Average Rating: 3.60 Rating Variance: 0.57 Objectivity Score: 73% (Fairly Balanced)
Sort by: Rating | Release Date | Rating Date | Name2010 Raunchy A Discord Electric5.010 Years Feeding the Wolves3.010 Years shows great improvement on "Feeding The Wolves" by (almost) ditching their obsession with trying to sound like Tool/A Perfect Circle. Much of the album consists of energetic hard rockers such as "The Wicked Ones" and "Waking Up The Ghost" which fit them much better than brooding introspection. A healthy dose of lyrical cynicism is used on "Chasing The Rapture", "Dead In The Water", and the catchy albeit nu-metal single "Shoot It Out," forming the overall theme of the album (liars, wolves, etc... listen to "Now Is The Time" and you'll get the idea). Without trying to sound like a meathead, the slower numbers do damage to an otherwise enjoyable record. While "Fix Me" is strong and impactful, "One More Day" and "Don't Fight It" are passable alternative rock songs (and are cheap second singles), but they don't ruin all the fun. The most tragic part of "Feeding The Wolves" is its disastrous final "Fade Into (The Ocean)," a blundering Tool wannabe that after a promising intro chokes for over six minutes. 10 Years have crafted some enjoyable modern hard rock on this album, but I hope "Feeding The Wolves" proves successful enough to keep them alive for another round.Soilwork The Panic Broadcast4.0Sevendust Cold Day Memory4.0Poets of the Fall Twilight Theater4.5Fear Factory Mechanize4.0Mnemic Sons of the System3.52009 Disarmonia Mundi The Isolation Game3.5Thrice Beggars2.0After 2005's "Vheissu", Thrice have failed to put out an album worth listening to in its entirety. If you pick through all of the tracks from their last album "The Alchemy Index," you'll wind up with a pretty great album and a bunch of sorry duds left over. The sheer amount of songs released from their elemental experiments provided enough good material (12 songs or so) to keep me satisfied. "Beggars" unfortunately doesn't have such a vast amount of songs to draw from, and sadly results in only three decent tracks out of the album's full ten. "Beggars" opens right on the wrong foot with "All The World Is Mad," an ugly, clunky tune that left me feeling nauseous. "The Weight" works to repair some the damage done by the previous track with a memorable bluesy riff and some strong vocals (both of which are very uncommon on Beggars). "The Weight", along with "In Exile" and "Talking Through Glass," are thankfully Thrice in almost perfect form. "Talking Through Glass" doesn't conclude on the best note, and "In Exile" is hindered by some obnoxiously repetitive snare hits, but both are still very enjoyable songs. The same can not be said for the rest of the album, for the mistakes made in songs like "Doublespeak," which starts out with some ear catching piano, ruin them entirely with awful choruses or an utter lack of inspiration. And some songs are even worse off. "The Great Exchange" is made unlistenable by frenetic and sloppy drums, and the title track is destroyed by absolutely grueling vocal work. On "Beggars," melody has been traded for dissonance and ambition has been traded for restrictions. The album is either made of screeching guitar noise or post rock nothingness, both of which are completely forgettable. If Thrice wanted to simplify themselves, they have wholly succeeded - they are now garage band status.Mumford and Sons Sigh No More4.0Paramore Brand New Eyes4.0Mew No More Stories4.0Our Lady Peace Burn Burn3.0Eye Alaska Genesis Underground4.5Amorphis Skyforger4.0dredg The Pariah, The Parrot, The Delusion4.52008 Shiny Toy Guns Season of Poison3.0Ra Black Sun3.5Carpark North Grateful4.5Raunchy Wasteland Discotheque4.5Scar Symmetry Holographic Universe4.5Eye Alaska Yellow & Elephant4.010 Years Division3.0Thrice The Alchemy Index Vols. III & IV3.0Sevendust Chapter VII: Hope and Sorrow2.0Poets of the Fall Revolution Roulette3.5Lovex Pretend Or Surrender4.02007 Nonpoint Vengeance2.0Soilwork Sworn to a Great Divide3.5Kenna Make Sure They See My Face3.5Thrice The Alchemy Index Vols. I & II3.0Jimmy Eat World Chase This Light3.5Amorphis Silent Waters4.0Envy On The Coast Lucy Gray3.0Strata Strata Presents The End Of The World4.5Paramore Riot!3.5Kaddisfly Set Sail The Prairie5.0Sevendust Alpha2.5Mnemic Passenger3.02006 Brand New The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me4.0Shiny Toy Guns We Are Pilots4.0Disarmonia Mundi Mind Tricks3.5Tool 10,000 Days4.5Poets of the Fall Carnival of Rust4.0Amorphis Eclipse3.5Raunchy Death Pop Romance4.0In Flames Come Clarity4.52005 Thrice Vheissu3.5Mew And the Glass Handed Kites4.0Our Lady Peace Healthy In Paranoid Times3.5Fear Factory Transgression2.510 Years The Autumn Effect3.0Poets of the Fall Signs of Life3.5dredg Catch Without Arms4.0Ra Duality3.5Carpark North All Things to All People3.5Soilwork Stabbing the Drama3.02004 Jimmy Eat World Futures4.5Mnemic The Audio Injected Soul3.0Disarmonia Mundi Fragments Of D-Generation4.0Fear Factory Archetype3.5Raunchy Confusion Bay4.5Orgy Punk Statik Paranoia2.0Sunk Loto Between Birth and Death4.02003 A Perfect Circle Thirteenth Step4.0Mew Frengers3.5Kenna New Sacred Cow4.0Soilwork Figure Number Five3.0Carpark North Carpark North3.5Raunchy Velvet Noise3.0Spineshank Self Destructive Pattern3.52002 Our Lady Peace Gravity3.5dredg El Cielo3.5Ra From One3.5Soilwork Natural Born Chaos3.52001 Sevendust Animosity4.0Spineshank The Height of Callousness4.5Tool Lateralus4.0Soilwork A Predator's Portrait4.0The Casualties Die Hards1.0Fear Factory Digimortal3.02000 Our Lady Peace Spiritual Machines4.0In Flames Clayman3.0A Perfect Circle Mer de Noms3.0Orgy Vapor Transmission3.0Soilwork The Chainheart Machine3.01999 Sevendust Home4.0In Flames Colony4.0Our Lady Peace Happiness...5.01998 Orgy Candyass4.0Fear Factory Obsolete5.0Stabbing Westward Darkest Days4.51997 In Flames Whoracle3.0Our Lady Peace Clumsy3.01996 Tool Ænima5.0In Flames The Jester Race3.01995 Fear Factory Demanufacture3.01992 Fear Factory Soul of a New Machine1.51986 Peter Gabriel So3.5
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