| Astronautalis Pomegranate | 4.0 |
| Astronautalis This Is Our Science | 4.5 |
| Bon Iver Blood Bank | 3.0 |
| Bon Iver For Emma, Forever Ago | 4.5 |
| Every Time I Die The Big Dirty | 2.5 |
| Every Time I Die New Junk Aesthetic | 3.5 |
| Brand New Daisy | 4.5 |
| Clutch Strange Cousins From The West | 4.0 |
| Rx Bandits Mandala | 4.5 |
| Trophy Scars Bad Luck | 4.5 |
| Thrice Beggars | 4.0 |
| The Who Tommy | 4.0 |
| The Who Who's Next | 4.5 |
| 36 Crazyfists The Tide and Its Takers | 3.0 |
| A Wilhelm Scream Career Suicide | 4.5 |
| Veil of Maya The Common Man's Collapse | 3.0 |
| United Nations United Nations | 3.5 |
| Unearth The Oncoming Storm | 4.0 |
| Unearth The March | 3.5 |
| Trivium Shogun | 2.5 |
| Tricky Maxinquaye | 4.0 |
| Thrice Identity Crisis | 2.5 |
| Thrice The Illusion of Safety | 4.5 |
| Thrice The Artist in the Ambulance | 4.0 |
| Thrice Vheissu | 4.5 |
| Thrice The Alchemy Index Vols. I & II | 4.0 |
| Thrice The Alchemy Index Vols. III & IV | 4.0 |
| Thrice Live At The House Of Blues | 4.5 |
| Threat Signal Under Reprisal | 3.5 |
| Thousand Foot Krutch Phenomenon | 3.0 |
| Thousand Foot Krutch The Art of Breaking | 2.0 |
| Thousand Foot Krutch The Flame in All of Us | 2.5 |
| Tenacious D Tenacious D | 3.5 |
| Tenacious D The Pick of Destiny | 3.0 |
| Scars on Broadway Scars on Broadway | 2.0 |
| Serj Tankian Elect the Dead | 2.0 |
| System of a Down System of a Down | 4.0 |
| System of a Down Toxicity | 4.0 |
| System of a Down Steal This Album! | 2.0 |
| System of a Down Mezmerize | 2.5 |
| System of a Down Hypnotize | 2.0 |
| Symphony X The Odyssey | 4.0 |
| Symphony X Paradise Lost | 4.0 |
| Sublime 40 Oz. to Freedom | 4.0 |
| Sublime Sublime | 4.5 |
| Strung Out Blackhawks Over Los Angeles | 3.5 |
| Strapping Young Lad Alien | 3.0 |
| The Sound of Animals Fighting The Ocean and the Sun | 4.5 |
| Sonata Arctica Winterheart's Guild | 3.5 |
| Sonata Arctica Ecliptica | 4.0 |
| Sonata Arctica Reckoning Night | 4.0 |
| Sonata Arctica For the Sake of Revenge | 3.5 |
| Skyfire Timeless Departure | 4.0 |
| Skillet Alien Youth | 2.5 |
| Skillet Collide | 3.0 |
| Skillet Comatose | 3.0 |
| SikTh The Trees Are Dead and Dried Out, Wait for Something Wild | 4.0 |
| SikTh Death of a Dead Day | 3.5 |
| Sigur Ros ( ) | 4.5 |
| Sigur Ros Takk... | 4.0 |
| Shadows Fall Of One Blood | 3.5 |
| Shadows Fall Threads of Life | 2.5 |
| Sepultura Arise | 3.0 |
| Sepultura Chaos A.D. | 3.5 |
| Sepultura Roots | 3.0 |
| The Seatbelts Cowboy Bebop | 5.0 |
| Scar Symmetry Symmetric in Design | 3.5 |
| Scale the Summit Carving Desert Canyons | 3.5 |
| Say Anything ...Is a Real Boy | 3.5 |
| Sarah Fimm White Birds | 3.5 |
| Sanctity Road to Bloodshed | 3.0 |
| Rush Moving Pictures | 4.0 |
| RJD2 Deadringer | 4.0 |
| Rise Against Revolutions per Minute | 4.0 |
| Rise Against Siren Song of the Counter Culture | 4.0 |
| Rise Against The Sufferer and the Witness | 3.5 |
| Rise Against Appeal to Reason | 3.0 |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers Blood Sugar Sex Magik | 3.5 |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers Californication | 3.0 |
| Rage Against the Machine Rage Against the Machine | 3.5 |
| Rage Against the Machine Evil Empire | 2.5 |
| Rage Against the Machine The Battle of Los Angeles | 3.5 |
