| 7 Angels 7 Plagues Jhazmyne's Lullaby | 4.5 |
| Abigail Williams In the Shadow of a Thousand Suns | 3.0 |
| Acceptance Black Lines to Battlefields | 2.5 |
| Acceptance Phantoms | 4.0 |
| Alexisonfire Old Crows / Young Cardinals | 2.0 |
| Alexisonfire Watch Out! | 3.5 |
| Alexisonfire Alexisonfire | 4.0 |
| All Shall Perish Awaken the Dreamers | 3.0 |
| All Shall Perish The Price of Existence | 4.0 |
| All That Remains Overcome | 1.5 |
| All That Remains The Fall of Ideals | 2.0 |
| American Nightmare Background Music | 4.0 |
| American Nightmare Year One | 4.0 |
| American Nightmare We're Down Til We're Underground | 4.5 |
| Anaal Nathrakh In the Constellation of the Black Widow | 4.0 |
| Anberlin Cities | 3.5 |
| Arcade Fire Funeral | 4.5 |
| Architects Ruin | 3.0 |
| Architects Hollow Crown | 3.5 |
| Architects Nightmares | 4.5 |
| Armor For Sleep What To Do When You Are Dead | 3.0 |
| Armor For Sleep Dream To Make Believe | 3.0 |
| Arsis We Are the Nightmare | 3.5 |
| Arsis A Celebration of Guilt | 4.0 |
| Arsis A Diamond for Disease | 4.0 |
| As Blood Runs Black Allegiance | 2.5 |
| As Cities Burn Come Now Sleep | 2.5 |
| As Cities Burn Son, I Loved You at Your Darkest | 3.0 |
| As I Lay Dying Frail Words Collapse | 3.0 |
| As I Lay Dying Shadows Are Security | 3.0 |
| As I Lay Dying An Ocean Between Us | 4.0 |
| As Tall As Lions You Can't Take It With You | 3.5 |
| As Tall As Lions Lafcadio | 4.0 |
| As Tall As Lions Into The Flood | 4.0 |
| As Tall As Lions As Tall As Lions | 4.5 |
| As the Sun Sets 7744 | 3.5 |
| As the Sun Sets Each Individual Voice Is Dead in the Silence | 4.0 |
| Asher Roth Asleep In The Bread Aisle | 1.5 |
| At the Gates With Fear I Kiss the Burning Darkness | 3.0 |
| At the Gates The Red in the Sky Is Ours | 3.0 |
| At the Gates Slaughter of the Soul | 4.0 |
| August Burns Red Messengers | 3.0 |
| August Burns Red Thrill Seeker | 3.5 |
| August Burns Red Constellations | 3.5 |
| It may not necessarily be anything ground-breaking, but Constellations reflects a refined August Burns Red sound. They certainly haven't lost any of their momentum forward, and instead produced a very solid album that surely is a step in the right direction for the band. |
| BATS Red In Tooth and Claw | 4.0 |
| Be'lakor Stone's Reach | 3.0 |
| Be'lakor The Frail Tide | 4.5 |
| Between the Buried and Me The Silent Circus | 3.0 |
| Between the Buried and Me The Great Misdirect | 3.0 |
| Between the Buried and Me Alaska | 3.5 |
| Between the Buried and Me Colors | 5.0 |
| blink-182 Cheshire Cat | 2.5 |
| blink-182 Take Off Your Pants And Jacket | 2.5 |
| blink-182 Enema Of The State | 3.0 |
| blink-182 Buddha | 3.0 |
| blink-182 Dude Ranch | 3.5 |
| Bon Iver For Emma, Forever Ago | 4.0 |
| Born of Osiris The New Reign | 3.5 |
| Born of Osiris The Discovery | 4.0 |
| Botch We Are the Romans | 4.5 |
| Bright Eyes Lifted or The Story is in the Soil, Keep Your Ear to the Ground | 3.0 |
| Bright Eyes Fevers & Mirrors | 4.0 |
| Bring Me the Horizon Suicide Season | 1.5 |
| Bring Me the Horizon Count Your Blessings | 2.0 |
| Bring Me the Horizon This Is What the Edge of Your Seat Was Made For | 2.5 |
| brokeNCYDE BC 13 | 1.0 |
| Bullet for My Valentine Scream Aim Fire | 1.5 |
| Bullet for My Valentine The Poison | 2.5 |
| Cartel Chroma | 3.0 |
| Cartel The Ransom EP | 4.0 |
| Cave In Beyond Hypothermia | 4.0 |
| Cave In Planets of Old | 4.0 |
