| Green Day Saviors | 3.5 |
| Metallica 72 Seasons | 3.0 |
| Black Math Horseman Black Math Horseman | 3.5 |
| Black Math Horseman Wyllt | 4.0 |
| Slipknot The End, So Far | 3.0 |
| Pixies Doggerel | 3.0 |
| Stiff Little Fingers Now Then... | 3.5 |
| Ozzy Osbourne Patient Number 9 | 3.5 |
| Black Sheep (USA-CA) Sacrifice | 2.5 |
| Def Leppard Hysteria | 4.0 |
| Bearded Executive Procedure Applies | 2.0 |
| Saint Asonia Introvert | 2.5 |
| Saint Asonia Flawed Design | 3.0 |
| Saint Asonia Saint Asonia | 2.5 |
| Def Leppard Diamond Star Halos | 3.0 |
| Iron Maiden Fear of the Dark | 2.5 |
| Three Days Grace Explosions | 2.5 |
| The Linda Lindas Growing Up | 4.0 |
| Kirk Hammett Portals | 4.0 |
| 3rd Secret 3rd Secret | 2.0 |
| Symfonia In Paradisum | 3.0 |
| Billy Talent Crisis Of Faith | 3.5 |
| Stratus (UK) Throwing Shapes | 3.0 |
| Zendaya Zendaya | 2.5 |
| Limp Bizkit Still Sucks | 3.0 |
| Backyard Superheroes Falling With Style | 4.0 |
| Backyard Superheroes Let's Get Dangerous | 4.5 |
| Black Sabbath Master of Reality | 4.0 |
| Bearded Executive Vestiges | 4.0 |
| Ramones Ramones | 4.5 |
| Big House Big House | 3.0 |
| Bearded Executive Concerns of the Agency | 4.0 |
| Corrigan '94 and Before | 4.0 |
| Bearded Executive The Enterprise Scale | 3.5 |
| Black Therapy Echoes of Dying Memories | 3.0 |
| Steve Gaines One In The Sun | 4.0 |
| The Toy Dolls Anniversary Anthems | 4.0 |
| Stepa Stepa | 3.0 |
| Johnny Thunders and the Heartbreakers L.A.M.F. | 4.5 |
| Gogmagog I Will Be There | 1.5 |
| Johnny Gioeli One Voice | 4.0 |
| Marishi Ten Dawning | 2.5 |
| Cockpit Mission To Rock | 4.0 |
| Yesterday's Children Yesterday's Children | 3.0 |
| AC/DC Power Up | 3.0 |
| Cream Strange Brew — The Very Best Of Cream | 4.0 |
| The Blocked Smashed Hits | 4.0 |
| Van Halen Van Halen | 4.0 |
| New American Shame New American Shame | 3.5 |
| Whitesnake Starkers in Tokyo | 4.0 |
| RDGLDGRN Red Gold Green | 4.0 |
| Black Sabbath Paranoid | 4.5 |
| Calpurnia Scout | 3.5 |
| Only Rivals Life Is Perfect | 3.0 |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor F♯ A♯ ∞ | 4.5 |
| Barfighter Barfighter 4 | 3.5 |
| Oasis Definitely Maybe | 4.5 |
| Emerged Letting Go of Certainties | 4.0 |
| Kill The Thrill 203 Barriers | 3.5 |
| Killswitch Engage Atonement II B-Sides for Charity | 4.0 |
| Barfighter Barfighter 3 | 4.0 |
| Barfighter Barfighter 2 | 4.0 |
| Barfighter Barfighter | 4.5 |
| Alice Cooper Toronto Rock'N'Roll Revival 1969, Vol.IV | 2.5 |
| Big Ball Hotter than Hell | 1.5 |
| Chosen Resolution | 3.0 |
| Rings of Saturn Embryonic Anomaly | 3.5 |
| Werefox I Am Memory | 3.5 |
| Sound City Players Sound City: Real To Reel | 2.0 |
| Enforcer Death By Fire | 4.5 |
| Green Day iDOS! | 1.5 |
| LOL @ how many 1 ratings this already has. Doomed from the start. Fuck you Sputnik - these guys made Dookie and American Idiot, they deserve not to be pre-judged. But no - they're not post-rock or indie, so they suck, right? God, sometimes I hate this website. |
| KISS Monster | 2.5 |
| Three Days Grace Transit of Venus | 2.5 |
| Billy Talent Dead Silence | 4.0 |
| Green Day ¡UNO! | 3.5 |
| Chumbawamba WYSIWYG | 4.5 |
| The Darkness Hot Cakes | 4.0 |
| Slipknot Antennas to Hell | 4.0 |
| Nirvana In Utero | 2.5 |
| Design the Skyline Nevaeh | 3.0 |
| Pretty Boy Floyd Leather Boyz With Electric Toyz | 3.5 |
| Operation Ivy Energy | 4.0 |
| Monks Black Monk Time | 4.5 |
| Airbourne Runnin' Wild | 3.5 |
| The Toy Dolls The Album After the Last One | 3.5 |
| The Darkness One Way Ticket To Hell And Back | 2.0 |
