| 2012 |
| Kowloon Walled City Container Ships | 3.5 |
| Twelve Foot Ninja Silent Machine | 3.5 |
| A Life Once Lost Ecstatic Trance | 3.0 |
| Opening the album with something awful was brilliant. Most tracks are in the same vein, but this album REALLY needed a stronger crescendo. All the tracks build up quite a bit, just not enough to satisfy completely. |
| Between the Buried and Me The Parallax II: Future Sequence | 4.5 |
| Hammock Departure Songs | 4.5 |
| This or the Apocalypse Dead Years | 4.0 |
The first song on this album and A Damn Moment.... Holy shit. Agreed with the clean vocal
sections being sub-par. Rick's range as a screamer doesn't really justify the use of any
vocal melody. Leave that shit up to the guitarists. |
| Monuments (UK) Gnosis | 4.5 |
| Call me incredibly close-minded but I don't really understand how one can't love the guitar tone on this. It's the aural equivalent of a porterhouse. |
| APOSTATE Against All Odds | 4.5 |
| This EP is a lot to take in, and a dramatic change in sound from their debut EP Seaborne. The band traded a sizeable amount of technicality and sweepz for an Isis-like sense of crescendo and emotiveness. Not sure what to rate this yet. |
| The Contortionist Intrinsic | 3.0 |
| Aesop Rock Skelethon | 4.5 |
| The Word Alive Life Cycles | 2.0 |
| Periphery Periphery II: This Time It's Personal | 4.5 |
| Gojira L'Enfant Sauvage | 4.5 |
| Whitechapel Whitechapel | 3.5 |
| Call me crazy but I'm willing to bet that this wont be at a 3.8 for long |
| Architects Daybreaker | 2.0 |
| Adaliah Broken Familes | 2.0 |
| Art By Numbers Reticence: The Musical | 4.0 |
| El-P Cancer 4 Cure | 4.0 |
| mewithoutYou Ten Stories | 4.0 |
| Lionheart Undisputed | 2.0 |
| It's really an amazing thing that bands can keep releasing this album over and over and over. It's tough to tell if it's ignorance or just pure stupidity. |
| Trioscapes Separate Realities | 4.5 |
| Bermuda The Wandering | 3.0 |
| Ermagerd look at this new volumes album! Not progressive, not death metal, jusdjent |
| Cancer Bats Dead Set on Living | 3.5 |
| Torche Harmonicraft | 4.0 |
| Skyharbor Blinding White Noise: Illusion & Chaos | 3.5 |
| Upon a Burning Body Red. White. Green. | 1.5 |
| Holy shit this is bad. The previously redeeming factors for the band, the incredibly bouncy breakdowns and extreme vocal range, are almost completely absent in this album. The vocals have regressed into one-dimensional hardcore shouts and the lyrics are so bad that crazy vocal stylings would have been a very welcome addition. |
| State Faults Desolate Peaks | 3.5 |
| The Prestige Black Mouths | 4.0 |
| Heavily under-appreciated band offering up a pretty excellent debut album. |
| Stick to Your Guns Diamond | 2.5 |
| Meshuggah Koloss | 4.5 |
| Sharks No Gods | 4.0 |
| I See Stars Digital Renegade | 1.0 |
| Every Time I Die Ex Lives | 5.0 |
| Why does everyone act like these guys are hugely successful assholes who are hellbent on selling out to shit influences? This band stands for everything Sputnik as a whole stands for, and this album should be nothing less than excellent. |
| YGATM YGATM | 4.0 |
| The Safety Fire Grind the Ocean | 4.5 |
| Karnivool and Sikth fucked and 9 months later this love child was begotten upon us. |
| I, the Breather Truth and Purpose | 3.0 |
| Veil of Maya Eclipse | 3.0 |
| Narrows Painted | 4.5 |
| T.R.A.M. Lingua Franca | 3.0 |
| fun. Some Nights | 3.0 |
| Foxy Shazam The Church of Rock and Roll | 4.5 |
| Their best work since The Flamingo Trigger, it's just completely different. The transformation from alternative post-hardcore to soulful rock opera is 100% successful. |
| Birds in Row Collected | 4.0 |
| Loma Prieta I.V. | 3.5 |
| Tharsis They Ominous Silence | 3.5 |
| Concentrated human feeding operation is a beast of a track. Vocalist does sound kind of like Yorkie from Stray and the guitar work is similar but these guys are definitely sludgier and heavier. really really good stuff. |
| 2011 |
| Whores. Ruiner | 4.0 |
| Ever Forthright Ever Forthright | 4.5 |
| Gallows (UK) Death Is Birth | 2.0 |
| Liferuiner Sons of Straight Edge | 3.5 |
| Vildhjarta Måsstaden | 3.5 |
| It would be impossible for me to rate this after only one listen, but this album is absolutely packed with "Holy Shit" moments and sounds to be something truly exemplary. |
