Average Rating: 3.82 Rating Variance: 1.11 Objectivity Score: 70% (Fairly Balanced)
Sort by: Rating | Release Date | Rating Date | Name2010 The Contortionist Exoplanet4.0Iron Maiden The Final Frontier4.0Eminem Recovery4.0Whitechapel A New Era of Corruption4.0A New Era of Corruption is an original, fun, and of course, heavy deathcore album we may actually remember in 5 years.Veil of Maya [id]3.5This album absolutely overflows with potential. I have a feeling Veil of Maya are going to be great someday.The Dillinger Escape Plan Option Paralysis5.0Option Paralysis is still just as experimental and unique as Ire Works, but it does it so much more gracefully. This album is just a smooth, but still incredibly intense, musical adventure from start to finish. And it'll definitely stand the coming test of time.Alesana The Emptiness2.5Kesha Animal1.02009 Between the Buried and Me The Great Misdirect4.5Moved up from a 4. This album did grow on me, but it's just not gonna be as good as Colors. At a 4.5 is where it's gonna stay.Lye By Mistake Fea Jur4.0Converge Axe to Fall4.0The Contortionist Apparition4.0Asking Alexandria Stand Up and Scream1.0The Color Morale We All Have Demons3.0Municipal Waste Massive Aggressive3.5Born of Osiris A Higher Place3.5Wren Rainy Days3.5brokeNCYDE I'm Not a Fan, but the Kids Like It!1.0Eminem Relapse3.5Mastodon Crack the Skye4.0Psyopus Odd Senses2.5Cannibal Corpse Evisceration Plague3.0Rumpelstiltskin Grinder Living For Death, Destroying the Rest3.02008 Soulja Boy iSouljaBoyTellEm1.0Fall Out Boy Folie a Deux3.5The Faceless Planetary Duality4.0Between the Buried and Me Colors_Live5.0Bring Me the Horizon Suicide Season2.0Toxic Holocaust An Overdose of Death...3.5My Morning Jacket Evil Urges3.5Children of Bodom Blooddrunk2.52007 Waking The Cadaver Perverse Recollections Of A Necromangler1.0The Dillinger Escape Plan Ire Works3.0This album is overall pretty good, with a few really good songs, but a lot of the time, it's experimental to the point of sounding jagged. And the short, mathy songs (Fix Your Face, Lurch, 82588, a few others) don't really have as much of an identity as say, Panasonic Youth, or Good Neighbor, from Option Paralysis.Soulja Boy Souljaboytellem.com1.0Matchbox Twenty Exile on Mainstream3.0Born of Osiris The New Reign3.5Between the Buried and Me Colors5.0What do you get when you take a cornucopia of creativity, incredible musicianship and songwriting ability, and elaborate storytelling lyrics, and run all three with an amazing, speaker-breaking energy for 64 minutes? You get Between the Buried and Me's Colors, and possibly my favorite album of all time. - This album is a long journey, but not a daunting one. There may be three songs over 10 minutes long, but every single note is potent, and every passage has a point. You're never bored because every part of each song is strong, which makes the following part, be it a refrain, bridge, build-up, breakdown, or solo, even stronger. Speaking of solos, the clean jazzy ones in "Ants of the Sky" are pretty amazing, and the epic shredfest that closes "White Walls" gives Dave Murray a run for his money. - And who keeps saying this album isn't coherent? Come on! Like I previously said, every part of the album is on here for reason, and contributes to keeping the listener enthralled the whole way through. The way it manages to be so unique and progressive, and still so up-close and personal at the same time, floors me every time I listen to it. This album moves me in a way few others do. Every heavy part crushes, every clean melody soars, but most importantly, every note makes its way into your brain, and from there, into your heart. It did it to me, anyway.rMunicipal Waste The Art of Partying3.0Paramore Riot!4.0Of course, this album is not better than albums by better bands I've given lower ratings, but by the standards of mainstream pop-punk/alternative, this is an excellent record. Even the one filler track ("Miracle") is still catchy as hell. Hayley Williams's voice soars on every song, and has to be one of the best, most listenable voices I've heard in popular music for a long time. And the album's instrumentation is often pretty simple, but is still entertaining and serves its purpose well. Also, this album just feels more...real than other albums in its category. While the actual music is not exactly wildly original, it's still executed with an irresistibly fun energy, that you just cannot help but sing along to. Anberlin Cities4.0Psyopus Our Puzzling Encounters Considered4.5Fall Out Boy Infinity on High3.52006 Bring Me the Horizon Count Your Blessings2.5This album is the epitome of meh. The entire album is strictly mediocre, with the exception of the surprisingly emotional acoustic instrumental "15 Fathoms, Counting," and the riffing and soloing in the last track, "Off the Heezay."Primus They Can't All Be Zingers3.5Fear Before The Always Open Mouth4.0The Mars Volta Amputechture3.5Lamb of God Sacrament3.5Underoath Define the Great Line4.0DragonForce Inhuman Rampage1.0The Faceless Akeldama4.02005 Nickelback All the Right Reasons1.5Hinder Extreme Behavior1.0Panic! at the Disco A Fever You Can't Sweat Out3.0Between the Buried and Me Alaska4.5Paramore All We Know Is Falling3.5Fall Out Boy From Under the Cork Tree3.5'K, I'm trying to my previous rating explanation by writing a new one...is it gonna work..lolMudvayne Lost and Found2.5Funeral Diner The Underdark4.5The Mars