| Judas Priest Invincible Shield | 4.5 |
| Myrath Karma | 3.5 |
| The Pineapple Thief It Leads To This | 3.5 |
| Haken Fauna | 3.5 |
| Leah The Glory and the Fallen | 3.0 |
| Orphaned Land Unsung Prophets and Dead Messiahs | 4.0 |
| Orphaned Land All Is One | 4.0 |
| The Chicks Home | 4.5 |
| Frost* Falling Satellites | 3.5 |
| Frost* Milliontown | 4.5 |
| Believer Extraction From Mortality | 4.0 |
| Testament The Gathering | 4.5 |
| Joseph Magazine Night Of The Red Sky | 3.0 |
| Teramaze I Wonder | 3.5 |
| Teramaze Are We Soldiers | 3.0 |
| Teramaze Her Halo | 4.5 |
| Anthrax Among the Living | 5.0 |
| Metallica Kill 'Em All | 4.0 |
| Metallica Reload | 2.5 |
While I see a lot of reviews that say that Reload has more left curves than Load and is thus better...I think that strategy has its good and bad points.
There's more variety and generally better tracks, though there are some silly compositions still scattered around. But the consistency suffers with all the different moods of this album.
On the whole, it cancels out and makes the two albums equal.
But it still feels like a saga, so if you really have to buy both of them, go ahead. But either stay away or embrace it. |
| Metallica Hardwired...To Self-Destruct | 3.5 |
| Sepultura Arise | 5.0 |
| Sepultura Chaos A.D. | 4.5 |
| Communic Where Echoes Gather | 3.5 |
| Communic The Bottom Deep | 4.0 |
| Communic Waves Of Visual Decay | 4.0 |
| Communic Conspiracy In Mind | 3.5 |
| Manticora 8 Deadly Sins | 4.0 |
| Aortes Falling Motions | 3.0 |
| Diversity Awake | 3.5 |
| Dymytry Homodlak | 2.0 |
| Dymytry Revolt | 3.5 |
| Asmodeus (CZE) Prosincova noc blize neurceneho roku | 3.5 |
| Psychotic Waltz A Social Grace | 3.5 |
| Arch/Matheos Winter Ethereal | 3.5 |
| Bellarive Before There Was | 3.5 |
| Kari Jobe Kari Jobe | 2.5 |
| Elevation Worship Graves Into Gardens | 3.5 |
| Elevation Worship Hallelujah Here Below | 4.0 |
| Katatonia City Burials | 3.5 |
| Owane YOLO EP VOL 1 | 3.0 |
| Death The Sound of Perseverance | 4.5 |
| Fates Warning Long Day Good Night | 3.5 |
| Fragile Vastness Tribute to Life | 3.5 |
| Jean-Michel Jarre Equinoxe | 4.0 |
| Jean-Michel Jarre Oxygene | 4.5 |
| Amaranthe Helix | 3.0 |
| Camel Moonmadness | 4.5 |
| Delain Apocalypse & Chill | 3.5 |
| Evanescence Fallen | 3.5 |
| Sons of Apollo Psychotic Symphony | 3.5 |
| Echosmith Echosmith | 3.0 |
| Olafur Arnalds Some Kind of Peace | 4.0 |
| Aramid This Great Distance | 3.0 |
| Echosmith Lonely Generation | 2.5 |
| David Gallegos Mi Rosa Blanca | 4.0 |
| Widek Dream Reflection | 3.0 |
| Widek The Garden Of Existence | 4.0 |
| John Mayer Sob Rock | 3.5 |
| Big Big Train Welcome to the Planet | 3.5 |
| Daydream XI The Circus Of The Tattered And Torn | 4.0 |
| DGM The Passage | 3.5 |
| Soul Secret 4 | 3.5 |
| Allan Holdsworth Metal Fatigue | 3.5 |
| Mahavishnu Orchestra Birds of Fire | 4.0 |
| Rosetta The Anaesthete | 2.5 |
| Mastodon Emperor of Sand | 3.5 |
| Six Days Of Calm My Little, Safe Place | 4.0 |
| Carly Comando Epic | 4.0 |
| Anneke van Giersbergen The Darkest Skies Are The Brightest | 4.0 |
| Our Destiny Awakening | 4.0 |
| Myrath Shehili | 3.0 |
| Royal Hunt Devil's Dozen | 3.0 |
| King's X King's X | 4.0 |
| Kansas The Absence Οf Presence | 3.5 |
| Power Quest Sixth Dimension | 3.5 |
| Power Quest Neverworld | 4.0 |
| Evergrey Escape of the Phoenix | 4.0 |
| Evergrey A Heartless Portrait (The Orphéan Testament) | 4.0 |
| Pain of Salvation Panther | 4.0 |
| Pain of Salvation Scarsick | 3.5 |
| Aramid Fading Light | 3.0 |
| Aramid Over Fences | 4.0 |
| Aramid Epoch: Abyssal | 3.5 |
| Maciej Meller Zenith | 3.5 |
| Astronoid Air | 4.0 |
| Astronoid Radiant Bloom | 3.5 |
| Oblivion Protocol The Fall of the Shires | 3.5 |
| Vestevent Titus | 3.5 |
| Voyager Colours in the Sun | 3.5 |
| City and Colour Little Hell | 4.0 |
| Winger Pull | 4.0 |
| Explosions in the Sky End | 3.5 |
| Mystery Redemption | 3.5 |
| Christoffer Franzen Wide Awake | 4.5 |
| Christoffer Franzen Phenomenon | 3.5 |
| Christoffer Franzen Ghost of You | 3.5 |
| Christoffer Franzen Endeavour | 3.0 |
| Christoffer Franzen Reflections | 3.5 |
| Christoffer Franzen Mountain | 4.5 |
| TesseracT War of Being | 4.0 |
| Hemina Romancing the Ether | 4.0 |
| Ray Alder What The Water Wants | 3.5 |
| Ray Alder II | 3.0 |
| Nightbirde It's OK | 4.0 |
| Matchbox Twenty Where the Light Goes | 3.0 |
| Shania Twain Queen Of Me | 3.0 |
| Sigur Ros ÁTTA | 4.0 |
| Exoustia The Beginning | 1.0 |
| Work of Art Exhibits | 3.5 |
| Work of Art In Progress | 4.5 |
| W.E.T. Retransmission | 4.5 |
| Subsignal A Poetry Of Rain | 4.5 |
| Stratovarius Visions | 5.0 |
| Steffany Gretzinger The Undoing | 4.5 |
| Spheric Universe Experience Back Home | 4.5 |
| Spheric Universe Experience The New Eve | 2.0 |
| Sleevenotes Anchorage | 4.0 |
| Jakub Zytecki Remind Me | 4.0 |
| Owane yeah whatever | 4.0 |
| Silent Skies Dormant | 4.5 |
| Silent Skies Nectar | 4.0 |
| Silent Skies Satellites | 4.0 |
| Ole Børud Outside the Limit | 4.5 |
| Needtobreathe Caves | 3.0 |
| Moonlit Sailor Colors in Stereo | 3.5 |
| Moonlit Sailor We Come from Exploding Stars | 4.0 |
| Montear The Hunt | 4.5 |
| Lights and Motion The Great Wide Open | 3.0 |
| Levi Patel A Shifting Lightness | 4.0 |
| Levi Patel Affinity | 4.0 |
| John Elefante The Amazing Grace | 3.5 |
| Jakob Sines | 4.0 |
| Jakob Solace | 4.0 |
| Extreme Six | 3.5 |
| Six Days Of Calm The Ocean's Lullaby | 4.5 |
| Chinaski 11 | 4.0 |