| ERRA Impulse | 3.5 |
| Fallujah The Harvest Wombs | 3.5 |
| Cynic Carbon-Based Anatomy | 4.0 |
| Northlane Discoveries | 3.0 |
| Great guitar tone. Fantastic junzy and ambient sections alike. |
| Mureau Rumors and Reputations | 3.0 |
| City Lights In It To Win It | 3.0 |
| Four Year Strong In Some Way, Shape, or Form. | 2.0 |
| Like Moths to Flames When We Don't Exist | 2.0 |
| Animals As Leaders Weightless | 4.0 |
| Not sure what everyone is complaining about, this is pretty cool. Then again all I was hoping for was something that sounded similar to the s/t. |
| O'Brother Garden Window | 3.5 |
| Uneven Structure Februus | 4.5 |
| This blows away everything I have heard from this new wave of progressive-djent metal. I have a feeling this is what everyone was hoping for when TesseracT released One. |
| The Bride President Rd | 4.0 |
| This is definitely very good. Vocals are very reminiscent of Stray From the Path's Drew York, which is definitely a good thing. And the instrumentals maintain an uptempo hardcore feel throughout while alternating melodic hardcore style riffing and downtuned, djent sounding rhythms. |
| Counterparts The Current Will Carry Us | 3.5 |
| I'm not sure what isn't to love about this band, everything seems to have improved from Prophets, which in and of itself was a fantastic record, but the uber-melodic nature of this album won me over almost instantly. |
| Close Your Eyes Empty Hands and Heavy Hearts | 3.5 |
| This is soooo much better than their debut, which was remarkably average. This has some intensity and doesn't sound like the vocalist is 15 feet away yelling apathetically into the microphone. The melodic hardcore edge to this makes it quite a bit better even if it is riddled with clean singing. |
| Structures Divided By | 2.5 |
| Silent Screams When It Rains | 1.5 |
| M83 Hurry Up, We're Dreaming | 4.0 |
| Alesana A Place Where the Sun is Silent | 1.0 |
| The Amity Affliction Youngbloods | 4.0 |
| This Is Hell Black Mass | 4.0 |
| I Am the Avalanche Avalanche United | 4.5 |
| Fuck the Facts Die Miserable | 3.0 |
| A Lot Like Birds Conversation Piece | 4.0 |
| La Dispute Wildlife | 4.0 |
| Transit Listen and Forgive | 3.5 |
| Code Orange Cycles | 3.0 |
| Friend For A Foe Source of Isolation | 3.0 |
| Chris Barretto is a fantastic vocalist, and this EP really just makes me wish he was still in Periphery. |
| Oh, Sleeper Children of Fire | 4.0 |
| Volumes Via | 3.5 |
| Hundredth Let Go | 3.0 |
| Maylene and the Sons of Disaster IV | 1.5 |
| Mastodon The Hunter | 3.0 |
| Textures Dualism | 3.0 |
| Betraying the Martyrs Breathe In Life | 3.5 |
| There's really a lot to like here. The guitar tone is awesome and incredibly dense. I see a lot of bitching about the piano/keyboard elements and the clean vocals. But it's kind of like on Chopped when a bunch of unwanted ingredients go into a blender and come out as something cohesive that really finishes the plate. Very satisfying, heavy-as-my-balls deathcore. |
| Opeth Heritage | 4.5 |
| Polar Bear Club Clash Battle Guilt Pride | 4.0 |
| Thrice Major/Minor | 4.0 |
| Corelia Nostalgia | 4.5 |
| Rise To Remain City of Vultures | 2.5 |
| The Browning Burn This World | 1.5 |
| There is so little substance outside of synth beats on this album that it's hard to stomache. The vocals are AWFUL, the drumming and guitars are blended together in production for the sole purpose of performing 1st and 2nd fret palm mute chugs, and the lyrics... oh god the lyrics....rStanding on the edge is pretty cool for the first 20 seconds though. |
| Century Red Giant | 4.0 |
| Will be writing a review for this at the end of the week, but holy shit. Combines everything I'd ever want to hear from a metallic hardcore record. Nothing is contrived and everything just fits majestically. |
| Stray from the Path Rising Sun | 4.0 |
| Revocation Chaos of Forms | 3.5 |
| Aegaeon Dissension | 3.5 |
| This reminds me a lot of The Contortionist, just a little bit less good. The melodies on Reshaping the Multiverse and The Consumption of Everything are great building blocks for the band's future. |
| Aliases Safer Than Reality | 2.5 |
| TRC Bright Lights | 3.5 |
| This isn't "great" musically or lyrically, but it just bleeds swagger and enthusiasm. A bunch of chav pricks made an album that is dripping in fun. |
