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2020
Deftones Ohms	4.5
Mastodon Medium Rarities	4.0
Taylor Swift Folklore	3.0
The Prize Fighter Inferno Stray Bullets	3.5
Midnight Odyssey Ruins of a Celestial Fire	4.0
Buckethead Healing Inside Outside Every Side	4.0
Testament Titans of Creation	4.0
Pearl Jam Gigaton	3.0
Buckethead Unexpected Journeys	4.0

2019
Tool Fear Inoculum	4.0
Darkthrone Old Star	4.0
Sunn O))) Life Metal	3.5

2018
The Smashing Pumpkins Shiny and Oh So Bright, Vol. 1	2.5
Coheed and Cambria Vaxis I: The Unheavenly Creatures	4.5
Thou Magus	3.5
Between the Buried and Me Automata II	4.0
Deafheaven Ordinary Corrupt Human Love	4.5
Gorillaz The Now Now	4.0
Nine Inch Nails Bad Witch	3.5
Orange Goblin The Wolf Bites Back	3.5
Beach House 7	4.0
A Perfect Circle Eat the Elephant	4.0
Sleep The Sciences	4.5
The Wonder Years Sister Cities	4.0
Panopticon The Scars of Man on the Once Nameless Wilderness	4.0
Jack White Boarding House Reach	3.0
Judas Priest Firepower	4.0
Between the Buried and Me Automata I	4.0
Avslut Deceptis	3.5
Brian Fallon Sleepwalkers	4.0
Jeff Rosenstock POST-	4.0

2017
Wordclock Heralds	3.5
Converge The Dusk in Us	2.5
Cannibal Corpse Red Before Black	3.5
Ne Obliviscaris Urn	4.0
Enslaved E	4.0
Primus The Desaturating Seven	3.5
Godspeed You! Black Emperor Luciferian Towers	3.5
Cradle of Filth Cryptoriana – The Seductiveness of Decay	4.0
Wolves in the Throne Room Thrice Woven	4.0
Foo Fighters Concrete and Gold	3.5
The National Sleep Well Beast	3.5
Neil Young Hitchhiker	4.0
Mogwai Every Country's Sun	4.0
Queens of the Stone Age Villains	4.0
Vulture (DE) The Guillotine	4.0
The War On Drugs A Deeper Understanding	4.5
Buckethead The Squaring of the Circle	4.5
Steven Wilson To the Bone	4.0
Brand New Science Fiction	4.5
Arcade Fire Everything Now	2.0
Manchester Orchestra A Black Mile to the Surface	4.5
Boris Dear	4.0
311 Mosaic	4.0
Fleet Foxes Crack-Up	4.0
Mutoid Man War Moans	3.5
Elder (USA-MA) Reflections of a Floating World	4.0
Roger Waters Is This The Life We Really Want?	4.0
Solstafir Berdreyminn	4.0
Do Make Say Think Stubborn Persistent Illusions	4.0
At the Drive-In in•ter a•li•a	4.0
Slowdive Slowdive (LP)	4.0
Gorillaz Humanz	3.5
Ayreon The Source	4.0
Toby Driver Madonnawhore	3.5
Gas Narkopop	3.5
Kendrick Lamar DAMN.	4.0
Ulver The Assassination of Julius Caesar	4.0
Falls of Rauros Vigilance Perennial	4.0
Mastodon Emperor of Sand	4.5
Lunar Shadow Far from Light	4.5
Minus the Bear VOIDS	3.5
Super Snake Leap of Love	4.0
Aeternam Ruins of Empires	3.5
The Menzingers After the Party	4.5
Japandroids Near To The Wild Heart Of Life	3.5
Kreator Gods of Violence	4.0
Buckethead Nettle	4.0
The Flaming Lips Oczy Mlody	4.0
Sepultura Machine Messiah	4.0
Brian Eno Reflection	3.5

2016
Run the Jewels Run the Jewels 3	4.5
Nine Inch Nails Not the Actual Events	3.5
Neil Young Peace Trail	3.5
Metallica Hardwired...To Self-Destruct	4.0
Pink Floyd Cre/ation: The Early Years 1965–1972	4.0
Testament Brotherhood of the Snake	4.0
Steve Hauschildt Strands	4.0
Korn The Serenity of Suffering	4.0
Mono Requiem For Hell	3.5
Darkthrone Arctic Thunder	3.5
Jeff Rosenstock WORRY.	4.0
Meshuggah The Violent Sleep Of Reason	4.0
Opeth Sorceress	3.5
Alcest Kodama	4.0
Danny Brown Atrocity Exhibition	4.0
Bon Iver 22, A Million	4.0
Neurosis Fires Within Fires	4.0
Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds Skeleton Tree	4.0
The Dear Hunter Act V: Hymns with the Devil in Confessional	4.5
Devin Townsend Project Transcendence	4.0
Blood Incantation Starspawn	4.5
Omar Rodriguez-Lopez Blind Worm Pious Swine	3.0
Dinosaur Jr. Give a Glimpse of What Yer Not	4.0
Omar Rodriguez-Lopez Corazones	4.0
Coldworld Autumn	4.0
Chevelle The North Corridor	3.0
Aphex Twin Cheetah EP	4.0
blink-182 California	3.5
Be'lakor Vessels	3.5
Kayo Dot Plastic House on Base of Sky	4.5
Red Hot Chili Peppers The Getaway	3.5
Gojira Magma	4.0
Swans The Glowing Man	4.5
Gozu Revival	4.0
Omar Rodriguez-Lopez Sworn Virgins	2.5
Thrice To Be Everywhere Is to Be Nowhere	4.0
PUP The Dream Is Over	4.0
Gorguts Pleiades' Dust	3.5
Kvelertak Nattesferd	4.0
Radiohead A Moon Shaped Pool	4.0
Vektor Terminal Redux	4.5
James Blake The Colour in Anything	4.5
Aesop Rock The Impossible Kid	4.5
The Fall of Troy OK	3.5
Kevin Morby Singing Saw	4.0
Deftones Gore	3.5
Tim Hecker Love Streams	3.5
M83 Junk	3.5
Deakin Sleep Cycle	4.0
Cult of Luna and Julie Christmas Mariner	4.5
Novembre Ursa	3.5
Weezer The White Album	4.0
Explosions in the Sky The Wilderness	4.0
Moonsorrow Jumalten aika	4.5
Amon Amarth Jomsviking	4.0
BUS The Unknown Secretary	4.0
Brian Fallon Painkillers	4.0
Ninja Sex Party Under the Covers	4.0
Kendrick Lamar untitled unmastered.	4.0
Big Ups Before a Million Universes	4.5
Buckethead Cabs	4.0
Destroyer 666 Wildfire	4.5
Redemption The Art of Loss	4.5
Paul Jebanasam Continuum	3.0
The Cult Hidden City	3.5
Moon Tooth Chromaparagon	3.5
Fuath I	4.0
Yndi Halda Under Summer	4.5
Conan Revengeance	3.5
Buckethead Buildor	4.5
Megadeth Dystopia	3.5
Steven Wilson 4 1/2	4.0
Borknagar Winter Thrice	4.0
Ulver ATGCLVLSSCAP	4.0
David Bowie Blackstar	4.5

2015
Baroness Purple	4.0
Sunn O))) Kannon	3.5
Buckethead Rooms Of Illusions	3.5
Coheed and Cambria The Color Before The Sun	3.5
Fightstar Behind the Devil's Back	4.0
Panopticon Autumn Eternal	4.0
Children of Bodom I Worship Chaos	3.5
Deafheaven New Bermuda	4.0
Silversun Pickups Better Nature	3.0
David Gilmour Rattle That Lock	3.5
Scale the Summit V	4.0
Slayer Repentless	4.0
The Dear Hunter Act IV: Rebirth in Reprise	4.0
Iron Maiden The Book of Souls	4.5
The Wonder Years No Closer to Heaven	4.5
Beach House Depression Cherry	4.0
Motorhead Bad Magic	4.0
Hills Frid	4.0
The Sword High Country	3.5
It definitely sounds like The Sword but there's certainly a different feel to this one. Slightly less heavy and might remind one of some 70's hard rock/prog. Still a ton of great riffs with a new sense of melody to go with it so it's another excellent addition to their already great discography.
Buckethead Four Forms	4.0
Cattle Decapitation The Anthropocene Extinction	4.0
Titus Andronicus The Most Lamentable Tragedy	5.0
Completely floored, holy shit. http://i.imgur.com/yCMwVpu.gif
Buckethead Herbie Climbs A Tree	4.0
Wilco Star Wars	3.5
Cradle of Filth Hammer of the Witches	4.0
Between the Buried and Me Coma Ecliptic	3.5
Mutoid Man Bleeder	4.0
High on Fire Luminiferous	4.0
Buckethead Heaven Is Your Home (For My Father...)	4.0
mewithoutYou Pale Horses	4.0
Midnight Odyssey Shards of Silver Fade	4.5
Buckethead Solar Sailcraft	3.5
Steve Von Till A Life Unto Itself	4.0
Turnover Peripheral Vision	3.5
My Morning Jacket The Waterfall	4.0
Boris Warpath	2.0
Buckethead Tucked Into Dreams	4.0
Akhlys The Dreaming I	4.0
Buckethead Along The River Bank	4.0
The Flashbulb Compositions For Piano	3.5
Godspeed You! Black Emperor 'Asunder, Sweet and Other Distress'	4.0
Sufjan Stevens Carrie and Lowell	4.5
Buckethead The Other Side Of The Dark	3.5
Buckethead Shaded Ray	4.0
Modest Mouse Strangers to Ourselves	4.0
Kendrick Lamar To Pimp a Butterfly	4.5
Galar De Gjenlevende	4.5
Enslaved In Times	3.5
Jeff Rosenstock We Cool?	4.0
Steven Wilson Hand. Cannot. Erase.	4.5
Buckethead Infinity of the Spheres	4.0
Buckethead Project Little Man	4.5
Buckethead The Left Panel	4.0
Mount Eerie Sauna	3.5
Periphery Juggernaut: Alpha	2.5
Night Demon Curse of the Damned	4.5
Aphex Twin Computer Controlled Acoustic Instruments Pt 2	2.5
2814 新しい日の誕生	4.0
The Decemberists What A Terrible World, What A Beautiful World	4.0
Arcane Known/Learned	4.0
Buckethead Sideway Streets	4.0

2014
Buckethead The Mighty Microscope	4.0
Buckethead In The Hollow Hills	4.0
Buckethead Polar Trench	3.5
Buckethead Passageways	4.5
The Smashing Pumpkins Monuments to an Elegy	4.0
Buckethead Northern Lights	4.0
Buckethead Coaster Coat	4.0
Grouper Ruins	4.0
Damien Rice My Favourite Faded Fantasy	4.0
Job for a Cowboy Sun Eater	4.0
Foo Fighters Sonic Highways	3.5
Pink Floyd The Endless River	3.5
Ne Obliviscaris Citadel	4.0
Kenn Nardi Dancing With the Past	4.5
Buckethead Listen for the Whisper	4.0
Buckethead The Time Travelers Dream	3.0
Run the Jewels Run the Jewels 2	4.0
Devin Townsend Project Z2	4.0
Kayo Dot Coffins on Io	4.5
Flying Lotus You're Dead!	3.0
Electric Wizard Time to Die	4.0
Thom Yorke Tomorrow's Modern Boxes	3.5
Hammock The Sleepover Series, Volume 2	4.0
Aphex Twin Syro	4.5
Cannibal Corpse A Skeletal Domain	4.0
Manchester Orchestra Hope	4.0
Earth Primitive and Deadly	4.0
Darkspace Dark Space III I	4.0
YOB Clearing The Path To Ascend	4.0
Opeth Pale Communion	4.0
Buckethead Final Bend Of The Labyrinth	4.0
Buckethead Closed Attractions	4.0
The Gaslight Anthem Get Hurt	4.5
Panopticon Roads to the North	4.0
Buckethead Leave The Light On	4.0
Buckethead Aquarium	4.0
Wolves in the Throne Room Celestite	3.5
Aaron West and The Roaring Twenties We Don't Have Each Other	4.0
Low Roar 0	4.5
Antemasque Antemasque	4.0
Ian William Craig A Turn of Breath	4.0
Buckethead Hold Me Forever (In memory of my mom)	4.0
How to Dress Well What Is This Heart?	4.0
Mastodon Once More 'Round the Sun	4.0
Boris Noise	4.0
Musk Ox Woodfall	4.5
Jack White Lazaretto	4.0
Buckethead Footsteps	4.0
Saor Aura	4.0
Rival Sons Great Western Valkyrie	4.0
Burzum The Ways of Yore	3.0
Hoth Oathbreaker	4.0
Conor Oberst Upside Down Mountain	4.0
Buckethead Outpost	3.0
Casualties of Cool Casualties of Cool	4.5
The Black Keys Turn Blue	3.5
Agalloch The Serpent and the Sphere	3.5
Swans To Be Kind	4.0
Hiss Tracts Shortwave Nights	4.0
The Flashbulb Solar One	2.5
The Flashbulb Nothing Is Real	4.0
AJJ Christmas Island	4.0
Lantlos Melting Sun	4.5
Spectral Lore III	4.5
Insomnium Shadows of the Dying Sun	4.0
Planet Of Zeus Vigilante	3.5
The Menzingers Rented World	4.0
Trophy Scars Holy Vacants	4.5
The Flaming Lips 7 Skies H3	4.0
The Afghan Whigs Do to the Beast	4.0
John Frusciante Enclosure	3.0
Buckethead City of Ferris Wheels	3.0
Buckethead Claymation Courtyard	4.5
Manchester Orchestra Cope	4.0
Buckethead Factory	3.0
The Graviators Motherload	4.5
Thou Heathen	3.5
Tycho Awake	3.5
The War On Drugs Lost in the Dream	4.5
Buckethead Pitch Dark	4.0
311 Stereolithic	4.0
Buckethead Hide In The Pickling Jar	3.5
Buckethead Monument Valley	4.0
Buckethead Roller Coaster Track Repair	3.5
Buckethead Rainy Days	4.0
Moonlit Sailor We Come from Exploding Stars	3.0
18 Carat Affair Adventures in Schizophrenia	3.0
Cynic Kindly Bent to Free Us	3.0
Cheatahs Cheatahs	2.5
Crosses Crosses	4.0
Buckethead The Coats of Claude	3.5
Sunn O))) and Ulver Terrestrials	3.0
Behemoth The Satanist	4.0
Have a Nice Life The Unnatural World	4.0
Buckethead You Can't Triple Stamp A Double Stamp	3.5
Bong Stoner Rock	2.5
Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra Fuck Off Get Free We Pour Light on Everything	4.0
Alcest Shelter	4.0
Buckethead Buckethead Pikes #43	4.0
Buckethead Backwards Chimney	4.0

