| A Perfect Circle Thirteenth Step | 3.5 |
| A Perfect Circle Mer de Noms | 3.5 |
| Abbath Abbath | 3.5 |
| Abigail Williams In the Shadow of a Thousand Suns | 4.0 |
| Abiotic Casuistry | 3.5 |
| Abnormality 2007 Demo | 1.0 |
| Abominable Putridity In the End of Human Existence | 3.5 |
| Abominable Putridity The Anomalies of Artificial Origin | 4.0 |
| Abruptum Obscuritatem Advoco Amplectere Me | 1.5 |
| AC/DC Highway To Hell | 3.0 |
| AC/DC Back In Black | 3.0 |
| AC/DC T.N.T. | 3.0 |
| AC/DC Let There Be Rock | 3.5 |
| AC/DC High Voltage | 3.5 |
| AC/DC Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap | 2.5 |
| AC/DC Powerage | 3.0 |
| Acid Bath When the Kite String Pops | 4.0 |
| Aether Realm Odin Will Provide | 4.0 |
| Aether Realm One Chosen By The Gods | 4.0 |
| An impressive debut, Aether Realm prove that the genre of folk metal is still alive and well. Technical solos and great riffs are aplenty throughout this album, and there is sure to be much more to expect from this band in the years to come. |
| Agalloch Marrow of the Spirit | 4.0 |
| Agalloch Pale Folklore | 4.5 |
| Agalloch The Mantle | 4.0 |
| Agalloch Ashes Against the Grain | 3.5 |
| Agalloch Faustian Echoes | 3.5 |
| Agalloch From Which of This Oak | 3.5 |
| Al Di Meola Elegant Gypsy | 4.0 |
| Alcest Souvenirs D'Un Autre Monde | 3.5 |
| Alfar Twilight of the Gods | 3.0 |
| About as interesting as Amon Amarth + "epic" keyboards can be. Nothing new here but is fun enough if that concept sounds interesting to you. |
| Alice in Chains Dirt | 4.5 |
| Alice in Chains Facelift | 3.5 |
| Alice in Chains MTV Unplugged | 4.0 |
| Alice in Chains Jar of Flies | 3.5 |
| Alice in Chains Alice in Chains | 3.5 |
| Alice in Chains Black Gives Way to Blue | 4.0 |
| Alice in Chains The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here | 3.5 |
| Alkaloid The Malkuth Grimoire | 4.5 |
The greatest tech death album ever released? Potentially. Unlike rivals Obscura, the music here is
much greater than the sum talent of its musicians. |
| All Shall Perish This Is Where It Ends | 4.0 |
| All Shall Perish Awaken the Dreamers | 3.5 |
| Allegaeon Formshifter | 4.5 |
| Allegaeon Fragments of Form and Function | 4.5 |
| Amon Amarth With Oden on Our Side | 4.5 |
| Amon Amarth Twilight of the Thunder God | 4.5 |
| Amon Amarth Surtur Rising | 4.0 |
| Amon Amarth Once Sent from the Golden Hall | 3.5 |
| Amon Amarth The Crusher | 4.0 |
| Amon Amarth The Avenger | 3.5 |
| Amon Amarth Versus the World | 4.0 |
| Amon Amarth Fate of Norns | 4.0 |
| Amon Amarth Deceiver of the Gods | 4.0 |
| Amorphis Eclipse | 3.0 |
| Anaal Nathrakh In the Constellation of the Black Widow | 4.5 |
| Anaal Nathrakh Vanitas | 3.5 |
| Anaal Nathrakh Desideratum | 3.0 |
| Animals As Leaders Animals as Leaders | 4.0 |
| Animals As Leaders Weightless | 3.5 |
| Animals As Leaders The Joy of Motion | 4.5 |
| Anthrax Fistful of Metal | 2.5 |
| Anthrax Spreading the Disease | 3.0 |
| Apator Masturbate in Praise of Black Satan | 1.0 |
| Arch Enemy Anthems of Rebellion | 2.5 |
| Archspire The Lucid Collective | 4.0 |
| Arcturus La Masquerade Infernale | 4.0 |
| Arcturus Aspera Hiems Symfonia | 4.0 |
| Arcturus The Sham Mirrors | 4.0 |
| Arcturus Sideshow Symphonies | 4.0 |
| Arcturus Arcturian | 4.5 |
| Artillery By Inheritance | 4.0 |
| Ascariasis Ocean of Colour | 4.5 |
| Aspherium The Fall of Therenia | 3.5 |
| Aspid Extravasation | 4.5 |
| Astral Blood Astral Blood | 4.5 |
| At the Gates Slaughter of the Soul | 4.5 |
| At the Gates At War with Reality | 3.0 |
| Atheist Jupiter | 4.0 |
| Atheist Elements | 4.5 |
| Atheist Unquestionable Presence | 4.0 |
| Atheist Piece of Time | 4.0 |
| Atoma Skylight | 4.0 |
| Attack Attack! Someday Came Suddenly | 1.0 |
| Audioslave Audioslave | 4.0 |
| August Burns Red Constellations | 4.0 |
| August Burns Red Sleddin' Hill | 3.5 |
| August Burns Red Found in Far Away Places | 4.5 |
| Autopsy Mental Funeral | 3.0 |
| Autopsy Severed Survival | 4.0 |
| Avenged Sevenfold City of Evil | 2.5 |
| Clocking in at over an hour and ten minutes, this is a hard album to sit through. It should have been condensed to 45 or 50 minutes, which could have been done easily. The musicianship is great, but M. Shadows' vocals just suck horribly. |
| Ayreon The Human Equation | 4.5 |
| BardSpec Hydrogen | 4.0 |
| Baroness Blue Record | 4.0 |
| Baroness First | 3.0 |
| Baroness Second | 2.5 |
| Baroness Red Album | 4.0 |
| Baroness Yellow and Green | 3.5 |
| Baroness First & Second | 2.5 |
| Bathory Bathory | 4.0 |
| Bathory The Return of the Darkness and Evil | 3.5 |
| Bathory Under the Sign of the Black Mark | 4.0 |
| Bathory Blood Fire Death | 4.0 |
| Bathory Hammerheart | 5.0 |
| Bathory Twilight of the Gods | 4.5 |
| Bathory Blood on Ice | 4.0 |
| Battlecross War of Will | 4.5 |
| Not falling into a sophomore slump, Battlecross maintain their signature style of thrash/melodic death metal while adding enough variation and surprises to keep War of Will interesting. |
| Battlecross Pursuit of Honor | 4.5 |
| A refreshingly good debut album, Battlecross take the best of thrash and death metal and have created a fun, energizing, yet relentless album. This is a must-listen for any fan of extreme metal. |
| Battlecross Rise to Power | 4.0 |
| Be'lakor The Frail Tide | 3.5 |
| Be'lakor Stone's Reach | 3.5 |
| Behemoth Zos Kia Cultus (Here and Beyond) | 3.5 |
| Behemoth Thelema.6 | 3.0 |
| Behemoth Satanica | 3.0 |
| Behemoth Pandemonic Incantations | 3.0 |
| Behemoth Grom | 3.5 |
| Behemoth Sventevith (Storming Near the Baltic) | 3.0 |
| Behemoth Demigod | 4.5 |
| Behemoth The Apostasy | 4.5 |
| Behemoth Evangelion | 4.0 |
| Behemoth The Satanist | 4.5 |
As much black metal as it is death metal, The Satanist is Nergal's proof that nearly
dying only strengthened his resolve and ability to create truly brutal music.
