| 4.5 superb |
| 7 Horns 7 Eyes Throes Of Absolution |
| Aesthesys Ascendere |
| Aesthesys Achromata |
| Alberto Rigoni Rebirth |
| While highly eclectic, drawing from jazz, blues, classical, electronica, progressive rock, hard rock, and pop, "Rebirth" possesses a stunning unity of vision around the concept of that same name. Rigoni's BASS is front and center, and his melodic, reverberating style is refreshing and creates entirely unique, pictorial compositions. If you're a bassist of any style, do NOT miss this release, and yet any musician or music fan, even the casual one, can enjoy this album. |
| Amaranthe The Nexus |
| Anathema Weather Systems |
| Angra Temple of Shadows |
| Angra Angels Cry |
| Angra Secret Garden |
| Anthriel The Pathway |
| Anubis Gate Anubis Gate |
| Anubis Gate Andromeda Unchained |
| Anubis Gate Interference |
| Aramid Mountain Sounds |
| Aramid Bound |
| Arcane Known/Learned |
| Arch Echo You Won't Believe What Happens Next! |
| Arch Echo Arch Echo |
| Arena The Visitor |
| Arena Contagion |
| Audrey Assad Evergreen |
| Believer Dimensions |
| Believer Transhuman |
| Bethel Music You Make Me Brave |
| Between the Buried and Me Coma Ecliptic |
| Between the Buried and Me Colors |
| Big Big Train Folklore |
| Big Big Train English Electric Part 2 |
| Blind Guardian At The Edge Of Time |
| Boston Boston |
| Camel Mirage |
| Camel Moonmadness |
| Christoffer Franzen Mountain |
| Christoffer Franzen Wide Awake |
| Circus Maximus Isolate |
| Circus Maximus The 1st Chapter |
| Coldplay A Rush of Blood to the Head |
| Coldplay Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends |
| Creed Human Clay |
| Cynic Focus |
| Cynthesis DeEvolution |
| Cynthesis ReEvolution |
| Damian Wilson Thank You |
| Daniel Cavanagh Monochrome |
| Darkwater Calling The Earth To Witness |
| Dave Bainbridge Celestial Fire |
| David Maxim Micic Who Bit the Moon |
| Death The Sound of Perseverance |
| Devin Townsend Empath |
| Distorted Harmony Chain Reaction |
| Distorted Harmony Utopia |
| Dream Theater Octavarium |
| Echoes Nature|Existence |
| Echoes of Giants The Way To Us |
| Emerson, Lake and Palmer Brain Salad Surgery |
| Emerson, Lake and Palmer Emerson, Lake & Palmer |
| Enchant A Blueprint of the World |
| Enchant Time Lost |
| Entropia Simetria |
| Evergrey The Storm Within |
| Explosions in the Sky The Earth Is Not a Cold Dead Place |
| Explosions in the Sky All of a Sudden, I Miss Everyone |
| Extol Extol |
| Fates Warning Disconnected |
| Fates Warning Awaken the Guardian |
| Floating in Space Liftoff |
| Frost* Milliontown |
| Galactic Cowboys Long Way Back To The Moon |
| Galactic Cowboys Space In Your Face |
| Galneryus Ultimate Sacrifice |
| Galneryus Under the Force of Courage |
| Galneryus Angel of Salvation |
| Genesis Foxtrot |
| Gentle Giant In a Glass House |
| Gleb Kolyadin The Outland |
| Green Carnation Light Of Day, Day Of Darkness |
| Gungor Ghosts Upon the Earth |
| Haken Aquarius |
| Haken Affinity |
| Haken The Mountain |
| Headspace I Am Anonymous |
| Headspace All That You Fear Is Gone |
| Hibernal Beyond |
| Hibernal Repentance |
| Images of Eden Angel Born |
| Images of Eden Weathered and Torn |
| Insomnium Above the Weeping World |
| Inward Oceans Paths from Home |
| IQ Dark Matter |
| IQ Dominion |
| Iron Maiden A Matter Of Life And Death |
| Iron Maiden Powerslave |
| Iron Maiden Somewhere In Time |
| Iron Maiden The Book Of Souls |
| ISIS Wavering Radiant |
| Jakub Zytecki Feather Bed |
| Jakub Zytecki Ladder Head |
| Jean-Michel Jarre Oxygene |
| John Elefante On My Way to the Sun |
| Judas Priest Stained Class |
| Judas Priest Firepower |
| Judas Priest Invincible Shield |
| Kamelot The Black Halo |
| Kekal Embrace The Dead |
| Kekal Acidity |
| Kekal Beyond The Glimpse of Dreams |
| King's X Gretchen Goes to Nebraska |
| King's X Faith, Hope, Love |
| King's X Dogman |
| Kingcrow The Persistence |
| Leah Kings & Queens |
| Lights and Motion Dear Avalanche |
| Living Sacrifice Conceived In Fire |
| Lunatic Soul Fractured |
