| 2009 |
| Nokturnal Mortum The Voice of Steel | 4.0 |
| Mudvayne Mudvayne | 3.0 |
| Binary Code Suspension Of Disbelief | 3.5 |
| toe For Long Tomorrow | 4.0 |
| Clipse Til the Casket Drops | 3.0 |
| Animations Reset Your Soul | 3.5 |
| Pinkroom Psychosolstice | 3.5 |
| Divinity The Singularity | 4.0 |
| Napalm Death Time Waits for No Slave | 2.5 |
| Blakroc Blakroc | 4.0 |
| Impious Death Domination | 4.0 |
| Circle of Contempt Artifacts in Motion | 4.0 |
| A Wilhelm Scream A Wilhelm Scream | 3.5 |
| Mass Infection The Age of Recreation | 3.5 |
| Reciprocal Reciprocal | 3.5 |
| Annie Don't Stop | 3.5 |
| Defeater Lost Ground | 3.5 |
| Devin Townsend Project Addicted | 4.5 |
| The Storm Picturesque Hours | 3.5 |
| Gaza He Is Never Coming Back | 4.0 |
| Swallow the Sun New Moon | 3.5 |
| Julian Casablancas Phrazes for the Young | 3.5 |
| Say Anything Say Anything | 4.0 |
| Instant Suppression Domain.Nation | 4.0 |
| Katatonia Night Is the New Day | 4.0 |
| The Jezabels She's So Hard | 4.0 |
| Pain of Salvation Linoleum | 3.5 |
| Jupiter Society Terraform | 3.5 |
| Agua de Annique In Your Room | 3.5 |
| the first couple songs arent that good but the album picks up after. Anneke has an amazing voice and it helps this album a lot since it's not a very powerful album instumentally |
| Amanda Jenssen Happyland | 3.5 |
| 3 (USA) Revisions | 3.0 |
| The Red Chord Fed Through the Teeth Machine | 4.0 |
| pg.lost In Never Out | 4.0 |
| Between the Buried and Me The Great Misdirect | 4.5 |
| Angie Hart Eat My Shadow | 3.0 |
| Sufjan Stevens The BQE | 2.5 |
| Gwen Stacy A Dialogue | 3.0 |
| Daitro Y | 3.5 |
| Randy Twigg Undone | 3.5 |
| Espers Espers III | 4.0 |
| Meg Baird and crew continue to make some of the best modern psychedelic folk. the guitars are ethereal and the drumming lays down the mesmerizing beats that get you stuck in the song. of course the focal point to any Espers albums are the beautiful and dreamlike vocals from Meg Baird. her voice is so smooth and relaxing, it almost distracts you from the instrumentals because you become so focused on her voice. but after a few listens you will learn the experience of this album is much more worth it if you can engulf your self with all the aspects of the album. if the vocals are all you find interesting (a shame if true) then i highly recommend getting Meg Baird's solo album for more stripped down folk |
| Flood of Red Leaving Everything Behind | 3.5 |
| Rammstein Liebe Ist Für Alle Da | 2.5 |
| Epica Design Your Universe | 3.5 |
| The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble Here Be Dragons | 3.5 |
| Letting Up Despite Great Faults Letting Up Despite Great Faults | 3.5 |
| The Flaming Lips Embryonic | 4.0 |
| Sole and the Skyrider Band Plastique | 4.0 |
| The Arusha Accord The Echo Verses | 4.0 |
| Emily Jane White Victorian America | 4.0 |
| Junius The Martyrdom of a Catastrophist | 4.5 |
| HORSE the band Desperate Living | 3.5 |
| Lost Soul Immerse in Infinity | 3.5 |
| Vedera Stages | 3.5 |
| Orphans of Cush White Noize | 3.5 |
| Music Go Music Expressions | 3.5 |
| The Fall of Troy In the Unlikely Event | 4.0 |
| Ancestors Of Sound Mind | 4.0 |
| Latitudes Agonist | 4.0 |
| Mumford and Sons Sigh No More | 4.5 |
| Rebekka Karijord The Noble Art of Letting Go | 4.5 |
| Portal Swarth | 4.0 |
| Pythia Beneath the Veiled Embrace | 4.0 |
| Converge Axe to Fall | 4.5 |
| Doomriders Darkness Come Alive | 3.5 |
| Evergreen Terrace Almost Home | 3.5 |
| Dethklok Dethalbum II | 4.0 |
| Revocation Existence Is Futile | 4.0 |
| Paloma Faith Do You Want the Truth or Something Beautiful? | 3.5 |
| The Contortionist Apparition | 3.5 |
| Alice in Chains Black Gives Way to Blue | 4.0 |
| Rose Melberg Homemade Ship | 3.5 |
| Brand New Daisy | 4.0 |
| Diablo Swing Orchestra Sing-Along Songs for the Damned & Delirious | 3.0 |
| Sickening Horror The Dead End Experiment | 3.5 |
| Porcupine Tree The Incident | 4.0 |
| Maths Descent | 3.5 |
| Omega Lithium Dreams In Formaline | 3.5 |
| the_Network Bishop Kent Manning | 3.5 |
| Unsouled Start Over | 3.5 |
| Every Time I Die New Junk Aesthetic | 4.0 |
| The Chasm Farseeing the Paranormal Abysm | 4.0 |
| Muse The Resistance | 2.5 |
| Phantogram Eyelid Movies | 3.0 |
| Megadeth Endgame | 4.0 |
| Armed For Apocalypse Defeat | 4.0 |
| Ensiferum From Afar | 3.5 |
| Survivors Zero CMXCIX | 3.5 |
| A Fine Frenzy Bomb In A Birdcage | 3.5 |
| Defect Designer Wax | 4.0 |
| Valravn (DK) Koder på snor | 4.5 |
| Raised Fist Veil Of Ignorance | 4.0 |
| Infinite Tales Only the Beginning | 4.0 |
| Chevelle Sci-Fi Crimes | 3.5 |
| No Consequence In the Shadow of Gods | 3.5 |
| The Dodos Time to Die | 4.0 |
| BATS Red In Tooth and Claw | 4.0 |
| Freddie Gibbs midwestgangstaboxframecadillacmuzik | 4.0 |
| Oh, Sleeper Son of the Morning | 4.0 |
| fun. Aim and Ignite | 4.0 |
| Municipal Waste Massive Aggressive | 4.0 |
| Imogen Heap Ellipse | 3.5 |
| Ghost Brigade Isolation Songs | 4.5 |
| Vader Necropolis | 3.5 |
| As Tall As Lions You Can't Take It With You | 3.0 |
| Six Organs Of Admittance Luminous Night | 4.0 |
| The xx xx | 3.0 |
| Goreaphobia Mortal Repulsion | 3.5 |
| Darwin's Radio Template For A Generation | 3.5 |
| Lightning Dust Infinite Light | 4.0 |
| Ignivomous Death Transmutation | 4.0 |
| Lord (AUS) Set In Stone | 4.0 |
| Axxis Utopia | 3.5 |
| Indukti Idmen | 3.5 |
| Narnia Course Of A Generation | 3.5 |
| Hands (US-ND) Creator | 3.5 |
| City of Ships Look What God Did To Us | 3.5 |
| Magnolia Electric Co Josephine | 4.0 |
| Hail of Bullets Warsaw Rising | 3.5 |
| Augury Fragmentary Evidence | 4.0 |
| Sarah Blasko As Day Follows Night | 4.0 |
| Novembers Doom Into Night's Requiem Infernal | 3.5 |
| The Hope Conspiracy True Nihilist | 3.5 |
| Poison the Well The Tropic Rot | 4.0 |
| Clutch Strange Cousins From The West | 4.5 |
| Admiral Angry Buster | 4.0 |
| Florence and the Machine Lungs | 4.0 |
| Pianos Become the Teeth Old Pride | 3.5 |
| Alexisonfire Old Crows / Young Cardinals | 4.0 |
| La Roux La Roux | 3.5 |
| Purified In Blood Reaper of Souls | 3.5 |
| Slugathor Echoes from Beneath | 4.0 |
| Dream Theater Black Clouds and Silver Linings | 4.0 |
| Regina Spektor Far | 4.0 |
| Jace Everett Red Revelations | 4.0 |
| Be'lakor Stone's Reach | 3.5 |
| Asphyx Death... The Brutal Way | 3.5 |
| Cortney Tidwell Boys | 3.5 |
| Panopticon Collapse | 4.0 |
| Riverside Anno Domini High Definition | 4.0 |
| Amorphis Skyforger | 2.5 |
| Magrudergrind Magrudergrind | 4.0 |
| Madder Mortem Eight Ways | 4.0 |
| Hilltop Hoods State of the Art | 4.0 |
| Mos Def The Ecstatic | 3.5 |
| Coalesce OX | 4.0 |
| Miike Snow Miike Snow | 4.0 |
| Little Boots Hands | 3.5 |
| Diane Birch Bible Belt | 3.5 |
| this album cover makes me think naughty thoughts. Birch is a pretty good singer/songwriter who puts a lot of herself into her music and lyrics. Bible Belt isn't the most innovative album or breathtaking album, but it contains enough hooks and sing-a-longs to listen to again and again |
| Emery ...In Shallow Seas We Sail | 4.0 |
| IQ Frequency | 4.0 |
| Patrick Wolf The Bachelor | 4.0 |
| Rome Flowers From Exile | 4.0 |
| Krypts Open the Crypt | 4.0 |
| Crash Kings Crash Kings | 3.0 |
| Jenny Owen Youngs Transmitter Failure | 3.5 |
| Sights and Sounds Monolith | 4.0 |
| Devin Townsend Project Ki | 4.0 |
| Au Revoir Simone Still Night, Still Light | 3.0 |
| Spheric Universe Experience Unreal | 4.0 |
| Manic Street Preachers Journal For Plague Lovers | 3.5 |
| Sebastien Schuller Evenfall | 4.0 |
| Eminem Relapse | 2.0 |
| Demonical Hellsworn | 3.5 |
| Kongh Shadows of the Shapeless | 3.5 |
| Bertie Blackman Secrets and Lies | 4.0 |
| Astra The Weirding | 4.0 |
| Busdriver Jhelli Beam | 4.0 |
| Stench of Decay Where Death and Decay Reign | 4.0 |
| Lay Down Rotten Gospel Of The Wretched | 3.5 |
| Zao Awake? | 3.5 |
| Closure in Moscow First Temple | 3.5 |
| St. Vincent Actor | 4.0 |
| Cruciamentum Convocation of Crawling Chaos | 4.0 |
| Fairyland Score to a New Beginning | 4.0 |
| Long Distance Calling Avoid The Light | 4.5 |
| i wasnt a huge fan of Satellite Bay but i knew they had potential. now after hearing this album they have confirmed by beliefs. this album is amazing. they improve in every aspect of their songwriting and theyve created an emotional and moving album. essentially a post-rock album, but they do have some heavy moments. also Jonas Renskse does superb vocal work (like always) on the song The Nearing Grave. kind of makes me wish there were vocals on more songs but all in all this album is a must hear and its a highlight of the year already |
| Heaven and Hell The Devil You Know | 4.0 |
| Animals As Leaders Animals as Leaders | 4.0 |
| God Dethroned Passiondale | 4.0 |
| Ozric Tentacles The Yumyum Tree | 4.0 |
| Celeste Misanthrope(s) | 3.5 |
| Manchester Orchestra Mean Everything to Nothing | 3.5 |
| ISIS Wavering Radiant | 4.0 |
| As Cities Burn Hell or High Water | 4.0 |
| Church of Misery Houses of the Unholy | 4.0 |
| Camera Obscura My Maudlin Career | 3.5 |
| Depeche Mode Sounds Of The Universe | 3.5 |
| Mokira Persona | 3.5 |
| Hacride Lazarus | 4.0 |
| Funebrarum The Sleep of Morbid Dreams | 4.0 |
| Silversun Pickups Swoon | 4.0 |
