| ABBA Voulez-Vous | 4.0 |
| Adam Lambert For Your Entertainment | 3.0 |
| Aether Realm Redneck Vikings From Hell | 3.5 |
| Aether Realm Tarot | 4.0 |
| After Forever After Forever | 3.5 |
| Alestorm Captain Morgan's Revenge | 3.5 |
| All That Remains The Fall of Ideals | 2.5 |
| All That Remains Overcome | 3.0 |
| Amaseffer Slaves for Life | 4.0 |
| Amon Amarth The Crusher | 3.0 |
| Amon Amarth Versus the World | 3.0 |
| Amon Amarth Fate of Norns | 3.5 |
| Amon Amarth The Avenger | 3.5 |
| Amon Amarth The Great Heathen Army | 3.5 |
| Amon Amarth With Oden on Our Side | 4.0 |
| Amon Amarth Twilight of the Thunder God | 4.0 |
Thor, Odin's son, protector of mankind, ride to meet your fate, your destiny awaits
Thor, Hlodyn's son, protector of mankind, ride to meet your fate, Ragnarok awaits.
This pretty much sums up the entire album. It may sound the same, but who cares? I
feel like a Viking getting ready to lead my men to a victory. |
| Amon Amarth Surtur Rising | 4.0 |
SEE ME RISE THE MIGHTY SURT. DESTROYER OF THE UNIVERSE!!!! BRINGER OF FLAMES AND
ENDLESS HURT. SCORCHER OF MEN AND EARTH!.
Yeah this album is that awesome. |
| Amon Amarth Deceiver of the Gods | 4.0 |
| Now escape, there's no return THE UNIVERSE SHALL BLEED AND BURN |
| Amon Amarth Jomsviking | 4.0 |
Slashing, killing Thrashing, spilling Blood for honor, death, and glory!
Not only is this the entire album, but it is also how I felt after this got deleted the
first time.... |
| Amon Amarth Berserker | 4.0 |
| Amon Amarth Once Sent from the Golden Hall | 4.5 |
| Amorphis Circle | 3.5 |
| Amorphis Under the Red Cloud | 3.5 |
| Amorphis Halo | 3.5 |
| Amorphis Queen of Time | 4.0 |
| Angels and Airwaves Love | 3.0 |
| Animal Collective Merriweather Post Pavilion | 3.0 |
| Anneke van Giersbergen Drive | 3.5 |
| Antonio Vivaldi The Four Seasons | 5.0 |
| Apocalyptica Plays Metallica by Four Cellos | 3.5 |
| Apocalyptica Amplified: A Decade Of Reinventing The Cello | 3.5 |
| Apocalyptica Worlds Collide | 3.5 |
| Apocalyptica Apocalyptica | 4.0 |
| Aqua Aquarium | 3.0 |
| Arch Echo Final Pitch | 3.0 |
| Arch Echo You Won't Believe What Happens Next! | 3.5 |
| Arch Echo Arch Echo | 4.5 |
| Arch Enemy Black Earth | 3.0 |
| Arch Enemy Will to Power | 3.0 |
| Arch Enemy Deceivers | 3.0 |
| Arch Enemy War Eternal | 3.5 |
| Arch Enemy Burning Bridges | 4.0 |
| Arghoslent Hornets of the Pogrom | 3.0 |
| Arghoslent Incorrigible Bigotry | 3.5 |
| Arsis Starve for the Devil | 3.0 |
| Arsis Lepers Caress | 3.0 |
| Arsis Unwelcome | 3.0 |
| Arsis United in Regret | 3.5 |
| Arsis We Are the Nightmare | 3.5 |
| Arsis Visitant | 3.5 |
| Arsis A Celebration of Guilt | 4.0 |
| Arsis A Diamond for Disease | 5.0 |
| This is just flat out brutal. Arsis makes one of my favorite albums ever with A Diamond for Disease. The title track is essentially 13 minutes of non stop hardcore and amazing soloing. Not only is it one of the best melodic death metal tracks I have heard, but it is one of the best metal track period. James Malone gives a harsh vocal style that I actually enjoy throughout this whole EP. The other two tracks, while not being as amazing as A Diamond for Disease are extremely respectible in their own ways. The Alice Cooper cover Roses in White Lace has grown on me a lot and is another superb track. The Promise of Never ends this EP on a brutal note. Containing passages of A Diamond For Disease, this track ends this monumental disc. |
| Asira Efference | 3.5 |
| At the Gates Slaughter of the Soul | 3.0 |
| Atreyu A Death-Grip on Yesterday | 1.5 |
| Atreyu Congregation of the Damned | 3.0 |
| Auri II - Those We Don't Speak Of | 3.0 |
| Auri Auri | 3.5 |
| Avantasia Angel of Babylon | 3.0 |
| Avantasia The Metal Opera | 3.5 |
| Avantasia The Scarecrow | 3.5 |
| Avantasia Moonglow | 3.5 |
| Avantasia A Paranormal Evening With the Moonflower Society | 3.5 |
| Avantasia The Wicked Symphony | 4.0 |
| Avantasia The Mystery Of Time | 4.0 |
| HEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEYYYYYYYYYYY MAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANNNNNNNNNN IIIIIIIINNNNNNNNNNNN YYYYYYYYYYYOOOOOOOOOOOUUUUUUUUUURRRRRRRRR HHIIIIDEEEEEEEEAWWWWWAYYYYY....oh...wrong album |
| Avantasia Ghostlights | 4.0 |
| Avenged Sevenfold Hail to the King | 1.5 |
| Avenged Sevenfold Avenged Sevenfold | 2.5 |
| This album isn't as good as I wanted it to be. I was pumped up for this after hearing the epicness of City of Evil. Critical Acclaim is a below average song, only good part is The Rev. Brompton Cocktail is a kick a$$ song though, so is Gunslinger and Dear God. In Fact, those are the only good songs on here. I will say that Afterlife and Lost have good solos though. But this is easily a disappointment from Avenged Sevenfold. |