| The Darkness Permission to Land | 4.0 |
| Shonen Knife Osaka Ramones | 4.0 |
| Enforcer Diamonds | 4.0 |
| Enforcer Into The Night | 3.5 |
| The Who Live at Leeds | 4.5 |
| Tigertailz Thrill Pistol | 1.5 |
| Tigertailz Wazbones | 3.5 |
| 2nd Suicide Epitaph For The Proud 2008 | 3.5 |
| First of all, no; this isn't the same "An Epitaph For The Proud" which revealed a hungry young band called 2nd Suicide to the world back in 2006. Or rather, it is half of it. Coming about as the result of a contest win, "Epitaph 2008" features re-recordings of arguably the group's two best songs (although one does miss "Oblivion") and cleverly strays from material from the uninspired "Last of Kin". The benefit of a better production really helps "Epitaph For The Proud"'s qualities shine through, bringing out the song's rock'n'roll attitude in full. Conversely, however, "Garden of Stone" loses a little of its original personality with the re-recording, sounding a tad more generic than the original take., However, and despite the lack of any original material, this is still a recommended download for fans of the group and of melodeath in general. The fact that it's free only makes it that much better. Download it free at the group's website at http://www.2ndsuicide.com/#music |
| 2nd Suicide Last Of Kin | 2.5 |
| 2nd Suicide An Epitaph For The Proud | 4.0 |
| Pixies Doolittle 20th Anniversary Live Sampler | 4.0 |
| AC/DC Let There Be Rock | 3.0 |
| Severed Fifth Nightmares By Design | 1.5 |
| Severed Fifth Denied By Reign | 3.5 |
| Scarlet Grey Fancy Blood | 3.5 |
| Mortiis Perfectly Defect | 1.5 |
| Various Artists (Punk) Germs Of Perfection: A Tribute To Bad Religion | 3.5 |
| Sleep Parade Mr. Identify | 2.5 |
| Ginger Ten (Two) | 3.0 |
| Tabula Rasa (USA - PA) People | 4.0 |
| Bad Religion 30 Years Live | 3.0 |
| Rust Shoot Them Higher | 2.5 |
| MetaL BrotherS Thunders - Demo | 1.0 |
| Revenge [FRA] Fest Of Revenge | 3.0 |
| Revenge [FRA] Unbankable | 3.0 |
| Corpus Christi A Feast for Crows | 3.0 |
| Corpus Christi The Darker Shades Of White | 3.5 |
| Black Sheep (USA-CA) Trouble In The Streets | 2.0 |
| Green Day American Idiot | 3.5 |
| Toxic Taste Toxification | 2.5 |
| Tinariwen Imidiwan; Companions | 3.0 |
| Tinariwen Aman Iman: The Water Of Life | 2.0 |
| Tinariwen Amassakoul | 4.5 |
| Tinariwen The Radio Tisdas Sessions | 4.0 |
| Rikki Rockett Glitter 4 Your Soul | 3.0 |
| Samantha 7 Samantha 7 | 1.5 |
| Bret Michaels Custom Built | 1.0 |
| Bret Michaels Rock My World | 1.5 |
| Bret Michaels Freedom Of Sound | 2.5 |
| Bret Michaels Songs Of Life | 2.0 |
| Bret Michaels Country Demos | 3.0 |
| Bret Michaels A Letter From Death Row | 1.5 |
| Poison Live, Raw & Uncut | 4.5 |
| Poison Seven Days Live | 3.0 |
| Poison Poison'd! | 2.5 |
| Poison The Best Of Poison: 20 Years Of Rock | 4.0 |
| Poison Best of Ballads & Blues | 2.5 |
| Poison Hollyweird | 3.0 |
| Poison Power To The People | 3.0 |
| Poison Crack A Smile...And More! | 2.5 |
| Poison Greatest Hits: 1986-1996 | 4.5 |
| Poison Native Tongue | 2.0 |
| Poison Swallow This Live | 3.0 |
| Poison Flesh & Blood | 3.0 |
| Poison Open Up and Say... Ahh! | 4.0 |
| Poison Look What The Cat Dragged In | 3.5 |
| Nick Carter Now Or Never | 3.5 |
| MC5 High Time | 2.0 |
| MC5 Back In The USA | 4.5 |
| MC5 Kick Out the Jams | 5.0 |
| Papa Roach Infest | 2.5 |
| Beyond Pink Beyond Pink | 3.0 |
| Three Days Grace Life Starts Now | 2.0 |
| Three Days Grace One-X | 4.0 |
| Three Days Grace Three Days Grace | 3.0 |
| Heaven and Hell The Devil You Know | 3.5 |
| All That Remains The Fall of Ideals | 4.0 |