| Agoraphobic Nosebleed Agorapocalypse | 4.0 |
| Horrific Your Worst Nightmare | 3.5 |
| Masachist Death March Fury | 3.5 |
| Trigger the Bloodshed The Great Depression | 3.0 |
| Abysmalia Quid Humanum Est | 3.5 |
| Maze Empires and Endings | 4.0 |
| Hurt Goodbye To The Machine | 4.0 |
| Metric Fantasies | 4.0 |
| Ulcerate Everything Is Fire | 4.0 |
| Bat For Lashes Two Suns | 4.5 |
| Gory Blister Graveyard of Angels | 3.0 |
| And So I Watch You From Afar And So I Watch You From Afar | 4.0 |
| Maim From the Womb to the Tomb | 3.5 |
| Mortuus Infradaemoni Imis Avernis | 4.0 |
| Delain April Rain | 3.5 |
| Other Lives Other Lives | 3.5 |
| Wolves in the Throne Room Black Cascade | 4.0 |
| Pulling Teeth Paranoid Delusions/Paradise Illusions | 4.0 |
| Alessi's Ark Notes From The Treehouse | 3.5 |
| Lene Marlin Twist the Truth | 3.5 |
| Anubis Gate The Detached | 3.5 |
| Wobbler Afterglow | 4.0 |
| Eleventh He Reaches London Hollow Be My Name | 4.0 |
| Harlem Shakes Technicolor Health | 3.0 |
| Dan Deacon Bromst | 4.0 |
| Mono Hymn to the Immortal Wind | 4.5 |
| The Decemberists The Hazards of Love | 4.5 |
| Mastodon Crack the Skye | 4.5 |
| Coheed and Cambria Neverender | 5.0 |
| Fever Ray Fever Ray | 3.5 |
| Ashent Deconstructive | 3.5 |
| Paria The Barnacle Cordious | 3.0 |
| Believer Gabriel | 3.5 |
| Kylesa Static Tensions | 4.0 |
| Pestilence Resurrection Macabre | 3.5 |
| Fondlecorpse Creaturegore | 3.5 |
| Tim Hecker An Imaginary Country | 3.5 |
| From Monument To Masses On Little Known Frequencies | 3.5 |
| Satellite Nostalgia | 3.5 |
| Cursive Mama, I'm Swollen | 4.0 |
| The Number Twelve Looks Like You Worse Than Alone | 4.0 |
| Propagandhi Supporting Caste | 4.5 |
| Polly Scattergood Polly Scattergood | 4.0 |
| Soap and Skin Lovetune for Vacuum | 5.0 |
| one of the finer non-metal albums to come out this year. this austrian singer can really make some beautiful music. her piano playing is very intimate and her vocals blend perfectly. theres a bit of sorrow throughout this album. some songs are too short and i think thats what keeps this from getting a 4.5 from me. but its very close. Spiracle might be the best single this year so far. the darwave elements that she uses also adds a dim and nightmarish sound in a few songs (ie March Funebre) |
| Bosque Brown Baby | 3.5 |
| Buried Inside Spoils Of Failure | 4.0 |
| Marissa Nadler Little Hells | 4.0 |
| Neko Case Middle Cyclone | 4.0 |
| The Antlers Hospice | 4.0 |
| Centaurus-A Side Effects Expected | 3.5 |
| Fleshgod Apocalypse Oracles | 3.5 |
| Embrace Of Thorns Atonement Ritual | 3.5 |
| The Sorrow Origin of the Storm | 4.0 |
| their debut Blessings From a Blackened Sky was a solid start for this Austrian metalcore band. their debut sounded a bit too much like Unearth, but i could tell that this band could overcome that comparison and become huge. well here comes their new album Origin of the Storm and it is one hell of an album. the vocals have vastly improved including more controlled raspier vocals. the Uneart-esque screams are still there but imo they actually sound better than Unearth and are a highlight of the album. the clean vocals add a nice touch. the guitars riff like no other, you will be headbanging throughout this whole album. another highlight of the album are the drums. they rip out double bass throughout, but not overdone. theres enough variance in the drumming to keep this from being lazy drumming. i know 4.5 for a metalcore album may be high but The Sorrow, Unearth, and As I Lay Dying are kicking some ass lately (im not counting the more elite from of metalcore: Converge, Misery Signals, 7A7P, Botch, etc). if youre tired of the boring metalcore poop that Killswitch Engage keep throwing up, then get this album! |
| Isole Silent Ruins | 3.5 |
| Laura Gibson Beasts of Seasons | 3.5 |
| The Agonist Lullabies for the Dormant Mind | 3.0 |
| God Forbid Earthsblood | 3.0 |
| Malefice Dawn Of Reprisal | 3.5 |
| Dear Reader Replace why with funny | 3.5 |
| Hourglass Oblivious to the Obvious | 3.5 |
| Twiggy Frostbite Through Fire | 3.5 |
| Within the Ruins Creature | 3.5 |
| Thursday Common Existence | 4.0 |
| Sholi Sholi | 4.0 |
| Irepress Sol Eye Sea I | 4.0 |
| Absu Absu | 4.0 |
| Excoriate On Pestilent Winds... | 3.5 |
| The Lonely Island Incredibad | 3.5 |
| Darkane Demonic Art | 3.5 |
| CiLiCe Deranged Headtrip | 3.5 |
| Giant Squid The Ichthyologist | 4.0 |
| an amazing album from one of my new fav bands. this album has some new styles that werent seen in the debut album, but it also missing something that i liked on their debut. either way this album rules and might get bumped to a 4.5. i love all the guest appearances too. Anekke ftw. this and the new Solstafir have given 2009 an excellent start |
| P.O.S Never Better | 4.0 |
| The Jezabels The Man Is Dead | 4.0 |
| El Caco Heat | 3.5 |
| Gustaf Spetz Good Night Mr. Spetz | 3.5 |
| Vaka Kappa Delta Phi | 4.0 |
| The Phantom Band Checkmate Savage | 3.0 |
| Ars Nova Seventh Hell | 3.5 |
| Alina Orlova Laukinis suo dingo | 3.5 |
| Laleh Me and Simon | 3.5 |
| Solstafir Köld | 4.5 |
| Kreator Hordes of Chaos | 3.5 |
| Tribulation The Horror | 4.0 |
| Kalisia Cybion | 4.0 |
| Revolting Dreadful Pleasures | 4.0 |
| Animal Collective Merriweather Post Pavilion | 3.5 |
| In Fear and Faith Your World On Fire | 3.5 |
| Malediction (HU) Reductio Ad Absurdum | 3.0 |
| Serdce The Alchemy Of Harmony | 3.0 |
| We Are The Ocean Cutting Our Teeth | 3.0 |
| The Eyes of a Traitor A Clear Perception | 3.5 |
| Super700 Lovebites | 3.5 |
| Sorrows Sorrows EP | 3.5 |
| Gliss Devotion Implosion | 3.5 |
| Xerath I | 3.5 |
| Brother/Ghost Black Ice | 3.5 |
| Amarna Reign Atonement | 3.5 |
| Soul Snatcher Pylons of Dispersion | 3.5 |
| Maria Timm The Plan | 3.5 |
| Artchoke Melodramatic Quests Blackened Jaws | 3.5 |
| Amesoeurs Amesoeurs | 4.0 |
| Amia Venera Landscape Amia Venera Landscape | 4.0 |
| Kidcrash Snacks | 4.0 |
| Stormy Atmosphere Colorblind | 4.0 |
| Vengeful The Omnipresent Curse | 4.5 |
| this is one of the best death metal albums to come out this year if not the best. Vengeful has released an album thats both tight and aggressive. this is pure death metal that incorporates a bit of technicality without being a bunch of wankers. the riffs are heavy and the vocals will satisfy the death heads. the drums are amazing and the man behind the kit is a beast. theres solos here and there but their focus is crushing you with riffs. for a sophomore album these guys take it to the next level without having listeners slap "progressive" in front of death metal. they even finish the album off with a 20 minute song that is guaranteed to make you say, "holy fuck this was a good album!" get this album now as not enough people have listened to it |
| 2008 |
| Melora Creager Melora a la Basilica | 3.5 |
| Caverns (DC) Kittens! | 4.0 |
| Intestine Baalism Ultimate Instinct | 4.0 |
| Dishammer Vintage Addiction | 3.5 |
| In Dread Response From the Oceanic Graves | 3.5 |
| Eibon Eibon | 3.5 |
| Aeon Of Horus The Embodiment of Darkness and Light | 2.5 |
| The Fall of Troy Phantom on the Horizon | 4.0 |
| Steven Wilson Insurgentes | 4.0 |
| Severed Savior Servile Insurrection | 3.5 |
| Becoming The Archetype Dichotomy | 4.0 |
| their best so far! i love every minute. seems like it has a longer lasting power than their previous two. plus Devin Townsend adds so much to the production. The physics of Fire's production was a little too clean and it hurt the raw aggression that was found on Terminate Damnation. Dev definitely brought that aggression back, but with more progression and technicality. they break away from the scream-sing-scream-sing formula they were heading towards. the scream on this are the best theyve done. awesome riffs. drums are great. i love the style of keys that Dev brought to the table. the second the album starts with Mountain of Souls, you can hear the style of keys that are present in many of Dev's solo albums. this came late in the year but theres no doubt this will be among my top 15 or 20 of 08. |
| Iron Thrones Visions of Light | 4.0 |
| who the **** are Iron Thrones? oh i know! theyre an up and coming progressive metal band that absolutely blew me away upon first listen. this is a band that takes a lot of their influences and uses them to make their own sound. theres not one moment on this where it sounds like theyre just ripping bands off. for example, you can hear some Opeth-esque riffing throughout the album, but you can tell its their own sound. the vocals are mostly screamed/growled. sounds somewhat like a more controlled and smoother Tommy Rogers (from BTBAM). the drums are technical and very good. excellent fills and the album isnt swamped with blast beats. like i said the riffing is similar to Opeths but with a few more solos thrown in. the solos are SICK! theyre not fast for the sake of being fast. you can tell they took time to write them and they were placed perfectly. the bass playing is good and is audible. what else can i say about this band.....well i can say that they are here to make music and they know what they are doing. theyre young (i believe) but sound very mature in their songwriting. i highly recommend this album, its one of my favs of this year and very close to being a 4.5/5. i think many of you guys that were into In Mourning or a fan of prog metal that takes another step outside of the box should give this a shot. check out their last.fm page, theyre a bunch of really nice guys |
