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2016
Be'lakor Vessels	4.5

2013
Static Colours Sun Swells	1.0

2012
mewithoutYou Ten Stories	4.0
Yellow Ostrich Strange Land	4.0

2010
Ea Au Ellai	4.5
Ed Sheeran Loose Change	4.0

2009
Defeater Lost Ground	4.5
Insomnium Across the Dark	3.5
I've only heard two Insomnium albums, and I think this might be my favourite. Opposed to Above The Weeping World, where each track sort of blended into each other with the end result being unmemorable (for me at least), Across The Dark has a more varied and progressive feel throughout. One of the main talking points will be the clean vocals, which play their part in several songs, and while they fit really well on 'Where The Last Wave Broke' they only hinder songs like 'The Harrowing Years' and don't always work as well as they might. It's a hit-and-miss outcome to a new aspect of Insomnium's sound, and a chance that they might have needed to take. Alongside this though is Insomnium at their typical solid best. Bellowing forward some of the most occasionally inspiring and consistently powerful melodic death metal you're likely to hear. 'Against The Stream' has some of the best riffs I've heard in the genre for a while, and the epic second half of 'The Lay Of Autumn' contrasts well with the cleanly sung passage in the first. While I still don't see Insomnium as the best band in the genre as many proclaim them to be, Across The Dark is a brilliant example of why it's so popular, and how to do it well. Awesome production, typical atmosphere, powerful and epic, and just some downright fantastic riff work throughout. Fans of the band will eat this up. p.s - the acoustic interlude in 'Weighted Down With Sorrow' is pure magic, I pretty much creamed myself at that point.
Anaal Nathrakh In the Constellation of the Black Widow	4.0
Be'lakor Stone's Reach	4.5
We Insist! The Babel Inside Was Terrible	4.5
Nahemah A New Constellation	4.0
mewithoutYou It's All Crazy! It's All False! It's All A Dream! It's Alright!	3.0
anybody who thinks this is as good as previous mewithoutYou is crazy and their opinions are false, this is just alright, nothing more
Lay Down Rotten Gospel Of The Wretched	4.0
Gwynbleidd Nostalgia	4.0
Celeste Misanthrope(s)	3.5
Spires (USA) Flowers And Fireworks	4.0
Altar of Plagues White Tomb	4.5
Pulling Teeth Paranoid Delusions/Paradise Illusions	3.5
Wolves in the Throne Room Black Cascade	4.0
Black Sun Aeon Darkness Walks Beside Me	3.5
Mono Hymn to the Immortal Wind	3.5
Kylesa Static Tensions	4.0
Ea Ea II	4.5
Samael Above	3.0
Buried Inside Spoils Of Failure	3.5
Kashiwa Daisuke 5 Dec.	2.5
Wolves in the Throne Room Malevolent Grain	3.5
Obscura Cosmogenesis	3.5
Giant Squid The Ichthyologist	3.5
Vaka Kappa Delta Phi	4.0
Solstafir KÃ¶ld	4.5
Maegashira The Stark Attic	4.0
Kalisia Cybion	4.5
Vreid Milorg	4.0