| Children of Bodom Blooddrunk | 1.5 |
| Children of Bodom Follow the Reaper | 3.5 |
| Chiodos The Heartless Control Everything | 2.0 |
| Chiodos All's Well That Ends Well | 3.0 |
| Chiodos Bone Palace Ballet | 3.0 |
| Circa Survive On Letting Go | 3.5 |
| Circa Survive Juturna | 4.5 |
| Circle Takes the Square Circle Takes the Square | 3.0 |
| Circle Takes the Square As the Roots Undo | 5.0 |
| Coalesce Functioning on Impatience | 3.5 |
| Coalesce OX | 3.5 |
| Coheed and Cambria From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness | 3.0 |
| Coheed and Cambria No World for Tomorrow | 3.0 |
| Coheed and Cambria In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3 | 4.0 |
| Coheed and Cambria The Second Stage Turbine Blade | 4.5 |
| Cold War Kids Robbers and Cowards | 3.5 |
| Comeback Kid Wake the Dead | 2.0 |
| Converge When Forever Comes Crashing | 3.5 |
| Converge Axe to Fall | 3.5 |
| Converge Petitioning the Empty Sky | 4.5 |
| Converge All We Love We Leave Behind | 4.5 |
| Converge Jane Doe | 5.0 |
| Cormorant Metazoa | 3.5 |
| Cormorant Dwellings | 4.0 |
| Cryptopsy None So Vile | 3.5 |
| Cursive Domestica | 3.5 |
| Cursive The Ugly Organ | 4.0 |
| Cymbals Eat Guitars Why There Are Mountains | 3.0 |
| Cynic Focus | 4.0 |
| Cynic Traced in Air | 4.0 |
| Dance Gavin Dance Dance Gavin Dance | 3.0 |
| Dance Gavin Dance Downtown Battle Mountain | 3.5 |
| Dance Gavin Dance Happiness | 3.5 |
| Dark Tranquillity Haven | 2.5 |
| Dark Tranquillity Projector | 3.0 |
| Dark Tranquillity The Mind's I | 3.0 |
| Dark Tranquillity Fiction | 3.5 |
| Dark Tranquillity The Gallery | 4.0 |
| Dark Tranquillity Character | 4.5 |
| Dark Tranquillity Damage Done | 4.5 |
| Darkest Hour Hidden Hands of a Sadist Nation | 3.0 |
| Darkest Hour The Eternal Return | 3.0 |
| Darkest Hour Deliver Us | 4.0 |
| Daughters Daughters | 3.0 |
| Daughters Canada Songs | 3.5 |
| Deadguy Fixation on a Coworker | 4.5 |
| Death Before Dishonor Better Ways To Die | 3.5 |
| Death Cab for Cutie The Stability EP | 2.0 |
| Death Cab for Cutie We Have the Facts and We're Voting Yes | 2.5 |
| Death Cab for Cutie You Can Play These Songs With Chords | 3.0 |
| Death Cab for Cutie Something About Airplanes | 3.0 |
| Death Cab for Cutie Narrow Stairs | 3.0 |
| Death Cab for Cutie The John Byrd EP | 3.5 |
| Death Cab for Cutie Transatlanticism | 4.0 |
| Death Cab for Cutie Forbidden Love | 4.0 |
| Death Cab for Cutie Plans | 4.0 |
| Death Cab for Cutie The Photo Album | 4.5 |
| Defeater Empty Days and Sleepless Nights | 3.5 |
| Songs absolutely kick ass (with one exception), but this is lyrically VERY weak compared to the others. Story is a lot less compelling too. |
| Defeater Travels | 4.0 |
| Defeater Lost Ground | 4.5 |
| Absolutely amazing album: a concept album executed perfectly. Never have I listened to a hardcore album and wanted to weep like a baby. This band is the real deal |
| Discordance Axis The Inalienable Dreamless | 4.0 |
| Electric President The Violent Blue | 3.5 |
| Emmure The Respect Issue | 1.5 |
| Enfold Darkness Our Cursed Rapture | 3.0 |
| Envy On The Coast Lucy Gray | 3.5 |
| Envy On The Coast Envy on the Coast | 4.5 |
| Escape the Fate Dying Is Your Latest Fashion | 2.0 |
| Escape the Fate There's No Sympathy for the Dead | 3.0 |
| Every Time I Die Gutter Phenomenon | 3.0 |
| Every Time I Die Hot Damn! | 3.5 |
