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Average Rating: 3.34
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5.0 classic
The Dillinger Escape Plan Option Paralysis

4.5 superb
Arch Enemy Anthems of Rebellion
Dead Can Dance Within the Realm of a Dying Sun
Dead Can Dance Toward the Within
Elliott Brood Mountain Meadows
Epica Design Your Universe
Johnny Cash At San Quentin
Ludwig van Beethoven Symphony No. 9 in D minor, Op. 125
O'Death Broken Hymns, Limbs, and Skin
Olafur Arnalds ...And They Have Escaped The Weight Of Darkness
Peccatum Lost in Reverie
Protest the Hero Fortress
Rotting Christ Aealo
Stick to Your Guns The Hope Division
The Red Chord Fed Through the Teeth Machine
Thorns Thorns
Unexpect In a Flesh Aquarium
Vestigial Translucent Communion
Those who enjoy atmospheric music should definitely pick this album up. Vestigial is a fairly unknown dark ambient band. Dark ambient is also a vastly unfamiliar genre, which is very minimalistic. The band takes everything that the ambient world has to offer and employs these elements to create a dark atmosphere. Not just a dark atmosphere but a feeling that all of humanity is extinct, gone maybe even annihilated.

This shadowy environment is created with rumblings and hums such as in the song "Primordial Communications". Its clickety clack treble tones and base pulses give you the experience of a post apocalyptic world. Even though this song is gloomy and ominous it still has a nice unique beat to it. A kind of beat that you would imagine when lost soul is walking them empty streets of a movie, unaware of what has happened to his fellow man.

What's nice about Vestigial and his album is that he doesnt rely on droning as do many dark ambient projects. Its completely electronics and drums. No guitar needed to create this epic nothingness. This album, that will most definitely give you a more nihilistic view of life, has developed a cult following in Italy. Italy has given the world all sorts of magnificent artwork, and "Translucent Communion" is no failure!

4.0 excellent
Aesop Rock Labor Days
Akercocke Words That Go Unspoken...
Akercocke Antichrist
Arcana Raspail
Architects Hollow Crown
Army Of The Pharaohs Ritual Of Battle
At the Gates Slaughter of the Soul
Augury Fragmentary Evidence
Azam Ali Elysium for the Brave
B. Dolan Fallen House Sunken City
Becoming The Archetype Terminate Damnation
Becoming The Archetype Dichotomy
Behemoth Demigod
Behemoth The Apostasy
Behemoth Evangelion
Benea Reach Alleviat
Buck 65 Talkin' Honky Blues
Buck 65 This Right Here Is Buck 65
Cage (USA-NY) Depart From Me
Carl Orff Carmina Burana
Casey Jones The Messenger
Combichrist Everybody Hates You
Conducting from the Grave When Legends Become Dust
CunninLynguists A Piece Of Strange
CunninLynguists Will Rap For Food
Cynic Traced in Air
Dead Can Dance The Serpent's Egg
Dead or Alive Youthquake
Deeds of Flesh Reduced to Ashes
Diablo Swing Orchestra Sing-Along Songs for the Damned & Delirious
Diabolical Masquerade Nightwork
Dominia Judgement Of Tormented Souls
E.S. Posthumus Unearthed
El-P I'll Sleep When You're Dead
Elend A World in Their Screams
Elliott Brood Ambassador
Eluveitie Spirit
Eluveitie Slania
Emperor Prometheus: The Discipline of Fire...
Everything But the Girl Walking Wounded
Ex Deo Romulus
Fleshgod Apocalypse Oracles
Flogging Molly Drunken Lullabies
Flogging Molly Swagger
Hank Williams III Straight to Hell
Hank Williams III Damn Right, Rebel Proud
He Is Legend I Am Hollywood
Heaven Shall Burn Antigone
Heaven Shall Burn vs. Caliban The Split Program II
Hour of Penance The Vile Conception
Hour of Penance Paradogma
Ice Ages Buried Silence
Immolation Harnessing Ruin
Immolation Shadows in the Light
Johann Sebastian Bach Brandenburg Concerto No. 1 in F major, BWV 1046
Karl Sanders Saurian Meditation
Karl Sanders Saurian Exorcisms
Keep of Kalessin Kolossus
Lamb of God Ashes of the Wake
Lamb of God As the Palaces Burn
Legion of the Damned Cult of the Dead
Made Out of Babies The Ruiner
Massive Attack 100th Window
My Dying Bride The Dreadful Hours
My Dying Bride Songs of Darkness, Words of Light
Necro The Pre-Fix for Death
Necro Gory Days
Necrophagist Onset of Putrefaction
Nirvana In Utero
Nirvana Nevermind
Olafur Arnalds Variations of Static
Olafur Arnalds Eulogy for Evolution
Old Man's Child Vermin
Paradise Lost Paradise Lost
Paradise Lost In Requiem
Paradise Lost Faith Divides Us - Death Unites Us
Ram-Zet Escape
Ram-Zet Neutralized
Rotting Christ Sanctus Diavolos
Rotting Christ Theogonia
Sage Francis A Healthy Distrust
Septicflesh Communion
Shape of Despair Illusion's Play
Skepticism Alloy
Son of Aurelius The Farthest Reaches
Stolen Babies There Be Squabbles Ahead
Suffocation Suffocation
The Agonist Lullabies for the Dormant Mind
The Beach Boys 20 Good Vibrations: The Greatest Hits
The Dillinger Escape Plan Miss Machine
The Prodigy The Fat of the Land
The Prodigy Music for the Jilted Generation
The Prodigy Invaders Must Die
Unter Null The Failure Epiphany
Vesania Distractive Killusions
Vital Remains Dechristianize
Winds The Imaginary Direction of Time

