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2012
Thy Art Is Murder Hate4.0
That's Outrageous! Psycho2.0
Lil B Illusions of Grandeur 25.0
Signal The Firing Squad Abnegate3.5
Architects Daybreaker4.0
Make Them Suffer Neverbloom4.0
Wretched (USA-NC) Son of Perdition3.5
Legacy With Peace In Mind2.0
Impending Doom Baptized in Filth3.5
Abominable Putridity The Anomalies of Artificial Origin4.0
Beneath the Massacre Incongruous3.5
Bleeding Through The Great Fire3.5

2011
Liferuiner Sons of Straight Edge3.0
Like Moths to Flames When We Don't Exist3.0
Funeral for a Friend See You All In Hell4.0
Boris the Blade Tides of Damnation4.0
Carnifex Until I Feel Nothing3.5
Close Your Eyes Empty Hands and Heavy Hearts4.0
Confession The Long Way Home4.0
Rose Funeral Gates of Punishment4.0
Pathology Awaken to the Suffering4.0
Harm's Way (USA-IL) Isolation4.0
Rooks Infinite II3.5
Silverstein Rescue3.5
Endwell Punishment3.5
Great follow up to Consequences. The vocals have improved quite a bit and some of the stand out tracks REALLY stand out including "Anxiety Bath," and "High Friends In Low Places."
Catalepsy Bleed4.0
Betrayal Abandonment4.0
Call Us Forgotten A Hope Remains EP4.5
The Plot In You First Born3.0
Asking Alexandria Reckless and Relentless3.0
Aiden Disguises1.0
Emery We Do What We Want3.5
Born of Osiris The Discovery4.0
As Blood Runs Black Instinct2.0
Funeral for a Friend Welcome Home Armageddon3.5
Salt The Wound Kill the Crown4.0
This is good stuff. A more melodic side to STW. Jake is a great guitar player, and Kevin's screams have definitely improved.
Aaron Gillespie Anthem Song1.5
Dance Gavin Dance Downtown Battle Mountain II3.0
Make no mistake guys, Jon's scream is ALL studio work. Listened to him track even at Interlace, Chris Crummet and I agreed he was the worst screamer we had ever worked with. Jinny no longer belts out high notes and is content with lazily lofting through this CD. If he is no longer the high point, then what is? Sure, the guitar work is crazy, there's some rapping, but DBM 2 falls way short of the original. Not a fan.
The Color Morale My Devil In Your Eyes3.5
Forever the Sickest Kids Forever the Sickest Kids1.0
I See Stars The End of the World Party1.0
Darkest Hour The Human Romance2.5
A Skylit Drive Identity on Fire2.5
Emmure Speaker Of The Dead3.5
HUGE step up from The Respect Issue and a small improvement from Felony (I liked that CD). The dubstep elements are awesome, and the band seems to actually be finding a signature sound that is almost nu-metal influenced (in a good way surprisingly). I hate Joey Sturgis, but this is probably his best sounding work. "4 Poisons 3 Words" and "Last Words To Rose" are a few of the stand out tracks.
Xibalba Madre Mia Gracias Por Los Dias2.5
Asking Alexandria Stepped Up and Scratched1.0
Architects The Here and Now2.0
Escape the Fate Issues Remix EP1.0
Escape The Fate. Is. The. Worst. Band. Ever. And, on top of that, they released a fucking remix of the worst songs ever unleashed on humanity. I hope Craig Mabbit gets cancer and his kid dies.
Monsters Monsters3.5
Pretty heavy debut CD that relies a lot on bouncy riffs and breakdowns with a few limp bizkit influences...it's an interesting listen
Doomsday Mourning The Science Of Exploitation4.0
Pretty bouncy metalcore/deathcore that has a lot of off time breakdowns. Really hard to describe, but it's an awesome listen. "Seeds Of Doubt" and "Jake" are the stand out tracks IMO.

