| Aphex Twin Selected Ambient Works 85-92 | 3.5 |
| Aphex Twin Richard D. James Album | 3.5 |
| Gospel The Moon Is a Dead World | 4.0 |
| Akercocke Words That Go Unspoken... | 2.5 |
| Philip Glass Koyaanisqatsi | 3.5 |
| Das Racist Relax | 2.5 |
| Jean-Michel Jarre Oxygene | 3.5 |
| Ray Lynch Deep Breakfast | 3.5 |
| Wolves in the Throne Room Celestial Lineage | 4.0 |
| Giles Corey Giles Corey | 4.0 |
| Devin Townsend Project Ghost | 3.0 |
| Beirut The Rip Tide | 4.0 |
| Eluvium Copia | 3.5 |
| Unearth The Oncoming Storm | 2.5 |
| The Decemberists The King Is Dead | 2.5 |
| The Gathering Souvenirs | 4.0 |
| Devin Townsend Project Deconstruction | 4.0 |
| Owl City All Things Bright And Beautiful | 2.5 |
| Pretty Lights Making Up A Changing Mind | 3.0 |
| Pretty Lights Spilling Over Every Side | 2.5 |
| Jesu Ascension | 3.5 |
| Jaga Jazzist The Stix | 3.5 |
| The Decemberists Castaways and Cutouts | 4.0 |
| of Montreal Icons, Abstract Thee | 3.0 |
| Portishead Roseland NYC Live | 4.0 |
| Gas Pop | 3.5 |
| Breach Kollapse | 2.5 |
| The Black Keys Magic Potion | 3.5 |
| My Morning Jacket It Still Moves | 2.5 |
| The Jimi Hendrix Experience Electric Ladyland | 3.0 |
| Cocteau Twins Heaven or Las Vegas | 4.0 |
| Air Moon Safari | 3.5 |
| The Postal Service Give Up | 2.5 |
| In Flames The Jester Race | 4.0 |
| Murs Murs 3:16: the 9th Edition | 3.0 |
| Jedi Mind Tricks The Psycho-Social | 3.5 |
| Built to Spill Keep It Like a Secret | 4.0 |
| Belle and Sebastian Dear Catastrophe Waitress | 3.0 |
| The Antlers Burst Apart | 3.5 |
| Clint Mansell, Kronos Quartet and Mogwai The Fountain | 4.5 |
| Moving Mountains Waves | 2.5 |
| At least I'll always have Foreword to listen to... |
| dredg Chuckles and Mr. Squeezy | 2.0 |
| El Ten Eleven Every Direction is North | 2.0 |
| Electric Light Orchestra A New World Record | 3.0 |
| El Ten Eleven El Ten Eleven | 3.0 |
| Sarah Fimm Near Infinite Possibility | 3.5 |
| Circle Takes the Square As the Roots Undo | 4.0 |
| Dinosaur Jr. Dinosaur | 3.0 |
| Arcade Fire Neon Bible | 4.0 |
| Off Minor Innominate | 3.0 |
| Modest Mouse This Is a Long Drive for Someone with Nothing to Think About | 3.5 |
| Cymbals Eat Guitars Why There Are Mountains | 2.5 |
| Spinal Tap This Is Spinal Tap | 2.0 |
| TV on the Radio Nine Types of Light | 3.0 |
| Stars of the Lid And Their Refinement Of The Decline | 3.5 |
| Girl Talk Unstoppable | 2.0 |
| Lil Jon and the East Side Boyz Kings of Crunk | 1.0 |
| The Beach Boys Surfin' Safari | 1.5 |
| Joy Division Unknown Pleasures | 2.0 |
| Envy A Dead Sinking Story | 4.0 |
| Gantz Les jours se suivent et ne se ressemblent plus | 4.5 |
| Gantz La Chambre Des Morts | 3.5 |
| Obituary Cause of Death | 2.0 |
| Keelhaul Subject To Change Without Notice | 2.5 |
| The Velvet Underground White Light/White Heat | 3.5 |
| Joy Division Closer | 2.0 |
| Massive Attack Protection | 3.0 |
| Off Minor The Heat Death of the Universe | 4.0 |
| Morbid Angel Covenant | 3.5 |
| Papadosio Observations | 2.5 |
| Lotus Nomad | 2.5 |
| Between the Buried and Me The Parallax: Hypersleep Dialogues | 3.0 |
