Pete
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News Articles 3
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Album Ratings 150
Objectivity 68%

Last Active 09-12-14 3:41 pm
Joined 02-26-03

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Average Rating: 3.74
Rating Variance: 0.56
Objectivity Score: 68%
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5.0 classic
A Wilhelm Scream Mute Print
Agoraphobic Nosebleed Altered States of America
Craig's Brother Lost at Sea
Dissection Storm of the Light's Bane
Lagwagon Trashed
The quintessence of SoCal skate/pop-punk, and with it's riff-ladden awesomeness it's probably teh Wagons best album, and definitely one of Fat Wrecks best releases. Each and every song is a classic, and I just love it. It defines a lot of my musical tastes.
Protest the Hero Kezia
It's a cohesive concept album, and that alone is uncommon enough for this to warrant the praise it's been given. Add to that the blistering awesomeness of each and every instrument on here, and just the idea of writing an album you know you can't play, just to sit down and learn it and record it with and almost unparallelled result. Awe-inspiring.
Rebuke Deadline
Rebuke Kill Stereotypes
Rebuke Opposing the Numerical Obsession
Rebuke Wouldworks

4.5 superb
A Wilhelm Scream Ruiner
A Wilhelm Scream Career Suicide
After the Fall (USA-NY) Fort Orange
Beneath the Massacre Mechanics of Dysfunction
Converge Jane Doe
Hit the Switch Domestic Tranquility & Social Justice
The quintessential 90's punk album from the 00's. Thoroughly enjoyable, well-rounded, as-close-to-flawless-as-they-come, etc. etc. Review coming.
Inspection 12 In Recovery
Lagwagon Resolve
Lagwagon Blaze
Lagwagon Hoss
Lagwagon Double Plaidinum
Marathon Marathon
NOFX Punk in Drublic
NOFX White Trash, Two Heebs and a Bean
Propagandhi Potemkin City Limits
Propagandhi Today's Empires, Tomorrow's Ashes
Propagandhi How to Clean Everything
Protest the Hero A Calculated Use of Sound
Raised Fist Dedication
Rise Against Revolutions per Minute
Rosesdead Stages
Quite possibly one of the best metalcore albums ever, due to some rarely seen qualities;
*They actually blend metal and hardcore into a functioning unity.
*They push the boundaries of each genre by introducing more texture and atmosphere than one would expect.
*All instruments are excellently played.
*The album ties together perfectly without for that sake being repetative.
They take what bands like fordirelifesake and Shai Hulud have been doing, and do it so much better than anyone. Anyone into "heavy" music should listen to this.
Satanic Surfers Going Nowhere Fast
Shai Hulud That Within Blood Ill-Tempered
Strike Anywhere Change Is a Sound
Strike Anywhere Exit English
Strung Out Twisted By Design
The Offspring Smash
Vital Remains Dechristianize

4.0 excellent
88 Fingers Louie Back On The Streets
A Wilhelm Scream Benefits of Thinking Out Loud
A Wilhelm Scream A Wilhelm Scream
EP really brings it. Downsides; "Fun Time" could've been about 30% faster, the production isn't their best, and it's 'just' an EP. But "Bulletproof Tiger" is one of their best songs, and you can see a positive development in general, most probably thanks to the brilliant new members (not that the old ones were morons or anything). I love this band to death.
Bad Astronaut Twelve Small Steps, One Giant Disappointment
Belvedere Fast Forward Eats the Tape
Belvedere 'Twas Hell Said Former Child
Bigwig Reclamation
Bombs Over Providence Liberty's Ugly Best Friend
Brand New Deja Entendu
Bridge to Solace Kingdom of the Dead
Burst Origo
Great atmospheric metalcore, skilfully employing the dynamics of sung, spoken and screamed vocals as well as musical dynamics of harder and softer parts. Like a mix between Isis and Converge.
Choke There's A Story To This Moral
Circle Takes the Square As the Roots Undo
This is one of my favourite emo/screamo albums - the epic feel and the emotional release of it really makes it the epitome of modern emo, at least to me. Frantic, grinding, tempo-shifting parts mixed with ambiently ominous build-ups, multi-layered vocals over a braod spectrum of styles - all in all, it's basically the recipe of good emo.
The only things that drag it down for me is its pretentiousness and the somewhat lackluster production (both in the flat sound and in the occasional untightness), although that's probbaly my untrue-emo-head side popping its head in.
Closet Monster Killed The Radio Star
Coheed and Cambria In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3
Comeback Kid Wake the Dead
Comeback Kid Turn It Around
Converge No Heroes
Despised Icon The Ills Of Modern Man
Dissection The Somberlain
From the Tracks Recover
Fuck the Facts Stigmata High-Five
Good Riddance Bound by Ties of Blood and Affection
I Spy Perversity Is Spreading ... It's About Time!
Immortal Sons of Northern Darkness
Ion Dissonance Breathing Is Irrelevant
Lagwagon Let's Talk About Feelings
No Trigger Canyoneer
NOFX The Decline
NOFX Ribbed
NOFX So Long and Thanks for All the Shoes
NOFX Pump Up the Valuum
Propagandhi Less Talk, More Rock
Rise Against The Unraveling
Streetlight Manifesto Everything Goes Numb
Strike Anywhere Dead FM
Strung Out An American Paradox
The Sawtooth Grin Cuddlemonster
Thrice Identity Crisis
Thrice The Illusion of Safety
Thrice The Artist in the Ambulance
Venerea Out in the Red
Vinterland Welcome My Last Chapter
Zombie Apocalypse This is a Spark of Life

