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3 Inches of Blood Long Live Heavy Metal4.0
This is 3 Inches of Blood fully realized; it's the album that they have wanted to make from the beginning. It has better written songs and stronger musicianship than most of their back catalog (which is not bad at all, btw), and they keep all of their signature cheese intact.
40 Below Summer Fire at Zero Gravity4.0
7 Horns 7 Eyes Throes Of Absolution4.0
A Hero a Fake The Future Again2.5
A Hero a Fake Volatile3.5
A Hero a Fake Let Oceans Lie3.5
Abiotic Symbiosis3.0
Aborted Slaughter & Apparatus: A Methodical Overture2.0
Aborted Strychnine.2132.0
Aborted The Archaic Abattoir3.0
Aborted Goremageddon: The Saw and the Carnage...3.5
Aborted Engineering the Dead4.0
Aborted Global Flatline4.0
Aborted The Necrotic Manifesto4.0
After Forever After Forever3.5
After the Burial Rareform (Re-release)3.5
After the Burial In Dreams3.5
After the Burial Wolves Within3.5
Agalloch The Serpent and the Sphere2.0
Ahab The Giant3.5
Alestorm Sunset on the Golden Age4.0
All Pigs Must Die God Is War4.0
All Pigs Must Die Nothing Violates This Nature4.0
All Shall Perish Hate. Malice. Revenge3.0
All Shall Perish The Price of Existence3.5
All Shall Perish This Is Where It Ends4.0
All Shall Perish Awaken the Dreamers4.5
All That Remains A War You Cannot Win2.0
All That Remains For We Are Many2.5
All That Remains This Darkened Heart3.5
All That Remains The Fall of Ideals3.5
All That Remains Overcome3.5
Allegaeon Elements of the Infinite3.0
Allegaeon Formshifter4.0
Amaranthe Massive Addictive3.5
Amon Amarth Deceiver of the Gods2.5
Amon Amarth Fate of Norns3.0
Amon Amarth The Avenger3.0
Amon Amarth Once Sent from the Golden Hall3.0
Amon Amarth The Crusher3.5
Amon Amarth With Oden on Our Side3.5
Amon Amarth Surtur Rising3.5
Amon Amarth Wrath of the Norsemen4.0
Amon Amarth Twilight of the Thunder God4.0
Amon Amarth Versus the World4.5
Amon Amarth Jomsviking4.5
Amorphis Silent Waters3.0
Amorphis The Beginning of Times3.0
Amorphis Eclipse3.5
Amorphis The Karelian Isthmus3.5
Amorphis Elegy3.5
Amorphis Tales from the Thousand Lakes4.0
Amorphis Skyforger4.0
Amorphis Under the Red Cloud4.5
Anacondas Sub Contra Blues4.0
Ancient Ascendant Echoes and Cinder4.0
Anciients Heart of Oak4.5
Animals As Leaders Animals as Leaders4.0
Animals As Leaders Weightless4.0
Anthrax For All Kings2.5
Antigama The Insolent3.5
Arch Enemy Doomsday Machine2.5
Arch Enemy Khaos Legions3.0
Arch Enemy Anthems of Rebellion3.5
Arch Enemy Stigmata4.0
Arch Enemy Black Earth4.0
Arch Enemy Burning Bridges4.0
Arch Enemy Rise of the Tyrant4.0
Arch Enemy War Eternal4.0
Arch Enemy Wages of Sin5.0
Architects Daybreaker2.5
Architects Lost Forever // Lost Together2.5
Architects All Our Gods Have Abandoned Us2.5
Archspire The Lucid Collective4.0
Archspire Bleed the Future4.5
Arsis Unwelcome3.5
Arsonists Get All the Girls Listen to the Color4.0
As Blood Runs Black Instinct2.5
As Blood Runs Black Allegiance4.0
As I Lay Dying Decas3.0
As I Lay Dying Frail Words Collapse3.5
As I Lay Dying An Ocean Between Us3.5
As I Lay Dying The Powerless Rise3.5
As I Lay Dying Awakened3.5
As I Lay Dying Shadows Are Security4.0
As They Burn Will, Love, Life3.0
As We Draw Mirages3.5
Asphyx Deathhammer3.0
Solid, no frills death metal. Overall, they could have made the album slightly more interesting...being "true death metal" doesn't mean you have to be boring...but it is still a good listen.
At the Gates The Red in the Sky Is Ours3.5
At the Gates The Flames Of The End4.0
At the Gates Purgatory Unleashed: Live At Wacken4.0
At the Gates At War with Reality4.5
At the Gates Slaughter of the Soul5.0
Atoma Skylight4.5
I have gone back to this album many more times than I expected to. This is truly something different. They very much accomplish the journey through time and space they set out to deliver.
