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2024
Dvne Voidkind4.5
Sum 41 Heaven :x: Hell3.5
Night Verses Every Sound Has a Color...4.5
I can't view/rate these two parts separately. They make for an engaging all-encompassing experience. While the album follows the same virtuoso stylistic approach of "Gallery" and retains the ambience that made that record work so well, it is also considerably heavier and much more immediate; harkening back to Lift Your Existence minus the vocals (with two exceptions). Just another commendable album from this group of talented musicians.

2023
Crosses Goodnight, God Bless, I Love U, Delete.3.0
Red (USA) Rated R2.5
Hopesfall Satellite Years 2.0 (Remixed and Remastered)4.5
Thirty Seconds to Mars It's the End of the World But It's a Beautiful Day1.0
Baroness Stone4.0
Filter The Algorithm3.5
All Them Witches Baker's Dozen4.0
Teenage Wrist Still Love3.5
Travis Scott Utopia1.0
Anberlin Convinced4.0
Element Eighty A.D.3.5
Heavenward (USA) Pyrophonics4.0
Foo Fighters But Here We Are3.5
Metallica 72 Seasons3.5
Gorillaz Cracker Island1.0
Thrice The Artist in the Ambulance (Revisited)4.0
Emarosa Sting1.5

2022
Crosses permanent.radiant4.0
Demon Hunter Exile2.0
King Buffalo Regenerator4.0
The Butterfly Effect IV4.0
Norma Jean Deathrattle Sing for Me3.5
Anberlin Silverline4.0
Shinedown Planet Zero2.0
Emery Rub Some Dirt on It 4.0
Vexes Imagine What We Could Destroy / If Only Given Time4.0
Dvne Cycles of Asphodel3.5
Crosses Initiation / Protection3.5
All Them Witches Live On The Internet3.5
Despite having a heavier and punchier sound and production than their studio counterparts, I prefer the more laid back versions of the studio material. I think the more chilled jam vibe that the other live albums offer works better for these guys.
Converge The Poacher Diaries Redux4.5
10 Years Deconstructed2.5
Heavenward (USA) Staircase Music3.5
headcave 34.0
Probably my favorite of the EP's. I hope they release a full length sometime soon.
Cult of Luna The Long Road North4.5
Underoath Voyeurist2.0
Skillet Dominion2.0

2021
King Buffalo Acheron3.5
Sion (USA) Sion3.0
Propagandhi Today's Empires, Tomorrow's Ashes (reissue)5.0
Limp Bizkit Still Sucks2.5
Jerry Cantrell Brighten3.0
Mastodon Hushed and Grim4.0
Fuel Anomaly2.5
Biffy Clyro The Myth of the Happily Ever After4.5
Twelve Foot Ninja Vengeance4.0
Tremonti Marching in Time4.0
Thrice Horizons/East3.5
Horizons / East sounds like the spiritual continuation of Beggars. They really put the effort this time. Eddie and Riley going ham, Dustin bringing his A game vocally and Teppei appearing throughout with many intricacies (guitar and keyboard wise). A very consistent album that drops the more streamlined sound they adopted with Major/Minor.
Jonny Craig The Places We'll Never Be2.0
Alejandro Aranda The Act of Forgiveness4.0
Lantlos Wildhund4.0
Times of Grace Songs of Loss and Separation3.5
Light the Torch You Will Be the Death of Me3.0
Bossk Migration3.5
Maroon 5 Jordi1.0
Garbage No Gods No Masters1.5
King Buffalo The Burden of Restlessness4.0
Teenage Wrist Earth Is a Black Hole (Live at Kingsize)3.5
headcave 24.0
Gojira Fortitude3.5
The Offspring Let the Bad Times Roll1.5
Dvne Etemen Ænka4.0
A Day To Remember You're Welcome1.5
Chevelle NIRATIAS3.5
Kings of Leon When You See Yourself3.5
Teenage Wrist Earth Is A Black Hole3.5
Foo Fighters Medicine at Midnight2.5
Cult of Luna The Raging River4.0
Heavenward (USA) Hole / In A Dream3.5

2020
Deftones Black Stallion2.0
Bad Bunny El Ultimo Tour Del Mundo1.0
Dvne Omega Severer4.5
Puscifer Existential Reckoning1.5
Nuclear Power Trio A Clear and Present Rager4.0
Came for the gimmick, stayed because it is genuinely fun and awesome.
Linkin Park Hybrid Theory (20th Anniversary Edition)4.0
SUMAC May You Be Held3.5
REZN Chaotic Divine4.5
Svalbard When I Die, Will I Get Better?2.5
Deftones Ohms3.5
10 Years Violent Allies2.5
A minor change in the track list makes this a bit more listenable; having Without You as track 2 (it's one of the few good songs here), The Unknown as track 3, and then Waiting and Deja Vu as track 4 and 5 respectively. With that said, this is where I part ways with this band after years defending their work (even Feeding the Wolves and From Birth to Burial had great stuff). I was not surprised to find out Howard Benson produced this as he tends to ruin whatever he touches.
Mastodon Medium Rarities2.5
All Them Witches Nothing as the Ideal4.5
Alejandro Aranda Doom Hologram4.5
Metallica S&M23.0
Seether Si Vis Pacem, Para Bellum4.0
Biffy Clyro A Celebration of Endings3.0
Psycho Synner Torch The Faith1.0
SUMAC St Vitus 09​​/​​07​​/​​20184.0
Emery White Line Fever3.0
Old Man Gloom Seminar IX: Darkness of Being4.0
Villagers of Ioannina City Through Space and Time (Alive in Athens 2020)4.0
Old Man Gloom Seminar VIII: Light Of Meaning 4.5
Bad Bunny Las Que No Iban A Salir1.0
Killswitch Engage Atonement II B-Sides for Charity3.5
Incubus (USA-CA) Trust Fall (Side B)3.0
Jonny Craig Find Your Home1.5
Red (USA) Declaration3.0
King Buffalo Dead Star3.5
Feminazgul No Dawn for Men1.0
Silverstein A Beautiful Place to Drown2.0
Bad Bunny YHLQMDLG1.0
Intronaut Fluid Existential Inversions3.5
Emery Palmetto EP4.0
Green Day Father of All Motherfuckers1.5
Breaking Benjamin Aurora2.0

