| *shels Sea of the Dying Dhow | 4.0 |
| *shels Plains Of The Purple Buffalo | 4.5 |
| This is simply amazing. Usually post rock/post metal can get pretty boring with too many bands within said genres who do nothing to differentiate themselves from one another. However, this album stands out. Soaring, epic, crushing, and emotional are just some of the words to best describe what you feel when you listen to this. By the time the album closes, you will really feel like you traveled to the plains of the purple buffaloes, witnessed it in all it's glory, and then returned. |
| +44 When Your Heart Stops Beating | 3.0 |
| 10 Years Feeding the Wolves | 1.5 |
| 10 Years Division | 2.5 |
| 10 Years The Autumn Effect | 4.0 |
| 2Pac Still I Rise | 3.0 |
| A Hero a Fake The Future Again | 1.5 |
| A Hope For Home In Abstraction | 3.0 |
| A Perfect Circle eMOTIVe | 2.0 |
| A Perfect Circle Eat the Elephant | 2.5 |
| Man is this record boring. There are a few good songs on here but the rest of the album is sleep inducing. |
| A Perfect Circle Thirteenth Step | 3.5 |
| A Perfect Circle Mer de Noms | 3.5 |
| A Storm Of Light Nations to Flames | 3.5 |
| A lot better than I expected. This still sounds like a Neurosis record but a lot of the post-metal wankery/build up is cut out for a more chaotic sound. Those disappointed by Honor in Decay should check this out. |
| A Storm Of Light As The Valley Of Death Becomes Us... | 4.0 |
| Very good post-metal album. Yes this sounds like a Neurosis album but where Neurosis has lost a lot of their bludgeoning heaviness A Storm of Light has picked it up |
| Aaron Carter Aaron Carter | 1.0 |
| Aaron Lewis The Road | 1.0 |
| Abraham An Eye on the Universe | 4.0 |
| Remember where you were when you listened to this. Behold, the next post-metal giants are here. |
| Abraham The Serpent, the Prophet and the Whore | 4.5 |
| If your into ISIS, Neurosis, The Ocean and Cult Of Luna then get ready to add Abraham to your must have Sludge/Post-Metal bands. The guys have really excelled themselves here. They have written a blistering album that should set them amongst the leaders of the new breed of Sludge/Post-Metal artists. This record is not an easy listen by any means but for those who choose to give this record a try, they will surely be rewarded. |
| AC/DC Live at Donington | 4.5 |
| Adema Kill the Headlights | 3.0 |
| One of the most underrated Nu-Metal albums of the era. |
| Admiral Angry Buster | 3.5 |
| Against Me! Transgender Dysphoria Blues | 3.0 |
| To answer your question, yes, she does sound the same |
| AJR The Click | 1.0 |
| Alanis Morissette Jagged Little Pill | 2.0 |
| The album responsible for turning so many young women off of men and turning them into angry lesbians |
| Alaskan Despair, Erosion, Loss | 4.0 |
| Alice in Chains Rainier Fog | 3.0 |
| Alice in Chains The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here | 3.5 |
| Alice in Chains Black Gives Way to Blue | 4.0 |
| Alice in Chains Jar of Flies | 4.5 |
| Alice in Chains MTV Unplugged | 4.5 |
| Alice in Chains Dirt | 5.0 |
| All That Remains The Order of Things | 1.5 |
| All That Remains A War You Cannot Win | 2.0 |
| Altar of Plagues Teethed Glory and Injury | 4.0 |
| Alter Bridge Fortress | 4.5 |
| Thought this album was overrated initially. Then I listened to it. All I can think now is Fortress is probably the Metallic/Hard Rock AOTY |
| Amenra Mass I: Prayer I - VI | 2.5 |
| Amenra Mass II: Sermons | 3.0 |
| Amenra Alive | 4.0 |
| Amenra Mass VI | 4.0 |
| The clean vocals and the short length of the album might disappoint some, but if you've been keeping up with Amenra since after Mass V, this album should be no surprise. Instead of sticking with their usual balls out sludginess, Amenra deliver a less direct post-metal blow to the head with this one. This sound doesn't always work, but when it does it sounds like a soundscape for the apocalypse. Mass VI is definitely different from previous Amenra albums, but this time different is good. |
| Amenra Mass IIII | 4.5 |
| Amenra Mass III | 4.5 |
| I've slept on these guys far too long. This album is everything a Neurosis album should sound like post Silver in Blood. |
| Amenra Mass V | 4.5 |
| Best post-metal album released this year and a contender for album of the year IMO. As epic as this record is, I can't help but feel disappointment considering that Amenra is on Neurot records and this album is WAY BETTER than Honor Found in Decay. |
| Amia Venera Landscape Amia Venera Landscape | 3.0 |
| Amia Venera Landscape The Long Procession | 4.5 |
| One of the most brutal, heaviest metal albums I have ever heard. Marasm is a beast of a track and a great instrumental. This album would be a five it wasn't for Ascending and Glances Part I. However, those misses don't really do too much to take away from this incredible album. Can't wait to hear more music from them in the future. |
| Amy Winehouse Back to Black | 4.0 |
| An Autumn For Crippled Children portugal EP | 2.0 |
| I usually like post/blackgaze metal but there is nothing metal about this. This sounds like The Cure or MBV with black metal vocals thrown in for kicks. I would never consider myself a black metal elitist but this EP makes me understand why elitists hate this type of black metal. Black Monolith I can stand; Deafheaven I can understand, AAFCC, no longer listenable. |
| Anathema Judgement | 4.0 |
| Anathema Alternative 4 | 4.0 |
| Anciients Heart of Oak | 3.0 |
| Anciients Voice of the Void | 4.0 |
| Another Black Day Another Black Day | 3.0 |
| Antarktis Ildlaante | 3.5 |
| Band definitely has talent but doesn't bring anything new to post metal. What can be heard here can definitely be heard better done by a lot of post metal bands. However, despite the criticism, this is still a pretty good record. Hopefully on the next album this band's sound will evolve to something more original. |
| Arch Enemy War Eternal | 1.5 |
| Architects Hollow Crown | 2.5 |
| Architects Lost Forever // Lost Together | 3.0 |
| Army of Anyone Army of Anyone | 2.5 |
| As Blood Runs Black Ground Zero | 2.0 |
| As I Lay Dying Awakened | 3.0 |
| As We Draw Mirages | 4.0 |
| Asking Alexandria The Black | 1.0 |
| Atreyu Lead Sails Paper Anchor | 2.5 |
| Atreyu Long Live | 3.0 |
| Atreyu Congregation of the Damned | 3.5 |
| Attack Attack! If Guns Are Outlawed, Can We Use Swords? | 1.0 |
| Attack Attack! Someday Came Suddenly | 1.5 |
| Attack Attack! Attack Attack! | 2.0 |
| Audioslave Revelations | 2.5 |
| Audioslave Out of Exile | 3.0 |
| Audioslave Live in Cuba | 3.0 |
| Audioslave Audioslave | 3.5 |
| August Burns Red Constellations | 3.5 |
| August Burns Red Phantom Anthem | 3.5 |
| August Burns Red Leveler | 4.0 |
| August Burns Red Rescue & Restore | 4.0 |
| August Burns Red Found in Far Away Places | 4.0 |
| Avenged Sevenfold Hail to the King | 2.0 |
| This album makes it hard as an A7X fan to defend. Second half of this album saves this from being a complete disaster but this is still probably their worst album. |
| Avenged Sevenfold Sounding the Seventh Trumpet | 2.5 |
| Avenged Sevenfold Welcome to the Family | 2.5 |
| Avenged Sevenfold Avenged Sevenfold | 3.0 |
| Very different from their previous albums but definitely not as bad as everyone says it is. Would have rated it a 3.5 if not for Dear God. |
| Avenged Sevenfold Nightmare | 3.5 |
| At first I was disappointed that this album was not a return to their roots. I thought this was going to be an all metal album. However, I'm happy that it is not. This is an album where you can tell that the band is grieving The Rev. Some of the songs are so emotional they almost brings tears to your eyes. It took me a couple of listens to really get into this album but it is really good. Recs include: Victim, Save Me, Fictions, Tonight the World Dies. |
| Avenged Sevenfold Waking the Fallen | 4.0 |
| Avenged Sevenfold City of Evil | 4.0 |
| The album that turned me from a casual metal fan into a METAL fan. Not as good as some of the stuff I listen to today but still have to give credit to the album that made my musical taste what it is today. |
| Avicii True | 1.5 |
| AxeWound Vultures | 2.0 |
| Bad Religion Suffer | 4.5 |
| Baroness Purple | 3.0 |
| Baroness Red Album | 3.5 |
| Baroness Blue Record | 4.0 |
| Solid metal album. If every other song was not an instrumental then this could have been a great record. Still, not bad. |
| Baroness Yellow and Green | 4.0 |
| Baroness First & Second | 4.5 |
| NOW I understand why everybody hates Yellow & Green. |
| Batushka Litourgiya | 4.5 |
| Easily has my vote for BM album of the year. Perfect mix of chanting, screaming, and BM heaviness. |
| Beady Eye BE | 2.0 |
| Beastwars Blood Becomes Fire | 3.5 |
| Beastwars The Death of All Things | 4.0 |
| Beastwars Tyranny Of Distance | 4.0 |
| Being Anthropocene | 2.5 |
| Between the Buried and Me The Anatomy Of | 2.0 |
| Between the Buried and Me The Great Misdirect | 3.0 |
| Experimentation is usually good but it seems like BtBaM over did it on this one. None of their raw intensity or brutality is portrayed here. This just seems like an extremely watered down version of Colors or Alaska. |
| Between the Buried and Me Automata II | 3.0 |
| Between the Buried and Me Automata I | 3.5 |
| Between the Buried and Me Between the Buried and Me | 4.0 |
| Between the Buried and Me The Silent Circus | 4.0 |
| Took a long time for me to digest this album but now I realize why it deserves the high ratings. Excellent mix of prog and extreme metal |
| Between the Buried and Me The Parallax: Hypersleep Dialogues | 4.0 |
| Between the Buried and Me The Parallax II: Future Sequence | 4.0 |
| Between the Buried and Me Future Sequence: Live at the Fidelitorium | 4.0 |
| Between the Buried and Me Alaska | 4.5 |
| Between the Buried and Me Colors | 4.5 |
| It's almost comical how much I used to despise this band. After giving Colors a real good listen I still feel that they are pretentious, have too much wankery going on in this album, and the vocals lack emotion. Despite that BTBAM still seem to make everything work to make truly great album. |
| Between the Buried and Me Colors_Live | 4.5 |
| Between the Buried and Me Coma Ecliptic | 5.0 |
| If anyone would have told me that BTBAM would create an album more progressive than metal and I would like it I would have told them no way would it be listenable. A lot of people will hate this album and say it is unlistenable. Here we are though and that is what they have done and it is a masterpiece. This album is so fleshed out with influences it's hard to comprehend how it all works but it does. From Pink Floyd, to Cynic, and even Tool you can hear all of it in this album but it still sounds original. Shame a lot of people are going to hate this album and miss out on a great album because this is extremely different from their previous work. Damn, if you like prog metal this will knock your socks off. |
| Beyonce 4 | 3.5 |
| Beyond Creation Earthborn Evolution | 4.0 |
| Beyond Creation Algorythm | 4.0 |
| Bison One Thousand Needles | 4.0 |
| Bison Dark Ages | 4.5 |
| Wow.... Can't believe how awesome this album is!! I happened to read about them and decided to download the album for the heck of it and boy was I blown away! Was a little unnerved by the fact that the name is a blatant ripoff of Mastodon but decided to listen anyway. Yes, this band is the bastard child of a Mastodon, Baroness, High on Fire orgy, but they take all the best elements from those bands to make excellent Metal. There isn't anything original here but they happen to do sludge/stoner metal better than most (Black Tusk, Howl). Stressed Elephant, Melody, This is for You, and Two-Day Booze are the standout tracks. If you like the bands that influenced Bison B.C., you'll love this. |
| Black Crown Initiate Song of the Crippled Bull | 3.5 |
| Black Crown Initiate Selves We Cannot Forgive | 3.5 |
| Black Crown Initiate The Wreckage of Stars | 4.0 |
| Black Label Society Mafia | 4.0 |
| Black Monolith Passenger | 4.0 |
| On paper black post metal does not sound like it would sound good together with punk but somehow Black Monolith gets it to work. Yes this sounds almost exactly like Deafheaven but this is still a good record. If anyone wanted to find out what Deafheaven would sound like with black metal and punk elements added, this is the record for you. |