| Lux Terminus Cinder |
| Lux Terminus The Courage to Be |
| Mastodon Crack the Skye |
| Mastodon Leviathan |
| Matchbox Twenty More Than You Think You Are |
| Matchbox Twenty Yourself or Someone Like You |
| Megadeth Endgame |
| Metal Church Blessing In Disguise |
| Metallica ...And Justice For All |
| Mikaali Karlsson The Summit |
| Mike Oldfield Tubular Bells |
| MindMaze Back From the Edge |
| MindMaze Resolve |
| Mono You Are There |
| Mono The Last Dawn |
| Mono Pilgrimage Of The Soul |
| Montear The Hunt |
| Mortification Scrolls of the Megilloth |
| Myrath Hope |
| Myrath Desert Call |
| Mystery Delusion Rain |
| Native Construct Quiet World |
| It couldn't be more off-the-wall if it was drunk. Maybe it is drunk.rAnd that's why it turns out to be so incredible. |
| Neal Morse The Similitude of a Dream |
| Needtobreathe Into The Mystery |
| Ole Borud Outside the Limit |
| Oregon Out of the Woods |
| Ostura The Room |
| Pain of Salvation The Perfect Element, Part 1 |
| Pain of Salvation One Hour by the Concrete Lake |
| Pain of Salvation In the Passing Light of Day |
| Pantommind Searching for Eternity |
| Parachute The Way It Was |
| Pendragon (UK) The Window of Life |
| Pendragon (UK) Love Over Fear |
| Plini Handmade Cities |
| Poets of the Fall Carnival of Rust |
| Porcupine Tree Fear of a Blank Planet |
| Power of Omens Rooms of Anguish |
| Pride of Lions Lion Heart |
| Pyramaze Melancholy Beast |
| Pyramaze Legend of the Bone Carver |
| Pyramaze Immortal |
| Pyramaze Contingent |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers By the Way |
| Redemption The Fullness of Time |
| Redemption The Origins of Ruin |
| Redemption This Mortal Coil |
| Redemption The Art of Loss |
| Redemption Long Night's Journey Into Day |
If DoctorVelvet is referring to Indulge in Color ripping the intro from Black and White World,
that's totally intentional because it's a sequel to that song. You seem so much of an expert on
this band that you would probably know that they've done this many times before on purpose. Like
many other prog bands do. So why single Redemption out to give them a 1.5 rating?
This album is pretty spectacular, by the way. |
| Riverside Out Of Myself |
| Riverside Second Life Syndrome |
| Riverside Memories In My Head |
| Riverside Love, Fear And The Time Machine |
| Riverside Wasteland |
| Ronnie Atkins Make It Count |
| Rosetta Wake/Lift |
| Rush Moving Pictures |
| Saviour Machine Saviour Machine I |
| Sepultura Chaos A.D. |
| Seventh Wonder Mercy Falls |
| Seventh Wonder Tiara |
| Shadow Gallery Tyranny |
| Sigur Ros Takk... |
| Sigur Ros Agætis byrjun |
| Silent Lapse Birthright |
| Silent Skies Dormant |
| Six Days Of Calm The Ocean's Lullaby |
| Slechtvalk At The Dawn of War |
| Slechtvalk The War That Plagues The Lands |
| Too much of a good thing is the only measurable complaint about this album. Slechtvalk's combination of symphonic, melodic and Viking black metal is handled with expert songwriting, melodic finesse and a pictorial, emotional lyrical story; it blends together towards the end, with the overall quality and professionalism at a slightly lower standard, but is otherwise an absolute essential for black metal fans. |
| sleepmakeswaves Love of Cartography |
| Sleevenotes We Are Mostly Made of Nothing |
| Wow. I was not expecting to find this. I had only about 36 hours left in the year 2013, and it became one of my best of 2013 instantly. Combining the epic, uplifting post-rock scope of Explosions in the Sky with the cinematic delicacy and at times sorrowful ambience of Hammock, Sleevenotes write emotionally deep and life-affirming music that hits instantly and never runs out of power. |
| Soen Lotus |
| Sound of Contact Dimensionaut |
| Southern Empire Civilisation |
| Southern Empire Southern Empire |
| Southern Empire Another World |
| Spheric Universe Experience Anima |
| Spheric Universe Experience Back Home |
| Spock's Beard Brief Nocturnes and Dreamless Sleep |
| Steffany Gretzinger The Undoing |
| Steve Perry Traces |