Audrey Horne Youngblood4.0
August Burns Red Home3.0
August Burns Red Thrill Seeker4.0
August Burns Red Constellations4.0
August Burns Red Leveler4.0
August Burns Red Messengers4.5
August Burns Red Rescue & Restore4.5
Baptists Bushcraft3.5
Baroness Yellow and Green4.0
Battlecross War of Will3.5
Becoming The Archetype I Am3.0
Behemoth The Satanist4.0
Beneath the Massacre Mechanics of Dysfunction3.0
Beneath the Massacre Dystopia3.0
Beneath the Massacre Marée Noire3.5
Beneath the Massacre Incongruous3.5
Benighted Carnivore Sublime3.5
Bereft (USA-CA) Leichenhaus4.0
Betraying the Martyrs Phantom2.0
Between the Buried and Me The Parallax II: Future Sequence3.0
Beyond Creation Earthborn Evolution4.5
Black Breath Heavy Breathing4.0
Black Breath Sentenced To Life4.0
Black Map Driver4.0
Black Tusk Set The Dial3.5
Black Tusk Tend No Wounds3.5
Bleeding Through Declaration2.5
Bleeding Through The Truth3.0
Bleeding Through Bleeding Through3.0
Bleeding Through This Is Love, This Is Murderous3.5
Bleeding Through The Great Fire3.5
Bleeding Through Portrait of the Goddess4.0
Bloodbath The Fathomless Mastery3.0
Bloodbath Nightmares Made Flesh3.5
Bloodbath Resurrection Through Carnage3.5
Bloodbath Grand Morbid Funeral4.0
Bloodshot Dawn Bloodshot Dawn4.0
Bloodshot Dawn Demons4.0
Born of Osiris The New Reign3.0
Born of Osiris A Higher Place3.5
Born of Osiris The Discovery4.0
Bring Me the Horizon Sempiternal3.5
Bury Tomorrow The Union of Crowns3.5
Bury Tomorrow Runes4.0
Byzantine Oblivion Beckons3.0
Byzantine ...And They Shall Take Up Serpents4.0
Byzantine The Fundamental Component4.0
Byzantine Byzantine4.0
Byzantine To Release Is to Resolve4.0
Caliban Ghost Empire2.0
My, how they have fallen. This might actually be worse than "Say Hello to Tragedy." Terrible album showing an uninspired band that wrote an album based on what is trendy right now. Extremely disappointing.
Caliban The Awakening2.5
Caliban The Undying Darkness3.0
Caliban Say Hello to Tragedy3.0
Caliban The Opposite From Within3.5
Caliban Shadow Hearts3.5
Caliban Vent3.5
Caliban I Am Nemesis4.0
Definitely their most focused and cohesive album yet. I think this is what they were trying to do on the last album, though they didn't quite make it.
Caligula's Horse Bloom4.0
Call of the Void Dragged Down A Dead End Path3.0
Cannibal Corpse Torture4.0
This was the first CC album to "wow" me, and it still does. Now having "A Skeletal Domain," I think this album is stronger and still has that "wow" factor that I feel "Domain" is missing.
Carcass Reek of Putrefaction3.0
Carcass Swansong3.0
Carcass Symphonies of Sickness3.5
Carcass Tools of the Trade3.5
Carcass Necroticism: Descanting the Insalubrious4.5
Carcass Surgical Steel4.5
Carcass Heartwork5.0
Cattle Decapitation Karma.Bloody.Karma3.0
Cattle Decapitation Humanure3.0
Cattle Decapitation The Harvest Floor3.0
Cattle Decapitation Monolith of Inhumanity4.5
This album is just amazing. It is Cattle Decapitation taken to the next level. It has elements from all of their previous work, but formed into a more focused and sharpened attack.
Cattle Decapitation The Anthropocene Extinction4.5
Cephalic Carnage Anomalies3.5
Cephalic Carnage Xenosapien3.5
Cephalic Carnage Conforming To Abnormality3.5
Cephalic Carnage Misled by Certainty4.0
Chaos Divine Avalon4.0
Chaos Divine The Human Connection4.0
Chaos Divine Colliding Skies4.5
Chevelle La Gárgola4.0
Children of Bodom Blooddrunk2.5
Children of Bodom Are You Dead Yet?3.0
Children of Bodom Relentless Reckless Forever3.0
Children of Bodom Something Wild3.5
Children of Bodom Hatebreeder3.5
Children of Bodom Follow the Reaper4.0
Children of Bodom Hate Crew Deathroll4.0
Children of Bodom Chaos Ridden Years - Stockholm Knockout4.0
Children of Bodom Halo of Blood4.0
Chimaira Pass Out of Existence3.5
Chimaira Chimaira4.0
Chimaira Resurrection4.0
Chimaira The Age of Hell4.0
Chimaira Crown of Phantoms4.0
Chimaira The Infection4.5
Chimaira The Impossibility of Reason5.0
Chimp Spanner All Roads Lead Here4.0
Christian Mistress Possession4.0
Circle of Contempt Artifacts in Motion3.5
Circle of Contempt Entwine the Threads3.5
Coal Chamber Rivals4.0
Code Augur Nox4.5
Code Orange I Am King2.5
Code Orange Love Is Love // Return To Dust3.5
Coliseum Anxiety's Kiss2.5
Columns Please Explode4.0
Conducting from the Grave Conducting from the Grave4.0
Conquering Dystopia Conquering Dystopia3.0
Converge All We Love We Leave Behind4.0
Corrupt Moral Altar Mechanical Tides4.0
Cradle of Filth Thornography2.5
Cradle of Filth Godspeed on the Devil's Thunder2.5
Cradle of Filth Darkly, Darkly, Venus Aversa3.0
Cradle of Filth The Manticore and Other Horrors3.0
Cradle of Filth Midian4.0
Cradle of Filth Dusk... and Her Embrace4.0
Cradle of Filth Nymphetamine4.0
Cradle of Filth Hammer of the Witches4.0
Cretin Stranger4.0
Crosses Crosses4.0
Cryptopsy Cryptopsy3.5
Cryptopsy None So Vile5.0
Cynic Kindly Bent to Free Us2.5
Dark Tranquillity We Are the Void3.0
Dark Tranquillity Skydancer3.5
Dark Tranquillity Zero Distance3.5
Dark Tranquillity Projector4.0
Dark Tranquillity The Mind's I4.0
Dark Tranquillity Where Death Is Most Alive4.0
Dark Tranquillity Character4.5
Dark Tranquillity Damage Done4.5
Dark Tranquillity Haven4.5
Dark Tranquillity Fiction4.5
Dark Tranquillity The Gallery4.5
Dark Tranquillity Construct4.5
Darkane The Sinister Supremacy4.0
Dawnbringer Into the Lair of the Sun God4.5
Daylight Dies A Frail Becoming4.5
Dead in the Dirt The Blind Hole3.5
Deadlock The Arsonist1.5
Death Angel The Dream Calls for Blood4.0
Decrepit Birth ...And Time Begins4.0
Decrepit Birth Diminishing Between Worlds4.0
Decrepit Birth Polarity4.0
Deftones Koi No Yokan4.5
Deftones Diamond Eyes5.0
Deicide In the Minds of Evil3.0
Demon Hunter Extremist3.0
Desecravity Implicit Obedience4.5
Early contender for Best Death Metal album of 2012. It's like the bastard child of a three-way among Origin, Hate Eternal, and "None So Vile"-era Cryptopsy.
