| A Life Once Lost A Great Artist | 4.0 |
| AC/DC Back In Black | 2.5 |
| AC/DC Highway To Hell | 3.5 |
| AC/DC '74 Jailbreak | 3.5 |
| Adam Sandler What The Hell Happened To Me! | 3.5 |
| Adam Sandler They're All Gonna Laugh At You | 3.5 |
| Admiral Angry Buster | 3.5 |
| AFI The Art of Drowning | 3.0 |
| AFI All Hallow's E.P. | 3.5 |
| AFI Black Sails in the Sunset | 4.0 |
| After the Burial Rareform | 3.5 |
| After the Burial Wolves Within | 3.5 |
| After the Burial Forging a Future Self | 4.0 |
| After the Burial Rareform (Re-release) | 4.0 |
| After the Burial In Dreams | 4.0 |
| After the Burial Dig Deep | 4.0 |
| Alien Ant Farm ANThology | 3.5 |
| Fantastic bass playing! Has a catchy upbeat pop rock/nu metal vibe to it. A great nostalgic album. |
| All Shall Perish The Price of Existence | 2.0 |
| An Endless Sporadic Ameliorate | 4.0 |
| While lacking finesse, these are some of the most colorful progressive songs you will hear. There is just so much flavor from a huge variety of influences. The EP has 4 quality instrumental tracks that are complex, catchy, funky, heavy, beautiful, upbeat and every other positive adjective you can think of. The songs could perhaps be a little more refined, but there is so much raw composing talent in this EP. 'Anything' is definitely one of the greatest songs I have ever heard. I could put that song on repeat for 24 hours and not get bored. |
| Andrew W.K. I Get Wet | 3.0 |
| Animals As Leaders Weightless | 3.5 |
| Animals As Leaders Animals as Leaders | 4.0 |
| "Whoa, what am I listening to?!" will be your first words when hearing this. An amazing instrumental album. This is the work of unlikely metal guitar master Tosin Abasi - A humble black guy wearing 1950's style clothes playing an 8 string guitar who shreds more than everyone in G3 combined, and in fast forward... But somehow this jazzy, djenty atmospheric album delivers on many levels. One downside is that after the initial wow factor starts to wear off, you realize that his amazing technique is just replicated in most of the songs on the album resulting in 'you hear one song and you've heard them all'. Also, the drums, while impressive and technical, are all played by drum machine and they really deduct points from the overall sound with the over-precise, over-produced cheapness that they add. The lack of vocals is warmly welcomed with a continuous barrage of amazing guitar melodies, wide open jazz chords and 8 string syncopated chugging. This is a guitarists guitar album. If you have 10 years of spare time, I suggest learning this album on guitar. |
| Anthrax Among the Living | 3.5 |
| Arnold Schwarzenegger Total Body Workout | 2.0 |
| At the Drive-In In/Casino/Out | 2.5 |
| At the Drive-In Relationship of Command | 4.5 |
| August Burns Red Constellations | 2.0 |
| Austrian Death Machine Total Brutal | 2.5 |
| Baroness Blue Record | 2.5 |
| Baroness Red Album | 3.5 |
| Battles Mirrored | 4.0 |
| Beastie Boys To the 5 Boroughs | 2.0 |
| Beastie Boys Paul's Boutique | 3.0 |
| Beastie Boys Hello Nasty | 3.5 |
| Beastie Boys The Sounds of Science | 4.0 |
| Beastie Boys Licensed to Ill | 4.0 |
| Behold... The Arctopus Skullgrid | 2.0 |
| Amazingly complex, crazy rhythms, insane time signatures, lots of dissonance, noise, chromatic nonsense, lots of everything i love really... but every time you hear some cool little potential hook you will briefly get excited, but soon realise that you will never hear it again in the song. Any hooks or glimpse of accessibility is very short lived in this 'not for the faint of heart' album. Incredible compositions, but musically, it just sounds like random noise from a band of talentless 12 year olds trying to play impressive stuff most of the time, unless you've listened to each track about 7 million times and are able to remember every crazy little intricacy. I love and hate this album at the same time... its weird. its definitely worth a listen though, however, the cold reverb-y production of the album puts me off ALOT. In my opinion the drums sound awful. How could the engineer have been content with such a terrible drum sound? |
| Between the Buried and Me Colors | 2.5 |
| Between the Buried and Me Alaska | 3.5 |
| Birds Of Tokyo Universes | 1.5 |
| Birds Of Tokyo Birds Of Tokyo | 1.5 |
| Black Sabbath Master of Reality | 3.5 |
| Black Sabbath Vol. 4 | 3.5 |
| Black Sabbath Paranoid | 4.0 |
| Black Sabbath Sabbath Bloody Sabbath | 4.0 |
| Black Sabbath Black Sabbath | 4.5 |
| blink-182 Take Off Your Pants And Jacket | 2.0 |
| blink-182 Enema Of The State | 2.0 |
| blink-182 Dude Ranch | 4.0 |
| Bloc Party Intimacy | 1.0 |
| Bloc Party A Weekend in the City | 2.0 |
| Bloc Party Silent Alarm | 2.5 |
| Bloodhound Gang Hooray For Boobies | 3.0 |
| Botch We Are the Romans | 4.0 |
| Boysetsfire Tomorrow Come Today | 2.5 |
| Braids Native Speaker | 2.0 |
| Brian Eno Apollo: Atmospheres & Soundtracks | 3.5 |
| Burst Origo | 2.5 |
| Camel Mirage | 4.0 |
| Candlemass Nightfall | 4.0 |
| Car Bomb Centralia | 3.5 |
| Car Bomb w^w^^w^w | 4.0 |
| Car Bomb Meta | 5.0 |
| This album is absolutely amazing. By far their best work. I signed into this website for the first time in years just to rate this a 5. Isanely heavy, creative and technical. And the production is flawless. Already, even only a few days after it's release, I can happily give a 5 out of 5 |
| Childish Gambino Culdesac | 3.0 |
| Childish Gambino Poindexter | 3.0 |
| Children of Bodom Hatebreeder | 3.5 |
| Chimp Spanner At the Dream's Edge | 2.5 |
| Circle of Contempt Artifacts in Motion | 2.0 |
| Circle Takes the Square As the Roots Undo | 2.0 |
| Cloudkicker The Discovery | 3.0 |
| Cock and Ball Torture Sadochismo | 3.5 |
| Coldplay X&Y | 1.5 |
| Coldplay Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends | 1.5 |
| Comeback Kid Wake the Dead | 3.5 |