2019
headcave 14.0
Emery Cocoa & Christmas4.0
Man I wish they do more vintage songs like these. So good.
Alejandro Aranda Exit Form3.5
Norma Jean All Hail3.5
Alter Bridge Walk The Sky3.0
Jimmy Eat World Surviving4.0
blink-182 Nine2.0
Villagers of Ioannina City Age of Aquarius4.0
Cult of Luna A Dawn to Fear5.0
Korn The Nothing3.0
Tool Fear Inoculum3.5
Killswitch Engage Atonement3.0
Skillet Victorious1.5
Neurosis and Jarboe Neurosis and Jarboe (remastered)3.0
Sum 41 Order In Decline3.5
Baroness Gold and Grey2.5
As Cities Burn Scream Through the Walls3.0
Biffy Clyro Balance, Not Symmetry3.5
Teenage Wrist Counting Flies3.5
Spiritbox Singles Collection3.5
Vexes Versions3.0
Mastodon Stairway to Nick John3.0
Thrice Deeper Wells3.5
Demon Hunter Peace3.0
Demon Hunter War3.5
Emarosa Peach Club2.0
Rain City Drive Revision3.0

2018
Bad Bunny X100PRE1.0
Emery Eve4.5
Teenage Wrist Part Time Punks3.5
Minus the Bear Fair Enough3.0
King Buffalo Longing To Be The Mountain3.5
All Them Witches ATW4.0
SUMAC Love In Shadow4.0
Thrice Palms3.0
Alter Bridge Live at the Royal Albert Hall Ft. Parallax Orch.3.5
Alice in Chains Rainier Fog3.5
Circa Survive Blue Sky Noise (Deluxe - Remastered)3.5
Hopesfall Arbiter4.5
Night Verses From the Gallery of Sleep4.0
brokeNCYDE 0 To Brokencyde1.0
Tremonti A Dying Machine4.0
Shinedown Attention Attention1.5
Jimmy Eat World Love Never/half heart3.5
Godsmack When Legends Rise2.0
Cult of Luna Mariner Live at De Kreun3.5
A Perfect Circle Eat the Elephant3.5
Breaking Benjamin Ember2.5
Thirty Seconds to Mars America1.0
Underoath Erase Me1.5
Light the Torch Revival3.5
Myles Kennedy Year of the Tiger3.5
Teenage Wrist Chrome Neon Jesus4.0
All Them Witches Lost and Found4.0
Vexes Ancient Geometry3.5
Rain City Drive Beautiful Death3.5
SUMAC WFMU3.5
Despite being recorded live in a radio studio, the production sounds dry and muffled. With that said, the performance itself is great as usual with this band and Aaron's projects in general.
King Buffalo Repeater4.0

2017
Jimmy Eat World Integrity Blues Acoustic3.5
Glassjaw Material Control3.5
Emery Revival: Emery Classics Reimagined3.0
10 Years (How to Live) As Ghosts3.5
Red (USA) Gone3.5
Spiritbox Spiritbox4.0
Propagandhi Victory Lap4.0
Circa Survive The Amulet3.5
Mastodon Cold Dark Place4.0
Alter Bridge Live at the O2 Arena + Rarities4.0
Recommended mostly for the b-sides. The live album is good and well produced but it's probably not their best live representation.
Brand New Science Fiction4.5
Dvne Asheran4.5
Etienne Sin The Metal Sessions1.0
Papa Roach Crooked Teeth1.0
Linkin Park One More Light1.5
Seether Poison The Parish3.5
Incubus (USA-CA) 82.5
Cult of Luna Years in a Day4.5
Demon Hunter Outlive3.0
Mastodon Emperor of Sand3.5
ISIS Live VII4.0
Minus the Bear VOIDS3.0
Acceptance Colliding By Design2.5
All Them Witches Sleeping Through the War3.0
Cynic Uroboric Forms3.5
Pretty solid. These remasters sound a hell lot
better. I already updated my discography and
replaced the old 192 kbps cassette rips for
this one. Makes you wonder how far they would
have gone with this style. At least now we have
their early material -officially-.
Circa Survive B-Sides4.0
Two b-sides from On Letting Go, and they are just as excellent as anything on that album.

2016
Metallica Hardwired...To Self-Destruct3.0
The Butterfly Effect B-Sides, Live & Rarities4.5
Korn The Serenity of Suffering3.0
Jimmy Eat World Integrity Blues4.5
Finch Phantasma3.5
Sucks this band has broken up again. These demos rule. Better than anything they've put out since
SHTS (though I never listened to World Of Violence demos). If you're looking for a high quality
compilation of these demos search no further: http://www.mediafire.com/file/ydxrzpp6mf71sd5/2016+-
+PHANTASMA+%28My+Edit%29.7z
Kings of Leon Walls3.0
Sum 41 13 Voices2.5
Alter Bridge The Last Hero3.0
Teenage Wrist Live At Noise Coalition3.0
Neurosis Fires Within Fires4.0
All Them Witches Live in Brussels4.0
Norma Jean Polar Similar4.0
A Day To Remember Bad Vibrations3.0
Twelve Foot Ninja Outlier4.0
Trapt DNA1.0
Monolord Lord of Suffering (Single)3.0
Etienne Sin Sinna: Volume 11.0
Skillet Unleashed1.0
King Buffalo Orion4.0
Brand New 3 Demos, Reworked3.5
Emarosa 1312.0
Biffy Clyro Ellipsis2.5
Chevelle The North Corridor4.0
Night Verses Into the Vanishing Light4.0
blink-182 California1.5
Thousand Foot Krutch Exhale2.5
Gojira Magma4.0
Converge You Fail Me Redux4.5
SUMAC What One Becomes3.5
Thrice To Be Everywhere Is to Be Nowhere3.5
Saosin Along the Shadow3.5
Tremonti Dust3.5
Emery Emery Acoustic: Live in Houston3.5
Filter Crazy Eyes2.5
Deftones Gore3.0
Cult of Luna and Julie Christmas Mariner3.5
Decyfer Down The Other Side of Darkness3.0
Doesn't have the memorable singles like Crash nor the heavy punch of the debut, but still a decent release and a "return to form" of some sort after the previous disappointing album. It doesn't help that the production is a bit muddy and that it only has 9 songs total, with an acoustic version of Burn Back the Sun at the end (pretty cheap when bands do that). First four songs are great but it gets a bit samey on the latter half (except for Don't Walk Away, which is a great song).
Bossk Audio Noir4.5
Killswitch Engage Incarnate3.5
Old Man Gloom Mickey Rookey Live At London4.0
brokeNCYDE All Grown Up1.0
Cult of Luna/The Old Wind Råångest3.5