| Every Time I Die New Junk Aesthetic | 3.5 |
| Exivious Exivious | 4.0 |
| Explosions in the Sky How Strange, Innocence | 3.0 |
| Explosions in the Sky The Earth Is Not a Cold Dead Place | 4.0 |
| Fang Island Fang Island | 3.0 |
| Fear Before Art Damage | 2.5 |
| Fear Before Fear Before | 2.5 |
| Fear Before Odd How People Shake | 3.5 |
| Fellsilent The Hidden Words | 3.0 |
| Four Year Strong Rise Or Die Trying | 3.5 |
| Four Year Strong Demo | 4.0 |
| fun. Aim and Ignite | 4.5 |
| Funebrarum The Sleep of Morbid Dreams | 3.0 |
| Funeral for a Friend Hours | 3.0 |
| Funeral for a Friend Casually Dressed & Deep in Conversation | 4.5 |
| Girl Talk Feed the Animals | 3.5 |
| Girl Talk Night Ripper | 4.0 |
| Glassjaw Worship and Tribute | 4.0 |
| Glassjaw Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Silence | 4.5 |
| Glassjaw Coloring Book | 4.5 |
| Gorguts Obscura | 4.5 |
| Gorguts The Erosion of Sanity | 5.0 |
| Grace Gale A Few Easy Steps To Secure Heli-Camel Safety | 2.5 |
| Guns Up! Outlive | 2.5 |
| Guns Up! All This Is | 3.0 |
| Gwynbleidd Nostalgia | 3.0 |
| Have Heart Songs to Scream at the Sun | 2.5 |
| Have Heart What Counts | 3.0 |
| Have Heart The Things We Carry | 3.5 |
| Head Wound City Head Wound City | 3.5 |
| HORSE the band Pizza | 2.5 |
| HORSE the band The Mechanical Hand | 3.5 |
| HORSE the band R. Borlax | 4.0 |
| HORSE the band Desperate Living | 4.5 |
| I Am Spoonbender Buy Hidden Persuaders | 4.0 |
| I Am the Avalanche I Am the Avalanche | 3.5 |
| Immolation Majesty and Decay | 4.0 |
| Immolation Close to a World Below | 5.0 |
| Immortal Technique Revolutionary Volume 1 | 4.0 |
| In Flames Colony | 3.5 |
| In Flames Clayman | 3.5 |
| In Flames Come Clarity | 3.5 |
| In Flames The Jester Race | 4.0 |
| In Flames Whoracle | 4.0 |
| In Mourning Monolith | 2.5 |
| In Mourning Shrouded Divine | 5.0 |
| In The Arms of Providence Lost My Voicebox in a Seaside Town | 4.5 |
| Passion and aggression comparable to a mix of Thursday circa War All the Time and Glassjaw's Everything you ever wanted to know about Silence. Yes, this album is years old, and the band has been long defunct, but this is a must-listen for every fan of hardcore and/or post-hardcore. |
| Inferi (USA) The Path of Apotheosis | 4.5 |
| Irepress Sol Eye Sea I | 3.5 |
| ISIS Wavering Radiant | 3.0 |
| ISIS Panopticon | 4.5 |
| It Dies Today Sirens | 2.0 |
| It Dies Today Lividity | 2.5 |
| It Dies Today Forever Scorned | 3.0 |
| It Dies Today The Caitiff Choir | 4.0 |
| Just Surrender We're in Like Sin | 2.0 |
| Just Surrender If These Streets Could Talk | 3.5 |
| Kaddisfly Buy Our Intention; We'll Buy You a Unicorn | 2.5 |
| Kaddisfly Set Sail The Prairie | 4.0 |
| Kayo Dot Choirs of the Eye | 4.5 |
| LCD Soundsystem Sound of Silver | 3.0 |
| Linkin Park Meteora | 2.0 |
| Linkin Park Reanimation | 2.5 |
| Linkin Park Hybrid Theory | 3.5 |
| Lions Lions From What We Believe | 3.0 |
| Matchbox Twenty Mad Season | 2.0 |
| Matchbox Twenty Yourself or Someone Like You | 3.0 |
| maudlin of the Well My Fruit Psychobells... A Seed Combustible | 3.5 |
| maudlin of the Well Leaving Your Body Map | 3.5 |
| maudlin of the Well Part the Second | 4.5 |
| maudlin of the Well Bath | 5.0 |
| Maybeshewill Not For Want Of Trying | 3.5 |
| Maybeshewill Sing The Word Hope In Four-Part Harmony | 4.0 |
| Mew No More Stories | 4.0 |
| Minus the Bear Highly Refined Pirates | 3.5 |
