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2024
Night Verses Every Sound Has a Color...: Part II	4.5
Halfway Line Halfway Line	3.5
Enterprise Earth Death: An Anthology	2.5
Average deathcore with some thrash here and there. Nothing compelling.
Manu Delago Snow From Yesterday	3.0

2023
Full of Hell and Nothing When No Birds Sang	4.0
Earthside Let The Truth Speak	2.0
I don't know what it is, but listening to the first few tracks of this was incredibly painful. Don't get me wrong - the instrumentation is phenomenal, but the variety of vocalists used does not do the band a favor. There is a strong disconnect between the vocal tracks and the instrumentation that geniunely gives off the impression that these vocalists (with the exception of Dan from Tesseract) simply don't know how to write runs to these types of songs or that the band simply didn't feel the need to account for them, but rather have whatever guest vocalist figure it out on their own. Vocals are an instrument that needs to be taken account for during the writing process and seems like this didn't happen here. Crucify me, but that's like my opinion, dude.
Iration Daytrippin	4.0
There Will Be Fireworks Summer Moon	4.5
Closet Witch Chiaroscuro	3.0
The Bathers Sirenesque	4.0
Roger Waters The Dark Side of the Moon Redux	1.0
Steven Wilson The Harmony Codex	4.5
Logan Ledger Golden State	3.0
The Zenith Passage Datalysium	4.0
The only Planetary Duality II we're gonna get, since a certain guitar boy won't get off his high...horse.
Strange Ranger Pure Music	4.0
Cattle Decapitation Terrasite	3.5
Periphery Periphery V: Djent is Not a Genre	3.0
Disfiguring the Goddess Karnival	1.0

2022
Ruby Haunt Cures For Opposites	4.0
Polyphia Remember That You Will Die	4.0
Lamb of God Omens	2.0
This album is B-O-R-I-N-G. Don't get me wrong, there's great musicianship it just seems like every track is a filler. I found myself skipping each song after thirty seconds or less because nothing stands out. Also, a band is only as good as its drummer. The current drummer is technically proficient, but nothing like Chris Adler in bringing interesting flavors to tracks instead of the run of the mill metalcore/deathcore the current guy offers. The hole he left continues to be obvious on this album.
Revocation Netherheaven	3.5
Laufey Everything I Know About Love	4.5
Decapitated Cancer Culture	2.0
Only the Woke resort to meme lyrics that will hold no relevancy in ten years or less. Decapitated should celebrate though, this is the first NPC death metal album I’ve listened to. Edit: I take that back, Fearmonger by Beneath the Massacre, the “orange man bad” album was the first NPC album I’ve listened to.
Kirk Hammett Portals	2.5
Monuments (UK) In Stasis	3.0
Meshuggah Immutable	3.5
Animals As Leaders Parrhesia	2.5
AngelMaker Sanctum	2.5
Shadow Of Intent Elegy	4.0
Enterprise Earth The Chosen	4.5
Riffs are nasty and the cleans are tolerable. Make deathcore interesting again!
Lee McKinney In The Light of Knowledge	3.5

2021
Converge Bloodmoon: I	4.0
Volumes Happier?	3.5
Whitechapel Kin	3.5
Archspire Bleed the Future	4.5
Vildhjarta Måsstaden Under Vatten	4.5
This is some of the heaviest - bouncing just above the brown note - shit I've ever listened to. A great sequel to the previous album.
Knocked Loose A Tear in the Fabric of Life	4.0
Trivium In the Court of the Dragon	3.0
Rivers of Nihil The Work	3.0
Sputnik staff (Robert Garland) saying this album is Parkway Drive b-side demos is just embarrassing for this site. Album is not as good as the last but solid.
Spiritbox Eternal Blue	4.5
Jinjer Wallflowers	2.5
Deafheaven Infinite Granite	5.0
Lorna Shore ...And I Return to Nothingness	3.5
A solid EP. The slam breaks are a bit predictable. The orchestration is neat. Nothing genre breaking or defining here.
Andrea von Kampen That Spell	4.0
Born of Osiris Angel or Alien	2.0
Maroon 5 Jordi	1.0
White Moth Black Butterfly The Cost Of Dreaming	3.0
VOLA Witness	4.0
Great album, well-crafted songs and sound. Weakest songs are Freak and These Black Claws. Black Claws has grown on me after a few listens though - the rapping was unexpected (and initially unwanted) at first but, like I said, it grew on me. This album is definitely head heavy, with the singles easily being the strongest of the nine songs.
Gojira Fortitude	3.5
Eydis Evensen Bylur	3.5