2010
Asking Alexandria Life Gone Wild1.0
Like Moths to Flames Sweet Talker3.5
I like Chris' vocals a lot. It's an EP that doesn't push any boundaries, but it's VERY enjoyable if you are a fan of the genre. To others who aren't, stay far away. "Real Talk" is the stand out track.
Silverstein Transitions3.0
Job For A Cowboy Live Ruination2.5
After the Burial In Dreams3.0
A Day To Remember What Separates Me from You3.0
Underoath Ø (Disambiguation)1.5
Oceano Contagion2.0
First Blood Silence Is Betrayal3.5
King Conquer America's Most Haunted3.5
Escape the Fate Escape the Fate1.0
Atreyu Covers of the Damned1.0
All That Remains For We Are Many3.0
Vanna The Honest Hearts EP3.0
Motionless in White Creatures4.0
Jonny Craig Live At Bamboozle 2010 (Live Nation Studios)2.5
Abandon All Ships Geeving1.0
LET ME EXPLAINNNN, CAUSE IT DRIVES ME INSANEEEE. FUCK YOU. Fuck this band. I can't stand more than thirty seconds of this before I want to smash my speakers against my 7 pound dog.
Bring Me the Horizon There Is a Hell, Believe Me I've Seen It...3.0
Abigail Williams In the Absence of Light2.5
Beneath the Massacre Marée Noire3.5
Funeral for a Friend The Young And Defenseless3.5
The Red Shore The Avarice Of Man4.0
For Today Breaker3.0
Cephalic Carnage Misled by Certainty3.0
The Word Alive Deceiver4.0
Ion Dissonance Cursed3.5
Ion Dissonance returns to their roots a little bit, except this time with Kevin as their vocalist. "You People Are Messed Up" and "They'll Never Know" are really heavy tracks that do not seem bogged down by the frenzied, chaotic mess that Ion is known for. The production is a bit of a step down from Minus The Herd, but otherwise this is about a 4 from me, for very different reasons from the 4 I gave Minus The Herd.
The Devil Wears Prada Zombie3.5
Miss May I Monument1.5
Knights Of The Abyss The Culling of Wolves3.0
Waking The Cadaver Beyond Cops, Beyond God1.5
Avenged Sevenfold Nightmare2.0
The Acacia Strain Wormwood2.0
Impending Doom There Will Be Violence3.0
Die Antwoord 51.0
Norma Jean Meridional3.0
Emarosa Emarosa2.0
Haste the Day Attack of the Wolf King3.0
Parkway Drive Deep Blue3.5
And Hell Followed With Proprioception4.0
In Fear and Faith Imperial3.5
I Declare War Malevolence2.5
Silverstein Decade: Live at the El Mocambo3.0
Whitechapel A New Era of Corruption3.5
The Ghost Inside Returners4.0
I'm not going to buy into this "classic" rating business, but this album is definitely a huge step up from their boring debut. "Walk Away From The World" is a great, fast, melodic intro, and tracks 2,3,4, and 6 shine out compared to the rest.
Hawthorne Heights Skeletons2.0
Lamb of God Hourglass: Anthology Collection4.0
LGND Valediction3.0
As I Lay Dying The Powerless Rise3.0
Beneath The Sky In Loving Memory4.0
Joey mixes cat-like hisses and death growls with melodic guitar playing and above-average singing choruses. During the choruses, you may be reminded of Killswitch Engage, but have no fear: In Loving Memory blows them out of the water. The definitive Beneath The Sky CD.
Call Us Forgotten A Crusade For The Broken EP4.0
Awesome EP that really shows a lot of potential. Not all breakdowns, use of 3 screaming vocalists, and great lyrics. Clean vocals are lacking but other than that it's an awesome debut.
Bullet for My Valentine Fever1.5
Bleeding Through Bleeding Through2.0
Listened about five more times and this is the worst Bleeding Through release they have ever done. The epitome of boring, cliche, and overdone. This is coming from a diehard metalcore fan.
Veil of Maya [id]2.0
Upon a Burning Body The World Is Ours3.5
Structures All of the Above3.5
Sleeping With Sirens With Ears to See and Eyes to Hear3.5
Hands Like Glass With Unveiled Faces4.0
"Believing In Words" and "Quarter Shy" are really pleasant, melodic post-hardcore tracks. Hands Like Glass switches it up and infuses some pretty cool synth and keyboard parts to accompany Mason's great singing voice. A great debut EP.
Aiden From Hell... With Love2.0
Underoath Live At Koko3.0
Before Their Eyes Untouchable1.0
Chelsea Grin Desolation Of Eden3.0
The Acacia Strain The Most Known Unknown3.0
Carnifex Hell Chose Me4.0
SO MUCH better than anything Carnifex has put out before. This CD is more death metal than deathcore. The breakdowns are a lot more sparse and the production slays. Awesome progression.
Through the Eyes of the Dead Skepsis3.0
Die Antwoord $O$1.0
The Wonder Years The Upsides2.5
Annotations Of An Autopsy II: The Reign of Darkness3.0
Alesana The Emptiness3.0
A Day To Remember Attack of the Killer B-Sides2.5
Destruction of a King Destruction of a King2.5
The Acacia Strain The Most Heard Unheard3.0
Rooks Infinite I4.0

