| 2012 |
| Deftones Koi No Yokan | 2.5 |
| Major disappointing. Tempest is good, others are mix of Prince and Sextape, not works for me, and I`m too far away from being a fan of this work. |
| Disciple (USA-TN) O God Save Us All | 2.5 |
| The Sorrow Misery Escape | 4.0 |
| True Melodic Metalcore. I don`t want anything else here. Burial Bridge is the best one. |
| Kamelot Silverthorn | 4.5 |
That`s a classic work, and the first power metal work I really enjoyed. Vocals of Karevik is
astonishing and it perfectly fits the music. Music is rich, but some oldschool features
still has appeared... anyway it is something that really suprised me last year. Good luck to
them in the tour! |
| Stone Sour House of Gold and Bones - Part 1 | 3.5 |
| Ill Nino Epidemia | 4.0 |
| Nonpoint Nonpoint | 4.0 |
| Papa Roach The Connection | 4.0 |
| Katatonia Dead End Kings | 4.5 |
| Great in every point, gloomy and dark, but still very melodic and catchy. 4,6 - 5. |
| Digital Summer Breaking Point | 4.0 |
There are no such noticeable songs like "Hostage" or "Suffocate", but "Breaking Point" is
more well-balanced than previous records. It means no eargasm this time, but still you may
find something addictive during whole album as I did. "Forget You", "Fight Till I Fall",
"Come On" are catchy rocky songs which will be nice to hear along with some soft and more
lyrical - "Broken Halo", "Wanted To Love You" and "Dance In The Fire"... others are not bad
either, but honestly expectation were kinda higher. Anyway this sound should help to raise
DS fanbase around the World. |
| Bury Tomorrow The Union of Crowns | 4.5 |
| Wanna listen a true MELODIC metalcore song? 1603 is written for you! Nearly perfect. With this conceptual and logical album BT has everyhting to be on a step closer to the titans of genre. |
| P.O.D. Murdered Love | 4.0 |
| Periphery Periphery II: This Time It's Personal | 4.5 |
| Scarlet is the mighty loving storm in my ears, Have a Blast is a perfect rpg theme, Make Total Destroy is heavy mass of Earth distortion, Erised is a living dream in another realm, Ragnarock is hell that wants to going out its borders... shit this whole album is addictive as djentdjentdjentdjentdjentdjentdjentdjentdjentdjentdjentdjentdjentdjentdjent. Sorry, lost control. =) Need to listen "II" again. |
| The Ghost Inside Get What You Give | 3.0 |
| Celldweller Wish Upon a Blackstar | 4.0 |
| Fear Factory The Industrialist | 3.5 |
| Mekanism Unearth the Unknown | 3.0 |
| Silent Descent Mind Games | 3.5 |
| Halestorm The Strange Case Of... | 3.0 |
| Shinedown Amaryllis | 3.5 |
| Xandria Neverworld's End | 4.0 |
| Sent By Ravens Mean What You Say | 3.5 |
| Eluveitie Helvetios | 3.5 |
| Tracedawn Lizard Dusk | 4.0 |
I have not heard their previous albums, but this one is superb. Rich music, appropriate
clean vocals and memorizable motifs. That`s really awesome MMDM stuff. |
| Silverstein Short Songs | 2.5 |
| Young Guns Bones | 4.0 |
| Blessed by a Broken Heart Feel The Power | 3.0 |
| Julien-K We're Here with You | 3.5 |
| Attack Attack! This Means War | 3.0 |
| Overall it sounds repetative, and listening this stuff starts annoying my ears when album`s closing to the end. Not bad though, many electronic elements (not so much as on previous release) that not original at all and does not give anything memorizable (except The Wretched track), and this parts of djent sound not always good as well. So what`s made well on this album then? They changed their sound, and choose an interesting direction, but it`s only experiment. Caleb and co will back to their roots after this release anyway. Hun? too bad... they have some potential to become a professional metalcore band, just need to work ... and work much |