| Steve Rothery The Ghosts Of Pripyat |
| Steven Wilson Hand. Cannot. Erase. |
| Stryper No More Hell To Pay |
| Stryper Fallen |
| Stryper Even The Devil Believes |
| Subsignal Beacons of Somewhere Sometime |
| Suspyre When Time Fades |
| Symphony X The Divine Wings of Tragedy |
| Symphony X Paradise Lost |
| Teramaze Her Halo |
| TesseracT Polaris |
| Testament The Gathering |
| Tetrafusion Dreaming Of Sleep |
| The Chicks Home |
| The Contortionist Language |
| The Flower Kings Banks of Eden |
| The Pineapple Thief Your Wilderness |
| The Sun Burns Bright Through Dusk, Came The Light |
| Theocracy Mirror of Souls |
| Theocracy Ghost Ship |
| Theocracy Mosaic |
| Threshold Hypothetical |
| Threshold March of Progress |
| Threshold Subsurface |
| Threshold For The Journey |
| Threshold Dividing Lines |
| Time's Forgotten Songs of Awakening |
| Tourniquet Microscopic View of a Telescopic Realm |
| Tourniquet Psycho Surgery |
| Transatlantic Bridge Across Forever |
| U137 Imagination |
| U137 Dreamer On The Run |
| Vanden Plas The Seraphic Clockwork |
| Vanden Plas Chronicles of the Immortals: Netherworld (Path 1) |
| Vanden Plas Chronicles of the Immortals: Netherworld II |
| Vanishing Point Embrace The Silence |
| Veni Domine Spiritual Wasteland |
| Veni Domine Light |
| Veni Domine Material Sanctuary |
| Votum Metafiction |
| Voyager V |
| Voyager Ghost Mile |
| W.E.T. Retransmission |
| While Heaven Wept Vast Oceans Lachrymose |
| Wolverine Communication Lost |
| Wolverine Machina Viva |
| Work of Art Framework |
| Work of Art In Progress |
| X Japan Art of Life |
| Yes Fragile |
| Yndi Halda Under Summer |
| Zero Hour Specs of Pictures Burnt Beyond |
| Zero Hour Dark Deceiver |
| 4.0 excellent |
| Abydos Abydos: The Little Boy's Heavy Mental Shadow Opera |
| Alberto Rigoni Something Different |
| Alberto Rigoni Three Wise Monkeys |
| Amaranthe Massive Addictive |
| Amaranthe Amaranthe |
| Anathema Distant Satellites |
| Anathema Judgement |
| Anathema The Optimist |
| Anesthesia An Infinite Winter, Vol. II: Time |
| Angel Dust Border Of Reality |
| Angra Holy Land |
| Angra Aurora Consurgens |
| Angra Rebirth |
| Angra Cycles Of Pain |
| Anneke van Giersbergen The Darkest Skies Are The Brightest |
| Anthriel Transcendence |
| Antimatter Leaving Eden |
| Anubis The Unforgivable |
| Anubis Gate The Detached |
| Anubis Gate Horizons |
| Anubis Gate Covered In Black |
| Aramid Beacons |
| Aramid Ashes & Echoes |
| Aramid Over Fences |
| Arch/Matheos Sympathetic Resonance |
| Asia Asia |
| Astronoid Air |
| Audrey Assad The House You're Building |
| Audrey Assad Heart |
| Audrey Assad Fortunate Fall |
| Audrey Assad Death, Be Not Proud |
| Ayreon The Source |
| Believer Gabriel |
| Believer Extraction From Mortality |
| Big Big Train The Underfall Yard |
| Big Big Train The Likes Of Us |
| Blaakyum Line of Fear |
| Black Sabbath Master of Reality |
| Blind Guardian A Night At The Opera |
| Born of Fire Dead Winter Sun |
| Boston Don't Look Back |
| Caligula's Horse In Contact |
| Callisto Noir |
| Carly Comando The Calm Before |
| Carly Comando Epic |
| Chemicide Common Sense |
| Chinaski 11 |
| Circus Maximus Nine |
| Circus Maximus Havoc |
| City and Colour Little Hell |
| Coldplay Ghost Stories |
| Coldplay Parachutes |
| Coldplay A Head Full of Dreams |
| Coldplay Mylo Xyloto |
| Coldplay Everyday Life |
| Communic Waves Of Visual Decay |
| Communic The Bottom Deep |
| Creed Weathered |
| Crimson Moonlight The Covenant Progress |
| Must retract my previous statement...this is VERY good. Didn't listen carefully...now I feel the atmosphere! 4 for now, but full rating on the next listen... |
| Cynic Traced in Air |
| Damian Wilson Built For Fighting |
| Daniel Cavanagh and Joseph Geraci The Passage |
| Darkwater Where Stories End |
| Dave Bainbridge Veil of Gossamer |
| David Gallegos Mis Recuerdos |
| David Gallegos Mi Rosa Blanca |
| Daydream XI The Circus Of The Tattered And Torn |
| Daydream XI The Grand Disguise |
| Devin Townsend Ziltoid the Omniscient |
