| Red Velvet The ReVe Festival 2022 – Birthday | 4.0 |
| LE SSERAFIM UNFORGIVEN | 4.5 |
| Red Velvet Queendom | 3.0 |
| Irene and Seulgi Monster | 3.5 |
| Seulgi 28 Reasons | 4.0 |
| Red Velvet The ReVe Festival 2022 – Feel My Rhythm | 4.0 |
| Lana Del Rey Born To Die (The Paradise Edition) | 3.5 |
| Lana Del Rey Lust For Life | 3.0 |
| Lana Del Rey Honeymoon | 4.0 |
| Lana Del Rey Norman Fucking Rockwell! | 4.5 |
| Tool Fear Inoculum | 4.0 |
| Taylor Swift Lover | 3.0 |
| Taylor Swift Reputation | 4.0 |
| Steven Wilson To the Bone | 2.5 |
| Hans Zimmer Dunkirk | 3.5 |
| Meshuggah The Violent Sleep Of Reason | 4.5 |
| Slayer Repentless | 2.0 |
| SikTh Opacities | 4.0 |
| Arnold Bax Piano Sonata No. 3 in G sharp minor | 3.5 |
| Arnold Bax Piano Sonata No. 1 in F sharp minor | 4.0 |
| Steven Wilson Hand. Cannot. Erase. | 2.0 |
| Hans Zimmer Thin Red Line | 3.5 |
| Hans Zimmer The Last Samurai | 3.5 |
| Nick Cave and Warren Ellis The Assasination of Jesse James | 4.5 |
| Burial Rival Dealer | 3.0 |
| Hans Zimmer Frost/Nixon | 3.5 |
| Hans Zimmer Man of Steel | 1.5 |
| Howard Shore The Lord of the Rings Symphony | 3.0 |
| Hans Zimmer Crimson Tide | 4.0 |
| Machine Head Bloodstone And Diamonds | 3.0 |
| Hans Zimmer Interstellar | 5.0 |
| Lana Del Rey Ultraviolence | 4.0 |
| Taylor Swift Red | 4.0 |
| Taylor Swift 1989 | 4.0 |
| Soundtrack (Disney) Frozen: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack | 2.0 |
| Nirvana Nirvana | 4.0 |
| Children of Bodom Halo of Blood | 2.5 |
| Tove Lo Truth Serum | 3.5 |
| Opeth Pale Communion | 3.0 |
| Gustavo Santaolalla The Last of Us OST | 4.5 |
| Mastodon Once More 'Round the Sun | 2.5 |
| Arch Enemy War Eternal | 1.5 |
| Pink Floyd Atom Heart Mother | 3.0 |
| Steven Wilson Grace for Drowning | 3.0 |
| Steven Wilson The Raven That Refused to Sing (And Other Stories) | 2.5 |
| Ah. Finally we all now know what happens when you discover the art of over-indulgence. |
| Pink Floyd Meddle | 4.5 |
| John Cage 4'33'' | 5.0 |
| I spent 4'33" just thinking about what I could write here, then I decided that I shouldn't waste my time. Go figure. |
| Terry Riley In C | 3.5 |
| Samuel Barber Adagio for Strings | 3.0 |
| Combat Astronomy Kundalini Apocalypse | 4.0 |
| Clutch Earth Rocker | 4.0 |
| C.B Murdoc The Green | 3.5 |
| Warning Watching from a Distance | 4.0 |
| Cavern Cavern | 3.0 |
| George Butterworth The Banks of Green Willow | 3.5 |
| Olafur Arnalds For Now I Am Winter | 2.5 |
| Anathema We're Here Because We're Here | 3.5 |
| Christopher Lee A Heavy Metal Christmas | 3.0 |
| Hop Along Get Disowned | 2.5 |
| Niechec Smierc w Miekkim Futerku | 4.0 |
| Burial Truant/Rough Sleeper | 3.0 |
| Kate Miller-Heidke Nightflight | 3.0 |
| Abel (NY) Make It Right | 3.5 |
| Enslaved RIITIIR | 3.0 |
| Jessie Ware Devotion | 3.5 |
| Rihanna Unapologetic | 1.5 |
| Lana Del Rey Paradise | 3.0 |
| Stone Sour House of Gold and Bones - Part 1 | 3.0 |
| Philip Glass Koyaanisqatsi | 5.0 |
| Left Lane Cruiser Junkyard Speed Ball | 3.5 |
| Clubroot III - MMXII | 3.0 |
| Anathema Weather Systems | 4.0 |
| The Tallest Man on Earth There's No Leaving Now | 4.0 |
| Om Advaitic Songs | 4.0 |
| Gojira L'Enfant Sauvage | 3.5 |
| Maroon 5 Overexposed | 2.5 |
| High on Fire De Vermis Mysteriis | 3.5 |
| The Contortionist Intrinsic | 2.0 |
| Norah Jones Little Broken Hearts | 3.5 |
| Angus Stone Broken Brights | 4.0 |
| Baroness Yellow and Green | 3.0 |
| Hans Zimmer The Dark Knight Rises | 2.0 |
| Agalloch Faustian Echoes | 3.0 |
| Zelienople The World Is A House On Fire | 4.5 |
| Massive Attack Mezzanine | 5.0 |
| Philip Glass Symphony No. 9 | 3.5 |
| Periphery Periphery II: This Time It's Personal | 2.5 |
| Philip Glass Violin Concerto No. 2, "The American Four Seasons" | 3.0 |
| Ne Obliviscaris Portal of I | 3.0 |
| Marina Electra Heart | 3.0 |
| Marina The Family Jewels | 3.0 |
| Killer Mike R.A.P. Music | 4.0 |
| Clint Mansell Moon | 3.0 |
| Florence and the Machine Ceremonials | 3.5 |
| DragonForce The Power Within | 3.0 |
| Morbid Angel Illud Divinum Insanus | 1.5 |
| Alban Berg Piano Sonata, Op. 1 | 4.0 |
| Grimes Visions | 2.5 |
| M.I.A. Maya | 3.0 |
| Ian Anderson Thick as a Brick 2 | 4.0 |
| Kate Bush Hounds of Love | 5.0 |
| Santigold Master of My Make-Believe | 3.5 |
| Age of Evil A.O.E. | 3.5 |
| Atoma Skylight | 3.5 |
| Soulfly Enslaved | 2.5 |
| The Cranberries No Need to Argue | 4.0 |
| VESSL Goddess | 3.0 |
| Leonard Cohen Old Ideas | 3.0 |
| Soso (SWE) T.T.I.D.S.D.I.E.U.I.C. | 3.0 |
| Sleigh Bells Reign of Terror | 3.5 |
| Astra The Black Chord | 3.0 |
| Astra's otherworldly tones are pulled unreservedly right from the 1970s book of progressive psychadellica, and then offered in 2012 packaging. There are copious amounts of Mellotron, blues licks in bouncing stereo, and just about every other prog cliche. At times they're ripping off Pink Floyd to the note, such as the opener which may as well have been titled 'Shine on You Crazy Diamond v2012', other times it's King Crimson copping the flack - but interestingly they do it all with some sense of authenticity. This in the end is what makes The Black Chord listenable, despite its deprivation of memorable weight. If it weren't for some well placed distinctions here and there ('Barefoot in the Head' in particular) The Black Chord would not only feel like another imitation, but a poor one at that. Thankfully, they manage to pull it off, only just, though. |
| In Flames The Jester Race | 4.0 |
| In Flames A Sense of Purpose | 3.0 |
| In Flames Sounds of a Playground Fading | 3.0 |
| Soundtrack (Film) Forrest Gump | 4.5 |
| Madonna MDNA | 3.0 |
| The Mars Volta Noctourniquet | 3.0 |
| Demolition Hammer Epidemic of Violence | 4.5 |
| Converge Jane Doe | 2.5 |
| Meshuggah Koloss | 4.0 |
| NSYNC Greatest Hits | 3.5 |
| Corrosion of Conformity Corrosion of Conformity | 2.5 |
| Every Time I Die Ex Lives | 3.5 |
| Buckethead Electric Sea | 3.5 |
| Burial Kindred | 5.0 |
One word. Genius.
