| 2020 |
| Kid Cudi Man on the Moon III: The Chosen | 4.0 |
| Mr. Rager is back. |
| Ryan Adams Wednesdays | 4.0 |
| Taylor Swift Evermore | 4.0 |
| People show their true colors in the face of adversity, and in the wake of COVID-19, while the entire music industry has been set back (pushed back releases, no live shows, etc.), Taylor Swift again digs into her roots of being an excellent songwriter and crafts another dazzling record that frankly seperates her entirely from her pop contemperaries in terms of raw talent and ambition. |
| Dark Tranquillity Moment | 4.0 |
| AC/DC Power Up | 3.0 |
| Mr. Bungle The Raging Wrath Of The Easter Bunny | 3.5 |
| Carcass Despicable | 3.5 |
| Nothing The Great Dismal | 4.5 |
| Touche Amore Lament | 4.5 |
| Corey Taylor CMFT | 1.5 |
| "A hot mess inside a dumpster fire inside a train wreck." |
| Enslaved Utgard | 3.5 |
| Greg Puciato Child Soldier: Creator of God | 3.5 |
| The Menzingers From Exile | 3.5 |
| Deftones Ohms | 5.0 |
| The Ocean Phanerozoic II: Mesozoic | Cenozoic | 4.0 |
| Marilyn Manson We Are Chaos | 4.0 |
| Cloudkicker Solitude | 4.5 |
| In Flames Clayman (20th Anniversary Edition) | 1.0 |
| Havukruunu Uinuos Syömein Sota | 4.5 |
| Misery Signals Ultraviolet | 3.0 |
| Avatar Hunter Gatherer | 4.0 |
| Creeper Sex, Death and the Infinite Void | 2.5 |
| From aesthetic changes to their musical sound, Creeper appear to be disassembling themselves in hopes to capture an audience that frankly isn't there. |
| Taylor Swift Folklore | 4.5 |
| Oliver Tree Ugly Is Beautiful | 3.5 |
| An interesting blend of genres and influences that offers a fresh perspective but also may serve as a music gateway for a new generation. |
| The Chicks Gaslighter | 4.0 |
| Protomartyr Ultimate Success Today | 4.0 |
| Dawn Of Ashes The Antinomian | 3.0 |
| Lamb of God Lamb of God | 2.5 |
| Phoebe Bridgers Punisher | 3.0 |
| Protest the Hero Palimpsest | 4.5 |
| The Ghost Inside The Ghost Inside | 3.0 |
| END (USA-NJ) Splinters From An Ever-Changing Face | 4.0 |
| Lady Gaga Chromatica | 4.0 |
| The 1975 Notes on a Conditional Form | 3.0 |
| Jeff Rosenstock NO DREAM | 4.5 |
| Paradise Lost Obsidian | 4.0 |
| Butch Walker American Love Story | 1.5 |
| Self indulgent, preachy, Butch appears to have penned this rock opera album to virtue signal to all your neighborhood social justice warriors out there. With some catchy riffs and melodies scattered throughout, it's still a hardship for the listener to appreciate any of the nuanced aspects of the record while being bludgeoned over the head with the narrative and antics at play. |
| Fake Names Fake Names | 3.0 |
| Punk Rock, by the Numbers, for the Masses. |
| Green Carnation Leaves Of Yesteryear | 3.5 |
| Havok V | 3.0 |
| An Autumn For Crippled Children All Fell Silent, Everything Went Quiet | 3.5 |
| Vader Solitude in Madness | 4.0 |
| Umbra Vitae Shadow of Life | 4.0 |
| Sometimes you can read a book/band by it's cover, and this record delivers on it's expectations. |
| Killswitch Engage Atonement II B-Sides for Charity | 4.0 |
| Dance Gavin Dance Afterburner | 3.0 |
| Warbringer Weapons of Tomorrow | 3.0 |
| Elder (USA-MA) Omens | 3.5 |
| Trivium What the Dead Men Say | 3.5 |
| Ulcerate Stare Into Death and Be Still | 4.0 |
| The Black Dahlia Murder Verminous | 3.5 |
| The Strokes The New Abnormal | 3.5 |
| The Mountain Goats Songs for Pierre Chuvin | 4.0 |
| August Burns Red Guardians | 3.5 |
| Testament Titans of Creation | 4.0 |
| The Weeknd After Hours | 4.0 |
| Code Orange Underneath | 2.0 |
| Invent Animate Greyview | 3.5 |
| Honey Harper Starmaker | 3.5 |
| Ozzy Osbourne Ordinary Man | 2.5 |
| Polaris The Death of Me | 3.5 |
| Tame Impala The Slow Rush | 3.5 |
| Green Day Father of All Motherfuckers | 1.5 |
| Sepultura Quadra | 3.0 |
| Loathe I Let It In And It Took Everything | 4.0 |
| 2019 |
| Blood Incantation Hidden History of the Human Race | 4.5 |
| Turnover Altogether | 3.0 |
| Nile Vile Nilotic Rites | 3.5 |
| Counterparts Nothing Left to Love | 4.5 |
| Alcest Spiritual Instinct | 4.0 |
| Norma Jean All Hail | 4.0 |
| Third Eye Blind Screamer | 1.5 |
Stephan Jenkins is in an Identity Crisis.
The once young but introspective lyricist and lead singer of the band is now an old man and desperately trying to
stay relevant. Trading in guitar licks for beats, witty words for incessant cursing, and universal themes like love
for social justice anthems, Stephan Jenkins is a man who's lost without an Identity.