3.5 great
1349 Hellfire
Aletheian Dying Vine
Arch Enemy Rise of the Tyrant
Army Of The Pharaohs The Unholy Terror
Behemoth Thelema.6
Belphegor Lucifer Incestus
Burst Lazarus Bird
Burzum Burzum
Caliban Say Hello to Tragedy
Casey Jones The Few, The Proud, The Crucial
Combichrist Today We Are All Demons
Dark Fortress Eidolon
Dark Tranquillity Character
Dark Tranquillity Damage Done
Dark Tranquillity Fiction
Decapitated Nihility
Deeds of Flesh Of What's to Come
Deicide Scars of the Crucifix
Deicide The Stench of Redemption
DevilDriver DevilDriver
Dodheimsgard Supervillain Outcast
Elysia Masochist
Emperor IX Equilibrium
Ensiferum Iron
Ensiferum Victory Songs
Eternal Tears of Sorrow Chaotic Beauty
Eternal Tears of Sorrow Before the Bleeding Sun
Extol Undeceived
Extol Burial
Eyedea and Abilities E&A
Eyedea and Abilities First Born
Graveworm Collateral Defect
Heaven Shall Burn Iconoclast (Part 1: The Final Resistance)
Hypocrisy A Taste of Extreme Divinity
Jedi Mind Tricks Servants in Heaven, Kings in Hell
Job For A Cowboy Ruination
Kalmah The Black Waltz
Kataklysm In the Arms of Devastation
Maroon Order
Meshuggah obZen
My Dying Bride A Line of Deathless Kings
My Dying Bride For Lies I Sire
Naked City Radio
Necro Death Rap
Old Man's Child Slaves of the World
Psyclon Nine We the Fallen
Red (USA) End of Silence
Rotting Christ Genesis
Sage Francis Human The Death Dance
Samael Solar Soul
Septicflesh Sumerian Daemons
She Said Destroy This City Speaks in Tongues
Spiral Architect A Sceptic's Universe
Stick to Your Guns For What It's Worth
Suffocation Souls to Deny
Suffocation Blood Oath
Swallow the Sun Ghosts of Loss
Swallow the Sun The Morning Never Came
Swallow the Sun Plague of Butterflies
The Black Dahlia Murder Miasma
The Dillinger Escape Plan Ire Works
The Human Abstract Nocturne
Vesania God the Lux
Warmen Accept The Fact
Whitechapel This Is Exile
Winds of Plague The Great Stone War
Wolfchant A Pagan Storm
Wongraven Fjelltronen
Zyklon Disintegrate