2015
Baroness Purple3.0
Emery We Wish You Emery Christmas EP3.0
Brand New Leaked Demos 20064.0
Justin Bieber Purpose1.5
Finch Steel, Wood and Whiskey2.5
Intronaut The Direction of Last Things4.5
All Them Witches Dying Surfer Meets His Maker4.0
Shinedown Threat to Survival1.5
Rain City Drive Routine Breathing3.0
Kal-El Ecosphere4.0
Team Sleep Woodstock Sessions, Vol. 44.0
Animals As Leaders Animals As Leaders: Encore Edition4.0
Breaking Benjamin Dark Before Dawn2.5
Tremonti Cauterize3.5
Lifehouse Out Of The Wasteland2.0
I have a soft spot for their first four albums and I used to listen to them with an ex gf (who passed away a few years ago) so nostalgia is a huge reason why I even still listen to this band. With that said, they took a weird turn starting Smoke & Mirrors combining their usual post-grunge/pop rock style with electronic music and then took a noisedive trying to combine folk and country with electronic pop on Almer?a. Even though they failed for the most part, at least they were attempting something different. This, however, is just a poor attempt to regain the success of the early material and it just sounds lifeless and sterile. You can't really tell one song from the next and it feels like a collection of leftovers they accumulated over the years. This pretty much came and went and it's no wonder why they haven't released anything since. "Stardust" and "Central Park" are the only good songs here.
Faith No More Sol Invictus3.5
Emery You Were Never Alone4.0
Teenage Wrist Dazed4.0
Incubus (USA-CA) Trust Fall (Side A)3.0
Monolord Vænir4.0
Dustin Kensrue Carry the Fire3.5
10 Years From Birth to Burial3.5
All Them Witches A Sweet Release3.5
Three Days Grace Human1.5
Jonny Craig The Le Cube Sessions2.0
Red (USA) Of Beauty and Rage4.0
Best album since I&I and should've been the worthy follow up to UWHF.
King Buffalo STB Records Split3.5
SUMAC The Deal4.0
Papa Roach F.E.A.R.1.5
All Them Witches At The Garage4.0

2014
Etienne Sin Breed Venom1.0
Nicki Minaj The Pinkprint1.0
Linkin Park Mall (Music From The Motion Picture)3.0
Most of it I don't really care for since it's just ambient music, but if you take the actual songs out (White Noise, It Goes Through, Devil's Drop and The Last Line) you'll get a very nice EP of LP songs that didn't made the cut in any of the full lenghts.
Circa Survive Descensus4.0
Dvne Aurora Majesty4.0
Nickelback No Fixed Address1.5
Villagers of Ioannina City Zvara​/​Karakolia EP4.0
Old Man Gloom The Ape of God II4.5
Old Man Gloom The Ape of God I4.0
Minus the Bear Lost Loves4.0
Finch Back to Oblivion3.0
Emarosa Versus3.0
Thousand Foot Krutch Oxygen: Inhale2.0
Biffy Clyro Similarities4.0
Anberlin Lowborn4.0
Seether Isolate And Medicate3.0
All Them Witches Effervescent4.0
Rain City Drive Through Art We Are All Equals2.5
Mastodon Once More 'Round the Sun3.5
Linkin Park The Hunting Party3.5
Lantlos Melting Sun5.0
Lantlos started moving away from blackgaze and more into conventional post-metal with shoegaze influences on Agape, and this is definitely the finalization of that progress. Removing harsh vocals altogether along with the "djenty" influences here and there gives this a very unique brand of post-metal that I haven't heard before. It was a HUGE mistake to not include "Melting Sun VII" in the standard version of the album, but for me it's the official closer.
Red (USA) Release the Panic: Recalibrated2.0
Monolord Empress Rising3.5
Villagers of Ioannina City Riza3.5
Chevelle La Gárgola4.0
Demon Hunter Extremist4.0
Fuel Puppet Strings3.0
Crosses Crosses3.5
Etienne Sin The Tactician1.0