This record is a car wreck in slow motion, witnessing in real time an artist desperately grasping at straws to stay
relevant and seemingly out of ideas now that he's alienated every single band member of relevance who was a
part of their glory days. |
| The Menzingers Hello Exile | 4.0 |
| DIIV Deceiver | 4.0 |
| Sturgill Simpson Sound and Fury | 4.0 |
| blink-182 Nine | 3.0 |
| As I Lay Dying Shaped by Fire | 4.0 |
| Cult of Luna A Dawn to Fear | 4.5 |
| Alex Cameron Miami Memory | 4.0 |
| Ghost (SWE) Seven Inches Of Satanic Panic | 4.5 |
| Tool Fear Inoculum | 4.0 |
| Taylor Swift Lover | 3.5 |
| Love it or hate it, Jack Antonoff's hands are all over this record, and to me that's a great thing. Building further from his work with fun., bleachers and producing Lorde, Jack and Taylor team up to put together some of the most laid back yet introspective songs of Taylor's career, paired with homages to nostalgia and pop music of the past. |
| Killswitch Engage Atonement | 3.5 |
| Shadow Of Intent Melancholy | 4.0 |
| King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard Infest the Rats' Nest | 4.0 |
| Slipknot We Are Not Your Kind | 4.0 |
| Oh, Sleeper Bloodied/Unbowed | 3.5 |
| Drab Majesty Modern Mirror | 4.5 |
| Purple Mountains Purple Mountains | 4.5 |
| He Is Legend White Bat | 3.5 |
| The Raconteurs Help Us Stranger | 4.0 |
| State Faults Clairvoyant | 4.5 |
| The National I Am Easy to Find | 3.5 |
| Full of Hell Weeping Choir | 4.0 |
| Rammstein Untitled | 4.5 |
| A grand summation of their entire career: the simple yet insanely catchy bombastic riffs that riddled Herzeleid and Sehnsucht, the theatrics of Mutter and Reise, Reise, it's only fitting that this be their self titled record, a tapestry of what has made Rammstein a cornerstone of the modern heavy music scene. |
| Cage The Elephant Social Cues | 3.0 |
| PUP Morbid Stuff | 3.5 |
| Orville Peck Pony | 4.0 |
| Foals Everything Not Saved Will Be Lost - Part 1 | 3.5 |
| Children of Bodom Hexed | 4.0 |
| In Flames I, the Mask | 2.5 |
| Dream Theater Distance Over Time | 3.5 |
| Copeland Blushing | 3.5 |
| Emarosa Peach Club | 4.0 |
| Weezer The Teal Album | 2.5 |
When your biggest single in over a decade is an 80's cover, it's no surprise Weezer doubles
down, unfortunatelly the results are what happens when you take a good thing and beat it
into the ground... |
| Better Oblivion Community Center Better Oblivion Community Center | 4.5 |
| 2018 |
| The 1975 A Brief Inquiry into Online Relationships | 4.0 |
| Tenacious D Post-Apocalypto | 1.5 |
| If you're still wondering, yes, it's that bad. |
| The Ocean Phanerozoic I: Palaeozoic | 4.0 |
| Daughters You Won't Get What You Want | 4.0 |
| Disturbed Evolution | 3.0 |
| Cloud Nothings Last Building Burning | 3.5 |
| Gunship Dark All Day | 4.0 |
| mewithoutYou [Untitled] | 4.0 |
| Pinegrove Skylight | 3.5 |
| Horrendous Idol | 4.0 |
| Alkaline Trio Is This Thing Cursed? | 4.5 |
| Interpol Marauder | 3.5 |
| Death Cab for Cutie Thank You For Today | 3.5 |
| mewithoutYou [untitled] e.p. | 3.5 |
| Foxing Nearer My God | 3.5 |
| Trophy Eyes The American Dream | 3.0 |
| Skeletonwitch Devouring Radiant Light | 3.5 |
| Hopesfall Arbiter | 4.0 |
| Deafheaven Ordinary Corrupt Human Love | 4.0 |
| Immortal Northern Chaos Gods | 3.0 |
| Night Verses From the Gallery of Sleep | 4.0 |
| Nine Inch Nails Bad Witch | 4.0 |
| Kids See Ghosts Kids See Ghosts | 4.0 |
| Father John Misty God's Favorite Customer | 4.0 |
| Ghost (SWE) Prequelle | 4.5 |
| CHVRCHES Love Is Dead | 2.5 |
| Parquet Courts Wide Awake | 3.0 |
| Church of the Cosmic Skull Science Fiction | 3.5 |
| Amorphis Queen of Time | 4.0 |
| Arctic Monkeys Tranquility Base Hotel and Casino | 2.5 |
| Charlie Puth Voicenotes | 3.5 |
| Beach House 7 | 4.0 |
| Parkway Drive Reverence | 2.0 |
| Dimmu Borgir Eonian | 3.0 |
| As someone who'd never been a big Dimmu Borgir fan, I enjoyed this. |
| Shinedown Attention Attention | 3.0 |
| At the Gates To Drink from the Night Itself | 4.0 |
| Post Malone beerbongs and bentleys | 3.0 |
| The Armed Only Love | 4.0 |
| A Perfect Circle Eat the Elephant | 3.5 |
| Cancer Bats The Spark That Moves | 3.5 |
| Lord Huron Vide Noir | 4.0 |
| One of the most common complaints for any band or artist about their career progression is that they play it safe, they don't take risks and they regurgitate a proven formula instead of experimentation. Lord Huron two records in seemed to be doomed for the same fate, but with album #3 they decide to risk it all, create a new sound, and the risk has paid off. |
| Sleep The Sciences | 4.0 |
| Breaking Benjamin Ember | 3.5 |
| For a genre that used to be dominant and a mainstream radio staple of the early to mid 2000's to a now relegated and seemingly irrelevant, Breaking Benjamin release a record that can proudly stand shoulder to shoulder with any records at the peak of mainstream heavy rock and gives life to a genre that's been on life support for the better part of a decade. |
