| Myrath Hope | 4.0 |
| Savatage Handful of Rain | 3.5 |
| Savatage Gutter Ballet | 4.0 |
| Witherfall Nocturnes and Requiems | 4.0 |
| Alcest Spiritual Instinct | 3.5 |
| blink-182 Dude Ranch | 3.0 |
| Kings of Leon Only By The Night | 2.5 |
| Black Label Society Sonic Brew | 3.0 |
| Holy Giant Diviners & Dividers | 2.5 |
| Sakis Tolis The Seven Seals of... (as χξς') | 3.0 |
| Underwhelming compared to 'Among the Fires of Hell', but not without good ideas. There simply isn't enough originality in this one and the recycled ideas that are presented aren't as good as the original content in the previous album or in Rotting Christ. |
| Stone Rebel Echoes At The End Of The World | 4.0 |
| Breaking Benjamin We Are Not Alone | 3.5 |
| Chevelle Sci-Fi Crimes | 3.5 |
| Yesterday's Children Yesterday's Children | 4.0 |
| Coven Japan Earthlings | 4.0 |
| Helloween Keeper of the Seven Keys Part II | 4.5 |
| Obsidious Iconic | 3.5 |
| Thorium (BE) Extraordinary Journeys Pt. I | 4.0 |
| From the Spanish style classical guitar intro, to hooky, catchy power metal choruses this album rocks! There's enough variety to keep you engaged throughout the album. The vocals are strong, which separates this album from other bands that a not necessarily exploring new creative frontiers. |
| Thin Lizzy Chinatown | 4.0 |
| Poison Open Up and Say... Ahh! | 3.0 |
| Insomnium Songs of the Dusk | 4.0 |
| The Who Who's Next | 4.0 |
| Green Lung This Heathen Land | 4.0 |
| Tales of a Liquid Dawn Continuum Wars | 4.0 |
| Legendry Time Immortal Wept | 4.0 |
| This music is truly epic, but the singing to me really lets it down. |
| Pretus Epic Destroyer | 4.0 |
| Fu Manchu Daredevil | 2.5 |
| Coracko New Virus Spreads | 3.5 |
| Jelusick Follow the Blind Man | 4.0 |
| Tomb Mold Manor of Infinite Forms | 3.5 |
| Tomb Mold Planetary Clairvoyance | 3.5 |
| King Diamond Fatal Portrait | 4.0 |
| King Diamond Abigail | 5.0 |
| Tower Hill Fighting Spirits (demo) | 3.5 |
| The Jimi Hendrix Experience Are You Experienced | 4.0 |
| Fires in the Distance Echoes From Deep November | 3.5 |
| Fires in the Distance Air Not Meant For Us | 4.0 |
| Scale the Summit The Migration | 4.0 |
| Alustrium A Tunnel to Eden | 3.5 |
| Incantation Onward to Golgotha | 3.0 |
| Dying Fetus Make Them Beg for Death | 4.0 |
| Incantation Unholy Deification | 4.5 |
| Obituary Cause of Death | 4.5 |
| Carnifex Necromanteum | 3.0 |
| Baroness Red Album | 3.5 |
| Baroness Stone | 4.0 |
| Thurnin Útiseta | 3.5 |
| Mastodon Remission | 4.5 |
| Tomb Mold The Enduring Spirit | 4.5 |
| Dire Straits Dire Straits | 4.5 |
| Parius The Signal Heard Throughout Space | 3.0 |
| Mastodon Leviathan | 5.0 |
| Blackbraid Blackbraid II | 4.5 |
| Fifth Angel When Angels Kill | 3.0 |
| Godthrymm Distortions | 3.0 |
| Eminentia Tenebris Rise of a New Kingdom | 4.0 |
| Demonic Being Invocations From the Ancient Path | 3.5 |
| Amon Amarth Versus the World | 4.0 |
| Queens of the Stone Age In Times New Roman... | 2.5 |
| Kataklysm Serenity in Fire | 3.0 |
| Dust Hard Attack | 4.0 |
| Sarmat Determined To Strike | 2.5 |
| The Anchoret It All Began With Loneliness | 5.0 |
| Serpent of Old Ensemble Under The Dark Sun | 3.5 |
| Dead and Dripping Blackened Cerebral Rifts | 3.5 |
| Urne A Feast On Sorrow | 4.0 |
| Amon Amarth Jomsviking | 3.5 |
| Kataklysm Of Ghosts and Gods | 3.0 |
| Kataklysm Goliath | 4.0 |
| Kataklysm Sorcery | 2.0 |
| BABYMETAL The Other One | 3.5 |
| Evoking Winds Bald Mountain | 4.0 |
| Cadaver The Age of the Offended | 3.0 |
| Arkham Witch Beer and Bullet Belts | 3.5 |
I haven't heard their previous material, so I can't compare 'Beer and Bullet Belts' to
previous material, but this is a lot of fun! My main criticism is the length, 66 minutes is a
long time for an album like this... Some of the songs can be pretty repetitive too. Massive
tick for the album art, unique sound the band has and the fun lyrics themes prevalent. |
| Jag Panzer The Hallowed | 3.0 |
| Rotting Christ Aealo | 4.0 |
| Helloween Walls of Jericho | 3.5 |
| Helloween Pink Bubbles Go Ape | 2.0 |
| Karnivool Asymmetry | 2.5 |
| Earthside A Dream In Static | 3.5 |
| TURQUOISEDEATH Se Bueno | 2.5 |
| Rotting Christ Genesis | 3.5 |
| Rotting Christ Thy Mighty Contract | 2.5 |
| Stray Gods Olympus | 4.0 |
| On par with other Greek Gods in the traditional heavy metal genre like Warrior Path, for example. The lyrics are excellent and the music is fun with plenty of hooks. None of the ideas are necessary original and there's lots of Queensryche influence (for instance, 'On the Other Side of the Mirror' is a dead ringer for 'Eyes of a Stranger', but there's everything you want from a band like this in this album. |