| Mudvayne The New Game | 2.0 |
| Deeds of Flesh Of What's to Come | 3.0 |
| Dustin Kensrue This Good Night Is Still Everywhere | 3.5 |
| Deadlock Manifesto | 2.5 |
| Trap Them Seizures In Barren Praise | 3.5 |
| Dozer Beyond Colossal | 4.5 |
| Helios Caesura | 3.5 |
| Frida Hyvonen Silence Is Wild | 3.5 |
| Cynic Traced in Air | 3.5 |
| Aussitot Mort Montuenga | 3.5 |
| Emery While Broken Hearts Prevail | 3.5 |
| School of Seven Bells Alpinisms | 3.5 |
| Enslaved Vertebrae | 4.5 |
| Los Campesinos! We Are Beautiful, We Are Doomed | 3.0 |
| The Cure 4:13 Dream | 4.0 |
| Guillotine (SWE) Blood Money | 4.0 |
| Sylosis Conclusion of an Age | 3.5 |
| Thyrfing Hels Vite | 3.5 |
| Tiger Lou A Partial Print | 4.0 |
| The Stiletto Formal Fiesta Fiesta Fiesta Fiesta! | 4.0 |
| Black Sheep Wall I Am God Songs | 3.5 |
| Flowing Tears Thy Kingdom Gone | 3.5 |
| Skepticism Alloy | 4.0 |
| Sleep Station Blood of Our Fathers | 3.5 |
| Zonaria The Cancer Empire | 3.5 |
| Benoit Pioulard Temper | 3.5 |
| Unearth The March | 4.0 |
| Dillinger Four C I V I L W A R | 4.0 |
| Book of Black Earth Horoskopus | 4.0 |
| Jill Barber Chances | 4.0 |
| Cranes Cranes | 3.5 |
| Gojira The Way of All Flesh | 4.0 |
| Lunatic Soul Lunatic Soul | 4.0 |
| Heather Nova The Jasmine Flower | 3.5 |
| DJ Sprinkles Midtown 120 Blues | 3.5 |
| Rise Against Appeal to Reason | 3.0 |
| Janvs Vega | 3.5 |
| Mount Eerie Lost Wisdom | 3.5 |
| Gregory and the Hawk Moenie and Kitchi | 3.5 |
| Rachael Yamagata Elephants... Teeth Sinking Into Heart | 4.5 |
| this album has some of the best lyrics i have ever heard. emotional and captivating. lovely voice and music that fits. everyone must listen to her song Sunday Afternoon. it is a masterpiece |
| The Reasoning Dark Angel | 3.5 |
| Serpentcult Weight of Light | 4.0 |
| Tangerine Dream Autumn in Hiroshima | 4.0 |
| Bloodbath The Fathomless Mastery | 4.5 |
| Doom VS Dead Words Speak | 3.0 |
| The End of All Reason Fragmented | 3.0 |
| Outcast Self-Injected Reality | 3.5 |
| Cosmic Atrophy Codex Incubo | 3.5 |
| Hooded Menace Fulfill the Curse | 3.5 |
| Rockettothesky Medea | 3.5 |
| Pendragon (UK) Pure | 4.0 |
| Leeches of Lore Leeches of Lore | 4.0 |
| this album rocks my fucking socks off. LoL come from New Mexico and they blend stoner rock with psychadelica, heavy riffs, soaring vocals, thumping bass, and slick drumming. probably the coolest sounding album ive heard in a long time. theres also a neat little campfire acoustic song in the album thats chill and fuck. get this if you want some rock music that will kick you in the balls |
| In This Moment The Dream | 3.0 |
| Jeff Loomis Zero Order Phase | 3.5 |
| Ben Folds Way To Normal | 3.5 |
| Anberlin New Surrender | 3.5 |
| Trivium Shogun | 3.5 |
| Bleeding Through Declaration | 3.5 |
| Misery Index Traitors | 3.5 |
| Pitiful Reign Visual Violence | 3.5 |
| Suspyre When Time Fades | 4.0 |
| Oceans of Sadness The Arrogance Of Ignorance | 4.5 |
| Holy Moses Agony of Death | 4.0 |
| Mutyumu Il y a | 4.0 |
| Almah Fragile Equality | 3.5 |
| Bob Katsionis NOEMON | 4.0 |
| Hello Saferide More Modern Short Stories From Hello Saferide | 4.0 |
| Lenka Lenka | 3.0 |
| Max Richter 24 Postcards in Full Colour | 3.5 |
| Conifer Crown Fire | 3.5 |
| Omnium Gatherum The Redshift | 3.0 |
| Ohana Dead Beat | 4.0 |
| TV on the Radio Dear Science | 4.5 |
| The Butterfly Effect Final Conversation of Kings | 4.0 |
| Swallow the Sun Plague of Butterflies | 4.0 |
| This or the Apocalypse Monuments | 3.0 |
| All That Remains Overcome | 3.0 |
| Intronaut Prehistoricisms | 4.0 |
| Trenches The Tide Will Swallow Us Whole | 4.0 |
| Raphael Saadiq The Way I See It | 4.0 |
| Defeater Travels | 4.0 |
| Coeur de Pirate Coeur de Pirate | 4.0 |
| Burst Lazarus Bird | 4.5 |
| Iskald Revelations Of Reckoning Day | 3.5 |
| Blasphemophagher Nuclear Empire of Apocalypse | 3.5 |
| Ladyhawke Ladyhawke | 3.5 |
| Metallica Death Magnetic | 2.5 |
| Lisa Hannigan Sea Sew | 3.5 |
| Adebisi Shank This is the Album | 4.0 |
| United Nations United Nations | 3.5 |
| Horse Feathers House With No Home | 3.5 |
| Megazilla Please, Please, Sorry, Thank You | 3.5 |
| Emiliana Torrini Me and Armini | 4.0 |
| SUP Hegemony | 4.0 |
| All Shall Perish Awaken the Dreamers | 3.0 |
| Into Eternity The Incurable Tragedy | 3.0 |
| Shugo Tokumaru Exit | 3.5 |
| Underoath Lost in the Sound of Separation | 4.0 |
| Friendly Fires Friendly Fires | 3.5 |
| Mirror of Dead Faces Lamentation | 3.5 |
| Allegaeon Allegaeon | 3.5 |
| sgt. Stylus Fantasticus | 4.0 |
| Witchfinder General Resurrected | 4.0 |
| Serenity Fallen Sanctuary | 3.5 |
| DragonForce Ultra Beatdown | 2.5 |
| Blood Ceremony Blood Ceremony | 4.0 |
| Our Broken Garden When Your Blackening Shows | 4.0 |
| The Stills Oceans Will Rise | 3.5 |
| Ra Ra Riot The Rhumb Line | 3.5 |
| Exotic Animal Petting Zoo I Have Made My Bed in Darkness | 3.5 |
| Hotel Lights Firecracker People | 3.5 |
| Ancestors Neptune With Fire | 3.5 |
| Lights Out Asia Eyes Like Brontide | 4.0 |
| Clearwater Deathblow Parasite Cleansing | 4.0 |
| Vessels White Fields and Open Devices | 4.0 |
| The Gaslight Anthem The '59 Sound | 4.0 |
| Blindead Autoscopia: Murder In Phazes | 4.0 |
| Walls of Jericho The American Dream | 3.0 |
| Verse En Coma Rialto | 3.5 |
| Janelle Monae Metropolis: The Chase Suite | 4.0 |
| Matthew Robert Cooper Miniatures | 3.5 |
| Cyaegha Steps of Descent | 3.5 |
| Ceremony (USA-CA) Still Nothing Moves You | 3.5 |
| Mortjuri ...Desoulate | 3.5 |
| Past Lives Strange Symmetry | 3.5 |
| A. Armada Anam Cara | 4.0 |
| Krallice Krallice | 3.0 |
| Arkona (RUS) Ot Serdtsa K Nebu | 3.5 |
| Pygmy Lush Mount Hope | 3.5 |
| Ida Maria Fortress Round My Heart | 3.5 |
| Neuraxis The Thin Line Between | 3.5 |
| ...Who Calls So Loud ...Who Calls So Loud | 3.5 |
| Loma Prieta Last City | 3.5 |
| War of Ages Arise and Conquer | 3.5 |
| Azeda Booth In Flesh Tones | 3.5 |
| The Problemaddicts The Dark Side of Oz | 3.5 |
| Dr. Dog Fate | 4.0 |
| Emily Wells The Symphonies: Dreams, Memories & Parties | 4.0 |
| Tangerine Dream Das romantische Opfer | 3.0 |
| The Arusha Accord Nightmares of the Ocean | 3.5 |
| Carla Bruni Comme si de rien n'était | 3.5 |
| Sever Your Ties Safety in the Sea | 3.0 |
| Lower Definition The Greatest of All Lost Arts | 3.0 |
| Feral Children Second to the Last Frontier | 3.0 |
| Have Heart Songs to Scream at the Sun | 3.5 |
| Kerli Love Is Dead | 4.0 |
| Bilocate Sudden Death Syndrome | 4.0 |
| Flagitious Idiosyncrasy in the Dilapidation Flagitious Idiosyncrasy in the Dilapidation | 4.0 |
| Fellsilent The Hidden Words | 3.5 |
| Equilibrium Sagas | 4.0 |
| Knights Of The Abyss Shades | 3.0 |
| Made Out of Babies The Ruiner | 4.0 |
| Sigur Ros Med Sud i Eyrum vid Spilum Endalaust | 3.0 |
| Glissando With Our Arms Wide Open We March Towards... | 3.5 |
| Scar Symmetry Holographic Universe | 4.0 |
| Les Fragments De La Nuit Musique du Crepuscule | 4.0 |
| Girl Talk Feed the Animals | 3.0 |
| Wolf Parade At Mount Zoomer | 3.0 |
| Grand Magus Iron Will | 4.5 |
| Carcharoth (AUS) From The Cavern Come | 3.5 |
| pg.lost It's Not Me, It's You! | 4.5 |
| Alanis Morissette Flavors of Entanglement | 2.5 |
| The Banner Frailty | 3.5 |
| Flying Lotus Los Angeles | 3.5 |
| Agenda of Swine Waves of Human Suffering | 3.5 |
| Extortion Sick | 3.5 |
| My Education Bad Vibrations | 4.0 |
| Grouper Dragging a Dead Deer Up a Hill | 4.0 |
| Yann Tiersen Tabarly | 3.5 |
| Unleashed Hammer Battalion | 4.0 |
| Amaseffer Slaves for Life | 4.0 |
| Keep of Kalessin Kolossus | 3.5 |
| Hermelin Hermelin | 4.0 |
| Jesu Why Are We Not Perfect? | 3.0 |
| Archons The Consequences of Silence | 3.5 |
| Disturbed Indestructible | 3.0 |
| Fleet Foxes Fleet Foxes | 3.5 |
| Ladytron Velocifero | 3.5 |
| Shearwater Rook | 4.0 |
| Hey Rosetta! Into Your Lungs (And Around in Your Heart and on | 4.0 |
| Opeth Watershed | 4.5 |
| Down I Go Tyrant | 4.0 |
| this album is freaking nuts! a blend of post-hardcore and mathcore with a tint of mike patton-esque vocals (the variety and spasticness of the vocals brings mike patton to mind). a really fun and chaotic listen. the songs bring enough variety so the album is just like a huge kick in the face where youre left braindead. for fans of Look What I Did will probably like this album |
| Communic Payment of Existance | 4.0 |
| Vestigial Translucent Communion | 4.0 |
| Ihsahn angL | 3.0 |
| Kataklysm Prevail | 3.0 |
| 36 Crazyfists The Tide and Its Takers | 3.5 |
| Shai Hulud Misanthropy Pure | 3.5 |
| The Carrier No Love Can Save Me | 4.0 |
| Olafur Arnalds Variations of Static | 4.0 |
| Deterior Antimonument | 3.5 |
| Demians Building An Empire | 4.0 |
| Hail of Bullets ...Of Frost and War | 4.0 |
| Gorath Misotheism | 4.0 |
| The Gates Of Slumber Conqueror | 4.0 |
| Monika Avatar | 4.0 |
| Amenra Mass IIII | 3.5 |
| Blowback Morning Wood | 4.0 |