| Avenged Sevenfold Nightmare | 3.0 |
| Avenged Sevenfold Waking the Fallen | 3.5 |
| This is my second favorite Avenged Sevenfold release. Unlike City of Evil, who's songlisting was almost flawless, this has some flaws. There are only about a half dozen songs on here that I like, but they are really good in the process. Second Heartbeat is my favorite song, and the solo at the end stacks up as one of my favorite solos ever. Unholy Confessions and Chapter 4 are great as well. The finale of this disk, And All Things Will End, is a spectacular 7 minutes, but the solo near the end is very strange.rOverall though, a great album. |
| Avenged Sevenfold Life Is But a Dream... | 3.5 |
| Avenged Sevenfold City of Evil | 4.5 |
| Ayreon 01011001 | 2.5 |
| Ayreon Transitus | 3.0 |
| Ayreon The Source | 4.5 |
| Backstreet Boys Millennium | 2.5 |
| Backstreet Boys Black and Blue | 2.5 |
| Backstreet Boys Backstreet Boys | 2.5 |
| Bat For Lashes Two Suns | 4.0 |
| Behemoth The Satanist | 3.5 |
| Behemoth I Loved You at Your Darkest | 4.0 |
| Between the Buried and Me The Great Misdirect | 2.5 |
| Between the Buried and Me Alaska | 3.0 |
| Between the Buried and Me Colors | 3.5 |
| I picked this up blindly a couple of months ago because of all the hooplaa surrounding it. So, I went to my local Wal-Mart and found it for 10 bucks. Now listening to this quite a few times since then, I can say that this is extremely overrated, but it is very good. When I listen to this now, I skip almost all of the tracks. The two I listen to though: Ants of the Sky and White Walls are 25 minutes of me drooling at the awesomeness of these songs. The slidining guitars, the slow passages and good god that epic solo at the end of White Walls makes this whole record worthwhile. |
| Between the Buried and Me Colors II | 3.5 |
| Blind Guardian Nightfall in Middle-Earth | 3.0 |
| Blind Guardian Somewhere Far Beyond | 3.5 |
| Blind Guardian Imaginations from the Other Side | 3.5 |
| Blind Guardian Beyond the Red Mirror | 3.5 |
| Blind Guardian A Twist in the Myth | 4.0 |
| Blind Guardian At the Edge of Time | 4.0 |
| Blind Guardian The God Machine | 4.0 |
| Blind Guardian A Night at the Opera | 4.5 |
| Bloodbath Unblessing the Purity | 3.5 |
| Bloodbound Nosferatu | 4.0 |
| Bloom 06 Crash Test 02 | 3.0 |
| Blues Traveler Four | 3.0 |
| Bodom After Midnight Paint the Sky With Blood | 3.5 |
| Bon Iver Bon Iver, Bon Iver | 3.0 |
| Bon Iver For Emma, Forever Ago | 4.5 |
| Boomerang Sounds of Sirens | 3.5 |
| Breaking Benjamin Phobia | 2.5 |
| Breaking Benjamin Dear Agony | 2.5 |
| Breaking Benjamin We Are Not Alone | 3.5 |
| Breaking Benjamin Saturate | 4.0 |
| This is easily Breaking Benjamin's best album. This is a slice of addicting, catchy, and overall good hard rock. Natural Life is my favorite song on here and one of my fav. Breaking Benjamin songs ever. The single Polyamorous is also very solid too. Actually, there isn't a single bad song on here, but it just doesn't give off that "it" factor that an album with a rating of 5 gives off. If you're looking for a good hard rock album, pick this one up. |
| Bullet for My Valentine Temper Temper | 2.0 |
| Bullet for My Valentine Bullet For My Valentine | 2.0 |
| Bullet for My Valentine Scream Aim Fire | 3.0 |
| Bullet for My Valentine Fever | 3.0 |
| Bullet for My Valentine Venom | 3.0 |
| Bullet for My Valentine Bullet For My Valentine EP | 3.5 |
| Bullet for My Valentine The Poison | 3.5 |
| Burst Lazarus Bird | 3.5 |
| Butch Walker Sycamore Meadows | 4.0 |
| Caligula's Horse Rise Radiant | 3.0 |
| Caligula's Horse In Contact | 4.0 |
| Carcass Swansong | 3.0 |
| Carcass Torn Arteries | 3.0 |
| Carcass Heartwork | 3.5 |
| Carcass Surgical Steel | 3.5 |
| Celtic Thunder Celtic Thunder | 4.0 |
| Children of Bodom Blooddrunk | 2.0 |
| This is such a disappointing album. I was expecting much more from CoB because I actually enjoyed AYDY?. Hellhounds On My Trail, Tie My Rope, Blooddrunk, and One Day You Will Cry are the only songs worth listening to on here. Everything else is basically rehashed from earlier albums and pretty much suck. Luckily, those 4 songs are good enough to make this a 2.5 instead of being lower. |
| Children of Bodom Relentless Reckless Forever | 2.5 |
| Children of Bodom Are You Dead Yet? | 3.5 |
| This is definitely not COB's finest work, but it's a pretty solid release. It seems like they decided to get rid of the Melo-Power Metal roots on this one a bit, but that doesn't mean the songs still aren't a headbanging fest. Opener Living Dead Beat is a monster of an opener. If You Want Peace Prepare for War is the best song on here, and Trashed Lost and Strungout is another solid effort. This just doesn't compare to earlier releases like Hatebreeder or Follow the Reaper. |