| Rush Hemispheres | 5.0 |
| Rush A Farewell to Kings | 4.0 |
| Fleshgod Apocalypse King | 3.5 |
| Rush Hold Your Fire | 3.5 |
| Eloy Ocean | 3.0 |
| Dethklok Dethalbum III | 3.0 |
| Elegant Weapons Horns For A Halo | 3.0 |
| Rush Counterparts | 4.5 |
| Rush Fly by Night | 4.0 |
| Rush Power Windows | 2.5 |
| Dream Theater Systematic Chaos | 2.5 |
| Extreme Extreme II: Pornograffitti | 4.5 |
| Trespass Wolf at the Door | 4.0 |
| Sacred Outcry Towers of Gold | 4.0 |
| Wings of Steel Gates of Twilight | 4.5 |
| The vocals here are outstanding and there's a wide variety of songs across the album in different tempos and displaying a range of skills that the musicians possess. Nothing new of course, but that's expected with a straight heavy metal band, hence why the genre has expanded so much over time for creative reasons. If you want a new take on old school heavy metal like Dio and Crimson Glory these guys will do it for you! |
| Enforcer Nostalgia | 4.0 |
| Watain The Agony and Ecstasy of Watain | 4.0 |
| First I've heard of this band, so I can't compare this to previous releases, but definitely worth listening to! |
| Sanctuarium Into the Mephitic Abyss | 3.5 |
Interesting death doom with different tempos depending on what genre predominates in each
part of the song. There are a few minor progressive patches which could be extended to
enhance this album. |
| Lunar Chamber Shambhallic Vibrations | 4.0 |
| Jessie Ware That! Feels Good! | 3.5 |
| A larger variety of tracks with some exploring more of the soul, funk and RnB genres could enhance this album. |
| Hot Graves Plaguewielder | 4.0 |
| A really interesting blend of metal genres. I've never listened to bands with this sound before, the album presents a range of soundscapes with a constant hardcore pulse. Definitely worth listening to. Apparently this is the final album by this band, will go back and listen to their earlier catalogue. |
| Beyond Creation The Aura | 3.0 |
| Obscura Diluvium | 3.5 |
| Spirit Possession Of the Sign ... | 4.0 |
| An evil onslaught of riffs and heaviness. Gets better with multiple listens. |
| Death The Sound of Perseverance | 4.5 |
| Enslaved Heimdal | 3.0 |
| Gatekeeper (CAN) From Western Shores | 3.5 |
| Iapetus The Body Cosmic | 4.0 |
| Despite the comparisons, this band is not Ne Obliviscaris. Of course there is overlap here and even one of the members of the aforementioned on this album, but there is originality, it stands on it's own as an album has some powerful moments and plenty of variety. There's some nice cinematic sounds if you look underneath the layers of heaviness (tracks like 'For creatures' and 'I contain Multitudes' for example). |
| Ne Obliviscaris Exul | 4.5 |
| Scale the Summit V | 4.0 |
| Animals As Leaders Animals as Leaders | 4.0 |
| Crayola Eyes Gushing | 3.5 |
| Tiamat Wildhoney | 3.5 |
| Savatage Edge of Thorns | 5.0 |
| Haken Fauna | 3.0 |
| 10cc Deceptive Bends | 3.0 |
| Majesties Vast Reaches Unclaimed | 4.0 |
| Awesome riffs, beats and early melodic death metal music. The sound production is out of this world. |
| Queensryche Operation: Mindcrime | 5.0 |
| Parkway Drive Deep Blue | 4.0 |
| Arch Enemy Doomsday Machine | 3.5 |
| This album has the same as many other Arch enemy albums, whilst there are some shredding riffs and great compositions, the vocals are uninspiring and bland. |
| Arch Enemy Rise of the Tyrant | 3.5 |
| Vocals are sub-par. Everything else is fantastic. |
| Trouble Run to the Light | 4.0 |
| First time listening to Trouble based on a recommendation. Pretty cool Black Sabbath and Deep Purple vibes. Plenty of variety and some instrumentation and song writing. |
| Oceangrave The Buried Inheritance | 4.0 |
| Ahab The Coral Tombs | 4.0 |
| Obituary Dying Of Everything | 4.5 |
| Tribunal (CAN) The Weight Of Remembrance | 4.0 |
| Inferi (USA) Vile Genesis | 4.0 |
| Bergfried Romantik I | 2.5 |
| Worm Bluenothing | 4.5 |
| SpiritWorld Deathwestern | 3.5 |
| Fallujah Empyrean | 3.5 |
| Disillusion Ayam | 3.0 |
| Foreigner 4 | 4.0 |
| An Abstract Illusion Woe | 3.5 |
| Sigh Shiki | 4.0 |
| Soilwork Overgivenheten | 3.0 |
| Lux Decay Sacred Excess | 2.5 |
| Skeletonwitch Worship the Witch | 4.0 |
| Protosequence Biophagous | 4.0 |
| At first I felt the music across this album was a bit disjointed or unorganised, but upon second listens I feel that's not the case. At times some of the riffs also remind of 'djent' in a bad way. As with most technical death metal it's full of intricate, tortuous, interweaving riffs, rhythms and vocals. Worth listening and re-listening to. |