| Lil Xan TOTAL XANARCHY | 1.0 |
| Underoath Erase Me | 2.5 |
| Manic Street Preachers Resistance Is Futile | 3.0 |
| Caliban Elements | 3.0 |
| Hop Along Bark Your Head Off, Dog | 3.5 |
| The Wonder Years Sister Cities | 4.0 |
| Panopticon The Scars of Man on the Once Nameless Wilderness | 4.0 |
| The Voidz Virtue | 3.0 |
| Kacey Musgraves Golden Hour | 4.5 |
| The Republic of Wolves shrine | 4.0 |
| Jack White Boarding House Reach | 2.5 |
| Preoccupations New Material | 3.0 |
| The Absence A Gift for the Obsessed | 3.5 |
| Stone Temple Pilots Stone Temple Pilots (2018) | 2.5 |
| Rivers of Nihil Where Owls Know My Name | 4.0 |
| Greyhaven Empty Black | 4.5 |
| Between the Buried and Me Automata I | 3.5 |
| Drudkh They Often See Dreams About The Spring | 3.5 |
| Judas Priest Firepower | 4.0 |
| McCafferty Yarn | 3.5 |
| Slugdge Esoteric Malacology | 4.0 |
| Rolo Tomassi Time Will Die And Love Will Bury It | 4.5 |
| Ought Room Inside The World | 3.0 |
| Pianos Become the Teeth Wait For Love | 3.0 |
| Car Seat Headrest Twin Fantasy (Face to Face) | 3.0 |
| Senses Fail If There Is Light, It Will Find You | 3.5 |
| Visigoth Conqueror's Oath | 3.0 |
| MGMT Little Dark Age | 3.5 |
| Brian Fallon Sleepwalkers | 3.5 |
| Tiny Moving Parts Swell | 2.5 |
| In Vain (NO) Currents | 3.0 |
| BORNS Blue Madonna | 2.5 |
| While musically engaging at times, the lyrical content is banal and sophomoric at best, endlessly beating the tropes of love and the like into the listener's ears |
| Black Rebel Motorcycle Club Wrong Creatures | 3.0 |
| Anderson East Encore | 3.5 |
| Jeff Rosenstock POST- | 4.0 |
| 2017 |
| Glassjaw Material Control | 3.5 |
| Cannibal Corpse Red Before Black | 3.5 |
| Converge The Dusk in Us | 4.0 |
| Julien Baker Turn Out The Lights | 4.0 |
| Bell Witch Mirror Reaper | 3.5 |
| Trivium The Sin and the Sentence | 3.5 |
| Destroyer Ken | 4.5 |
| Samael Hegemony | 3.5 |
| Enslaved E | 3.5 |
| St. Vincent Masseduction | 4.0 |
| The Black Dahlia Murder Nightbringers | 3.5 |
| Citizen As You Please | 4.0 |
| Wolf Parade Cry Cry Cry | 4.0 |
| August Burns Red Phantom Anthem | 4.0 |
| Protomartyr Relatives in Descent | 4.5 |
| Circa Survive The Amulet | 3.0 |
| Counterparts You're Not You Anymore | 4.0 |
| Prophets of Rage Prophets of Rage | 1.5 |
| The Contortionist Clairvoyant | 2.5 |
| The National Sleep Well Beast | 4.0 |
| Alex Cameron Forced Witness | 4.5 |
| Paradise Lost Medusa | 3.5 |
| LCD Soundsystem American Dream | 4.0 |
| Queens of the Stone Age Villains | 3.5 |
| Turnover Good Nature | 3.5 |
| The War On Drugs A Deeper Understanding | 4.5 |
| Grizzly Bear Painted Ruins | 4.0 |
| Gang of Youths Go Farther in Lightness | 4.0 |
| Brand New Science Fiction | 4.5 |
| Arcade Fire Everything Now | 3.0 |
| Manchester Orchestra A Black Mile to the Surface | 4.0 |
| Tyler, the Creator Flower Boy | 3.5 |
| Nine Inch Nails Add Violence | 3.5 |
| HAIM Something To Tell You | 2.5 |
| Decapitated Anticult | 3.5 |
| Broken Social Scene Hug of Thunder | 3.5 |
| Imagine Dragons ÆŽVOLVE | 3.0 |
| King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard Murder Of The Universe | 3.5 |
| Captain, We're Sinking The King of No Man | 3.5 |
| Bobby couldn't let Greg release the best punk rock album of 2017 without a fight. |
| Algiers The Underside of Power | 4.0 |
| Egypt Cracks and Lines | 3.5 |
| Kevin Morby City Music | 3.0 |
| Royal Blood How Did We Get So Dark? | 3.0 |
| Currents The Place I Feel Safest | 3.0 |
| SZA Ctrl | 3.0 |
| Frank Ocean Feminine Edition |
| Jason Isbell The Nashville Sound | 3.5 |
| Portugal. The Man Woodstock | 3.5 |
| Gaytheist Let's Jam Again Soon | 3.5 |
| Fleet Foxes Crack-Up | 4.0 |
| CHON Homey | 4.0 |
| Lorde Melodrama | 4.5 |
| Take notes Katy Perry, this is how an actual ambitious pop album is done. |
| Katy Perry Witness | 2.0 |
| At face value, this to me seems to be a brutally calculated, dis-ingenious mockery of an album, formulated by record studio executives with a cheat sheet of do's and don't to cross off to make sure to hit every imaginable demographic with this record. From her forced usage of LGBT dancers on SNL, to her "edgy" short blonde haircut that's 4 years behind Miley, to a plethora of tracks that seem concocted during a Chainsmokers brain fart, Witness shows Katy Perry's true colors, a pop queen who's become a slave to the record industry, because she's become a championed bread winner, and her artist integrity has dwindled to the level of pier group tested and approved jingles. |
| Anathema The Optimist | 3.5 |
| Cigarettes After Sex Cigarettes After Sex | 4.5 |
| alt-J Relaxer | 2.5 |
| Unabashed quirkiness gone awry. |
| Dan Auerbach Waiting On A Song | 3.0 |