2013
Kal-El Pakal3.5
Dvne Progenitor3.5
It's stylistically very different than any of their other releases but it is still an incredibly solid start for the band. Sonically it reminds me of very early Baroness; a healthy dose of sludge and progressive metal with crushing riffs and fast drumming.
Bossk Pick Up Artist/Albatross4.0
King Buffalo Demo3.5
All Them Witches Lightning at the Door4.5
A Perfect Circle A Perfect Circle Live: Featuring Stone and Echo4.0
Linkin Park Recharged1.0
Seether Seether: 2002-20133.5
10 Years Live & Unplugged At The Tennessee Theatre3.5
Anberlin Devotion4.0
Korn The Paradigm Shift2.5
Dance Gavin Dance Acceptance Speech2.5
A Day To Remember Common Courtesy3.5
Alter Bridge Fortress4.0
Dustin Kensrue The Water and the Blood3.5
Jonny Craig Find What You Love And Let It Kill You2.0
Kings of Leon Mechanical Bull3.5
Cult of Luna Vertikal II3.5
Minus the Bear Acoustics II3.0
Blood on the Dance Floor Bad Blood1.0
Decyfer Down Scarecrow2.5
Propagandhi How To Clean Everything (20th Anniv)3.5
This remastered version sounds great even though the song additions don't do much to the original tracklist. With that said, I like the demo versions and Leg-Hold Trap (which was also included on The Recovered EP).
Rosetta The Anaesthete4.0
Karnivool Asymmetry3.5
Norma Jean Wrongdoers4.5
Baroness Live at Maida Vale3.5
Jimmy Eat World iTunes Session3.5
All Them Witches Extra Pleasant3.5
Nothing wrong with this release. It's just a cool garage jam session that demonstrates how tight these guys were since their inception.
Skillet Rise1.5
Wall Of Ears Perfect Organ Assembly2.0
Palms Palms3.5
Night Verses Lift Your Existence4.5
Jimmy Eat World Damage3.0
Filter The Sun Comes Out Tonight3.0
Alice in Chains The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here3.5
Etienne Sin The Paradox Divide1.0
Fall Out Boy Save Rock and Roll1.5
Cough/Windhand Reflection of the Negative (split)3.0
Killswitch Engage Disarm the Descent4.0
Intronaut Habitual Levitations4.0
HRVRD From the Bird's Cage4.0
Spoken Illusion3.5
Red (USA) Release the Panic2.0
Cult of Luna Vertikal4.0
Biffy Clyro Opposites4.0
Trapt Reborn1.0
Lie Or Liar LIE OR LIAR1.5
Mad Season Above (Deluxe Edition)4.0

2012
Lifehouse Almería1.5
Chevelle Stray Arrows - A Collection Of Favorites3.0
brokeNCYDE The Best of BrokeNCYDE1.0
Deftones Koi No Yokan4.0
ISIS Temporal4.0
Twelve Foot Ninja Silent Machine4.5
Thrice Anthology4.5
Neurosis Honor Found in Decay4.0
Further Seems Forever Penny Black2.5
Papa Roach The Connection1.5
Biffy Clyro Infinity Land B-Sides3.5
Propagandhi Failed States4.5
Circa Survive Violent Waves3.5
Minus the Bear Infinity Overhead3.5
10 Years Minus the Machine4.0
Baroness Yellow and Green3.5
Tremonti All I Was4.0
Linkin Park Living Things3.0
Old Man Gloom NO4.0
Blood on the Dance Floor Evolution1.0
All Them Witches Our Mother Electricity4.0
Biffy Clyro The Vertigo of Bliss B-Sides4.0
Night Verses Out of the Sky4.0
Fantastimo Fantastimo Voyage1.0
Thousand Foot Krutch The End Is Where We Begin2.5
Demon Hunter True Defiance3.5
Lostprophets Weapons1.5
Biffy Clyro Blackened Sky B-Sides3.5
A pretty good collection of b-sides from the debut. While it make sense some of these would be left out I could see "Breatheher" as a single, with a nice early 2000's emo sound and "Less The Product" is easily the best of the bunch as it flows seamlessly with a perfect atmospheric outro... gives a hint of their prog rock tendencies which they explored on the two subsequent albums more.
Shinedown Amaryllis2.5
Windhand Windhand3.5
brokeNCYDE Guilty Pleasurez1.0
ISIS Live 6 (11/16/2007)4.5

2011
Etienne Sin Behold The Renaissance1.0
Metallica Beyond Magnetic3.0
Korn The Path of Totality1.0
Chevelle Hats Off To The Bull3.5
Brand New Your Favorite Weapon (Deluxe Edition)3.5
Hawkboy King Folly3.5
brokeNCYDE Guilty Pleasure1.0
Animals As Leaders Weightless3.5
Lou Reed and Metallica Lulu1.0
Lantlos Agape5.0
Trapt Headstrong1.5
Rosetta/Junius Split3.5
Mastodon The Hunter3.0
Staind Staind3.5
Thrice Major/Minor3.5
Breaking Benjamin Shallow Bay: The Best Of Breaking Benjamin2.5
Incubus (USA-CA) If Not Now, When?3.0
Limp Bizkit Gold Cobra3.0
Blood on the Dance Floor All the Rage1.0
Hawkboy Hawkboy4.0
Seether Holding Onto Strings Better Left To Fray2.5
Deftones Covers3.0
Songs are great but most of this is recycled from B-Sides & Rarities comp. Drive was a bonus track from SNW. Caress, Ghosts and Do You Believe were included on the deluxe edition of DE. And then you have Sleep Walk which is a sweet little gem of a b-side from the self titled record. Still no inclusion of To Have and to Hold which is one of my favorite covers from them.
Foo Fighters Wasting Light4.0
Sum 41 Screaming Bloody Murder2.5
Emery We Do What We Want3.5
Dance Gavin Dance Downtown Battle Mountain II4.0
Glassjaw Coloring Book4.5
Red (USA) Until We Have Faces3.5
Times of Grace The Hymn of a Broken Man4.0
Chevelle Any Last Words2.5
A bit of a mixed bag; some songs sound good and others sound terrible compared to the studio versions. Not as bad as the previous live album but they have so much better performances which you can watch on YouTube.
Glassjaw Our Color Green (The Singles)4.5

