| A Wilhelm Scream Career Suicide | 4.5 |
| A Wilhelm Scream Partycrasher | 4.0 |
| Agoraphobic Nosebleed Agorapocalypse | 3.5 |
| Alice in Chains The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here | 4.5 |
| Alkaline Trio From Here to Infirmary | 3.0 |
| Alkaline Trio Crimson | 3.0 |
| Alkaline Trio This Addiction | 2.5 |
| American Hi-Fi Fight The Frequency | 3.5 |
| American Hi-Fi Blood & Lemonade | 3.0 |
| Amon Duul II Yeti | 5.0 |
| Amon Duul II Phallus Dei | 4.0 |
| Angels and Airwaves We Don't Need to Whisper | 2.5 |
| Apoptygma Berzerk Rocket Science | 2.0 |
| Apoptygma Berzerk You and Me Against the World | 3.5 |
| Arch Enemy Anthems of Rebellion | 3.0 |
| Arctic Monkeys Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not | 4.0 |
| Arghoslent Incorrigible Bigotry | 5.0 |
| Arghoslent Hornets of the Pogrom | 5.0 |
| At the Gates Slaughter of the Soul | 4.0 |
| At the Gates Suicidal Final Art | 2.5 |
| Atheist Unquestionable Presence | 4.5 |
| Audioslave Revelations | 2.5 |
| Audioslave Out of Exile | 3.5 |
| Audioslave Audioslave | 3.0 |
| Autumn Leaves As Night Conquers Day | 3.5 |
| Avenged Sevenfold City of Evil | 3.0 |
| Avril Lavigne The Best Damn Thing | 2.5 |
| Avril Lavigne Let Go | 2.0 |
| Avril Lavigne Under My Skin | 3.0 |
| Bad Religion Suffer | 4.0 |
| Bad Religion Against the Grain | 5.0 |
| Bad Religion New Maps of Hell | 3.5 |
| Bad Religion The Empire Strikes First | 4.0 |
| Bad Religion No Control | 5.0 |
| Bad Religion How Could Hell Be Any Worse? | 4.0 |
| Bad Religion The Dissent of Man | 4.0 |
| Bad Religion Generator | 4.5 |
| Bad Religion True North | 4.5 |
| Beastie Boys Solid Gold Hits | 3.0 |
| Beastie Boys To the 5 Boroughs | 3.5 |
| Beastie Boys Hello Nasty | 3.0 |
| Beastie Boys Hot Sauce Committee Part Two | 4.5 |
| Beastie Boys Check Your Head | 4.0 |
| Beck Odelay | 4.0 |
| Beck Guero | 3.5 |
| Beck Midnite Vultures | 3.5 |
| Beck Sea Change | 3.0 |
| Behemoth Demigod | 3.5 |
| Benighted Icon | 4.0 |
| Between the Buried and Me The Great Misdirect | 3.0 |
| Between the Buried and Me Colors | 4.0 |
| Billy Talent Billy Talent II | 3.5 |
| Billy Talent Billy Talent III | 2.0 |
| Binary Star Light Years Apart | 4.5 |
| Black Flag Damaged | 4.5 |
| blink-182 Dude Ranch | 2.5 |
| blink-182 Blink-182 | 3.0 |
| Bloodhound Gang Hefty Fine | 3.0 |
| Bloodhound Gang Hooray For Boobies | 3.5 |
| Bloodhound Gang One Fierce Beer Coaster | 4.0 |
| Bloodhound Gang Use Your Fingers | 3.5 |
| Blotted Science The Machinations of Dementia | 4.5 |
| Bomb the Music Industry! Album Minus Band | 4.0 |
| Bonobo The North Borders | 4.0 |
| Botch We Are the Romans | 5.0 |
| Botch American Nervoso | 3.5 |
| brokeNCYDE I'm Not a Fan, but the Kids Like It! | 1.0 |
| Brown Brigade In the Mouth of Badd(d)ness | 3.0 |
| Burzum Hvis Lyset Tar Oss | 4.0 |
| Busted Busted | 2.0 |
| Busted A Present For Everyone | 1.0 |
| Cannibal Corpse Kill | 4.0 |
| Cannibal Corpse Evisceration Plague | 2.5 |
| Cannibal Corpse The Wretched Spawn | 3.0 |
| Cannibal Corpse Gore Obsessed | 3.0 |
| Cannibal Corpse Tomb of the Mutilated | 4.0 |
| Cannibal Corpse The Bleeding | 3.5 |
| Carcass Heartwork | 4.5 |
| Cardiacs Sing to God | 5.0 |
| Cardiacs On Land and in the Sea | 5.0 |
| Cardiacs Heaven Born and Ever Bright | 4.5 |
| Cardiacs Guns | 4.5 |
| Cardiacs The Special Garage Concerts Vol I | 5.0 |
| Cardiacs A Little Man and a House and the Whole World Window | 4.5 |
| Cardiacs Songs for Ships and Irons | 4.0 |
| Cardiacs Day is Gone | 4.5 |
| Carly Rae Jepsen Emotion | 4.0 |
| Carly Rae Jepsen Emotion: Side B | 4.0 |
| Catamenia Winternight Tragedies | 3.5 |
| Celldweller Celldweller | 3.0 |
| Children of Bodom Follow the Reaper | 4.0 |
| Children of Bodom Are You Dead Yet? | 3.0 |
| Children of Bodom Halo of Blood | 3.5 |