| The first half of this album is great, and Talk is Cheap is one of my all time favourite songs. But sadly the second half of the album just declines in quality and gets really boring. But still, a solid hardcore album. Great for someone new to the genre, this was one of the first hardcore albums i got into, after seeing the band live at a festival and not knowing who they are. But this really is a fun listen. |
| Converge You Fail Me | 3.0 |
| Converge Petitioning the Empty Sky | 3.0 |
| Converge No Heroes | 4.0 |
| Although hugely overshadowed by the collosal Jane Doe, No Heroes is an epic in its own right. Probably Converge's most dynamic, wide open and all round diverse album, with a plethora of interesting and creative musical ideas in a ultra brutal hardcore/grind/metal context. Where Jane Doe is like a speeding freight train, No Heroes is more like an earthquake or tsunami. Sorry to be all metaphorical and lame, but what I'm basically saying is listen to this album. The highlights for me are the softer parts and the drums being really high in the mix (with guitars being surprisingly low), because this is some of the most interesting and emphasised drummming on any Converge album I've heard. |
| Converge Axe to Fall | 4.0 |
| Converge All We Love We Leave Behind | 4.5 |
| Converge Jane Doe | 5.0 |
| I've tried so hard lately to resist putting this as a 5 star rating, but I can't resist any longer. I don't wanna be one of those cliche Sputnik jerks who obsesses about BTBAM, Opeth and Converge, but this album simply kicks ass. Its like a fucking freight train. Most albums have a time or place when you find suitable to listen, however this wants to be listened to any time, any place anywhere. While driving, walking, cooking, cleaning, working playing video games, drinking beer, getting out of bed in the morning... any situation I find myself in, I'm craving to just dive into the midst of this album where it really starts to take off and just get my ass kicked. Kicked by the razor sharp chunks of sound slammed out by the guitars, and the high pitched, attack-heavy snaredrum and the sub-heavy thump of every single bassdrum note. When Sputnik first introduced me to this album, I didn't know what all the fuss was about. In fact, I despised this when I first heard it. I though it was awful... And then after a few listens it dawned on me that this was an instant classic. After even more listens again, it got even better. And now i love it. Jane Doe is just awesome. It really is. |
| Cryptopsy None So Vile | 4.0 |
| There aren't any adjectives available that can suitably describe this album. Sorry to get all metaphorical, but it's almost like the audio equivalent of being speed raped by a rusty metal tyrannosaurus rex inside a sauna. |
| Cynic Traced in Air | 3.0 |
| Cynic Focus | 3.5 |
| Dangers Anger | 2.0 |
| Danzig Danzig | 3.5 |
| Daughters Daughters | 2.0 |
| Daughters Canada Songs | 3.5 |
| Daughters Hell Songs | 4.0 |
| David Wise Donkey Kong Country 2 Soundtrack | 4.5 |
| Dead Kennedys Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables | 4.0 |
| Dead Kennedys Give Me Convenience or Give Me Death | 4.0 |
| Death Human | 3.5 |
| Death From Above 1979 You're a Woman, I'm a Machine | 4.0 |
| The bass and drums/vocals duo, Death From Above 1979 offers a highly appealing, raw, fun and amazingly accessible album. Spastic and energetic distorted bass lines that create an enormous wave of fuzz and dark colours. There is a real upbeat, dance/disco vibe about this album, but with harsh and noisy punk rock instrumentation. It remains relentlessly heavy throughout, however even your girlfriend or mother could enjoy and bop along to it. |
| Deep Purple Deep Purple In Rock | 3.0 |
| Deep Purple Machine Head | 3.5 |
| Deep Purple Burn | 4.0 |
| Defeater Travels | 3.5 |
| Deftones B-Sides and Rarities | 2.0 |
| Deftones Saturday Night Wrist | 2.0 |
| Deftones White Pony | 3.5 |
| Deftones Adrenaline | 3.5 |
| Deftones Deftones | 3.5 |
| Deftones Around the Fur | 4.0 |
| Deftones Diamond Eyes | 4.5 |
| It's hard to believe that out of their 20 odd year career, Deftones can still put out an album that continues raise the bar. To be perfectly honest, out of all of the Deftones' amazing albums I think this is my favorite. It is just so accessible. You can't deny its charm in all areas. |
| Discordance Axis The Inalienable Dreamless | 4.0 |
| Disturbed The Sickness | 2.0 |
| Don Davis The Matrix | 4.0 |
| Dream Theater Octavarium | 2.5 |
| Dream Theater Train of Thought | 3.5 |
| Dream Theater Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence | 3.5 |
| Dream Theater A Change of Seasons | 3.5 |
| Dream Theater Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes from a Memory | 4.0 |
| Dream Theater Awake | 4.0 |
| Eagles Of Death Metal Peace Love Death Metal | 2.0 |
| Eagles Of Death Metal Death By Sexy | 2.0 |
| Elitist Caves | 1.5 |
| Evildead Annihilation of Civilization | 3.5 |
| Quality thrash. Everything you want in an old school thrash band. Chromatic riffs, hyper speed solos, over the top drums, rapid songs and cartoonish album covers with bleak/toxic/undead themes |
| Exhorder The Law | 2.0 |
| Some nice thrashy riffs and grooves, but the overtone-heavy guitar tone just kills it for me. At first I thought it was brutal and interesting. But it just gets annoying after a while. You can barely hear the fundemental notes most of the time under the mass of high pitched fuzz. Its almost like some just turned all the lows and mids right down in the final mix as a joke. |
| Exoskeleton Plutonian Herd | 1.0 |
| Fatboy Slim You've Come a Long Way, Baby | 4.0 |
| Fear Factory Archetype | 1.5 |
| Fear Factory Transgression | 1.5 |
| Fear Factory Demanufacture | 3.0 |
| Fellsilent The Hidden Words | 5.0 |
