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2020
Ulcerate Stare Into Death and Be Still	5.0

2016
Ulcerate Shrines of Paralysis	4.5

2014
Nero di Marte Derivae	4.0
This is nasty - groovy post-metal with great atmosphere and interesting polyrhythms, and some shades of Ulcerate. Very dark and haunting, and great attention to detail. Jury's still out on the vocals, but I think it'll grow on me
The Hotelier Home, Like NoPlace Is There	5.0
Inferi (USA) The Path of Apotheosis	4.5

2013
Ulcerate Vermis	3.0

2012
Converge All We Love We Leave Behind	4.5

2011
Cormorant Dwellings	4.0
The Dear Hunter The Color Spectrum (Complete Collection)	5.0
Born of Osiris The Discovery	4.0
Defeater Empty Days and Sleepless Nights	3.5
Songs absolutely kick ass (with one exception), but this is lyrically VERY weak compared to the others. Story is a lot less compelling too.
Scale the Summit The Collective	4.5
Glassjaw Coloring Book	4.5
Ulcerate The Destroyers of All	4.0

2010
Periphery Periphery	3.0
The Tallest Man on Earth The Wild Hunt	4.0
The Dillinger Escape Plan Option Paralysis	4.0
Immolation Majesty and Decay	4.0
Daughters Daughters	3.0
Fang Island Fang Island	3.0
Electric President The Violent Blue	3.5
In Mourning Monolith	2.5

2009
Enfold Darkness Our Cursed Rapture	3.0
Defeater Lost Ground	4.5
Absolutely amazing album: a concept album executed perfectly. Never have I listened to a hardcore album and wanted to weep like a baby. This band is the real deal
Between the Buried and Me The Great Misdirect	3.0
The Red Chord Fed Through the Teeth Machine	4.0
The Arusha Accord The Echo Verses	4.0
HORSE the band Desperate Living	4.5
Converge Axe to Fall	3.5
Cormorant Metazoa	3.5
It Dies Today Lividity	2.5
The Black Dahlia Murder Deflorate	3.0
This is pretty much Nocturnal with Ryan Knight, but that's really all I wanted from a new TBDM record anyway. Anyone who was expecting anything else is just plain silly. Nowhere near a classic, but great, solid stuff, as long as you aren't one of those no-fun, mopey types of people.
Every Time I Die New Junk Aesthetic	3.5
Rodrigo y Gabriela 11:11	3.5
BATS Red In Tooth and Claw	4.0
Oh, Sleeper Son of the Morning	2.5
Lions Lions From What We Believe	3.0
Mew No More Stories	4.0
fun. Aim and Ignite	4.5
As Tall As Lions You Can't Take It With You	3.5
Paul Dempsey Everything Is True	4.5
Death Before Dishonor Better Ways To Die	3.5
Cave In Planets of Old	4.0
August Burns Red Constellations	3.5
It may not necessarily be anything ground-breaking, but Constellations reflects a refined August Burns Red sound. They certainly haven't lost any of their momentum forward, and instead produced a very solid album that surely is a step in the right direction for the band.
Anaal Nathrakh In the Constellation of the Black Widow	4.0
Poison the Well The Tropic Rot	3.0
Alexisonfire Old Crows / Young Cardinals	2.0
Maybeshewill Sing The Word Hope In Four-Part Harmony	4.0
Darkest Hour The Eternal Return	3.0
Be'lakor Stone's Reach	3.0
Panopticon Collapse	3.0
Dance Gavin Dance Happiness	3.5
Coalesce OX	3.5
maudlin of the Well Part the Second	4.5
Exivious Exivious	4.0
Gwynbleidd Nostalgia	3.0
ISIS Wavering Radiant	3.0
Asher Roth Asleep In The Bread Aisle	1.5
Funebrarum The Sleep of Morbid Dreams	3.0
Ulcerate Everything Is Fire	5.0
Wolves in the Throne Room Black Cascade	2.5
Thursday Common Existence	3.0
Scale the Summit Carving Desert Canyons	3.0
Irepress Sol Eye Sea I	3.5
P.O.S Never Better	3.5
Architects Hollow Crown	3.5
Cymbals Eat Guitars Why There Are Mountains	3.0