2013
Buckethead Wishes	3.5
Buckethead Coat Of Charms	4.0
Buckethead Twisterlend	4.0
Buckethead It Smells Like Frogs	4.0
The Flaming Lips Peace Sword	4.0
Hammock Oblivion Hymns	4.0
Buckethead Hollowed Out	4.0
Buckethead Thank you Ohlinger's	3.5
Buckethead The Pit	4.0
Foxing The Albatross	3.5
Recondite Hinterland	4.0
Buckethead Rise of the Blue Lotus	4.0
Buckethead Pumpkin	2.0
Protest the Hero Volition	4.5
Dethklok The Doomstar Requiem	4.5
Arcade Fire Reflektor	4.0
Buckethead Pearson's Square	4.0
Ihsahn Das Seelenbrechen	4.0
Radical Face The Family Tree: The Branches	4.0
Buckethead Mannequin Cemetery	3.5
Pearl Jam Lightning Bolt	4.0
Plini Sweet Nothings	4.0
Buckethead Splatters	2.5
Korn The Paradigm Shift	3.0
Buckethead Feathers	3.5
Darkside Psychic	4.5
Deltron 3030 Event II	4.0
HAIM Days Are Gone	3.0
Justin Timberlake The 20/20 Experience - 2 of 2	3.5
Kings of Leon Mechanical Bull	3.0
Jesu Everyday I Get Closer to the Light from Which I Came	4.0
Metallica Through the Never	4.0
Buckethead Halls of Dimension	2.5
Nocow Solus	4.0
Buckethead Worms for the Garden	4.0
MGMT MGMT	3.5
Ulcerate Vermis	4.5
Cloudkicker Subsume	4.0
Carcass Surgical Steel	4.0
Buckethead Pancake Heater	2.5
Buckethead Slug Cartilage	3.0
Buckethead Sphere Facade	3.5
Volcano Choir Repave	4.0
Gorguts Colored Sands	4.0
Buckethead Spiral Trackway	4.0
Nine Inch Nails Hesitation Marks	4.5
Haken The Mountain	3.5
Kayo Dot Hubardo	4.5
Vali Skogslandskap	4.0
John Frusciante Outsides	3.5
Shigeto No Better Time Than Now	3.5
Typhoon (USA-OR) White Lighter	4.0
Ulver Messe I.X-VI.X	4.0
Buckethead Telescape	4.0
The Mars Volta B-Sides	4.0
Witherscape The Inheritance	3.5
Buckethead Thaw	2.5
Julia Holter Loud City Song	3.5
Buckethead Teeter Slaughter	3.5
Shpongle Museum of Consciousness	4.0
Buckethead The Astrodome	4.0
D/A/D The Construct	4.0
Gris À L'Âme Enflammée, L'Âme Constellée...	4.5
Jay-Z Magna Carta... Holy Grail	3.0
Owen L'Ami du Peuple	4.0
Pretty Lights A Color Map of The Sun	4.0
Buckethead The Spirit Winds	4.0
Run the Jewels Run the Jewels	4.0
Chthonic Bu-Tik	4.0
Amon Amarth Deceiver of the Gods	4.0
William Basinski Nocturnes	4.0
Bosnian Rainbows Bosnian Rainbows	4.0
Middle Class Rut Pick Up Your Head	4.0
Palms Palms	4.0
u-Ziq Chewed Corners	4.5
Buckethead The Boiling Pond	4.0
Kanye West Yeezus	3.5
Sigur Ros Kveikur	4.0
Zomby With Love	4.0
Children of Bodom Halo of Blood	3.0
Scale the Summit The Migration	4.0
Deafheaven Sunbather	4.0
Black Sabbath 13	4.0
Boards of Canada Tomorrow's Harvest	4.5
Buckethead View Master	4.0
Summoning Old Mornings Dawn	4.0
Megadeth Super Collider	2.0
Jon Hopkins Immunity	3.0
Queens of the Stone Age ...Like Clockwork	4.0
Wedrujacy Wiatr Tam, Gdzie Miesiac Oplakuje Swit	4.0
Buckethead The Mark Of Davis	2.5
Miktek Elsewhere	4.0
Alice in Chains The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here	4.0
Dark Tranquillity Construct	4.0
Burzum Sol austan, Mani vestan	4.0
Satan Life Sentence	3.0
The National Trouble Will Find Me	4.5
Daft Punk Random Access Memories	3.5
The Wonder Years The Greatest Generation	4.0
The Dillinger Escape Plan One of Us Is the Killer	4.0
Buckethead Pike 13	4.0
Deerhunter Monomania	3.5
Nosound Afterthoughts	4.5
Streetlight Manifesto The Hands That Thieve	4.5
Cathedral The Last Spire	4.0
The Ocean Pelagial	4.0
Rob Zombie Venomous Rat Regeneration Vendor	2.5
Laura Stevenson Wheel	4.5
Frank Turner Tape Deck Heart	3.5
The Flaming Lips The Terror	4.0
Csejthe Reminiscence	4.5
Buckethead Propellar	3.5
Anciients Heart of Oak	4.0
Ghost (SWE) Infestissumam	4.0
Stone Sour House of Gold and Bones - Part 2	4.0
James Blake Overgrown	4.0
The Knife Shaking the Habitual	4.0
Killswitch Engage Disarm the Descent	3.5
The Dear Hunter Migrant	4.0
Bonobo The North Borders	4.0
Avantasia The Mystery Of Time	3.5
Kvelertak Meir	4.0
Buckethead Forgotten Library	4.0
Intronaut Habitual Levitations	3.5
The Wednesday Club Passing Strange	3.0
Justin Timberlake The 20/20 Experience	3.5
David Bowie The Next Day	3.5
Boris Präparat	4.0
Geskia! Silent of Light	4.0
Soilwork The Living Infinite	4.0
How to Destroy Angels Welcome Oblivion	4.0
Old Man Markley Down Side Up	4.0
Enforcer Death By Fire	4.5
Autechre Exai	4.0
Jimi Hendrix People, Hell, and Angels	4.0
Of Solitude and Solemn Of Solitude and Solemn	3.5
K Sera Collisions and Near Misses	4.0
Steven Wilson The Raven That Refused to Sing (And Other Stories)	4.5
Darkthrone The Underground Resistance	4.5
Static Colours Sun Swells	4.5
Paysage d'Hiver Das Tor	4.5
Suffocation Pinnacle of Bedlam	3.5
Shai Hulud Reach Beyond the Sun	4.0
Caladan Brood Echoes Of Battle	4.0
Thriftworks Terry - D	4.0
Coheed and Cambria The Afterman: Descension	4.0
Grouper The Man Who Died in His Boat	4.0
Wil Wagner Laika	4.0
My Bloody Valentine m b v	4.0
Cult of Luna Vertikal	4.5
Naibu Fall	4.0
Polyenso One Big Particular Loop	4.0
Mountains Centralia	4.0
Ulrich Schnauss A Long Way to Fall	3.0
The Black Heart Rebellion Har Nevo	4.0
Yo La Tengo Fade	4.0
Omar Rodriguez-Lopez Equinox	3.5
Mechina Empyrean	4.0

2012
Circle Takes the Square Decompositions: Volume Number One	3.5
The Mayan Factor Yesterday's Son	4.5
Burial Truant/Rough Sleeper	4.0
Kashiwa Daisuke Re:	4.0
Monolithe Monolithe III	4.0
How to Destroy Angels An Omen	3.5
Deftones Koi No Yokan	4.5
Hacktivist Hacktivist	2.5
War from a Harlots Mouth Voyeur	3.0
ISIS Temporal	4.0
Crystal Castles Crystal Castles III	3.5
Cradle of Filth The Manticore and Other Horrors	3.0
Nadja Dagdrøm	3.5
Indian Handcrafts Civil Disobedience For Losers	3.5
Neil Young Psychedelic Pill	4.5
Possibly the best Neil Young album since Rust Never Sleeps. It's a long but rewarding listen if you give it the time. It blows my mind he's still capable of releasing material this good 40+ years into his career.
Neurosis Honor Found in Decay	4.0
The Tony Danza Tapdance Extravaganza Danza IIII: The Alpha - The Omega	3.5
The Flashbulb Hardscrabble	3.5
Stone Sour House of Gold and Bones - Part 1	4.0
Titus Andronicus Local Business	4.0
The Sword Apocryphon	4.0
Kendrick Lamar good kid, m.A.A.d city	4.0
BATS The Sleep of Reason	4.0
Godspeed You! Black Emperor 'Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend!	4.0
Dethklok Dethalbum III	4.5
Anberlin Vital	4.5
Wintersun Time I	4.0
The Prize Fighter Inferno Half Measures	4.0
KISS Monster	3.0
Daylight Dies A Frail Becoming	4.0
Converge All We Love We Leave Behind	4.0
Between the Buried and Me The Parallax II: Future Sequence	4.0
Coheed and Cambria The Afterman: Ascension	4.5
Flying Lotus Until the Quiet Comes	4.0
The Mountain Goats Transcendental Youth	4.0
Hammock Departure Songs	4.0
Maserati Maserati VII	4.5
An Autumn For Crippled Children Only The Ocean Knows	3.5
Enslaved RIITIIR	4.0
Mumford and Sons Babel	3.5
Murder by Death Bitter Drink, Bitter Moon	4.0
Deadmau5 >album title goes here<	3.5
Buckethead Racks	3.5
Buckethead The Silent Picture Book	3.5
Devin Townsend Project Epicloud	3.5
How to Dress Well Total Loss	4.0
Dinosaur Jr. I Bet on Sky	3.5
Animal Collective Centipede Hz	2.5
There's some good moments, but this really suffers from too much going on at once. Everytime there's a good idea it's buried under so much shit you can hardly focus on it.
Propagandhi Failed States	4.0
Mono For My Parents	4.0
Mount Eerie Ocean Roar	3.5
Blut Aus Nord 777 - Cosmosophy	4.5
Beardfish The Void	4.0
Minus the Bear Infinity Overhead	4.0
Swans The Seer	4.0
Buckethead The Shores of Molokai	4.0
Cloudkicker Fade	4.0
Youth Pictures of Florence Henderson Small Changes We Hardly Notice	3.5
Gaza No Absolutes in Human Suffering	3.5
Deep Magic Closed Eyes	3.5
Fang Island Major	3.0
TNGHT TNGHT	3.0
Dark Time Sunshine ANX	4.0
The Antlers Undersea	4.0
The Gaslight Anthem Handwritten	4.5
Frank Ocean channel ORANGE	3.5
Baroness Yellow and Green	4.0
Aesop Rock Skelethon	4.0
Nhato Etude	3.5
Linkin Park Living Things	3.5
The Smashing Pumpkins Oceania	4.0
Johann Johannsson Copenhagen Dreams	4.0
Rush Clockwork Angels	4.0
Right Away, Great Captain! The Church of the Good Thief	4.0
The Tallest Man on Earth There's No Leaving Now	4.5
Ne Obliviscaris Portal of I	4.5
Lights Out Asia Hy-Brasil	4.0
Japandroids Celebration Rock	4.5
Ulver Childhood's End	3.0
Sigur Ros Valtari	4.0
Knife Party Rage Valley	3.0
El-P Cancer 4 Cure	2.5
Mount Eerie Clear Moon	4.0
Beach House Bloom	4.0
mewithoutYou Ten Stories	4.0
Killer Mike R.A.P. Music	4.0
Silversun Pickups Neck of the Woods	4.0
Death Grips The Money Store	3.5
Jack White Blunderbuss	4.0
Torche Harmonicraft	4.5
Storm Corrosion Storm Corrosion	3.0
In Mourning The Weight of Oceans	4.0
Clubroot III - MMXII	3.5
Woods of Ypres Woods 5: Grey Skies and Electric Light	4.0
DragonForce The Power Within	3.5
High on Fire De Vermis Mysteriis	4.0
Hawk Eyes Ideas	4.0
Conan Monnos	4.0
Overkill The Electric Age	4.0
The Mars Volta Noctourniquet	4.0
Meshuggah Koloss	4.0
Mirrorring Foreign Body	3.5
Cannibal Corpse Torture	4.0
Every Time I Die Ex Lives	4.0
Lunar Aurora Hoagascht	3.5
All the Empires of the World Old Gods, Old Worlds, Old Wounds	3.5
fun. Some Nights	3.0
Buckethead Electric Sea	4.0
The Menzingers On the Impossible Past	4.0
Addaura Burning for the Ancient	4.0
Earth Angels of Darkness, Demons of Light II	3.5
Burial Kindred	4.5
Les Discrets Ariettes Oubliees...	4.0
The Flashbulb Opus At The End Of Everything	4.0
Crosses EP II	3.5
Loma Prieta I.V.	4.0
Alcest Les Voyages De L'Âme	4.0
Kayo Dot Gamma Knife	3.5
Connect.Ohm 9980	4.0

2011
The Weeknd Echoes of Silence	4.5
Metallica Beyond Magnetic	4.0
Radiohead The Daily Mail/Staircase	4.0
Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo OST	4.5
The Black Keys El Camino	4.0
Nujabes Spiritual State	3.5
Silversun Pickups Seasick	4.0
Vektor Outer Isolation	4.5
Koji Kondo The Legend of Zelda 25th Anniversary Symphony	4.5
Cloudkicker Let Yourself Be Huge	3.0
Cynic Carbon-Based Anatomy	3.5
Tycho Dive	4.0
The Decemberists Long Live the King	3.5
Uneven Structure Februus	4.5
Lantlos Agape	2.5
Haken Visions	4.0
M83 Hurry Up, We're Dreaming	4.5
Rhinocervs RH-11	4.5
Enduser Even Weight	4.0
Skeletonwitch Forever Abomination	4.0
James Blake Enough Thunder	3.0
Radiohead TKOL RMX 1234567	4.5
La Dispute Wildlife	3.5
Machine Head Unto the Locust	4.0
Steven Wilson Grace for Drowning	4.5
Mastodon The Hunter	4.5
Chelsea Wolfe Apokalypsis	4.0
AJJ Knife Man	4.5
Opeth Heritage	3.5
A Winged Victory for the Sullen A Winged Victory for the Sullen	4.5
Barn Owl Lost in the Glare	4.0
Thrice Major/Minor	4.0
The Horrible Crowes Elsie	4.5
Omega Massif Karpatia	4.0
Alrakis Alpha Eri	4.0
Midnight Odyssey Funerals from the Astral Sphere	4.5
Circle Takes the Square Rites of Initiation	4.0
The Weeknd Thursday	3.5
Buckethead Look Up There	4.5
Two songs clocking in at 32 minutes and it's pretty incredible. gone are any of his bizarre filler tracks and all we're left at are two long jams showcasing Buckethead's guitar playing. If I was to ever give a 5 to a Buckethead release it would be this, but alas it does end too abruptly and it's sometimes hard to want to sit through 10 and 20 minute songs back to back. But the quality is there.
Buckethead 3 Foot Clearance	4.5
The War On Drugs Slave Ambient	4.5
Crosses EP	4.0
Battlecross Pursuit of Honor	4.0
Djrum Mountains	4.5
Bomb the Music Industry! Vacation	4.5
311 Universal Pulse	4.0
Trophy Scars Never Born, Never Dead	4.0
Falls of Rauros The Light That Dwells in Rotten Wood	4.5
Zomby Dedication	4.0
Devin Townsend Project Ghost	4.0
Bon Iver Bon Iver, Bon Iver	4.5
sleepmakeswaves ...and so we destroyed everything	4.5
Devin Townsend Project Deconstruction	4.0
The Dear Hunter The Color Spectrum (Complete Collection)	4.5
WU LYF Go Tell Fire to the Mountain	4.0
Submotion Orchestra Finest Hour	4.5
City and Colour Little Hell	4.0
Frank Turner England Keep My Bones	4.0
Sky Architect A Dying Man's Hymn	4.0
My Morning Jacket Circuital	3.5
Maybeshewill I Was Here For a Moment, Then I Was Gone	4.0
Boris Attention Please	3.5
Cave In White Silence	4.0
Boris Heavy Rocks (2011)	4.5
Buckethead Empty Space	3.5
Weekend Nachos Worthless	3.5
Alcest Le Secret (2011 Version)	4.5
Buckethead It's Alive	4.5
At just a little over 30 minutes this is Buckethead's shortest album, but crammed into these 30 minutes are everything that we've grown to adore from Mr. B. You have those hair raising epic moments (Lebrontron), you've got quirky avant-garde songs (Picking the Feathers), and also some downright funky tracks with a little bass slap action (Barnyard Banties). So to summarize, in only 30 minutes Buckethead has covered his entire career into one album.
The Flight of Sleipnir Essence of Nine	4.0
This Will Destroy You Tunnel Blanket	3.5
Jesu Ascension	4.0
Manchester Orchestra Simple Math	4.5
Fleet Foxes Helplessness Blues	4.0
Beastie Boys Hot Sauce Committee Part Two	4.0
Giles Corey Giles Corey	4.0
Son Lux We Are Rising	3.5
Laura Stevenson Sit Resist	4.5
Ulver Wars of the Roses	4.0
Explosions in the Sky Take Care, Take Care, Take Care	3.5
Atmosphere The Family Sign	3.0
Foo Fighters Wasting Light	4.0
Between the Buried and Me The Parallax: Hypersleep Dialogues	4.0
Thursday No Devolucion	4.0
Grouper A I A	4.5
Amon Amarth Surtur Rising	4.0
Swarms Old Raves End	4.5
Light Bearer Lapsus	4.0
Embers Shadows	4.0
Beardfish Mammoth	4.0
Protest the Hero Scurrilous	3.5
Born of Osiris The Discovery	3.5
The Sheepdogs Learn and Burn	3.5
CunninLynguists Oneirology	4.5
The Weeknd House of Balloons	4.0
Boris New Album	4.0
Ott Mir	4.0
The Flashbulb Love As A Dark Hallway	4.0
Julie Christmas Coextinction Release 5	3.0
Burzum Fallen	3.5
The Human Abstract Digital Veil	4.0
Defeater Empty Days and Sleepless Nights	4.0
Scale the Summit The Collective	4.5
Woods of Desolation Torn Beyond Reason	4.0
Moonsorrow Varjoina kuljemme kuolleiden maassa	4.0
Radiohead The King of Limbs	4.0
Yuck Yuck	4.0
Nicolas Jaar Space Is Only Noise	4.0
Bright Eyes The People's Key	4.0
Tim Hecker Ravedeath, 1972	4.5
James Blake James Blake	2.5
Earth Angels of Darkness, Demons of Light I	4.0
The Boxer Rebellion The Cold Still	4.0
The Decemberists The King Is Dead	4.0
Dopamine Dying Away In The Deep Fall	4.0
Kroda Schwarzpfad	4.5
Barrows Imprecari Island	4.5