| The Contortionist Our Bones | 3.5 |
| Artificial Brain Artificial Brain | 2.5 |
| Norma Jean Deathrattle Sing for Me | 2.5 |
| Revocation Netherheaven | 4.0 |
| Elder (USA-MA) Innate Passage | 4.0 |
| He Is Legend Endless Hallway | 3.5 |
| Septicflesh Modern Primitive | 3.0 |
| Hath All That Was Promised | 4.5 |
| Obscura A Valediction | 4.5 |
| Psycroptic Divine Council | 4.0 |
| Chat Pile God's Country | 2.5 |
| Pentakill II: Grasp of The Undying | 2.5 |
| King Mountain Tempest At the Gates | 4.0 |
| Definitely deserves more attention. Heavy hard rock, Grungesque music. Like Pearl Jam, but a lot better... |
| Hazemaze Blinded By The Wicked | 3.5 |
| Black Sky Giant End of Days Pilgrimage | 4.0 |
| Fantastic instrumental music, could do with some vocals... |
| Holy Dragon Mordjylland | 3.0 |
| Some of the riffing and jamming is awesome, but the vocals aren't appealing to me. |
| Black Spell Season Of The Damned | 2.5 |
| Riot City Burn the Night | 4.0 |
| Earthless Night Parade of One Hundred Demons | 4.0 |
| Steve Vai Inviolate | 3.0 |
| Needless The Cosmic Cauldron | 3.0 |
| The Sound of Animals Fighting Apeshit | 4.0 |
| Amorphis Tuonela | 3.0 |
| Darkher The Buried Storm | 3.0 |
| Celestial Season Mysterium II | 4.0 |
| Dark, atmospheric, original. Mysterium II. I haven't heard the former albums of this band, but if your into any death doom, or stoner metal this is a must. |
| Jungle City Jungle City III | 3.5 |
| Solid stoner influenced rock music with a decent dose of variety. The vocals aren't great but often aren't a big focus in these genres. Some of the riffs rock hard, others feel lacking somewhat. |
| Candlemass Nightfall | 5.0 |
| Eye of Doom The Sapient | 4.0 |
| Desert Wave Deafening Silence | 4.0 |
| Great concept album. Solid stoner rock with plenty of psychedelic riffs, distorted guitars and bass and a variety of drum beats and rhythms. |
| Savatage The Wake of Magellan | 4.0 |
| Superchanger Volume 1 | 4.0 |
| Excellent stoner rock! One great long jam fest of an album, from a talented outfit in Ohio. The work from the drummer is particularly impressive. |
| Savatage Dead Winter Dead | 4.5 |
| Black Sabbath Heaven and Hell | 4.5 |
| Primal Fear Black Sun | 3.5 |
| Judas Priest Painkiller | 5.0 |
| Judas Priest Stained Class | 4.5 |
| Judas Priest Sad Wings of Destiny | 4.0 |
| Judas Priest Screaming for Vengeance | 3.5 |
| Riot City Electric Elite | 4.5 |
| Van Halen 5150 | 3.0 |
| Black Sabbath Black Sabbath | 4.5 |
| In Mourning Afterglow | 3.5 |
| Iron Maiden The Book of Souls | 4.0 |
| Dark Forest Ridge and Furrow | 4.0 |
| XTC Black Sea | 3.5 |
Highly original, sometimes ingenious, sometimes highly catchy, sometimes annoying or too out
there for me... The only way I can relate to their sound is through David Bowie and the
Clash, for those more familiar with XTC or similar bands (if there are any similar bands),
this is probably more relatable. Clearly a very talented group. Favourite tracks 'Burning
with Optimisms Flames', 'Tower of London' and 'No language in our lungs'. I'm definitely
going to listen to this one more. |
| Angra Temple of Shadows | 4.5 |
| Angra Angels Cry | 4.5 |
| Atreyu The Curse | 4.0 |
| Amon Amarth Sorrow Throughout the Nine Worlds | 4.0 |
| White Ward False Light | 4.0 |
| Fit for an Autopsy Oh What the Future Holds | 4.0 |
| Wishbone Ash Argus | 4.0 |
| Lichter Lichter | 3.5 |
| Runespell Sentinels of Time | 4.0 |
| ADAM SUN | 4.5 |
| My Sleeping Karma Soma | 4.0 |
| Kyuss Welcome to Sky Valley | 4.0 |
| Orange Goblin Time Travelling Blues | 4.0 |
| King Weed Let There Be Weed | 4.0 |
| Gojira The Way of All Flesh | 5.0 |
| Royal Blood Royal Blood | 2.5 |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers Unlimited Love | 3.5 |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers The Getaway | 2.5 |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers I'm With You | 2.5 |
| Khemmis Deceiver | 4.0 |
| Acid Blade Power Dive | 3.5 |
| Pretty rad, the vocals are a kind of chilling powerful doom sounding force. The music itself is more 'classic heavy metal'. I'm not really sure it's anything new, but as often is the case with this new wave of old school metal, it's done well and highly listenable. |
| Ol' Time Moonshine Magic | 4.0 |
| Villagers of Ioannina City Riza | 3.5 |
| Valley of the Sun The Chariot | 4.0 |
| The Dragons It's Your Time | 4.0 |
| Def Leppard Hysteria | 4.0 |
| Winger Winger | 3.0 |
