Average Rating: 3.59 Rating Variance: 0.40 Objectivity Score: 70% (Fairly Balanced)
Sort by: Rating | Release Date | Rating Date | Name2007 Puscifer "V" Is For Vagina2.0After Forever After Forever4.5Dream Theater Systematic Chaos3.0Maroon 5 It Won't Be Soon Before Long3.5Planet X Quantum4.5Linkin Park Minutes to Midnight2.5Porcupine Tree Fear of a Blank Planet4.0Korn MTV Unplugged: Korn3.5WhiteRoom WhiteRoom4.52006 Evanescence The Open Door4.0Lamb of God Sacrament3.5Muse Black Holes & Revelations3.5Rodrigo y Gabriela Rodrigo y Gabriela4.0AFI Decemberunderground4.0I didn't hear any AFI material before this but this album is completely enjoyable with some very catchy yet goth punk (not exactly a very common combo). In fact the tracks that sound like "The Killers" only slightly darker are the best. A killer opening to dance tunes like Miss Murder to more emotional songs like Summer Shudder and Love like Winter, it also grows on you the more you listen to it. The only song I felt was out of place was Kill Caustic and the album could have done without it IMOShade Empire Intoxicate O.S.3.5Ihsahn The Adversary4.0Arctic Monkeys Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not4.02005 Korn See You on the Other Side3.5System of a Down Hypnotize3.5John Mayer Trio Try!4.5Panic! at the Disco A Fever You Can't Sweat Out3.0This is definitely a solid album but fails to stand out in terms of musicianship with the sound coming off as many other pop punk bands today in the first half. Where they really show their uniqueness is in the second half. There's no denying that this is catchy stuff and the lyrics are much more offbeat than what most bands of the genre deal with, making them a little less creative American version of the Arctic MonkeysDisturbed Ten Thousand Fists3.5Sigur Ros Takk...4.0Simple Minds Black & White 0505053.5After Forever Remagine4.5Our Lady Peace Healthy In Paranoid Times3.5Arch Enemy Doomsday Machine3.5Static-X Start A War2.0Foo Fighters In Your Honor4.0Coldplay X&Y3.5Audioslave Out of Exile3.0System of a Down Mezmerize3.5Limp Bizkit The Unquestionable Truth - Part I2.0Porcupine Tree Deadwing4.0Mudvayne Lost and Found4.5This album is a real grower. Has some gems and is very well made technical nu-metal. More than just stuff to headbang to. From the epic Choices to straight all out headbangers like Determined, this album might go onto become a nu-metal classic of sorts, showing how diverse it can sound (not a quality generally associated with the genre)Adema Planets1.5Kamelot The Black Halo4.03 Doors Down Seventeen Days2.52004 Evanescence Anywhere But Home3.5U2 How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb3.5A Perfect Circle eMOTIVe2.5Korn Greatest Hits Vol. 13.5Sum 41 Chuck3.5Lamb of God Ashes of the Wake3.5Alter Bridge One Day Remains3.5The Killers Hot Fuss3.5Shade Empire Sinthetic3.5Jem Finally Woken3.5Incubus (USA-CA) A Crow Left of the Murder...3.5Auf Der Maur Auf Der Maur3.0I've wanted to review this for a long time but always put it off thinking that rating a more or less obscure artist with something just above average wouldn't really generate interest. More or less because, let's face it, Melissa Auf Der Maur used to be famous, with bass gigs with both The Hole and The Smashing Pumpkins in her career kitty but this is very close to lame. There are some interesting songs here but the cliches outweigh the positives. Further, well, seems Ms. Auf Der Maur was some sort of sex symbol in the 90s. This record sounds like she's still trying to live those days, with premature lyrics (and ironically mediocre bass). The redeeming factor is the other instrumentation though resulting in some very good alt. rock moments. It's good for a few listens, as music somewhere in the background. Not for serious listeningAfter Forever Invisible Circles3.5Angra Temple of Shadows3.52003 Hoobastank The Reason3.0Korn Take a Look in the Mirror2.5Red Hot Chili Peppers Live at Slane Castle4.5Muse Absolution3.5The Dresden Dolls The Dresden Dolls4.0A Perfect Circle Thirteenth Step3.5Limp Bizkit Results May Vary2.5Dimmu Borgir