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| Van Halen A Different Kind of Truth | 3.5 |
| John Talabot Fin | 4.0 |
| Edvard Grieg Piano Concerto in A Minor | 5.0 |
| Charles Ives Piano Sonata No. 2, Concord, Mass., 1840–60 | 3.5 |
| Air Le Voyage Dans La Lune | 3.0 |
| Henry Cowell Piano Music | 4.0 |
| Ed Sheeran + | 3.0 |
| Kimbra Vows | 3.0 |
| Immolation Majesty and Decay | 4.0 |
| AJJ Knife Man | 3.5 |
| Bic Runga Belle | 3.5 |
| Brand New Deja Entendu | 3.0 |
| Ringo Starr Ringo 2012 | 2.5 |
| The Weeknd House of Balloons | 4.0 |
| Rustie Glass Swords | 3.0 |
| Zomby Dedication | 3.0 |
| Sepalcure Sepalcure | 3.5 |
| Coldplay Mylo Xyloto | 3.5 |
| Beyonce 4 | 3.5 |
| Laura Stevenson Sit Resist | 3.0 |
| Manchester Orchestra Mean Everything to Nothing | 3.5 |
| Lana Del Rey Born to Die | 3.5 |
| Amia Venera Landscape The Long Procession | 3.5 |
| Ry Cooder Pull Up Some Dust and Sit Down | 4.0 |
| Combat Astronomy Barricades | 4.0 |
| Combat Astronomy Dematerialised Passenger | 3.0 |
| Combat Astronomy Flak Planet | 4.0 |
| Alcest Les Voyages De L'Âme | 3.0 |
| Lamb of God Resolution | 3.0 |
| Vali Forlatt | 4.5 |
| Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross The Social Network OST | 4.0 |
| Frank Turner England Keep My Bones | 4.0 |
| Bon Iver Bon Iver, Bon Iver | 3.5 |
| Burial Untrue | 5.0 |
| Burial Street Halo | 3.5 |
| James Blake Enough Thunder | 3.5 |
| Cynic Carbon-Based Anatomy | 3.5 |
| James Blake James Blake | 4.0 |
| TesseracT One | 3.0 |
| Vektor Outer Isolation | 4.0 |
| Thy Catafalque Rengeteg | 3.0 |
| Periphery Icarus | 3.0 |
| Metallica Beyond Magnetic | 2.5 |
| Colin Stetson New History Warfare Vol 2: Judges | 4.5 |
| Natalie Walker Spark | 3.0 |
| Swarms Old Raves End | 4.5 |
| Chevelle Hats Off To The Bull | 2.5 |
| Vildhjarta Måsstaden | 3.0 |
| Torn between clean "canyon reverb" interludes and overtly digitized riffs, Vildhjarta offer a well rounded debut, but only in chunks and pieces. There's nothing really bad about it, but there's nothing all that great either. The concept while intriguing isn't savoured by the countless allusions to a style which is aging much faster than its proponents. |
| Calvin Harris I Created Disco | 3.0 |
| Lady Gaga A Very Gaga Holiday | 3.5 |
| Budgie Never Turn Your Back on a Friend | 4.5 |
| Ash Borer Ash Borer | 4.0 |
| Evoken Antithesis of Light | 3.5 |
| Kate Bush 50 Words for Snow | 4.0 |
| Rihanna Talk That Talk | 2.0 |
| Birdy Birdy | 3.5 |
| Debuting with an album of covers sounds like a weak way to enter the industry, but Jasmine Van den Bogaerde, ?a Birdy, manages to pull enough strings to remove herself from whatever tangled notions that may be present. Her collection portrays a quaint, emotive voice amongst roomy decay, bubbly piano, and poignant string arangements. Unlike her peers -- the divas Adele, Duffy and the late Amy Winehouse -- Birdys voice is audibly younger, less trained and more organic. It will be interesting to see if she plots a path towards something other than the popular soul pop we've been exposed to for a while now, but for some reason, I dont think this will really matter in the end. |
| Summoning Oath Bound | 2.5 |
| Opeth Heritage | 3.0 |
| Heritage = [Watershed's sound + (3 years - growls)] / (sqrt 1970s prog influences) |
| Machine Head Burn My Eyes | 4.0 |
| Machine Head Unto The Locust | 2.5 |
| Mastodon The Hunter | 3.5 |
| Soundtrack (Disney) Tangled | 4.5 |
| Hanson Middle of Nowhere | 3.0 |
| Soundtrack (Disney) Fantasia | 5.0 |
| Between the Buried and Me The Parallax: Hypersleep Dialogues | 2.5 |
| Design the Skyline Nevaeh | 2.0 |
| Meshuggah Destroy Erase Improve | 4.0 |
| Meshuggah Chaosphere | 4.0 |
| Meshuggah Contradictions Collapse | 3.0 |
| Meshuggah The True Human Design | 2.0 |
| Hans Zimmer Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides | 1.5 |
| Matthew Morrison Matthew Morrison | 2.5 |
| Arthur Honegger Pacific 231, for orchestra | 3.5 |
| Jon Lord Sarabande | 3.5 |
| Philip Glass Symphony No. 8 | 4.0 |
| Trivium In Waves | 2.5 |
| Adele 21 | 4.0 |
| Meshuggah I | 5.0 |
| Meshuggah None | 3.5 |
| Children of Bodom Relentless Reckless Forever | 2.0 |
| Asking Alexandria Reckless and Relentless | 1.5 |
| Sepultura Chaos A.D. | 3.5 |
| Modest Mussorgsky A Night on Bald Mountain | 4.0 |
| Modest Mussorgsky Pictures at an Exhibition | 3.0 |
| Ravel's interpretation of Mussorgsky's masterpiece is well thought out, but the piano is really where this work shines. |
| Hugh Laurie Let Them Talk | 3.5 |
| Jennifer Lopez Love? | 3.0 |
| 3 Doors Down Time of My Life | 2.0 |
| Seasick Steve You Can't Teach an Old Dog New Tricks | 4.0 |
| Alfred Schnittke Piano Sonata No. 1 | 3.5 |
| Wintersun Wintersun | 3.0 |
| Slipknot Welcome to Our Neighborhood [DVD] | 1.5 |
| blink-182 Blink-182 | 4.0 |
| Klaus Badelt Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl | 4.0 |
| Mumford and Sons Sigh No More | 3.0 |
| Kate Bush Director's Cut | 3.0 |
| Bruno Mars Doo-Wops & Hooligans | 2.5 |
| Arch Enemy Khaos Legions | 2.5 |
| Stevie Nicks In Your Dreams | 3.0 |
| Lady Gaga Born This Way | 2.5 |
| Don Davis The Matrix | 3.5 |
| James Horner Apollo 13 [Promotional Release] | 4.0 |
| James Horner Avatar | 3.0 |
| Michael Giacchino Up | 4.5 |
| Orrery Nine Odes to Oblivion | 3.5 |
| Paul Simon So Beautiful or So What | 4.0 |
| Kesha Cannibal | 1.0 |
| Well, there's amazing pop; good pop; pop that while purely commercial, still works; pop that is so blatantly Auto-Tuned that it... still somehow works. Cannibal (and Animal) is none of these, no, it falls into the category of, bogan pop. Indeed, bogan pop is pop derived from a socio-economic class of musicians so terrible that even real-world bogans are allowed to be critical. |
| Foo Fighters There Is Nothing Left to Lose | 3.5 |
| Foo Fighters Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace | 3.0 |
| Foo Fighters In Your Honor | 2.5 |
| Foo Fighters Wasting Light | 3.5 |
| Foo Fighters One by One | 3.5 |
| Foo Fighters Foo Fighters | 3.5 |
| PJ Harvey Let England Shake | 4.0 |
| Rihanna Loud | 4.0 |
| Lady Gaga The Fame Monster | 4.0 |
| Hans Zimmer Inception | 4.0 |
| Mono Hymn to the Immortal Wind | 4.0 |
| Stone Sour Audio Secrecy | 2.0 |
| Hellyeah Stampede | 1.5 |
| Crowded House Woodface | 5.0 |
| Crowded House Intriguer | 4.0 |