2010
Further Seems Forever Further Seems Forever EP3.0
Finch Epilogue3.5
HRVRD The Interpretations3.5
Cult of Luna Live at the Scala4.5
Circa Survive Appendage3.5
A Day To Remember What Separates Me from You3.0
brokeNCYDE Will Never Die1.0
Alter Bridge AB III4.0
Twelve Foot Ninja Smoke Bomb4.5
Kings of Leon Come Around Sundown4.0
Intronaut Valley of Smoke4.0
Valley of the Sun Two Thousand Ten3.0
Jimmy Eat World Invented4.0
Rosetta/Restorations Rosetta/Restorations Split3.5
Linkin Park A Thousand Suns2.0
Anberlin Dark Is the Way, Light Is a Place4.0
Blood on the Dance Floor EPIC1.0
10 Years Feeding the Wolves3.0
Neurosis Live at Roadburn 20074.0
Biffy Clyro Lonely Revolutions4.0
While I enjoy Only Revolutions I definitely prefer its b-sides counterpart. If you cut out the last four songs from this you actually get a very coherent and great full length that sounds much more mature and focused than its parent album. Just like with Missing Pieces and Similarities you must collect this if you enjoyed the early releases from Biffy Clyro.
Filter The Trouble With Angels3.5
Korn Korn III: Remember Who You Are2.0
Norma Jean Meridional4.0
Mastodon Jonah Hex: Revenge Gets Ugly EP2.0
Emarosa Emarosa4.5
Lantlos .neon4.5
Rosetta A Determinism of Morality3.5
Minus the Bear Omni4.0
Deftones Diamond Eyes4.5
Circa Survive Blue Sky Noise3.5
Secret And Whisper Teenage Fantasy3.0
Propagandhi The Recovered EP3.5
Demon Hunter The World Is a Thorn2.5
Lifehouse Smoke and Mirrors2.5
Etienne Sin The Art of Stealing Hearts1.0

2009
ISIS Live 54.0
It's surprising for a band that usually performed their songs faithfully to the studio recordings, to change things a bit when performing a full album. Even though Oceanic has been remastered the songs sound more energetic and fast paced here, enough to consider this an "alternate version" of the original.
East of the Wall Split4.0
HRVRD The Inevitable And I4.5
Biffy Clyro Only Revolutions3.5
Foo Fighters Greatest Hits4.0
Baroness Blue Record4.0
Thrice Beggars4.5
Breaking Benjamin Dear Agony3.0
Alice in Chains Black Gives Way to Blue4.0
Brand New Daisy4.0
Saosin In Search Of Solid Ground2.5
Thousand Foot Krutch Welcome to the Masquerade3.0
Chevelle Sci-Fi Crimes4.0
Skillet Awake2.0
Jonny Craig A Dream Is A Question You Don't Know How To Answer3.0
Killswitch Engage Killswitch Engage (2009)2.5
brokeNCYDE I'm Not a Fan, but the Kids Like It!1.0
Incubus (USA-CA) Monuments and Melodies4.0
Karnivool Sound Awake4.0
Emery ...In Shallow Seas We Sail4.0
Decyfer Down Crash3.5
Karnivool Set Fire to the Hive3.5
As Cities Burn Hell or High Water4.5
ISIS Wavering Radiant5.0
Biffy Clyro Missing Pieces3.5
Papa Roach Metamorphosis1.5
Mastodon Crack the Skye5.0
Propagandhi Supporting Caste5.0
Red (USA) Innocence and Instinct4.0
The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus Lonely Road1.5
A Day To Remember Homesick3.5
Demon Hunter Live in Nashville3.0

2008
Baroness First & Second4.5
There isn't a single bad moment here. These are criminally underrated EP's, and having both compiled as a full LP is the best way to make them justice, along with the remaster itself.
Thrice Live At The House Of Blues4.0
Demon Hunter 45 Days2.0
Regarding the CD, just download the acoustic version of Fading Away and the piano version of Carry Me Down. Rest of the album consists on boring, repetitive instrumentals.
Dustin Kensrue This Good Night Is Still Everywhere2.5
Nickelback Dark Horse1.5
Attack Attack! Someday Came Suddenly1.5
A Day To Remember Old Record3.0
Emery While Broken Hearts Prevail3.5
brokeNCYDE BC 131.0
Saosin The Grey3.0
Gojira The Way of All Flesh4.5
Minus the Bear Acoustics3.5
Twelve Foot Ninja New Dawn4.5
Anberlin New Surrender3.5
Lantlos Lantlos4.0
Kings of Leon Only By The Night4.5
The Butterfly Effect Final Conversation of Kings5.0
Intronaut Prehistoricisms4.5
Blood on the Dance Floor It's Hard to Be a Diamond...1.0
Metallica Death Magnetic3.5
Staind The Illusion of Progress3.0
Norma Jean The Anti Mother3.5
Finch Finch4.0
Emarosa Relativity4.0
Cult of Luna Eternal Kingdom4.0
10 Years Division4.0
Filter Anthems for the Damned4.0
Blood on the Dance Floor Let's Start a Riot1.0
Thrice The Alchemy Index Vols. III & IV4.0
Thrice Come All You Weary3.0
HRVRD Animals EP3.5
Secret And Whisper Great White Whale3.5
City and Colour Bring Me Your Love4.0
Lantlos Isern Himel - Demo 2005-20073.5
Adding the 2006/2007 demos after the original 2005 demos fixes the issue that the other user describes for the reissue. Half of this has been re-recorded for the debut album but I really enjoy listening to these rawer cuts. Definitely a great appetizer for better things to come.