| Nospun Opus | 4.0 |
| Gleb Kolyadin The Outland | 4.5 |
| Southern Empire Another World | 4.5 |
| David Maxim Micic BILO IV | 3.5 |
| Daniel Cavanagh Monochrome | 4.5 |
| Damian Wilson Thank You | 4.5 |
| Damian Wilson Built For Fighting | 4.0 |
| Aramid Ashes & Echoes | 4.0 |
| Aramid Shallow Dialects | 3.5 |
| Aramid Bound | 4.5 |
| Aramid Beacons | 4.0 |
| Aramid Mountain Sounds | 4.5 |
| Angra Cycles Of Pain | 4.0 |
| Angra Ømni | 3.0 |
| Theocracy Mosaic | 4.5 |
| Blaakyum Line of Fear | 4.0 |
| Stryper The Final Battle | 3.5 |
| Stryper Even the Devil Believes | 4.5 |
| Zero Hour Agenda 21 | 4.0 |
| Coldplay Music of the Spheres | 3.0 |
| Hibernal The Void | 4.0 |
| Hibernal Repentance | 4.5 |
| Hibernal Infiltrators | 4.0 |
| Hibernal Relic | 4.0 |
| Hibernal Beyond | 4.5 |
| Ronnie Atkins Trinity | 3.5 |
| Ronnie Atkins One Shot | 4.0 |
| Ronnie Atkins Make It Count | 4.5 |
| Floating in Space A New Dawn | 4.0 |
| Redemption I Am The Storm | 4.0 |
| Pride of Lions Dream Higher | 4.0 |
| Vestevent Kalsin | 4.0 |
| Vestevent Onward and Upward | 4.0 |
| Lance King ReProgram | 4.0 |
| Pyramaze Epitaph | 3.5 |
| Pyramaze Bloodlines | 2.5 |
| Anubis Gate Interference | 4.5 |
| Anubis Gate Covered In Black | 4.0 |
| Dream Theater A View from the Top of the World | 3.5 |
| Pride of Lions Lion Heart | 4.5 |
| Images of Eden Weathered and Torn | 4.5 |
| Images of Eden Angel Born | 4.5 |
| U137 Dreamer On The Run | 4.0 |
| U137 Imagination | 4.5 |
| U137 Chapter Two | 5.0 |
| Needtobreathe Into The Mystery | 4.5 |
| Needtobreathe Out Of Body | 4.0 |
| Mono Pilgrimage Of The Soul | 4.5 |
| The Sun Burns Bright A Hollow World | 3.5 |
| The Sun Burns Bright In Death We Rest | 4.0 |
| The Sun Burns Bright Longing For A Place, Yet To Be Seen | 4.0 |
| Floating in Space The Edge Of The Light | 3.0 |
| Floating in Space Dreamland | 3.5 |
| Floating in Space Liftoff | 4.5 |
| Hibernal The Dark of the City | 5.0 |
| Haken Virus | 4.0 |
| Riverside ID.Entity | 4.0 |
| Threshold Dividing Lines | 4.5 |
| Devin Townsend Lightwork | 4.0 |
| Devin Townsend Empath | 4.5 |
| Carly Comando The Calm Before | 4.0 |
| Pendragon (UK) Love Over Fear | 4.5 |
| Soen Lykaia | 4.0 |
| Soen Lotus | 4.5 |
| Coldplay Everyday Life | 4.0 |
| Tourniquet Gazing at Medusa | 3.5 |
| Hemina Night Echoes | 4.0 |
| Mono Nowhere Now Here | 4.0 |
| Wang Wen Invisible City | 3.5 |
| While Heaven Wept Vast Oceans Lachrymose | 4.5 |
| Insomnium Above the Weeping World | 4.5 |
| Insomnium Shadows of the Dying Sun | 4.0 |
| Insomnium Winter's Gate | 5.0 |
| Poets of the Fall Carnival of Rust | 4.5 |
| Poets of the Fall Jealous Gods | 4.0 |
| Poets of the Fall Ultraviolet | 4.0 |
| Sanctuary Refuge Denied | 4.0 |
| MaYaN Dhyana | 3.0 |
| Evergrey The Atlantic | 5.0 |
| Tool Fear Inoculum | 4.0 |
| Alien Weaponry Tū | 3.5 |
| League of Lights League of Lights | 4.0 |
| Plini Handmade Cities | 4.5 |
| Jakub Zytecki Nothing Lasts, Nothing's Lost | 4.0 |
| Vanden Plas The Ghost Xperiment: Awakening | 3.5 |
| Eclipse (SWE) Monumentum | 4.0 |
| Eclipse (SWE) Paradigm | 3.5 |
| Galneryus Angel of Salvation | 4.5 |
| Galneryus Vetelgyus | 4.0 |
| Galneryus Under the Force of Courage | 4.5 |
| Galneryus Ultimate Sacrifice | 4.5 |
| DragonForce Reaching into Infinity | 4.0 |
| DragonForce Extreme Power Metal | 3.0 |
| Jakub Zytecki Ladder Head | 4.5 |
| Jakub Zytecki Feather Bed | 4.5 |
| Arch Echo Arch Echo | 4.5 |
| Arch Echo You Won't Believe What Happens Next! | 4.5 |
| Devin Townsend Ziltoid the Omniscient | 4.0 |
| Dream Theater Distance Over Time | 3.5 |
| Echoes of Giants The Way To Us | 4.5 |
| Steve Perry Traces | 4.5 |
| Lost in Thought Renascence | 4.0 |
| Echosmith Inside a Dream | 3.5 |
| The Sun Burns Bright Through Dusk, Came The Light | 4.5 |
| Lauren Daigle How Can It Be | 4.0 |
| Lauren Daigle Look Up Child | 4.0 |
| Anthriel Transcendence | 4.0 |
| Seventh Wonder Waiting in the Wings | 4.0 |
| Seventh Wonder Tiara | 4.5 |
| Lights and Motion Bloom | 4.0 |
| Riverside Wasteland | 4.5 |
| Mikaali Karlsson The Summit | 4.5 |
| Pride of Lions Fearless | 4.0 |
| David Maxim Micic ECO | 3.5 |
| Blurry Lights A Romantic Dream | 3.0 |
| Blurry Lights Blurry Lights | 3.0 |
| Blurry Lights Our New World | 3.5 |
| Audrey Assad Evergreen | 4.5 |
| Audrey Assad Death, Be Not Proud | 4.0 |
| Neal Morse Life & Times | 4.0 |
| Celine Dion S'Il Suffisait D'Aimer | 3.5 |
| Lincoln Brewster God of the Impossible | 4.0 |
| Leah The Quest | 4.0 |
| Lux Terminus The Courage to Be | 4.5 |
| Kingcrow The Persistence | 4.5 |
| Kingcrow In Crescendo | 4.0 |
| Haken The Mountain | 4.5 |
| Haken Affinity | 4.5 |
| Haken Vector | 4.0 |
| The Pineapple Thief Little Man | 4.0 |
| The Pineapple Thief Your Wilderness | 4.5 |
| The Pineapple Thief Dissolution | 4.0 |
| Mystery Lies and Butterflies | 4.0 |
| Southern Empire Southern Empire | 4.5 |
| Southern Empire Civilisation | 4.5 |
| Cellar Darling This Is The Sound | 3.0 |
| Images of Eden Soulrise | 4.0 |
| Plini Sunhead | 4.0 |
| Redemption Long Night's Journey Into Day | 4.5 |
If DoctorVelvet is referring to Indulge in Color ripping the intro from Black and White World,
that's totally intentional because it's a sequel to that song. You seem so much of an expert on
this band that you would probably know that they've done this many times before on purpose. Like
many other prog bands do. So why single Redemption out to give them a 1.5 rating?