2010
Gorillaz The Fall	3.0
Omar Rodriguez-Lopez Un Escorpion Perfumado	3.0
Daft Punk Tron: Legacy	4.0
Amia Venera Landscape The Long Procession	4.0
Omar Rodriguez-Lopez Mantra Hiroshima	2.5
Buckethead Left Hanging	4.0
Agalloch Marrow of the Spirit	4.0
The Smashing Pumpkins Teargarden by Kaleidyscope, Vol. 2	4.0
Sodom In War and Pieces	4.0
Kanye West My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy	4.0
Girl Talk All Day	3.5
Julie Christmas The Bad Wife	4.0
The Ocean Anthropocentric	4.0
Just Like Vinyl Just Like Vinyl	3.5
Kylesa Spiral Shadow	3.0
Mount Eerie Song Islands Vol. 2	4.0
Skrillex Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites	2.5
Pretty Lights Glowing in the Darkest Night	4.0
Ghost (SWE) Opus Eponymous	3.5
Buckethead Captain Eo's Voyage	4.5
May be the best Buckethead album. The man in the KFC bucket has released a collection of songs that would remind you of Colma or Electric Tears, except this is so much better. It isn't drawn out like Electric Tears and overall, the songs are better than in Colma. Beautiful guitar playing at its finest.
Kings of Leon Come Around Sundown	3.5
Buckethead Kind Regards - Disc 1	3.0
Buckethead Kind Regards - Disc 3	3.5
Omar Rodriguez-Lopez Cizaña De Los Amores	4.0
Sufjan Stevens The Age of Adz	4.5
Mae (e)vening	4.5
Women Public Strain	3.5
Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross The Social Network OST	4.0
Deerhunter Halcyon Digest	4.5
Enslaved Axioma Ethica Odini	3.0
How to Dress Well Love Remains	4.0
Opeth In Live Concert at the Royal Albert Hall	4.5
Cloudkicker Beacons	4.0
Swans My Father Will Guide Me Up a Rope to the Sky	2.5
Oceansize Self Preserved While The Bodies Float Up	4.0
Atmosphere To All My Friends, Blood Makes The Blade Holy	4.0
The Contortionist Exoplanet	4.0
The Sword Warp Riders	4.5
Ghast Terrible Cemetery	4.0
Arcade Fire The Suburbs	4.5
Kerouac Cold and Distant, Not Loving	4.0
Winterfylleth The Mercian Sphere	4.0
Buckethead Best Regards - Vol. 1 - Orange Disc	3.5
Buckethead Best Regards - Vol. 2 - Blue Disc	4.0
Kvelertak Kvelertak	4.5
The Gaslight Anthem American Slang	4.0
Lantlos .neon	4.0
Against Me! White Crosses	3.0
The Flashbulb Arboreal	4.0
How to Destroy Angels How To Destroy Angels	3.0
Arandel In D	3.5
The Omar Rodriguez Lopez Quartet Sepulcros De Miel	4.0
Ital Tek Midnight Colour	4.0
The State Lottery When the Night Comes	4.5
Anathema We're Here Because We're Here	4.0
The Smashing Pumpkins Teargarden by Kaleidyscope, Vol. 1	3.0
Rosetta A Determinism of Morality	4.0
Emeralds Does It Look Like I'm Here?	4.0
Harvey Milk A Small Turn of Human Kindness	3.0
The Black Keys Brothers	4.0
Reggie Watts Why Shit So Crazy?	4.5
Wintersleep New Inheritors	3.5
Dead Letter Circus This Is The Warning	4.0
Clubroot II - MMX	3.5
The National High Violet	4.5
Minus the Bear Omni	4.0
Deftones Diamond Eyes	4.5
Flying Lotus Cosmogramma	4.0
Twilight Monument To Time End	3.5
Omar Rodriguez-Lopez and John Frusciante Omar Rodriguez-Lopez and John Frusciante	4.0
65daysofstatic We Were Exploding Anyway	4.0
Year of No Light Ausserwelt	4.5
Crystal Castles Crystal Castles II	3.0
Kayo Dot Coyote	3.0
Dark Time Sunshine Vessel	4.0
Bitter Frost Bitter Frost	4.0
The Ocean Heliocentric	4.0
Coheed and Cambria Year of the Black Rainbow	4.0
Not what I was expecting at all but still amazing. This is a welcome change after the lackluster effort that was NWFT (at least by their standards). There's a great, almost industrial sounding vibe going on. The guitar tones are perfect and this album overall is more atmospheric than anything they've done. Claudio's voice is still top notch and there are still hooks galore. Overall this a great step forward for the band after some people were probably afraid that they fell in a rut after NWFT.
The Tallest Man on Earth The Wild Hunt	4.5
Murder by Death Good Morning, Magpie	3.0
Red Sparowes The Fear Is Excruciating, But Therein...	4.0
Darkthrone Circle the Wagons	3.5
NOISIA Split The Atom	4.0
Alcest Écailles De Lune	4.5
Les Discrets Septembre Et Ses Dernières Pensées	4.5
Hooded Menace Never Cross the Dead	4.0
The Dillinger Escape Plan Option Paralysis	4.0
Streetlight Manifesto 99 Songs of Revolution: Volume I	4.0
Jimi Hendrix Valleys of Neptune	4.0
Gorillaz Plastic Beach	4.0
Titus Andronicus The Monitor	5.0
Burzum Belus	3.5
Murmuure Murmuure	4.5
Fang Island Fang Island	4.0
Ash Borer 2009 Demo	4.0
In Mourning Monolith	3.5
Buckethead Shadows Between The Sky	4.0
Cloudkicker ]]][[[	4.0
Yellow Swans Going Places	3.0
Valkyrie (CAN) Valkyrie	3.5
Skull Fist Heavier Than Metal	4.0

2009
Mudvayne Mudvayne	3.5
All the Empires of the World Blessings	3.5
Rishloo Feathergun	4.5
Omar Rodriguez-Lopez Solar Gambling	4.0
Sigha Rawww	3.0
Obliteration Nekropsalms	3.5
Animal Collective Fall Be Kind	4.0
Devin Townsend Project Addicted	4.0
Them Crooked Vultures Them Crooked Vultures	4.5
Nirvana Live at Reading	4.0
Shpongle Ineffable Mysteries from Shpongleland	3.5
The Red Chord Fed Through the Teeth Machine	3.5
Between the Buried and Me The Great Misdirect	4.0
Death Cube K Torn from Black Space	3.5
Death Cube K is a side project from Buckethead with the name of the project being an anagram for Buckethead. With Buckethead you would expect some sweet riffs, some solos, and some weird stuff. Well here you don't get any of that really (though it is weird) for this is a dark ambient album. If a guitar is used it's only here to add to the creepy atmosphere. This is some pretty dark stuff and is a good listen on big headphones in the dark. You could give it a shot, just don't expect any shredding or finger tapping here.
The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble Here Be Dragons	3.5
Thrice Beggars	4.0
Baroness Blue Record	4.0
The Flaming Lips Embryonic	4.0
Arizmenda Within the Vacuum of Infinity...	3.5
KISS Sonic Boom	3.0
The Fall of Troy In the Unlikely Event	3.5
HORSE the band Desperate Living	4.5
Desperate Living is Horse the Band's most focused release to date. It's still pretty quircky and goofy but it seems like a more serious effort for the most part. The synthy nintendo parts are much more prominant than in the past and they really keep the songs interesting. But in all actuality, even if there were no synths this would still be a kick ass album, but the nintendo moments make this more unique than every other post-hardcore or metalcore band out there. The vocals aren't really too different from past releases but I always enjoyed em so that's a plus. All in all this is by far Horses best release so far and probably in my top 5 for 2009.
Mumford and Sons Sigh No More	4.0
Converge Axe to Fall	4.0
Dethklok Dethalbum II	3.5
Strung Out Agents of the Underground	4.5
Omar Rodriguez-Lopez Xenophanes	4.0
Omar Rodriguez-Lopez Los Sueños De Un Higado	4.0
Alice in Chains Black Gives Way to Blue	4.0
Monsters of Folk Monsters of Folk	4.0
Brand New Daisy	4.0
Deadmau5 For Lack of a Better Name	4.5
Porcupine Tree The Incident	4.0
Pearl Jam Backspacer	4.0
A City Safe From Sea Throw Me Through Walls	3.5
Megadeth Endgame	4.5
The Protomen Act II: The Father of Death	4.5
Bruce Springsteen + Mega Man = The Protomen...it's as awesome as it sounds.
Wodensthrone Loss	4.0
BATS Red In Tooth and Claw	4.0
Noah and the Whale The First Days of Spring	4.0
Chevelle Sci-Fi Crimes	4.0
Tigers on Trains Grandfather	4.5
Mew No More Stories	3.5
Municipal Waste Massive Aggressive	4.0
fun. Aim and Ignite	4.5
Rx Bandits Mandala	4.5
Cave In Planets of Old	3.5
Mount Eerie Wind's Poem	3.0
August Burns Red Constellations	4.0
For Those Who Can't Wait For Those Who Can't Wait	4.0
Jesu Infinity	3.0
Touche Amore ...To the Beat of a Dead Horse	4.0
Maybeshewill Sing The Word Hope In Four-Part Harmony	4.5
Regina Spektor Far	3.0
Dream Theater Black Clouds and Silver Linings	4.0
Dinosaur Jr. Farm	4.5
The Mars Volta Octahedron	4.5
Yes this is better than De-Loused. I love The Mars Volta for their guitar wankery and pretensiosness (sp?) but I have to admit that after Bedlam I was worried. Well this eased my worries because this is the Volta's strongest effort in years. They took away most of the "noise" and replaced it with some really well written and stripped down songs. Cedrics voice is as good as I think it's ever been and the music is very spacey. I heard this was their interpretation of an acoustic album. Though it's not at all acoustic it's definately stripped down and what you get is the bare bones of what makes The Mars Volta so special. They're no longer hiding their skills behind noise, and are finally showing they're capable of writing well thought out songs, and not just musical exercises. Favorite album of '09 by the way.
Clubroot Clubroot	4.0
Panopticon Collapse	4.5
brokeNCYDE I'm Not a Fan, but the Kids Like It!	1.0
Dance Gavin Dance Happiness	3.0
Pelican Ephemeral	3.5
311 Uplifter	3.0
Emery ...In Shallow Seas We Sail	3.5
Devin Townsend Project Ki	4.0
maudlin of the Well Part the Second	4.0
Sunn O))) Monoliths and Dimensions	2.5
Sun of the Blind Skullreader	4.5
Gallows (UK) Grey Britain	3.5
Japandroids Post-Nothing	3.0
Heaven and Hell The Devil You Know	4.0
Buckethead A Real Diamond In The Rough	4.0
ISIS Wavering Radiant	4.0
Manchester Orchestra Mean Everything to Nothing	5.0
I'm finally hearing this for the first time and this might be my favorite album this year. Great indie rock stuff with powerful vocals. Some songs are angry, some sweet, but always powerful (and the word of the soundoff is...). There are also some very catchy moments that will have you bobbing your head and singing in your head for hours. This just gives off a great energy and if you're looking for one of the better releases of '09 then look no further.
Altar of Plagues White Tomb	4.0
Silversun Pickups Swoon	4.5
And So I Watch You From Afar And So I Watch You From Afar	4.0
The Decemberists The Hazards of Love	4.0
Mastodon Crack the Skye	4.0
Mono Hymn to the Immortal Wind	4.5
Pearl Jam Ten Redux	4.5
Coheed and Cambria Neverender	5.0
Ea Ea II	4.0
If These Trees Could Talk Above the Earth, Below the Sky	4.5
Ubiquitous Synergy Seeker Questamation	3.5
Tim Hecker An Imaginary Country	4.0
Yeah Yeah Yeahs It's Blitz!	4.0
ASC The Astral Traveller	4.0
The Antlers Hospice	4.0
Blut Aus Nord Memoria Vetusta II - Dialogue With The Stars	4.5
Thursday Common Existence	4.0
Irepress Sol Eye Sea I	4.0
Bomb the Music Industry! Scrambles	4.0
The Lonely Island Incredibad	3.0
Vordr MLP	4.0
Omar Rodriguez-Lopez Old Money	3.5
John Frusciante The Empyrean	4.0
Cymbals Eat Guitars Why There Are Mountains	4.0
Bon Iver Blood Bank	3.5
Animal Collective Merriweather Post Pavilion	3.0
Amesoeurs Amesoeurs	3.5
Algol Follow The Cepheid Light	3.5
Stendeck Sonnambula	4.0
Saxon Shore It Doesn't Matter	4.0
Love Through Cannibalism Metapodestroyer	4.0

2008
Vindensang Terminus: Rebirth in Eight Parts...	4.5
Cloudkicker The Map Is Not the Territory	4.0
Ikuinen Kaamos Closure	4.0
The Fall of Troy Phantom on the Horizon	4.0
Pig Destroyer Natasha	3.0
Right Away, Great Captain! The Eventually Home	4.0
Pretty Lights Filling Up The City Skies	4.0
Cynic Traced in Air	4.0
Minus the Bear Acoustics	4.0
Mount Eerie Lost Wisdom	4.0
Amon Amarth Twilight of the Thunder God	4.0
Anberlin New Surrender	4.0
Mutyumu Il y a	3.0
Kings of Leon Only By The Night	4.0
Buckethead The Dragons Of Eden	4.0
Buckethead Albino Slug	4.0
Defeater Travels	4.5
Metallica Death Magnetic	3.5
The Sound of Animals Fighting The Ocean and the Sun	4.0
Benn Jordan Pale Blue Dot	4.0
Deadmau5 Random Album Title	4.0
Thom Yorke The Eraser Rmxs	3.5
Deerhunter Microcastle	4.0
Lights Out Asia Eyes Like Brontide	4.5
Epic post-rock with electronic beats, keyboards, and guitars. Vocals are used but are not used enough in my opinion cuz the guy's got a really great voice. This is really beautiful stuff. Any fan of post-rock should give this a spin.
The Gaslight Anthem The '59 Sound	4.5
Jesu/Battle of Mice Split	3.5
Conor Oberst Conor Oberst	4.0
Mesa Verde The Old Road	4.0
Suis La Lune Heir	4.0
Tearwave Different Shade of Beauty	4.0
Misery Signals Controller	3.5
Ninja Gun Restless Rubes	3.5
Made Out of Babies The Ruiner	4.0
Girl Talk Feed the Animals	4.0
My Morning Jacket Evil Urges	3.5
Grouper Dragging a Dead Deer Up a Hill	4.0
Opeth Watershed	4.0
September Malevolence After This Darkness, There's a Next	4.0
Darkspace Dark Space III	4.0
Shai Hulud Misanthropy Pure	4.0
The Black Angels Directions to See a Ghost	3.5
Death Cab for Cutie Narrow Stairs	3.0
Aww that's too bad. Just when I was beginning to fall in love with Death Cab they have to release this? I Will Possess Your Heart gave me so much hope for the rest of this but it didn't live up to it. It feels very half assed and there's just not to many moments that stick with me after listening all the way through. Still better than a lot of stuff out there but nothing note worthy.
All the Empires of the World ...Will Be Laid To Waste	3.0
No-Man Schoolyard Ghosts	4.0
Kayo Dot Blue Lambency Downward	4.0
Nine Inch Nails The Slip	3.5
Moss Sub Templum	3.0
Sombres Forets Royaume De Glace	4.0
Moonsorrow Tulimyrsky	4.0
Atmosphere When Life Gives You Lemons...	4.5
Sleepercar West Texas	4.5
Closure in Moscow The Penance and the Patience	4.0
Thrice The Alchemy Index Vols. III & IV	4.0
Frightened Rabbit The Midnight Organ Fight	4.0
M83 Saturdays=Youth	4.0
The Black Keys Attack & Release	3.5
Frank Turner Love, Ire & Song	4.0
The Sword Gods of the Earth	4.5
Counting Crows Saturday Nights and Sunday Mornings	4.0
Coldworld Melancholie²	4.0
Crystal Castles Crystal Castles	3.0
Polar Bear Club Sometimes Things Just Disappear	3.5
Meshuggah obZen	4.0
The Tallest Man on Earth Shallow Grave	4.5
Murder by Death Red Of Tooth And Claw	3.5
Mount Eerie Black Wooden Ceiling Opening	4.5
Nine Inch Nails Ghosts I-IV	4.0
Genghis Tron Board Up the House	4.0
Hellhammer Demon Entrails	4.0
Eluveitie Slania	4.0
Omar Rodriguez-Lopez Calibration (Is Pushing Luck and Key Too Far)	3.5
The Gaslight Anthem Señor and the Queen	3.5
Bullet for My Valentine Scream Aim Fire	2.0
The Mars Volta The Bedlam in Goliath	3.5
Ayreon 01011001	4.0
Protest the Hero Fortress	4.0
The Flashbulb Soundtrack to a Vacant Life	4.5
Have a Nice Life Deathconsciousness	4.0
Empire! Empire! (I Was a Lonely Estate) Year Of the Rabbit 7"	3.5
Jon Foreman Fall and Winter	4.5
You Slut! Critical Meat	3.5
In Mourning Shrouded Divine	4.0
Annotations Of An Autopsy Before the Throne of Infection	1.0
Lukeing Forward Wandering In Urban Fog	3.0
Davwuh Dystopia	3.5
A Forest of Stars The Corpse of Rebirth	4.0
Moon Safari Blomljud	4.5
Badass prog...seriously listen to it. derp 50 characters derp