2007
Anberlin Lost Songs4.0
Angels and Airwaves I-Empire1.5
Demon Hunter Storm the Gates of Hell3.0
Puscifer "V" Is For Vagina2.0
Intronaut The Challenger3.5
The first three tracks are awesome, and the live tracks are a welcome addition to their catalog (they sound pretty close to early Mastodon). I think this compilation was made to say goodbye to one of the former members, and serves as a good transition from their earlier stuff to Prehistoricisms.
Seether Finding Beauty In Negative Spaces2.0
Jimmy Eat World Chase This Light3.5
Thrice The Alchemy Index Vols. I & II4.0
Alter Bridge Blackbird4.5
Emery I'm Only A Man3.0
Rosetta Wake/Lift4.0
Foo Fighters Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace3.0
Spoken Spoken3.0
Thousand Foot Krutch The Flame in All of Us3.5
Baroness Red Album4.0
Bossk .24.5
Minus the Bear Planet of Ice4.5
As Cities Burn The As Cities Burn EP3.5
A great appetizer for their sophomore album (includes three demo versions of Come Now Sleep). I prefer the demo version of "Tides" over the album version which is titled "New Sun". "New Sun (Demo)" Is titled "Tides" on the album version. A bit confusing, I know. It also includes a heartfelt live performance of "The Widow" from the debut record.
As Cities Burn Come Now Sleep4.5
Fuel Angels and Devils2.0
Korn Untitled2.5
Sum 41 Underclass Hero2.0
Yellowcard Paper Walls3.5
brokeNCYDE The Broken1.0
Biffy Clyro Puzzle3.5
Circa Survive On Letting Go4.5
Neurosis Given to the Rising5.0
Dance Gavin Dance Downtown Battle Mountain4.5
Hopesfall Magnetic North5.0
Hopesfall second classic and one of my all time favorite records. Note: Saskatchewan MUST be included after title track as it was intended, before Trustkill removed the track last minute and released it as a bonus song.
Linkin Park Minutes to Midnight3.0
Rosetta/Balboa Project Mercury4.0
This is one of those few cases where both sides of the split album are great. However, the Rosetta side and the joint final track of the album are much greater.
Further Seems Forever The Final Curtain2.0
Terrible performance. The singer (RIP) could not hit the notes the other singers did. Just awful. The only reason this is any special is because it includes the complete recording session of "From the 27th State" EP. Also worth getting the b-sides from HTSAF and Hide Nothing.
Chevelle Vena Sera4.0
Kings of Leon Because Of The Times4.5
City and Colour Live4.0
Korn MTV Unplugged: Korn1.5
Minus the Bear Interpretaciones Del Oso1.5
Anberlin Cities4.5
Dustin Kensrue Please Come Home3.5
A Day To Remember For Those Who Have Heart3.5
Lifehouse Who We Are3.5
Baroness/Unpersons A Grey Sigh in a Flower Husk split4.0
A four if it was a Baroness only release, but I'll lower the rating just because the Unpersons half doesn't interest me. Dry Hand caught my attention, though.

2006
Incubus (USA-CA) Light Grenades3.5
Killswitch Engage As Daylight Dies3.5
Brand New The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me4.0
Staind The Singles: 1996-20063.5
Dance Gavin Dance Whatever I Say Is Royal Ocean3.5
Foo Fighters Skin and Bones3.0
ISIS In the Absence of Truth4.5
Deftones Saturday Night Wrist5.0
Saosin Saosin3.0
Papa Roach The Paramour Sessions2.0
Mastodon Blood Mountain4.0
Norma Jean Redeemer4.0
Audioslave Revelations3.5
Isis and Aereogramme In The Fishtank 144.0
Breaking Benjamin Phobia3.5
The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus Don't You Fake It2.0
The Butterfly Effect Imago4.5
Seether One Cold Night3.5
Decyfer Down End of Grey4.0
Red (USA) End of Silence4.0
ISIS Live 42.5
It's not as bad sounding as the first bootleg (Live I) nor as good sounding as Live III (which sounds pretty good for a bootleg), but it's really just a random collection of amateur recordings that don't really add much to the series. Of the earlier live recordings Live II (by far the best produced) and Live III (which is basically a live version of Panopticon) are the clear winners.
Tool 10,000 Days4.5
Intronaut Void3.5
Cult of Luna Somewhere Along the Highway4.5
Thrice Red Sky3.5
Cult of Luna Bodies / Recluse3.5
It's probably their weakest release but it's not bad. The covers themselves are ok but the production is pretty iffy.
Further Seems Forever Hope This Finds You Well3.5
Decent "best of" compilation but it's mostly worthy for the b-sides. There's a quite a few missing, though, which were released later on "The Final Curtain".
Intronaut Null4.0
A very underrated debut EP that stands tall among the rest of their work. This band could easily be compared to The Ocean or even ISIS (check out They (As In Them) for reference), but they have a unique jazzy style to them.
Mastodon Call of the Mastodon3.5
Yellowcard Lights and Sounds3.5
Bossk .14.0

2005
Korn See You on the Other Side2.5
System of a Down Hypnotize3.0
Limp Bizkit Greatest Hitz4.0
Element Eighty The Bear4.0
City and Colour Sometimes4.5
Demon Hunter The Triptych4.0
Propagandhi Potemkin City Limits4.5
Rosetta The Galilean Satellites4.5
Thrice Vheissu5.0
Deftones B-Sides and Rarities3.5
Jimmy Eat World Stay on My Side Tonight4.0
Minus the Bear Menos El Oso4.5
10 Years The Autumn Effect4.5
Staind Chapter V3.5
Saosin Saosin EP3.0
Emery The Question Pre-Sale Exclusive EP3.5
Emery The Question4.5
Thousand Foot Krutch The Art of Breaking2.5
As Cities Burn Son, I Loved You at Your Darkest4.0
Foo Fighters In Your Honor3.5
Finch Say Hello to Sunshine4.0
Seether Karma And Effect3.5
Audioslave Out of Exile4.0
System of a Down Mezmerize3.5
Team Sleep Team Sleep4.5
Limp Bizkit The Unquestionable Truth - Part I3.0
ISIS Live 33.0
Circa Survive Juturna4.5
ISIS Oceanic: Remixes and Reinterpretations1.5
Thrice If We Could Only See Us Now3.5
Lifehouse Lifehouse3.0
Circa Survive The Inuit Sessions3.5
Norma Jean O' God, the Aftermath4.5
Karnivool Themata4.5
Anberlin Never Take Friendship Personal4.0
Gojira From Mars to Sirius4.5
Ghost Runner on Third Speak Your Dreams3.0
Glassjaw El Mark3.5
ISIS Live 23.5
It's a great live album with decent production only ruined by a dude screaming his lungs on every break, and because of how they butchered the begining of Weight. It includes the extended live version of Celestial, though, which is all you can ask for.