| A fantastically produced and executed record that pays homage to the 60s/70s that predictably goes nowhere and offers nothing new. |
| Beach Fossils Somersault | 3.0 |
| '68 Two Parts Viper | 3.5 |
| Roger Waters Is This The Life We Really Want? | 3.5 |
| Elder (USA-MA) Reflections of a Floating World | 4.0 |
| Bleachers Gone Now | 4.5 |
| The Mountain Goats Goths | 4.0 |
| Tigers Jaw spin | 3.5 |
| Harry Styles Harry Styles | 3.0 |
| Paramore After Laughter | 3.5 |
| Ulsect Ulsect | 3.5 |
| Dreamcar DREAMCAR | 3.5 |
| At the Drive-In in•ter a•li•a | 3.5 |
| The Afghan Whigs In Spades | 3.5 |
| Fazerdaze Morningside | 3.5 |
| Mac DeMarco This Old Dog | 4.0 |
| Perfume Genius No Shape | 4.0 |
| Slowdive Slowdive (LP) | 4.0 |
| He Is Legend few | 3.0 |
| Gorillaz Humanz | 3.5 |
| Mark Lanegan Gargoyle | 4.0 |
| Sylvan Esso What Now | 4.0 |
| Incubus (USA-CA) 8 | 3.0 |
| John Mayer The Search for Everything | 3.5 |
| Kendrick Lamar DAMN. | 3.5 |
| Ulver The Assassination of Julius Caesar | 3.5 |
| Joey Badass ALL-AMERIKKKAN BADA$$ | 3.5 |
| Future Islands The Far Field | 4.5 |
| Father John Misty Pure Comedy | 5.0 |
| Demon Hunter Outlive | 3.5 |
| Mastodon Emperor of Sand | 4.0 |
| Steel Panther Lower the Bar | 3.0 |
| The Jesus and Mary Chain Damage and Joy | 3.5 |
| Creeper Eternity, In Your Arms | 3.5 |
| Mount Eerie A Crow Looked At Me | 4.0 |
| Passion Pit Tremendous Sea of Love | 4.0 |
| Pallbearer Heartless | 4.5 |
| Real Estate In Mind | 3.0 |
| Depeche Mode Spirit | 3.5 |
| Fen Winter | 3.5 |
| Sorority Noise You're Not As ____ As You Think | 4.0 |
| Spoon Hot Thoughts | 4.0 |
Spoon on this record really cement themselves in making a great case to be put on the same tier as
The National in terms of top tier output over the past decade plus. You'll be hard pressed to find
a more consistent band that has delivered quality records, one after the other without repetition
or bastardizing their core sound. |
| The Shins Heartworms | 3.0 |
| James Mercer dials the quirkiness level up to 11 |
| Darkest Hour Godless Prophets and the Migrant Flora | 4.0 |
| Within the Ruins Halfway Human | 3.0 |
| John 5 Season of the Witch | 3.0 |
| Minus the Bear VOIDS | 3.0 |
| Bungler The Nature Of Being New | 3.0 |
| Grandaddy Last Place | 3.5 |
| Ed Sheeran ÷ | 5.0 |
| Danko Jones Wild Cat | 3.0 |
| American Grim Freakshow | 2.0 |
| Acceptance Colliding By Design | 3.0 |
| Dirty Projectors Dirty Projectors | 3.0 |
| Los Campesinos! Sick Scenes | 3.5 |
| King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard Flying Microtonal Banana | 3.5 |
| Immolation Atonement | 3.5 |
| Crystal Fairy Crystal Fairy | 3.5 |
| Power Trip Nightmare Logic | 4.0 |
| Ryan Adams Prisoner | 4.0 |
| Ryan Adams most anticipated release in years steps into the limelight with no intentions of leaving it again. |
| Exquirla Para Quienes Aún Viven | 4.0 |
| Mutiny Within Origins | 3.5 |
| Sampha Process | 3.5 |
| The Menzingers After the Party | 5.0 |
| Japandroids Near To The Wild Heart Of Life | 3.0 |
| Can using children singing in unison please stop being a thing... |
| Cloud Nothings Life Without Sound | 3.5 |
| Kreator Gods of Violence | 3.5 |
| AFI AFI (The Blood Album) | 3.5 |
| Drab Majesty The Demonstration | 4.0 |
| The xx I See You | 3.0 |
| 2015 |
| Cage The Elephant Tell Me I'm Pretty | 3.0 |
| Baroness Purple | 4.0 |
| Kid Cudi Speedin' Bullet 2 Heaven | 1.5 |
| Coldplay A Head Full of Dreams | 3.0 |
| SikTh Opacities | 3.5 |
| Intronaut The Direction of Last Things | 3.5 |
| Grimes Art Angels | 4.0 |
| Cryptopsy The Book of Suffering - Tome 1 | 3.0 |
| EL VY Return to the Moon | 3.5 |
| While many records these days seem to feature bands on autopilot, El Vy create an intriguing debut album with enough quirkiness and nuance to keep the listener both entertained and on the edge of their seat throughout the 41 minute journey of Return To The Moon. |
| Beach Slang The Things We Do to Find People Who Feel | 3.5 |
| Foxing Dealer | 3.5 |
| Horrendous Anareta | 4.0 |
| Born of Osiris Soul Sphere | 2.5 |
| BORNS Dopamine | 3.5 |
| Coheed and Cambria The Color Before The Sun | 3.0 |
| Cult Leader Lightless Walk | 3.5 |
| Fightstar Behind the Devil's Back | 4.0 |
| Neon Indian Vega Intl. Night School | 4.0 |
| Deerhunter Fading Frontier | 4.0 |
| Totem Skin Weltschmerz | 4.0 |
| City and Colour If I Should Go Before You | 3.0 |
| Protomartyr The Agent Intellect | 3.5 |
| Catchy, atmospheric, a very engaging album from Protomartyr. |
| Trivium Silence in the Snow | 2.5 |
| Children of Bodom I Worship Chaos | 3.0 |
| Eagles Of Death Metal Zipper Down | 3.0 |
| Deafheaven New Bermuda | 4.0 |
| Parkway Drive Ire | 2.5 |
| *Yawn* |
| Kurt Vile b'lieve i'm goin' down... | 3.0 |
| Memorable moments are few and far between, "b'lieve i'm goin' down..." drastically illustrates the parity between Kurt Vile's musicianship and his vocal melodies/lyricism. |