| Sunny Day Real Estate How It Feels To Be Something On | 3.5 |
| Anberlin Vital | 4.0 |
| Opeth Ghost Reveries | 4.5 |
| Opeth Damnation | 4.0 |
| Muse Origin of Symmetry | 2.0 |
| Ghali DNA | 3.5 |
| Death Spiritual Healing | 4.0 |
| Mercyful Fate Don't Break the Oath | 5.0 |
| Megadeth Countdown to Extinction | 2.0 |
| Eternal Ascent Reclamation | 3.0 |
| blink-182 Blink-182 | 4.5 |
| Megadeth Rust in Peace | 2.5 |
| Tool Lateralus | 3.5 |
| System of a Down Hypnotize | 3.0 |
| Stone Rebel Dreams & illusions | 3.5 |
| Dakrua Shifting Realities | 3.5 |
| Excellent original music, for some reason it reminds me of Epica, but it's probably more Gothic Metal than anything else. |
| Ruler Rise to Power | 4.0 |
| Midnight Priest Midnight Steel | 3.5 |
| Electric Octopus This Is Our Culture | 3.5 |
| Solace The Brink | 4.0 |
| Nautilus (IRE) The Wrath of the Sea | 4.0 |
| Haunt Mind Freeze | 3.0 |
| Animalize Meat We're Made Of | 3.5 |
| W.A.S.P. The Headless Children | 4.0 |
| Rotting Christ A Dead Poem | 4.0 |
| Running Wild Under Jolly Roger | 3.5 |
| Sakis Tolis Among the Fires of Hell | 4.5 |
| Helloween Better Than Raw | 5.0 |
| Angel Witch Angel Witch | 4.0 |
| Pearl Jam Ten | 3.5 |
| Shinedown The Sound of Madness | 3.5 |
| Blood Ceremony Blood Ceremony | 4.0 |
| Blood Command Praise Armageddonism | 3.0 |
| Thirty Seconds to Mars This Is War | 3.5 |
| Budgie Bandolier | 4.0 |
| XTC Wasp Star (Apple Venus Volume 2) | 3.0 |
| Job For A Cowboy Sun Eater | 4.5 |
| The Black Dahlia Murder Nocturnal | 4.0 |
| Nekrogoblikon Stench | 3.5 |
| Dethklok The Dethalbum | 4.0 |
| Alestorm Seventh Rum of a Seventh Rum | 4.0 |
| Sodom Sacred Warpath | 3.5 |
| The Ferrymen One More River To Cross | 4.0 |
| HammerFall Hammer of Dawn | 4.0 |
| Iron Kingdom On the Hunt | 4.0 |
| It may be incredibly obvious that Iron Maiden is a strong influence on this band, but if you're an Iron Maiden fanatic you may still like it. Probably you'll either think it's unoriginal and a poorly executed substitute or you'll see it as a rawer, less polished, but still highly enjoyable album. |
| Blut Aus Nord Disharmonium - Undreamable Abysses | 3.0 |
| Rhapsody of Fire Legendary Tales | 4.5 |
| Power Paladin With the Magic of Windfyre Steel | 3.5 |
| Shaman Rescue | 4.0 |
| Classic power metal, good fun and variety. The songwriting and lyricism is top notch also. |
| Moon Tooth Phototroph | 4.0 |
| Cave In Heavy Pendulum | 3.5 |
| Runespell Aeons of Ancient Blood (Demo) | 4.0 |
| Antipope Apostle Of Infinite Joy | 4.0 |
| Visions Of Atlantis Pirates | 3.5 |
| Alice in Chains Alice in Chains | 4.0 |
| Famyne Famyne | 3.0 |
| Nite Voices of the Kronian Moon | 3.0 |
| Blackslash No Steel No Future | 3.0 |
| Blut Aus Nord Hallucinogen | 3.5 |
| The Mysterious Flying Orchestra The Mysterious Flying Orchestra | 3.5 |
| Iron Maiden Dance of Death | 4.5 |
| Mastodon Hushed and Grim | 4.0 |
| Judas Priest Defenders of the Faith | 3.5 |
| AC/DC High Voltage | 3.5 |
| Accept Metal Heart | 2.5 |
| Ode and Elegy Ode and Elegy | 4.0 |
| 1000MODS Super Van Vacation | 3.0 |
| Naxatras IV | 4.0 |
| What is it about the Greeks? Why do they so often make music of such a high standard? I don't know, but this is another example. |
| Hallas Excerpts From a Future Past | 4.0 |
| Gamma Ray Sigh No More | 4.0 |
| Iron Maiden Somewhere in Time | 4.5 |
| Iron Maiden Fear of the Dark | 3.0 |
| Myrkur Folkesange | 4.5 |
| Manowar Kings of Metal | 4.0 |
| Manowar Louder Than Hell | 4.0 |
| Hot Water Music Caution | 4.5 |
| Boston Third Stage | 4.0 |
| Runic Liar Flags | 3.0 |
| Malevolent Creation Stillborn | 3.5 |
| Skeletonwitch Beyond the Permafrost | 5.0 |
| Boston Boston | 3.5 |
| Motorhead Rock 'N' Roll | 4.0 |
| Gojira Magma | 4.0 |
| Motorhead Kiss of Death | 4.0 |
| Entombed Left Hand Path | 4.5 |
| Carcass Heartwork | 5.0 |
| Atheist Unquestionable Presence | 4.0 |
| Allegaeon Damnum | 4.5 |
| Helloween Keeper of the Seven Keys Part I | 5.0 |
| Mekong Delta Dances of Death (and other Walking Shadows) | 4.0 |
| Steely Dan Pretzel Logic | 4.0 |
| Budgie If I Were Brittania I'd Waive the Rules | 2.5 |
| Rush Caress of Steel | 4.5 |
| Rush Feedback | 4.0 |
| The Sins of Thy Beloved Lake of Sorrow | 3.0 |
| Isen Torr Mighty & Superior | 4.0 |
| Marcus Miller Silver Rain | 4.0 |
| Marcus Miller M² | 4.5 |
| Alice Cooper Billion Dollar Babies | 2.5 |
| Van Halen Van Halen | 5.0 |
| Killswitch Engage As Daylight Dies | 4.5 |
| Firehouse Firehouse | 3.5 |
| Boston Don't Look Back | 4.0 |
| Kadavar and Elder Eldovar - A Story of Darkness & Light | 3.5 |
| Paramore Riot! | 3.5 |
