| 4.0 excellent |
| After Forever After Forever |
| Allegaeon Fragments of Form and Function |
| Amaran A World Depraved |
| Amon Amarth Twilight of the Thunder God |
| Amon Amarth Surtur Rising |
| Arghoslent Incorrigible Bigotry |
| Arsis A Celebration of Guilt |
| Arsis We Are the Nightmare |
| Artas Riotology |
Strong rhythmic guitar, mellifluous riffs and powerful drum beats makes for a generally 'fun' metalcore album.
The naturally raspy vocalist give rise to few clean vocal lines that sound like harsh vocals. The vocals are mainly emotional (read: angry) shouts, with a good deal of pitch variety from low (almost) growls to higher pitched rasps. Can sound quite melodic especially during choruses.
Strong rhythm guitars drive the songs with compelling strums (not of the chugga-chugga affair) and frequent tremolo sweeps. Catch lead guitar melodies are scattered across songs at about the right distance apart and effectively supplement the already memorable vocal performance.
However, the album is longer than it needs to be, with filler material and poorly written songs. Personally, I believe some songs are obsolete to the better ones, decrease the overall enjoyability of the album (press the delete button for those). |
| Be'lakor Stone's Reach |
| Callenish Circle Flesh Power Dominion |
| Textbook approach to melodic death metal. High intensity, good melodies, fast solos.rDownside: poetically structured lyrics. |
| Callenish Circle My Passion Your Pain |
| Much better than Flesh_Power_Dominion, but still nonetheless a standard textbook approach to melodeath.rAgain the album is high on intensity, melody and raspy vocals. Forsaken is by far the band's best song.rDownside: poetically structured lyrics (full caps in lower case :D) |
| Children of Bodom Follow the Reaper |
| Dark Empire From Refuge to Ruin |
| Dimmu Borgir Enthrone Darkness Triumphant |
| Equilibrium Rekreatur |
| Eternal Tears of Sorrow A Virgin and a Whore |
| Eternal Tears of Sorrow Children of the Dark Waters |
| Heaven Shall Burn Antigone |
| Hypocrisy A Taste of Extreme Divinity |
| Insomnium Where the Last Wave Broke EP |
| Insomnium One for Sorrow |
| Kalmah Swampsong |
| Omnium Gatherum New World Shadows |
| Persuader When Eden Burns |
| Protest the Hero Scurrilous |
| Skyfire Spectral |
| Sylosis Conclusion of an Age |
| The Agonist Prisoners |
| The Devil Wears Prada Dead Throne |
| The Unguided Hell Frost |
| Unearth Darkness in the Light |
