| 4.5 superb |
| All Shall Perish Awaken the Dreamers |
| Amon Amarth Versus the World |
| Amon Amarth Jomsviking |
| Amorphis Under the Red Cloud |
| Anciients Heart of Oak |
| Archspire Bleed the Future |
| At the Gates At War with Reality |
| Atoma Skylight |
| I have gone back to this album many more times than I expected to. This is truly something different. They very much accomplish the journey through time and space they set out to deliver. |
| August Burns Red Messengers |
| August Burns Red Rescue & Restore |
| Beyond Creation Earthborn Evolution |
| Carcass Necroticism: Descanting the Insalubrious |
| Carcass Surgical Steel |
| Cattle Decapitation Monolith of Inhumanity |
| This album is just amazing. It is Cattle Decapitation taken to the next level. It has elements from all of their previous work, but formed into a more focused and sharpened attack. |
| Cattle Decapitation The Anthropocene Extinction |
| Chaos Divine Colliding Skies |
| Chimaira The Infection |
| Code Augur Nox |
| Dark Tranquillity Character |
| Dark Tranquillity Damage Done |
| Dark Tranquillity Haven |
| Dark Tranquillity Fiction |
| Dark Tranquillity The Gallery |
| Dark Tranquillity Construct |
| Dawnbringer Into the Lair of the Sun God |
| Daylight Dies A Frail Becoming |
| Deftones Koi No Yokan |
| Desecravity Implicit Obedience |
| Early contender for Best Death Metal album of 2012. It's like the bastard child of a three-way among Origin, Hate Eternal, and "None So Vile"-era Cryptopsy. |
| DevilDriver Winter Kills |
| Dismember Like An Ever Flowing Stream |
| Earthside A Dream In Static |
| East of the Wall The Apologist |
| Enabler All Hail the Void |
| Enshine Singularity |
| This album kept growing on me. Their song-writing and blend of melodic doom and ambient space is top-notch and deserves way more recognition. |
| Every Time I Die Ex Lives |
| Every Time I Die From Parts Unknown |
| Everything in Slow Motion Phoenix |
| Fallujah Nomadic |
| Fallujah The Flesh Prevails |
| Goatwhore Constricting Rage of the Merciless |
| This is arguably their best work to date. Keeping their signature sound, it takes the hooks from "Carving...", expands on the diversity from "Blood for the Master" making (IMO) their most memorable album. |
| Hammers Of Misfortune 17th Street |
| Iced Earth Live In Ancient Kourion |
| In Flames Clayman |
| Junius The Martyrdom of a Catastrophist |
| Junius Reports From The Threshold of Death |
| Junius Days of the Fallen Sun |
| Killswitch Engage Disarm the Descent |
| Korn Korn |
| Korn Life Is Peachy |
| Krisiun The Great Execution |
| Last Chance to Reason Level 2 |
| Machine Head Through The Ashes Of Empires |
| Machine Head Burn My Eyes |
| Machine Head Bloodstone And Diamonds |
| Mastodon Once More 'Round the Sun |
| Metallica Kill 'Em All |
| Metallica Metallica |
| Misery Index The Killing Gods |
| Morbid Angel Covenant |
| NAILS Abandon All Life |
| NAILS You Will Never Be One Of Us |
| Nero di Marte Nero di Marte |
| Nero di Marte Derivae |
| Origin Antithesis |
| Pallbearer Foundations of Burden |
| Parkway Drive The DVD |
| Pelican Forever Becoming |
| Periphery Periphery (Instrumental) |
| Periphery Periphery II: This Time It's Personal |
| Periphery Juggernaut: Omega |
| Periphery Juggernaut: Alpha |
| Perturbator I Am the Night |
| It's like John Carpenter collaborated with Cliff Martinez (Drive OST). This is fantastic stuff. |
| Perturbator Dangerous Days |
| Pig Destroyer Book Burner |
| Protest the Hero Volition |
| Revocation The Outer Ones |
| Royal Thunder Crooked Doors |
| Royksopp The Understanding |
| Russian Circles Memorial |
| Scale the Summit The Migration |