| Minus the Bear Menos El Oso | 4.0 |
| Minus the Bear Planet of Ice | 4.0 |
| Misery Signals Of Malice and the Magnum Heart | 3.5 |
| Misery Signals Mirrors | 3.5 |
| Misery Signals Controller | 4.5 |
| My Bitter End The Renovation | 4.0 |
| Necrophagist Epitaph | 3.5 |
| Nero di Marte Derivae | 4.0 |
This is nasty - groovy post-metal with great atmosphere and interesting polyrhythms, and some shades of
Ulcerate. Very dark and haunting, and great attention to detail. Jury's still out on the vocals, but I think it'll
grow on me |
| Norma Jean The Anti Mother | 1.5 |
| Norma Jean O' God, the Aftermath | 2.0 |
| Norma Jean Redeemer | 2.5 |
| Norma Jean Bless the Martyr and Kiss the Child | 4.0 |
| Oh, Sleeper Son of the Morning | 2.5 |
| Oh, Sleeper When I Am God | 3.0 |
| P.O.S Never Better | 3.5 |
| Panopticon Collapse | 3.0 |
| Panopticon Panopticon | 4.0 |
| Parkway Drive Horizons | 2.5 |
| Parkway Drive Killing with a Smile | 3.5 |
| Paul Dempsey Everything Is True | 4.5 |
| Periphery Periphery | 3.0 |
| Piebald If It Weren't For Venetian Blinds It Would Be Curt | 3.5 |
| Poison the Well Tear From the Red | 2.5 |
| Poison the Well The Tropic Rot | 3.0 |
| Poison the Well The Opposite of December | 3.5 |
| Portugal. The Man Church Mouth | 3.5 |
| Portugal. The Man Waiter: ''You Vultures!'' | 4.0 |
| Protest the Hero Kezia | 4.0 |
| Protest the Hero Fortress | 4.0 |
| Refused The Shape Of Punk To Come | 4.5 |
| Rodrigo y Gabriela 11:11 | 3.5 |
| Rosetta The Galilean Satellites | 4.5 |
| Saetia A Retrospective | 3.5 |
| Saosin Saosin | 3.0 |
| Saosin Translating the Name | 4.0 |
| Saves the Day Can't Slow Down | 3.0 |
| Saves the Day Through Being Cool | 3.5 |
| Saves the Day Stay What You Are | 4.5 |
| Scale the Summit Carving Desert Canyons | 3.0 |
| Scale the Summit The Collective | 4.5 |
| Scar Symmetry Holographic Universe | 4.0 |
| Scary Kids Scaring Kids Scary Kids Scaring Kids | 2.5 |
| Scary Kids Scaring Kids The City Sleeps In Flames | 3.0 |
| Set Your Goals Mutiny! | 3.5 |
| Set Your Goals Reset EP | 3.5 |
| Set Your Goals Demo 2004 | 4.0 |
| Shai Hulud Hearts Once Nourished With Hope... | 3.5 |
| SikTh How May I Help You? | 3.5 |
| SikTh The Trees Are Dead and Dried Out, Wait for Something Wild | 4.5 |
| SikTh Death of a Dead Day | 5.0 |
| Some Girls Heaven's Pregnant Teens | 2.0 |
| Some Girls All My Friends Are Going Death | 3.5 |
| Stars In Our Bedroom After The War | 3.0 |
| Stars Heart | 3.5 |
| Stars Set Yourself On Fire | 4.0 |
| Sunny Day Real Estate Diary | 5.0 |
| Taking Back Sunday Louder Now | 2.5 |
| Taking Back Sunday Tell All Your Friends | 3.5 |
| TesseracT Tesseract Demo | 3.5 |
| Texas in July Salt Of The Earth | 2.0 |
| These guys actually sound promising if they start writing interesting or original material. This album just sounds like a kindergarden rip-off of Messengers though. |
| Textures Silhouettes | 3.0 |
| The Acacia Strain ...And Life Is Very Long | 2.5 |
| The Album Leaf Into The Blue Again | 3.0 |
| The Album Leaf In A Safe Place | 4.0 |
| The Arusha Accord Nightmares of the Ocean | 3.5 |
| The Arusha Accord The Echo Verses | 4.0 |
| The Black Dahlia Murder Miasma | 2.5 |
| The Black Dahlia Murder Deflorate | 3.0 |
This is pretty much Nocturnal with Ryan Knight, but that's really all I wanted from a new TBDM record anyway. Anyone who was expecting anything else is just plain silly.
