| 2012 |
| Inanna Transfigured in a Thousand Delusions | 4.0 |
| Xanthochroid Blessed He With Boils | 3.5 |
| Igorrr Hallelujah | 4.0 |
| Circle Takes the Square Decompositions: Volume Number One | 4.0 |
| Mors Principium Est ...And Death Said Live | 3.5 |
| iNTRiKeT The Woods | 4.0 |
| Boris/Joe Volk Split | 3.5 |
| Arsis Lepers Caress | 3.5 |
| Scott Walker Bish Bosch | 4.0 |
| We Lost the Sea The Quietest Place on Earth | 4.0 |
| Amenra Mass V | 4.0 |
| Kashiwa Daisuke Re: | 3.0 |
| Code Orange Love Is Love // Return To Dust | 3.0 |
| Obsidian Kingdom Mantiis | 3.5 |
| Deftones Koi No Yokan | 4.0 |
| Hacktivist Hacktivist | 2.0 |
| Godbless Thee, Mooseheart The Prison, Pt. I | 3.5 |
| Geoff Tate Kings & Thieves | 1.5 |
| Radical Face Always Gold | 3.5 |
| Rolo Tomassi Astraea | 3.5 |
| Twelve Foot Ninja Silent Machine | 3.5 |
| Ana Never Small Years | 4.0 |
| Stagnant Waters Stagnant Waters | 4.5 |
| Nadja Dagdrøm | 3.5 |
| Neurosis Honor Found in Decay | 3.5 |
| Mother's Cake Creation's Finest | 4.0 |
| Titus Andronicus Local Business | 3.0 |
| Pig Destroyer Book Burner | 3.5 |
| Kendrick Lamar good kid, m.A.A.d city | 4.5 |
| BATS The Sleep of Reason | 4.0 |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor 'Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend! | 4.0 |
| Travis and Fripp Follow | 4.0 |
| Wintersun Time I | 4.0 |
| Between the Buried and Me The Parallax II: Future Sequence | 3.0 |
| Coheed and Cambria The Afterman: Ascension | 4.0 |
| Converge All We Love We Leave Behind | 4.0 |
| WOOOOLY BOOOOOOOLY |
| Downfall of Gaia Suffocating in the Swarm of Cranes | 4.0 |
| Hammock Departure Songs | 2.5 |
| Flying Lotus Until the Quiet Comes | 4.0 |
| Hidden Orchestra Archipelago | 4.0 |
| Abraham The Serpent, the Prophet and the Whore | 3.5 |
| Enslaved RIITIIR | 4.0 |
| As I Lay Dying Awakened | 2.5 |
| Car Bomb w^w^^w^w | 3.0 |
| Aluk Todolo Occult Rock | 4.0 |
| Cerce Cerce | 3.0 |
| Ehnahre Old Earth | 3.0 |
| Devin Townsend Project Epicloud | 3.5 |
| Devil Sold His Soul Empire of Light | 4.0 |
| Te (JPN) Therefore the illusion of density... | 4.0 |
| Animal Collective Centipede Hz | 3.5 |
| Propagandhi Failed States | 4.0 |
| Blut Aus Nord 777 - Cosmosophy | 3.0 |
| Mount Eerie Ocean Roar | 3.5 |
| Big Big Train English Electric | 4.0 |
| Bells Our Forest, Our Empire | 2.5 |
| Minus the Bear Infinity Overhead | 3.0 |
| Katatonia Dead End Kings | 3.5 |
| Sounds like Katatonia. 3.5/5 |
| The Chariot One Wing | 4.0 |
| Beardfish The Void | 4.0 |
| Swans The Seer | 4.0 |
| Krallice Years Past Matter | 3.5 |
| British Theatre Dyed In The Wool Ghost | 4.0 |
| The Faceless Autotheism | 3.0 |
| Ash Borer Cold of Ages | 3.5 |
| Cloudkicker Fade | 2.0 |
| Gaza No Absolutes in Human Suffering | 4.0 |
| Fuckin' Mandingo level of heaviness right hurr |
| Toby Driver The Slowly Self-Coalescing Album of Vagrant... | 4.0 |
| Complete Freedom Alpha | 3.0 |
| The Contortionist Intrinsic | 2.5 |
| All of you guys saying this is heavier than Exoplanet are wrong.rIt's a solid listen though. |
| Pierce the Veil Collide with the Sky | 3.5 |
| Baroness Yellow and Green | 3.5 |
| Arbor The Plutonian Shore | 3.0 |
| Periphery Periphery II: This Time It's Personal | 3.0 |
| Gojira L'Enfant Sauvage | 3.5 |
| Agalloch Faustian Echoes | 3.5 |
I'm wary of clicking on the link in the top-voted soundoff...
:edit: nah it's safe go for it |
| Bosse-de-Nage III | 3.5 |
| Nuncunt Menstrual War Paint | 3.5 |
| Deathspell Omega Drought | 4.0 |
| Ihsahn Eremita | 3.0 |
| Earthrise Eras Lost | 3.5 |
| Fiona Apple The Idler Wheel... | 4.0 |
| Elysian Blaze Blood Geometry | 3.0 |
| Rush Clockwork Angels | 3.5 |
| The Tallest Man on Earth There's No Leaving Now | 4.0 |
| Ne Obliviscaris Portal of I | 4.5 |
| Thank You Scientist Maps of Non-Existent Places | 4.5 |
| In the Silence A Fair Dream Gone Mad | 3.5 |
| Lights Out Asia Hy-Brasil | 3.0 |
| Love American Disquiet | 3.0 |
| Circus Maximus Nine | 3.5 |
| Merkabah (PL) A Lament For The Lamb | 4.0 |
| Be'lakor Of Breath and Bone | 3.5 |
| Zelienople The World Is A House On Fire | 4.0 |
| Sigur Ros Valtari | 3.5 |
| The Pirate Ship Quintet Rope for No-Hopers | 4.5 |
| Kyary Pamyu Pamyu Pamyu Pamyu Revolution | 3.5 |
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| Suis La Lune Riala | 3.5 |
| Mount Eerie Clear Moon | 4.0 |
| John Zorn Templars-In Sacred Blood | 4.0 |
| Sonata Arctica Stones Grow Her Name | 2.5 |
| Well, it's better than the new Queensryche album. |
| mewithoutYou Ten Stories | 3.5 |
| Crevice In Between | 3.0 |
| Jizue Novel | 4.0 |
| Trioscapes Separate Realities | 4.0 |
| Sky Architects The Promise of Tomorrow | 3.5 |
| Wild Hunt Before The Plane Of Angles | 3.0 |
| Puzzle (France) Nothing But The Rain | 3.5 |
| Assimilation Assimilation | 3.5 |
| Before The Dawn Rise of the Phoenix | 3.0 |
| Frames In Via | 2.5 |
| Author and Punisher Ursus Americanus | 3.5 |
| Soul Cycle Soul Cycle II | 3.5 |
| Death Grips The Money Store | 4.0 |
| I'M IN YO AREEEEEEAAAA (I'm in yo area) |
| Torche Harmonicraft | 4.0 |
| Skyharbor Blinding White Noise: Illusion & Chaos | 3.0 |
| Storm Corrosion Storm Corrosion | 3.0 |
| Elder (USA-MA) Spires Burn/Release | 3.5 |