| Chimaira Resurrection | 3.5 |
| Circle Takes the Square As the Roots Undo | 4.5 |
| Cloudkicker Fade | 4.0 |
| Cloudkicker Beacons | 4.5 |
| Coalesce OX EP | 4.0 |
| Coalesce OX | 4.0 |
| Converge Jane Doe | 5.0 |
| Converge All We Love We Leave Behind | 4.5 |
| Converge Axe to Fall | 4.5 |
| Cryptopsy None So Vile | 5.0 |
| Cryptopsy And Then You'll Beg | 3.0 |
| Cyanide Breed Shoutout To Satan | 4.5 |
| Cyne Evolution Fight | 4.0 |
| Cypress Hill Black Sunday | 4.0 |
| Da Lench Mob Guerillas in tha Mist | 4.0 |
| Daft Punk Random Access Memories | 3.0 |
| Dark Tranquillity Fiction | 4.0 |
| Death Grips The Money Store | 4.0 |
| Deicide The Stench of Redemption | 4.0 |
| Del Tha Funkee Homosapien No Need For Alarm | 3.5 |
| Del Tha Funkee Homosapien Both Sides of the Brain | 4.5 |
| Del Tha Funkee Homosapien I Wish My Brother George Was Here | 4.0 |
| Deltron 3030 Deltron 3030 | 4.5 |
| Diablo Eternium | 3.0 |
| Diablo Swing Orchestra Sing-Along Songs for the Damned & Delirious | 3.0 |
| Dissection Storm of the Light's Bane | 4.5 |
| Disturbed The Sickness | 2.0 |
| Elvenking The Winter Wake | 3.5 |
| Ensiferum Ensiferum | 4.0 |
| Ensiferum Victory Songs | 3.5 |
| Equilibrium Sagas | 4.0 |
| Equilibrium Turis Fratyr | 4.0 |
| Equilibrium Rekreatur | 3.5 |
| The new album is, quite honestly, a bit disappointing. Basically it sounds like Sagas part 2 minus anything new. Needless to say it's still a thoroughly enjoyable album with plenty of frantic instrumental passages, though it feels a bit vapid at times, with fewer quiet moments than Sagas. Overall a decent release, but Equilibrium set the bar too high with their last album. I just hope this doesn't mean they're stuck in a rut. |
| Fall Out Boy Infinity on High | 3.0 |
| Fall Out Boy Take This to Your Grave | 3.5 |
| Fall Out Boy From Under the Cork Tree | 3.5 |
| Fall Out Boy Folie a Deux | 2.5 |
| Faust Faust | 4.0 |
| Feeder The Singles | 4.0 |
| Feeder Echo Park | 3.5 |
| Feeder Comfort In Sound | 3.0 |
| Feeder Silent Cry | 4.0 |
| Feeder Generation Freakshow | 4.0 |
| Fort Minor The Rising Tied | 3.0 |
| Frank Zappa Hot Rats | 5.0 |
| Gary Numan Dead Son Rising | 4.5 |
| Ghost (SWE) Meliora | 4.0 |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor F♯ A♯ ∞ | 5.0 |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor 'Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend! | 4.5 |
| Good Charlotte The Chronicles of Life and Death | 2.0 |
| Good Charlotte Good Charlotte | 2.0 |
| Green Day 21st Century Breakdown | 2.0 |
| Green Day Dookie | 3.0 |
| Green Day Warning | 3.0 |
| Green Day American Idiot | 2.5 |
| Green Day ¡UNO! | 1.5 |
| Hard-Fi Stars Of CCTV | 2.5 |
| Hieroglyphics 3rd Eye Vision | 4.0 |
| Hypocrisy Virus | 4.0 |
| Ice Cube AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted | 4.0 |
| Ice Cube The Predator | 3.5 |
| Ice Cube Death Certificate | 4.0 |
| In Flames Clayman | 4.5 |
| In Flames Come Clarity | 4.0 |
| In Flames A Sense of Purpose | 2.0 |
| In Flames Reroute to Remain | 3.5 |
| In Flames Colony | 4.5 |
| In Flames Whoracle | 4.0 |
| In Flames Soundtrack to Your Escape | 2.5 |
| In Flames The Jester Race | 4.0 |
| Jedward Planet Jedward | 1.0 |
| Jesuit Discography | 4.0 |
| Jimmy Eat World Bleed American | 3.5 |
| Jurassic 5 Power in Numbers | 3.5 |
| Killing Joke Killing Joke (2003) | 4.0 |
| Killing Joke Absolute Dissent | 4.0 |
| Killing Joke MMXII | 4.5 |
| Killradio Raised on Whipped Cream | 4.0 |
| Killswitch Engage The End of Heartache | 3.0 |
| Kishi Bashi Lighght | 4.5 |
| Knut Challenger | 4.0 |
| Laura Stevenson Wheel | 4.5 |
| Linkin Park Meteora | 2.5 |
| Linkin Park Minutes to Midnight | 2.0 |
| Linkin Park Reanimation | 3.0 |
| Linkin Park Hybrid Theory | 3.0 |
| Linkin Park A Thousand Suns | 2.0 |