| Silversun Pickups Better Nature | 3.5 |
| The band's most experimental record to date, Silversun Pickups continue their separation from their initial comparison to the Smashing Pumpkins, crafting a dense poppy record with great percussion, but lacking the driving hooks, melodies and riffs of their previous releases. |
| CHVRCHES Every Open Eye | 3.5 |
| While a more conservative streamlined effort than their debut, Chvrches delivers in spades with a Sophomore record full of anthemic hooks, shimmering synths and an empowering performance by Lauren Mayberry. |
| The Dead Weather Dodge & Burn | 3.5 |
| Straight forward and stripped down, Dodge & Burn gets straight to the point and delivers some hard licks and groovy tunes. |
| Julia Holter Have You In My Wilderness | 4.0 |
| The World Is a Beautiful Place... Harmlessness | 4.0 |
| Big Grams Big Grams | 4.0 |
| Smooth, sexy, overall a flirtatious record that succeeds in setting a stage for all involved parties to shine. |
| Ryan Adams 1989 | 3.5 |
| An intriguing cover of Taylor Swift's 1989; Ryan Adams creates a compelling take on TS's last record, but in the end more is left to be desired. |
| Atreyu Long Live | 3.0 |
| Sitting in my office, wearing my Halo 2 hoodie, rocking out to Atreyu like it's 2005. Fun record. |
| Scale the Summit V | 3.5 |
| The prog rockers are back, and in turn deliver a tour de force record where they lead the listener on a diverse journey through many different sounds, tempos and emotion. |
| Beirut No No No | 3.0 |
| Slayer Repentless | 3.0 |
| Gary Clark Jr. The Story of Sonny Boy Slim | 3.5 |
| The Wonder Years No Closer to Heaven | 3.0 |
| Marvelously underwhelming as a whole. |
| The Dear Hunter Act IV: Rebirth in Reprise | 3.5 |
| Iron Maiden The Book of Souls | 3.5 |
| Beach House Depression Cherry | 3.5 |
| Defeater Abandoned | 3.5 |
| Destroyer Poison Season | 4.0 |
| Foals What Went Down | 4.0 |
| Down I Go You're Lucky God, That I Cannot Reach You | 4.0 |
| Disturbed Immortalized | 3.0 |
| While not completely reinventing the wheel, Disturbed have changed up their patented formula enough to create a record with the most risks and character in the past decade. |
| Ghost (SWE) Meliora | 4.0 |
| Bullet for My Valentine Venom | 2.5 |
| Frank Turner Positive Songs for Negative People | 3.5 |
| We Came As Romans We Came As Romans | 2.0 |
| Counterparts Tragedy Will Find Us | 3.5 |
| Lamb of God VII: Sturm und Drang | 3.5 |
| Gunship Gunship | 3.5 |
| Tame Impala Currents | 4.0 |
| Tame Impala are finally ready to breakthrough and truly create something special. |
| Wilco Star Wars | 3.5 |
| Between the Buried and Me Coma Ecliptic | 2.5 |
| Refused Freedom | 3.5 |
| Breaking Benjamin Dark Before Dawn | 3.0 |
| Wolf Alice My Love Is Cool | 3.5 |
| Third Eye Blind Dopamine | 3.5 |
| Stephan Jenkins attempts to shoulder Third Eye Blind by himself, and while this album has its moments, Third Eye Blind will never reach it's past peaks as solely Jenkins brain child. |
| mewithoutYou Pale Horses | 4.0 |
| Of Monsters and Men Beneath the Skin | 3.0 |
| Muse Drones | 3.5 |
| Drones: A fitting album title for their current fan base. |
| Florence and the Machine How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful | 3.5 |
| Paradise Lost The Plague Within | 3.5 |
| Faith No More Sol Invictus | 3.5 |
| Brandon Flowers The Desired Effect | 3.5 |
| Haste the Day Coward | 4.0 |
| Twenty One Pilots Blurryface | 2.5 |
| God Damn Vultures | 3.5 |
| Hop Along Painted Shut | 4.0 |
| Mumford and Sons Wilder Mind | 2.5 |
| Turnover Peripheral Vision | 5.0 |
| Blur The Magic Whip | 3.5 |
| Woohoo! |
| Passion Pit Kindred | 2.5 |
| Alabama Shakes Sound & Color | 3.5 |
| Ryan Adams Live at Carnegie Hall | 4.5 |
| The Wombats Glitterbug | 2.5 |
| The Mountain Goats Beat the Champ | 3.0 |
| Lord Huron Strange Trails | 4.0 |
| Solid record from the troupe, but a lack of growth and experimentation makes me wonder if Lord Huron is a one trick pony. |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor 'Asunder, Sweet and Other Distress' | 3.0 |
| Good, but no To Pimp A Butterfly... |
| Death Cab for Cutie Kintsugi | 3.5 |
| Sufjan Stevens Carrie and Lowell | 5.0 |
| Grateful Dead The Best Of The Grateful Dead | 4.5 |
| An excellent compilation of studio recordings to introduce anyone to the Grateful Dead. |
| Action Bronson Mr. Wonderful | 3.0 |
| CHON Grow | 3.5 |
| Modest Mouse Strangers to Ourselves | 3.5 |
| Tobias Jesso Jr. Goon | 3.5 |
| Kendrick Lamar To Pimp a Butterfly | 4.0 |
| Cancer Bats Searching for Zero | 3.0 |
| Enslaved In Times | 4.0 |
| Leviathan Scar Sighted | 3.5 |
| Jeff Rosenstock We Cool? | 3.5 |
| Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds Chasing Yesterday | 3.5 |
| Elder (USA-MA) Lore | 4.0 |
| Imagine Dragons Smoke + Mirrors | 2.5 |
| Abrasively Average |
| Father John Misty I Love You, Honeybear | 5.0 |
