| Blood Incantation Hidden History of the Human Race | 5.0 |
| Blood Incantation Starspawn | 5.0 |
| Fit for an Autopsy The Sea of Tragic Beasts | 3.5 |
| Opeth In Cauda Venenum | 4.0 |
| Opeth Pale Communion | 2.0 |
| Wage War Pressure | 1.0 |
| This is some of the most uninspired and uninspiring music I have ever heard in my life. I though Blueprints and Deadweight were both cheesy (lyrics especially) but they were still fun albums that felt genuine on some level. This is just contrived and thrown together for a purpose unknown to me. |
| Tool Fear Inoculum | 4.5 |
| Wage War Deadweight | 3.5 |
| Wage War Blueprints | 4.0 |
| Fit for a King Dark Skies | 2.0 |
| Fit for a King Creation | Destruction | 3.0 |
| Fit for a King Slave to Nothing | 2.0 |
| Fit for a King Deathgrip | 2.5 |
| Architects Holy Hell | 3.5 |
| Northlane Alien | 1.5 |
| Currents I Let the Devil In | 3.0 |
| Knocked Loose Pop Culture | 4.0 |
| Knocked Loose Laugh Tracks | 4.0 |
| Rings of Saturn Ultu Ulla | 1.5 |
| Rings of Saturn Lugal Ki En | 2.0 |
| Rings of Saturn Dingir | 1.0 |
| Rings of Saturn Embryonic Anomaly | 1.0 |
| Slaughter To Prevail Misery Sermon | 2.0 |
| Slaughter To Prevail Chapters of Misery | 3.0 |
| At the Gates To Drink from the Night Itself | 3.0 |
| The Black Dahlia Murder Abysmal | 2.5 |
| The Black Dahlia Murder Everblack | 3.0 |
| The Black Dahlia Murder Ritual | 3.0 |
| The Black Dahlia Murder Deflorate | 2.5 |
| The Black Dahlia Murder Miasma | 4.0 |
| The Black Dahlia Murder Unhallowed | 4.5 |
| The Black Dahlia Murder Nocturnal | 4.5 |
| The Black Dahlia Murder Nightbringers | 3.5 |
| AngelMaker Dissentient | 2.5 |
| AngelMaker AngelMaker | 3.5 |
| Shadow Of Intent Melancholy | 2.5 |
| Shadow Of Intent Reclaimer | 3.0 |
| Shadow Of Intent Primordial | 3.5 |
| He Is Legend I Am Hollywood | 3.5 |
| He Is Legend Suck Out the Poison | 3.0 |
| He Is Legend It Hates You | 2.5 |
| He Is Legend Heavy Fruit | 3.0 |
| He Is Legend few | 3.0 |
| He Is Legend White Bat | 3.5 |
| Maylene and the Sons of Disaster IV | 1.5 |
| Maylene and the Sons of Disaster II | 3.0 |
| Maylene and the Sons of Disaster Maylene and the Sons of Disaster | 3.0 |
| Maylene and the Sons of Disaster III | 4.5 |
| Every Time I Die New Junk Aesthetic | 3.5 |
| Every Time I Die The Big Dirty | 3.5 |
| Every Time I Die Ex Lives | 3.0 |
| Every Time I Die From Parts Unknown | 4.0 |
| Every Time I Die Low Teens | 4.5 |
| The Chariot Long Live | 4.5 |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Dissociation | 4.0 |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan One of Us Is the Killer | 4.0 |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Option Paralysis | 3.0 |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Ire Works | 3.0 |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Miss Machine | 4.0 |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Calculating Infinity | 3.5 |
| Veil of Maya False Idol | 2.5 |