| Black Sheep Wall No Matter Where It Ends | 2.0 |
| Can't believe that this is as bad as it is. Every song sounds exactly the same. Seems like they exhausted all of their creative efforts on I Am God Songs. Oh well, maybe their next album will be better. |
| Black Sheep Wall I'm Going to Kill Myself | 2.0 |
| Black Sheep Wall I Am God Songs | 3.0 |
| Black Sheep Wall It Begins Again | 3.5 |
| Black Stone Cherry Magic Mountain | 2.0 |
| Black Veil Brides We Stitch These Wounds | 1.0 |
| Black Veil Brides Vale | 1.0 |
| Black Veil Brides Rebels | 1.5 |
| Black Veil Brides Wretched and Divine | 1.5 |
| Black Veil Brides Sex & Hollywood | 2.0 |
| Blindead Absence | 3.5 |
| This is not as good as Affliction but it's still a damn good album nonetheless. The first half of the album is excellent but the last three songs bring down the consistency of the album. Wish this had some of the aggressiveness that made Affliction great. |
| Blindead Affliction XXIX II MCMXCVI | 4.5 |
| This would be a five if the music wasn't so damn creepy! Album is good and all but this is not something you would want to listen to alone in the dark... That being said, the music is very atmospheric and heavy with both parts being balanced out nicely. |
| blink-182 Blink-182 | 4.0 |
| Blood on the Dance Floor Let's Start a Riot | 1.0 |
| Blood on the Dance Floor Scissors | 1.0 |
| Blood on the Dance Floor It's Hard to Be a Diamond... | 1.5 |
| Blood on the Dance Floor EPIC | 1.5 |
| Bone Thugs-N-Harmony BTNH Resurrection | 3.5 |
| Botch We Are the Romans | 4.5 |
| Box Car Racer Box Car Racer | 3.5 |
| Breach Kollapse | 4.0 |
| Breaking Benjamin Dear Agony | 3.0 |
| Breaking Benjamin We Are Not Alone | 3.5 |
| Breaking Benjamin Phobia | 3.5 |
| Breaking Benjamin Dark Before Dawn | 3.5 |
| Yes their is pretty much no musical progression from their last album, or any of their albums for that matter but damn if they aren't good at what they do. Their are some incredible songs on here and some boring ones but the good drastically outweighs the bad. If you like BB then you'll like this album. Wish I could rate this a 3.8. |
| Bring Me the Horizon That's the Spirit | 1.5 |
| brokeNCYDE I'm Not a Fan, but the Kids Like It! | 1.0 |
| brokeNCYDE The Broken | 2.0 |
| Buckcherry Black Butterfly | 1.5 |
| Buckcherry All Night Long | 1.5 |
| Bullet for My Valentine Temper Temper | 1.5 |
| Bullet for My Valentine Fever | 2.0 |
| Bullet for My Valentine Scream Aim Fire | 2.5 |
| Buried Inside Chronoclast | 4.5 |
| Buried Inside Spoils Of Failure | 5.0 |
| All I can say is wow! This is so earth-shattering heavy it's almost hard to believe. While most consider Chronoclast to be BI's magnum opus, I would argue this is far better. While Chronoclast is pretty much straight forward and in your face, this album moves and churns as if through a river of sludge. The only albums I can truly compare this to are the early albums from Cult of Luna, The Ocean, and maybe Admiral Angry/Black Sheep Wall but even saying that doesn't give this album justice. The only negative here is the album length. Almost an hour of being screamed at and being pummeled into oblivion is almost too much for most people, even hardened metal fans. Even worse, sometimes the album can feel longer than that due to the slow sludginess of this music. However, if you can listen to this in pieces and can stand the heaviness, this is definitely a sludge masterpiece. |
| Burst Lazarus Bird | 4.0 |
| Busta Rhymes Anarchy | 3.0 |
| Caligula's Horse The Tide, the Thief and River's End | 4.5 |
| Peaceful, serene, heavy. All these words come to mind when trying to describe this album yet they really don't do it any justice. If you like Progressive metal in the vein of Tool you'll definitely like this. Just listen to this and you'll see why it's hard to describe. |
| Callisto Noir | 3.5 |
| Cardi B Invasion of Privacy | 2.0 |
| Causa Sui Euporie Tide | 4.0 |
| Celtic Frost Cold Lake | 1.0 |
| Chamillionaire Ultimate Victory | 3.0 |
| Chamillionaire The Sound of Revenge | 3.5 |
| Chevelle This Type Of Thinking (Could Do Us In) | 3.0 |
| Chevelle Point #1 | 3.0 |
| Chevelle Wonder What's Next | 4.0 |
| Chevelle Vena Sera | 4.0 |
| Chevelle Sci-Fi Crimes | 4.0 |
| Chevelle Hats Off To The Bull | 4.0 |
| Chevelle La Gárgola | 4.0 |
| Chevelle The North Corridor | 4.0 |
| Chris Cornell Scream | 1.5 |
| ChugChugWob Redemption | 1.5 |
| Circle Takes the Square As the Roots Undo | 3.0 |
| Circle Takes the Square Decompositions: Volume Number One | 3.5 |
| Cloudkicker ]]][[[ | 3.5 |
| Just listened to this full album today and all I can say is Fucking Amazing. For only having three tracks I was blown away. You would never guess that only one person is making all this noise. Not saying it is a bad thing, its the opposite. All of the instruments are woven together perfectly. I can't think of anyone to compare this too because its so original. Fans of Pelican and Explosions in the Sky will probably like this. |
| Cloudkicker Fade | 3.5 |
| Cloudkicker Beacons | 4.0 |
| Cloudkicker Let Yourself Be Huge | 4.0 |
| Cloudkicker Subsume | 4.5 |
| Maybe I'm rating this a little too high because I've only listened to one cloudkicker LP/EP since Beacons but damn this is good!! Thank you Mr. Sharp for providing me something to listen to in the last few months of 2013 |
| Coheed and Cambria Year of the Black Rainbow | 3.5 |
| Coheed and Cambria The Afterman: Ascension | 4.0 |
| Coheed and Cambria The Afterman: Descension | 4.5 |
| Cold Superfiction | 2.5 |
| I really didn't want to rate this album so low but it's just plain boring. I though BigHans was being a douche when he rated the album low and I listened to this after I read his review just to prove him wrong. I just knew that there was no way that the band I loved in High school could make an average album, but they did. Almost every son on here is BORING. Wicked World starts the album off on a good note but no other song has any of the emotion that Wicked World has. I was hoping this album would have the same energy and emotion that A Different Kind of Pain had but this is such a disappointment. I still love Cold and I will listen to this album more to see if it grows on me but as of right now I don't see that album. Hopefully Cold can survive this album and make a much better album in the future. |
| Cold A Different Kind of Pain | 3.5 |
| Not to many people feel this record but this is a very emotional album. One of the most underrated albums to ever come out during the Nu-Metal days. |
| Coldplay A Head Full of Dreams | 2.0 |
| Coldplay Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends | 3.0 |
| Coldplay X&Y | 3.5 |
| Coldplay A Rush of Blood to the Head | 4.0 |
| Colour Haze Tempel | 3.0 |
| Was really expecting a lot from this album considering all the hype this band gets. Boy was I disappointed. I guess the only way to really enjoy Colour Haze music is with the added help of a certain substance. Without it, this album is just too boring. |
| Conan Blood Eagle | 2.5 |
| I was expecting so much more from the self proclaimed "heaviest band on the planet". After listening to Blood Eagle I think Conan must have heavy confused with sleep inducing. |
| Converge Axe to Fall | 1.0 |
| Just horrible. Don't understand why most of the sputnik community is all over this band's collective dicks. The vocals are an abomination to all singers who have ever song. This is earrape at its best. |
| Converge When Forever Comes Crashing | 1.5 |
| Converge No Heroes | 1.5 |
| Converge Deathwish Live Series 02: Minneapolis | 1.5 |
| Converge Pound for Pound: The Wolverine Blues Sessions | 1.5 |
| Converge Jane Doe | 2.0 |
| I have tried over and over to listen to this album but I cannot get over the horrible vocals of Jacob Bannon. It just brings down the quality of the music way too much IMO. Maybe this album will grow on me in the future, but until then, I don't think its a good album and don't understand why so many sputnik users like this garbage. |
| Converge Unloved and Weeded Out | 2.0 |
| Converge Y2K | 2.0 |
| Converge Live at the BBC | 2.0 |
| Converge The Dusk in Us | 2.0 |
| Corey Feldman Angelic 2 The Core | 1.0 |
| Counterparts The Difference Between Hell and Home | 3.0 |
| Crazy Frog Everybody Dance Now | 1.0 |
| Cryptopsy The Unspoken King | 1.5 |
| Cult Leader Lightless Walk | 2.5 |
| Cult of Luna Eternal Kingdom | 2.5 |
| Hate to give this album such a low rating but this is a disappointment in comparison to their last three albums. Most of the heaviness from their last albums is gone and replaced by interlude after boring interlude. There are some excellent songs on here, Owlwood, Ghostrail, and Mire Deep but this is not up to par with what they are capable of doing. |
| Cult of Luna Vertikal | 4.0 |
| While not as good as Salvation or SATH or even on the same level as Amenra's Mass V, it's still a damn good post-metal album and a lot better than Honor Found in Decay. |
| Cult of Luna The Beyond | 4.5 |
| Wow! Talk about being pummeled into submission! This is one of the heaviest post-metal albums I have ever heard. The album is so heavy that you kind of have to mentally prepare yourself before you listen to it. And you can't listen to it on everyday because of how dark the lyrics are. Standouts include Receiver, Genesis, & Leash. The only thing that keeps this album from being a 5 are the vocals which sound like are sometimes drowned out by the instruments and the album being so long. However, if you can get past the vocals being unaduible at times and the music being unrelentingly heavy, this is post-metal at its best. Not for the weak at heart, this is a metal man's album. |
| Cult of Luna Salvation | 4.5 |
| Didn't really expect this album to be as good as it is. Heavier than Isis but not as experimental as Neurosis. Would be the perfect Metal album if it wasn't for Crossing Over. |
| Cult of Luna Somewhere Along the Highway | 4.5 |
| This album is still growing on me. While I have been listening to this album for a few months now I still feel like their is still more to this album I am missing. Right now I think it is a 4.2 but I see that changing to a 4.5 as I continue to listen to it. While I don't think this album is better than Salvation due to "Thirtyfour" and "Dim" lacking enough vocals, "And With Her Came The Birds" more than makes up for those two tracks by being one of the creepiest and haunting songs I have ever heard. Overall a great listen that you won't get tired of listening to. |
| Cult of Luna Fire Was Born | 4.5 |
| Cult of Luna Years in a Day | 4.5 |
| Cult of Luna and Julie Christmas Mariner | 4.0 |
| Cursed II | 3.5 |
| D12 Devil's Night | 3.5 |
| Darkest Hour Deliver Us | 3.0 |
| Darkthrone Dark Thrones and Black Flags | 1.0 |
| Darkthrone Circle the Wagons | 2.0 |
| Daughtry Cage to Rattle | 1.0 |
| David Bowie Blackstar | 4.5 |
| Wish I would have gotten into his music much sooner. R.I.P, you will be missed. |
| Dead To A Dying World Elegy | 2.5 |
| Was really expecting more from this album considering the hype. Was hoping this would be a little heavy but sleep inducing doom/post metal is what i actually got. Not impressed. |
| Deadwood Picturing a Sense of Loss | 2.5 |
| I know that a lot of albums within the post black metal genre have songs that sound similar but this is just ridiculous. You could listen to this whole album and never know the song ever changed because that's how much each songs the same. Deadwood have a good sound but next time they make an album they need to add more variety. |
| Deafheaven New Bermuda | 2.5 |
| Deafheaven Roads to Judah | 3.5 |
| Deafheaven Sunbather | 4.0 |
| Death Symbolic | 3.0 |
| Death Human | 3.0 |
| Death Individual Thought Patterns | 4.0 |
| Death The Sound of Perseverance | 5.0 |
| Default Elocation | 3.0 |
| Default One Thing Remains | 3.0 |
| Deftones Diamond Eyes | 3.0 |
| Meh. The album is good at best. Has some great songs on here like Beauty School but some of the riffs are too repetitive and some of the songs sound like old Deftones songs (Risk sounds like a Passenger clone). All in all a good Deftones album but definitely not worth the praise it has been receiving. |
| Deftones Saturday Night Wrist | 4.0 |
| Deftones Gore | 4.0 |