| Korn Korn III: Remember Who You Are | 2.5 |
| Kylie Minogue Body Language | 4.0 |
| Kylie Minogue X | 2.5 |
| Gil Scott-Heron Pieces of a Man | 3.5 |
| Operator Please Gloves | 2.0 |
| Kylie Minogue Aphrodite | 3.0 |
| Christina Aguilera Keeps Gettin' Better: A Decade of Hits | 4.0 |
| Christina Aguilera Bionic | 4.0 |
| Christina Aguilera Mi Reflejo | 2.0 |
| Arnold Bax Piano Sonata No. 2 in G major | 5.0 |
| King Crimson Beat | 3.0 |
| Ludwig van Beethoven Symphony No. 8 in F major, Op. 93 | 3.5 |
| Ludwig van Beethoven Symphony No. 4 in B♭, Op. 60 | 4.0 |
| Ludwig van Beethoven Symphony No. 5 in C minor, Op. 67 | 4.5 |
| Ludwig van Beethoven Symphony No. 3 in E♭ “Eroica” Op. 55 | 4.0 |
| Ludwig van Beethoven Symphony No. 1 in C major, Op. 21 | 3.0 |
| Arnold Bax Symphony No. 5 in C sharp minor | 3.0 |
| Arnold Bax Symphony No. 3 | 3.5 |
| Arnold Bax Symphony No. 4 | 2.5 |
| Arnold Bax Symphony No. 7 in A flat major | 4.0 |
| Arnold Bax Symphony No. 2 in E minor/C major | 3.0 |
| Arnold Bax Symphony No. 6 in C major | 4.5 |
| Arnold Bax Symphony No. 1 in E-flat major | 3.5 |
| Daniel Bjarnason Processions | 4.5 |
| Daniel Bjarnason discovers the movements of impressionism, serialism, and minimalism in the same breath through this spastic-bombastic collection. It's about as divine as it is chaotic, and sprawling as it is cohesive, however don't let this spontaneous dynamic deter you if you're a haphazard classical listener who's only familiar with, well, the 'classics'. For those, his piano driven arrangements are the highlight here as they feel both structured, yet natural in equal measure. Similarly, his use of ill-defined percussion accentuates many forces within the often Messiaen-like string arrangements that would otherwise feel cyclic. However, to truly feel the experience, you need to stop reading this short summation, find your local dealer and support one the year's most redolent releases. |
| Dark Time Sunshine Vessel | 4.5 |
| Periphery Periphery | 4.0 |
| Bela Bartok Divertimento, Sz. 113 | 3.5 |
| Eric Whitacre Whitacre: Cloudburst | 4.5 |
| Johann Sebastian Bach Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 565 | 4.5 |
2.5 Nick!!! wtf... anyway.
Musicians studying counterpoint can find plenty of other Bach to digest and disect, and sure, this might not be his most tantalising piece. However, it's a brief body of mystifying music that shows the pure capability of the church organ before it got bastardised into playing only at weddings. Despite others like Camille Saint-Saens (particularly his Organ Smyphony) and Olivier Messiaen (his La nativite du seigneur suite) later having their own magical prowess, Bach's ability here to show exactly how the organ is quite possibly the only natural instrument that can voice almost all others is easily the most distinguishable to listeners worldwide from the work's opening mordent. Not only does it resonate like a tuba and carry like a flute, it also saws like a violin, and squeals like a trumpet. Ironically, these rich harmonics also make it one of the most difficult to control instruments; Bach doesn't seem to be affected by this, adding melodic accompaniment in places where it seemingly would be impossible to fit. |
| The Tallest Man on Earth The Wild Hunt | 4.5 |
| Raw folk that's as evocative as the playing style that Kristian Matsson creates. Brilliant is hardly a word that sums up this tantalising interaction between man, nature, guitar and lyric. |
| Deftones Diamond Eyes | 3.5 |
| Them Crooked Vultures Them Crooked Vultures | 4.0 |
| King Crimson Discipline | 4.0 |
| Meshuggah Nothing (Re-Release) | 4.5 |
| Meshuggah Nothing | 3.5 |
| Jimi Hendrix Valleys of Neptune | 4.5 |
| Orianthi Believe | 3.0 |
| There's organisation about Believe. Firstly it was relesed at the perfect time; just after the release of This Is It, but more importantly the music feels tight and well balanced. Orianthi could well have been bundled as the one of the placentae associated with the demise of Michael Jackson, but she pulls of a record thats catchy and fun, though admitedly a little bland at the edges. Afterall there's only so much you can do with a stock angsty voice, even if the guitar work is impeccable. |
| Gabriella Cilmi Ten | 2.0 |
| Ten is where Gabriella Cilmi needed to go after her punchy debut. It will prove as a stepping stone to bigger and better things, naturally, but is still a record that's plagued by incoherent poppy-electronic songwriting that sits awkwardly alogside her voice. Sometimes the crunchy elements blend well together like during "On a Mission" and "Hearts Don't Lie", but the rest requires a little too much forced tolerance. |
| Angus and Julia Stone Down the Way | 3.0 |
| Ringo Starr Y Not | 2.5 |
| Philip Glass Etudes for Piano, Vol. 1 | 5.0 |
| Philip Glass The Hours (Soundtrack) | 3.5 |
| Scott Walker Tilt | 4.5 |
| Rihanna Rated R | 4.0 |
| Michael Jackson Number Ones | 4.0 |
| Michael Jackson This Is It | 2.0 |
| Slayer War at the Warfield (Video) | 4.0 |
| Slayer Live Undead | 3.5 |
| Slayer World Painted Blood | 3.0 |
| Natalie Imbruglia Counting Down the Days | 3.0 |
| Natalie Imbruglia White Lilies Island | 2.5 |
| Between the Buried and Me The Great Misdirect | 4.0 |
| Munro srtikes the nail; Between the Buried and Me finally pursue coherence and discover its beauty. There's a deserted tumbleweed sound all over this record that makes it fitting for both where the band are, and where they've come from initially. Sure, "Swim to the Moon" is total overkill (and Thor, the drum solo is pretty stock actually), but the rest is both beautiful and intense enough to leave this listener totally satisfied. |
| Rammstein Liebe Ist Für Alle Da | 2.0 |
| Get your knickers in a knot over their worst album since, well ever - why? Are there still a few fetishes lingering out there? Naturally their vulgar humour taints this record, perhaps more so than previously, but that's not the issue, nor is it the fact they've done nothing to their original sound. It's simply the fact that there's hardly a song on here worth the $25 bucks (unlike Mutter or Reise, Reise for example), leaving you not only laughing at 'Pussy', but also laughing at yourself for being such an idiot buying it (if that's how you've attained this of course)... |
