| Wolfsbane Genius | 4.0 |
| Till The Dirt Outside The Spiral | 3.5 |
| I haven't listened to any of the singles prior to full album release, so I went in expecting to hear something akin to Stones of Madness, Kelly Shaefer's short-lived stoner/heavy/grunge project. What I've heard Instead is, well, some actually heavy stuff with some relatively mellow sections and relatively clean vocals thrown in between the shrieks and blastbeats for some variety. This could have used some of Atheist's sophistication, but since we're not getting an actual Atheist album any time soon, this is the next best thing. Oh, and Kelly is relentless here. My personal rating could move up to 4 eventually due to pure intensity of the record, or down to 3, because it gets tiring towards the end. |
| Ché Aimee Dorval The Crowned | 3.5 |
| This is Che's "pop diva" album, as opposed to her usual "singer-songwriter" approach (both characteristics are very approximate). For me, the bombastic/energetic tracks presented here sound significantly more interesting and engaging than the calmer/slower ones. |
| Weval Weval | 3.0 |
| Alan Parsons From the New World | 3.0 |
| Simple songs done right. Some rock, some blues, some sympho, some Floyd vibes. |
| Wolfsbane Wolfsbane Save The World | 2.5 |
| Wolfsbane Wolfsbane | 4.0 |
| Wolfsbane Down Fall the Good Guys | 3.0 |
| Wolfsbane Live Fast, Die Fast | 3.5 |
| Daughters You Won't Get What You Want | 3.5 |
| It is quirky and layered and full of subtleties and subtexts that got darker in light of recent allegations. That being said, I haven't heard any other records of the band and very rarely listen to noisy electronics, so I can't really provide some deeper analysis. This is what the album feels like out of context of both the band's discography and the genre as a whole. rP. S. That recent review was fine and did not deserve to be removed. |
| Love Spit Love Love Spit Love | 4.0 |
| This is a project of The Psychedelic Furs members, and somehow it manages to sound even more psychedelic than the main band. In other words, if you'd care to check it out, you'll probably be very pleased. |
| Anubis Gate Covered in Colours | 3.5 |
| Some of these covers are great, some are competent, and a couple feels unnecesary. But yeah, it sort of works the way the band intended: everyone can pick a favourite spot. For me the most interesting renditions are clustered towards the latter haf of the album. The real rating can fluctuate between 3.3 and 3.6, depending on my mood. The main issue for me is that I'm usually lukewarm towards cover albums and would much rather prefer an album of original material from these guys. |
| Bruce Soord Bruce Soord | 3.5 |
| So, this one is probably meant to be similar to Soord's main band, but more stripped down. Surprisingly, songs here work better exactly when their arrangements are NOT so sparse and basic. The brooding couple that opens the album is probably designed to set up the mood, while the third song serves as a more energetic respite, which would have totally worked, if we haven't heard all this done better by The Pineapple Thief. Things get more interesting on A Thousand Daggers, and then Willow Tree comes even stronger, and songs are consistently good to great afterwards. I think you'll enjoy this if you like singer-songwriter kind of music even more, than if you're an admirer of The Pineapple Thief. |
| Sweet Oblivion Sweet Oblivion | 4.0 |
| This is very nice. Geoff Tate sounds good, but its the songs that matter, and the songs are mostly fresh, devoid of perpetual dullness of Tate's solo projects. I'd take this over anything Queensryche released post 1994 and prior to La Torre arrival. If you like modern Queensryche, chances are you'll enjoy this album as well. |
| Korn The Serenity of Suffering | 4.0 |
| Overkill The Wings of War | 4.0 |
| OK, here's my minority report: This is as good as anything they did since Ironbound. Initially I was very sceptical, prepared to disregard old guys, but this album works even better than The Electric Age and White Devil Armory for me. Oh, and it's better than just "a solid slice of thrash metal." The album is pretty diverse, catchy when it's needed, Bobby utilises full spectre of his abilities, from the harshest to more melodic singing, and they did try to expand the palette. So, maybe give it a try. |