| In Mourning The Weight of Oceans | 3.5 |
| Anathema Weather Systems | 4.0 |
| Anathema: Master of making music for pussies. |
| State Faults Desolate Peaks | 2.5 |
| Gatling Beforemath | 4.0 |
| Fero Lux Some Divine Ashtray | 3.0 |
| High on Fire De Vermis Mysteriis | 3.0 |
| The Ocean The Grand Inquisitor | 3.0 |
| Atoma Skylight | 3.5 |
| BADBADNOTGOOD BBNG2 | 4.0 |
| Niechec Smierc w Miekkim Futerku | 4.0 |
| OSI Fire Make Thunder | 2.0 |
| The Mars Volta Noctourniquet | 3.0 |
| Meshuggah Koloss | 3.0 |
| Like all Meshuggah albums this is somewhat boring at times but it still riffs harder than Periphery. The Demon's Name Is Surveillance really does. |
| Black Breath Sentenced To Life | 3.5 |
| Astra The Black Chord | 4.0 |
| Half Moon Run Dark Eyes | 4.0 |
| Mac Miller Macadelic | 1.5 |
| Alio Die Deconsecrated and Pure | 4.0 |
| Leech If We Get There One Day... | 4.0 |
| Wizard Rifle Speak Loud Say Nothing | 3.5 |
| Gorod A Perfect Absolution | 3.0 |
| Album definitely has its neat moments but it's pretty much 'just a tech death album.' I'll just listen to Leading Vision again. |
| Every Time I Die Ex Lives | 3.0 |
| Did ETID just get compared to The Beatles lolwut |
| Slice the Cake The Man With No Face | 3.0 |
| The End Of Six Thousand Years Perpetuum | 3.5 |
| More interesting and varied than their debut; leans more towards the post-metal spectrum than the gothenberg melodic death spectrum. |
| Nadja and Vampillia The Primitive World | 4.0 |
| Ascariasis Ocean of Colour | 3.5 |
| Rahu The Quest for the Vajra of Shadows | 3.5 |
| The quest for the vagina shadows. |
| Vaura Selenelion | 3.5 |
| Solterra Soul, Earth, Sun | 3.5 |
| Dirty Three Toward The Low Sun | 3.5 |
| The Safety Fire Grind the Ocean | 3.5 |
| Hail Spirit Noir Pneuma | 2.0 |
| Imminent Sonic Destruction Recurring Themes | 3.5 |
| Hypno5e Acid Mist Tomorrow | 4.0 |
| fun. Some Nights | 3.0 |
| Pallbearer Sorrow And Extinction | 3.5 |
| Soen Cognitive | 3.5 |
| Sunpocrisy Samaroid Dioramas | 4.0 |
| Burial Kindred | 4.0 |
| Motorpsycho The Death Defying Unicorn | 5.0 |
| Psycroptic The Inherited Repression | 3.0 |
Riffs hard.
But that's it really. |
| Tacoma Narrows Bridge Disaster Exegesis | 4.0 |
| John Zorn Mount Analogue | 4.5 |
| Egyptian Art Strike Egyptian Art Strike | 2.0 |
| Oh so this is art. |
| Sworn In Start/End | 3.0 |
| Dodecahedron Dodecahedron | 3.5 |
| Loma Prieta I.V. | 4.0 |
| Alcest Les Voyages De L'Âme | 3.5 |
| Kayo Dot Gamma Knife | 3.5 |
| As short and concise as Kayo Dot have ever sounded. Still, at roughly 32 minutes in length, Gamma Knife is very aesthetically dense. The chaotic pseudo-symphonic rumblings of Driver's latest projects are present, but his older "metal" atmosphere has returned. The middle trio features a twist of black metal peeking through the cacophony of wooded instruments. Very solid for sure. |
| Fire In The Cave Fire In the Cave | 3.5 |
| Duality and the Republic Uno | 4.0 |
| 2011 |
| Barrow Being Without | 4.0 |
| The Bulletproof Tiger You Wanna Kiss About it? | 4.5 |
| Comity The Journey is Over Now | 3.0 |
| The Roots undun | 3.5 |
| Cormorant Dwellings | 4.5 |
| Nameless Coyote Devoured by the Swirling Night | 4.0 |
| Hot Chelle Rae Whatever | 1.0 |
| Vildhjarta Måsstaden | 3.5 |
| Standby A Word or Two | 3.5 |
| Fallujah The Harvest Wombs | 4.0 |
| Vektor Outer Isolation | 4.0 |
| Kate Bush 50 Words for Snow | 3.5 |
| Koji Kondo The Legend of Zelda 25th Anniversary Symphony | 4.0 |
| One Direction Up All Night | 1.0 |
| Bitches love these guys so they must not have a good deal of musical integrity. |
| Huldra Signals From the Void | 3.5 |
| Cynic Carbon-Based Anatomy | 4.0 |
| Esoteric Paragon of Dissonance | 4.0 |
| Mac Miller Blue Slide Park | 1.5 |
| Oneohtrix Point Never Replica | 4.0 |
| Animals As Leaders Weightless | 2.0 |
| Panopticon Social Disservices | 3.0 |
| Lou Reed and Metallica Lulu | 1.0 |
| Pianos Become the Teeth The Lack Long After | 3.0 |
| O'Brother Garden Window | 3.5 |
| Uneven Structure Februus | 4.0 |
| The Beach Boys The Smile Sessions | 4.5 |
| Russian Circles Empros | 3.5 |
| Haken Visions | 3.5 |
While the instrumental proficiency is high and the song-writing is quite good for the genre, it's
also quite derivative and a bit tiresome to listen to. |
| Giant Squid Cenotes | 3.5 |
| Counterparts The Current Will Carry Us | 3.5 |
| Insomnium One for Sorrow | 3.0 |
| Alarum Natural Causes | 3.5 |
| Pain of Salvation Road Salt Two | 3.5 |
| TTNG Adventure, Stamina and Anger | 3.5 |
| A Lot Like Birds Conversation Piece | 3.5 |
| Absu Abzu | 2.5 |
| La Dispute Wildlife | 3.0 |
| Radical Face The Family Tree: The Roots | 4.0 |
| Yamantaka // Sonic Titan YT//ST | 4.0 |
| Kidcrash Naps | 4.0 |
| Rosetta/Junius Split | 3.5 |
| Mastodon The Hunter | 2.5 |
| Steven Wilson Grace for Drowning | 4.0 |
| An Isle Ate Her Phrenia | 4.0 |
| This is fucking crazy. It sounds like an ice cream truck being run over by a freight train. |
| Textures Dualism | 3.0 |
| AJJ Knife Man | 2.5 |
| Opeth Heritage | 3.0 |
| Primus Green Naugahyde | 3.0 |
| Cymbals Eat Guitars Lenses Alien | 3.0 |
| Wolves in the Throne Room Celestial Lineage | 3.5 |