| Children of Bodom Halo of Blood | 3.5 |
| Children of Bodom Hate Crew Deathroll | 4.0 |
| Children of Bodom Hatebreeder | 4.0 |
| Children of Bodom I Worship Chaos | 4.0 |
| Children of Bodom Follow the Reaper | 4.5 |
| Children of Bodom Something Wild | 4.5 |
| Children of Bodom Hexed | 4.5 |
| Cirith Ungol Forever Black | 3.0 |
| Converge All We Love We Leave Behind | 3.0 |
| Converge Jane Doe | 3.5 |
| Converge Petitioning the Empty Sky | 4.0 |
| Converge Axe to Fall | 4.0 |
| For 28 minutes and 13 seconds, my ears were getting raped and destroyed. Suddenly Converge was like hey, let's slow it down for the final 11 minutes. These 11 minutes have only been passed by two songs the entire year. So yeah, this deserves all the drool this website has spewed out of it's mouth the past seven or so hours. |
| Countless Skies Glow | 3.5 |
| Cradle of Filth Cruelty and the Beast | 4.0 |
| Cradle of Filth Hammer of the Witches | 4.0 |
| Cradle of Filth Dusk and Her Embrace - The Original Sin | 4.0 |
| Creed Human Clay | 2.5 |
| Crossfade Crossfade | 2.5 |
| Cryptopsy None So Vile | 3.0 |
| Cryptopsy Cryptopsy | 3.0 |
| Crystal Eyes Confessions of the Maker | 4.0 |
| Cynic Kindly Bent to Free Us | 3.0 |
| Cynic Focus | 3.5 |
| Cynic Ascension Codes | 3.5 |
| Cynic Carbon-Based Anatomy | 4.0 |
| Cynic Traced in Air | 4.5 |
| Dagon (USA-MI) Terraphobic | 4.0 |
| Dan Swano Odyssey | 4.0 |
| Dark Tranquillity We Are the Void | 2.5 |
| Dark Tranquillity Moment | 3.0 |
| Dark Tranquillity Fiction | 3.5 |
| Dark Tranquillity Damage Done | 4.0 |
| Darkest Era Wither On The Vine | 3.0 |
| Darkest Era Severance | 4.0 |
| Daughtry Daughtry | 2.5 |
| David Cook David Cook | 2.5 |
| Delain Lucidity | 3.0 |
| Delain April Rain | 3.0 |
| DevilDriver The Last Kind Words | 3.0 |
| Diablo Swing Orchestra Sing-Along Songs for the Damned & Delirious | 3.5 |
| Diablo Swing Orchestra Pacifisticuffs | 3.5 |
| Diablo Swing Orchestra Pandora's Pinata | 4.0 |
| Diablo Swing Orchestra Swagger and Stroll Down the Rabbit Hole | 4.0 |
| Diablo Swing Orchestra The Butcher's Ballroom | 4.5 |
| Dimhav The Boreal Flame | 4.0 |
| Disillusion Back to Times of Splendor | 3.5 |
| Disillusion Ayam | 3.5 |
| Disney Classic Disney Volume 1 | 3.0 |
| Disturbed Indestructible | 3.0 |
| Disturbed Ten Thousand Fists | 3.5 |
| Like most hard rock/nu metal bands, the first half of albums are usually the best part of the record; this is no different. Starting with Ten Thousand Fists, the first 6 songs are hard rock excellency. Guarded and Stricken are my two favorite songs and I'm Alive is a close third. The rest of the album though, isn't really good. Overburdened is the only highlight from this part. |
| DoomThrone Skeleton Veiled in Flesh | 1.0 |
| DragonForce Extreme Power Metal | 2.5 |
| DragonForce Ultra Beatdown | 3.0 |
| DragonForce Reaching into Infinity | 3.0 |
| DragonForce Valley of the Damned | 3.5 |
| DragonForce Inhuman Rampage | 3.5 |
| What's better than writing the same song 7 times then doing a ballad? Nothing really. These guys flare their guitars at mach 5 speeds. ZP is an excellent vocalist in the power metal genre. This has all the ingredients to be a good album. What is the problem? The songwriting. Same old same old with slaying dragons, being free before the thunderstorm, and climbing the highest mountain with your 5 foot sword. Every song is solid on here, but the same sounding songs stop this from being a remarkable release. |
| DragonForce Maximum Overload | 3.5 |
| So I guess a Thrash/Melo-Death/Prog with a sweet power metal vocalist Dragonforce is kinda rcool. rPlus dem Bass solos |
| DragonForce Warp Speed Warriors | 3.5 |
| DragonForce Sonic Firestorm | 4.0 |
| DragonForce The Power Within | 4.0 |
| New singer brings shorter songs, more variety of riffs, lack of Mach 5 guitar solos for 70 minutes, and a return to the band's roots combining the best of Valley of the Damned and Sonic Firestorm. This is easily the best power metal album in the past two years and that is something I did not think I would say about the band at this point in time. |
| Dragonland The Power of the Nightstar | 2.5 |
| Dragonland Starfall | 3.5 |
| Dream Evil In The Night | 3.0 |
| Dream Evil Dragon Slayer | 4.0 |
| Dream Theater Distance Over Time | 3.0 |
| Dream Theater Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes from a Memory | 3.5 |
| Dream Theater A Dramatic Turn of Events | 3.5 |
| Dream Theater Dream Theater | 3.5 |
| Dream Theater Black Clouds and Silver Linings | 4.0 |
| dredg El Cielo | 3.5 |