| Devin Townsend Lightwork |
| Disillusion Back to Times of Splendor |
| Disperse Journey Through The Hidden Gardens |
| Disperse Foreword |
| DragonForce The Power Within |
| DragonForce Reaching into Infinity |
| Dream Theater Train of Thought |
| Dream Theater Systematic Chaos |
| Dream Theater A Dramatic Turn of Events |
| Dream Theater Dream Theater |
| Drottnar Welterwerk |
| Echosmith Talking Dreams |
| Eclipse (SWE) Monumentum |
| Elevation Worship Hallelujah Here Below |
| Eleventh Vibration Illusions |
| Emerson, Lake and Palmer Trilogy |
| Enchant The Great Divide |
| Entransient Entransient |
| Eumeria Rebel Mind |
| Evergrey Hymns For The Broken |
| Evergrey The Inner Circle |
| Evergrey A Heartless Portrait (The Orphéan Testament) |
| Evergrey Escape Of The Phoenix |
| Evergrey Theories Of Emptiness |
| Explosions in the Sky Take Care, Take Care, Take Care |
| Explosions in the Sky The Rescue |
| Extol Burial |
| Fates Warning Darkness in a Different Light |
| Fates Warning FWX |
| Fates Warning Parallels |
| Fates Warning No Exit |
| Floating in Space A New Dawn |
| Galactic Cowboys Galactic Cowboys |
| Galneryus Vetelgyus |
| Genesis A Trick of the Tail |
| Gentle Giant Octopus |
| God Is an Astronaut All Is Violent, All Is Bright |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor 'Asunder, Sweet and Other Distress' |
| Gojira From Mars to Sirius |
| Gojira The Way of All Flesh |
| Greylevel Hypostatic Union |
| Guilt Machine On This Perfect Day |
| Haken Vector |
| Haken Virus |
| Hammock Departure Songs |
| Hammock Chasing After Shadows...Living with the Ghosts |
| Hammock Everything and Nothing |
| Hammock Mysterium |
| HB Frozen Inside |
| Helloween Keeper Of The Seven Keys Part I |
| Hemina Venus |
| Hemina Nebulae |
| Hemina As We Know It |
| Hemina Night Echoes |
| Hemina Romancing the Ether |
| Hibernal The Machine |
| Hibernal After The Winter |
| Hibernal Relic |
| Hibernal Infiltrators |
| Hibernal The Void |
| Holy Blood Waves Are Dancing |
| Hourglass Oblivious to the Obvious |
| Hourglass Subconscious |
| Hourglass Voids and Visions |
| If These Trees Could Talk Red Forest |
| If These Trees Could Talk The Bones of a Dying World |
| Images of Eden Rebuilding The Ruins |
| Images of Eden Sunlight of the Spirit |
| Images of Eden Soulrise |
| Insomnium Shadows of the Dying Sun |
| Iona The Circling Hour |
| IQ Subterranea |
| Iron Maiden Brave New World |
| Iron Maiden Iron Maiden |
| Iron Maiden Killers |
| Iron Maiden Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son |
| Iron Maiden Piece Of Mind |
| Isildurs Bane IB & S. Hogarth : Colours Not Found Nature |
| ISIS Celestial |
| Jakob Solace |
| Jakob Sines |
| Jakub Zytecki Nothing Lasts, Nothing's Lost |
| Jakub Zytecki Remind Me |
| Jean-Michel Jarre Equinoxe |
| Joanne Hogg Uncountable Stars |
| Joanne Hogg Raphael's Journey |
| John Mayer Room for Squares |
| Judas Priest Screaming For Vengeance |
| Kamelot Epica |
| Kamelot Haven |
| Kamelot Silverthorn |
| Kansas Song for America |
| Kansas Kansas |
| Kansas The Prelude Implicit |
| Katatonia The Fall of Hearts |
| Katatonia Dead End Kings |
| Kekal The Painful Experience |
| Kekal 8 |
| King's X Out of the Silent Planet |
| King's X King's X |
| Kingcrow In Crescendo |
| Krobak Little Victories |
| Lacey Sturm Life Screams |
| Lance King A Moment in Chiros |
| Lance King ReProgram |
| Lauren Daigle Look Up Child |
| Lauren Daigle How Can It Be |
| League of Lights League of Lights |
| Leah The Quest |
| Lengsel Solace |
| Levi Patel Sailing on the Light of a Passing Star |
| Levi Patel Affinity |
| Levi Patel A Shifting Lightness |
| Lights and Motion Save Your Heart |
| Lights and Motion Bloom |
| Lincoln Brewster God of the Impossible |
| Living Sacrifice The Hammering Process |
| Loraine An Autumn Evening |
| Lord (AUS) Digital Lies |
| Lost in Thought Opus Arise |
| Lost in Thought Renascence |
| Lunatic Soul Impressions |
| Mahavishnu Orchestra Birds of Fire |
| Manticora 8 Deadly Sins |
| Marillion Fuck Everyone And Run (F E A R) |