| This album grooves like a motherfucker!!! If you like nasty JUNS and DJENTS on guitars, and polymetric (Meshuggah style) grooves, you must hear this. There's a little bit of filler on here, but tracks 1, 3, 9,10, and 11 are incredible, and have breakdowns that rock so hard, your head will cave in and implode. Drums are grimy sounding, but tastefully restrained with small subtle (but colorful) fills. The bass has a nice tone, and holds a tight groove with the drums, more noticeably when the guitars pull back to play clean interludes. The vocals are very harsh and may turn a few people off, but they grow on you. The similar sounding high pitch shrieks from the two vocalists are nothing special, but the harmonized choruses work quite well. This album is far from perfect, but is still a fun album to listen to, and up amongst the highest play counts in my iTunes library. There is a definite Meshuggah influence, but unlike other Djent bands, Fellsilent just keep it simple, and raw as hell. Clever riff phrasing is used but in a way that makes it seem complex, but simple enough to bang your head to. To put it simply... You know the outro riff on New Millenium Cyanide Christ?? ... Well, this whole album is full of badass riffs like that. |
| Funkadelic Funkadelic | 3.5 |
| Giraffes? Giraffes! More Skin With Milk-Mouth | 3.0 |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven | 3.5 |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor F♯ A♯ ∞ | 4.0 |
| Gojira From Mars to Sirius | 2.5 |
| Gojira The Way of All Flesh | 4.0 |
| Gojira L'Enfant Sauvage | 4.0 |
| Gospel The Moon Is a Dead World | 5.0 |
| I can thank Sputnik for allowing me to discover this album. First things first - The Moon Is a Dead World (as a whole) has the most monstrous drumming I have ever heard in my entire life (and I'm a drummer (who's into lots of crazy drummer's albums)). Every song on here is at least 4/5. This album is so unique and alone in it's feel and atmosphere. Proggy as hell but still has that raw hardcore vibe. Each song is a unique, fuzzy, dynamic, hyper-creative work of art. There are no negatives I can think of when describing this album, other than perhaps being quite inaccessible at first, largely due to the distant vocals and hazy, ethereal sounding guitars, but that will soon grow on you more than you will expect. |
| Graf Orlock Destination Time Yesterday | 3.5 |
| ...NNYEEHHHHHH!... NYEHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!... YOU SON OF A BITCH!!! DUN DUN DUN! junjunjunjunjunjun DUN DUN DUN! - Tactical Destruction (great song) |
| Graf Orlock Destination Time Tomorrow | 3.5 |
| Graf Orlock Destination Time: Today | 3.5 |
| Green Day American Idiot | 2.5 |
| Green Day Warning | 3.0 |
| Green Day Nimrod | 3.0 |
| Green Day Dookie | 3.5 |
| Hans Zimmer The Lion King | 4.0 |
| Hanson Middle of Nowhere | 2.0 |
| Hatebreed Perseverance | 3.5 |
| Have Heart Songs to Scream at the Sun | 2.0 |
| This is extremely mediocre to me. I don't get what all the fuss is about! My favourite thing about this is the album cover. |
| Havok Burn | 3.0 |
| Havok Time Is Up | 4.0 |
| This album really is awesome... Suprisingly awesome. So colourful and fun to listen to. So many tasty riffs! Much better than their previous album imo |
| Havok Conformicide | 4.0 |
| Hella Hold Your Horse Is | 4.0 |
| Fucking hell, this album is absolutely insane. Some of the most intense drumming you will ever hear. Hold Your Horse Is is a relentless album from start to finish. The best math rock album I've heard in my opinion. To put it simply, this album is has no ups and downs, light and shade or slow and fast - It's just an overwhelming, non-stop shred-fest of crazy drums chops and hyper guitar licks. |
| Herbie Hancock Head Hunters | 4.5 |
| One of my very favorite jazz fusion albums. Great for someone new to the genre. |
| Hiroshima Will Burn To The Weight Of All Things | 1.0 |
| Howard Shore The Fellowship of the Ring | 4.0 |
| Immortal Sons of Northern Darkness | 3.5 |
| Immortal Technique Revolutionary Volume 1 | 4.0 |
| Immortal Technique Revolutionary Volume 2 | 4.5 |
| Imogen Heap Speak For Yourself | 3.5 |
| In Disgust Reality Choke | 3.5 |
| A fantastic grind album. Heavy as fuck, and the vocals are awesome. I also love the warm fuzz that this album has. |
| In Flames Come Clarity | 1.5 |
| In Flames The Jester Race | 2.0 |
| Incubus (USA-CA) Light Grenades | 1.5 |
| Incubus (USA-CA) A Crow Left of the Murder... | 2.0 |
| Incubus (USA-CA) Make Yourself | 3.0 |
| Incubus (USA-CA) Morning View | 3.5 |
| Incubus (USA-CA) Fungus Amongus | 4.0 |
| Incubus (USA-CA) Enjoy Incubus | 4.0 |
| Incubus (USA-CA) S.C.I.E.N.C.E. | 4.5 |
| S.C.I.E.N.C.E is the perfect example of what a kid wants to hear in the 90s: a fresh, heavy, funk-filled, catchy, melodic, silly, psychdelic album full of awesome basslines, heavy riffs and guitar effects, funky drums, silky smooth vocal harmonies, saxophone solos, intensely fast rapping, DJ scratches and everything else that was cool in the 90's (Ahh that was a long sentence). This is a perfect summary of Incubus when they were in their 90's funk metal prime before they went all soft on us. Easily their most creative effort and a brilliant mix of genres to create an album that you'll absolutely adore a for a year or so until one day you sadly grow out of it - but you will still love and appreciate the memories of this awesome over the top experience that was S.C.I.E.N.C.E. |
| Infectious Grooves Groove Family Cyco | 1.5 |
| Infectious Grooves The Plague That Makes Your Booty Move | 2.5 |
| Insect Warfare World Extermination | 2.5 |
| Ion Dissonance Cursed | 2.5 |
| Ion Dissonance Breathing Is Irrelevant | 3.5 |
| Iron Maiden Dance of Death | 1.5 |
| Iron Maiden The Number of the Beast | 3.5 |
| Iron Maiden Piece of Mind | 3.5 |
| Iron Maiden Powerslave | 4.0 |
| ISIS Panopticon | 3.5 |
| Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan Ballad Of The Broken Seas | 3.5 |
| Jaco Pastorius Jaco Pastorius | 3.5 |
| John Frusciante To Record Only Water for Ten Days | 3.0 |
| John Frusciante Niandra LaDes and Usually Just a T-Shirt | 4.5 |