| Title Fight Hyperview | 3.0 |
| The Decemberists What A Terrible World, What A Beautiful World | 3.5 |
| Lupe Fiasco Tetsuo and Youth | 3.5 |
| Preoccupations Viet Cong | 4.0 |
| Marilyn Manson The Pale Emperor | 3.0 |
| 2010 |
| The Damned Things Ironiclast | 3.5 |
| Daft Punk Tron: Legacy | 3.5 |
| Deadmau5 4x4=12 | 4.0 |
| Amia Venera Landscape The Long Procession | 4.0 |
| Agalloch Marrow of the Spirit | 3.5 |
| Being mostly a newcomer to Agalloch, I found this to be a very interesting record. Marrow of the Spirit carries a very somber atmosphere through its entirety and I find the Black Metal growls very fitting. Songs are long and take time to develop and progress but the band excels at letting their songs build to a climax, rewarding the listener and demonstrating that their tracks have a direction and are not just aimlessly written to fill up space. I find to fully appreciate this record you have to listen to this front to back and be patient with it; this did not click for me on the first listen but after a few spins I found an admiration for the small details littered across the record. |
| As They Sleep Dynasty | 3.0 |
| After the Burial In Dreams | 3.5 |
| After the Burial return off the heels of Rareform to deliver a less technical but fun album. Anthony Notarmaso does a memorable job behind the mic, showing great range between his screams and growls, and there’s plenty of shredding with a great mixture of melody and breakdowns. |
| My Chemical Romance Danger Days: The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys | 2.0 |
| Nine Inch Nails Pretty Hate Machine: 2010 Remaster | 4.5 |
| Kanye West My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy | 5.0 |
| A Day To Remember What Separates Me from You | 3.5 |
| Girl Talk All Day | 3.5 |
| Cee Lo Green The Lady Killer | 3.0 |
| Deathspell Omega Paracletus | 3.5 |
| Underoath Ø (Disambiguation) | 3.5 |
| The Ocean Anthropocentric | 4.0 |
| Kid Cudi Man on the Moon II: The Legend of Mr. Rager | 4.0 |
| Atheist Jupiter | 4.0 |
| This is the first Atheist record I’ve listened to and I enjoyed it. The vocals take time to get used to but for being the band’s first album in 17 years that can be forgiven. The album is frantic and heavy, never letting up for the 30 plus minutes Jupiter spans, which is a perfect length. |
| Escape the Fate Escape the Fate | 1.0 |
| Have I heard this? No. Do I hate the god forsaken ad on this site? Yes. |
| Weezer Death to False Metal | 4.0 |
| Alexisonfire Dog's Blood | 3.5 |
| Although Old Crows, Young Cardinals came out just last year, Alexisonfire have returned with an EP to please fans and possibly win over some new ones. Dog’s Blood is only 4 tracks but spans over 20 minutes with some rather lengthy songs compared to their back catalogue. Musically this is a more aggressive record then Old Crows and the vocals are a return to form for Dallas. This is not Watch Out! but leaves fans excited to see what is in store in the future. |
| Trophy Scars Darkness, Oh Hell | 3.0 |
| Kylesa Spiral Shadow | 3.5 |
| Senses Fail The Fire | 3.5 |
| Young the Giant Young the Giant | 4.5 |
| Skrillex Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites | 3.0 |
| Kings of Leon Come Around Sundown | 3.5 |
| All That Remains ...For We Are Many | 3.0 |
| For We Are Many is a great improvement over the lackluster release Overcome but not the quality of The Fall of Ideals. All That Remains haven’t changed their formula that much, lots of chugging with a surprisingly more aggressive performance from frontman Phil Labonte as well as some very well done guitar solos. Album’s weakest points surprisingly are the atrociously chosen singles. Overall a solid release from a band that isn’t reinventing the wheel, but have some tricks up their sleeves to keep things interesting. |
| TesseracT Concealing Fate | 3.5 |
| Intronaut Valley of Smoke | 3.5 |
| Sufjan Stevens The Age of Adz | 4.0 |
| Chiodos Illuminaudio | 3.5 |
| Bring Me the Horizon There Is a Hell, Believe Me I've Seen It... | 3.0 |
| Jimmy Eat World Invented | 3.5 |
| Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross The Social Network OST | 3.5 |
| Aloe Blacc Good Things | 3.5 |
| Deerhunter Halcyon Digest | 4.0 |
| Enslaved Axioma Ethica Odini | 4.0 |
| Cloudkicker Beacons | 4.0 |
| Brandon Flowers Flamingo | 3.0 |
| Weezer Hurley | 3.0 |
| Oceansize Self Preserved While The Bodies Float Up | 4.0 |
| Linkin Park A Thousand Suns | 2.5 |
| Volbeat Beyond Hell/Above Heaven | 4.0 |
| Tera Melos Patagonian Rats | 3.0 |
| Stone Sour Audio Secrecy | 3.0 |
| Interpol Interpol | 3.5 |
| Anberlin Dark Is the Way, Light Is a Place | 3.5 |
| Anberlin continue showing consistency by releasing a solid record adding to their already solid discography. Dark is the Way, Light is a Place is a worthy addition sure to please fans with its heartfelt ballads and pop rock anthems. |