| People will hate on this because of the shift in sound, but VoM has always been fun and groovy, and "False Idol" just further solidifies that. It's the same band, just now adding in some foreign elements like clean vocals and extra backing tracks. It damn near out-Periphery's the real Periphery for me. Front half of the album is just such quality. I'd say this is on par with Matriarch. |
| Meshuggah The Violent Sleep Of Reason | 3.5 |
| Meshuggah Koloss | 4.5 |
| Meshuggah obZen | 5.0 |
| Meshuggah Catch Thirtythree | 3.5 |
| Meshuggah Nothing | 4.0 |
| Meshuggah Chaosphere | 3.5 |
| Meshuggah Destroy Erase Improve | 3.5 |
| Meshuggah Contradictions Collapse | 3.0 |
| Opeth Watershed | 3.0 |
| Opeth Ghost Reveries | 5.0 |
| Opeth Damnation | 5.0 |
| Opeth Deliverance | 4.5 |
| Opeth Blackwater Park | 4.5 |
| Opeth Still Life | 5.0 |
| Opeth My Arms, Your Hearse | 3.5 |
| Opeth Morningrise | 2.5 |
| Opeth Orchid | 2.5 |
| Gaza I Don't Care Where I Go When I Die | 4.5 |
| Gaza He Is Never Coming Back | 4.5 |
| Gaza No Absolutes in Human Suffering | 5.0 |
| Converge All We Love We Leave Behind | 3.5 |
| Converge No Heroes | 3.5 |
| Converge Petitioning the Empty Sky | 4.0 |
| Converge You Fail Me | 4.5 |
| Converge Jane Doe | 5.0 |
| Converge The Dusk in Us | 4.5 |
| Converge Axe to Fall | 5.0 |
| Cult Leader A Patient Man | 5.0 |
| Cult Leader Lightless Walk | 5.0 |
| Knocked Loose A Different Shade of Blue | 4.0 |
| Carnifex World War X | 5.0 |
| After the Burial Evergreen | 4.0 |
| Periphery Periphery IV: Hail Stan | 2.0 |
| Enterprise Earth Luciferous | 4.5 |
| Dayseeker Dreaming Is Sinking /// Waking Is Rising | 2.5 |
| Currents The Place I Feel Safest | 4.0 |
| Kingdom of Giants All the Hell You've Got to Spare | 3.0 |
| Kingdom of Giants Ground Culture | 3.5 |
| Silent Planet Everything Was Sound | 4.0 |
| Silent Planet The Night God Slept | 4.0 |
| Wretched (USA-NC) Cannibal | 3.0 |
| Wretched (USA-NC) Son of Perdition | 4.5 |
| Wretched (USA-NC) Beyond the Gate | 3.5 |
| Wretched (USA-NC) The Exodus of Autonomy | 3.0 |
| Lamb of God VII: Sturm und Drang | 3.5 |
| Lamb of God Resolution | 3.5 |
| Lamb of God Wrath | 4.0 |
| Lamb of God Sacrament | 4.0 |
| Lamb of God Ashes of the Wake | 4.5 |
| Lamb of God As the Palaces Burn | 3.5 |
| Lamb of God New American Gospel | 3.0 |
| Death The Sound of Perseverance | 4.0 |
| Death Scream Bloody Gore | 3.5 |
| Death Spiritual Healing | 3.5 |
| Death Leprosy | 4.0 |
| Death Human | 4.5 |
| Death Individual Thought Patterns | 4.5 |
| Death Symbolic | 5.0 |
| Behemoth The Apostasy | 3.5 |
| Behemoth Demigod | 4.0 |
| Behemoth Evangelion | 4.0 |
| Behemoth The Satanist | 4.0 |
| Hour of Penance Cast the First Stone | 3.0 |
| Hour of Penance Regicide | 4.0 |
| Hour of Penance Sedition | 3.5 |
| Hour of Penance Paradogma | 3.5 |
| Hour of Penance The Vile Conception | 3.0 |
| Architects Lost Forever // Lost Together | 3.0 |
| Architects Daybreaker | 3.0 |
| Architects The Here and Now | 2.5 |
| Architects Hollow Crown | 3.5 |