| Mastodon Blood Mountain |
| Mastodon Remission |
| Matchbox Twenty Mad Season |
| Metallica Metallica |
| Metallica Kill 'Em All |
| Miseration Your Demons ~ Their Angels |
| Mono Nowhere Now Here |
| Mono OATH |
| Moonlit Sailor We Come from Exploding Stars |
| Mortification Mortification |
| Mostly Autumn Seawater |
| Myrath Legacy |
| Mystery The World is a Game |
| Mystery One Among The Living |
| Mystery Lies and Butterflies |
| Neal Morse The Grand Experiment |
| Neal Morse Testimony |
| Neal Morse Life & Times |
| Needtobreathe Out Of Body |
| Nest (FIN) Woodsmoke |
| Nest (FIN) Trail of the Unwary |
| Nightbirde Still Got Dreams |
| Nightbirde It's OK |
| Nightwish Oceanborn |
| Noah Kahan Stick Season |
| Nospun Opus |
| Numph Theories of Light |
| Olafur Arnalds Some Kind of Peace |
| Orphaned Land Unsung Prophets and Dead Messiahs |
| Orphaned Land All Is One |
| Our Destiny Awakening |
| Outworld Outworld |
| Owane yeah whatever |
| Pain of Salvation Be |
| Pain of Salvation Entropia |
| Pain of Salvation Panther |
| Pantommind Lunasense |
| Pantommind Shade of Fate |
| Pendragon (UK) Men Who Climb Mountains |
| Persefone Spiritual Migration |
| Peter Gabriel Car |
| Pink Floyd The Wall |
| Plini Sunhead |
| Poets of the Fall Ultraviolet |
| Poets of the Fall Jealous Gods |
| Power Quest Neverworld |
| Pray for Sound Dreamer |
| Pride of Lions Fearless |
| Pride of Lions Dream Higher |
| Pyramaze Disciples of the Sun |
| Queens of the Stone Age Songs for the Deaf |
| Quidam Alone Together |
| Red (USA) Innocence and Instinct |
| Red (USA) End of Silence |
| Redemption I Am The Storm |
| Riverside Rapid Eye Movement |
| Riverside Eye Of The Soundscape |
| Riverside Shrine Of New Generation Slaves |
| Riverside ID.Entity |
| Ronnie Atkins One Shot |
| Rosetta A Determinism of Morality |
| Royal Hunt Paradox |
| Rush A Farewell To Kings |
| Rush Hemispheres |
| Rush Permanent Waves |
| Russian Circles Station |
| Sanctuary Refuge Denied |
| Savatage Dead Winter Dead |
| Scale the Summit V |
| Scale the Summit The Migration |
| Seventh Angel The Dust of Years |
| Seventh Wonder Waiting in the Wings |
| Shadow Gallery Legacy |
| Shadow Gallery Digital Ghosts |
| Shadow Gallery Room V |
| Sigur Ros ( ) |
| Sigur Ros ÁTTA |
| Silent Skies Satellites |
| Silent Skies Nectar |
| Sithu Aye 26 |
| Six Days Of Calm My Little, Safe Place |
| sleepmakeswaves Made Of Breath Only |
| Sleevenotes The Pain of Nostalgia |
| Sleevenotes Anchorage |
| Smalltape The Ocean |
| Soen Lykaia |
| Soul Secret Flowing Portraits |
| Souljourners Mind Control |
| An unusual combination of heavy metal, mainstream rock and grunge with progressive tendencies. Michael Couts is the next guitar hotshot, and his angsty baritone is a surprising style in this field. Mind Control is somewhat homogeneous for its lengthy running time, and more attention to detail and craft is desirable, but this is a respectable heavy/prog metal effort. |
| Spheric Universe Experience Mental Torments |
| Spock's Beard The Oblivion Particle |
| Steve Hackett Voyage of the Acolyte |
| Steve Von Till A Life Unto Itself |
| Stryper Soldiers Under Command |
| Subsignal Touchstones |
| Subsignal Beautiful & Monstrous |
| Subsignal La Muerta |
| Subsignal A Poetry Of Rain |
| Symphony X The Odyssey |
| Takaakira Goto Classical Punk and Echoes... |
| TesseracT Altered State |
| TesseracT War of Being |
| Tetrafusion Altered State |
| The Evenfall The Waiting Room |
| The Flower Kings Desolation Rose |
| The Gentle Storm The Diary |
| The Pineapple Thief Dissolution |
| The Pineapple Thief Little Man |
| The Sun Burns Bright Longing For A Place, Yet To Be Seen |
| The Sun Burns Bright In Death We Rest |
| Theocracy Theocracy |
| This Patch of Sky This Patch of Sky (S/T) |
| Thought Chamber Angular Perceptions |
| Threshold Dead Reckoning |
| Threshold Critical Mass |
| Threshold Clone |
| Threshold Wounded Land |
| Threshold Psychedelicatessen |
| toe For Long Tomorrow |
| Tool Fear Inoculum |