| Scar Symmetry Holographic Universe |
| Secrets of the Sky Pathway |
| Shadows Fall Retribution |
| Skeletonwitch Serpents Unleashed |
| This album is a ripper. This band just keeps getting better with age. Tighter, faster, heavier, yet stronger song writing, better hooks, and more dynamics. |
| Soilwork Figure Number Five |
| Soilwork The Ride Majestic |
| Sophicide Perdition of the Sublime |
| Spawn of Possession Incurso |
| I dare you to find anything that can make your jaw drop like this. Not only can they platy their instruments better than any of their peers, they no how to compose the songs into something more than just their members showing off. |
| Still Remains Of Love and Lunacy |
| Suffocation Pinnacle of Bedlam |
| The Black Dahlia Murder Ritual |
| The Crinn Shadowbreather |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan One of Us Is the Killer |
| The Ocean Pelagial |
| The Ocean Pelagial (Instrumental) |
| The Prodigy Music For The Jilted Generation |
| Triptykon Melana Chasmata |
| Unearth The Oncoming Storm |
| Unearth Watchers of Rule |
| Uneven Structure Februus |
| Unhuman Unhuman |
| Wild Throne Blood Maker |
| Three of the best songs I have heard so far this year. |
| Within the Ruins Phenomena |
| 3.5 great |
| A Hero a Fake Volatile |
| A Hero a Fake Let Oceans Lie |
| Aborted Goremageddon: The Saw and the Carnage... |
| After Forever After Forever |
| After the Burial Rareform (Re-release) |
| After the Burial In Dreams |
| After the Burial Wolves Within |
| Ahab The Giant |
| All Shall Perish The Price of Existence |
| All That Remains This Darkened Heart |
| All That Remains The Fall of Ideals |
| All That Remains Overcome |
| Amaranthe Massive Addictive |
| Amon Amarth The Crusher |
| Amon Amarth With Oden on Our Side |
| Amon Amarth Surtur Rising |
| Amorphis Eclipse |
| Amorphis The Karelian Isthmus |
| Amorphis Elegy |
| Antigama The Insolent |
| Arch Enemy Anthems of Rebellion |
| Arsis Unwelcome |
| As I Lay Dying Frail Words Collapse |
| As I Lay Dying An Ocean Between Us |
| As I Lay Dying The Powerless Rise |
| As I Lay Dying Awakened |
| As We Draw Mirages |
| At the Gates The Red in the Sky Is Ours |
| Baptists Bushcraft |
| Battlecross War of Will |
| Beneath the Massacre Marée Noire |
| Beneath the Massacre Incongruous |
| Benighted Carnivore Sublime |
| Black Tusk Set The Dial |
| Black Tusk Tend No Wounds |
| Bleeding Through This Is Love, This Is Murderous |
| Bleeding Through The Great Fire |
| Bloodbath Nightmares Made Flesh |
| Bloodbath Resurrection Through Carnage |
| Born of Osiris A Higher Place |
| Bring Me The Horizon Sempiternal |
| Bury Tomorrow The Union of Crowns |
| Caliban The Opposite From Within |
| Caliban Shadow Hearts |
| Caliban Vent |
| Carcass Symphonies of Sickness |
| Carcass Tools of the Trade |
| Cephalic Carnage Anomalies |
| Cephalic Carnage Xenosapien |
| Cephalic Carnage Conforming To Abnormality |
| Children of Bodom Something Wild |
| Children of Bodom Hatebreeder |
| Chimaira Pass Out of Existence |
| Circle of Contempt Artifacts in Motion |
| Circle of Contempt Entwine the Threads |
| Code Orange Love Is Love // Return To Dust |
| Cryptopsy Cryptopsy |
| Dark Tranquillity Skydancer |
| Dark Tranquillity Zero Distance |
| Dead in the Dirt The Blind Hole |
| Despised Icon The Healing Process |
| Despised Icon The Ills Of Modern Man |
| Dethklok Dethalbum III |
| DevilDriver Beast |
| Dew-Scented Inwards |
| Dimmu Borgir Death Cult Armageddon |
| Dimmu Borgir In Sorte Diaboli |
| Disarmonia Mundi Mind Tricks |
| Dismember Dismember |
| DragonForce The Power Within |
| Dying Fetus War of Attrition |