| Aborted RetroGore | 4.0 |
| Aborted The Necrotic Manifesto | 3.5 |
| Aborted Global Flatline | 3.5 |
| Cryptopsy None So Vile | 5.0 |
| Scar Symmetry Pitch Black Progress | 3.0 |
| Scar Symmetry Holographic Universe | 3.5 |
| In Flames Battles | 2.0 |
| In Flames Siren Charms | 2.0 |
| In Flames Sounds of a Playground Fading | 2.5 |
| In Flames A Sense of Purpose | 3.0 |
| In Flames Come Clarity | 3.0 |
| In Flames Soundtrack to Your Escape | 2.5 |
| In Flames Reroute to Remain | 2.5 |
| In Flames Clayman | 4.5 |
| In Flames Colony | 4.0 |
| In Flames Whoracle | 4.0 |
| In Flames The Jester Race | 4.0 |
| Dark Tranquillity Fiction | 4.0 |
| Dark Tranquillity Character | 3.5 |
| Dark Tranquillity Damage Done | 3.0 |
| Dark Tranquillity The Gallery | 4.5 |
| At the Gates At War with Reality | 2.5 |
| At the Gates The Red in the Sky Is Ours | 3.0 |
| At the Gates With Fear I Kiss the Burning Darkness | 3.0 |
| At the Gates Terminal Spirit Disease | 3.5 |
| At the Gates Slaughter of the Soul | 5.0 |
| Invent Animate Stillworld | 3.5 |
| Invent Animate Everchanger | 3.0 |
| No Sin Evades His Gaze Age of Sedation | 4.0 |
| No Sin Evades His Gaze Endless Disconnect | 4.0 |
| All about the groove and soaring vocal melodies, these guys won't "wow" you with their technicality, but their tightness and precision is worth the listen alone. Catchy choruses and relentless, head-bobbing rhythms make this one of the most enjoyable listens of the year. Standout tracks: Heavy Days, Human, If Only To Fall |
| VALLEYS Reborn | 3.0 |
| VALLEYS Experiment One: Asylum | 4.0 |
| In an increasingly vapid genre, here is a band dabbling in some very interesting ideas on their debut full length LP. It feels very coherent as a whole, even if some tracks stand out more than others. These guys certainly display a lot of potential, and are on the track of carving out a very nice and original sound for themselves. Bands like this need to exist to push the boundaries of the slowly-growing-stale style they occupy. |
| Necrophagist Onset of Putrefaction | 4.0 |
| Necrophagist Epitaph | 4.0 |
| Carnifex Until I Feel Nothing | 4.0 |
| Carnifex Hell Chose Me | 3.5 |
| Carnifex The Diseased and Poisoned | 4.0 |
| Carnifex Dead in My Arms | 3.5 |
| Destrage A Means to No End | 3.0 |
| Destrage Are You Kidding Me? No. | 4.5 |
| Protest the Hero Pacific Myth | 4.0 |
| Protest the Hero Volition | 4.0 |
| Protest the Hero Scurrilous | 3.5 |
| Protest the Hero Fortress | 4.0 |
| Protest the Hero Kezia | 3.5 |
| Between the Buried and Me Coma Ecliptic | 4.0 |
| Between the Buried and Me The Parallax II: Future Sequence | 4.5 |
| Between the Buried and Me The Great Misdirect | 5.0 |
| Between the Buried and Me Colors | 5.0 |
| Between the Buried and Me Alaska | 5.0 |
| Between the Buried and Me The Silent Circus | 4.0 |
| Between the Buried and Me Between the Buried and Me | 3.0 |
| Machine Head Bloodstone And Diamonds | 3.0 |
| Machine Head Unto The Locust | 4.0 |
