| 4.0 excellent |
| Animosity Animal |
| Architect Ghost Of The Saltwater Machines |
| Not really sure how to describe this album other than crushing. Small changes in time flow very well. Architect might be the most pissed off band to exist. |
| Arctic Monkeys Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not |
| Austere To Lay Like Old Ashes |
| Basilisk Vintyrhell |
| Basilisk Blackened Royalty |
| Basilisk A Joyless March Through The Cold-Lands |
| Bathory Bathory |
| Belphegor Pestapokalypse VI |
| Bleeding Through Declaration |
| Bloodbath Unblessing the Purity |
| Book of Black Earth Horoskopus |
| Brown Jenkins Death Obsession |
| Carpathian Forest Defending the Throne of Evil |
| Cattle Decapitation The Harvest Floor |
Probably the most cohesive album by Cattle Decapitation. The time-signatures while still all over the place, feel like they come "naturally," with the help of some great transitions. The chaos of Cattle Decapitation is still quite apparent on this album, but there is a lot more focus on atmosphere this time around and even some slower parts and some patterns that are a bit easier to understand, while using the chaos of their old albums as transitions and the like.
Vocally, Travis Ryan outdoes himself, or perhaps...shows a lot of potential on this album, even if a good portion of it are mids. The bass is very easy to hear and it has a crushing sound, while the guitar is much easier to hear this time through and shows quite a bit of technicality. Drums are relentless, but involve great fills and transitions as opposed to the jumpy style of Karma.Bloody.Karma.
4.0 |
| Celtic Frost Morbid Tales |
| Celtic Frost To Mega Therion |
| Colosseum (Fin) Chapter I: Delirium |
| Cult of Luna Eternal Kingdom |
| Dark Tranquillity Fiction |
| Darkane Demonic Art |
| Daylight Dies Lost To The Living |
| Deafheaven Demo |
| Not a far stretch from the sound the west coast seems to be advancing on as far as black metal goes. Atmospheric and comparisons can probably be drawn to WiTTR; which aren't exactly unfitting, though the music is a bit thicker and perhaps raw. Daedalus and Exit: Denied show great potential and expansion for this band. |
| Del Tha Funkee Homosapien Both Sides of the Brain |
| Dishammer Vintage Addiction |
| Dr. Octagon Dr. Octagonecologyst |
| Drawn and Quartered Hail Infernal Darkness |
| Earth The Bees Made Honey in the Lion's Skull |
| Einherjer Blot |
| Embra Abjection |
| Embrace Of Thorns Atonement Ritual |
| Emperor In the Nightside Eclipse |
| Escarnium Excruciating Existence |
| Exhausted Prayer Looks Down In The Gathering Shadow |
| Farsot IIII |
| Fen The Malediction Fields |
| Film School Hideout |
| Fleshgod Apocalypse Oracles |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven |
| Gorod Neurotripsicks |
| Haste The Mercury Lift |
| Haunter (USA-TX) Sacramental Death Qualia |
| Hour of Penance Paradogma |
| Immolation Shadows in the Light |
| Immortal Technique The 3rd World |
| Impetuous Ritual Relentless Execution of Ceremonial Excrescence |
| Infestus E x | I s t |
| Insomnium Above the Weeping World |
| Interpol Turn on the Bright Lights |
| Kalmah For the Revolution |
| Kid Dynamite Shorter, Faster, Louder |
| King Diamond The Puppet Master |
| Krallice Krallice |
| Krallice Dimensional Bleedthrough |
| Krohm A World Through Dead Eyes |
| Kronos The Hellenic Terror |
| Krypts Open the Crypt |
| Kylesa Static Tensions |
| Lantlos .neon |
| Lengsel Solace |
| Light This City Stormchaser |
Upon my first listen I thought that this recording wasn't as great as their predecessor Facing The Thousand. Upon an entire listen and even another, this CD grew on me and in a few ways...lived up to and outshined Facing The Thousand.
There are a lot more up-tempo thrash like songs, Firehaven being a prime example and even features vocals from Chuck Billy (Testament) that are awesome.
The Donor also shows more death metal elements, while Sand and Snow show the melodic nature Light This City is known for.
Originally I would have given it a 3-3.5, but now I think it's safe to say that it's a varied album, and an improved one.
