| 4.5 superb |
| Baroness Red Album |
| Between the Buried and Me Alaska |
| A precursor to 'Colors', the and influx of new members after the self-titled effort showcase a comfortable sound that chops and changes more often between genres than that on 'The Silent Circus'. Tommy Roger's voice shines his brightest perhaps on 'Alaska', switching from pig squeals (albeit digitally enhanced), the higher pitched grindcore-influenced screeches to the purely deathcore-related gutteral roars that feature the most prominantly. A particular song for this diversity is best amplified in 'Backwards Marathon', where his voice fluctuates continuously between his undeniably most amazing clean vocals and the always consistent growls. |
| Black Rebel Motorcycle Club B.R.M.C. |
| Black Rebel Motorcycle Club Howl |
| Black Sabbath Master of Reality |
| Black Sabbath Paranoid |
| Bullant Late Life Circ |
| Cardiacs Sing to God |
| Cave In Jupiter |
| Chaos Divine The Human Connection |
| Australian metal has gone unearthed for far too long. This can't be ignored by anyone who enjoyed anything from Devin Townsend's discography even partially - it's by far the best progressive record of the year, and will assuredly stand as something for all metal of the new decade to take the most diverse and energetic inspiration from many times over. |
| Chat Pile God's Country |
| Converge Axe to Fall |
| Being the album that introduced me to Converge, I was surprised to find it such a harsh and abrasive yet easy listen. It occurs to me now that this is incredibly strange and shouldn't be the case, but this is just so succinct, so well thought out, that there isn't any other case to be had. Appearing never to let up the intensity from 'Dark Horse' to 'Slave Driver', a paradoxically cleansing and haunting final two tracks still manage to empower and invigorate as they are listened to. rNow, after listening to thier discography, I've realised that Converge are no strangers to experimentation, as this aspect of the band is shown perhaps the most highly throughout the diversity of the record. Seamless transitions from the punk-hardcore verses to the grindy-metal chorus in 'Dark Horse' are just premonitions of the superior material to come. |
| Cult of Luna A Dawn to Fear |
| Cult of Luna Salvation |
| Deftones Diamond Eyes |
| Was a 4, now a 4.5. Quite literally the greatest album I have heard this year, and, as much as I hate to say it, 'Option Paralysis' does not stand in comparison to this.rAmazing, although lacking in that ethereal oomph that can progress to perfection. |
| Deftones Saturday Night Wrist |
| Pure and unadulterated bliss, an atmospheria standing alone within its own dynamic. |
| Deftones B-Sides And Rarities |
| Deftones private music |
| Devin Townsend Project Deconstruction |
| El-P I'll Sleep When You're Dead |
| Elliott Smith Figure 8 |
| Elliott Smith Elliott Smith |
| Enslaved E |
| Enslaved RIITIIR |
| Enslaved Axioma Ethica Odini |
| Enslaved Below the Lights |
| Enslaved Heimdal |
| Enslaved Below the Lights (Cinematic Tour 2020) |
| Failure Wild Type Droid |
| Failure In The Future Your Body Will Be The Furthest Thing From Your Mind |
| Fear Factory Demanufacture |
| Fleet Foxes Crack-Up |
| Geto Boys The Resurrection |
| Gojira From Mars to Sirius |
| Gorillaz Demon Days |
| Horrendous Ontological Mysterium |
| ISIS Panopticon |
| ISIS Live 5 |
| Jeremy Soule Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Soundtrack |
| Journal Unlorja |
| King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard Infest the Rats' Nest |
| King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard Polygondwanaland |
| King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard Flying Microtonal Banana |
| King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard I'm In Your Mind Fuzz |
| King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard Omnium Gatherum |
| Kowloon Walled City Gambling On The Richter Scale |
| Kvelertak Kvelertak |
| Kyuss Welcome To Sky Valley |
| Kyuss Blues For The Red Sun |
| Massive Attack Mezzanine |
| Mastodon Blood Mountain |
| Mastodon Crack the Skye |
| Mastodon Leviathan |