ANEGLUS SATANI! |
| Between the Buried and Me Colors | 4.5 |
| Between the Buried and Me The Great Misdirect | 4.5 |
| Between the Buried and Me The Parallax: Hypersleep Dialogues | 3.5 |
| Between the Buried and Me The Parallax II: Future Sequence | 4.5 |
| I used to think Colors was better, but this grew on me. A much more mature release overall. |
| Between the Buried and Me Alaska | 4.0 |
| Between the Buried and Me Coma Ecliptic | 3.0 |
| Between the Buried and Me Automata I | 3.0 |
| It's that time of the decade where internet metal nerds cream themselves over BTBAM making an okay album. |
| Beyond Creation The Aura | 4.5 |
| Beyond Creation Earthborn Evolution | 4.5 |
| Black Crown Initiate The Wreckage of Stars | 4.0 |
| Black Crown Initiate Song of the Crippled Bull | 4.0 |
| Black Sabbath Heaven and Hell | 4.5 |
| Black Sabbath Paranoid | 4.5 |
| Black Sabbath Black Sabbath | 4.0 |
| Black Sabbath Master of Reality | 4.5 |
| Black Sabbath 13 | 4.0 |
| Black Tongue The Unconquerable Dark | 3.5 |
| Black Veil Brides We Stitch These Wounds | 1.0 |
| Black Veil Brides Set the World on Fire | 1.5 |
| Black Veil Brides Wretched and Divine | 2.0 |
| Blaze of Sorrow Vultus Fati | 4.0 |
| Blind Guardian Imaginations from the Other Side | 4.0 |
| Blind Guardian Nightfall in Middle-Earth | 4.5 |
| Blood Incantation Interdimensional Extinction | 4.0 |
| Blood Incantation Starspawn | 4.5 |
| Blood Incantation Hidden History of the Human Race | 5.0 |
| Blood on the Dance Floor All the Rage | 1.0 |
| Blood on the Dance Floor Anthem of the Outcast | 2.0 |
| Bloodbath Resurrection Through Carnage | 3.5 |
| Blotted Science The Animation of Entomology | 4.0 |
| Blotted Science The Machinations of Dementia | 4.5 |
| Borknagar Borknagar | 4.0 |
| Borknagar The Olden Domain | 3.5 |
| Borknagar Winter Thrice | 3.0 |
| Born of Osiris The Discovery | 4.0 |
| Born of Osiris Tomorrow We Die Alive | 3.5 |
| Boston Boston | 4.0 |
| brokeNCYDE I'm Not a Fan, but the Kids Like It! | 1.0 |
| Brought By Pain The Dreamer's Will | 4.0 |
| Burn the Priest Burn the Priest | 2.5 |
| Burzum Hvis Lyset Tar Oss | 4.5 |
| Burzum Det Som Engang Var | 4.0 |
| Burzum Burzum/Aske | 3.0 |
| Burzum Burzum | 3.5 |
| Burzum Aske | 3.0 |
| Burzum Filosofem | 3.0 |
| Burzum Belus | 3.0 |
| Burzum Fallen | 2.5 |
| Burzum Umskiptar | 2.0 |
| Camel Camel | 4.5 |
| Camel Mirage | 5.0 |
| Camel The Snow Goose | 4.0 |
| Camel Moonmadness | 4.5 |
| Cannibal Corpse Torture | 4.0 |
| Cannibal Corpse Tomb of the Mutilated | 3.5 |
| Cannibal Corpse The Bleeding | 3.0 |
| Cannibal Corpse Eaten Back to Life | 3.5 |
| Cannibal Corpse Butchered at Birth | 3.0 |
| Cannibal Corpse A Skeletal Domain | 4.0 |
| Carach Angren Ethereal Veiled Existence | 3.5 |
| Carach Angren Lammendam | 4.0 |
| Carach Angren Death Came Through a Phantom Ship | 3.5 |
| Carach Angren Where the Corpses Sink Forever | 3.5 |
| Carach Angren This Is No Fairytale | 2.5 |
| Carcass Necroticism: Descanting the Insalubrious | 4.0 |
| Carcass Reek of Putrefaction | 3.5 |
| Carcass Symphonies of Sickness | 4.0 |
| Carcass Surgical Steel | 4.5 |
| Carcass Heartwork | 4.5 |
| Carcass Surgical Remission/Surplus Steel | 3.5 |
| Casualties of Cool Casualties of Cool | 4.5 |
| Cattle Decapitation Monolith of Inhumanity | 4.5 |
| Cattle Decapitation To Serve Man | 3.0 |
| Cattle Decapitation Humanure | 3.5 |
| Cattle Decapitation Karma.Bloody.Karma | 3.5 |
| Cattle Decapitation The Harvest Floor | 4.0 |
| Cattle Decapitation The Anthropocene Extinction | 4.0 |
| Not as dynamic or hard-hitting as Monolith, but still a great release. 'Pacific Grim' is one of their best tracks to date. |
| Celtic Frost To Mega Therion | 2.0 |
| Celtic Frost Morbid Tales | 1.5 |
| Celtic Frost Emperor's Return | 1.5 |
| Chelsea Wolfe Hiss Spun | 4.5 |
| Children of Bodom Relentless Reckless Forever | 3.5 |
| Children of Bodom Hate Crew Deathroll | 4.0 |
| Children of Bodom Follow the Reaper | 4.5 |
| Children of Bodom Tokyo Warhearts | 4.0 |
| Children of Bodom Something Wild | 4.5 |
| Children of Bodom Hatebreeder | 5.0 |
| Children of Bodom Are You Dead Yet? | 4.0 |
| Children of Bodom Blooddrunk | 3.5 |
| Children of Bodom Halo of Blood | 4.0 |
| Children of Bodom I Worship Chaos | 3.0 |
| Not terrible, just pretty boring... looks like Halo of Blood is to Bodom as Endgame is to Megadeth |
| Chris Cornell Scream | 1.5 |
| Chris Cornell Songbook | 4.0 |
| Christian Muenzner Timewarp | 4.0 |
| Christian Muenzner Beyond the Wall of Sleep | 3.5 |
| Clint Mansell, Kronos Quartet and Mogwai The Fountain | 4.5 |
| Cobalt Gin | 3.0 |
| Control Denied The Fragile Art of Existence | 4.0 |
| Converge Jane Doe | 4.0 |
| Converge All We Love We Leave Behind | 4.5 |
| Coprocephalic Gluttonous Chunks | 3.0 |
| Crow Black Sky Pantheion | 4.5 |
| Cryptopsy Cryptopsy | 3.5 |
| Cryptopsy None So Vile | 4.5 |
| Cryptopsy Blasphemy Made Flesh | 4.0 |
| Cryptopsy The Unspoken King | 1.5 |
| Cynic Re-Traced | 3.5 |
| Cynic Focus | 4.5 |
| Cynic Traced in Air | 4.5 |
| Cynic Carbon-Based Anatomy | 3.5 |
| Cynic Kindly Bent to Free Us | 4.0 |
Eat your hearts out Periphery and other "progressive metal" bands. You wish you could create
music with songwriting half as good as this. EDIT: Looks like my inital soundoff was too
opinionated. My apologies djentfags. Needs another listen. |
| Daft Punk Random Access Memories | 3.5 |
| Dan Swano Moontower | 4.0 |
| Danny Elfman The Nightmare Before Christmas | 4.5 |
| Dark Angel Darkness Descends | 4.0 |
| Dark Funeral The Secrets of the Black Arts | 4.0 |
| Dark Funeral Dark Funeral | 3.5 |
| Dark Funeral Vobiscum Satanas | 4.0 |
| Dark Funeral Teach Children to Worship Satan | 4.5 |
| Dark Funeral Diabolis Interium | 4.5 |
| Darkspace Dark Space III I | 4.5 |
| Dark 4.20: Cosmic Blazing |
| Darkspace Dark Space I | 3.5 |
| Darkspace Minus One | 3.5 |
| Darkspace Dark Space II | 3.5 |
| Darkspace Dark Space III | 4.0 |
| Darkthrone Panzerfaust | 3.5 |
| Darkthrone Under a Funeral Moon | 4.0 |
| Darkthrone A Blaze in the Northern Sky | 4.5 |
| Darkthrone Transilvanian Hunger | 4.5 |
| Darkthrone Soulside Journey | 4.0 |
| Darkthrone The Underground Resistance | 4.0 |
| If you shared my opinion of being unimpressed by this album upon hearing it the first time, this is definitely a grower. A very solid album, I expect to like it even more with repeated listens. |
| David Hasselhoff Night Rocker | 1.0 |
| Dead in the Manger Cessation | 4.0 |
| Deadmau5 For Lack of a Better Name | 3.5 |
| Deadmau5 The Veldt | 2.5 |
| Deafheaven Sunbather | 4.5 |
| Deafheaven Roads to Judah | 4.0 |
| Deafheaven New Bermuda | 4.0 |
| Death Live in Eindhoven | 3.5 |
| Death Live in L.A.: Death & Raw | 4.0 |
| Death Individual Thought Patterns | 4.5 |
| Death Human | 4.5 |
| The 2011 re-release has made this album a true masterpiece. All the instruments sound perfect, and the stellar bass performance given by Steve DiGiorgio is now audible. |
| Death Spiritual Healing | 4.0 |
| Death Scream Bloody Gore | 3.5 |
| Death Leprosy | 4.0 |
| Death Symbolic | 4.5 |
| Death The Sound of Perseverance | 5.0 |
| Death Angel The Ultra-Violence | 4.0 |
| Death Grips Exmilitary | 4.5 |
| Death Grips Government Plates | 3.5 |
| Death Grips The Money Store | 5.0 |
| Death Grips No Love Deep Web | 4.0 |
| Death Grips The Powers That B - Part I: Niggas on the Moon | 4.0 |
| Death Grips Death Grips | 3.5 |
| Death Grips Fashion Week | 3.5 |
| Death Grips The Powers That B - Part II: Jenny Death | 4.5 |