Despised Icon Day Of Mourning2.5
Despised Icon The Healing Process3.5
Despised Icon The Ills Of Modern Man3.5
Destrage Are You Kidding Me? No.4.0
Dethklok Dethalbum III3.5
Detonation Emission Phase3.0
Detonation Portals to Uphobia3.0
DevilDriver Beast3.5
DevilDriver The Fury of Our Maker's Hand4.0
DevilDriver The Last Kind Words4.0
DevilDriver Pray for Villains4.0
DevilDriver Winter Kills4.5
Dew-Scented Incinerate2.5
Dew-Scented Issue VI3.0
Dew-Scented Impact3.0
Dew-Scented Icarus3.0
Dew-Scented Inwards3.5
Dimmu Borgir Abrahadabra2.5
Dimmu Borgir Death Cult Armageddon3.5
Dimmu Borgir In Sorte Diaboli3.5
Dimmu Borgir Puritanical Euphoric Misanthropia4.0
Dimmu Borgir Enthrone Darkness Triumphant4.0
Disarmonia Mundi The Isolation Game3.0
Disarmonia Mundi Mind Tricks3.5
Disarmonia Mundi Fragments Of D-Generation4.0
Dismember Massive Killing Capacity3.0
Dismember Dismember3.5
Dismember Like an Ever Flowing Stream4.5
Divine Heresy Bringer of Plagues2.5
Divine Heresy Bleed the Fifth4.0
DragonForce Maximum Overload3.0
DragonForce The Power Within3.5
Dying Fetus Stop at Nothing3.0
Dying Fetus War of Attrition3.5
Dying Fetus Descend into Depravity3.5
Dying Fetus Reign Supreme3.5
Dying Fetus Destroy the Opposition4.0
Earthside A Dream In Static4.5
East of the Wall Redaction Artifacts4.0
East of the Wall The Apologist4.5
Echoes of Eternity The Forgotten Goddess3.0
Echoes of Eternity As Shadows Burn4.0
Eluveitie Helvetios3.5
Emmure Slave To The Game2.0
Enabler La Fin Absolue Du Monde3.5
Enabler Year One4.0
Enabler All Hail the Void4.5
Enfold Darkness Our Cursed Rapture3.5
Enshine Origin4.0
Enshine Singularity4.5
This album kept growing on me. Their song-writing and blend of melodic doom and ambient space is top-notch and deserves way more recognition.
Enslaved In Times4.0
Enter Shikari A Flash Flood of Colour3.5
Entombed Wolverine Blues3.5
Entombed Left Hand Path4.0
Entombed Clandestine4.0
Entrails (SWE) Obliteration3.0
Entrails (SWE) Raging Death4.0
Epica The Divine Conspiracy3.5
Epica Requiem for the Indifferent3.5
Not quite as awesome as 'Design Your Universe" but still really well done, and they are definitely moving forward with their sound, unlike some of their peers (looking at you Sirenia and Tristania).
Epica Design Your Universe4.0
Epica The Quantum Enigma4.0
Equilibrium Erdentempel4.0
ERRA Augment3.0
Every Time I Die Ex Lives4.5
Every Time I Die From Parts Unknown4.5
Everything in Slow Motion Phoenix4.5
Evocation Illusions Of Grandeur3.0
Exhale Blind4.0
Exmortus Slave To The Sword4.0
This album RIPS so hard. It's a shred-fest with actual songs. Fantastic stuff.
Eyeconoclast Drones of the Awakening4.0
Fallujah The Harvest Wombs4.0
Fallujah Nomadic4.5
Fallujah The Flesh Prevails4.5
Fear Factory Transgression2.5
Fear Factory Archetype3.0
Fear Factory Obsolete3.5
Fear Factory Digimortal3.5
Fear Factory Soul of a New Machine3.5
Fear Factory The Industrialist3.5
Fear Factory Genexus3.5
Fear Factory Mechanize4.0
Fear Factory Demanufacture5.0
Fen Dustwalker3.5
Fit for an Autopsy Hellbound3.0
Fit for an Autopsy Absolute Hope Absolute Hell4.0
Fleshgod Apocalypse Labyrinth3.0
Floor Oblation4.0
Foo Fighters The Colour and the Shape5.0
Gaza No Absolutes in Human Suffering3.0
Ghost (SWE) Infestissumam2.5
Ghost Brigade IV - One with the Storm3.0
Gigan Multi-Dimensional Fractal-Sorcery...2.0
While these guys clearly excel at their instruments, playing fast and technical, their song writing is poor. I understand being "progressive," spastic, etc., but there needs to be something besides a mash-up of pieces with very little flow. Also, the production/mixing does not do this album any favors. There is NO excuse for an album to sound like this in 2013.