| Truly "average" at best. A catchy but hugely pretentious album whose watered-down pop/arena rock sound has been manufactured for one purpose: Singles, singles, singles. Still, not quite as dismal as MtM. |
| Linkin Park Living Things | 2.0 |
| Linkin Park The Hunting Party | 2.5 |
| Lit Atomic | 3.0 |
| Lostprophets The Betrayed | 3.5 |
| Lostprophets Weapons | 3.0 |
| Mayhem De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas | 3.5 |
| MC Xander Eyeopeness | 4.0 |
| Megadeth Endgame | 4.5 |
| Meshuggah obZen | 4.0 |
| Mindflowers IMPROgressive | 4.5 |
| My Bloody Valentine Loveless | 5.0 |
| N.W.A. Straight Outta Compton | 4.0 |
| Napalm Death Scum | 3.5 |
| Napalm Death Time Waits for No Slave | 4.5 |
| Neutral Milk Hotel In the Aeroplane Over the Sea | 4.5 |
| Nickelback All the Right Reasons | 2.0 |
| Nickelback Dark Horse | 1.0 |
| Nickelback Silver Side Up | 2.0 |
| Nickelback The Long Road | 1.5 |
| Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds | 4.0 |
| Nujabes Metaphorical Music | 4.5 |
| OPM Menace To Sobriety | 4.0 |
| OPM California Poppy | 3.5 |
| OPM Golden State of Mind | 3.5 |
| Panic! at the Disco A Fever You Can't Sweat Out | 2.5 |
| Paramore Riot! | 2.0 |
| Pennywise All or Nothing | 4.0 |
| Poison the Well The Opposite of December | 4.0 |
| Propagandhi Today's Empires, Tomorrow's Ashes | 5.0 |
| Propagandhi Failed States | 4.5 |
| Propagandhi Supporting Caste | 4.0 |
| Protest the Hero Fortress | 4.0 |
| Queens of the Stone Age Lullabies to Paralyze | 4.0 |
| Radiohead The King of Limbs | 4.0 |
| Rage Against the Machine Rage Against the Machine | 4.5 |
| Rage Against the Machine The Battle of Los Angeles | 4.0 |
| Rage Against the Machine Renegades | 3.0 |
| Rage Against the Machine Evil Empire | 3.0 |
| Rancid ...And Out Come the Wolves | 3.5 |
| Refused The Shape Of Punk To Come | 5.0 |
| Requiem (US) Always and Forever | 2.5 |
| Rush Clockwork Angels | 4.5 |
| Saliva Every Six Seconds | 3.0 |
| Scar Symmetry Pitch Black Progress | 4.0 |
| Scar Symmetry Dark Matter Dimensions | 3.5 |
| Scar Symmetry Holographic Universe | 4.0 |
| Sex Pistols Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols | 4.0 |
| Shinedown The Sound of Madness | 3.5 |
| Sick of It All Based on a True Story | 4.0 |
| Sick of It All Death to Tyrants | 3.5 |
| Simple Plan Simple Plan | 1.5 |
| Soilwork Natural Born Chaos | 2.5 |
| Souls of Mischief 93 'til Infinity | 4.0 |
| Steven Wilson The Raven That Refused to Sing (And Other Stories) | 4.0 |
| Strapping Young Lad City | 5.0 |
| Streetlight Manifesto The Hands That Thieve | 4.5 |
| Streetlight Manifesto Everything Goes Numb | 4.5 |
| Sum 41 All Killer No Filler | 4.0 |
| Sum 41 are the greatest! I know lots of people automatically connect the pop-punk genre with the antics of Good Charlotte and co, but to compare this album to them is just wrong! This energetic, action-packed album simply spits in your face and walks off defiantly, which is not a bad thing! It is longer than "Half Hour Of Power", the Sums' debut offering, and not as repetitive as the newer "Does This Looks Infected?". Highlights include the singles Fat Lip, Motivation and In Too Deep, but Handle This and the fantastic Pain For Pleasure are also great. There are a couple of weaker songs like Crazy Amanda Bunkface and Never Wake Up, but the better tracks outweigh them by miles. Oh, excellent intro, too! In short: this album misses the threshold of snotty, defiant pop-punk perfection by less than a millimetre (yes, I'm British). Buy it! |
| Sum 41 Chuck | 4.0 |
| Sum 41 Does This Look Infected? | 4.0 |
| Sum 41 Half Hour Of Power | 3.5 |
| Sum 41 Underclass Hero | 3.0 |
Being a Sum 41 fan from the very beginning, I awaited their new album with great anticipation. I had actually heard
Underclass Hero and March Of The Dogs weeks before the album was released and loved them, which raised my