2007
Gris Il Était Une Forêt...	3.0
Buckethead Chicken Noodles II	4.0
Giraffes? Giraffes! More Skin With Milk-Mouth	4.0
Neige Et Noirceur L'Abîme Des Jours, L'Écume Des Nuits	4.0
Waking The Cadaver Perverse Recollections Of A Necromangler	1.0
Gorillaz D-Sides	3.5
Nine Inch Nails Y34RZ3R0R3M1X3D	4.0
Streetlight Manifesto Somewhere in the Between	4.0
Electric Wizard Witchcult Today	3.5
The Dillinger Escape Plan Ire Works	4.0
Burial Untrue	4.0
The Ocean Precambrian	4.5
Buckethead Cyborg Slunks	3.0
Buckethead Decoding the Tomb of Bansheebot	4.5
Anaal Nathrakh Hell Is Empty and All the Devils Are Her	3.5
Drautran Throne of the Depths	4.0
Coheed and Cambria No World for Tomorrow	4.0
Probably my least favorite Coheed album but it's still pretty damn good. "No World for Tomorrow" and "The End Complete 3" are beyond epic and are some of their best songs in their entire catolag. The weakness lies in that this album seems like a watered down version of GA1. The End Completes are no where near as good as the Willing Wells and Justice in Murder is an obvious filler track. But overall this is still a great listen. You still have Claudio wailing away, you got some tasty riffs, great guitar playing (leads, riffs, and solos wise) and it still retains a proggy feel from their last album. I'm hoping the prequal album will be way better than this but if Coheed decideds to put out albums of this magnitude for the rest of their career you won't be hearing me complain.
Thrice The Alchemy Index Vols. I & II	4.0
Radiohead In Rainbows	4.5
Many people would probably disagree with me when I say this is the best Radiohead album. The argument about which is Radiohead's best album will probably rage on forever, but that doesn't take away from the fact that this is my most listened to Radiohead album. It features everything that's good about Radiohead with a diverse range of instruments and Thom Yorke's haunting vocals. I think the second disc however takes a little bit away from the whole package though No Flowers is one of my favorite tracks on here. Regardless of the second disc, In Rainbows is a diverse album with some of the most beautiful music on it that I have ever heard.
Band of Horses Cease to Begin	4.0
Nadja Radiance of Shadows	4.0
MGMT Oracular Spectacular	3.5
Emery I'm Only A Man	2.5
Ulver Shadows of the Sun	4.0
Rosetta Wake/Lift	4.0
Wintersleep Welcome To The Night Sky	4.0
Foo Fighters Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace	3.5
Dethklok The Dethalbum	3.5
Wolves in the Throne Room Two Hunters	4.0
Between the Buried and Me Colors	4.0
Eddie Vedder Into the Wild	4.0
High on Fire Death Is This Communion	4.0
David Gilmour Remember That Night (Video)	4.5
Animal Collective Strawberry Jam	4.0
Baroness Red Album	4.0
Wyrd Kammen	4.0
Amorphis Silent Waters	4.0
Aesop Rock None Shall Pass	4.0
Kashiwa Daisuke Program Music I	4.5
Minus the Bear Planet of Ice	4.5
Echospace The Coldest Season	4.0
As Cities Burn Come Now Sleep	4.0
Alcest Souvenirs D'Un Autre Monde	4.5
Very beautiful and haunting. I've heard this classified as Black Metal but the only thing "black metal" about it is its lo-fi production, the guitar playing at points, and the atmosphere it gives off. I've heard it compared to Ulver's Bergtatt, but other than its beauty and atmosphere there's not many similarities between the two in my opinion. There's no shrieking or shredding and not much as far blast beats or anything. It really is an album you can just sit back to and enjoy the beauty and mood it gives off. In fact there's really not a bad moment on here but it can get a little repetative at times because each song basically follows the same formula. Regardless of that this is still a truely spectacular listening experience. Just don't go into it expecting a traditional black metal record.
The Main Drag Yours As Fast As Mine	4.0
Deathspell Omega Fas - Ite, Maledicti, In Ignem Aeternum	3.0
The Smashing Pumpkins Zeitgeist	3.0
Against Me! New Wave	3.5
Gogol Bordello Super Taranta	3.5
Justice †	4.0
Bon Iver For Emma, Forever Ago	4.5
I would easily put this up there for album of the year talk. This is absolutely amazing and you can just feel the emotion that is pouring through it. I bought this on impulse and now I'm so glad I did. I had this at a 4 but that just didn't do it justice. The layered vocals work really well and the bareness of the music gives it this great atmosphere and makes this one very personal album. I wouldn't consider myself much of a fan of folk but I love this and would recommend it to any music lover. Flume and Skinny Love are my favorites but every track here is a standout.
Johnnytwentythree JXXIII	4.5
Silverstein Arrivals and Departures	1.5
asbestoscape asbestoscape	4.0
The White Stripes Icky Thump	3.5
Queens of the Stone Age Era Vulgaris	3.5
Fair to Midland Fables From a Mayfly: What I Tell You Three Times is True	4.0
Klaus Schulze Kontinuum	4.5
Buckethead Acoustic Shards	3.5
Omar Rodriguez-Lopez Se Dice Bisonte, No Búfalo	3.5
The Gaslight Anthem Sink or Swim	5.0
Imagine if Bruce Springsteen and Against Me! fucked, this would be the resulting offspring. Every song here is catchy and energetic and full of lyrics that send you into a nostalgic state. Even though this is only their debut album they show a lot of maturity from a song writing standpoint. The vocals are gruff but endearing, and supply the songs with a lot of energy and emotion. The rest of the band does their job fine. There's honestly not a bad song on here. I would reccomend listening to "We Came to Dance" and if you like that then you'll immediately fall in love with the rest of this album.
Planet X Quantum	3.0
The National Boxer	4.0
Neurosis Given to the Rising	4.5
The Dear Hunter Act II: The Meaning of, & All Things Regarding Ms. Leading	4.5
Devin Townsend Ziltoid the Omniscient	4.0
Orange Goblin Healing Through Fire	4.0
Rishloo Eidolon	4.0
Paysage d'Hiver Einsamkeit	3.5
The Angelic Process Weighing Souls With Sand	4.5
Linkin Park Minutes to Midnight	2.0
The Pax Cecilia Blessed Are The Bonds	4.0
Tartar Lamb Sixty Metonymies	3.0
Rush Snakes & Arrows	3.5
William Basinski El Camino Real	3.5
Dinosaur Jr. Beyond	4.0
The Fall of Troy Manipulator	4.0
Dark Tranquillity Fiction	4.0
Nine Inch Nails Year Zero	4.0
Moonsorrow Viides luku - Hävitetty	5.0
Porcupine Tree Fear of a Blank Planet	5.0
Jesu Sun Down / Sun Rise	4.0
Stars of the Lid And Their Refinement Of The Decline	4.0
Static-X Cannibal	3.0
The Field From Here We Go Sublime	3.0
John 5 The Devil Knows My Name	4.0
Kings of Leon Because Of The Times	4.5
Machine Head The Blackening	4.0
Panda Bear Person Pitch	2.5
The Locust New Erections	4.0
As someone new to the grind genre this was the perfect album to get me into it. With its craziness/spazness mixed with brief but awesome moments of catchiness, The Locust are now a band I will keep my eye on in the future.
Earth Hibernaculum	4.0
Neil Young Live at Massey Hall 1971	4.5
Arcade Fire Neon Bible	4.0
Buckethead Pepper's Ghost	4.5
Explosions in the Sky All of a Sudden, I Miss Everyone	4.0
Eluvium Copia	4.0
Anberlin Cities	4.0
Jesu Conqueror	4.5
Nadja Thaumogenesis	4.0
Moving Mountains Pneuma	4.5
Blood Stain Child Mozaiq	3.0
Spectral Lore II	4.5

2006
Boris With Michio Kurihara Rainbow	3.5
Carbon Based Lifeforms World Of Sleepers	4.0
Warning Watching from a Distance	4.0
The Beatles Love	4.5
I reccomend this to anyone I meet who hasn't really listened to The Beatles before and every time that person becomes a fan. A remix album so to say that feels very natural. Songs are combined and spliced with other songs that create a colorful palette of the Beatles discography. Any Beatles fan who is skeptical about getting a complitation album shouldn't worry because this makes those classic Beatles tunes even better (if that's possible). All in all this is a fresh outlook on some old material and s The Beatles in a special way.
Brand New The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me	5.0
Tenacious D The Pick of Destiny	4.0
Yndi Halda Enjoy Eternal Bliss	4.5
Foo Fighters Skin and Bones	4.0
The Foo Fighters are one of my favorite mainstream rock bands and some may say that their music gets old pretty fast. Well if you give Skin and Bones a spin you'll realize that the Foo's are very capable of creating exciting and never dull music. This mainly acoustic driven live album has all the energy and excitement the Foo Fighters embody combined with interesting instrumentation and arrangements of their material. Dave's voice is top notch and actually everything musically is done with superior effort. The only downside is that the crowd is WAY too high in the mix. On their softer songs sometimes all you can hear is girls screaming at the top of their lungs. Especially on Everlong, which may be the best performance here, is almost ruined because the crowd singing along and screaming drowns out the beauty of this song. It captures the excitement of the album well but when I'm listening, I'm listening for the music and not to feel like I'm at a live show, especially a stripped down acoustic one. Anyways this is essential for any Foo Fighters fan and even if you're not, give it a shot, it may suprise you.
Hammock Raising Your Voice... Trying to Stop an Echo	4.5
ISIS In the Absence of Truth	4.0
Sunn O))) and Boris Altar	4.0
The Prize Fighter Inferno My Brother's Blood Machine	4.0
Battle Of Mice A Day of Nights	4.0
A Day of Nights is an album I was unprepared for on the first listen. I was expecting some doom metal with some operatic femal vocals. I couldn't have been more wrong. Battle of Mice is a band that musically is very similar to say Isis or the Red Sparrowes, but their "x" factor is the superbly done femal vocals of Julie Christmas. She speaks in the most innocent and child like tone ever while reciting some truely disturbing lyrics. Sometimes the lyrics don't even seem to make sense but at the same time you feel uneasy hearing them, almost like you shouldn't be listening in on what she's saying. Then there's her otherside where she gives some of the most deafening and emotional yells ever. It's a powerful performance by miss Christmas and I gotta say that without her this may have just been an average instrumental album. So I reccomend this to anyone looking for some eerie and unsetteling tunes, just don't listen to it alone in the dark k?
Coheed and Cambria The Last Supper: Live At Hammerstein Ballroom	4.5
Deftones Saturday Night Wrist	4.5
I usually consider White Pony to be the ultimate Deftones album but this might have just dethroned White Pony becuase this is simply amazing. It mixes beauty and heaviness perfectly, and often within the same song. Chino's vocals can be soothing and angelic then suddenly switch to his torchered screams. It has everything the Deftones are known for (atmosphere, heaviness, beauty, darkness) and take it all to another level. Overall this is the perfect Deftones album.
Converge No Heroes	3.5
My Chemical Romance The Black Parade	4.0
Primus They Can't All Be Zingers	4.0
Trentemoller The Last Resort	4.0
Melvins A Senile Animal	4.0
Amesoeurs Ruines Humaines	4.0
Gaza I Don't Care Where I Go When I Die	3.5
Amon Amarth With Oden on Our Side	4.5
The Decemberists The Crane Wife	4.5
Tycho Past is Prologue	4.0
Manchester Orchestra I'm Like a Virgin Losing a Child	4.5
Mutemath Mutemath	4.0
The Dear Hunter Act I: The Lake South, the River North	4.0
mewithoutYou Brother, Sister	4.5
Buckethead Crime Slunk Scene	4.0
Destroy the Runner Saints	2.0
Mastodon Blood Mountain	4.0
Mono / World's End Girlfriend Palmless Prayer / Mass Murder Refrain	4.5
The Mars Volta Amputechture	4.0
Buckethead Chicken Noodles	4.0
BT This Binary Universe	4.0
Iron Maiden A Matter of Life and Death	4.0
Insomnium Above the Weeping World	4.5
All Shall Perish The Price of Existence	2.5
Slayer Christ Illusion	4.0
Boris Dronevil -Final-	4.0
Agalloch Ashes Against the Grain	4.5
Silversun Pickups Carnavas	4.5
The Format Dog Problems	2.0
Thom Yorke The Eraser	4.0
Muse Black Holes & Revelations	4.0
All That Remains The Fall of Ideals	4.0
Helios Eingya	4.0
Three Days Grace One-X	2.0
Between the Buried and Me The Anatomy Of	3.5
Rainbow Live in Munich 1977	4.5
Red (USA) End of Silence	3.0
Bomb the Music Industry! Goodbye Cool World!	4.5
Russian Circles Enter	4.0
Burial Burial	4.0
Vinterriket Lichtschleier	4.0
The Raconteurs Broken Boy Soldiers	4.0
Girl Talk Night Ripper	3.5
Red Hot Chili Peppers Stadium Arcadium	4.0
Stadium Arcadium is a double album full of great material but like most double albums there's quite a bit of filler. I listened to this so much the summer after it came out that to this day I still can't really listen to it but that doesn't mean the songs aren't great. Every sound they've ever done can be found here. Charlie is a funk fest, Slow Cheetah is an acoustic number, Readymade is a full blown rocker, and everything in between is offered here. Favorite tracks personally are: Wet Sand, Charlie, Especially in Michigan, and Turn it Again. Fans of the Chili's will love this, and last I checked that was a lot of people.
Pearl Jam Pearl Jam	3.5
Tool 10,000 Days	4.0
Om Conference of the Birds	3.5
An album with only bass, drums, and vocals may sound boring but this is pretty tight. There's only two songs that both clock in over 10 minutes but the albums seems to fly by. The bass and drums are just in the perfect groove with one another and the vocals are very hypnotic. Great album to just put on and space out for a bit. Not rated any higher because there's only so much you can do with bass, drums, and vocals, but these guys still manage to keep it interesting.
Cult of Luna Somewhere Along the Highway	4.5
Above and Beyond Tri State	4.5
Taylor Deupree Northern	3.5
Jesu Silver	4.0
The Flaming Lips At War with the Mystics	4.0
Mono You Are There	4.0
Cannibal Corpse Kill	3.5
Matisyahu Youth	4.0
The Lawrence Arms Oh! Calcutta!	4.0
Darkthrone The Cult Is Alive	3.0
Robert Rich Electric Ladder	4.0
Thanatopsis Anatomize	4.0
Buckethead The Elephant Man's Alarm Clock	4.5
One of my favorite Buckethead releases. This album showcases all of Bucketheads strenghts. There's the shredding and epic solos that we've all come to expect from him, and also there are those weird moments he does. But unlike some of his other albums the weird tracks are few and really aren't "that" strange. Final Wars, the Lurker's at the Threshold, and Bird With a Hole in the Stomach are my personal favs. But all the songs here have something exciting to offer. A must hear for all Buckethead fans.
Wolves in the Throne Room Diadem of 12 Stars	4.0
In Flames Come Clarity	4.0
Brand New Fight Off Your Demons (The Demos)	3.5
Mirrorthrone Carriers of Dust	4.0
Arctic Monkeys Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not	3.5
Kayo Dot Dowsing Anemone With Copper Tongue	3.5
DragonForce Inhuman Rampage	4.0
The Legion Revocation	3.5
Pretty Lights Taking Up Your Precious Time	3.5
Drudkh Blood In Our Wells	4.0
Giant Squid Metridium Fields	4.0
Year of No Light Nord	4.0
Natural Snow Buildings The Dance of the Moon and the Sun	4.0
The Morningside The Wind, The Trees And The Shadows...	4.5
Justin Vernon Hazeltons	4.5

2005
Korn See You on the Other Side	3.0
Bluetech Sines And Singularities	4.0
Buckethead Inbred Mountain	4.0
Inbred Mountain is another effort from Buckethead who seems to release a few new albums every year. On this effort you get that vintage classic buckethead sound but you also get some just downright strange moments as well. Johnny Be Slunk is an 8 minute schizophrenics induced shred fest, the song is constantly changing going from wah induced palm muting almost groovy moments to grind influenced drumming and total sensless shredding. Some songs are just downright strange and I don't listen to those much like Advance to the Summit which is essentially Buckethead trying to produce the strangest sounds he can with his guitar. But it's when Buckethead stops the strange goofy noises and just plays that you realy get enjoyment out of this. Plastination Station is a song that showcases everything that is good with Buckethead because you get that great guitar sound and it builds up into just epic awesomeness. I would reccomend this to any Buckethead fan but for a someone new to his work this one still might be a little strange to get into.
The Ocean Aeolian	3.5
System of a Down Hypnotize	3.5
Rush R30: 30th Anniversary Tour	4.5
Darkspace Dark Space II	4.0
Boris Pink	4.0
3 (USA) Wake Pig	4.5
City and Colour Sometimes	3.5
Buckethead Enter the Chicken	3.5
Arsis A Diamond for Disease	4.0
65daysofstatic One Time for All Time	4.0
Animal Collective Feels	3.5
Toby Driver In the L..L..Library Loft	3.5
Sunn O))) Black One	4.0
Thrice Vheissu	4.5
Rosetta The Galilean Satellites	4.5
Boards of Canada The Campfire Headphase	4.0
Explosions in the Sky The Rescue	3.5
Deftones B-Sides and Rarities	3.0
My Morning Jacket Z	4.5
Corrupted El Mundo Frio	4.0
Hinder Extreme Behavior	1.5
Neil Young Prairie Wind	3.5
HORSE the band The Mechanical Hand	4.0
Coheed and Cambria From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness	5.0
This is right on the verge of being a 5. If not for a couple weaker songs it surely would be. Welcome Home is a perfect song, Ten Speed is a great hard rocker, The Suffering is their best radio friendly song, and The Willing Well's are some of the greatest pieces of music I've ever heard. It would take forever to describe the sound but just know that it's proggy/heavy and if not for SSTB this would be my favorite Coheed album.
Children of Bodom Are You Dead Yet?	3.0
Sigur Ros Takk...	4.5
Between the Buried and Me Alaska	4.0
Against Me! Searching for a Former Clarity	4.0
The Protomen The Protomen	4.0
Death Cab for Cutie Plans	3.5
Opeth Ghost Reveries	4.5
Protest the Hero Kezia	4.5
Minus the Bear Menos El Oso	4.0
Johnny Hobo and the Freight Trains Love Songs For The Apocalypse	4.0
Every Time I Die Gutter Phenomenon	3.5
311 Don't Tread On Me	3.0
Silverstein Discovering the Waterfront	3.0
10 Years The Autumn Effect	3.0
The Fall of Troy Doppelganger	4.0
Emery The Question	3.0
Silversun Pickups Pikul	3.5
Ulver Blood Inside	3.5
Boris Soundtrack from the Film Mabuta no Ura	4.0
Sufjan Stevens Illinois	4.0
As Cities Burn Son, I Loved You at Your Darkest	3.0
dredg Catch Without Arms	4.0
The Offspring Greatest Hits	4.5
Dropkick Murphys The Warrior's Code	4.0
The Mayan Factor 44	4.5
Foo Fighters In Your Honor	4.0
Shpongle Nothing Lasts... But Nothing Is Lost	4.5
The White Stripes Get Behind Me Satan	4.0
Dream Theater Octavarium	4.0
Pelican The Fire in Our Throats Will Beckon...	4.0
Meshuggah Catch Thirtythree	4.0
Gorillaz Demon Days	4.0
At the Drive-In This Station Is Non-Operational	4.0
System of a Down Mezmerize	4.0
Team Sleep Team Sleep	4.0
Gospel The Moon Is a Dead World	4.5
The Hold Steady Separation Sunday	3.0
Nine Inch Nails With Teeth	4.0
Porcupine Tree Deadwing	4.0
Jaga Jazzist What We Must	4.0
Mudvayne Lost and Found	3.0
Pelican March Into the Sea	4.0
The National Alligator	4.0
Nile Annihilation of the Wicked	4.0
Strapping Young Lad Alien	3.5
Queens of the Stone Age Lullabies to Paralyze	4.0
Coheed and Cambria Live at the Starland Ballroom	4.5
Trivium Ascendancy	3.0
The Mountain Goats The Sunset Tree	4.0
Mindless Self Indulgence You'll Rebel To Anything	3.5
Taake Hordalands Doedskvad	4.5
Moonsorrow Verisäkeet	5.0
I throw the word epic around a lot but this time it is completely justified. All the songs are are longer than 10 minutes except for the last track which is an acoustic number. These guys combine black and folk metal with viking themes and create a sound that is larger than life. I feel like I'm caught up in epic viking battles every time I hear this. If you're not turned off by long songs and folk elements in your metal then you'll probably love this.
The Mars Volta Frances the Mute	5.0
Favorite Mars Volta album by far. Every movement on this album is just astounding, its really a special experience to listen to it straight through. Only downside is maybe a bit too much ambient wise especially at the beginning of Miranda, but the rest is so good that it doesn't really drag down the album at all.
Genghis Tron Cloak of Love	3.5
Anberlin Never Take Friendship Personal	3.0
High on Fire Blessed Black Wings	4.0
God Is an Astronaut All Is Violent, All Is Bright	4.0
John Frusciante Curtains	4.0
Bomb the Music Industry! Album Minus Band	4.0
Bright Eyes Digital Ash in a Digital Urn	4.0
Bright Eyes I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning	4.0
Boris With Merzbow Sun Baked Snow Cave	3.5
William Fitzsimmons Until When We Are Ghosts	3.5
Manchester Orchestra You Brainstorm, I Brainstorm, But Brilliance...	4.0