| Deftones Koi No Yokan | 4.5 |
| I used to love the Deftones but thanks to the user's and staff's excessive dick sucking of the Deftones, I really started to hate this band. Because of that I almost missed out on one of the best albums of 2012. While I don't salivate over this album like most sputnikers, I now understand why they do. |
| Deftones White Pony | 5.0 |
| Demon Hunter True Defiance | 3.5 |
| Der Weg Einer Freiheit Finisterre | 4.0 |
| Design the Skyline Nevaeh | 1.5 |
| Destrage Are You Kidding Me? No. | 2.5 |
| These guys definitely have potential. While some of the songs are highly enjoyable the album feels as if you've heard it a dozen times before. It almost sounds as if this is supposed to be a tribute album to Protest the Hero, Between the Buried and Me, and others. If these guys can come up with a style more their own with less atrocious vocals they could be a good band. |
| Devil Sold His Soul Empire of Light | 2.0 |
| The vocals, especially the cleans, have always been hard to listen to but at least they were mixed in with superb musicianship which made them at least bearable. Why they decided to do a whole album with the cleans being the focal point is beyond me. This is horrible from a band capable of so much more. |
| Devil Sold His Soul Blessed & Cursed | 2.5 |
| Maybe I'm used to listening to heavier metal, I don't know but I didn't think there was anything special about this album. Vocals are unimpressive and the clean singer comes off as sounding a little too whiney and emo for music that is supposed to be metal. I mean, seriously, where is the balls! Most of the songs on this album sound the same and follow the same song structure. Some songs are too long which doesn't help when you are bored after the first two minutes. If you want to listen to a new, good prog band, listen to Trenches who have a post-rock/metal vibe thing going on but sound SOOO much better. This album is not really that bad nothing about it really stands out. Don't listen to this, listen to Trenches instead. |
| Devin Townsend Project Transcendence | 3.0 |
| This album definitely has its awe inspiring moments. However those moments are outweighed by too many b.a.f. moments. |
| Dinosaur Jr. Farm | 4.0 |
| Disturbed Evolution | 1.5 |
| Disturbed Ten Thousand Fists | 2.5 |
| Disturbed Asylum | 2.5 |
| Disturbed Indestructible | 3.0 |
| DMX The Great Depression | 3.0 |
| DoomThrone Skeleton Veiled in Flesh | 1.0 |
| Dr. Dre 2001 | 3.5 |
| Drifting Icon Submerged in the Andromeda | 1.0 |
| Earshot The Silver Lining | 3.0 |
| Earthrise Eras Lost | 3.5 |
| Pretty good album that brings the sludge with crushing heaviness. Album would be better if each song didn't sound the same and if the instrumentation stood out a little bit more. |
| Earthside A Dream In Static | 2.5 |
| East of the Wall The Apologist | 4.0 |
| Ed Sheeran ÷ | 2.0 |
| Elder (USA-MA) Elder | 3.0 |
| Elder (USA-MA) Lore | 4.0 |
| Elder (USA-MA) Reflections of a Floating World | 4.0 |
| Elder (USA-MA) Dead Roots Stirring | 4.5 |
| Electric Wizard Wizard Bloody Wizard | 2.5 |
| Eminem Revival | 1.5 |
| Eminem Encore | 3.0 |
| Eminem Recovery | 3.0 |
| All right album. Now where good as his past albums but at least he is back to making good music. |
| Eminem The Marshall Mathers LP | 5.0 |
| Emmure Eternal Enemies | 1.5 |
| Enshine Origin | 2.5 |
| This is a great album....... if your looking to fall asleep. There are beautiful melodic sections throughout but at other times the melody can get so boring that a couple of songs will go by before you realize they have passed. Maybe their next album will be better. |
| Enslaved Monumension | 3.0 |
| Enslaved Thorn | 3.0 |
| The production on here is pretty shitty and this really doesn't do anything to add to their gigantic discography but Striker makes this worth listening to. |
| Enslaved In Times | 3.0 |
| Enslaved seems to have really went over board with the prog and forgot about the metal on this album. Well it could be worse, at least this isn't new Opeth..... |
| Enslaved Below the Lights | 3.5 |
| Enslaved Blodhemn | 3.5 |
| Enslaved Ruun | 4.0 |
| Enslaved RIITIIR | 4.0 |
| Enslaved Isa | 4.5 |
| Enslaved Vertebrae | 4.5 |
| Enslaved Axioma Ethica Odini | 5.0 |
| The first black metal record I truly loved. Brutal black metall mixed with 70s prog rock done beautifully |
| Entropia (PL) Vesper | 4.0 |
| Escape the Fate Escape the Fate | 1.0 |
| Escape the Fate Ungrateful | 1.5 |
| Ethereal Riffian Aeonian | 3.5 |
| Evanescence Fallen | 2.0 |
| Everything in Slow Motion Red | 4.5 |
| E.I.S.M has the same vocalist as Hands and sounds exactly like Hands given that the songs are very atmospheric, prod along, and then become extremely heavy. Lyrics deal with faith and Christianity so if that's not your thing stay far away. Damn good EP for only two songs. |
| Everything in Slow Motion Phoenix | 4.5 |
| Great debut album from this Christian metal/hardcore band. The lyrics are phenomenal in portraying dealing with life's troubles. Glad the lead singer from Hands decided to continue his vision of music after Hands disbanded. |
| Fall of Efrafa Elil | 4.0 |
| Fall Out Boy Take This to Your Grave | 1.5 |
| Fall Out Boy Save Rock and Roll | 1.5 |
| Fall Out Boy M A N I A | 1.5 |
| Falling in Reverse The Drug in Me Is You | 1.0 |
| Falling in Reverse Fashionably Late | 1.5 |
| Falling in Reverse Live at KROQ | 2.0 |
| Falling in Reverse Just Like You | 2.0 |
| Falloch Where Distant Spirits Remain | 2.0 |
| Falls of Rauros Vigilance Perennial | 4.5 |
| Absolutely love this album. Probably the best black metal album I've heard this year beside's Fen's Winter. Brutal yet serene. Will have to check out their back catalogue. |
| Fallujah The Flesh Prevails | 3.5 |
| As much as I want to rate this higher I cannot. While some of the songs on here are absolute masterpieces there are too many moments that are just plain boring. This album minus the boring parts would easily make this album a 5 but the boring parts just bring the album down too much. |
| Feist/Mastodon Feistodon | 3.0 |
| Fen Winter | 4.0 |
| Filter Anthems for the Damned | 3.0 |
| Filter The Sun Comes Out Tonight | 3.0 |
| Filter The Trouble With Angels | 3.5 |
| Could have been better if it not for "life stinks, woe is me" vibe of the last three songs. Still a step in the right direction after the so-so Anthems for the Damned. |
| Finger Eleven Them vs. You vs. Me | 1.5 |
| Fire In The Cave Fire In the Cave | 4.0 |
| Good heavy shit. Along the same lines of Early Mastodon, Baroness, and Isis. |
| Fit for an Autopsy The Great Collapse | 3.5 |
| Five Finger Death Punch Got Your Six | 1.0 |
| Five Finger Death Punch The Wrong Side of Heaven and The Righteous Side of Hell, Volume 1 | 1.5 |
| Five Finger Death Punch And Justice for None | 1.5 |
| Foo Fighters The Colour and the Shape | 3.0 |
| Foo Fighters In Your Honor | 3.0 |
| Foo Fighters One by One | 3.0 |
| Foo Fighters Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace | 3.0 |
| Foo Fighters Wasting Light | 4.0 |
| One by One, and In Your Honor had there moments but were extremely boring and bland at other parts. Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace was a step in the right direction. This is the album most Foo Fighter fans knew they were capable of producing and had been longing for this for years. I have listened to all of the album and I can say this is the only Foo Fighters album I can listen to from start to finish without skipping a track. All I can really say is this a real good listen. There are some bad parts but so little that it doesn't take away from the good. Hopefully, they continue to make music this good in the future. |
| Freeway Free At Last | 3.0 |
| Freeway Philadelphia Freeway | 4.0 |
| Full of Hell Roots Of Earth Are Consuming My Home | 4.0 |
| Gavin Rossdale Wanderlust | 1.5 |
| Geoff Tate Geoff Tate | 1.0 |
| Geoff Tate Kings & Thieves | 1.5 |
| Ghost Brigade IV - One with the Storm | 2.0 |
| Ghost Brigade Isolation Songs | 2.5 |
| Ghost Brigade Until Fear No Longer Defines Us | 4.0 |
| Ghost Machine Hypersensitive | 3.5 |
| Giant Squid Monster in the Creek | 2.5 |
| I love Giant Squid but damn this is one boring album. Glad they decided to leave alt rock alone and join the sludge/doom/progressive metal team. |
| Giant Squid Metridium Fields | 3.5 |
| Giant Squid Cenotes | 4.5 |
| Great EP. Glad Giant Squid decided to make this record heavy. Hopefully they can continue to evolve this heavier sound on their next full length album. You can really hear the Black Sabbath and Neurosis influences on this one, even more so than on Metridium Fields. My only complaint with this is I wish it was longer. With that being said every track on this record is really good. Any fan of Giant Squid will love this. |
| Giant Squid The Ichthyologist | 5.0 |
| Godsmack When Legends Rise | 2.0 |
| Godsmack The Oracle | 2.5 |
| Godsmack IV | 3.0 |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor 'Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend! | 4.5 |
| This is the first GYBE album I have listened to and now I understand what all the hype is about. This is epic in every sense of the word. |
| Gojira Magma | 3.0 |
| Gojira The Way of All Flesh | 4.0 |
| Gojira L'Enfant Sauvage | 4.0 |
| Gojira From Mars to Sirius | 4.5 |
| I've heard a lot of negative things about this record. I've heard that it's long, it can be boring, and the music is repetitive. After listening to this record and giving it time to sink in, I can understand why someone would think this would be boring. But, at the same time I would only think that only an impatient listener would consider this boring. This concept album, is too interesting once you understand the story to ever be called boring. The record can be long but only if you are not used to listening to bludgeoning metal or if you aren't interested in the lyrics. Can the music be repetitive? Only if you are half listening to the music. The drumming may be a little bit repetitive at times but not one song on this album sounds the same as the next. This album is a great album but you have to give it time to sink in. It's probably not going to come to you immediately and will require multiple listens. However, once it does finally sink in, this is one of those albums that will reward your ears for doing so. |
| Goo Goo Dolls Let Love In | 3.5 |
| Goo Goo Dolls Gutterflower | 4.0 |
| Gorillaz The Fall | 2.5 |
| Gorillaz Demon Days | 4.0 |
| Gospel The Moon Is a Dead World | 4.5 |
| Grayceon All We Destroy | 3.0 |
| Green Day American Idiot | 3.0 |
| Grumblecunt I Piss Shit | 1.0 |
| Haken The Mountain | 2.5 |
| Somehow my comments got removed. But again I repeat THIS IS NOT FUCKING METAL. No way in shape or form. I have no clue how this got labeled as such. |
| Halestorm Halestorm | 1.5 |
| Hands (US-ND) Give Me Rest | 5.0 |
| I was not expected to blown away by this as much as I was. This record is truly amazing. How the sputnik community has not heard this is truly beyond me. This sounds very similar to The Amia Venera Landscape vocal wise and Trenches sound wise. Everyone likes both of those band's albums. Why not this one?!?! |
| Hark Crystalline | 4.0 |
| Hath Of Rot And Ruin | 4.0 |
| This is really pretty damn good. This is similar to Slugdge but just not as progressive. This is mainly blackened death metal mixed with a little bit of progressive metal. While this might not be that original a lot of what is done here works. This will definitely have you banging your head. I agree that this album should have been shortened a little bit but for what it's worth, it's a good listen. This band definitely has a lot of potential. |
| Helioscope Noir | 2.5 |
| Tried to like this a album a lot but the horrible clean/hardcore vocals and the band sounding like Cult of Luna lite just kills it for me. The album is not bad by any means, it's just painfully average. The next time around they should try to do something to separate themselves from every other post metal band. |
| Hellyeah Hellyeah | 3.0 |
| Hellyeah Band of Brothers | 3.0 |
| High on Fire Blessed Black Wings | 3.5 |
| High on Fire Death Is This Communion | 3.5 |
| High on Fire Snakes for the Divine | 3.5 |
| High on Fire Luminiferous | 4.0 |
| High on Fire De Vermis Mysteriis | 4.5 |
