| Megadeth Rust in Peace | 4.5 |
| Velvet Revolver Melody and the Tyranny | 2.5 |
| Velvet Revolver Contraband | 2.0 |
| Velvet Revolver Libertad | 3.5 |
| AC/DC Back In Black | 2.0 |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Miss Machine | 4.0 |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Calculating Infinity | 5.0 |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Irony Is a Dead Scene | 4.5 |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Ire Works | 3.5 |
| B.B. King One Kind Favor | 4.5 |
| The Mars Volta The Bedlam in Goliath | 2.5 |
| There is no doubt in my mind that this is an improvement over amputechture, but not by much. Amputechture was a failure to put it simply, and far below anything they had done previously, only having a few shining lites. The Bedlam In Goliath has some of Mars Volta's best music in years, but fails due to some of the poorest delivery known to man. The album starts off with "Aberinkula", and although the music is frutiful and excellent, it just sounds so awkward and it feels like something is definitely missing. for every success like "Wax Simulacra" and "Goliath", there is at least one colossal failure, such as "Tourniquet Man" and "Aberinkula". Amputechture was a failure from the start, but the story of Bedlam of Goliath is much sadder, as much of the music on the album is some of the band's best stuff, with excellent riffs and good band performances, it's just that the structures are way too out of line and at times weak to keep the song together. In human anatomy terminology, Bedlam has the important organs, but just doesn't have the skeleton. |
| Arkona (RUS) Ot Serdtsa K Nebu | 3.0 |
| Organized Konfusion Stress: The Extinction Agenda | 4.5 |
| Macho Man Randy Savage Be A Man | 2.0 |
| Sonic Syndicate Only Inhuman | 2.0 |
| V.I.C. Beast | 1.0 |
| Foo Fighters Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace | 3.0 |
| Soup (US) Soup | 4.0 |
| Slipknot All Hope Is Gone | 4.0 |
| Staind 14 Shades of Grey | 1.0 |
| Staind Chapter V | 1.5 |
| Staind The Illusion of Progress | 2.0 |
| Mudvayne L.D. 50 | 4.5 |
| Agalloch The Mantle | 4.5 |
| RZA RZA as Bobby Digital in Stereo | 1.5 |
| RZA Digital Bullet | 3.5 |
| RZA The Birth of a Prince | 2.0 |
| Zach Hill Astrological Straits | 3.0 |
| Slayer God Hates Us All | 2.5 |
| Charles Manson Lie | 3.0 |
| The Ascent of Everest How Lonely Sits the City | 3.5 |
| The Ascent to Everest's music is stunning, containing elements of classical music in their post rock goodness. Beautiful violins and an atmosphere like no other, How Lonely Sits the City shows the world what the band could be, but some songs seem to drag on and on, which is a shame because everything else about How Lonely The City Sits is great. |
| GZA Pro Tools | 4.0 |
| Cannibal Corpse Tomb of the Mutilated | 2.0 |
| The Human Abstract Midheaven | 1.5 |
| DragonForce Ultra Beatdown | 4.0 |
| South Park Mr. Hankey's Christmas Classics | 4.5 |
| AFI The Art of Drowning | 4.5 |
| Daughtry Daughtry | 1.5 |
| Wolfmother Wolfmother | 2.5 |
| Nine Inch Nails Pretty Hate Machine | 2.5 |
| Nine Inch Nails The Downward Spiral | 4.0 |
| Nine Inch Nails The Fragile | 4.0 |
| Nine Inch Nails With Teeth | 2.0 |
| HORSE the band A Natural Death | 2.5 |
| HORSE the band The Mechanical Hand | 4.0 |
| HORSE the band R. Borlax | 4.0 |
| Cradle of Filth Thornography | 1.5 |
| Between the Buried and Me Alaska | 4.5 |
| R.E.M. Accelerate | 2.0 |
| Serj Tankian Lie Lie Live | 1.0 |