Gloryhammer Tales from the Kingdom of Fife4.0
Goatwhore Blood For The Master4.0
Goatwhore Constricting Rage of the Merciless4.5
This is arguably their best work to date. Keeping their signature sound, it takes the hooks from "Carving...", expands on the diversity from "Blood for the Master" making (IMO) their most memorable album.
God Forbid Earthsblood3.5
God Forbid Gone Forever4.0
God Forbid Determination4.0
God Forbid IV: Constitution of Treason4.0
Gojira From Mars to Sirius3.5
Gojira The Way of All Flesh4.0
Gojira L'Enfant Sauvage4.0
Gorguts Colored Sands3.5
Gorod Leading Vision3.5
Gorod Process of a New Decline3.5
Grand Magus Triumph and Power3.0
Grand Magus The Hunt4.0
Grave Endless Procession of Souls3.5
Hammers Of Misfortune 17th Street4.5
Hark Crystalline3.5
While Hark does a great job smoothly balancing sludge and progressive, they need some hooks to keep me coming back. Hooks are about the only thing missing on this album, but they are sorely missed.
Haste the Day Coward3.5
Hate Crusade: Zero3.0
Hate Eternal Infernus3.0
Hatebreed The Concrete Confessional3.5
Hatebreed The Divinity of Purpose4.0
Havok Point of No Return4.0
Havok Unnatural Selection4.0
Heaven Shall Burn Asunder3.0
Heaven Shall Burn Invictus (Iconoclast III)3.0
Heaven Shall Burn Antigone3.5
Heaven Shall Burn Whatever It May Take3.5
Heaven Shall Burn Deaf to Our Prayers3.5
Heaven Shall Burn Iconoclast (Part 1: The Final Resistance)3.5
Heaven Shall Burn Veto3.5
High on Fire De Vermis Mysteriis3.5
Holy Grail Ride the Void4.0
Hooded Menace Effigies of Evil3.0
Horrendous Ecdysis4.0
Hoth Oathbreaker4.0
Hour of Penance Regicide3.0
Howl Bloodlines3.0
Hypocrisy End of Disclosure3.5
I, the Breather Truth and Purpose2.5
While they have some good riffs and hint at being able to write something great (see "Lunar), they give to the pitfalls of this style: breakdowns. I like me some breakdowns, but if they used those to accent the music and made the songs around those good riffs, as opposed to making the riffs background to the bass drops and breakdowns, they could be so much better. rAlso, while the vocals aren't bad, they aren't great either. This guy can be interchanged with numerous other same-sounding vocalists out there already.
Iced Earth Plagues of Babylon3.0
Iced Earth Dystopia3.5
Iced Earth Live in Ancient Kourion4.5
Ill Nino Till Death, La Familia2.0
Ill Nino Revolution/Revolucion4.0
Immolation Kingdom of Conspiracy3.0
Immolation Close to a World Below4.0
Immolation Majesty and Decay4.0
Immortal Bird Empress​/​Abscess4.0
In Flames A Sense of Purpose2.5
In Flames Soundtrack to Your Escape3.0
In Flames Sounds of a Playground Fading3.0
In Flames Come Clarity3.5
In Flames The Jester Race4.0
In Flames Reroute to Remain4.0
In Flames Colony4.0
In Flames Whoracle4.0
In Flames Clayman4.5
Inanimate Existence A Never-Ending Cycle of Atonement4.0
Infanticide Misconception Of Hope4.0
Insomnium Shadows of the Dying Sun3.5
Insomnium One for Sorrow4.0
Into Eternity The Incurable Tragedy2.5
Into Eternity The Scattering of Ashes3.5
Into Eternity Buried in Oblivion4.0
Into Eternity Dead or Dreaming4.0
It Dies Today Lividity2.0
It Dies Today Sirens3.0
It Dies Today The Caitiff Choir3.5
Iwrestledabearonce Late for Nothing4.0
James LaBrie Impermanent Resonance3.5
Jeff Loomis Plains of Oblivion3.5
Job For A Cowboy Demonocracy3.5
Job For A Cowboy Sun Eater4.0
John Carpenter Halloween 20th Anniversary Edition5.0
Junius The Martyrdom of a Catastrophist4.5
Junius Reports From The Threshold of Death4.5
Junius Days of the Fallen Sun4.5
Kalmah Seventh Swamphony4.0
Kataklysm Waiting for the End to Come4.0
Katatonia Dead End Kings4.0
Katatonia Dethroned & Uncrowned4.0
Katatonia The Fall of Hearts4.0
KEN mode Success1.5
KEN mode Entrench4.0
Killer Be Killed Killer Be Killed4.0
Killswitch Engage Incarnate2.5
Killswitch Engage Killswitch Engage3.5
Killswitch Engage As Daylight Dies3.5
Killswitch Engage The End of Heartache4.0
Killswitch Engage Killswitch Engage (2009)4.0
Killswitch Engage Disarm the Descent4.5
Killswitch Engage Alive or Just Breathing5.0
King of Asgard ...to North3.0
Korn Follow the Leader3.5
Korn Issues4.0
Korn Korn4.5
Korn Life Is Peachy4.5
Korpiklaani Manala3.0
Still good ol' fun Korpiklaani...but that is what is becoming the problem. I like this one, and liked the last one a little more, but I think they need to stop releasing albums yearly. Take two years or so, refresh, and let the music build and grow more.