| Dying Fetus Descend into Depravity |
| Dying Fetus Reign Supreme |
| Eluveitie Helvetios |
| Enabler La Fin Absolue Du Monde |
| Enfold Darkness Our Cursed Rapture |
| Enter Shikari A Flash Flood of Colour |
| Entombed Wolverine Blues |
| Epica The Divine Conspiracy |
| Epica Requiem for the Indifferent |
| Not quite as awesome as 'Design Your Universe" but still really well done, and they are definitely moving forward with their sound, unlike some of their peers (looking at you Sirenia and Tristania). |
| Fear Factory Obsolete |
| Fear Factory Digimortal |
| Fear Factory Soul of a New Machine |
| Fear Factory The Industrialist |
| Fear Factory Genexus |
| Fen Dustwalker |
| God Forbid Earthsblood |
| Gojira From Mars to Sirius |
| Gorguts Colored Sands |
| Gorod Leading Vision |
| Gorod Process of a New Decline |
| Grave Endless Procession of Souls |
| Hark Crystalline |
| While Hark does a great job smoothly balancing sludge and progressive, they need some hooks to keep me coming back. Hooks are about the only thing missing on this album, but they are sorely missed. |
| Haste the Day Coward |
| Hatebreed The Concrete Confessional |
| Heaven Shall Burn Antigone |
| Heaven Shall Burn Whatever It May Take |
| Heaven Shall Burn Deaf To Our Prayers |
| Heaven Shall Burn Iconoclast (Part 1: The Final Resistance) |
| Heaven Shall Burn Veto |
| High on Fire De Vermis Mysteriis |
| Hypocrisy End of Disclosure |
| Iced Earth Dystopia |
| In Flames Come Clarity |
| Insomnium Shadows of the Dying Sun |
| Into Eternity The Scattering of Ashes |
| It Dies Today The Caitiff Choir |
| James LaBrie Impermanent Resonance |
| Jeff Loomis Plains of Oblivion |
| Job For A Cowboy Demonocracy |
| Killswitch Engage Killswitch Engage |
| Killswitch Engage As Daylight Dies |
| Korn Follow the Leader |
| Korpiklaani Noita |
| Krisiun Conquerors of Armageddon |
| Kvelertak Meir |
| Lacuna Coil Comalies |
| Lacuna Coil Dark Adrenaline |
| Lamb of God Sacrament |
| Lamb of God Wrath |
| Lifecurse Prophecies |
| Mastodon The Hunter |
| Mencea Dark Matter Energy Noir |
| Mercenary Architect of Lies |
| Mercenary Metamorphosis |
| Misery Index Retaliate |
| Misery Index Discordia |
| Misery Index Heirs to Thievery |
| Misery Signals Of Malice and the Magnum Heart |
| Mnemic The Audio Injected Soul |
| Mnemic Mechanical Spin Phenomena |
| Morbid Angel Domination |
| Mors Principium Est Dawn of the 5th Era |
| Mushroomhead XIII |
| Mushroomhead XX |
| Mutiny Within Synchronicity |
| Naglfar Sheol |
| Naglfar Pariah |
| Naglfar Teras |
| Much better than Harvest. Goes back to the sounds of Pariah or even Sheol. |
| Nasum Doombringer |
| Negator Gates to the Pantheon |
| Nightrage Sweet Vengeance |
| Nightwish Oceanborn |
| Nightwish Imaginaerum |
| Nile Ithyphallic |
| Noisem Agony Defined |
| Noisem Blossoming Decay |
| Norther Mirror of Madness |
| Norther Dreams of Endless War |
| Norther Death Unlimited |
| Odious Mortem Cryptic Implosion |
| Omnium Gatherum Beyond |
| Orange Goblin A Eulogy For The Damned |
| Orange Goblin Back From The Abyss |
| Overkill White Devil Armory |
| P.O.D. Murdered Love |
| Palms Palms |
| Perturbator Sexualizer |
| Pig Destroyer Terrifyer |
| Pig Destroyer Phantom Limb |
| Psycroptic Symbols of Failure |
| Psycroptic Ob(Servant) |
| Psycroptic The Inherited Repression |
| I feel it had all (or at least most) of the technical skill from Ob(servant) but with more a focus on the song writing. there is a definitely groove on the album, which makes it more memorable. Also, I feel there is a nice variation in the vocals, offering something a little different than some of their peers. This is definitely their most dynamic album to date, and I can understand where some people are a little turned off, but this was a welcome change of pace from the standard tech-death of late. |