| Deathspell Omega Veritas Diaboli Manet in Aeternum | 4.0 |
| Deathspell Omega Mass Grave Aesthetics | 4.0 |
| Deathspell Omega Si Monvmentvm Reqvires Circvmspice | 4.0 |
| Deathspell Omega Fas - Ite, Maledicti, In Ignem Aeternum | 4.5 |
| Deathspell Omega Paracletus | 5.0 |
| Deathspell Omega Drought | 4.5 |
| Deathspell Omega Diabolus Absconditus | 3.5 |
| Deathspell Omega Kenose | 4.0 |
| Deathspell Omega Infernal Battles | 3.5 |
| Deathspell Omega Inquisitors of Satan | 3.5 |
| Decapitated Winds of Creation | 4.0 |
| Decapitated Nihility | 4.5 |
| Decapitated Carnival Is Forever | 4.0 |
| Decapitated The Negation | 3.5 |
| Decapitated Organic Hallucinosis | 3.5 |
| Decapitated Blood Mantra | 2.5 |
| Decrepit Birth Diminishing Between Worlds | 4.5 |
| Decrepit Birth ...And Time Begins | 4.0 |
| Decrepit Birth Polarity | 4.5 |
| Deep Purple Machine Head | 4.5 |
| Demolition Hammer Tortured Existence | 4.0 |
| Demolition Hammer Epidemic of Violence | 4.5 |
| Demonaz March of the Norse | 3.5 |
| Design the Skyline Nevaeh | 1.5 |
| Destroyer 666 Cold Steel...for an Iron Age | 4.0 |
| Dethklok Dethalbum III | 3.5 |
| Dethklok The Dethalbum | 3.5 |
| Dethklok Dethalbum II | 4.0 |
| Dethklok The Doomstar Requiem | 4.0 |
| DevilDriver DevilDriver | 2.0 |
| DevilDriver The Fury of Our Maker's Hand | 2.5 |
| DevilDriver Pray for Villains | 2.5 |
| DevilDriver The Last Kind Words | 2.5 |
| Devin Townsend Physicist | 4.0 |
| Devin Townsend Ocean Machine: Biomech | 4.5 |
| Devin Townsend Infinity | 4.0 |
| Devin Townsend Terria | 4.5 |
| Devin Townsend Ziltoid the Omniscient | 4.5 |
| Devin Townsend Unplugged | 4.0 |
| Devin Townsend Project European Tour | 4.5 |
| Devin Townsend Project Ghost | 4.5 |
| Devin Townsend Project Deconstruction | 5.0 |
| This album is the epitome of all things Devin Townsend: it has humor, brutality, melody, and everything else associated with Devy. The guest performances are amazing, and Devy's songwriting is perfection. This is an easy contender for the best album of 2011 and the best album Devin Townsend has ever released. |
| Devin Townsend Project Ki | 4.5 |
| Devin Townsend Project Z2 | 4.0 |
| Devin Townsend Project Addicted | 4.5 |
| Devin Townsend Project Contain Us | 4.5 |
The first disc consists of great bonus tracks that are similar to one of each of the four DTP
albums, while the second disc is a bunch of demos from each album. There are also a few
silly tracks including what I perceived as Devy's attempt at hardcore punk and a hip-hop
track done by Devin and Deconstruction drummer Dirk Verbeuren. |
| Devin Townsend Project By A Thread: Live in London 2011 | 4.5 |
| Devin Townsend Project Epiclouder | 4.0 |
| Devin Townsend Project Epicloud | 4.5 |
| Epicloud is just simply epic. HevyDevy returns with a masterpiece that could easily go down as the best album of 2012. Combining his signature metal elements with new musical theatrics, Devin Townsend has presented us with yet another mindblowing album. |
| Devin Townsend Project Transcendence | 4.0 |
| Diamond Head Lightning to the Nations | 4.0 |
| Dimmu Borgir In Sorte Diaboli | 2.5 |
| Dio The Last in Line | 3.0 |
| Dio Holy Diver | 3.5 |
| Direwolf Beyond the Lands of Human Existence | 3.0 |
| Disillusion Back to Times of Splendor | 3.5 |
| Diskreet Engage the Mechanicality | 4.0 |
| Dissection The Somberlain | 4.5 |
| Dissection Storm of the Light's Bane | 5.0 |
| Dissection Reinkaos | 3.5 |
Although it is no Storm of the Light's Bane, the final Dissection record is a fun
melodeath album fitting for the end of the band's dark reign. |
| Djevel Saa Raa Og Kald | 3.5 |
| Dodheimsgard A Umbra Omega | 4.5 |
| Dodheimsgard Black Medium Current | 4.5 |
| DragonForce Ultra Beatdown | 1.0 |
| DragonForce Inhuman Rampage | 1.0 |
| DragonForce The Power Within | 2.5 |
| DragonForce Sonic Firestorm | 1.5 |
| DragonForce Twilight Dementia | 1.5 |
| Dream Theater Black Clouds and Silver Linings | 4.0 |
| Dream Theater Systematic Chaos | 2.0 |
| Dream Theater Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes from a Memory | 4.5 |
| Dream Theater When Dream and Day Unite | 3.0 |
| Dream Theater Images and Words | 4.5 |
| Dream Theater Awake | 3.0 |
| Dream Theater Octavarium | 4.0 |
| Dream Theater A Dramatic Turn of Events | 4.0 |
| Dream Theater Dream Theater | 4.0 |
| Edge of Sanity Crimson | 4.0 |
| Einherjer Av Oss, For Oss | 3.5 |
| Electric Wizard Dopethrone | 4.0 |
| Eluveitie Spirit | 3.5 |
| Eluveitie Slania | 4.0 |
| Eluveitie Helvetios | 3.5 |
| Eluveitie Origins | 3.5 |
| Emmure Eternal Enemies | 1.0 |
| Emperor Reverence | 4.0 |
| Emperor As the Shadows Rise | 3.0 |
| Emperor Emperor | 4.0 |
| Emperor Wrath of the Tyrant | 3.0 |
| Emperor In the Nightside Eclipse | 5.0 |
| Emperor Anthems to the Welkin at Dusk | 4.5 |
| Emperor IX Equilibrium | 4.0 |
| Emperor Prometheus: The Discipline of Fire... | 4.5 |
| Emperor Live Inferno | 4.5 |
| Enfold Darkness Our Cursed Rapture | 3.0 |
| Ensiferum Unsung Heroes | 3.5 |
| Ensiferum Victory Songs | 4.0 |
| Ensiferum Ensiferum | 4.5 |
| Ensiferum Iron | 4.0 |
| Ensiferum Dragonheads | 3.0 |
| Ensiferum From Afar | 4.0 |
| Ensiferum One Man Army | 3.5 |
| Enslaved In Times | 5.0 |
| The first two tracks weed out the trv kvlt kids, and the final three showcase some of the furthest rexperimental boundaries Enslaved have ever pushed. This will likely be seen as even more divisive rthan Vertebrae, but the band have once again released a phenomenal record. |
| Enslaved The Sleeping Gods | 4.5 |
| Enslaved Vertebrae | 4.5 |
| Enslaved Ruun | 4.5 |
| Enslaved Isa | 4.5 |
| Enslaved Hordanes Land | 4.5 |
| Enslaved Thorn | 4.0 |
| Enslaved Axioma Ethica Odini | 5.0 |
| Enslaved Frost | 4.5 |
| Enslaved Vikingligr Veldi | 4.5 |
| Enslaved Eld | 4.0 |
| Although it pales in comparison to most of the Enslaved albums that came before and after it, Eld is still an impressive work of black/viking metal that foreshadowed the full-on progressive route Enslaved would take in the future. |
| Enslaved Blodhemn | 4.0 |
| Enslaved Mardraum - Beyond the Within | 4.0 |
| Enslaved Monumension | 4.0 |
| Enslaved Below the Lights | 4.5 |
| Enslaved RIITIIR | 5.0 |
| Enslaved Yggdrasil | 4.0 |
| Despite having some of the worst production of early Norwegian black metal, this demo clearly shows that Enslaved were already ahead of their peers in terms of experimentation and songwriting ability. Considering that main composer Ivar Bjornson was only 15 at the time of recording makes this an even more impressive feat. |
| Enslaved Nema | 3.5 |
| Enslaved The Sleeping Gods – Thorn | 4.0 |
| Enslaved Roadburn Live | 4.0 |
| Enslaved E | 4.5 |
| Enslaved: "how many levels of GOOD 70s prog worship are you on" Opeth: "idk like 3 or 4" Enslaved: "you are like little baby, watch this" |
| Enslaved Utgard | 4.5 |
| Enslaved Caravans to the Outer Worlds | 4.0 |
| Enslaved Heimdal | 4.5 |
| Entombed Left Hand Path | 3.5 |
| Epica The Divine Conspiracy | 4.0 |
| Epica The Phantom Agony | 4.0 |
| Epica Consign to Oblivion | 3.0 |
| Epica Design Your Universe | 4.0 |
| Epica Requiem for the Indifferent | 4.0 |
| Epica The Quantum Enigma | 4.0 |
| Ereb Altor By Honour | 4.0 |
| Evile Enter the Grave | 3.0 |
| Evile Infected Nations | 3.0 |
| Evile Five Serpent's Teeth | 3.5 |
| Evile Skull | 3.0 |
| Falls of Rauros The Light That Dwells in Rotten Wood | 4.0 |
| Fallujah The Harvest Wombs | 4.5 |
| Fallujah Nomadic | 4.5 |