2004
Strung Out Exile In Oblivion	4.5
John Frusciante and Josh Klinghoffer A Sphere in the Heart of Silence	3.5
Nirvana With the Lights Out	4.5
Ghost Mice Debt of the Dead	4.0
A Perfect Circle eMOTIVe	3.5
Kings of Leon Aha Shake Heartbreak	4.0
John Frusciante Inside of Emptiness	4.0
Jimmy Eat World Futures	3.5
Elliott Smith From a Basement on the Hill	4.0
ISIS Panopticon	4.0
Cult of Luna Salvation	4.5
Pig Destroyer Terrifyer	4.0
Wintersun Wintersun	4.5
Sum 41 Chuck	3.0
Bloodbath Nightmares Made Flesh	3.5
Shadows Fall The War Within	3.0
Green Day American Idiot	3.0
Converge You Fail Me	3.5
Jedi Mind Tricks Legacy of Blood	3.5
Colonel Claypool's Bucket Of Bernie Brains The Big Eyeball In The Sky	4.0
Flogging Molly Within a Mile of Home	4.0
The Faint Wet From Birth	3.5
Arcade Fire Funeral	5.0
Drudkh Autumn Aurora	4.0
Mastodon Leviathan	4.5
Jeff Buckley Grace (Legacy Edition)	4.5
Krohm A World Through Dead Eyes	4.5
Necrophagist Epitaph	4.0
Boris The Thing Which Solomon Overlooked	3.0
Taking Back Sunday Where You Want To Be	4.0
Meshuggah I	4.0
Sparta Porcelain	4.0
Neurosis The Eye of Every Storm	4.0
Sunn O))) White2	3.0
John Frusciante The Will to Death	4.0
Vordr I	4.0
Thin Lizzy Greatest Hits	4.5
Everlast White Trash Beautiful	3.0
Slipknot Vol. 3: The Subliminal Verses	3.5
Teargas and Plateglass Teargas & Plateglass	4.0
Vinterriket Landschaften Ewiger Einsamkeit	4.0
Agalloch The Grey	3.5
The Ocean Fluxion	4.5
Buckethead Population Override	4.5
Velvet Cacoon Genevieve	2.5
Iron And Wine Our Endless Numbered Days	3.0
Ozric Tentacles Spirals in Hyperspace	4.0
Franz Ferdinand Franz Ferdinand	2.5
John Butler Trio Sunrise Over Sea	4.5
Blindside About A Burning Fire	3.5
John Frusciante Shadows Collide with People	4.5
Fantomas Delìrium Còrdia	3.0
Circle Takes the Square As the Roots Undo	4.5
This finally worked for me. For months I had been listening to this and I just didn't get all the hype. I was immediately turned off by the vocals and the lack of structure to the songs. But one day on a long drive I popped this bad boy in and for some reason it just clicked on so many levels. It's harsh and beautiful at the same time and I'm glad I gave it some time to sink in.
Animal Collective Sung Tongs	3.0
Corrupted Se Hace Por Los Suenos Asesinos	3.0
Probot Probot	3.5
Buckethead The Cuckoo Clocks of Hell	4.0
The Fall of Troy Ghostship Demos	4.0
Matisyahu Shake Off the Dust...Arise	4.0
The Mountain Goats We Shall All Be Healed	4.0
Disillusion Back to Times of Splendor	4.0
Vali Forlatt	4.0
Xasthur Telepathic With The Deceased	4.0
Avzhia The Key of Throne	4.0
Don't worry brah, I just gave it a spin and enjoyed it immensley.
Ryan Adams Love is Hell	4.5

2003
The Offspring Splinter	3.5
Boris Boris At Last -Feedbacker-	4.5
Korn Take a Look in the Mirror	2.5
blink-182 Blink-182	4.0
The Beatles Let It Be… Naked	4.0
Dream Theater Train of Thought	4.0
Mudvayne All Access to All Things	4.0
Stone Temple Pilots Thank You	4.0
Pearl Jam Lost Dogs	4.0
Some true gems are to be found on this b-side/rarity compilation. Tracks like Alone, Sad, Yellow Ledbetter, Undone, and Last Kiss are some of Pearl Jam's best songs that probably should have made it on some of their studio albums. There's quite a bit of filler but that's to be expected given the fact that it's a double album of rarities. All in all this is a great release and is a better listen than some of their actual albums.
Pelican Australasia	3.5
Explosions in the Sky The Earth Is Not a Cold Dead Place	4.5
Against Me! As the Eternal Cowboy	4.0
R.E.M. In Time: The Best of R.E.M. 1988-2003	4.0
Between the Buried and Me The Silent Circus	4.0
Kayo Dot Choirs of the Eye	4.5
Rush Rush in Rio	4.5
Buckethead Bucketheadland 2	3.0
Murder by Death Who Will Survive and What Will Be Left of Them?	4.0
Death Cab for Cutie Transatlanticism	4.0
Coheed and Cambria In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3	5.0
As an avid Coheed and Cambria fan I love every single one of their albums. But this one gives me the most mixed reactions. It contains some of my absolute favorite songs including the selft titled epic, the crowing, the light and the glass, and 2113. However this album has the most filler I believe of any of their albums. The Velorium Campers i think is their weakest suite and I hardly listen to the radio friendly A Favor House Atlantic. Yet through it all I still find this album to be incredible. It perfectly mixes their epic progness with their pop-punk catchiness. This album is still a mystery to me after all these years because some days it's my absolute favorite album by them, and some days i think it's their most underwhelming effort. But trust me, this is definately something special that contains those hair raising and sing along moments you would expect from, imo, the greatest band on earth.
Do Make Say Think Winter Hymn Country Hymn Secret Hymn	3.0
Muse Absolution	4.0
Leviathan The Tenth Sub Level of Suicide	4.0
Oceansize Effloresce	4.0
Rob Zombie Past, Present & Future	3.5
HORSE the band R. Borlax	4.0
The Allman Brothers Band At Fillmore East (Deluxe Edition)	5.0
A Perfect Circle Thirteenth Step	4.0
Thursday War All the Time	4.0
My Morning Jacket It Still Moves	4.5
Ulver Svidd Neger OST	3.5
Envy A Dead Sinking Story	4.0
Edge of Sanity Crimson II	4.5
Drudkh Forgotten Legends	3.5
Thrice The Artist in the Ambulance	4.0
The Mayan Factor In Lake 'CH	4.0
KISS Kiss Symphony: Alive IV	3.0
311 Evolver	4.0
Thanatopsis Axiology	4.5
The Darkness Permission to Land	3.0
The Locust Plague Soundscapes	4.0
The Mars Volta De-Loused in the Comatorium	4.5
Brand New Deja Entendu	4.0
Arcade Fire The Arcade Fire	3.5
Radiohead Hail to the Thief	4.0
Ulrich Schnauss A Strangely Isolated Place	4.0
Boris Akuma no Uta	4.0
Metallica St. Anger	2.5
William Basinski Melancholia	3.5
Shinedown Leave a Whisper	4.0
Led Zeppelin How the West Was Won	5.0
Deftones Deftones	4.0
Shai Hulud That Within Blood Ill-Tempered	4.0
Moonsorrow Kivenkantaja	4.0
Anberlin Blueprints for the Black Market	3.0
Four Tet Rounds	3.5
William Basinski The Disintegration Loops IV	4.0
Yeah Yeah Yeahs Fever To Tell	3.0
Sunn O))) White1	3.5
Opeth Damnation	4.0
Godsmack Faceless	3.0
Rise Against Revolutions per Minute	4.0
The White Stripes Elephant	4.0
William Basinski The Disintegration Loops III	4.0
The Devin Townsend Band Accelerated Evolution	4.0
Linkin Park Meteora	3.0
Film School alwaysnever	4.0
AFI Sing the Sorrow	3.5
Cursive The Ugly Organ	4.5
We Followed Tigers And Then We Were Killed...	4.0
Very nice Post Rock. It sounds very similar to Explosions in the Sky at points until when you least expect it there is scream/yell that sounds far away and the music explodes before dying down again into a beautiful melody. I like the use of the double bass on the drums throughout the album as well. I would almost go as far to say it is a little post-hardcore influenced as well. Any fan of post rock should check this out
The Microphones Mount Eerie	4.0
Sleep Dopesmoker	4.5
Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra This Is Our Punk-Rock, Thee Rusted Satellites Gather and Sing	4.0
William Basinski The Disintegration Loops II	4.0
Kammarheit Asleep and Well Hidden	4.0
Streetlight Manifesto Everything Goes Numb	4.5

2002
Svartsinn Devouring Consciousness	4.0
Steve Von Till If I Should Fall to the Field	3.5
System of a Down Steal This Album!	4.0
Mudvayne The End of All Things to Come	4.0
Amon Amarth Versus the World	4.0
Opeth Deliverance	3.5
Pearl Jam Riot Act	3.5
Minus the Bear Highly Refined Pirates	4.0
Symphony X The Odyssey	4.0
Godspeed You! Black Emperor Yanqui U.X.O.	4.0
Spark The Robotic Girl Next Door	4.0
Nirvana Nirvana	3.5
Sigur Ros ( )	5.0
This is one of the most beautiful albums I've ever heard. The vocals throughout the album are in a made up language called "hopelandic" and really just repeat the same sounding syllables throughout, but somehow they never get old and contain an amazing amount of emotion in them. It's like you know the emotion he's feeling even though he's not really sayin words. Musically this reminds me of winter. It's like walking around at night after it just snowed and the moon is shining on the newly fallen snow. That may sound kind of fairy like but it's just what I think of. None of the songs have actual titles but each one is unique in it's own right and either leave you feeling melancholic or hopeful. It's amazing how Untitled 3 and 4 seem so cheerful yet 6 and 7 seem so depressing and subtle. All in all ( ) is truely a magnificant album and I think most people should at least give it a spin at some point.
Buckethead Electric Tears	4.0
Trespassers William Different Stars	4.0
Porcupine Tree In Absentia	4.5
Queens of the Stone Age Songs for the Deaf	4.5
The Dillinger Escape Plan Irony Is a Dead Scene	4.5
Interpol Turn on the Bright Lights	4.0
Carissa's Wierd Songs About Leaving	4.5
Bright Eyes Lifted or The Story is in the Soil, Keep Your Ear to the Ground	4.5
Meshuggah Nothing	4.0
The Flaming Lips Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots	5.0
Red Hot Chili Peppers By the Way	4.5
An album that I think flies under the radar when it comes to the chilis. This is my favorite rhcp album and it took a while for it to grown on me because of the apparent lack of funkiness to be had. But what you get here instead are songs with breathtaking melodies, incredible background vocals, and john frusciante taking center stage which is never a bad thing. This is very different than anything they've done before or after but it is definately one to check out and let grown on you.
Atmosphere God Loves Ugly	4.0
Mastodon Remission	4.0
Eminem The Eminem Show	2.5
Rush Vapor Trails	4.0
Ildjarn Hardangervidda (with Nidhogg)	4.0
Against Me! Reinventing Axl Rose	4.5
City of Caterpillar City of Caterpillar	4.5
Pretty intense screamo/hardcore that's not so unsimilar from Circle Takes the Square. The one thing I absolutely love about these guys though is their longer songs which take on a post-rock esque structure and just build up and build up before exploding. You can definately sense the power and emotion pouring through this one. One of my favorite "core" albums ever and I think it's a shame that these guys didn't release more material because I don't think I could ever get tired of this stuff. Recomended to any fan of Circle Takes the Square or Hardcore music in general.
Melvins Hostile Ambient Takeover	4.0
pg.99 / Majority Rule Document #12	3.5
Flogging Molly Drunken Lullabies	4.0
The Mars Volta Tremulant	4.0
dredg El Cielo	4.5
Boards of Canada Geogaddi	4.0
Desaparecidos Read Music/Speak Spanish	4.0
Thrice The Illusion of Safety	4.0
Sunn O))) Flight of the Behemoth	3.5
Nine Inch Nails Still	4.0
Dream Theater Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence	4.0
Bohren und der Club of Gore Black Earth	3.5
Agalloch The Mantle	4.0
Boris Heavy Rocks	4.0
William Basinski The Disintegration Loops I	4.0
El-P Fantastic Damage	4.0
Taake Over Bjoergvin Graater Himmerik	4.0
Wigrid Hoffnungstod	4.0
Do you like Burzum? If so, then do I have an album for you. If you handed this to me and said it was a previously unreleased Burzum album I would totally believe you. This one man project hails from Germany and he creates some excellent atmosphere in this depressing masterpiece. Only thing keeping this at a 4 is that at 59 minutes it can drag a little. If you like what you're hearing and are ok with a little unoriginality then you should enjoy this.
ISIS Oceanic	4.5
Coheed and Cambria The Second Stage Turbine Blade	5.0
This album is perfect. Not one bad song on here. This is before Coheed would delve into metal and prog. The music here is pretty raw and sounds like a mix of pop-punk and post-hardcore with an epic feel to it. Claudio's voice is also much higher than in later releases but there is so much emotion pouring out of his voice that it's hard for me not to get goosebumps on certain parts of this album. However the songs retain their epic quality. The chorus' are anthemic and powerful. Powerful really is the only world I can describe this album as. Every moment is a highlight. Perfect.
Korn Untouchables	4.5
A while ago I read a review for Linkin Park's Meteora and he gave it a 5. Before disregarding this guys rating I saw what he had to say and he actually made a good point about it being a "personal" album. Well his feelings for that album are pretty much the same feelings I have for Untouchables. This album was "the" album for me when i was 13-15. My taste in music changed dramatically after that but I then realized that I still loved this album. Last week I listend to it again and I enjoyed it immensly. There's no reason this should be a 4.5. It's not techincally great, Jon's whining as much as ever, and the lyrics sometimes are just abysmall. Yet, I can't help but absolutely love this album. I completely understand why it could be hated but there's just something about it that I can't comprehend. Like I couldn't get in an argument with somebody explaining why it's good because it isn't. That may sound confusing but it makes sense to me. All in all I love this album and I don't blame you if you dont. The end.

2001
maudlin of the Well Leaving Your Body Map	4.5
Ulver Silencing the Singing	3.5
Moonsorrow Voimasta ja kunniasta	4.5
Envy All the Footprints You've Ever Left and the Fear Expecting Ahead	4.0
KISS The Box Set	4.0
Windir 1184	4.5
Andrew W.K. I Get Wet	3.5
Rob Zombie The Sinister Urge	4.0
Pink Floyd Echoes	3.0
Stars of the Lid The Tired Sounds of Stars of the Lid	4.0
Aphex Twin Drukqs	3.5
Thursday Full Collapse	4.0
Ozzy Osbourne Down to Earth	2.5
Set Fire to Flames Sings Reign Rebuilder	2.5
The Strokes Is This It	3.5
Tenacious D Tenacious D	4.0
Incubus (USA-CA) Morning View	4.0
Wilco Yankee Hotel Foxtrot	3.5
7 Angels 7 Plagues Jhazmyne's Lullaby	3.5
The Who Live at Leeds (Deluxe Edition)	5.0
Aesop Rock Labor Days	4.0
P.O.D. Satellite	3.0
Gamma Ray No World Order	4.0
The Microphones The Glow Pt. 2	4.0
Explosions in the Sky Those Who Tell the Truth Shall Die...	3.5
System of a Down Toxicity	4.0
Converge Jane Doe	4.5
Ulver Silence Teaches You How to Sing EP	4.0
Radiohead Amnesiac	4.0
Slipknot Iowa	3.5
Neurosis A Sun That Never Sets	4.0
Mudvayne The Beginning of All Things to End	3.0
Muse Origin of Symmetry	4.5
maudlin of the Well Bath	4.5
The White Stripes White Blood Cells	4.0
Robert Rich Somnium	4.0
Shpongle Tales of the Inexpressible	4.0
311 From Chaos	3.5
pg.99 Document #8	4.0
Devin Townsend Terria	4.5
blink-182 Take Off Your Pants And Jacket	4.0
Buckethead Somewhere Over the Slaughterhouse	3.5
My Morning Jacket At Dawn	4.0
Agalloch Of Stone, Wind and Pillor	4.0
Sum 41 All Killer No Filler	4.0
Tool Lateralus	4.5
cLOUDDEAD cLOUDDEAD	3.0
Gorillaz Gorillaz	4.0
Unwound Leaves Turn Inside You	4.0
The Angels of Light How I Loved You	4.0
Opeth Blackwater Park	4.5
Arthemesia Devs Iratvs	4.5
John Frusciante To Record Only Water for Ten Days	4.0
Against Me! Against Me!	4.5
On The Might of Princes Where You Are and Where You Want to Be	4.0
Ensiferum Ensiferum	4.0
Creed Weathered	2.5
Finntroll Jaktens Tid	3.0
Fugazi The Argument	4.0
Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra Born Into Trouble As the Sparks Fly Upward	4.0
Pig Destroyer Prowler in the Yard	4.0
Paysage d'Hiver Winterkälte	4.0

