| 5.0 classic |
| 0edit Neotokyo |
| Angra Temple of Shadows |
| Animals As Leaders Animals as Leaders |
| Animals As Leaders The Joy of Motion |
| Aphex Twin Selected Ambient Works 85-92 |
| At the Drive-In Relationship of Command |
| Bruce Springsteen Born to Run |
| Camel Mirage |
| Cryptopsy None So Vile |
| Death The Sound of Perseverance |
| Death Symbolic |
| Deftones Koi No Yokan |
| Demetori Sinen ni Nozomu ga Gotoshi |
| For their 2nd album, Demetori went towards a more rock-ish style. Overall, it works very well, there's very nice flowing sections with some technical sections that are simply delicious. The album has a very nice mix of styles, there's lighter and heavier tracks. Crimson Belvedere can get kind of dull in some sections, but it's a very fitting closer. A fine listen overall |
| Demetori Il Mondo dove e finito il Tempo |
| Demetori went so wild for this album, I just have to give it a 5 even with the moderately cheesy speed metal songs. Suwa Foughten Field is one of Demetori's best tracks EVER, it's simply full of win. Cemetery of Onbashira and Mystic Oriental Dream show that Demetori's not just about speed, the technique and general soundscape are superb. Even the more speed metalish tracks (Faith is for the Transient People and the ever popular Necrofantasia) are still well executed for the genre. Definitely deserves to be one of the most treasured Touhou metal albums of all time. |
| Demetori Manenjushaka ~ Nada Upasana Pundarika |
| For it's status as a "hobby" band, Demetori has continued to put out some of the best metal in the world. Even with only 2 brothers in the band, it still holds its own against the world's greatest metal bands. Demetori always finds ways to make their new albums interesting, and Nada Upasana Pundarika does not disappoint. This album is MUCH more progressive and even heavier than their previous albums, it shows very clear latter-Dream Theater and Meshuggah influences. The riffs are more distorted and powerful than ever, and the energy is shockingly high. The songs strike a good balance between being musical and showing off both Tokunan's and Kyuuhouji's wicked skills. The album is definitely less straightforward than their previous releases; it's all the better for it. Demetori has mastered their songwriting, almost everything fits together so well. I still have to reserve complaints for the opening track Heian Alien, however; it had a very great foreboding atmosphere, but the screaming guitar "solo" was rather disappointing. Emotional Skyscraper and Higan Retour more than make up for that, however. Sky-high production values and insane musicmanship make this Demetori's best album. |
| Dio Holy Diver |
| Dream Theater Images and Words |
| Dream Theater Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes from a Memory |
| Dream Theater A Change of Seasons |
| Dream Theater Awake |
| Eumeria Rebel Mind |
| Exivious Liminal |
| Genesis Selling England by the Pound |
| Gru Cosmogenesis |
| Guthrie Govan Erotic Cakes |
| Iced Earth Burnt Offerings |
| Intervals The Space Between |
| John Coltrane A Love Supreme |
| Karnivool Sound Awake |
| Kashiwa Daisuke Program Music I |
| Megadeth Rust in Peace |
| Miles Davis Kind of Blue |
| Misery Signals Controller |
| Nas Illmatic |
| Ne Obliviscaris Portal of I |
| Ne Obliviscaris Citadel |
| Nujabes Metaphorical Music |
| Nujabes Hydeout Productions 2nd Collection |
| Opeth Blackwater Park |
| Porcupine Tree In Absentia |
| Porcupine Tree Deadwing |
| Porcupine Tree Fear of a Blank Planet |
| Rush Clockwork Angels |
| Scale the Summit The Collective |
| Sergei Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor, Op. 18 |
| Seventh Wonder Mercy Falls |
| Seventh Wonder The Great Escape |
| Sioum I Am Mortal, But Was Fiend |
| Sithu Aye Isles |
| Sithu Aye 26 |
| Steve Vai Passion and Warfare |
| TesseracT Concealing Fate |
| Tool Lateralus |
| Tool Ænima |
| Vinnie Moore The Maze |
| Weezer Pinkerton |
| Weezer Weezer |
| Wu-Tang Clan Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) |
| X Japan Art of Life |
| Yes Close to the Edge |
| Yngwie Malmsteen Rising Force |
| Yuki Kajiura Puella Magi Madoka Magica Vol 2 |
| Yuki Kajiura demonstrates that she's one of THE BEST anime composers in the business today. The music fit wonderfully in the anime and is strong enough to listen on its own. |
| Yuki Kajiura Puella Magi Madoka Magica Vol 3. |
| This has the absolute masterpieces of the soundtrack, Surgam Identidam and Sagitta Luminis are simply amazing. There are no flaws to this OST |
| 4.5 superb |
| Allan Holdsworth Metal Fatigue |
| Cloudkicker The Discovery |
| Cloudkicker Beacons |
