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5.0 classic
Arcade Fire Funeral
Between the Buried and Me The Parallax II: Future Sequence
Blind Guardian Nightfall in Middle-Earth
Bright Eyes Lifted or The Story is in the Soil, Keep Your Ear to the Ground
Death Cab for Cutie Transatlanticism
Kamelot The Black Halo
Kanye West My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
Kendrick Lamar good kid, m.A.A.d city
Mew Frengers
Opeth Blackwater Park
Protest the Hero Scurrilous
Radiohead The Bends
Radiohead OK Computer
The Smashing Pumpkins Siamese Dream
Tool Ænima

4.5 superb
Between the Buried and Me Alaska
Blind Guardian A Twist in the Myth
Bright Eyes I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning
Butch Walker I Liked It Better When You Had No Heart
Cold Year Of The Spider
At first glance, Cold is your basic cookie-cutter rock band, with a blast of grunge-influenced alt metal, perfect for modern rock stations to play endlessly. However, their music goes beyond that. Year of the Spider is by far, the most solid, and most well done album Cold has ever made. It features a large range of melodic metal, with fresh, catchy guitar riffs as well as Scooter's signature vocals. His vocals are one of the best elements of this album. Sure, it may sound generic in the field of grunge, and sure, we may call it a Maynard James Keenan ripoff, but in that sense, which post-grunge band vocalist isn't? Ward's vocals has improved dramatically in comparison to 13 Ways to Bleed on stage, where he showed a brutal, gruff style of singing which favored heaviness over melody. This album does quite the opposite, by featuring many of the catchiest songs you will have heard from that year. From a basic grunge/hard rock song like Remedy, to an emotional acoustic ballad such as Wasted Years, to even Kill the Music Industry, a post-punk song that revives Cold's past, this is truly an album to be appreciated.
De La Soul 3 Feet High and Rising
Deftones White Pony
Dethklok Dethalbum II
Dio Holy Diver
Gojira From Mars to Sirius
Gojira The Way of All Flesh
Gojira L'Enfant Sauvage
Hurt Vol. II
Iced Earth Horror Show
Ikuinen Kaamos Closure
In Flames Clayman
Megadeth Endgame
Mew No More Stories
Modest Mouse The Lonesome Crowded West
Muse Origin of Symmetry
Muse Black Holes & Revelations
Opeth Watershed
Porcupine Tree In Absentia
Propagandhi Supporting Caste
Protest the Hero Fortress
Royal Blood Royal Blood
Seven Lions Worlds Apart
Taking Back Sunday Tell All Your Friends
The Cure The Head on the Door
The Mars Volta De-Loused in the Comatorium
The National Alligator
The National Boxer
The National High Violet
The National Trouble Will Find Me
The Offspring Smash
The Pax Cecilia Blessed Are The Bonds
Type O Negative Dead Again
Vampire Weekend Modern Vampires of the City

4.0 excellent
All That Remains The Fall of Ideals
Arghoslent Hornets of the Pogrom
Banks Goddess
Between the Buried and Me Colors
Bloc Party Silent Alarm
Bloc Party A Weekend in the City
Broods Evergreen
Chevelle Wonder What's Next
Childish Gambino Because the Internet
Chimaira The Infection
Cold 13 Ways to Bleed On Stage
Coldplay A Rush of Blood to the Head
Coldplay Parachutes
Coldplay Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends
Coldplay Mylo Xyloto
Coldplay Ghost Stories
Danny Brown Old
Deadmau5 For Lack of a Better Name
Dethklok The Dethalbum
Eminem Recovery
French Teen Idol Enlightened False Consciousness
Gojira The Link
Hilltop Hoods State of the Art
Hurt Vol. 1
Hurt Goodbye To The Machine
Iron Thrones Visions of Light
Kendrick Lamar Section.80
Lo-Fi Scorpio Noir
Local Natives Gorilla Manor
Local Natives Hummingbird
Lucius Wildewoman
Macklemore and Ryan Lewis The Heist
Metric Fantasies
Muse Absolution
Muse The Resistance
Of Monsters and Men My Head is an Animal
Opeth Heritage
Phoenix (FRA) Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
Polar Bear Club Chasing Hamburg
Protest the Hero Volition
Radical Face Ghost
Radiohead Kid A
Radiohead Hail to the Thief
Radiohead In Rainbows
Radius System Escape/Restart
Rise Against The Sufferer and the Witness
Rise Against Appeal to Reason
Scar Symmetry Holographic Universe
sleepmakeswaves In Today Already Walks Tomorrow
Slipknot All Hope Is Gone
Strike Anywhere Change Is a Sound
Strike Anywhere Exit English
System of a Down Toxicity
Taking Back Sunday Louder Now
Taking Back Sunday New Again
Taylor Swift 1989
Tegan and Sara The Con
The Cure Disintegration
The Cure 4:13 Dream
The Naked and Famous Passive Me, Aggressive You
The Naked and Famous In Rolling Waves
The Postal Service Give Up
The Safety Fire Sections
The Smashing Pumpkins Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
The Strokes Is This It
The xx xx
Thursday War All the Time
Thursday Full Collapse
Tool 10,000 Days
Underoath Define the Great Line
Underoath Ø (Disambiguation)
Whitley The Submarine
Yeah Yeah Yeahs Fever To Tell
Youth Lagoon The Year of Hibernation
Yuna Nocturnal

