| 2010 |
| After the Burial In Dreams | 3.5 |
| Big Chocolate I'm Shot | 3.0 |
| Oceano Contagion | 2.5 |
| Thy Art Is Murder The Adversary | 4.0 |
| The Tony Danza Tapdance Extravaganza Danza III: Series of Unfortunate Events | 4.0 |
| I Declare War Malevolence | 2.0 |
| Whitechapel A New Era of Corruption | 3.5 |
| Trigger the Bloodshed Degenerate | 4.5 |
| Pendulum Immersion | 4.0 |
| Dr. Acula The Social Event of the Century | 1.5 |
| Periphery Periphery | 4.5 |
| Taking Your Last Chance Decorations | 3.0 |
| Solid vocals, tight instrumental work, but despite moments of interest, its generic and average throughout. Better than a 2.5, but worse than a 3, chose 3 as an improvement on the bree-full Kill Everything |
| Veil of Maya [id] | 4.0 |
I wasn't full of confidence about the upcoming release from Veil of Maya. However on getting the album, the Sumarian breed of Sci-Fi-esque lead and chugging underscores provides a very interesting listen that at times is captivating. The riffs are well thought out throughout, with interesting synth parts noticeably in the track Resistance. The Faceless' Michael Keene's mixing is superb, and he has had a noticeable influence on the bands sound, as echoing, almost eerie long notes throw back to Faceless' last release Planetary Duality.
One quibble I had with this album is that yet again the Veil of Maya boys put more than one instrumental on, wasting song space for what are really similar tracks in [id], Martyrs and Circle. Also, though the lyrics at times are well written, they have a habit of becoming lost in basic chants of the song title, and mass repetition of the main line. Though not really a sin in the music world, it detracts from the potential of a very lyrically able Brandon Butler.
Overall, this album exceeds Common Man's Collapse in almost every way by maturing the untamed technical fury that was released by the 2008 album, but minor imperfections stop this from being the masterpiece it could have been. Nonetheless, it is a brilliant album preceding what looks like a year of many brilliant albums |
| Chelsea Grin Desolation Of Eden | 3.0 |
| The whole album is really just the same rehashed breakdown over and over again. But the few moments that change the pace (beginning of Human Condition, blasting riff in Revenant) contrast well enough for me to kinda like it |
| Annotations Of An Autopsy II: The Reign of Darkness | 2.5 |