| Mastodon The Hunter |
| Megadeth Greatest Hits: Back To The Start |
| Meshuggah obZen |
| Meshuggah The True Human Design |
| Meshuggah Destroy Erase Improve |
| Meshuggah Nothing |
| Meshuggah Chaosphere |
| Metallica Master Of Puppets |
| Motorpsycho The All Is One |
| Motorpsycho Motorpsycho |
| Mr. Bungle Mr. Bungle |
| Mr. Bungle Disco Volante |
| Mr. Bungle California |
| Oceansize Effloresce |
| Opeth Deliverance |
| Opeth My Arms, Your Hearse |
| Parkway Drive The DVD |
one of the purest and most heartfelt music dvds i have ever seen
before you judge this band for whatever musical genre they identify with, watch this. |
| Pearl Jam rearviewmirror (Greatest Hits 1991-2003) |
| Pig Destroyer Terrifyer |
| Pink Floyd The Dark Side Of The Moon |
| Porcupine Tree Fear of a Blank Planet |
| Porcupine Tree In Absentia |
| Porcupine Tree Deadwing |
| Powderfinger Vulture Street |
| Primus Frizzle Fry |
| Primus Sailing the Seas of Cheese |
| Primus Pork Soda |
| Protest the Hero Fortress |
| Public Enemy Fear Of A Black Planet |
| Queens of the Stone Age Songs for the Deaf |
| Queens of the Stone Age Queens of the Stone Age |
| Rage Against the Machine The Battle of Mexico City (DVD) |
| Rage Against the Machine The Battle of Los Angeles |
| Run the Jewels Run the Jewels |
| Shadow Gallery Digital Ghosts |
| SikTh Death of a Dead Day |
| SikTh The Trees Are Dead and Dried Out, Wait for Something Wild |
| Silverchair Neon Ballroom |
| Slift Levitation Sessions |
| Slift Ilion |
| Slipknot Vol.3: The Subliminal Verses [Reissue] |
| System of a Down Toxicity |
| Tears for Fears Songs from the Big Chair |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Miss Machine |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Option Paralysis |
| The Drones Gala Mill |
| The Drones I See Seaweed |
| The Kinks The Village Green Preservation Society |
| The Living End White Noise |
| The Sword Warp Riders |
| The The Soul Mining |
| Tigers on Trains Grandfather |
| Tool 10,000 Days |
| Unwound Repetition |
| Ween Chocolate and Cheese |
| Ween White Pepper |
| Ween The Mollusk |
| Whores. Gold |
| Xavier Rudd White Moth |
| Xavier Rudd To Let |
| XTC Skylarking |
| XTC English Settlement |
| 4.0 excellent |
| 50 Lions Time Is The Enemy |
| Agalloch Pale Folklore |
| Alexisonfire Crisis |
| Antagonist A.D. These Cities, Our Graves |
| I love this. It's scratchy, unclean, raw, from New Zealand, powerful, heavy, got breakdowns galore... |
| Anthrax Among The Living |
| At the Drive-In This Station Is Non-Operational |
| Baroness Blue Record |
| Baroness Second |
| Baroness First |
| Between the Buried and Me The Great Misdirect |
| BtBaM continue thier foray into an unmistakable attempt at Dream Theater-inspired prog mixed with thier continually innovative take on the deathcore/death metal genres, with varied results. 'The Great Misdirect' is undoubtedly thier most focused record to date, and the band sound more comfortable with what they are doing even more than that on 'Colors', but the entire captivation of thier undeniable opus isn't as apparent on first listen of thier latest effort. |
| Between the Buried and Me The Blue Nowhere |
| This album made me laugh and I had a lot of fun listening to it |
| Bliss N Eso Running On Air |
| Bomb the Music Industry! Goodbye Cool World! |
| Bon Iver For Emma, Forever Ago |
| Car Bomb w^w^^w^w |
| Cave In White Silence |
| Cave In Final Transmission |
| Cave In Heavy Pendulum |
| Chaos Divine Colliding Skies |
| Cola Deep In View |
| Cola The Gloss |
| Coldplay Parachutes |
| Converge Petitioning the Empty Sky |
| Converge You Fail Me |
| Converge All We Love We Leave Behind |
| Converge The Dusk in Us |
| Cult of Luna Vertikal |
| Cult of Luna The Raging River |
| Cult of Luna The Long Road North |
| Cynic Traced in Air |
| Dark Tranquillity Fiction |
| Daughters Daughters |
| Deftones Deftones |
| Deftones Adrenaline |
| Dethklok Dethalbum II |
| Disturbed Ten Thousand Fists |
| Earth Angels of Darkness, Demons of Light I |
| Earth Angels of Darkness, Demons of Light II |
| Egg Hunt Egg Hunt |
| El-P Cancer 4 Cure |
| Elliott Smith From a Basement on the Hill |
| Eminem The Eminem Show |