| A very very messy album... But John sings his fucking heart out! Regardless of the likely-hood of heroin being a major influence, I still find this album captures such a powerful moment in time, especially in one of such an amazing musician like John Frusciante. There are a few moments on here that are so beautiful that it's almost hard to believe. The track 'Mascara' is a good place to start if you've never heard this before. Everyone should hear this. |
| Kanye West My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy | 4.0 |
| Karnivool Asymmetry | 4.0 |
| Karnivool Themata | 4.5 |
| Karnivool is like a more accessible, melodic hybrid version of Tool and Meshuggah... and everything great you can think of from any other band. Simply everything about this album is flawless. Beautiful memorable melodies, crazy odd rhythms, tasteful drum grooves and fills, wicked standout basslines, nice use of detuned heavy and soft guitars with nice chords and harmonies as well as nice effects and ambient noise. Not too heavy, not too soft. Not too linear, not too progressive. This music is sooo easy to like. Your mum and dad would like this and your death metal buddies would like it. This album is just beautiful from start to finish. One of my very favourite albums of all time. This band knows how to make their music unique and stand out but without over-doing it. I could go on all day about this, but this really is a must buy album. If their next album is half as good as this I will still love it. |
| Karnivool Sound Awake | 4.5 |
| There is not one bad song in this album. Every song is catchy, memorable, melodic and has lots of Meshuggah-ish rhythms. An amazing album that is nearly as good as the previous, Themata. I'll admit though, it does take a few listens to really get into it and appreciate it. |
| Killswitch Engage The End of Heartache | 2.5 |
| Koenji Hyakkei Angherr Shisspa | 3.5 |
| Korn Korn | 3.5 |
| Korn Follow the Leader | 3.5 |
| Korn Life Is Peachy | 4.0 |
| Very repetitive song formulas and grooves, but this was when the band were in their prime. Everyone is at the top of their game here, and not to mention the drumming is so fucking amazing. David can groove like a motherfucker. A handful of great tracks on here too - Chi, Lost, Porno Creep, Good God, ADIDAS etc. |
| Kvelertak Kvelertak | 4.5 |
| This is fucking amazing. So catchy, and undeniably rock and roll with a perfect blend of a range of genres. Black metal, Classic rock, hardcore. 3 Unlikely genres to be mixed, but it works amazingly. Every song is unique, repetition is minimal, and song structures are never cliche. There are so many elements thrown in, but are all used sparsely and sparingly, which I love. For example: Blast beats, gang vocals, guitar solos, dissonance, odd time signatures, panned guitar licks, anthemic choruses and interesting chords and harmonies. This album just has so much colour and character, and is just so incredibly accessible for any rock, punk or metal fan. Who would've thought that an album with harsh black metal styled vocals could be catchy and fun. This is modern rock and roll at its best. An instant classic. |
| Lamb of God New American Gospel | 3.0 |
| Lamb of God Ashes of the Wake | 4.0 |
| Last Days of Humanity Putrefaction in Progress | 3.5 |
| Hahaha, this is NOT for the faint hearted. This is the most brutal shit I have ever heard in my life. Absolutley relentless death/gore/grind. This is gruesome torture in audio form. I dont think I could perceive one audible note on guitar or bass if i tried. A constant barrage of fuzz with a blasting st anger style snare. 95% of this album is pure 11/10 brutality, played at max volume and max speed, with brief glimpses of fills and the occasional rest here and there. This is possibly the most over-the-top and inhuman display of music ever created. With hilarious song titles, horrific album art, and mutant uber-tyrannosaurus vocals, I doubt any other being(s) in the entire universe will ever equal this band in terms of musical insanity. |
| Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin III | 3.5 |
| Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin IV | 3.5 |
| Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin II | 3.5 |
| Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin | 4.0 |
| Limp Bizkit Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavored Water | 1.5 |
| Limp Bizkit New Old Songs | 1.5 |
| Limp Bizkit Gold Cobra | 2.0 |
| Limp Bizkit Three Dollar Bill Y'all | 3.5 |
| Limp Bizkit Significant Other | 5.0 |
| Yes, I know, Limp Bizkit are hardly a classic band, but this album alone is incredible. A perfect representation of the band in their prime in the late nineties, when this music was the coolest thing around. A very nostalgic listen for me. I am a bit biased because I grew up listening to it from a young age, thinking it was the most badass thing around. I guess I was right. If you disagree, I say go back and listen to this from start to finish. Although very obnoxious (largely due to Fred Durst) it is a very fun listen with great riffs and hooks. But for me, the big attraction to this album comes from the monstrously tight, funky grooves from the bass and drums that are almost unparalleled, especially in this genre. |
| Linkin Park Minutes to Midnight | 1.5 |
| Linkin Park Meteora | 2.5 |
| Linkin Park Hybrid Theory | 4.5 |
| Liquid Tension Experiment Liquid Tension Experiment | 3.5 |
| Liquid Tension Experiment Liquid Tension Experiment 2 | 3.5 |
| Lost Horizon A Flame to the Ground Beneath | 3.5 |
| Lye By Mistake Fea Jur | 3.0 |
| Lye By Mistake Arrangements for Fulminating Vective | 3.5 |
| Machine Head The Blackening | 3.5 |
| Macho Man Randy Savage Be A Man | 1.0 |
| This is just AWFUL. I have never cringed so much from listening to music. Stick to wrestling PLEASE. |
| Mastodon The Hunter | 3.0 |
| Mastodon Remission | 4.0 |
| Mastodon Leviathan | 4.0 |