| Dream Theater A Dramatic Turn of Events | 3.5 |
| Almost ironic that the addition of noted chops-out-the-fucking-ass drummer Mike Mangini seems to have subdued Dream theater's overall sound. A Dramatic Turn of Events has the least amount of wank on a Dream Theater album since, well, ever (take that as you will, it hasn't completely vanished). The more metallic sound Dream Theater had been pushing for the past ten or so years has also been turned down several clicks, creating an album which is closer in timbre to "Images and Words" or "A Change of Seasons" even, than "Systematic Chaos" or "Train of Thought." At 77 minutes, it's still far too long, but A Dramatic Turn of Events is ultimately much more solid than it could have been. A Dramatic Turn of Events, indeed. |
| Arch/Matheos Sympathetic Resonance | 4.5 |
| Thrice Major/Minor | 3.5 |
| Elder (USA-MA) Dead Roots Stirring | 4.0 |
| Corelia Nostalgia | 4.5 |
| Substructure Monolith | 3.0 |
| Stray from the Path Rising Sun | 4.0 |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers I'm With You | 3.0 |
| Enslaved Thorn | 3.0 |
| Circle Takes the Square Rites of Initiation | 3.5 |
| Leprous Bilateral | 4.5 |
| White Arms of Athena Astrodrama | 3.5 |
| Trivium In Waves | 3.0 |
| Fleshgod Apocalypse Agony | 4.0 |
| Dir En Grey Dum Spiro Spero | 3.5 |
| Flourishing The Sum of All Fossils | 4.0 |
| Djrum Mountains | 4.0 |
| Bomb the Music Industry! Vacation | 4.0 |
| Iselia Life From Dead Limbs | 4.0 |
| Trophy Scars Never Born, Never Dead | 4.0 |
| Incubus (USA-CA) If Not Now, When? | 3.5 |
| Very risky move by the band releasing what basically amounts to an acoustic pop album. That said, Boyd rgives it his all despite some very hit-or-miss lyrics. The rest of the band sounds bored but there are some rpleasant nuances found buried behind Boyd's romanticized vocal performances. A few of the songs are far rtoo saccharine for my tastes (Promises, Friends and Lovers) and some are just plain bad (Switchblade) but rultimately, If Not Now, When? is a well-constructed pop album. If you can get past the fact that this is an rIncubus album it's sure to be an enjoyable summer listen at the very least. Highlights: If Not Now When?, rIsadore, In the Company of Wolves, Adolescents. |
| Fair to Midland Arrows and Anchors | 4.5 |
| RIKKI TIKKI. RIKKI TIKKI. RIKKI TIKKI TAVI I AM NOT A MACHINE SO DON'T TREAT ME LIKE BUTTONS. |
| Tangled Thoughts of Leaving Deaden The Fields | 4.0 |
| Unearth Darkness in the Light | 3.0 |
| Hands (US-ND) Give Me Rest | 4.0 |
| The Smith Street Band No One Gets Lost Anymore | 4.0 |
| Mairin Inside A View | 4.0 |
| Queensryche Dedicated to Chaos | 1.5 |
| *shels Plains Of The Purple Buffalo | 4.0 |
| The Dear Hunter White | 4.0 |
| Devin Townsend Project Ghost | 3.0 |
| It's pretty for sure but it becomes nothing more than glorified background music to wet yourself to. |
| The Story So Far Under Soil and Dirt | 3.0 |
| In Flames Sounds of a Playground Fading | 3.0 |
| Weird Al Yankovic Alpocalypse | 3.0 |
| sleepmakeswaves ...and so we destroyed everything | 3.0 |
| August Burns Red Leveler | 3.5 |
| The Dear Hunter Violet | 4.0 |
| Devin Townsend Project Deconstruction | 3.5 |
| See the vagina-faced lady! Two for one, indeed.rBasically sums up the whole album. |
| The Dear Hunter Indigo | 4.0 |
| The Dear Hunter Blue | 3.0 |
| The Dear Hunter Green | 3.0 |
| The Dear Hunter Yellow | 3.0 |
| Symphony X Iconoclast | 3.5 |
| The Dear Hunter Orange | 4.0 |
| The Dear Hunter Red | 3.5 |
| The Dear Hunter Black | 3.5 |
| The Dear Hunter The Color Spectrum (Complete Collection) | 4.0 |
| Submotion Orchestra Finest Hour | 4.5 |
| Arch Enemy Khaos Legions | 2.5 |
| Amorphis The Beginning of Times | 3.0 |
| Touche Amore Parting The Sea Between Brightness And Me | 3.5 |
| Ampere Like Shadows | 3.5 |
| Sky Architect A Dying Man's Hymn | 2.5 |
| Frank Turner England Keep My Bones | 3.0 |
| Gorod Transcendence | 3.5 |
| Gigan Quasi-Hallucinogenic Sonic Landscapes | 4.0 |
| Unexpect Fables of the Sleepless Empire | 3.5 |
| Maybeshewill I Was Here For a Moment, Then I Was Gone | 4.0 |
| Foster the People Torches | 2.5 |
| Boris Heavy Rocks (2011) | 3.5 |
| Cave In White Silence | 3.5 |
| NAMI Fragile Alignments | 3.0 |
| Weekend Nachos Worthless | 4.0 |
| Liturgy Aesthethica | 3.0 |
| The Lonely Island Turtleneck and Chain | 3.0 |
| Thurisaz The Cimmerian Years | 3.0 |
| Ana Kefr The Burial Tree (II) | 4.5 |
| Giles Corey Giles Corey | 3.5 |
| dredg Chuckles and Mr. Squeezy | 2.0 |
| Dirge (FR) Elysian Magnetic Fields | 2.0 |
| Album is so goddamned boring. At least the cover art rules. |
| Pulling Teeth Funerary | 4.0 |
| Deafheaven Roads to Judah | 4.0 |
| the best metrosexual black metal |
| Laura Stevenson Sit Resist | 4.0 |
| tsosis Underwater Tell Each Other Secrets | 4.0 |
Everything they've done is gold. They really deserve more recognition. I didn't find "Underwater..." to be as
instant as Blue or Red but it still fucking rules. For their general sound, think of of the chill mathy
instrumentation of Minus the Bear combined with the technicality of Tera Melos plus vocal stylings similar to
Coheed and Cambria. So sexy.
