| 4.0 excellent |
| A Lot Like Birds Conversation Piece |
| Aesop Rock None Shall Pass |
| After the Burial In Dreams |
| Anaal Nathrakh In the Constellation of the Black Widow |
| Animals As Leaders Weightless |
| Not sure what everyone is complaining about, this is pretty cool. Then again all I was hoping for was something that sounded similar to the s/t. |
| APOSTATE Seaborne |
| Architects Nightmares |
| Art By Numbers Reticence: The Musical |
| August Burns Red Constellations |
| Bane Give Blood |
| Between the Buried and Me The Parallax: Hypersleep Dialogues |
| Between the Buried and Me Colors |
| Beyond Creation The Aura |
| Birds in Row Collected |
| Birds in Row Cottbus |
| Born of Osiris The New Reign |
| Boys No Good Never Felt Better |
| Breather Resist Charmer |
| Brian Eno Another Green World |
| Brotherhood Of The Lake Desperation Is The English Way: Vol. 1 |
| Carousel Kings Speak Frantic |
| Century Black Ocean |
| Century Red Giant |
| Will be writing a review for this at the end of the week, but holy shit. Combines everything I'd ever want to hear from a metallic hardcore record. Nothing is contrived and everything just fits majestically. |
| Cloudkicker Beacons |
| Cloudkicker The Discovery |
| Converge You Fail Me |
| Cynic Carbon-Based Anatomy |
| Cynic Focus |
| Daggermouth Turf Wars |
| Dance Gavin Dance Downtown Battle Mountain |
| Dance Gavin Dance Happiness |
| Darkest Hour The Human Romance |
| Dead Letter Circus This Is The Warning |
| Defeater Travels |
| Deftones Diamond Eyes |
| El-P Cancer 4 Cure |
| Fair to Midland Arrows and Anchors |
| Fellsilent The Hidden Words |
| Four Year Strong Rise Or Die Trying |
| Gallows (UK) Grey Britain |
| Glass Casket Desperate Man's Diary |
| Glassjaw El Mark |
| Gojira The Link |
| Gojira From Mars to Sirius |
| Hacksaw to the Throat Wastelands |
| Hands (US-ND) Give Me Rest |
| Haste the Day Pressure the Hinges |
| Haste the Day Burning Bridges |
| HORSE the band Desperate Living |
| ISIS Celestial |
| Kerouac Cold and Distant, Not Loving |
| La Dispute Somewhere at the Bottom of the River Between Vega and Altair |
| La Dispute Wildlife |
| Lead Hands Lead Hands |
| Lupe Fiasco Food & Liquor |
| Lupe Fiasco The Cool |
| M83 Hurry Up, We're Dreaming |
| Man Man Rabbit Habits |
| Mastodon Blood Mountain |
| Maylene and the Sons of Disaster II |
| Meshuggah obZen |
| mewithoutYou Ten Stories |
| Misery Signals Mirrors |
| Mogwai The Hawk Is Howling |
| Mogwai Come On Die Young |
| Mono Hymn to the Immortal Wind |
| Monuments (UK) We Are the Foundation |
| NAMI Fragile Alignments |
| Narrows Narrows |
| Narrows New Distances |
| Neaera Armamentarium |
| Neaera The Rising Tide of Oblivion |
| Norma Jean Meridional |
| Norma Jean O' God, the Aftermath |
| Oceana Birth.Eater |
| Oh, Sleeper Children of Fire |
| Opeth Watershed |
| Parkway Drive Killing with a Smile |
| PM Today In Medias Res |
| Polar Bear Club Clash Battle Guilt Pride |
| Scar Symmetry Holographic Universe |
| Scar Symmetry Pitch Black Progress |
| Sharks No Gods |
| Strapping Young Lad City |
| Strapping Young Lad Alien |
| Stray from the Path Villains |
| This album is soooo dirty and rough. Trademark EEEEEUUUUUGHHHHH sounds abound with absolutely crazy time signature changes and a thick, grungy bass line. Probably even with, or slightly ahead of Rising Sun and just behind Make Your Own History. |
| Stray from the Path Rising Sun |
| Such Gold Pedestals |
| Textures Silhouettes |
| Textures Drawing Circles |
| The Amity Affliction Youngbloods |
| The Arusha Accord The Echo Verses |
| The Bride President Rd |
| This is definitely very good. Vocals are very reminiscent of Stray From the Path's Drew York, which is definitely a good thing. And the instrumentals maintain an uptempo hardcore feel throughout while alternating melodic hardcore style riffing and downtuned, djent sounding rhythms. |