Death Cult Armageddon3.0I got this album after watching the Progenies video and well.... I was a little disappointed. It's brutal, there's no doubting that and Progenies (minus the second verse) is a pinnacle of sorts as far as metal goes IMO but the overall album is a little more droning. Maybe my opinion here stems from the fact that I don't listen to a lot of extreme metal, but I felt that the production let down the album a lot. I heard very little lower end bass frequencies making distortion just seem like noise instead of heavy and as such all the tracks began to sound alike. But it does have its positives too of which some are the brilliant use of symphony to add to the "brutal"-ity of the songs, Shagrath's vocals and the technical yet melodic (most of the times anyway) instrumentation; this album, in the end, holds the distinction of making me revisit a set of genres I had shunned as meaningless noise.Iron Maiden Dance of Death4.0Arch Enemy Anthems of Rebellion3.5Adema Unstable2.0Metallica St. Anger1.5Deftones Deftones4.0Godsmack Faceless3.0Evanescence Fallen3.5Kamelot Epica4.5Mushroomhead XIII4.02002 Dashboard Confessional MTV Unplugged3.0System of a Down Steal This Album!3.0Mudvayne The End of All Things to Come3.53 Doors Down Away from the Sun3.5Porcupine Tree In Absentia4.0Disturbed Believe3.0Coldplay A Rush of Blood to the Head4.0Red Hot Chili Peppers By the Way4.0Maroon 5 Songs About Jane3.5Alanis Morissette Under Rug Swept3.0Korn Untouchables3.5Goo Goo Dolls Gutterflower3.52001 Mushroomhead XX4.0Hoobastank Hoobastank3.5Lostprophets The Fake Sound Of Progress3.0Incubus (USA-CA) Morning View4.0P.O.D. Satellite3.5System of a Down Toxicity4.0Static-X Machine1.5Tool Lateralus5.0Angra Rebirth4.02000 Tool Salival4.0Marilyn Manson Holy Wood3.5U2 All That You Can't Leave Behind3.5Clint Mansell and Kronos Quartet Requiem for a Dream4.0Coldplay Parachutes4.0Deftones White Pony3.5Iron Maiden Brave New World4.0A Perfect Circle Mer de Noms3.5Dashboard Confessional The Swiss Army Romance3.5Disturbed The Sickness3.03 Doors Down The Better Life3.5Limp Bizkit Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavored Water2.5Fates Warning Disconnected4.51999 Metallica S&M4.0Korn Issues4.0Coldplay The Blue Room3.5Red Hot Chili Peppers Californication4.01998 Metallica Garage Inc.3.5Alanis Morissette Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie4.0Korn Follow the Leader3.0System of a Down System of a Down4.0Massive Attack Mezzanine3.5Madonna Ray of Light4.0Apocalyptica Inquisition Symphony4.01997 Metallica Reload3.0Deftones Around the Fur3.5Incubus (USA-CA) S.C.I.E.N.C.E.4.0Foo Fighters The Colour and the Shape3.0Fates Warning A Pleasant Shade of Gray3.51996 Korn Life Is Peachy4.0Tool Ænima4.5Pearl Jam No Code3.5Metallica Load3.5Sting Mercury Falling3.51995 Dream Theater A Change of Seasons4.5Alanis Morissette Jagged Little Pill3.01994 Pearl Jam Vitalogy4.0Korn Korn4.0Stone Temple Pilots Purple4.0Guster Parachute4.01993 Sting Ten Summoner's Tales4.01992 ABBA ABBA Gold3.5Barenaked Ladies Gordon4.5What cartoons are to real life, BNL are to pop music. They somehow manage to escape all the laws that restrict musicianship in pop music and come out with songs that you fall in love with. Listening to songs like Grade 9 you realize the music is like the dynamite exploding in the coyote's face and nothing happening to him other than his fur turning black. And it is exactly that. Pure and simple fun. And that's just on the surface. Scratch it and you see a wealth of talent and musicianship that completely takes you by surprise. Pure gold.Stone Temple Pilots Core3.5Iron Maiden Fear of the Dark3.51991 Nirvana Nevermind3.5Red Hot Chili Peppers Blood Sugar Sex Magik4.5Pearl Jam Ten4.5Metallica Metallica4.0Sting The Soul Cages3.5Fates Warning Parallels4.01988 Metallica ...And Justice for All3.5Iron Maiden Seventh Son of a Seventh Son4.51987 U2 The Joshua Tree4.51986 Metallica Master of Puppets4.51984 Iron Maiden Powerslave4.5Metallica Ride the Lightning3.51983 Metallica Kill 'Em All3.5
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