| 3.0 good |
| Adele 19 |
| Adele 21 |
| Alicia Keys As I Am |
| Avenged Sevenfold Waking The Fallen |
| Avenged Sevenfold City Of Evil |
| Circa Survive Blue Sky Noise |
| Coalesce Functioning on Impatience |
| Coheed and Cambria From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness |
| Death Cab for Cutie Narrow Stairs |
| Dream Theater Train of Thought |
| Dream Theater Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence |
| Dream Theater Octavarium |
| dredg The Pariah, The Parrot, The Delusion |
| Faith No More Album of the Year |
| Iron Maiden Fear Of The Dark |
| King Crimson Three of a Perfect Pair |
| Maps and Atlases Perch Patchwork |
| Meshuggah Catch Thirtythree |
| Minus the Bear Menos El Oso |
| Mr. Bungle Disco Volante |
| OutKast Idlewild |
| Protest the Hero Scurrilous |
| An album rich in fleet fingered fretwork and leg cramping double bass barrages, but severely lacking in ractual songs. Protest the Hero had always teetered between the realms of indulgent guitar histrionics and rcontemporary prog-punk wonderment, but it seems somewhere along the line, the band's ambition had rmanaged to fully eclipse their musical sensibilities. Guys, we get it, you can play your instruments (very well rat that)! Just pull it back! We don't need wave after wave of sweeps and tapping passages to blemish what rwould have been a well crafted piece of prog-punk. Remember the keyboard solo from "Limb from Limb?" rImagine that in every song, but instead of said keyboard, it was a guitar. That essential surmises that rentirety of Scurrilous, musically at least. Now, couple that with the fact that Rody has stripped himself of his rgreatest strength (his ability the seamlessly incorporate a variety of different vocal tricks into his rperformance) and you've got a recipe for disaster. No screaming, no death growls, all singing. Take this as ryou will, but Rody's versatility as a singer was his undeniable niche. Yes, he's still a formidable vocalist, but rthe dude just sounds awkward when he sings passages which would be better suited for a rscream or growl. I wanted to love it but this is, by far, the greatest disappointment of the year. |
| Rush Caress of Steel |
| Rush Fly by Night |
| Rush Rush |
| Rush Snakes & Arrows |
| Scale the Summit Monument |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan The Dillinger Escape Plan |
| The Fall of Troy Manipulator |
| The Human Abstract Nocturne |
| The Human Abstract Digital Veil |
| The Mars Volta Amputechture |
| The Mars Volta Octahedron |