2008
The Fall of Troy Phantom on the Horizon	4.0
The Faceless Planetary Duality	4.0
Fear Before Fear Before	2.5
Abigail Williams In the Shadow of a Thousand Suns	3.0
Cynic Traced in Air	4.0
brokeNCYDE BC 13	1.0
Bring Me the Horizon Suicide Season	1.5
All That Remains Overcome	1.5
Defeater Travels	4.0
The Sound of Animals Fighting The Ocean and the Sun	4.0
All Shall Perish Awaken the Dreamers	3.0
Underoath Lost in the Sound of Separation	3.0
Dance Gavin Dance Dance Gavin Dance	3.0
Norma Jean The Anti Mother	1.5
Misery Signals Controller	4.5
The Arusha Accord Nightmares of the Ocean	3.5
Have Heart Songs to Scream at the Sun	2.5
Fellsilent The Hidden Words	3.0
Scar Symmetry Holographic Universe	4.0
Girl Talk Feed the Animals	3.5
Verse Aggression	3.5
Emmure The Respect Issue	1.5
Death Cab for Cutie Narrow Stairs	3.0
Textures Silhouettes	3.0
Maybeshewill Not For Want Of Trying	3.5
Panopticon Panopticon	4.0
Children of Bodom Blooddrunk	1.5
Arsis We Are the Nightmare	3.5
The Cambiata to heal	3.0
Bullet for My Valentine Scream Aim Fire	1.5
Protest the Hero Fortress	4.0
In Mourning Shrouded Divine	5.0
TesseracT Tesseract Demo	3.5

2007
As Tall As Lions Into The Flood	4.0
Coheed and Cambria No World for Tomorrow	3.0
Oh, Sleeper When I Am God	3.0
Parkway Drive Horizons	2.5
Born of Osiris The New Reign	3.5
Stars In Our Bedroom After The War	3.0
Four Year Strong Rise Or Die Trying	3.5
The Black Dahlia Murder Nocturnal	4.0
Between the Buried and Me Colors	5.0
Chiodos Bone Palace Ballet	3.0
Therefore I Am Escape	3.5
Scary Kids Scaring Kids Scary Kids Scaring Kids	2.5
Just Surrender We're in Like Sin	2.0
Minus the Bear Planet of Ice	4.0
As I Lay Dying An Ocean Between Us	4.0
As Cities Burn Come Now Sleep	2.5
The Receiving End of Sirens The Earth Sings Mi Fa Mi	3.0
Underminded Eleven:Eleven	3.0
Envy On The Coast Lucy Gray	3.5
Portugal. The Man Church Mouth	3.5
Darkest Hour Deliver Us	4.0
Bon Iver For Emma, Forever Ago	4.0
Texas in July Salt Of The Earth	2.0
These guys actually sound promising if they start writing interesting or original material. This album just sounds like a kindergarden rip-off of Messengers though.
Architects Ruin	3.0
August Burns Red Messengers	3.0
Circa Survive On Letting Go	3.5
The Dear Hunter Act II: The Meaning of, & All Things Regarding Ms. Leading	4.0
Dance Gavin Dance Downtown Battle Mountain	3.5
The Pax Cecilia Blessed Are The Bonds	4.5
The Fall of Troy Manipulator	3.0
Vanna Curses	2.5
Be'lakor The Frail Tide	4.5
Dark Tranquillity Fiction	3.5
LCD Soundsystem Sound of Silver	3.0
Kaddisfly Set Sail The Prairie	4.0
Anberlin Cities	3.5
My Bitter End The Renovation	4.0

2006
Envy On The Coast Envy on the Coast	4.5
Bring Me the Horizon Count Your Blessings	2.0
It Dies Today Sirens	2.0
The Blood Brothers Young Machetes	2.5
Cold War Kids Robbers and Cowards	3.5
Escape the Fate Dying Is Your Latest Fashion	2.0
Saosin Saosin	3.0
The Dear Hunter Act I: The Lake South, the River North	3.5
Verse From Anger and Rage	2.5
Norma Jean Redeemer	2.5
The Album Leaf Into The Blue Again	3.0
HORSE the band Pizza	2.5
Misery Signals Mirrors	3.5
The Cambiata Into the Night	4.0
Unearth III: In the Eyes of Fire	3.5
Have Heart The Things We Carry	3.5
All Shall Perish The Price of Existence	4.0
As Tall As Lions As Tall As Lions	4.5
All That Remains The Fall of Ideals	2.0
Set Your Goals Mutiny!	3.5
Therefore I Am You Are Connected EP	4.5
Underoath Define the Great Line	4.0
Trophy Scars Alphabet Alphabets	4.0
As Blood Runs Black Allegiance	2.5
Vanna The Search Party Never Came	3.5
SikTh Death of a Dead Day	5.0
The Blood Brothers Love Rhymes with Hideous Car Wreck EP	2.5
Guns Up! Outlive	2.5
Escape the Fate There's No Sympathy for the Dead	3.0
The Sound of Animals Fighting Lover, the Lord Has Left Us...	2.0
Girl Talk Night Ripper	4.0
Thursday A City By the Light Divided	2.0
Architects Nightmares	4.5
Taking Back Sunday Louder Now	2.5
Death Cab for Cutie The John Byrd EP	3.5
In Flames Come Clarity	3.5
Portugal. The Man Waiter: ''You Vultures!''	4.0
Some Girls Heaven's Pregnant Teens	2.0
The Faceless Akeldama	3.5
Set Your Goals Reset EP	3.5

