| 4.0 excellent |
| &U&I Light Bearer |
| A Much more impressive and confident sounding record than KTMTSTM. The first 8 tracks are astounding, especially Heart Full Of Fire and La Mere Vipere. Runs out of steam slightly over the last 4 tracks, but totally worthy nonetheless. &U&I have put down a marker, they are definitely ones to watch! |
| A Wilhelm Scream Cheap Heat |
| Aborted The Necrotic Manifesto |
| Aborted Vault of Horrors |
| Abyssalis Adaptation |
| Alexisonfire Crisis |
| Anal Trump The First 100 Songs |
| Aphex Twin Richard D. James Album |
| Aquasky Teamplayers |
| Asian Dub Foundation RAFI's Revenge |
| BABYMETAL BABYMETAL |
| Bad Religion Generator |
| Benighted Identisick |
| Benighted Asylum Cave |
| Benighted Ekbom |
| Blakfish Champions |
| Cardiacs Sing to God |
| Carnosus Visions of Infinihility |
| Cattle Decapitation Death Atlas |
| Charlatan (UT) Remarkable |
| Coffin Feeder Big Trouble |
| Compulsion The Future Is Medium |
| Dark Tranquillity Character |
| Dark Tranquillity Damage Done |
| Dark Tranquillity The Gallery |
| Deftones White Pony |
| Devin Townsend Infinity |
| Dog Fashion Disco Committed to a Bright Future |
| Dog Fashion Disco Erotic Massage |
| Dog Fashion Disco Sweet Nothings |
| Dog Fashion Disco Day of the Dead |
| Dog Fashion Disco Ad Nauseam |
| Dog Fashion Disco Experiments in Embryos |
| DFD's mission to reclaim the rights of their early material takes another step forward. Suitably bombastic sounding as per usual, the bass tone in particular really stands out, especially during Primate and Toothless Dream. Keys and horns are brought to the fore much more than on the original recordings, meaning Siddhis, Satanic Cowboy and God Crisis are nigh on perfect. The only issue holding it back for me is that Experiments was always a better album than Embryo's, meaning EIE is more skewed towards its first half. |
| Dog Fashion Disco Tres Pendejos |
| Down I Go Tyrant |
| Down I Go Mortals |
| Down I Go Aum Shinrikyo |
| DIG are back, hopefully this is a sign of things to come! |
| Dub War Wrong Side of Beautiful |
| Dying Fetus Make Them Beg for Death |
| earthtone9 Arc'tan'gent |
| El-Creepo! Bellissimo! |
| Enter Shikari Rat Race |
| Faith No More Album of the Year |
| Fatboy Slim Better Living Through Chemistry |
| Fear Factory Obsolete |
| Fear Factory Remanufacture |
| Fear Factory Genexus |
| Fear Factory Aggression Continuum |
| Future Funk Squad Darker Days |
| Dance music generally lends itself well to being cinematically themed, and breakbeat is often especially good. Tracks like Darker Days, Disease, The Colony and particularly the hugely impressive The Hunted give the album an almost tangibly affecting atmosphere, and when they are combined with the usual FFS quality of tracks such as Rattlesnake, Monologue and Cold Matter give the album a wonderfully cohesive groove. Plus, the team up with regular collaborator Mojo (Rat Race) is as good as ever! |
| Future Funk Squad Unified Forms |
| Future of the Left Travels With Myself And Another |
| Future of the Left The Plot Against Common Sense |
| Future of the Left Love Songs For Our Husbands |
| Girls Against Boys House of GVSB |
| Glassjaw Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Silence |
| Hawk Eyes Ideas |
| Hell Is For Heroes The Neon Handshake |
| Helmet Meantime |
| Hexes White Noise/Black Sound |
| Hey! Hello! Hey! Hello! |
| Ginger Wildheart has produced his most poppy record yet, however it is still packed with meaty riffs and a proper punk attitude. Black Valentine and Swimwear feature some incredible pop hooks with full-on singalong vocals, How I Survived The Punk Wars is an out and out punk song, whose lyrics about making it in the music business should be played to every new band that comes around, and the second half of the album is just utterly sublime, although it does feature probably the weakest track Gonna Kiss You Like I'm Going Away. This is a gloriously upbeat and bouncy album that is a perfect soundtrack for the summer! |
