| 3.5 great |
| A Day To Remember What Separates Me from You |
| Aeternam Al Qassam |
| After the Burial In Dreams |
| Fantastic release by ATB. Lots of shredding and the clean vocals sound solid. The only thing that bothers me about this album is that it seems too short. Could have benefited from a couple more tracks. |
| All Shall Perish Awaken the Dreamers |
| All Shall Perish This Is Where It Ends |
| Allegaeon Fragments of Form and Function |
| Amon Amarth Deceiver of the Gods |
| Anberlin Convinced |
| Arch Enemy Anthems of Rebellion |
| Architects Hollow Crown |
| Architects Lost Forever // Lost Together |
| Architects All Our Gods Have Abandoned Us |
| Areis Areis |
| Arsis United in Regret |
| As Blood Runs Black Pre-Production Demos |
| As I Lay Dying Frail Words Collapse |
| As I Lay Dying Shadows Are Security |
| As They Sleep Dynasty |
| Atlas (FIN) Ukko |
| August Burns Red Thrill Seeker |
| August Burns Red Leveler |
| August Burns Red Phantom Anthem |
| August Burns Red Guardians |
| More enjoyable than Phantom Anthem I think, but all in all, another great album from the Amon Amarth of Metalcore. |
| Battlecross War of Will |
| Battlecross Rise to Power |
| Battlecross blends thrash and melodeath well. The riffs are fun and catchy, however the production is a bit too clean for my liking. |
| Be'lakor Coherence |
| Between the Buried and Me The Great Misdirect |
| Beyond The Embrace Against The Elements |
| Beyond The Embrace Insect Song |
| Billie Eilish Hit Me Hard and Soft |
| Bleed from Within Shrine |
| Blindfolded and Led to the Woods Rejecting Obliteration |
| Born of Osiris Tomorrow We Die Alive |
The Discovery part 2 this is not, however, it's still a good album. This band needs a great
lead guitarist to take them to another level. Illusionist is a sweet track. |
| Buckethead Acoustic Shards |
| Bullet For My Valentine The Poison |
| Burning The Masses Mind Control |
| Bury Tomorrow Runes |
| Cattle Decapitation Terrasite |
| Cave In Heavy Pendulum |
| Children of Bodom Halo of Blood |
| I totally expected this to be a giant turd, like the previous few albums. But it seems like these guys found some of that old magic and created a good album. "All Twisted" is an awesome song. |
| Counterparts The Current Will Carry Us |
| Dance Gavin Dance Mothership |
| Dark Tranquillity Atoma |
| Dark Tranquillity Moment |
| Darkest Hour Hidden Hands of a Sadist Nation |
| Darkest Hour The Mark of the Judas |
| Darkest Hour The Human Romance |
| Darkest Hour Darkest Hour |
| Metal elitists around the world get their panties in a bunch because Darkest Hour decides to change their sound and incorporate more clean vocals despite the fact that the music is actually pretty decent. This album isn't amazing, but its nice to see them do something different for a change. Hypatia Rising rules by the way. |
| Detonation Emission Phase |
| Disarmonia Mundi Cold Inferno |
| Dying Wish Fragments of a Bitter Memory |
| earthtone9 In Resonance Nexus |
| Solid modern alt-metal, they've maintained their energy over the past quarter-century. |
| Enforced Kill Grid |
| Entheos (USA) Time Will Take Us All |
| Every Time I Die Gutter Phenomenon |
| Every Time I Die The Big Dirty |
| Evile Skull |
| Fit for a King Slave to Nothing |
| Fit for a King Deathgrip |
| Fit for an Autopsy The Great Collapse |
| Fit for an Autopsy The Sea Of Tragic Beasts |
| From Autumn to Ashes The Fiction We Live |
| Gatecreeper An Unexpected Reality |
| Gatecreeper Dark Superstition |
| God Complex To Decay In A Deathless World |
| Gojira Magma |
| Gojira Fortitude |
| The last 3 tracks are really strong IMO and keep this album from falling any lower. This band is never going to release another FMTS and that is okay. |
| Haste the Day Pressure the Hinges |
| Hundred Suns The Prestaliis |
| Hypno5e Acid Mist Tomorrow |
| Hypno5e Sheol |
| Insomnium Across the Dark |
| Insomnium One for Sorrow |
| Ion Dissonance Cast the First Stone |
| Might bump this to a 4 after a few more listens but this album FUCKING destroys. What a great year for metalcore, plus a new Zao album in a few weeks? Fuck. |
| Iron Maiden Powerslave |
| Iron Maiden A Matter Of Life And Death |
| Iron Maiden The Final Frontier |
| Johnny Booth Firsthand Accounts |
| Kataklysm Of Ghosts and Gods |
| Khemmis Deceiver |
| Khemmis Where the Cold Wind Blows |
| Khirki Κτηνωδία |
| Killswitch Engage Incarnate |
| Killswitch Engage is like the Amon Amarth of metalcore. They always put out consistently good music without changing their sound much. This album is nothing different, with a ton of a great tracks that throwback to AOJB. |
| Killswitch Engage Atonement II B-Sides for Charity |
| Someone needs to fire their producer. Almost every song on this b-side is better than every song on 'Atonement'. |
| Machine Head Through The Ashes Of Empires |
| Majesties Vast Reaches Unclaimed |
| Mastodon Leviathan |
| Mental Cruelty Zwielicht |
| Metallica Kill 'Em All |
| Metallica Metallica |
| Metallica Hardwired...To Self-Destruct |
I am really enjoying this. I feel like a teenager again hearing new Metallica music that isn't
mediocre. There's some really good tracks like: Spit out the bone, Dream No More and Halo on Fire.
