| 2Pac All Eyez on Me | 4.5 |
| A Perfect Circle Mer de Noms | 4.0 |
| A Perfect Circle Thirteenth Step | 3.5 |
| Aborted Global Flatline | 3.5 |
| Aborted The Necrotic Manifesto | 3.5 |
| Aborted RetroGore | 4.0 |
| After the Burial Forging a Future Self | 2.5 |
| After the Burial Rareform | 2.5 |
| After the Burial In Dreams | 3.0 |
| After the Burial Wolves Within | 3.0 |
| After the Burial Dig Deep | 3.5 |
| After the Burial Evergreen | 4.0 |
| Alice in Chains Facelift | 5.0 |
| Alice in Chains Dirt | 5.0 |
| Alice in Chains Alice in Chains | 3.5 |
| Alice in Chains Black Gives Way to Blue | 3.0 |
| Alice in Chains The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here | 3.5 |
| Alice in Chains Jar of Flies | 4.0 |
| Alice in Chains MTV Unplugged | 3.5 |
| AngelMaker AngelMaker | 3.5 |
| AngelMaker Dissentient | 2.5 |
| Animals As Leaders Animals as Leaders | 5.0 |
| Animals As Leaders The Joy of Motion | 5.0 |
| Animals As Leaders The Madness of Many | 4.0 |
| Animals As Leaders Weightless | 3.0 |
| Architects All Our Gods Have Abandoned Us | 3.5 |
| Architects Hollow Crown | 3.5 |
| Architects The Here and Now | 2.5 |
| Architects Daybreaker | 3.0 |
| Architects Lost Forever // Lost Together | 3.0 |
| Architects Holy Hell | 3.5 |
| As I Lay Dying Frail Words Collapse | 3.0 |
| As I Lay Dying Shadows Are Security | 3.0 |
| As I Lay Dying An Ocean Between Us | 3.0 |
| As I Lay Dying The Powerless Rise | 2.5 |
| As I Lay Dying Awakened | 2.5 |
| As Oceans Willows | 4.0 |
| As Oceans Enough Light to Warrant the Contrast | 3.5 |
| As Oceans The Relics Of Axiom | 3.0 |
| At the Drive-In In/Casino/Out | 3.5 |
| At the Drive-In Relationship of Command | 5.0 |
| At the Drive-In in•ter a•li•a | 4.0 |
| At the Gates Slaughter of the Soul | 5.0 |
| At the Gates Terminal Spirit Disease | 3.5 |
| At the Gates With Fear I Kiss the Burning Darkness | 3.0 |
| At the Gates The Red in the Sky Is Ours | 3.0 |
| At the Gates At War with Reality | 2.5 |
| At the Gates To Drink from the Night Itself | 3.0 |
| Aversions Crown Tyrant | 3.5 |
| Aversions Crown Xenocide | 3.5 |
| Behemoth The Satanist | 4.0 |
| Behemoth Evangelion | 4.0 |
| Behemoth Demigod | 4.0 |
| Behemoth The Apostasy | 3.5 |
| Between the Buried and Me Between the Buried and Me | 3.0 |
| Between the Buried and Me The Silent Circus | 4.0 |
| Between the Buried and Me Alaska | 5.0 |
| Between the Buried and Me Colors | 5.0 |
| Between the Buried and Me The Great Misdirect | 5.0 |
| Between the Buried and Me The Parallax II: Future Sequence | 4.5 |
| Between the Buried and Me Coma Ecliptic | 4.0 |
| Black Label Society Sonic Brew | 3.5 |
| Black Label Society Stronger Than Death | 3.5 |
| Black Label Society 1919 Eternal | 3.5 |
| Black Label Society The Blessed Hellride | 4.0 |
| Black Label Society Hangover Music Vol.6 | 3.5 |
| Black Label Society Mafia | 3.0 |
| Black Label Society Shot to Hell | 2.5 |
| Black Label Society Order Of The Black | 3.0 |