| dredg The Pariah, The Parrot, The Delusion | 4.0 |
| E.S. Posthumus Cartographer | 3.5 |
| E.S. Posthumus Makara | 3.5 |
| E.S. Posthumus Unearthed | 4.0 |
| Ed Alleyne-Johnson Ultraviolet | 4.5 |
| Edge of Sanity Infernal | 3.5 |
| Edge of Sanity The Spectral Sorrows | 3.5 |
| Edge of Sanity Purgatory Afterglow | 4.0 |
| Edge of Sanity Crimson | 4.5 |
| Edge of Sanity When All Is Said | 4.5 |
| Edge of Sanity Crimson II | 5.0 |
| Edguy Rocket Ride | 2.5 |
| Edguy Space Police - Defenders of the Crown | 4.0 |
| Eiffel 65 Contact! | 3.0 |
| Eiffel 65 Europop | 3.5 |
| Eluveitie Evocation I: The Arcane Dominion | 2.5 |
| Elvenking Heathenreel | 3.5 |
| Elvenking The Scythe | 3.5 |
| Eminem The Eminem Show | 3.0 |
| Eminem Encore | 3.0 |
| Eminem The Marshall Mathers LP | 3.5 |
| Eminem Curtain Call: The Hits | 3.5 |
| Epica Requiem for the Indifferent | 3.0 |
| Epica Omega | 3.0 |
| Epica The Quantum Enigma | 3.5 |
| Epica The Alchemy Project | 3.5 |
| Epica Epica vs Attack on Titan Songs | 4.5 |
| Equilibrium Armageddon | 3.0 |
| Equilibrium Rekreatur | 3.5 |
| Equilibrium Renegades | 3.5 |
| Equilibrium Turis Fratyr | 4.0 |
| Equilibrium Erdentempel | 4.0 |
| Equilibrium Sagas | 4.5 |
| Eric Clapton Clapton Chronicles: The Best of Eric Clapton | 3.0 |
| Eternal Deformity Frozen Circus | 4.0 |
| Eternal Tears of Sorrow Children of the Dark Waters | 3.0 |
| Eternal Tears of Sorrow Saivon Lapsi | 3.5 |
| Eternal Tears of Sorrow Before the Bleeding Sun | 4.0 |
| Evanescence Fallen | 2.5 |
| Evans Blue The Melody and the Energetic Nature of Volume | 2.5 |
| Explosions in the Sky The Wilderness | 3.5 |
| Explosions in the Sky The Earth Is Not a Cold Dead Place | 4.0 |
| Fair to Midland Arrows and Anchors | 4.0 |
| Fairyland Score to a New Beginning | 3.5 |
| Falconer Among Beggars And Thieves | 2.5 |
| Firewind Few Against Many | 3.0 |
| Firewind Firewind | 3.0 |
| Firewind Allegiance | 3.5 |
| Firewind Immortals | 3.5 |
| Firewind The Premonition | 4.0 |
| Firewind Days of Defiance | 4.0 |
| Floor Jansen Paragon | 3.0 |
| Forest Stream Tears of Mortal Solitude | 3.0 |
| Fozzy All That Remains | 2.5 |
| Frozen Silence Frozen Silence | 4.0 |
| Galneryus Between Dread and Valor | 3.0 |
| Galneryus Into the Purgatory | 3.5 |
| Galneryus Under the Force of Courage | 4.0 |
| Galneryus Ultimate Sacrifice | 4.0 |
| Garden of Shadows Oracle Moon | 3.5 |
| Gates of Winter Lux Aeterna | 4.0 |
| Glacier (USA-OR) The Passing of Time | 3.0 |
| Godsmack Godsmack | 3.0 |
| Godsmack The Oracle | 3.0 |
| Godsmack Faceless | 3.5 |
| Godsmack IV | 3.5 |
| Godsmack Awake | 4.0 |
| Godsmack The Other Side | 4.0 |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor F♯ A♯ ∞ | 3.0 |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor Slow Riot For New Zero Kanada | 4.5 |
| Gojira Fortitude | 3.5 |
| Gorillaz Demon Days | 3.5 |
| Green Carnation Light of Day, Day of Darkness | 4.0 |
| Green Day American Idiot | 3.0 |
| Green Day 21st Century Breakdown | 3.0 |
| Gunther Pleasureman | 5.0 |
Every so often we are blessed with the presence of a truly bad artists: Soulja Boy, Doomthrone, and Limp Bizkit. Gunther would seem the same way based off of the cover alone. Well he is pretty bad, but he's so bad that it's good in a way too. Every song on here is about sex, but with a spice of europop thrown into the equation. Great titles like Touch Me and Ding Ding Dong make up the better of the songs on here. Oh forget it. Here are some lyrics to judge for yourselves while I think of a way to review this whole album.
"touch me, touch me now...
touch me, touch me now...
hot and cold emotion, confusing my brain,
I could not decide between pleasure and pain,
like a tramp in the night, I was begging for you
to treat my body like you wanted to" |
| Gym Class Heroes As Cruel As School Children | 2.5 |
| Haggard Eppur si muove | 4.0 |
| Haggard Tales of Ithiria | 4.5 |
| Haken Affinity | 3.5 |
| Harmony Theatre of Redemption | 3.0 |
| Heed The Call | 4.0 |
| Helloween Keeper of the Seven Keys Part II | 3.5 |
| Helloween Keeper of the Seven Keys: The Legacy | 3.5 |
| Helloween Gambling with the Devil | 3.5 |
| Helloween Straight Out of Hell | 3.5 |
| Helloween 7 Sinners | 4.0 |
| Helloween Helloween | 4.0 |
| Highland Glory From the Cradle to the Brave | 3.5 |
| HIM Screamworks: Love In Theory And Practice | 3.5 |
| Hootie and The Blowfish Cracked Rear View | 3.0 |
| Iced Earth Dystopia | 3.0 |
| Iced Earth Burnt Offerings | 3.5 |
| Iced Earth Something Wicked This Way Comes | 4.0 |
| Iced Earth The Glorious Burden | 4.0 |
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!! Greenface
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!! Greenface.