| Abysmal Dawn Programmed to Consume | 3.0 |
| 10 Years Division | 3.5 |
| Transistor Transistor Ruined Lives | 3.5 |
| Venomous Concept Poisoned Apple | 3.5 |
| Brant Bjork Punk Rock Guilt | 3.5 |
| Showbread Anorexia Nervosa | 4.0 |
| Coldworker Rotting Paradise | 4.0 |
| Zodiak Sermons | 4.0 |
| All the Empires of the World ...Will Be Laid To Waste | 4.0 |
| Kayo Dot Blue Lambency Downward | 3.5 |
| Peter Broderick Float | 3.5 |
| Farflung A Wound In Eternity | 4.0 |
| Textures Silhouettes | 4.0 |
| Scott Kelly The Wake | 4.0 |
| Haruka Nakamura Grace | 3.5 |
| Warpath (UK) Damnation | 3.0 |
| Remembrance Silencing The Moments | 3.5 |
| Sombres Forets Royaume De Glace | 4.0 |
| Revocation Empire of the Obscene | 4.0 |
| Panopticon Panopticon | 4.0 |
| Distorted Voices From Within | 3.5 |
| The Roots Rising Down | 3.5 |
| Century Black Ocean | 4.0 |
| Beth Rowley Little Dreamer | 4.0 |
| Yasushi Yoshida Little Grace | 4.0 |
| Pharaoh Be Gone | 4.5 |
| Lotte Kestner China Mountain | 3.5 |
| Scelerata Skeletons Domination | 3.5 |
| Mar De Grises Draining The Waterheart | 4.5 |
| Festival Come, Arrow, Come! | 3.5 |
| Zoë Avril Zoë Avril | 3.5 |
| Bloodbath The Wacken Carnage | 4.0 |
| Helheim Kaoskult | 4.0 |
| Closure in Moscow The Penance and the Patience | 3.5 |
| Thrice The Alchemy Index Vols. III & IV | 3.0 |
| Frightened Rabbit The Midnight Organ Fight | 4.0 |
| Metaform Standing on the Shoulders of Giants | 4.0 |
| Mirrorthrone Gangrene | 3.5 |
| Trinacria Travel Now Journey Infinitely | 4.0 |
| Tangerine Dream Purple Diluvial | 4.0 |
| Tangerine Dream Views From a Red Train | 4.0 |
| Cog Sharing Space | 4.0 |
| Celeste Nihiliste(s) | 3.0 |
| Nina Kinert Pets & Friends | 3.5 |
| Lunascape Innerside | 4.0 |
| The Microphones The Glow Pt. 2 (Re-release) | 3.5 |
| Mitochondrion Archaeaeon | 4.0 |
| Since (Time) Entropiate | 3.5 |
| Rome Masse Mensch Material | 4.0 |
| Origin Antithesis | 3.0 |
| Blacklisted Heavier Than Heaven, Lonelier Than God | 3.5 |
| The Sword Gods of the Earth | 3.5 |
| Gregor Samsa Rest | 3.5 |
| The Black Keys Attack & Release | 3.5 |
| Sun Kil Moon April | 4.0 |
| Ass My Get Up and Go Just Got Up and Went | 4.0 |
| i absolutely love this album. im thinking of giving it a 4.5 but not sure yet. this is a solo project of a Swedish guy named Andreas S?str? the album is made up of him playing his acoustic guitar with more emotion and story telling than i have ever heard before. i honestly can see this album being a soundtrack to a very earthly western movie or a movie about a lumberjack's lonely life. you have to wait until track 5 to hear any vocals but they fit nicely. the main focus of this album is his guitar so the vocals only are here to add a nice break from just the guitar. definitely in my top 10 (non-metal) albums of the year. in no way shape or form does this album remind you of an Ass, but at the same time i cant think of a better moniker for this Swedish man |
| Trigger the Bloodshed Purgation | 3.0 |
| Captain Cleanoff Symphonies of Slackness | 3.5 |
| Firewind The Premonition | 4.0 |
| Foals Antidotes | 3.5 |
| The Middle East The Recordings of the Middle East | 4.0 |
| PSY/OPSogist Suffused With Static | 3.0 |
| sleepmakeswaves In Today Already Walks Tomorrow | 4.0 |
| The Dodos Visiter | 4.0 |
| Destroyer Trouble In Dreams | 4.0 |
| Gored Human | 4.0 |
| Mercenary Architect of Lies | 4.0 |
| Elbow The Seldom Seen Kid | 4.0 |
| Octopus Coda EP | 3.5 |
| Kaki King Dreaming Of Revenge | 3.0 |
| Cursed III: Architects of Troubled Sleep | 3.5 |
| Why? Alopecia | 3.5 |
| Meshuggah obZen | 4.5 |
| Bloodbath Unblessing the Purity | 4.0 |
| Jucifer L'autrichienne | 4.0 |
| The Tallest Man on Earth Shallow Grave | 3.5 |
| Epicurean A Consequence of Design | 3.0 |
| Lykke Li Youth Novels | 3.0 |
| On a Pale Horse A Generation of Vipers | 3.5 |
| Murder by Death Red Of Tooth And Claw | 4.0 |
| Benedictum Seasons of Tragedy | 4.0 |
| Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!! | 4.0 |
| Arghoslent Hornets of the Pogrom | 4.0 |
| Nine Inch Nails Ghosts I-IV | 3.5 |
| Mammoth Mammoth Mammoth Mammoth EP | 3.5 |
| Agalloch The White | 3.5 |
| Jex Thoth Jex Thoth | 4.0 |
| Biomechanical Cannibalised | 2.0 |
| The Secret Disintoxication | 3.0 |
| Adele 19 | 3.0 |
| Erykah Badu New Amerykah Pt. One: 4th World War | 4.0 |
| Goldfrapp Seventh Tree | 3.5 |
| Hour of Penance The Vile Conception | 3.0 |
| Stormwarrior Heading Northe | 4.0 |
| Dead To Fall Are You Serious? | 3.0 |
| Genghis Tron Board Up the House | 3.5 |
| Hate Eternal Fury & Flames | 3.5 |
| Elika Trying Got Us Nowhere | 3.5 |
| Je Suis Animal Self-Taught Magic From a Book | 3.5 |
| Porcupine Tree Nil Recurring | 4.0 |
| Marilies Jagsch Obituary for a Lost Mind | 4.0 |
| Machinae Supremacy Overworld | 2.5 |
| Bersarin Quartett Bersarin Quartett | 4.0 |
| Capsule (US) Blue | 3.5 |
| Laura Marling Alas, I Cannot Swim | 4.0 |
| Warbringer War Without End | 3.0 |
| The Loved Ones (USA-PA) Build & Burn | 3.0 |
| Salt The Wound Carnal Repercussions | 3.5 |
| Eternal Deformity Frozen Circus | 3.5 |
| Heaven Shall Burn Iconoclast (Part 1: The Final Resistance) | 4.0 |
| Black Tusk Passage Through Purgatory | 4.0 |
| Martriden The Unsettling Dark | 4.5 |
| Ef I Am Responsible | 3.0 |
| The Monolith Deathcult Trivmvirate | 3.5 |
| Thorium Feral Creation | 3.5 |
| Dungortheb Waiting For Silence | 4.0 |
| The End Of Six Thousand Years Isolation | 4.0 |
| Dead Congregation Graves of the Archangels | 4.0 |
| Alestorm Captain Morgan's Revenge | 3.5 |
| Decrepit Birth Diminishing Between Worlds | 3.5 |
| The Devil and the Sea Heart Vs. Spine | 3.5 |
| Protest the Hero Fortress | 4.0 |
| The Flashbulb Soundtrack to a Vacant Life | 4.0 |
| Human Bell Human Bell | 4.0 |
| Ayreon 01011001 | 4.5 |
| The Mars Volta The Bedlam in Goliath | 4.5 |
| Avantasia The Scarecrow | 3.0 |
| Have a Nice Life Deathconsciousness | 4.0 |
| Cat Power Jukebox | 3.0 |
| The Red Death Godmakers | 3.0 |
| Rotten Sound Cycles | 4.0 |
| In Mourning Shrouded Divine | 4.5 |
| Russian Red I Love Your Glasses | 3.0 |
| Toundra Toundra | 3.0 |
| Abused Majesty ...so Man Created God in His Own Image | 3.0 |
| Blake Saturnus | 3.0 |
| Ashes To Ember Introducing the End EP | 3.5 |
| Beltane Expressionist | 3.5 |
| Laura Yes Maybe No | 3.5 |
| Wishes On A Plane This Faint Line EP | 3.5 |
| Cor Scorpii Monument | 3.5 |
| Secret Sphere Sweat Blood Theory | 3.5 |
| Weeping Birth Anosognosic Industry of the I | 3.5 |
| Ben Woods A Collection of Thoughts | 3.5 |
| A Sea of Leaves Time In Overdrive | 3.5 |
| Seven Nautical Miles Every Ocean Reversed | 3.5 |
| 7th Nemesis Archetype of Natural Violence | 3.5 |
| Maria Taylor and Andy LeMaster Savannah Drive | 3.5 |
| Baht Bilinçten Derine | 3.5 |
| Leather Nun America Absence of Light | 3.5 |
| Island Orakel | 4.0 |
| Demiurg The Hate Chamber | 4.0 |
| Followed By Ghosts Dear Monsters, Be Patient | 4.0 |
| Kovlo I'm So Happy On This Boat | 4.0 |
| Appearance of Nothing Wasted Time | 4.0 |
| A-fei Nymphéas | 4.0 |
| Jardin de la Croix Pomeroy | 4.0 |
| Ivanhoe Lifeline | 4.0 |
| Elite We Own the Mountains | 4.0 |
| Nebucadnezzer Affliction | 4.0 |
| Valient Thorr Immortalizer | 4.0 |
| Brave Monuments | 4.0 |
| Terminal Youth Line of Defense | 4.0 |
| Vira Recurrence EP | 4.0 |
| Robot Lords of Tokyo Whiskey, Blood & Napalm | 4.0 |
| Swallow the Ocean Swallow the Ocean | 4.5 |
| Valravn (DK) Valravn | 4.5 |
| this is a band from Denmark that mix Bjork-esque vocals (bjork is an influence on their myspace page) and traditional Denmark folk music. the vocalist, Anna Katrin Egilstr? (also plays the percussion, santur, sansula, samples), is just beautiful in every sense of the word. she can pull of some vocals that i thought only Bjork could do, but at the same time she has her own voice. the music itself could be a quality neo-folk album, but with her vocals its just even better. the other members play such instruments as the viola, flutes, jews'harps, mandola, hurdy gurdies, davul, frame drums, cajon, electronic and acoustic percussion, beats, sound manipulation and live electronics. so you can see that this 5 piece band is very talented and true to their homeland. get this album if you want something fresh and exiting with gorgeous vocals and multi-instrumental music. not to mention their live show is out of this world (from what ive seen on youtube). |
| Rose Kemp Unholy Majesty | 4.5 |
| Souljourners Mind Control | 4.5 |
| 2007 |
| Lupe Fiasco The Cool | 3.5 |
| In Fear and Faith Voyage | 4.0 |
| Amy Macdonald This Is The Life | 4.5 |
| Deathbringer (BLR) Homo Divisus | 5.0 |
| Defiance, Ohio The Fear, The Fear, The Fear | 3.5 |
| Hour of 13 Hour of 13 | 4.0 |
| Sigur Ros Heima (DVD) | 5.0 |
| The Carrier One Year Later | 3.5 |
| Universe 217 Universe217 | 3.5 |
| Iron Lung Sexless // No Sex | 4.0 |
| Primordial To the Nameless Dead | 4.5 |
| The Foreshadowing Days of Nothing | 4.0 |
| Tusk The Resisting Dreamer | 4.0 |
| Evoken A Caress of the Void | 4.5 |
| Tarja Turunen My Winter Storm | 2.5 |
| Nick Cave and Warren Ellis The Assasination of Jesse James | 4.0 |
| Streetlight Manifesto Somewhere in the Between | 4.5 |