| Natalie Imbruglia Come to Life | 3.5 |
| Baroness Blue Record | 2.5 |
| Alice in Chains Black Gives Way to Blue | 4.0 |
| Arch Enemy The Root of All Evil | 2.0 |
| Arch Enemy Dead Eyes See No Future | 3.0 |
| Children of Bodom Skeletons in the Closet | 2.5 |
| Shadows Fall Retribution | 3.0 |
| Olivier Messiaen Quatuor Pour la Fin du Temps | 5.0 |
| Kevin Rudolf In The City | 1.5 |
| We Are Smug We Are Smug | 1.5 |
| Darren Hayes This Delicate Thing We've Made | 3.5 |
| Savage Garden Affirmation | 4.0 |
| Chevelle This Type Of Thinking (Could Do Us In) | 2.0 |
| Chevelle Vena Sera | 3.5 |
| Chevelle Sci-Fi Crimes | 2.5 |
| Opeth Morningrise | 3.5 |
| Opeth Burden | 2.0 |
| Opeth Orchid | 2.5 |
| Chevelle Point #1 | 2.0 |
| La Roux La Roux | 3.5 |
| I wish I enjoyed this as much as I do looking at Eleanor Jackson's awesome hair style, but really this is quite listenable. "Tigerlily" is the album's gem with "Bulletproof" and "In for the Kill" following close behind. |
| Hilary Duff Metamorphosis | 2.5 |
| Hilary Duff Hilary Duff | 1.5 |
| Green Day 21st Century Breakdown | 1.5 |
| Short Stack Stack is the New Black | 1.0 |
| The Veronicas Hook Me Up | 3.5 |
| The Veronicas The Secret Life Of... | 4.0 |
| My Chemical Romance The Black Parade | 4.5 |
| OutKast Speakerboxxx/The Love Below | 3.0 |
| OutKast Stankonia | 4.0 |
| Bob Dylan Time Out of Mind | 3.5 |
| Bob Dylan Love and Theft | 3.0 |
| Ulver Bergtatt - Et eeventyr i 5 capitler | 4.5 |
| Pink Floyd Animals | 5.0 |
| Bright Eyes Digital Ash in a Digital Urn | 1.5 |
| Moby Play | 4.5 |
| Kate Miller-Heidke Telegram | 3.0 |
| Kate Miller-Heidke Little Eve | 2.5 |
| Kate Miller-Heidke Curiouser | 3.5 |
| The Rolling Stones Let It Bleed | 5.0 |
| The Rolling Stones A Bigger Bang | 3.5 |
| The Rolling Stones Voodoo Lounge | 2.5 |
| The Rolling Stones Steel Wheels | 2.0 |
| The Rolling Stones Tattoo You | 4.5 |
| Michael Jackson Off the Wall | 4.0 |
| Michael Jackson Dangerous | 3.0 |
| Michael Jackson Bad | 4.5 |
| Michael Jackson Invincible | 2.0 |
| Michael Jackson Thriller | 5.0 |
| Eminem Relapse | 1.0 |
| Killswitch Engage Killswitch Engage (2009) | 1.5 |
| The problem is that while dawdling on the toilet of ideas where progression comes as close as Howard Jones' lyrics do to relevance; Killswitch forgot remind us that being engaged is perhaps not the best alternative when you need to follow up on last time's borefest. Producing yet another waste filled bowl of poor musical material, not even good enough to be processed by a sewerage treatment plant, the band only come close to reality in a few fleeting moments across the album's entirety. While there's certainly been worse this year already, Killswitch only add to 2009's shitlist. |
| Marilyn Manson The High End of Low | 1.0 |
| Eskimo Joe A Song Is A City | 3.0 |
| Eskimo Joe Black Fingernails, Red Wine | 4.0 |
| Stevie Ray Vaughan Texas Flood | 4.5 |
| Stevie Ray Vaughan In Step | 5.0 |
| The Blues Brothers Music From The Soundtrack | 5.0 |
| The most important thing about this movie is that it opened the eyes of a public who were getting way too much sweet-candy-new-wave-disco-electronic-gizmo-gadgetry, and not enough Rayban-sunny-raw-blues. Not too far down the timeline and Stevie Ray Vaughan's shortlived stardom would revive this brilliant style of music. For now though, the soundtrack races along in an ol' 1974 Dodge cop carrier with plenty of raw energy, soulful fun, and an all star ensemble cast. Why not let the showmanship of Aretha Franklin, James Brown, Ray Charles, Cab Calloway, John Lee Hooker, and the Blues Brothers Band itself with Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi, take you on their extravagant mission from God? |
| Buckethead The Cuckoo Clocks of Hell | 4.0 |
| Atreyu A Death-Grip on Yesterday | 2.5 |
| Atreyu The Curse | 3.0 |
| Buckethead Giant Robot | 2.5 |
| Buckethead Pepper's Ghost | 4.0 |
| Heaven and Hell The Devil You Know | 4.5 |
| Emiliana Torrini Me and Armini | 4.0 |
| Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin II | 3.5 |
| Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin III | 4.5 |
| Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin | 3.0 |
| Tool Salival | 3.0 |
| John Murphy 28 Days Later Soundtrack | 3.0 |
| Methods of Mayhem Methods of Mayhem | 1.0 |
| Vanessa Amorosi The Power | 1.0 |
| Jason Mraz We Sing, We Dance, We Steal Things | 2.0 |
| Ludwig van Beethoven "Pastoral" Symphony No. 6 in F major, Op. 68 | 5.0 |
| Ludwig van Beethoven Symphony No. 9 in D minor, Op. 125 | 5.0 |
| Lady Gaga The Fame | 5.0 |
| Jethro Tull Stand Up | 3.0 |
| Jethro Tull Songs from the Wood | 4.0 |
| Such a whimsical album, and one of their more enjoyable. Less concept, more fun, and some awesome jams along the way. |
| Jethro Tull Aqualung | 4.5 |
| Jethro Tull Thick as a Brick | 5.0 |
| Jethro Tull This Was | 2.5 |
| Franz Liszt Beethoven: Symphony No. 9, for two pianos, S. 657 | 4.5 |
| Chimaira The Infection | 2.0 |
| Nickelback Dark Horse | 1.5 |
| Meshuggah obZen | 4.0 |
| Where could they possibly go after Catch Thirtythree? Back to basics of course. It's hard to fault the best rhythm section on this side of the universe, with crushing descents like "obZen", "Bleed" and "Combustion" to droning chaos in the remainder. It's all too easy to fixate on how the band "are an epitomy of complex time signatures"; in reality they just play syncopated 4/4 grooves with incredible rigity not even a drum machine could understand, which is why obZen's blend of post-thrash and groove works to Meshuggah's advantage in this case. |
| Anathema Hindsight | 4.0 |
| Meshuggah Catch Thirtythree | 5.0 |
| Catch Thirtythree may be one of Meshuggah's most daring releases, but it's also their most interesting. One reviewer likened the work to that of a four movement symphony -- this is probably a good analogy for those still coming to grips with 33's experimentalism. Yes, the first section revolves around the same rhythmic interlock, but careful examination will reveal that it's more complex then what it's made out to be. The rest, follows a similar notion, though don't become too fixated on the physics here. In any case, if you're wanting to get into Meshuggah, this might ironically be the best place to start, because everything else they've done will be merely desert for your ears; get through the main course, and you'll be set. |