| Machine Head The Blackening | 4.0 |
| Down Down III: Over the Under | 2.5 |
| Down Down II: A Bustle in Your Hedgerow | 4.5 |
| Down NOLA | 4.0 |
| Pantera Reinventing the Steel | 3.5 |
| Pantera The Great Southern Trendkill | 3.5 |
| Pantera Far Beyond Driven | 3.5 |
| Pantera Vulgar Display of Power | 3.0 |
| Pantera Cowboys from Hell | 3.0 |
| Black Label Society Catacombs of the Black Vatican | 3.0 |
| Black Label Society Order Of The Black | 3.0 |
| Black Label Society Shot to Hell | 2.5 |
| Black Label Society Mafia | 3.0 |
| Black Label Society Hangover Music Vol.6 | 3.5 |
| Black Label Society The Blessed Hellride | 4.0 |
| Black Label Society 1919 Eternal | 3.5 |
| Black Label Society Stronger Than Death | 3.5 |
| Black Label Society Sonic Brew | 3.5 |
| Led Zeppelin Coda | 2.5 |
| Led Zeppelin In Through the Out Door | 3.5 |
| Led Zeppelin Presence | 3.0 |
| Led Zeppelin Physical Graffiti | 4.5 |
| Led Zeppelin Houses of the Holy | 4.5 |
| Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin IV | 4.5 |
| Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin III | 3.0 |
| Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin II | 3.5 |
| Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin | 2.5 |
| Soundgarden Down on the Upside | 3.0 |
| Soundgarden Superunknown | 4.0 |
| Soundgarden Badmotorfinger | 3.5 |
| Alice in Chains MTV Unplugged | 3.5 |
| Alice in Chains Jar of Flies | 4.0 |
| Alice in Chains The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here | 3.5 |
| Alice in Chains Black Gives Way to Blue | 3.0 |
| Alice in Chains Alice in Chains | 3.5 |
| Alice in Chains Dirt | 5.0 |
| Alice in Chains Facelift | 5.0 |
| Ozzy Osbourne Black Rain | 3.0 |
| Ozzy Osbourne No More Tears | 3.5 |
| Ozzy Osbourne No Rest for the Wicked | 3.0 |
| Ozzy Osbourne The Ultimate Sin | 2.5 |
| Ozzy Osbourne Bark at the Moon | 3.5 |
| Ozzy Osbourne Diary of a Madman | 4.5 |
| Ozzy Osbourne Blizzard of Ozz | 4.5 |
| Black Sabbath 13 | 4.0 |
| Black Sabbath Dehumanizer | 3.5 |
| Black Sabbath The Eternal Idol | 2.5 |
| Black Sabbath Seventh Star | 2.0 |
| Black Sabbath Born Again | 2.0 |
| Black Sabbath Mob Rules | 3.5 |
| Black Sabbath Heaven and Hell | 4.0 |
| Black Sabbath Never Say Die! | 3.5 |
| Black Sabbath Technical Ecstasy | 3.5 |
| Black Sabbath Sabotage | 4.5 |
| Black Sabbath Sabbath Bloody Sabbath | 4.5 |
| Black Sabbath Vol. 4 | 4.5 |
| Black Sabbath Master of Reality | 5.0 |
| Black Sabbath Paranoid | 5.0 |
| Black Sabbath Black Sabbath | 5.0 |
| Nails Unsilent Death | 3.0 |
| Nails Abandon All Life | 2.5 |
| Nails You Will Never Be One of Us | 2.5 |
| Full of Hell Trumpeting Ecstasy | 2.0 |
| Parkway Drive Ire | 2.5 |
| Parkway Drive Atlas | 3.5 |
| Parkway Drive Deep Blue | 2.5 |
| Parkway Drive Horizons | 3.0 |
| Parkway Drive Killing with a Smile | 2.5 |
| Lady Gaga Joanne | 3.0 |
| Lady Gaga The Fame | 3.0 |
| Lady Gaga Born This Way | 2.0 |
| Lady Gaga Artpop | 4.0 |
| Jay-Z The Blueprint | 2.5 |