| Enslaved Utgard |
| Somebody will have to write a review so this album can be discussed |
| Enslaved In Times |
| Enslaved Vertebrae |
| Enslaved Ruun |
| Enslaved Isa |
| Failure Magnified |
| Failure The Heart Is a Monster |
| Faith No More The Real Thing |
| Fear Factory Mechanize |
| Fear Factory Obsolete |
| Fleet Foxes Fleet Foxes |
| Fleet Foxes Shore |
| Fugazi Repeater |
| Gojira The Way of All Flesh |
| Gojira L'Enfant Sauvage |
| Gorillaz Gorillaz |
| Green Day American Idiot |
| H2O Nothing To Prove |
| Hard-hitting and in-your-face NYC hardcore, arguably at its best. |
| Hilltop Hoods State of the Art |
| Hilltop Hoods The Hard Road Restrung |
| Horrendous Idol |
| Ice Cube AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted |
| Intronaut Prehistoricisms |
| Intronaut Valley Of Smoke |
| Intronaut The Direction Of Last Things |
| ISIS Wavering Radiant |
| ISIS Celestial |
| Japanese Cartoon In the Jaws of the Lords of Death |
| John Butler Trio Sunrise Over Sea |
| Josh Pyke Memories & Dust |
| Josh Pyke Chimney's Afire |
| Kanye West My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy |
| Karnivool Sound Awake |
| KEN mode Loved |
| KEN mode Null |
| Killswitch Engage Killswitch Engage (Remastered Edition) |
| Killswitch Engage As Daylight Dies |
| Killswitch Engage Alive or Just Breathing |
| King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard Fishing For Fishies |
| King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard Quarters |
| King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard K.G. |
| King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard Float Along. Fill Your Lungs |
| King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard Butterfly 3000 |
| King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard Ice, Death, Planets, Lungs, Mushrooms and Lava |
| Kno Death Is Silent |
| Kowloon Walled City Container Ships |
| La Dispute Wildlife |
| Lily Allen Alright, Still |
| Machine Head The Burning Red |
| Machine Head The Blackening |
| Mastodon Remission |
| Melvins Tarantula Heart |
| Meshuggah I |
| Meshuggah Koloss |
| Meshuggah The Violent Sleep of Reason |
| Meshuggah Immutable |
| Metallica Ride The Lightning |
| Metallica Death Magnetic |
| Metallica Metallica |
| MGMT Oracular Spectacular |
| Motorpsycho Ancient Astronauts |
| Motorpsycho Yay! |
| Motorpsycho The Crucible |
| Mutoid Man Bleeder |
| Mutoid Man War Moans |
| Mutoid Man Helium Head |
| Oceansize Everyone Into Position |
| Opeth Blackwater Park |
| Opeth Watershed |
| Opeth Morningrise |
| Opeth Orchid |
| Opeth In Cauda Venenum |
| Opeth Pale Communion |
| Opeth The Last Will and Testament |
| King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard return with their gayest album yet |
| Parkway Drive Horizons |
| An unfortunate step-down from KWAS, but that's not saying much. |
| Parkway Drive Killing With A Smile |
| Periphery Periphery (Instrumental) |
| Pete Murray See the Sun |
| Pig Destroyer Phantom Limb |
| Pig Destroyer Book Burner |
| Powderfinger Odyssey Number Five |
| Primus Tales from the Punchbowl |
| Protest the Hero Kezia |
| Protest the Hero Scurrilous |
| Queens of the Stone Age Rated R |
| Queens of the Stone Age Era Vulgaris |
| Radiohead Amnesiac |
| Radiohead OK Computer |
| Rage Against the Machine Renegades |
| Rage Against the Machine Rage Against the Machine (DVD) |
| Raised Fist Sound of the Republic |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers Blood Sugar Sex Magik |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers Freaky Styley |
| Reel Big Fish Cheer Up! |
| Rosetta The Galilean Satellites |
| Safe Hands Against The Wrecking Ball |
| Safe Hands Oh the Humanity |
| Seasick Steve I Started Out With Nothin' |
| SikTh Flogging the Horses |
| SikTh Opacities |
| SikTh The Future In Whose Eyes? |
| Silverchair Diorama |
| Silverchair Frogstomp |
| Slift Ummon |
| Slipknot Slipknot |
| Slipknot Vol. 3: The Subliminal Verses |
| Stone Sour Come What(ever) May |
| Swans My Father Will Guide Me Up a Rope to the Sky |
| System of a Down Mezmerize |
| System of a Down System of a Down |
| Team Sleep Team Sleep |