| Radiohead Kid A | 4.0 |
| Radiohead OK Computer | 4.0 |
| Quo Vadis Defiant Imagination | 3.0 |
| Queens of the Stone Age Rated R | 3.5 |
| Queens of the Stone Age Songs for the Deaf | 4.0 |
| Protest the Hero A Calculated Use of Sound | 3.0 |
| Protest the Hero Kezia | 4.5 |
| Protest the Hero Fortress | 4.0 |
| Propagandhi Today's Empires, Tomorrow's Ashes | 4.0 |
| Propagandhi Potemkin City Limits | 3.5 |
| Propagandhi Supporting Caste | 4.5 |
| Powerglove Total Pwnage | 3.0 |
| Powerglove Metal Kombat for the Mortal Man | 3.5 |
| Porcupine Tree Stupid Dream | 4.0 |
| Porcupine Tree Deadwing | 4.0 |
| Pink Floyd The Dark Side of the Moon | 4.5 |
| Pink Floyd Wish You Were Here | 5.0 |
| Pink Floyd Animals | 4.5 |
| Pelican The Fire in Our Throats Will Beckon... | 4.0 |
| P.O.D. Satellite | 2.5 |
| P.O.D. Payable on Death | 3.5 |
| Opeth Watershed | 4.0 |
| The Offspring Smash | 3.5 |
| The Offspring Greatest Hits | 3.0 |
| Norma Jean Redeemer | 3.0 |
| Nickelback Silver Side Up | 1.5 |
| Nickelback The Long Road | 2.0 |
| Nickelback Dark Horse | 1.0 |
| Nickelback All the Right Reasons | 2.5 |
| Nevermore This Godless Endeavor | 3.5 |
| Muse Origin of Symmetry | 4.0 |
| Muse Absolution | 4.0 |
| Muse Black Holes & Revelations | 3.5 |
| Mudvayne The Beginning of All Things to End | 2.5 |
| Mudvayne By the People, For the People | 2.5 |
| Mudvayne The New Game | 2.0 |
| Metallica Garage Inc. | 3.0 |
| Metallica Reload | 2.0 |
| Metallica Load | 2.5 |
| Meshuggah obZen | 4.0 |
| Megadeth Youthanasia | 3.0 |
| Megadeth Countdown to Extinction | 3.5 |
| Megadeth So Far, So Good... So What! | 3.0 |
| Megadeth Peace Sells... but Who's Buying? | 3.5 |
| Megadeth Rust in Peace | 4.0 |
| Massive Attack Mezzanine | 4.0 |
| The Mars Volta De-Loused in the Comatorium | 4.5 |
| The Mars Volta Frances the Mute | 3.0 |
| The Mars Volta The Bedlam in Goliath | 4.0 |
| Maroon 5 Songs About Jane | 2.5 |
| Mammal The Majority | 4.0 |
| Machine Head The More Things Change... | 2.5 |
| Machine Head The Burning Red | 1.5 |
| Machine Head Supercharger | 1.5 |
| Machine Head Hellalive | 2.0 |
| Machine Head Burn My Eyes | 3.5 |
| Machine Head Through the Ashes of Empires | 2.5 |
| Machine Head The Blackening | 3.0 |
| The Lonely Island Incredibad | 3.0 |
| Lamb of God New American Gospel | 3.0 |
| Lamb of God Wrath | 3.5 |
| King Crimson In the Court of the Crimson King | 4.5 |
| Jurassic 5 Power in Numbers | 3.0 |
| John Coltrane A Love Supreme | 4.0 |
| Jeff Buckley Grace | 5.0 |
| ISIS Panopticon | 3.5 |
| ISIS Oceanic | 3.5 |
| In Flames The Jester Race | 3.5 |
| In Flames Colony | 4.0 |
| In Flames Whoracle | 4.5 |
| In Flames Reroute to Remain | 2.5 |
| In Flames A Sense of Purpose | 2.5 |
| Hurt Vol. 1 | 4.0 |
| Hurt Vol. II | 3.5 |
| The Human Abstract Nocturne | 3.0 |
| The Human Abstract Midheaven | 2.0 |
| Head Automatica Decadence | 3.0 |
| Guns N' Roses Appetite for Destruction | 2.5 |
| Gojira From Mars to Sirius | 3.5 |
| Gorod Leading Vision | 4.5 |
| Gorillaz Gorillaz | 3.0 |
| Gorillaz Demon Days | 3.5 |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven | 4.0 |
| Glassjaw Worship and Tribute | 5.0 |
| The Gaslight Anthem Sink or Swim | 3.5 |
| The Gaslight Anthem The '59 Sound | 5.0 |
