Average Rating: 3.76 Rating Variance: 0.84 Objectivity Score: 71% (Fairly Balanced)
Sort by: Rating | Release Date | Rating Date | Name5.0 classicExtol UndeceivedFailure Fantastic PlanetKing's X DogmanOutKast AqueminiThe Prayer Chain Mercury4.5 superbBoom Crash Opera These Here Are Crazy TimesDevin Townsend Project AddictedThis album was a wonderful surprise from Devin Townsend. Retaining the tongue in cheek qualities of Strapping Young Lad minus the negativity, he created a fun, very accessible metal/pop album. His phenomenal use of female vocals, along with his own, huge guitar riffs and huge drum beats, creates a unique combination of metal/pop and even dance with bombastic choruses ending in an all out auditory assault. This album is fun, without having to dig deep, these songs are simple on the surface, but have well thought out, complex vocal harmonies. This is a definitive take on creating a stadium sound, anthem-type of album, without delving into some of the complete cheese of the 80's hair metal. Anyone who loves metal and loves a light-hearted approach to the genre should enjoy this.Grant Lee Buffalo Mighty Joe MoonShiner The EggSleepytime Gorilla Museum Of Natural HistoryUlver The Assassination of Julius Caesar4.0 excellent16Volt FullBlackHabitAlice in Chains The Devil Put Dinosaurs HereDeftones Around the FurExtol ExtolGrant Lee Buffalo FuzzyJeremy Enigk World WaitsLiving Sacrifice RebornSatariel White Ink: Chapter OneStarflyer 59 Talking Voice vs. Singing VoiceSunny Day Real Estate The Rising TideThe Casket Lottery Survival Is For Cowards3.5 greatCircle of Dust DisengageDepeche Mode Delta MachineQueens of the Stone Age ...Like ClockworkZao (Self-Titled)3.0 goodBlind Guardian Beyond The Red MirrorI've got to say, I never thought they would run out of killer riffs and epic vocals, but so much of this album feels tired. Every album since Nightfall has sounded a little more recycled but this just feels absolutely uninspired. As some have noted, the production is a huge factor. Like Metallica, a band this big shouldn't be having any audio engineering issues, but the production on this is anemic and doesn't serve the style well. Either way, the songs themselves don't shine, Nightfall or Imaginations didn't have A+ production but still rocked hard. Definitely not indicative of a 5 year wait....they should have had killer material developed over that time frame.Devin Townsend Project EpicloudKarnivool AsymmetrySoundgarden King AnimalTestament Dark Roots of Earth2.5 averageEvanescence The Open DoorOpeth Pale Communion2.5 is average. That is a perfect way to describe this album. I love 70's hard rock, I love prog, I love the way that Opeth could incorporate that into death metal. It was unique. They are no longer unique, they are 'pale' imitations of the music they love. This is not stylistically creative in the least. Aping the sound of a certain style or band is not creativity, it is plagiarism. They have now 'tuned-up' their guitars, gone for retro-sounding production, and want so bad to included in the 'prog-club'. Mikael Akerfeldt simply doesn't have the chops vocally to make this even remotely interesting. As so many people have already commented, which I find it woefully true, if I want to listen to 70's prog-rock, there are already a slew of albums that I would much rather listen to. It is very simple, prog-rock was great, because it brought classical, jazz, wild synthesizers..into a rock setting. It was new, it was brilliant, but Opeth is doing nothing but their damnedest to try and recreate that sound to a T. They are missing the whole picture...that music was exciting and fresh...Opeth used to be exciting and fresh....now they just are.Radiohead The King of Limbs2.0 poorDevin Townsend Project Ghost1.0 awfulVan Halen A Different Kind Of Truth
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