| I prematurely rated this a 4.5 after only listening to it once. After a few more listens, this is still worth a 4.5. This blows most of their other stuff out of the water. Not saying that their older music is bad, this is just so much better. Just about every song on here is good in comparison to Death is This Communion and Snakes for the Divine which had a few good songs and a lot of filler. I definitely recommend this for those who were disappointed by the lack of heaviness in Mastodon's The Hunter since this is very similar to an old Mastodon record. Standouts: Madness of an Architect, Romulus and Remus, and Bloody Knuckles. |
| HIM Screamworks: Love In Theory And Practice | 1.0 |
| HIM Love Metal | 1.5 |
| Hinder All American Nightmare | 1.0 |
| Hinder Welcome to the Freakshow | 1.0 |
| No one should expect anything except awful music from this shitty band. |
| Hinder Extreme Behavior | 1.5 |
| Hinder When the Smoke Clears | 1.5 |
| Hinder The Reign | 1.5 |
| Howl Full of Hell | 2.5 |
| Might need to listen to this a little bit more to alllow it to grow on me but as of right now this is just an average album. |
| Hull Beyond the Lightless Sky | 3.5 |
| Hurt The Crux | 3.0 |
| Hurt Vol. 1 | 4.0 |
| Hurt Goodbye To The Machine | 4.0 |
| Hurt Vol. II | 4.5 |
| I Killed the Prom Queen When Goodbye Means Forever | 1.5 |
| I Set My Friends On Fire Caterpillar Sex | 1.5 |
| Impaled Nazarene Vigorous And Liberating Death | 2.5 |
| In Flames Siren Charms | 1.0 |
| In Flames Down, Wicked and No Good | 1.0 |
| In Mourning Shrouded Divine | 2.5 |
| In Mourning Afterglow | 3.5 |
| In Mourning Monolith | 4.0 |
| In Mourning The Weight of Oceans | 4.5 |
| Before I begin I'll say that Celestial Tear for some reason just sticks in your head after the first listen. I'm not really a fan of death metal but this is excellent. In Mourning finds a perfect balance in mixing melodic riffs, clean vocals, progressive metal, and death growls. Every song on this album is excellent, even as you converge later in the album the songs don't get stale or boring. I would rate this a 5 but I've read many reviews on line that state that In Mourning sounds like Opeth. I've never listened to Opeth and until I do I won't know if they are a knockoff off of the metal legends or they are a band creating excellent music. Either way, I feel fine in rating this a 4.5. |
| In Vain (NO) Aenigma | 4.5 |
| Who would have known that a metal band could throw in a saxophone into their music and it would work. Definitely a contender for AOTY. Any fan of Opeth, Enslaved, or progressive bm/dm should listen to this. |
| Incubus (USA-CA) A Crow Left of the Murder... | 2.5 |
| Insomnium Shadows of the Dying Sun | 4.0 |
| Inter Arma Sky Burial | 4.0 |
| Nice mix of sludge, black, post and doom metal with a nice psychedelic undertone. Album takes you on a dark journey that is not easily forgotten. |
| Inter Arma The Cavern | 4.5 |
| Interpol Our Love to Admire | 3.0 |
| Interpol Turn on the Bright Lights | 3.5 |
| Intervals A Voice Within | 2.5 |
| Intervals In Time | 3.0 |
| Intervals The Way Forward | 3.0 |
| Intronaut Void | 3.0 |
| Album is okay. The album is really heavy but the songs lack direction. Faultlines and Nostalgic Echo are really the only songs that stand out but the album isn't that bad. |
| Intronaut The Challenger | 3.0 |
| Don't really care for all of the live songs but the first three songs kick major ass, especially Whittler of Fortune and Deep Architecture. Would be rated higher if more than half of the songs hadn't already been released on Null and Void. |
| Intronaut Null | 3.5 |
| Intronaut Habitual Levitations | 3.5 |
| Disappointing to say the least. This could have been so much better. |
| Intronaut Prehistoricisms | 4.0 |
| What an incredible metal album. There are a few misfires here and there but for the most part it rocks. Not completely original but creative enough to keep the listeners attention throughout the album. The Literal Black Cloud, Prehistoricisms, Any Port and The Reptilian Brain are stand outs, but that is not saying the other songs are not good. The Reptilian brain is soooo psychedlically good that listening to it makes you feel like your on acid. |
| Intronaut Valley of Smoke | 4.0 |
| This album can be summed up into one sentence: Intronaut's version of Crack the Skye. |
| Intronaut The Direction of Last Things | 4.0 |
| Definitely better than Habitual Levitations but I can't help but feel like I've heard this record before. Most of this album sounds like a mixture of Void, Prehistoricisms, and Valley of Smoke. While none of that is a bad thing, it would have been nice to hear something completely new from Intronaut. |
| Iron Maiden The Final Frontier | 3.5 |
| Irreversible Ashes | 4.5 |
| Great post/progressive metal. This EP is nearly perfect (except for the weird guitar sounds). Looking forward to hearing new music from these guys in the future. Can't believe these guys are unknown in the metal community. |
| ISIS In the Absence of Truth | 3.0 |
| This record is good but its missing something. What it is missing is that "umph" that made Panoptican so awesome. This record is just plain boring at times. Where Panoptican rewarded you for your patience, this album does not. And its not that big of a step from Panoptican. Most of the tracks scream, "been there, done that." I definitely see why there was only more Isis album after this one. Seems like they ran out of ways to advance their sound. With that being said, some tracks do kick some serious ass. Not in Rivers, but in Drops, Over Root and Thorn, and Holy Tears are great songs but three great songs and 6 mediocre to all right songs don't make a very good album. |
| ISIS The Red Sea | 3.5 |
| I'm marveled that this was Isis in their infancy. When most bands start off they don't sound the same 5-10 years down the road. With Isis, you can easily see glimpses of what they would come to be. There is really not too much ambiance here but when it does show up, it reminds you of Oceanic or Panopticon. The heavyness that is normally associated with Isis is here as well, even more so. The only thing that drags this album down is the atrocious vocals. Despite the vocals being bad this is definitely worth listening too. This was once described as being heavy and crushing enough to destroy a small city. Well crushing and destroying is definitely what this is. |
| ISIS Celestial | 4.0 |
| ISIS Mosquito Control | 4.0 |
| ISIS Wavering Radiant | 4.0 |
| ISIS Panopticon | 4.5 |
| ISIS Oceanic | 5.0 |
| This is imo much better than Panoptican. Not saying that Panoptican isn't a classic in its own right, its just that Oceanic is better. Oceanic mixes the perfect balance between ambient and heavy. Every song on here is excellent with Carry, From Sinking, and Hym being the standout tracks. The vocals leave a little bit to be desired but the musicianship more than makes up for it. This is definitely Isis at their best. |
| Izah Sistere | 4.5 |
| Ja Rule Venni Vetti Vecci | 1.5 |
| bought this album off of the hype of his first single and was pissed off that I actually spent money on this piece of shit. Even Jay-Z and DMX couldn't save this CD from being awful. |
| Jake Paul and Team 10 Litmas | 1.0 |
| Jason Mraz Yes! | 2.0 |
| Jay-Z The Blueprint 3 | 1.0 |
| Jay-Z The Dynasty: Roc La Familia | 2.0 |
| Jay-Z The Blueprint | 2.5 |
| Jay-Z Vol. 3: Life and Times of S. Carter | 3.0 |
| Jay-Z The Blueprint²: The Gift & the Curse | 3.0 |
| Jay-Z The Black Album | 3.5 |
| Jeff Buckley Grace | 5.0 |
| Not even done listening to this and I am floored by how awesome this is! The soulfulness that this record excretes is beyond explanation. This is hands down one of the most of pleasant listening experiences I have ever felt. If any record could ever be described as pure heavenly goodness this it, |
| Jerry Cantrell Degradation Trip Volumes 1 & 2 | 4.0 |
| Jimmy Eat World Futures | 3.0 |
| Jimmy Eat World Damage | 3.0 |
| Jimmy Eat World Invented | 4.0 |
| Jimmy Eat World Integrity Blues | 4.0 |
| Jimmy Eat World Clarity | 4.5 |
| Jimmy Eat World Bleed American | 5.0 |
| Job For A Cowboy Genesis | 1.5 |
| John Lennon Unfinished Music No.2: Life with the Lions | 1.0 |
| John Lennon Unfinished Music No.1: Two Virgins | 1.5 |
| John Lennon Wedding Album | 1.5 |
| Johnny Hobo and the Freight Trains Love Songs For The Apocalypse | 4.5 |
| Glad an album like this wasn't around when I was a depressed, drug-addicted teenager. Might have offed myself after listening to this one too many times. |
| Johnny Truant In the Library of Horrific Events | 4.0 |
| Nothing new brought to the table here but it is a brutal and fun record. Probably one of the first really good deathcore albums to come out. |
| Joy Division Closer | 4.5 |
| Juicy J Blue Dream & Lean | 3.5 |
| In all of my years of listening to rap, never have I heard an hour and half album dedicated to drugs. Yes this album is way too long but it's mind boggling to try and fathom how one person can rap so much about drugs! If anyone really does as much drugs as Juicy J claims to do I would really fear for their health, lol. Anyways, anyone looking for something to listen to while getting ready to go to a club or while getting hammered, this is the record for you. |
| Justin Bieber Under the Mistletoe | 1.0 |
| Justin Bieber My World 2.0 | 1.5 |
| Justin Bieber Believe | 1.5 |
| Kanye West ye | 2.0 |
| Kanye West 808s and Heartbreak | 2.5 |
| Kanye West Late Registration | 3.0 |
| Kanye West Graduation | 3.5 |
| Kanye West My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy | 4.5 |
| Best rap album I have heard in a long time! This album would be a five if it wasn't for all the guest appearances. They aren't bad, they just take attention off of Kanye. The lyrics, the beats, the actual instruments in the background all help this album breathe new life into the sorry, stale genre that is rap today. Kanye might be an asshole but I could care less as long as he keeps making music like this. |
| Katatonia Brave Murder Day | 3.0 |
| Kevin Federline Playing with Fire | 1.0 |
| Khemmis Hunted | 3.5 |
| Khemmis Absolution | 4.0 |
| Solid sounding doom mixed with stoner and sludge influences that never really gets boring. Sounds like the love child of old Mastodon and new Pallbearer. |
| Khoma The Second Wave | 4.0 |
| The lack of harsh vocals pushes the crushing soundscapes to the forefront of the music making the band sounds like Cult of Luna "light". Nothing bad about that all. Nothing at all.... |
| Killer Be Killed Killer Be Killed | 3.5 |
| This was a lot better than I expected. Didn't expect the different genres that each of these men bring to the table to mesh that well. Glad I was wrong. |
| Killer Mike R.A.P. Music | 5.0 |
| All I can say is wow! If Kanye's My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy was a fresh of breath air to hip-hop then has to be a genre-changing album. This album is like pays homage to old school hip-hop with it's gritty stories and intellectual lyrics. As a black man, this album spoke to me like no other rap album has in years. That alone makes this worthy of a 5 |
| Killswitch Engage Killswitch Engage (2009) | 2.5 |
| Killswitch Engage As Daylight Dies | 3.0 |
| Killswitch Engage The End of Heartache | 3.5 |
| Killswitch Engage Disarm the Descent | 3.5 |
| Just about every song on this album is good. This is easily the best KSE since TEOH. Didn't expect them to come back with an album this good after that last horrible album they released but somehow, they did. |
| Killswitch Engage Incarnate | 3.5 |
| At this point you either love this band or hate them. If you like them you will probably like this album even though they don't do anything different on this record other than Jesse trying out new vocal techniques. If you hate them then this will add more fuel to the fire. |
| Killswitch Engage Alive or Just Breathing | 4.0 |
| King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard Polygondwanaland | 4.5 |
| Kings of Leon Only By The Night | 2.0 |
| Knut Challenger | 3.5 |
| Koloss Empower The Monster | 3.5 |
| The opening and closing songs on this album kick so much ass! But alas, the middle songs bring the album down. |
| Koloss End of the Chayot | 4.0 |
| Korn The Path of Totality | 2.0 |