| Mastodon Lifesblood | 4.0 |
| Mastodon Call of the Mastodon | 4.0 |
| Mastodon Blood Mountain | 4.0 |
| Mastodon Crack the Skye | 4.0 |
| Mats/Morgan Band Thanks for Flying with Us | 3.5 |
| Mats/Morgan Band On Air With Guests | 4.5 |
| What can I say? I adore this album. Thanks to YouTube for showing me the Sol Niger Within Medley. That video blew me away instantly, and was my first introduction to Morgan Agren and this band. An amazingly well rounded album, especially for a live one. It feels like an LP because the recordings are all done in a controlled studio environment on separate occasions with a number of talented and obscure guest musicians, as well as the songs all lead into each other nicely. Every core member of this band are absolutely amazing musicians and play a style of technical/shred/avant-garde/progressive/hyper video game/electronic/jazz fusion. The songs are tightly composed with intricate grooves and crazy time signatures and atonality, but there is plenty of space for jamming, allowing the grooves and improvised jazz feel to come through. I recommend this to anyone interested in the genre. Search Mats/Morgan Band on YouTube and you will find most of the tracks on this album. |
| Matt Uelmen Diablo II | 3.5 |
| Yeah, what RedSky said. It's an insanely addictive game, and a very nostalgic listen if you've slaved away 100's of hours of your life playing it. Harem, tristram and lut gohlein are my favs. |
| maudlin of the Well Bath | 3.5 |
| Megadeth Rust in Peace | 3.5 |
| Meshuggah Catch Thirtythree | 2.0 |
| This album bores me to death, honestly. In Death - In Death is great, and I could listen to that all day, but the monotonous tempo and sparse variation throughout the entire album just creates an incredibly tedious listening experience. Meshuggah are one of my all time favourite bands, but I am yet to appreciate this album. |
| Meshuggah Contradictions Collapse | 2.0 |
| Meshuggah Rare Trax | 2.0 |
| Meshuggah The True Human Design | 2.5 |
| Meshuggah Selfcaged | 2.5 |
| Meshuggah obZen | 3.5 |
| Meshuggah Koloss | 3.5 |
| Meshuggah Destroy Erase Improve | 4.0 |
| Destory Erase Improve is one of Meshuggah's finest and most accessible works. This album, since its 1995 release, truly raised the bar for metal in terms of super heavy, super technical, super polyrhythmic music. It (along with the 'None' EP) almost singlehandedly invented 'djent'. The complex grooves explored in this album create some of the most exciting, high tempo syncopated music you will ever hear, yet with a dynamic and proggy balance throughout. |
| Meshuggah Nothing | 4.0 |
| Meshuggah I | 4.0 |
| Meshuggah Chaosphere | 4.0 |
| As Jens Kidman says, this album is like a punch in the face. This is Meshuggah in their most typically Meshuggah-ish sounding album. The album as a whole is just insanely relentless from start to finish, in terms of speed, heaviness and rhythmic complexity. Chaosphere is extremely inaccessible for anyone that is unfamiliar with the band's well known intricate polymetric riff phrasing style. Much like other Meshuggah albums, rhythm is 100% the focus on this album. Every song is quite up tempo with Haake's signature 'snare-on-beat-three' drumming. With sparse, minimalist lead melodies; heavy, distorted bass; machine-like precise bass drum patterns; frantic barked vocals; grinding noisy hyper-speed polymetric 7 string guitar chugging. All of the songs sound much the same at first, but after a few (and i mean a few) listens, the album starts to grow on you. This album probably took the longest for me to get into of all of the Meshuggah albums. But it has eventually become one of my absolute favourites. This album is definitely best when listened to as a whole, rather than individual songs. Highly recommended. |
| Meshuggah None | 4.0 |
| Meshuggah Nothing (Re-Release) | 4.5 |
| This is the grooviest metal album of all time. I just can't emphasise enough, how much this album has grown on me. It get better with every listen. This is perhaps Meshuggah's most minimalist album to date. The rhythms are so primal, and melodies are almost non existent. The re-release loses some of the warmth and life that the original had, and the programmed drums don't sound as nice, but the guitar tone is much better giving the much needed clarity that the original lacked. The opening track, Stengah, is probably the manliest riff I've ever heard, and Rational Gaze is probably the grooviest metal song I've ever heard. This is just an amazing album. |
| Meshuggah Alive | 4.5 |
| Amazingly, Meshuggah's music sounds best live. Therefore this live compliation album is absoloutely amazing and my favourite album of theirs. Featuring many of their classic songs, plus the added agression and brutality of a live setting, this will keep every fan happy. The mix of the songs are actually a fair bit better than on many of the albums that they are from. Such a refreshing listen for anyone familiar with their other material. |
| Metallica Reload | 1.5 |
| Metallica Load | 1.5 |
| Metallica Death Magnetic | 1.5 |
| Metallica Metallica | 3.0 |
| Metallica Kill 'Em All | 3.5 |
| Metallica Hardwired...To Self-Destruct | 3.5 |
| Metallica St. Anger | 4.0 |
| Metallica Master of Puppets | 4.0 |
| Metallica Ride the Lightning | 4.5 |
| Metallica ...And Justice for All | 5.0 |
| I don't care what you people say, this album is totally badass. |
| Michael Jackson Bad | 3.5 |
| Michael Jackson Thriller | 4.0 |
| Michael Jackson Off the Wall | 4.5 |
| Holy shit! The first 5 or so tracks are friggen pop masterpieces. By far my favourite album from Michael. Thriller is great too, but is too up and down for me. This is a much easier listen. |
| Miles Davis Kind of Blue | 4.0 |
| Misfits Walk Among Us | 3.5 |
| Molotov Solution Insurrection | 3.5 |
| Monuments (UK) Gnosis | 2.5 |
| Monuments (UK) We Are the Foundation | 3.0 |
| Mudvayne L.D. 50 | 3.5 |
| Muse Absolution | 2.5 |