| The Fratellis Costello Music | 3.0 |
| Flight of the Conchords Flight of the Conchords | 3.5 |
| Fellsilent The Hidden Words | 4.0 |
| Fear Factory Obsolete | 3.5 |
| The Fall of Troy Manipulator | 3.0 |
| The Fall of Troy Doppelganger | 4.0 |
| The Fall of Troy Phantom on the Horizon | 4.0 |
| Faith No More Angel Dust | 4.5 |
| The Faceless Akeldama | 3.5 |
| Dustin Kensrue Please Come Home | 3.5 |
| DJ Shadow Endtroducing..... | 4.0 |
| DJ Shadow The Private Press | 4.5 |
| Disturbed The Sickness | 3.5 |
| Disturbed Believe | 2.5 |
| Disturbed Ten Thousand Fists | 3.0 |
| Disturbed Indestructible | 3.5 |
| Disciple (USA-TN) Scars Remain | 3.0 |
| Dethklok The Dethalbum | 3.5 |
| Demon Hunter Storm the Gates of Hell | 3.5 |
| Deltron 3030 Deltron 3030 | 4.0 |
| Death Human | 4.0 |
| Death Individual Thought Patterns | 4.5 |
| Darkest Hour Deliver Us | 3.0 |
| Cynic Focus | 4.0 |
| Cynic Traced in Air | 5.0 |
| Coheed and Cambria The Second Stage Turbine Blade | 3.5 |
| Coheed and Cambria In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3 | 4.0 |
| Coheed and Cambria From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness | 3.5 |
| Coheed and Cambria No World for Tomorrow | 4.0 |
| Cog The New Normal | 4.0 |
| Cog Sharing Space | 3.0 |
| Clutch Transnational Speedway League | 3.0 |
| Clutch The Elephant Riders | 3.0 |
| Clutch Pure Rock Fury | 3.5 |
| Clutch Robot Hive/Exodus | 4.0 |
| Chimaira Pass Out of Existence | 1.5 |
| Chimaira The Impossibility of Reason | 3.5 |
| Chimaira Chimaira | 4.0 |
| Chimaira Resurrection | 2.5 |
| Children of Bodom Blooddrunk | 2.0 |
| Chevelle Vena Sera | 2.5 |
| Chevelle Wonder What's Next | 3.5 |
| Streetlight Manifesto Somewhere in the Between | 4.5 |
| Streetlight Manifesto Everything Goes Numb | 5.0 |
| Catch 22 Keasbey Nights | 4.0 |
| Burst Lazarus Bird | 4.5 |
| Burst Origo | 4.0 |
| Brand New Your Favorite Weapon | 3.0 |
| Brand New Deja Entendu | 4.0 |
| Brand New The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me | 5.0 |
| Black Sabbath Black Sabbath | 4.0 |
| Black Sabbath Sabbath Bloody Sabbath | 3.0 |
| Black Sabbath Master of Reality | 4.5 |
| Black Sabbath Paranoid | 4.5 |
| Between the Buried and Me The Silent Circus | 4.0 |
| Between the Buried and Me Colors | 4.5 |
| Becoming The Archetype Terminate Damnation | 3.5 |
| Becoming The Archetype The Physics of Fire | 3.5 |
| Becoming The Archetype Dichotomy | 4.0 |
| Bandits of the Acoustic Revolution A Call To Arms | 4.5 |
| At the Drive-In Relationship of Command | 4.5 |
| Arsis We Are the Nightmare | 2.5 |
| Arsis United in Regret | 3.0 |
| Arsis A Celebration of Guilt | 4.0 |
| Architects Hollow Crown | 4.0 |
| Architects Ruin | 4.5 |
| Anterior This Age of Silence | 3.0 |
| Alter Bridge Blackbird | 3.5 |
| All That Remains Overcome | 3.5 |
| Alice in Chains Dirt | 3.0 |
| Alestorm Captain Morgan's Revenge | 3.5 |
| After the Burial Rareform | 2.0 |
| AC/DC Back In Black | 3.5 |
| The Absence From Your Grave | 3.0 |
| The Absence Riders of the Plague | 3.5 |
| Clutch Blast Tyrant | 4.5 |
| Atreyu Suicide Notes and Butterfly Kisses | 1.0 |
| Metallica Some Kind of Monster | 1.0 |
| My Chemical Romance Life on the Murder Scene | 1.0 |
| Bullet for My Valentine Bullet For My Valentine EP | 1.5 |