3.5 great
10 Years The Autumn Effect
3 Inches of Blood Fire Up The Blades
3 Inches of Blood certainly do stick out somewhat in today's metal scene. They even stick out in the current power metal scene. While it's not a rarity for power metal bands to feature falsetto and growled vocals, it is more uncommon for them to feature a singer who sings in exclusively falsetto, and who's not afraid to give his falsetto a ragged touch. That's exactly what Cam Pipes (what an appropriate last name) succeeds in pulling off, proving that he's not afraid to roughen up his clean singing. Meanwhile, Jamie Hooper's metalcore and occassional black metal growl complement the falsettos fairly well, with very few exceptions. Overall, the musicianship is quite mature, with instrumentals heavily influenced by power and speed metal, featuring many melodic guitar solos, though some do seem to be taken straight out of speed metal's playing book. Drumming is standard drumming, featuring plenty of double-kicks and speed drumming. The instrumentals are often bursting with melody, even if its the same melody over and over again. There are quite a lot of standout songs, such as Night Marauders, Forest King, and Trial of Champions, but there are also horribly vague songs such as Infinite Legions (standard speed metal) and Black Spire. Overall, while clich?n a lovable fashion, and repetitive in some aspects, Fire Up the Blades is still a surprisingly mature (to some degree) and enjoyable record.
Acrid Semblance From the Oblivion
Acrid Semblance completely blew me away with From the Oblivion. They're the first Indian metal band that I listened to, and they impressed me greatly. Despite their nationalities, they sound more in sync with the Scandinavian metal scene. Imagine Dragonforce meets In Flames in a way, with many glorious melodic guitar harmonies and both keyboard (with an obvious Dream Theater influence) and guitar solos, epic instrumentals all around, harsh (though slightly lacking) vocals, and some decent drumming, and you get this album. Main complaints are that the vocals could use some improvement, since the growls lose energy fairly quickly. Also, the song, Running for Eternity is a complete ripoff off of the In Flames cover of the Treat song, World of Promises. The tragic flaw is that the album isn't too consistent, and the band needs slightly less filler in their songs. Though one can easily argue that it's just standard melodeath, it's still a very strong album for such an obscure (out of India) band, and I'm quite surprised that they have so little recognition.
Arcade Fire The Suburbs
ASAP Rocky LONG.LIVE.A$AP
Beach House Teen Dream
Between the Buried and Me The Great Misdirect
Bloc Party Four
Breaking Benjamin Phobia
Cattle Decapitation The Harvest Floor
Coldplay X&Y
Death Cab for Cutie Plans
DevilDriver The Fury of Our Maker's Hand
Diecast Internal Revolution
Disturbed Ten Thousand Fists
Dream Theater Train of Thought
Dream Theater Octavarium
Dream Theater Systematic Chaos
Dream Theater Black Clouds and Silver Linings
Evans Blue The Pursuit Begins When This Portrayal of Life Ends
While Evan Blue's sophomore album is by no means extraordinary, it still shows a natural progression of both musicianship and maturity. Demonstrated on this album is an improved sense of melody, though with some slight flaws. It's also shown Evans Blue try on new paths with their music, with songs like Q floating dangerously close to pop, and other songs like Painted, showing a new depth to their sound previously not explored before, with haunting instrumentals, and even some mature and melodic guitar solos. The vocals are still overbearing, but less overbearing than their debut album, and really, that's the main complaint that I have on this album. The guitars have shown a lot of improvement, no longer mainly limited to power chords as seen on their debut. The fact remains that The Pursuit Begins When This Portrayal Of Life Ends does not suffer from the sophomore curse.
Fall Out Boy Folie a Deux
Five Finger Death Punch The Way Of The Fist
Franz Ferdinand Tonight: Franz Ferdinand
Godsmack IV
Grizzly Bear Shields
Guns N' Roses Chinese Democracy
In Flames A Sense of Purpose
Katy Perry Prism
Kidcrash Jokes
Kidcrash New Ruins
Lorde Pure Heroine
Lostprophets The Fake Sound Of Progress
Lostprophets Liberation Transmission
Machine Gun Kelly Lace Up (LP)
Meshuggah obZen
Mew And the Glass Handed Kites
MisterWives Our Own House
Nine Inch Nails The Slip
Protest the Hero Kezia
Queens of the Stone Age Lullabies to Paralyze
Rilo Kiley Take-Offs and Landings
She and Him Volume Two
Silversun Pickups Carnavas
Six Red Carpets Nightmares + Lullabies
Slayer Reign in Blood
Slipknot Vol. 3: The Subliminal Verses
Staind Break The Cycle
Stars Set Yourself On Fire
Tegan and Sara So Jealous
The Avett Brothers The Carpenter
The Decemberists The Hazards of Love
The Offspring Rise and Fall, Rage and Grace
The Strokes Room on Fire
The xx Coexist
U2 The Joshua Tree
We Were Promised Jetpacks These Four Walls