2000
Marilyn Manson Holy Wood	3.5
The White Stripes De Stijl	4.0
OutKast Stankonia	4.0
Godspeed You! Black Emperor Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven	4.5
Linkin Park Hybrid Theory	4.0
Electric Wizard Dopethrone	4.0
Radiohead Kid A	4.5
At the Drive-In Relationship of Command	4.5
The Smashing Pumpkins Machina II/The Friends & Enemies of Modern Music	3.5
Garden of Shadows Oracle Moon	4.5
Mudvayne L.D. 50	4.5
Fuel Something Like Human	3.0
Animal Collective Spirit They're Gone, Spirit They've Vanished	4.0
In Flames Clayman	4.0
Sunn O))) Meets Nurse With Wound The Iron Soul of Nothing	4.0
Deftones White Pony	4.5
Bon Jovi Crush	2.0
Modest Mouse The Moon & Antarctica	4.5
Queens of the Stone Age Rated R	4.0
Iron Maiden Brave New World	4.0
Matchbox Twenty Mad Season	2.5
A Perfect Circle Mer de Noms	4.0
Elliott Smith Figure 8	4.0
Del Tha Funkee Homosapien Both Sides of the Brain	4.0
Thrice Identity Crisis	3.5
Ulver Perdition City	4.0
Pink Floyd Is There Anybody Out There?	5.0
This is basically the live version of the Wall and it is better than the studio version in my opinion. The solos are longer, theres songs on here that aren't on the original release like "What Shall We Do and The Last Few Bricks", and you can sense the excitement that must have been felt when attending this spectacle of an event. Musically everything is performed perfectly and the vocals have a lot more life in them than on the studio release. Sometimes, for me at least, the crowd is way too high in the mix on live albums and it takes away from the performance, but that is not the case here. The crowd is heard but it never gets in the way of the music. The beginning of Run Like Hell is a perfect use of crowd in the mix when Roger Waters is taunting them to make noise and "have a good time", but when the band plays you barely hear them which is a good thing. This live release of The Wall has probably been listened to by me more than the original release. Best live album I've ever heard.
mum Yesterday Was Dramatic - Today Is OK	3.5
Disturbed The Sickness	3.0
Flogging Molly Swagger	4.0
The Smashing Pumpkins Machina/The Machines of God	4.5
Yo La Tengo And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside...	4.5
Children of Bodom Follow the Reaper	4.0
Mindless Self Indulgence Frankenstein Girls Will Seem Strangely Sexy	3.5
Limp Bizkit Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavored Water	1.0
Nightingale I	3.5
Pearl Jam Binaural	4.0
Porcupine Tree Lightbulb Sun	4.0
Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra He Has Left Us Alone But Shafts of Light Sometimes Grace the Corner of Our	4.0
pg.99 Document #5	4.0
Bohren und der Club of Gore Sunset Mission	4.0
Dying Fetus Grotesque Impalement	4.0
Weakling Dead as Dreams	4.0
Paysage d'Hiver Kristall und Isa	4.0
Immolation Close to a World Below	4.0
Hungry Ghosts Alone, Alone	4.0
Deltron 3030 Deltron 3030	4.5
Boris Flood	4.5
Cave In Jupiter	4.5

1999
Burzum Hlidskjalf	3.5
Taake Nattestid Ser Porten Vid	4.0
Botch We Are the Romans	4.0
Metallica S&M	4.0
Coil Musick To Play In The Dark	3.5
The Dismemberment Plan Emergency & I	4.0
Dream Theater Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes from a Memory	4.5
Opeth Still Life	4.5
311 Soundsystem	4.0
Windir Arntor	4.5
Forest As a Song in the Harvest of Grief	4.0
Creed Human Clay	2.0
The Dillinger Escape Plan Calculating Infinity	4.0
Type O Negative World Coming Down	4.0
Nine Inch Nails The Fragile	4.5
The Cinematic Orchestra Motion	3.5
American Football American Football	4.0
KISS Psycho Circus	3.5
Incubus (USA-CA) Make Yourself	4.0
Mr. Bungle California	4.0
Empyrium Where at Night the Wood Grouse Plays	3.5
Ozric Tentacles Waterfall Cities	4.0
Dokken The Very Best of Dokken	4.0
Slipknot Slipknot	3.5
Alice in Chains Nothing Safe: Best of the Box	4.0
Sigur Ros Agætis byrjun	4.5
In Flames Colony	4.0
Smash Mouth Astro Lounge	3.0
Red Hot Chili Peppers Californication	4.5
blink-182 Enema Of The State	4.5
Children of Bodom Hatebreeder	4.0
The Flaming Lips The Soft Bulletin	4.0
Melvins The Maggot	4.0
Summoning Stronghold	4.0
Buckethead Monsters & Robots	3.5
Neurosis Times of Grace	4.0
Godspeed You! Black Emperor Slow Riot For New Zero Kanada	4.5
Aphex Twin Windowlicker	3.0
MF DOOM Operation: Doomsday	3.5
Paysage d'Hiver Paysage d'Hiver	4.0
Soundtrack (Film) Detroit Rock City	3.0
Immortal At the Heart of Winter	3.5
Black metal that reminds me of dissection. Great riffs throughout make this a solid effort. Actually everything from a musical standpoint is top notch. However the vocals are absolutely horrible. I'm used to black metal vocalists but this is laughable bad. Sounds like the guy is belching. Put in some hellish shrieks or growls instead of the belching and I'd knock this up to a 4 at least.
Static-X Wisconsin Death Trip	3.5
Shabutie Penelope	3.5
Rage Against the Machine The Battle of Los Angeles	4.0
Porcupine Tree Stupid Dream	4.0
maudlin of the Well My Fruit Psychobells... A Seed Combustible	4.0
The White Stripes The White Stripes	4.5
Agalloch Pale Folklore	4.5

1998
Ulver Themes From William Blake's The Marriage of Heaven and Hell	3.5
David Gray White Ladder	3.5
Metallica Garage Inc.	4.0
The Offspring Americana	3.5
Meshuggah Chaosphere	4.0
Refused The Shape Of Punk To Come	4.5
Desert Sessions Volume 3 and 4	2.5
Eels Electro-Shock Blues	4.0
OutKast Aquemini	4.5
Goo Goo Dolls Dizzy Up The Girl	3.5
Boards of Canada Music Has the Right to Children	4.0
Iron Maiden A Real Live Dead One	4.0
Queens of the Stone Age Queens of the Stone Age	4.5
About as close sounding to Kyuss as QOTSA ever got. Josh Homme really shines on this album. His riffs are still heavy and have an awesome groove to em and his voice just oozes cool. Out of all their albums I go back to this one way more than the others. This is really great to put in your car and cruise to. If you like QOTSA and haven't heard this yet you need to.
Death The Sound of Perseverance	5.0
Sunny Day Real Estate How It Feels To Be Something On	4.5
Elliott Smith XO	4.0
Rob Zombie Hellbilly Deluxe	4.0
Korn Follow the Leader	3.0
Opeth My Arms, Your Hearse	4.0
At the Drive-In In/Casino/Out	4.0
System of a Down System of a Down	4.0
The Smashing Pumpkins Adore	4.0
The Pumpkins' "techno" album. Adore is full of electronic beats but that's not to say it's danceable or anything. In fact this takes on a more gothic vibe than anything. After Siamese Dream and Mellon Collie there was bound to be a let down but that doesn't mean this isn't a great album. Tear is absolutely incredible and Ava Adore utilizes the electronic beats very well without sounding mechanized. The album flows very well and is always a good listen but don't expect a classic here.
Converge When Forever Comes Crashing	4.0
Massive Attack Mezzanine	4.5
Strung Out Twisted By Design	4.5
Blind Guardian Nightfall in Middle-Earth	4.5
Catch 22 Keasbey Nights	4.0
Buckethead Colma	4.5
Desert Sessions Volumes 1 and 2	4.0
Neutral Milk Hotel In the Aeroplane Over the Sea	4.5
Pearl Jam Yield	4.0
Paysage d'Hiver Steineiche	3.5
Swans Swans Are Dead	4.5
Dan Swano Moontower	4.5
I think I read that Dan Swano wanted this to sound like if Rush was a death metal band and he came pretty damn close here. Think Edge of Sanity with some synthesizers. Any fan of Progressive Death Metal or just Death Metal in general should probably check this.
Boris Amplifier Worship	3.5
Bolt Thrower Mercenary	4.0
Odium (NOR) The Sad Realm of the Stars	4.0
Bola Soup	4.0
Devin Townsend Infinity	3.5
Radiohead Airbag/How Am I Driving?	4.0
Guns N' Roses Use Your Illusion	4.0

1997
Ozric Tentacles Curious Corn	3.5
Metallica Reload	3.0
In Flames Whoracle	4.0
Modest Mouse The Lonesome Crowded West	4.5
Ozzy Osbourne The Ozzman Cometh	4.0
KISS Carnival of Souls: The Final Sessions	3.5
Deftones Around the Fur	4.0
Phish Slip, Stitch, and Pass	4.0
Jimi Hendrix Experience Hendrix: The Best of Hendrix	4.0
Gamma Ray Somewhere Out in Space	4.0
Death Cube K Disembodied	3.0
Godspeed You! Black Emperor F♯ A♯ ∞	5.0
A soundtrack to the apocalypse. This is the most eerie yet beautiful thing I've ever heard. Put this on in the dark and drift away to the sounds of the end of the world. The moment you hear the words "the car is on fire, but there's no driver at the wheel" you will be in for a bleak experience that somehow leaves you optimistic at the end. Words can't really describe the genius of this piece of art. This is one of the few albums that I think everybody should hear at some point.
311 Transistor	4.0
Devin Townsend Ocean Machine: Biomech	4.5
Creed My Own Prison	3.0
blink-182 Dude Ranch	4.0
Radiohead OK Computer	4.5
In the Woods... Omnio	4.0
Biosphere Substrata	4.0
Foo Fighters The Colour and the Shape	4.0
Melvins Honky	3.5
Savage Garden Savage Garden	3.5
Yo La Tengo I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One	4.0
KISS Greatest KISS	4.0
Third Eye Blind Third Eye Blind	4.5
The Chemical Brothers Dig Your Own Hole	3.5
Lord Belial Enter The Moonlight Gate	4.0
Ulver Nattens Madrigal	3.5
Moonblood Blut & Krieg	4.0
Elliott Smith Either/Or	4.5
Strapping Young Lad City	4.0
Built to Spill Perfect from Now On	4.0
Burzum Daudi Baldrs	2.0
Arcturus La Masquerade Infernale	3.5
Mogwai Young Team	3.5
Ween The Mollusk	4.0
Electric Wizard Come My Fanatics...	4.0
Fates Warning A Pleasant Shade of Gray	4.0
Ace Frehley 12 Picks	4.0
Emperor Anthems to the Welkin at Dusk	4.5
Forest Like a Blaze Above the Ashes	4.5

1996
Aphex Twin Richard D. James Album	4.0
Wilco Being There	4.0
The Beatles Anthology 3	4.0
Korn Life Is Peachy	3.5
Swans Soundtracks for the Blind	4.0
Matchbox Twenty Yourself or Someone Like You	3.5
Tool Ænima	4.5
Weezer Pinkerton	4.5
I have stayed far away from Weezer because well...they blow. So when I heard they didn't always suck I asked a friend which album to pick up and he pointed me here and wow...they used to be good. This is a pretty awesome listen that shows the good side of Weezer and it sort of pisses me off that they went from this to the Beverly Hills Weezer we have today.
Rush Test for Echo	3.5
Smog The Doctor Came at Dawn	3.5
Vinterland Welcome My Last Chapter	4.5
Everything I like about black metal can be found here. The production is standard for the genre but not unlistenable, the atmosphere reminds me of those coldest winter nights. I would compare this to Dissection except this is probably more raw in my opinion. It has an epic atmosphere to it that few other black metal outfits can reach. Glad I gave this a chance and to any fan of melodic black metal or just black metal in general, this is essential.
Cradle of Filth Dusk... and Her Embrace	3.0
Pearl Jam No Code	4.0
Type O Negative October Rust	4.5
Earth Pentastar: In The Style Of Demons	4.0
Sublime Sublime	4.0
KISS You Wanted the Best, You Got the Best!!	3.0
Opeth Morningrise	4.5
Metallica Load	4.0
Oh god, Metallica infamous album where they cut their hair and mellowed out their sound. Well I'm one of the few who actually really enjoys this album. By no means is this up to par with their early stuff but I mean cmon few bands ever come close to touching their 80's stuff. This still has some really great songs like Bleeding Me, The Outlaw Torn, Until it Sleeps, and Hero of the Day. A bunch of the other songs have a pretty cool southern rock groove to em as well. It does get pretty boring after further listens, hence the 3.5 and not 4 rating. People may hate it and live in the past, but seriously, it's not THAT bad people. It's just different and nobody likes change. So yea, pretty good stuff. Don't try and act cool by hating it.
The Smashing Pumpkins The Aeroplane Flies High	4.0
Buckethead Day of the Robot	2.5
Modest Mouse This Is a Long Drive for Someone with Nothing to Think About	4.0
Neurosis Through Silver in Blood	4.0
Edge of Sanity Crimson	5.0
The pinnacle of progressive death metal. Crimson is a 40 minute track full of the heaviest riffs you'll ever hear and is a long and winding journey that tells the story of a world where nobody is able to concieve children until one is finally born and brings hope to the world. I think knowing the story really makes this a greater experience. Dan Swano's growls are fantastic and he has a pretty damn good singing voice as well. I'd compare this to Opeth in some way in that you get the heavy moments mixed with clean melodic moments that sound more like 70's progressive rock. The production's a little murkier than Opeth but I think it's perfect for this album. Crimson is a breathtaking experience and not once does it ever drag which I can't say too many people could pull off with a 10 minute song, let alone a 40 minute one.
The Beatles Anthology 2	4.0
KISS KISS Unplugged	3.5
The Afghan Whigs Black Love	4.0
In Flames The Jester Race	4.0
Borknagar Borknagar	4.0
Cryptopsy None So Vile	4.5
DJ Shadow Endtroducing.....	4.0
Tortoise Millions Now Living Will Never Die	3.5
Dark Funeral The Secrets of the Black Arts	2.0
Summoning Dol Guldur	4.0
Darkthrone Total Death	3.5
I like this better than Panzerfaust because the vocals aren't as high in the mix and are therefore less irritating. This is probably my third or fourth favorite of theirs. At least check out the track Earth's Last Picture if anything.
Converge Petitioning the Empty Sky	4.0
Ulver Kveldssanger	4.0
Arcturus Aspera Hiems Symfonia	4.0
Porcupine Tree Signify	4.0
At the Drive-In Acrobatic Tenement	4.0
Burzum Filosofem	4.0
Nokturnal Mortum Lunar Poetry	4.0
Nightingale The Closing Chronicles	4.0
Ildjarn Landscapes	4.0
Sacramentum Far Away from the Sun	4.5
Rainbow Live in Germany 1976	4.5
Katatonia Brave Murder Day	3.5

1995
Dark Tranquillity The Gallery	4.5
Bruce Springsteen The Ghost of Tom Joad	3.0
The Beatles Anthology 1	4.0
GZA Liquid Swords	4.0
Alice in Chains Alice in Chains	4.0
Ozric Tentacles Become the Other	4.0
The Smashing Pumpkins Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness	5.0
Is there some filler? Yes there is, but much like The Beatle's double epic White album, Mellon Collie just has too much greatness to not be considered a classic. You've got angry Billy, lovestruck Billy, melancholic Billy, and angsty Billy all here to please your ears. The standouts for me are the beautiful tracks like Tonight, Tonight and Thirty-Three which utilize orchestras and acoustice guitars. But the heavier tracks like Zero and XYU are excellent as well with their laser beam sounding guitars and Billy's nasaly/aggressive vocal delivery. It's amazing how one song can lull you to sleep almost (not in a bad way) and then the next song delivers a roundhouse to the face. All in all this is the pinnacle of the Smashing Pumpkins career for sadly it all seemed to go downhill from here. But rejoice for the fact that they gave this masterpiece to the world before their muscial nosedive.
Deftones Adrenaline	3.5
The Flaming Lips Clouds Taste Metallic	4.5
Dream Theater A Change of Seasons	4.0
Ben Harper Fight For Your Mind	3.0
311 311	4.0
Meshuggah Destroy Erase Improve	4.5
Elliott Smith Elliott Smith	4.5
Kyuss ...And the Circus Leaves Town	4.0
Foo Fighters Foo Fighters	4.0
Neil Young Mirror Ball	4.0
Pink Floyd Pulse — The Film	4.5
Gamma Ray Land of the Free	4.5
Primus Tales from the Punchbowl	4.0
Opeth Orchid	4.0
Oasis (What's the Story) Morning Glory?	4.0
King Crimson THRAK	4.0
Hum You'd Prefer an Astronaut	4.0
Radiohead The Bends	4.0
Radiohead at their most alternative. The songs are here are fairly simple, at least compared to what came later in their career, and are very accessible. Yet despite the lack of experimentation in the studio this is as solid as any of their albums in my book. With it's hook laden straightforward nature, The Bends are right up there with OK Computer and Kid A in my book. A few filler songs drag it down a little bit but some of their best songs (Fake Plastic Trees, Street Spirit, My Iron Lung) can be found. For somebody looking to get into this band this is the album I'd point them to.
Death Symbolic	5.0
One of my favorite death metal albums ever...the riffs are bad ass and i love the vocals not being your traditional death growl but more of a throaty yell. The drummer is a beast throughout. The songs also incorportate some good tempo changes so its not just a thousand mph the whole time. Also I dare anyone to listen to the chorus of misanthrope and not bang your head viciously. Recommended to any fan of metal in general.
Mad Season Above	4.0
Ulver Bergtatt - Et eeventyr i 5 capitler	5.0
Black metal for me is very hit or miss, and bergtatt hit it out of the park. This is the perfect black metal album in my book. Garm's got the voice of an angel and layers his vocals to give off a choral effect, but he also has the more traditional black metal shrieks and does them with flying colors. Musically this is perfect for what Ulver was trying to convey. It's not just blast beats and chainsaw guitars, the production is great and the instruments are very full of sound but still have a great atmosphere to them. It's not over-produced or anything but it's not like Nattens Madridgal or Darkthrone is what I'm getting at. There are also many great acoustic moments here that Ulver would later explore with their next record. All in all this is not only the best black metal I've ever heard but actually one of the better albums I've ever heard period. I can't see how anybody who loves music could not enjoy this.
Burzum Burzum/Aske	4.0
Flying Saucer Attack Further	3.5
Nightingale The Breathing Shadow	3.5
At the Gates Slaughter of the Soul	4.0
Suffocation Pierced from Within	4.0
Porcupine Tree The Sky Moves Sideways	4.0
Misfits Collection II	4.0
Fugazi Red Medicine	4.0
Autechre Tri Repetae	4.0
Darkthrone Panzerfaust	4.0
Kvist For Kunsten Maa Vi Evig Vike	4.0
Xenomorph Empyreal Regimes	4.0
Crystal Age Far Beyond Divine Horizons	4.0
Dissection Storm of the Light's Bane	4.5
This is a black metal classic that should be included in any metal fans collection. Black Metal is still very hit or miss with me in that some of it I absolutely love and some of it I can't even stand to listen to. But this is so good that even if you're not a big Black Metal fan you can enjoy this. It's got that atmosphere that you would expect but the production is very clear and you hear the instruments very well. The guitars are spot on and the drummer keeps things interesting instead of just blast beating away. The vocals are done very well in that I think it has far more emotion in them than your typical black metal vocalist. Overall this is very near a classic for me. Night's Blood is the obvious highlight of the album though all the songs are great here. This is definately something I don't have to force myself to get through like some black metal, it's really that good.
Swans The Great Annihilator	4.5
Aphex Twin ...I Care Because You Do	4.0