| Metallica The Unnamed Feeling | 1.5 |
| Metallica St. Anger | 2.0 |
| Avenged Sevenfold Sounding the Seventh Trumpet | 2.0 |
| Bullet for My Valentine The Poison | 2.0 |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers Stadium Arcadium | 2.0 |
| Evans Blue The Melody and the Energetic Nature of Volume | 2.0 |
| Trivium The Crusade | 2.0 |
| Three Days Grace Three Days Grace | 2.5 |
| Converge Jane Doe | 2.5 |
| Avenged Sevenfold City of Evil | 2.5 |
| DevilDriver The Fury of Our Maker's Hand | 2.5 |
| Three Days Grace One-X | 2.5 |
| Through the Eyes of the Dead The Scars of Ages | 2.5 |
| Tool Opiate | 3.0 |
| Meshuggah Destroy Erase Improve | 3.0 |
| Avenged Sevenfold Waking the Fallen | 3.0 |
| Killswitch Engage The End of Heartache | 3.0 |
| Chevelle This Type Of Thinking (Could Do Us In) | 3.0 |
| Children of Bodom Trashed, Lost & Strungout | 3.0 |
| Trivium Ember to Inferno | 3.0 |
| Children of Bodom Are You Dead Yet? | 3.0 |
| Bloodsimple A Cruel World | 3.0 |
| DragonForce Inhuman Rampage | 3.0 |
| The Agony Scene The Darkest Red | 3.0 |
| Savatage Hall of the Mountain King | 3.0 |
| Between the Buried and Me The Anatomy Of | 3.0 |
| Meshuggah Contradictions Collapse | 3.0 |
| Soundtrack (Film) Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film. | 3.0 |
| Tool Undertow | 3.5 |
| In Flames Soundtrack to Your Escape | 3.5 |
| Children of Bodom Hate Crew Deathroll | 3.5 |
| Meshuggah I | 3.5 |
| Shadows Fall The War Within | 3.5 |
| Mastodon Remission | 3.5 |
| Lamb of God Ashes of the Wake | 3.5 |
| Opeth Orchid | 3.5 |
| Opeth Deliverance | 3.5 |
| Mudvayne Lost and Found | 3.5 |
| Trivium Ascendancy | 3.5 |
| Meshuggah Catch Thirtythree | 3.5 |
| Meshuggah Chaosphere | 3.5 |
| Metallica Metallica | 3.5 |
| Opeth Ghost Reveries | 3.5 |
| 36 Crazyfists A Snow Capped Romance | 3.5 |
| 36 Crazyfists Rest Inside the Flames | 3.5 |
| Breaking Benjamin Phobia | 3.5 |
| Blind Guardian A Twist in the Myth | 3.5 |
| Porcupine Tree Fear of a Blank Planet | 3.5 |
| Tool Lateralus | 4.0 |
| Metallica Kill 'Em All | 4.0 |
| Killswitch Engage Alive or Just Breathing | 4.0 |
| Metallica ...And Justice for All | 4.0 |
| Mudvayne The End of All Things to Come | 4.0 |
| Breaking Benjamin Saturate | 4.0 |
| Children of Bodom Hatebreeder | 4.0 |
| Breaking Benjamin We Are Not Alone | 4.0 |
| A Perfect Circle Mer de Noms | 4.0 |
| Opeth My Arms, Your Hearse | 4.0 |
| Demon Hunter Summer of Darkness | 4.0 |
| Demon Hunter The Triptych | 4.0 |
| Iron Maiden Edward the Great | 4.0 |
| Kamelot Epica | 4.0 |
| In Flames Come Clarity | 4.0 |
| Tool 10,000 Days | 4.0 |
| Scar Symmetry Pitch Black Progress | 4.0 |
| All That Remains The Fall of Ideals | 4.0 |
| Unearth III: In the Eyes of Fire | 4.0 |
| Lamb of God Sacrament | 4.0 |
| Mastodon Blood Mountain | 4.0 |
| Mastodon have truly done it. The follow-up to the acclaimed Leviathan is a truly wonderful album. The musicianship is great and the songwriting is superb. The album even has a slight progressive feel to it, which is clearly evident in the song "Siberian Divide." It may not be a perfect album, but there is something here every listener will enjoy. Suggested tracks: "The Wolf is Loose," "Sleeping Giant," "Capillarian Crest," and "This Mortal Soil." |