| Black Kids Partie Traumatic | 2.0 |
| Chamillionaire The Sound of Revenge | 2.0 |
| Chamillionaire Ultimate Victory | 4.0 |
| The Shins Wincing the Night Away | 3.5 |
| E-40 My Ghetto Report Card | 4.0 |
| The White Stripes Icky Thump | 3.5 |
| Dethklok The Dethalbum | 2.0 |
| Soulja Boy Souljaboytellem.com | 2.0 |
| Alice Cooper Along Came a Spider | 4.0 |
| Ludo You're Awful, I Love You | 3.5 |
| Apoptygma Berzerk Welcome To Earth | 3.5 |
| Converge Petitioning the Empty Sky | 4.5 |
| The Offspring Smash | 4.5 |
| Slayer South of Heaven | 4.0 |
| Slayer Reign in Blood | 4.5 |
| Norma Jean The Anti Mother | 1.5 |
| Korn Life Is Peachy | 4.0 |
| Korn Korn | 4.5 |
| One Day as a Lion One Day as a Lion | 4.0 |
| The Flashbulb Soundtrack to a Vacant Life | 5.0 |
| Say Anything ...Is a Real Boy | 4.5 |
| Say Anything In Defense of the Genre | 4.0 |
| Slayer Christ Illusion | 4.0 |
| Deathchain Deathrash Assault | 4.0 |
| Beck Guero | 4.5 |
| Beck The Information | 2.0 |
| Beck Modern Guilt | 4.0 |
| Scars on Broadway Scars on Broadway | 1.5 |
| Frank Zappa Hot Rats | 4.5 |
| Circle Takes the Square As the Roots Undo | 3.5 |
| Miley Cyrus Breakout | 2.0 |
| Emarosa Relativity | 3.0 |
| I Am Alaska A Day In A Life | 2.5 |
| Equilibrium Sagas | 3.5 |
| Hans Zimmer and James Newton Howard The Dark Knight | 4.5 |
| Divine Heresy Bleed the Fifth | 2.5 |
| Fear Factory guitarist Dino left the band to create something new, but with Divine Heresy, he doesn't do that one bit. Divine Heresy's Bleed The Fifth pretty much sounds like Fear Factory mixed with Pantera, with a tad more technicality in the guitars and drums. Dino's guitars and Tim's drums are speedy and brutal, and work together excellently. But Tom's vocal work feels incredibly awkward in this situation, containing weak harsh vocals and some good cleans that don't fit the songs at all. Overall this is an attempt from Fear Factory guitarist Dino to make something creative, and he fails at that, but what he does is make some decent Groove Metal for the whole family. |
| N.E.R.D. In Search Of | 3.5 |
| N.E.R.D. Fly Or Die | 3.0 |
| N.E.R.D. Seeing Sounds | 3.5 |
| Converge You Fail Me | 4.0 |
| Mastodon Blood Mountain | 3.5 |
| Mastodon Leviathan | 4.5 |
| Black Sabbath Vol. 4 | 4.0 |
| DragonForce Valley of the Damned | 4.0 |
| DragonForce Sonic Firestorm | 3.0 |
| DragonForce Inhuman Rampage | 2.5 |
| My Chemical Romance The Black Parade | 3.5 |
| My Chemical Romance Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge | 2.5 |
| Ludo Broken Bride EP | 4.0 |
| The Mars Volta Frances the Mute | 4.0 |
| The Mars Volta De-Loused in the Comatorium | 5.0 |
| Shinedown The Sound of Madness | 2.0 |
| David Banner The Greatest Story Ever Told | 3.0 |
| Meshuggah obZen | 4.5 |
From the monster looking at you from the cover, to the appearance of the band, we know Meshuggah is a force to be wrenched with. The band's music provides pure evil in the form of crushing riffs and shredding screams. Truly a modern, technical metal masterpiece, and the most impressive work of Meshuggah.
Robert N. Smith |
| Falkenbach ...Magni Blandinn Ok Megintiri... | 3.5 |
Folk Metal outfit Falkenbach is the solo outfit for Vratyas Vakyas, and many would consider this among the man's best albums. The album feels like, well, a vikings trail onward through the blackening sea, as fellow vikings drift along. Rarely does this album drift off into a land called nowhere, but when it does, it does. Excellent work.