2009
Mudvayne Mudvayne3.0
Aborted Coronary Reconstruction4.0
AHHHHHHHH CORONARY RECONSTRUCTION. Awesome EP with a sick Entombed cover. I love this band.
King Conquer Decomposing Normality2.5
Dashboard Confessional Alter The Ending2.5
American Me Siberian Nightmare Machine3.0
Abigail Williams Agharta3.5
We Came As Romans To Plant a Seed3.0
Between the Buried and Me The Great Misdirect1.5
Atreyu Congregation of the Damned2.0
The Red Chord Fed Through the Teeth Machine3.0
A Day To Remember Homesick (Special Deluxe Edition)3.0
Thrice Beggars1.5
Four Letter Lie A New Day2.0
Confession Cancer3.5
Crafter is back and he sounds more awesome than ever. Cancer shows some awesome potential for the Aussie band. "That Scag And His Floozie" and "Must've Cut His Heart Out" are really melodic and fast hardcore tracks that combine with pummeling breakdowns to form a great debut CD. I'm stoked on this.
Converge Axe to Fall2.0
Beyond the Shore The Arctic Front3.0
Evergreen Terrace Almost Home3.0
Breaking Benjamin Dear Agony5.0
Yeah it's arena rock but this is BB at their finest. "Without You," "Hopeless," and "What Lies Beneath" are all great takes at reinventing BB and showing that they can show their softer side too.
Funeral for a Friend Your History is Mine: 2002–20093.0
Brand New Daisy1.0
Horrible. nothing but noise, noise, noise. this has to be one of the biggest disappointments for me in a long time. Brand New, what have you done!?
Despised Icon Day Of Mourning4.0
I love this album. Can get a little old and wasn't as memorable as The Ills but still. The drumming got even faster and they lost the pig squeals to many people's delight.
It Dies Today Lividity2.5
The Black Dahlia Murder Deflorate3.0
Asking Alexandria Stand Up and Scream3.0
Very pleasant clean vocals, and a very diverse range of harsh vocals. above average drumming for their genre, mixed with a tried and true formula for songs. It's been awhile since this CD has been out and I definitely like it a lot less. Not so much a fan anymore.
Salt The Wound Ares3.5
After the Burial Rareform (Re-release)3.5
The Color Morale We All Have Demons3.0
Emmure Felony3.5
Parkway Drive The DVD3.5
Winds of Plague The Great Stone War3.5
Jonny Craig A Dream Is A Question You Don't Know How To Answer3.5
For the Fallen Dreams Relentless3.0
THIS IS WHAT I GET FOR HELPING MY FRIENDS. Dylan is a drastic improvement over Chad in the vocal department (although Chad has tremendously improved in the new Legend track), and the riffing is more creative and melodic than ever. "Smoke Signals" and "A Plethora Of" are my favorite tracks.
The Word Alive Empire4.0
He Is Legend It Hates You2.5
Born of Osiris A Higher Place1.5
Job For A Cowboy Ruination2.0
Broadway Kingdoms3.5
It Dies Today Forever Scorned (Re-Recorded/Re-Brutalized)4.0
Traces Reflections Of A Forlorn Sun4.0
Lord of the Rings core. Frickin awesome listen. Gotta love the LOTR reference in "Wreathed in Flame." This band is very underrated and this EP deserves a lot of recognition. Very well done take on symphonic black metal.
Suicide Silence No Time to Bleed2.5
Killswitch Engage Killswitch Engage (2009)3.0
Miss May I Apologies Are for the Weak2.5
For Today Portraits2.0
Dance Gavin Dance Happiness2.5
A Skylit Drive Adelphia2.5
Molotov Solution The Harbinger4.0
Drop Dead, Gorgeous Hot N' Heavy3.5
Emery ...In Shallow Seas We Sail4.0
Awesome concept CD that tells about the risk of giving your heart to someone who isn't prepared or ready to have it. The vocal harmonies define Emery and this CD is still in my rotation.
Aiden Knives1.5
The Red Shore Lost Verses3.5
The Devil Wears Prada With Roots Above and Branches Below2.0
Endwell Consequences4.5
My favorite hardcore CD of all time. Cool dudes, good album that really shows Sean portraying himself in a relatable and sorrowful way. Favorite tracks are "Avoidant," "Living Through The Losses," and "The Bridge." Awesome lyrics too that are often a play on words.
I See Stars 3D2.0
As I Lay Dying This Is Who We Are3.0
Thick As Blood Embrace3.5
Oceano Depths3.5
Band gets so much shit but this is so much better than Contagion. The instrumental title track is awesome too. Good production really helps these guys out. Oh yeah, it's only a debut too.
Impending Doom The Serpent Servant3.0
Silverstein A Shipwreck in the Sand3.5
Vanna A New Hope2.0
The Antlers Hospice3.5
Lamb of God Wrath3.0
The Lonely Island Incredibad3.5
A Day To Remember Homesick2.5
Motionless in White When Love Met Destruction3.5
Architects Hollow Crown4.0
Great metalcore CD that shows the more frenzied and chaotic side of Architects in "Dethroned" and "Borrowed Time" and a more melodic side in "In Elegance" and "Left With A Last Minute." Sam shines throughout the album, combining a solid but boring yell mixed with awesome clean vocals. The good production is also a plus.
Rose Funeral The Resting Sonata4.0
This band and CD gets so much shit and I'm not really sure why...some of the breakdowns are boring chug fests but the vocals are great, the drumming on this cd is amazing, and some of the gothenburg riffing is very fast and well played
In Fear and Faith Your World On Fire3.5
Bring Me the Horizon Suicide Season Cut Up!1.0
Monsters The Righteous Dead2.5
Betrayal The Peoples Fallacy2.5
Destruction of a King Anthems2.5
Texas in July I Am3.0