| Sannhet Revisionist |
| Savage Messiah Plague of Conscience |
| Scar Symmetry Symmetric in Design |
| Scar Symmetry The Singularity - Phase I: Neohumanity |
| Septa The Lover |
| Sevendust Black Out the Sun |
| Skeletonwitch Forever Abomination |
| Skyfire Esoteric |
| Soilwork Stabbing the Drama |
| Soilwork Sworn to a Great Divide |
| Son of Aurelius Under a Western Sun |
| Strapping Young Lad Alien |
| Strapping Young Lad The New Black |
| Suffocation Suffocation |
| Suffocation Blood Oath |
| TesseracT Perspective |
| The musician, as shown before, is excellent, and some of the writing really gets to shine through on the acoustic versions. However, if the point of the EP was to show off their new vocalist, they should have either just written new songs, or done with they did on "Eden 2.0" and have Elliot redo the vocals tracks. This EP showed us he can sing cleanly and (almost too) pretty on soft songs, but it does not show how it will sound on heavier music, and it does not show if he can handle harsh vocals. |
| Textures Drawing Circles |
| Textures Silhouettes |
| The Black Dahlia Murder Unhallowed |
| The Black Dahlia Murder Miasma |
| The Black Dahlia Murder Nocturnal |
| The Contortionist Exoplanet |
| The Faceless Akeldama |
| The Haunted rEVOLVEr |
| The Haunted The Haunted |
| The Haunted Road Kill |
| The Kennedy Veil Trinity of Falsehood |
| The Korea Chariots Of The Gods |
| The Nietzsche Intro to Advanced Poetry |
| The Ongoing Concept Saloon |
| The Red Chord Clients |
| The Red Chord Fed Through the Teeth Machine |
| The Sword Apocryphon |
| Toxic Holocaust Chemistry of Consciousness |
| Trivium Vengeance Falls |
| Unearth The March |
| Unearth Darkness in the Light |
| Vanna The Few and the Far Between |
| Veil of Maya [id] |
| Whitechapel A New Era of Corruption |
| Whitechapel Whitechapel |
| Wintersun Time I |
| Woe Withdrawal |
| 3.0 good |
| Abiotic Symbiosis |
| Aborted The Archaic Abattoir |
| All Shall Perish Hate. Malice. Revenge |
| Allegaeon Elements of the Infinite |
| Amon Amarth Fate of Norns |
| Amon Amarth The Avenger |
| Amon Amarth Once Sent from the Golden Hall |
| Amorphis Silent Waters |
| Amorphis The Beginning of Times |
| Arch Enemy Khaos Legions |
| As I Lay Dying Decas |
| As They Burn Will, Love, Life |
| Asphyx Deathhammer |
| Solid, no frills death metal. Overall, they could have made the album slightly more interesting...being "true death metal" doesn't mean you have to be boring...but it is still a good listen. |
| August Burns Red Home |
| Becoming The Archetype I Am |
| Beneath the Massacre Mechanics of Dysfunction |
| Beneath the Massacre Dystopia |
| Between the Buried and Me The Parallax II: Future Sequence |
| Bleeding Through The Truth |
| Bleeding Through Bleeding Through |
| Bloodbath The Fathomless Mastery |
| Born of Osiris The New Reign |
| Byzantine Oblivion Beckons |
| Caliban The Undying Darkness |
| Caliban Say Hello to Tragedy |
| Call of the Void Dragged Down A Dead End Path |
| Carcass Reek of Putrefaction |
| Carcass Swansong |
| Cattle Decapitation Karma.Bloody.Karma |
| Cattle Decapitation Humanure |
| Cattle Decapitation The Harvest Floor |
| Children of Bodom Are You Dead Yet? |
| Children of Bodom Relentless Reckless Forever |
| Conquering Dystopia Conquering Dystopia |
| Cradle of Filth Darkly, Darkly, Venus Aversa |
| Cradle of Filth The Manticore and Other Horrors |
| Dark Tranquillity We Are the Void |
| Deicide In the Minds of Evil |