| The Antlers Hospice |
| The Black Keys Rubber Factory |
| The Devil Wears Prada Zombie |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Ire Works |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Calculating Infinity |
| The Grand Astoria Omnipresence |
| The Mars Volta Frances the Mute |
| The Ocean Anthropocentric |
| The Sword Gods Of The Earth |
| Thrice Major/Minor |
| Thrice If We Could Only See Us Now |
| Tool Opiate |
| Tool Undertow |
| Tool's beginning showcases thier grunge influenced progressive beginnings, and exponentially retains the eerily pissed-off tone that continues right through from "Intolerance" to "Distgustipated". |
| Traindodge The Alley Parade |
| Travis The Man Who |
| Trivium Shogun |
| Ulver Lyckantropen Themes OST |
| Underoath Ø (Disambiguation) |
| Unwound Challenge For a Civilized Society |
| Unwound New Plastic Ideas |
| Whores. War |
| Wu-Tang Clan Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) |
| Xavier Rudd Food In The Belly |
| Xavier Rudd Dark Shades of Blue |
| Xavier delivers an unheard of opus, yet ironically not a shining light in a career of many. Overall, a heavier record that highly incorporates the use of didgeridoos as well as a much more prominent electric guitar.rThis was written under the influence of Strongbow. |
| Xavier Rudd Koonyum Sun |
| XTC Drums And Wires |
| XTC Black Sea |
| XTC Oranges & Lemons |
| XTC Apple Venus Volume 1 |
| Yes Close to the Edge |
| 3.5 great |
| Agoraphobic Nosebleed Agorapocalypse |
| Airbourne Runnin' Wild |
| Alexisonfire Old Crows / Young Cardinals |
| Apocalyptica Worlds Collide |
| Atreyu The Curse |
| Audioslave Revelations |
| Avenged Sevenfold Avenged Sevenfold |
| Baroness First / Second |
| Behind Crimson Eyes A Revelation For Despair |
| Behind Crimson Eyes Behind Crimson Eyes |
| Between the Buried and Me The Silent Circus |
| Between the Buried and Me The Anatomy Of |
| Birds Of Tokyo Universes |
| Black Rebel Motorcycle Club Baby 81 |
| Bring Me The Horizon Count Your Blessings |
| Cave In Perfect Pitch Black |
| Cave In Antenna |
| Coldplay X&Y |
| Coldplay A Rush of Blood to the Head |
| Converge No Heroes |
| Converge When Forever Comes Crashing |
| Cult of Luna Eternal Kingdom |
| Cult of Luna The Beyond |
| Cypress Hill Cypress Hill III: Temples of Boom |
| Dead Icarus Zealot |
| Deftones Around the Fur |
| Despised Icon The Ills Of Modern Man |
| Deathcore was once condemned from my perspective, a hybrid of my two initially most hated genres. However, throughout Sputnik's corruption, this isn't too bad. |
| Dethklok The Dethalbum |
| Disturbed Indestructible |
| Disturbed The Sickness |
| Drug Mother Rise Witch |
| Enter Shikari Common Dreads |
| Every Time I Die The Big Dirty |
| Intronaut Fluid Existential Inversions |
| Intronaut Habitual Levitations |
| KEN mode Void |
| KEN mode Success |
| Killswitch Engage Killswitch Engage |
| King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard L. W. |
| Korn Issues |
| Lamb of God Sacrament |
| Lily Allen It's Not Me, It's You |
| Mastodon Jonah Hex: Revenge Gets Ugly EP |
| MGMT Congratulations |
| Not as great as 'Oracular Spectacular', but I still enjoyed it enough to get away from the heavier stuff. |
| Mudvayne Mudvayne |
| N.W.A. Straight Outta Compton |
| Oceansize Home & Minor |
| Opeth Heritage |
| Opeth Sorceress |
| OutKast Speakerboxxx/The Love Below |
| Parkway Drive Deep Blue |
| I do sadly admit that I did '5' this album before it had come out, and I also said that this album leaked way before it actually did and hence got myself banned in the process of all that.rWhilst this album is in no way perfect, it certainly doesn't warrant the maligning that it is experiencing at the moment. The riff in "Sleepwalker" coupled with Winston's extremity really is some great stuff.rThe album fluctuates between Parkway's stereotyping of themselves and thier desire to innovate. For the most part, thier innovation wins over thier lack of. |
| Pearl Jam Pearl Jam |
| Pearl Jam Yield |
| Periphery Periphery |
'Letter Experiment' and the accompanying 'Spartacus: Blood and Sand' video, whilst not organised by the band, make this a worthwhile 3.5/5.