2008
Thrice Live At The House Of Blues3.0
We Came As Romans Dreams2.5
Mudvayne The New Game1.5
The Faceless Planetary Duality3.0
The Red Shore Unconsecrated2.5
A Day To Remember Old Record3.0
Emery While Broken Hearts Prevail3.5
Abigail Williams In the Shadow of a Thousand Suns4.0
So awesome. Keys are prominent on this CD, the drumming is memorable and very fast, the screaming is varied and high pitched, and the songs don't seem too long or boring. Such a great black metal CD
Beneath the Massacre Dystopia4.0
"No Future," "Procreating The Infection," and "Our Common Grave" all mix a ton of technicality with some simpler, dumbed down breakdowns to create an awesome mix of creative, but bland-at-the-same-time death metal. Elliot's vocals definitely improved from previous releases, as did the overall mix and production quality.
Escape the Fate This War Is Ours1.5
Haste the Day Dreamer3.0
Funeral for a Friend Memory and Humanity2.5
Confession Can't Live, Can't Breathe2.5
I Set My Friends On Fire You Can't Spell Slaughter Without Laughter2.0
Before Their Eyes The Dawn of My Death3.0
Trivium Shogun2.5
Bleeding Through Declaration4.0
Bleeding Through at their best. Marta is WAY more prominent on this CD than any other BT release, in part by the production skill of Devin Townsend. "Declaration," "Sister Charlatan," and "There Was A Flood" are awesome blast-beat infused tracks. If only they continued this trend with their self-titled...
Bring Me the Horizon Suicide Season1.5
All That Remains Overcome2.0
Avenged Sevenfold Diamonds in the Rough2.0
All Shall Perish Awaken the Dreamers3.5
Underoath Lost in the Sound of Separation3.0
The Acacia Strain Continent3.5
Dance Gavin Dance Dance Gavin Dance4.0
Kurt and DGD at their prime. Honestly think this CD is a step up from Downtown Battle Mountain. "Uneasy Hearts Weigh The Most" and "Rock Solid" are my favorite tracks, although the latter annoys the shit out of my friends. I kinda lost interest in DGD after they released Happiness, although I'm SO stoked for DBM Part 2.
Norma Jean The Anti Mother2.0
Hawthorne Heights Fragile Future2.0
Chelsea Grin Chelsea Grin2.5
After the Burial Rareform3.0
Misery Signals Controller4.0
Recon (USA-NY) Welcome To Viper CIty2.5
Whitechapel This Is Exile3.0
Emarosa Relativity3.5
Relativity's songs CAN run together, but with every listen I gave this CD, the more appreciative I became. Very few songs even have a chorus, and parts repeat very few times. Emarosa progressed tremendously with this release, and then proceeded to shit all over my parade with their horrible self-titled.
Beneath The Sky The Day the Music Died2.5
Knights Of The Abyss Shades3.0
Carnifex The Diseased and Poisoned3.5
From Autumn to Ashes Live At Looney Tunes2.5
Elysia Lion of Judas3.0
Lamb of God Walk with Me in Hell3.5
Alesana Where Myth Fades to Legend2.0
Endwell Revenge Is A Healthy Motive3.0
Underoath Survive Kaleidoscope3.5
A Skylit Drive Wires...and the Concept of Breathing3.5
My Hero Is Me The Crywolf Broadcast4.0
Emmure The Respect Issue2.5
Thrice The Alchemy Index Vols. III & IV2.0
Molotov Solution Molotov Solution2.5
Veil of Maya The Common Man's Collapse2.5
For Today Ekklesia2.5
Dead To Fall Are You Serious?2.5
American Me Heat3.0
Four Letter Lie What A Terrible Thing To Say3.5
A Day To Remember For Those Who Have Heart (Reissue)4.0
Winds of Plague Decimate the Weak3.0
Salt The Wound Carnal Repercussions4.0
Bullet for My Valentine Scream Aim Fire2.0
Animosity Altered Beast2.0
As Blood Runs Black Pre-Production Demos2.5
Miss May I Demo 20082.5
We Came As Romans Demonstrations2.5
The Word Alive The Word Alive3.0
Bullet for My Valentine Road to Nowhere3.0
Dance Gavin Dance Dance Gavin Dance (Instrumental Demos)3.0
Suicide Silence Green Monster3.0
For the Fallen Dreams Changes3.5
Annotations Of An Autopsy Before the Throne of Infection3.5