| Metallica Load | 2.5 |
| Amon Amarth Surtur Rising | 4.0 |
| Protest the Hero Scurrilous | 3.5 |
| Europe The Final Countdown | 2.0 |
| Belle and Sebastian Fold Your Hands Child, You Walk Like A Peasant | 3.0 |
| Sum 41 All Killer No Filler | 2.0 |
| The Angelic Process We All Die Laughing | 3.5 |
| The Black Keys Rubber Factory | 4.0 |
| The Beatles Beatles for Sale | 3.5 |
| Paysage d'Hiver Winterkälte | 4.0 |
| Dark Tranquillity Haven | 3.5 |
| Japandroids Post-Nothing | 4.0 |
| Evoken Antithesis of Light | 3.0 |
| Tiesto Kaleidoscope | 2.0 |
| The Evpatoria Report Golevka | 4.0 |
| Johann Johannsson IBM 1401, A User's Manual | 3.5 |
| All Shall Perish Hate. Malice. Revenge | 3.0 |
| Young Marble Giants Colossal Youth | 3.0 |
| Belle and Sebastian The Boy With the Arab Strap | 4.0 |
| Ratatat Ratatat Remixes Vol.II | 2.5 |
| Franz Ferdinand You Could Have It So Much Better | 3.0 |
| In Mourning Confessions Of The Black Parasite | 2.5 |
| Muddy Waters His Best: 1947 to 1955 | 3.5 |
| Deathspell Omega Fas - Ite, Maledicti, In Ignem Aeternum | 3.0 |
| Madvillain Madvillainy | 3.5 |
| Emperor Prometheus: The Discipline of Fire... | 3.0 |
| U2 Achtung Baby | 3.0 |
| of Montreal The Sunlandic Twins [Bonus EP] | 2.5 |
| of Montreal The Sunlandic Twins | 4.0 |
| Wolves in the Throne Room Live at Roadburn 2008 | 3.5 |
| David Bowie The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars | 4.0 |
| Spoon Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga | 2.5 |
| Boris Pink | 3.0 |
| Deltron 3030 Deltron 3030 | 3.5 |
| Aesop Rock Appleseed | 3.0 |
| The Flashbulb Kirlian Selections | 2.0 |
| Built to Spill Ancient Melodies of the Future | 3.5 |
| Negura Bunget 'N Crugu Bradului | 2.5 |
| Belle and Sebastian If You're Feeling Sinister | 4.5 |
| Catherine Wheel Ferment | 3.0 |
| Taake Nattestid Ser Porten Vid | 4.0 |
| Thrice The Artist in the Ambulance | 2.5 |
| Envy Insomniac Doze | 3.0 |
| Various Artists (Punk) Punk Goes Crunk | 1.0 |
| Iron And Wine Our Endless Numbered Days | 3.5 |
| CunninLynguists A Piece Of Strange | 3.5 |
| Boris Flood | 3.0 |
| The Smiths The World Won't Listen | 3.5 |
| The Smashing Pumpkins Zeitgeist | 3.0 |
| Radiohead The King of Limbs | 4.0 |
| The Allman Brothers Band Seven Turns | 2.5 |
| Dr. Dog Fate | 4.0 |
| Oceansize Everyone Into Position | 3.0 |
| Van Morrison Moondance | 4.0 |
| Draconian Where Lovers Mourn | 4.0 |
| Max Richter The Blue Notebooks | 4.0 |
| Agalloch The Compendium Archive | 3.5 |
| Moving Mountains Moving Mountains Demo | 3.0 |
| Kesha Animal | 1.0 |
| Brian Eno Ambient 1: Music For Airports | 3.0 |
| Stars of the Lid Avec Laudenum | 3.5 |
| The Angelic Process Sigh | 3.0 |
| Nas Illmatic | 3.5 |
| Common Be | 2.0 |
| Burzum Hlidskjalf | 2.0 |
| Burzum Daudi Baldrs | 1.0 |
| Dark Tranquillity The Gallery | 4.0 |
| All Shall Perish The Price of Existence | 3.5 |
| Deathspell Omega Kenose | 2.0 |
| Tortoise TNT | 2.5 |
| Sublime 40 Oz. to Freedom | 2.5 |
| Sublime Sublime | 3.0 |
| Against Me! Reinventing Axl Rose | 3.0 |
| Taake Over Bjoergvin Graater Himmerik | 4.0 |