This album is pretty spectacular, by the way. |
| Smalltape The Ocean | 4.0 |
| Isildurs Bane IB & S. Hogarth : Colours Not Found Nature | 4.0 |
| Marillion Fuck Everyone and Run (F E A R) | 4.0 |
| Sound of Contact Dimensionaut | 4.5 |
| IQ Tales from the Lush Attic | 3.0 |
| IQ Frequency | 3.5 |
| Arena Contagion | 4.5 |
| Arena The Visitor | 4.5 |
| Stryper God Damn Evil | 3.5 |
| Gentle Knife Clock Unwound - Gentle Knife II | 3.0 |
| Ostura The Room | 4.5 |
| Subsignal La Muerta | 4.0 |
| The Sea Within The Sea Within | 3.5 |
| Wobbler From Silence to Somewhere | 5.0 |
| Antimatter Leaving Eden | 4.0 |
| Mystery Beneath the Veil of Winter's Face | 3.5 |
| Mystery One Among The Living | 4.0 |
| Long Distance Calling Boundless | 3.5 |
| Quidam surRevival | 3.5 |
| Quidam Alone Together | 4.0 |
| 7 Horns 7 Eyes Throes Of Absolution | 4.5 |
| Scale the Summit The Migration | 4.0 |
| Scale the Summit In a World of Fear | 2.5 |
| Bethel Music You Make Me Brave | 4.5 |
| TesseracT Sonder | 3.5 |
| Aesthesys Camera Obscura | 3.5 |
| Aesthesys Achromata | 4.5 |
| Lacey Sturm Life Screams | 4.0 |
| Judas Priest Firepower | 4.5 |
| Red (USA) Of Beauty and Rage | 3.0 |
| Red (USA) End of Silence | 4.0 |
| Red (USA) Innocence and Instinct | 4.0 |
| Parachute The Way It Was | 4.5 |
| Galactic Cowboys Space In Your Face | 4.5 |
| Galactic Cowboys Galactic Cowboys | 4.0 |
| Galactic Cowboys Machine Fish | 3.5 |
| Galactic Cowboys Long Way Back To The Moon | 4.5 |
| David Maxim Micic Who Bit the Moon | 4.5 |
| Anathema A Fine Day to Exit | 3.5 |
| Anathema A Natural Disaster | 3.5 |
| Lunatic Soul Impressions | 4.0 |
| Lunatic Soul Fractured | 4.5 |
| Widek Hidden Dimensions | 4.0 |
| Threshold Legends of the Shires | 5.0 |
| Between the Buried and Me Coma Ecliptic | 4.5 |
| Between the Buried and Me Colors | 4.5 |
| Angel Dust Border of Reality | 4.0 |
| Metal Church Blessing in Disguise | 4.5 |
| Hammock Mysterium | 4.0 |
| Daydream XI The Grand Disguise | 4.0 |
| John Mayer Room for Squares | 4.0 |
| Millennial Reign Carry the Fire | 3.5 |
| Anathema The Optimist | 4.0 |
| Tuesday The Sky Drift | 4.0 |
| The Contortionist Exoplanet | 3.5 |
| The Contortionist Intrinsic | 3.5 |
| The Contortionist Language | 4.5 |
| Wolverine The Window Purpose | 3.5 |
| Wolverine Still | 3.5 |
| Tetrafusion Dreaming Of Sleep | 4.5 |
| Subsignal Beautiful & Monstrous | 4.0 |
| Subsignal Paraíso | 3.5 |
| Evergrey The Inner Circle | 4.0 |
| Evergrey Hymns for the Broken | 4.0 |
| Evergrey The Storm Within | 4.5 |
| Atomic Opera For Madmen Only | 3.5 |
| Amaranthe Amaranthe | 4.0 |
| Amaranthe The Nexus | 4.5 |
| Amaranthe Massive Addictive | 4.0 |
| Amaranthe Maximalism | 3.0 |
| Big Big Train The Underfall Yard | 4.0 |
| Big Big Train Grimspound | 3.5 |
| Big Big Train English Electric Part 2 | 4.5 |
| Big Big Train English Electric | 5.0 |
| Big Big Train Folklore | 4.5 |
| Voyager I Am the reVolution | 4.0 |
| Voyager The Meaning of I | 4.0 |
| Voyager Ghost Mile | 4.5 |
| TesseracT Altered State | 4.0 |
| TesseracT Polaris | 4.5 |
| Ayreon The Theory of Everything | 3.5 |
| Ayreon Flight of the Migrator | 3.5 |
| Ayreon The Dream Sequencer | 3.5 |
| Ayreon The Source | 4.0 |
| Lights and Motion Dear Avalanche | 4.5 |
| Pyramaze Contingent | 4.5 |
| MindMaze Mask of Lies | 3.5 |
| MindMaze Resolve | 4.5 |
| Katatonia Dead End Kings | 4.0 |
| Katatonia The Fall of Hearts | 4.0 |
| Disperse Journey Through The Hidden Gardens | 4.0 |
| sleepmakeswaves Made Of Breath Only | 4.0 |
| Eleventh Vibration Illusions | 4.0 |
| Distorted Harmony Utopia | 4.5 |
| Persefone Shin-Ken | 3.5 |
| Disperse Foreword | 4.0 |
| Persefone Aathma | 5.0 |
| Pain of Salvation In the Passing Light of Day | 4.5 |
| Wang Wen Sweet Home, Go! | 4.0 |
| Inward Oceans Paths from Home | 4.5 |
| Dream Theater The Astonishing | 3.5 |
| Mystery The World is a Game | 4.0 |
| Hemina As We Know It | 4.0 |
| Hemina Nebulae | 4.0 |
| Hemina Venus | 4.0 |
| Work of Art Framework | 4.5 |
| Fates Warning No Exit | 4.0 |
| Fates Warning Awaken the Guardian | 4.5 |
| Fates Warning Perfect Symmetry | 3.5 |
| Fates Warning Parallels | 4.0 |
| Fates Warning Inside Out | 2.5 |
| Fates Warning Disconnected | 4.5 |
| Fates Warning FWX | 4.0 |
| Fates Warning Theories of Flight | 5.0 |
| Spock's Beard The Kindness Of Strangers | 3.5 |
| Spock's Beard The Oblivion Particle | 4.0 |
| Spock's Beard Snow | 5.0 |
| Spock's Beard Brief Nocturnes and Dreamless Sleep | 4.5 |
| Echosmith Talking Dreams | 4.0 |
| Vanishing Point Distant Is the Sun | 3.5 |
| Vanishing Point The Fourth Season | 4.0 |
| Vanishing Point Embrace The Silence | 4.5 |
| Matchbox Twenty Mad Season | 4.0 |
| Matchbox Twenty Yourself or Someone Like You | 4.5 |
| Coldplay X&Y | 3.5 |
| Coldplay Mylo Xyloto | 4.0 |
| Coldplay A Head Full of Dreams | 4.0 |
| Neal Morse Testimony | 4.0 |
| Neal Morse The Similitude of a Dream | 4.5 |
| Theocracy Ghost Ship | 4.5 |
| Riverside Voices In My Head | 3.5 |
| Riverside Eye of the Soundscape | 4.0 |
| Mono Requiem For Hell | 3.0 |
| Kansas Masque | 3.5 |
| Kansas The Prelude Implicit | 4.0 |
| Anderson/Stolt Invention of Knowledge | 3.5 |
| Wolverine Machina Viva | 4.5 |
| If These Trees Could Talk The Bones of a Dying World | 4.0 |
| Explosions in the Sky The Wilderness | 3.0 |
| Hammock Everything and Nothing | 4.0 |
| Circus Maximus Havoc | 4.0 |
| Yndi Halda Enjoy Eternal Bliss | 4.0 |
| Yndi Halda Under Summer | 4.5 |
| Myrath Legacy | 4.0 |
