest Roots and Darkest Blu |
| Wyrd Kalivägi |
| Xasthur Portal Of Sorrow |