| Jay-Z Vol. 2: Hard Knock Life | 2.5 |
| Jay-Z Reasonable Doubt | 3.0 |
| The Notorious B.I.G. Life After Death | 4.0 |
| The Notorious B.I.G. Ready to Die | 4.5 |
| 2Pac All Eyez on Me | 4.5 |
| Nas God's Son | 3.5 |
| Nas STILLmatic | 2.0 |
| Nas Nastradamus | 2.0 |
| Nas I Am... | 2.5 |
| Nas It Was Written | 3.0 |
| Nas Illmatic | 4.5 |
| Kanye West The Life of Pablo | 3.0 |
| Kanye West Yeezus | 3.0 |
| Kanye West My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy | 5.0 |
| Kanye West 808s and Heartbreak | 2.5 |
| Kanye West Graduation | 3.5 |
| Kanye West Late Registration | 4.0 |
| Kanye West The College Dropout | 4.5 |
| Kendrick Lamar To Pimp a Butterfly | 4.0 |
| Kendrick Lamar Section.80 | 3.5 |
| Kendrick Lamar good kid, m.A.A.d city | 5.0 |
| Kendrick Lamar DAMN. | 4.5 |
| ScHoolboy Q Blank Face LP | 4.5 |
| ScHoolboy Q Oxymoron | 3.5 |
| ScHoolboy Q Habits and Contradictions | 3.0 |
| ScHoolboy Q Setbacks | 3.0 |
| The Mars Volta Noctourniquet | 3.0 |
| The Mars Volta Octahedron | 3.0 |
| The Mars Volta The Bedlam in Goliath | 4.0 |
| The Mars Volta Amputechture | 4.5 |
| The Mars Volta Frances the Mute | 4.5 |
| The Mars Volta De-Loused in the Comatorium | 5.0 |
| At the Drive-In in•ter a•li•a | 4.0 |
| At the Drive-In Relationship of Command | 5.0 |
| At the Drive-In In/Casino/Out | 3.5 |
| Infant Annihilator The Elysian Grandeval Galèriarch | 3.0 |
| Infant Annihilator The Palpable Leprosy of Pollution | 2.5 |
| Enterprise Earth Embodiment | 4.0 |
| Enterprise Earth Patient 0 | 4.0 |
| Oceano Revelation | 2.5 |
| Oceano Ascendants | 3.0 |
| Aversions Crown Xenocide | 3.5 |
| Aversions Crown Tyrant | 3.5 |
| Lorna Shore Flesh Coffin | 4.5 |
| Lorna Shore Maleficium | 3.0 |
| Lorna Shore Bone Kingdom | 2.5 |
| Lorna Shore Psalms | 4.5 |
| TesseracT Polaris | 3.5 |
| TesseracT Altered State | 3.5 |
| ERRA Drift | 3.5 |
| ERRA Augment | 4.5 |
| ERRA Impulse | 3.0 |
| Northlane Mesmer | 2.5 |
| Northlane Node | 3.5 |
| Northlane Singularity | 3.5 |
| Northlane Discoveries | 3.5 |
| The Contortionist Language | 3.0 |
| The Contortionist Intrinsic | 3.0 |
| The Contortionist Exoplanet | 4.0 |
| Veil of Maya Matriarch | 4.0 |
| Veil of Maya Eclipse | 2.5 |
| Veil of Maya [id] | 3.0 |
| Veil of Maya The Common Man's Collapse | 3.0 |
| After the Burial Dig Deep | 3.5 |
| After the Burial Wolves Within | 3.0 |
| After the Burial In Dreams | 3.0 |
| After the Burial Rareform | 2.5 |
| After the Burial Forging a Future Self | 2.5 |
| As Oceans The Relics Of Axiom | 3.0 |
| As Oceans Enough Light to Warrant the Contrast | 3.5 |
| As Oceans Willows | 4.0 |
| Born of Osiris Soul Sphere | 2.0 |
| Born of Osiris Tomorrow We Die Alive | 1.5 |
| Born of Osiris The Discovery | 4.0 |
| Born of Osiris A Higher Place | 2.5 |
| Born of Osiris The New Reign | 2.5 |
| Born of Osiris The Eternal Reign | 3.5 |
| Lorelei Lore of Lies | 4.0 |
| As I Lay Dying Awakened | 2.5 |
| As I Lay Dying The Powerless Rise | 2.5 |
| As I Lay Dying An Ocean Between Us | 3.0 |