| Anthrax Spreading the Disease | 4.5 |
| Joey Ramone Don't Worry About Me | 3.0 |
| Alice Cooper Constrictor | 3.5 |
| Dee Dee Ramone Hop Around | 1.0 |
| Frank Stallone Frank Stallone | 3.0 |
| Boss Hog Whiteout | 3.5 |
| Scandal The Warrior | 2.5 |
| Village People We Want You: Very Best Of The Village People | 1.0 |
| Judas Priest Turbo | 2.0 |
| Metallica Master of Puppets | 4.5 |
| Aqua Aquarium | 2.5 |
| Bowling for Soup Goes To The Movies | 3.5 |
| System of a Down Hypnotize | 4.0 |
| Fu Manchu California Crossing | 3.5 |
| Manowar Fighting the World | 4.0 |
| Milli Vanilli All Or Nothing | 1.0 |
| Paradise Lost Paradise Lost | 3.5 |
| The Toy Dolls Cheerio And Toodlepip: The Complete Singles | 4.0 |
| Pantera Metal Magic | 1.0 |
If you never thought you'd see a song called "Ride My Rocket" on a Pantera album, boy, do we have an album for you!
"Metal Magic" sees the Texas quartet, then led by terrible singer Terry Glaze, embark in a piss-poor brand of hard'n'heavy with shameless glam overtones. There's even an attemptive ballad with keyboards! The songs veer between the unremarkable and the god-awful, often directly ripping off KISS, an admitted influence for the Darrell brothers. Heck, "Ride My Rocket" itself rips its title off an Ace Frehley song and its music off "Detroit Rock City"! The sad part is, it doesn't get much better from there, causing this album to be almost completely worthless. The only nearly acceptable song is the title track, whose riff hints at what would come years later.
Unfortunately, there would still be two more albums of this tripe before Pantera came to their senses, switched Glaze for Phil Anselmo, and set about redefining thrash metal. Avoid. |
| The Last Vegas Whatever Gets You Off | 4.0 |
| Megadeth Countdown to Extinction | 4.0 |
| Eyes Adrift Eyes Adrift | 4.0 |
| Airbourne No Guts. No Glory. (Special Edition) | 3.0 |
| AC/DC Back In Black | 3.0 |
| Typical case of an overrated album. The four famously classic tracks are undoubtedly very good, but there isn't much to listen to beyond them. The remaining tracks veer between passable and uninspired, and may not pass muster with a more demanding rock'n'roll fan. If you're looking to get into AC/DC, forget this one and get "Highway To Hell" instead; THAT'S the real classic. |
| blink-182 Take Off Your Pants And Jacket | 4.0 |
| Billy Talent Watoosh! | 3.0 |
| Slayer Reign in Blood | 3.5 |
| Jonas Brothers It's About Time | 2.5 |
| Various Artists (Rock) KISS My Ass: Classic KISS Regrooved | 3.5 |
| Paul Stanley Live to Win | 2.5 |
| Gene Simmons Asshole | 1.0 |
| Ace Frehley Anomaly | 3.0 |
| Ace Frehley Greatest Hits Live | 2.5 |
| Ace Frehley Loaded Deck | 4.0 |
| Ace Frehley 12 Picks | 3.0 |
| Ace Frehley Trouble Walkin' | 3.0 |
| Frehley's Comet Second Sighting | 2.5 |
| Frehley's Comet Live +1 | 3.0 |
| Ace Frehley Frehley's Comet | 3.5 |
| Peter Criss One For All | 1.0 |
| Peter Criss Cat #1 | 3.0 |
| Peter Criss Let Me Rock You | 1.5 |
| Peter Criss Out Of Control | 1.0 |
| Wicked Lester The Complete Wicked Lester Sessions | 2.0 |
| Lips Lips | 1.5 |
| Chelsea Chelsea | 3.0 |
| Bullfrog Bheer Bullfrog Bheer | 2.0 |
| KISS Sonic Boom | 3.5 |
| KISS Jigoku-Retsuden | 2.0 |
| KISS Kiss Symphony: Alive IV | 4.0 |
| KISS The Very Best of Kiss | 4.0 |
| KISS The Box Set | 2.0 |
| KISS Psycho Circus | 3.5 |
| KISS Carnival of Souls: The Final Sessions | 1.0 |
| KISS The Millennium Collection - Volume 2 | 3.5 |
| KISS You Wanted the Best, You Got the Best!! | 3.0 |
| KISS KISS Unplugged | 3.5 |