| Atmosphere To All My Friends, Blood Makes The Blade Holy | 3.5 |
| Atmosphere nicely surprised me with this rather lengthy EP this year. To All My Friends, Blood Makes the Blade Holy features 12 tracks where Slug has some interesting rhyme and I’ve always enjoyed how his songs tell stories. The biggest flaw of this EP is that it is plagued with forced and clich?hymes and lines that just seem out of place. |
| Funeral for a Friend The Young And Defenseless | 4.0 |
| The Word Alive Deceiver | 2.5 |
| For Today Breaker | 2.5 |
| Disturbed Asylum | 2.5 |
| Within the Ruins Invade | 3.0 |
| Dagoba Poseidon | 3.5 |
| 10 Years Feeding the Wolves | 3.5 |
| The Contortionist Exoplanet | 4.0 |
| Ra Ra Riot The Orchard | 3.5 |
| The Sword Warp Riders | 4.0 |
| The Devil Wears Prada Zombie | 3.5 |
| Sufjan Stevens All Delighted People | 4.0 |
| Miss May I Monument | 2.5 |
| Orbs Asleep Next to Science | 4.0 |
| Iron Maiden The Final Frontier | 3.5 |
| Black Label Society Order Of The Black | 3.0 |
| Wretched (USA-NC) Beyond the Gate | 3.5 |
| Arcade Fire The Suburbs | 4.0 |
| Avenged Sevenfold Nightmare | 3.0 |
| Following the untimely death of drummer James Sullivan (a.k.a. the Rev), Avenged Sevenfold release their 5th LP. Nightmare is an improvement over their self titled release and more aggressive but overall is just an above average release. |
| Touche Amore/La Dispute Searching for a Pulse/The Worth of the World | 3.5 |
| The Limousines Get Sharp | 3.5 |
| Menomena Mines | 4.0 |
| Korn Korn III: Remember Who You Are | 3.0 |
| M.I.A. Maya | 3.0 |
| Norma Jean Meridional | 3.5 |
| Devil Sold His Soul Blessed & Cursed | 4.0 |
| Big Boi Sir Lucious Left Foot | 4.5 |
| Up until Kanye’s recent release this was without a doubt the best Hip-Hop release of the year. Half of the famed duo Outkast, Big Boi has finally released his long anticipated debut record and it will not disappoint. Sir Lucious Left Foot the Son of Chico Dusty has some of the best produced tracks of the year from the sizzling club beats in Shutterbug to the operatic tones of General Patton.This is a complete album with catchy beats, great lyrics and a handful of fantastic guest spots including T.I., Janelle Monae and B.o.B. In a genre that’s been plagued by mediocre top 40 mainstream MC’s, Big Boi shows that there is plenty of fresh material to be had. |
| Soilwork The Panic Broadcast | 3.5 |
| Parkway Drive Deep Blue | 3.0 |
| Haste the Day Attack of the Wolf King | 3.5 |
| Emarosa Emarosa | 3.5 |
| Wolf Parade Expo 86 | 4.0 |
| United Nations Never Mind the Bombings, Here's Your Six Figures | 4.0 |
| Pierce the Veil Selfish Machines | 2.5 |
| This or the Apocalypse Haunt What's Left | 3.5 |
| The Roots How I Got Over | 3.5 |
| Kvelertak Kvelertak | 4.0 |
| Eminem Recovery | 3.5 |
| Drake Thank Me Later | 2.5 |
| The Gaslight Anthem American Slang | 4.0 |
| The Pineapple Thief Someone Here Is Missing | 4.0 |
| Foals Total Life Forever | 4.5 |
| Attack Attack! Attack Attack! | 2.0 |
| Attack Attack! improve over their last record but that’s not saying much. Album is average at best with horrific cleans and guitarists that play maybe a total of 3 notes on the whole record. |
| Travie McCoy Lazarus | 3.0 |
| Against Me! White Crosses | 3.5 |
| The Ghost Inside Returners | 3.5 |
| Stick to Your Guns The Hope Division | 3.0 |
| The State Lottery When the Night Comes | 3.5 |
| How to Destroy Angels How To Destroy Angels | 4.0 |
| Anathema We're Here Because We're Here | 4.0 |
| Anathema’s first LP in seven years proves to be worth the wait as the Doom Metal turned Prog Rocker outfit release an album of magnificent proportions. The songs on We’re Here Because We’re Here take on epic proportions with sweeping melodies and a never ending sense of grandeur and beauty. Overall this is a very focused record with a very uplifting tone throughout. While the band thrives with its stirring tunes, I wish they would have branched out a bit more in sound and delivery maybe with an aggressive track or something off the beaten path to mix it up. |
| Stone Temple Pilots Stone Temple Pilots (2010) | 3.0 |
| Rosetta A Determinism of Morality | 3.5 |
| The Black Keys Brothers | 4.0 |
| The Black Keys return with yet another stellar album claiming their title as today's Kings of Blues. |
| LCD Soundsystem This Is Happening | 4.0 |
| Janelle Monae The ArchAndroid | 4.0 |
| Nas and Damian Marley Distant Relatives | 4.0 |
| Dead Letter Circus This Is The Warning | 3.5 |
| The Dead Weather Sea of Cowards | 3.5 |
| Sleigh Bells Treats | 3.5 |
| As I Lay Dying The Powerless Rise | 4.0 |
| Metalcore veterans and poster boys As I Lay Dying release their most technical and heaviest record to date. Tim Lambesis gives another outstanding performance as the San Diego quintet fine tune their sound on The Powerless Rise. |