2004
A Perfect Circle eMOTIVe2.5
Hopesfall A Types4.5
Spoken Last Chance to Breathe2.5
Kings of Leon Aha Shake Heartbreak4.0
Jimmy Eat World Futures5.0
ISIS Panopticon5.0
Cult of Luna Salvation5.0
Biffy Clyro Infinity Land4.0
Killswitch Engage Killswitch Engage: Remastered3.0
Sum 41 Chuck4.0
Chevelle This Type Of Thinking (Could Do Us In)4.5
Thousand Foot Krutch Set It Off (Remastered)1.5
Mastodon Leviathan4.5
Further Seems Forever Hide Nothing4.0
Old Man Gloom Christmas4.5
Alter Bridge One Day Remains3.5
Metallica Some Kind of Monster1.5
Minus the Bear They Make Beer Commercials Like This4.0
Breaking Benjamin We Are Not Alone3.5
Neurosis The Eye of Every Storm4.5
Seether Disclaimer II2.5
Killswitch Engage The End of Heartache4.0
10 Years Killing All That Holds You3.5
This is 10 Years first release featuring Jesse Hasek on vox. It's an improvement over their first album, but still not on the level of their major label debut "The Autumn Effect". Magna-Phi, Frailty, Shelter (Live Acoustic), Wasteland and Through the Iris are the best songs in here and show great potential, with the latter two becoming charting singles in the subsequent release.
Demon Hunter Summer of Darkness3.5
ISIS Live 12.5
They were able to work some miracles with the remaster as the original bootleg was barely unlistenable. The real fault, though, is that all of these songs have been recorded live in higher quality performances and sound. If you aren't a collector or a hardcore fan then this has little value to it, to be fair.
Incubus (USA-CA) A Crow Left of the Murder...4.0
Emery The Weak's End4.5
Breaking Benjamin So Cold2.5
Old Man Gloom Christmas Eve I and II + 62.5
Breaking Benjamin Live3.0
The Butterfly Effect Begins Here4.0

2003
Korn Take a Look in the Mirror3.0
Chevelle Live From The Road2.0
Element Eighty Element Eighty4.0
Thousand Foot Krutch Phenomenon3.0
Fuel Natural Selection3.5
Neurosis Official Bootleg - Live in Stockholm4.5
A Perfect Circle Thirteenth Step4.5
Limp Bizkit Results May Vary2.5
Spoken A Moment of Imperfect Clarity3.0
Kings of Leon Youth and Young Manhood3.5
Thrice The Artist in the Ambulance4.0
Beloved Failure On4.0
Saosin Translating the Name3.5
Brand New Deja Entendu4.5
Biffy Clyro The Vertigo of Bliss4.0
Metallica St. Anger2.0
As Cities Burn As Cities Burn3.5
Staind 14 Shades of Grey2.5
Deftones Deftones4.0
Cult of Luna The Beyond4.0
Anberlin Blueprints for the Black Market4.0
Linkin Park Meteora4.0
Further Seems Forever How to Start a Fire4.5
Converge Unloved and Weeded Out3.5
Kings of Leon Holy Roller Novocaine EP3.5
The version of "California Waiting" included here is much superior to the one included on the debut. I might actually prefer this EP to their first full length overall so this is a good place to start with them.
Yellowcard Ocean Avenue4.0

2002
Sum 41 Does This Look Infected?4.0
System of a Down Steal This Album!4.5
Jerry Cantrell Degradation Trip Volumes 1 & 24.5
Audioslave Audioslave4.5
Minus the Bear Highly Refined Pirates5.0
Foo Fighters One by One3.5
Demon Hunter Demon Hunter3.5
Hopesfall The Satellite Years5.0
Chevelle Wonder What's Next5.0
Lifehouse Stanley Climbfall3.5
Minus the Bear Bands Like It When You Yell YAR at Them3.0
Just a promotional EP of Highly Refined Pirates. Only exclusive songs are an interlude which is track #3 (not worth getting unless you are a hardcore fan), the fourth song "Drop It Like It's Hot" and a demo version of "I Lost All My Money At The Cock Fights" (which I very much prefer to the version included on HRP).
Glassjaw Worship and Tribute4.0
Norma Jean Bless the Martyr and Kiss the Child4.0
Linkin Park Reanimation2.0
Yellowcard Underdog3.5
The Butterfly Effect The Butterfly Effect4.5
Mastodon Remission4.0
Killswitch Engage Alive or Just Breathing4.5
Engine Down Demure4.0
Cult of Luna Cult of Luna (EP)4.0
This was released exclusively as a 7" vinyl in 2002, but was reissued on digital platforms on 2013 under the title "S/T". The songs are somewhat faster than on the debut album, but also drawing closer to the more chaotic mood of The Beyond. This is where CoL started realizing their true potential.
Finch What It Is to Burn3.5
Biffy Clyro Blackened Sky3.5
Breaking Benjamin Saturate3.5
Thrice The Illusion of Safety4.5
Neurosis Official Bootleg - Lyon, France 11-02-993.5
The sound leaves a lot to be desired but it's not their worst sounding bootleg. If you plan on getting any of the bootlegs I'd go with Live on Stockholm, considering the tracklist is virtually the same as this (with the exception of "Away") and has a much superior recording/mixing quality compared to this one. Still, it's not a terrible release by any means and probably you will want to own it if you are a collector such as myself.
Filter The Amalgamut4.0
ISIS Oceanic5.0
Korn Untouchables3.5

2001
Limp Bizkit New Old Songs1.0
Finch Falling Into Place3.0
Incubus (USA-CA) Morning View4.5
System of a Down Toxicity4.0
Converge Jane Doe4.0
Minus the Bear This is What I Know About Being Gigantic4.0
Cult of Luna Cult of Luna3.5
Hopesfall No Wings To Speak Of4.5
Neurosis A Sun That Never Sets4.5
Jimmy Eat World Bleed American4.5
Element Eighty Mercuric3.5
Sum 41 All Killer No Filler3.5
Tool Lateralus5.0
Converge/Hellchild Deeper the Wound3.0
The Converge half is the only I've listened to and it's good. An early version of "Thaw" (the one included on Jane Doe is superior), three live performances and a wonderful cover of Depeche Mode song, which is the main reason I listen to this tbh.
Yellowcard One for the Kids3.0
Further Seems Forever The Moon Is Down4.0
Karnivool Persona2.5
Staind Break The Cycle3.5
ISIS SGNL>053.5
Old Man Gloom Seminar III: Zozobra5.0
Old Man Gloom Seminar II: The Holy Rites of Primitivism Regressi4.0
Breaking Benjamin Breaking Benjamin3.0