| Mastodon Crack the Skye | 3.5 |
| Imagine if! No that would just be too easy! Imagination and this album come in two forms; allies and enemies. There's enough material on here to say this album succeeds; good song writing, effortless melodic and rhythmic structure, dimensional vocal devlivery; but it fails to add another limb to the Mastodon itself. So far it would be safe to say it has about three. So crippled and limping along, yet still with great power and enegry, this Mastodon still packs enough grunt to turn heads, especially those who are just escaping their bad music teen years. An album that will polarise a few more Remission and Levithan fanatics, but an album that works all the same, and that's all that matters. |
| Nine Inch Nails The Downward Spiral | 5.0 |
| Korn Collected | 1.0 |
| If you're looking for an example of a pitiful, unneccessary release, look no further. Korn trying to Collect(ed) $$ from their Sony BMG days, and all that's eventuated is an album that has wasted polycarbonate and paper and ink. |
| Lupe Fiasco Food & Liquor | 4.0 |
| Papa Roach Metamorphosis | 1.0 |
| Mastodon Remission | 3.5 |
| Mastodon Leviathan | 4.0 |
| Korn Untitled | 1.0 |
| Shania Twain The Woman in Me | 3.5 |
| Iron Maiden Brave New World | 3.5 |
| Rob Dougan Furious Angels | 4.0 |
| Duffy Rockferry | 3.0 |
| Enslaved Vertebrae | 4.0 |
| Soulja Boy Souljaboytellem.com | 1.0 |
| Yusuf Islam An Other Cup | 4.0 |
| Bon Iver Blood Bank | 2.0 |
| Garbage Beautiful Garbage | 3.0 |
| Prince 1999 | 4.5 |
| Prince Batman | 2.5 |
| Static-X Cult Of Static | 1.0 |
| Static-X Start A War | 2.0 |
| Static-X Shadow Zone | 2.0 |
| Static-X Cannibal | 3.5 |
| Static-X Wisconsin Death Trip | 4.0 |
| Cradle of Filth Godspeed on the Devil's Thunder | 2.0 |
| Cradle of Filth Midian | 4.0 |
| Audioslave Revelations | 2.0 |
| Audioslave Out of Exile | 1.5 |
| Midnight Oil Diesel and Dust | 4.0 |
| William Control Hate Culture | 1.0 |
| Cradle of Filth Nymphetamine | 3.0 |
| CKY Infiltrate Destroy Rebuild | 1.5 |
| Eiffel 65 Europop | 1.5 |
| Chimaira Chimaira | 4.0 |
| Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!! | 4.0 |
| Katy Perry One of the Boys | 2.0 |
| Santigold Santogold | 4.0 |
| Pussycat Dolls Doll Domination | 1.5 |
| Pussycat Dolls PCD | 3.0 |
| Philip Glass Violin Concerto | 4.0 |
| Eminem The Marshall Mathers LP | 5.0 |
| Children of Bodom Trashed, Lost & Strungout | 2.0 |
| Children of Bodom Follow the Reaper | 4.5 |
| Children of Bodom Hate Crew Deathroll | 3.0 |
| Children of Bodom Something Wild | 3.5 |
| Children of Bodom Hatebreeder | 4.0 |
| Marilyn Manson Smells Like Children | 1.5 |
| Basement Jaxx Rooty | 4.0 |
| Baha Men Who Let the Dogs Out | 1.0 |
| Aqua Aquarium | 2.5 |
| Aqua Aquarius | 1.0 |
| All Saints All Saints | 2.0 |
| Frank Sinatra In The Wee Small Hours | 5.0 |
| Spice Girls Forever | 1.5 |
| Spice Girls Spiceworld | 3.5 |
| Spice Girls Spice | 4.5 |
| John Butler Trio One Small Step | 4.0 |
| John Butler Trio Grand National | 3.5 |
| Jet Shine On | 1.5 |
| Wolfmother Wolfmother | 2.5 |
| Evermore Dreams | 2.0 |
| Animal Collective Merriweather Post Pavilion | 3.5 |
| Children Collide The Long Now | 3.0 |
| They aren't so much about being the next big thing for Oz, but if they keep up the effort, who knows... these guys might just be it. The Long Now, what ever it means, is mostly a collection of post-grunge alt. rock escapism tracks that detail the positives of living away from Earth's slummage; not necessarily a concept, but more of a subtle theme for the wheels to follow. Vocalist/guitarist, Johnny Mackay, covers his inabilities to sing by repeating phrases and slurring like a drunk, doing so in a way that is fitting to the group's rhythm heavy sound. And whilst there's enough material on here to initially make it worth your while (see: Farewell Rocketship/Seasons Changing/Brave Robot), it may not be as pretty after the third or fourth spin for some; by then they've already found something else better. |
| Dimmu Borgir Enthrone Darkness Triumphant | 3.5 |
| Carcass Heartwork | 4.5 |
| Lamb of God Wrath | 1.5 |
| Ladyhawke Ladyhawke | 3.5 |
| Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu Gurrumul | 5.0 |
| Angus and Julia Stone A Book Like This | 3.5 |
| Cat Stevens Teaser and the Firecat | 4.0 |
| Silverchair Young Modern | 2.5 |
| Lily Allen It's Not Me, It's You | 4.5 |
| TV on the Radio Dear Science | 4.0 |
| Radiohead In Rainbows | 3.0 |
| Hans Zimmer Gladiator: Music from the Motion Picture | 3.0 |
| The Presets Apocalypso | 4.0 |
| Empire Of The Sun Walking On A Dream | 2.5 |
| Coheed and Cambria No World for Tomorrow | 2.5 |
| Soundtrack (Film) Twilight Official Soundtrack | 1.5 |
| Danny Elfman Batman | 4.0 |
| Hans Zimmer and James Newton Howard The Dark Knight | 2.0 |
| Paramore Riot! | 2.0 |
| Rise Against Appeal to Reason | 2.5 |
| Marco Beltrami 3:10 to Yuma | 3.0 |
| Protest the Hero Fortress | 2.5 |
| Between the Buried and Me Colors | 2.5 |
| Colo(u)rful; yes, conceptual; no. Aside from the fleeting moment of power and grace, colours is a complete mess of abstraction that could have been much better executed. Hardly deserving of the wide acclaim it receives, but, thankfully their at least trying. |
| Lily Allen Alright, Still | 3.5 |
| Kanye West 808s and Heartbreak | 4.0 |
| Kisschasy United Paper People | 2.0 |
| Pink Floyd Pulse — The Film | 5.0 |
| Beyonce I Am... Sasha Fierce | 3.0 |
| The problem here is that more actually means less. Disc 1 is fairly bland, where as its counterpart has some of her most catchy hooks ever. If you cut the fat, Sasha Fierce seems more real than it's actually made out to be. See "If I were a Boy", "Single Ladies", and "Sweet Dreams" as symbols to this. |
| Justin Timberlake FutureSex/LoveSounds | 4.5 |
| King Crimson Three of a Perfect Pair | 3.0 |
| Christina Aguilera Christina Aguilera | 3.0 |
| Christina Aguilera Back to Basics | 5.0 |
| Britney Spears In the Zone | 3.0 |
| Britney Spears Britney | 3.5 |
| Britney Spears Oops!...I Did It Again | 1.5 |
| Britney Spears Greatest Hits: My Prerogative | 4.5 |
| Britney Spears Circus | 3.5 |
| Britney Spears Blackout | 4.0 |
| Britney Spears ...Baby One More Time | 2.0 |
| Jet Get Born | 3.0 |