| Muse Origin of Symmetry | 2.5 |
| Muse Black Holes & Revelations | 2.5 |
| Muse The Resistance | 2.5 |
| Naked City Torture Garden | 2.5 |
| Napalm Death Scum | 4.0 |
| Necrophagist Onset of Putrefaction | 4.0 |
| Nirvana In Utero | 2.5 |
| Oasis (What's the Story) Morning Glory? | 2.5 |
| Oceansize Frames | 2.5 |
| Off Minor The Heat Death of the Universe | 4.0 |
| Oktober Skyline That's How Tripods Work | 3.5 |
| Opeth Orchid | 2.5 |
| Opeth Ghost Reveries | 2.5 |
| Opeth Deliverance | 4.0 |
| Opeth Damnation | 4.0 |
| Opeth Watershed | 4.0 |
| Opeth Heritage | 4.0 |
| Opeth Still Life | 4.5 |
| Opeth Blackwater Park | 4.5 |
| This is probably the most beautiful album you will ever hear in your life. It will make you cry. |
| Owl City Ocean Eyes | 1.0 |
| Painted in Exile Revitalized | 3.5 |
| Pantera The Great Southern Trendkill | 2.0 |
| Pantera Far Beyond Driven | 2.5 |
| Pantera Reinventing the Steel | 2.5 |
| Pantera Cowboys from Hell | 3.0 |
| Pantera Vulgar Display of Power | 4.0 |
| If this album had Cowboys from Hell, Domination and Cemetary Gates as the last 3 tracks - this would easily be a 5/5. One of the most manly metal albums you will ever hear. The riffs, the solos, and groovy and tight drumming are all just spot on. This is probably THE 90's metal album. The first 6 tracks are gold (and AMAZINGLY varied in style and groove). Unfortunately the following 5 tracks have their moments, but are mediocre at best. The album really dies in the ass towards the end. Also, I should mention that the Bridge riff in 'This Love' is one of my favourite riffs of all time. Fucking awesome. |
| Parkway Drive Horizons | 1.0 |
| Parkway Drive Killing with a Smile | 1.5 |
| Parliament Mothership Connection | 4.0 |
| Pelican Australasia | 3.0 |
| Pelican The Fire in Our Throats Will Beckon... | 3.0 |
| Pelican What We All Come to Need | 3.0 |
| Pelican Pelican | 3.5 |
| Periphery Periphery | 1.0 |
| Generally, I love 'djent'. Generally I'm all for 'djent'... But I find this album to be an abomination of the popular metal sub genre. Here is a list of things I strongly dislike about the album. The vocals, the mastering, the guitar tone, the album length, the song lengths, the song structures, the song titles, the album art, the "trying to be as technical and 'djenty' as possible" approach to songwriting and finally the overprecise over-compressed, quantized/computerized sound to everything (particularly the drums). There are some great moments with killer riffs, grooves, and great musical ideas, but as a whole I am so very disappointed by this album. I bought it on iTunes the day it came out, after being interested by the Bulb/Periphery recordings up on Youtube, but it just didn't live up to my expectations. I have listened to this many times and tried to give it a chance, but as much as I want it to be... it's just not my cup of tea. |
| Periphery Periphery (Instrumental) | 2.5 |
| Periphery Periphery II: This Time It's Personal | 3.5 |
| Pig Destroyer Phantom Limb | 3.5 |
| Pink Floyd The Dark Side of the Moon | 3.5 |
| Planets Planets | 3.0 |
| Pokemon Pokemon 2.B.A. Master | 2.0 |
| This music is largely awful and cringeworthy, but captures an awesome moment in time, when pokemon ruled the world. The theme song is one of the most epic songs ever written and I doubt I will ever change my mind on that. |
| Porcupine Tree In Absentia | 4.0 |
| Porcupine Tree Fear of a Blank Planet | 4.0 |
| Primus Tales from the Punchbowl | 2.0 |
| Primus Antipop | 2.0 |
| Primus The Brown Album | 3.0 |
| Primus Pork Soda | 3.0 |
| Primus Suck on This | 4.0 |
| Primus Frizzle Fry | 4.5 |
| Primus Sailing the Seas of Cheese | 4.5 |
| Propellerheads Decksandrumsandrockandroll | 2.5 |
| Protest the Hero Fortress | 2.0 |
| Pyramids Pyramids | 2.5 |
| Quarashi Jinx | 3.0 |
| Queens of the Stone Age Lullabies to Paralyze | 2.0 |
| Queens of the Stone Age Era Vulgaris | 2.0 |
| Queens of the Stone Age Rated R | 3.0 |
| Queens of the Stone Age Songs for the Deaf | 4.5 |
| This is without a doubt, my favourite alternative rock album of all time. Every track is accessible, solid and catchy. With manly riffs, hectic drumming and diverse vocals wrapped up in a nice sleek concept album, this can be enjoyed anytime any place by anyone. Top stuff. |
| Radiohead Pablo Honey | 2.5 |
| Radiohead OK Computer | 3.0 |
| Rage Against the Machine Renegades | 2.5 |
| Rage Against the Machine Evil Empire | 3.5 |
| Rage Against the Machine The Battle of Los Angeles | 4.0 |
| Rage Against the Machine Rage Against the Machine | 4.5 |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers One Hot Minute | 1.5 |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers The Red Hot Chili Peppers | 2.0 |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers I'm With You | 2.0 |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers By the Way | 3.0 |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers Californication | 3.5 |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers The Uplift Mofo Party Plan | 3.5 |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers Mother's Milk | 4.0 |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers Freaky Styley | 4.0 |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers Blood Sugar Sex Magik | 4.0 |
| Regina Spektor Begin To Hope | 4.0 |
| Robert Johnson The Complete Recordings | 3.5 |
| Rush Moving Pictures | 4.0 |
| Russian Circles Enter | 3.5 |
| Russian Circles Geneva | 3.5 |
| Russian Circles Station | 4.0 |
| RXYZYXR Geometrical Metal | 3.0 |
| Savage Garden Affirmation | 1.5 |
| Savage Garden Savage Garden | 3.0 |
| Scale the Summit Carving Desert Canyons | 3.5 |
| Shadows Fall The Art of Balance | 2.5 |
| SikTh The Trees Are Dead and Dried Out, Wait for Something Wild | 4.0 |
| SikTh Death of a Dead Day | 4.0 |
| Slayer Hell Awaits | 2.5 |
| Slayer South of Heaven | 3.5 |
| Slayer Reign in Blood | 4.5 |