1994
Pearl Jam Vitalogy	4.0
Bush Sixteen Stone	4.0
Buckethead Giant Robot	3.5
Nirvana MTV Unplugged in New York	5.0
Melvins Stoner Witch	3.0
Korn Korn	4.0
Where it all began for Korn. I gotta say, in my angrier years I was a Korn fanboy and this was my favorite album by em. Years have gone by, my musical taste has matured a lot, and im not the angry young man I once was but you know what...I still can spin this album and enjoy it. It doesn't seem fake or contrived when it comes to Johnathan Davis, and I just love the groove the rest of the band displays. Blind still gets me pumped and is the highlight for me. Korn may have gone way down hill since their debut, and they may be regarded as a joke nowadays, but it should be known that they didn't always suck, becuase they released this.
Dream Theater Awake	4.5
Edge of Sanity Purgatory Afterglow	4.5
Oasis Definitely Maybe	4.0
The Smashing Pumpkins Pisces Iscariot	4.0
Manic Street Preachers The Holy Bible	4.0
Neil Young Sleeps with Angels	3.5
Elliott Smith Roman Candle	4.0
311 Grassroots	4.0
Kyuss Welcome to Sky Valley	4.5
Guided by Voices Bee Thousand	4.0
Darkthrone Transilvanian Hunger	4.5
Emperor In the Nightside Eclipse	4.0
Global Communication 76:14	4.0
The Future Sound of London Lifeforms	4.0
Weezer Weezer	4.0
Gorement The Ending Quest	4.0
Live Throwing Copper	4.5
Nas Illmatic	4.0
Codeine The White Birch	3.0
Pink Floyd The Division Bell	4.0
John Frusciante Niandra LaDes and Usually Just a T-Shirt	3.0
Nine Inch Nails The Downward Spiral	4.5
Aphex Twin Selected Ambient Works Volume II	4.0
Alice in Chains Jar of Flies	4.5
Thergothon Stream From The Heavens	2.5
Sunny Day Real Estate Diary	4.0
Mayhem De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas	4.0
Bark Psychosis Hex	4.0
Ozric Tentacles Arborescence	4.0
Neptune Towers Caravans To Empire Algol	4.0
Burzum Hvis Lyset Tar Oss	4.5

1993
Archers of Loaf Icky Mettle	4.0
Metallica Live Shit: Binge & Purge	4.5
Sleep Sleep's Holy Mountain	4.5
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers Greatest Hits	4.5
Wu-Tang Clan Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)	4.0
Edge of Sanity The Spectral Sorrows	4.5
Rush Counterparts	4.0
Pearl Jam Vs.	4.5
The Afghan Whigs Gentlemen	4.5
Mayhem Live in Leipzig	4.5
Melvins Houdini	4.0
Nirvana In Utero	4.0
X Japan Art of Life	5.0
Type O Negative Bloody Kisses	4.0
Necrophobic The Nocturnal Silence	4.0
Burzum Det Som Engang Var	4.0
The Smashing Pumpkins Siamese Dream	4.5
Ozric Tentacles Jurassic Shift	4.0
Death Individual Thought Patterns	4.5
Anacrusis Screams and Whispers	4.5
KISS Alive III	4.0
Slowdive Souvlaki	4.0
311 Music	4.0
Primus Pork Soda	4.0
Tool Undertow	4.0
My Dying Bride Turn Loose the Swans	3.5
Savatage Edge of Thorns	4.0
Thought Industry Mods Carve the Pig	4.5
Dinosaur Jr. Where You Been	4.0
Demilich Nespithe	4.0
Earth Earth 2: Special Low Frequency Version	3.5
Neurosis Enemy of the Sun	3.5
Darkthrone Under a Funeral Moon	4.0
Polygon Window Surfing On Sine Waves	4.0
The Flaming Lips Transmissions From the Satellite Heart	3.5
Atheist Elements	3.5
Gorguts The Erosion of Sanity	3.5
Counting Crows August And Everything After	4.0
Dissection The Somberlain	4.0
Satyricon Dark Medieval Times	4.0
Eric's Trip Love Tara	4.0
Cynic Focus	4.5
Carcass Heartwork	4.5
Brutality Screams of Anguish	4.5
Aerosmith Get a Grip	4.0

1992
Pavement Slanted and Enchanted	4.0
Melvins Lysol	4.0
Nirvana Incesticide	4.0
Rage Against the Machine Rage Against the Machine	4.0
Neil Young Harvest Moon	4.0
R.E.M. Automatic for the People	4.5
Alice in Chains Dirt	4.5
Cannibal Corpse Tomb of the Mutilated	3.0
Blind Melon Blind Melon	4.0
Praxis Transmutation (Mutatis Mutandis)	4.5
Darkthrone A Blaze in the Northern Sky	4.0
Gin Blossoms New Miserable Experience	4.0
W.A.S.P. The Crimson Idol	4.5
Dream Theater Images and Words	4.0
Megadeth Countdown to Extinction	3.0
Immortal Diabolical Fullmoon Mysticism	4.0
Kyuss Blues for the Red Sun	4.5
Blind Guardian Somewhere Far Beyond	4.5
Deicide Legion	3.5
Faith No More Angel Dust	4.0
KISS Revenge	4.0
Iron Maiden Fear of the Dark	3.5
Demolition Hammer Epidemic of Violence	4.0
Pantera Vulgar Display of Power	4.5
Aphex Twin Selected Ambient Works 85-92	5.0
Buckethead Bucketheadland	3.5
Sublime 40 Oz. to Freedom	4.0
Psychotic Waltz Into the Everflow	4.0
Therion Beyond Sanctorum	4.5

1991
Talk Talk Laughing Stock	4.0
My Bloody Valentine Loveless	4.0
Ice Cube Death Certificate	4.0
Suffocation Effigy of the Forgotten	3.5
Death Human	4.0
Neil Young Weld	4.5
Savatage Streets: A Rock Opera	3.5
Soundgarden Badmotorfinger	4.0
R.E.M. The Best of R.E.M.	4.0
Nirvana Nevermind	4.0
Red Hot Chili Peppers Blood Sugar Sex Magik	4.5
Guns N' Roses Use Your Illusion II	4.0
Guns N' Roses Use Your Illusion I	4.0
Pestilence Testimony of the Ancients	4.5
Rush Roll the Bones	3.5
Atheist Unquestionable Presence	4.5
Pearl Jam Ten	4.5
Metallica Metallica	4.0
Anacrusis Manic Impressions	4.0
Bathory Twilight of the Gods	4.0
Dismember Like an Ever Flowing Stream	4.5
Primus Sailing the Seas of Cheese	4.0
Melvins Bullhead	4.0
Autopsy Mental Funeral	4.0
Temple of the Dog Temple of the Dog	4.5
Heathen Victims of Deception	5.0
Ozric Tentacles Strangeitude	3.5
Melvins Eggnog	3.5
The Smashing Pumpkins Gish	4.0
Darkthrone Soulside Journey	4.0
Slint Spiderland	4.5
Coroner Mental Vortex	4.5
Swans White Light From the Mouth of Infinity	4.5
Fates Warning Parallels	4.5

1990
Simon and Garfunkel Greatest Hits	4.0
Kreator Coma of Souls	4.0
Ride Nowhere	4.0
Slayer Seasons in the Abyss	4.0
Iron Maiden No Prayer for the Dying	3.0
Megadeth Rust in Peace	4.5
Annihilator Never, Neverland	4.0
Neil Young Ragged Glory	4.0
Judas Priest Painkiller	4.5
Demolition Hammer Tortured Existence	4.0
Alice in Chains Facelift	4.0
Anthrax Persistence of Time	4.0
Pantera Cowboys from Hell	4.5
Mother Love Bone Apple	4.0
Exhorder Slaughter in the Vatican	3.5
Deicide Deicide	3.5
Depeche Mode Violator	4.0
Entombed Left Hand Path	4.0
Danzig Danzig II: Lucifuge	4.0
The Breeders Pod	3.0
Bathory Hammerheart	4.5
Carnage Dark Recollections	3.5
Death Spiritual Healing	4.0
Atheist Piece of Time	4.0
Primus Frizzle Fry	4.5
Primus Suck on This	4.0
Winter Into Darkness	3.5
Merciless The Awakening	3.5
Public Enemy Fear of a Black Planet	4.0
Obituary Cause of Death	4.0
Ozric Tentacles Erpland	4.0
Lustmord Heresy	4.0

1989
Pestilence Consuming Impulse	4.0
Savatage Gutter Ballet	4.5
Rush Presto	2.5
Morbid Saint Spectrum of Death	4.0
Mudhoney Mudhoney	3.0
Voivod Nothingface	4.5
Neil Young Freedom	3.5
KISS Hot in the Shade	4.0
I listened to this album a hell of a lot as a kid so it has a special place in my heart. There is nothing that really stands out too much music wise but it is a pretty fun listen. With 15 tracks this was Kiss' longest album so that means that there are a lot of filler tracks but there are some true gems like Betrayed, You Love Me To Hate You, and the very popular Forever. This would be a 2.5 or less if it didn't have a special place in my heart however. I'd only reccomend this if you're a true Kiss fan.
King's X Gretchen Goes to Nebraska	4.0
Kreator Extreme Aggression	4.5
Nirvana Bleach	4.5
Nirvana at its rawest. Bleach is an album that's a far cry from the polished pop friendly album Nevermind. Here you find a lot of distortion, aggression, and some intense vocals from the great Kurt Cobain. The songs are simple and the lyrics most of the time don't make a lot of sense but that doesn't take anything away from this album because it's pure energy. When I think of Nirvana I think of this album rather than Nevermind or In Utero. There are still songs that would hint towards the radio hit era Nirvana would find themselves in later on like "About a Girl" but overall this is a very primal record that shows the true roots of Nirvana and the grunge genre in general.
Sabbat (UK) Dreamweaver	4.0
Coroner No More Color	4.5
Morbid Angel Altars of Madness	4.0
The Cure Disintegration	4.0
Autopsy Severed Survival	3.5
X Japan Blue Blood	4.0
Black Sabbath Headless Cross	3.5
Annihilator Alice in Hell	4.0
W.A.S.P. The Headless Children	4.0
The Cult Sonic Temple	4.5
Sodom Agent Orange	4.0
Ozric Tentacles Pungent Effulgent	4.0
Pixies Doolittle	4.5
Godflesh Streetcleaner	3.5
Beastie Boys Paul's Boutique	4.0
Bad Religion No Control	4.0
Fugazi 13 Songs	4.0
Fates Warning Perfect Symmetry	4.0
Toxik Think This	4.0

1988
Pink Floyd Delicate Sound of Thunder	4.0
Manowar Kings of Metal	4.0
KISS Smashes, Thrashes And Hits	3.0
Dinosaur Jr. Bug	4.5
Sonic Youth Daydream Nation	4.5
Ugly and beautiful at the same time. Daydream Nation will lull you into a sense of comfort before unleashing chaotic walls of sound and feedback. Very melancholic and strange. Teen Age Riot is the best song on here but every track here could be considered a highlight.
Talk Talk Spirit of Eden	4.0
Helloween Keeper of the Seven Keys Part II	3.5
Metallica ...And Justice for All	4.5
Death Leprosy	4.0
N.W.A. Straight Outta Compton	4.5
Danzig Danzig	4.0
King Diamond ''Them''	4.0
Slayer South of Heaven	4.5
Voivod Dimension Hatröss	4.5
Testament The New Order	4.5
Sabbat (UK) History of a Time to Come	4.0
Queensryche Operation: Mindcrime	4.5
Iron Maiden Seventh Son of a Seventh Son	4.0
Riot Thundersteel	4.5
Pixies Surfer Rosa	4.0
Galaxie 500 Today	4.0
Megadeth So Far, So Good... So What!	3.5
Frehley's Comet Second Sighting	3.5
R.E.M. Green	4.0
Bathory Blood Fire Death	4.0
Sadus Illusions	4.0
It's fast, I mean really fast. Thrash at it's fastest (fast?) FAST! Anyways this is a pretty awesome album i stumbled across while searching for the fastest old school thrash bands I could find. It flies by in under a half hour but you're left with one of the most unrelenting releases ever. Check it out if you're ready for your eardrums to be pummled.
Crimson Glory Transcendence	4.5
Coroner Punishment for Decadence	4.5
Fates Warning No Exit	4.0

1987
Dinosaur Jr. You're Living All Over Me	4.0
Candlemass Nightfall	4.0
Savatage Hall of the Mountain King	4.5
KISS Crazy Nights	3.5
Kreator Terrible Certainty	4.0
Pixies Come On Pilgrim	4.0
Rush Hold Your Fire	3.0
R.E.M. Document	4.5
Mayhem Deathcrush	3.5
Pink Floyd A Momentary Lapse of Reason	3.5
Def Leppard Hysteria	4.0
Aerosmith Permanent Vacation	3.0
Guns N' Roses Appetite for Destruction	4.5
Ace Frehley Frehley's Comet	3.5
Testament The Legacy	4.0
Frehley's Comet Frehley's Comet	4.0
Sonic Youth Sister	4.0
Death Scream Bloody Gore	4.0
Death Angel The Ultra-Violence	4.0
Anthrax Among the Living	4.0
Helloween Keeper of the Seven Keys Part I	4.5
Napalm Death Scum	3.0
Joe Satriani Surfing With The Alien	4.0
Melvins Gluey Porch Treatments	4.0
The Cure Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me	4.0
Dokken Back for the Attack	4.0
Bathory Under the Sign of the Black Mark	4.0
Dio Dream Evil	4.0
Swans Children of God	4.0
Nuclear Assault The Plague	3.5

1986
Stevie Ray Vaughan Live Alive	4.0
Slayer Reign in Blood	4.0
Iron Maiden Somewhere in Time	4.5
Bon Jovi Slippery When Wet	3.5
Megadeth Peace Sells... but Who's Buying?	4.0
The Smiths The Queen Is Dead	4.0
Dark Angel Darkness Descends	3.5
Candlemass Epicus Doomicus Metallicus	4.0
Peter Gabriel So	4.5
Nuclear Assault Game Over	4.0
Metallica Master of Puppets	5.0
Giving this a 5 is almost saying that you are ignorant to good music. People think that if you like Metallica then you're a little fanboy who hasn't branched out and listened to anything good yet. Well I've listened to Opeth, I've listened to Sigur Ros, and I've listened to Maudlin of the Well, and guess what...this is still a 5 for me. Not a weak song here. The riffs can be heavy, or they shred away like none other. James Hetfields voice is right is the perfect mixture of his kill em all raspy voice and his black album godly voice. The title track is a thrash classic, Sanitarium is up there with Fade to Black and One as far as their "ballads" go, and Orion is one of the greatest songs I've ever heard. And there are still 5 more songs of this quality to go! Master of Puppets is the pinnacle of Metallica's career. Say what you will about them now, but this album has stood the test of time and has earned every ounce of praise it has gotten.
Manilla Road The Deluge	3.5
Kreator Pleasure to Kill	4.0
Misfits Collection I	4.0
Fates Warning Awaken the Guardian	4.0
Messiah Hymn to Abramelin	4.0

1985
Helloween Walls of Jericho	4.0
Bathory The Return of the Darkness and Evil	4.0
Anthrax Spreading the Disease	4.5
Rush Power Windows	3.5
Celtic Frost To Mega Therion	4.0
Iron Maiden Live After Death	5.0
KISS Asylum	3.0
Slayer Hell Awaits	4.0
The Cure The Head on the Door	4.0
Megadeth Killing Is My Business... and Business Is Good!	4.0
Overkill Feel the Fire	4.0
The Replacements Tim	4.0
Dokken Under Lock and Key	4.0
Meat Puppets Up on the Sun	4.0
Fates Warning The Spectre Within	4.0
Destruction Infernal Overkill	4.0

1984
Mercyful Fate Don't Break the Oath	4.5
Iron Maiden Powerslave	4.5
W.A.S.P. W.A.S.P.	3.5
Metallica Ride the Lightning	4.5
Steve Roach Structures from Silence	4.0
Dio The Last in Line	4.0
Prince Purple Rain	4.5
Celtic Frost Morbid Tales	4.5
Bob Marley and The Wailers Legend	4.0
Roger Waters The Pros and Cons of Hitch Hiking	3.5
Rush Grace Under Pressure	4.5
Judas Priest Defenders of the Faith	4.0
Swans Young God	3.0
The Replacements Let It Be	4.0
Bathory Bathory	4.0
Dokken Tooth and Nail	4.0
KISS Animalize	4.0
Tysondog Beware of the Dog	4.0
Meat Puppets Meat Puppets II	4.5
R.E.M. Reckoning	3.5
Husker Du Zen Arcade	4.5

1983
Slayer Show No Mercy	4.0
Hellhammer Satanic Rites	4.0
Misfits Earth A.D./Wolf's Blood	4.0
Mercyful Fate Melissa	4.5
KISS Lick It Up	4.0
Brian Eno Apollo: Atmospheres & Soundtracks	4.0
Black Sabbath Born Again	2.5
Metallica Kill 'Em All	4.5
Dio Holy Diver	4.5
Iron Maiden Piece of Mind	4.5
Pink Floyd The Final Cut	4.0
Thin Lizzy Thunder and Lightning	4.5
Def Leppard Pyromania	4.5
Swans Filth	2.5
R.E.M. Murmur	4.0
Dokken Breaking the Chains	4.0
Manilla Road Crystal Logic	4.0