| Korn See You on the Other Side | 2.5 |
| Korn Korn III: Remember Who You Are | 2.5 |
| Korn Take a Look in the Mirror | 3.0 |
| Korn Untitled | 3.5 |
| Kowloon Walled City Container Ships | 2.0 |
| Every song sounds exactly the same from the last song. Really wish I could have found a torrent for this instead of paying for it. |
| Kurupt The Streetz iz a Mutha | 4.0 |
| Lady Gaga Born This Way | 1.5 |
| Lady Gaga The Fame | 2.0 |
| Lady Gaga Artpop | 2.0 |
| Lady Gaga The Fame Monster | 2.5 |
| Laked God and Yak Butt Pirate Bible Force | 1.0 |
| Lantlos Melting Sun | 2.0 |
| I know I'm going to get hate for saying this but this album is fucking boring. I understand this is shoegaze and not black metal but I still found this extremely sleep inducing. There are some stellar guitar parts sprinkled here but the songs seem to blend into one another making it hard to realize when the song you're listening has ended. This could have been a really good album but the lack of variety from song to song and the riduculous lengths they all have make this an album I would only listen to if I were getting ready to go to bed. |
| Lantlos Lantlos | 2.5 |
| Lantlos .neon | 2.5 |
| Last Chance to Reason Level 3 | 4.0 |
| I think Omaha must have had a bad bag of crack when he reviewed this. So what if LCTR decided to "mature" and change their sound a little, decided to go with almost all clean vocals, and decided to mix the guitars high in the production. This is still a good record and most people who listen to this will not even think of the album's flaws because the album's strengths far outweigh them. |
| Last Chance to Reason Level 2 | 4.5 |
| Took a long time for me to get this album but once I did I realized how good it is. Can't wait for their next album. |
| Leprous Bilateral | 4.0 |
| letlive. Fake History | 4.5 |
| Refused to listen to this album for so long because of the vocals. Didn't realize I've slept on one of the best post-hardcore albums I've ever heard. |
| Light Bearer Beyond the Infinite: The Assembly of God | 2.0 |
| Light Bearer Silver Tongue | 2.5 |
| Light Bearer Lapsus | 4.0 |
| Lil B God's Father | 1.0 |
| Maybe I'm too old but I just don't fucking get it |
| Lil B Choices and Flowers | 1.5 |
| Lil Wayne Tha Block Is Hot | 3.0 |
| Lil Wayne Lights Out | 3.0 |
| Limp Bizkit Results May Vary | 1.0 |
| Limp Bizkit Gold Cobra | 1.0 |
| Don't give a fuck what the others say about this album. It is Limp Bizkit and without listening is a default 2.5. Rating lowers once you listen to it. I guess all the people on this site trying to 5 this as a joke and the other people rating this high because they actually like this shit forget that Limp Bizkit is now and has always been a shit band. A long hiatus from music doesn't mask the flaws from this horrible album. Fuck this band. |
| Limp Bizkit Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavored Water | 2.5 |
| Linkin Park A Thousand Suns | 1.0 |
| Linkin Park Minutes to Midnight | 1.5 |
| Linkin Park The Hunting Party | 1.5 |
| Linkin Park One More Light | 1.5 |
| Linkin Park Living Things | 2.0 |
| Linkin Park Hybrid Theory | 3.0 |
| Linkin Park Meteora | 3.0 |
| Locktender Kafka | 2.5 |
| Locktender Rodin | 3.5 |
| Lord Dying Summon the Faithless | 2.0 |
| This album has it's moments but overall it's pretty fucking boring |
| Lostprophets Start Something | 3.5 |
| Lou Reed and Metallica Lulu | 1.5 |
| Sad, Sad, sad. I'm a huge Metallica fan and even though I thought even the universally hated Load, Re-Load, and St. Anger had their moments, this has none. I could go on a long diatribe about how horrible this album is but everybody knows how horrible this album is by now. Sigh... Was hoping Metallica was taking a step in the right direction after Death Magnetic but they have shown all of their fans that they could give a shit if their music is good enough for their fans. Lou Reed's vocals are so bad I'm not even going to mention them. Hopefully Metallica and Lou Reed disappear if they plan on making more terrible music like this. |
| Love Sex Machine Love Sex Machine | 3.5 |
| Love Sex Machine Asexual Anger | 4.0 |
| A lot better than it's predecessor. Whereas their self-titled was layer upon layer of crushing filthy sludge, too many of the songs sounded the same and the vocal delivery was sometimes off. LSM decide to trim the fat on this one and submit a more streamlined version of sludge. While this is not as heavy as their previous record, this album is more focused, more accessible, and generally more enjoyable. |
| Ludacris The Red Light District | 2.0 |
| Ludacris Release Therapy | 2.5 |
| Ludacris Theater of the Mind | 2.5 |
| Ludacris Chicken-n-Beer | 3.0 |
| Ludacris Back For The First Time | 3.0 |
| Machine Gun Kelly bloom | 1.0 |
| Manowar Gods of War | 1.0 |
| Maroon 5 V | 1.5 |
| Maroon 5 Hands All Over | 2.0 |
| Maroon 5 Overexposed | 2.0 |
| Mastodon Jonah Hex: Revenge Gets Ugly EP | 2.0 |
| Was hyped up for this. All the hype disappeared after I listened to it. Easily the worst thing Mastodon has ever done. |
| Mastodon Oblivion EP | 2.5 |
| Mastodon Lifesblood | 3.0 |
| Mastodon 9 Song Demo | 3.0 |
| Mastodon The Workhorse Chronicles [DVD] | 3.5 |
| The best thing about this DVD are the interviews. The interviews tell the story of how Mastodon was created and provides a glimpse on how they went from nothing to who they are today. The different performances range from good to bad. Most of the early performances with their original lead singer are awful but it at least helps you see how their sounds has progressed. Standout performances include excellent live versions of Hearts Alive and Megalodon. Would rate this a little higher if the vocals sounded better on most songs but its still a good DVD. More like a 3.8 than 3.5 but not a 4.0. |
| Mastodon The Hunter | 3.5 |
| Initially gave this a 4.5 rating because of Mastodon taking a new direction in their music. However after giving this album time to digest, seeing them play the songs from the Hunter live with their older stuff, and realizing that I have listened to this album the least of all Mastodon albums, I must change my rating. The Hunter, while good in it's own right, does not stack up to their older music. All of Mastodon's other albums took me at least a month to digest everything that was going in the music. The Hunter only took me a few listens to get everything. Yes making the album more simplistic is a new approach for Mastodon, but it brings down the quality of the music, making it less memorable. Save for The Hunter, Thickening, and The Sparrow, there is really nothing else special in the rest of the songs. Yes, the proggyness is still there, but there is a lot missing. Hopefully they remember how to make real metal on their next album (Look at High on Fire's latest offering) and don't continue to follow in Metallica's footsteps. One "Black Album" is forgiveable but another one is not. |
| Mastodon Cold Dark Place | 3.5 |
| Mastodon Remission | 4.0 |
| Mastodon Blood Mountain | 4.0 |
| Mastodon Live at the Aragon | 4.0 |
| Mastodon puts on one hell of a show at the Aragon. Their muscianship is top notch and the trippy visuals help to add to the already trippy subject material of Crack the Skye. Mastodon even superbly plays some of their old material with the best being the material from Remission. Troy Sander's vocals are the standout during the performance. His vocal range has improved a lot and he still proves he can growl and belt harsh vocals with the best of them. Bill Kelliher's vocals on the Remission songs and Bran Dailor's vocals on the Crack the Skye songs are also highlights. The only low points on this DVD are Brent Hind's vocals which are atrocious in comparison to everyone else' and the fact that Mastodon barely displays any emotion when playing. Overall though, this is an excellent Live DVD. No where near as good as such classics as Nirvana's or Alice in Chain's MTV unplugged but still very good. Any fan of Mastodon should own (download) this. |
| Mastodon Once More 'Round the Sun | 4.0 |
| Mastodon Emperor of Sand | 4.0 |
| Mastodon Leviathan | 5.0 |
| Mastodon Crack the Skye | 5.0 |
| Matty Mullins Matty Mullins | 1.5 |
| Mechina Empyrean | 2.5 |
| Expected way more from this record based on the average ratings. Not impressed at all. |
| Megadeth Th1rt3en | 2.5 |
| Megadeth The System Has Failed | 3.5 |
| Megadeth United Abominations | 4.0 |
| Megadeth Endgame | 4.0 |
| Megadeth Rust in Peace | 5.0 |
| Melvins Bullhead | 4.0 |
| Metallica Reload | 2.0 |
| Metallica Some Kind of Monster | 2.0 |
| Metallica St. Anger | 2.5 |
| Sigh... I know everybody thinks this is a really bad album. While I won't disagree, the album did have some listenable songs like Some King of Monster, Invisible Kid, Unamed Feeling, and St. Anger. However, the other songs are so bad they overshadow the songs that are okay. Lars drumming brings this album down a lot too. His drum kit sounds like dish pans and it takes away too much from the overall quality of the sound. |
| Metallica Load | 2.5 |
| Metallica Metallica | 2.5 |
| Metallica Six Feet Down Under | 2.5 |
| Metallica Beyond Magnetic | 3.0 |
| This is good at best. Sad that in today's metal landscape where bands like Rosetta, Intronaut, and Vektor continue to push the boundaries of metal this is the best that Metallica can come up. Time to hang it up guys. You had a good run. |
| Metallica Garage Inc. | 3.5 |
| Metallica Hardwired...To Self-Destruct | 3.5 |
| Metallica Kill 'Em All | 4.0 |
| Metallica Death Magnetic | 4.0 |
| Metallica ...And Justice for All | 4.5 |
| Metallica Master of Puppets | 5.0 |
| Metallica Ride the Lightning | 5.0 |
| Mgla Exercises in Futility | 3.5 |
| Michael Jackson Bad | 3.5 |
| Michael Jackson Off the Wall | 4.0 |
| Michael Jackson Thriller | 4.5 |
| Misery Signals Controller | 3.5 |
| Expected more from the album based upon the reviews. Album is above average metalcore but there is nothing really special that puts it heads and shoulders above the rest of the genre. If anything, the harsh vocals are stagnant and no range at all is expressed in them. The clean vocals are the only ones that actually show any emotion. However, those are really the only complaints about the album. Album is a good mix of progressive metalcore that is actually done right. |
| Misery Signals Absent Light | 4.0 |
| Album could be a 5 if they just extended the length of some of the songs. |
| Mogwai Mr. Beast | 3.5 |
| Monkey3 39 Laps | 4.0 |
| Monuments (UK) The Amanuensis | 4.5 |
| This is what Periphery would sound like if they grew a pair of balls and decided to actually play metal. |
| Morbid Angel Illud Divinum Insanus | 1.0 |
| Motorhead Ace of Spades | 5.0 |
| Never felt this bad after hearing about the death of a legend. I know Scott Weiland just passed away a few weeks ago but we all knew that was going to happen sooner or later. Lemmy though was 70 and still living like he was in his early 20s. May he be an inspiration to all of us who enjoy drinking like we don't need a liver. R.I.P hard man. You will definitely be missed. R.I.P Lemmy and R.I.P Motorhead. Hard rock and metal won't be the same without you. |
| Mouth Of The Architect Time and Withering | 3.0 |
| Mouth Of The Architect The Ties That Blind | 4.0 |
| Mouth Of The Architect Quietly | 4.0 |
| Mouth Of The Architect Dawning | 4.5 |
| A lot better than I expected, and my expectations were high |
| Mouth Of The Architect The Violence Beneath | 5.0 |
| Easily some of the best post-metal songs ever put together. Too bad they didn't do a whole album of similar songs. |
| Mumakil Flies Will Starve | 2.0 |
| My Sleeping Karma Satya | 3.0 |
| My Sleeping Karma Tri | 4.0 |
| Myrimin Bolota Ohta | 1.5 |
| Nas Nastradamus | 2.5 |
| Nas Life Is Good | 2.5 |
| Nas is fully capable of making rap music better than this. For most artists this would be an above average record, for Nas this is disappointing. |
| Nas Street's Disciple | 3.0 |
| Nas I Am... | 3.0 |
| Nas God's Son | 3.5 |
| Nas STILLmatic | 4.5 |
| Ne Obliviscaris Urn | 3.5 |
| Ne Obliviscaris Portal of I | 4.0 |
This could easily be a 5 if the songs weren't so fucking
long! The words "over-blown" and "pretentious" come
to mind when I think about the wankery and self
masturbating of the instruments on almost every song.