| Black Label Society Catacombs of the Black Vatican | 3.0 |
| Black Sabbath Mob Rules | 3.5 |
| Black Sabbath Black Sabbath | 5.0 |
| Black Sabbath Paranoid | 5.0 |
| Black Sabbath Master of Reality | 5.0 |
| Black Sabbath Vol. 4 | 4.5 |
| Black Sabbath Sabbath Bloody Sabbath | 4.5 |
| Black Sabbath Sabotage | 4.5 |
| Black Sabbath Technical Ecstasy | 3.5 |
| Black Sabbath Never Say Die! | 3.5 |
| Black Sabbath Heaven and Hell | 4.0 |
| Black Sabbath Born Again | 2.0 |
| Black Sabbath Seventh Star | 2.0 |
| Black Sabbath The Eternal Idol | 2.5 |
| Black Sabbath Dehumanizer | 3.5 |
| Black Sabbath 13 | 4.0 |
| Blood Incantation Starspawn | 5.0 |
| Blood Incantation Hidden History of the Human Race | 5.0 |
| Born of Osiris The Eternal Reign | 3.5 |
| Born of Osiris The New Reign | 2.5 |
| Born of Osiris A Higher Place | 2.5 |
| Born of Osiris The Discovery | 4.0 |
| Born of Osiris Tomorrow We Die Alive | 1.5 |
| Born of Osiris Soul Sphere | 2.0 |
| Carnifex Dead in My Arms | 3.5 |
| Carnifex Die Without Hope | 4.5 |
| Carnifex Slow Death | 4.0 |
| Carnifex The Diseased and Poisoned | 4.0 |
| Carnifex Hell Chose Me | 3.5 |
| Carnifex Until I Feel Nothing | 4.0 |
| Carnifex World War X | 5.0 |
| Converge Axe to Fall | 5.0 |
| Converge The Dusk in Us | 4.5 |
| Converge Jane Doe | 5.0 |
| Converge You Fail Me | 4.5 |
| Converge Petitioning the Empty Sky | 4.0 |
| Converge No Heroes | 3.5 |
| Converge All We Love We Leave Behind | 3.5 |
| Cryptopsy None So Vile | 5.0 |
| Cult Leader Lightless Walk | 5.0 |
| Cult Leader A Patient Man | 5.0 |
| Currents The Place I Feel Safest | 4.0 |
| Currents I Let the Devil In | 3.0 |
| Dark Tranquillity The Gallery | 4.5 |
| Dark Tranquillity Damage Done | 3.0 |
| Dark Tranquillity Character | 3.5 |
| Dark Tranquillity Fiction | 4.0 |
| Dayseeker Dreaming Is Sinking /// Waking Is Rising | 2.5 |
| Death Symbolic | 5.0 |
| Death Individual Thought Patterns | 4.5 |
| Death Human | 4.5 |
| Death Leprosy | 4.0 |
| Death Spiritual Healing | 3.5 |
| Death Scream Bloody Gore | 3.5 |
| Death The Sound of Perseverance | 4.0 |
| Destrage Are You Kidding Me? No. | 4.5 |
| Destrage A Means to No End | 3.0 |
| Down NOLA | 4.0 |
| Down Down II: A Bustle in Your Hedgerow | 4.5 |
| Down Down III: Over the Under | 2.5 |
| Enterprise Earth Patient 0 | 4.0 |
| Enterprise Earth Embodiment | 4.0 |
| Enterprise Earth Luciferous | 4.5 |
| ERRA Impulse | 3.0 |
| ERRA Augment | 4.5 |
| ERRA Drift | 3.5 |
| Every Time I Die Low Teens | 4.5 |
| Every Time I Die From Parts Unknown | 4.0 |
| Every Time I Die Ex Lives | 3.0 |
| Every Time I Die The Big Dirty | 3.5 |
| Every Time I Die New Junk Aesthetic | 3.5 |
| Fallujah The Flesh Prevails | 4.5 |
| Fallujah Dreamless | 4.5 |
| Fallujah The Harvest Wombs | 3.0 |
| Fit for a King Deathgrip | 2.5 |
| Fit for a King Slave to Nothing | 2.0 |
| Fit for a King Creation | Destruction | 3.0 |
| Fit for a King Dark Skies | 2.0 |
| Fit for an Autopsy Hellbound | 3.0 |
| Fit for an Autopsy Absolute Hope Absolute Hell | 3.5 |