:edit: Fucking Lerem using the same three bands I did to analogize their sound... |
| Altar of Plagues Mammal | 3.0 |
| Ulver Wars of the Roses | 3.0 |
| Torchbearer Death Meditations | 4.0 |
| This is really just a beefed up version of Warnaments. That said it rules. Easily one of the top metal releases in 2011's Q1. |
| Blut Aus Nord 777 - Sect(s) | 3.0 |
| Euphoreon Euphoreon | 3.0 |
| Explosions in the Sky Take Care, Take Care, Take Care | 2.5 |
| Septicflesh The Great Mass | 3.5 |
| Amaranthe Amaranthe | 3.0 |
| Foo Fighters Wasting Light | 3.5 |
| Beyond Creation The Aura | 4.0 |
| Between the Buried and Me The Parallax: Hypersleep Dialogues | 4.0 |
| Breakdown of Sanity Mirrors | 2.5 |
| Caligula's Horse Moments from Ephemeral City | 3.0 |
| Amon Amarth Surtur Rising | 3.5 |
| I totally forgot this album existed but I have it at a 3.5. That's Amon Amarth for ya. |
| Burial Street Halo | 3.5 |
| Light Bearer Lapsus | 3.5 |
| TesseracT One | 3.0 |
| Protest the Hero Scurrilous | 3.5 |
| You think it can't get any better but then you get to Sex Tapes and HOLY FUCK IT'S THE VOCALIST FROM PROPAGANDHI |
| Born of Osiris The Discovery | 3.5 |
| Ash Borer Ash Borer | 4.0 |
| Boris New Album | 3.5 |
| Trap Them Darker Handcraft | 3.0 |
| Vampillia Alchemic Heart | 4.0 |
| Sylosis Edge of the Earth | 4.0 |
| Children of Bodom Relentless Reckless Forever | 2.5 |
| The Human Abstract Digital Veil | 3.0 |
| Defeater Empty Days and Sleepless Nights | 3.5 |
| Divide Echelon | 3.0 |
| Vessels Helioscope | 3.5 |
| Omnium Gatherum New World Shadows | 3.5 |
| Scale the Summit The Collective | 3.5 |
| Jordan Blake and Etienne Sin The Legend, The Leader | 1.0 |
| Look at their fucking bio picture. FUCKING LOOK AT IT. |
| Colin Stetson New History Warfare Vol 2: Judges | 4.5 |
| Moonsorrow Varjoina kuljemme kuolleiden maassa | 3.0 |
| Arcane Roots Left Fire | 3.5 |
| Radiohead The King of Limbs | 3.5 |
| Love American Love American | 4.0 |
| The Fall of Troy + Off Minor + Adam Thomas + HtD song title = hey a pretty good time. |
| Mogwai Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will | 3.0 |
| The Rural Alberta Advantage Departing | 3.5 |
| Glassjaw Coloring Book | 4.5 |
| Fen Epoch | 3.0 |
| Defeater Dear Father | 3.0 |
| Thomas Giles Pulse | 2.5 |
| Ron Anderson Secret Curve | 4.0 |
| Amplifier The Octopus | 2.0 |
| Why is the bass mixed so fucking high. Every song sounds like BWOOOOOOOOM. |
| Arafel For Battles Once Fought | 3.5 |
| The Smith Street Band South East Facing Wall | 4.0 |
| Ulcerate The Destroyers of All | 4.0 |
| Tartar Lamb Polyimage of Known Exits | 4.0 |
| Times of Grace The Hymn of a Broken Man | 2.5 |
| Lead Hands Lead Hands | 2.5 |
| Mitochondrion Parasignosis | 3.0 |
| Thank You Scientist The Perils of Time Travel | 4.0 |
| Joseph Magazine Night Of The Red Sky | 3.5 |
| Glassjaw Our Color Green (The Singles) | 4.0 |
| The Kingsford Run MMXI | 4.0 |
| Wobbler Rites at Dawn | 4.0 |
| Ana Never Ana Never | 4.0 |
| Big Big Train The Underfall Yard | 4.5 |
| 2010 |
| Amia Venera Landscape The Long Procession | 4.0 |
| Yasushi Yoshida Grateful Goodbye | 4.0 |
| Agalloch Marrow of the Spirit | 3.5 |
| I don't know guys I like this a lot. The intro track is a little underwhelming personally but "Into the Painted Grey" is easily the most ferocious song Agalloch have ever done. And I enjoy how the guitar motif towards the end becomes one of the main melodies in "The Watcher's Monolith." "Black Lake Nidstang" sounds like Godspeed You! Black Emperor had a child with Varg Vikernes, while "Ghosts of the Midwinter Fires" sounds like a more modernized twist on Pale Folklore. Closer "To Drown" ends the album on a very unsettling note before fading into nothingness. Tentatively Marrow of the Spirit IS their weakest album but remember it's following three masterpieces. It's right in that 3.9-4 range for me. I don't know about you guys, but i'm wholly satisfied with it. |
| Kayo Dot Stained Glass | 3.5 |
| Blindead Affliction XXIX II MCMXCVI | 4.0 |
| The Chariot Long Live | 3.0 |
| Sodom In War and Pieces | 3.5 |
| Kanye West My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy | 4.0 |
| Transcending Bizarre? The Misanthrope's Fable | 3.0 |
| War from a Harlots Mouth MMX | 3.0 |
| The Ocean Anthropocentric | 3.5 |
| Underoath Ø (Disambiguation) | 3.5 |
| Deathspell Omega Paracletus | 4.0 |
| How come every band that's mysterious as fuck is better than just about every other band in the history of forever. Ever. |
| Atheist Jupiter | 4.0 |
| Chunk! No, Captain Chunk! Something for Nothing | 3.0 |
| Trophy Scars Darkness, Oh Hell | 3.5 |
| Young the Giant Young the Giant | 3.0 |
| Kylesa Spiral Shadow | 3.5 |
| Intronaut Valley of Smoke | 3.5 |
| Caleb McAlpine Science Fiction | 3.5 |
| Bring Me the Horizon There Is a Hell, Believe Me I've Seen It... | 3.0 |
| Entropia Simetria | 3.5 |
| The Secret Solve Et Coagula | 3.0 |
| Enslaved Axioma Ethica Odini | 3.5 |
| Great Odin's Raven...Enslaved continue to outdo themselves. This is really fucking good. |
| State Faults Head in the Clouds | 3.0 |
| The Saddest Landscape You Will Not Survive | 3.5 |
| Margot and the Nuclear So and So's Buzzard | 3.5 |
| Cloudkicker Beacons | 4.0 |
| Weezer Hurley | 3.0 |
| Oceansize Self Preserved While The Bodies Float Up | 3.5 |
| tits on album cover = AOTY. Build Us a Rocket is fucking great. |
| Swans My Father Will Guide Me Up a Rope to the Sky | 4.0 |
| Tera Melos Patagonian Rats | 3.0 |
| The Tallest Man on Earth Sometimes The Blues Is Just A Passing Bird | 3.5 |
| The Naked and Famous Passive Me, Aggressive You | 3.5 |
| Kamelot Poetry for the Poisoned | 2.5 |
| This is a good deal darker and heavier than anything else Kamelot have done. The "epic" title track, which is really only 9:22 minutes of material spread over four tracks, is a bit of a letdown when compared to their other epics such as Memento Mori or the Elizabeth suite, but this is certainly Kamelot's best effort since The Black Halo. Poetry For the Poison boils down to being an epic short of a solid 4 rating. |
| Disturbed Asylum | 2.0 |
| The Word Alive Deceiver | 2.5 |
| The Contortionist Exoplanet | 3.5 |
| The Sword Warp Riders | 3.5 |
| Sounds like a herd of bison being pushed off a cliff, presumably while high as fuck. Also they're space rbison. |
| Adebisi Shank This is the Second Album | 3.0 |
| Miles Away Endless Roads | 3.5 |
| I'll be listening to the beginnings of the songs thinking "this is dece 3/5" but they have a habit of ending all of their songs amazingly. So 3.5. |
| The World Is a Beautiful Place... Formlessness | 4.0 |
| Orbs Asleep Next to Science | 4.5 |
| album is better than grilled cheese and campbells |
| Iron Maiden The Final Frontier | 3.0 |
| Lights Out Asia In The Days Of Jupiter | 3.5 |
| Arcade Fire The Suburbs | 2.5 |
| Kerouac Cold and Distant, Not Loving | 4.0 |
| Blind Guardian At the Edge of Time | 4.0 |
| Avenged Sevenfold Nightmare | 3.0 |
Oh hey this exceeded my expectations. 3-3.5.
