| 3.5 great |
| Anathema Judgement |
| Avenged Sevenfold Nightmare |
| Borealis Illusions |
| Clutch Earth Rocker |
| Clutch From Beale Street To Oblivion |
| Fear Factory Obsolete |
| Kamelot Ghost Opera |
| Kryptos The Coils Of Apollyon |
| Kryptos Burn Up The Night |
| An exceptional follow up to the Coils of Apollyon. This album is a love letter to all of the traditional metal roots, blending Judas Priest, Black Sabbath, Iron Maiden, and Venom into one hell of an album. |
| Maylene and the Sons of Disaster II |
| Mechina Empyrean |
| Mechina Siege |
| Mushroomhead XIII |
| Nightwish Century Child |
| Orbit Culture Nija |
| Wildly top heavy, when the focus is more on telling a story versus just being really god damn heavy, they stand ahead of their peers. Nensha and The Shadowing are perfect examples of this. Very intrigued by this band |
| Psychostick Space Vampires vs. Zombie Dinosaurs in 3 |
| Hilarious, with some authentic balls-to-the-walls metal. Stand out tracks include Welcome to the show, It's just a movie stupid, the root of all evil, and methane crescendo. |
| Scar Symmetry Pitch Black Progress |
| Scar Symmetry Symmetric in Design |
| Sevendust Chapter VII: Hope and Sorrow |
| Sevendust Alpha |
| Sevendust Next |
| Sevendust Sevendust |
| Sevendust Southside Double-Wide: Acoustic Live |
| Skindred Roots Rock Riot |
| Soilwork Stabbing the Drama |
| Soilwork The Chainheart Machine |
| Soilwork Overgivenheten |
| Still Remains Of Love and Lunacy |
| Trivium Ember to Inferno |
| Trivium What the Dead Men Say |
| Unleash The Archers Abyss |
| More of a rollercoaster ride than Apex was, but they got a few fuckin bangers on here. only one or two songs out of the album aren?t top notch, may bump to a 4 if it stays in my rotation for a while. |
| Unleash The Archers Phantoma |
| Volbeat Outlaw Gentlemen & Shady Ladies |
| Swap "The Sinner is You" for "Ecotone" on deluxe edition and this would be a 5 |
| 3.0 good |
| 36 Crazyfists Rest Inside the Flames |
| Anathema Eternity |
| Children of Bodom Are You Dead Yet? |
| Chthonic 政治 Battlefields of Asura |
| Fuck yeah motherfucker, this slays. Lost half a point cause Randy blythes contribution was completely unnecessary. |
| Eyes of Fire Ashes to Embers |
| Ive only heard a few tracks, but the song Hopeless alone is enough for me to recommend this. |
| Five Finger Death Punch The Way Of The Fist |
| Hollywood Undead Swan Songs |
| Kryptos Force Of Danger |
| Fuck these riffs are great, but production wise, they might be keeping it a little too old school... r |
| Mastodon Once More 'Round the Sun |
| Sorry, but the main vocalist just isn't very good. A lot of decent songs here, but the singer either needs to get a vocal coach or change their approach.rwould be a 3.5 if it weren't for that. |
| Maylene and the Sons of Disaster Maylene and the Sons of Disaster |
| Mechina Progenitor |
| Mechina Acheron |
| Mechina Xenon |
| Mechina As Embers Turn To Dust |
| Metallica Death Magnetic |
| Some majorly flawed elements detract from an album that has great moments that are separated by utterly jarring and dull and rookie mistakes. |
| Nightwish Dark Passion Play |
| Scar Symmetry Dark Matter Dimensions |
Scar symmetry have returned, and in all honesty Christians absence is only a minor inconvenience. Some songs are more filler than were used to with Scar Symmetry, but the standouts are truly fantastic. Overall the album has a much more aggressive feel than Holographic Universe which is either a good or bad thing depending on who you ask.
In regard to the vocals, they seem much more realistic in terms of their reproduction in the live setting. Christian was great in the studio, but couldn't even come close to reproducing the act live. With that said, there are still some great vocal theatrics at play here, but theyre a little more restrained and I never thought to myself "Oh come on, theres no way that would happen at a concert." In the end, i think it was a necessary change for the band as it was starting to sound a little unreasonable at times with christians over the top approach. EDIT: Props to the guitarist, the fretwork is incredible as always |
| Sevendust Seasons |
| Silent Civilian Rebirth of the Temple |
| Skindred Babylon |
| Soilwork Natural Born Chaos |
| Soilwork Verkligheten |
| Spineshank Self Destructive Pattern |
| Submersed Immortal Verses |
| Too much filler but there are some truly great songs on this album, an artist's prayer being probably the most melodic and beautiful of them all. |
| Trivium In Waves |
| Trivium The Sin and the Sentence |
| Volbeat Rewind, Replay, Rebound |
| Volbeat Seal the Deal & Let's Boogie |