| As I Lay Dying Shadows Are Security | 3.0 |
| As I Lay Dying Frail Words Collapse | 3.0 |
| Mastodon Emperor of Sand | 4.0 |
| Mastodon Once More 'Round the Sun | 3.5 |
| Mastodon The Hunter | 3.5 |
| Mastodon Crack the Skye | 4.5 |
| Mastodon Blood Mountain | 4.0 |
| Mastodon Leviathan | 4.5 |
| Mastodon Remission | 3.0 |
| Megadeth Super Collider | 1.5 |
| Megadeth Th1rt3en | 2.5 |
| Megadeth Endgame | 3.5 |
| Megadeth United Abominations | 3.0 |
| Megadeth The System Has Failed | 3.0 |
| Megadeth The World Needs a Hero | 2.0 |
| Megadeth Risk | 1.5 |
| Megadeth Cryptic Writings | 2.5 |
| Megadeth Youthanasia | 3.5 |
| Megadeth Countdown to Extinction | 4.0 |
| Megadeth Rust in Peace | 4.5 |
| Megadeth So Far, So Good... So What! | 3.0 |
| Megadeth Peace Sells... but Who's Buying? | 3.5 |
| Megadeth Killing Is My Business... and Business Is Good! | 2.5 |
| Metallica Hardwired...To Self-Destruct | 3.0 |
| Metallica Death Magnetic | 3.0 |
| Metallica St. Anger | 2.5 |
| Metallica Reload | 1.5 |
| Metallica Load | 2.0 |
| Metallica Metallica | 4.0 |
| Metallica ...And Justice for All | 4.0 |
| Metallica Master of Puppets | 4.5 |
| Metallica Ride the Lightning | 4.5 |
| Metallica Kill 'Em All | 3.5 |
| A Perfect Circle Thirteenth Step | 3.5 |
| A Perfect Circle Mer de Noms | 4.0 |
| Tool 10,000 Days | 4.0 |
| Tool Lateralus | 5.0 |
| Tool Ænima | 5.0 |
| Tool Undertow | 3.5 |
| Tool Opiate | 3.0 |
| Rivers of Nihil Monarchy | 3.0 |
| Rivers of Nihil The Conscious Seed of Light | 3.0 |
| Fallujah The Harvest Wombs | 3.0 |
| Fallujah Dreamless | 4.5 |
| Fallujah The Flesh Prevails | 4.5 |
| The Faceless Autotheism | 2.5 |
| The Faceless Planetary Duality | 3.5 |
| The Faceless Akeldama | 3.0 |
| Whitechapel The Somatic Defilement | 2.0 |
| Whitechapel This Is Exile | 3.5 |
| Whitechapel A New Era of Corruption | 3.0 |
| Whitechapel Whitechapel | 3.5 |
| Whitechapel Our Endless War | 2.5 |
| Whitechapel Mark of the Blade | 2.0 |
| Fit for an Autopsy The Great Collapse | 4.0 |
| Fit for an Autopsy Absolute Hope Absolute Hell | 3.5 |
| Fit for an Autopsy Hellbound | 3.0 |
| Thy Art Is Murder Holy War | 3.0 |
| Thy Art Is Murder Hate | 2.5 |
| Suicide Silence The Cleansing | 2.0 |
| Suicide Silence No Time to Bleed | 2.5 |
| Suicide Silence The Black Crown | 2.0 |
| Suicide Silence You Can't Stop Me | 1.5 |
| Suicide Silence Suicide Silence | 1.0 |
| Carnifex Slow Death | 4.0 |
| Carnifex Die Without Hope | 4.5 |
| Architects All Our Gods Have Abandoned Us | 3.5 |
| While She Sleeps You Are We | 3.5 |
| Animals As Leaders Weightless | 3.0 |
| Animals As Leaders The Madness of Many | 4.0 |
| Animals As Leaders The Joy of Motion | 5.0 |
| Animals As Leaders Animals as Leaders | 5.0 |
| Periphery Periphery III: Select Difficulty | 4.0 |
| Periphery Juggernaut: Omega | 3.0 |
| Periphery Juggernaut: Alpha | 3.5 |
| Periphery Periphery II: This Time It's Personal | 2.5 |
| Periphery Periphery | 3.0 |
| Kadinja Ascendancy | 4.5 |