But i'm also a tool. |
| Touche Amore/La Dispute Searching for a Pulse/The Worth of the World | 3.5 |
| Norma Jean Meridional | 3.5 |
| Devil Sold His Soul Blessed & Cursed | 4.0 |
| A Plea for Purging The Marriage Of Heaven And Hell | 2.5 |
| Brandon Boyd The Wild Trapeze | 3.5 |
| Listener Wooden Heart | 4.0 |
| Soilwork The Panic Broadcast | 3.0 |
| 3OH!3 Streets of Gold | 1.0 |
| Haste the Day Attack of the Wolf King | 3.0 |
| Knut Wonder | 3.5 |
| Demians Mute | 4.0 |
| Thou Summit | 4.0 |
| Heaven In Her Arms Paraselene | 3.0 |
| United Nations Never Mind the Bombings, Here's Your Six Figures | 4.0 |
| The Roots How I Got Over | 3.5 |
| Kvelertak Kvelertak | 3.5 |
| Equilibrium Rekreatur | 3.5 |
| Equilibrium haven't progressed much at all from Sagas but they have a formula that works well for them. If you take this album for what it is, cheesy, over the top, wanky viking metal, you'll have a hell of a time listening to it. |
| Eminem Recovery | 3.5 |
| The Pineapple Thief Someone Here Is Missing | 3.0 |
| Foals Total Life Forever | 3.5 |
| Lantlos .neon | 4.0 |
| Journal Unlorja | 4.0 |
| Whip out Ocarina of Time or Majora's Mask and just go to town on those bitches. Album is the fucking tits. TITS. |
| The Flashbulb Arboreal | 3.0 |
| Heaven Shall Burn Invictus (Iconoclast III) | 3.5 |
| (The) Slowest Runner (In All The World) We, Burning Giraffes | 4.5 |
| Anathema We're Here Because We're Here | 4.0 |
| I'm gonna go ahead and nominate "Thin Air" for most beautiful song of 2010. Stunning album. |
| The Glitch Mob Drink the Sea | 4.0 |
| Rosetta A Determinism of Morality | 4.5 |
| Rolo Tomassi Cosmology | 3.0 |
| October Falls A Collapse of Faith | 3.0 |
| Fleshgod Apocalypse Mafia | 3.0 |
| Pain of Salvation Road Salt One | 3.0 |
| Dead Letter Circus This Is The Warning | 3.0 |
It's kind of like an amalgamation of The Mars Volta, Tool, Karnivool, and Rishloo except not as good. With
the exception of the "epic" one-two punch of "The Drum" and "The Design," as well as the disjointed title
track that closes the album out, there is zero variation in sound or structure. Highlights include the
eclectically energetic opener, "Here We Divide," the fast-paced and enjoyable "Next In Line," and "The Long
Hour," led by a fantastic chorus. Listen to those three songs and throw "The Drum" in for some
ambient/progressive variation and you've more or less heard the entire album. It seems that Dead Letter
Circus work best as an EP-only band. |
| The National High Violet | 3.0 |
| As I Lay Dying The Powerless Rise | 3.5 |
| Zs New Slaves | 3.5 |
| Clubroot II - MMX | 3.5 |
| Minus the Bear Omni | 3.0 |
| Deftones Diamond Eyes | 3.5 |
| Flying Lotus Cosmogramma | 4.0 |
| Sed Non Satiata Sed Non Satiata | 4.5 |
| Adai Felo De Se | 3.0 |
| Twilight Monument To Time End | 4.0 |
| Nikko The Warm Side | 4.0 |
| Bullet for My Valentine Fever | 2.0 |
| Mouth Of The Architect The Violence Beneath | 3.5 |
| Year of No Light Ausserwelt | 3.0 |
| Cleric Regressions | 4.0 |
| Sevendust Cold Day Memory | 2.0 |
| Periphery Periphery | 3.0 |
| Kayo Dot Coyote | 4.0 |
| Dark Time Sunshine Vessel | 4.0 |
| The Ocean Heliocentric | 3.0 |
| Coheed and Cambria Year of the Black Rainbow | 3.5 |
YOTBR is a lot less guitar-oriented than Coheed's other albums. A lot of the songs even have an interesting quasi-
electronica beat going on. But its still got some motherfucking catchy songs and as a whole is stronger than No
World For Tomorrow. World of Lines is one of the catchiest songs they've released in a while, and Guns of Summer
has almost DEP-esque drumming. First impression and this is a 3.5-4. But it will probably grow on me. |
| Schizoid Lloyd Virus | 3.5 |
| The Tallest Man on Earth The Wild Hunt | 4.0 |
When this nigga first opened his mouth I was all "ewwwwy" but half-way through the album I began to love
it. You will too. |
| Little Women Throat | 4.0 |
| letlive. Fake History | 4.0 |
| Ghastly City Sleep Moondrifts | 4.0 |
| tsosis Red Version | 4.0 |
| Solution .45 For Aeons Past | 3.0 |
| Barren Earth Curse of the Red River | 3.5 |
| Avantasia Angel of Babylon | 3.0 |
| Avantasia The Wicked Symphony | 3.5 |
It's overly bombastic, full of itself, cheesy as all hell (though not to the point of unlistenability), incredibly
fun, and beyond uplifting. This is the perfect power metal album really. Check out the title track,
"Wastelands," "Scales of Justice" and "Forever is a Long Time." |
| Haken Aquarius | 3.0 |
| Alcest Écailles De Lune | 3.5 |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Option Paralysis | 4.0 |
| Rinoa An Age Among Them | 2.5 |
| Immolation Majesty and Decay | 4.0 |
| Titus Andronicus The Monitor | 4.0 |
| Gorillaz Plastic Beach | 4.5 |
| Burzum Belus | 3.5 |
Varg looks so jolly in that profile picture.
Also this is better than a 2.9 average rating. |
| The Reign of Kindo This Is What Happens | 3.5 |
| Ikuinen Kaamos Fall of Icons | 3.5 |
| Various Artists (Metal) God of War: Blood and Metal | 3.0 |
| Kalmah 12 Gauge | 4.0 |
First impressions: Way better than For the Revolution. It's most similar in sound to The Black Waltz but thrashes harder while retaining the high energy of an album like They Will Return. No throwaway tracks either, each track is as good as the last. Expect me to review this within the next few weeks, but it's definitely an excellent return to form for Kalmah.
