| 3.0 good |
| 3 Doors Down The Better Life |
| 36 Crazyfists The Tide and Its Takers |
| 36 Crazyfists Collisions and Castaways |
| A Perfect Circle eMOTIVe |
| Abandoned Pools Armed to the Teeth |
| Adema Adema |
| AFI Decemberunderground |
| AFI Crash Love |
| Aghora Formless |
| Airlock Symptomatic |
| Alcest Les Voyages De L'Âme |
| Allen Lande The Battle |
| Ambeon Fate of a Dreamer |
| Annihilator Alice In Hell |
| Anthrax Worship Music |
| Ashton Shepherd Where Country Grows |
| Beth Gibbons and Rustin Man Out Of Season |
| Bjork Biophilia |
| Blindside The Great Depression |
| Blindside The Black Rose |
| Blindside With Shivering Hearts We Wait |
| Bright Eyes Fevers & Mirrors |
| Bush Razorblade Suitcase |
| Bush The Sea of Memories |
| Butch Walker Sycamore Meadows |
| Calexico Carried To Dust |
| Children of Bodom Hate Crew Deathroll |
| Chris Cornell Euphoria Morning |
| Clubroot Clubroot |
| Cold Cold |
| Cold Superfiction |
| Common Like Water for Chocolate |
| Common The Dreamer/The Believer |
| Conor Oberst Conor Oberst |
| Cranes Loved |
| Cranes Cranes |
| Creed Full Circle |
| Cruel Black Dove The Myth and the Sum |
| Cynic Traced in Air |
| Czar (USA-IL) Vertical Mass Grave |
| Damageplan New Found Power |
| Damian Marley Welcome To Jamrock |
| Darius Rucker Charleston, SC 1966 |
| Dave Matthews Band Under The Table And Dreaming |
| Deadsoul Tribe Deadsoul Tribe |
| Deftones Deftones |
| Dog Fashion Disco Anarchists of Good Taste |
| Dream Theater Systematic Chaos |
| Dream Theater Black Clouds and Silver Linings |
| Dream Theater A Dramatic Turn of Events |
| Edan Primitive Plus |
| Erykah Badu New Amerykah Pt. One: 4th World War |
| Fireflight Now |
| From Autumn to Ashes Abandon Your Friends |
| Fuel Sunburn |
| Gretchen Wilson I Got Your Country Right Here |
| Grimes Visions |
| Gwen Stefani Love. Angel. Music. Baby. |
| Haken Visions |
| Heart Heart |
| Heart Bad Animals |
| Heart Brigade |
| Heathen Victims of Deception |
| Heaven and Hell The Devil You Know |
| Hole Celebrity Skin |
| Holly Williams Here with Me |
| Ill Nino Confession |
| Incubus (USA-CA) Light Grenades |
| Jay-Z The Blueprint |
| Jazzanova Of All The Things |
| K'naan Troubadour |
| Katy Perry One of the Boys |
| Kelly Rowland Here I Am |
| Kendrick Lamar Section.80 |
| Kesha Cannibal |
| Kittie Oracle |
| Kittie Spit |
| Kittie I've Failed You |
| Korn Take a Look in the Mirror |
| Korn The Path of Totality |
| Lacuna Coil Halflife |
| Lacuna Coil Karmacode |
| Lacuna Coil Dark Adrenaline |
| While the inclusion of some darker and heavier moments might please a few of those who jumped ship following the release of Shallow Life, the majority of this album follows a similar enough direction to likely only retain the newfound fanbase and keep those older fans content to stay where they are. To the band's credit, Dark Adrenaline is a well-polished alternative metal record containing a number of potential hit singles. Aside from the laughable "End of Time", Lacuna Coil seems to have gotten a better handle on just what sort of commercialized sounds can work best as a template for their music. The most interesting thing here is their discovery that R.E.M. wrote better songs than Depeche Mode, but ultimately their decisions both to alter "Losing My Religion"'s esteemed melodies and to allow Andrea Ferro to sing its chorus exemplify everything that is wrong with the band. |
| Lamb of God Sacrament |
| Lamb of God Resolution |
| I was skeptical about this album's early reception here being that most of the ratings were likely coming from die hard fans (the types who would quickly jump on a low quality leak), but this is actually quite good. This is due in large part to the greatly improved and varied guitar work. Yes, some of Resolution actually sounds different for Lamb of God which is probably the best thing that can be said about the record. The increased emphasis on melodic sections also warrants a mention. Unfortunately, the vocals still suck as we've come to expect. In the end, it's nowhere near Ashes/Palaces level, but at the very least it is on par with Sacrament and a hell of a lot better than Wrath. |
| Les Doux Dialects |
| Linkin Park Living Things |
| Little Dragon Little Dragon |
| Live Secret Samadhi |
| Madonna American Life |
| Madonna MDNA |
| IS NOWHERE SAFE FROM THE DUBSTEP INVASION? IS NOTHING SACRED ANYMORE? ... Better than Hard Candy. A little. |
| Mary J. Blige My Life |
| Megadeth United Abominations |
| Meshuggah Koloss |
| Metallica St. Anger |
| Michelle Branch Everything Comes and Goes |
| Mindy McCready Ten Thousand Angels |
| Monica New Life |
| Mos Def The Ecstatic |
| N.W.A. Straight Outta Compton |
| Nas It Was Written |
| One Day as a Lion One Day as a Lion |
| Pantera Reinventing the Steel |
| Paramore Riot! |
| Patty Moon Dream Up |
| Pearl Jam Vitalogy |
| Pharoahe Monch Desire |
| Pharoahe Monch W.A.R. |
| Porcupine Tree On the Sunday of Life |
| Ratt Out Of The Cellar |
| Rihanna Talk That Talk |
| Rose Elinor Dougall The Distractions EP |
| Sevendust Next |
| Sevendust Alpha |
| Skindred Roots Rock Riot |
| Skindred Union Black |
| Skunk Anansie Stoosh |
| Skunk Anansie Wonderlustre |
| Slipknot Slipknot |
| Slipknot Iowa |
| Stabbing Westward Darkest Days |
| Stone Temple Pilots No. 4 |
| Storm Corrosion Storm Corrosion |
| Symphony X Symphony X |
| System of a Down Mezmerize |
| Tapping the Vein Another Day Down |
| The Dead Weather Horehound |
| The Offspring Conspiracy of One |
| The Pretty Reckless Light Me Up |
| Thursday Common Existence |
| Tool Opiate |
| Tool 10,000 Days |
| Tori Amos Night of Hunters |
| Toxic Holocaust Conjure and Command |
| Within Temptation The Unforgiving |