Korpiklaani Noita3.5
Krisiun Forged in Fury2.5
Krisiun Conquerors of Armageddon3.5
Krisiun AssasiNation4.0
Krisiun Southern Storm4.0
Krisiun The Great Execution4.5
Kvelertak Meir3.5
Kylesa Ultraviolet2.5
Most of these songs are pretty poorly written, with not real flow to them. This is exemplified by the fact that they all just end somewhat abruptly; they just jam for 3+ plus minutes and stop. Gets old.
Lacuna Coil Broken Crown Halo2.5
Lacuna Coil Delirium2.5
Andrea finally learned he should not sing, and improved his screams. Meanwhile, Christina's singing has gotten worse. When she goes for the high notes (see "Blood, Tears, Dust"), her tone is awful. And whatever she is doing to her voice on the title track (for example) seriously lacks the beauty her voice once had. Musically, the band tuned their instruments like a djent band and play music of a nu-metal band for their heavy songs. rThat all said, many of the songs on this album are far more memorable than anything on Broken Crown Halo. Songs like "Downfall" are where the band really shines...but there aren't enough songs like that.
Lacuna Coil Karmacode3.0
Lacuna Coil Shallow Life3.0
Lacuna Coil Comalies3.5
Lacuna Coil Dark Adrenaline3.5
Lamb of God Sacrament3.5
Lamb of God Wrath3.5
Lamb of God Resolution4.0
Lamb of God VII: Sturm und Drang4.0
Lamb of God Ashes of the Wake5.0
Lamb of God As the Palaces Burn5.0
Last Chance to Reason Level 24.5
letlive. The Blackest Beautiful2.5
Lifecurse Prophecies3.5
Light the Torch The Beauty of Destruction(Devil You Know2.5
Light the Torch They Bleed Red (as Devil You Know)2.5
Loincloth Iron Balls of Steel2.5
Lord Dying Poisoned Altars2.5
Lord Dying Summon the Faithless4.0
Machine Head The Burning Red3.0
Machine Head Supercharger3.0
Machine Head The More Things Change...4.0
Machine Head Machine Fucking Head Live4.0
Machine Head Through The Ashes Of Empires4.5
Machine Head Burn My Eyes4.5
Machine Head Bloodstone And Diamonds4.5
Machine Head The Blackening5.0
Machine Head Unto The Locust5.0
Marilyn Manson Born Villain3.0
Mastodon Crack the Skye2.5
Mastodon The Hunter3.5
Mastodon Remission4.0
Mastodon Leviathan4.0
Mastodon Once More 'Round the Sun4.5
Maylene and the Sons of Disaster IV1.5
Mencea Dark Matter Energy Noir3.5
Mencea Pyrophoric4.0
Mercenary Architect of Lies3.5
Mercenary Metamorphosis3.5
Mercenary 11 Dreams4.0
Mercenary The Hours That Remain4.0
Mercenary Everblack4.0
Meshuggah Catch Thirtythree3.0
Meshuggah Destroy Erase Improve4.0
Meshuggah I4.0
Meshuggah Chaosphere4.0
Meshuggah obZen4.0
Metallica St. Anger2.0
Metallica Reload2.5
Metallica Load2.5
Metallica Death Magnetic4.0
Metallica Kill 'Em All4.5
Metallica Metallica4.5
Metallica Master of Puppets5.0
Metallica Ride the Lightning5.0
Metallica ...And Justice for All5.0
Miseration Tragedy Has Spoken3.0
Misery Index Retaliate3.5
Misery Index Discordia3.5
Misery Index Heirs to Thievery3.5
Misery Index Traitors4.0
Misery Index The Killing Gods4.5
Misery Signals Mirrors3.0
Misery Signals Of Malice and the Magnum Heart3.5
Misery Signals Controller4.0
Misery Signals Absent Light4.0
Mnemic Passenger3.0
Mnemic Sons of the System3.0
Mnemic The Audio Injected Soul3.5
Mnemic Mechanical Spin Phenomena3.5
Monuments (UK) Phronesis2.5
Morbid Angel Illud Divinum Insanus - The Remixes1.0
Morbid Angel Domination3.5
Morbid Angel Blessed Are the Sick4.0
Morbid Angel Covenant4.5
Morbid Angel Altars of Madness5.0
Morbus Chron Sweven4.0
Mors Principium Est Dawn of the 5th Era3.5
Mushroomhead Savior Sorrow1.5
Mushroomhead XIII3.5
Mushroomhead XX3.5
Mutiny Within Synchronicity3.5
Nachtmystium Silencing Machine2.5
Sounds like Black Metal...not much more, nothing less. And the more comes from slight industrial/synth sounds, which for the most part, come across as irritating buzzing.
Naglfar Harvest3.0
Naglfar Sheol3.5
Naglfar Pariah3.5
Naglfar Teras3.5
Much better than Harvest. Goes back to the sounds of Pariah or even Sheol.