| Panic! at the Disco Vices & Virtues | 2.5 |
| Black Sabbath Master of Reality | 3.5 |
| Doomsword Doomsword | 4.0 |
| Black Sabbath Paranoid | 4.5 |
| Omen Escape to Nowhere | 2.5 |
| Invent Animate The Sun Sleeps, As If It Never Was | 4.0 |
| Angel Witch Screamin' and Bleedin' | 3.5 |
| Power Theory Force of Will | 4.0 |
| An ode to power/heavy metal. Melodic, heavy, fun and varied with great lyrical content. |
| Lord Gallery Lord Gallery | 3.5 |
| Against The Current Fever | 3.0 |
| Definitely overproduced and generic, but better than most pop and radio gaga. |
| Serj Tankian Elasticity | 4.0 |
| Cult of Luna The Raging River | 4.0 |
| Lady Killer (ECU) The Broken Lie | 3.5 |
| Flotsam and Jetsam Blood in the Water | 4.5 |
| Khirki Κτηνωδία | 3.5 |
| Iron Maiden Senjutsu | 3.5 |
| 1914 Where Fear and Weapons Meet | 4.5 |
| Lives up to the hype with ease! Great lyrical content, there's no shortage of real horror stories out there metal bands can write and reflect on and often they're overlooked, but not here. Elephantine, full, blackened and dark, the music matches the provocative album art. |
| Helloween Helloween | 5.0 |
| Eternity's End Embers of War | 4.0 |
| Warrior Path Warrior Path | 4.0 |
| Excellent modern power metal. I feel like the last two songs could have been spread out across the album for more variety as these ballads can separate the power metal on the rest of the album to lead to a feeling of less repetition. |
| Demolition Hammer Time Bomb | 3.0 |
| Lamb of God Sacrament | 4.0 |
| Lamb of God Ashes of the Wake | 4.0 |
| Cadaver Edder and Bile | 4.0 |
| Meshuggah Koloss | 3.0 |
| Gojira L'Enfant Sauvage | 4.5 |
| Omen Warning of Danger | 3.5 |
| Avenged Sevenfold Avenged Sevenfold | 2.0 |
| Ozzy Osbourne Blizzard of Ozz | 3.5 |
| Annihilator Alice in Hell | 4.0 |
| Girlschool Hit And Run | 3.5 |
| A simple hard rock, blues, metal sound similar to Motorhead and other bands of that nature. The riffs are great on this album and the band is tight. On the whole there's a lot of repetitive content, however, and the vocals can be pretty bland or annoying (mainly on the earlier tracks in the album). |
| Motorhead Another Perfect Day | 3.5 |
| Walrus (SWI) Unstoppable Force | 4.0 |
| Original fresh heavy metal power metal from Switzerland. Great riffs, hooks and musicianship. |
| Nile In Their Darkened Shrines | 4.5 |
| Necrophagist Onset of Putrefaction (Re-issue) | 5.0 |
| Morbid Angel Altars of Madness | 4.5 |
| Obituary Slowly We Rot | 3.0 |
| Pantera Vulgar Display of Power | 2.0 |
| Five Finger Death Punch War Is The Answer | 3.0 |
| Slayer Reign in Blood | 4.0 |
| Dismember Like an Ever Flowing Stream | 3.5 |
| Death Leprosy | 4.0 |
| Death Symbolic | 5.0 |
| Faith No More Angel Dust | 2.5 |
| Fishbone Truth and Soul | 1.0 |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers Californication | 4.5 |
| Bon Jovi Slippery When Wet | 3.5 |
| Accept Breaker | 3.0 |
| Accept Restless and Wild | 3.0 |
| Accept Too Mean to Die | 4.0 |
| Iron Maiden Iron Maiden | 4.5 |
| Deep Purple Deep Purple In Rock | 4.0 |
| Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin IV | 4.0 |
| Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin III | 5.0 |
| Hitten Triumph & Tragedy | 3.5 |
Great 80s style metal and hard rock/glam metal reminiscent of Europe, Motley Crue, Van Halen,
Judas Priest and the like. Nothing progressive or groundbreaking, but very listenable amongst a
variety of other music. I think the first half of the album is stronger, as I prefer the heavier
tracks on the album. |
| August Burns Red Constellations | 3.5 |
| Ghost (SWE) Opus Eponymous | 4.0 |
| Gojira Fortitude | 3.5 |
| Iron Maiden Brave New World | 4.5 |
| Be'lakor Coherence | 4.0 |
| Iron Maiden Piece of Mind | 4.0 |
| Iron Maiden Powerslave | 5.0 |
| Iron Maiden Seventh Son of a Seventh Son | 4.5 |
| Hellrock This is Metal | 4.0 |
| Iron Maiden esque metal that stands on it's own two feet. A classic and must listen for any metal head. |
| Gospel (GR) The Spell | 3.0 |
| Original and varied, if your looking for a different take on new wave of traditional metal or something fresh this is worth a listen. |
| Overkill Necroshine | 2.5 |
| Seven Sisters Shadow of a Fallen Star Pt.1 | 4.0 |
| Atreyu Long Live | 4.0 |
| Iron Maiden No Prayer for the Dying | 3.5 |
| Insomnium Winter's Gate | 4.0 |
| Trivium Silence in the Snow | 3.0 |
| Epica Omega | 4.0 |
| Trivium Ascendancy | 3.0 |
| Insomnium Shadows of the Dying Sun | 3.5 |
| In Flames The Jester Race | 3.0 |
| Queensryche Queensryche | 4.0 |