| Tortoise Millions Now Living Will Never Die | 3.0 |
| Explosions in the Sky Those Who Tell the Truth Shall Die... | 3.5 |
| Darkthrone Under a Funeral Moon | 4.0 |
| Dissection Storm of the Light's Bane | 4.0 |
| The Sword Age of Winters | 2.5 |
| Peste Noire Folkfuck Folie | 2.5 |
| David Bowie The Man Who Sold the World | 3.0 |
| The Angelic Process Coma Waering | 4.0 |
| Nadja Corrasion | 3.5 |
| mewithoutYou A to B: Life | 3.5 |
| Switchfoot The Beautiful Letdown | 2.5 |
| Nick Drake Family Tree | 3.5 |
| Benny Benassi Best of Benny Benassi | 2.5 |
| Envy All the Footprints You've Ever Left and the Fear Expecting Ahead | 4.5 |
| Buckethead Monsters & Robots | 2.5 |
| The Killers Sam's Town | 3.0 |
| Entombed Clandestine | 3.0 |
| Morbid Angel Blessed Are the Sick | 3.5 |
| Mumford and Sons Sigh No More | 3.5 |
| Ken By Request Only | 1.0 |
| From Monument To Masses Beyond God & Elvis | 3.0 |
| Nadja The Bungled and the Botched | 3.5 |
| Max Richter Infra | 3.5 |
| NSYNC NSYNC | 1.5 |
| Jedi Mind Tricks Legacy of Blood | 3.0 |
| Kashiwa Daisuke Program Music I | 4.0 |
| Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin II | 3.0 |
| Aesop Rock Fast Cars, Danger, Fire and Knives | 2.5 |
| Andrew Bird Armchair Apocrypha | 3.5 |
| Broken Social Scene Lo-Fi for the Dividing Nights | 2.0 |
| Amon Amarth Twilight of the Thunder God | 3.5 |
| Daft Punk Tron: Legacy | 4.0 |
| Ferry Corsten Right of Way | 3.0 |
| Silversun Pickups Pikul | 3.0 |
| Red House Painters Down Colorful Hill | 3.5 |
| Peste Noire Ballade cuntre lo Anemi francor | 3.0 |
| Strapping Young Lad City | 3.0 |
| The Angelic Process Weighing Souls With Sand | 4.0 |
| Jay-Z and Linkin Park Collision Course | 3.5 |
| Dc Talk Jesus Freak | 1.0 |
| Nadja Bliss Torn From Emptiness | 3.5 |
| City of Caterpillar City of Caterpillar | 4.0 |
| Monsters of Folk Monsters of Folk | 3.0 |
| Apator Het Geluid Kruipt | 1.0 |
| Justice † | 2.5 |
| Nadja When I See The Sun Always Shines on TV | 2.0 |
| Voxtrot Raised By Wolves | 4.0 |
| Aesop Rock Labor Days | 3.5 |
| Men at Work Business as Usual | 2.5 |
| Daturah Daturah | 3.0 |
| Nadja Truth Becomes Death | 4.0 |
| Nadja Guilted by the Sun | 3.0 |
| As consistent as Nadja usually are, this release is a harder pill to swallow - even by their standards. While it's nice to see a band pay homage to it's influences or favorite artists, not every song works in a doom drone landscape. I enjoyed "Needle in the Hay" and "Only Shallow" a bit, but overall this doesn't live up to Nadja's usual quality (but, hey, it is a cover album). |
| Amorphis Tales from the Thousand Lakes | 3.5 |
| The Paper Raincoat The Paper Raincoat | 4.0 |
| Amber Rubarth and Alex Wong have managed to pull together an eclectic and lovable collection of tracks and, somehow, make New York City feel like home, even to an outsider. Leaning heavily on Amber Rubarth's adorable voice and fantastic songwriting, The Paper Raincoat have created an impressive, albeit top-heavy, debut album. Notable tracks include Sympathetic Vibrations, Brooklyn Blurs, and Rough Cut (and Rewind is worth mentioning too). |