| Raine Maida The Hunters Lullaby | 4.5 |
| Electric Wizard Witchcult Today | 4.5 |
| FlyKKiller Experiments In Violent Light | 3.5 |
| Lento Earthen | 4.0 |
| Abbie Gale 2 | 4.0 |
| Demon Hunter Storm the Gates of Hell | 1.5 |
| Jay-Z American Gangster | 3.5 |
| Sigur Ros Hvarf/Heim | 4.5 |
| Emily Jane White Dark Undercoat | 4.5 |
| Emily Jane White is a singer/songwriter who really put her heart and soul into her music. she doesnt really try to make her music too emotional but it has just the right amount of heartbreaking and dark lyrics to get the listener addicted. her guitar playing is superb and she takes on a few different styles. from standard acoustic, to johnny cash-like songs, to primitive folk ones. her voice captivates the audience by the sheer subtlety of it |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Ire Works | 3.0 |
| Burial Untrue | 3.5 |
| Opeth The Roundhouse Tapes | 4.0 |
| Latitudes Bleak Epiphanies In Slow Motion | 4.0 |
| Novembre The Blue | 4.5 |
| The Ocean Precambrian | 4.5 |
| The Veronicas Hook Me Up | 3.0 |
| Peter Broderick Docile | 4.0 |
| Avenged Sevenfold Avenged Sevenfold | 1.5 |
| Agua de Annique Air | 4.0 |
| Neverending White Lights Act II: The Blood And The Life Eternal | 4.0 |
| Nicole Atkins Neptune City | 4.0 |
| Cocoon My Friends All Died in a Plane Crash | 3.5 |
| By The End Of Tonight/Tera Melos Complex Full of Phantoms | 3.5 |
| Exodus The Atrocity Exhibition: Exhibit A | 4.0 |
| Extortion Degenerate | 4.0 |
| Serj Tankian Elect the Dead | 2.5 |
| Jesu Lifeline EP | 3.0 |
| Oh, Sleeper When I Am God | 3.0 |
| Sole and the Skyrider Band Sole and the Skyrider Band | 3.5 |
| Taint Secrets and Lies | 3.5 |
| Coheed and Cambria No World for Tomorrow | 4.0 |
| Say Anything In Defense of the Genre | 4.0 |
| Yeasayer All Hour Cymbals | 4.0 |
| Oblige Expectants | 4.0 |
| Shad The Old Prince | 4.0 |
| Yael Naim Yael Naim | 4.0 |
| Soilwork Sworn to a Great Divide | 2.5 |
| Worship Dooom | 4.0 |
| Thrice The Alchemy Index Vols. I & II | 4.0 |
| Buried at Sea Ghost | 4.0 |
| Radiohead In Rainbows | 4.0 |
| Alter Bridge Blackbird | 3.5 |
| Sleeping People Growing | 3.5 |
| Riverside Rapid Eye Movement | 4.0 |
| Sieges Even Paramount | 4.5 |
| on par with their last album. every song is solid, but it's brought down a bit by Leftovers which goes on for far too long. they dont change much of their sound on this album, but they do go for a bit of a heavier approach. i love the melody on this album, they have always been good at that. WAaOC is a great opener and it lets you know what you are up for. great album by a terribly unappreciated progressive rock band |
| A Wilhelm Scream Career Suicide | 4.5 |
| Nadja Radiance of Shadows | 3.5 |
| Witchcraft The Alchemist | 4.0 |
| MGMT Oracular Spectacular | 3.5 |
| Parkway Drive Horizons | 2.0 |
Adam D invades australia and almost ruins one my anticipated albums of the year. why Parkway Drive had to get Adam to produce their album again is beyond me. this still has PD's sound to it but there has been a huge KSE influence involved with the guitars. that completely turned me off when i first heard this. vocals dont seem as intense, but more monotonous. KWAS was a great album, and this is a huge downfall.
no shit bob, i know that but Adam D. put too much of his own influence on this album, giving it a more of a KE sound. but i guess it takes an idiot to rate this a 5 |
| Om Pilgrimage | 4.0 |
| Ulver Shadows of the Sun | 4.0 |
| Rosetta Wake/Lift | 4.0 |
| Alchemist Tripsis | 4.0 |
| Paths Of Possession The End of the Hour | 3.5 |
| Elvaron Gravitational Control System | 3.5 |
| Katie Melua Pictures | 3.5 |
| Oceansize Frames | 4.0 |
| Overmars Born Again | 4.0 |
| this album is fucked up. it starts off with slow sludgy vocals and a slow riff with repetitive drumming. then after those vocals go away we are introduced to another style of vocals. these are a bit like Julie Chrsitmas' but this is a dude. the screams are frightening and just haunting. then we get some soft clean vocals that will scare the shit out of you. at this point there is just a single guitar tone slowly building up alongside the vocals. the sung vocals get a little bit more intense and mixes some screams in. "JUST ME MYSELF AND I AND THE WILL TO STAY OR TO CLIMB!!!!!" the music picks up a bit here and we get those sludgy vocals back. this part sounds similar to Neurosis but with some drone elements. the only downside to this album/song is that after this part it kinda drags with the repetitive drumming and wall of sound but the vocals and atmosphere make it one haunting song to sit through. i might add that this is just one song that is 39:26 minutes long. what i described was just the first 18 minutes. after that there is just a bunch of drone-esque stuff and sludgy doom drumming and vocals. this isnt something you can just throw on, you have to be in the mood for it. its the only way to really appreciate this song. i only would have wished that the clean/screamed vocals would have come back in the end and that there was some sort of climax in the end instead of in the beginning |
| Time To Burn Is.Land | 4.0 |
| Sodom The Final Sign of Evil | 3.5 |
| After Forever After Forever | 4.0 |
| Newbreed Child of the Sun | 5.0 |
| one of the best progressive rock/metal albums to be released this year. these guys are rather unknown, but they somehow were able to put out a near perfect album that is well produced. every instrument is solid and their solos our out of this world. the bass is not under the mix like most bands, but it is well heard and very good. the drums are amazing, they smoothly transition from double bass and quick fills, to opeth-esque jazz style in the softer parts. vocally they match up with bands like Riverside and Sieges Even, very powerful at times. go to their myspace page and check out their songs, you won't be disappointed. great album |
| Nightwish Dark Passion Play | 3.0 |
| Foo Fighters Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace | 2.5 |
| The Bled Silent Treatment | 2.5 |
| this album starts off with a couple good songs then after that it gets repetitive and boring. it seems that they went for a more formulaic approach (their older albums had a formula but were more spastic). the drums are crap on this which is a surprise to me, seems to be just double bass all the way through |
| Jose Gonzalez In Our Nature | 4.0 |
| Wolves in the Throne Room Two Hunters | 4.5 |
| Dethklok The Dethalbum | 4.5 |
| Arch Enemy Rise of the Tyrant | 3.0 |
| PJ Harvey White Chalk | 4.0 |
| Senmuth Planetary Dust | 3.0 |
| Long Distance Calling Satellite Bay | 3.5 |
| The Black Dahlia Murder Nocturnal | 2.0 |
| War from a Harlots Mouth Transmetropolitan | 2.0 |
| Eddie Vedder Into the Wild | 3.0 |
| Dropkick Murphys The Meanest of Times | 3.5 |
| High on Fire Death Is This Communion | 3.5 |
| Himsa Summon In Thunder | 4.0 |
| Between the Buried and Me Colors | 4.5 |
| Ghost Brigade Guided By Fire | 4.0 |
| Mechina Tyrannical Resurrection | 4.0 |
| HIM Venus Doom | 4.0 |
| 50 Cent Curtis | 1.0 |
| Kanye West Graduation | 1.5 |
| Animal Collective Strawberry Jam | 3.5 |
| The Birthday Massacre Walking With Strangers | 3.5 |
| Baroness Red Album | 4.0 |
| Swod Sekunden | 4.0 |
| Chiodos Bone Palace Ballet | 2.0 |
| Every Time I Die The Big Dirty | 3.0 |
| Aeon Rise to Dominate | 4.0 |
| A.A. Bondy American Hearts | 4.0 |
| one of the biggest up and coming folk singer/songwriters of our time. American Hearts is a sad, soulful, uplifting, American, adventurous, depressing folk album. his voice covers all those adjectives. A.A. Bondy and his brother Scott come together to make this album theirs. they have a sound that many folk artists are having a hard time reaching. you can hear a Dylan influence in many of the songs but you also have a bit of johnny Cash and Gordon Lightfoot. this album will leave you feeling all the emotions A.A. conjured up |
| Zonaria Infamy And The Breed | 3.0 |
| The Project Hate MCMXCIX In Hora Mortis Nostræ | 3.5 |
| Wyrd Kammen | 3.5 |
| Portal Outre | 3.5 |
| Ritual (SWE) The Hemulic Voluntary Band | 4.0 |
| Ted Maul White Label | 4.0 |
| Project Creation Dawn On Pyther | 4.5 |
| a prog metal band out of portugal that consists of Hugo Flores of Sonic Pulsar, and female singer "Linx." they creat some great soundscapes with their use of keybords, flutes, violas, and multiple drum arrangements. they have a sci-fi appraoch thats mixed with both male and beautiful female singing. their guitarist can pull off some Symphony X-esque solos. if you are a fan of bands like Lacuna Coil or Nightwish but with a more progressive metal edge then you should check this out. their latest album Dawn on Pyther is not an album to miss. i can't stress enough the amount of emotion that the female vocalist possesses. she really gets the job done and has helped me branch into more female led metal bands. i wish there was a way to get more people to listen to this album while ignoring the fact that they are under ProgRock records (who are hated on this site) |
| Amorphis Silent Waters | 3.5 |
| Tankard Best Case Scenario: 25 Years in Beers | 4.0 |