| Demon Hunter Extremist |
| Detonation Emission Phase |
| Detonation Portals to Uphobia |
| Dew-Scented Issue VI |
| Dew-Scented Impact |
| Dew-Scented Icarus |
| Disarmonia Mundi The Isolation Game |
| Dismember Massive Killing Capacity |
| DragonForce Maximum Overload |
| Dying Fetus Stop at Nothing |
| Echoes of Eternity The Forgotten Goddess |
| Entrails (SWE) Obliteration |
| ERRA Augment |
| Evocation Illusions Of Grandeur |
| Fear Factory Archetype |
| Fit for an Autopsy Hellbound |
| Fleshgod Apocalypse Labyrinth |
| Gaza No Absolutes in Human Suffering |
| Ghost Brigade IV - One with the Storm |
| Grand Magus Triumph And Power |
| Hate Crusade: Zero |
| Hate Eternal Infernus |
| Heaven Shall Burn Asunder |
| Heaven Shall Burn Invictus (Iconoclast III) |
| Hooded Menace Effigies of Evil |
| Hour of Penance Regicide |
| Howl Bloodlines |
| Iced Earth Plagues Of Babylon |
| Immolation Kingdom of Conspiracy |
| In Flames Soundtrack to Your Escape |
| In Flames Sounds of a Playground Fading |
| It Dies Today Sirens |
| King of Asgard ...to North |
| Korpiklaani Manala |
| Still good ol' fun Korpiklaani...but that is what is becoming the problem. I like this one, and liked the last one a little more, but I think they need to stop releasing albums yearly. Take two years or so, refresh, and let the music build and grow more. |
| Lacuna Coil Karmacode |
| Lacuna Coil Shallow Life |
| Machine Head The Burning Red |
| Machine Head Supercharger |
| Marilyn Manson Born Villain |
| Meshuggah Catch Thirtythree |
| Miseration Tragedy Has Spoken |
| Misery Signals Mirrors |
| Mnemic Passenger |
| Mnemic Sons of the System |
| Naglfar Harvest |
| Necrowretch Putrid Death Sorcery |
| This is indeed an OSDM album, and they have the feel and sound, but the vocals kill it for me. Specifically, it is the constant echo on them. They don't sound lo-fi, and it's not a reverb...it's an echo. The mix could be stronger too w/o losing that old-school sound. |
| Nightrage Wearing a Martyr's Crown |
| Nightrage Insidious |
| Nightwish Dark Passion Play |
| Nightwish Endless Forms Most Beautiful |
| Nile What Should Not Be Unearthed |
| Noneuclid Metatheosis |
| Norther Till Death Unites Us |
| Oathbreaker Eros|Anteros |
| Odious Mortem Devouring the Prophecy |
| Parkway Drive Deep Blue |
| Primitive Weapons The Shadow Gallery |
| I feel like I am missing something. There doesn't seem to be anything in the songs engaging me. They are just there. but it's not bad, and the band shows a lot of potential. |
| Protest the Hero Scurrilous |
| Pyrithion The Burden Of Sorrow |
| I like Allegaeon, they are a great band. So, why start another project that sounds EXACTLY like them? Everything down to the production is the same, except for the fact that Lambesis is on vocals. |
| Red Fang Whales And Leeches |
| ReVamp Wild Card |
| Rivers of Nihil Monarchy |
| Scar Symmetry The Unseen Empire |
| Skeletonwitch Breathing the Fire |
| Skyharbor Guiding Lights |
| Soilwork The Panic Broadcast |
| Soilwork Overgivenheten |
| Soulfly Savages |
| Still Remains The Serpent |
| Structures Life Through a Window |
| Suffocation Souls to Deny |
| Swallow the Sun Songs From The North I, II & III |
| Sylosis Monolith |
| Sylosis Dormant Heart |
| TesseracT Polaris |
| Textures Dualism |
| The Agonist Prisoners |
| The Black Dahlia Murder Deflorate |
| The Burial Lights and Perfections |
| The Contortionist Intrinsic |
| The Faceless Autotheism |
| The Haunted The Dead Eye |
| The Haunted Live Rounds in Tokyo |
| The Human Abstract Nocturne |
| The Prodigy Always Outnumbered, Never Outgunned |
| The Red Chord Fused Together in Revolving Doors |