That pretty much sums up this album, meaning it sounds just great as that wail by Ripper. |
| In Flames Soundtrack to Your Escape | 2.0 |
| In Flames Come Clarity | 2.5 |
| In Flames Siren Charms | 2.5 |
| In Flames Lunar Strain | 3.0 |
| In Flames Battles | 3.0 |
| In Flames I, the Mask | 3.0 |
| In Flames The Jester Race | 3.5 |
| In Flames Reroute to Remain | 3.5 |
| In Flames Subterranean | 3.5 |
| In Flames A Sense of Purpose | 3.5 |
| In Flames Sounds of a Playground Fading | 3.5 |
| In Flames Foregone | 3.5 |
| In Flames Whoracle | 4.0 |
| In Flames Colony | 4.5 |
| In Flames Clayman | 4.5 |
| In Mourning Monolith | 3.5 |
| In Vain (NO) Mantra | 4.0 |
| Infinite Tales Only the Beginning | 4.0 |
| Insomnium Above the Weeping World | 3.5 |
| Insomnium Across the Dark | 3.5 |
| Insomnium One for Sorrow | 3.5 |
| Insomnium Heart Like a Grave | 3.5 |
| Insomnium Shadows of the Dying Sun | 4.0 |
| Insomnium Anno 1696 | 4.0 |
| Insomnium Winter's Gate | 4.5 |
| Iotunn Access All Worlds | 4.0 |
| Iron Maiden Senjutsu | 3.0 |
| Iron Maiden The Final Frontier | 3.5 |
| Iron Maiden The Book of Souls | 3.5 |
| Iron Maiden Powerslave | 4.5 |
| Powerslave, the only Maiden album where I've heard every song on it. The title track Powerslave is one of my top 5 favorite songs ever. The grandiose arrangement of the track is unmatched. The lyrics are easily my favorite ever (I am wanting to become an Egyptologist) In fact, the rest of the tracks are pretty great too. Aces High, 2 Minutes to Midnight, all rule. |
| Iron Maiden Seventh Son of a Seventh Son | 4.5 |
| ISIS Wavering Radiant | 3.0 |
| Josh Groban Awake | 3.5 |
| Josh Groban Closer | 4.5 |
| Judas Priest Screaming for Vengeance | 4.0 |
| Judas Priest Invincible Shield | 4.0 |
| Judas Priest Painkiller | 4.5 |
| Kalisia Cybion | 3.5 |
| Kalmah For the Revolution | 3.5 |
| Kalmah Seventh Swamphony | 3.5 |
| Dat opening riff of Deadfall. Pretty much all you need to listen to on this. |
| Kalmah Kalmah | 3.5 |
| Kalmah The Black Waltz | 4.0 |
| Kalmah 12 Gauge | 4.0 |
| Kalmah's 12 Gauge has moments of absolute brilliance, but is sometimes hampered by generic and boring riffs. Luckily, we are treated to some of the catchiest riffs in quite some time (opening of One of Fail,) and the solos are all ace, especially Godeye. The album ends on a slow and haunting note in Sacramentum and it proves to be the most solid track on the entire album. For the Revolution was a good album with some great tracks, but 12 Gauge surpasses it in every possible way. |
| Kalmah Palo | 4.5 |
| Kamelot The Shadow Theory | 3.0 |
| Kamelot The Black Halo | 3.5 |
| Kamelot Ghost Opera | 3.5 |
| Kamelot Silverthorn | 3.5 |
| Kamelot Haven | 3.5 |
| Kamelot Epica | 4.0 |
| Kamelot Karma | 4.0 |
| Kamelot The Fourth Legacy | 4.0 |
| Kamelot The Awakening | 4.0 |
| Kamelot Poetry for the Poisoned | 4.5 |
| Kanye West Yeezus | 2.5 |
| Katy Perry One of the Boys | 3.0 |
| Kesha Animal | 2.5 |
| Killswitch Engage Killswitch Engage (2009) | 2.0 |
| Lacuna Coil Shallow Life | 2.0 |
| Lavett When the World Caves In | 2.5 |
| Lavett Find Your Purpose | 3.0 |
| Maybe it's the Daniel Heiman fanboy in me that is overshadowing my judgement on this record. There should be nothing extraordinary in a rock album like this, but something just works. Heiman doesn't go out of this world in the vocal department but songs like Forgotten Generation and We Cant Go On humble and remind me on why this man is my favorite singer ever. |
| Limp Bizkit Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavored Water | 2.0 |
| Lorna Shore Pain Remains | 4.0 |
| Lorna Shore ...And I Return to Nothingness | 4.5 |
| Lost Horizon Awakening the World | 4.5 |
| Lost Horizon A Flame to the Ground Beneath | 5.0 |
| Luca Turilli Prophet of the Last Eclipse | 3.5 |
| Ludo You're Awful, I Love You | 3.0 |
| Majestica Above the Sky | 3.5 |
| Manowar The Lord of Steel | 3.0 |
| MANOWARRIORS RAISE YOUR HANDS!!! WE FIGHT FOR METAL!! m/ |
| Manowar Kings of Metal | 3.5 |
| Marko Hietala Mustan Sydämen Rovio | 4.0 |
| Mastodon Crack the Skye | 3.5 |
| Mastodon Once More 'Round the Sun | 3.5 |
| Mastodon Hushed and Grim | 4.0 |
| maudlin of the Well Bath | 3.0 |
| maudlin of the Well Part the Second | 4.0 |
| Maybeshewill Sing The Word Hope In Four-Part Harmony | 4.0 |
| Maybeshewill I Was Here For a Moment, Then I Was Gone | 4.0 |
| Megadeth Endgame | 3.0 |
| Mercenary Everblack | 3.0 |
| Mercenary Architect of Lies | 3.5 |
| Meshuggah obZen | 3.0 |
| Metallica St. Anger | 1.5 |
| Metallica Reload | 2.0 |
| Metallica Load | 2.0 |
| Metallica Metallica | 3.0 |
| Metallica Death Magnetic | 3.0 |
| All it took was 20 years for Metallica to get back to what they were. Death Magnetic gives us a glimpse back to the 80s with the return of Kirk's solos, and some inspiring music. Most songs on here are catchy and good, although Cyanide and The Unforgiven III just suck. The song that stands out is All Nightmare Long. I will go as far to say this is the best song Metallica has done since the Ride the Lightning days. It is that good. The transition of the Meshuggah like chainsaw guitars, to the traditional Maiden gallops, is just stunning. Add to the fact that Metallica executes their catchiest chorus ever, and you get a pretty awesome song. Thanks for not sucking this time Metallica. |