| Atreyu Lead Sails Paper Anchor | 1.5 |
| HORSE the band A Natural Death | 3.0 |
| Aesop Rock None Shall Pass | 3.0 |
| Scary Kids Scaring Kids Scary Kids Scaring Kids | 3.0 |
| Anubis Gate Andromeda Unchained | 4.0 |
| Drudkh Estrangement | 4.0 |
| Ride the Sky New Protection | 3.0 |
| The Devil Wears Prada Plagues | 2.0 |
| Ringworm The Venomous Grand Design | 3.0 |
| Modern Life Is War Midnight in America | 3.5 |
| Talib Kweli Eardrum | 3.5 |
| As I Lay Dying An Ocean Between Us | 4.0 |
| Josh Ritter The Historical Conquests of Josh Ritter | 4.0 |
| Olympos Mons Medievil | 4.0 |
| Minus the Bear Planet of Ice | 4.5 |
| Amoral Reptile Ride | 4.0 |
| Arsonists Get All the Girls The Game Of Life | 2.0 |
| As Cities Burn Come Now Sleep | 4.0 |
| Gentleman's Pistols Gentlemans Pistols | 4.0 |
| Reverend Bizarre III: So Long Suckers | 4.5 |
| The Receiving End of Sirens The Earth Sings Mi Fa Mi | 3.0 |
| Chuck Ragan Feast Or Famine | 3.5 |
| The Absence Riders of the Plague | 4.0 |
| UGK UGK (Underground Kingz) | 4.0 |
| Magnolia Electric Co Sojourner | 4.5 |
| Alcest Souvenirs D'Un Autre Monde | 4.5 |
| We're All Gonna Die Kiss the Ground, Curse the Sky | 3.5 |
| Korn Untitled | 1.5 |
| Municipal Waste The Art of Partying | 3.5 |
| At All Cost Circle of Demons | 3.5 |
| The Sorrow Blessings From a Blackened Sky | 4.0 |
| At The Throne of Judgment The Arcanum Order | 2.5 |
| The Red Chord Prey for Eyes | 3.0 |
| Evergreen Terrace Wolfbiker | 3.0 |
| Riverside O2 Panic Room | 4.0 |
| 3 (USA) The End is Begun | 4.0 |
| i think this album is pretty good. it mixes their heavier style found on Wake Pig and their original style found on Paint By Numbers and Eppards solo album. the middle of the album has some weeak and boring tracks but the beginning and end of the album are great. so far the song End is Begun might be their best song yet. Eppard displays his talent in all corners in this album...his singing (which i like) and his guitar playing. they utilize their electric guitarist a little more on this album by giving him some solos. the drumming by Gartdrumm is immense like usual. if you liked Wake Pig then definitely check this out |
| Memfis The Wind-Up | 3.5 |
| Ceremony (USA-CA) Scared People | 3.5 |
| A Fine Frenzy One Cell in the Sea | 4.0 |
| Seabear The Ghost That Carried Us Away | 3.5 |
| Knives Exchanging Hands Hiatus | 2.0 |
| Justice † | 2.5 |
| Spoon Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga | 3.0 |
| Darkest Hour Deliver Us | 3.0 |
| St. Vincent Marry Me | 3.0 |
| Interpol Our Love to Admire | 3.5 |
| Engineer The Dregs | 3.5 |
| Foo Fighters The Colour and The Shape (Expanded) | 3.5 |
| Kidcrash Jokes | 4.0 |
| Kongh Counting Heartbeats | 4.0 |
| Finsterforst Weltenkraft | 4.0 |
| RF & Lili de la Mora Eleven Continents | 3.5 |
| Johnnytwentythree JXXIII | 4.0 |
| Iron Savior Megatropolis | 2.5 |
| Velvet Revolver Libertad | 2.0 |
| Sara Bareilles Little Voice | 4.0 |
| Nocturnal Breed Fields of Rot | 4.5 |
| Paul Marshall Vultures | 4.5 |
| Blindside The Black Rose | 3.5 |
| Matteah Baim Death of the Sun | 3.5 |
| 108 A New Beat From A Dead Heart | 4.0 |
| Pharoahe Monch Desire | 4.0 |
| Symphony X Paradise Lost | 4.5 |
| 3 Inches of Blood Fire Up The Blades | 4.5 |
| Rasputina Oh Perilous World | 4.5 |
| Damien Dempsey To Hell Or Barbados | 4.5 |
| Editors An End Has A Start | 3.5 |
| Architects Ruin | 4.0 |
| Eyefear A World Full of Grey | 4.0 |
| August Burns Red Messengers | 2.5 |
| Tomahawk Anonymous | 4.0 |
| Devil Sold His Soul A Fragile Hope | 4.0 |
| Kate Miller-Heidke Little Eve | 3.5 |
| Glorior Belli Manifesting the Raging Beast | 3.5 |
| *shels Sea of the Dying Dhow | 4.0 |
| Queens of the Stone Age Era Vulgaris | 2.5 |
| Candlemass King of the Grey Islands | 3.5 |
| Pig Destroyer Phantom Limb | 4.0 |
| Strung Out Blackhawks Over Los Angeles | 4.0 |
| Sigh Hangman's Hymn | 4.5 |
| Fair to Midland Fables From a Mayfly: What I Tell You Three Times is True | 4.5 |
| Julia Kent Delay | 4.0 |
| Kamelot Ghost Opera | 2.5 |
| Dream Theater Systematic Chaos | 2.5 |
| Biffy Clyro Puzzle | 3.5 |
| Nightingale White Darkness | 4.0 |
| Oakenshield Gylfaginning | 3.5 |
| The Chronicles of Israfel Starborn, Tome I | 4.0 |
| Circa Survive On Letting Go | 3.0 |
| The Gaslight Anthem Sink or Swim | 4.0 |
| Daysend The Warning | 3.0 |
| Raintime Flies and Lies | 3.5 |
| Darkwater Calling the Earth to Witness | 4.0 |
| a pretty good progressive metal band. they wont get as heavy as Dream Theater orSymphony X but they manage to provide a lot melody and solid lead riffing and solos. vocals are a bit weak and keep this from getting a higher rating, but they are along the lines of a watered down version of Circus Maximus. songs are a bit long and tend to drag at points, but they are capable of changing it up when needed. they are not very known and in time i think they can develop into a proficient progressive metal band |
| Deadlock Wolves | 3.0 |
| Sonata Arctica Unia | 3.0 |
| Neurosis Given to the Rising | 3.5 |
| Planet X Quantum | 4.0 |
| Meg Baird Dear Companion | 4.0 |
| Elend A World in Their Screams | 4.0 |
| The National Boxer | 4.5 |
| Devin Townsend Ziltoid the Omniscient | 3.5 |
| Candie Payne I Wish I Could Have Loved You More | 3.5 |
| Preternatural Statical | 4.0 |
| 4 is a pretty good rating for this album. i love the musicianship on this album, and the vocals are pretty strong (with some black metal elements mixed in) but sound a bit forced at times. the drums are pounding, guitars are good and fit the melo-death style, but what i like the most is the synths and keys. they add a cool element that erases the potentially mediocre melo-death album it couldve been. |
| Job For A Cowboy Genesis | 2.0 |
| Battles Mirrored | 4.0 |
| Dolores O'Riordan Are You Listening? | 4.0 |
| Paradise Lost In Requiem | 4.0 |
| Megadeth United Abominations | 4.5 |
| Linkin Park Minutes to Midnight | 1.0 |
| Humanfly II | 4.0 |
| Sol (DK) Let There Be A Massacre | 3.5 |
| The Pax Cecilia Blessed Are The Bonds | 4.5 |
| With Passion What We See When We Shut Our Eyes | 2.5 |
| Becoming The Archetype The Physics of Fire | 3.5 |
| Sage Francis Human The Death Dance | 3.5 |
| Bjork Volta | 3.5 |
| Great Lake Swimmers Ongiara | 3.5 |
| Achilles (USA-NY) Hospice | 3.5 |
| Dial Synchronized | 3.5 |
| Elliott Smith New Moon | 4.5 |
| Tartar Lamb Sixty Metonymies | 4.0 |
| Delta Black & Cold | 4.0 |
| Dinosaur Jr. Beyond | 4.0 |
| Feist The Reminder | 4.0 |
| The Fall of Troy Manipulator | 4.0 |
| Rush Snakes & Arrows | 4.0 |
| Mustasch Latest Version Of The Truth | 4.0 |
| Detonation Emission Phase | 3.5 |
| Burbuja Burbuja | 4.0 |
| Thurisaz Circadian Rhythm | 4.5 |
| Lake of Tears Moons and Mushrooms | 3.5 |
| Sanctity Road to Bloodshed | 3.0 |
| Elsiane Hybrid | 3.0 |
| Joanna Newsom Joanna Newsom and the Ys Street Band | 4.0 |
| Kill the Romance Take Another Life | 4.0 |
| kill the romance are new and upcoming band that play a style thats a mix of melodic death metal and hint of metalcore. their riffs are similar to bands like soilwork and in flames. drums are decent, but not as pounding as most death metal. their lead guitarists will throw in some small solos here and there with some good lead work. vocally is where they grabbed me, their screams are strong and similar to most melodic metal vocals. has some decent range...can go from raspy screams to more growlier screams. the clean singing which is used in almost every song sound a bit like dark tranquility at times, but rarely they can sound like a metalcore bands clean vocals. i highly suggest checking these guys out they have some potential. tresspasser and ghost white coma are my favorite tracks so far |
| Mistress The Glory Bitches of Doghead | 3.5 |
| Keren Ann Keren Ann | 3.5 |
| Sonic Syndicate Only Inhuman | 3.0 |
| Be'lakor The Frail Tide | 4.0 |
| Souldrainer Reborn | 3.5 |
| Arctic Monkeys Favourite Worst Nightmare | 3.0 |
| Minotauri II | 4.0 |
| Nine Inch Nails Year Zero | 2.0 |
| Dark Tranquillity Fiction | 4.0 |
| Spheric Universe Experience Anima | 4.5 |
| Moonsorrow Viides luku - Hävitetty | 5.0 |
| Porcupine Tree Fear of a Blank Planet | 4.0 |
| Blessthefall His Last Walk | 2.5 |
| Blonde Redhead 23 | 3.5 |
| Monstrosity Spiritual Apocalypse | 4.0 |
| Before The Dawn Deadlight | 3.5 |
| Timbaland Timbaland Presents Shock Value | 1.5 |
| Chevelle Vena Sera | 3.0 |
| Vital Remains Icons of Evil | 3.5 |
| The Almost Southern Weather | 3.5 |
| Black Sabbath The Dio Years | 4.0 |
| Poison the Well Versions | 4.0 |
| Tangerine Dream Madcap's Flaming Duty | 4.0 |
| Kronos The Hellenic Terror | 4.0 |
| Evig Natt I Am Silence | 4.0 |
| Oceans of Sadness Mirror Palace | 4.0 |
| Rome Confessions D'Un Voleur D'Ames | 4.0 |
| Boy In Static Violet | 3.5 |
| In Vain (NO) The Latter Rain | 4.5 |
| Madina Lake From Them, Through Us, To You | 2.5 |
| Machine Head The Blackening | 3.0 |
| Clutch From Beale Street to Oblivion | 4.0 |
| Mael Mordha Gealtacht Mael Mórdha | 4.0 |
| Graveland Will Stonger Than Death | 4.0 |
| Requiem Premier Killing League | 3.5 |
| Threshold Dead Reckoning | 4.0 |