2008
Ikuinen Kaamos Closure	4.0
Iron Thrones Visions of Light	4.0
Enslaved Vertebrae	4.0
Aussitot Mort Montuenga	3.5
Cynic Traced in Air	4.0
Oceans of Sadness The Arrogance Of Ignorance	4.5
Mutyumu Il y a	4.0
Lantlos Lantlos	3.5
Swallow the Sun Plague of Butterflies	4.0
Defeater Travels	4.0
hitide.lotide The Forest	3.5
Into Eternity The Incurable Tragedy	2.0
Isthmus Land Bridge	4.5
Lights Out Asia Eyes Like Brontide	3.5
Mesa Verde The Old Road	4.5
Mouth Of The Architect Quietly	3.5
...Who Calls So Loud ...Who Calls So Loud	3.5
Loma Prieta Last City	4.0
Bilocate Sudden Death Syndrome	3.5
Equilibrium Sagas	3.5
Arkan Hilal	3.5
pg.lost It's Not Me, It's You!	4.5
Opeth Watershed	3.5
Kataklysm Prevail	3.5
Hail of Bullets ...Of Frost and War	3.0
Men As Trees Weltschmerz	4.0
All the Empires of the World ...Will Be Laid To Waste	4.0
Textures Silhouettes	3.5
Nine Inch Nails The Slip	3.0
Moonsorrow Tulimyrsky	4.0
Kalmah For the Revolution	4.0
Arsis We Are the Nightmare	3.0
Mirrorthrone Gangrene	3.5
Nadja Desire in Uneasiness	4.0
Since (Time) Entropiate	4.0
In Flames A Sense of Purpose	3.0
Septicflesh Communion	3.5
Daturah Reverie	3.5
Fuck Buttons Street Horrrsing	4.0
sleepmakeswaves In Today Already Walks Tomorrow	4.0
Mercenary Architect of Lies	3.0
Meshuggah obZen	2.5
Black Comedy Instigator	3.0
Draconian Turning Season Within	2.5
Arghoslent Hornets of the Pogrom	4.0
Transcending Bizarre? The Serpent's Manifolds	3.5
Norther N	3.0
Aarni Tohcoth	3.5
To-Mera Delusions	2.5
Dismember Dismember	3.0
Eluveitie Slania	3.5
Martriden The Unsettling Dark	3.5
Eternal Deformity Frozen Circus	4.0
Heaven Shall Burn Iconoclast (Part 1: The Final Resistance)	3.5
Protest the Hero Fortress	4.0
The Flashbulb Soundtrack to a Vacant Life	3.5
In Mourning Shrouded Divine	4.5
Dantalion Call of the Broken Souls	4.0
Island Orakel	4.5
Cor Scorpii Monument	3.5
Followed By Ghosts Dear Monsters, Be Patient	4.0
Phalanx (AUS) Psychosis	3.5
...Who Calls So Loud ...Who Calls So Loud 12"	3.0
Kovlo I'm So Happy On This Boat	4.0
Off Minor Some Blood	4.0
Swallow the Ocean Swallow the Ocean	4.5