Robert N. Smith |
| Lamb of God Ashes of the Wake | 3.0 |
| Lamb of God As the Palaces Burn | 4.0 |
| Nine Inch Nails The Slip | 2.0 |
| Presto State of the Art | 4.0 |
| Sigur Ros ( ) | 5.0 |
| Sigur Ros Takk... | 3.5 |
| Sigur Ros Hvarf/Heim | 4.5 |
| Sigur Ros Heima (DVD) | 4.5 |
| Nas Street's Disciple | 2.5 |
| Nas Hip Hop Is Dead | 3.0 |
| Deftones White Pony | 4.5 |
| Nas Untitled | 4.0 |
| Devin Townsend Ziltoid the Omniscient | 3.5 |
| Paramore Riot! | 2.5 |
| Pantera Reinventing the Steel | 2.0 |
| Pantera Far Beyond Driven | 3.0 |
| Pantera Cowboys from Hell | 4.5 |
| Pantera Vulgar Display of Power | 4.5 |
| Pantera The Great Southern Trendkill | 3.0 |
| The Offspring Rise and Fall, Rage and Grace | 4.0 |
| William Shatner Has Been | 4.0 |
| Weezer The Red Album (Deluxe Edition) | 2.5 |
| Slayer Diabolus in Musica | 1.5 |
| Nine Inch Nails Ghosts I-IV | 2.0 |
| Judas Priest Painkiller | 3.5 |
| Judas Priest Angel of Retribution | 2.5 |
| Katy Perry One of the Boys | 3.5 |
| Bullet for My Valentine The Poison | 2.5 |
| Nine Inch Nails Year Zero | 1.0 |
| Septicflesh Communion | 4.5 |
| Guns N' Roses Use Your Illusion II | 3.0 |
| Guns N' Roses Use Your Illusion I | 3.5 |
| Guns N' Roses Appetite for Destruction | 4.5 |
| Rise Against The Sufferer and the Witness | 4.5 |
| Judas Priest Nostradamus | 1.5 |
| RZA Digi Snacks | 1.5 |
| Styles P Time Is Money | 3.5 |
| Alter Bridge One Day Remains | 2.0 |
| Alter Bridge Blackbird | 4.0 |
| Kid Rock Cocky | 1.0 |
| This is the best album ever, Distorted Guitars playing guitar riffs while Kid Rock raps with a country accent really do the trick for me. Plus Kid Rock's Country angst lyrics are really awesome, rly. |
| Mr. Bungle Mr. Bungle | 3.5 |
| Mr. Bungle Disco Volante | 4.0 |
| Mr. Bungle's least accessible effort, a truly avant grad album, providing Mr. Bungle's best overall band performance. The album, however, fails to match Mr. Bungle's first two efforts due to the lessening of the appearance of Michael Patton, Mr. Bungle's insanely fun frontman. His vocals are deeply missed throughout most of the album, and although the album is musically amazing and wild, it just isn't the same with more than half of the record without vocals. Mr. Bungle would learn from this mistake, and make a much more Patton oriented effort, and an overall better album, with California. |
| Kanye West The College Dropout | 4.0 |
| Kanye West Late Registration | 4.5 |
| Kanye West Graduation | 2.0 |
| Mr. Bungle California | 5.0 |
| With Mr. Bungle, Micheal Patton achieves the maximum level of insanity that could possibly be attained by a person, and with Mr. Bungle's best album, Micheal Patton masters true musical insanity. Serj Tankian? totally pussy. Ozzy Osbourne? whimpy 5 year old with a stutter compared to the master of musical insanity of Micheal Patton. His music with Mr. Bungle contains several different parts and influences, ranging from pop to Death Metal. One I first heard of this, I thought no one with a brain would dare attempt such a stunt. But back then, I did not know that, if anyone could do it, it would be Mr. Bungle. The album starts out with Sweet Charity, which at first sounds melodic and simple, but by None Of Them Knew They Were Robots, we already start hearing death growls. The album is a mixture of all genres, and because Michael and his band are so talented, they managed to pull of the insanity while remaining incredibly musical and effective. One of the best albums ever made. |