| this is a great progressive heavy metal album. instrumentally they are pretty heavy and have lots of crushing riffs. they utilize the keyboard really well, switching off with the guitar in solos and often times leading into a riff. drumming is straight up but nothing special. vocals sound very heavy metalish from the 80's. but they are very good, has lots of control. they actually have some death metal growls here and there for emphasis. the only reason this isnt a 4.5 is that they have 2 or 3 bland songs that just dont go anywhere. i highly recommend this album and to get started listen to their songs Slipstream and Elusive |
| Sun Caged Artemisia | 4.0 |
| Middian Age Eternal | 4.0 |
| Amiina Kurr | 4.0 |
| Haste the Day Pressure the Hinges | 2.0 |
| In This Moment Beautiful Tragedy | 3.0 |
| Daath The Hinderers | 3.0 |
| Andrew Bird Armchair Apocrypha | 3.5 |
| Panda Bear Person Pitch | 4.0 |
| Trauma (PL) Neurotic Mass | 4.0 |
| Modest Mouse We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank | 4.5 |
| El-P I'll Sleep When You're Dead | 4.5 |
| Hidira Spacefolk Symbiosis | 4.0 |
| Korn MTV Unplugged: Korn | 1.0 |
| Chimaira Resurrection | 3.0 |
| Arcade Fire Neon Bible | 3.5 |
| !!! Myth Takes | 3.0 |
| El Caco From Dirt | 4.0 |
| Grayceon Grayceon | 3.5 |
| Hanging Garden Inherit the Eden | 4.0 |
| Brant Bjork Tres Dias | 4.0 |
| Malcolm Middleton A Brighter Beat | 4.0 |
| Demiurg Breath of the Demiurg | 4.0 |
| Hot Cross Risk Revival | 3.5 |
| Explosions in the Sky All of a Sudden, I Miss Everyone | 4.0 |
| Blackfield Blackfield II | 4.0 |
| Eluvium Copia | 4.0 |
| Anberlin Cities | 4.0 |
| Rwake Voices of Omens | 4.0 |
| Novembers Doom The Novella Reservoir | 4.5 |
| Aborted Slaughter & Apparatus: A Methodical Overture | 3.5 |
| Messiah J & The Expert ...And Another Thing | 4.0 |
| Rio En Medio The Bride of Dynamite | 3.5 |
| Do Make Say Think You, You're a History in Rust | 3.5 |
| Mostly Autumn Heart Full of Sky | 4.0 |
| Nest (FIN) Trail of the Unwary | 4.5 |
| Nadja Thaumogenesis | 3.5 |
| Marissa Nadler Songs III: Bird on the Water | 3.5 |
| Swallow the Sun Hope | 4.0 |
| Deerhunter Cryptograms | 3.0 |
| Kiss Kiss Reality Vs. The Optimist | 4.0 |
| Therion Gothic Kabbalah | 4.0 |
| The End (CAN) Elementary | 4.0 |
| Jesse Sykes Like, Love, Lust & the Open Halls of the Soul | 4.0 |
| Fall Out Boy Infinity on High | 1.0 |
| In Irons Heartbeat Of The Times | 3.0 |
| Aereogramme My Heart Has a Wish That You Would Not Go | 4.0 |
| Gazpacho Night | 5.0 |
| A rather unknown album from a band that hasnt really gotten the appreciation they deserve. Night is an album that can fit under the Neo-prog genre. they have influences of Marillion, Porcupine Tree, and Radiohead. the vocals are what surprised me the most. if you like Jeff Buckley's vocals on the song Dream Brother than youll like the vocals on this album. this is definitely one of my fav albums of '07. i hope more people can get into this amazing album |
| Busdriver RoadKillOvercoat | 4.5 |
| Frida Hyvonen Pudel | 4.0 |
| this is a beautiful album. Frida is a singer/songwriter and piano player. she wrote this album for a dance performance called Pudel. you can def hear throughout the album that a lot of the piano melodies were written for dances, and her voice intertwines every footstep. her voice is calm yet playful. shes another Swedish singer that has gained some recognition. |
| Atreyu The Best of Atreyu | 1.5 |
| Dustin Kensrue Please Come Home | 3.5 |
| Tristania Illumination | 3.0 |
| Destruction Thrash Anthems | 4.0 |
| Pain of Salvation Scarsick | 4.0 |
| Mnemic Passenger | 3.0 |
| Frank Turner Sleep Is For The Week | 3.5 |
| Myopia Enter Insect Masterplan | 3.5 |
| Fear My Thoughts Vulcanus | 4.0 |
| Maps and Atlases Tree, Swallows, Houses | 3.5 |
| Blinded Colony Bedtime Prayers | 3.0 |
| Hunab Ku The Gaze Inward | 3.0 |
| Enthroned Tetra Karcist | 3.5 |
| Dimension Zero He Who Shall Not Bleed | 3.5 |
| Dark The Suns In Darkness Comes Beauty | 3.5 |
| The Eyes of a Traitor By Sunset | 3.5 |
| Souls Of Nephilims The Vampiric Requiem EP | 3.5 |
| La-Ventura A New Beginning | 3.5 |
| Viatrophy Chronicles | 3.5 |
| Serena Joy Ours Will Be A Lonely Battle EP | 3.5 |
| Division By Zero Tyranny of Therapy | 3.5 |
| Doug Burr On Promenade | 3.5 |
| Hellas Mounds The Last Ferry to Cydonia | 3.5 |
| Undivine A Deceitful Calm | 3.5 |
| Nominon Terra Necrosis | 3.5 |
| Le Mépris Le Mépris | 3.5 |
| Hidria Spacefolk Symetria | 3.5 |
| Alabama Thunderpussy Open Fire | 4.0 |
| Divine Heresy Bleed the Fifth | 4.0 |
| Insect Warfare World Extermination | 4.0 |
| War of Ages Fire From the Tomb | 4.0 |
| Circus Maximus Isolate | 4.0 |
| Manegarm Vargstenen | 4.0 |
| Galahad Empires Never Last | 4.0 |
| Junius Junius | 4.0 |
| Tragodia The Promethean Legacy | 4.0 |
| Le Pre Ou Je Suis Mort Le Pre Ou Je Suis Mort | 4.0 |
| Suffocate For Fuck Sake Blazing Fires and Helicopters... | 4.0 |
| My Own Private Alaska MOPA | 4.0 |
| what can i say about this album or band. they only have three members: a drummer, a piano player, and a guy who screams. they have some similarities with The Pax Cecilia (often times sounding as if they ripped them off with some of the drum and piano sections). the screams are close to a lot of screamo bands, very emotional and painful sounding (not in a bad way). the piano is normally to create a beautiful atmosphere without getting too complicated or "classical". the drums arent technical but they are normally used to either aid the piano or add chaos to the vocals. if youre looking for a unique band than this is a good start |
| Mico Nonet The Marmalade Balloon | 4.0 |
| Southern Voodoo Devil's Drive | 4.0 |
| In A Nutshell Arrythmia | 4.0 |
| Walknut Graveforests And Their Shadows | 4.0 |
| Scariot Momentum Shift | 4.5 |
| 2006 |
| The Tallest Man on Earth The Tallest Man on Earth | 3.5 |
| Aghora Formless | 4.0 |
| Aoria I Know You Came Here to Erase Me | 4.0 |
| Melora Creager Perplexions | 3.5 |
| Incubus (USA-CA) Light Grenades | 3.0 |
| Clipse Hell Hath No Fury | 4.0 |
| Dragonland Astronomy | 4.0 |
| Killswitch Engage As Daylight Dies | 1.5 |
| Jay-Z Kingdom Come | 3.0 |
| Sufjan Stevens Songs For Christmas | 4.0 |
| Brand New The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me | 4.5 |
| Tom Waits Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers and Bastards | 4.5 |
| Clint Mansell, Kronos Quartet and Mogwai The Fountain | 5.0 |
| Loreena McKennitt An Ancient Muse | 4.0 |
| HIM Uneasy Listening Vol. 1 | 2.5 |
| Tenacious D The Pick of Destiny | 2.5 |
| Yndi Halda Enjoy Eternal Bliss | 4.5 |
| Agressor Deathreat | 3.5 |
| Outworld Outworld | 4.5 |
| WOW was the first word that came out of my mouth the first time i heard Rusty Cooley pull out a incredible solo and shred fest. he truly is one of the best guitarist i have ever heard. Outworld is only going to get better with their new singer. this whole album is full of amazing instrumentals and if you want to know what im talking about listen to the solo in The Never. they do a good job of including a keyboardist and mixing it in with the guitar shredding. these guys and symphony x are great power/prog metal bands |
| Dark Princess Stop My Heart | 4.0 |
| Arsis United in Regret | 4.5 |
| dredg Live at The Fillmore | 4.5 |
| Joanna Newsom Ys | 5.0 |
| Damien Rice 9 | 4.5 |
| Noumena Anatomy of Life | 3.0 |
| Kylesa Time Will Fuse Its Worth | 3.0 |
| ISIS In the Absence of Truth | 4.0 |
| The Prize Fighter Inferno My Brother's Blood Machine | 4.0 |
| Coheed and Cambria The Last Supper: Live At Hammerstein Ballroom | 4.5 |
| Bring Me the Horizon Count Your Blessings | 1.5 |
| Deftones Saturday Night Wrist | 4.0 |
| Myrkgrav Trollskau, Skromt og Kolabrenning | 4.0 |
| My Chemical Romance The Black Parade | 2.0 |
| I Hate Sally Don't Worry Lady | 3.0 |
| Converge No Heroes | 3.5 |
| Disillusion Gloria | 3.0 |
| Krux II | 3.5 |
| Dungeon The Final Chapter | 4.5 |
| It Dies Today Sirens | 1.5 |
| Cradle of Filth Thornography | 2.0 |
| aMute The Sea Horse Limbo | 3.5 |
| Benoit Pioulard Precis | 4.0 |
| Tim Hecker Harmony in Ultraviolet | 4.0 |
| Eventide Diaries From The Gallows | 3.5 |
| Messiah J & The Expert Now This I Have To Hear | 4.0 |
| Trivium The Crusade | 2.5 |
| A Static Lullaby A Static Lullaby | 2.5 |
| Senses Fail Still Searching | 3.5 |
| k-os Atlantis: Hymns For Disco | 3.5 |
| Cold War Kids Robbers and Cowards | 3.5 |
| Red Sparowes Every Red Heart Shines Toward The Red... | 4.0 |
| He Is Legend Suck Out the Poison | 3.0 |
| Planes Mistaken for Stars Mercy | 3.0 |
| Into Eternity The Scattering of Ashes | 3.5 |
| To-Mera Transcendental | 4.0 |
| Amon Amarth With Oden on Our Side | 4.5 |
| The Decemberists The Crane Wife | 5.0 |
| Manchester Orchestra I'm Like a Virgin Losing a Child | 3.5 |
| Rome Nera | 3.5 |
| Negura Bunget OM | 4.0 |
| Saosin Saosin | 2.5 |
| Inhale Exhale The Lost, the Sick, the Sacred | 3.0 |
| Emily Haines and the Soft Skeleton Knives Don't Have Your Back | 3.5 |
| Patrick Watson Close To Paradise | 3.5 |
| Weird Al Yankovic Straight Outta Lynwood | 4.0 |
| mewithoutYou Brother, Sister | 4.0 |
| Rhapsody of Fire Triumph or Agony | 3.0 |
| Tyr Ragnarok | 3.5 |
| Elane Lore Of Nén | 3.5 |
| Ahab The Call of the Wretched Sea | 4.0 |