| Metallica Kill 'Em All | 3.5 |
| Metallica ...And Justice for All | 3.5 |
| Metallica Hardwired...To Self-Destruct | 3.5 |
| Metallica 72 Seasons | 3.5 |
| Metallica Master of Puppets | 4.0 |
| Metallica Ride the Lightning | 4.5 |
| This is my favorite Metallica album. Fade to Black and Creeping Death are two thrash metal classics. The riffage, the solos, the awesome singing of James Hetfield. Everything is great about this album. The only thing plauging this from classic status is the bland tracks Escape and Trapped Under Ice. |
| Michael Jackson Thriller | 3.5 |
| Mono Rays of Darkness | 3.5 |
| Mono You Are There | 4.0 |
| Mono For My Parents | 4.5 |
| Mono Hymn to the Immortal Wind | 5.0 |
| Moonlit Sailor We Come from Exploding Stars | 3.5 |
| Moonsorrow Varjoina kuljemme kuolleiden maassa | 3.5 |
| Moonsorrow Viides luku - Hävitetty | 4.0 |
| Mutyumu Il y a | 4.5 |
2008 has been a great year for music. I will dwell deeper into that category in a few days, but I have one thing to talk about: the album of the year. It took almost the full year for me to find the best album, and it comes to us from the Land of the Rising Sun. Don't even ask me about the cover or the lyrics. I have no clue what they mean. All that I know is that these guys incorporate an extraordinary blend of opera, post-rock, metal, and
a pinch of hardcore.Mutyumu has reached the pinnacle of musical perfection; don't even get me started on the pianist. Vocalist Hatis Noit shines as well. Her operatic styling fits perfectly for the
orchestrations that are being presented. The best song of the year (and one that is quickly climbing my best of all time list) Prayeris 11 minutes of splendid musicianship and vocal prowess. At around the 6 minute mark, we are treated with an explosion of piano and orchestral carnage. The best part is that this last the remaining four minutes of the song. Very post-rock climax like in delivery. Overall, this is a gem of 2008, and it comes to me from a very unlikly place. Everything is thrown in your face at once, so this may seem like too much for some, but thank you Mutyumu for showing me that, at your best, you can hang with the best
orchestral band in the world (imo) in Nightwish.
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| Myrkur M | 2.5 |
| Myrkur Folkesange | 3.5 |
| Nails You Will Never Be One of Us | 3.5 |
| Ne Obliviscaris Portal of I | 3.0 |
| Ne Obliviscaris Citadel | 3.0 |
| Ne Obliviscaris Exul | 3.0 |
| Nechochwen Heart of Akamon | 3.5 |
| Nelly Country Grammar | 3.0 |
| Neutral Milk Hotel In the Aeroplane Over the Sea | 4.0 |
| Nickelback All the Right Reasons | 2.0 |
| Nightingale White Darkness | 3.0 |
| Nightingale Nightfall Overture | 3.5 |
| Nightingale Retribution | 4.0 |
| Nightwish Angels Fall First | 3.5 |
| Nightwish Century Child | 4.0 |
| Nightwish Oceanborn | 4.0 |
| Nightwish Over The Hills And Far Away | 4.0 |
| Nightwish From Wishes To Eternity | 4.0 |
| Nightwish Dark Passion Play | 4.0 |
| Nightwish HUMAN. :II: NATURE. | 4.0 |
| Nightwish End Of An Era | 4.5 |
| Nightwish Imaginaerum | 4.5 |
| Nightwish Showtime, Storytime | 4.5 |
| Nightwish Endless Forms Most Beautiful | 4.5 |
| Nightwish Once | 5.0 |
| Nightwish Wishmaster | 5.0 |
| No Doubt Rock Steady | 3.0 |
| No Doubt Tragic Kingdom | 3.5 |
| Norther N | 2.0 |
| Northern Kings Reborn | 3.0 |
| Novembre Materia | 3.5 |
| Novembre Novembrine Waltz | 4.0 |
| Novembre The Blue | 4.0 |
| Novembre Ursa | 4.0 |
| NSYNC No Strings Attached | 2.5 |
| NSYNC NSYNC | 2.5 |
| Nuclear Power Trio Wet Ass Plutonium | 4.0 |
| Odyssey Reinventing The Past | 4.0 |
| Opeth Heritage | 2.0 |
| Opeth Damnation | 3.0 |
| Opeth Pale Communion | 3.0 |
| Opeth Blackwater Park | 3.5 |
| Opeth In Cauda Venenum | 3.5 |
| Opeth Still Life | 4.0 |
| Opeth My Arms, Your Hearse | 4.5 |
| Opeth Watershed | 4.5 |
| My journey back into Opeth after over a year hiatus has brought me anxiousness to hear their other stuff. The clean passages were a turn on for me on Blackwater Park, and this doesn't disappoint. Coil is an amazing acoustic piece featuring a guest women vocalist. Burden is another beautiful piece as well. Hessian Peel though gets the reward for best song on here and song of the year so far. Catchy progressive slow riffs turned into heavy prog-death riffs give me goosebumps everytime I hear it. Mikael's harsh vocals are superb on this track and I see why everyone is abuzz about them. Mikael is quickly joining Dan Swano as my favorite death metal vocalist. |
| Orphaned Land The Never Ending Way Of ORwarriOR | 3.0 |
| Orphaned Land Mabool (The Story of the Three Sons...) | 3.5 |
| Orphaned Land El Norra Alila | 3.5 |
| Orphaned Land All Is One | 4.0 |
| Orphaned Land Unsung Prophets and Dead Messiahs | 4.0 |