Despite the albums few negatives, the band does a
great job of making blackened, progessive death metal
worth listening to. The constant changing from clean,
to black, to death metal vocals is done beautifully.
Shorten the songs next time guys and you will have a
perfect album. |
| Ne Obliviscaris Citadel | 4.5 |
| The instrumental passages on this alone make this record a must listen. Yes, everything has been improved from Portal of I but the beatifulness of the violin and the other instruments interwined really make this record. |
| Nerves Nerves | 3.0 |
| Netherlands Silicon Vapor | 3.0 |
| Neurosis Aberration | 2.5 |
| Neurosis Sovereign | 2.5 |
| Neurosis Souls at Zero | 3.5 |
| Neurosis Honor Found in Decay | 3.5 |
| Neurosis Times of Grace | 4.0 |
| Neurosis Given to the Rising | 4.0 |
| Neurosis Fires Within Fires | 4.0 |
| Neurosis The Eye of Every Storm | 4.5 |
| Neurosis Through Silver in Blood | 4.5 |
| Neurosis Enemy of the Sun | 4.5 |
| Took a long time for this one to click but when it did, BOOM! Mind blown and sonically pummeled into submission. Definitely one of Neurosis' heaviest albums. |
| Neurosis Live at Roadburn 2007 | 4.5 |
| Neurosis A Sun That Never Sets | 5.0 |
| Neurosis and Jarboe Neurosis and Jarboe | 2.5 |
| I hate to give a Neurosis album such a low rating but its the least enjoyable album in their discography. |
| nic Demo | 3.5 |
| Nickelback Here and Now | 1.5 |
| Nickelback The Best of Nickelback Volume 1 | 1.5 |
| Nickelback Dark Horse | 2.0 |
| Nickelback No Fixed Address | 2.0 |
| Nickelback Silver Side Up | 2.5 |
| Nickelback All the Right Reasons | 2.5 |
| Nirvana Nevermind | 3.5 |
| Nirvana MTV Unplugged in New York | 4.5 |
| Nirvana MTV Unplugged in New York (DVD) | 4.5 |
| No One No One | 1.0 |
| Nonpoint Vengeance | 2.0 |
| Nonpoint Miracle | 3.0 |
| Not as good as To The Pain but a HELL OF A LOT BETTER than Vengeance. I don't know what they were thinking when they made that...... Anyway, Miracle is a step in the right direction. Next album by them should be excellent. |
| Norma Jean Meridional | 3.5 |
| Norma Jean Wrongdoers | 4.5 |
| Even though I have listened to this a few times over, I'm still shocked that Norma Jean is able to maintain such ferocity and fury for the entire length of this album. Just when you think it's about to let up, it doesn't. Possible metalcore/hardcore AOTY |
| Obscura Diluvium | 3.5 |
| Obscure Sphinx Void Mother | 4.5 |
| One of the few bands with a female lead vocalist who can cover the whole vocal range from angelic singing to throat shredding shrieking. Instrumentally everybody brings their A game with all the instruments shinning in different areas throughout the album. I'm not sure what the lyrics are about but I have to imagine it has something to do with darkness and bleakness because of the of atmosphere presented. Don't let this band having a female vocalist stop you from listening to one of the best metal albums of the year. |
| Oceano Incisions | 1.0 |
| This has to be one of the worst albums I have ever heard. It's just fucking awful. Fucking awful. |
| Oddland The Treachery of Senses | 2.5 |
| I don't know if I am missing something or what but I thought this was boring a shit. There just really isn't enough going for the record to keep the zzzs from coming on. I can usually dig melodic/progressive metal but this record really doesn't have any thing that makes it stand out. No balls whatsoever |
| Oh, Sleeper The Titan | 3.0 |
| Oh, Sleeper Son of the Morning | 3.5 |
| Oh, Sleeper Children of Fire | 4.0 |
| Old Man Gloom Seminar III: Zozobra | 3.5 |
| Old Man Gloom NO | 3.5 |
| An above average record that is too all over the place and incohesive for it to be truly great. |
| Old Man Gloom The Ape of God I | 3.5 |
| Old Man Gloom The Ape of God II | 4.5 |
| This is easily, hands down the best post metal album of 2014 (and maybe even 2015). This album's heavness, riffs, vocals and buildups will make you rethink what you think is your favorite heavy album. For those who think I'm lying, my answer is A Hideous Nightmare Lies Upon the World. |
| Om Advaitic Songs | 3.5 |
| Om Variations on a Theme | 4.0 |
| Om Conference of the Birds | 4.0 |
| Om Pilgrimage | 4.0 |
| One Direction Take Me Home | 1.0 |
| Operation: Mindcrime The Key | 2.0 |
| Operator Soulcrusher | 2.5 |
| Opeth Sorceress | 1.5 |
| Opeth Burden | 2.0 |
| Opeth Heritage | 2.0 |
| Opeth Pale Communion | 2.0 |
| Opeth Orchid | 2.5 |
| Oranssi Pazuzu Valonielu | 3.5 |
| I feel sorry for the poor bastard who sees only the "psychedelic" tag and decides to trip to this. I can only imagine how bad a trip that person would have tripping to this |
| OutKast Speakerboxxx/The Love Below | 3.5 |
| OutKast Stankonia | 4.0 |
| Ozzy Osbourne Scream | 2.0 |
| P.O.D. When Angels and Serpents Dance | 2.5 |
| P.O.D. Murdered Love | 2.5 |
| I guess P.O.D must have not heard that nu-metal died along time ago... |
| P.O.D. Payable on Death | 3.0 |
| P.O.D. Testify | 3.0 |
| P.O.D. Satellite | 3.0 |
| Pallbearer Heartless | 3.5 |
| Pallbearer Sorrow And Extinction | 4.0 |
| Pallbearer Foundations of Burden | 4.0 |
| Palm Reader Bad Weather | 3.5 |
| Palms Palms | 3.5 |
| Papa Roach Metamorphosis | 2.5 |
| Papa Roach Getting Away With Murder | 3.0 |
| Papa Roach The Paramour Sessions | 3.0 |
| Paradise Lost The Plague Within | 4.0 |
| Paradise Lost Medusa | 4.0 |
| Paramore Paramore | 2.0 |
| Parkway Drive Ire | 3.0 |
| Really, really wanted to like this record but putting the vocals right in the front of the mix was a disaster. The lyrics are so bad on most of these tracks that they bring the record down. |
| Parkway Drive Atlas | 4.0 |
| This is easily the best metalcore record I have heard so far this year |
| Paul Wall Get Money Stay True | 2.5 |
| Paul Wall The Peoples Champ | 3.0 |
| Paul Wall and Chamillionaire Get Your Mind Correct | 3.0 |
| Pelican Forever Becoming | 3.5 |
| Periphery Periphery | 3.5 |
| Periphery Periphery II: This Time It's Personal | 3.5 |
| Pink Floyd Obscured by Clouds | 3.5 |
| Pink Floyd Meddle | 4.0 |
| Pink Floyd Animals | 4.5 |
| Pink Floyd The Wall | 4.5 |
| Pink Floyd The Dark Side of the Moon | 5.0 |
| Pink Floyd Wish You Were Here | 5.0 |
| Protest the Hero Scurrilous | 2.5 |
| Protest the Hero Fortress | 4.0 |
| Thought I was going to hate this album after I read a lot of people stating this album sucked. I can see how some people would think this album sucks. I didn't like it the first couple of times listening to it but after listening to it for a couple of months it finally clicked and I think it is great. Though not as good as Kezia, it is still a damn good album. The first four songs are easy listens, the rest of the album takes a while to grow on you. |
| Protest the Hero Volition | 4.0 |
| Better than Fortress but not Kezia. Reminds me why I liked PTH in the first place. |
| Protest the Hero Kezia | 4.5 |
| This album seems like a breath of fresh air compared to other bands that do hardcore/metal/metalcore/whatever horribly wrong (BTBAM, Converge). The lyrics are inspiring and the lead singer actually has good clean and screaming vocals. The rest of the musicianship is top notch as well. This is one of the few albums I can listen to from the first song to the last song without skipping one song. This is not my first attempt at listening to hardcore/metal/metalcore/whatever but this is the first time I've listened to it and actually loved it. Bravo PTH, Bravo! |
| Prussian Blue Fragment Of The Future | 1.0 |
| Prussian Blue The Path We Chose | 1.0 |
| Puff Daddy No Way Out | 3.5 |
| Queens of the Stone Age Era Vulgaris | 2.0 |
| Queens of the Stone Age Lullabies to Paralyze | 3.5 |
| Queens of the Stone Age ...Like Clockwork | 4.0 |
| Queens of the Stone Age Songs for the Deaf | 5.0 |
| Queensryche Dedicated to Chaos | 1.5 |
| Queensryche Frequency Unknown (Tate's Queensryche) | 1.5 |
| Rectal Smegma Keep On Smiling | 2.0 |
| Red Fang Murder the Mountains | 3.0 |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers By the Way | 3.5 |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers Greatest Hits | 4.0 |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers Stadium Arcadium | 4.0 |
| Rise Against Appeal to Reason | 2.5 |
| Rivers of Nihil Monarchy | 4.0 |
| Rivers of Nihil Where Owls Know My Name | 4.5 |
| Progressive death metal done right. Not even really a fan of death metal but this rules. |
| Rosetta Flies to Flame | 2.5 |
| Rosetta is capable of putting out WAY BETTER material than this and their last album. |
| Rosetta The Anaesthete | 3.5 |
| This is by no means a bad album. It's just not as memorable as what they've done in the past. |
| Rosetta A Determinism of Morality | 4.0 |
| Rosetta Wake/Lift | 4.5 |
| Rosetta Quintessential Ephemera | 4.5 |
melnadaid, you are another idiot talking shit about a band you obviously know nothing about. Look
at the averages for their albums. You really think this is a shit band? Yes their last EP and
album were hit and miss but I bet you wouldn't be able to get through any of their older albums
with the understanding of why they are rated so high. Go back and listen to music you know like
emo and hip-hop but be careful insulting a great post-metal band, a genre you know nothing about.