| Arch Enemy Will to Power | 3.0 |
| Spiritbox Eternal Blue | 3.5 |
| Mastodon The Hunter | 3.5 |
| The Offspring Splinter | 3.0 |
| The Offspring Conspiracy of One | 4.0 |
| The Offspring Americana | 3.5 |
| Mastodon Blood Mountain | 2.5 |
| In Flames I, the Mask | 2.0 |
| Architects For Those That Wish to Exist | 2.0 |
| While She Sleeps You Are We | 4.0 |
| Trivium Shogun | 3.0 |
| Eclipse (SWE) Armageddonize | 3.5 |
| Guns N' Roses Appetite for Destruction | 3.0 |
| Motley Crue Dr. Feelgood | 3.0 |
| Thousand Leaves Lunatic Dawn | 4.0 |
| Much more well rounded and polished than Black Cloak Skeleton in my opinion. The shredding guitar solos and melodies sometimes still have that Dragonforce quality that I really don't like, but there's less of a forced feel on this album. |
| Thousand Leaves Black Cloak Skeleton | 3.0 |
Great musicianship, not enough variety, however for me. Mostly too fast and heavy. To me this is
more than melodic death metal, I'd argue it's thrash metal too. I enjoyed the opening and closing
instrumentals most. |
| Serenity in Murder The Highest Of Dystopia | 4.0 |
| Dark Tranquillity Construct | 3.0 |
| Dark Tranquillity The Gallery | 3.0 |
| Rivers of Nihil The Work | 3.0 |
| Spellcaster Night Hides the World | 4.5 |
| FireWolfe We Rule the Night | 4.0 |
| I agree with Voivod's comment, however, for people like me who haven't heard Dokken, Lynch Mob and the like, this is a fresh sound. rI really like the fact that the bass guitar isn't too passive unlike some hard rock and metal bands. There's a nice bass solo in the opening track 'We Rule The Night'.rMy favourite tracks;rWe Rule The NightrLate Last Night rBetrayal's Kiss |
| Sylent Storm The Fire Never Dies | 4.0 |
| One of the best New Wave of Traditional Heavy Metal Albums I've heard lately! (and I've listened to quite a few) I think this is up there with the recent work of Eternal Champion, Screamer, Warrior Path and Spellbook. The musicianship is superb and despite some criticism of the vocals, they are original and complimentary to the music. Unlike some other artists in this genre, there is a great variety of music on the album. |
| Viper Queen Surrender To The Bite | 3.5 |
| Cool 80s influenced metal. All musicians in the band seem to play their role well, solid vocals and drums, some great riffs and solos and a tight sound. |
| Agalloch The Mantle | 3.0 |
| Diamond Head Lightning to the Nations | 3.5 |
| Ancient Empire Priest of Stygia | 3.5 |
| Great heavy metal with enough variety and good songwriting. In my opinion the vocals are a bit uninspiring and that's where the music is really lacking. |
| Eld Varg One Man Army | 2.5 |
| The instrumental parts and solos are awesome, but the vocals are very bland and lacklustre... If the vocals weren't so appalling I'd rate this much higher. Apparently this is a one man band, so I'm impressed with the musical versatility on different instruments, but with more band members this sound would be more diverse and the vocals could be half decent! |
| Gojira From Mars to Sirius | 4.5 |
| Mastodon Emperor of Sand | 5.0 |
| Blazon Stone Damnation | 3.5 |
| Doctor Smoke Dreamers and the Dead | 2.5 |
| The good: Great guitar riffs and solosrSome excellent stoner and doom metal elements mixed in with a traditional metal sound. rThe bad: No variety throughout the album, it's very repetitive.rLyrics are all just doom metal based and only centre on death. rVocals are mostly spoken rather than sung.rNot sure if they have a bassist or not I couldn't hear it..(could be lack of headphones or decent speakers)r |
| The Who Quadrophenia | 4.5 |
| Marta Gabriel Metal Queens | 3.5 |
| Awesome guitar solos and some good vocals. Original but not groundbreaking. rSome of the vocals can be annoying and some of the songs can be repetitive, otherwise great- worth checking out if you like metal. |
| System of a Down Mezmerize | 4.0 |
| System of a Down Toxicity | 4.0 |
| System of a Down System of a Down | 2.5 |
| Screamer (SWE) Hell Machine | 3.5 |
| Screamer (SWE) Highway of Heroes | 4.0 |
| Draconian Under a Godless Veil | 4.5 |
| Screamer (SWE) Live Sacrifice | 4.0 |
| Midnight Priest Aggressive Hauntings | 4.0 |
| Spellbook Magick and Mischief | 4.0 |
| Varied song styles from 80s heavy metal with an Ozzy Osborne vocal feel to more Deep Purple esque tunes, I personally found this to be a refreshing take on NWTHM kind of music. |
| Sandstorm Desert Warrior | 1.5 |
| So bland and uninspiring... Like a really poor version of Black Sabbath. The solos are way to short, the vocals dull and the music in general a poor reflection of metal. Having said that everyone has different tastes, so maybe you'll like it!? |