2020
Cryptodira The Angel of History	2.0
Whew wee, the lyrics and their pretentiousness on this album take out the joy in what might have been an ok listen. Thesauruses are for referencing, not cooking with.
Within the Ruins Black Heart	4.0
Periphery Live in London	3.0
The sound production is so bad here. Spencer is absolutely on point though.
Sangre de Muerdago Xuntas	4.5
Nothing The Great Dismal	3.0
Linkin Park Hybrid Theory (20th Anniversary Edition)	4.0
Gargoyl Gargoyl	2.0
The singer just doesn't coalesce with the music - sticks out like sore thumb. His melodies and his tonal quality are painful to listen to, to be honest.
Deftones Ohms	5.0
Cloudkicker Solitude	4.0
Exist Egoiista	2.0
The only reason I give this a 2 is the instrumentation. Great playing there. The vocals absolutely demolish all the hard work they put in. The singer is not good. Plain and simple. Screamer is not good either. The vocal lines are so timid, feel dead, and the phrasing is awkward most of the time. The last song proves the singer doesn't haven't much of a range.
The Acacia Strain Slow Decay	4.0
Iration Coastin'	4.0
Emmure Hindsight	3.0
HAIM Women In Music, Pt. III	1.0
Protest the Hero Palimpsest	4.5
Alina Baraz It Was Divine	3.5
The Black Dahlia Murder Verminous	2.5
Any of these songs could work just fine on any one of their records. The formula works but it’s so tiresome to listen to every single time.
The Acacia Strain C	3.0
The Weeknd After Hours	3.5
The Acacia Strain E	3.0
Beneath the Massacre Fearmonger	4.0
Tycho Simulcast	3.5
The Acacia Strain D	3.0
Lorna Shore Immortal	3.0
Caspian On Circles	3.0

2019
The Acacia Strain It Comes in Waves	4.5
Cattle Decapitation Death Atlas	3.5
Blood Incantation Hidden History of the Human Race	3.0
Coldplay Everyday Life	4.5
Abigail Williams Walk Beyond The Dark	4.5
Low Roar ross.	3.5
Rings of Saturn Gidim	2.0
Vocalist is way too talented for a tired schtick band like this.
Opeth In Cauda Venenum	3.5
Infant Annihilator The Battle of Yaldabaoth	4.0
Tool Fear Inoculum	2.0
Knocked Loose A Different Shade of Blue	4.0
Shadow Of Intent Melancholy	2.5
Cloudkicker Unending	4.0
Northlane Alien	2.5
Thy Art Is Murder Human Target	2.5
Tomb Mold Planetary Clairvoyance	4.0
Tycho Weather	4.5
Pepper Local Motion	3.0
The Dangerous Summer Mother Nature	5.0
Serpent Of Gnosis As I Drink from the Infinite Well of Inebriation	3.0
Amon Amarth Berserker	3.0
After the Burial Evergreen	3.5
Uncured Epidemic	1.0
The album artwork tells the whole story - a steaming pile of shit. Now imagine a maggot crawling around in the brown swirl, eating and digesting the putrid waste - have it in mind? The vocals are that maggot waste in this pile of shit. They are so bad and sonically a nightmare to listen to. The instrumentals are generic and not memorable in the slightest. Judge this book by its cover and stay as far away as possible!
Numenorean Adore	3.5
Enterprise Earth Luciferous	2.5
Periphery Periphery IV: Hail Stan	4.5
Whitechapel The Valley	4.0
William Tyler Goes West	4.0
Maggie Rogers Heard It in a Past Life	4.0