Volta Frances the Mute5.0Oh, what the hell. Frances, you get a 5. Seriously, though, figuring out what the hell is going on at all in this album takes a while, let alone absorbing all of it. But once you crawl inside the epic, joyously pretentious atmosphere, it is sooooo worth it.2004 Eminem Encore2.0If it weren't for Like Toy Soldiers and Mockingbird, this album would be an absolute turd.Underoath They're Only Chasing Safety3.5Slipknot Vol. 3: The Subliminal Verses2.5Psyopus Ideas of Reference4.0Circle Takes the Square As the Roots Undo5.0Decapitated The Negation4.02003 Explosions in the Sky The Earth Is Not a Cold Dead Place4.5Between the Buried and Me The Silent Circus4.0The Mars Volta De-Loused in the Comatorium5.0This album is 10 songs of entrancing, intricate, dissonant goodness.Fall Out Boy Take This to Your Grave4.0Opeth Damnation4.5A 4.5 seems a bit generous, but a 4 seems too low. I wish I could give this like, a 4.3 or something. It's a really good album, let's just leave it at that.2002 Matchbox Twenty More Than You Think You Are2.5Opeth Deliverance3.5Interpol Turn on the Bright Lights4.0Eminem The Eminem Show5.0dredg El Cielo4.5Decapitated Nihility4.02001 Converge Jane Doe5.0Jane Doe is hands-down, the most emotionally involving album I have ever heard. But even if it didn't have that going for it, I'd still probably give it a 5 just for the songwriting, and how perfectly all the riffs and rhythms blend together. And let's not forget how it revolutionized extreme music, either.Radiohead Amnesiac4.02000 Godspeed You! Black Emperor Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven4.5It's so close to a 5, sooo close... just not quite there yet...Linkin Park Hybrid Theory3.0Radiohead Kid A5.0Kid A is the soundtrack to the world that just may be coming to us. A world where gaining information is the main objective, a world that's run by soulless robots. And that's why, until that world finally arrives, this album will always sound like it's from the future.At the Drive-In Relationship of Command5.0Perfect variation, perfect transitions within and between songs, and music written with intellect but executed with instinct. With everything played and sung on the album being being done in a way that just felt right at that very moment, the album is a true-as-can be visceral, unrestrained journey through the human heart and soul. With nothing out of place, and nothing missing, Relationship of Command is nothing less than perfection.Iron Maiden Brave New World4.5Eminem The Marshall Mathers LP5.0Matchbox Twenty Mad Season5.01999 Botch We Are the Romans4.5The Dillinger Escape Plan Calculating Infinity5.0Children of Bodom Hatebreeder4.0Counting Crows This Desert Life4.5Eminem The Slim Shady LP5.0It took me a whiiiiile to decide between a 4.5 and a 5 on this one. But I decided that since it was the album that put Eminem on the map, and because of its originality, hilarity, and just sheer brilliant rhyming...it's nothing less than a classic.1998 Neutral Milk Hotel In the Aeroplane Over the Sea5.01997 Radiohead OK Computer5.0I am now convinced that this album is inherently a flawless masterpiece, and that the only reason it's not considered this unanimously is because some people just haven't realized it yet. But they will. Eventually.Children of Bodom Something Wild4.01996 Matchbox Twenty Yourself or Someone Like You3.51995 Raekwon Only Built 4 Cuban Linx...4.5Radiohead The Bends4.5Death Symbolic5.01994 Nas Illmatic5.01993 Nirvana In Utero4.0Death Individual Thought Patterns4.5Radiohead Pablo Honey3.0Counting Crows August And Everything After4.01992 Vital Remains Let Us Pray4.51991 Death Human4.5Massacre From Beyond4.01990 Cannibal Corpse Eaten Back to Life3.5A Tribe Called Quest People's Instinctive Travels & The Paths of Rhythm4.01989 Autopsy Severed Survival4.51988 Metallica ...And Justice for All3.5Death Leprosy4.0Iron Maiden Seventh Son of a Seventh Son4.51987 Death Scream Bloody Gore4.01986 Beastie Boys Licensed to Ill2.0Uneven, cheesy, and too much yelling. The rhymes are simplistic and boring, and the beat for 'Girls' is one of the worst hip-hop beats I've ever heard.Slayer Reign in Blood4.5Iron Maiden Somewhere in Time4.5Metallica Master of Puppets5.01984 Iron Maiden Powerslave5.0Metallica Ride the Lightning5.01983 Metallica Kill 'Em All4.0Iron Maiden Piece of Mind4.5Yes, the instrumental break in Where Eagles Dare is a bit too long, and To Tame A Land does lose steam at some parts. But it's not enough to drag the rest of this masterpiece down.1982 Iron Maiden The Number of the Beast5.01981 Black Flag Damaged4.51980 Dead Kennedys Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables5.0Black Sabbath Heaven and Hell5.01976 Boston Boston4.51975 Pink Floyd Wish You Were Here4.5The good parts are so damn good, but when it loses steam, it really sticks out. For me, anyway. It'll probably turn into a 5 soon enough.1974 King Crimson Red4.51972 Yes Close to the Edge4.5The title track doesn't lose steam for 18 fucking minutes. This album paints quite the prog-rock picture. Descriptive, thoughtful lyrics, awesome musicianship, and beautifully arranged vocal patterns, it's all here, man. Check this shit out if you haven't heard it yet.1971 Yes Fragile4.01970 Black Sabbath Black Sabbath4.51969 King Crimson In the Court of the Crimson King5.01968 The Rolling Stones Beggars Banquet4.0
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