As many have said previously, Periphery take many aspects of bands such as Meshuggah and Between the Buried and Me to form a consistent, albeit overlong hybrid of the two. Integrating Meshuggah's polyrythmic patterns and making derivatives of BtBaM's technicalities in riff, much is ahead for Mansoor and his crusade of very interestingly named hybrid pioneers. |
| Pete Murray Summer At Eureka |
| Porcupine Tree Lightbulb Sun |
| Powderfinger Dream Days At The Hotel Existence |
| Radiohead In Rainbows |
| Rage Against the Machine Evil Empire |
| Serj Tankian Elect the Dead |
| Silverchair Young Modern |
| theyve moved into a more progressive territory, and for an australian band who started out as a hard rock nirvana-esque ring to it, to take this transformation and master it is something unheard of. |
| Slipknot 9.0: Live |
| Slipknot Iowa |
| Soundtrack (Film) Reservoir Dogs: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack |
| Stone Sour Stone Sour |
| The Black Keys Magic Potion |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Irony Is a Dead Scene |
| The Living End State Of Emergency |
| Thrice The Artist in the Ambulance |
| Thrice The Alchemy Index Vols. I & II |
| Travis The Invisible Band |
| Ulcerate The Destroyers of All |
| Underoath Define The Great Line |
| 3.0 good |
| 36 Crazyfists Rest Inside the Flames |
| Alexisonfire Alexisonfire |
| As I Lay Dying Frail Words Collapse |
| Atreyu Lead Sails Paper Anchor |
| Atreyu Suicide Notes and Butterfly Kisses |
| Audioslave Audioslave |
| Audioslave Out of Exile |
| Carpathian Isolation |
| Confession Cancer |
| Disturbed Believe |
| Fear Factory Archetype |
| H2O Thicker Than Water |
| HIM Venus Doom |
| In Flames A Sense of Purpose |
| Korn Untouchables |
| Korn Korn |
| Lamb of God Ashes of the Wake |
| Linkin Park Meteora |
| Maroon 5 Songs About Jane |
| Mudvayne The End of All Things to Come |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers Stadium Arcadium |
| Slayer Reign In Blood |
| System of a Down Hypnotize |
| The Mars Volta De-Loused in the Comatorium |
| I'm under the influence of two vodka-heavy White Russians and all I want to do is take it easy whilst I shuffle through my proggy, intense, ambient and at times extravagent collection of music, and along comes 'De-loused in the Comatorium'. Sure, Jon Theodore, you can go all Mexican and hippetty-hoppetty doo on us, and Omar - you're an amazing guitarist, but could you guys just for once settle down? I mean, really... drop back on the technical bravado for once and chill out - I don't blame you for being psychedelic and shit, but have you guys really got to try and sound as much like a bad trip as possible? You've got your moments on tracks like on 'Eria Tarka' where you're definitely a desert dream, but then you go and turn it into a freak-out during that weird, irky and high-pitched chorus that just fucks with my circadium rhythms and shit, aye?rAll's I is trying to say, is for once in your pretentiously proggy-70's throwback career, could you guys at least try to take it easy? |