| Fortress Under Siege Atlantis | 3.5 |
NWOTHM from Greece, great traditional heavy metal, could do with some more variety of tempo and
songs in general. To some extent this could be called generic metal but it's supposed to be
traditional heavy metal so if that's what your after I don't any issue with it. To me there's
still enough originality in it. |
| Amorphis Under the Red Cloud | 4.5 |
| Amorphis Tales from the Thousand Lakes | 3.0 |
| Cauldron Burning Fortune | 3.5 |
| Plini Handmade Cities | 4.0 |
| Warrior Path The Mad King | 4.5 |
| Formidable metal that will slay your enemies and bring joy to your earballs even if it's not entirely original. |
| Lost Horizon Awakening the World | 4.5 |
| Unleash The Archers Demons Of The AstroWaste | 4.0 |
| Much heavier than their later content, I actually enjoyed this rawer, darker sound on another level. I would say this album is more of a mix of melodic and power metal with some excellent musicianship and song writing. If you like these genres (and metal with female lead vocals) I recommend this album. |
| Unleash The Archers Abyss | 4.0 |
| blink-182 Enema Of The State | 3.5 |
| blink-182 Take Off Your Pants And Jacket | 4.0 |
| Whitesnake Lovehunter | 3.0 |
| Whitesnake Whitesnake | 4.0 |
| Eluveitie Spirit | 4.0 |
| Ensiferum Ensiferum | 1.5 |
| Ensiferum Two Paths | 2.0 |
| Grand Magus Hammer of the North | 3.5 |
| Visigoth Conqueror's Oath | 4.5 |
| Five Finger Death Punch The Way Of The Fist | 2.5 |
| Blazon Stone Return to Port Royal | 4.0 |
| To me it sounds like 'Power Pirate Metal', at first it sounded a bit odd, but the guitar and drum work is exquisite and the solos are tasty. High quality metal, worth listening to. |
| All That Remains A War You Cannot Win | 2.5 |
| All That Remains The Fall of Ideals | 3.0 |
| Iron Maiden The Number of the Beast | 5.0 |
| Iron Maiden Killers | 4.0 |
| Ancient Empire The Tower | 3.5 |
| If you like traditional metal and want a new band take on the genre, The Tower by Ancient Empire achieves this. The album has great lyrics and concepts, as well as variety in songs and riffs. |
| Cauldron Chained To The Nite | 3.5 |
| Blind Guardian Nightfall in Middle-Earth | 4.5 |
| Black Sabbath 13 | 4.5 |
| Tyr Eric The Red | 4.0 |
| Tir Persepolis | 3.5 |
| Great background music, albeit a little dark. I think the album achieves what it sets out to. |
| Vanishing Point Distant Is the Sun | 2.5 |
| Too corny and soft... There are some great little riffs and solos, but just when they start to get good, they end and the at times over produced vocals are mostly annoying. In fact the vocals themselves are massive obstacle I can't really get around on this album. If you love Dream Theatre you might like this album/band. r |
| Plini Impulse Voices | 3.5 |
| Crypt Sermon The Ruins of Fading Light | 4.0 |
| Disturbed Ten Thousand Fists | 3.0 |
| Tortuga Tortuga | 3.5 |
| Much better than the second album. There's some great riffs and jamming all with a tone and texture typical of stoner or doom metal. There's certainly psychedelic elements a plenty too. For me the lack of any meaningful vocals is a real let down. I know it's not a focus of these genres, but the best artists in the field still have great vocalists. There's more up tempo songs on this album than the second, so some could argue it's less doom metal and more sludge-metal/stoner/psychedelic. The greater level of variety on this album compared to the second is nice. |
| Tortuga Deities | 3.0 |
| It might take a few listens to warm up to this, if you like instrumental style stoner metal and psychedelic music you may enjoy this. Stoner metal/rock isn't my favourite style... I liked the last track the most, which had some prog metal feels to it. |
| Angel Vivaldi Synapse | 5.0 |
| Cathedral Forest of Equilibrium | 2.5 |
| Candlemass Epicus Doomicus Metallicus | 4.5 |
| Opeth Blackwater Park | 4.5 |
| Breaking Benjamin Saturate | 4.0 |
| Three Days Grace One-X | 3.5 |
| Chevelle Stray Arrows - A Collection Of Favorites | 2.5 |
| Chevelle NIRATIAS | 3.5 |
| Wolfmother Wolfmother | 3.5 |
| Fish Weltschmerz | 3.0 |
Surprisingly good. I'd call this alternative rock more than anything else, some of the lyrics are
questionable. Edit* After researching the album a bit it's clear there's more than meets the eye
to some of these lyrics, upon first listen some tracks like 'man with a stick' and 'walking on
eggshells' can come across as odd or lacking meaning.