| Trials Witness To The Downfall | 3.5 |
| The Greenery Spit & Argue | 3.5 |
| Serianna Inheritors | 2.0 |
| Boys No Good Never Felt Better | 4.0 |
| Bayonet Bayonet | 3.5 |
| It Prevails Stroma | 3.0 |
| Iselia Life From Dead Limbs | 3.5 |
| Fair to Midland Arrows and Anchors | 4.0 |
| Agitator Walls Closing In | 3.0 |
| Hands (US-ND) Give Me Rest | 4.0 |
| The Francesco Artusato Project Chaos And The Primordial | 4.0 |
| Evan Brewer Alone | 3.0 |
| Very interesting but doesn't hold up to long-term playing value. Best parts are when it sounds like Super Mario 64. |
| Set Your Goals Burning At Both Ends | 1.5 |
| The Crimson Armada Conviction | 1.0 |
Self-titled Attack Attack! meets Felony-era Emmure. Possibly the worst album released of
all time. |
| August Burns Red Leveler | 2.5 |
| After repeated listens, the word "superb" seems to define this album perfectly. Their most musically diverse album to date. |
| Fit for an Autopsy The Process of Human Extermination | 2.5 |
| Do you like 808's, uninspired guitar playing, guest vocal spots, and lyrics about killing humanity?! If yes, YOU WOULD LOVE THIS. |
| In Flames Sounds of a Playground Fading | 3.0 |
| The Story So Far Under Soil and Dirt | 4.5 |
| Of Mice and Men The Flood | 3.0 |
| The Wonder Years Suburbia I've Given You All and Now I'm Nothing | 4.5 |
| WU LYF Go Tell Fire to the Mountain | 4.0 |
| The Air I Breathe Great Faith In Fools | 3.5 |
| Touche Amore Parting The Sea Between Brightness And Me | 4.5 |
| Departures When Losing Everything Is Everything You Wanted | 4.5 |
| Cave In White Silence | 3.5 |
| For the Fallen Dreams Back Burner | 1.5 |
| Amon Tobin ISAM | 3.5 |
| NAMI Fragile Alignments | 4.0 |
| LGND The Pale Horse | 2.0 |
| Weekend Nachos Worthless | 4.5 |
| Man Man Life Fantastic | 3.0 |
| Moving Mountains Waves | 3.0 |
| Mac Lethal North Korean BBQ | 3.5 |
| Texas in July One Reality | 2.0 |
| Here Comes the Kraken Hate, Greed & Death | 1.5 |
| LOL are you kidding me? The debut album was very good, but now the Linkin Park style clean vocals and Limp Bizkit style DJ'ing? Is this real life? |
| Memphis May Fire The Hollow | 3.0 |
| Betrayal Abandonment | 1.5 |
| Periphery Icarus | 3.5 |
| Thursday No Devolucion | 4.5 |
| letlive. Fake History (Re-Release) | 5.0 |
| Between the Buried and Me The Parallax: Hypersleep Dialogues | 4.0 |
| Armor for the Broken The Black Harvest | 2.0 |
| Beyond Creation The Aura | 4.0 |
| The Plot In You First Born | 1.5 |
| Asking Alexandria Reckless and Relentless | 2.0 |
| Wildways Desolate | 3.0 |
| Somehow manages to combine the "junz" with elements of melodic death metal. Nothing too original but the sound is interesting enough for a bunch of young Russians. |
| Born of Osiris The Discovery | 3.5 |
| TesseracT One | 3.5 |
| Protest the Hero Scurrilous | 3.0 |
| As Blood Runs Black Instinct | 2.0 |
| Salt The Wound Kill the Crown | 3.0 |
| Trap Them Darker Handcraft | 4.5 |
| We Are Defiance Trust in Few | 1.5 |
| Mac Miller Best Day Ever | 1.0 |
| Sylosis Edge of the Earth | 3.5 |
| Defeater Empty Days and Sleepless Nights | 3.5 |
| The Human Abstract Digital Veil | 4.5 |
| The Color Morale My Devil In Your Eyes | 4.0 |
| Lupe Fiasco Lasers | 1.5 |
| Dance Gavin Dance Downtown Battle Mountain II | 3.5 |
| Scale the Summit The Collective | 5.0 |
| SEES TheenD | 3.5 |
| Meshuggah disciples that do a pretty good job adding their own twists and turns to polyrhythmic grooves. |
| Gideon Costs | 2.5 |
| Darkest Hour The Human Romance | 4.0 |
| Bayside Killing Time | 3.5 |
| Red City Radio The Dangers of Standing Still | 3.5 |
| I See Stars The End of the World Party | 1.0 |
| Close To Home Never Back Down | 1.0 |
| Mogwai Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will | 4.5 |
| Glassjaw Coloring Book | 3.5 |
| Thomas Giles Pulse | 3.0 |
| Fall In Archaea Gatherings | 3.0 |
| Architects The Here and Now | 2.0 |
| Lead Hands Lead Hands | 4.0 |
| No Bragging Rights Illuminator | 1.5 |
| The Murder and the Harlot These Hands Wrote the Bastard In Me | 2.0 |
| This isn't grind? Why isn't this grind?! meh |
| This is Not a Game of Who The Fuck Are You 101010 | 4.5 |
| Glassjaw Our Color Green (The Singles) | 4.5 |
| Birds in Row Cottbus | 4.0 |
| Brotherhood Of The Lake Desperation Is The English Way: Vol. 1 | 4.0 |