Nails Unsilent Death4.0
Nails Obscene Humanity4.0
Nails Abandon All Life4.5
Nails You Will Never Be One of Us4.5
Narrows Painted2.5
I don't hear anything remotely unique here. The song writing is mediocre, and 6 minutes of "Greenland" come off as useless noise instead of the (presumably intended) atmospheric.
Nasum Doombringer3.5
Nasum Human 2.04.0
Nasum Shift4.0
Ne Obliviscaris Portal of I4.0
Neaera Ours Is The Storm2.0
This is the same album Neaera has been putting out since their inception, only they seem to be running out of ways to write the same song over, so it is more boring than, say, Armamentarium.
Necrophagist Epitaph4.0
Necrophagist Onset of Putrefaction4.0
Necrowretch Putrid Death Sorcery3.0
This is indeed an OSDM album, and they have the feel and sound, but the vocals kill it for me. Specifically, it is the constant echo on them. They don't sound lo-fi, and it's not a reverb...it's an echo. The mix could be stronger too w/o losing that old-school sound.
Negator Gates to the Pantheon3.5
Nero di Marte Nero di Marte4.5
Nero di Marte Derivae4.5
Newsted Metal2.5
Night Demon Curse of the Damned4.0
Nightrage A New Disease Is Born2.0
Nightrage Wearing a Martyr's Crown3.0
Nightrage Insidious3.0
Nightrage Sweet Vengeance3.5
Nightrage Descent Into Chaos4.0
Nightwish Dark Passion Play3.0
Nightwish Endless Forms Most Beautiful3.0
Nightwish Oceanborn3.5
Nightwish Imaginaerum3.5
Nightwish Century Child4.0
Nightwish Wishmaster4.0
Nile What Should Not Be Unearthed3.0
Nile Ithyphallic3.5
Nile In Their Darkened Shrines4.0
Nile Annihilation of the Wicked4.0
Nile Those Whom the Gods Detest4.0
Noisem Agony Defined3.5
Noisem Blossoming Decay3.5
Noneuclid Metatheosis3.0
Norma Jean Wrongdoers4.0
Norther N2.5
Norther Circle Regenerated2.5
Norther Till Death Unites Us3.0
Norther Mirror of Madness3.5
Norther Dreams of Endless War3.5
Norther Death Unlimited3.5
Oathbreaker Eros|Anteros3.0
Obliteration Black Death Horizon2.5
Obscura Cosmogenesis4.0
Obscura Omnivium4.0
Oceano Incisions1.0
Odious Mortem Devouring the Prophecy3.0
Odious Mortem Cryptic Implosion3.5
Omnium Gatherum Beyond3.5
Orange Goblin A Eulogy for the Damned3.5
Orange Goblin Back from the Abyss3.5
Origin Omnipresent4.0
Origin Antithesis4.5
Overkill White Devil Armory3.5
Overkill Ironbound4.0
P.O.D. Murdered Love3.5
Pallbearer Foundations of Burden4.5
Palms Palms3.5
Paradise Lost Tragic Idol4.0
Paradise Lost The Plague Within4.0
Parkway Drive Ire1.0
Parkway Drive Deep Blue3.0
Parkway Drive Killing with a Smile4.0
Parkway Drive Horizons4.0
Parkway Drive Atlas4.0
Parkway Drive The DVD4.5
Pelican Forever Becoming4.5
Periphery Periphery4.0
Periphery Periphery (Instrumental)4.5
Periphery Periphery II: This Time It's Personal4.5
Periphery Juggernaut: Omega4.5
Periphery Juggernaut: Alpha4.5
Perturbator Sexualizer3.5
Perturbator Nocturne City4.0
Perturbator Terror 4044.0
Perturbator Night Driving Avenger4.0
Perturbator I Am The Night4.5
It's like John Carpenter collaborated with Cliff Martinez (Drive OST). This is fantastic stuff.
Perturbator Dangerous Days4.5
Pig Destroyer Terrifyer3.5
Pig Destroyer Phantom Limb3.5
Pig Destroyer Prowler in the Yard4.0
Pig Destroyer Book Burner4.5
Polar Shadowed by Vultures4.0
Polar No Cure No Saviour4.0
Portal Vexovoid2.5
Power Trip Manifest Decimation4.0
Primitive Weapons The Shadow Gallery3.0
I feel like I am missing something. There doesn't seem to be anything in the songs engaging me. They are just there. but it's not bad, and the band shows a lot of potential.
Protest the Hero Scurrilous3.0
Protest the Hero Kezia4.0
Protest the Hero Fortress4.0
Protest the Hero Volition4.5
Psycroptic Symbols of Failure3.5
Psycroptic Ob(Servant)3.5
Psycroptic The Inherited Repression3.5
I feel it had all (or at least most) of the technical skill from Ob(servant) but with more a focus on the song writing. there is a definitely groove on the album, which makes it more memorable. Also, I feel there is a nice variation in the vocals, offering something a little different than some of their peers. This is definitely their most dynamic album to date, and I can understand where some people are a little turned off, but this was a welcome change of pace from the standard tech-death of late.
Pyrithion The Burden Of Sorrow3.0
I like Allegaeon, they are a great band. So, why start another project that sounds EXACTLY like them? Everything down to the production is the same, except for the fact that Lambesis is on vocals.