3.0 good
Abigail Williams Legend
Abigail Williams In the Shadow of a Thousand Suns
Arch Enemy Doomsday Machine
Arch Enemy Wages of Sin
Arch Enemy The Root of All Evil
Arcturus Sideshow Symphonies
Atmosphere When Life Gives You Lemons...
Behemoth Zos Kia Cultus (Here and Beyond)
Belphegor Pestapokalypse VI
Caliban The Undying Darkness
Caliban The Awakening
Children of Bodom Hate Crew Deathroll
Children of Bodom Are You Dead Yet?
Dark Funeral Attera Totus Sanctus
Darkthrone Sardonic Wrath
Deicide Insineratehymn
Despised Icon The Ills Of Modern Man
DevilDriver The Fury of Our Maker's Hand
DevilDriver The Last Kind Words
Dissection Reinkaos
Ensiferum From Afar
Escape the Fate Dying Is Your Latest Fashion
Faith Hill Breathe
Fear My Thoughts Hell Sweet Hell
Fear My Thoughts Vulcanus
Fear My Thoughts Isolation
Goatwhore A Haunting Curse
Gorgoroth Ad Majorem Sathanas Gloriam
Graveworm (N)utopia
Haste the Day Dreamer
Heaven Shall Burn Whatever It May Take
Heaven Shall Burn In Battle There Is No Law
Heaven Shall Burn Deaf to Our Prayers
Imperanon Stained
Jedi Mind Tricks A History of Violence
Job For A Cowboy Genesis
Knights Of The Abyss Juggernaut
Lacuna Coil Comalies
Lacuna Coil In a Reverie
Lamb of God Sacrament
Lamb of God Wrath
Legion of the Damned Son of the Jackal
Legion of the Damned Feel the Blade
Montgomery Gentry You Do Your Thing
Nile Annihilation of the Wicked
Nurse With Wound Huffin' Rag Blues
Otep House of Secrets
Ricky Martin Ricky Martin
Sons of Seasons Gods of Vermin
Swallow the Sun Hope
The Human Abstract Midheaven
The Legion Unseen To Creation
The Prodigy Always Outnumbered, Never Outgunned
Vital Remains Icons of Evil
Watain Sworn to The Dark
We Were Gentlemen Living Hell
Whitechapel The Somatic Defilement
Zonaria Infamy And The Breed
Zonaria The Cancer Empire

2.5 average
(hed) p.e. Only In Amerika
(hed) p.e. D.i.Y. Guys
(hed) p.e. New World Orphans
Angelcorpse Of Lucifer and Lightning
As Blood Runs Black Allegiance
Belphegor Bondage Goat Zombie
Boys Like Girls Boys Like Girls
Deicide In Torment in Hell
Eminem Encore
Emmure The Respect Issue
Exodus Impact Is Imminent
Exodus Good Friendly Violent Fun
Hatebreed Under the Knife
Hatebreed For the Lions
I See Stars 3D
In Flames Come Clarity
In Flames A Sense of Purpose
Knights Of The Abyss Shades
Korn Take a Look in the Mirror
Korn Untouchables
Lamb of God New American Gospel
Legion of the Damned Malevolent Rapture
Nile Ithyphallic
Norma Jean The Anti Mother
Protest the Hero Kezia
Sage Francis Li(f)e
Slayer Diabolus in Musica
Slayer Undisputed Attitude
Tech N9ne K.O.D.
The Devil Wears Prada Dear Love: A Beautiful Discord
The Devil Wears Prada Plagues
The Devil Wears Prada Patterns of a Horizon
The Kovenant Animatronic
Underoath Act of Depression
Walls of Jericho With Devils Amongst Us All

2.0 poor
Attack Attack! Someday Came Suddenly
Big Noyd Queens Chronicle
Boys Like Girls Love Drunk
Bring Me the Horizon Count Your Blessings
Melodic death metal, are you kidding me? This album is a straight up want-a-be death metal album with metalcore characteristics. That means this is a deathcore album, come on lets be legit about this. If you seriously think this is melodic death metal and that this is one of the best melodic death metal albums of all time you have never heard Insomniums Above the Weeping World or Hypocrisys album Virus or the Black Dahlia Murders album Nocturnal. All of those are excellent Melodic Death Metal albums which are definitely not generic. Humorous song titles and lyrics just mean they are a mockery to music. They are mocking the scene that they originate just because they have not out grown their own adolescents. I am also pretty sure if a whole genre was generic then it would have got real old real quick. And if something is generic obviously it is not excellent it is more like average. So maybe you need to learn whats what.
Bring Me the Horizon Suicide Season
Children of Bodom Blooddrunk
Deicide Till Death Do Us Part
Eminem The Eminem Show
Eminem Relapse
Escape the Fate This War Is Ours
Five Finger Death Punch War Is The Answer
Hilary Duff Metamorphosis
Hilary Duff Hilary Duff
Killswitch Engage Killswitch Engage (2009)
Oceano Depths
Otep The_Ascension
Sepultura Roorback
Sepultura A-Lex
Shadows Fall The Art Of Touring (Drunk and S**ty in Every City)
The Kovenant S.E.T.I.

1.5 very poor
Akon Konvicted
Akon Trouble
Akon Konvicted (Deluxe Edition)
Heaven Shall Burn Asunder
Korn See You on the Other Side
Nelly Furtado Mi Plan
Otep Smash the Control Machine

1.0 awful
Alesana Where Myth Fades to Legend
Cannibal Corpse Monolith of Death Tour '96–'97 [DVD]
Cryptopsy The Unspoken King
Emmure Felony
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