| Toundra IV |
| Transcend The Mind |
| Tuesday The Sky Drift |
| U2 The Unforgettable Fire |
| Vanden Plas Beyond Daylight |
| Vanden Plas The God Thing |
| Vanden Plas The Empyrean Equation of the Long Lost Things |
| Vanishing Point The Fourth Season |
| Veni Domine Fall Babylon Fall |
| Vestevent Onward and Upward |
| Vestevent Kalsin |
| Votum Harvest Moon |
| Voyager The Meaning of I |
| Voyager I Am the reVolution |
| Wang Wen Eight Horses |
| Wang Wen Sweet Home, Go! |
| Weather Systems Ocean Without a Shore |
| While The City Sleeps Back When We Knew |
| Widek Hidden Dimensions |
| Widek Journey to the Stars |
| Widek The Garden Of Existence |
| Wingdom Reality |
| Winger Pull |
| Within Temptation The Silent Force |
| Yndi Halda Enjoy Eternal Bliss |
| Zero Hour Metamorphosis |
| Zero Hour Agenda 21 |
| 3.5 great |
| Aesthesys Camera Obscura |
| Agent Fresco Destrier |
| Alien Weaponry Tū |
| All Too Human Entropy |
| All Too Human Forever and a Day |
| Allan Holdsworth Metal Fatigue |
| Anathema A Fine Day to Exit |
| Anathema A Natural Disaster |
| Anderson/Stolt Invention of Knowledge |
| Andromeda Manifest Tyranny |
| Anesthesia An Infinite Winter, Vol. I: In Memoriam |
| Angra Fireworks |
| Angra Aqua |
| Anubis A Tower Of Silence |
| Aramid Shallow Dialects |
| Aramid Epoch: Abyssal |
| Aramid Fading Light |
| Arch/Matheos Winter Ethereal |
| Asmodeus (CZE) Prosincova noc blize neurceneho roku |
| Astronoid Radiant Bloom |
| Atomic Opera Gospel Cola |
| Atomic Opera For Madmen Only |
| Ayreon 01011001 |
| Ayreon The Dream Sequencer |
| Ayreon Flight of the Migrator |
| Ayreon The Theory of Everything |
| Believer Sanity Obscure |
| Bellarive Before There Was |
| Big Big Train Welcome to the Planet |
| Big Big Train Grimspound |
| Blurry Lights Our New World |
| Callisto Secret Youth |
| Celine Dion S'Il Suffisait D'Aimer |
| Christoffer Franzen Reflections |
| Christoffer Franzen Ghost of You |
| Christoffer Franzen Phenomenon |
| Coldplay X&Y |
| Colobar Behind The Veil of Oblivion |
| This Bulgarian progressive project, the country's second major prog project after the better-known Pantommind, delivers a debut brimming with artistic talent in many diverse musical colors and the songwriting skill to stitch them together into an intoxicating journey. Colobar freely embraces jazz fusion and Bulgarian folk music as vital components of its style, even more so than the heavy metal crunch left to the background beyond the energetic opener "Change of Ages," and creates refreshingly organic compositions, touching on nouveau riche bands such as Haken and old money bands like Angra and Threshold while sustaining complete distinctiveness. Singer Carl Sentence's Euro-theatrical timbre sometimes comes across as flat, somewhat lessening the impact of the pictorial, even spiritual lyrical content (maybe it's the singer-for-hire syndrome), and given the organic production elsewhere, the dry, sterile drum sound is rather disappointing; there are few remaining criticisms, as Colobar handles risky musical territory while rarely missing a step. Strongly recommended for 2012. |
| Comedy of Errors Spirit |
| Communic Conspiracy In Mind |
| Communic Where Echoes Gather |
| Cormorant Metazoa |
| David Maxim Micic ECO |
| David Maxim Micic BILO IV |
| Deep In Thought Verses |
| Delain Apocalypse & Chill |
| DGM The Passage |
| Diversity Awake |
| DivineFire Hero |
| Dream Theater Black Clouds and Silver Linings |
| Dream Theater Falling Into Infinity |
| Dream Theater The Astonishing |
| Dream Theater Distance Over Time |
| Dream Theater A View From The Top Of The World |
| Dream Theater Parasomnia |
| Dymytry Revolt |
| Echosmith Inside a Dream |
| Eclipse (SWE) Paradigm |
| Edge of Sanity Crimson |
| Edgend A New Identity |
| Elevation Worship Graves Into Gardens |
| Enchant Juggling 9 Or Dropping 10 |
| Enchant Break |
| Enchant Blink of An Eye |
| Enchant Tug Of War |
| Evanescence Fallen |
| Evroklidon The Flames of Sodom |
| Explosions in the Sky Those Who Tell the Truth Shall Die... |