3.0 good
Arch Enemy Doomsday Machine
Augustana Can't Love, Can't Hurt
Black Sabbath Dehumanizer
Bullet for My Valentine The Poison
Chevelle This Type Of Thinking (Could Do Us In)
Chevelle Vena Sera
D-Alternative Hidden Chamber
Dashboard Confessional A Mark, A Mission, A Brand, A Scar
Diecast Tearing Down Your Blue Skies
Foo Fighters In Your Honor
In Flames Reroute to Remain
Justin Kline 6 Songs
K'naan Troubadour
Katy Perry One of the Boys
Lukeing Forward Wandering In Urban Fog
Mastodon Blood Mountain
Muse The 2nd Law
My Chemical Romance Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge
Nirvana Nevermind
Nirvana initially changed the course of music in America. They shifted the focus from the '80's glam bands to the new rising alternative rock bands, setting a perfect atmosphere for alternative rock to flourish. While Nevermind is often credited for bringing alternative rock into the mainstream, and for being an incredibly influential album, the quality of the actual album's content, on the other hand, is questionable. Nevermind contains a mix of (in the modern sense) generic grunge music. Not surprising, seeing as how they helped bring grunge to fame. However, the music it contains are nothing extraordinary, instead, the music is written rather simply. Simple catchy alternative pop rock with occassional punk or hard rock influences is what it is. The album kicks off with Smells Like Teen Spirit, possibly one of the heaviest songs on the album. Lithium gives a nice break away, and gives the listener a sense of false joy in listening to its catchy pop melodies. However, the mood is instantly shifted when the song, Polly, is reached. Polly consists of incredibly simple guitar chords, with a fairly simple to understand story about a combination of rape and torture via a blowtorch. The rest of the album is mainly filler, before reaching Something in the Way, which is nothing more than a soft, quiet song, which appears to wish to put people to sleep. Honestly, what is there really to distinguish between songs like On a Plain or Lounge Act? Nothing really. But why give Nirvana so much credit? Because of the better bands who emerged, strongly influenced by Nirvana (or so they claim).
Passion Pit Chunk of Change
Passion Pit Gossamer
Scar Symmetry Dark Matter Dimensions
Seventh Void Heaven is Gone
Silversun Pickups Swoon
Slayer World Painted Blood
Stars In Our Bedroom After The War
Stars The Five Ghosts
The Cure Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me
The Fray How to Save a Life
The Offspring Splinter
The Offspring Club Me
Three Days Grace One-X
Trans-Siberian Orchestra The Lost Christmas Eve
Tripp Good Boy Charm
Underoath They're Only Chasing Safety
Within Temptation Mother Earth
Within Temptation The Silent Force

2.5 average
American Head Charge The Feeding
Anacrusis Suffering Hour
Angels and Airwaves We Don't Need to Whisper
Breaking Benjamin We Are Not Alone
Breaking Benjamin So Cold
DragonForce Inhuman Rampage
Drowning Pool Sinner
Earshot Two
Eighteen Visions Eighteen Visions
Evans Blue The Melody and the Energetic Nature of Volume
Fall Out Boy From Under the Cork Tree
Godsmack Faceless
Lenka Lenka
Saosin In Search Of Solid Ground
Seether Karma And Effect
Sex Pistols Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols
SOiL Scars
Soilwork Stabbing the Drama
The All-American Rejects When the World Comes Down
The Killers Hot Fuss
The Killers Battle Born
Within Temptation The Heart of Everything

2.0 poor
Crossfade Falling Away
Echosmith Talking Dreams
Katy Perry Teenage Dream
Lacuna Coil Shallow Life
Owl City Ocean Eyes
ShEver Ocean of Illusions
Staind Chapter V
The Fray The Fray

1.5 very poor
Nickelback All the Right Reasons
Owl City All Things Bright And Beautiful

1.0 awful
Good Charlotte The Young And The Hopeless
Lil Wayne Rebirth
Simple Plan Still Not Getting Any...
The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus Lonely Road
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