| Anberlin Silverline | 4.5 |
| Decyfer Down Scarecrow | 2.5 |
| Disciple (USA-TN) O God Save Us All | 3.0 |
| In "O God Save Us All," Disciple serves up a half-and-half blend of sweet, old-fashioned groove metal and low-calorie radio rock. This dish ends up tasting like two potentially great dinners with the radio-ready entrees much more flavorful than almost all of their fellow Christian rock chefs' offerings and with the heavier stuff delivering a colorful and spicy range of metallic delights. All pained analogies aside, this jarring mix of hard and soft results in O God Save Us All having a slight identity crisis: to be radio-friendly, or not to be radio-friendly - that is the question that Disciple simply never asked themselves. Nonetheless, it is, in fact, fun - and in this struggling sub-genre, that is more than enough to make it stand out. |
| Disciple (USA-TN) Southern Hospitality | 4.5 |
| I really cannot fathom the hatred people have for this album - this is Disciple's classic. The guitar work is beyond impressive here - it's both pervasive and yet altogether tasteful. Southern Hospitality lacks pretense, yet delivers larger-than-life licks, riffs, and solos throughout, as any great rock-and-roll album should. Sure, the lyrical work here is not exactly awe-inspiring, but even if it were, it just might distract the listener from the superb music here; I can find no greater praise to sing for a rock album. |
| Disciple (USA-TN) Attack | 4.5 |
| Disciple (USA-TN) Long Live the Rebels | 4.5 |
| Falling Up Falling Up | 5.0 |
| Flyleaf Between the Stars | 3.5 |
| High Flight Society High Flight Society | 4.5 |
| Lacey Sturm Life Screams | 4.0 |
| Maylene and the Sons of Disaster III | 4.5 |
| III is one of those rare albums that's relentlessly creative, technically impressive, consistently produced, and brilliantly approachable. It's an ingenious slice of Southern-fried blues-rock with an appreciably modern post-punk edge. The result is nothing less than an absolutely satisfying metal masterpiece. |
| Pillar For the Love of the Game | 1.5 |
| Plini Sunhead | 4.0 |
| Red (USA) Release the Panic: Recalibrated | 3.0 |
| Red (USA) Of Beauty and Rage | 4.5 |
| Red (USA) Rated R | 3.0 |
| Seventh Day Slumber Death By Admiration | 3.5 |
| Skillet Dominion | 3.0 |
| Tremonti A Dying Machine | 4.5 |
| Wovenwar Honor Is Dead | 3.0 |
| Zahna Stronger Than Death | 4.0 |