| Paladin (USA) Ascension | 4.0 |
| pg.lost Versus | 3.5 |
| pg.lost Yes I Am EP | 4.0 |
| pg.lost In Never Out | 4.0 |
| pg.lost Key | 4.0 |
| pg.lost It's Not Me, It's You! | 4.5 |
| Pokemon Pokemon 2.B.A. Master | 2.5 |
| Porcupine Tree The Incident | 3.5 |
| Porcupine Tree In Absentia | 4.0 |
| Portugal. The Man The Satanic Satanist | 3.5 |
| Power Rangers Mighty Morphin Power Rangers The Movie: | 2.5 |
| Primordial Redemption at the Puritan's Hand | 3.5 |
| Primordial Where Greater Men Have Fallen | 3.5 |
| Primordial To the Nameless Dead | 4.0 |
| Propagandhi Supporting Caste | 3.5 |
| Protest the Hero Scurrilous | 2.5 |
| Protest the Hero Fortress | 4.0 |
| Protest the Hero Palimpsest | 4.5 |
| Rammstein Liebe Ist Für Alle Da | 3.0 |
| Rammstein Reise, Reise | 3.5 |
| Rammstein Rosenrot | 3.5 |
| Rammstein Mutter | 4.0 |
| Rammstein Untitled | 4.0 |
| Red (USA) Innocence and Instinct | 2.5 |
| Rhapsody of Fire Triumph or Agony | 3.0 |
| Rhapsody of Fire The Frozen Tears of Angels | 3.0 |
| Rhapsody of Fire Dark Wings of Steel | 3.0 |
| Rhapsody of Fire The Eighth Mountain | 3.0 |
| Rhapsody of Fire Glory For Salvation | 3.0 |
| Rhapsody of Fire Symphony of Enchanted Lands II | 3.5 |
| Rhapsody of Fire Power of the Dragonflame | 3.5 |
| Rhapsody of Fire Rain of a Thousand Flames | 3.5 |
| Rhapsody of Fire Symphony of Enchanted Lands | 4.0 |
| Rhapsody of Fire Dawn of Victory | 4.0 |
| Rhapsody of Fire From Chaos to Eternity | 4.0 |
| Rhapsody of Fire Legendary Tales | 4.5 |
| Ricky Martin Ricky Martin | 3.0 |
| Rob Thomas ...Something to Be | 3.5 |
| Rodrigo y Gabriela Rodrigo y Gabriela | 4.0 |
| Rodrigo y Gabriela 11:11 | 4.0 |
| Rome Confessions D'Un Voleur D'Ames | 3.5 |
| Rome Nos Chants Perdus | 3.5 |
| Rome Parlez-Vous Hate? | 3.5 |
| Rome Flowers From Exile | 4.0 |
| Rome The Lone Furrow | 4.0 |
| Rome Masse Mensch Material | 4.5 |
| Rome Le Ceneri Di Heliodoro | 4.5 |
| Running Wild Black Hand Inn | 3.5 |
| Rush 2112 | 4.0 |
| Rx Bandits Mandala | 3.5 |
| S Club 7 The Greatest Hits Of S Club 7 | 2.5 |
| Sabaton The Last Stand | 3.0 |
| Sabaton The War To End All Wars | 3.0 |
| Sabaton The Art of War | 3.5 |
| Sabaton Coat of Arms | 3.5 |
| Sabaton The Great War | 3.5 |
| Sabaton Carolus Rex | 4.0 |
| Sacred Outcry Towers of Gold | 4.0 |
| Savage Garden Savage Garden | 4.0 |
| Serj Tankian Elect the Dead | 3.0 |
| Sigh Scenes from Hell | 3.0 |
| Sigh In Somniphobia | 3.0 |
| Sigh Hangman's Hymn | 3.5 |
| Sigur Ros ( ) | 3.0 |
| Silversun Pickups Swoon | 3.5 |
| Skyfire Esoteric | 3.0 |
| Skyfire Fractal EP | 3.5 |
| Slayer Reign in Blood | 2.0 |
| Slice the Cake Odyssey to the West | 3.0 |
| Slipknot All Hope Is Gone | 2.0 |
| Slipknot Vol. 3: The Subliminal Verses | 3.0 |
| Slipknot .5: The Gray Chapter | 3.0 |
| Slipknot We Are Not Your Kind | 3.5 |
| Slough Feg Ape Uprising | 3.5 |
| Sonata Arctica Unia | 3.0 |
| Sonata Arctica Stones Grow Her Name | 3.0 |
| Just listen to the intro of Wildfire II. It's the best thing they have written in eleven years. |
| Sonata Arctica Talviyo | 3.0 |
| Sonata Arctica Reckoning Night | 3.5 |
| Sonata Arctica Winterheart's Guild | 3.5 |
| Sonata Arctica The Days of Grays | 3.5 |
| Sonata Arctica Silence | 4.0 |
| Sonata Arctica Pariah's Child | 4.0 |
| Sonata Arctica The Ninth Hour | 4.0 |
| Sonata Arctica Clear Cold Beyond | 4.0 |
| Sonata Arctica Ecliptica | 4.5 |
| soulDecision No One Does It Better | 3.0 |
| Soulja Boy Souljaboytellem.com | 1.0 |
| Souls Of Nephilims The Vampiric Requiem EP | 3.5 |
| Star One Revel in Time | 3.5 |
| Stone Sour Come What(ever) May | 3.0 |
| Streetlight Manifesto Somewhere in the Between | 4.0 |
| Sully Erna Avalon | 3.5 |
| Symphony X Iconoclast | 2.5 |
| This is what happens when a normally brilliant band tries too hard. |
| Symphony X The Odyssey | 4.0 |
| Symphony X Paradise Lost | 4.0 |
| System of a Down System of a Down | 3.0 |
| System of a Down Mezmerize | 3.0 |
| This is my least favorite System of a Down album. First three songs are great, but then it's not that great until track 8, Question. The last three songs are good, especially Lost in Hollywood (one of my fav. SOAD tracks ever) I don't know what it was with this album, but I felt that System could've made it a whole lot better. The humorous songs always throw away the emotions left with the serious ones. |
| System of a Down Lonely Day | 3.0 |
| System of a Down Hypnotize | 3.5 |
| Not System's best, but definitely an improvement over Mesmerize. Holy Mountains and Soldier Side are two of my favorite System songs ever, their meanings are so genuine. The only problem is with the song positioning. We get a funny song in Viscinity of Obscenity right after Holy Mountains, not a good combo. Dreaming and U-Fig are very solid as well. |
| System of a Down Steal This Album! | 4.0 |
| System of a Down Toxicity | 4.5 |