| Jedi Mind Tricks Servants in Heaven, Kings in Hell | 2.5 |
| Fear Before The Always Open Mouth | 3.5 |
| The Hope Conspiracy Death Knows Your Name | 3.5 |
| Twisted Into Form Then Comes Affliction to Awaken the Dreamer | 3.5 |
| Lupe Fiasco Food & Liquor | 4.0 |
| Dark Forest Aurora Borealis | 3.5 |
| Norma Jean Redeemer | 2.5 |
| Destroy the Runner Saints | 3.0 |
| Envy Insomniac Doze | 3.5 |
| Mastodon Blood Mountain | 4.0 |
| The Black Keys Magic Potion | 4.0 |
| Magnolia Electric Co Fading Trails | 4.0 |
| Bat For Lashes Fur and Gold | 4.5 |
| Justin Timberlake FutureSex/LoveSounds | 4.0 |
| The Mars Volta Amputechture | 4.0 |
| Audioslave Revelations | 2.5 |
| HORSE the band Pizza | 3.0 |
| Dead Man In Reno Dead Man In Reno | 3.5 |
| Grizzly Bear Yellow House | 4.0 |
| Hanne Hukkelberg Rykestraße 68 | 3.5 |
| Black Cab Jesus East | 3.5 |
| Heavy Heavy Low Low Everything's Watched, Everyone's Watchin | 3.0 |
| Blind Guardian A Twist in the Myth | 3.5 |
| Dani Siciliano Slappers | 3.5 |
| Alexisonfire Crisis | 4.0 |
| The Roots Game Theory | 4.0 |
| Dream Theater Score | 4.5 |
| Heaven Shall Burn Deaf to Our Prayers | 3.5 |
| Grouper Wide | 3.5 |
| GPS Window To the Soul | 3.5 |
| Laura Radio Swan is Down | 4.5 |
| The Human Abstract Nocturne | 2.0 |
| The Devil Wears Prada Dear Love: A Beautiful Discord | 2.0 |
| My Brightest Diamond Bring Me the Workhorse | 3.0 |
| M. Ward Post-War | 3.5 |
| Eluvium When I Live by the Garden and the Sea | 3.5 |
| Unexpect In a Flesh Aquarium | 4.0 |
| Cursive Happy Hollow | 4.0 |
| Walls of Jericho With Devils Amongst Us All | 4.0 |
| Mouth Of The Architect The Ties That Blind | 4.0 |
| ISIS Clearing the Eye (DVD) | 4.5 |
| Mercenary The Hours That Remain | 3.5 |
| Porcupine Tree Arriving Somewhere... | 4.5 |
| Lamb of God Sacrament | 2.5 |
| Gabriela Kulka Out | 4.0 |
| Insomnium Above the Weeping World | 3.0 |
| Breaking Benjamin Phobia | 1.5 |
| Unearth III: In the Eyes of Fire | 4.0 |
| Under the Influence of Giants Under the Influence of Giants | 4.0 |
| Agalloch Ashes Against the Grain | 4.5 |
| All Shall Perish The Price of Existence | 4.5 |
| Showbread Age of Reptiles | 2.5 |
| Ikuinen Kaamos The Forlorn | 3.5 |
| Diablo Swing Orchestra The Butcher's Ballroom | 3.5 |
| Britta Persson Top Quality Bones And A Little Terrorist | 3.5 |
| Silversun Pickups Carnavas | 3.0 |
| Pure Reason Revolution The Dark Third | 4.5 |
| Gym Class Heroes As Cruel As School Children | 3.0 |
| Midlake The Trials of Van Occupanther | 3.5 |
| Burn in Silence Angel Maker | 4.0 |
| The Knife Silent Shout | 4.0 |
| The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus Don't You Fake It | 1.5 |
| Frost* Milliontown | 4.5 |
| for any fan of Porcupine Tree, but with a more industrial influence...this band is for you. they create some awesome keyboard driven atmosphere with some added synth effects. the vocals dont necessarily sound like Wilson's but the style can be the same. the guitars are somewhat heavy at times, but are not used as much as the keyboard. all around this is a solid album and the only album from this band that are made up of some members of the "neo-progers" Arena. they also stole the english phone booth from PT's the Sky Moves Sideways |
| Muse Black Holes & Revelations | 3.0 |
| Sufjan Stevens The Avalanche: Outtakes and Extras | 3.5 |
| The Format Dog Problems | 3.5 |
| Strapping Young Lad The New Black | 4.0 |
| Set Your Goals Mutiny! | 4.0 |
| All That Remains The Fall of Ideals | 4.0 |
| Winnebago Deal Flight Of The Raven | 3.0 |
| Doom VS Aeternum Vale | 4.0 |
| Rise Against The Sufferer and the Witness | 4.0 |
| Johnny Cash American V: A Hundred Highways | 4.0 |
| Six Organs Of Admittance The Sun Awakens | 4.0 |
| Billy Talent Billy Talent II | 4.0 |
| Riverside Voices In My Head | 4.0 |
| Ceremony (USA-CA) Violence Violence | 4.0 |
| 36 Crazyfists Rest Inside the Flames | 3.5 |
| Coheed and Cambria Kerrang! / XFM UK Acoustic Sessions | 3.5 |
| Rodrigo y Gabriela Rodrigo y Gabriela | 3.5 |
| Underoath Define the Great Line | 4.0 |
| Helios Eingya | 4.0 |
| Metal Church A Light in the Dark | 3.5 |
| Wovenhand Mosaic | 3.5 |
| Three Days Grace One-X | 1.5 |
| Zao The Fear Is What Keeps Us Here | 3.0 |
| Between the Buried and Me The Anatomy Of | 3.5 |
| Glass Casket Desperate Man's Diary | 4.0 |
| Valient Thorr Legend of the World | 4.0 |
| AFI Decemberunderground | 2.0 |
| As Blood Runs Black Allegiance | 2.5 |
| Genghis Tron Dead Mountain Mouth | 3.5 |
| Camera Obscura Let's Get Out of This Country | 3.5 |
| Wastefall Self Exile | 3.5 |
| This Will Destroy You Young Mountain | 4.0 |
| Gwynbleidd Amaranthine | 4.0 |
| SikTh Death of a Dead Day | 5.0 |
| DevilDriver The Last Kind Words | 4.0 |
| Obsidian Emerging | 3.5 |
| So Many Dynamos Flashlights | 3.5 |
| Mountain Mirrors Mountain Mirrors | 3.5 |
| War of Ages Pride of the Wicked | 4.0 |
| Anoice Remmings | 3.5 |
| Murder by Death In Bocca Al Lupo | 4.5 |
| Communic Waves Of Visual Decay | 4.5 |
| Dissection Reinkaos | 2.0 |
| Neaera Let The Tempest Come | 3.0 |
| Espers II | 3.5 |
| Russian Circles Enter | 4.0 |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers Stadium Arcadium | 1.5 |
| Beirut Gulag Orkestar | 3.5 |
| Matmos The Rose Has Teeth in the Mouth of a Beast | 3.5 |
| Scar Symmetry Pitch Black Progress | 3.5 |
| Thursday A City By the Light Divided | 4.0 |
| Torchbearer Warnaments | 4.0 |
| The Black Keys Chulahoma | 4.0 |
| Tool 10,000 Days | 4.5 |
| Enslaved Ruun | 4.5 |
| Silent Civilian Rebirth of the Temple | 3.0 |
| Shearwater Palo Santo | 4.0 |
| Ef Give Me Beauty... Or Give Me Death! | 4.0 |
| The Gathering Home | 3.5 |
| Om Conference of the Birds | 4.0 |
| Cult of Luna Somewhere Along the Highway | 4.0 |
| Eternal Tears of Sorrow Before the Bleeding Sun | 3.0 |
| Moonspell Memorial | 4.0 |
| Beyond Twilight For the Love of Art and the Making | 4.0 |
| Josh Ritter The Animal Years | 4.5 |
| Ihsahn The Adversary | 3.0 |
| Sylvan Posthumous Silence | 3.5 |
| Phoenix Mourning When Excuses Become Antiques | 4.0 |
| Novembre Materia | 3.5 |
| Textures Drawing Circles | 4.0 |
| Moneen The Red Tree | 4.0 |
| Jesu Silver | 4.0 |
| Dead To Fall The Phoenix Throne | 3.0 |
| The Flaming Lips At War with the Mystics | 3.5 |
| And The Hero Fails Empire Smiles | 4.0 |
| Keep of Kalessin Armada | 4.0 |
| Vanden Plas Christ 0 | 4.0 |
| Summoning Oath Bound | 4.5 |
| Atreyu A Death-Grip on Yesterday | 2.0 |
| Mono You Are There | 3.5 |
| From First to Last Heroine | 2.0 |
| Hurt Vol. 1 | 3.5 |
| No Trigger Canyoneer | 4.0 |
| My Chemical Romance Life on the Murder Scene | 2.0 |
| Machinae Supremacy Redeemer (Underground Edition) | 4.0 |
| Magrudergrind/Shitstorm Magrudergrind/Shitstorm | 3.5 |
| Emilie Simon Vegetal | 4.0 |
| Black Sabbath Greatest Hits 1970–1978 | 4.5 |
| Katatonia The Great Cold Distance | 4.5 |
| Pitbulls in the Nursery Lunatic | 2.5 |
| Dismember The God That Never Was | 4.0 |
| If Hope Dies Life In Ruin | 4.5 |
| Daylight Dies Dismantling Devotion | 4.5 |
| Daitro Laisser Vivre Les Squelettes | 4.0 |
| Scissorfight Jaggernaut | 4.0 |
| this is some great kick in the ass music. they know how to rock southern style. very gritty and dirty rock. perfect for those days with your boys and gals kickin it with some beers |
| Tenhi Maaaet | 4.0 |
| Boysetsfire The Misery Index: Notes From The Plague | 4.0 |
| Kalmah The Black Waltz | 3.5 |
| Destroyer Destroyer's Rubies | 4.5 |
| Psycroptic Symbols of Failure | 3.5 |
| Himsa Hail Horror | 3.5 |
| Mastodon Call of the Mastodon | 3.5 |
| J Dilla Donuts | 4.0 |
| Wolves in the Throne Room Diadem of 12 Stars | 4.0 |
| In Flames Come Clarity | 2.5 |
| Aoria If I Slow Down Everything Will Disappear | 4.0 |
| The Sword Age of Winters | 3.5 |
| Kataklysm In the Arms of Devastation | 4.0 |
| She Wants Revenge She Wants Revenge | 2.5 |
| P.O.S Audition | 3.5 |
| The Devin Townsend Band Synchestra | 4.5 |
| The Tangent A Place in the Queue | 4.5 |
| Elvenking The Winter Wake | 3.5 |
| Benedictum Uncreation | 4.0 |
| Mirrorthrone Carriers of Dust | 4.0 |
| CunninLynguists A Piece Of Strange | 4.0 |
| Arctic Monkeys Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not | 3.0 |
| Cat Power The Greatest | 3.5 |
| Regina Spektor Mary Ann Meets the Gravediggers | 4.0 |
| Bleeding Through The Truth | 3.0 |
| Kayo Dot Dowsing Anemone With Copper Tongue | 4.0 |
| DragonForce Inhuman Rampage | 3.5 |
| Seemless What Have We Become | 2.5 |
| Ryan Star Songs From The Eye Of An Elephant | 3.0 |
| Stolen Babies There Be Squabbles Ahead | 3.5 |
| God Dethroned The Toxic Touch | 3.5 |
| The Morningside The Wind, The Trees And The Shadows... | 3.5 |
| Panzerchrist Battalion Beast | 3.5 |
| Grotesque Through Incoherence One Thousand Blasting Words | 3.5 |
| Gecko's Tear Contradiction | 3.5 |
| Amethyste Thrown Off Balance | 3.5 |
| The Faceless Akeldama | 4.0 |
| Torture Killer Swarm! | 4.0 |
| Bal-Sagoth The Chthonic Chronicles | 4.0 |
| Giant Squid Metridium Fields | 4.0 |
| Miseration Your Demons ~ Their Angels | 4.0 |
| Year of No Light Nord | 4.0 |
| Wooly Mammoth The Temporary Nature | 4.0 |
| Shaolin Death Squad Intelligent Design | 4.0 |