| Fallujah The Flesh Prevails | 3.0 |
| An impressive effort but not the metal masterpiece of the year it has been hyped to be, rcould potentially be a grower.rEDIT: It's not. |
| Fallujah Dreamless | 3.5 |
| Finntroll Nifelvind | 4.5 |
| Finntroll Midnattens Widunder | 3.0 |
| Finntroll Jaktens Tid | 3.5 |
| Finntroll Nattfodd | 3.5 |
| Finntroll Blodsvept (EP Version) | 3.5 |
| While this EP doesn't do much except generate hype for the next album, it's still a fun listen. The two tracks off of Blodsvept sound fantastic and the live tracks are fun. The Pet Shop Boys cover is interesting and pretty humorous, while the demo of "Rivfader" from the first album is a good listen as well. |
| Finntroll Ur Jordens Djup | 4.0 |
| Finntroll Visor Om Slutet | 3.5 |
| Finntroll Trollhammaren | 4.0 |
| Finntroll Blodsvept | 3.5 |
| Fit for an Autopsy Absolute Hope Absolute Hell | 3.5 |
| Gojiracore is here, and it's pretty awesome |
| Fleshgod Apocalypse Oracles | 4.0 |
| Fleshgod Apocalypse Mafia | 4.0 |
| Fleshgod Apocalypse Agony | 4.0 |
| Fleshgod Apocalypse Labyrinth | 4.5 |
| Fleurety Min Tid Skal Komme | 4.5 |
| Foo Fighters The Colour and the Shape | 3.0 |
| Frank Zappa Hot Rats | 4.5 |
| Fredrik Thordendal's Special Defects Sol Niger Within V3.33 | 4.5 |
| Fredrik Thordendal's Special Defects Sol Niger Within | 4.0 |
| Full of Hell and Merzbow Full of Hell and Merzbow | 4.0 |
| Galar De Gjenlevende | 3.5 |
| Garry Schyman Bioshock Score | 4.0 |
| Geoff Tate Kings & Thieves | 1.5 |
| Ghost (SWE) Opus Eponymous | 4.5 |
| Ghost (SWE) Infestissumam | 4.0 |
| Ghost return with a fantastic album fitting for the rise of the Antichrist. The band has experimented more, adding choirs and a more liberal use of the keyboard. Standout tracks are Infestissumam/Per Aspera Ad Inferi, Secular Haze, Ghuleh/Zombie Queen, Year Zero, and Monstrance Clock. |
| Ghost (SWE) If You Have Ghost | 4.0 |
| Ghost (SWE) Meliora | 4.0 |
| Ghost Bath Moonlover | 3.5 |
| Giant Squid Metridium Fields | 3.0 |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor F♯ A♯ ∞ | 4.0 |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven | 3.5 |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor 'Asunder, Sweet and Other Distress' | 3.5 |
| Gojira Terra Incognita | 3.5 |
| Gojira The Link | 3.5 |
| Gojira From Mars to Sirius | 4.0 |
| Gojira The Way of All Flesh | 4.5 |
| Gojira L'Enfant Sauvage | 4.0 |
| While not as impressive as it's preceding album, L'Enfant Sauvage proves that the French metal titans are still at the top of their game. This is definitely a 2012 album worth listening to. |
| Gojira Magma | 2.5 |
| Much like the album cover suggests, Magma is a steaming pile of shit |
| Gorgoroth Ad Majorem Sathanas Gloriam | 2.5 |
| Gorgoroth Twilight of the Idols | 2.0 |
| Gorgoroth Destroyer | 1.5 |
| Gorgoroth Antichrist | 2.5 |
| Gorgoroth Pentagram | 2.0 |
| Gorgoroth Under the Sign of Hell | 1.5 |
| Gorgoroth Incipit Satan | 2.5 |
| Gorgoroth Instinctus Bestialis | 2.5 |
| Gorgoroth: The Search for their Neutered Testicles |
| Gorguts The Erosion of Sanity | 4.0 |
| Gorguts Considered Dead | 4.0 |
| Gorguts Obscura | 4.5 |
| Gorguts From Wisdom to Hate | 4.0 |
| Gorguts Colored Sands | 4.5 |
| Green Carnation Light of Day, Day of Darkness | 4.0 |
| Grumblecunt I Piss Shit | 1.0 |
| Guns N' Roses Use Your Illusion II | 3.0 |
| Guns N' Roses Use Your Illusion I | 3.0 |
| Guns N' Roses Appetite for Destruction | 3.5 |
| Gunther Pleasureman | 2.0 |
| Gustav Holst The Planets, Op. 32 | 4.0 |
| Haken Aquarius | 4.5 |
| Haken Visions | 4.5 |
| Hannes Grossmann The Radial Covenant | 4.0 |
| Harm's Way (USA-IL) Rust | 3.0 |
| Hawkwind Warrior on the Edge of Time | 4.0 |
| Heathen Victims of Deception | 3.5 |
| Heathen Breaking the Silence | 2.5 |
| Heaven and Hell The Devil You Know | 4.0 |
| Herrschaft Tesla | 4.0 |
| Holy Grail Crisis In Utopia | 4.0 |
| Hoth Infinite Darkness | 3.5 |
| Hoth Oathbreaker | 4.5 |
| Hour of Penance The Vile Conception | 3.0 |
| Hour of Penance Sedition | 3.5 |
| Howard Shore The Lord of the Rings: Complete Trilogy | 5.0 |
| I Between Two Worlds | 4.0 |
| Iced Earth Tribute to the Gods | 3.5 |
| Iced Earth The Blessed and the Damned | 4.0 |
| Iced Earth Something Wicked This Way Comes | 4.0 |
| ICS Vortex Storm Seeker | 3.5 |
| Ihsahn angL | 4.5 |
Ihsahn's second solo offering declines in quality slightly from The Adversary, but is still
and exceptional album. |
| Ihsahn The Adversary | 4.5 |
| Eclectic mix of prog metal, black metal, classic metal, and symphonic metal, with some thrash and death metal influences as well. The heaviest of Ihsahn's first three albums. |
| Ihsahn After | 5.0 |
| Ihsahn's most diverse solo album, with all the metal elements present in previous albums (enhanced by the inclusion of 8-string guitars) along with longer, more progressive passages and a saxophone that works surprisingly well throughout, especially in the closing track "On the Shores." |
| Ihsahn Eremita | 4.0 |
| While this album isn't as great as Ihsahn's previous effort "After," he has still crafted a unique and diverse album with "Eremita." The overall style is extreme progressive metal, yet the black metal and jazz elements seen in his previous works are still present. If you enjoy Ihsahn's prior solo work then you should definitely give this a listen. |
| Ihsahn Das Seelenbrechen | 4.0 |
| Ihsahn has returned with a an album that is heavily experimental, yet is also an interesting listen. Although the first few tracks on the album stand out far more than the closing tracks, the album is a whole is an impressive effort that stands out more than last year's Eremita. |
| Immolation Kingdom of Conspiracy | 3.0 |
| Immolation Majesty and Decay | 4.0 |
| Immolation Close to a World Below | 3.5 |
| Immolation Providence | 3.5 |
| Immortal Sons of Northern Darkness | 4.5 |
| Immortal At the Heart of Winter | 5.0 |
| Immortal Blizzard Beasts | 4.0 |
| Immortal Battles in the North | 3.5 |
| Immortal Diabolical Fullmoon Mysticism | 3.5 |
| Immortal Pure Holocaust | 4.0 |
| Immortal Damned In Black | 4.0 |
| Immortal All Shall Fall | 4.0 |
| Immortal Immortal (Demo) | 2.5 |
| Howler monkey death metal. Terrible production and it doesn't sound anything like Immortal, but still pretty kvlt. |
| Immortal Immortal | 3.5 |
| Immortal The Seventh Date of Blashyrkh | 4.0 |
| Immortal Northern Chaos Gods | 4.0 |
| Imperial Triumphant Vile Luxury | 4.0 |
| In Flames The Jester Race | 3.5 |
| Intervals The Space Between | 4.0 |
| Intervals In Time | 4.5 |
| Intervals A Voice Within | 4.0 |
| Iron Maiden The Final Frontier | 4.0 |
| Iron Maiden A Matter of Life and Death | 4.0 |
| Iron Maiden Brave New World | 4.0 |
| Iron Maiden Fear of the Dark | 2.5 |
| Iron Maiden Seventh Son of a Seventh Son | 4.5 |
| Iron Maiden Powerslave | 4.5 |
| Iron Maiden Iron Maiden | 3.5 |
| Iron Maiden Killers | 3.5 |
| Iron Maiden The Number of the Beast | 4.5 |
| Iron Maiden Piece of Mind | 4.0 |
| Iron Maiden Somewhere in Time | 4.5 |
| Iron Maiden No Prayer for the Dying | 2.0 |
| Iron Maiden The Book of Souls | 3.5 |
| Ivar Bjornson and Einar Selvik Skuggsja: A Piece for Mind & Mirror | 4.5 |
| Ivar Bjornson and Einar Selvik Hugsjá | 4.5 |
Rather than the pretty even split between Enslaved and Wardruna that was Skuggsja, this second
collaboration from the Norwegian duo is much more akin to the latter band (albeit with a drum kit,
acoustic guitar, and some electric guitar as well).