So Saiyeth the Living Turd |
| Rosetta The Galilean Satellites | 5.0 |
| This was probably the first post-metal album that I have ever listened to and loved form the first listen. While listening to this I actually felt like I was traveling through space with the astronaut and could feel his descent into madness once he got to Europa and realized he was alone. I would write more but my words will not give this album the justice it deserves. An awesome record. One of the best post-metal albums I have ever heard. |
| Run the Jewels Meow the Jewels | 1.0 |
| RZA Digital Bullet | 3.5 |
| Saliva Blood Stained Love Story | 1.0 |
| I remember picking this album up when it came out in 06 or 07 whenever their single Ladies and Gentlemen came out. This album is easily the worst album I have ever bought. The single tricked me into thinking that this was a hard rock album but this isn't hard rock. This is pussy rock posing as hard rock. This album tosses horrible, horrible ballad, after ballad, after ballad at you. Sounds like someone broke the leads singers heart and he never got over it. I was so bored by song number 6 I quit listening and never finished it. |
| Saliva In It to Win It (Promo) | 1.0 |
| Samsara Blues Experiment Revelation & Mystery | 2.5 |
| This is a real noticeable drop in quality compared to their first two albums. Long Distance Trip is a modern psychedelic classic and Waiting for the Flood is very good but this is so average in comparison. Maybe all the drugs are starting to burn them out, maybe not but considering how boring and uninspired this record is, it makes me wonder. |
| Samsara Blues Experiment One with the Universe | 2.5 |
| Samsara Blues Experiment Long Distance Trip | 4.0 |
| Samsara Blues Experiment Waiting For The Flood | 4.0 |
| Samsara Blues Experiment Live at Rockpalast | 4.5 |
| Saor Aura | 3.0 |
| Say Anything Anarchy, My Dear | 1.0 |
| Secret Band Secret Band | 4.0 |
| Seether Holding Onto Strings Better Left To Fray | 2.0 |
| Seether Isolate And Medicate | 2.0 |
| Seether Finding Beauty In Negative Spaces | 2.5 |
| Seether Disclaimer II | 3.0 |
| Seether Karma And Effect | 3.0 |
| Seether Disclaimer | 3.5 |
| Seether One Cold Night | 3.5 |
| Senses Fail Renacer | 4.0 |
| I must be living in a bizarro world because in the real world Senses Fail would never become more heavier than Neurosis, Mastodon, and Intronaut.... |
| Seven Mary Three American Standard | 4.5 |
| Classic 90s grunge album. Almost funny how back in the 90s a band could make a song about being a 26 years old porking a 16 year old and no one would say a damn thing about it. Shame on you SMT! |
| Shadows Fall Fire From the Sky | 2.0 |
| This is a good example of metalcore done wrong. This album is very bland, very boring, and below average metalcore. Retribution was a step in the right direction but I don't know what happened with this. Shadows Fall need to look at their metalcore brethren like Oh, Sleeper, Underoath, and August Burns Red and realize they need to step their game up about 5 notches. |
| Shadows Fall Retribution | 3.0 |
| Shai Hulud Reach Beyond the Sun | 3.0 |
| She Wants Revenge She Wants Revenge | 3.0 |
| She Wants Revenge This is Forever | 3.0 |
| Shinedown Amaryllis | 2.0 |
| Shrinebuilder Shrinebuilder | 4.0 |
| Sigh Imaginary Sonicscape | 2.5 |
| Silent Planet The Night God Slept | 2.5 |
| Silverstein Arrivals and Departures | 2.5 |
| Silverstein A Shipwreck in the Sand | 3.5 |
| Silverstein Short Songs | 3.5 |
| Silverstein Discovering the Waterfront | 4.0 |
| Silverstein This Is How the Wind Shifts | 4.0 |
| Silverstein I Am Alive In Everything I Touch | 4.0 |
| Silversun Pickups Carnavas | 4.0 |
| Simple Plan Taking One for the Team | 1.5 |
| Skrew Angel Seed XXIII | 1.0 |
| Slayer Diabolus in Musica | 1.0 |
| Slayer God Hates Us All | 1.5 |
| Slayer Christ Illusion | 1.5 |
| Slayer Undisputed Attitude | 2.0 |
| Slayer World Painted Blood | 2.0 |
| Slayer Repentless | 2.0 |
| Slipknot All Hope Is Gone | 3.0 |
| Slugdge Esoteric Malacology | 4.5 |
| Snoop Dogg R&G (Rhythm & Gangsta) - The Masterpiece | 1.5 |
| Snoop Dogg Da Game is to Be Sold, Not to Be Told | 2.0 |
| Snoop Dogg Tha Last Meal | 2.5 |
| Snoop Dogg No Limit Top Dogg | 3.0 |
| Soen Cognitive | 3.0 |
| Heavily Tool influenced psychedelic rock. It is what it is. |
| SOiL Picture Perfect | 2.0 |
| Sonic Syndicate We Rule the Night | 1.0 |
| Sonic Syndicate Love and Other Disasters | 1.5 |
| Soundgarden Louder Than Love | 3.5 |
| Soundgarden Badmotorfinger | 4.0 |
| Soundgarden A-Sides | 4.0 |
| Soundgarden King Animal | 4.0 |
| Soundgarden Superunknown | 4.5 |
| Squarepusher Music for Robots | 1.5 |
| Staind The Illusion of Progress | 3.0 |
| Staind Staind | 3.5 |
| Staind 14 Shades of Grey | 4.0 |
| Stake Kosmokoma | 4.0 |
| Great album. Took me a while to really understand what was going on but once I did it made repeat listens more enjoyable. The album artwork is amazing. The artwork for each song really pulls you into the atmosphere of the album. |
| Stone Sour Audio Secrecy | 2.0 |
| Stone Sour House of Gold and Bones - Part 1 | 2.5 |
| Stone Sour Come What(ever) May | 3.0 |
| Stone Temple Pilots Core | 3.5 |
| Stone Temple Pilots Purple | 3.5 |
| Stone Temple Pilots Thank You | 4.0 |
| Storm Corrosion Storm Corrosion | 2.0 |
| Story of the Year Page Avenue | 3.0 |
| Submersed Immortal Verses | 3.0 |
| SubRosa (US) More Constant Than The Gods | 4.5 |
| Suicide Silence The Black Crown | 1.5 |
| Sully Erna Avalon | 4.0 |
| SUMAC The Deal | 3.5 |
| Sunpocrisy Samaroid Dioramas | 4.0 |
Labeling this band progressive death metal does not do this band justice. While they exhibit
traits of both, this band is on another planet compared to most progressive death bands. Anyway,
this is probably the best progressive metal record of 2012. |
| Sunpocrisy Eyegasm, Hallelujah! | 4.5 |
| Sunpocrisy utilizes all of the potential shown on their first record to create a beast of an album by changing things up a bit. Where their first album sounded like progressive death metal, this album's sound can badly be described as progressive post-metal with psychedelic vibes. If you can really get into this album it can make you feel life you are transcending the physical plain of existence into a dream like world. The contrast between heavy and calm is done almost perfectly. |
| Switchfoot The Beautiful Letdown | 3.0 |
| Tacoma Narrows Bridge Disaster Exegesis | 4.5 |
| Ted Nugent Shutup&jam! | 1.0 |
| Ted Nugent Love Grenade | 1.5 |
| Temple of the Dog Temple of the Dog | 4.5 |
| Tesa G H O S T | 4.0 |
| TesseracT One | 2.0 |
| TesseracT Altered State | 3.0 |
| Just saw these guys play live on Sunday and they put on a pretty damn good show. Was expecting this album to be good because of how good they sound live. Boy was I wrong. Good band live but man is this album boring in comparison. |
| TesseracT Polaris | 3.0 |
| Testament Dark Roots of Earth | 2.5 |
| Maybe this will grow on me in time but as for now this is extremely overrated. |
| Testament Brotherhood of the Snake | 3.5 |
| Testament The Formation of Damnation | 4.0 |
| Textures Silhouettes | 2.0 |
| Tried to like this album. Really did but it was just so boring. Every song sounds the same which is truly disappointing considering the range of the lead singer. Most of the songs on here need to be shortened by at least a minute and a half to make them listenable. I'm still a Textures fan and am definitely looking forward to the new album but Silhouettes sucks. |
| Textures Dualism | 2.5 |
| Very Boring album. Seriously disappointed by this. Had high hopes for this album and this surely did not meet them. |
| The Acacia Strain Wormwood | 4.0 |
| The Atlas Moth An Ache for the Distance | 3.5 |
| The Atlas Moth Coma Noir | 3.5 |
| The Atlas Moth The Old Believer | 4.0 |
| Though this lacks stand out tracks like An Ache For the Distance, this is a more cohesive, focused, and consistent record as a whole. The emotional depth of this album is extremely deep if you take the time to pay attention to the lyrics. The subject matter of death, loss, grief, and mourning may not be new subject matter but the way The Atlas Moth express their emotions in regards to this is impressive. |
| The Chainsmokers Memories...Do Not Open | 1.0 |
| The Chainsmokers Bouquet | 1.5 |
| The Chainsmokers Collage | 1.5 |
| The Chariot Long Live | 3.0 |
| Really want to rank this higher than a 3 but outside of The City, The King, and David de la Hoz, nothing really stands out. This is good hardcore but I've heard better |
| The Contortionist Language | 2.0 |
| The Contortionist Exoplanet | 4.0 |
| Listening to this helped me understand why everybody hates Intrinsic (Besides the obvious ripping off of Cynic). |
| The Contortionist Intrinsic | 4.0 |
| The Cult Love | 4.0 |
| The Great Old Ones Al Azif | 3.5 |
| The Great Old Ones Tekeli-Li | 4.5 |
| The Hives Tyrannosaurus Hives | 3.0 |
| The Human Abstract Digital Veil | 3.0 |
| The Killers Don't Waste Your Wishes | 1.0 |
| The Mire Glass Cathedrals | 2.5 |
| This could have been so much better. Almost every song on here sounds exactly the same to the point where 4-5 songs could go by without you realizing that they have passed. If there was a little bit more variety from song to song this would be a hell of an album. |
| The Mire Volume: II | 4.0 |
| The Northern Imperium | 3.0 |
| The Ocean Pelagial | 2.0 |
| HORRIBLE VOCALS+uninspired musicianship+loss of heaviness+godawful lyrics = The worst The Ocean album of their career. Even Heliocentric was better than this steaming pile |
| The Ocean Heliocentric | 3.5 |
| Let me first say that my opinion might be a little bit biased because the first The Ocean album I listened to was Anthroprocentric, which is awesome in its own right. With that being said, I have yet to hear the angry, pissed off The Ocean that can be heard on the first few albums. I'm working my way back through their discography so after listening to Anthroprocentric this did not sound as bad as everybody said it is. Granted, this is even way different from Anthroprocentric and some of the songs just fucking suck, the album is still highly enjoyable. It might take at least 4-5 listens before it grows on you, but it is worth it. Ptolemy Was Wrong and Epiphany suck donkey dick and some of the lyrics on Swallowed by the Earth are laughable but the rest of the album is good to go. Maybe my opinion will change once I listen to the great Precambrian and the brutal Aeolian, but only time will tell. Until then, this album is pretty damn good. |
| The Ocean Aeolian | 4.0 |