2018
The Ocean Phanerozoic I: Palaeozoic	3.0
Silent Planet When the End Began	4.5
Into Eternity The Sirens	3.0
Greta Van Fleet Anthem of the Peaceful Army	3.0
John Carpenter Halloween (2018)	3.5
VOLA Applause of a Distant Crowd	5.0
Monuments (UK) Phronesis	3.0
ERRA Neon	2.5
Between the Buried and Me Automata II	3.0
Slightly Stoopid Everyday Life, Everyday People	4.0
Jon Hopkins Singularity	4.0
TesseracT Sonder	3.0
Unprocessed Covenant	3.0
Kacey Musgraves Golden Hour	4.0
The Weeknd My Dear Melancholy,	3.0
Rivers of Nihil Where Owls Know My Name	5.0
Between the Buried and Me Automata I	3.0
Traitors Anger Issues	3.0

2017
Vitalism SY	3.5
The Faceless In Becoming a Ghost	2.5
The Black Dahlia Murder Nightbringers	4.0
Caligula's Horse In Contact	4.0
Rings of Saturn Ultu Ulla	2.0
21 Savage Issa Album	1.0
Chuck Johnson Balsams	3.0
Greta Van Fleet Black Smoke Rising	3.0
Drake More Life	2.0
Born of Osiris The Eternal Reign	4.5
Suicide Silence Suicide Silence	1.5
Maggie Rogers Now That The Light Is Fading	4.0
Bonobo Migration	3.5

2016
The Weeknd Starboy	2.5
Metallica Hardwired...To Self-Destruct	3.0
Serpentine Dominion Serpentine Dominion	3.5
Meshuggah The Violent Sleep Of Reason	3.5
Opeth Sorceress	3.5
Tash Sultana Notion	3.5
Periphery Periphery III: Select Difficulty	3.0
Gojira Magma	4.0
Nails You Will Never Be One of Us	4.0
I bet their live shows reek with the smell of pigs grease and taint sweat.

2015
Enterprise Earth Patient 0	3.5
SikTh Opacities	4.5
Crooks Are We All The Same Distance Apart	4.0
TesseracT Polaris	5.0
Thy Art Is Murder Holy War	2.5
Hiatus Kaiyote Choose Your Weapon	4.5
Varials Failure // Control	4.0
Traitors The Hate Campaign	2.5
VOLA Inmazes	4.0
Periphery Juggernaut: Omega	3.5
Periphery Juggernaut: Alpha	3.5
Xibalba Tierra y Libertad	2.5
Sylosis Dormant Heart	3.5

2014
Cloudkicker Little Histories	3.5
Jon Hopkins Asleep Versions	3.5
Job For A Cowboy Sun Eater	4.5
Skyharbor Guiding Lights	2.5
From Indian Lakes Absent Sounds	3.5
Meshuggah The Ophidian Trek	4.5
The Contortionist Language	4.5
Within the Ruins Phenomena	3.5
Monuments (UK) The Amanuensis	4.0
IQ The Road of Bones	4.0
Animals As Leaders The Joy of Motion	4.5
Cynic Kindly Bent to Free Us	3.0

2013
There Will Be Fireworks The Dark, Dark Bright	4.0
Protest the Hero Volition	3.5
Vildhjarta Thousands Of Evils	4.0
Drake Nothing Was the Same	2.5
Born of Osiris Tomorrow We Die Alive	2.5
Watchhouse This Side Of Jordan	4.0
Attila About That Life	2.0
TesseracT Altered State	4.5
Daft Punk Random Access Memories	4.0
After the Burial This Life Is All We Have	3.5
Bonobo The North Borders	3.5
Within the Ruins Elite	3.0
Rings of Saturn Dingir	2.5
ASAP Rocky LONG.LIVE.A$AP	2.5