| Chevelle Hats Off To The Bull | 4.0 |
| Dream Theater Distance Over Time | 3.5 |
| Mike Shinoda Post Traumatic | 3.5 |
| This, in essense, is 'One More Light', without Chester, but with all the traits of that album, both likable and irritating for me (the vocals, drowned in needless effects, for one). And yet in Sputnik's collective consciousness this album is a 3, while that one is barely above 1.5. Context's a bitch. |
| Angra Ømni | 4.0 |
| Vuur In This Moment We Are Free - Cities | 3.5 |
| A "what if Devin Townsend was less talented songwriter" kind of album. Tends to blend into one big song for me. A pleasant song still, mainly thanks to Anneke (although she varies her delivery only occasionally on this album). I don't really like jent/jenty prog. If you're into jent, you'll probably dig this more than I do. |
| Diablo Swing Orchestra Pacifisticuffs | 4.0 |
| Morbid Angel Illud Divinum Insanus | 3.5 |
| The non-industrial tracks are actually pretty good. |
| Legend Midnight Champion | 4.0 |
| Goblin Rebirth Goblin Rebirth | 4.0 |
| Queens of the Stone Age Queens of the Stone Age | 3.5 |
| Queens of the Stone Age Rated R | 4.0 |
| Queens of the Stone Age Songs for the Deaf | 4.0 |
| Queens of the Stone Age Era Vulgaris | 3.5 |
| Queens of the Stone Age ...Like Clockwork | 3.5 |
| Queens of the Stone Age Villains | 2.0 |
| Leprous Bilateral | 4.5 |
| Leprous Coal | 3.0 |
| Leprous The Congregation | 4.5 |
| Leprous Malina | 4.5 |
| Steven Wilson Insurgentes | 3.0 |
| Steven Wilson Grace for Drowning | 3.0 |
| Steven Wilson The Raven That Refused to Sing (And Other Stories) | 4.5 |
| Steven Wilson Hand. Cannot. Erase. | 4.0 |
| Steven Wilson To the Bone | 3.5 |
| Accept Accept | 4.0 |
| Accept I'm a Rebel | 4.0 |
| Accept Breaker | 4.0 |
| Accept Restless and Wild | 4.0 |
| Accept Balls to the Wall | 4.0 |
| Accept Metal Heart | 4.0 |
| Accept Russian Roulette | 4.0 |
| Accept Eat the Heat | 2.5 |
| Accept Objection Overruled | 3.5 |
| Accept Death Row | 2.0 |
| Accept Blood of the Nations | 3.5 |
| Accept Stalingrad: Brothers In Death | 3.0 |
| Accept Blind Rage | 2.5 |
| Accept The Rise of Chaos | 3.0 |
| Dead Cross Dead Cross | 3.0 |
| Arcade Fire Everything Now | 1.5 |
| I've heard this once in its entirety when it was released. Still gathering courage for a second listen. Courage is hard to find these days. Blame it all on Drumpf. |
| Arcade Fire Reflektor | 3.0 |
| Arcade Fire The Suburbs | 3.5 |
| Arcade Fire Neon Bible | 3.5 |
| Arcade Fire Funeral | 3.0 |
| SikTh The Future In Whose Eyes? | 3.5 |
| Roger Waters Amused to Death | 3.5 |
| Roger Waters Is This The Life We Really Want? | 3.5 |
| Avatarium Hurricanes And Halos | 4.0 |
| Avatarium The Girl With The Raven Mask | 3.0 |
| Avatarium Avatarium | 5.0 |
| Ayreon The Final Experiment | 3.5 |
| Ayreon Actual Fantasy | 3.5 |
| Ayreon Into the Electric Castle | 4.0 |
| Ayreon The Dream Sequencer | 4.0 |
| Ayreon Flight of the Migrator | 2.5 |
| Ayreon The Human Equation | 4.0 |
| Ayreon 01011001 | 4.0 |
| Ayreon The Theory of Everything | 2.5 |
| Ayreon The Source | 3.5 |
| Deep Purple Shades of Deep Purple | 3.5 |
| Deep Purple Deep Purple In Rock | 4.0 |
| Deep Purple Fireball | 4.0 |
| Deep Purple Machine Head | 4.0 |
| Deep Purple Who Do We Think We Are | 4.0 |
| Deep Purple Burn | 3.5 |
| Deep Purple Stormbringer | 3.5 |
| Deep Purple Come Taste the Band | 2.5 |
| Deep Purple Perfect Strangers | 3.0 |
| Deep Purple The House of Blue Light | 3.0 |
| Deep Purple Slaves and Masters | 3.0 |
| Deep Purple The Battle Rages On... | 3.0 |
| Deep Purple Purpendicular | 4.0 |
| Deep Purple Abandon | 3.0 |
| Deep Purple Bananas | 4.0 |
| Deep Purple Rapture of the Deep | 3.5 |
| Deep Purple Now What?! | 3.5 |
| Deep Purple inFinite | 3.5 |
| Linkin Park One More Light | 3.5 |
| LP has always been a guilty pleasure to me. With this album the 'guilty' part just gained an upper hand. But the pleasure remains. Chester's vocals are terrible most of the time though. Honestly. And that horrendous squeaky voice effect is soooo irritating.The title track is great IMHO. |