2007
In Fear and Faith Voyage3.0
Waking The Cadaver Perverse Recollections Of A Necromangler2.5
Escape the Fate Situations1.5
Avenged Sevenfold Avenged Sevenfold2.5
Motionless in White The Whorror2.5
Thrice The Alchemy Index Vols. I & II1.5
Funeral for a Friend The Great Wide Open3.0
The Ghost Inside Fury and the Fallen Ones3.0
Parkway Drive Horizons3.0
Emery I'm Only A Man2.5
Dashboard Confessional The Shade of Poison Trees3.0
Born of Osiris The New Reign3.0
Animosity Animal4.5
Such a creative deathcore CD. Great drumming, awesome shredding and riffing, and rapid fire shrieks from Leo. Pure awesome.
Between the Buried and Me Colors2.0
Suicide Silence The Cleansing3.5
The Black Dahlia Murder Nocturnal4.0
Impending Doom Nailed. Dead. Risen.3.5
Knights Of The Abyss Juggernaut2.0
Atreyu Lead Sails Paper Anchor2.0
Aiden Conviction1.0
The Devil Wears Prada Plagues3.0
As I Lay Dying An Ocean Between Us3.0
Through the Eyes of the Dead Malice3.5
Drop Dead, Gorgeous Worse Than A Fairy Tale2.0
Whitechapel The Somatic Defilement4.0
The epitome of brutal deathcore done right. Before Whitechapel got more experimental. This is just straight up evil. Vicer Exciser, The Somatic Defilement, and Devirgination Studies are the stand-outs.
Evergreen Terrace Wolfbiker3.5
Avenged Sevenfold All Excess2.0
Underoath 777 (DVD)2.0
Thick As Blood Moment of Truth2.5
Darkest Hour Deliver Us3.0
Silverstein Arrivals and Departures2.5
Architects Ruin2.5
Ion Dissonance Minus the Herd3.5
Many people were disappointed with the dumbed down, chugging style Ion went for on Minus The Herd. I disagree. There are still plenty of weird and non-existant time signatures, the production is stellar and by far the best of any Ion CD, and the songs sound VERY different from one another. "The Surge" and "Scorn Haven" are by far my favorite songs on the CD.
Cephalic Carnage Xenosapien3.5
Despised Icon The Ills Of Modern Man4.5
A few years since it's been out, hands down one of the only deathcore releases I come back to all of the time. I just love the dual vocal work and the songs stand out a lot from one another. Love it.
Funeral for a Friend Tales Don't Tell Themselves2.0
Before Their Eyes Before Their Eyes3.0
Job For A Cowboy Genesis3.5
Dance Gavin Dance Downtown Battle Mountain4.0
A must have post-hardcore release. This shows Jonny lighting up all of the tracks with his soul-influenced voice and both guitarists riffing and noodling away in melodic fashion. All of the songs sound very different from each other, and the production sounds great (contrary to everyone's opinion).
From the Shallows Beyond the Unknown3.5
Emarosa This Is Your Way Out2.5
Vanna Curses3.5
From Autumn to Ashes Holding A Wolf By The Ears3.5
Chevelle Vena Sera2.5
Haste the Day Pressure the Hinges2.5
Rose Funeral Crucify.Kill.Rot2.0
From Autumn to Ashes These Speakers Don't Always Tell The Tru2.5
Emmure Goodbye To The Gallows4.0
Abigail Williams Legend2.5
Atreyu The Best of Atreyu3.0
Beneath The Sky What Demons Do To Saints3.0
A Day To Remember For Those Who Have Heart3.5
Fun CD that definitely still has some replay value and is a nostalgic listen. Before they went super commercial and were a bit more experimental.
A Skylit Drive She Watched the Sky4.0
Annotations Of An Autopsy Welcome To Sludge City1.5
Asking Alexandria The Irony of Your Perfection2.0
xGUMBYx X SLAUGHTER X2.0
This is so old. Has the drummer from At The Throne Of Judgment and Mike from The Devil Wears Prada.
Bullet for My Valentine The Poison: Live at Brixton Academy2.5
Miss May I Vows for a Massacre2.5
For the Fallen Dreams New Beginnings2.5
Carnifex Dead in My Arms3.0
Thy Art Is Murder Infinite Death3.5