While no Wardruna clone, Einar Selvik's haunting vocals are still the star of the record. The
world could always use more of his voice, right? |
| Jethro Tull Aqualung | 4.0 |
| Job For A Cowboy Gloom | 3.5 |
| Job For A Cowboy Ruination | 3.0 |
| Job For A Cowboy Genesis | 3.5 |
| Job For A Cowboy Sun Eater | 3.5 |
| Job For A Cowboy Demonocracy | 4.0 |
| Joe Satriani Surfing With The Alien | 2.5 |
| John Petrucci Suspended Animation | 4.0 |
| Joy Division Unknown Pleasures | 3.0 |
| Judas Priest Nostradamus | 4.0 |
| Judas Priest Angel of Retribution | 4.0 |
| Judas Priest Painkiller | 5.0 |
| Judas Priest Defenders of the Faith | 4.5 |
| Judas Priest Screaming for Vengeance | 3.5 |
| Judas Priest British Steel | 3.0 |
| Judas Priest Stained Class | 4.0 |
| Judas Priest Sad Wings of Destiny | 4.0 |
| Judas Priest Killing Machine | 3.5 |
| Judas Priest Redeemer of Souls | 3.0 |
| Judas Priest Firepower | 3.5 |
| Kalisia Cybion | 4.5 |
| Kalmah Swamplord | 4.5 |
| Kalmah They Will Return | 4.5 |
| Kalmah Swampsong | 4.0 |
| Kamelot The Black Halo | 2.5 |
| Kampfar Mellom Skogkledde Aaser | 4.5 |
| Kampfar Kampfar | 3.5 |
Combining harsh Norwegian black metal with acoustic guitars, Norse folk vocals, and symphonic
keyboards, Kampfar create a promising debut. |
| Kampfar Norse | 4.0 |
| Kampfar Fra Underverdenen | 4.0 |
| Kampfar Kvass | 3.0 |
| Kampfar Heimgang | 3.5 |
| Kampfar Mare | 4.0 |
| This release cements Kampfar's well-deserved place in black metal, with an album chock full of riffs that hearken back to the heyday of Norwegian black metal skillfully combined with crushingly heavy modern production. |
| Kampfar Djevelmakt | 4.0 |
| Karnivool Sound Awake | 3.0 |
| Karnivool Themata | 3.0 |
| Kendrick Lamar To Pimp a Butterfly | 4.5 |
| Khallice The Journey | 2.5 |
| Killer Be Killed Killer Be Killed | 3.5 |
| King 810 Memoirs of a Murderer | 1.0 |
| so edge |
| King Crimson In the Court of the Crimson King | 4.0 |
| King Diamond Abigail | 4.5 |
| King Diamond Fatal Portrait | 3.0 |
| King of Asgard Fi'mbulvinter | 4.0 |
| King of Asgard ...to North | 4.0 |
| Kvelertak Kvelertak | 4.0 |
| Kvelertak Meir | 3.5 |
| Lady Gaga The Fame Monster | 3.5 |
| Lady Gaga The Fame | 3.5 |
| Lady Gaga Born This Way | 4.0 |
| Lady Gaga Artpop | 3.0 |
| Lamb of God Resolution | 4.0 |
| Lamb of God's first studio album in three years proves that they are still titans of modern metal. While the songs contained provide little deviation from anything heard on Ashes of the Wake onward, the riffs and songwriting are the closest in quality to their 2004 magnum opus. A perfect way to start off metal in 2012. |
| Lamb of God Wrath | 4.0 |
| Lamb of God Sacrament | 3.5 |
| Lamb of God As the Palaces Burn | 3.5 |
| Lamb of God Ashes of the Wake | 4.5 |
| Lamb of God New American Gospel | 3.5 |
| Lamb of God VII: Sturm und Drang | 3.5 |
| Led Zeppelin Physical Graffiti | 3.5 |
| Led Zeppelin Houses of the Holy | 3.5 |
| Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin IV | 4.5 |
| Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin III | 4.0 |
| Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin II | 4.5 |
| Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin | 4.5 |
| Leprous The Congregation | 4.5 |
| Les Discrets Septembre Et Ses Dernières Pensées | 4.0 |
| Les Discrets Ariettes Oubliees... | 3.5 |
| Liquid Tension Experiment Liquid Tension Experiment 2 | 3.5 |
| Liquid Tension Experiment Liquid Tension Experiment | 3.5 |
| Liturgy The Ark Work | 1.5 |
| Lordi The Arockalypse | 1.0 |
| Lost Ubikyst in Apeiron Abstruse Imbeciles Nailed on Slavery | 4.5 |
| Lou Reed Metal Machine Music | 1.5 |
| Lou Reed and Metallica Lulu | 1.0 |
| Ludwig van Beethoven Symphony No. 9 in D minor, Op. 125 | 4.5 |
| Ludwig van Beethoven Piano Sonata No14 C-sharp minor,Op.27No2 | 4.5 |
| Machine Head The Blackening | 3.0 |
| Machine Head Unto the Locust | 3.5 |
| Magma Mekanïk Destruktïẁ Kommandöh | 3.5 |
| Magma Live | 4.0 |
| Magma Kobaïa | 3.0 |
| Majesties Vast Reaches Unclaimed | 4.0 |
| Marilyn Manson Antichrist Superstar | 3.0 |
| Martriden Martriden EP | 3.5 |
| Master's Hammer Ritual | 4.0 |
| Mastery Valis | 1.5 |
| Mastodon Crack the Skye | 4.0 |
| Mastodon Leviathan | 3.5 |
| Mastodon Remission | 3.0 |
| Mastodon Blood Mountain | 3.5 |
| Mastodon The Hunter | 4.0 |
| Mastodon Once More 'Round the Sun | 3.5 |
| Mayhem Ordo ad Chao | 3.5 |
| Mayhem De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas | 5.0 |
| Mayhem Dawn of the Black Hearts | 3.5 |
| Mayhem Live in Leipzig | 4.0 |
| Mayhem Wolf's Lair Abyss | 4.0 |
| Mayhem Grand Declaration of War | 2.5 |
| Mayhem Chimera | 4.0 |
| Mayhem Deathcrush | 4.0 |
| Mayhem Life Eternal | 3.0 |
| Mayhem Out from the Dark | 4.0 |
| Mayhem Pure Fucking Armageddon | 2.5 |
| Mayhem Esoteric Warfare | 3.5 |
| Megadeth Th1rt3en | 3.5 |
| Megadeth The System Has Failed | 4.0 |
| Megadeth Risk | 2.5 |
| Megadeth Cryptic Writings | 3.0 |
| Megadeth Youthanasia | 4.0 |
| Megadeth Killing Is My Business... and Business Is Good! | 4.5 |
| Megadeth Peace Sells... but Who's Buying? | 4.5 |
| Megadeth So Far, So Good... So What! | 4.0 |
| Megadeth Rust in Peace | 5.0 |
| Megadeth Countdown to Extinction | 4.0 |
| Megadeth The World Needs a Hero | 3.0 |
| Megadeth United Abominations | 4.0 |
| Megadeth Endgame | 4.5 |
| Megadeth Super Collider | 3.0 |
| While it's not the shitfest we were all expecting, Super Collider is nevertheless a boring and unimportant addition to Megadeth's discography. RIP Megadeth comeback 2004 - 2009. |
| Mekong Delta Visions Fugitives | 3.5 |
| Mercyful Fate Melissa | 4.5 |
| Mercyful Fate Don't Break the Oath | 4.0 |
| Mesarthim Isolate | 3.5 |
| fun abm with pretty piano and nice synth/electronic textures |
| Meshuggah Alive | 4.5 |
| Meshuggah obZen | 4.5 |
| Meshuggah Nothing (Re-Release) | 4.5 |
| Meshuggah Catch Thirtythree | 4.0 |
| Meshuggah I | 4.5 |
| Meshuggah Nothing | 4.0 |
| Meshuggah Contradictions Collapse | 4.0 |
| Meshuggah None | 4.0 |
| Meshuggah Destroy Erase Improve | 4.5 |
| Meshuggah Chaosphere | 4.0 |
| Meshuggah Koloss | 4.5 |
Meshuggah attempted to create an organic album and they have succeeded. Koloss sounds like
it came from the heart of an ancient temple at the depths of a dark jungle. This album
proves that Meshuggah are an ancient alien species whose only purpose is to mindfuck the
human race. |
| Meshuggah Psykisk Testbild | 3.5 |
| Meshuggah Selfcaged | 3.5 |
| Meshuggah The True Human Design | 3.5 |
| Meshuggah The Violent Sleep Of Reason | 4.5 |
| Metallica Death Magnetic | 3.0 |
| Metallica Reload | 2.0 |
| Metallica ...And Justice for All | 4.5 |
| Metallica Master of Puppets | 4.0 |
| Metallica Ride the Lightning | 4.5 |
| Metallica Kill 'Em All | 4.0 |
| Metallica Metallica | 3.0 |
| Metallica Load | 2.5 |
| Metallica St. Anger | 1.0 |
| Metallica Live Shit: Binge & Purge | 4.0 |
| Metallica Garage Inc. | 3.5 |
| Metallica Beyond Magnetic | 3.0 |
| Misthyrming Söngvar elds og óreiðu | 4.0 |
| Moonlight Sorcery Piercing Through the Frozen Eternity | 4.5 |
| Moonlight Sorcery Nightwind: The Conqueror From The Stars | 4.0 |
| Moonlight Sorcery Horned Lord of the Thorned Castle | 4.0 |