| This is a marvelous album. System is one of the bands that evolved my taste in music, and Toxicity is easily my favorite album from them. From the Opener The Prison Song, to the ending of Aerials, this packs a pretty unique, but spectacular punch. Massive hits like Chop Suey and Toxicity are done extremely well, while ATWA, and Science being sleepers for me on here. My favorite song on here (and one of my two fav. SOAD songs ever) is definitely Aerials. This is truly haunting, but so damn good. |
| Talisk Dawn | 3.5 |
| Tarja Turunen My Winter Storm | 1.5 |
| Tarot Gravity of Light | 3.0 |
| Tarot Suffer Our Pleasures | 4.5 |
| Tarot Crows Fly Black | 4.5 |
| Temperance (IT) Diamanti | 3.5 |
| Temperance (IT) Of Jupiter and Moons | 4.0 |
| Temperance (IT) Viridian | 4.0 |
| Tenacious D The Pick of Destiny | 3.0 |
| Tenacious D Tenacious D | 3.5 |
| The Birthday Massacre Violet | 3.5 |
| The Birthday Massacre Walking With Strangers | 4.0 |
| The Dark Element Songs The Night Sings | 3.0 |
| The Halo Effect Days of the Lost | 4.5 |
| The Night Flight Orchestra Aeromantic II | 3.5 |
| The Night Flight Orchestra Aeromantic | 4.0 |
| The Ocean Precambrian | 3.5 |
| The Winter Sounds Church Of The Haunted South | 3.5 |
| Thomas Bergersen Humanity - Chapter II | 3.5 |
| Thomas Bergersen Humanity - Chapter I | 4.0 |
| Three Days Grace One-X | 2.0 |
| Thursday Common Existence | 3.0 |
| Trivium The Crusade | 2.5 |
| I actually found this to be a good album when I first heard it back in 2006. Soon after, I joined this site and started to listen to great music. Anthem (We are the Fire), Entrance of the Conflagration, The Crusade, and yes This World Can't Tear Us Apart are the only songs I can stand to listen off of this anymore. The Crusade is the best song on here though. Maybe that is because Matt isn't singing. |
| Trivium Silence in the Snow | 2.5 |
| Trivium Ascendancy | 3.0 |
| Trivium In Waves | 3.0 |
| Trivium Vengeance Falls | 3.5 |
| Trivium The Sin and the Sentence | 3.5 |
| Trivium What the Dead Men Say | 3.5 |
| Trivium Shogun | 4.0 |
| With the release of the poor album Ascendancy in 2005, followed by the mediocre The Crusade in 2006, I didn't have much hope for Trivium. Yeah, they were decent musicians, but something just didn't stick out. Maybe it was Matt Heafy's bland James Hetfieldesque vocals on The Crusade, or maybe it was just the uninspired feel I got from the band. Whatever it was, Trivium was just a mediocre band. Boy oh Boy has this changed with Shogun. Releasing an album where over half of the songs don't suck and are actually enjoyable is definitely a step-up. The guitar harmonies and the riffs are catchy and pretty sweet. Vocally this is a step up too, though the screams are a bit funny. The best part about this album though is easily the self titled track. A contender for song of the year, this has everything Trivium has in their arsenal. It's as brutal as mainstream metal is going to get, but it never loses its melody or catchy factor. Everything about this near 12 minute song is unbelievable. This album is definitely a surprise for 2008 |
| Trivium In the Court of the Dragon | 4.0 |
| Tuomas Holopainen Music Inspired by the Life and Times of Scrooge | 4.0 |
| Turilli / Lione Rhapsody Zero Gravity (Rebirth and Evolution) | 3.0 |
| Twilight Force At the Heart of Wintervale | 3.5 |
| Twilight Force Heroes of Mighty Magic | 4.0 |
| Twilight Force Dawn of the Dragonstar | 4.0 |
| Twilight Force Tales of Ancient Prophecies | 4.5 |
| Two Steps From Hell Invincible | 4.0 |
| Uada Djinn | 4.0 |
| United Nations United Nations | 4.0 |
| United Nations Never Mind the Bombings, Here's Your Six Figures | 4.0 |
| Unleash The Archers Apex | 4.0 |
| Unleash The Archers Abyss | 4.0 |
| Unleash The Archers Time Stands Still | 4.5 |
| Véhémence Ordalies | 4.0 |
| Vintersorg Till Fjälls Del II | 4.0 |
| Visions Of Atlantis Pirates | 4.0 |
| Voices of Ruin Path to Immortality | 3.0 |
| Voices of Ruin Born from the Dark | 4.0 |
| Warrior's Path The Mad King | 3.5 |
| Weird Al Yankovic Straight Outta Lynwood | 3.5 |
| Weird Al Yankovic Bad Hair Day | 4.0 |
| Wilderun Veil of Imagination | 3.0 |
| Wilderun Epigone | 3.0 |
| Wilderun Sleep at the Edge of the Earth | 4.0 |
| Wintersun The Forest Seasons | 4.0 |
| Wintersun Wintersun | 4.5 |
| Wintersun Time I | 5.0 |
| Yes!!!! Now I finally have been able to Embrace the Stars!!! |
| Witherscape The Inheritance | 3.5 |
| Witherscape The Northern Sanctuary | 5.0 |
| WWE WWF: The Music, Volume 4 | 2.5 |
| WWE WWE Anthology | 3.0 |
| Wynter Arvn Abysses | 4.5 |
| X Japan Art of Life | 4.5 |
| Xoth Interdimensional Invocations | 4.0 |
| Yanni Yanni Voices | 3.5 |
| Yndi Halda Under Summer | 4.0 |
| Yndi Halda Enjoy Eternal Bliss EP | 5.0 |
| Yndi Halda Enjoy Eternal Bliss | 5.0 |
| Best post rock album ever? It's pretty damn close with Mono's Hymn to the Immortal Wind. Four songs may seem too short, but with the shortest one being 12 minutes, we get a hell of a ride throughout. The 7:26 climax of Illuminate My Heart My Darling is probably the greatest thing ever and if you don't like it, well you pretty much suck. In fact, if you don't even like this album, well you're an Huge Idiot |