| KISS Alive III | 3.0 |
| KISS Revenge | 4.0 |
| KISS Hot in the Shade | 2.5 |
| KISS Smashes, Thrashes And Hits | 3.5 |
| KISS Crazy Nights | 1.5 |
| KISS Asylum | 3.5 |
| KISS Animalize | 1.0 |
| KISS Lick It Up | 1.5 |
| KISS Creatures of the Night | 3.5 |
| KISS Killers | 2.0 |
| KISS Music from "The Elder" | 1.0 |
| KISS Unmasked | 4.0 |
| KISS Dynasty | 2.0 |
| Peter Criss Peter Criss | 4.0 |
| Ace Frehley Ace Frehley | 2.5 |
| Gene Simmons Gene Simmons | 1.5 |
| Paul Stanley Paul Stanley | 4.0 |
| KISS Double Platinum | 3.0 |
| KISS Alive II | 4.0 |
| KISS Love Gun | 3.5 |
| KISS Rock and Roll Over | 3.5 |
| KISS Destroyer | 4.5 |
| KISS Alive! | 3.0 |
| KISS Dressed to Kill | 4.5 |
| KISS Hotter Than Hell | 3.0 |
| KISS KISS | 4.0 |
| Idlewild Hope Is Important | 3.5 |
| Airbourne Ready To Rock | 3.0 |
| Phantom X Storm Riders | 4.0 |
| EZ Livin' After The Fire | 4.0 |
| Hawkwind In the Beginning | 3.0 |
| Alice Cooper Trash | 4.0 |
| MxPx Before Everything & After | 4.0 |
| Ramones Rocket to Russia | 4.5 |
| Hanson Middle of Nowhere | 3.5 |
| Alice Cooper The Last Temptation | 4.0 |
| FM Static Critically Ashamed | 1.5 |
| Alice Cooper Hey Stoopid | 4.5 |
| And Then There Were None Who Speaks For Planet Earth? | 3.5 |
| God Forbid Gone Forever | 4.0 |
| New York Dolls Too Much Too Soon | 5.0 |
| The Cult Electric | 5.0 |
| Full Devil Jacket Full Devil Jacket | 2.0 |
| Danger Danger Danger Danger | 3.0 |
| Firenote Firenote | 2.5 |
| Metallica Death Magnetic | 3.5 |
| AC/DC High Voltage | 5.0 |
| Damn Yankees Damn Yankees | 4.0 |
| Firehouse Firehouse | 4.0 |
| Julliet Julliet | 4.0 |
| Ozzy Osbourne Down to Earth | 4.5 |
| Warlock Triumph and Agony | 4.5 |
| Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Coming Out Of Their Shells | 1.0 |
| Whitefoxx Whitefoxx | 1.0 |
| AC/DC Black Ice | 3.5 |
| Austrian Death Machine Total Brutal | 4.0 |
| Death Leprosy | 4.5 |
| Green Day Insomniac | 4.0 |
| 12 Stones 12 Stones | 2.5 |
| Vanilla Ice To the Extreme | 1.0 |
| Jin The Rest Is History | 3.5 |
| Paris Hilton Paris | 2.0 |
| Green Day 21st Century Breakdown | 4.0 |
| Mastodon 9 Song Demo | 2.5 |
| Simple Plan No Pads, No Helmets... Just Balls | 3.5 |
| Halford Resurrection | 4.0 |
| Impellitteri Answer To The Master | 4.5 |
| Your Own Destroyer Demo | 1.0 |
| Ramones Animal Boy | 4.0 |
| Lillian García Quiero Vivir | 2.0 |
| Steven Seagal Songs From the Crystal Cave | 1.0 |
| Soundtrack (Film) Alvin and The Chipmunks | 2.0 |
| Green Day Warning | 3.5 |
| Scorpions Love At First Sting | 4.5 |
| Slipknot All Hope Is Gone | 4.0 |
| Europe The Final Countdown | 3.5 |
| Ramones Subterranean Jungle | 2.0 |
| Ramones Road to Ruin | 2.5 |
| Ramones Mondo Bizarro | 3.5 |
| Lauren Harris Calm Before the Storm | 3.5 |
| Trust Company The Lonely Position of Neutral | 3.0 |
| Destruction All Hell Breaks Loose | 3.5 |
| Nostradameus The Prophet of Evil | 4.0 |
| Korn Life Is Peachy | 4.0 |
| Accept Accept | 2.0 |
| Metallica St. Anger | 1.0 |
| Metallica Ride the Lightning | 5.0 |
| Helloween Keeper of the Seven Keys Part II | 4.5 |
| My Chemical Romance The Black Parade | 4.0 |
| Various Artists Dracula 2000 OST | 2.5 |
| Abandoned Forcefed | 4.5 |
| No One No One | 2.5 |
Even back in the nu-metal heyday, No One were always ?just another? band of the genre. They weren't even third tier, and that shows on this album. What we have here is basically the work of a (competent) fourth-tier nu-metal band. The sound is derivative, albeit at times engaging, the anger is processed, and even the titles are fairly typical.