| Hundred Reasons Ideas Above Our Station |
| Ice Nine Kills The Silver Scream 2: Welcome to Horrorwood |
| Indorphine Glowsticks For Clubbing Baby Seals |
| Inferi (USA) Heaven Wept |
| Jason Sparks Heroes And Villains |
| Jimmy Eat World Bleed American |
| Kalmah They Will Return |
| Kerbdog Kerbdog |
| Lemon Jelly Lost Horizons |
| Lemon Jelly Lemonjelly.KY |
| Lostprophets The Fake Sound Of Progress |
| Majesties Vast Reaches Unclaimed |
| Manic Street Preachers Gold Against The Soul |
| Marilyn Manson Antichrist Superstar |
| Megadeth Rust in Peace |
| Million Dead A Song to Ruin |
| Million Dead Harmony No Harmony |
| Mingle Harde Mongol Horde |
| Mutation Error 500 |
| Napalm Death Throes of Joy in the Jaws of Defeatism |
| Nekrogoblikon Power |
| Nekrogoblikon The Fundamental Slimes and Humours |
| NOFX Punk in Drublic |
| Nothingface Violence |
| Outside The Coma The Battle Of Being |
| Pendulum Hold Your Colour |
| Pitchshifter PSI |
| Placebo Placebo |
| Plan B Who Needs Actions When You've Got Words |
| Polkadot Cadaver Purgatory Dance Party |
| Polkadot Cadaver Get Possessed |
| A return to the synth-driven rock sound of Purgatory, and a much more wholely cohesive sound, akin to Sex Offender. The synths create a hauntingly atmospheric feel that runs through the album, making it feel like the soundtrack to a modern day John Carpenter horror. |
| Propagandhi Potemkin City Limits |
| Psycroptic The Scepter of the Ancients |
| PUP Morbid Stuff |
| Raging Speedhorn How The Great Have Fallen |
| Reuben Very Fast Very Dangerous |
| Rolo Tomassi Time Will Die And Love Will Bury It |
| Send No Flowers Juice |
| Shade Empire Omega Arcane |
| SikTh The Trees Are Dead and Dried Out, Wait for Something Wild |
| Skindred Union Black |
| SKisM Down With The Kids EP |
| Slayer Reign In Blood |
| Slayer Christ Illusion |
| Slipknot Slipknot |
| Slipknot We Are Not Your Kind |
| Stillbirth Homo Deus |
| Stillbirth Survival Protocol |
| Strapping Young Lad City |
| Summoning the Lich Under The Reviled Throne |
| System of a Down System of a Down |
| System of a Down Toxicity |
| Terrorvision How To Make Friends And Influence People |
| The Alter Boys The Exotic Sounds Of The Alter Boys |
| The Avalanches Since I Left You |
| The Black Dahlia Murder Ritual |
| The Black Dahlia Murder Nightbringers |
| The Callous Daoboys I Don't Want to See You in Heaven |
| The Chemical Brothers Come With Us |
| The Chemical Brothers Exit Planet Dust |
| The Egg Forwards |
| The Go! Team Thunder, Lightning, Strike |
| The Mad Capsule Markets 010 |
| The Prodigy Music For The Jilted Generation |
| The Wildhearts P.H.U.Q. |
| The Wildhearts The Wildhearts |
| The Wildhearts Chutzpah |
| Therapy? High Anxiety |
| Therapy? Semi-Detached |
| Therapy? Pleasure Death |
| Therapy? Disquiet |
| Therapy? Cleave |
| Therapy? Hard Cold Fire |
| Thrice The Artist in the Ambulance |
| Tub Ring A Choice of Catastrophes |
| Unaligned A Form Beyond |
| 3.0 good |
| &U&I Kill The Man That Shot That Man |
| 200 Stab Wounds Manual Manic Procedures |
| A Wilhelm Scream Lose Your Delusion |
| Adebisi Shank This is the Third Album |
| AngelMaker AngelMaker |
| Aquasky Raise The Devil |
| Arcane Roots Left Fire |
| Arcane Roots Blood and Chemistry |
| Architects The Here and Now |
| Arsis A Celebration of Guilt |
| At The Gates Slaughter Of The Soul |
| Atomic Hooligan Sex, Drugs And Blah Blah Blah |
| Atomic Hooligan You Are Here - The Remixes |
| Baby Chaos Skulls, Skulls, Skulls, Show Me The Glory |
Baby Chaos were such a defining band for me back in the 90s, so I desperately wanted this to be great. Unfortunately it displays little of the urgency, atitude, edge or indeed heaviness of their first two albums, instead often wandering straight down the middle of the road. Only Have Faith In Yourself and PPP Peaches display anything like their original style, and keep this album (only just) above average.