| The National High Violet | 5.0 |
| Minus the Bear Omni | 3.5 |
| Broken Social Scene Forgiveness Rock Record | 3.5 |
| The Hold Steady Heaven Is Whenever | 3.5 |
| Deftones Diamond Eyes | 4.5 |
| Flying Lotus Cosmogramma | 4.0 |
| Sed Non Satiata Sed Non Satiata | 4.0 |
| Omar Rodriguez-Lopez and John Frusciante Omar Rodriguez-Lopez and John Frusciante | 3.5 |
| Punch Push Pull | 3.5 |
| Bullet for My Valentine Fever | 2.0 |
| B.o.B The Adventures of Bobby Ray | 4.0 |
| It was the end of April when I was watching Coachella online, wishing I was there, when I saw a young southern hip-hop rapper take the stage with a guitar and play a 4o minute breath taking set. Soon learned that the kid’s name was B.o.B and was releasing an album, The Adventures of Bobby Ray, that week. I had no idea of how huge this guy was going to be in the next few wekks and how he seemingly became the voice of the summer of 2010 with countless successful singles including Nothing on You, Magic, Bet I and the now infamous Airplanes. I had the pleasure of seeing him live at school and the show was a blast, the man truly has a blast and loves what he does. This album almost never left my car during the summer and is full of catchy tunes. I’ll be sure to have this spinning non-stop again next summer. |
| 65daysofstatic We Were Exploding Anyway | 4.0 |
| Parades Foreign Tapes | 4.0 |
| Periphery Periphery | 4.0 |
| Circa Survive Blue Sky Noise | 4.5 |
| Bleeding Through Bleeding Through | 2.5 |
| MGMT Congratulations | 2.5 |
| Cancer Bats Bears, Mayors, Scraps & Bones | 3.0 |
| Sky Eats Airplane The Sound of Symmetry | 3.0 |
| Foxy Shazam Foxy Shazam | 3.5 |
| The Ocean Heliocentric | 3.5 |
| Coheed and Cambria Year of the Black Rainbow | 3.5 |
| The Tallest Man on Earth The Wild Hunt | 4.0 |
| The Menzingers Chamberlain Waits | 4.5 |
| letlive. Fake History | 4.5 |
| Veil of Maya [id] | 3.0 |
| Jonsi Go | 3.5 |
| Wiz Khalifa Kush & Orange Juice | 4.0 |
| Envy On The Coast Lowcountry | 3.5 |
| Alcest Écailles De Lune | 5.0 |
| Slash Slash | 3.0 |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Option Paralysis | 4.0 |
| Neon Trees Habits | 3.5 |
| Immolation Majesty and Decay | 3.5 |
| Demon Hunter The World Is a Thorn | 3.0 |
| Isles and Glaciers The Hearts of Lonely People | 3.0 |
| Of Mice and Men Of Mice and Men | 3.0 |
| Broken Bells Broken Bells | 3.5 |
| Jimi Hendrix Valleys of Neptune | 3.5 |
| Four Year Strong Enemy of the World | 3.5 |
| Daughters Daughters | 3.5 |
| Free Energy Stuck On Nothing | 3.5 |
| Titus Andronicus The Monitor | 4.0 |
| Gorillaz Plastic Beach | 4.0 |
| Airbourne No Guts. No Glory. | 2.5 |
| AC/DC, I mean Airbourne release their 2nd LP and while it contains some catchy tunes and fun for the whole family, it is quite possibly the most predictable and formulaic record of 2010. While this taken in small doses may be fun, listening to this as a whole is nearly impossible. |
| Kalmah 12 Gauge | 4.0 |
| Frightened Rabbit The Winter of Mixed Drinks | 3.5 |
| Two Door Cinema Club Tourist History | 4.0 |
| Dark Tranquillity We Are the Void | 3.0 |
| Alkaline Trio This Addiction | 3.0 |
| Alkaline Trio’s 7th LP, This Addiction, is a continuation of their decline into very generic mainstream rock. The album has some catchy tunes but overall is very forgettable and sadly points towards the end of quality material from the band. |
| Fang Island Fang Island | 3.5 |
| Counterparts Prophets | 4.0 |
| In Mourning Monolith | 3.5 |
| Nails Unsilent Death | 4.0 |
| Angels and Airwaves Love | 3.5 |
| I have a soft spot for Angels & Airwaves, I’ve always been a big blink-182 fan and liked Tom’s vocals and remember hearing their first single, The Adventure, back in 2005 and loving it. This year they decided to release their 3rd LP, Love, for FREE on Valentine’s Day . Continuing with their Space Rock described adventures, AVA release their most solid record yet showing consistency, something very much lacking in their first 2 LPs. The price tag or lack of has opened the band to more listeners though I don’t believe this record will win over any fans for people who didn’t like their first two records. |
| Fear Factory Mechanize | 3.5 |
| Meshuggah Alive | 4.0 |
| Rob Zombie Hellbilly Deluxe 2 | 1.5 |
| Lil Wayne Rebirth | 1.0 |
| Throats Throats | 3.5 |
| Overkill Ironbound | 3.5 |
| Living Sacrifice The Infinite Order | 3.5 |
| Los Campesinos! Romance Is Boring | 3.5 |
| Beach House Teen Dream | 3.5 |
| My first Beach House record and it was an enjoyable listen but forgettable. The musicianship is great and the girl has a great voice but overall nothing really stood out too much for me. |
| Ihsahn After | 3.5 |
| Lostprophets The Betrayed | 3.5 |
| Vampire Weekend Contra | 3.5 |
| Kesha Animal | 1.5 |
| Dangers Messy, Isn't It? | 4.0 |
| More Than Life Love Let Me Go | 4.0 |