2007
Tribes of Cain Retaliation	3.5
A Whisper in the Noise Dry Land	4.0
Primordial To the Nameless Dead	4.0
Demon Hunter Storm the Gates of Hell	2.0
Novembre The Blue	4.5
Opeth The Roundhouse Tapes	3.0
Avenged Sevenfold Avenged Sevenfold	1.5
Exodus The Atrocity Exhibition: Exhibit A	2.0
Soilwork Sworn to a Great Divide	3.0
Time To Burn Is.Land	4.5
After Forever After Forever	3.0
Wolves in the Throne Room Two Hunters	3.5
Arch Enemy Rise of the Tyrant	3.0
The Black Dahlia Murder Nocturnal	3.0
Between the Buried and Me Colors	3.5
The Project Hate MCMXCIX In Hora Mortis NostrÃ¦	4.0
Wyrd Kammen	4.5
Amorphis Silent Waters	3.5
Atreyu Lead Sails Paper Anchor	1.0
Drudkh Estrangement	3.5
Kashiwa Daisuke Program Music I	4.5
Linkin Park Projekt Revolution 8/13/07	1.5
The Absence Riders of the Plague	3.5
Still Remains The Serpent	3.5
Johnnytwentythree JXXIII	3.5
Nocturnal Breed Fields of Rot	3.0
3 Inches of Blood Fire Up The Blades	3.5
Symphony X Paradise Lost	3.5
Sigh Hangman's Hymn	4.0
Fair to Midland Fables From a Mayfly: What I Tell You Three Times is True	4.0
Graveworm Collateral Defect	3.0
Nightingale White Darkness	4.0
Kamelot Ghost Opera	3.0
Raintime Flies and Lies	3.5
Akercocke Antichrist	4.0
Deadlock Wolves	2.5
Ozzy Osbourne Black Rain	1.0
Neurosis Given to the Rising	4.0
Devin Townsend Ziltoid the Omniscient	3.0
Linkin Park Minutes to Midnight	2.0
Immolation Shadows in the Light	1.5
Detonation Emission Phase	3.5
Caliban The Awakening	2.5
Thurisaz Circadian Rhythm	3.5
Dimmu Borgir In Sorte Diaboli	2.5
Marduk Rom 5:12	3.5
Sonic Syndicate Only Inhuman	2.5
Be'lakor The Frail Tide	4.5
Ensiferum Victory Songs	3.5
Souldrainer Reborn	4.0
Dark Tranquillity Fiction	4.0
Moonsorrow Viides luku - HÃ¤vitetty	4.5
What makes this album so much better than most released this year, is the ambition of the band. They have quite clearly played their hearts out on this album, the songs are beautifully written and played perfectly, there are too many stand out moments in both songs to mention and after listening you end up feeling like you've just read a great novel. What really actually astounds me about the writing on this disc is the feeling of continuity and various thematic elements that ring true in several parts of one song, and then the other. Not to say that the songs sound exactly the same, but there?s a tinge of meaning and connection between the songs that make sense and are able to relate to one another. Trying to explain why this album is such a majestic triumph is like trying to explain why getting to the top of everest is such an overwhelming feeling, eventually, all you can say is you; have to experience it for yourself.
Before The Dawn Deadlight	3.0
Oceans of Sadness Mirror Palace	4.0
In Vain (NO) The Latter Rain	4.5
Finntroll Ur Jordens Djup	3.0
Mors Principium Est Liberation = Termination	2.5
World's End Girlfriend Hurtbreak Wonderland	4.5
Nightrage A New Disease Is Born	3.0
Naglfar Harvest	3.5
Novembers Doom The Novella Reservoir	2.5
Swallow the Sun Hope	3.0
Rotting Christ Theogonia	4.0
Watain Sworn to The Dark	3.0
Impious Holy Murder Masquerade	2.5
This Ending Inside the Machine	3.0
Fear My Thoughts Vulcanus	4.0
Blinded Colony Bedtime Prayers	2.5
Kenos The Craving	3.5
Ne Obliviscaris The Aurora Veil	4.0
Dark The Suns In Darkness Comes Beauty	3.5
Manegarm Vargstenen	4.0
Nahemah The Second Philosophy	4.0
Romans All Those Wrists	4.0
Flies Are Spies From Hell Mountain Language	3.5
Dimension Zero He Who Shall Not Bleed	3.0

2006
Senate The Great Northern Scenekill	4.0
Warning Watching from a Distance	4.0
Dornenreich Durch Den Traum	4.0
SuidAkrA Caledonia	3.0
Arsis United in Regret	3.0
Noumena Anatomy of Life	3.5
HammerFall Threshold	3.0
ISIS In the Absence of Truth	3.5
Battle Of Mice A Day of Nights	4.0
Bring Me the Horizon Count Your Blessings	1.5
The Haunted The Dead Eye	2.5
Disillusion Gloria	3.5
Trivium The Crusade	1.0
Amon Amarth With Oden on Our Side	3.5
Into Eternity The Scattering of Ashes	3.0
mewithoutYou Brother, Sister	4.5
Ahab The Call of the Wretched Sea	3.0
Iron Maiden A Matter of Life and Death	3.5
The Human Abstract Nocturne	2.5
Insomnium Above the Weeping World	3.5
Agalloch Ashes Against the Grain	4.0
Stone Sour Come What(ever) May	3.0
From A Second Story Window Delenda	2.5
All That Remains The Fall of Ideals	4.0
Muse Black Holes & Revelations	3.0
Rise Against The Sufferer and the Witness	4.0
Red (USA) End of Silence	2.5
Axamenta Ever-Arch-I-Tech-Ture	3.0
Anoice Remmings	3.0
Tool 10,000 Days	3.0
Scar Symmetry Pitch Black Progress	3.0
Torchbearer Warnaments	3.5
La Dispute Vancouver	4.5
reminds me of early mewithoutYou, awesome. beastly post-hardcore with a fuck load of emotion and some genius guitar lines
Amorphis Eclipse	3.0
Katatonia The Great Cold Distance	3.5
Indigent Simulacrum	4.0
Wolves in the Throne Room Diadem of 12 Stars	4.5
In Flames Come Clarity	1.5
Kataklysm In the Arms of Devastation	3.5
Norther Till Death Unites Us	3.0
Mirrorthrone Carriers of Dust	3.5
Diablo Mimic 47	3.5
DragonForce Inhuman Rampage	2.0
The Faceless Akeldama	3.5
Miseration Your Demons ~ Their Angels	4.5
Wyrd The Ghost Album	4.5
Make Me Make Me	4.0