| 2011 |
| Korn The Path of Totality | 3.0 |
| Chevelle Hats Off To The Bull | 4.0 |
| If you have Chevelle`s Hats off to the bull in your mp3player, don`t be shy and listen this stuff, you won`t waste you time anyway. |
| Nightwish Imaginaerum | 2.0 |
| The Unguided Hell Frost | 4.0 |
| Nickelback Here and Now | 2.0 |
| Disturbed The Lost Children | 3.0 |
| Five Finger Death Punch American Capitalist | 3.0 |
| Evanescence Evanescence | 2.5 |
| You Me At Six Sinners Never Sleep | 3.0 |
| Machine Head Unto the Locust | 3.0 |
| Dead by April Incomparable | 1.5 |
| Dream Theater A Dramatic Turn of Events | 3.5 |
| Staind Staind | 4.0 |
| Cipher System Communicate The Storms | 3.5 |
| Trivium In Waves | 4.0 |
| Ready Set Fall! Buried | 3.0 |
| There is one powerful song on EP (Skyscrapers) and that`s all. Volpi`s clean voice is his main advantage, though he does not use it properly in some songs (Buried Alive; Sincerely, Mine). Music have shiny moments (and lyrics as well), but there are too many harsh vocals... this make me feel like I listen doom/gothic/death metal. I`ve expecting to hear something cardinally differ from this work, so may be RSF left best songs for full-length album (The Temple Is Me, Labyrinth, Roll The Dice). |
| Cold Superfiction | 3.0 |
| 3 Doors Down Time of My Life | 3.5 |
| Theory of a Deadman The Truth Is... | 1.5 |
| Incubus (USA-CA) If Not Now, When? | 2.0 |
| Blood Stain Child Epsilon | 4.0 |
| Limp Bizkit Gold Cobra | 2.0 |
| Crossfade We All Bleed | 3.5 |
| I should say that is a very atmospheric work (especially for hard rock). Need to listen more than ten times for deeping inside the music and comprehend composer`s and songwriter`s thought. |
| In Flames Sounds of a Playground Fading | 4.0 |
| Music is more versatile than it were on A Sense Of Purpose. Anders vocal became viscous and that`s not bad at all. Less scream, modern sound, and we finally get a high-quality metal work. Though, this is not MDM anymore. Their fans should reconcile with that. |
| Black Veil Brides Set the World on Fire | 2.0 |
| Our Waking Hour Seconds To Save Her | 2.5 |
| Adelitas Way Home School Valedictorian | 4.0 |
| Pain (SWE) You Only Live Twice | 2.5 |
| and THIS band made "Shout Your Mouth"! I just can`t believe it... |
| Cold Driven The Wicked Side of Me | 3.5 |
| Seether Holding Onto Strings Better Left To Fray | 3.0 |
| Skindred Union Black | 4.5 |
| Sybreed Challenger | 3.0 |
| Crossfaith The Dream, The Space | 3.0 |
| Scar Symmetry The Unseen Empire | 3.0 |
| Amaranthe Amaranthe | 3.5 |
| Foo Fighters Wasting Light | 2.5 |
| Asking Alexandria Reckless and Relentless | 3.0 |
| Hollywood Undead American Tragedy | 2.5 |
| Sum 41 Screaming Bloody Murder | 2.5 |
| Within Temptation The Unforgiving | 4.0 |
| Saliva Under Your Skin | 2.0 |
| Art Of Dying Vices and Virtues | 4.0 |
| TesseracT One | 4.5 |
| Blue Stahli Blue Stahli | 3.5 |
| Rise Against Endgame | 4.0 |
| Trust Company Dreaming In Black and White | 2.5 |
| Mercenary Metamorphosis | 3.5 |
| Before The Dawn Deathstar Rising | 4.0 |
| Rev Theory Justice | 3.0 |
| The Defiled Grave Times | 4.0 |
| A Life Divided Passenger | 4.0 |
| Red (USA) Until We Have Faces | 4.0 |
| Architects The Here and Now | 2.0 |
| Times of Grace The Hymn of a Broken Man | 3.5 |