2012
Kendrick Lamar good kid, m.A.A.d city	3.5
Thy Art Is Murder Hate	2.5
The Acacia Strain Death Is the Only Mortal	3.5
Circa Survive Violent Waves	3.0
The Faceless Autotheism	3.5
Cloudkicker Fade	4.0
Periphery Periphery II: This Time It's Personal	4.0
Crooks Nevermore	4.0
Gojira L'Enfant Sauvage	4.0
TesseracT Perspective	2.5
Beach House Bloom	5.0
Padang Food Tigers Ready Country Nimbus	4.0
Skyharbor Blinding White Noise: Illusion & Chaos	3.0
Hiatus Kaiyote Tawk Tomahawk	4.0
Meshuggah Koloss	4.0
River Whyless A Stone, a Leaf, an Unfound Door	3.5

2011
Vildhjarta Måsstaden	4.0
Cloudkicker Let Yourself Be Huge	5.0
Jeremy Soule The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Soundtrack	4.5
Northlane Discoveries	3.0
Cynic Carbon-Based Anatomy	3.5
Tycho Dive	3.5
ASAP Rocky Live.Love.A$AP.	3.0
Uneven Structure Februus	3.5
Mastodon The Hunter	3.5
Textures Dualism	3.5
Opeth Heritage	4.0
Corelia Nostalgia	4.5
Kendrick Lamar Section.80	3.5
The Black Dahlia Murder Ritual	4.0
Devin Townsend Project Ghost	5.0
City and Colour Little Hell	4.5
Born of Osiris The Discovery	4.5
TesseracT One	5.0
Protest the Hero Scurrilous	3.5
Emmure Speaker Of The Dead	2.0
Amos Lee Mission Bell	4.0
Attila Outlawed	2.0

2010
After the Burial In Dreams	3.5
Currensy Pilot Talk II	3.0
Alter Bridge AB III	4.0
TesseracT Concealing Fate	5.0
Cloudkicker Beacons	4.5
Beneath the Massacre Marée Noire	3.5
Within the Ruins Invade	3.0
The Acacia Strain Wormwood	3.5
Currensy Pilot Talk	4.0
Parkway Drive Deep Blue	2.5
Cynic Re-Traced	3.5
Attila Rage	2.0
Deftones Diamond Eyes	5.0
Circa Survive Blue Sky Noise	5.0
Periphery Periphery	4.0
The Ocean Heliocentric	3.0
Veil of Maya [id]	3.5
Bonobo Black Sands	3.5
Iration Time Bomb	5.0
Volumes The Concept of Dreaming	3.0
Carnifex Hell Chose Me	2.5
The Acacia Strain The Most Known Unknown	4.0
Meshuggah Alive	4.5

2009
The Red Chord Fed Through the Teeth Machine	4.5
Between the Buried and Me The Great Misdirect	4.5
Despised Icon Day Of Mourning	3.0
Martin O'Donnell Halo 3: ODST OST	4.5
The Black Dahlia Murder Deflorate	4.5
Emmure Felony	1.5
Winds of Plague The Great Stone War	2.5
Augury Fragmentary Evidence	3.0
Born of Osiris A Higher Place	3.0
Vildhjarta Omnislash	3.5
Karnivool Sound Awake	4.5
The Black Dahlia Murder Majesty (DVD)	4.5
Thy Catafalque Roka Hasa Radio	4.0
Animals As Leaders Animals as Leaders	5.0
Mastodon Crack the Skye	3.0
Lamb of God Wrath	3.5
Scale the Summit Carving Desert Canyons	3.0
Obscura Cosmogenesis	3.5
Architects Hollow Crown	3.5