Pyrrhon The Mother of Virtues2.0
Ready Set Fall! Memento2.0
Red Fang Whales and Leeches3.0
Reflections The Color Clear2.0
ReVamp Wild Card3.0
Revocation Teratogenesis4.0
Revocation Revocation4.0
Revocation Deathless4.0
Revocation The Outer Ones4.5
Rivers of Nihil Monarchy3.0
Royal Thunder Crooked Doors4.5
Royksopp The Understanding4.5
Russian Circles Memorial4.5
Sabaton Heroes2.5
Saille Ritu4.0
Sandrider Godhead4.0
Sannhet Revisionist3.5
Savage Messiah Plague of Conscience3.5
Savage Messiah The Fateful Dark4.0
Scale the Summit The Migration4.5
Scar Symmetry Dark Matter Dimensions2.5
Scar Symmetry The Unseen Empire3.0
Scar Symmetry Symmetric in Design3.5
Scar Symmetry The Singularity - Phase I: Neohumanity3.5
Scar Symmetry Pitch Black Progress4.0
Scar Symmetry Holographic Universe4.5
Secrets of the Sky Pathway4.5
Septa The Lover3.5
Septa Destroyer4.0
Sevendust Black Out the Sun3.5
Shadows Fall Threads of Life2.0
Shadows Fall The Art of Balance4.0
Shadows Fall Of One Blood4.0
Shadows Fall The War Within4.0
Shadows Fall Fire From the Sky4.0
I still haven't decided if I like this or Retribution more as an album, but the band now seems comfortable and confident in their songwriting, which they manage to keep varied without sounding scattered. This album also displays the best vocal performance the band has done.
Shadows Fall Retribution4.5
Shining (NOR) One One One4.0
Six Feet Under Undead2.0
The music is a step up from...well anything the band has ever done. However, Barnes has got to be the worst death metal vocalist around. He just doesn't sound like he cares! He has the most tired and bored...not to mention monotonous...grunts and growls, and it absolutely ruins whatever music is behind
Skeletonwitch Breathing the Fire3.0
Skeletonwitch Forever Abomination3.5
Skeletonwitch Serpents Unleashed4.5
This album is a ripper. This band just keeps getting better with age. Tighter, faster, heavier, yet stronger song writing, better hooks, and more dynamics.
Skinless Only The Ruthless Remain2.5
Skyfire Esoteric3.5
Skyfire Mind Revolution4.0
Skyfire Spectral4.0
Skyharbor Guiding Lights3.0
Slayer Repentless2.0
Slayer World Painted Blood4.0
Slayer Seasons in the Abyss5.0
Slayer Reign in Blood5.0
Slayer South of Heaven5.0
Sockweb Werewolf4.0
Soilwork The Panic Broadcast3.0
Soilwork Overgivenheten3.0
Soilwork Stabbing the Drama3.5
Soilwork Sworn to a Great Divide3.5
Soilwork Steelbath Suicide4.0
Soilwork The Chainheart Machine4.0
Soilwork A Predator's Portrait4.0
Soilwork The Living Infinite4.0
Soilwork Figure Number Five4.5
Soilwork The Ride Majestic4.5
Soilwork Natural Born Chaos5.0
Solace (CAN) Call & Response4.0
Son of Aurelius Under a Western Sun3.5
Sonic Syndicate Sonic Syndicate2.5
Sons of Aeon Sons of Aeon4.0
Sophicide Perdition of the Sublime4.5
Soreption Engineering The Void2.5
Soulfly Savages3.0
Soulfly Enslaved4.0
Arguably, this is their strongest album to date, taking the groove they showed in "Omen" with the dark thrash sound of "Dark Ages."
Spawn of Possession Cabinet4.0
Spawn of Possession Noctambulant4.0
Spawn of Possession Incurso4.5
I dare you to find anything that can make your jaw drop like this. Not only can they platy their instruments better than any of their peers, they no how to compose the songs into something more than just their members showing off.
Spineshank Anger Denial Acceptance2.0
SSS Limp.Gasp. Collapse2.0
Starkill Virus of the Mind4.0
Stealing Axion Moments2.5
Still Remains The Serpent3.0
Still Remains Ceasing to Breathe4.0
Still Remains Of Love and Lunacy4.5
Stolen Babies Naught4.0
Strapping Young Lad Alien3.5
Strapping Young Lad The New Black3.5
Strapping Young Lad City4.0
Structures Divided By2.0
Structures Life Through a Window3.0
Suffocation Souls to Deny3.0
Suffocation Suffocation3.5
Suffocation Blood Oath3.5
Suffocation Pinnacle of Bedlam4.5
Suffocation Pierced from Within5.0
Suffocation Effigy of the Forgotten5.0
Swallow the Sun Songs from the North I, II & III3.0
Sylosis Monolith3.0
Sylosis Dormant Heart3.0
Symphony X Underworld4.0
TesseracT Polaris3.0
TesseracT Perspective3.5
The musician, as shown before, is excellent, and some of the writing really gets to shine through on the acoustic versions. However, if the point of the EP was to show off their new vocalist, they should have either just written new songs, or done with they did on "Eden 2.0" and have Elliot redo the vocals tracks. This EP showed us he can sing cleanly and (almost too) pretty on soft songs, but it does not show how it will sound on heavier music, and it does not show if he can handle harsh vocals.