| Vampire Weekend Contra | 2.0 |
| The Devin Townsend Band Synchestra | 3.5 |
| Sufjan Stevens The Age of Adz | 4.0 |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers Californication | 3.0 |
| DeVotchKa How It Ends | 4.0 |
| Apator Masturbate in Praise of Black Satan | 1.0 |
| Jessica Simpson Irresistible | 2.0 |
| Burzum Burzum | 3.5 |
| Burzum Aske | 3.0 |
| Nicki Minaj Pink Friday | 3.0 |
| She has promise as a lyricist and I really enjoy her flow, but this album comes across as a pop album first, rap album second. If she gets her priorities in order, she has the potential to become my favorite female rapper. |
| Amesoeurs Amesoeurs | 4.5 |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers Blood Sugar Sex Magik | 1.5 |
| Beach House Teen Dream | 3.5 |
| Above and Beyond Tri State | 4.0 |
| Iron And Wine The Shepherd's Dog | 4.0 |
| Hammock Kenotic | 4.0 |
| Clint Mansell and Kronos Quartet Requiem for a Dream | 3.0 |
| Owl City Ocean Eyes | 3.0 |
| The Prodigy The Fat of the Land | 3.0 |
| Devin Townsend Ziltoid the Omniscient | 3.5 |
| Bassnectar Underground Communication | 3.0 |
| A Day To Remember What Separates Me from You | 3.0 |
| of Montreal The Gay Parade | 2.5 |
| # Psy Brazil # Erotic Dream - Progressive Sensations | 4.0 |
| A free album from Jamendo, # Psy Brazil # has made the trance album I feel like I've been waiting to hear. Mesmerizing and poignant, the pulsating beats and waves of synths make for the ideal trance experience. |
| Sarah Fimm Karma Phala | 3.5 |
| Basshunter LOL | 2.5 |
| Spiritualized Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space | 3.5 |
| Daft Punk Alive 2007 | 4.0 |
| Alcest Tristesse Hivernale (Demo) | 3.0 |
| Kanye West My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy | 4.5 |
| Summoning Let Mortal Heroes Sing Your Fame | 3.0 |
| Daniel Licht Dexter - Season 4 | 3.5 |
| Agalloch Marrow of the Spirit | 4.5 |
| Mazzy Star She Hangs Brightly | 3.0 |
| The Mountain Goats The Coroner's Gambit | 3.0 |
| The Ocean Anthropocentric | 4.0 |
| Amon Amarth Fate of Norns | 3.5 |
| The Decemberists Picaresqueties | 3.0 |
| Modest Mouse Building Nothing Out of Something | 3.5 |
| Built to Spill There Is No Enemy | 4.0 |
| Woods of Ypres Woods III: Deepest Roots and Darkest Blu | 3.0 |
| Kyuss Welcome to Sky Valley | 3.0 |
| Dirty Three Ocean Songs | 3.5 |
| Chicane Far From the Maddening Crowds | 2.5 |
| OceanLab Sirens Of The Sea Remixed | 3.5 |
| Moving Mountains Pneuma | 4.0 |
| Sigur Ros Von | 3.5 |
| Dirty Three Horse Stories | 3.5 |
| R.E.M. Out of Time | 2.0 |
| R.E.M. Murmur | 2.5 |
| How to Dress Well Love Remains | 2.5 |
| Queen Greatest Hits | 3.0 |
| Moving Mountains Foreword | 4.5 |
| Young the Giant Young the Giant | 3.0 |
| Mono Hymn to the Immortal Wind | 3.5 |
| Various Artists (Punk) Punk Goes Pop 3 | 2.0 |
| Hammock Raising Your Voice... Trying to Stop an Echo | 4.0 |
| Enslaved Frost | 3.5 |
| Enslaved Ruun | 4.0 |
| Orchid Orchid | 3.0 |
| Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Piano Sonata No. 11 in A major, K. 331 | 3.5 |
