| A-Tota-So A-Tota-So | 4.0 |
| Alpha Male Tea Party Infinity Stare | 4.5 |
| Analog Bandits Invocation | 3.0 |
| And So I Watch You From Afar All Hail Bright Futures | 4.0 |
| Honestly, after I got over that this was more vocal than their previous work, this is pretty amazing. There's a lot of noodeling around with sound and effects, some of them extremely weird, but ultimately the fun is worth it. Perfect for summer. |
| And So I Watch You From Afar The Endless Shimmering | 4.0 |
| Maintains the energy of their last two records with darker, heavier fascinations of the band not present since Gangs. Sounds like Inception at times which is pretty neat. |
| Andross Should I Not Return, All Is In Order | 3.0 |
| Honestly, it's pretty inventive. Really enjoyed the first couple tunes. Kind of reminds me of Taking Back Sunday. Hope this band keeps it real, they've got potential :] |
| Asgeir Dýrð í dauðaþögn | 3.5 |
| Somewhere between Bon Iver and James Blake is Asgeir. |
| Billy Talent Dead Silence | 3.0 |
| While it's perhaps a necessary evil to abandon the frenetic sounds of I&II, BT's Dead Silence builds on III's occasional maturity to a strangely similar result. While slightly dissapointing at first, subtle change of pace makes this album worth absorbing. |
| Caspian On Circles | 4.0 |
| Childspeak Day Dream Sparkle Party | 3.5 |
| FFO: Explosions In the Sky, Adebisi Shank, And So I Watch You from Afar, Mogwai |
| Clams Casino Instrumental Mixtape 2 | 3.5 |
| Allowing more influences and peers to shine through, worth the risk. Not as consistent as the first but still great. |
| Clams Casino Instrumental Mixtape 3 | 3.0 |
| Clams Casino Bayside | 3.0 |
| Clams Casino Instrumental Mixtape | 3.5 |
| Closure in Moscow First Temple | 4.5 |
| Closure in Moscow Pink Lemonade | 5.0 |
| Coheed and Cambria The Afterman: Ascension | 3.5 |
| Coheed and Cambria The Afterman: Descension | 3.5 |
| Deftones Koi No Yokan | 3.5 |
| Not as consistently amazing as Diamond Eyes, and they definitely didn't experiment as much this time around but it's still damn good. Really a hybrid of their last two albums, but slightly more upbeat than either. |
| Deftones Deftones | 4.0 |
| As visceral as anything they've ever done. While it doesn't pull it off as smoothly as predecessor White Pony, we're left with a particularly raw and emotional album with several songs that never get old. Lush brutality throughout. |
| Deftones Saturday Night Wrist | 4.5 |
| Egotones Egotones | 4.0 |
| Failure The Heart Is a Monster | 4.0 |
| From the Petrified Forest Neon on the Inside | 3.5 |
| Future of the Left The Plot Against Common Sense | 4.0 |
| Future of the Left The Peace and Truce of | 4.0 |
| Future of the Left How To Stop Your Brain In An Accident | 4.5 |
| Glassjaw Material Control | 4.5 |
| Honeybender Super Chill Surf Vibes | 3.5 |
| Hum Downward Is Heavenward | 4.0 |
| I am the Ocean Overhead | 3.5 |
| Inside The Beehive Drink Bleach; Live Forever | 3.5 |
| Pretty goddamn grand, some moments remind me of Gridlink, some are more Dillinger/The Chariot inspired. The vocals are downright brutal, with incredible range, and the riffs do not let up. A little rough around the edges, but hey, it's grind. |
| Intervals The Way Forward | 3.0 |
| Kadinja Kadinja | 4.0 |
| An exellent EP out of Paris that will turn the heads of fans of Sikth and BtBAM. The excellent vocals and mind-blowing instrumentation push it ahead of the crowd in recent metal releases. |
| Kvelertak Kvelertak | 4.5 |
| Kvelertak Meir | 3.5 |
| Kvelertak Nattesferd | 4.0 |
| Even with some of their slowest burning material to date, and even more experimentation, this record still rips. |
| Kvelertak Splid | 4.0 |
| Loading Data Double Disco Animal Style | 4.0 |
| Loom Selva Molhada | 3.5 |
| Mastodon Emperor of Sand | 4.0 |
| Mystrionics Mystrionics | 4.0 |
| NYOS Now. | 3.5 |
| Protest the Hero Pacific Myth | 3.5 |
| Queens of the Stone Age Era Vulgaris | 3.5 |
| Rest, Repose Rest, Repose | 3.0 |
| Save Us From The Archon Some Things We Carry, Always | 4.0 |
EDIT: The first few times I listened to this through and through, all I could hear was the absence of the
strings and keys. The difference between their debut and this one are both slight and immense;
without the melodic backing section, the bands technicality is highly accentuated. Bare bones and
even more mathy this time around, I couldn't compute it at first. A couple years later though, this
record is close to my heart. Once you begin to associate the concept of the song titles with the
melodies, it can be as affecting as any moment from the last record. And the remaster is worth
noting, as you can really hear the stellar bass lines. Drink a lot of coffee and get into it. |
| Save Us From The Archon How Terrible, The Undergrowths Jaws That Tangle. | 3.5 |
| Extremely melodic and imaginitive for a slice of 2012 instru-metal. Think Kezia-era Protest the Hero minus the production and vocals. Fast, emotive, and unique. Even if occasional tracks sound similar, I'm anxiously awaiting whatever comes next from them. |
| Save Us From The Archon Some Things We Carry, Always (Reissue) | 4.0 |
| Save Us From The Archon Fear Eats the Soul | 4.5 |
So good it hurts. The ambient textures that slightly distracted me from the last album are still present
but totally cohesive with the song structure ("Epigram" and the amazing "Heaven.") Fantastic band. |
| Save Us From The Archon L'Eclisse | 4.5 |
| Even as SUFTA's most accessible album, they manage to somehow outdo themselves in almost every way. Don't sleep on this. Reminds me of their first couple records mixed with the production and energy from the last EP. Cool concept and ecstatic riffing. |
| Save Us From The Archon Thereafter | 3.5 |
| SikTh Opacities | 4.0 |
| sleepmakeswaves Made Of Breath Only | 3.0 |
| Snooze Still | 4.0 |
| standards Fruit Island | 3.5 |
| The Black Dahlia Murder Ritual | 4.5 |
| The Black Dahlia Murder Everblack | 3.5 |
| The Nietzsche Finals. | 3.5 |
| The Odious Vesica Piscis | 4.0 |
| The Pneumatic Transit Concerto For Double Moon | 4.0 |
| Some serious Mahavishnu vibes and I can't get enough |
| The Strokes Comedown Machine | 3.5 |
| Considering the mess that was Angles, I'm just glad there were more memorable tunes on this one. It's not as engaging as the older stuff, and they're still buzzed on the 80's, but it surprised me. |
| The Zeta Magia Infinita | 4.0 |
| Three Trapped Tigers Silent Earthling | 4.0 |
| While we might not ever get another Adebisi Shank record, we at the very least still have this. Three Trapped Tigers absolutely kill it on this record. Just as good as Route One or Die, if not even better. |
| VASA Heroics | 4.5 |