| Explosions in the Sky End |
| Extreme Six |
| Fates Warning Perfect Symmetry |
| Fates Warning Long Day Good Night |
| Flares Solar Empire |
| Floating in Space Dreamland |
| Fragile Vastness Tribute to Life |
| Frost* Falling Satellites |
| Galactic Cowboys Machine Fish |
| Gazpacho Molok |
| Genesis Nursery Cryme |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor Yanqui U.X.O. |
| Haken Fauna |
| Hammock Raising Your Voice... Trying to Stop an Echo |
| Hammock Kenotic |
| Helloween Keeper Of The Seven Keys Part II |
| Hibernal Replacements |
| Horde Hellig Usvart |
| Hourglass The Journey Into |
| Iona The Book of Kells |
| Iona Journey Into the Morn |
| Iona Beyond These Shores |
| IQ The Seventh House |
| IQ Ever |
| IQ The Wake |
| IQ Frequency |
| Iron Maiden Dance Of Death |
| Iron Maiden The Final Frontier |
| Jakarta Project Beauty Lies in Lover's Eyes |
| John Elefante The Amazing Grace |
| John Mayer Sob Rock |
| John Mayer Heavier Things |
| Kalisia Cybion |
| Kansas Masque |
| Kansas The Absence Οf Presence |
| Katatonia City Burials |
| Kerry Livgren Seeds of Change |
| Lament Tears Of A Leper |
| Lament Through The Reflection |
| Leah Of Earth & Angels |
| Leah Otherworld |
| Lights and Motion Reanimation |
| Lights and Motion Chronicle |
| Long Distance Calling Boundless |
| Maciej Meller Zenith |
| Marco Ragni Mother From The Sun |
| Marillion Fugazi |
| Mastodon Emperor of Sand |
| Megadeth The System Has Failed |
| Menahem Angels and Shadows |
| Metal Church Damned If You Do |
| Metallica Hardwired...To Self-Destruct |
| Michael Sweet I'm Not Your Suicide |
| Millennial Reign Carry the Fire |
| MindMaze Mask of Lies |
| Mono One Step More and You Die |
| Mono Rays of Darkness |
| I'm not telling you what the surprise is. Or where.rBut I will tell you that it will scare the hairs off your head. |
| Moonlit Sailor Colors in Stereo |
| Myrath Tales Of The Sands |
| Myrath Karma |
| Mystery Beneath the Veil of Winter's Face |
| Mystery Redemption |
| Next To None A Light in the Dark |
| Oblivion Protocol The Fall of the Shires |
| Oregon Music Of Another Present Era |
| Oregon Winter Light |
| Orphaned Land Sahara |
| Pain of Salvation Scarsick |
| Pelican The Fire in Our Throats Will Beckon... |
| Pelican Australasia |
| Pendragon (UK) Believe |
| Persefone Shin-Ken |
| Persona Non Grata Shade in the Light |
| Power Quest Sixth Dimension |
| Psychotic Waltz A Social Grace |
| Pyramaze Epitaph |
| Quidam surRevival |
| Ray Alder What The Water Wants |
| Riverside Voices In My Head |
| Ronnie Atkins Trinity |
| Rosetta The Galilean Satellites |
| Rosetta Quintessential Ephemera |
| Rush 2112 |
| Russian Circles Geneva |
| Scar Symmetry The Singularity - Phase I: Neohumanity |
| Scott Stapp Proof of Life |
| Seventh Angel Lament for the Weary |
| Seventh Wonder The Great Escape |
| Slechtvalk A Forlorn Throne |
| Sons of Apollo Psychotic Symphony |
| Soul Secret Closer to Daylight |
| Soul Secret 4 |
| Spheric Universe Experience Unreal |
| Spock's Beard The Kindness Of Strangers |
| Steve Hackett Wolflight |
| Stryper To Hell With The Devil |
| Stryper God Damn Evil |
| Stryper The Final Battle |
| Subsignal Paraíso |
| Sweet & Lynch Only to Rise |
| Symphony X Underworld |
| Teramaze Anhedonia |
| While slightly homogeneous, AnhedoniA is an impressive tag team of brutal riffage, vocals ranging from the smoothly catchy hook to the feral screaming, inventive interplay, and socially aware lyrics. Some wider tempo, stylistic and tonal contrasts would probably help Teramaze's overall sound more than hurt it, but in the progressive thrash genre, AnhedoniA is well above average. |
| Teramaze The Harmony Machine |
| Teramaze I Wonder |
| TesseracT Sonder |
| Tetrafusion Horizons |
| Much more coherent, intense, accessible and polished than Altered State, and still carries the band's unique charm, eclecticism and sense of intoxicating harmonies. Highly recommended for 2012 prog, and it's free! |
| The Contortionist Intrinsic |