| Suicide Silence The Cleansing | 2.5 |
| Eminem Curtain Call: The Hits | 2.5 |
| Eminem Straight from the Lab | 2.5 |
| Eminem The Slim Shady EP | 3.5 |
| Eminem Infinite | 3.0 |
| Bullet for My Valentine Scream Aim Fire | 2.5 |
| Atreyu The Best of Atreyu | 1.0 |
| If this is the best of Atreyu, I really don't want to know what the fucking worst is. Your mini-review is too short, |
| Cream Goodbye | 3.0 |
| Cream Wheels of Fire | 5.0 |
| Cream Disraeli Gears | 5.0 |
| R.A. The Rugged Man Die, Rugged Man, Die | 4.5 |
| Louis XIV The Best Little Secrets Are Kept | 1.5 |
| The Nightwatchman One Man Revolution | 1.0 |
| Converge No Heroes | 4.0 |
| Converge Jane Doe | 5.0 |
| Puddle of Mudd Come Clean | 1.5 |
| Rage Against the Machine The Battle of Los Angeles | 3.0 |
| Rage Against the Machine Evil Empire | 5.0 |
| Rage Against the Machine Rage Against the Machine | 4.0 |
| Megadeth Risk | 2.5 |
| Megadeth The World Needs a Hero | 2.5 |
| Megadeth The System Has Failed | 3.5 |
| Skeletonwitch Beyond the Permafrost | 4.0 |
| The Offspring Americana | 3.5 |
| The Offspring Conspiracy of One | 1.5 |
| The Offspring Splinter | 2.5 |
| Cajun Dance Party This Colourful Life | 2.0 |
| Nas Illmatic | 5.0 |
| Nas' Illmatic is Hip Hop at it's very best. The pounding piano and bass heat up as Nas raps about teen life as a black ghetto child. This is really what hip-hop should always be, just plain and simple, instead over produced and ridiculously bloated like most hip hop is. Shame Nas couldn't continue this for too long. |
| The Beatles Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band | 3.0 |
| 2Pac 2Pacalypse Now | 3.0 |
| Sigur Ros Med Sud i Eyrum vid Spilum Endalaust | 4.0 |
| 2Pac Me Against the World | 5.0 |
| Coldplay Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends | 4.5 |
| AZ Undeniable | 2.5 |
| Anthrax We've Come for You All | 3.5 |
| Anthrax Fistful of Metal | 3.5 |
| Anthrax Spreading the Disease | 4.0 |
| Anthrax Among the Living | 4.5 |
| Anthrax State of Euphoria | 2.5 |
| 3 Doors Down 3 Doors Down | 1.5 |
| Between the Buried and Me Colors | 2.5 |
| Lil Wayne Tha Carter III | 4.0 |
| 3 Doors Down The Better Life | 3.5 |
| 3 Doors Down Away from the Sun | 3.0 |
| 3 Doors Down Seventeen Days | 2.0 |
| t.A.T.u. Dangerous and Moving | 1.5 |
| Tool Undertow | 4.5 |
| Tool Ænima | 5.0 |
| Tool Lateralus | 5.0 |
| Tool 10,000 Days | 2.5 |
| Various Artists (Hip Hop) Eminem Presents: The Re-Up | 2.5 |
| Eminem The Slim Shady LP | 4.5 |
| Eminem The Marshall Mathers LP | 4.5 |
| Various Artists (Hip Hop) 8 Mile OST | 3.5 |
| Eminem The Eminem Show | 3.0 |