expectations even further. When I finallly went and bought the album and listened to it, I was slightly disappointed. I
got the faint feeling that I'd heard similar stuff somewhere before. After listening to it a couple more times, I decided
that the similarity to previous tracks was unimportant, and that ultimately, this is a pretty decent pop-punk album
that doesn't try to be anything more than it is. Highlights include the singles Underclass Hero and Walking Disaster,
but Count Your Last Blessings, Speak Of The Devil and King of Condratiction are also excellent tracks, delivering
exactly what people have come to love about Sum 41. I think Chuck and All Killer No Filler are both slightly better,
but this is still a more-than-welcome addition to their repetoire of pop-punk. |
| Sum 41 Screaming Bloody Murder | 2.5 |
| From what I've heard so far this has a chance of being Sum 41's best album to date. Seriously intrigued as to how this will turn out! |
| System of a Down Toxicity | 4.0 |
| The Avalanches Since I Left You | 5.0 |
| The Avalanches Wildflower | 4.5 |
| The Dear Hunter The Color Spectrum (Complete Collection) | 5.0 |
| The December Sound The Silver Album | 4.5 |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Option Paralysis | 5.0 |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Miss Machine | 3.5 |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan One of Us Is the Killer | 3.5 |
| The Jimi Hendrix Experience Electric Ladyland | 5.0 |
| The Lawrence Arms Oh! Calcutta! | 4.5 |
| The Mothers of Invention One Size Fits All | 5.0 |
| The New Pornographers Twin Cinema | 5.0 |
| The Ocean Precambrian | 5.0 |
| The Offspring Ixnay on the Hombre | 3.5 |
| The Pharcyde Bizarre Ride II the Pharcyde | 4.0 |
| The Riverboat Gamblers To the Confusion of Our Enemies | 3.0 |
| Thrice Vheissu | 4.0 |
| Thrice The Artist in the Ambulance | 4.5 |
| Thrice The Illusion of Safety | 4.5 |
| Tim Smith Tim Smith's Extra Special OceanLandWorld | 4.5 |
| A wonderful collection of pop songs written and performed entirely by Cardiacs front man Tim Smith. Less zany and breakneck than a Cardiacs album, but all of Tim's trademark creativity and energy is still here in buckets. The beautiful melodies and dense, addictive chord progressions are born of a unique mind, and give me hope that one day we will have another songwriter/composer who can deliver so many ideas and emotions in such a tight, compelling package. |
| Tokio Hotel Scream | 1.0 |
| Having lived in Germany for some time, I have had the opportunity to experience a plethora of European bands, and I must say, this attempt at an international release is one of the most horrendous atrocities I have ever had the misfortune to hear. Their alleged army of ghost writers and producers have done an even poorer job adapting and translating the songs into English than the talentless 3 boys (and girl) have done performing them (which is saying something). All in all, this "album" is a laughable adolescent farce from start to finish, focusing on today's unhealthy modern ideals of borderline androgeny and glamour rather than anything remotely musical. And to think they come from the same country as Equilibrium... |
| Tokio Hotel Schrei | 1.0 |
| Towers of London Blood, Sweat and Towers | 2.0 |
| Tribulation The Horror | 3.5 |
| Underoath Define the Great Line | 3.5 |
| Uzbeks Goggles and Flipflops | 4.0 |
| Vektor Terminal Redux | 5.0 |
| Weezer The Red Album | 3.0 |
| Weezer Christmas with Weezer | 1.0 |
| Weezer Weezer | 4.0 |
| Weezer The Red Album (Deluxe Edition) | 3.0 |
| Weezer The Green Album | 2.5 |
| Weezer Pinkerton | 4.0 |
| Wintersun Wintersun | 4.5 |
| Wu-Tang Clan Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) | 4.0 |