1982
Prince 1999	4.0
KISS Creatures of the Night	5.0
Rush Signals	4.0
The Cure Pornography	4.0
Peter Gabriel Security	4.5
Metallica No Life 'til Leather	4.0
Judas Priest Screaming for Vengeance	4.0
Bruce Springsteen Nebraska	4.5
Brian Eno Ambient 4: On Land	4.0
Iron Maiden The Number of the Beast	4.0
KISS Killers	3.5
Descendents Milo Goes to College	4.0
Motorhead Iron Fist	4.0

1981
KISS Music from "The Elder"	3.0
Nowhere near as bad as people would have you believe. Being a life long Kiss fan I stayed away from this one just because of the horror stories I heard. Maybe that's the reason I was expecting a heaping pile of shit and what I got was actually listenable. This is Kiss trying to prove they have artistic merit and can write a song that's not about suckin and fuckin. Needless to say some of the tracks are terrible (under the rose, mr. blackwell) but there are some true hard rocking gems to be found as well (The Oath, I, Dark Light, Escape from the Island). This would be the last album Kiss would release that would alienate their fans before turning things around with their next hard rocking record, Creatures of the Night.
Ozzy Osbourne Diary of a Madman	4.0
Black Sabbath Mob Rules	4.0
Neil Young Re-ac-tor	3.0
Saxon Denim and Leather	4.0
King Crimson Discipline	4.0
This Heat Deceit	3.0
Frank Zappa You Are What You Is	4.0
Stevie Nicks Bella Donna	4.0
Frank Zappa Shut Up 'n Play Yer Guitar	4.5
Tygers Of Pan Tang Spellbound	4.0
Rush Moving Pictures	4.5
Iron Maiden Killers	4.0
The Cure Faith	3.5
Kraftwerk Computer World	4.0
Wipers Youth of America	4.5

1980
Motorhead Ace of Spades	4.0
Thin Lizzy Chinatown	3.5
Bruce Springsteen The River	4.0
Talking Heads Remain in Light	4.5
Diamond Head Lightning to the Nations	4.5
Ozzy Osbourne Blizzard of Ozz	4.5
Dead Kennedys Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables	4.5
David Bowie Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps)	4.0
Saxon Strong Arm of the Law	4.0
AC/DC Back In Black	4.0
Yes Drama	3.5
Killing Joke Killing Joke	4.0
Wipers Is This Real?	4.0
Peter Gabriel Melt	4.5
KISS Unmasked	3.5
Saxon Wheels of Steel	4.5
Black Sabbath Heaven and Hell	4.5
The best Sabbath album hands down. Dio is a far superior vocalist than Ozzy ever was and he really shines here and the lyrics are a million times better as well. Besides the obvious improvement in the vocal department the music is superior as well. Iommi really shines and the songwriting is just phenomenal. Sabbath hit the top of their game here and unfortunately never reached it again, but this is still a classic and every metal fan owes it to themselves to listen to this. RIP Dio
The Cure Seventeen Seconds	4.0
Judas Priest British Steel	3.5
Iron Maiden Iron Maiden	4.5
Angel Witch Angel Witch	4.5
Rush Permanent Waves	4.5

1979
The Clash London Calling	4.0
Pink Floyd The Wall	5.0
Neil Young Live Rust	4.5
Motorhead Bomber	4.0
The Police Reggatta de Blanc	3.0
Fleetwood Mac Tusk	3.0
Frank Zappa Joe's Garage	4.0
Neil Young Rust Never Sleeps	4.5
Joy Division Unknown Pleasures	4.0
KISS Dynasty	3.0
David Bowie Lodger	4.0
Thin Lizzy Black Rose: A Rock Legend	4.5
Motorhead Overkill	4.5
Steve Hackett Spectral Mornings	4.0

1978
Rush Hemispheres	5.0
My favorite Rush album, Hemispheres is 36 minutes of prog done right. You've got the epic 18 minute opener Cygnus X-1 Book 2 which is a sequel to the first Cygnus song found on their previous album. The next couple tracks are shorter but still retain a proggy feel. Circumstances is a hard rocker and The Trees is a pretty tranquil peace that has a nice section in the middle where Neil Peart gets to shine. The album closes with a 9 minute instrumental where each member gets to shine, especially guitarist Alex Lifeson who usually gets lost in the disscussion because of Peart and Lee. Sometimes prog albums are way too long but at only 36 minutes this makes for a quick entertaining listen. If you're into Prog music in any way shape or form you owe it to yourself to get this.
Dire Straits Dire Straits	4.0
Neil Young Comes a Time	3.5
Peter Criss Peter Criss	1.5
Paul Stanley Paul Stanley	4.0
Ace Frehley Ace Frehley	4.5
Klaus Schulze X	4.0
Kraftwerk The Man-Machine	4.0
The Cars The Cars	4.5
Basically the perfect pop album. There's nine tracks here and I've heard seven of them on the radio. This really was a precursor to the new wave movement of the 80's and you could view that as a bad thing but just know that the origins of new wave were very good and this is one of the catchiest and funnest albums you'll ever hear.
Rainbow Long Live Rock 'n' Roll	4.0
Judas Priest Stained Class	4.5
Bruce Springsteen Darkness on the Edge of Town	4.0
Brian Eno Ambient 1: Music For Airports	4.0
David Gilmour David Gilmour	4.0
Jethro Tull Heavy Horses	4.0
Boston Don't Look Back	4.0
KISS Double Platinum	4.0
U.K. U.K.	4.0

1977
Ramones Rocket to Russia	4.0
Eric Clapton Slowhand	3.5
KISS Alive II	4.0
David Bowie "Heroes"	4.5
Talking Heads Talking Heads: 77	4.0
Rush A Farewell to Kings	5.0
KISS Love Gun	4.0
Neil Young American Stars 'n Bars	3.5
Judas Priest Sin After Sin	4.0
Kraftwerk Trans-Europe Express	4.0
Steely Dan Aja	4.5
AC/DC Let There Be Rock	3.5
Peter Gabriel Car	4.0
Television Marquee Moon	4.5
Ramones Leave Home	4.0
Fleetwood Mac Rumours	4.0
Pink Floyd Animals	4.5
David Bowie Low	5.0
Aerosmith Draw the Line	3.5
Yes Going for the One	4.0
Jethro Tull Songs from the Wood	4.0
Eloy Ocean	4.5
Locanda Delle Fate Forse le Lucciole non si Amano piu	4.5

1976
Genesis Wind & Wuthering	4.0
Queen A Day at the Races	4.0
KISS Rock and Roll Over	4.0
Harmonium L'heptade	4.0
Frank Zappa Zoot Allures	3.5
Rush All the World's a Stage	4.0
Stevie Wonder Songs in the Key of Life	4.0
Boston Boston	4.5
Ramones Ramones	4.0
Rainbow Rising	5.0
AC/DC High Voltage	4.0
Aerosmith Rocks	4.5
Ashra New Age of Earth	3.5
Led Zeppelin Presence	4.0
Klaus Schulze Moondawn	4.5
Van der Graaf Generator Still Life	4.0
Rush 2112	4.5
Camel Moonmadness	4.0
Judas Priest Sad Wings of Destiny	4.0
KISS Destroyer	4.0
Heart Dreamboat Annie	4.5
Genesis A Trick of the Tail	3.0
Starcastle Starcastle	4.5
David Bowie Station to Station	4.5
Tangerine Dream Stratosfear	4.0
Creedence Clearwater Revival Chronicle, Vol. 1	4.5

1975
Fripp and Eno Evening Star	4.0
Queen A Night at the Opera	4.5
Neil Young Zuma	4.5
Brian Eno Discreet Music	4.0
Mike Oldfield Ommadawn	4.0
Steve Hackett Voyage of the Acolyte	4.0
Van der Graaf Generator Godbluff	4.5
Rush Caress of Steel	3.5
Thin Lizzy Fighting	4.0
Pink Floyd Wish You Were Here	5.0
KISS Alive!	4.5
Grateful Dead Blues for Allah	3.5
Brian Eno Another Green World	4.0
Rainbow Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow	4.0
Klaus Schulze Timewind	4.5
Black Sabbath Sabotage	4.0
Fleetwood Mac Fleetwood Mac	4.0
The Mothers of Invention One Size Fits All	4.5
Neil Young Tonight's the Night	4.5
Hawkwind Warrior on the Edge of Time	4.0
Camel The Snow Goose	4.0
Tangerine Dream Ricochet	4.0
Tangerine Dream Rubycon	4.0
KISS Dressed to Kill	4.0
Led Zeppelin Physical Graffiti	5.0
Rush Fly by Night	4.0
Bob Dylan Blood on the Tracks	4.0
Bruce Springsteen Born to Run	4.0
Steely Dan Katy Lied	4.0
Kraftwerk Radio-Activity	4.0
Renaissance Scheherazade and Other Stories	4.0
Jethro Tull Minstrel in the Gallery	4.5
Druid Toward the Sun	4.5

1974
Genesis The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway	5.0
Queen Sheer Heart Attack	4.0
KISS Hotter Than Hell	4.5
King Crimson Red	4.5
Hawkwind Hall of the Mountain Grill	4.5
Emerson Lake and Palmer Welcome Back To The Show That Never Ends	4.5
Neil Young On the Beach	4.0
Steely Dan Pretzel Logic	4.0
UFO Phenomenon	4.0
David Bowie Diamond Dogs	4.0
Blue Oyster Cult Secret Treaties	4.5
King Crimson Starless and Bible Black	4.0
Queen Queen II	4.0
Rush Rush	3.5
Camel Mirage	4.5
Tangerine Dream Phaedra	4.5
KISS KISS	4.5
Deep Purple Burn	4.0
Gong You	3.5
Yes Relayer	4.0
Kraftwerk Autobahn	4.5

1973
Yes Tales from Topographic Oceans	4.5
Black Sabbath Sabbath Bloody Sabbath	4.0
Emerson Lake and Palmer Brain Salad Surgery	4.0
Genesis Selling England by the Pound	4.5
The Who Quadrophenia	4.5
Bruce Springsteen The Wild, the Innocent, and the E Street Shuffle	4.0
Gentle Giant In a Glass House	4.0
Stevie Wonder Innervisions	4.0
The Allman Brothers Band Brothers and Sisters	4.0
Queen Queen	4.0
Mike Oldfield Tubular Bells	4.5
Hawkwind Space Ritual	4.5
Yes Yessongs	4.5
David Bowie Aladdin Sane	4.0
Led Zeppelin Houses of the Holy	4.5
Pink Floyd The Dark Side of the Moon	4.5
King Crimson Larks' Tongues in Aspic	4.0
Lou Reed Berlin	4.0
Tangerine Dream Atem	4.0
Camel Camel	4.0
Steely Dan Countdown to Ecstasy	4.5
The Stooges Raw Power	4.0
The Mothers of Invention Over-Nite Sensation	4.0
Tom Waits Closing Time	4.0
Jethro Tull A Passion Play	4.5
Paul Kossoff Back Street Crawler	4.5

1972
Frank Zappa The Grand Wazoo	4.0
Deep Purple Made in Japan	4.5
Deep Purple Machine Head	4.5
Gentle Giant Octopus	3.5
Lou Reed Transformer	4.0
Uriah Heep The Magician's Birthday	4.0
Genesis Foxtrot	4.0
Steely Dan Can't Buy a Thrill	4.5
Black Sabbath Vol. 4	4.0
Yes Close to the Edge	5.0
Pink Floyd Live at Pompeii	5.0
Klaus Schulze Irrlicht	4.0
Tangerine Dream Zeit	4.0
Elf Elf	4.5
Emerson Lake and Palmer Trilogy	4.0
Frank Zappa Waka/Jawaka	3.5
David Bowie The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars	4.5
Pink Floyd Obscured by Clouds	3.5
Uriah Heep Demons and Wizards	4.5
The Rolling Stones Exile on Main St.	4.0
Wishbone Ash Argus	4.0
Nick Drake Pink Moon	4.0
Neil Young Harvest	4.5
The Allman Brothers Band Eat a Peach	4.5
Premiata Forneria Marconi Per un amico	4.0
Morgan Nova Solis	4.0
Nektar A Tab in the Ocean	4.5
Jethro Tull Thick as a Brick	4.5

1971
David Bowie Hunky Dory	4.0
Yes Fragile	4.0
Genesis Nursery Cryme	4.0
Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin IV	4.5
Pink Floyd Meddle	4.5
Alice Cooper Killer	4.0
Van der Graaf Generator Pawn Hearts	4.0
Uriah Heep Look at Yourself	4.0
Santana Santana III	4.0
Deep Purple Fireball	4.0
The Who Who's Next	4.5
Black Sabbath Master of Reality	4.5
The Allman Brothers Band At Fillmore East	4.5
Emerson Lake and Palmer Tarkus	4.0
The Doors L.A. Woman	4.0
The Rolling Stones Sticky Fingers	4.0
Caravan In the Land of Grey and Pink	4.0
Tangerine Dream Alpha Centauri	4.0
Yes The Yes Album	4.5
UFO UFO 2: Flying	4.0
Uriah Heep Salisbury	4.0
Budgie Budgie	3.5
Jethro Tull Aqualung	4.0
Can Tago Mago	4.0
Alice Cooper Love It To Death	4.0
Fraction Moon Blood	4.0
Funkadelic Maggot Brain	4.5

1970
Wishbone Ash Wishbone Ash	4.5
Derek and the Dominos Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs	4.5
George Harrison All Things Must Pass	4.5
King Crimson Lizard	3.5
David Bowie The Man Who Sold the World	4.5
Amon Duul II Yeti	3.5
Grateful Dead American Beauty	4.0
Grand Funk Railroad Live Album	4.5
Came across this in my father's record collection. Only ever thought of GFR for "We're an American Band" which is meh. But this is some groovy soulful hard rock with a raw sound that epitomizes rock and roll.
Genesis Trespass	3.5
Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin III	4.0
Pink Floyd Atom Heart Mother	4.0
Emerson Lake and Palmer Emerson, Lake & Palmer	2.5
The Allman Brothers Band Idlewild South	4.0
Human Instinct Stoned Guitar	4.0
Black Sabbath Paranoid	4.5
Santana Abraxas	4.0
Atomic Rooster Death Walks Behind You	4.0
Neil Young After the Gold Rush	4.0
The Stooges Fun House	4.0
Soft Machine Third	4.0
Deep Purple Deep Purple In Rock	4.5
Uriah Heep Very 'eavy... Very 'umble	4.0
The Who Live at Leeds	4.5
King Crimson In the Wake of Poseidon	3.5
The Beatles Let It Be	4.0
Jimi Hendrix Band of Gypsys	4.5
Van Morrison Moondance	4.0
Black Sabbath Black Sabbath	4.5
Grateful Dead Workingman's Dead	4.0
The Doors Morrison Hotel	4.0
Black Widow Sacrifice	4.0

1969
The Rolling Stones Let It Bleed	4.0
The Velvet Underground The Velvet Underground	4.5
Pink Floyd Ummagumma	3.5
The Allman Brothers Band The Allman Brothers Band	4.0
Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin II	4.5
King Crimson In the Court of the Crimson King	4.5
The Beatles Abbey Road	5.0
Fleetwood Mac Then Play On	3.5
The Stooges The Stooges	4.0
Blind Faith Blind Faith	4.0
Jethro Tull Stand Up	4.0
Santana Santana	4.0
The Doors The Soft Parade	3.0
Pink Floyd More	3.0
Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young Crosby, Stills and Nash	4.0
The Who Tommy	5.0
It's hard to describe the effect Tommy has on me. I had always thought that Quadrophenia was the definitive Who rock opera, boy how wrong I was. Tommy is a journey more than just a collection of songs. From the moment Overture starts to the reprise of Listening To You on We're Not Gonna Take It, Tommy takes you to a different place. As individual songs it would never work, but the whole is greater than it's seperate parts in this case. Pete Townshend created a complete masterpiece here and set the standard for which all other "rock operas" were to be measured.
Neil Young Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere	5.0
The Mothers of Invention Uncle Meat	3.5
MC5 Kick Out the Jams	4.0
Grateful Dead Live/Dead	4.0
Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin	4.5
Frank Zappa Hot Rats	4.0

1968
The Rolling Stones Beggars Banquet	4.0
The Beatles The Beatles	4.5
Neil Young Neil Young	3.5
The Jimi Hendrix Experience Electric Ladyland	4.5
Van Morrison Astral Weeks	4.0
The Mothers of Invention We're Only in It for the Money	3.5
The Doors Waiting for the Sun	4.0
The Band Music from Big Pink	4.0
Pink Floyd A Saucerful of Secrets	4.0
Cream Wheels of Fire	4.0
Simon and Garfunkel Bookends	4.0
The Velvet Underground White Light/White Heat	3.5

1967
The Who The Who Sell Out	4.0
The Jimi Hendrix Experience Axis: Bold as Love	4.0
The Beatles Magical Mystery Tour	4.5
The Moody Blues Days of Future Passed	4.0
The Doors Strange Days	4.0
Pink Floyd The Piper at the Gates of Dawn	4.0
The Beatles Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band	4.5
The Jimi Hendrix Experience Are You Experienced	4.5
The Velvet Underground The Velvet Underground & Nico	4.5
The Doors The Doors	4.5
The Mothers of Invention Absolutely Free	3.0
Cream Disraeli Gears	4.0

1966
Cream Fresh Cream	3.5
The Beatles Revolver	4.5
John Mayall Blues Breakers with Eric Clapton	4.5
Bob Dylan Blonde on Blonde	4.0
The Mothers of Invention Freak Out!	3.0

1965
The Beatles Rubber Soul	4.0
Bob Dylan Highway 61 Revisited	4.5
The Beatles Help!	4.0
Bob Dylan Bringing It All Back Home	4.0
The Sonics Here Are the Sonics	4.0

1964
The Beatles Beatles for Sale	4.0
The Beatles A Hard Day's Night	3.5
Bob Dylan The Times They Are A-Changin'	4.0

1963
Bob Dylan The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan	4.0
The Beatles Please Please Me	3.5

1707
Johann Sebastian Bach Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 565	4.5

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