| Eminem Encore | 1.5 |
| Louis XIV Slick Dogs and Ponies | 1.0 |
| Weezer Weezer | 4.5 |
| Weezer Pinkerton | 3.0 |
| Weezer The Green Album | 2.0 |
| Weezer Maladroit | 2.0 |
| Weezer Make Believe | 1.5 |
| Trivium Ember to Inferno | 1.0 |
| Trivium The Crusade | 1.0 |
| Trivium Ascendancy | 1.5 |
| Children of Bodom Hatebreeder | 4.5 |
| Children of Bodom Follow the Reaper | 5.0 |
| Children of Bodom Hate Crew Deathroll | 3.0 |
| Angels and Airwaves We Don't Need to Whisper | 1.5 |
| Angels and Airwaves I-Empire | 1.0 |
| Lupe Fiasco Food & Liquor | 4.0 |
| Lupe Fiasco The Cool | 4.5 |
| Darkthrone F.O.A.D. | 1.0 |
| In Flames A Sense of Purpose | 3.5 |
| Weezer The Red Album | 2.5 |
| Opeth Watershed | 4.0 |
| Disturbed The Sickness | 2.0 |
| Disturbed Believe | 2.5 |
| Disturbed Ten Thousand Fists | 3.5 |
| Disturbed Indestructible | 4.0 |
| Megadeth United Abominations | 4.0 |
| Common Resurrection | 5.0 |
| Common One Day It'll All Make Sense | 4.5 |
| Common Like Water for Chocolate | 4.5 |
| Common Be | 4.5 |
| Common Finding Forever | 4.0 |
| Common Electric Circus | 2.0 |
| Spoon Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga | 4.5 |
| Children of Bodom Something Wild | 4.0 |
| Linkin Park Meteora | 1.5 |
| Linkin Park Hybrid Theory | 2.0 |
| Sex Pistols Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols | 4.5 |
| Nirvana Incesticide | 2.5 |
| Nirvana In Utero | 4.5 |
| Nirvana Nevermind | 3.5 |
| Linkin Park Minutes to Midnight | 1.0 |
| Slipknot Vol. 3: The Subliminal Verses | 3.5 |
| Jimmy Eat World Clarity | 3.0 |
| Jimmy Eat World Bleed American | 3.0 |
| Jimmy Eat World Futures | 2.5 |
| Jimmy Eat World Chase This Light | 2.0 |
| Queens of the Stone Age Queens of the Stone Age | 3.5 |
| Queens of the Stone Age Rated R | 4.5 |
| Queens of the Stone Age Songs for the Deaf | 4.0 |
| Queens of the Stone Age Lullabies to Paralyze | 4.0 |
| Queens of the Stone Age Era Vulgaris | 3.0 |
| Brand New Deja Entendu | 3.0 |
| Brand New The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me | 4.5 |
| Atreyu Lead Sails Paper Anchor | 2.5 |
| Flobots Fight with Tools | 4.5 |
| The Black Crowes Warpaint | 4.0 |
| Avenged Sevenfold Warmness on the Soul | 1.0 |
| Avenged Sevenfold Sounding the Seventh Trumpet | 1.0 |
| Blake Lewis Audio Daydream | 2.5 |
| Avenged Sevenfold Waking the Fallen | 1.5 |
| Avenged Sevenfold City of Evil | 2.0 |
| Avenged Sevenfold Avenged Sevenfold | 1.0 |
| Mobb Deep Hell on Earth | 3.5 |
| Mobb Deep Juvenile Hell | 2.5 |
| Mobb Deep Blood Money | 1.0 |
| Mobb Deep The Infamous | 4.5 |
| Pharoahe Monch Desire | 5.0 |
| Clipse Lord Willin' | 3.5 |
| Clipse Hell Hath No Fury | 4.5 |
| The Mars Volta Amputechture | 2.0 |
| 10 Years The Autumn Effect | 4.0 |
| 10 Years Division | 2.5 |
| Agalloch Ashes Against the Grain | 4.5 |
| Minus the Bear Planet of Ice | 4.5 |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers Stadium Arcadium | 2.0 |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers Blood Sugar Sex Magik | 4.5 |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers One Hot Minute | 2.0 |