3.5 great
A Wilhelm Scream Diver
Abominable Putridity In The End Of Human Existence
No one can accuse this of being progressive music. Not even original music. Hardly even discernable from other bands of this type. However, they know their trade - seldom will you find music this unrelenting and brutal. Often stays in expected slam death mid-tempo, with occasional blasts, none of the instruments really impress with virtuosity - they don't exactly dissappoint either, but do a good job obliterating eardrums with brutality - save the vocalist, who takes the word "guttural" to new lows. Absolutely sickening, like a mutated frog someone stepped on. And I mean that in the best possible way. Extra, extra credit for brutality.
Back on the Streets Blood Brothers
Well-written and well-played mix between power metal and melodic hardcore, crippled only by poor production (but good for being a zero-budget deal) and inconsistant vocals (that range from being really fitting to being downright horrible). Great first effort from a band that I'm sure will produce wonderous things!
Bad Astronaut Houston: We Have a Drinking Problem
Bigwig Unmerry Melodies
Bigwig An Invitation to Tragedy
Circle Jerks Group Sex
Coheed and Cambria From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness
Flogging Molly Within a Mile of Home
Happy Meals Toaster
Hatebreed Perseverance
Inspection 12 Get Rad
Lagwagon Duh
Less Than Jake Hello Rockview
Meshuggah I
Meshuggah Chaosphere
Nasum Shift
NOFX The War on Errorism
Rise Against The Sufferer and the Witness
Satanic Surfers Taste the Poison
Satanic Surfers Hero of Our Time
The Vandals Look What I Almost Stepped In

3.0 good
Action Action Don't Cut Your Fabric To This Years Fash
After the Fall (USA-NY) Everything
After the Fall (USA-NY) Collar City
A solid, short EP - noticable more emphasis on the "hardcore" portion of their melodic hardcore style. The production is quite lacking, and the nagging feeling that you know these guys can do so much better drags this down a bit though.
Autumn Leaves As Night Conquers Day
Bad Astronaut Acrophobe
blink-182 Dude Ranch
Break The Silence Near Life Experience
Envy Insomniac Doze
From the Tracks This Machine And Eye
Good Riddance My Republic
Ignite Our Darkest Days
Ion Dissonance Minus the Herd
Less Than Jake Losing Streak
No Use for a Name Hard Rock Bottom
No Use for a Name More Betterness!
No Use for a Name ¡Leche con Carne!
NOFX Heavy Petting Zoo
NOFX S&M Airlines
NOFX Liberal Animation
NOFX Wolves in Wolves' Clothing
None More Black File Under Black
Refused The Shape Of Punk To Come
Rise Against Siren Song of the Counter Culture
Strike Anywhere Chorus of One
The Living End The Living End
Thrice Vheissu

2.5 average
Against Me! As the Eternal Cowboy
Burton Wagner A Sentinel's Eyes
Caliban The Undying Darkness
Dissection Reinkaos
Latterman No Matter Where We Go...!
Meshuggah Catch Thirtythree
Scar Symmetry Symmetric in Design
Scar Symmetry Pitch Black Progress
Sex Pistols Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols
The Mars Volta Amputechture

2.0 poor
blink-182 Buddha
Circle of Dead Children Exotic Sense Decay
Darkthrone Under a Funeral Moon
Dying Fetus Stop at Nothing
The Living End State Of Emergency
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