| The Bronx The Bronx (IV) |
| The Chariot Everything Is Alive, Everything Is... |
| The Color Morale My Devil In Your Eyes |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Option Paralysis |
| The Francesco Artusato Project Chaos And The Primordial |
| The Ghost Inside Returners |
| The Number Twelve Looks Like You Mongrel |
| The Number Twelve Looks Like You Put On Your Rosy Red Glasses |
| The Prestige Black Mouths |
| Heavily under-appreciated band offering up a pretty excellent debut album. |
| The Roots Phrenology |
| The Sign of the Southern Cross Of Mountains and Moonshine |
| The Tony Danza Tapdance Extravaganza Danza III: Series of Unfortunate Events |
| The Wonder Years The Upsides |
| This Is Hell Sundowning |
| This Is Hell Black Mass |
| This or the Apocalypse Monuments |
| This or the Apocalypse Haunt What's Left |
| This or the Apocalypse Dead Years |
The first song on this album and A Damn Moment.... Holy shit. Agreed with the clean vocal
sections being sub-par. Rick's range as a screamer doesn't really justify the use of any
vocal melody. Leave that shit up to the guitarists. |
| Thrice Major/Minor |
| Thursday A City By the Light Divided |
| Torche Harmonicraft |
| Trenches The Tide Will Swallow Us Whole |
| Uneven Structure 8 |
| Vendetta Spoken Schrödinger Equation |
| Volumes The Concept of Dreaming |
| Whores. Ruiner |
| WU LYF Go Tell Fire to the Mountain |
| YGATM YGATM |
| You Slut! Critical Meat |
| Your Demise Ignorance Never Dies |
| 3.5 great |
| 7 Angels 7 Plagues Jhazmyne's Lullaby |
| A Day To Remember For Those Who Have Heart |
| A Lot Like Birds Plan B |
| Aegaeon Dissension |
| This reminds me a lot of The Contortionist, just a little bit less good. The melodies on Reshaping the Multiverse and The Consumption of Everything are great building blocks for the band's future. |
| After the Burial Forging a Future Self |
| American Nightmare Background Music |
| Amon Tobin ISAM |
| Architects Ruin |
| August Burns Red Messengers |
| August Burns Red Thrill Seeker |
| Bayonet Bayonet |
| Bayside Killing Time |
| Betraying the Martyrs Breathe In Life |
| There's really a lot to like here. The guitar tone is awesome and incredibly dense. I see a lot of bitching about the piano/keyboard elements and the clean vocals. But it's kind of like on Chopped when a bunch of unwanted ingredients go into a blender and come out as something cohesive that really finishes the plate. Very satisfying, heavy-as-my-balls deathcore. |
| Born of Osiris The Discovery |
| Brand New The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me |
| Bring Me the Horizon Sempiternal |
| Broadway Kingdoms |
| Cancer Bats Hail Destroyer |
| Cancer Bats Dead Set on Living |
| Canvas Solaris Sublimation |
| Cave In White Silence |
| Circle Takes the Square As the Roots Undo |
| Close Your Eyes Empty Hands and Heavy Hearts |
| This is soooo much better than their debut, which was remarkably average. This has some intensity and doesn't sound like the vocalist is 15 feet away yelling apathetically into the microphone. The melodic hardcore edge to this makes it quite a bit better even if it is riddled with clean singing. |
| Closure in Moscow First Temple |
| Counterparts The Current Will Carry Us |
| I'm not sure what isn't to love about this band, everything seems to have improved from Prophets, which in and of itself was a fantastic record, but the uber-melodic nature of this album won me over almost instantly. |
| Dance Gavin Dance Downtown Battle Mountain II |
| Dangers Messy, Isn't It? |
| Darkest Hour So Sedated, so Secure |
| Wow this album really needs a review badly. Very catchy melodic death metal with some very tight musicianship throughout. |
| Defeater Empty Days and Sleepless Nights |
| Defeater Lost Ground |
| Despised Icon Day Of Mourning |