2000
Lifehouse No Name Face3.0
Neurosis Sovereign4.5
Linkin Park Hybrid Theory3.5
Spoken Echoes of the Spirit Still Dwell2.0
Old Man Gloom Meditations in B3.0
Fuel Something Like Human4.0
Glassjaw Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Silence4.5
Sum 41 Half Hour Of Power3.5
Deftones White Pony4.0
ISIS Celestial4.5
A Perfect Circle Mer de Noms4.5
Thrice Identity Crisis3.5
Neurosis Short Wave Warfare3.0
Actually a very good sounding bootleg that includes mostly songs from their debut album, but elevated by The Word As Law inclusions such as "Obsequious Obsolescence", "To What End?" and "Blisters" as well as "Self-Doubt" and "Nonsense" from the Lookout! Records Vinyl exclusive Aberration EP.
Limp Bizkit Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavored Water3.5

1999
Hopesfall The Frailty of Words4.0
Metallica S&M4.0
Korn Issues4.0
Foo Fighters There Is Nothing Left to Lose4.0
ISIS The Red Sea3.5
Alice in Chains Music Bank4.5
Filter Title Of Record4.5
Incubus (USA-CA) Make Yourself4.0
Further Seems Forever From the 27th State3.5
I've never listened to the actual EP, but I have heard the complete recording session from FSF of this (which was included on The Final Curtain) and it's pretty neat. The recording session includes early versions of The Bradley, New Year's Project, Just Until Sundown and Pictures of Shorelines. It also includes Justice Prevails, an exclusive song from this.
Limp Bizkit Significant Other3.5
blink-182 Enema Of The State3.5
Staind Dysfunction4.0
Jimmy Eat World Clarity4.5
Chevelle Point #14.0
Neurosis/Tribes of Neurot Times of Grace/Grace5.0
Thank goodness this exists here because I cannot bring myself to bump the original album. This is the way to go with this. I combined both albums, here if you want to check it out: https://www.mediafire.com/file/i0zrvgpotpz0lxh/1999-Neurosis-Times+Of+Grace+(++Tribes+Of+Neurot+-+Grace).7z/file

1998
Metallica Garage Inc.3.5
Korn Follow the Leader3.0
System of a Down System of a Down4.0
Converge When Forever Comes Crashing4.0
Jerry Cantrell Boggy Depot3.5
Fuel Sunburn4.0
Converge Caring and Killing3.0
ISIS Mosquito Control4.5

1997
Metallica Reload2.5
Deftones Around the Fur4.5
Incubus (USA-CA) S.C.I.E.N.C.E.4.5
Limp Bizkit Three Dollar Bill Y'all3.5
blink-182 Dude Ranch4.0
Radiohead OK Computer4.0
Faith No More Album of the Year4.0
Foo Fighters The Colour and the Shape4.0
Glassjaw Kiss Kiss Bang Bang3.0

1996
Staind Tormented4.0
Korn Life Is Peachy3.5
Tool Ænima5.0
Alice in Chains MTV Unplugged3.5
Metallica Load3.0
Incubus (USA-CA) Enjoy Incubus4.0
Jimmy Eat World Static Prevails3.5
Neurosis Through Silver in Blood5.0
Radiohead Street Spirit (Fade Out)4.0
Propagandhi Less Talk, More Rock3.5
Converge Petitioning the Empty Sky4.0

1995
Alice in Chains Alice in Chains4.5
Not a perfect album but it's their most underrated effort by far.
Deftones Adrenaline3.5
Filter Short Bus3.5
Radiohead Fake Plastic Trees3.5
Foo Fighters Foo Fighters4.0
Radiohead The Bends4.0
Faith No More King for a Day... Fool for a Lifetime5.0
Radiohead High & Dry / Planet Telex2.5
I like both High & Dry and Planet Telex, but the b-sides included here aren't much interesting. A couple of remixes of "Planet Telex", a rework of "Killers Cars" from their first demo release and "Maquiladora" which is my favorite from this.
blink-182 Cheshire Cat4.0

1994
Korn Korn3.5
Radiohead My Iron Lung3.5
Alice in Chains Jar of Flies4.0
Neurosis Enemy Live NYC '942.0
The performances are great as expected with Neurosis. However, this bootleg sounds like complete ass. Definitely their worst sounding live recording which is a shame considering there are no other "official" live takes of "Takeahnase", "Cold Ascending" and "Enemy of the Sun".

1993
Metallica Live Shit: Binge & Purge4.5
Radiohead Pop Is Dead2.0
Can't believe this was considered single material. Definitely the worst of the early EP's/singles.
Radiohead Pablo Honey3.0
Tool Undertow4.0
Radiohead Anyone Can Play Guitar3.0
"Coke Babies" is probably my favorite b-side from Pablo Honey. I'm glad it made it to the album's Collector's Edition.
Neurosis Enemy of the Sun4.5
1992
Alice in Chains Dirt5.0
Radiohead Creep3.0
If I'm not mistaken there are two versions of this single/EP; one including "Lurgee" (which is one of the weaker tracks of the debut), "Inside My Head" (which is a cool grungy song) and "Million Dollar Question" (definitely get why this was left out, anyways). Then there's another version including a remix of "Blow Out" (one of the best songs of the debut), a live version of "Inside My Head" and "Yes I Am" (one of the strongest b-sides from Pablo Honey). I'd say stick with the second version of the single, even though all songs are included in the Collector's Edition of the album.
Faith No More Angel Dust5.0
Radiohead Drill2.5
Tool Opiate3.5
Alice in Chains Sap3.5
Neurosis Souls at Zero5.0

1991
Metallica Metallica3.5

1990
Alice in Chains Facelift4.0
Neurosis The Word as Law3.5

1989
Faith No More The Real Thing4.5

1988
Metallica ...And Justice for All4.0

1987
Neurosis Pain of Mind3.0

1986
Metallica Master of Puppets4.5
1984
Metallica Ride the Lightning5.0

1983
Metallica Kill 'Em All4.5
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