2008
The Faceless Planetary Duality	5.0
Attack Attack! Someday Came Suddenly	1.0
Beneath the Massacre Dystopia	3.5
Cynic Traced in Air	5.0
Abigail Williams In the Shadow of a Thousand Suns	3.0
Between the Buried and Me Colors_Live	4.5
Amon Amarth Twilight of the Thunder God	4.5
All Shall Perish Awaken the Dreamers	4.0
The Acacia Strain Continent	5.0
After the Burial Rareform	5.0
Cloudkicker The Discovery	3.5
Coldplay Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends	3.5
Opeth Watershed	5.0
Emmure The Respect Issue	2.5
Textures Silhouettes	3.5
Arsis We Are the Nightmare	4.0
Veil of Maya The Common Man's Collapse	4.0
Septicflesh Communion	4.5
Meshuggah obZen	4.5
City and Colour Bring Me Your Love	4.5
Winds of Plague Decimate the Weak	3.5
This Will Destroy You This Will Destroy You	4.5
Protest the Hero Fortress	5.0
Attila Soundtrack to a Party	1.5

2007
Waking The Cadaver Perverse Recollections Of A Necromangler	1.0
Martin O'Donnell Halo 3 OST	5.0
Riverside Rapid Eye Movement	4.0
Alter Bridge Blackbird	4.0
Parkway Drive Horizons	4.0
Born of Osiris The New Reign	2.5
Suicide Silence The Cleansing	2.5
The Black Dahlia Murder Nocturnal	5.0
Between the Buried and Me Colors	5.0
As I Lay Dying An Ocean Between Us	4.5
Symphony X Paradise Lost	4.5
Kamelot Ghost Opera	5.0
Circa Survive On Letting Go	4.0
Dimmu Borgir In Sorte Diaboli	3.0
Shadows Fall Threads of Life	3.0
Haste the Day Pressure the Hinges	3.0
Beneath the Massacre Mechanics of Dysfunction	3.5

2006
Trivium The Crusade	2.5
Amon Amarth With Oden on Our Side	3.5
Lamb of God Sacrament	4.0
All Shall Perish The Price of Existence	4.0
Unearth III: In the Eyes of Fire	4.0
All That Remains The Fall of Ideals	4.5
As Blood Runs Black Allegiance	3.5
SikTh Death of a Dead Day	5.0
This Will Destroy You Young Mountain	4.0
Tool 10,000 Days	4.5
Martin O'Donnell Halo 2, Vol. 2 OST	5.0
Decapitated Organic Hallucinosis	4.0
The Faceless Akeldama	4.0
Jeremy Soule Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Soundtrack	5.0

2005
City and Colour Sometimes	4.0
Parkway Drive Killing with a Smile	4.0
Between the Buried and Me Alaska	4.0
Protest the Hero Kezia	5.0
Nevermore This Godless Endeavor	4.0
Lamb of God Killadelphia	5.0
As I Lay Dying Shadows Are Security	4.0
Audioslave Out of Exile	4.5
Porcupine Tree Deadwing	3.5
Circa Survive Juturna	4.0
Slightly Stoopid Closer To The Sun	5.0
Trivium Ascendancy	3.0
Kamelot The Black Halo	5.0
Amos Lee Amos Lee	3.5
The Mars Volta Frances the Mute	5.0
Karnivool Themata	5.0
Gojira From Mars to Sirius	4.5

2004
Martin O'Donnell Halo 2 OST & New Music Volume One	5.0
Lamb of God Ashes of the Wake	5.0
Shadows Fall The War Within	3.0
Mastodon Leviathan	3.0
Alter Bridge One Day Remains	4.0
Necrophagist Epitaph	5.0
Unearth The Oncoming Storm	4.0
Atreyu The Curse	2.5
Killswitch Engage The End of Heartache	3.0
All That Remains This Darkened Heart	3.5
Max Richter The Blue Notebooks	4.5

2003
Howard Shore The Return of the King	5.0
Pantera Reinventing Hell: The Best of Pantera	4.5
Dimmu Borgir Death Cult Armageddon	3.0
SikTh The Trees Are Dead and Dried Out, Wait for Something Wild	5.0
The Mayan Factor In Lake 'CH	4.0
As I Lay Dying Frail Words Collapse	4.0
Opeth Damnation	5.0
Slightly Stoopid Everything You Need	4.5
Yellowcard Ocean Avenue	3.0

2002
Audioslave Audioslave	4.5
Meshuggah Nothing	5.0
Martin O'Donnell Halo Original Soundtrack	5.0
Pepper Kona Town	5.0
Jeremy Soule Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind Soundtrack	5.0
Michael Giacchino Medal of Honor: Frontline	5.0
Where the game mechanics failed, this soundtrack shined. Many hours were dedicated to this one and every time I hear these songs, it brings me back.