TesseracT Altered State4.0
Testament Dark Roots of Earth4.0
Textures Dualism3.0
Textures Drawing Circles3.5
Textures Silhouettes3.5
The Acacia Strain Death Is the Only Mortal2.5
The Acacia Strain Coma Witch2.5
The Agonist Prisoners3.0
The Black Dahlia Murder Deflorate3.0
The Black Dahlia Murder Unhallowed3.5
The Black Dahlia Murder Miasma3.5
The Black Dahlia Murder Nocturnal3.5
The Black Dahlia Murder Everblack4.0
The Black Dahlia Murder Ritual4.5
The Browning Hypernova2.5
The Burial Lights and Perfections3.0
The Contortionist Language2.5
The Contortionist Intrinsic3.0
The Contortionist Exoplanet3.5
The Crinn Shadowbreather4.5
The Dillinger Escape Plan Miss Machine4.0
The Dillinger Escape Plan Ire Works4.0
The Dillinger Escape Plan Option Paralysis4.0
The Dillinger Escape Plan One of Us Is the Killer4.5
The Faceless Autotheism3.0
The Faceless Akeldama3.5
The Faceless Planetary Duality4.0
The Foreshadowing Oionos4.0
The Foreshadowing Second World4.0
The Haarp Machine Disclosure2.5
After listening to it a few more times, i realized that there isn't much to latch onto. The song writing is sub par, leaving the album in the "nothing I haven't heard before" territory. I think this band has potential to write a great album, but this is not it.
The Haunted Unseen1.0
The Haunted Versus2.5
The Haunted The Dead Eye3.0
The Haunted Live Rounds in Tokyo3.0
The Haunted rEVOLVEr 3.5
The Haunted The Haunted3.5
The Haunted Road Kill3.5
The Haunted Made Me Do It4.0
The Haunted One Kill Wonder4.0
The Haunted Exit Wounds4.0
The Hell Groovehammer1.0
The Human Abstract Midheaven2.0
The Human Abstract Nocturne3.0
The Human Abstract Digital Veil4.0
The Kennedy Veil Trinity of Falsehood3.5
The Korea Chariots Of The Gods3.5
The Last Ten Seconds Of Life Soulless Hymns2.0
Soulless Hymns - not just a clever title...rWhile they did manage to make it sound heavy, the music is boring as hell. Listening to a song or two on a playlist is fine, but an entire album is very taxing to listen to. Even a dash of creativity would go a long way here.
The Nietzsche Intro to Advanced Poetry3.5
The Ocean Pelagial4.5
The Ocean Pelagial (Instrumental)4.5
The Ongoing Concept Saloon3.5
The Prodigy Always Outnumbered, Never Outgunned3.0
The Prodigy The Fat of the Land4.0
The Prodigy Invaders Must Die4.0
The Prodigy Music for the Jilted Generation4.5
The Red Chord Fused Together in Revolving Doors3.0
The Red Chord Prey for Eyes3.0
The Red Chord Clients3.5
The Red Chord Fed Through the Teeth Machine3.5
The Safety Fire Mouth of Swords4.0
The Sword Apocryphon3.5
Theocracy As the World Bleeds4.0
Threat Signal Threat Signal3.0
Throwdown Intolerance2.5
To Speak Of Wolves Find Your Worth, Come Home3.0
Tombs Savage Gold2.5
The Post-Metal, Sludge, and other Metal styles of Metal mixed with Black Metal are what made this band unique and awesome. This album, however, largely forgoes mixing the other styles to give us a pretty average, simplistic BM album. This was disappointing.
Torche Harmonicraft4.0
Toxic Holocaust Chemistry of Consciousness3.5
Trap Them Blissfucker4.0
Triptykon Melana Chasmata4.5
Trivium Vengeance Falls3.5
Ulcerate Vermis4.0
Unearth The March3.5
Unearth Darkness in the Light3.5
Unearth III: In the Eyes of Fire4.0
Unearth The Stings of Conscience4.0
Unearth The Oncoming Storm4.5
Unearth Watchers of Rule4.5
Uneven Structure Februus4.5
Unhuman Unhuman4.5
Upon a Burning Body Red. White. Green.2.5
I like the energy, and the brekdowns are entertaininbg...before they get old toward the end. And the lyrics? They are kinda like a cheesy b-movie: so bad, they are entertaining.I was actually laughing out loud at some of them, but I can't imagine it was their intent.
Vader Tibi et Igni3.0
Valkyrie (USA-VA) Shadows3.0
Vallenfyre Splinters3.0
Vallenfyre A Fragile King4.0
Vanisher Unbound3.0
Vanna The Few and the Far Between3.5
Vanna Void4.0
Veil of Maya Matriarch2.5
Veil of Maya The Common Man's Collapse3.0
Veil of Maya [id]3.5
Vildhjarta Måsstaden3.0
Vile Metamorphosis3.0
Walls of Jericho No One Can Save You From Yourself2.0
Weekend Nachos Apology4.0
White Arms of Athena White Arms of Athena2.0
Whitechapel The Somatic Defilement2.0
Whitechapel Recorrupted2.5
Whitechapel This Is Exile3.0
Whitechapel A New Era of Corruption3.5
Whitechapel Whitechapel3.5
Wild Throne Blood Maker4.5
Three of the best songs I have heard so far this year.
Winds of Plague Resistance2.0
Wintersun Time I3.5
Within the Ruins Invade4.0
Within the Ruins Elite4.0
Within the Ruins Phenomena4.5
Woe Withdrawal3.5
Wolfheart Shadow World4.0
Wretched (USA-NC) Son of Perdition3.0
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