| Destruction of a Rose American Hell |
| Enfold Darkness Our Cursed Rapture |
| Envy Recitation |
| ERRA Impulse |
| Fair to Midland Inter.Funda.Stifle |
| Fair to Midland Fables From a Mayfly: What I Tell You Three Times is True |
| Fallujah The Harvest Wombs |
| Foxy Shazam Introducing |
| Foxy Shazam Foxy Shazam |
| Gaza I Don't Care Where I Go When I Die |
| Glassjaw Coloring Book |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven |
| Gojira The Way of All Flesh |
| Ictus Imperivm |
| Intronaut Void |
| Iselia Life From Dead Limbs |
| ISIS Oceanic |
| ISIS In the Absence of Truth |
| It Prevails Capture & Embrace |
| Killing The Dream Lucky Me |
| Kowloon Walled City Container Ships |
| Life in Your Way Waking Giants |
| Liferuiner Sons of Straight Edge |
| Listener Wooden Heart |
| Loma Prieta I.V. |
| Mac Lethal North Korean BBQ |
| Make Do and Mend End Measured Mile |
| Memphis May Fire Sleepwalking |
| Memphis May Fire Memphis May Fire |
| Mnemic Mechanical Spin Phenomena |
| Mogwai Mr. Beast |
| Moving Mountains Pneuma |
| Norma Jean Redeemer |
| O'Brother Garden Window |
| Omar Rodriguez-Lopez Un Escorpion Perfumado |
| Parkway Drive Horizons |
| Parkway Drive Deep Blue |
| Periphery Icarus |
| Polar Bear Club Sometimes Things Just Disappear |
| Protest the Hero Fortress |
| Red City Radio The Dangers of Standing Still |
| Revocation Chaos of Forms |
| Rings of Saturn Embryonic Anomaly |
| Rob Dougan Furious Angels |
| Scale the Summit Carving Desert Canyons |
| Scale the Summit Monument |
| SEES TheenD |
| Meshuggah disciples that do a pretty good job adding their own twists and turns to polyrhythmic grooves. |
| Shai Hulud Hearts Once Nourished With Hope... |
| Sirens and Sailors Still Breathing |
| Skyharbor Blinding White Noise: Illusion & Chaos |
| State Faults Desolate Peaks |
| Straight Reads The Line The Author |
| Structures All of the Above |
| Sylosis Edge of the Earth |
| TesseracT One |
| Textures Polars |
| Tharsis They Ominous Silence |
| Concentrated human feeding operation is a beast of a track. Vocalist does sound kind of like Yorkie from Stray and the guitar work is similar but these guys are definitely sludgier and heavier. really really good stuff. |
| The Air I Breathe Anathema |
| Excellent guitar work throughout and vocals reminiscent of The Word Alive's Tyler Smith. Very excited to see what these guys can do on a full-length. |
| The Air I Breathe Great Faith In Fools |
| The Black Dahlia Murder Miasma |
| The Bronx The Bronx |
| The Chariot Long Live |
| The Chariot Wars and Rumors of Wars |
| The Color Morale We All Have Demons |
| The Contortionist Apparition |
| The Crimson Armada Guardians |
| The Greenery Spit & Argue |
| The Holly Springs Disaster Motion Sickness Love |
| The Human Abstract Nocturne |
| The Ocean Anthropocentric |
| The Ocean Heliocentric |
| The Red Chord Prey for Eyes |
| This Is Hell Weight of the World |
| Thrice The Alchemy Index Vols. I & II |
| Thrice The Alchemy Index Vols. III & IV |
| Thursday Common Existence |
| Thursday War All the Time |
| Transit Listen and Forgive |
| Transit Keep This To Yourself |
| TRC Bright Lights |
| This isn't "great" musically or lyrically, but it just bleeds swagger and enthusiasm. A bunch of chav pricks made an album that is dripping in fun. |
| Trials Witness To The Downfall |
| Twelve Foot Ninja Silent Machine |
| United Nations Never Mind the Bombings, Here's Your Six Figures |
| Upon a Burning Body The World Is Ours |
| Vildhjarta Måsstaden |
| It would be impossible for me to rate this after only one listen, but this album is absolutely packed with "Holy Shit" moments and sounds to be something truly exemplary. |
| Vildhjarta Omnislash |
| Volumes Via |
| Whitechapel Whitechapel |
| Call me crazy but I'm willing to bet that this wont be at a 3.8 for long |
| Your Demise Blood Stays On The Blade |