Final Verdict: Best Kalmah album since They Will Return. |
| Two Door Cinema Club Tourist History | 3.0 |
| Slice the Cake Cleansed | 3.0 |
| Fightstar Be Human Deluxe Edition | 4.0 |
| Dark Tranquillity We Are the Void | 3.0 |
We Are the Void is Dark Tranquillity's weakest album since Haven. That said it's pretty solid, but it has very little
sense of identity or originality at all. The album does get stronger as it progresses however, with the last 3 songs
being the strongest on the album. It's very much keyboard-oriented as another user said, but there are still a few
crunchy Character-esque riffs thrown in the mix. All in all it's a very solid release, don't expect to be blown away but
don't expect to be disgusted either. It's enjoyable, and that's all you can ask for really. A little variation would be nice
however.
Steve McMahon I am suing you for plagiarizing my soundoff. |
| Mutiny Within Mutiny Within | 3.5 |
| Counterparts Prophets | 3.5 |
| Fang Island Fang Island | 4.0 |
| Monomate Grand Battle | 4.0 |
| In Mourning Monolith | 3.5 |
| Arsis Starve for the Devil | 3.0 |
| Massive Attack Heligoland | 4.0 |
| Bomb the Music Industry! Adults!!!: Smart!!! Shithammered!!! And Excited By Nothing!!!!!!! | 4.0 |
| Lil Wayne Rebirth | 1.0 |
| Throats Throats | 4.0 |
| Torch Runner Locust Swarm | 3.0 |
| Orphaned Land The Never Ending Way Of ORwarriOR | 3.0 |
| Ihsahn After | 4.0 |
| Shining (NOR) Blackjazz | 4.0 |
| Emancipator Safe In The Steep Cliffs | 3.5 |
| Sigh Scenes from Hell | 4.0 |
| In Vain (NO) Mantra | 4.0 |
| Motorpsycho Heavy Metal Fruit | 4.5 |
| Etienne Sin The Art of Stealing Hearts | 1.0 |
He'd (?) be better off making boring metalcore than utilizing his fantastic castrati abilities to "darkly croon"
or whatever insane hyperbole he used to describe what is essentially a party-pop album that wants to be
br00t4l.
edit: actually nah fuck this guy |
| Dangers Messy, Isn't It? | 3.5 |
| The American Dollar Atlas | 3.5 |
| More Than Life Love Let Me Go | 4.0 |
| Enabler Eden Sank to Grief | 4.0 |
| The Bulletproof Tiger Stab The New Cherry | 4.0 |
| Radare Infinite Regress | 4.5 |
| 2009 |
| toe For Long Tomorrow | 3.5 |
| Rishloo Feathergun | 4.5 |
| Circle of Contempt Artifacts in Motion | 3.5 |
| Animal Collective Fall Be Kind | 3.5 |
| A Wilhelm Scream A Wilhelm Scream | 3.5 |
| Elder (USA-PA) Reflect | 3.0 |
| Devin Townsend Project Addicted | 4.0 |
| Defeater Lost Ground | 4.0 |
| Vektor Black Future | 4.0 |
| Miseration The Mirroring Shadow | 2.5 |
| Not as good as their debut with all honesty. The Mirroring Shadow may be heavier and more br00t4l but there's no rvariation here whatsoever. There are a few gems (the title track, Theca) but in the end it's pretty generic death metal. rWell-executed, yes, but it gets tiresome. All of Christian's side projects are essentially the same band. |
| Gaza He Is Never Coming Back | 3.0 |
| Hypocrisy A Taste of Extreme Divinity | 3.5 |
| Katatonia Night Is the New Day | 3.5 |
| Weezer Raditude | 2.0 |
| Scar Symmetry Dark Matter Dimensions | 3.0 |
| Atreyu Congregation of the Damned | 2.0 |
| pg.lost In Never Out | 2.5 |
| Shrinebuilder Shrinebuilder | 3.5 |
| The Red Chord Fed Through the Teeth Machine | 4.0 |
| Between the Buried and Me The Great Misdirect | 4.0 |
| Apparently I should've saved my soundoff. Not really up to writing it rover but this album is definitely worth the hype if you're a BTBAM fan like myself. Has the potential to rbecome one rof, if not their strongest release.r*insert sexual metaphor related to the listener's experience listening to the album here* |
| Orianthi Believe | 2.5 |
| Oceansize Home & Minor | 3.5 |
| Stray from the Path Make Your Own History | 4.0 |
| Do Make Say Think Other Truths | 3.5 |
| Wolfmother Cosmic Egg | 2.5 |
| Lightning Bolt Earthly Delights | 3.5 |
| Thrice Beggars | 4.0 |
| Lye By Mistake Fea Jur | 4.0 |
| Cannabis Corpse The Weeding | 2.0 |
| The Arusha Accord The Echo Verses | 3.0 |
| Portico Quartet Isla | 3.5 |
| The Fall of Troy In the Unlikely Event | 2.0 |
| Redemption Snowfall on Judgment Day | 3.0 |
| Mumford and Sons Sigh No More | 2.5 |
| Portal Swarth | 3.5 |
| Converge Axe to Fall | 4.0 |
| Well i've given it 4 listens today since the leak. I believe that speaks for itself...this fucking rips. Is it better than Jane Doe? Probably not...but it comes pretty damn close. |
| Revocation Existence Is Futile | 2.5 |
| Paramore Brand New Eyes | 3.0 |
| Sonata Arctica The Days of Grays | 3.0 |
| Despised Icon Day Of Mourning | 3.0 |
| Cormorant Metazoa | 3.5 |
| Brand New Daisy | 3.5 |
| Porcupine Tree The Incident | 2.0 |
| A City Safe From Sea Throw Me Through Walls | 4.0 |
| The Few Against Many Sot | 2.5 |
| The Black Dahlia Murder Deflorate | 3.0 |
| Skyfire Esoteric | 3.5 |
| Megadeth Endgame | 4.0 |
| Ensiferum From Afar | 3.0 |
| Insomnium Across the Dark | 3.5 |
| BATS Red In Tooth and Claw | 4.0 |
| fun. Aim and Ignite | 4.0 |
| (The) Slowest Runner (In All The World) The Flophouse Session | 4.0 |
| Modest Mouse No One's First, and You're Next | 4.0 |
| Rx Bandits Mandala | 4.5 |
| Cave In Planets of Old | 3.5 |
| Augury Fragmentary Evidence | 4.0 |
| Owl City Ocean Eyes | 2.0 |
| August Burns Red Constellations | 3.5 |
| Anaal Nathrakh In the Constellation of the Black Widow | 4.0 |
| Mount Eerie Wind's Poem | 4.5 |
| Born of Osiris A Higher Place | 2.5 |
| Poison the Well The Tropic Rot | 4.0 |
| Shining (SWE) VI - Klagopsalmer | 4.0 |
| Skyfire Fractal EP | 4.0 |
| Suffocation Blood Oath | 3.5 |
| Touche Amore ...To the Beat of a Dead Horse | 3.5 |
| Killswitch Engage Killswitch Engage (2009) | 2.5 |
| Maybeshewill Sing The Word Hope In Four-Part Harmony | 4.0 |
| The Mars Volta Octahedron | 2.5 |
| Dream Theater Black Clouds and Silver Linings | 3.0 |