| Hellyeah Hellyeah | 1.5 |
| The All-American Rejects Move Along | 2.0 |
| The All-American Rejects The All-American Rejects | 3.0 |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers Stadium Arcadium | 3.5 |
| Opeth Watershed | 3.5 |
| Opeth's Watershed is great, just don't go kill yourself over it. From the refreshing album opener, "Coil," to the atypical album finaliser "Hex Omega" the group introduce new and old sounds. The resulting effect is a recording that's a mixed bag of magnificence, and a sometimes anti-progression. "Burden" seems to separate the album, from the earlier more experimental flow, and the later half, progressively influenced which is honestly more enjoyable. But does that make the album any less great? Certainly not. Coupling the excellence of Still Life, and Damnation, and their 70's progressive influences, the band have produced something to which is has a collective grasp on both what they do best, and what their influences have done best. The fanboys will 5 star it, and normal society will just, enjoy it for what it is - a great, album... |
| Opeth My Arms, Your Hearse | 4.5 |
| Opeth Damnation | 4.5 |
| Opeth Ghost Reveries | 4.5 |
| Mudvayne The New Game | 2.0 |
| Bon Iver For Emma, Forever Ago | 4.0 |
| King Crimson THRAK | 4.0 |
| King Crimson Red | 4.5 |
| Ashlee Simpson I Am Me | 2.5 |
| Butch Walker Sycamore Meadows | 4.0 |
| Enya And Winter Came... | 3.0 |
| Sepultura Arise | 4.0 |
| Keane Perfect Symmetry | 2.5 |
| Andrea Bocelli Incanto | 2.5 |
| Anberlin New Surrender | 4.0 |
| George Winston Forest | 3.5 |
| Buckethead Population Override | 4.5 |
| Phil Collins Face Value | 4.0 |
| George Winston December | 4.5 |
| Modest Mussorgsky Une Larme (A Tear) | 3.0 |
| Jay-Z and Linkin Park Collision Course | 2.0 |
| AC/DC Black Ice | 3.0 |
| The Dissociatives The Dissociatives | 3.5 |
| The Corrs In Blue | 2.5 |
| Black Sabbath Master of Reality | 4.0 |
| Black Sabbath Sabotage | 3.0 |
| Buckethead Albino Slug | 2.0 |
| Ben Folds Way To Normal | 3.0 |
| Ben Folds Songs for Silverman | 3.0 |
| Jem Down to Earth | 3.5 |
| Jem Finally Woken | 4.0 |
| Amon Amarth Twilight of the Thunder God | 3.5 |
| Cynic Traced in Air | 4.0 |
| Paul Dukas The Sorcerer's Apprentice (L'apprenti sorcier) | 4.0 |
| Trivium Shogun | 3.0 |
| Metallica Death Magnetic | 3.0 |
| PJ Harvey To Bring You My Love | 4.5 |
| PJ Harvey Is This Desire? | 4.0 |
| Pink Floyd Delicate Sound of Thunder | 3.0 |
| Pink Floyd A Momentary Lapse of Reason | 3.0 |
| Pink Floyd The Division Bell | 3.0 |
| Pink Floyd The Final Cut | 2.5 |
| Emmure The Respect Issue | 1.5 |
| B.B. King One Kind Favor | 4.0 |
| The Killers Hot Fuss | 3.0 |
| Slipknot Disasterpieces | 4.0 |
| Slipknot All Hope Is Gone | 3.0 |
The missing elements during All Hope is Gone eventually add to Slipknot's knack at being the masters at mediocrity, but at the same time the masters of their musical art. Behind all the Halloween gimmicky-imagery there's yet another album, but one that lacks focus, consistency, and as Tyler had said, "ends up being mixtape fodder more than anything."
Without, knocking about all the dynamics involved, All Hope is Gone will please some, especially those who didn't enjoy Vol 3., cause others to once again stubbornly acquire more their hate for the band, and finally collect a few disenchanted onlookers that were seeking something other than a heavier version their beloved sister band, Stone Sour. |
| Killing Heidi Reflector | 2.5 |
| Bic Runga Drive | 4.0 |
| Opeth Still Life | 4.5 |
| Drowning Pool Sinner | 1.5 |
| Hole Live Through This | 3.0 |
| Igor Stravinsky Le Sacre du Printemps | 5.0 |
| Story of the Year Page Avenue | 1.5 |
| Natalie Imbruglia Left of the Middle | 3.5 |
| Silverchair Diorama | 4.5 |
| Eskimo Joe Girl | 3.0 |
| Vanessa Amorosi Somewhere in the Real World | 4.0 |
| Linkin Park Minutes to Midnight | 1.5 |
| Rihanna Good Girl Gone Bad | 4.0 |
| Buckethead Acoustic Shards | 3.0 |
| Simple Plan Simple Plan | 1.0 |
| King Crimson In the Court of the Crimson King | 5.0 |
| Robert Schumann Fantasie in C major, for piano, Op. 17 | 3.0 |
| John Butler Trio Three | 4.5 |
| Trivium The Crusade | 2.0 |
| Ry Cooder Chicken Skin Music | 3.0 |
| Ry Cooder Paradise And Lunch | 3.5 |
| Ry Cooder Get Rhythm | 3.5 |
| Ry Cooder Paris, Texas OST | 4.0 |
| Ry Cooder Bop Till You Drop | 2.5 |
| Johnny Winter White, Hot & Blue | 4.5 |
| Mike Oldfield Tubular Bells | 5.0 |
| Gabriella Cilmi Lessons to Be Learned | 3.5 |
| See, when I first heard "Sweet About Me" I thought I was listing to a late twenties British soul singer; its then no suprise that this 16 year old caught the eye of promoter and record executive Michael Parisi during 2007 in Melbourne. What follows is Lessons to be Learned, which for a debut safely prods the audience with derivative but wonderfully composed acoustic/pop-rock pieces designed to enhance the breathy vocals. Standouts include "Sweet bout Me", "Einstein" and "Got No Place to Go". |
| Atreyu Lead Sails Paper Anchor | 1.0 |
| Satyricon Volcano | 2.5 |
| Journey Trial By Fire | 1.5 |
| Philip Glass Akhnaten | 4.5 |
| Cat Stevens Tea for the Tillerman | 5.0 |
| Ludwig van Beethoven "Pathétique" Piano Sonata No. 8 in C minor, Op. 13 | 5.0 |
| Black Sabbath Technical Ecstasy | 2.5 |
| John Williams Schindler's List | 4.0 |
| Basil Poledouris The Hunt for Red October | 3.0 |
| Pyotr Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 5 in E minor, Op. 64 | 4.5 |
| The Butterfly Effect Begins Here | 3.5 |
| Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin IV | 5.0 |
| Parkway Drive Horizons | 2.0 |
| Opeth Deliverance | 2.5 |
| Pyotr Tchaikovsky The Seasons, for piano, Op. 37b | 3.5 |
| Dmitri Shostakovich Piano Concerto No. 2 in F major, Op. 102 | 3.0 |
| Arsis We Are the Nightmare | 2.5 |
| Rihanna A Girl Like Me | 3.5 |
| Slayer Show No Mercy | 3.0 |
| Slayer Haunting the Chapel | 3.0 |
| While being a thoroughly enjoyable listen, Haunting the Chapel wont really have many wanting to comeback to it on regular occsaions. Naturally a lot of EPs are like this; becoming part of the binding glue between the real releases, and the excuse to make your CD collection look artificially inflated. But for one keen on the early developments of the band with their true speed, punk influences and agression intact, make sure you attain a copy of this pre-mini classic. |