2005
SIG:AR:TYR Sailing the Seas of Fate	3.5
Symbyosis On the Wings of Phoenix	3.5
Vader The Art Of War	3.0
Heol Telwen An Deiz Ruz	4.0
Arsis A Diamond for Disease	4.0
Disturbed Ten Thousand Fists	3.0
Hypocrisy Virus	4.0
Children of Bodom Are You Dead Yet?	2.0
Mihai Edrisch Un Jour Sans Lendemain	4.0
Protest the Hero Kezia	4.0
Opeth Ghost Reveries	2.5
Arch Enemy Doomsday Machine	2.0
Darkane Layers of Lies	3.5
Avenged Sevenfold City of Evil	2.0
Pelican The Fire in Our Throats Will Beckon...	4.0
Sentenced The Funeral Album	3.5
Bucket Full Of Teeth IV	4.0
Gospel The Moon Is a Dead World	4.0
Kamelot The Black Halo	2.5
Trivium Ascendancy	2.5
Evoken Antithesis of Light	4.0
World's End Girlfriend The Lie Lay Land	4.5
Karnivool Themata	3.0
Dark Tranquillity Character	3.5
Gojira From Mars to Sirius	3.0
Into Eternity Buried in Oblivion	3.5

2004
Gwen Stefani Love. Angel. Music. Baby.	2.5
Marduk Plague Angel	3.0
Heaven Shall Burn Antigone	3.0
mewithoutYou Catch For Us the Foxes	4.5
Pig Destroyer Terrifyer	4.0
Illdisposed 1 800 Vindication	3.0
Wintersun Wintersun	3.5
Augury Concealed	4.0
Mercenary 11 Dreams	4.5
This album is hard to explain, it sits somewhere between prog metal, death metal, and melodic metal without ever being squashed into one genre, they bring some heavy crushing songs that could scare most other brutal bands in their nightmares but then they come up with some of the most beautiful, enchanting songs in music. The vocals are a definite high point, they go everywhere and beyond, death growl, black shriek, grunt, clean, shout, you get the idea, the vocalist is seriously talented. This album is worth a listen just to hear how weird it is, you won't find many albums that sound like this.
Slipknot Vol. 3: The Subliminal Verses	3.0
Moonlyght Progressive Darkness	4.0
Thurisaz Scent of a Dream	4.5
Winds The Imaginary Direction of Time	2.0
In Flames Soundtrack to Your Escape	2.0
Max Richter The Blue Notebooks	4.0
Orphaned Land Mabool (The Story of the Three Sons...)	5.0
The capacity of human intelligence seems to limit the capabilities to expand upon any possible creative aptitudes. Indeed, if one cannot even notice the facets that the ingenuities around him are comprised of, how can he be expected to fashion a beast of his own? This inveterate sense of constraint is a great blow to the veracity of mankind’s abilities. It restrains us and holds our minds to the ground below, averting any possibility of rising above ourselves to something greater; something not fathomed by the conventional mind. This concept of seeking to go beyond one’s self, known as “transcendence”, is essentially a gateway to unlocking pieces of ourselves that can lead to some of the most elaborate and significant creations of our world. For many, this quest to transcend and form creations that were once considered unthinkable and overwhelming consumes life. Certainly it is rare to find such people, but when they are found, creative barriers are destroyed.
Fragments of Unbecoming Skywards: A Sylphe's Ascension	3.0
Circle Takes the Square As the Roots Undo	4.5
Disillusion Back to Times of Splendor	5.0
One of the best prog/death metal albums made. This band is often compared to Opeth but I don't see it, sure they both have long songs and mix melody with brutality, but Disillusion are a lot more compact and their songwriting just creatively flows without being random and split up, the vocals are perfect for the sound, the death metal grunt is often used but it's the clean singing that gives this album such an immense quality, the songwriting is great, from start to finish, with some of the catchiest parts of the songs not leaving your head for months. A must buy for any metal fan.
Diablo Eternium	3.5
DragonForce Sonic Firestorm	2.5
Wyrd Vargtimmen pt.II	4.0
Empyrean Sky The Snow White Rose of Paradise	4.0