| I confess to being a bit of a Dream Theater fanboy (I have been wearing the same Dream Theater hat pretty much revery day since August) but I can admit that they've been on a steady decline since 6DOIT. Systematic Chaos respecially was a pretty big letdown. However, after giving this multiple listens, I was very pleasantly surprised. If you rignore the lyrics (which never have been that great anyway) this is easily a much better album than Systematic Chaos, rOctavarium, perhaps even Train of Thought. Though at times the music may feel shallow and emotionless, for the rmost part this is a spectacular return to form for Dream Theater. I've even grown to quite like the single, A Rite of rPassage, which I first passed off as boring and uninspired. Especially notable are the clean interlude and majestic rchorus midway through "A Nightmare to Remember," the splendidly emotional guitar solo that closes "The Best of rTimes," and just about all 19 minutes of "The Count of Tuscany." "The Shattered Fortress" also manages to close out rthe AA suite in top form, with an amalgamation of riffs and themes used throughout the other four tracks. I applaud rDream Theater for releasing this album. An easy 4/5.r |
| Darkest Hour The Eternal Return | 3.0 |
| The Dear Hunter Act III: Life and Death | 3.5 |
| Destroyer 666 Defiance | 3.0 |
| Drudkh Microcosmos | 3.5 |
| Clubroot Clubroot | 3.5 |
| Be'lakor Stone's Reach | 4.0 |
| Panopticon Collapse | 4.0 |
| Gorod Process of a New Decline | 3.5 |
| Riverside Anno Domini High Definition | 3.5 |
| brokeNCYDE I'm Not a Fan, but the Kids Like It! | 1.0 |
| Amorphis Skyforger | 3.0 |
| Incubus (USA-CA) Monuments and Melodies | 4.0 |
| Though the lack of any pre-Make Yourself material is somewhat disappointing, Monuments and Melodies does an excellent job of summarizing Incubus' past 10 years as a band, from their breakout album Make Yourself, to their most recent Light Grenades. The first cd consists of the big singles from their past four albums, and are rightfully chosen. Also featured are two new songs, "Black Heart Inertia," and "Midnight Swim," both of which are up amongst the top quality songs of their past two albums. Disc two consists of rarities and b-sides, including the fan-favorite "Pantomime." A Cover of Prince's "Let's Go Crazy" is also included, as well as an interesting and very well-done acoustic rendition of their song "A Certain Shade of Green" off of their sophomore effort, S.C.I.E.N.C.E. Though this is not an essential buy for long-time Incubus fans, Monuments and Melodies would be a great place to start for those new and unfamiliar with the band. |
| dredg The Pariah, The Parrot, The Delusion | 3.5 |
| Coalesce OX | 4.0 |
| Karnivool Sound Awake | 4.0 |
| Dave Matthews Band Big Whiskey and the GrooGrux King | 3.0 |
| Emery ...In Shallow Seas We Sail | 3.5 |
| Alpinist Minus.Mensch | 4.0 |
| Sights and Sounds Monolith | 4.0 |
| Gnostic Engineering the Rule | 3.0 |
| Devin Townsend Project Ki | 4.0 |
| mewithoutYou It's All Crazy! It's All False! It's All A Dream! It's Alright! | 3.5 |
| Green Day 21st Century Breakdown | 2.0 |
| maudlin of the Well Part the Second | 4.5 |
| Aiden Knives | 1.5 |
| Exivious Exivious | 4.0 |
| The Devil Wears Prada With Roots Above and Branches Below | 2.5 |
| Sunn O))) Monoliths and Dimensions | 3.0 |
| Closure in Moscow First Temple | 4.0 |
| Unanimated In the Light of Darkness | 3.0 |
| Leprous Tall Poppy Syndrome | 4.0 |
| Dot Dot Curve Til the Wheels Fall Off | 1.0 |
| Animals As Leaders Animals as Leaders | 3.0 |
| tsosis Blue Version | 3.5 |
| Gwynbleidd Nostalgia | 3.5 |
| ISIS Wavering Radiant | 3.0 |
| Children of Nova The Complexity of Light | 3.5 |
| Hacride Lazarus | 3.5 |
| Fightstar Be Human | 4.0 |
| Altar of Plagues White Tomb | 3.0 |
| Funebrarum The Sleep of Morbid Dreams | 4.0 |
| Silversun Pickups Swoon | 3.5 |
| Del Tha Funkee Homosapien Funk Man (The Stimulus Package) | 3.0 |
| Sacred Oath Sacred Oath | 3.5 |
| Ulcerate Everything Is Fire | 5.0 |
| Queensryche American Soldier | 3.0 |
| Wolves in the Throne Room Black Cascade | 3.0 |
| Pulling Teeth Paranoid Delusions/Paradise Illusions | 3.5 |
| Eleventh He Reaches London Hollow Be My Name | 4.5 |
| The Decemberists The Hazards of Love | 3.5 |
| Mono Hymn to the Immortal Wind | 4.0 |
| Mastodon Crack the Skye | 4.0 |
| Coheed and Cambria Neverender | 4.5 |
| Fever Ray Fever Ray | 3.5 |
| Propagandhi Supporting Caste | 4.0 |
| The Antlers Hospice | 3.5 |
| Fleshgod Apocalypse Oracles | 4.0 |
| Lamb of God Wrath | 2.5 |
| Obscura Cosmogenesis | 2.5 |
| Wolves in the Throne Room Malevolent Grain | 3.5 |
| Scale the Summit Carving Desert Canyons | 3.5 |
| Irepress Sol Eye Sea I | 4.5 |
| Conducting from the Grave When Legends Become Dust | 3.5 |
| Bomb the Music Industry! Scrambles | 4.5 |
| The Lonely Island Incredibad | 4.0 |
| The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus Lonely Road | 1.0 |
| A Day To Remember Homesick | 2.0 |
| Giant Squid The Ichthyologist | 4.0 |
| Cyclamen (JPN) Dreamers EP | 3.0 |
| Solstafir Köld | 2.0 |
| Cattle Decapitation The Harvest Floor | 2.5 |
| Cymbals Eat Guitars Why There Are Mountains | 4.0 |
| Tribulation The Horror | 3.0 |
| Fen The Malediction Fields | 3.0 |
| Kalisia Cybion | 4.0 |
| Animal Collective Merriweather Post Pavilion | 4.0 |
| Zu Carboniferous | 3.0 |
| Kidcrash Snacks | 3.5 |
| Fall of Efrafa Inle | 4.0 |
| A Voice Like Rhetoric Ethos | 4.0 |
| This is an excellent post-hardcore/mathcore record, drawing huge influence from giants At The Drive-In and even The Fall of Troy. With technical guitar and bass playing, tasteful drumming, and hooky vocal lines, A Voice For Rhetoric's "Ethos" is a must-listen for anyone into post-hardcore or technical punk. Definitely will make my top 20 of 2009 at the end of the year. |