| Slayer Diabolus in Musica | 2.5 |
| Slayer Divine Intervention | 1.5 |
| Alien Ant Farm ANThology | 1.5 |
| Soundtrack (Film) The Truman Show | 4.5 |
| Weezer The Green Album | 4.0 |
| Weezer Make Believe | 1.5 |
| Johann Sebastian Bach Cello Suite No. 1 in G major, BWV 1007 | 4.0 |
| Rihanna Music of the Sun | 2.5 |
| Iron Maiden Dance of Death | 2.0 |
| Iron Maiden A Matter of Life and Death | 4.5 |
| Philip Glass Metamorphosis I-V, for piano | 4.0 |
| David Bowie "Heroes" | 5.0 |
| Philip Glass Symphony No. 2, for orchestra | 3.0 |
| Stevie Ray Vaughan Soul to Soul | 4.0 |
| Philip Glass Glassworks | 4.0 |
| Arnold Bax Tunes, for piano | 4.5 |
| Antonin Dvorak Symphony No. 9 in E minor, Op. 95, B. 178 | 5.0 |
| Boney M. Nightflight to Venus | 3.5 |
| Erik Satie Gymnopédies | 4.5 |
| Gustav Holst The Planets, Op. 32 | 5.0 |
| Korn Untouchables | 2.5 |
| Korn Take a Look in the Mirror | 4.0 |
| Korn Issues | 3.5 |
| Korn Follow the Leader | 3.0 |
| Korn Life Is Peachy | 2.0 |
| Korn Korn | 4.0 |
| Korn See You on the Other Side | 3.0 |
| Disturbed The Sickness | 3.0 |
| Disturbed Believe | 3.5 |
| Arch Enemy Black Earth | 3.0 |
| Arch Enemy Stigmata | 4.0 |
| Arch Enemy Burning Bridges | 4.5 |
| Arch Enemy Wages of Sin | 4.5 |
| Arch Enemy Doomsday Machine | 4.0 |
| Parkway Drive Killing with a Smile | 2.5 |
| Black Sabbath Black Sabbath | 5.0 |
| Definitive was the word and Black Sabbath was the result. Even though 'metal' as we see it today has its roots buried deep in classical and blues, it was Black Sabbath that essentially mingled the two seemingly incompatiable genres together. Not only was it fun to make a scary record, it was also fun to see the unjustified reaction to what was seen to some in those days as the diabolus in musica; in other words, music not for Churches. Perhaps some of the intial reactions were justified during the opening sequence of "Black Sabbath's" gloomy bell tolls, thunderstrikes and dissonant powerchords, but from here the group rarely get much darker, opting for more blues rock band-jams that only sound heavy due to Tony Iommi's distortion factor. It's an essential addition to anyone's metal collection, but also to those who appreciate music that defines as much as it pleases. |
| Black Sabbath Sabbath Bloody Sabbath | 5.0 |
| Black Sabbath Vol. 4 | 3.5 |
| Tool Lateralus | 5.0 |
| One of the most fascinating things about this album is that fans either hold it either just above AEima, or just below it. Below and you're likely to be offering reasoning such as "not enough rock and too much concept". True, Lateralus isn't the dark narcissist as their 1996 effort was; Lateralus is an album that shows the perfect balance between amazing musicianship, flow and optimism. Keenan's lyrics yearn from brighter places, whilst Carey and Chancellor manage to put on a rhythm section that is to die for; and Jones shows that his proficiency in creating memorable grooves in groove-less territory is one worth remembering. Songs such as Schism, Lateralus, The Grudge pin out the peaks, but even with that analogy, the entire album is just like one giant plateau of goodness. |
| Nazgul De Expugnatione Elfmuth | 2.5 |
| Shania Twain Up! | 3.0 |
| Machine Head Supercharger | 1.5 |
| Machine Head The Blackening | 3.5 |
| Soulfly Prophecy | 2.5 |
| P.O.D. Satellite | 1.5 |
| Stone Sour Come What(ever) May | 3.0 |
| Metallica St. Anger | 2.5 |
| Arch Enemy Rise of the Tyrant | 3.0 |
| Children of Bodom Blooddrunk | 1.5 |
Unfortunately the release is repetitive, even more-so than Are You Dead Yet?, which actually have many good moments such as Living Dead Beat, Are You Dead Yet?, If You Want Peace... Prepare for War, In Your Face and finally Bastards of Bodom. This album hardly stands up to previous albums, and sadly shows that Bodom are becoming more redundant with each release.
The review mentions technicality, which I would totally disagree with due to the fact that most of the tracks are cyclic efforts, showcasing little more than everything else they have done, just with a lot less memorabilia to bring back home. Technicality goes way beyond just solos and riffage. And, while Alexis musical ability is good, his song writing isn't (at least on this release).
Good points would of course have to be the emergence of Warman's keyboards, however they are like the rest of the album cyclic and monotonous.
Perhaps the next release will prove more interesting, until then, this album is another release showing Bodoms demise into redundancy. |
| Ben Folds Rockin' The Suburbs | 4.5 |
| Static-X Machine | 2.0 |
| Slayer God Hates Us All | 4.0 |
| Linkin Park Hybrid Theory | 3.5 |
| Linkin Park Meteora | 2.5 |
| Limp Bizkit Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavored Water | 1.5 |
| Machine Head Through The Ashes Of Empires | 3.5 |
| Marilyn Manson Antichrist Superstar | 4.0 |
| Marilyn Manson Holy Wood | 4.5 |
| Marilyn Manson Mechanical Animals | 3.0 |
| Marilyn Manson Portrait of an American Family | 2.0 |
| Marilyn Manson The Golden Age of Grotesque | 3.0 |
| Megadeth So Far, So Good... So What! | 3.0 |
| Metallica ...And Justice for All | 4.5 |
| Metallica Garage Inc. | 3.5 |
| Metallica Kill 'Em All | 4.5 |
| Metallica Load | 2.0 |
| Metallica Master of Puppets | 5.0 |
| Metallica Metallica | 4.0 |
| Metallica Reload | 2.5 |
| Metallica Ride the Lightning | 5.0 |
| Metallica S&M | 4.5 |
| Metallica Some Kind of Monster | 2.5 |
| Mudvayne All Access to All Things | 4.0 |
| Mudvayne L.D. 50 | 4.5 |
| Mudvayne Lost and Found | 2.0 |
| Mudvayne The Beginning of All Things to End | 1.5 |
| Mudvayne The End of All Things to Come | 3.5 |
| Murderdolls Beyond The Valley of the Murderdolls | 3.0 |
| Nine Inch Nails Broken | 2.5 |
| Nine Inch Nails The Fragile | 4.5 |
| Nine Inch Nails With Teeth | 3.5 |
| Ozzy Osbourne No More Tears | 3.5 |
| Opeth Blackwater Park | 5.0 |
| Pantera Cowboys from Hell | 4.5 |
| Pantera Far Beyond Driven | 2.0 |
| Pantera The Great Southern Trendkill | 3.5 |
| Pantera Vulgar Display of Power | 5.0 |
| Rammstein Herzeleid | 3.0 |
| Rammstein Mutter | 4.0 |
| Rammstein Reise, Reise | 4.0 |
| Rammstein Sehnsucht | 3.0 |
| Staind Break The Cycle | 2.0 |
| System of a Down Mezmerize | 3.5 |