I'd give this a higher rating if Lars Ulrich wasn't the worst Metal drummer of all time. The
drumming is too generic and better fills would elevate the sludgy/doom feel on some of these
tracks. I just can't ignore the fact that there's about 5 different fills Lars uses on the entire
album. Can you imagine what this album would sound like if they had Gene Hoglan behind the kit?
Luckily, the rest of the band carries the performance very well and James sounds better than he
has in about 15-20 years. |
| Misery Signals Ultraviolet |
| I wish it was longer but this is still a stellar album. |
| Mors Principium Est Seven |
| Mutoid Man Mutants |
| Necrophagist Epitaph |
| Nightrage Sweet Vengeance |
| Norma Jean All Hail |
| Northlane Mesmer |
| Novelists Souvenirs |
| Parkway Drive Atlas |
| Pathogenic Pathogenic |
| Highly underrated release from 2019. Can't believe they're unsigned. |
| Periphery Periphery |
| Periphery Periphery II: This Time It's Personal |
| Periphery Juggernaut: Alpha |
| Revocation Great Is Our Sin |
| Revocation The Outer Ones |
| Shai Hulud Misanthropy Pure |
| Shai Hulud Reach Beyond the Sun |
| Soilwork Natural Born Chaos |
| Soilwork The Panic Broadcast |
| Soilwork Overgivenheten |
| Spiritbox Eternal Blue |
| SuidAkrA Eternal Defiance |
| Tech N9ne Everready (The Religion) |
| Tech N9ne Killer |
| Telos Delude |
| TesseracT Altered State |
| TesseracT War of Being |
| The Absence Riders of the Plague |
| The Absence Coffinized |
| The guitar work on this album is nothing short of phenomenal and definitely the band's best since Riders but doesn't quite reach the peak of their earlier stuff IMO. |
| The Agony Scene The Darkest Red |
| The Black Dahlia Murder Miasma |
| The Black Dahlia Murder Deflorate |
| The Black Dahlia Murder Ritual |
| The Black Dahlia Murder Abysmal |
| My head will need to be "re-faced" after listening to that track, holy shit. |
| The Crimson Armada Guardians |
| The Ghost Inside Get What You Give |
| The Ocean Holocene |
| Under The Pier An Exercise In Discontent |
| Unfurl Ascension |
| Vanisher The History Of Saints |
| Vatican Ultra |
| Viscera (UK) Carcinogenesis |
| Within the Ruins Halfway Human |
| Essentially more of the same from these guys with the introduction of clean vox, which aren't half bad. Also, Ataxia IV! |
| Woe Of Tyrants Behold the Lion |
| Wretched (USA-NC) Cannibal |
| Yashira Fail To Be |
| 3.0 good |
| All Shall Perish Hate. Malice. Revenge |
| Amon Amarth Surtur Rising |
| ANCST Summits of Despondency |
| Arch Enemy Rise of the Tyrant |
| Architects Daybreaker |
| Arrival of Autumn Kingdom Undone |
| As I Lay Dying Decas |
| The new songs are solid, especially From Shapeless To Breakable which is a fantastic track. I like that they are trying some new things. The covers are awesome and are well done. The 40 second ones are just filler and could have been left off. Also the rerecording of Beneath the encasing of ashes is great, Tim's voice has gotten SO much better and it shows. The remixes are absolute shit and were probably made to appease the teen fanbase that's obsessed with dubstep. |
| As I Lay Dying Awakened |
| As I Lay Dying Shaped by Fire |
| As They Sleep Blacken The Sun |
| At the Gates At War with Reality |
| At the Gates To Drink from the Night Itself |
| At the Gates The Nightmare of Being |
| Becoming The Archetype The Physics of Fire |
| Beneath the Massacre Mechanics of Dysfunction |
| Bleed from Within Fracture |
| Bullet For My Valentine Scream Aim Fire |
| Bury Tomorrow Earthbound |
| Bury Tomorrow Cannibal |
| Bury Tomorrow The Seventh Sun |
| Carcass Torn Arteries |
| Doesn't really reach 'Surgical Steel' heights but an enjoyable listen for anyone a fan of the Heartwork-era of Carcass. Lots of cool riffs and leads. |
