| 5.0 classic |
| Alice in Chains Jar of Flies |
| Seven songs with Layne's beautiful and distinctive voice in the spotlight. It's one of the saddest, most depressing, yet beautiful records of all time. |
| Converge Jane Doe |
| Deftones Saturday Night Wrist |
| SNW , albeit being a little rough at times in terms of production, offers a very ethereal and experimental approach to Deftones' sound, masterfully incorporating graceful melodies with bitter harshness |
| Deftones White Pony |
| Its hauntingly unique atmosphere, achieved through jarring and lush guitar-riffs, electronic soundscapes and superb vocal harmonies, is truly exceptional. |
| Depeche Mode Music for the Masses |
| Drive Like Jehu Drive Like Jehu |
| Faith No More Angel Dust |
| Fugazi Repeater |
| Glassjaw Worship and Tribute |
| Raw, abrasive, yet passionate and beautiful. A record ahead of its time. |
| ISIS Panopticon |
| Massive Attack Mezzanine |
| Quicksand Slip |
| Refused The Shape Of Punk To Come |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan One of Us Is the Killer |
| Tool Ænima |
| 4.5 superb |
| A Perfect Circle Mer de Noms |
| Alice in Chains Dirt |
| Brand New The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me |
| Chelsea Wolfe Apokalypsis |
| Converge Axe to Fall |
| Deafheaven Sunbather |
| Deftones Diamond Eyes |
| With Diamond Eyes, Deftones shed all their grief over the accident of their fellow bandmate and friend, Chi Cheng, return with incredible energy and enthusiasm - and deliver one of the sexiest, most original modern metal records of the 2000s |
| Deftones Around the Fur |
| Depeche Mode Playing The Angel |
| Depeche Mode Violator |
| Drive Like Jehu Yank Crime |
| Faith No More King for a Day... Fool for a Lifetime |
| While this record is literally all over the place, the songwriting, however, is spot on. |
| Fugazi Red Medicine |
| Glassjaw Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Silence |
| While still being a great record on its own, Glassjaw's debut is also an excellent foretaste of what is to come with their following album "Worship & Tribute". |
| Glassjaw Our Color Green (The Singles) |
| Helmet Meantime |
| ISIS Oceanic |
| Karnivool Sound Awake |
| Karnivool Asymmetry |
| KEN mode Entrench |
| Melt-Banana Fetch |
| Intense and shrill. Melt-Banana's Fetch thrusts forward with catchy, yet strident vocal melodies on top of ferocious, hectic guitar riffs and drum beats |
| Mr. Bungle California |
| Opeth Blackwater Park |
| Scale the Summit The Migration |
| Sonic Youth Daydream Nation |
| Team Sleep Team Sleep |
| Three Trapped Tigers Route One or Die |
| Thrice The Artist in the Ambulance |
| Tool Lateralus |