| Reign in Blood is a solid slab of relentless 80's thrash. This is the pinnacle of their career captured in an audio format. The timing of this album couldn't have been better, firmly cementing thrash as a serious genre of music that is here to stay. Every song is played at absolute maximum speed and aggression (actually I'm pretty sure there's not one song under 200bpm). A tad repetitive, but the album is so short and sweet that by the time you've noticed, its all over. A great album for the impatient listeners that just want a barrage of straight-to-the-point, heavy music. The production is fantastic, especially when compared to their previous work. Also the vocals are awesome, the riffs are pure thrash, the solos are atonal, wailing, chaotic beasts of things, and finally drums... Thank you Dave Lombardo, for pretty much single-handedly raising the bar outrageously high in terms of metal drumming in the 80's. Unprecedented speed, power, endurance and insane amounts of double bass are plentiful on this album. By far, the best Slayer album, and an absolute must-have piece of metal history. |
| Slipknot All Hope Is Gone | 1.5 |
| Snot Get Some | 3.0 |
| Soulfly Dark Ages | 1.5 |
| Soulfly Prophecy | 3.0 |
| Soundtrack (Film) Wayne's World | 3.5 |
| Definitely one of my most quoted movies ever. The soundtrack is awesome too. |
| Soundtrack (Film) South Park (Original Soundtrack) | 4.0 |
| Soundtrack (Video Game) Metroid Prime and Fusion | 4.5 |
| The music on this soundtrack is absolutely incredible. Perhaps a little inconsistent and quite depressing at times, but there are a good handful of tracks that are just 100% fucking amazing. It's music like this that makes you wonder why you even bother writing your own songs when there are composers out there that can create dense musical atmospheres like this. The soundtrack is not the best listen from start to finish, but is best appreciated alongside the game, it adds an amazing sense of exploration, isolation and otherworldly adventure. Anyone who has played the game will agree. A beautiful and profound listen - a must have for any Nintendo or Metroid fan. |
| Spiral Architect A Sceptic's Universe | 3.5 |
| Stick to Your Guns For What It's Worth | 1.5 |
| Structures All of the Above | 2.5 |
| This EP has moments of greatness and moments of terrible-ness. |
| System of a Down Mezmerize | 2.0 |
| System of a Down Steal This Album! | 3.0 |
| System of a Down Hypnotize | 3.5 |
| System of a Down System of a Down | 4.0 |
| System of a Down Toxicity | 4.5 |
| A great album. Hasn't aged a day since first enjoying it in primary school. I love the whole vibe SOAD had on this album. They were all at the top of their game, esp Serj's vocals, they are amazing. |
| T.R.A.M. Lingua Franca | 3.5 |
| Tame Impala Tame Impala | 3.5 |
| Tenacious D Rize of the Fenix | 2.5 |
| Tenacious D The Pick of Destiny | 3.0 |
| Tenacious D Tenacious D | 3.5 |
| TesseracT One | 2.0 |
| TesseracT Concealing Fate | 3.0 |
| Textures Dualism | 2.5 |
| Textures Polars | 3.5 |
| Textures Drawing Circles | 4.0 |
| Textures Silhouettes | 4.0 |
| The Arusha Accord The Echo Verses | 2.0 |
| The Beatles Let It Be | 2.5 |
| The Beatles Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band | 3.5 |
| The Beatles Abbey Road | 4.0 |
| The Beatles The Beatles | 4.5 |
| The Blues Brothers Music From The Soundtrack | 4.5 |
| Just like the movie itself, this soundtrack is nothing short of amazing. There is so much dynamic, colour and energy from each and every song here. A prefect representation of the upbeat rhythm and blues style in the sweet time of 1980. Donald Duck Dunn offers some of the tastiest bass lines you will ever hear, and the wide range of guest musicians are world-class. This album is ridiculously accessible, while also displaying extremely soulful and impressive musicianship from all members. Highlights are 'She Caught the Katy', 'The Old Landmark', 'Think' and 'Theme From Rawhide'. The soundtrack should be a fun listen for anyone regardless of musical taste. |
| The Bronx The Bronx (III) | 2.5 |
| The Bronx The Bronx (II) | 4.0 |
| The Contortionist Intrinsic | 3.5 |
| The Contortionist Exoplanet | 4.0 |
| Deathcore in space. That is basically what you can expect from The Contortionist's debut LP. A refreshing album full of colour and tasteful restraint in a genre known for being over the top to the point where its just silly. The epic, prog/spacey vibe is great and provides a dynamic and varied listen each and every time. Vocals are nice, and have a distinct tone and this has some of the best use of guitar cluster chords that I've ever heard. Excellent album overall. Crushing chords, intense growls and djenty grooves, but despite this, melody and atmosphere is never left behind. |
| The Darkness Permission to Land | 4.0 |
| The Dear Hunter Act II: The Meaning of, & All Things Regarding Ms. Leading | 4.0 |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan The Dillinger Escape Plan | 2.0 |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Ire Works | 2.0 |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Option Paralysis | 2.0 |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Irony Is a Dead Scene | 2.5 |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Miss Machine | 3.0 |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Under the Running Board | 3.0 |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Calculating Infinity | 5.0 |
| Dillinger's best album by far. Every track is pure gold. The grimy guitars, math-y drums, groovy bass, terrifying vocals and sparse, atmospheric lyrics are aplenty. A super technical, brutally dissonant album that somehow feels balanced, honest and without an ounce of pretentiousness. |
| The End (CAN) Within Dividia | 2.0 |
| The End (CAN) Transfer Trachea Reverberations from Point: False Omniscient | 3.5 |
| The End (CAN) Elementary | 4.0 |
| The Faceless Planetary Duality | 1.5 |