2006
Warning Watching from a Distance4.0
Brand New The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me3.5
Killswitch Engage As Daylight Dies3.5
Emery The Question Re-Release3.5
Dance Gavin Dance Whatever I Say Is Royal Ocean3.0
I Killed the Prom Queen Music for the Recently Deceased3.5
See my sound off for the deluxe version of Music For The Recently Deceased. This CD is still a very good one, but with the bonus tracks on the deluxe version, I can't give this more than a 4.
Endwell Homeland Insecurity2.0
Aiden Rain in Hell2.5
Four Letter Lie Let Your Body Take Over3.0
Bring Me the Horizon Count Your Blessings3.0
Converge No Heroes1.5
It Dies Today Sirens3.0
Trivium The Crusade1.5
He Is Legend Suck Out the Poison2.0
Escape the Fate Dying Is Your Latest Fashion3.0
Saosin Saosin3.0
Norma Jean Redeemer2.0
The Devil Wears Prada Dear Love: A Beautiful Discord2.5
Misery Signals Mirrors3.0
Lamb of God Sacrament3.5
My Hero Is Me Helen of Troy3.0
Breaking Benjamin Phobia4.0
All Shall Perish The Price of Existence4.5
Self-explanatory rating. Amazing vocals, a great variety of brutal and melodic songs, and awesome drumming (great because I'm a drummer). ASP got it right with this one.
All That Remains The Fall of Ideals4.0
Recon (USA-NY) Graves2.0
Dashboard Confessional Dusk and Summer3.0
Elysia Masochist3.0
Underoath Define the Great Line4.5
Underoath Define the Great Line Special Edition CD+DVD5.0
The DVD that comes with it is a little lacking, but it's still an interesting view on the making of the CD. The artwork is even better and the booklet is massive, and the general feel of this CD makes up for the lack of bonus tracks for being a special edition. Oh yeah, it's also one of the defining metalcore/post-hardcore CDs of all time.
The Acacia Strain The Dead Walk2.5
Glass Casket Desperate Man's Diary3.5
An interesting an emotionally engaging deathcore CD (DID YOU THINK THAT WAS POSSIBLE). "A Cork Stops The Whining" and "Too Scared To Live" are shredding, death metal influenced tracks, while the last song on the CD is a somber look at life from the eyes of the vocalist.
As Blood Runs Black Allegiance3.0
Alesana On Frail Wings of Vanity and Wax3.5
Vanna The Search Party Never Came3.5
Funeral for a Friend Final Hours at Hammersmith2.5
Silverstein 18 Candles: The Early Years2.5
Escape the Fate There's No Sympathy for the Dead3.5
As I Lay Dying A Long March: The First Recordings3.5
Beneath The Sky More Than You Can Handle2.5
Drop Dead, Gorgeous In Vogue3.5
First Blood Killafornia3.5
Emarosa Corsets Are Cages 2.0
Architects Nightmares2.5
The Red Shore Salvaging What's Left2.5
Dead To Fall The Phoenix Throne3.5
Atreyu A Death-Grip on Yesterday3.5
Further Seems Forever Hope This Finds You Well3.0
After the Burial Forging a Future Self3.0
Hawthorne Heights If Only You Were Lonely3.5
Waking The Cadaver Demo1.0
Need I say more with this rating? I like Perverse Recollections at first, but even THAT was a huge step up from this demo. This is good for maybe nothing more than a possible laugh, or target practice for your BB gun. Fuck this band.
Drop Dead, Gorgeous Be Mine, Valentine1.5
Bleeding Through The Truth3.5
Born of Osiris Rosecrance2.0
Emmure The Complete Guide To Needlework2.5
The Faceless Nightmare Fest3.0
The Faceless Akeldama3.5