| System of a Down Steal This Album! | 4.0 |
| System of a Down System of a Down | 3.5 |
| System of a Down Toxicity | 5.0 |
| Wednesday 13 Transylvania 90210 | 2.5 |
| Zao Parade of Chaos | 2.0 |
| Audioslave Audioslave | 3.5 |
| A Perfect Circle eMOTIVe | 1.0 |
| A Perfect Circle Mer de Noms | 4.0 |
| A Perfect Circle Thirteenth Step | 4.5 |
| Led Zeppelin Coda | 2.0 |
| Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin [DVD] | 4.5 |
| Led Zeppelin Houses of the Holy | 4.5 |
| Led Zeppelin In Through the Out Door | 3.0 |
| Led Zeppelin Physical Graffiti | 3.5 |
| Led Zeppelin Presence | 4.0 |
| Led Zeppelin Remasters | 5.0 |
| Led Zeppelin The Song Remains the Same | 3.5 |
| Rage Against the Machine Evil Empire | 3.5 |
| Rage Against the Machine Rage Against the Machine | 5.0 |
| Rage Against the Machine Renegades | 3.5 |
| Rage Against the Machine The Battle of Los Angeles | 4.0 |
| Silverchair Frogstomp | 3.5 |
| Silverchair The Best Of: Vol. 1 | 4.0 |
| Simple Plan No Pads, No Helmets... Just Balls | 1.0 |
| Simple Plan Still Not Getting Any... | 1.5 |
| AC/DC Back In Black | 5.0 |
| AC/DC High Voltage | 4.5 |
| AC/DC Highway To Hell | 4.0 |
| AC/DC Let There Be Rock | 4.0 |
| AC/DC Powerage | 3.5 |
| 3 Doors Down The Better Life | 3.0 |
| Bjork Homogenic | 5.0 |
| Cake Fashion Nugget | 3.0 |
| Cake Pressure Chief | 2.5 |
| Creed Human Clay | 2.5 |
| Creed Weathered | 2.5 |
| Dire Straits Brothers in Arms | 4.0 |
| Dire Straits Love Over Gold | 4.5 |
| Eminem Encore | 2.5 |
| Eminem The Eminem Show | 4.0 |
| Evanescence Fallen | 3.0 |
| Fear Factory Demanufacture | 3.0 |
| Good Charlotte Good Charlotte | 2.5 |
| Good Charlotte The Chronicles of Life and Death | 1.5 |
| Gorillaz Demon Days | 4.0 |
| Green Day American Idiot | 4.0 |
| Green Day Dookie | 4.0 |
| Green Day Insomniac | 3.0 |
| Green Day International Superhits | 4.5 |
| HIM Love Metal | 2.5 |
| John Mayall Blues Breakers with Eric Clapton | 5.0 |
| Millencolin Kingwood | 3.0 |
| Motley Crue Too Fast for Love | 4.0 |
| Muse Absolution | 3.5 |
| My Chemical Romance I Brought You My Bullets, You Brought Me Your Love | 3.0 |
| My Chemical Romance Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge | 2.5 |
| Neil Young Harvest | 4.5 |
| Nickelback Silver Side Up | 3.0 |
| Nirvana Bleach | 3.0 |
| Nirvana In Utero | 3.5 |
| Nirvana Incesticide | 4.5 |
| Nirvana Nevermind | 4.5 |
| Pink Floyd The Dark Side of the Moon | 5.0 |
| Pink Floyd Pulse | 4.5 |
| Pink Floyd The Wall | 3.5 |
| Pink Floyd Wish You Were Here | 5.0 |
| PJ Harvey Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea | 3.0 |
| Queens of the Stone Age Songs for the Deaf | 4.0 |
| Radiohead Amnesiac | 3.5 |
| Radiohead Hail to the Thief | 4.0 |
| Radiohead Kid A | 3.5 |
| Radiohead OK Computer | 5.0 |
| Radiohead The Bends | 3.0 |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers By the Way | 3.0 |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers Greatest Hits | 4.0 |
| Rush 2112 | 5.0 |
| Rush Caress of Steel | 3.5 |
| Rush Fly by Night | 4.0 |
| Rush Moving Pictures | 5.0 |
| Rush Permanent Waves | 4.0 |
| Rush Signals | 3.0 |
| Shania Twain Come On Over | 4.5 |
| Strung Out An American Paradox | 3.0 |
| Sum 41 Does This Look Infected? | 3.5 |
| Sum 41 Chuck | 4.0 |
| The Used In Love and Death | 2.5 |
| The Used The Used | 3.0 |
| The Vines Highly Evolved | 3.5 |
| Type O Negative World Coming Down | 3.5 |
| Type O Negative October Rust | 3.0 |
| U2 Achtung Baby | 4.0 |
| U2 The Best Of 1980-1990 | 4.0 |
| Slipknot Vol.3: The Subliminal Verses [Reissue] | 4.5 |
| Slipknot 9.0: Live | 3.0 |
| Slipknot Slipknot | 4.0 |
| Slipknot Iowa | 3.0 |
| Slipknot Mate. Feed. Kill. Repeat. | 2.5 |
| Chimaira The Impossibility of Reason | 2.5 |
| Ben Folds Five Whatever and Ever, Amen | 4.0 |
| Slayer Seasons in the Abyss | 4.5 |
| Slayer's Seasons in the Abyss is their last true thrash metal work, which equals in both performance and musicality. There is no doubt the both Reign in Blood, and South of Heaven managed to fortify their foundations, but Seasons truly is one of their best efforts. Much like Reign in Blood, the album both begins and ends amazingly in both songs "War Ensemble" and "Seasons in the Abyss" respectively. The latter is certainly one of their best outfits ever recorded, and perhaps one of their most original, biding towards a lengthier more instrumental flow. Though some of the riffs are recycled from track to track, it doesn't make them any less enjoyable within their own context, and therefore makes this album a near classic for Slayer. |
| Slayer Reign in Blood | 5.0 |
| Slayer South of Heaven | 4.5 |
| Slayer Decade of Aggression | 4.0 |
| John Butler Trio Sunrise Over Sea | 3.0 |
| Black Sabbath Paranoid | 4.5 |
| Trivium Ascendancy | 3.0 |
| Slipknot Vol. 3: The Subliminal Verses | 4.5 |
| Stone Sour Stone Sour | 4.0 |
| Foo Fighters The Colour and the Shape | 4.5 |
| System of a Down Hypnotize | 3.0 |
| Chevelle Wonder What's Next | 4.0 |
| Shadows Fall The War Within | 3.5 |
| Shadows Fall The Art of Balance | 3.0 |
| Tool Ænima | 4.5 |
| Tool Undertow | 4.0 |
| Tool Opiate | 3.0 |
| Children of Bodom Are You Dead Yet? | 3.5 |
| Tool 10,000 Days | 3.5 |
| A wonderful album, that just lacks staying power at times. It was going to be tough to break the bow-shock that Lateralus forged 5 years earlier, and this album both hits it, and misses it. The opener Vicarious is fantastic both musically and lyrically, but hints at at running out of ideas part sounding closer to Schism Pt. 2. Then there is the newly formed "Jambi," which is what they were talking about when citing Meshuggah as one of the prime influences. The stirring quality that is witnessed in songs like "10,000 Days" is really a refreshing experience, as is "Intension" where Danny Carey gets to use some of those gadgets hes had for ages properly. Then there are the obvious moments such as "Right in Two" and "The Pot," both of which use similar motifs from previous albums. Many will love this recording, and other will enjoy it with a bit of disappointment, after all this is Tool, and really anything they do will be held with high appraisal. |
| Korn Greatest Hits Vol. 1 | 4.5 |
| Slayer Christ Illusion | 4.0 |
| Arch Enemy Anthems of Rebellion | 2.0 |
| Kate Bush The Kick Inside | 4.5 |