| Fit for an Autopsy The Great Collapse | 4.0 |
| Fit for an Autopsy The Sea of Tragic Beasts | 3.5 |
| Full of Hell Trumpeting Ecstasy | 2.0 |
| Gaza No Absolutes in Human Suffering | 5.0 |
| Gaza He Is Never Coming Back | 4.5 |
| Gaza I Don't Care Where I Go When I Die | 4.5 |
| He Is Legend White Bat | 3.5 |
| He Is Legend few | 3.0 |
| He Is Legend Heavy Fruit | 3.0 |
| He Is Legend It Hates You | 2.5 |
| He Is Legend Suck Out the Poison | 3.0 |
| He Is Legend I Am Hollywood | 3.5 |
| Hour of Penance The Vile Conception | 3.0 |
| Hour of Penance Paradogma | 3.5 |
| Hour of Penance Sedition | 3.5 |
| Hour of Penance Regicide | 4.0 |
| Hour of Penance Cast the First Stone | 3.0 |
| In Flames The Jester Race | 4.0 |
| In Flames Whoracle | 4.0 |
| In Flames Colony | 4.0 |
| In Flames Clayman | 4.5 |
| In Flames Reroute to Remain | 2.5 |
| In Flames Soundtrack to Your Escape | 2.5 |
| In Flames Come Clarity | 3.0 |
| In Flames A Sense of Purpose | 3.0 |
| In Flames Sounds of a Playground Fading | 2.5 |
| In Flames Siren Charms | 2.0 |
| In Flames Battles | 2.0 |
| Infant Annihilator The Palpable Leprosy of Pollution | 2.5 |
| Infant Annihilator The Elysian Grandeval Galèriarch | 3.0 |
| Invent Animate Everchanger | 3.0 |
| Invent Animate Stillworld | 3.5 |
| Jay-Z Reasonable Doubt | 3.0 |
| Jay-Z Vol. 2: Hard Knock Life | 2.5 |
| Jay-Z The Blueprint | 2.5 |
| Kadinja Ascendancy | 4.5 |
| Kanye West The College Dropout | 4.5 |
| Kanye West Late Registration | 4.0 |
| Kanye West Graduation | 3.5 |
| Kanye West 808s and Heartbreak | 2.5 |
| Kanye West My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy | 5.0 |
| Kanye West Yeezus | 3.0 |
| Kanye West The Life of Pablo | 3.0 |
| Kendrick Lamar DAMN. | 4.5 |
| Kendrick Lamar good kid, m.A.A.d city | 5.0 |
| Kendrick Lamar Section.80 | 3.5 |
| Kendrick Lamar To Pimp a Butterfly | 4.0 |
| Kingdom of Giants Ground Culture | 3.5 |
| Kingdom of Giants All the Hell You've Got to Spare | 3.0 |
| Knocked Loose A Different Shade of Blue | 4.0 |
| Knocked Loose Laugh Tracks | 4.0 |
| Knocked Loose Pop Culture | 4.0 |
| Lady Gaga Artpop | 4.0 |
| Lady Gaga Born This Way | 2.0 |
| Lady Gaga The Fame | 3.0 |
| Lady Gaga Joanne | 3.0 |
| Lamb of God New American Gospel | 3.0 |
| Lamb of God As the Palaces Burn | 3.5 |
| Lamb of God Ashes of the Wake | 4.5 |
| Lamb of God Sacrament | 4.0 |
| Lamb of God Wrath | 4.0 |
| Lamb of God Resolution | 3.5 |
| Lamb of God VII: Sturm und Drang | 3.5 |
| Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin | 2.5 |
| Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin II | 3.5 |
| Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin III | 3.0 |
| Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin IV | 4.5 |
| Led Zeppelin Houses of the Holy | 4.5 |
| Led Zeppelin Physical Graffiti | 4.5 |
| Led Zeppelin Presence | 3.0 |
| Led Zeppelin In Through the Out Door | 3.5 |
| Led Zeppelin Coda | 2.5 |
| Lorelei Lore of Lies | 4.0 |