2003
Explosions in the Sky The Earth Is Not a Cold Dead Place	4.0
Kayo Dot Choirs of the Eye	3.0
Muse Absolution	3.5
A Perfect Circle Thirteenth Step	4.0
Edge of Sanity Crimson II	4.5
Arch Enemy Anthems of Rebellion	2.0
Envy A Dead Sinking Story	4.0
Norther Mirror of Madness	3.0
Trivium Ember to Inferno	1.5
Kalmah Swampsong	3.5
Green Carnation A Blessing In Disguise	3.5
Metallica St. Anger	1.0
Linkin Park Meteora	1.5
The Old Dead Tree The Nameless Disease	4.0
HammerFall One Crimson Night	3.0
Agalloch Tomorrow Will Never Come	3.0
Wyrd Vargtimmen pt.I	4.5
SIG:AR:TYR The Stranger	3.5

2002
Disturbed Believe	2.0
In Flames Reroute to Remain	2.0
Orchid Orchid	4.0
mewithoutYou A to B: Life	4.0
Sentenced The Cold White Light	4.0
City of Caterpillar City of Caterpillar	4.0
Arcturus The Sham Mirrors	3.5
Diablo Renaissance	3.5
Wyrd Huldrafolk	3.5
An Arrow In Flight Various Methods and Movements	3.5

2001
maudlin of the Well Leaving Your Body Map	4.0
Envy All the Footprints You've Ever Left and the Fear Expecting Ahead	4.0
Disillusion Three Neuron Kings	4.0
Converge Jane Doe	4.5
Slipknot Iowa	2.5
maudlin of the Well Bath	4.5
Diabolical Masquerade Deaths Design	3.0
Opeth Blackwater Park	3.0
Julie Laughs Nomore From The Mist of the Ruins	4.0
Wyrd Heathen	4.5
What an album, take away a lot of the needless doodling around and unnecessary spoken word parts out of the middle and this could have been a classic, folky-black metal at this length might make you think of Moonsorrow, but this album is a different beast altogether. Harsh black metal screams contrast with what would best be described as a decent 'epic' clean vocal style, which would improve and become more natural on later albums, the cold sounding riffs lead the way most of the time, along with luscious keyboard/synth work, the climax is stunning, the first fifteen minutes is godly, but the man tries way too much in the middle, still though, it's a fantastic experience. Sure, the production might put some people off, not to mention the beastly length, but for a debut album, you don't get much more impressive or daring than this. Recommended. (Full review to come tommorow maybe, or even tonight depending on what time I get in)
Graveworm Scourge of Malice	3.5
The Elysian Fields 12 Ablaze	3.5
Anomie Discography	4.5