| Ludwig van Beethoven Piano Sonata No14 C-sharp minor,Op.27No2 | 4.0 |
| Fall of Efrafa Inle | 3.0 |
| Peste Noire La Sanie des Siècles | 4.0 |
| Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Symphony No. 40 in G minor, K. 550 | 3.5 |
| Helloween Chameleon | 1.5 |
| Opeth The Roundhouse Tapes | 3.5 |
| OceanLab Sirens Of The Sea | 4.0 |
| Puddle of Mudd Come Clean | 2.0 |
| 009 Sound System 009 Sound System | 3.0 |
| Circ Love Electric | 4.0 |
| Scooter No Time To Chill | 2.5 |
| Xasthur To Violate the Oblivious | 3.5 |
| Rammstein Rosenrot | 1.5 |
| 2 Unlimited No Limits | 2.0 |
| Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart "Jupiter" Symphony No. 41 in C major, K. 551 | 4.0 |
| Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Requiem in D minor, K. 626 | 4.0 |
| George Gershwin Rhapsody in Blue | 3.5 |
| Gabriel Faure Pavane, Op. 50 | 3.5 |
| Maurice Ravel Boléro | 2.5 |
| All That Remains For We Are Many | 3.0 |
| Wolves in the Throne Room Wolves in the Throne Room | 3.0 |
| The Smashing Pumpkins Gish | 3.0 |
| Dead Can Dance Within the Realm of a Dying Sun | 3.0 |
| Fugazi Red Medicine | 2.0 |
| Antonio Vivaldi The Four Seasons | 4.0 |
| Johann Pachelbel Canon and Gigue in D | 3.5 |
| Kraftwerk The Man-Machine | 1.5 |
| Bjork Homogenic | 3.0 |
| Miles Davis The Best of Miles Davis | 3.5 |
| Iron Maiden Brave New World | 3.0 |
| Ozzy Osbourne Bark at the Moon | 2.0 |
| Katy Perry One of the Boys | 2.5 |
| Talk Talk It's My Life | 2.0 |
| Nick Drake Time Of No Reply | 4.0 |
| Slowdive Pygmalion | 2.5 |
| Sky Eats Airplane The Sound of Symmetry | 1.5 |
| Pink Floyd A Momentary Lapse of Reason | 2.5 |
| Wolves in the Throne Room Demo | 3.5 |
| Agalloch and Nest Split | 2.5 |
| My Dying Bride A Line of Deathless Kings | 4.0 |
| Feist Open Season | 3.5 |
| Janis Joplin Janis Joplin's Greatest Hits | 4.0 |
| The Mountain Goats Heretic Pride | 4.0 |
| Xasthur A Gate Through Bloodstained Mirrors | 4.0 |
| Jesu Infinity | 3.0 |
| Mase Welcome Back | 2.5 |
| Negura Bunget Zîrnindu-să | 3.0 |
| Jedi Mind Tricks Visions of Gandhi | 3.0 |
| Wilco Yankee Hotel Foxtrot | 3.5 |
| Big Business Head for the Shallow | 3.0 |
| Big Business Here Come the Waterworks | 4.0 |
| Foals Total Life Forever | 3.0 |
| Dirty Projectors Bitte Orca | 3.0 |
| Pending Disappointment New York Penn, NY | 4.0 |
| Indie rock gets some backbone. In the era of Animal Collective and Passion Pit, it's refreshing to hear a brand of indie rock that isn't afraid to play with distortion. With definite punk influences and a Franz-esque vocal performance, this album entertains all the way through. While the riffs were great (a la Sonic Youth, minus 2 minutes of feedback), it would have been nice to hear them played out a bit, perhaps sacrificing some of the compact song-lengths. Overall, the composition is good, the execution delivers, and the songs pack energy. Check out Held Taught, Hanged For Treason, and Firedamp for starters. |
| Cobalt Gin | 2.0 |
| Trespassers William Anchor | 3.0 |
| Trespassers William The Natural Order of Things | 3.5 |