4. |
| Majority Rule EMcDonald's Corporation, doing business |
| Malsain The Disease |
| Marduk Rom 5:12 |
| Mastodon Leviathan |
| Mirrorthrone Gangrene |
| Monstrosity Spiritual Apocalypse |
| Mors Principium Est Liberation = Termination |
| Muse Absolution |
| Naglfar Harvest |
| Naglfar Pariah |
| Napalm Death From Enslavement to Obliteration |
| Napalm Death The Code Is Red...Long Live the Code |
| Nas Untitled |
| Necrophobic Death To All |
| Necrophobic Hrimthursum |
| Origin Echoes of Decimation |
| Oubliette (UK) Oubliette |
| Pantheon I Worlds I Create |
| Panzerchrist Battalion Beast |
| Sear Lamentations of Destruction |
| Sear Bliss The Arcane Odyssey |
| Septycal Gorge Erase the Insignificant |
| She Said Destroy This City Speaks in Tongues |
| Sigh Hangman's Hymn |
| SikTh Death of a Dead Day |
| Silencer (SWE) Death - Pierce Me |
| Skeletonwitch Beyond the Permafrost |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Ire Works |
| The End Of Six Thousand Years Isolation |
| The Faceless Planetary Duality |
| The Funeral Orchestra Slow Shalt be the Whole of the Law |
| TotalSelfHatred TotalSelfHatred |
| Ufomammut Eve |
| Ulcerate Everything Is Fire |
| Good album though it is pretty similar to Hate Eternal...bit more complex in stylistically, melodies are a bit more atmospheric and engaging. |
| Unleashed Hammer Battalion |
| Vale of Pnath Vale of Pnath |
| Verse Aggression |
| Vestiges The Descent Of Man |
| Xerxes Twins |
| Year of No Light Nord |
| 3.5 great |
| Abigail Williams Legend |
| Abigail Williams In the Shadow of a Thousand Suns |
| Abysmal Dawn Programmed to Consume |
| Abysmal Dawn From Ashes |
| Aeternus Dark Sorcery |
| The best thing this band has put out, I think. Darker, thick atmosphere, and interesting echoed vocals. First track is definitely the best. As an EP, kind of hard to rate it much higher than this and this is probably still generous. |
| Amesoeurs Amesoeurs |
| Anata The Conductor's Departure |
| Annthennath States of Liberating Departure |
| Aosoth Ashes of Angels |
| Arsis We Are the Nightmare |
| Asmodeus (AT) Imperium Damnatum |
| Atmosphere When Life Gives You Lemons... |
| Behemoth Evangelion |
| Beneath the Massacre Marée Noire |
| Didn't care for the band before this album - too much tasteless tapping and sweeping, but this is way more straight ahead. The tremolo riffs are great and the production is great for this kind of sound. Sucks it's an EP, because this would be great material for an album. |
| Blaze of Perdition Towards the Blaze of Perdition |
| Brutality When the Sky Turns Black |
| Cabaret Voltaire Mix-Up |
| Coldworker Rotting Paradise |
| Converge Petitioning the Empty Sky |
| Converge Axe to Fall |
| Cruciamentum Convocation of Crawling Chaos |
| Current 93 I Am The Last Of All The Field That Fell |
| Darkest Hour The Eternal Return |
| Bit more aggressive and in vein of hidden hands in terms of aggression. Generally nothing new explored for the most part with some exceptions...riffs are what you'd expect from Darkest Hour, but it's constructed very well and John Henry sounds a lot better...as does Darkest Hour as a unit. Solid album probably between 3.5-4. Lonestar does a good job throwing in some nice melodies that create unique tones for the songs when they appear as well. Drums are for the most part variations of the skank beat the whole way through, but it works well. |
| Deeds of Flesh Of What's to Come |
| Dim Mak Knives of Ice |
| Filter The Amalgamut |
| Forest Silence Philosophy Of Winter |
| Forgotten Tomb Springtime Depression |
| Fuck the Facts Disgorge Mexico |
| Goldfrapp Seventh Tree |
| Gorod Process of a New Decline |
Lacks something. The guitars feel somewhat thin. The heavy parts are heavy, and the driving parts are great...but it's hard to feel like they are fused very well or coherently. While the riffing is tasteful and technical, it's hard to not feel like they're recycled due to Gorod's tendency to shred over sometimes simple rhythmic groove patterns.
Not as captivating as their last effort, but certainly a solid one. Some songs themselves are excellent and some of their best, otherwise...It's a solid album, perhaps somewhat underwhelming considering how great their previous releases were. |
| Gris Il Était Une Forêt... |
| Haunter (USA-TX) Thrinodίa |
| Haunter (USA-TX) διαδήλωση |
| Heartsounds Until We Surrender |
| Hilltop Hoods State of the Art |
| In Vain (NO) Mantra |
| Lamb of God Ashes of the Wake |
| Light This City Facing The Thousand |
| Lord Belial The Black Curse |
| Marduk Plague Angel |
| Martriden The Unsettling Dark |
| Nachtmystium Instinct: Decay |
| Naglfar Sheol |
| Necroblaspheme Destination : Nulle Part |
| Nefastus Dies Urban Cancer |
| Nordlicht Nebelmeer |
| Obolus (US) Demo |
| Obolus (US) Lament |
| Obscura Cosmogenesis |
| Ondskapt Arisen from the Ashes |
| Poison the Well I/III / II/III / III/III |
| Prosanctus Inferi Pandemonic Ululations of Vesperic... |
| Rx Bandits Progress |
| Satyricon The Age Of Nero |
| Svart Crown Witnessing The Fall |
| Swallow the Sun Hope |
| Sworn The Alleviation |
| The Howling Void Megaliths of the Abyss |
| The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble From the Stairwell |
| Visceral Bleeding Absorbing the Disarray |
| Year of No Light Ausserwelt |