| The Red Chord Prey for Eyes |
| Threat Signal Threat Signal |
| To Speak Of Wolves Find Your Worth, Come Home |
| Vader Tibi et Igni |
| Valkyrie (USA-VA) Shadows |
| Vallenfyre Splinters |
| Vanisher Unbound |
| Veil of Maya The Common Man's Collapse |
| Vildhjarta Måsstaden |
| Vile (USA-CA) Metamorphosis |
| Whitechapel This Is Exile |
| Wretched (USA-NC) Son of Perdition |
| 2.5 average |
| A Hero a Fake The Future Again |
| All That Remains …For We Are Many |
| Amon Amarth Deceiver of the Gods |
| Anthrax For All Kings |
| Arch Enemy Doomsday Machine |
| Architects Daybreaker |
| Architects Lost Forever // Lost Together |
| Architects All Our Gods Have Abandoned Us |
| As Blood Runs Black Instinct |
| Bleeding Through Declaration |
| Caliban The Awakening |
| Children of Bodom Blooddrunk |
| Code Orange I Am King |
| Coliseum Anxiety's Kiss |
| Cradle of Filth Thornography |
| Cradle of Filth Godspeed on the Devil's Thunder |
| Cynic Kindly Bent to Free Us |
| Despised Icon Day Of Mourning |
| Dew-Scented Incinerate |
| Dimmu Borgir Abrahadabra |
| Divine Heresy Bringer of Plagues |
| Fear Factory Transgression |
| Ghost (SWE) Infestissumam |
| I, the Breather Truth and Purpose |
| While they have some good riffs and hint at being able to write something great (see "Lunar), they give to the pitfalls of this style: breakdowns. I like me some breakdowns, but if they used those to accent the music and made the songs around those good riffs, as opposed to making the riffs background to the bass drops and breakdowns, they could be so much better. rAlso, while the vocals aren't bad, they aren't great either. This guy can be interchanged with numerous other same-sounding vocalists out there already. |
| In Flames A Sense of Purpose |
| Into Eternity The Incurable Tragedy |
| Killswitch Engage Incarnate |
| Krisiun Forged in Fury |
| Kylesa Ultraviolet |
| Most of these songs are pretty poorly written, with not real flow to them. This is exemplified by the fact that they all just end somewhat abruptly; they just jam for 3+ plus minutes and stop. Gets old. |
| Lacuna Coil Broken Crown Halo |
| Lacuna Coil Delirium |
| Andrea finally learned he should not sing, and improved his screams. Meanwhile, Christina's singing has gotten worse. When she goes for the high notes (see "Blood, Tears, Dust"), her tone is awful. And whatever she is doing to her voice on the title track (for example) seriously lacks the beauty her voice once had. Musically, the band tuned their instruments like a djent band and play music of a nu-metal band for their heavy songs. rThat all said, many of the songs on this album are far more memorable than anything on Broken Crown Halo. Songs like "Downfall" are where the band really shines...but there aren't enough songs like that. |
| letlive. The Blackest Beautiful |
| Light the Torch The Beauty Of Destruction |
| Light the Torch They Bleed Red |
| Loincloth Iron Balls of Steel |
| Lord Dying Poisoned Altars |
| Mastodon Crack the Skye |
| Metallica Reload |
| Metallica Load |
| Monuments (UK) Phronesis |
| Nachtmystium Silencing Machine |
| Sounds like Black Metal...not much more, nothing less. And the more comes from slight industrial/synth sounds, which for the most part, come across as irritating buzzing. |
| Narrows Painted |
| I don't hear anything remotely unique here. The song writing is mediocre, and 6 minutes of "Greenland" come off as useless noise instead of the (presumably intended) atmospheric. |
| Newsted Metal |
| Norther N |
| Norther Circle Regenerated |
| Obliteration Black Death Horizon |
| Portal Vexovoid |
| Sabaton Heroes |