| Panic! at the Disco Pretty. Odd. | 4.0 |
| Panic! at the Disco A Fever You Can't Sweat Out | 2.0 |
| Thrice The Alchemy Index Vols. I & II | 3.5 |
| Thrice The Alchemy Index Vols. III & IV | 4.5 |
| Lil Wayne Da Drought 3 | 4.0 |
| SIG:AR:TYR Sailing the Seas of Fate | 4.5 |
| The Roots Do You Want More?!!!??! | 4.0 |
| The Roots Illadelph Halflife | 5.0 |
| The Roots Things Fall Apart | 4.5 |
| The Roots Phrenology | 4.0 |
| The Roots The Tipping Point | 3.0 |
| The Roots Game Theory | 4.5 |
| The Roots Rising Down | 4.5 |
| Muse Origin of Symmetry | 4.5 |
| Muse Black Holes & Revelations | 3.5 |
| Prussian Blue The Path We Chose | 1.0 |
| Chiodos All's Well That Ends Well | 1.0 |
| Children of Bodom Are You Dead Yet? | 2.0 |
| Children of Bodom Blooddrunk | 2.5 |
| The Smashing Pumpkins Gish | 4.0 |
| The Smashing Pumpkins Siamese Dream | 4.5 |
| The Smashing Pumpkins Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness | 4.0 |
| The Smashing Pumpkins Adore | 3.5 |
| The Smashing Pumpkins Machina/The Machines of God | 3.0 |
| The Smashing Pumpkins Zeitgeist | 2.0 |
| Black Light Burns Cruel Melody | 3.0 |
| The Black Crowes The Southern Harmony and Musical Companion | 4.0 |
| The Black Crowes Shake Your Money Maker | 3.5 |
| Down Down III: Over the Under | 3.5 |
| The Mothers of Invention Weasels Ripped My Flesh | 4.5 |
| Weird Al Yankovic Straight Outta Lynwood | 4.0 |
| Metallica Kill 'Em All | 2.0 |
| Metallica Ride the Lightning | 4.5 |
| Metallica Master of Puppets | 4.5 |
| Metallica ...And Justice for All | 5.0 |
| Metallica Metallica | 2.5 |
| Metallica Load | 3.0 |
| Metallica Reload | 2.0 |
| Protest the Hero Fortress | 4.5 |
| Protest the Hero Kezia | 3.5 |
| The Stooges The Weirdness | 1.0 |
| Metallica St. Anger | 1.0 |
| The Used The Used | 4.0 |
| The Used In Love and Death | 1.5 |
| The Used Lies for the Liars | 3.5 |
| Opeth The Roundhouse Tapes | 3.5 |
| Opeth Lamentations | 4.0 |
| Opeth Ghost Reveries | 3.5 |
| Opeth Damnation | 4.0 |
| Opeth Deliverance | 4.5 |
| Opeth Blackwater Park | 4.5 |
| Opeth Still Life | 5.0 |
| Opeth My Arms, Your Hearse | 4.0 |
| Opeth Morningrise | 3.5 |
| Opeth Orchid | 3.0 |
| Cannibal Corpse Vile | 1.0 |
| Cannibal Corpse The Wretched Spawn | 1.5 |
| Cannibal Corpse Kill | 2.0 |
| Job For A Cowboy Doom | 2.0 |
| Job For A Cowboy Genesis | 3.0 |
| Radiohead The Best Of | 2.5 |
| Radiohead Pablo Honey | 2.5 |
| Radiohead The Bends | 3.5 |
| Radiohead OK Computer | 4.5 |
| Radiohead Kid A | 5.0 |
| Radiohead Amnesiac | 3.5 |
| Radiohead Hail to the Thief | 3.0 |
| Radiohead In Rainbows | 2.5 |
| Serj Tankian Elect the Dead | 3.0 |
| System of a Down Hypnotize | 2.0 |
| System of a Down Mezmerize | 2.5 |
| System of a Down Steal This Album! | 3.5 |
| System of a Down Toxicity | 3.5 |
| System of a Down System of a Down | 5.0 |
| Korn Untouchables | 2.0 |
| Airbourne Runnin' Wild | 2.0 |
| Lamb of God Sacrament | 3.5 |
| A Skylit Drive Wires...and the Concept of Breathing | 2.0 |