| Lorna Shore Psalms | 4.5 |
| Lorna Shore Bone Kingdom | 2.5 |
| Lorna Shore Maleficium | 3.0 |
| Lorna Shore Flesh Coffin | 4.5 |
| Machine Head The Blackening | 4.0 |
| Machine Head Unto The Locust | 4.0 |
| Machine Head Bloodstone And Diamonds | 3.0 |
| Mastodon Remission | 3.0 |
| Mastodon Leviathan | 4.5 |
| Mastodon Blood Mountain | 4.0 |
| Mastodon Crack the Skye | 4.5 |
| Mastodon The Hunter | 3.5 |
| Mastodon Once More 'Round the Sun | 3.5 |
| Mastodon Emperor of Sand | 4.0 |
| Maylene and the Sons of Disaster III | 4.5 |
| Maylene and the Sons of Disaster Maylene and the Sons of Disaster | 3.0 |
| Maylene and the Sons of Disaster II | 3.0 |
| Maylene and the Sons of Disaster IV | 1.5 |
| Megadeth Killing Is My Business... and Business Is Good! | 2.5 |
| Megadeth Peace Sells... but Who's Buying? | 3.5 |
| Megadeth So Far, So Good... So What! | 3.0 |
| Megadeth Rust in Peace | 4.5 |
| Megadeth Countdown to Extinction | 4.0 |
| Megadeth Youthanasia | 3.5 |
| Megadeth Cryptic Writings | 2.5 |
| Megadeth Risk | 1.5 |
| Megadeth The World Needs a Hero | 2.0 |
| Megadeth The System Has Failed | 3.0 |
| Megadeth United Abominations | 3.0 |
| Megadeth Endgame | 3.5 |
| Megadeth Th1rt3en | 2.5 |
| Megadeth Super Collider | 1.5 |
| Meshuggah Contradictions Collapse | 3.0 |
| Meshuggah Destroy Erase Improve | 3.5 |
| Meshuggah Chaosphere | 3.5 |
| Meshuggah Nothing | 4.0 |
| Meshuggah Catch Thirtythree | 3.5 |
| Meshuggah obZen | 5.0 |
| Meshuggah Koloss | 4.5 |
| Meshuggah The Violent Sleep Of Reason | 3.5 |
| Metallica Kill 'Em All | 3.5 |
| Metallica Ride the Lightning | 4.5 |
| Metallica Master of Puppets | 4.5 |
| Metallica ...And Justice for All | 4.0 |
| Metallica Metallica | 4.0 |
| Metallica Load | 2.0 |
| Metallica Reload | 1.5 |
| Metallica St. Anger | 2.5 |
| Metallica Death Magnetic | 3.0 |
| Metallica Hardwired...To Self-Destruct | 3.0 |
| Nails You Will Never Be One of Us | 2.5 |
| Nails Abandon All Life | 2.5 |
| Nails Unsilent Death | 3.0 |
| Nas Illmatic | 4.5 |
| Nas It Was Written | 3.0 |
| Nas I Am... | 2.5 |
| Nas Nastradamus | 2.0 |
| Nas STILLmatic | 2.0 |
| Nas God's Son | 3.5 |
| Necrophagist Epitaph | 4.0 |
| Necrophagist Onset of Putrefaction | 4.0 |
| No Sin Evades His Gaze Endless Disconnect | 4.0 |
| All about the groove and soaring vocal melodies, these guys won't "wow" you with their technicality, but their tightness and precision is worth the listen alone. Catchy choruses and relentless, head-bobbing rhythms make this one of the most enjoyable listens of the year. Standout tracks: Heavy Days, Human, If Only To Fall |
| No Sin Evades His Gaze Age of Sedation | 4.0 |
| Northlane Discoveries | 3.5 |
| Northlane Singularity | 3.5 |
| Northlane Node | 3.5 |
| Northlane Mesmer | 2.5 |
| Northlane Alien | 1.5 |
| Oceano Ascendants | 3.0 |
| Oceano Revelation | 2.5 |
| Opeth Orchid | 2.5 |
| Opeth Morningrise | 2.5 |
| Opeth My Arms, Your Hearse | 3.5 |
| Opeth Still Life | 5.0 |
| Opeth Blackwater Park | 4.5 |