| Shadow Gallery Digital Ghosts | 4.0 |
| 2003 |
| Hoobastank The Reason | 3.0 |
| Boris Boris At Last -Feedbacker- | 4.5 |
| blink-182 Blink-182 | 4.0 |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers Greatest Hits | 4.0 |
| Dream Theater Train of Thought | 3.0 |
| Explosions in the Sky The Earth Is Not a Cold Dead Place | 3.5 |
| Pelican Australasia | 3.5 |
| The Fall of Troy The Fall of Troy | 4.5 |
| Anathema A Natural Disaster | 4.0 |
| Between the Buried and Me The Silent Circus | 3.0 |
| Kayo Dot Choirs of the Eye | 5.0 |
| Murder by Death Who Will Survive and What Will Be Left of Them? | 3.0 |
| The Books The Lemon Of Pink | 3.5 |
| Fireball Ministry The Second Great Awakening | 3.5 |
| Death Cab for Cutie Transatlanticism | 4.0 |
| Coheed and Cambria In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3 | 4.5 |
| Unmoored Indefinite Soul-Extension | 4.0 |
| Muse Absolution | 3.0 |
| Oceansize Effloresce | 4.5 |
| Children of Bodom Hate Crew Deathroll | 3.5 |
| Bodom is my favorite overall band, and they definately did not hold back with their fourth release, which happens to be rmy favorite (FTR is a close second) Muchy like Clayman is to In Flames, and Natural Born Chaos is to Soilwork, this is rbodom's transitional album. Gone are the atmospheric and cold, melodic riffing (for the most part) and in come a much rheavier overall sound. The keyboards take a much more 70's sounding sound in this album (listen to triple corpse rhammerblow and the chorus to bodom beach terror) but manage to fit in well and not make this sound like a 30 year rold album. Alexi's vocals are a little weaker here than the other albums, but it overall doesn't affect the outcome of the rabum. Songs like needled 24/7 and lil bloodred riding hood are composed of amazing riffs full of melody, while you're rbetter off dead and the title track focus more on brutality, and contain some of bodom's cheesiest lyrics. Sixpounder is rbodom's crunchiest and thashiest song ever, and another treat while Angels don't Kill is Bodom's "ballad" and probably rtheir most evil sonding song. Chokehold features some of bodom's best indstrumentation ever, just listen to that rkeyboard solo! And bodom beach terror and triple corpse hammerblow feature some awesome keyboarding and are rmore bass driven than the other songs. If you're looking for bodom's thrashier album, look no further! |
| OutKast Speakerboxxx/The Love Below | 3.5 |
| Burst Prey on Life | 4.0 |
| Matmos The Civil War | 4.0 |
| A Perfect Circle Thirteenth Step | 3.5 |
| John Mayer Heavier Things | 3.0 |
| Iron Maiden Dance of Death | 4.0 |
| Arch Enemy Anthems of Rebellion | 2.5 |
| Envy A Dead Sinking Story | 3.5 |
| Avenged Sevenfold Waking the Fallen | 4.0 |
| Edge of Sanity Crimson II | 4.0 |
| Ulver A Quick Fix of Melancholy | 4.0 |
| SikTh The Trees Are Dead and Dried Out, Wait for Something Wild | 4.0 |
| Thrice The Artist in the Ambulance | 4.0 |
| Norther Mirror of Madness | 4.0 |
| These Arms Are Snakes This Is Meant To Hurt You | 4.0 |
| Psycroptic The Scepter of the Ancients | 4.0 |
| The Mayan Factor In Lake 'CH | 4.0 |
| Jakob Cale:Drew | 4.0 |
| Trivium Ember to Inferno | 2.5 |
| Kalmah Swampsong | 3.5 |
| Rx Bandits The Resignation | 4.0 |
| The Darkness Permission to Land | 3.0 |
| As I Lay Dying Frail Words Collapse | 2.5 |
| Misery Signals Misery Signals | 3.0 |
| Poison the Well You Come Before You | 4.0 |
| Melt-Banana Cell-Scape | 4.0 |
| Every Time I Die Hot Damn! | 3.5 |
| The Mars Volta De-Loused in the Comatorium | 4.5 |
| Brand New Deja Entendu | 3.5 |
| Mogwai Happy Songs for Happy People | 3.5 |
| Steely Dan Everything Must Go | 3.0 |
| Radiohead Hail to the Thief | 4.5 |
| Boris Akuma no Uta | 4.0 |
| Metallica St. Anger | 2.0 |
| Deftones Deftones | 3.5 |
| Darkest Hour Hidden Hands of a Sadist Nation | 4.0 |
| Shai Hulud That Within Blood Ill-Tempered | 4.0 |
| Moonsorrow Kivenkantaja | 4.0 |
| Dog Fashion Disco Committed to a Bright Future | 4.0 |
| Skyfire Mind Revolution | 4.0 |
| Weird Al Yankovic Poodle Hat | 3.5 |
| Soilwork Figure Number Five | 3.0 |
| Protest the Hero A Calculated Use of Sound | 3.5 |
| Opeth Damnation | 4.5 |
| Katatonia Viva Emptiness | 4.0 |
| Rise Against Revolutions per Minute | 3.5 |
| The White Stripes Elephant | 3.5 |
| The Devin Townsend Band Accelerated Evolution | 4.0 |
| Linkin Park Meteora | 2.5 |
| AFI Sing the Sorrow | 3.0 |
| Cursive The Ugly Organ | 3.0 |
| King Crimson The Power to Believe | 3.5 |
| The Notwist Neon Golden | 4.0 |
| Sonata Arctica Winterheart's Guild | 4.0 |
| Strapping Young Lad Strapping Young Lad | 3.0 |
| Massive Attack 100th Window | 4.0 |
| Lost Horizon A Flame to the Ground Beneath | 4.5 |
| Dirty Three She Has No Strings Apollo | 3.0 |
| DragonForce Valley of the Damned | 3.5 |
| The Microphones Mount Eerie | 4.0 |
| Kamelot Epica | 4.0 |
| The Ocean Fogdiver | 3.5 |
| DoomThrone Skeleton Veiled in Flesh | 1.0 |
| The Blood Brothers ...Burn, Piano Island, Burn | 2.0 |
| I reeeeallly want to punch the vocalist(s) in their dick(s). |
| Anekdoten Gravity | 3.0 |
| The Black Eyed Peas Elephunk | 3.0 |
| Time of Orchids Much Too Much Fun | 3.0 |
| Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra This Is Our Punk-Rock, Thee Rusted Satellites Gather and Sing | 3.5 |
| Off Minor The Heat Death of the Universe | 3.5 |
| Oceansize One Day All This Could Be Yours | 3.5 |
| Oceansize Remember Where You Are | 3.5 |
| Streetlight Manifesto Everything Goes Numb | 4.0 |
| Tomahawk Mit Gas | 4.0 |
| Enslaved Below the Lights | 4.0 |
| Lightning Bolt Wonderful Rainbow | 4.0 |
| Swallow the Sun The Morning Never Came | 4.0 |
| Farmakon A Warm Glimpse | 4.0 |
| Ephel Duath The Painter's Palette | 4.5 |