| Headspace All That You Fear Is Gone | 4.5 |
| Redemption The Art of Loss | 4.5 |
| Wang Wen 0.7 | 3.5 |
| Subsignal Touchstones | 4.0 |
| Subsignal Beacons of Somewhere Sometime | 4.5 |
| IQ The Wake | 3.5 |
| Scale the Summit V | 4.0 |
| Kamelot Silverthorn | 4.0 |
| Sigur Ros Agætis byrjun | 4.5 |
| Sigur Ros ( ) | 4.0 |
| Sigur Ros Takk... | 4.5 |
| IQ Ever | 3.5 |
| Pendragon (UK) The World | 3.0 |
| Steve Rothery The Ghosts Of Pripyat | 4.5 |
| DragonForce Inhuman Rampage | 3.0 |
| DragonForce The Power Within | 4.0 |
| Scar Symmetry The Singularity - Phase I: Neohumanity | 3.5 |
| Worldview The Chosen Few | 3.5 |
| Comedy of Errors Spirit | 3.5 |
| Gazpacho Molok | 3.5 |
| Hillward Flies In Amber Stones | 2.5 |
| Abnormal Thought Patterns Altered States of Consciousness | 3.0 |
| The Gentle Storm The Diary | 4.0 |
| Mystery Delusion Rain | 4.5 |
| Vanden Plas Chronicles of the Immortals: Netherworld II | 4.5 |
| Jakarta Project Beauty Lies in Lover's Eyes | 3.5 |
| Russian Circles Station | 4.0 |
| Stryper Fallen | 4.5 |
| IQ Subterranea | 4.0 |
| Lord (AUS) Digital Lies | 4.0 |
| Widek Journey to the Stars | 4.0 |
| God Is an Astronaut All Is Violent, All Is Bright | 4.0 |
| Riverside Love, Fear and the Time Machine | 4.5 |
| Iron Maiden The Book of Souls | 4.5 |
| Angra Rebirth | 4.0 |
| Enchant Tug Of War | 3.5 |
| Enchant Wounded | 3.0 |
| Enchant Blink of An Eye | 3.5 |
| Persefone Spiritual Migration | 4.0 |
| Symphony X Underworld | 3.5 |
| Symphony X Paradise Lost | 4.5 |
| Enchant Break | 3.5 |
| Enchant Time Lost | 4.5 |
| Believer Sanity Obscure | 3.5 |
| Believer Transhuman | 4.5 |
| Within Temptation The Silent Force | 4.0 |
| The Moody Blues Days of Future Passed | 5.0 |
| The Flower Kings The Sum of No Evil | 3.5 |
| Next To None A Light in the Dark | 3.5 |
| Kingcrow Eidos | 5.0 |
| Rosetta Quintessential Ephemera | 3.5 |
| Steve Von Till A Life Unto Itself | 4.0 |
| Transatlantic Bridge Across Forever | 4.5 |
| Entransient Entransient | 4.0 |
| Leah Otherworld | 3.5 |
| Votum Harvest Moon | 4.0 |
| Votum Metafiction | 4.5 |
| Marco Ragni Mother From The Sun | 3.5 |
| Anathema Judgement | 4.0 |
| Anathema Distant Satellites | 4.0 |
| X Japan Art of Life | 4.5 |
| Loszeal Ideal World | 3.0 |
| Suspyre When Time Fades | 4.5 |
| Magic Pie King for a Day | 3.0 |
| Pyramaze Disciples of the Sun | 4.0 |
| Kamelot Haven | 4.0 |
| Peter Gabriel Car | 4.0 |
| Threshold Extinct Instinct | 3.5 |
| Threshold Psychedelicatessen | 4.0 |
| Steven Wilson Hand. Cannot. Erase. | 4.5 |
| Kansas Point of Know Return | 5.0 |
| Kansas Kansas | 4.0 |
| Kansas Leftoverture | 5.0 |
| Kansas Song for America | 4.0 |
| Boston Don't Look Back | 4.0 |
| U2 The Unforgettable Fire | 4.0 |
| U2 The Joshua Tree | 5.0 |
| Vanden Plas Colour Temple | 3.5 |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor Yanqui U.X.O. | 3.5 |
| Takaakira Goto Classical Punk and Echoes... | 4.0 |
| The Evenfall The Waiting Room | 4.0 |
| Mike Oldfield Ommadawn | 5.0 |
| Mike Oldfield Tubular Bells | 4.5 |
| Steve Hackett Wolflight | 3.5 |
| MindMaze Back From the Edge | 4.5 |
| Marillion Fugazi | 3.5 |
| Marillion Clutching at Straws | 5.0 |
| Veni Domine Material Sanctuary | 4.5 |
| Veni Domine Light | 4.5 |
| Emerson, Lake and Palmer Emerson, Lake & Palmer | 4.5 |
| Emerson, Lake and Palmer Trilogy | 4.0 |
| Emerson, Lake and Palmer Brain Salad Surgery | 4.5 |
| Leah Of Earth & Angels | 3.5 |
| Neal Morse The Grand Experiment | 4.0 |
| Spock's Beard V | 5.0 |
| Pantommind Searching for Eternity | 4.5 |
| Hibernal After The Winter | 4.0 |
| Native Construct Quiet World | 4.5 |
| It couldn't be more off-the-wall if it was drunk. Maybe it is drunk.rAnd that's why it turns out to be so incredible. |
| Leah Kings & Queens | 4.5 |
| Hillsong United Zion | 3.0 |
| Anesthesia An Infinite Winter, Vol. II: Time | 4.0 |
| Anesthesia An Infinite Winter, Vol. I: In Memoriam | 3.5 |
| Camel Mirage | 4.5 |
| Steve Hackett Voyage of the Acolyte | 4.0 |
| Dave Bainbridge Celestial Fire | 4.5 |
| Dave Bainbridge Veil of Gossamer | 4.0 |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor 'Asunder, Sweet and Other Distress' | 4.0 |
| Toundra IV | 4.0 |
| Angra Secret Garden | 4.5 |
| Torman Maxt The Foolishness of God | 3.5 |
| Callisto Secret Youth | 3.5 |
| Sweet & Lynch Only to Rise | 3.5 |
| Arcane Known/Learned | 4.5 |
| Explosions in the Sky The Rescue | 4.0 |
| Pray for Sound Dreamer | 4.0 |
| Joanne Hogg Raphael's Journey | 4.0 |
| Joanne Hogg Uncountable Stars | 4.0 |
| Lights and Motion Chronicle | 3.5 |
| Anubis A Tower Of Silence | 3.5 |
| Pendragon (UK) The Window of Life | 4.5 |
| IQ The Seventh House | 3.5 |
| Distorted Harmony Chain Reaction | 4.5 |
| Genesis Nursery Cryme | 3.5 |
| Saviour Machine Saviour Machine I | 4.5 |
| Genesis A Trick of the Tail | 4.0 |
| Flares Solar Empire | 3.5 |
| Pendragon (UK) Pure | 3.0 |
| IQ Dark Matter | 4.5 |
| Asia Asia | 4.0 |
| Gentle Giant In a Glass House | 4.5 |
| IQ The Road of Bones | 5.0 |
| Enchant A Blueprint of the World | 4.5 |
| Anubis Gate Andromeda Unchained | 4.5 |
| Gentle Giant Octopus | 4.0 |
| The Flower Kings Desolation Rose | 4.0 |
| The Flower Kings Banks of Eden | 4.5 |
| Matchbox Twenty More Than You Think You Are | 4.5 |
| Abydos Abydos: The Little Boy's Heavy Mental Shadow Opera | 4.0 |
| Daniel Cavanagh and Joseph Geraci The Passage | 4.0 |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers By the Way | 4.5 |
| Enchant Juggling 9 Or Dropping 10 | 3.5 |