| Opeth Deliverance | 4.5 |
| Opeth Damnation | 5.0 |
| Opeth Ghost Reveries | 5.0 |
| Opeth Watershed | 3.0 |
| Opeth Pale Communion | 2.0 |
| Opeth In Cauda Venenum | 4.0 |
| Ozzy Osbourne Blizzard of Ozz | 4.5 |
| Ozzy Osbourne Diary of a Madman | 4.5 |
| Ozzy Osbourne Bark at the Moon | 3.5 |
| Ozzy Osbourne The Ultimate Sin | 2.5 |
| Ozzy Osbourne No Rest for the Wicked | 3.0 |
| Ozzy Osbourne No More Tears | 3.5 |
| Ozzy Osbourne Black Rain | 3.0 |
| Pantera Cowboys from Hell | 3.0 |
| Pantera Vulgar Display of Power | 3.0 |
| Pantera Far Beyond Driven | 3.5 |
| Pantera The Great Southern Trendkill | 3.5 |
| Pantera Reinventing the Steel | 3.5 |
| Parkway Drive Killing with a Smile | 2.5 |
| Parkway Drive Horizons | 3.0 |
| Parkway Drive Deep Blue | 2.5 |
| Parkway Drive Atlas | 3.5 |
| Parkway Drive Ire | 2.5 |
| Periphery Periphery | 3.0 |
| Periphery Periphery II: This Time It's Personal | 2.5 |
| Periphery Juggernaut: Alpha | 3.5 |
| Periphery Juggernaut: Omega | 3.0 |
| Periphery Periphery III: Select Difficulty | 4.0 |
| Periphery Periphery IV: Hail Stan | 2.0 |
| Protest the Hero Kezia | 3.5 |
| Protest the Hero Fortress | 4.0 |
| Protest the Hero Scurrilous | 3.5 |
| Protest the Hero Volition | 4.0 |
| Protest the Hero Pacific Myth | 4.0 |
| Rings of Saturn Embryonic Anomaly | 1.0 |
| Rings of Saturn Dingir | 1.0 |
| Rings of Saturn Lugal Ki En | 2.0 |
| Rings of Saturn Ultu Ulla | 1.5 |
| Rivers of Nihil The Conscious Seed of Light | 3.0 |
| Rivers of Nihil Monarchy | 3.0 |
| Scar Symmetry Holographic Universe | 3.5 |
| Scar Symmetry Pitch Black Progress | 3.0 |
| ScHoolboy Q Setbacks | 3.0 |
| ScHoolboy Q Habits and Contradictions | 3.0 |
| ScHoolboy Q Oxymoron | 3.5 |
| ScHoolboy Q Blank Face LP | 4.5 |
| Shadow Of Intent Primordial | 3.5 |
| Shadow Of Intent Reclaimer | 3.0 |
| Shadow Of Intent Melancholy | 2.5 |
| Silent Planet The Night God Slept | 4.0 |
| Silent Planet Everything Was Sound | 4.0 |
| Slaughter To Prevail Chapters of Misery | 3.0 |
| Slaughter To Prevail Misery Sermon | 2.0 |
| Soundgarden Badmotorfinger | 3.5 |
| Soundgarden Superunknown | 4.0 |
| Soundgarden Down on the Upside | 3.0 |
| Suicide Silence Suicide Silence | 1.0 |
| Suicide Silence You Can't Stop Me | 1.5 |
| Suicide Silence The Black Crown | 2.0 |
| Suicide Silence No Time to Bleed | 2.5 |
| Suicide Silence The Cleansing | 2.0 |
| TesseracT Altered State | 3.5 |
| TesseracT Polaris | 3.5 |
| The Black Dahlia Murder Nightbringers | 3.5 |
| The Black Dahlia Murder Nocturnal | 4.5 |
| The Black Dahlia Murder Unhallowed | 4.5 |
| The Black Dahlia Murder Miasma | 4.0 |
| The Black Dahlia Murder Deflorate | 2.5 |
| The Black Dahlia Murder Ritual | 3.0 |
| The Black Dahlia Murder Everblack | 3.0 |
| The Black Dahlia Murder Abysmal | 2.5 |
| The Chariot Long Live | 4.5 |
| The Contortionist Exoplanet | 4.0 |
| The Contortionist Intrinsic | 3.0 |
