| 2009 |
| All the Empires of the World Blessings | 4.5 |
| Creations Ruined | 1.5 |
| Napalm Death Time Waits for No Slave | 4.0 |
| Impious Death Domination | 4.0 |
| Animal Collective Fall Be Kind | 3.0 |
| Lady Gaga The Fame Monster | 2.5 |
| Elder (USA-PA) Reflect | 2.5 |
| Krallice Dimensional Bleedthrough | 2.0 |
| Gorgoroth Quantos Possunt ad Satanitatem Trahunt | 2.0 |
| Katatonia Night Is the New Day | 4.0 |
| Tegan and Sara Sainthood | 4.0 |
| Daitro Y | 2.5 |
| 1997 Notes From Underground | 3.0 |
| The Fall of Troy In the Unlikely Event | 1.5 |
| Converge Axe to Fall | 3.0 |
| Paramore Brand New Eyes | 2.0 |
| Evergreen Terrace Almost Home | 1.0 |
| Almost Home blends the worst aspects of pop-punk with the most generic from metalcore and post-hardcore to create a series of songs that are awkward, show no sense of originality, and are simply incapable of holding my interest. Scathing pop-punk choruses litter the album and the vocals, at time, are insufferable. Breakdowns rarely, if ever, deviate from 4/4 time, and they're repetitive and slow. These hindrances plague an already monotonous, generic release. |
| Brand New Daisy | 4.0 |
| Asking Alexandria Stand Up and Scream | 1.0 |
| How paradoxical is it that we, as a race have been able to place the worst of both worlds (in this case, trance and metalcore) adjacent to one another and still become successful? Sure, if one were to really tweak all the small (or in this case large) elements of said juxtaposition, then perhaps one could perfect it. For now, we have asking Alexandria. Generic, slow breakdowns play a key component to the supposed "heavy music" that Asking Alexandria produce. These breakdowns make up a dumfounding majority of this album. The minority are terribly awkward and cheesy trance bits (auto-tuned vocals and programmed instruments only amaze the listener more so than he already is) and lyrics that reference gore ad nauseum. The cliche, cheesy way this is all done makes this album overtly repetitive. Subsequently, this band has created one of the most painful releases of the decade, leading one to believe that Asking Alexandria had a rather odd way of perceiving the concept of "aural assault." |
| fun. Aim and Ignite | 2.5 |
| As Tall As Lions You Can't Take It With You | 3.0 |
| Emmure Felony | 1.0 |
| Winds of Plague The Great Stone War | 1.5 |
| Modest Mouse No One's First, and You're Next | 4.5 |
| Arsonists Get All the Girls Portals | 2.5 |
| He Is Legend It Hates You | 1.5 |
| Poison the Well The Tropic Rot | 2.0 |
| Job For A Cowboy Ruination | 2.0 |
| Suicide Silence No Time to Bleed | 1.5 |
| Alexisonfire Old Crows / Young Cardinals | 1.5 |
| The Mars Volta Octahedron | 3.0 |
| Dinosaur Jr. Farm | 4.0 |
| Wold Imperator | 4.5 |
| Dirty Projectors Bitte Orca | 4.5 |
| Sonic Youth The Eternal | 4.0 |
| Coldplay LeftRightLeftRightLeft | 1.5 |
| maudlin of the Well Part the Second | 4.5 |
| The Chariot Wars and Rumors of Wars | 2.0 |
| Loma Prieta Dark Mountain | 3.0 |
| Meg and Dia Here, Here and Here | 2.0 |
| Manchester Orchestra Mean Everything to Nothing | 3.0 |
| Oceano Depths | 1.0 |
| Success Will Write Apocalypse Across... The Grand Partition & The Abrogation Of Idolatry | 2.0 |
| Silverstein A Shipwreck in the Sand | 1.0 |
| The Number Twelve Looks Like You Worse Than Alone | 2.0 |
| Company Of Thieves Ordinary Riches | 3.0 |
| Thursday Common Existence | 4.0 |
| Cattle Decapitation The Harvest Floor | 3.0 |
| Animal Collective Merriweather Post Pavilion | 1.5 |
| In Fear and Faith Your World On Fire | 1.5 |
| Bring Me the Horizon Suicide Season Cut Up! | 1.0 |
| Ethereal Beauty/Shyy/Heretoir/Soliness The World Comes To An End In The End Of A Journey | 4.0 |
| 2008 |
| Killie Offering A Sacrifice That Presents And Indicates.. | 4.0 |
| Pig Destroyer Natasha | 3.0 |
| Attack Attack! Someday Came Suddenly | 1.5 |
| The Faceless Planetary Duality | 2.0 |
| Abigail Williams In the Shadow of a Thousand Suns | 2.0 |
| Fear Before Fear Before | 2.0 |
| Lady Gaga The Fame | 2.0 |
| Cynic Traced in Air | 4.5 |
| Cradle of Filth Godspeed on the Devil's Thunder | 1.0 |
| Literally the most annoying and offensive extreme metal record to be generated in the past ten years. Staccato female singing litters the "dark" atmosphere of the album, and the vocals of Dani Filth have only gotten worse. The musicianship is not noteworthy in the slightest, and a concept throughout the album that could have easily been an excellent plot is approached in a pathetic manner, therefore leading to the conclusion that Cradle Of Filth are desperate to do anything to continue shoving their "dark and enigmatic" image down our throats. Even if we DON'T want it. |
| The Irish Front Universe | 1.0 |
| Bring Me the Horizon Suicide Season | 2.0 |
| People In Planes Beyond the Horizon | 4.5 |
| Underoath Lost in the Sound of Separation | 2.0 |
| Norma Jean The Anti Mother | 1.5 |
| Loma Prieta Last City | 3.5 |
| Cryptopsy The Unspoken King | 1.0 |
| Wold Stratification | 4.0 |
| Coldplay Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends | 2.0 |
| Alesana Where Myth Fades to Legend | 1.0 |
| Ihsahn angL | 4.0 |
| Death Cab for Cutie Narrow Stairs | 3.0 |
| Kayo Dot Blue Lambency Downward | 3.0 |
| Jaldaboath Hark the Herald | 1.0 |
| M83 Saturdays=Youth | 3.5 |
| Gregor Samsa Rest | 4.5 |
| Arghoslent Hornets of the Pogrom | 4.0 |
| Transcending Bizarre? The Serpent's Manifolds | 4.5 |
| Neptune Gong Lake | 3.0 |
| Gong Lake, a rock effort with vanguard tendencies, balances electronic music, ambience, atmospheric rock, and post-rock soundscapes. While certainly eclectic, Gong Lake seems to lack the bark and the bite it needs to truly stand out. The hip-hop-esque "Yellow River" and one of my personal favorites, "Black Tide" show the listener the best side of Neptune. However, "Grey Shallows" shows that Neptune can be tedious just as easily. Therefore, the album is good: It's too boring to be fantastic, but it is original, and does keep the listener interested for the most part. |
| The Mars Volta The Bedlam in Goliath | 3.5 |
| Thy Mighty Contract Thy Mighty Contract | 4.0 |
| Attack Attack! If Guns Are Outlawed, Can We Use Swords? | 1.0 |
| In response to this EP's title, no, we cannot use swords. We can just play a couple tracks off this instead. That will do the trick. |