2005
Bleeding Through Wolves Among Sheep2.0
Job For A Cowboy Doom2.5
Through the Eyes of the Dead Bloodlust2.5
Thrice Vheissu2.0
Aiden Nightmare Anatomy3.0
Underoath They're Only Chasing Safety Special Edit4.0
Bullet for My Valentine The Poison4.0
Influential metalcore that really helped me get into screaming music. The drums are above average, the riffing is awesome, and the vocals are great. "4 Words" is my favorite song.
Suicide Silence Suicide Silence (EP)2.0
Parkway Drive Killing with a Smile4.0
Parkway...Romance Is Dead introduced me to these guys. From then on, I was a fan. Super slick production, and the vocals are great. This was before Parkway matured a little bit and started experimenting more. Lots of swearing, angst, etc hahaha.
Ion Dissonance Solace2.5
Between the Buried and Me Alaska3.0
Escape the Fate Escape the Fate EP2.5
From Autumn to Ashes Abandon Your Friends3.0
Becoming The Archetype Terminate Damnation3.0
Animosity Empires4.0
The Black Page, Manhunt, and Life Advocate are all rated 5 stars on my ipod. I don't have 3 five's on one album on any other album. Great stuff.
Silverstein Discovering the Waterfront4.5
Emery The Question3.0
Vanna This Will Be Our Little Secret1.5
Bullet for My Valentine Hand of Blood3.5
The Black Dahlia Murder Miasma2.5
The Knife Trade/Through the Eyes of the Dead The Annihilation of Expectation2.5
Darkest Hour Undoing Ruin3.0
Haste the Day When Everything Falls3.5
Winds of Plague A Cold Day in Hell1.5
Lamb of God Killadelphia3.0
As I Lay Dying Shadows Are Security4.0
Funeral for a Friend Hours3.5
Avenged Sevenfold City of Evil3.0
Alesana Try This With Your Eyes Closed3.5
A Day To Remember And Their Name Was Treason3.0
Fall Out Boy From Under the Cork Tree3.5
Mudvayne Lost and Found3.5
Despised Icon The Healing Process2.5
Thrice If We Could Only See Us Now2.5
Trivium Ascendancy4.0
I Killed the Prom Queen Your Past Comes Back To Haunt You2.0
Norma Jean O' God, the Aftermath4.0
The Devil Wears Prada Patterns of a Horizon1.5
Abigail Williams Gallow Hill2.0
Molotov Solution The Path to Extinction2.0
Emmure Demo '052.0

2004
He Is Legend I Am Hollywood3.0
Bring Me the Horizon This Is What the Edge of Your Seat Was Made For2.0
Killswitch Engage Killswitch Engage: Remastered3.0
Lamb of God Ashes of the Wake3.5
It Dies Today The Caitiff Choir4.5
My Promise, Our Disintegration, and A Freak Gasoline Fight Accident rule. Nick's vocals are great on this CD. One of metalcore's finest
Chevelle This Type Of Thinking (Could Do Us In)4.0
"The Clincher" and "Vitamin R" introduced me to Chevelle. I love Pete's vocals on this CD, and it's a little bit of a step up from Wonder What's Next. My favorite tracks are "To Return" and "Vitamin R."
Bullet for My Valentine Bullet For My Valentine EP3.0
Dead To Fall Villainy & Virtue2.5
Lamb of God Pure American Metal3.0
Further Seems Forever Hide Nothing2.5
Glass Casket We Are Gathered Here Today...3.0
Taking Back Sunday Where You Want To Be3.5
Misery Signals Of Malice and the Magnum Heart3.5
Breaking Benjamin We Are Not Alone2.5
Atreyu The Curse4.0
One of the first bands to get me into heavier music. This CD is nothing more than a nostalgic listen nowadays, but at the time it definitely was in my rotation constantly.
Underoath They're Only Chasing Safety3.5
Aiden Our Gangs Dark Oath2.5
Hawthorne Heights The Silence in Black and White4.0
He Is Legend 910254.0
Killswitch Engage The End of Heartache3.0
All That Remains This Darkened Heart3.0
Haste the Day Burning Bridges3.0
Parkway Drive Don't Close Your Eyes2.0
Emery The Weak's End3.5
Lamb of God Terror and Hubris2.5
Job For A Cowboy Demo 20042.0
Suicide Silence Demo 2004 (Family Guy Demo)2.0
The Acacia Strain 37502.0
Emmure Nine Eleven Zero Four2.0
Breaking Benjamin So Cold3.0