| Morbid Angel Covenant | 4.0 |
| Morbid Angel Altars of Madness | 4.0 |
| Morbid Angel Blessed Are the Sick | 4.5 |
| Morbid Angel Illud Divinum Insanus | 1.5 |
| Morbid Angel Gateways to Annihilation | 2.5 |
| Morbid Angel Heretic | 2.5 |
| Morbid Angel Formulas Fatal to the Flesh | 3.0 |
| Morbid Angel Domination | 3.0 |
| Morbid Saint Spectrum of Death | 4.5 |
| Motley Crue Shout at the Devil | 3.0 |
| Motley Crue Too Fast for Love | 2.5 |
| Motley Crue Dr. Feelgood | 3.0 |
| Motorhead Ace of Spades | 2.0 |
| Motorhead Bomber | 1.5 |
| Motorhead Overkill | 1.5 |
| Murder Construct Results | 4.0 |
| A great modern deathgrind record that proves that Travis Ryan is one of the best vocalists in the genre. A lot of the record is similar, but that is definitely not a bad thing. The experimental closer "Resultados" ends the album on a high note and puts this this album up with Cattle Decapitation's 'Monolith of Inhumanity' as one of the best deathgrind albums of the past few years. |
| Muse The Resistance | 3.5 |
| Muse Black Holes & Revelations | 4.0 |
| Muse Absolution | 4.5 |
| Muse Origin of Symmetry | 4.5 |
| Muse Showbiz | 4.0 |
| Muse The 2nd Law | 2.5 |
| Myrkur Myrkur | 3.5 |
| Myrkur M | 3.0 |
| Nails Abandon All Life | 4.0 |
| Nails Unsilent Death | 3.5 |
| Nails You Will Never Be One of Us | 4.5 |
| Naked City Naked City | 2.5 |
| Napalm Death Scum | 3.0 |
| Native Construct Quiet World | 4.0 |
| Ne Obliviscaris Citadel | 4.5 |
| Ne Obliviscaris Portal of I | 4.5 |
| Ne Obliviscaris Urn | 3.0 |
| Neckbeard Deathcamp White Nationalism is for Basement Dwelling Losers | 3.5 |
| The most topical black metal album of the decade. "BATHE YOUR BONES IN BAJA BLAST." |
| Necrophagist Epitaph | 4.5 |
| Necrophagist Onset of Putrefaction | 4.0 |
| Negura Bunget OM | 4.0 |
| Nevermore Dreaming Neon Black | 3.5 |
| Nevermore Enemies Of Reality | 3.0 |
| Nexilva Eschatologies | 3.5 |
| Nickelback Dark Horse | 1.0 |
| Nile Ithyphallic | 2.5 |
| Nine Inch Nails The Downward Spiral | 3.5 |
| Nirvana Nevermind | 2.5 |
| Nirvana In Utero | 2.0 |
| Nokturnal Mortum Lunar Poetry | 4.5 |
| Nokturnal Mortum's second long-length demo proved that they were already ahead of the rest of the NSBM scene in terms of musical and songwriting abilities. Lunar Poetry is a symphonic black metal assault that features folk keyboard melodies, ambient elements, and guitar solos of a caliber not found in most black metal. |
| Nokturnal Mortum Goat Horns | 4.0 |
| Nokturnal Mortum Twilightfall | 4.0 |
| Nokturnal Mortum The Voice of Steel | 4.5 |
| Nokturnal Mortum Verity | 4.0 |
| Obituary Slowly We Rot | 3.5 |
| Obituary Cause of Death | 4.0 |
| Obliteration Black Death Horizon | 5.0 |
| Obliteration Perpetual Decay | 4.0 |
| Obliteration Nekropsalms | 4.5 |
| Obscura Cosmogenesis | 4.0 |
| Obscura Retribution | 3.5 |
| Obscura Omnivium | 4.5 |
| Obscura Akróasis | 4.0 |
| Obsequiae Suspended in the Brume of Eos | 4.0 |
| Obsequiae Aria of Vernal Tombs | 4.5 |
| Obsequiae The Palms of Sorrowed Kings | 5.0 |
| Old Man's Child In Defiance of Existence | 4.0 |
| Opeth Burden | 3.5 |
| Opeth Heritage | 4.0 |
| Opeth Watershed | 3.5 |
| Opeth Ghost Reveries | 3.5 |
| Opeth Deliverance | 4.0 |
| Opeth Blackwater Park | 4.0 |
| Opeth Still Life | 4.0 |
| Opeth Morningrise | 3.0 |
| Opeth Orchid | 3.5 |
| Opeth My Arms, Your Hearse | 3.5 |
| Opeth Damnation | 4.0 |
| Opeth Lamentations | 4.0 |
| Orthrelm OV | 1.5 |
| Most avant-garde music, particularly avant-garde metal, has something interesting to offer. This does not. Recording technical guitar exercises with accompanying drum beats does nothing musically in any sense. |
| Owl City Ocean Eyes | 1.0 |
| Owl City All Things Bright And Beautiful | 1.0 |
| Panopticon Roads to the North | 5.0 |
| Panopticon Kentucky | 4.5 |
| Panopticon Autumn Eternal | 5.0 |
| Panopticon The Scars of Man on the Once Nameless Wilderness | 4.5 |
| Yet another stellar album from Austin Lunn. Part I isn't too different from past black metal material, but still manages to stay fresh. Part II puts bluegrass, Americana, and post-rock in a blender to create something wholly unique, even when compared to the straight folk songs from Kentucky and Roads. |
| Panopticon ...And Again into the Light | 4.5 |
| Panopticon The Rime of Memory | 4.5 |
| Panopticon / Waldgefluster Panopticon / Waldgeflüster | 4.0 |
| Pantera Cowboys from Hell | 2.5 |
| Pantera Vulgar Display of Power | 2.0 |
| Pathology Surgically Hacked | 2.5 |
| Pathology Incisions of Perverse Debauchery | 3.0 |
| Pathology Age of Onset | 3.0 |
| Pathology The Time of Great Purification | 4.0 |
| Slam death metal (if it is even a real genre) done right. Groovy syncopated riffs typical of the genre yet there are technical riffs and solos throughout. |
| Pathology Legacy of the Ancients | 3.5 |
| Pathology Awaken to the Suffering | 3.5 |
| Pathology Lords of Rephaim | 3.0 |
| Periphery Periphery | 2.5 |
| Periphery Periphery (Instrumental) | 3.5 |
| Periphery Periphery II: This Time It's Personal | 2.5 |
| Periphery Juggernaut: Alpha | 3.5 |
| Periphery Clear | 3.0 |
| Periphery Juggernaut: Omega | 3.5 |
| Pig Destroyer Terrifyer | 3.5 |
| Pink Floyd Wish You Were Here | 4.5 |
| Pink Floyd The Dark Side of the Moon | 4.0 |
| Pink Floyd Animals | 5.0 |
| Pink Floyd The Wall | 4.5 |
| Porcupine Tree Fear of a Blank Planet | 3.5 |
| Possessed Seven Churches | 4.0 |
| Powerwolf Preachers of the Night | 4.0 |
| Primus Frizzle Fry | 4.0 |
| Primus Sailing the Seas of Cheese | 4.0 |
| Primus Green Naugahyde | 3.5 |
| Primus Primus and The Chocolate Factory With The Fungi Ensemble | 3.0 |
| Protest the Hero Fortress | 4.0 |
| Protest the Hero Volition | 4.5 |
| Protest the Hero Kezia | 4.0 |
| Psychostick We Couldn't Think of a Title | 4.0 |
| Psychotic Waltz A Social Grace | 4.0 |
| Punky Bruster Cooked on Phonics | 3.5 |
| Queen Sheer Heart Attack | 5.0 |
| Queen Queen | 4.0 |
| Queen Queen II | 4.5 |
| Queen A Night at the Opera | 4.5 |
| Queen A Day at the Races | 4.0 |
| Queen News of the World | 4.0 |
| Queen Jazz | 4.0 |
| Queensryche Frequency Unknown (Tate's Queensryche) | 1.5 |
| Queensryche Operation: Mindcrime | 4.0 |
| Queensryche Dedicated to Chaos | 1.0 |
| Radiohead OK Computer | 4.5 |
| Radiohead Kid A | 4.0 |
| Radiohead The King of Limbs | 4.0 |
| Rage Against the Machine Rage Against the Machine | 3.5 |
| Rage Against the Machine Evil Empire | 3.0 |
| Rage Against the Machine The Battle of Los Angeles | 3.5 |
| Rainbow Long Live Rock 'n' Roll | 4.0 |
| Rainbow Rising | 4.5 |
| Rainbow Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow | 4.0 |
| Refused The Shape Of Punk To Come | 4.5 |
| Repulsion Horrified | 4.0 |
| Return to Forever Return to Forever | 3.5 |
| Return to Forever Hymn of the Seventh Galaxy | 4.0 |
| Return to Forever Romantic Warrior | 4.0 |
| Revocation Teratogenesis | 3.5 |
| Rings of Saturn Embryonic Anomaly | 3.0 |
| Rings of Saturn Dingir | 3.5 |
| Rivers of Nihil Where Owls Know My Name | 4.5 |
| Rush Moving Pictures | 4.5 |
| Rush A Farewell to Kings | 4.5 |
| Rush Caress of Steel | 3.5 |
| Rush Fly by Night | 4.0 |
| Rush Rush | 3.5 |
| Rush 2112 | 4.5 |