| The Contortionist Language | 3.0 |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Calculating Infinity | 3.5 |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Miss Machine | 4.0 |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Ire Works | 3.0 |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Option Paralysis | 3.0 |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan One of Us Is the Killer | 4.0 |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Dissociation | 4.0 |
| The Faceless Akeldama | 3.0 |
| The Faceless Planetary Duality | 3.5 |
| The Faceless Autotheism | 2.5 |
| The Mars Volta De-Loused in the Comatorium | 5.0 |
| The Mars Volta Frances the Mute | 4.5 |
| The Mars Volta Amputechture | 4.5 |
| The Mars Volta The Bedlam in Goliath | 4.0 |
| The Mars Volta Octahedron | 3.0 |
| The Mars Volta Noctourniquet | 3.0 |
| The Notorious B.I.G. Ready to Die | 4.5 |
| The Notorious B.I.G. Life After Death | 4.0 |
| Thy Art Is Murder Hate | 2.5 |
| Thy Art Is Murder Holy War | 3.0 |
| Tool Opiate | 3.0 |
| Tool Undertow | 3.5 |
| Tool Ænima | 5.0 |
| Tool Lateralus | 5.0 |
| Tool 10,000 Days | 4.0 |
| Tool Fear Inoculum | 4.5 |
| VALLEYS Experiment One: Asylum | 4.0 |
| In an increasingly vapid genre, here is a band dabbling in some very interesting ideas on their debut full length LP. It feels very coherent as a whole, even if some tracks stand out more than others. These guys certainly display a lot of potential, and are on the track of carving out a very nice and original sound for themselves. Bands like this need to exist to push the boundaries of the slowly-growing-stale style they occupy. |
| VALLEYS Reborn | 3.0 |
| Veil of Maya The Common Man's Collapse | 3.0 |
| Veil of Maya [id] | 3.0 |
| Veil of Maya Eclipse | 2.5 |
| Veil of Maya Matriarch | 4.0 |
| Veil of Maya False Idol | 2.5 |
| People will hate on this because of the shift in sound, but VoM has always been fun and groovy, and "False Idol" just further solidifies that. It's the same band, just now adding in some foreign elements like clean vocals and extra backing tracks. It damn near out-Periphery's the real Periphery for me. Front half of the album is just such quality. I'd say this is on par with Matriarch. |
| Wage War Blueprints | 4.0 |
| Wage War Deadweight | 3.5 |
| Wage War Pressure | 1.0 |
| This is some of the most uninspired and uninspiring music I have ever heard in my life. I though Blueprints and Deadweight were both cheesy (lyrics especially) but they were still fun albums that felt genuine on some level. This is just contrived and thrown together for a purpose unknown to me. |
| While She Sleeps You Are We | 3.5 |
| Whitechapel Mark of the Blade | 2.0 |
| Whitechapel Our Endless War | 2.5 |
| Whitechapel Whitechapel | 3.5 |
| Whitechapel A New Era of Corruption | 3.0 |
| Whitechapel This Is Exile | 3.5 |
| Whitechapel The Somatic Defilement | 2.0 |
| Wretched (USA-NC) The Exodus of Autonomy | 3.0 |
| Wretched (USA-NC) Beyond the Gate | 3.5 |
| Wretched (USA-NC) Son of Perdition | 4.5 |
| Wretched (USA-NC) Cannibal | 3.0 |