| Genesis Selling England by the Pound | 5.0 |
| Enchant The Great Divide | 4.0 |
| Boston Boston | 4.5 |
| Numph Theories of Light | 4.0 |
| Pink Floyd Wish You Were Here | 5.0 |
| Pink Floyd Animals | 5.0 |
| Atomic Opera Gospel Cola | 3.5 |
| Voyager V | 4.5 |
| Pink Floyd The Wall | 4.0 |
| Pink Floyd The Dark Side of the Moon | 5.0 |
| Pink Floyd The Endless River | 3.0 |
| Royal Hunt Paradox | 4.0 |
| Sleevenotes The Pain of Nostalgia | 4.0 |
| Extreme III Sides to Every Story | 5.0 |
| This Patch of Sky This Patch of Sky (S/T) | 4.0 |
| Pendragon (UK) The Masquerade Overture | 5.0 |
| Pendragon (UK) Believe | 3.5 |
| Pendragon (UK) Men Who Climb Mountains | 4.0 |
| Savatage Dead Winter Dead | 4.0 |
| Pain of Salvation Entropia | 4.0 |
| Born of Fire Dead Winter Sun | 4.0 |
| Greylevel Hypostatic Union | 4.0 |
| Coldplay Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends | 4.5 |
| Coldplay Ghost Stories | 4.0 |
| Anubis Gate The Detached | 4.0 |
| Mono Rays of Darkness | 3.5 |
| I'm not telling you what the surprise is. Or where.rBut I will tell you that it will scare the hairs off your head. |
| Mono The Last Dawn | 4.5 |
| Wang Wen Eight Horses | 4.0 |
| Coldplay Parachutes | 4.0 |
| sleepmakeswaves Love of Cartography | 4.5 |
| Genesis Foxtrot | 4.5 |
| Yes Fragile | 4.5 |
| Yes Close to the Edge | 5.0 |
| Threshold Wounded Land | 4.0 |
| Threshold For The Journey | 4.5 |
| Widek Outside the Universe | 3.5 |
| Krobak Little Victories | 4.0 |
| Savatage Streets: A Rock Opera | 5.0 |
| Creed Human Clay | 4.5 |
| Lights and Motion Save Your Heart | 4.0 |
| Lights and Motion Reanimation | 3.5 |
| Trans-Siberian Orchestra Beethoven's Last Night | 3.5 |
| Kerry Livgren Seeds of Change | 3.5 |
| Marillion Misplaced Childhood | 5.0 |
| Pendragon (UK) Not of This World | 5.0 |
| John Mayer Heavier Things | 3.5 |
| Porcupine Tree Fear of a Blank Planet | 4.5 |
| King's X Out of the Silent Planet | 4.0 |
| King's X Dogman | 4.5 |
| King's X Faith, Hope, Love | 4.5 |
| Oregon Winter Light | 3.5 |
| Oregon Music Of Another Present Era | 3.5 |
| Oregon Out of the Woods | 4.5 |
| Rush Moving Pictures | 4.5 |
| Rush Permanent Waves | 4.0 |
| Rush Hemispheres | 4.0 |
| Rush 2112 | 3.5 |
| Rush A Farewell to Kings | 4.0 |
| Michael Sweet I'm Not Your Suicide | 3.5 |
| Teramaze Esoteric Symbolism | 2.5 |
| Teramaze Tears to dust | 3.0 |
| Seventh Angel The Dust of Years | 4.0 |
| Anubis Gate Horizons | 4.0 |
| Eagles Hotel California | 4.5 |
| Miles Davis Kind of Blue | 5.0 |
| Iona The Circling Hour | 4.0 |
| Iona Another Realm | 3.0 |
| Seventh Wonder Mercy Falls | 4.5 |
| Hibernal Replacements | 3.5 |
| Vanden Plas Chronicles of the Immortals: Netherworld (Path 1) | 4.5 |
| Stryper To Hell With the Devil | 3.5 |
| Tool Lateralus | 5.0 |
| Sithu Aye 26 | 4.0 |
| Deep In Thought Verses | 3.5 |
| The Twenty Committee A Lifeblood Psalm | 3.0 |
| Zero Hour Metamorphosis | 4.0 |
| Gungor Beautiful Things | 2.5 |
| Scott Stapp Proof of Life | 3.5 |
| Gungor Ghosts Upon the Earth | 4.5 |
| Gungor I Am Mountain | 2.0 |
| Sleevenotes We Are Mostly Made of Nothing | 4.5 |
| Wow. I was not expecting to find this. I had only about 36 hours left in the year 2013, and it became one of my best of 2013 instantly. Combining the epic, uplifting post-rock scope of Explosions in the Sky with the cinematic delicacy and at times sorrowful ambience of Hammock, Sleevenotes write emotionally deep and life-affirming music that hits instantly and never runs out of power. |
| John Elefante On My Way to the Sun | 4.5 |
| Stryper Soldiers Under Command | 4.0 |
| Stryper No More Hell To Pay | 4.5 |
| Fates Warning A Pleasant Shade of Gray | 2.5 |
| Fates Warning Darkness in a Different Light | 4.0 |
| Dream Theater Dream Theater | 4.0 |
| A Thousand Shields Portrait | 3.0 |
| Aesthesys Ascendere | 4.5 |
| Toundra III | 3.5 |
| Iona Beyond These Shores | 3.5 |
| Iona Journey Into the Morn | 3.5 |
| Iona The Book of Kells | 3.5 |
| Iona Open Sky | 5.0 |
| Extol Extol | 4.5 |
| Lament Through The Reflection | 3.5 |
| Audrey Assad Fortunate Fall | 4.0 |
| Hammock Chasing After Shadows...Living with the Ghosts | 4.0 |
| Hammock Kenotic | 3.5 |
| Hammock Raising Your Voice... Trying to Stop an Echo | 3.5 |
| Hammock Departure Songs | 4.0 |
| Audrey Assad Heart | 4.0 |
| Audrey Assad The House You're Building | 4.0 |
| If These Trees Could Talk Red Forest | 4.0 |
| Alberto Rigoni Three Wise Monkeys | 4.0 |
| Mono One Step More and You Die | 3.5 |
| Hibernal The Machine | 4.0 |
| Cynthesis ReEvolution | 4.5 |
| Creed My Own Prison | 3.0 |
| King's X Gretchen Goes to Nebraska | 4.5 |
| toe For Long Tomorrow | 3.5 |
| Mono You Are There | 4.0 |
| Mono For My Parents | 5.0 |
| Mono Hymn to the Immortal Wind | 5.0 |
| Riverside Shrine Of New Generation Slaves | 4.0 |
| Wolverine Communication Lost | 4.5 |
| Explosions in the Sky Those Who Tell the Truth Shall Die... | 3.5 |
| Explosions in the Sky Take Care, Take Care, Take Care | 4.0 |
| Explosions in the Sky All of a Sudden, I Miss Everyone | 4.5 |
| The Great Gamble Book 1 | 3.5 |
| Images of Eden Images of Eden | 3.0 |
| Andromeda Manifest Tyranny | 3.5 |
| Loraine An Autumn Evening | 4.0 |
| Threshold Clone | 4.0 |
| Threshold Subsurface | 4.5 |
| Transcend The Mind | 4.0 |
| Explosions in the Sky How Strange, Innocence | 3.0 |
| Explosions in the Sky The Earth Is Not a Cold Dead Place | 4.5 |
| Prototype Catalyst | 2.0 |
| Threshold March of Progress | 4.5 |