Gutted. |
| BATS Alter Nature |
| Beastmilk Climax |
| Billy Talent Dead Silence |
| Black Grape It's Great When You're Straight...Yeah |
| Blacklisters BLKLSTRS |
| Captain, We're Sinking The King of No Man |
| Carcass Torn Arteries |
| Carnosus Wormtales |
| Cars On Fire Dig Your Own Grave |
| Celebrity Sex Scandal Integral |
| Clutch Earth Rocker |
| Code Orange Underneath |
| Cognitive Abhorrence |
| Counterparts Nothing Left to Love |
| Cry For Silence The Glorious Dead |
| Cryptosis Bionic Swarm |
| Dark Tranquillity Haven |
| Dark Tranquillity Construct |
| Death By Horse Reality Hits Hard |
| Death From Above 1979 You're a Woman, I'm a Machine |
| Death From Above 1979 The Physical World |
| Deftones Deftones |
| Deftones Ohms |
| Devil Sold His Soul Loss |
| DJ Shadow The Less You Know, the Better |
| Dog Fashion Disco The Embryo's In Bloom |
| Down I Go This Is Robotcore |
| Employed To Serve The Warmth Of A Dying Sun |
| Enter Shikari A Flash Flood of Colour |
| Enter Shikari Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible |
| Eureka Machines Champion The Underdog |
| Eureka Machines Do Or Die |
| Every Time I Die Radical |
| Exhumed All Guts, No Glory |
| Exotic Animal Petting Zoo I Have Made My Bed in Darkness |
| Fear Factory The Industrialist |
| Fear Factory Recoded |
| Fellsilent The Hidden Words |
| Fleshbore Painted Paradise |
| Future of the Left Man vs. Melody |
| Glassjaw Worship and Tribute |
| Glassjaw Material Control |
| Hawk Eyes Mindhammers |
| HORSE the band Desperate Living |
| Iwrestledabearonce It's All Happening |
| JAAW Supercluster |
| Jimmy Eat World Surviving |
| Jinjer King of Everything |
| Knives Out! Left In The Lurch |
| Korn Life Is Peachy |
| letlive. Fake History |
| Lo Fidelity Allstars Don't Be Afraid of Love |
| Look What I Did Sympathy Porn |
| Manic Street Preachers Generation Terrorists |
| Marilyn Manson Mechanical Animals |
| Megadeth Peace Sells... But Who's Buying? |
| Megadeth Endgame |
| Monument of Misanthropy Vile Postmortem Irrumatio |
| Moonlight Sorcery Horned Lord of the Thorned Castle |
| Munt The World Is Not Yours |
| Mushroomhead XIII |
| Nekrogoblikon Heavy Meta |
| Nirvana Nevermind |
| NOFX Ribbed |
| NOFX White Trash, Two Heebs and a Bean |
| Nothingface Skeletons |
| Passenger (UK) Whispers II |
| Pendulum Immersion |
| Periphery Periphery IV: Hail Stan |
| Petrol Girls Cut and Stitch |
| Plan B Ill Manors |
| Polkadot Cadaver From Bethlehem to Oblivion |
| Queens of the Stone Age Rated R |
| Raging Speedhorn Before The Sea Was Built |
| Raging Speedhorn Lost Ritual |
| Reuben Racecar Is Racecar Backwards |
| Reuben In Nothing We Trust |
| Royal Blood Royal Blood |
| Sepultura Chaos A.D. |
| Sepultura Roots |
| Shade Empire Sunholy |
| Shadow Of Intent Imperium Delirium |
| SikTh The Future In Whose Eyes? |
| Skindred Babylon |
| Skunk Anansie Paranoid And Sunburnt |
| Spanish Love Songs No Joy |
| Strange Unit Strange Unit |
| Strung Out Twisted By Design |
| System of a Down Hypnotize |
| Tallah The Generation of Danger |
| Terrorvision Formaldehyde |
| The Black Dahlia Murder Nocturnal |
| The Bronx The Bronx (II) |
| The James Cleaver Quintet That Was Then, This Is Now |
| The Lucky Nine True Crown Foundation Songs |
| The Odious Vesica Piscis |
| The Qemists Spirit in the System |
| The Wildhearts The Wildhearts Must Be Destroyed |
| The Wildhearts Coupled With |
| This Is Menace No End In Sight |
| Thrice The Illusion of Safety |
| Trepalium Voodoo Moonshine |
| Tub Ring Fermi Paradox |
| Vale of Pnath Between the Worlds of Life and Death |
| VEXED (UK) Culling Culture |
| Wednesday 13 Condolences |
| Whitechapel Hymns in Dissonance |