2003
I Killed the Prom Queen When Goodbye Means Forever2.5
First Blood First Blood2.5
Between the Buried and Me The Silent Circus3.0
Funeral for a Friend Seven Ways To Scream Your Name3.5
Funeral for a Friend Casually Dressed & Deep in Conversation3.0
Bleeding Through This Is Love, This Is Murderous3.0
Avenged Sevenfold Waking the Fallen4.5
Another CD that really influenced me to start getting into heavier music. I first heard Chapter 4 on Madden 2004 and from that point on I was hooked. This is A7X at their prime, and even though they may suck now, there's no denying that this is a very influential and classic metalcore release.
Dashboard Confessional A Mark, A Mission, A Brand, A Scar3.0
Thrice The Artist in the Ambulance4.0
Trivium Ember to Inferno3.0
Misery Signals Misery Signals2.0
As I Lay Dying Frail Words Collapse4.0
Animosity Shut It Down2.0
Brand New Deja Entendu4.0
Silverstein When Broken Is Easily Fixed3.0
From Autumn to Ashes The Fiction We Live4.0
Post-Hardcore at its finest. "The After Dinner Payback" and "Every Reason To" are awesome tracks on this CD. Ben's scream is also death-metal like, showing passionate grows to compliment Fran's whiny singing. Still a very good album.
Funeral for a Friend Four Ways to Scream Your Name3.5
All Shall Perish Hate. Malice. Revenge2.5
AFI Sing the Sorrow4.5
This Celluloid Dream, Girl's Not Grey, and The Leaving Song Part 2 are my favorites on this CD. It's pretty much AFI at their finest: not too punk or scream laden, and before they were mainstream. Classic listen
Further Seems Forever How to Start a Fire3.5
The Black Dahlia Murder Unhallowed2.5
Trivium Trivium2.5
Lamb of God As the Palaces Burn3.0
Through the Eyes of the Dead The Scars of Ages3.5
Ion Dissonance Breathing Is Irrelevant2.5

2002
Dashboard Confessional MTV Unplugged3.0
Mudvayne The End of All Things to Come3.0
Chevelle Wonder What's Next3.5
Funeral for a Friend Between Order And Model EP2.5
Norma Jean Bless the Martyr and Kiss the Child3.0
Atreyu Suicide Notes and Butterfly Kisses3.0
Killswitch Engage Alive or Just Breathing3.5
It Dies Today Forever Scorned3.5
Between the Buried and Me Between the Buried and Me2.5
Bleeding Through Portrait of the Goddess2.5
Dashboard Confessional Summers Kiss EP3.5
Underoath The Changing of Times2.0
Breaking Benjamin Saturate2.5
Dead To Fall Everything I Touch Falls To Pieces2.5
Thrice The Illusion of Safety3.0
The Acacia Strain Demo1.5
Emery The Columbus EEP Thee1.5
I Killed the Prom Queen Choose To Love Live or Die2.0
The Black Dahlia Murder A Cold-Blooded Epitaph2.0
The Acacia Strain ...And Life Is Very Long2.0
Silverstein When the Shadows Beam2.0
Haste the Day That They May Know You2.5
Despised Icon Consumed By Your Poison2.5

2001
Dashboard Confessional So Impossible4.5
Awesome story that accompanies the 4 songs. Ends with the epic "Hands Down" and leaves me very content and fulfilled at the end. I think this is a tie with The Places as my favorite DC CD.
Atreyu Fractures in the Facade of your Porcelain Beauty3.0
Brand New Your Favorite Weapon2.5
Converge Jane Doe2.0
Have tried over 5 times to sit down and listen to this abomination all the way through. I have come to the conclusion: it is sputnik's most overrated album of all time. The lyrics are the only good part. I can't stand Converge and I listen to music with screaming only about 90% of the time.
From Autumn to Ashes Too Bad You're Beautiful3.0
Avenged Sevenfold Warmness on the Soul1.5
Avenged Sevenfold Sounding the Seventh Trumpet3.5
As I Lay Dying Beneath the Encasing of Ashes2.5
Dashboard Confessional The Places You Have Come To Fear The Most4.5
Probably my favorite CD by Dashboard/acoustic band. Got me through a lot and has stood the test of time (my ever changing music tastes, that is)
Bleeding Through Dust to Ashes1.5
Further Seems Forever The Moon Is Down4.0
Dashboard Confessional The Drowning2.0
The Black Dahlia Murder What a Horrible Night to Have a Curse2.0
Silverstein Summer's Stellar Gaze1.5
Breaking Benjamin Breaking Benjamin2.5

2000
From Autumn to Ashes Sin, Sorrow and Sadness2.0
Mudvayne L.D. 503.5
Killswitch Engage Killswitch Engage3.0
Underoath Cries of the Past1.0
The worst Underoath release to date. I don't know why they had black-metal style song lengths on this CD, I don't know how Dallas thought his screaming sounded good, and I don't know how the recording engineer lived with himself after helping release this shit pile.
Dashboard Confessional The Swiss Army Romance3.5
Thrice Identity Crisis2.5
Lamb of God New American Gospel4.5

1999
American Football American Football3.0
Underoath Act of Depression1.5
Chevelle Point #12.0

1998
Thrice First Impressions2.0
Atreyu Visions1.5

1996
Converge Petitioning the Empty Sky1.5
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