| Tourniquet Antiseptic Bloodbath | 3.5 |
| Antiseptic Bloodbath kind of sounds like just another Tourniquet album when we were expecting something more extreme and risky from this Christian technical thrash metal standby. The group has refined their formula and musicianship, especially in vocalist Luke Easter's energetic, confident performance, has branched out lyrically as well by tackling various aspects of theology and spirituality and delivering a deserved ode to Tyke, the famously abused Hawaiian circus elephant, and delivered a crunchy but clean mix, but the bass is nondescript and the heavily compressed mastering is reprehensible from an experienced band and producer dedicated to producing quality metal productions. I expected a little better from Tourniquet this time, but it's not bad and remains recommended. |
| Headspace I Am Anonymous | 4.5 |
| Threshold Critical Mass | 4.0 |
| Arch/Matheos Sympathetic Resonance | 4.0 |
| Pain of Salvation One Hour by the Concrete Lake | 4.5 |
| All Too Human Juggernaut | 3.0 |
| While significantly less "progressive" than All Too Human's previous releases and leaning strongly towards modern metal with traits often dreaded by prog and/or metal purists, such as gang shouting and groove-inflected riffs, the musicianship is still carefully calculated (drummer Chris Lucci is more notable than ever), new vocalist Gordon Tittsworth obliterates his predecessors, the constantly brooding darkness throughout the recording morphs each song into its own entity, and there is a much greater sense of cohesion and originality within Juggernaut's slimmer borderlines. For those proggers who want odd time signatures and technical chaos, there are tracks with those as well, but as merely another facet of this Corpus Christi quartet's new and improved sound. Ten years was worth the wait. |
| All Too Human Forever and a Day | 3.5 |
| Threshold Hypothetical | 4.5 |
| Circus Maximus Nine | 4.0 |
| Dreamscape End of Silence | 3.0 |
| Dreamscape Everlight | 2.5 |
| So generic it even sounds like other generic prog metal bands; bland, repetitive riffs, generally hackneyed songcraft, and an excessively forward vocalist pull Everlight down into the depths of mediocrity. I've heard two Dreamscape albums, and this will be my last. |
| Images of Eden Sunlight of the Spirit | 4.0 |
| Spastic Ink Ink Compatible | 3.0 |
| Hemina Synthetic | 3.0 |
| Tomorrow's Eve Mirror of Creation 2 - Genesis II | 3.5 |
| Aeon Zen A Mind's Portrait | 3.0 |
| Animations Reset Your Soul | 3.0 |
| Mortification Mortification | 4.0 |
| Edgend A New Identity | 3.5 |
| Anathema We're Here Because We're Here | 5.0 |
| Suspyre Suspyre | 2.5 |
| Anathema Weather Systems | 4.5 |
| Colobar Behind The Veil of Oblivion | 3.5 |
| This Bulgarian progressive project, the country's second major prog project after the better-known Pantommind, delivers a debut brimming with artistic talent in many diverse musical colors and the songwriting skill to stitch them together into an intoxicating journey. Colobar freely embraces jazz fusion and Bulgarian folk music as vital components of its style, even more so than the heavy metal crunch left to the background beyond the energetic opener "Change of Ages," and creates refreshingly organic compositions, touching on nouveau riche bands such as Haken and old money bands like Angra and Threshold while sustaining complete distinctiveness. Singer Carl Sentence's Euro-theatrical timbre sometimes comes across as flat, somewhat lessening the impact of the pictorial, even spiritual lyrical content (maybe it's the singer-for-hire syndrome), and given the organic production elsewhere, the dry, sterile drum sound is rather disappointing; there are few remaining criticisms, as Colobar handles risky musical territory while rarely missing a step. Strongly recommended for 2012. |
| Eumeria Rebel Mind | 4.0 |
| Balance of Power Perfect Balance | 3.0 |
| Teramaze Anhedonia | 3.5 |
| While slightly homogeneous, AnhedoniA is an impressive tag team of brutal riffage, vocals ranging from the smoothly catchy hook to the feral screaming, inventive interplay, and socially aware lyrics. Some wider tempo, stylistic and tonal contrasts would probably help Teramaze's overall sound more than hurt it, but in the progressive thrash genre, AnhedoniA is well above average. |
| Pain of Salvation The Perfect Element, Part 1 | 4.5 |
| Vanden Plas The God Thing | 4.0 |
| Images of Eden Rebuilding The Ruins | 4.0 |
| Threshold Dead Reckoning | 4.0 |
| All Too Human Entropy | 3.5 |
| Vanden Plas Far Off Grace | 3.5 |
| Mortification Scrolls of the Megilloth | 4.5 |
| Jakarta Project Geographic | 2.0 |
| A nice conceptual idea, but executed poorly: entirely faceless music, lacking feeling and any characteristics of good post-rock, from dynamics to tension and atmosphere. It doesn't cost anything but time, but even the 25 minutes you would spend on this isn't worthwhile. |
| Pain of Salvation Be | 4.0 |
| Tetrafusion Horizons | 3.5 |
| Much more coherent, intense, accessible and polished than Altered State, and still carries the band's unique charm, eclecticism and sense of intoxicating harmonies. Highly recommended for 2012 prog, and it's free! |
| Theocracy As the World Bleeds | 5.0 |
| Souljourners Mind Control | 4.0 |