| Rush Hemispheres | 5.0 |
| Rush Permanent Waves | 4.5 |
| Rush Clockwork Angels | 4.0 |
| Russian Circles Enter | 3.5 |
| Sabaton Attero Dominatus | 3.5 |
| Sabaton Primo Victoria | 3.5 |
| Sabaton Heroes | 4.0 |
| Sabaton Coat of Arms | 4.0 |
| Sabaton The Art of War | 4.0 |
| Sabaton Carolus Rex | 4.5 |
| Although there is a lack of the WWII-based lyrics that Sabaton do best, this could easily qualify for Sabaton's strongest album musically. |
| Sabaton Carolus Rex (Swedish Version) | 4.5 |
| Sacramentum Far Away from the Sun | 5.0 |
| Sadus Illusions | 4.0 |
| Sanzu Painless | 4.0 |
| very solid |
| Saor Roots | 4.0 |
| Saor Aura | 4.5 |
| Satyricon Dark Medieval Times | 4.0 |
| Savatage Hall of the Mountain King | 4.0 |
| Scale the Summit The Collective | 4.0 |
| Septicflesh Communion | 4.0 |
| Septicflesh The Great Mass | 4.5 |
| Septicflesh Titan | 3.5 |
| Although a complete disappointment was to be expected based the pre-release tracks, Septicflesh only make a minor regression from The Great Mass. |
| Shadow Of Intent Primordial | 4.5 |
| Shining (NOR) Blackjazz | 3.5 |
| Shining (NOR) One One One | 3.5 |
| Shining (SWE) V - Halmstad | 4.0 |
| Shining (SWE) IV - The Eerie Cold | 3.5 |
| Sigh Imaginary Sonicscape | 4.0 |
| Silencer (SWE) Death - Pierce Me | 4.0 |
| Singularity (USA-AZ) Singularity | 4.5 |
| Singularity manage to fuse technical death metal with the vocals and atmospheric keyboards of black metal, in a way that has been attempted but never executed so well before. |
| Six Feet Under Graveyard Classics III | 1.0 |
| Six Feet Under Graveyard Classics | 1.0 |
| Six Feet Under Graveyard Classics 2 | 1.0 |
| Slayer Reign in Blood | 4.0 |
| Slayer Hell Awaits | 4.5 |
| Slayer Show No Mercy | 4.0 |
| Slayer South of Heaven | 4.0 |
| Slayer Seasons in the Abyss | 4.5 |
| Slayer World Painted Blood | 3.0 |
| Slayer Haunting the Chapel | 3.5 |
| Slipknot Vol. 3: The Subliminal Verses | 3.5 |
| Slipknot Mate. Feed. Kill. Repeat. | 4.0 |
| Slipknot Slipknot | 2.0 |
| Slipknot Iowa | 2.5 |
| Slipknot All Hope Is Gone | 4.0 |
| Slugdge Dim and Slimeridden Kingdoms | 4.0 |
| Slugdge Esoteric Malacology | 4.5 |
| Sodom Persecution Mania | 4.0 |
| Sodom Agent Orange | 4.5 |
| Sodom M-16 | 4.5 |
| Sodom In War and Pieces | 4.0 |
| Sodom Epitome of Torture | 3.5 |
| Sonata Arctica Ecliptica | 4.0 |
| Sonata Arctica Silence | 3.5 |
| Sonata Arctica Winterheart's Guild | 3.5 |
| Sonata Arctica Reckoning Night | 4.0 |
| Soundgarden Badmotorfinger | 4.5 |
| Soundgarden Louder Than Love | 4.0 |
| Soundgarden Ultramega OK | 3.5 |
| Soundgarden Screaming Life/Fopp | 3.5 |
| Soundgarden Screaming Life | 3.5 |
| Soundgarden Fopp | 3.0 |
| Soundgarden Superunknown | 5.0 |
| Soundgarden Down on the Upside | 4.0 |
| Soundgarden Telephantasm | 4.0 |
| Soundgarden King Animal | 4.0 |
| Spawn of Possession Incurso | 5.0 |
| Spawn of Possession Cabinet | 4.5 |
| Spawn of Possession Noctambulant | 4.5 |
| Starkill Fires of Life | 4.0 |
| Steel Panther Feel the Steel | 4.0 |
| Steel Panther Balls Out | 3.5 |
| Steve Harris British Lion | 2.5 |
| Storm Corrosion Storm Corrosion | 3.5 |
| Stormkeep Galdrum | 4.5 |
| Stormkeep Tales of Othertime | 4.5 |
| Strandhugg Norn | 2.5 |
| This album proves that the djent bandwagon's influence can spread even as far north as the black metal-centric country of Norway. Strandhugg are able to add small flourishes that make Norn just barely interesting. |
| Strapping Young Lad The New Black | 3.5 |
| Strapping Young Lad Heavy as a Really Heavy Thing | 3.0 |
| Strapping Young Lad City | 4.0 |
| Strapping Young Lad Strapping Young Lad | 3.5 |
| Strapping Young Lad Alien | 4.0 |
| Stratovarius Twilight Time | 2.0 |
| Styx The Grand Illusion | 2.0 |
| Suffocation Human Waste | 2.5 |
| Suffocation Effigy of the Forgotten | 3.0 |
| Suffocation Breeding the Spawn | 2.5 |
| Suffocation Pierced from Within | 3.0 |
| Sulphur Aeon Swallowed by the Ocean's Tide | 4.0 |
| Sulphur Aeon Gateway to the Antisphere | 4.0 |
| Summoning Lugburz | 3.5 |
| Summoning Lost Tales | 3.5 |
| Summoning Minas Morgul | 4.0 |
| Summoning Let Mortal Heroes Sing Your Fame | 4.5 |
| Summoning Dol Guldur | 4.0 |
| Summoning Nightshade Forests | 4.0 |
| Summoning Stronghold | 4.5 |
| Summoning Oath Bound | 4.0 |
| Summoning Old Mornings Dawn | 4.0 |
| Swashbuckle Back To The Noose | 3.0 |
| Symphony X Paradise Lost | 4.5 |
| Symphony X The Odyssey | 4.0 |
| Symphony X V: The New Mythology Suite | 4.5 |
| Symphony X Twilight in Olympus | 3.5 |
| Symphony X The Damnation Game | 4.0 |
| Symphony X Symphony X | 2.5 |
| Symphony X The Divine Wings of Tragedy | 4.5 |
| Symphony X Iconoclast | 4.0 |
| Taake Noregs Vaapen | 4.5 |
| Taake Over Bjoergvin Graater Himmerik | 4.5 |
| Taake Nattestid Ser Porten Vid | 4.5 |
| Taake Hordalands Doedskvad | 5.0 |
| Taake Taake | 4.0 |
| Taake Stridens hus | 4.0 |
| Another impressive album from one of Norwegian black metal's most consistent bands. Hoest knows how to make good black metal, but it is the experimental aspects and unconventional song structures that set Taake above the rest. |
| Taylor Swift 1989 | 3.5 |
| Tchornobog Tchornobog | 4.5 |
| Temple of the Dog Temple of the Dog | 4.0 |
| Tenacious D Rize of the Fenix | 3.5 |
| Tenacious D The Pick of Destiny | 3.5 |
| Tenacious D Tenacious D | 3.5 |
| Terrorizer World Downfall | 4.0 |
| TesseracT Altered State | 3.0 |
| Yawn. Nothing much happens with the album, but the saxophone fits really well. |
| TesseracT Concealing Fate | 3.5 |
| Testament The Formation of Damnation | 4.5 |
| Testament The Gathering | 4.0 |
| Testament Souls of Black | 3.0 |
| Testament The New Order | 4.0 |
| Testament The Legacy | 3.5 |
| Testament Practice What You Preach | 3.5 |
| Testament Dark Roots of Earth | 4.5 |
| Testament return with an album surpassing even the superb The Formation of Damnation. Fast, rthrashy riffs mix with Chuck Billy's excellent mix of harsh and clean vocals to create a rnear-perfect thrash metal album. The return of Gene Hoglan on the drums makes the album even rbetter, his blast beats taking the band to the verge of being death metal. A definite rcontender for the best metal album of 2012. |
| Testament First Strike Still Deadly | 4.0 |
| Testament's old songs with fantastic production and superb vocals by Chuck Billy. Great release, although the last two songs would have sounded much better without Steve Souza at the helm. |
| The Algorithm Polymorphic Code | 3.5 |
| The Beatles Abbey Road | 4.5 |
| The Beatles Rubber Soul | 3.5 |
| The Beatles Magical Mystery Tour | 4.0 |
| The Beatles Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band | 4.5 |
| The Beatles Revolver | 4.0 |
| The Black Dahlia Murder Unhallowed | 3.5 |
| The Black Dahlia Murder Miasma | 4.0 |
| The Black Dahlia Murder Nocturnal | 4.0 |
| The Black Dahlia Murder Deflorate | 4.5 |
| The Black Dahlia Murder Ritual | 3.5 |
| The Black Dahlia Murder Everblack | 4.5 |
| The Black Dahlia Murder Abysmal | 4.0 |
| The Black Queen Fever Daydream | 4.0 |
| The Contortionist Shapeshifter | 2.5 |
| Some really great musical elements slightly bogged down by bad deathcore (e.g. pig squealing and too many breakdowns.) |