Rose of Damascus is somewhat of a masterpiece. I found some of the other tracks far less moving. |
| Blue Oyster Cult Fire of Unknown Origin | 2.5 |
| My Dying Bride The Ghost of Orion | 3.0 |
| Paradise Lost Obsidian | 4.5 |
| Amorphis Queen of Time | 4.0 |
| Greta Van Fleet The Battle at Garden's Gate | 2.5 |
| Thin Lizzy Jailbreak | 4.5 |
| Alustrium A Monument to Silence | 2.5 |
| Elder (USA-MA) Omens | 3.5 |
| Mors Principium Est Seven | 5.0 |
| This is the first I've heard of this band, but I'm digging the balance between heaviness and melodies. Great workout tracks. |
| Dream Theater Awake | 4.0 |
| Amon Amarth Berserker | 4.0 |
| The Dear Hunter Act IV: Rebirth in Reprise | 4.0 |
| Pink Floyd The Piper at the Gates of Dawn | 2.0 |
| Pink Floyd Wish You Were Here | 4.5 |
| Pink Floyd The Dark Side of the Moon | 4.5 |
| Porcupine Tree The Sky Moves Sideways | 4.0 |
| The Heavy Eyes Love Like Machines | 2.5 |
Edit* Too much of an indie feel for me. The vocals are monotonous and all the songs are equally
boring. |
| Elder (USA-MA) Lore | 4.0 |
| The Flight of Sleipnir Eventide | 4.0 |
| Visigoth The Revenant King | 4.5 |
| Classic heavy metal, the name Visigoth is presumably after the early Germanic people (the Visigoths). Reminds me of Iron Maiden and Metallica only with germanic or viking/ warrior lyrical content and sounds. Great workout tracks... |
| Eternal Champion Ravening Iron | 4.5 |
| Van Halen Fair Warning | 3.5 |
| Thirty Seconds to Mars A Beautiful Lie | 4.5 |
| Montrose Montrose | 4.0 |
| Clear, strong vocals, simple 2-4 drum beats with decent heaviness, electrifying guitar and no real weak songs. Classic rock that's only beaten by Van Halen, ACDC, Led Zeppelin and the like. |
| The Jimi Hendrix Experience Electric Ladyland | 5.0 |
| W.A.S.P. The Last Command | 2.5 |
| Dream Theater Images and Words | 3.5 |
| Elderwind The Magic of Nature | 2.5 |
| Eldamar The Force of the Ancient Land | 2.5 |
| Be'lakor Of Breath and Bone | 5.0 |
| Rush Moving Pictures | 3.5 |
| Rush 2112 | 3.5 |
| Psychedelic Porn Crumpets Shyga! The Sunlight Mound | 2.0 |
| DorDeDuh Har | 4.0 |
| Savatage Hall of the Mountain King | 4.0 |
| Sepultura Roots | 2.5 |
| Alien Weaponry Tū | 4.0 |
| Excellent heavy groove metal, heavy guitar rhythms and interesting lyrical content exploring Maori culture and historical imperialism in New Zealand among other things. The songs that are sung in Maori have a different feeling, one that is more tribal and powerful to me. The track Whispers starts with what appears to be a radio conversation between a right-wing commentator stating the Maori's were savages and another speaker defending their culture as different and the need to live in harmony as more important now. This is an example of how much this kind of content is a focus for the band in their music and the messages they wish to convey. Other political topics are explored, for example in ?Nobody Here? (social media addiction) and the bands willingness to tackle these subjects is pleasing.rFavourite tracks; Kai Tangata, R? Ana Te Whenua, PC Bro, Urutaa |
| Nickelback The Long Road | 3.5 |
| Avenged Sevenfold City of Evil | 4.5 |
| Avenged Sevenfold Waking the Fallen | 3.0 |
| Be'lakor Stone's Reach | 5.0 |
| Five Finger Death Punch American Capitalist | 4.5 |
| Eluveitie Origins | 4.5 |
| The Amity Affliction Let the Ocean Take Me | 4.0 |
| Rivers of Nihil Where Owls Know My Name | 4.5 |
| Dvne Etemen Ænka | 4.0 |
| Moanaa Descent | 2.5 |
| There are some super heavy textures in this album with some experimental sounds and trippy ambiences typical of post metal. I'm knew to this genre, but I much prefer what I've heard of Mastodon thus far. This album may just be too dark and not melodic enough for me. |
| Villagers of Ioannina City Age of Aquarius | 5.0 |
| Ad Nauseam Imperative Imperceptible Impulse | 2.5 |
| Rise Against Appeal to Reason | 4.0 |
| Mendel Oblivion | 4.5 |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers Blood Sugar Sex Magik | 4.5 |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers By the Way | 4.5 |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers Stadium Arcadium | 4.5 |
| The Offspring Let the Bad Times Roll | 2.0 |
| Very disappointing, unlike The Offspring of old, over-produced, under-written and lame. Bring back the golden years of Americana and Smash. |
| The Offspring Smash | 3.5 |
| Opeth Pale Communion | 3.0 |
| The Offspring Rise and Fall, Rage and Grace | 4.5 |
| Mastodon Once More 'Round the Sun | 5.0 |
| Opeth Heritage | 4.5 |