| Hawkwind Space Bandits | 3.5 |
| Hawkwind Blood of the Earth | 4.0 |
| Hawkwind The Machine Stops | 3.5 |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Dissociation | 4.5 |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Irony Is a Dead Scene | 5.0 |
| Giraffe Tongue Orchestra Broken Lines | 3.5 |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Plagiarism | 2.5 |
| Megadeth Countdown to Extinction | 3.5 |
| Megadeth Rust in Peace | 3.5 |
| Megadeth Peace Sells... but Who's Buying? | 3.5 |
| Megadeth So Far, So Good... So What! | 4.0 |
| Megadeth Killing Is My Business... and Business Is Good! | 3.5 |
| Megadeth Youthanasia | 3.5 |
| Megadeth Cryptic Writings | 3.5 |
| Megadeth The World Needs a Hero | 3.5 |
| Megadeth The System Has Failed | 3.0 |
| Megadeth United Abominations | 2.5 |
| Megadeth Endgame | 2.5 |
| Megadeth Th1rt3en | 2.5 |
| Megadeth Super Collider | 1.5 |
| Primal Rock Rebellion Awoken Broken | 4.5 |
| Arcturus Arcturian | 3.0 |
| Arcturus The Sham Mirrors | 4.5 |
| At the Gates At War with Reality | 2.0 |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers Californication | 4.0 |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers I'm With You | 4.0 |
| Pendragon (UK) KowTow | 4.0 |
| Pallas (UK) Beat the Drum | 4.5 |
| Pallas (UK) The Dreams of Men | 4.0 |
| Pallas (UK) XXV | 4.5 |
| Pallas (UK) wearewhoweare | 3.5 |
| Demons and Wizards Touched by the Crimson King | 4.0 |
| Demons and Wizards Demons & Wizards | 4.5 |
| Blind Guardian Beyond the Red Mirror | 4.5 |
| Blind Guardian At the Edge of Time | 3.0 |
| Blind Guardian A Twist in the Myth | 4.0 |
| Blind Guardian A Night at the Opera | 3.0 |
| Blind Guardian Nightfall in Middle-Earth | 3.0 |
| Blind Guardian Imaginations from the Other Side | 4.0 |
| Blind Guardian Somewhere Far Beyond | 3.5 |
| Blind Guardian Tales from the Twilight World | 4.5 |
| Blind Guardian Follow the Blind | 3.5 |
| Blind Guardian Battalions of Fear | 4.0 |
| Dream Theater When Dream and Day Unite | 3.0 |
| Dream Theater Images and Words | 4.0 |
| Dream Theater Awake | 4.0 |
| Dream Theater Falling into Infinity | 3.5 |
| Dream Theater Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes from a Memory | 4.5 |
| Dream Theater Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence | 4.0 |
| Dream Theater Train of Thought | 3.0 |
| Dream Theater Octavarium | 4.0 |
| Dream Theater Systematic Chaos | 3.0 |
| Dream Theater Black Clouds and Silver Linings | 4.5 |
| Dream Theater A Dramatic Turn of Events | 4.5 |
| Dream Theater Dream Theater | 3.0 |
| Dream Theater The Astonishing | 4.0 |
| Blaze Bayley Infinite Entanglement | 4.0 |
| Iron Maiden The Book of Souls | 3.5 |
| Iron Maiden The Final Frontier | 3.5 |
| Iron Maiden A Matter of Life and Death | 4.5 |
| Iron Maiden Dance of Death | 4.0 |
| Iron Maiden Brave New World | 4.5 |
| Iron Maiden Virtual XI | 4.5 |
| Iron Maiden The X Factor | 3.5 |
| Iron Maiden Fear of the Dark | 3.5 |
| Iron Maiden No Prayer for the Dying | 3.5 |
| Iron Maiden Seventh Son of a Seventh Son | 4.5 |
| Iron Maiden Somewhere in Time | 4.0 |
| Iron Maiden Powerslave | 3.5 |
| Iron Maiden Piece of Mind | 3.5 |
| Iron Maiden The Number of the Beast | 4.0 |
| Iron Maiden Killers | 4.0 |
| Iron Maiden Iron Maiden | 4.0 |
| Pink Floyd The Final Cut | 3.0 |
| Pink Floyd A Momentary Lapse of Reason | 4.0 |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Miss Machine | 4.5 |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Calculating Infinity | 4.5 |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Ire Works | 4.5 |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan One of Us Is the Killer | 4.5 |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Option Paralysis | 5.0 |
| IQ Nomzamo | 4.0 |
| Angra Secret Garden | 4.5 |
| Arena The Unquiet Sky | 3.5 |
| Uriah Heep Equator | 3.5 |
| Van der Graaf Generator Present | 3.5 |
| Van der Graaf Generator Trisector | 4.0 |
| Megadeth Risk | 4.0 |
| Megadeth Dystopia | 4.5 |
| Wolverine Machina Viva | 3.0 |