| The Contortionist Apparition | 4.0 |
| The Contortionist Exoplanet | 4.5 |
| The Contortionist Intrinsic | 3.5 |
| The Contortionist Language | 4.0 |
| Ebb and flow. |
| The Devin Townsend Band Accelerated Evolution | 4.5 |
| The Devin Townsend Band Synchestra | 4.0 |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Option Paralysis | 5.0 |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Calculating Infinity | 4.5 |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Miss Machine | 4.5 |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Ire Works | 4.0 |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Irony Is a Dead Scene | 4.0 |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Under the Running Board | 4.0 |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan The Dillinger Escape Plan | 3.5 |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan One of Us Is the Killer | 4.5 |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Plagiarism | 3.0 |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Dissociation | 4.5 |
| The Doors The Doors | 4.0 |
| The Doors Strange Days | 3.5 |
| The Faceless Akeldama | 4.5 |
| The Faceless Planetary Duality | 4.5 |
| The Faceless Autotheism | 4.0 |
| Straying even further into the realm of progressive metal, The Faceless have created an album that may displease fans expecting Planetary Duality: Part II, but is a definite grower. |
| The Haarp Machine Disclosure | 3.0 |
| The Human Abstract Moonlight Sonata | 3.5 |
| A great take on the classic Beethoven piece, the musicianship is top notch, yet the album suffers from terrible production in the heavy parts. It's a shame the band did not attempt to remedy this problem while making the single. Would be a 4-4.5 if the production was better. However, Movement 3 is still fantastic to listen to. |
| The Human Abstract Nocturne | 4.0 |
| The Human Abstract Midheaven | 2.0 |
| The Human Abstract Digital Veil | 3.5 |
| The Jimi Hendrix Experience Electric Ladyland | 3.5 |
| The Jimi Hendrix Experience Axis: Bold as Love | 3.0 |
| The Kovenant In Times Before the Light | 4.0 |
| The Kovenant Nexus Polaris | 3.5 |
| The Red Chord Fused Together in Revolving Doors | 2.5 |
| The Red Chord Fed Through the Teeth Machine | 3.0 |
| Thulcandra Under a Frozen Sun | 3.5 |
| Thulcandra Fallen Angel's Dominion | 3.5 |
| Thulcandra Ascension Lost | 3.5 |
| The songwriting is a bit more focused on this album, but there are no definitive differences between this and the previous two albums. Solid band nonetheless. |
| Thy Art Is Murder Infinite Death | 3.5 |
| Thy Art Is Murder Hate | 4.0 |
| Thy Art Is Murder The Adversary | 3.5 |
| Thy Art Is Murder Holy War | 3.5 |
| Tony Bennett and Lady Gaga Cheek to Cheek | 3.5 |
| Tool Lateralus | 4.5 |
| Tool Undertow | 4.0 |
| Tool Ænima | 4.5 |
| Tool 10,000 Days | 4.0 |
| Toxic Holocaust Conjure and Command | 3.5 |
| Toxic Holocaust An Overdose of Death... | 3.5 |
| Toxic Holocaust Evil Never Dies | 3.5 |
| Toxic Holocaust Hell on Earth | 3.5 |
| Trans-Siberian Orchestra Christmas Eve and Other Stories | 3.5 |
| Transcending Bizarre? The Serpent's Manifolds | 4.5 |
| Transcending Bizarre? The Misanthrope's Fable | 4.0 |
| Transcending Bizarre? The Four Scissors | 3.5 |
| Trinacria Travel Now Journey Infinitely | 4.0 |
| Trvth Black Horse Plague | 4.0 |
| Tsjuder Desert Northern Hell | 4.0 |
| Turisas Battle Metal | 3.5 |
| Turisas The Varangian Way | 4.5 |
| Turisas Stand Up and Fight | 4.0 |
| Tyr Valkyrja | 4.0 |
| Tyr How Far to Asgaard | 3.5 |
| While not a particularly innovative album in the folk metal genre, this is still an entertaining debut. |
| Tyr Eric The Red | 4.0 |
| Tyr Ragnarok | 4.0 |
| Ulcerate The Coming of Genocide (Reissue) | 3.0 |
| Ulver Kveldssanger | 4.0 |
| Ulver Bergtatt - Et eeventyr i 5 capitler | 5.0 |
| Ulver Nattens Madrigal | 4.5 |
| Ulver The Assassination of Julius Caesar | 4.5 |
| Unexpect In a Flesh Aquarium | 4.5 |
| Unexpect Fables of the Sleepless Empire | 4.5 |
| Utstott Hjorungavagr | 3.5 |
| Vattnet Settler | 4.0 |
| Ved Buens Ende Written In Waters | 4.5 |
| Veil of Maya Eclipse | 4.0 |
| Veil of Maya [id] | 3.5 |
| Veil of Maya The Common Man's Collapse | 4.0 |
| Veil of Maya Matriarch | 3.0 |
| Periphery: This Time It's Deathcore |
| Vektor Black Future | 4.5 |
| Vektor Outer Isolation | 4.5 |
| Vektor Terminal Redux | 4.5 |
| Venom Welcome to Hell | 2.0 |
| Venom Black Metal | 1.5 |
| Venom At War with Satan | 1.5 |
| Vildhjarta Måsstaden | 4.5 |
While most bands in the djent genre are bad ripoffs of Meshuggah, Vildhjarta create
interesting atmospheres along with original and exciting riffs to make an impressive debut
album. Expect greater things from this band in the future. |
| Vildhjarta Omnislash | 4.0 |
| Vildhjarta Thousands Of Evils | 4.0 |
| Vinterland Welcome My Last Chapter | 4.0 |
| Vintersorg Till Fjälls | 4.0 |
| Vintersorg Hedniskhjartad | 4.0 |
| Vintersorg Naturbal | 4.0 |
| Voluspaa Åsa | 4.0 |
| In a genre with many generic bands, Voluspaa have crafted an impressive folk/black metal album with their debut. The violin, cello, piano, and folk vocals make for an entertaining listen when contrasted against the heavy guitars and harsh vocals. |
| Waking The Cadaver Perverse Recollections Of A Necromangler | 1.0 |
| Wardruna Runaljod - Gap Var Ginnunga | 3.5 |
| Whitechapel This Is Exile | 3.0 |
| Whitechapel A New Era of Corruption | 3.5 |
| Whitechapel Recorrupted | 2.5 |
| Windir Soknardalr | 4.0 |
| Windir Arntor | 4.5 |
| Windir 1184 | 4.0 |
| Windir Likferd | 4.0 |
| Wintersun Wintersun | 5.0 |
| Wintersun Time I | 4.5 |
| With this release Jari has exchanged most of the speed, ferocity, and heaviness the first ralbum had for epicness and atmosphere. It should be noted that since this is only the first rhalf of 'Time', there may be much more in store for us next year. With that being said, the ralbum is still great, "Sons of Winter and Stars" being the strongest track. While not what rmost fans were expecting and a slight disappointment, we should wait for 'Time II' before we rgive our full opinion of the album we've been waiting for. |
| Wintersun The Forest Seasons | 2.5 |
| Within the Ruins Phenomena | 4.5 |
| Within the Ruins Creature | 3.0 |
| Within the Ruins Invade | 3.5 |
| Within the Ruins Elite | 4.0 |
| Wolfheart Winterborn | 4.0 |
| X Japan Art of Life | 4.0 |
| Xanthochroid Blessed He With Boils | 4.0 |
| Xerath II | 3.0 |
| While creating another enjoyable listen, Xerath have failed to provide much more than what was present on their debut album. Faster, blast-beat laden songs such as "Reform Part III" provide something new, yet the orchestrations and riffs are the same. The vocals are all that has really changed, with variations of Devin Townsend-esque screams and Joe Duplantier-style growls. |
| Xerath I | 3.5 |
Combining unoriginal elements (Meshuggah-like vocals and grooves, Strapping Young Lad
elements, and orchestrations) to make something new, Xerath create an enjoyable album that
will be a fun occasional listen, but nothing too special. |
| xSPONGEXCOREx How Tough Are Yah? | 4.5 |
| Yes Close to the Edge | 4.5 |