2001
Howard Shore The Fellowship of the Ring	5.0
Incubus (USA-CA) Morning View	4.5
Jon Hopkins Opalescent	3.5
Tool Lateralus	5.0
Artie Shaw The Very Best of Artie Shaw	5.0

2000
Godspeed You! Black Emperor Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven	4.5
Coldplay Parachutes	4.0
A Perfect Circle Mer de Noms	4.0
Pantera Reinventing the Steel	4.5

1999
Dream Theater Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes from a Memory	5.0
Opeth Still Life	4.5
Incubus (USA-CA) Make Yourself	5.0
Testament The Gathering	4.5

1998
John Carpenter Halloween 20th Anniversary Edition	5.0

1997
Godspeed You! Black Emperor F♯ A♯ ∞	5.0
Elliott Smith Either/Or	5.0

1996
Sublime Sublime	5.0
Pantera The Great Southern Trendkill	4.5
Glenn Miller Greatest Hits	5.0
Rage Against the Machine Evil Empire	4.5
Cryptopsy None So Vile	4.0

1995
Down NOLA	4.0
Death Symbolic	4.5
At the Gates Slaughter of the Soul	5.0
Fear Factory Demanufacture	4.0

1994
Jeff Buckley Grace	5.0
Emperor In the Nightside Eclipse	5.0
Stone Temple Pilots Purple	4.5
Pantera Far Beyond Driven	5.0

1993
George Gershwin Gershwin Plays Gershwin: The Piano Rolls	4.5
Tool Undertow	4.5

1992
Rage Against the Machine Rage Against the Machine	5.0
Stone Temple Pilots Core	4.5
Pantera Vulgar Display of Power	5.0

1991
Slayer Decade of Aggression	4.5
Nirvana Nevermind	5.0
Pearl Jam Ten	5.0
Coroner Mental Vortex	4.5

1990
Brian Eno and John Cale Wrong Way Up	4.5
Megadeth Rust in Peace	5.0
Judas Priest Painkiller	5.0
Pantera Cowboys from Hell	5.0

1988
Metallica ...And Justice for All	4.5

1986
Slayer Reign in Blood	5.0
Metallica Master of Puppets	5.0

1984
Iron Maiden Powerslave	5.0
Metallica Ride the Lightning	5.0

1983
Dio Holy Diver	5.0
Iron Maiden Piece of Mind	5.0

1982
Ennio Morricone The Thing	5.0
Iron Maiden The Number of the Beast	5.0

1978
John Carpenter Halloween	5.0

1976
Eagles Hotel California	5.0

1975
Pink Floyd Wish You Were Here	5.0
Willie Nelson Red Headed Stranger	4.5

1974
King Crimson Red	4.5

1973
Led Zeppelin Houses of the Holy	5.0
Pink Floyd The Dark Side of the Moon	5.0
King Crimson Larks' Tongues in Aspic	4.5

1972
Deep Purple Machine Head	4.5
Nick Drake Pink Moon	5.0

1971
Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin IV	5.0
Black Sabbath Master of Reality	5.0

1970
Black Sabbath Paranoid	5.0
Black Sabbath Black Sabbath	5.0

1969
King Crimson In the Court of the Crimson King	5.0

1966
Ennio Morricone The Good, the Bad and the Ugly	4.5

1965
Ennio Morricone For a Few Dollars More	4.5

1964
Ennio Morricone A Fistful of Dollars	4.5

1909
Sergei Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 3 in D minor, Op. 30	5.0

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