2000
Blur The Best Of	1.5
Godspeed You! Black Emperor Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven	4.0
Linkin Park Hybrid Theory	2.5
Garden of Shadows Oracle Moon	5.0
In Flames Clayman	3.5
Iron Maiden Brave New World	3.5
Jeromes Dream Seeing Means More Than Safety	4.5
Disturbed The Sickness	2.5
Sentenced Crimson	3.5
Limp Bizkit Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavored Water	1.5
Nevermore Dead Heart in a Dead World	4.0

1999
Tiamat Skeleton Skeletron	1.5
Estatic Fear A Sombre Dance	4.0
In Flames Colony	3.5
Tenhi Kauan	4.0
Autumn Leaves As Night Conquers Day	4.5

1998
Opeth My Arms, Your Hearse	4.0
Neutral Milk Hotel In the Aeroplane Over the Sea	4.0
Dan Swano Moontower	3.5
Raventhrone Malice in Wonderlands	3.0
I Have Dreams Three Days 'Til Christmas	4.0

1997
Eucharist Mirrorworlds	3.5
In Flames Whoracle	3.0
Devin Townsend Ocean Machine: Biomech	3.5
Edge of Sanity Infernal	3.5

1996
Dirty Three Horse Stories	4.0
Opeth Morningrise	3.5
Edge of Sanity Crimson	5.0
For those of you who don't know (shame on you), Crimson is a 40 minute song with a bucket load of progressive death metal riffs, many of them which are memorable and stick in your head after the song/album has played through. I bought this album after Purgatory Afterglow and I wasn't sure if this could top that. I loved PG but this... This blows it off the planet. This is when Dan Swan?s at his creative best (in my opinion), his vocals here are also the best he has ever done. This is one of the very very few vocalists that you can actually understand the growling vocals without the booklet, I kid you not! The guitarists all shine on the album, they all sound crisp and powerful and the music has a slightly fuzzy feel from the production which really fits the atmosphere. Epic, creative, unique and damn right powerful. There's a winning combination if ever I saw one.
In Flames The Jester Race	3.5

1995
Abigor Nachthymnen (From The Twilight Kingdom)	3.0
Death Symbolic	4.0
Sentenced Amok	4.0
At the Gates Slaughter of the Soul	2.5
Dissection Storm of the Light's Bane	3.5
Ved Buens Ende Written In Waters	4.0

1994
Tiamat Wildhoney	2.5
Edge of Sanity Purgatory Afterglow	4.5
At the Gates Terminal Spirit Disease	3.5
Phlebotomized Immense, Intense, Suspense	4.0
Mayhem De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas	2.0

1993
Edge of Sanity The Spectral Sorrows	4.0
Sentenced North from Here	3.5
Cynic Focus	4.0

1992
Edge of Sanity Unorthodox	4.0
Edge of Sanity at their most aggressive, old-school death metal meets the progressive nature of Dan Swano in an interesting, but flawed combination. There are some amazing songs, like Enigma and the odd but interesting When All Is Said, yet some amount of filler creeps on, reducing the final score of this. Dan's vocals are exemplary, from the rare appearance of his cleans to his varied growls and shouts, and the guitars roll out one memorable riff after another, only a few traces of later Edge of Sanity can be found here, with the occasional melodic lead popping up or the slow-downs, but apart from that, this is their most brutal and aggressive album, recommended to any Edge of Sanity fan or just Death Metal fans in particular, there's plenty to enjoy here.

1991
Talk Talk Laughing Stock	4.0
Edge of Sanity Nothing But Death Remains	3.0

1990
Entombed Left Hand Path	3.5

1986
Candlemass Epicus Doomicus Metallicus	4.0
Metallica Master of Puppets	2.5

1981
This Heat Deceit	4.0

Unknown
Asgaut Village	4.0

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