| Cloudkicker Fade |
| Corelia Nostalgia |
| D'Angelo Black Messiah |
| David Maxim Micic Bilo 2.0 |
| David Maxim Micic Bilo 3.0 |
| Dead Letter Circus This Is The Warning |
| Dead Letter Circus The Catalyst Fire |
| Deftones Diamond Eyes |
| Demetori Sendaisoushi ~ Offering to The Sukhavati |
| Demetori's production got even better for this album, but there's a few holes here which prevent it from nailing a perfect. The opening track Kid's Festival is one of Demetori's best songs, perfect composition and style. ZUN would be proud of such a great remix of his theme! Greenwich in the Sky has a great liveliness to it, and of course Septette for the Dead Princess is magnificent. The amount of energy Demetori puts into their songs is unmatchable. The only problem is that a few of the tracks feel a bit cheesy or dull; Oriental Dark Flight and Tengu is Watching are probably the worst culprits. They're still good songs, it's just they're not up to the standards of the best tracks here. The Mound Where the Flowers Reflect also was bland for its length, would have been better as a short in-between. Still, this is Demetori; calling the album anything but great would be an insult |
| Demetori Begierde Des Zauberer |
| Demetori made huge waves in the Touhou metal community when they announced their latest album. Many of the "classic" groups in the genre have adopted vocals or otherwise lost the magic touch which made them special; Demetori has never had a bad release so far, which made anticipation for this extreme. Sure enough, Demetori gives the Touhou metal community the instrumental breath of life it needs to survive. I wouldn't say the album is as good as Nada Upasanda Pundarika, but it's much better than what most of the metal groups are putting out now. The main issue is that the melody does not stand out as much as in the previous albums. I would say it's more balanced, but their previous albums were enjoyable because of the very strong melodies. The new tracks just aren't as memorable (though that might just be because I haven't listened to this album as many times). Most of the metal is presented straight up, sort of combining the extra distortion of Nada Upasana Pundarika with the songwriting of Il Mondo Dove e Finito Il Tempo. Demetori's technique remains unmatchable, and production values are still crystalline. Demetori hovers in place instead of pushing their boundaries even further, but they stand so high already that this is still a very solid metal album. |
| Dio The Last in Line |
| Dream Theater Train of Thought |
| Dream Theater Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence |
| Dream Theater Score |
| Fallujah Nomadic |
| Genesis The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway |
| GZA Liquid Swords |
| Halcyon Pastures |
| Intervals In Time |
| Intervals A Voice Within |
| Irepress Sol Eye Sea I |
| Jethro Tull Thick as a Brick |
| John Petrucci Suspended Animation |
| Kanye West My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy |
| Kashiwa Daisuke 88 |
| Kashiwa Daisuke Re: |
| King Crimson In the Court of the Crimson King |
| Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin IV |
| Leprous Coal |
| Ludwig van Beethoven Piano Sonata No14 C-sharp minor,Op.27No2 |
| Massive Attack Mezzanine |
| Metallica Master of Puppets |
| Metallica Ride the Lightning |
| Nujabes Modal Soul |
| Nujabes Hydeout Productions 1st Collection |
| Nujabes Spiritual State |
| Opeth Ghost Reveries |
| Periphery Periphery |
| Pink Floyd Wish You Were Here |
| Plini Sweet Nothings |
| Plini/Sithu Aye I |
| Portishead Dummy |
| Protest the Hero Fortress |
| Queensryche Operation: Mindcrime |
| Rishloo Living as Ghosts with Buildings as Teeth |
| Rush Moving Pictures |
| Russian Circles Memorial |
| Scale the Summit Carving Desert Canyons |
| Scale the Summit The Migration |
| Senpai They Say Just Wait Till Morning |
| Sithu Aye Cassini |
| Sithu Aye Invent the Universe |
| Sithu Aye Pulse |
| Skyharbor Blinding White Noise: Illusion & Chaos |
| Symphony X The Divine Wings of Tragedy |
| TesseracT One |
| Tetrafusion Horizons |
| The Notorious B.I.G. Ready to Die |
| The Ocean Pelagial |
| The Seatbelts Cowboy Bebop |
| Uneven Structure Februus |
| Uyama Hiroto A Son of the Sun |
| Wanzwa Wanzwa |
| Wanzwa Wanzwa II |
| Wanzwa Wanzwa III |
| Yes Fragile |
| Yngwie Malmsteen Trilogy |
| Yuki Kajiura Puella Magi Madoka Magica Vol 1. |
| Mostly "background" tracks on this one, but sis puella magica and some of the others are superbly composed. A nice bonus for buying the blu-ray disc, but the other OSTS are the real meat of the soundtrack |
| Zelliack Noir Tone |