| The Fall of Troy Doppelganger | 3.5 |
| The Fall of Troy The Fall of Troy | 4.0 |
| The Fall of Troy Ghostship Demos | 4.5 |
| The Jimi Hendrix Experience Electric Ladyland | 3.5 |
| The Jimi Hendrix Experience Axis: Bold as Love | 3.5 |
| The Mars Volta Octahedron | 2.0 |
| The Mars Volta Amputechture | 2.5 |
| The Mars Volta Frances the Mute | 3.5 |
| The Mars Volta The Bedlam in Goliath | 3.5 |
| The Mars Volta De-Loused in the Comatorium | 4.5 |
| The Offspring Conspiracy of One | 1.5 |
| The Offspring Americana | 3.5 |
| The Presidents of the United States of America The Presidents of the United States of America | 4.0 |
| The Prodigy Music for the Jilted Generation | 3.5 |
| The Prodigy The Fat of the Land | 4.0 |
| The Red Chord Fed Through the Teeth Machine | 1.5 |
| This is just mega generic to my ears. I liked what I've heard of their 2002 album, so I got this cos the album art is cool, and I've seen positive feedback on this... But to me, this just sucks. This is the kind of deathcore that everyone avoids for good reason. Boring songwriting, near no dynamics, monotonous vocals, flat and lifeless production. Nothing redeems itself for me on this album. |
| The Sawtooth Grin Pervavor | 2.0 |
| The Sawtooth Grin Cuddlemonster | 4.0 |
| If you like Calculating Infinity, and like the Converge vocalist - you'll love this. It's as though the band were listening to Calculating Infinity on repeat before writing this. And that's a good thing I believe. They are very similar albums in terms of the chaotic nature, the grimy production, free jazz styled sections, and super complex song structures. With 7 songs - it's short, but any more songs would cause it to become tiresome, so it's definitely worth a listen. Especially if you're into relentless, extremely high pitch distorted vocals, humorous song titles and crazy musicianship. Fans of tech metalcore, mathcore, grindcore, spazzy types music, I recommend this. |
| The Tallest Man on Earth Shallow Grave | 2.5 |
| The Tallest Man on Earth There's No Leaving Now | 3.5 |
| The Tallest Man on Earth The Wild Hunt | 5.0 |
| I can thank Sputnik for introducing this one to me. After one listen I instantly loved this. Each song is flooded with tasty hooks, beautiful and powerful guitar chords topped with a unique and harshly intense singing style. The songs are all very sparse and raw in the instrumentation and production. The real magic here is within the melodies, chords and songwriting in general, despite the limit palette of tone colours and textures. Everything just reeks with honesty, passion and musical detail. The album features quite intricate guitar work with dynamic and wildly diverse vocals. An American folk music influence is quite evident as he strums and sings with his influences on his sleeve, however, the music still feels fresh, timeless and original. For anyone who enjoys to sing along to music, and can appreciate creative lyrics, this album is a must have. For any real music fan. |
| The Tony Danza Tapdance Extravaganza Danza IIII: The Alpha - The Omega | 2.5 |
| The Tony Danza Tapdance Extravaganza Danza III: Series of Unfortunate Events | 4.5 |
| Mind bogglingly heavy. Some of the the chunkiest and grooviest 8 eight string guitar playing you will ever hear. The guitarist, Josh Travis, is like Tosin Abasi gone wrong. He is a monster guitar player and everyone should check him out. Although a tad repretitive, The "DUN DUN DUN [insert-high-pitched-dissonant-shredding-here]" riff template NEVER gets old! The grooves are just so fun, badass and at times even humorous just because of how incredibly over-the-top they are. Every track has moments of sheer monstrous riffage, but the highlights are Yippie-kay-yay Mother!@#$%^, I am Sammy Jankis, Passenger 57 and 12-21-12. Although a weak opening track, it is solid album all the way to the end. After multiple listens, this is so close to 5 that it is ridiculous. I know this is not perfect or life changing in any way, but it just makes even bands like Meshuggah and Converge seem tame in comparison. |
| The White Stripes Icky Thump | 3.0 |
| The White Stripes Get Behind Me Satan | 3.5 |
| The White Stripes Elephant | 4.0 |
| Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra Born Into Trouble As the Sparks Fly Upward | 3.0 |
| Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra Horses in the Sky | 4.5 |
| I'm fairly new to post rock, but this album so god-damn awesome. In my opinion, tracks 1 and 6 are quite poor, but tracks 2,3,4 and 5 are all amazing singalong anthems almost. The vocals are often criticized because they are very out of key to say the least, but I find them so emotive, beautiful and unlike anything else. For me, the vocals are the icing on this sparse, atmospheric, but amazingly catchy cake. |
| Them Crooked Vultures Them Crooked Vultures | 3.5 |
| Third Eye Blind Third Eye Blind | 3.5 |
| Tool Undertow | 2.5 |
| Tool 10,000 Days | 3.5 |
| Tool Ænima | 4.0 |
| Tool Lateralus | 4.5 |
| Tyrant of Death Parasite | 3.0 |
| Veil of Maya The Common Man's Collapse | 3.5 |
| Veil of Maya Eclipse | 3.5 |
| Veil of Maya [id] | 4.0 |
| Vektor Black Future | 3.5 |
| Voivod Nothingface | 1.5 |
| Volumes The Concept of Dreaming | 2.5 |
| Volumes Via | 2.5 |
| Weezer Hurley | 2.5 |
| I like this album purely for the album cover and nothing else. |
| Whitechapel This Is Exile | 2.0 |
| Wold Screech Owl | 1.0 |
| This is the most horrific thing I have ever heard. Sure I could sit there and analyze the complex overtones and unique approach to noise and music in general, but seriously, why bother? At the end of the day you would get just as much pleasure out of watching white noise on your TV for 35 minutes. This album is probably the least accessible piece of music you will ever hear in your life. |
| Wu-Tang Clan Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) | 3.0 |
| Yes Close to the Edge | 3.5 |