Nowhere near a classic, but great, solid stuff, as long as you aren't one of those no-fun, mopey types of people. |
| The Black Dahlia Murder Unhallowed | 3.5 |
| The Black Dahlia Murder Nocturnal | 4.0 |
| The Blood Brothers Rumors Laid Waste | 2.5 |
| The Blood Brothers Young Machetes | 2.5 |
| The Blood Brothers Love Rhymes with Hideous Car Wreck EP | 2.5 |
| The Blood Brothers Crimes | 4.0 |
| The Blood Brothers March On Electric Children | 4.0 |
| The Blood Brothers ...Burn, Piano Island, Burn | 4.5 |
| The Blood Brothers This Adultery Is Ripe | 4.5 |
| The Cambiata to heal | 3.0 |
| The Cambiata Into the Night | 4.0 |
| The Dear Hunter Act I: The Lake South, the River North | 3.5 |
| The Dear Hunter Act II: The Meaning of, & All Things Regarding Ms. Leading | 4.0 |
| The Dear Hunter The Color Spectrum (Complete Collection) | 5.0 |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Calculating Infinity | 3.5 |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Miss Machine | 4.0 |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Option Paralysis | 4.0 |
| The Faceless Akeldama | 3.5 |
| The Faceless Planetary Duality | 4.0 |
| The Fall of Troy Manipulator | 3.0 |
| The Fall of Troy Doppelganger | 4.0 |
| The Fall of Troy Ghostship Demos | 4.0 |
| The Fall of Troy Phantom on the Horizon | 4.0 |
| The Fall of Troy The Fall of Troy | 4.5 |
| The Hotelier Home, Like NoPlace Is There | 5.0 |
| The Pax Cecilia Nouveau | 3.5 |
| The Pax Cecilia Blessed Are The Bonds | 4.5 |
| The Receiving End of Sirens The Earth Sings Mi Fa Mi | 3.0 |
| The Receiving End of Sirens Between the Heart and the Synapse | 5.0 |
| The Red Chord Fed Through the Teeth Machine | 4.0 |
| The Sound of Animals Fighting Lover, the Lord Has Left Us... | 2.0 |
| The Sound of Animals Fighting The Ocean and the Sun | 4.0 |
| The Sound of Animals Fighting Tiger and the Duke | 4.5 |
| The Tallest Man on Earth The Wild Hunt | 4.0 |
| The Wallflowers Bringing Down the Horse | 3.5 |
| Therefore I Am Escape | 3.5 |
| Therefore I Am You Are Connected EP | 4.5 |
| Thursday A City By the Light Divided | 2.0 |
| Thursday Common Existence | 3.0 |
| Thursday Full Collapse | 4.0 |
| Thursday Waiting | 4.0 |
| Thursday Five Stories Falling | 4.0 |
| Thursday War All the Time | 4.5 |
| Trophy Scars Hospital Music for the Aesthetics of Language | 3.5 |
| Trophy Scars Alphabet Alphabets | 4.0 |
| Ulcerate Vermis | 3.0 |
| Ulcerate The Destroyers of All | 4.0 |
| Ulcerate Shrines of Paralysis | 4.5 |
| Ulcerate Everything Is Fire | 5.0 |
| Ulcerate Stare Into Death and Be Still | 5.0 |
| Ulver Bergtatt - Et eeventyr i 5 capitler | 4.0 |
| Underminded Eleven:Eleven | 3.0 |
| Underminded Hail Unamerican! | 4.0 |
| Underoath They're Only Chasing Safety | 3.0 |
| Underoath Lost in the Sound of Separation | 3.0 |
| Underoath Define the Great Line | 4.0 |
| Unearth The Stings of Conscience | 1.5 |
| Unearth III: In the Eyes of Fire | 3.5 |
| Unearth The Oncoming Storm | 4.0 |
| Vanna Curses | 2.5 |
| Vanna The Search Party Never Came | 3.5 |
| Verse From Anger and Rage | 2.5 |
| Verse Aggression | 3.5 |
| Verse Rebuild | 4.0 |
| Wolves in the Throne Room Black Cascade | 2.5 |