| An unusual combination of heavy metal, mainstream rock and grunge with progressive tendencies. Michael Couts is the next guitar hotshot, and his angsty baritone is a surprising style in this field. Mind Control is somewhat homogeneous for its lengthy running time, and more attention to detail and craft is desirable, but this is a respectable heavy/prog metal effort. |
| Lance King A Moment in Chiros | 4.0 |
| Soul Secret Closer to Daylight | 3.5 |
| Mortification Primitive Rhythm Machine | 1.5 |
| Living Sacrifice The Hammering Process | 4.0 |
| Pantommind Shade of Fate | 4.0 |
| Zero Hour The Towers of Avarice | 5.0 |
| Myrath Tales of the Sands | 3.5 |
| Haken Visions | 5.0 |
| I've heard all eight tracks by now; though not in order, I can satisfactorily rate it. This might be the best CD of the year. |
| Seventh Wonder The Great Escape | 3.5 |
| Sole Remedy Apoptosis | 3.0 |
| Anubis Gate Anubis Gate | 4.5 |
| Hourglass The Journey Into | 3.5 |
| Slechtvalk A Forlorn Throne | 3.5 |
| The Fractured Dimension Towards the Mysterium | 3.0 |
| Zero Hour Dark Deceiver | 4.5 |
| Redemption This Mortal Coil | 4.5 |
| Vanden Plas Beyond Daylight | 4.0 |
| Anthriel The Pathway | 4.5 |
| Zero Hour Specs of Pictures Burnt Beyond | 4.5 |
| Dream Theater A Dramatic Turn of Events | 4.0 |
| Silent Lapse Birthright | 4.5 |
| While The City Sleeps Back When We Knew | 4.0 |
| Alberto Rigoni Something Different | 4.0 |
| Alberto Rigoni Rebirth | 4.5 |
| While highly eclectic, drawing from jazz, blues, classical, electronica, progressive rock, hard rock, and pop, "Rebirth" possesses a stunning unity of vision around the concept of that same name. Rigoni's BASS is front and center, and his melodic, reverberating style is refreshing and creates entirely unique, pictorial compositions. If you're a bassist of any style, do NOT miss this release, and yet any musician or music fan, even the casual one, can enjoy this album. |
| Cynthesis DeEvolution | 4.5 |
| Lost in Thought Opus Arise | 4.0 |
| Tetrafusion Altered State | 4.0 |
| Zao The Funeral of God | 3.5 |
| Riverside Memories In My Head | 4.5 |
| Entropia Simetria | 4.5 |
| David Gallegos Mis Recuerdos | 4.0 |
| Veni Domine Fall Babylon Fall | 4.0 |
| Riverside Rapid Eye Movement | 4.0 |
| Riverside Second Life Syndrome | 4.5 |
| Riverside Out of Myself | 4.5 |
| Living Sacrifice Conceived In Fire | 4.5 |
| Twinspirits Legacy | 3.5 |
| Kekal 8 | 4.0 |
| Koloss End of the Chayot | 3.0 |
| Twinspirits The Music that Will Heal the World | 3.5 |
| Darkwater Where Stories End | 4.0 |
| Believer Dimensions | 4.5 |
| Holy Blood The Wanderer | 2.0 |
| Orphaned Land The Never Ending Way Of ORwarriOR | 5.0 |
| Farzad Golpayegani Two | 3.0 |
| Farzad Golpayegani One | 2.5 |
| Wingdom Reality | 4.0 |
| Power of Omens Eyes of the Oracle | 5.0 |
| Vanden Plas The Seraphic Clockwork | 4.5 |
| Tourniquet Vanishing Lessons | 2.0 |
| Spheric Universe Experience Mental Torments | 4.0 |
| Spheric Universe Experience Anima | 4.5 |
| Holy Blood Waves Are Dancing | 4.0 |
| Redemption The Origins of Ruin | 4.5 |
| Haken Aquarius | 4.5 |
| Nest (FIN) Trail of the Unwary | 4.0 |
| Shadow Gallery Carved In Stone | 3.0 |
| Believer Gabriel | 4.0 |
| Guilt Machine On This Perfect Day | 4.0 |
| Vanden Plas Christ 0 | 5.0 |
| Pantommind Lunasense | 4.0 |
| Callisto Noir | 4.0 |
| Blind Guardian At the Edge of Time | 4.5 |
| Lengsel Solace | 4.0 |
| Angra Aqua | 3.5 |
| Iron Maiden The Final Frontier | 3.5 |
| Koi In Tomorrow Hid Yesterday | 2.5 |
| Extol Undeceived | 5.0 |
| Echoes Nature|Existence | 4.5 |
| Slechtvalk The War That Plagues The Lands | 4.5 |
| Too much of a good thing is the only measurable complaint about this album. Slechtvalk's combination of symphonic, melodic and Viking black metal is handled with expert songwriting, melodic finesse and a pictorial, emotional lyrical story; it blends together towards the end, with the overall quality and professionalism at a slightly lower standard, but is otherwise an absolute essential for black metal fans. |
| Helloween Keeper of the Seven Keys Part II | 3.5 |
| Helloween Keeper of the Seven Keys Part I | 4.0 |
| Hourglass Subconscious | 4.0 |
| Russian Circles Geneva | 3.5 |
| Kekal The Painful Experience | 4.0 |
| Redemption Snowfall on Judgment Day | 5.0 |
| Darkwater Calling the Earth to Witness | 4.5 |
| Twinspirits The Forbidden City | 3.5 |
| Angra Fireworks | 3.5 |
| Blind Guardian A Night at the Opera | 4.0 |
| Crimson Moonlight The Covenant Progress | 4.0 |
| Must retract my previous statement...this is VERY good. Didn't listen carefully...now I feel the atmosphere! 4 for now, but full rating on the next listen... |
| Menahem Angels and Shadows | 3.5 |
| Tourniquet Where Moth and Rust Destroy | 3.0 |
| Kekal Audible Minority | 2.0 |
| Lament Tears Of A Leper | 3.5 |
| Mehida Blood & Water | 3.0 |
| Persona Non Grata Shade in the Light | 3.5 |
| Power of Omens Rooms of Anguish | 4.5 |
| Pelican Australasia | 3.5 |
| Kekal Beyond The Glimpse of Dreams | 4.5 |
| Pelican What We All Come to Need | 2.0 |
VERY disappointing. Pelican need a rawer, less crisp production, and they just can't play post-hardcore like Rosetta does. Pelican is a loose band - this is so tight that there is next to no passion in the performances, and the songs go absolutely nowhere half the time. BORING.
The vocal experiment on "Final Breath" is abysmal...get a real singer. Isis wouldn't sound as good with a "real" singer...Pelican needs one if it wants to use vocals, unlike the other instruments. The presence of vocals would be an epic moment in Pelican music, so a clear style would convey this sound properly.