| Carnosus Visions of Infinihility |
| Children of Bodom I Worship Chaos |
| Dark Tranquillity We Are the Void |
| Diecast Internal Revolution |
| Dream Theater Octavarium |
| Dream Theater Systematic Chaos |
| ERRA Drift |
| More accessible, more melodic, but it is really more of the same erra we're used to. They've solidified their formula and it works for the most part, but it is nothing too exciting. |
| ERRA ERRA |
| Fit for a King Dark Skies |
| Fit for an Autopsy Hellbound |
| For the Fallen Dreams Relentless |
| For the Fallen Dreams Heavy Hearts |
| Gatecreeper Sonoran Depravation |
| Graphic Nature A Mind Waiting to Die |
| Haste the Day When Everything Falls |
| Haste the Day Dreamer |
| Havok Conformicide |
| How about those tasty bass riffs? Production on this album is stellar. |
| Hypno5e A Distant (Dark) Source |
| In Flames Reroute to Remain |
| In Flames Soundtrack to Your Escape |
| In Flames Foregone |
| Definitely their best work since 2006. Adding Chris Broderick has definitely invigorated some much needed energy with the solo work. Unfortunately, Anders is the weakest link of this band. There's a few mid-paced songs in the latter half of the album that are just bland due to the shoehorned choruses. |
| Insomnium Heart Like a Grave |
| Insomnium Anno 1696 |
| Kalmah Kalmah |
| Killswitch Engage Atonement |
| King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard PetroDragonic Apocalypse; or, Dawn of Eternal Night: An Annihilation of... |
| Knocked Loose Laugh Tracks |
| Light the Torch The Beauty of Destruction(Devil You Know |
| Howard sounds awesome, but the music is very bland. I was so hyped for this album, and it was ultimately a let down because of generic songwriting. |
| Machine Head Bloodstone And Diamonds |
| Machine Head Arrows in Words from the Sky |
| I don't even have anything snappy to say about this besides that it's decent and sounds like Machine Head. There are basic chugga chugga wugga chug breakdowns now and poor clean vocals now, for some reason--I guess I never listened to the Blackening or Unto The Locust, which has breakdowns and clean vocals, but I digress. And changing producers seems to have had some positive effect on the music, as at least there are no tracks like Triple Beam. I dunno man, this is kinda fun. |
| Machine Head Of Kingdom And Crown |
| Mastodon Crack the Skye |
| Mastodon Emperor of Sand |
| Metallica Death Magnetic |
| Northlane Alien |
| Parius The Eldritch Realm |
| Periphery Periphery IV: Hail Stan |
| Polaris The Mortal Coil |
| Polaris The Death of Me |
| Remnants of the Fallen All The Wounded And Broken |
| Revocation Empire of the Obscene |
| Shadow Of Intent Melancholy |
| Shadow Of Intent Elegy |
| Sion (USA) Sion |
| Soilwork Verkligheten |
| Sylosis Dormant Heart |
| Tech N9ne Misery Loves Kompany |
| The Absence Enemy Unbound |
| The Black Dahlia Murder Unhallowed |
| The Ghost Inside Dear Youth |
| The Ghost Inside The Ghost Inside |
| The Haunted Exit Wounds |
| The Zenith Passage Datalysium |
| Trivium Ember to Inferno |
| Trivium In Waves |
| Trivium The Sin and the Sentence |
| Trivium What the Dead Men Say |
| Underoath Voyeurist |
| Unearth The Stings of Conscience |
| Unearth The Wretched; The Ruinous |
| Better than 'Extinction', but not as good as their earlier works. They need to ditch Will Putney as the producer IMO. |
| Unsolicited Unsolicited |
| The album is entirely way too long and starts to run together, but it's clear that this guy should be the main writer of all BoO material. In fact, this album contains some of the best material from someone in BoO since 'The Discovery'. |
| Veil of Maya [m]other |
| Vein.fm This World Is Going to Ruin You |
| Wovenwar Honor Is Dead |
| Wretched (USA-NC) Son of Perdition |