| Iron Maiden A Matter of Life and Death | 4.0 |
| Into Eternity The Scattering of Ashes | 4.0 |
| Skyfire Spectral | 4.0 |
| Killswitch Engage As Daylight Dies | 4.0 |
| Clutch From Beale Street to Oblivion | 4.0 |
| A Perfect Circle Thirteenth Step | 4.5 |
| Metallica Master of Puppets | 4.5 |
| Children of Bodom Follow the Reaper | 4.5 |
| Tool Ænima | 4.5 |
| Memento Beginnings | 4.5 |
| It is hard to say all the good things this band does. Excellent musicianship all around, and they're fronted by a powerful vocalist. Their songs convey a lot of emotion, from the guitar solos to the haunting vocals, and to the strings and piano that are used sparingly throughout the album. Excellent songwriting as well, whether it's the heavier songs like "Nothing Sacred," the acoustic songs such as "Begginnings," or the hauntingly beautiful songs such as "Stare," Memento manages to keep things interesting. This is evident on the album's closer, the thirteen-minute epic, "Figure 8" which contains acoustic guitars, piano, guitar solos, and even a cello solo and they manage to fit all of that together so well you won't realize the song you're listening to is nearly thirteen minutes long |
| Shadows Fall The Art of Balance | 4.5 |
| Porcupine Tree In Absentia | 4.5 |
| In Flames Clayman | 4.5 |
| Mastodon Leviathan | 4.5 |
| Opeth Still Life | 4.5 |
| Lamb of God As the Palaces Burn | 4.5 |
| Opeth Blackwater Park | 4.5 |
| Between the Buried and Me Alaska | 4.5 |
| Lamb of God Killadelphia | 4.5 |
| Arsis A Diamond for Disease | 4.5 |
| Metallica S&M | 4.5 |
| Into Eternity Buried in Oblivion | 4.5 |
| Metallica Ride the Lightning | 5.0 |
| While many hold Metallica's Master of Puppets album to be the pinnacle of their career, I am of the firm opinion that Ride the Lighting deserves that distinguished honor. In fact, this album is one of the greatest in the thrash metal genre. This album contains many of Metallica's classics, including "For Whom the Bell Tolls," "Fade to Black," "Creeping Death," and the magnificent instrumental "Call of Ktulu." All members are proficient at what they do - and yes, I mean Lars too. Even though he isn't the most technical drummer, he manages to keep things held together firmly. This album sucks you in from the very beginning with the first note of the acoustic intro to "Fight Fire With Fire," and doesn't let go until the album concludes. |
| Mudvayne L.D. 50 | 5.0 |
| Mudvayne has managed to create something beautiful here. This CD showcases their songwriting abilities with in your face metal songs like Dig and Under My Skin to haunting melodies like Cradle and Nothing to Gein. Ryan Martinie really shines through with easily the best bass playing to grace the nu-metal scene and other genres. Though that doesn't mean the others don't shine through. Matt provides many interesting fills and beats, and Greg manages to make some quality riffs despite the bass-driven sound. Chad Gray's vocals shine through as well, showing off some versatility with his screaming and singing. His lyrics touch many different subjects as well besides the typical "Screw you!" focus of others in his genre. The point is, this is an album well worth looking at, despite the nu-metal tag its been given. |
| Opeth Damnation | 5.0 |