| The Contortionist Exoplanet |
| The Flower Kings The Sum of No Evil |
| The Gift (UK) Land of Shadows |
| The Gift (UK) Why The Sea Is Salt |
| The Great Gamble Book 1 |
| The Pineapple Thief It Leads To This |
| The Sea Within The Sea Within |
| The Sun Burns Bright A Hollow World |
| Threshold Extinct Instinct |
| toe NOW I SEE THE LIGHT |
| Tomorrow's Eve Mirror of Creation 2 - Genesis II |
| Torman Maxt The Foolishness of God |
| Toundra III |
| Tourniquet Antiseptic Bloodbath |
| Antiseptic Bloodbath kind of sounds like just another Tourniquet album when we were expecting something more extreme and risky from this Christian technical thrash metal standby. The group has refined their formula and musicianship, especially in vocalist Luke Easter's energetic, confident performance, has branched out lyrically as well by tackling various aspects of theology and spirituality and delivering a deserved ode to Tyke, the famously abused Hawaiian circus elephant, and delivered a crunchy but clean mix, but the bass is nondescript and the heavily compressed mastering is reprehensible from an experienced band and producer dedicated to producing quality metal productions. I expected a little better from Tourniquet this time, but it's not bad and remains recommended. |
| Tourniquet Gazing at Medusa |
| Trans-Siberian Orchestra Beethoven's Last Night |
| Twinspirits The Forbidden City |
| Twinspirits The Music that Will Heal the World |
| Twinspirits Legacy |
| Vanden Plas Far Off Grace |
| Vanden Plas Colour Temple |
| Vanden Plas The Ghost Xperiment: Awakening |
| Vanishing Point Distant Is The Sun |
| Vestevent Titus |
| Voyager Colours in the Sun |
| Wang Wen 0.7 |
| Wang Wen Invisible City |
| Widek Outside the Universe |
| Wolverine Still |
| Wolverine The Window Purpose |
| Work of Art Exhibits |
| Worldview The Chosen Few |
| Zao The Funeral of God |
| 2.0 poor |
| Aletheian Dying Vine |
| Benea Reach Alleviat |
| Callisto Providence |
| Post-metal with mostly clean vocals is a slowly growing idea; the potential problem is neutering the music so much that it becomes a mess of nothing, and Providence is mired in generic, meaningless chords, song structures with no direction, poorly orchestrated transitions into the rare and ineffective heavy sections, and a vocalist who just isn't well-suited for this type of music. The title track avoids these problems by building towards a dramatic finish with Callisto's signature cryptic, poetic spiritual lyrics, but perhaps this piece is the only selling point of the album. I look forward to hearing another band try an album like this, but they'll have to succeed where Callisto fail at creating captivating musical journeys. |
| Dymytry Homodlak |
| Glass Hammer Culture of Ascent |
| Gungor I Am Mountain |
| Holy Blood The Wanderer |
| Immortal Souls Wintereich |
| Iron Maiden Virtual XI |
| Jakarta Project Geographic |
| A nice conceptual idea, but executed poorly: entirely faceless music, lacking feeling and any characteristics of good post-rock, from dynamics to tension and atmosphere. It doesn't cost anything but time, but even the 25 minutes you would spend on this isn't worthwhile. |
| Kekal Audible Minority |
| Metallica Death Magnetic |
| Pelican What We All Come to Need |
VERY disappointing. Pelican need a rawer, less crisp production, and they just can't play post-hardcore like Rosetta does. Pelican is a loose band - this is so tight that there is next to no passion in the performances, and the songs go absolutely nowhere half the time. BORING.
The vocal experiment on "Final Breath" is abysmal...get a real singer. Isis wouldn't sound as good with a "real" singer...Pelican needs one if it wants to use vocals, unlike the other instruments. The presence of vocals would be an epic moment in Pelican music, so a clear style would convey this sound properly.
Please do not try this again. You used to be so great... |
| Prototype Catalyst |
| Spheric Universe Experience The New Eve |
| Tourniquet Vanishing Lessons |
| Veni Domine 23:59 |