To do this band justice, their album starts off pretty strong. Down on Me, Chemical and It's Real are all strong nu-metal tracks, and I actually get a kick out of listening to them. But the problem here is the same that affects most hip-hop albums - there are just too many tracks, which contributes greatly to a reduction of the listener's interest. Plus, the closer we get to the end, the less interesting the tracks become, and none of them are ever a patch on the first five.
Another interesting factor in the band's sound is that every other song sounds the same. All the odd-number songs sound like Slipknot/Downthesun and all the even-numbered ones sound like System of A Down/Korn/Dope.
All in all, then, this is the definition of an average album. Not bad by any stretch of the imagination, just derivative and a tad boring. If you're curious, try downloading Down on Me, Chemical and My Release, and just consign the rest of the album to eternal oblivion. |
| Alerion Fledgling | 2.0 |
| Green Day 1039/Smoothed Out Slappy Hours | 3.0 |
| AC/DC Powerage | 3.0 |
| Slipknot Vol. 3: The Subliminal Verses | 2.5 |
| Sepultura Beneath the Remains | 4.5 |
| Judas Priest Living After Midnight | 4.0 |
| Judas Priest British Steel | 4.5 |
| Helloween Pink Bubbles Go Ape | 3.5 |
| Pennywise From The Ashes | 4.0 |
| Green Day Dookie | 5.0 |
| Pantera Far Beyond Driven | 2.5 |
| Limp Bizkit Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavored Water | 2.5 |
| Pantera Vulgar Display of Power | 4.0 |
| Linkin Park Meteora | 3.5 |
| Donots Better days not included | 2.0 |
| Intruder Psycho Savant | 3.0 |
| Bon Jovi Bon Jovi | 4.0 |
| Green Day Kerplunk | 3.5 |
| Grim Force Circulation to Conclusion | 3.5 |
| The Doors The Doors | 4.5 |
| Jay-Z and Linkin Park Collision Course | 3.5 |
| Sid Vicious Sid Sings | 1.0 |
| Duff McKagan Believe In Me | 4.0 |
| Metallica Kill 'Em All | 3.5 |
| Nirvana Incesticide | 4.5 |
| Westlife World Of Our Own | 0.5 |
| Ramones Leave Home | 4.5 |
| The All-American Rejects The All-American Rejects | 4.0 |
| The Offspring Americana | 4.0 |
| Ramones End of the Century | 4.0 |
| Linkin Park Hybrid Theory | 3.5 |
| AC/DC Highway To Hell | 4.5 |
| Motley Crue New Tattoo | 4.0 |
| Murderdolls Beyond The Valley of the Murderdolls | 4.0 |
| AC/DC Live at Donington | 5.0 |
| Nirvana Nevermind | 5.0 |
| Quite simply, one of the most classic albums of all time. Nearly all, if not all, of the songs are classics, and members of the relevant generation(s) can still pull off their riffs and lyrics by heart upon the mere mention of their names. If you fancy yourself a music lover and you don't have this, then, my friend, stop fancying. Mandatory for all men, women, children and monkeys. |
| Pantera The Great Southern Trendkill | 4.0 |
| AC/DC Ballbreaker | 3.5 |
| Sepultura Chaos A.D. | 5.0 |
| AC/DC Fly On The Wall | 3.0 |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven | 2.5 |
| Tantric Tantric | 1.0 |
| AC/DC Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap | 3.5 |
| Rammstein Mutter | 4.0 |
| Linkin Park Reanimation | 1.0 |
| Megadeth The World Needs a Hero | 4.0 |
| Iron Maiden Virtual XI | 3.5 |
| Stiff Little Fingers Nobody's Hero | 3.5 |
| Green Day Nimrod | 1.5 |