2005
August Burns Red Thrill Seeker	3.5
Head Wound City Head Wound City	3.5
Arsis A Diamond for Disease	4.0
Four Year Strong Demo	4.0
Rosetta The Galilean Satellites	4.5
Bullet for My Valentine The Poison	2.5
Grace Gale A Few Easy Steps To Secure Heli-Camel Safety	2.5
I Am the Avalanche I Am the Avalanche	3.5
Coheed and Cambria From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness	3.0
Cartel Chroma	3.0
HORSE the band The Mechanical Hand	3.5
Parkway Drive Killing with a Smile	3.5
Between the Buried and Me Alaska	3.5
Death Cab for Cutie Plans	4.0
Protest the Hero Kezia	4.0
Minus the Bear Menos El Oso	4.0
Every Time I Die Gutter Phenomenon	3.0
The Fall of Troy Doppelganger	4.0
Chiodos All's Well That Ends Well	3.0
The Black Dahlia Murder Miasma	2.5
Just Surrender If These Streets Could Talk	3.5
Scary Kids Scaring Kids The City Sleeps In Flames	3.0
As Cities Burn Son, I Loved You at Your Darkest	3.0
As I Lay Dying Shadows Are Security	3.0
Funeral for a Friend Hours	3.0
The Receiving End of Sirens Between the Heart and the Synapse	5.0
Circa Survive Juturna	4.5
Acceptance Phantoms	4.0
Verse Rebuild	4.0
Kaddisfly Buy Our Intention; We'll Buy You a Unicorn	2.5
Stars Set Yourself On Fire	4.0
In The Arms of Providence Lost My Voicebox in a Seaside Town	4.5
Passion and aggression comparable to a mix of Thursday circa War All the Time and Glassjaw's Everything you ever wanted to know about Silence. Yes, this album is years old, and the band has been long defunct, but this is a must-listen for every fan of hardcore and/or post-hardcore.
Norma Jean O' God, the Aftermath	2.0
Comeback Kid Wake the Dead	2.0
Armor For Sleep What To Do When You Are Dead	3.0
The Sound of Animals Fighting Tiger and the Duke	4.5
Dark Tranquillity Character	4.5
Guns Up! All This Is	3.0

2004
Cartel The Ransom EP	4.0
Have Heart What Counts	3.0
ISIS Panopticon	4.5
Some Girls All My Friends Are Going Death	3.5
The Blood Brothers Crimes	4.0
Bring Me the Horizon This Is What the Edge of Your Seat Was Made For	2.5
It Dies Today The Caitiff Choir	4.0
Arcade Fire Funeral	4.5
Fear Before Art Damage	2.5
Underminded Hail Unamerican!	4.0
Necrophagist Epitaph	3.5
The Dillinger Escape Plan Miss Machine	4.0
Misery Signals Of Malice and the Magnum Heart	3.5
The Pax Cecilia Nouveau	3.5
Unearth The Oncoming Storm	4.0
The Album Leaf In A Safe Place	4.0
Underoath They're Only Chasing Safety	3.0
Alexisonfire Watch Out!	3.5
As Tall As Lions Lafcadio	4.0
American Nightmare Year One	4.0
Circle Takes the Square As the Roots Undo	5.0
Arsis A Celebration of Guilt	4.0
The Fall of Troy Ghostship Demos	4.0
I Am Spoonbender Buy Hidden Persuaders	4.0
Set Your Goals Demo 2004	4.0

2003
Explosions in the Sky The Earth Is Not a Cold Dead Place	4.0
The Fall of Troy The Fall of Troy	4.5
Between the Buried and Me The Silent Circus	3.0
Kayo Dot Choirs of the Eye	4.5
Funeral for a Friend Casually Dressed & Deep in Conversation	4.5
Coheed and Cambria In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3	4.0
Death Cab for Cutie Transatlanticism	4.0
HORSE the band R. Borlax	4.0
American Nightmare We're Down Til We're Underground	4.5
Thursday War All the Time	4.5
SikTh The Trees Are Dead and Dried Out, Wait for Something Wild	4.5
Daughters Canada Songs	3.5
As I Lay Dying Frail Words Collapse	3.0
Every Time I Die Hot Damn!	3.5
Saosin Translating the Name	4.0
Armor For Sleep Dream To Make Believe	3.0
Darkest Hour Hidden Hands of a Sadist Nation	3.0
Linkin Park Meteora	2.0
Cursive The Ugly Organ	4.0
The Blood Brothers Rumors Laid Waste	2.5
Stars Heart	3.5
Chiodos The Heartless Control Everything	2.0
Trophy Scars Hospital Music for the Aesthetics of Language	3.5
Acceptance Black Lines to Battlefields	2.5
The Black Dahlia Murder Unhallowed	3.5
Fear Before Odd How People Shake	3.5
The Blood Brothers ...Burn, Piano Island, Burn	4.5