| This is easily one of the heaviest, most crushing, most brutal post-metal albums ever. Kind of hard to really describe the sound without sounding too fanboyish, but after listening to this album, anyone can see why brutal and crushing are tossed around. This is right up there with Neurosis Through Silver in Blood, Cult of Luna The Beyond, and Isis Oceanic as far as post metal heaviness goes. This album may not have the diversity or complexity of PreCambrian but it makes up for it with its sheer aggression and its unrelenting heaviness. Other post metal bands have explored there heavy sides but few have come up with anything nearly as heavy as this record. Not every song on here is really good but the quality of The City in the Sea, Austerity, Killing the Flies, Queen of the Food-Chain, and Inertia more than make up for the shortfalls. This is definitely not for the faint of heart. Only those looking to be knocked on there ass by brutal music should listen. |
| The Ocean Precambrian | 4.5 |
| One of the few post metal albums that says fuck the usual wankery and just kicks ass.The heavy parts of disc 1 are heavy enough to destroy a small city, while the more progressive parts of disc 2 are simply prog metal at it's best. |
| The Ocean Anthropocentric | 4.5 |
| I know a lot of people disagree but I thought this album was pretty damn good. Every song on the album is enjoyable which is not something that can be said about most albums that come out today. Though the lyrics of this album really piss me off, its hard to let the lyrics keep me from listening to this. "Willie Zum Utergang" is one of the best instrumentals I've heard in a long time, even though it sounds like it was written by Isis. Only complaint with this album is the lack of overall heaviness. It is heavy in spurts but after listening to "Anthropocentric" pummel you into submission with its heaviness, the rest of the heavy moments in the album are no where near as heavy. |
| The Ocean Phanerozoic I: Palaeozoic | 4.5 |
| Didn't like their last album but man does this slay |
| The Ocean Fluxion | 5.0 |
| Better than Precambrian in my opinion. Might need to listen to Precambrian more to make sure but as of right now, Fluxion is better hands down. Fluxion is more progressive than Precambrian without sacrificing any of the heaviness. The Human Stain, Isla Del Sol, and The Greatest Bane are some of the heaviest, proggy songs the Ocean has ever made. Nazca and Fluxion are also great instrumentals, especially considering the Ocean hasn't made any good instrumentals since. All in all, I think this is the Ocean's best album. |
| The Offspring Rise and Fall, Rage and Grace | 3.0 |
| The Offspring Splinter | 3.5 |
| The Psyke Project Apnea | 4.0 |
| The Psyke Project Guillotine | 4.0 |
| Talk about sludge metal that will punish you with pure brutality. This album is HEAVY AS BALLS and doesn't letup at all. This is for fans of Cult of Luna, early Mastodon, and Black Sheep Wall |
| The Smashing Pumpkins Zeitgeist | 2.0 |
| The Smashing Pumpkins Rotten Apples | 4.5 |
| The Strokes First Impressions of Earth | 3.0 |
| The Strokes Room on Fire | 3.5 |
| The Strokes Is This It | 4.5 |
| The Strypes Snapshot | 1.0 |
| The Strypes Blue Collar Jane | 1.5 |
| The Sword Apocryphon | 3.5 |
| The Vines Future Primitive | 2.0 |
| Theory of a Deadman The Truth Is... | 2.0 |
| Theory of a Deadman Gasoline | 3.0 |
| Thirty Seconds to Mars America | 1.5 |
| Thirty Seconds to Mars A Beautiful Lie | 3.5 |
| This or the Apocalypse Dead Years | 3.5 |
| Three Days Grace Pain (+ Acoustic) - EP | 1.5 |
| Three Days Grace Human | 1.5 |
| Three Days Grace Transit of Venus | 2.0 |
| Three Days Grace Three Days Grace | 2.5 |
| Three Days Grace One-X | 2.5 |
| Three Days Grace Life Starts Now | 2.5 |
| Thrice The Artist in the Ambulance | 4.0 |
| Thrice Vheissu | 4.0 |
| Thursday Full Collapse | 4.0 |
| Times of Grace The Hymn of a Broken Man | 4.0 |
| Don't know why the staff reviewer gave this such a bad rating. A classic album this is not, especially with all of the autotune and with this sounding like a Killswitch clone record at times. However, the lyrics, vocals, and energy put forth into this album more than make up for it. This record really does sound the like the hymn of a broken man. Like someone who has experienced a lot in life and is trying to pass on good advice to others going through the same thing. If I wasn't mistaken, I would think this is Christian metal. Regardless, any fan of Killswitch or those looking for inspiration will definitely enjoy this. |
| Tokio Hotel Humanoid | 1.0 |
| Tokio Hotel Schrei | 1.5 |
| Tokio Hotel Dream Machine | 1.5 |
| Tombs Path of Totality | 2.0 |
| Imitating Neurosis and to a lesser extent Isis does not automatically mean you will sound good. Making every song sound the same doesn't help either. |
| Tombs Savage Gold | 2.5 |
| Tombs Winter Hours | 4.0 |
| After listening to the Path of Totality and being utterly disappointed I didn't expect much from this album. Boy was I wrong! This album is a lot better than Path of Totality IMO. Where most of the songs on POT sound the same, the songs have a nice variety on Winter Hours. The best thing about this album is not that Tombs does a good job of sounding like a Neurosis/Isis hybrid band. The best thing is the thick wall of sound they create. You would swear that there are 5 to 6 members in this band, but three guys, just three guys make this crushing sound. The only negatives about this album are its length (a whopping 37 minutes) and the number of interludes/instrumentals. The instrumentals are not bad in themselves, its just that after being pummeled by tracks like Merrimack and Seven Stars The Angel of Death you want more. After loving this album, I think I'll give POT another listen and see if anything clicks. |
| Tonight Alive Limitless | 2.0 |
| Tool Undertow | 4.0 |
| Tool 10,000 Days | 4.5 |
| Tool Fear Inoculum | 4.5 |
| Considering how long it took them to make this album, this is a lot better than it has any right to be. |
| Tool Lateralus | 5.0 |
| Tool Ænima | 5.0 |
| Torche Harmonicraft | 3.5 |
| Torche Meanderthal | 4.0 |
| Torsofuck Erotic Diarrhea Fantasy | 1.0 |
| Totem Skin Still Waters Run Deep | 4.0 |
| Trenches The Tide Will Swallow Us Whole | 4.5 |
| Trivium The Sin and the Sentence | 3.5 |
| Truckfighters Universe | 4.0 |
| Truckfighters Gravity X | 4.5 |
| Truckfighters Phi | 4.5 |
| Turbid North Eyes Alive | 3.5 |
| Turbid North Orogeny | 4.0 |
| Obvious Neurosis worship is obvious Neurosis worship. |
| Turbonegro Sexual Harassment | 2.5 |
| Twilight Monument To Time End | 4.0 |
| Album is great but could have been even better if Aaron Turner would have did some of the vocals |
| Twisted Sister Love Is For Suckers | 1.0 |
| Twisted Sister A Twisted Christmas | 2.5 |
| U2 Songs of Experience | 2.5 |
| Ulcerate The Destroyers of All | 3.5 |
| Ulcerate Vermis | 4.0 |
| So fucking brutal. This is definitely the anthem of the apocalypse. |
| Underoath Erase Me | 2.0 |
| If bland and boring is what Underoath was aiming for, they have met their goal with Erase Me. Gone is the heaviness that made Underoath, Underoath, being replaced with a more melodic, alternative rock sound. I don't mind the change in musical direction, it just doesn't sound very good. Hopefully they go back to their roots on the next album or at least execute the transition to melodic music better. |
| Underoath They're Only Chasing Safety | 3.0 |
| Underoath Define the Great Line | 3.0 |
| Underoath Lost in the Sound of Separation | 4.0 |
| Underoath Ø (Disambiguation) | 4.0 |
| Really didn't like this album the first time couple of times I listened to it. After the video for Paper Lung came out I decided to listen to the album again. After 4 or 5 more listens the album finally clicked. Some of the songs on here are really amazing like Who Will Guard the Guardians, In Completion, and Driftwood. However, the repetitive nature of the lyrics keep the album from being even better. But... This album has made me an Underoath fan. |
| Unearth Watchers of Rule | 3.0 |
| Unleashing My Demons Tran(ce)scen(e)dance | 1.0 |
| Velvet Revolver Libertad | 2.5 |
| Velvet Revolver Contraband | 3.5 |
| Vildhjarta Måsstaden | 2.5 |
| Very disappointing after hearing Omnislash. This could have been a lot better. |
| Vildhjarta Omnislash | 3.5 |
| Villagers of Ioannina City Age of Aquarius | 4.0 |
| Volbeat Beyond Hell/Above Heaven | 4.5 |
| Decided to listen to this based upon BigHans review... Boy was I blown away. Every song on this album is good! The vocals are great, the drumming is great, and the riffing is great. Can't really think of anything bad to say about this album, all though the death metal vocals are comical on Evelyn, it doesn't really bring the song down. Album of the year? Maybe...... |
| VYGR Hypersleep | 3.5 |
| Waka Flocka Flame Flockaveli | 2.0 |
| Waking The Cadaver Real-Life Death | 1.0 |
| Will suck. Very hard. Probably contender for worst AOTY |
| Waking The Cadaver Demo | 1.5 |
| Waking The Cadaver Perverse Recollections Of A Necromangler | 1.5 |
| Walk Off the Earth R.E.V.O. | 2.0 |
| Warren G I Want It All | 2.5 |
| We Butter The Bread With Butter Das Monster Aus Dem Schrank | 2.0 |
| We Came As Romans We Came As Romans | 1.5 |
| We Lost the Sea Crimea | 2.5 |
| We Lost the Sea Departure Songs | 4.5 |
Simply put, this sounds like an audio farewell to a lost friend in the mist of passing over to the
afterlife. |
| We Lost the Sea The Quietest Place on Earth | 5.0 |
The best post metal album of 2012. This album is epic in every
sense of the word. A modern day post metal classic in the
same
vein as panopticon |
| We The Kings Six | 1.0 |
| Weezer Pacific Daydream | 3.5 |
| Not nearly as bad as I was told it was. It may sound different but it's still enjoyable. |
| will.i.am #Willpower | 1.0 |
| Within the Ruins Phenomena | 2.5 |
| Wolves at the Gate VxV | 4.0 |
| This is probably one of the best christcore records I've ever heard. If anyone likes Chrisitan metal that actually talks about Christian values and beliefs, this is the record for you. |
| Wolves in the Throne Room Diadem of 12 Stars | 4.0 |
| Wolves in the Throne Room Two Hunters | 4.0 |
| Wu-Tang Clan The W | 4.5 |
| This is one of the last rap albums that I listened to in high school before I became a metalhead. Though I wasn't a fan of Wu-Tang before this album, I became a fan after listening to it repeatedly. Some of the songs are excellent like Hollow Bones, Click Click, Chamber Music, and the emotionally powerful I Can't go to Sleep. All of the songs aren't good and some even resemble filler but this is still a good album nonetheless. |
| Xanthochroid Blessed He With Boils | 3.5 |
| Xibalba Tierra y Libertad | 1.5 |
| Xiu Xiu Kling Klang | 1.5 |
| Yes Heaven and Earth | 1.5 |
| YOB Catharsis | 3.5 |
| YOB Atma | 3.5 |
| YOB Clearing The Path To Ascend | 4.0 |
| This is a great record that only gets better with each listen. The last track is the most epic SOTY. |
| YOB Our Raw Heart | 4.0 |
| Youngblood Supercult High Plains | 3.5 |
| Zao The Funeral of God | 3.5 |