| Scar Symmetry Dark Matter Dimensions |
| Skinless Only The Ruthless Remain |
| Sonic Syndicate Sonic Syndicate |
| Soreption Engineering The Void |
| Stealing Axion Moments |
| The Acacia Strain Death Is the Only Mortal |
| The Acacia Strain Coma Witch |
| The Browning Hypernova |
| The Contortionist Language |
| The Haarp Machine Disclosure |
| After listening to it a few more times, i realized that there isn't much to latch onto. The song writing is sub par, leaving the album in the "nothing I haven't heard before" territory. I think this band has potential to write a great album, but this is not it. |
| The Haunted Versus |
| Throwdown Intolerance |
| Tombs Savage Gold |
| The Post-Metal, Sludge, and other Metal styles of Metal mixed with Black Metal are what made this band unique and awesome. This album, however, largely forgoes mixing the other styles to give us a pretty average, simplistic BM album. This was disappointing. |
| Upon a Burning Body Red. White. Green. |
| I like the energy, and the brekdowns are entertaininbg...before they get old toward the end. And the lyrics? They are kinda like a cheesy b-movie: so bad, they are entertaining.I was actually laughing out loud at some of them, but I can't imagine it was their intent. |
| Veil of Maya Matriarch |
| Whitechapel Recorrupted |
| 2.0 poor |
| Aborted Slaughter & Apparatus: A Methodical Overture |
| Aborted Strychnine.213 |
| Agalloch The Serpent and the Sphere |
| All That Remains A War You Cannot Win |
| Betraying the Martyrs Phantom |
| Caliban Ghost Empire |
| My, how they have fallen. This might actually be worse than "Say Hello to Tragedy." Terrible album showing an uninspired band that wrote an album based on what is trendy right now. Extremely disappointing. |
| Emmure Slave To The Game |
| Gigan Multi-Dimensional Fractal-Sorcery... |
| While these guys clearly excel at their instruments, playing fast and technical, their song writing is poor. I understand being "progressive," spastic, etc., but there needs to be something besides a mash-up of pieces with very little flow. Also, the production/mixing does not do this album any favors. There is NO excuse for an album to sound like this in 2013. |
| Ill Nino Till Death, La Familia |
| It Dies Today Lividity |
| Metallica St. Anger |
| Neaera Ours Is The Storm |
| This is the same album Neaera has been putting out since their inception, only they seem to be running out of ways to write the same song over, so it is more boring than, say, Armamentarium. |
| Nightrage A New Disease Is Born |
| Pyrrhon The Mother of Virtues |
| Ready Set Fall! Memento |
| Reflections The Color Clear |
| Shadows Fall Threads of Life |
| Six Feet Under Undead |
| The music is a step up from...well anything the band has ever done. However, Barnes has got to be the worst death metal vocalist around. He just doesn't sound like he cares! He has the most tired and bored...not to mention monotonous...grunts and growls, and it absolutely ruins whatever music is behind |
| Slayer Repentless |
| Spineshank Anger Denial Acceptance |
| SSS Limp.Gasp. Collapse |
| Structures Divided By |
| The Human Abstract Midheaven |
| The Last Ten Seconds Of Life Soulless Hymns |
| Soulless Hymns - not just a clever title...rWhile they did manage to make it sound heavy, the music is boring as hell. Listening to a song or two on a playlist is fine, but an entire album is very taxing to listen to. Even a dash of creativity would go a long way here. |
| Walls of Jericho No One Can Save You From Yourself |
| White Arms of Athena White Arms of Athena |
| Whitechapel The Somatic Defilement |
| Winds of Plague Resistance |