Please do not try this again. You used to be so great... |
| Rosetta A Determinism of Morality | 4.0 |
| Cynic Focus | 4.5 |
| Hourglass Oblivious to the Obvious | 4.0 |
| Benea Reach Alleviat | 2.0 |
| Glass Hammer Culture of Ascent | 2.0 |
| Mezarkabul Unspoken | 3.0 |
| Shadow Gallery Room V | 4.0 |
| Shadow Gallery Tyranny | 4.5 |
| Soul Secret Flowing Portraits | 4.0 |
| Veni Domine Spiritual Wasteland | 4.5 |
| Disillusion Back to Times of Splendor | 4.0 |
| Kekal Acidity | 4.5 |
| Seventh Angel Lament for the Weary | 3.5 |
| Immortal Souls Wintereich | 2.0 |
| Thought Chamber Angular Perceptions | 4.0 |
| Veni Domine 23:59 | 2.0 |
| Drottnar Welterwerk | 4.0 |
| Living Sacrifice Living Sacrifice | 3.0 |
| Gojira The Way of All Flesh | 4.0 |
| Pain of Salvation Remedy Lane | 5.0 |
| Tourniquet Microscopic View of a Telescopic Realm | 4.5 |
| Citadellion Adventurers of Taeloth | 3.0 |
| Kekal Embrace The Dead | 4.5 |
| Miseration Your Demons ~ Their Angels | 4.0 |
| Myrath Desert Call | 4.5 |
| Shadow Gallery Shadow Gallery | 3.0 |
| Shadow Gallery Digital Ghosts | 4.0 |
| Redemption The Fullness of Time | 4.5 |
| Aletheian Dying Vine | 2.0 |
| Riverside Anno Domini High Definition | 5.0 |
| Ayreon 01011001 | 3.5 |
| Dream Theater Falling into Infinity | 3.5 |
| Dream Theater Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence | 5.0 |
| Dream Theater Train of Thought | 4.0 |
| Dream Theater Systematic Chaos | 4.0 |
| Shadow Gallery Legacy | 4.0 |
| Evroklidon The Flames of Sodom | 3.5 |
| Gojira From Mars to Sirius | 4.0 |
| Pelican City of Echoes | 3.0 |
| Cormorant Metazoa | 3.5 |
| Kekal 1000 Thoughts of Violence | 5.0 |
| Temple of Blood Prepare for the Judgment of Mankind | 2.5 |
| Theocracy Theocracy | 4.0 |
| Scar Symmetry Dark Matter Dimensions | 2.5 |
| Horde Hellig Usvart | 3.5 |
| Outworld Outworld | 4.0 |
| HB Frozen Inside | 4.0 |
| Kalisia Cybion | 3.5 |
| ISIS Celestial | 4.0 |
| Green Carnation Light of Day, Day of Darkness | 4.5 |
| DivineFire Hero | 3.5 |
| Callisto Providence | 2.0 |
| Post-metal with mostly clean vocals is a slowly growing idea; the potential problem is neutering the music so much that it becomes a mess of nothing, and Providence is mired in generic, meaningless chords, song structures with no direction, poorly orchestrated transitions into the rare and ineffective heavy sections, and a vocalist who just isn't well-suited for this type of music. The title track avoids these problems by building towards a dramatic finish with Callisto's signature cryptic, poetic spiritual lyrics, but perhaps this piece is the only selling point of the album. I look forward to hearing another band try an album like this, but they'll have to succeed where Callisto fail at creating captivating musical journeys. |
| Miseration The Mirroring Shadow | 3.0 |
| Cynic Traced in Air | 4.0 |
| Leverage Tides | 1.5 |
| Edge of Sanity Crimson | 3.5 |
| Theocracy Mirror of Souls | 4.5 |
| Nest (FIN) Woodsmoke | 4.0 |
| Rosetta The Galilean Satellites | 3.5 |
| Kekal The Habit of Fire | 5.0 |
| The Habit of Fire combines the caustic metal of Kekal's early days with a more deliberate approach, an increased focus on dense, unforgettable melodies and dynamic peaks, and a pervasive electronic influence, the totality of which vividly portrays the dramatic struggle between primal human spirit and the encroaching urban sprawl in the postmodern world, even representing the ongoing struggle between good and evil since the beginning of time. "Escapism" is one of my all-time favorite songs. An absolute essential avant-garde metal album and highly recommended for musicians and music enthusiasts, as well as social theorists interested in the thematic content. |
| Tourniquet Psycho Surgery | 4.5 |
| Black Majesty Silent Company | 3.0 |
| Iron Maiden No Prayer for the Dying | 1.0 |
| Angra Angels Cry | 4.5 |
| Angra Holy Land | 4.0 |
| Slechtvalk At The Dawn of War | 4.5 |
| Dream Theater Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes from a Memory | 5.0 |
| ISIS Wavering Radiant | 4.5 |
| Megadeth Endgame | 4.5 |
| Amaseffer Slaves for Life | 5.0 |
| Spheric Universe Experience Unreal | 3.5 |
| Orphaned Land El Norra Alila | 2.5 |
| ISIS In the Absence of Truth | 2.5 |
| Circus Maximus Isolate | 4.5 |
| Circus Maximus The 1st Chapter | 4.5 |
| ISIS Oceanic | 5.0 |
| Megadeth United Abominations | 2.5 |
| Mastodon Remission | 4.0 |
| Tourniquet Stop the Bleeding | 2.5 |
| Ayreon The Human Equation | 5.0 |
| Metallica Load | 3.0 |
| Pelican The Fire in Our Throats Will Beckon... | 3.5 |
| ISIS Panopticon | 5.0 |
| Orphaned Land Mabool (The Story of the Three Sons...) | 5.0 |
| Pyramaze Immortal | 4.5 |
| Orphaned Land Sahara | 3.5 |
| Tourniquet Pathogenic Ocular Dissonance | 5.0 |
| Kamelot Epica | 4.0 |
| Kamelot The Black Halo | 4.5 |
| Metallica Metallica | 4.0 |
| Iron Maiden Piece of Mind | 4.0 |
| Symphony X The Odyssey | 4.0 |
| Megadeth The System Has Failed | 3.5 |
| Myrath Hope | 4.5 |
| Rosetta Wake/Lift | 4.5 |
| Iron Maiden Fear of the Dark | 3.0 |
| Iron Maiden Virtual XI | 2.0 |
| Pyramaze Legend of the Bone Carver | 4.5 |
| Pyramaze Melancholy Beast | 4.5 |
| Iron Maiden Iron Maiden | 4.0 |
| Symphony X The Divine Wings of Tragedy | 4.5 |
| Angra Aurora Consurgens | 4.0 |
| Empyrium A Wintersunset | 3.0 |
| Mastodon Leviathan | 4.5 |
| Extol Burial | 4.0 |
| Iron Maiden Somewhere in Time | 4.5 |
| Mastodon Blood Mountain | 4.0 |
| Mastodon Crack the Skye | 4.5 |
| Iron Maiden The X Factor | 3.0 |
| Metallica Death Magnetic | 2.0 |
| Dream Theater Images and Words | 5.0 |
| Dream Theater Black Clouds and Silver Linings | 3.5 |
| Iron Maiden Dance of Death | 3.5 |
| Angra Temple of Shadows | 4.5 |
| Metallica Master of Puppets | 5.0 |
| Nightwish Oceanborn | 4.0 |
| Dream Theater Octavarium | 4.5 |
| Iron Maiden Seventh Son of a Seventh Son | 4.0 |
| Coldplay A Rush of Blood to the Head | 4.5 |
| Creed Weathered | 4.0 |
| Dream Theater Awake | 5.0 |
| Judas Priest Painkiller | 5.0 |
| Queens of the Stone Age Songs for the Deaf | 4.0 |
| Black Sabbath Master of Reality | 4.0 |
| Black Sabbath Paranoid | 5.0 |
| Judas Priest Screaming for Vengeance | 4.0 |
| Judas Priest Stained Class | 4.5 |
| Megadeth Rust in Peace | 5.0 |
| Iron Maiden Killers | 4.0 |
| Iron Maiden The Number of the Beast | 5.0 |
| Iron Maiden Powerslave | 4.5 |
| Iron Maiden Brave New World | 4.0 |
| Iron Maiden A Matter of Life and Death | 4.5 |
| Metallica ...And Justice for All | 4.5 |
| Metallica Ride the Lightning | 5.0 |
| Metallica Garage Inc. | 2.5 |