2002
Minus the Bear Highly Refined Pirates	3.5
Alexisonfire Alexisonfire	4.0
Thursday Five Stories Falling	4.0
Glassjaw Worship and Tribute	4.0
Dark Tranquillity Damage Done	4.5
Bright Eyes Lifted or The Story is in the Soil, Keep Your Ear to the Ground	3.0
Norma Jean Bless the Martyr and Kiss the Child	4.0
Linkin Park Reanimation	2.5
It Dies Today Forever Scorned	3.0
Taking Back Sunday Tell All Your Friends	3.5
The Blood Brothers March On Electric Children	4.0
Poison the Well Tear From the Red	2.5
Death Cab for Cutie The Stability EP	2.0
The Acacia Strain ...And Life Is Very Long	2.5
SikTh How May I Help You?	3.5
Coheed and Cambria The Second Stage Turbine Blade	4.5
As the Sun Sets 7744	3.5

2001
maudlin of the Well Leaving Your Body Map	3.5
Thursday Full Collapse	4.0
Death Cab for Cutie The Photo Album	4.5
7 Angels 7 Plagues Jhazmyne's Lullaby	4.5
Immortal Technique Revolutionary Volume 1	4.0
Converge Jane Doe	5.0
maudlin of the Well Bath	5.0
Saves the Day Stay What You Are	4.5
blink-182 Take Off Your Pants And Jacket	2.5
American Nightmare Background Music	4.0
Saetia A Retrospective	3.5
Unearth The Stings of Conscience	1.5
Circle Takes the Square Circle Takes the Square	3.0

2000
Linkin Park Hybrid Theory	3.5
Death Cab for Cutie Forbidden Love	4.0
Glassjaw Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Silence	4.5
Dark Tranquillity Haven	2.5
In Flames Clayman	3.5
Cursive Domestica	3.5
Matchbox Twenty Mad Season	2.0
Children of Bodom Follow the Reaper	3.5
Death Cab for Cutie We Have the Facts and We're Voting Yes	2.5
Explosions in the Sky How Strange, Innocence	3.0
Bright Eyes Fevers & Mirrors	4.0
Discordance Axis The Inalienable Dreamless	4.0
The Blood Brothers This Adultery Is Ripe	4.5
Immolation Close to a World Below	5.0

1999
Botch We Are the Romans	4.5
Saves the Day Through Being Cool	3.5
As the Sun Sets Each Individual Voice Is Dead in the Silence	4.0
The Dillinger Escape Plan Calculating Infinity	3.5
In Flames Colony	3.5
blink-182 Enema Of The State	3.0
Piebald If It Weren't For Venetian Blinds It Would Be Curt	3.5
Thursday Waiting	4.0
Dark Tranquillity Projector	3.0
Poison the Well The Opposite of December	3.5
maudlin of the Well My Fruit Psychobells... A Seed Combustible	3.5

1998
Refused The Shape Of Punk To Come	4.5
Saves the Day Can't Slow Down	3.0
Death Cab for Cutie Something About Airplanes	3.0
Cave In Beyond Hypothermia	4.0
Converge When Forever Comes Crashing	3.5
Coalesce Functioning on Impatience	3.5
Gorguts Obscura	4.5

1997
In Flames Whoracle	4.0
Death Cab for Cutie You Can Play These Songs With Chords	3.0
blink-182 Dude Ranch	3.5
Shai Hulud Hearts Once Nourished With Hope...	3.5
Dark Tranquillity The Mind's I	3.0

1996
Matchbox Twenty Yourself or Someone Like You	3.0
The Wallflowers Bringing Down the Horse	3.5
In Flames The Jester Race	4.0
Cryptopsy None So Vile	3.5
Converge Petitioning the Empty Sky	4.5

1995
Dark Tranquillity The Gallery	4.0
Deadguy Fixation on a Coworker	4.5
blink-182 Cheshire Cat	2.5
Ulver Bergtatt - Et eeventyr i 5 capitler	4.0
At the Gates Slaughter of the Soul	4.0

1994
blink-182 Buddha	3.0
Sunny Day Real Estate Diary	5.0

1993
At the Gates With Fear I Kiss the Burning Darkness	3.0
Cynic Focus	4.0
Gorguts The Erosion of Sanity	5.0

1992
At the Gates The Red in the Sky Is Ours	3.0

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