| Flying Lotus Cosmogramma | 3.5 |
| The Lonely Island Incredibad | 3.0 |
| The Flashbulb Arboreal | 4.0 |
| In Flames Colony | 4.0 |
| King Crimson Lizard | 3.5 |
| The Devin Townsend Band Accelerated Evolution | 4.0 |
| The Beatles The Beatles | 3.5 |
| Mindless Self Indulgence If | 1.0 |
| Insane Clown Posse Riddle Box | 1.0 |
| P.O.D. Satellite | 2.0 |
| Third Day Revelation | 1.0 |
| mewithoutYou Catch For Us the Foxes | 4.0 |
| mewithoutYou It's All Crazy! It's All False! It's All A Dream! It's Alright! | 2.0 |
| The Smiths The Queen Is Dead | 4.0 |
| Mouth Of The Architect Quietly | 2.5 |
| Scala and Kolacny Brothers Dream On | 3.0 |
| After seeing the trailer for the movie "The Social Network," the poignant cover of Radiohead's "Creep" was intriguing enough to prompt some research. As a result, I stumbled upon this Belgian girls' choir - Scala and Kolacny Brothers. While many of the covers are hit or miss, ranging from amusing to interesting, the two Radiohead covers (Creep & Exit Music) are incredibly moving and worth checking out. |
| T. Rex The Very Best Of | 1.5 |
| Tricky Maxinquaye | 3.5 |
| Soundgarden Superunknown | 3.0 |
| Peter Bjorn and John Living Thing | 3.0 |
| DJ Shadow Endtroducing..... | 3.5 |
| Jedi Mind Tricks Violent by Design | 4.0 |
| Neurosis The Eye of Every Storm | 3.0 |
| Public Enemy It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back | 3.5 |
| Jurassic 5 Feedback | 2.5 |
| Hallucinogen Twisted | 3.5 |
| CunninLynguists Southernunderground | 4.0 |
| Cascada Everytime We Touch | 2.5 |
| Busta Rhymes It Ain't Safe No More... | 2.5 |
| Busta Rhymes Genesis | 2.5 |
| The Bravery The Bravery | 3.0 |
| The Bravery The Sun and the Moon | 2.5 |
| The Offspring Splinter | 2.0 |
| The Offspring Conspiracy of One | 2.0 |
| Alcest Le Secret | 3.5 |
| Anarchy Club The Art of War | 2.0 |
| ISIS In the Absence of Truth | 4.0 |
| Massive Attack 100th Window | 3.5 |
| Amon Amarth With Oden on Our Side | 4.0 |
| Prussian Blue Fragment Of The Future | 1.0 |
| Portishead Portishead | 4.0 |
| Pyotr Tchaikovsky 1812 Overture, Op. 49 | 4.0 |
| Shining (SWE) V - Halmstad | 3.5 |
| Grizzly Bear Veckatimest | 3.0 |
| Buckethead Island of Lost Minds | 1.0 |
| Howard Shore The Return of the King | 3.5 |
| Howard Shore The Two Towers | 3.5 |
| The Number Twelve Looks Like You Mongrel | 3.5 |
| Limbonic Art Moon In The Scorpio | 3.0 |
| Negura Bunget Sala Molksa | 3.0 |
| Darkthrone Transilvanian Hunger | 4.5 |
| Tom Waits Rain Dogs | 2.0 |
| Nick Drake Bryter Layter | 4.0 |
| Sufjan Stevens The Avalanche: Outtakes and Extras | 3.5 |
| CunninLynguists Will Rap For Food | 3.0 |
| Daft Punk Discovery | 3.5 |
| Eminem Recovery | 3.5 |
| Moonsorrow Kivenkantaja | 3.5 |
| Nick Drake Five Leaves Left | 3.5 |
| Howard Shore The Fellowship of the Ring | 3.5 |
| Neurosis Given to the Rising | 3.5 |
| Dinosaur Jr. Bug | 3.5 |
| Miles Davis Kind of Blue | 3.0 |
| of Montreal Skeletal Lamping | 2.5 |
| Cynic Re-Traced | 3.0 |
| Rosetta A Determinism of Morality | 4.0 |
| Framing Hanley The Moment | 2.0 |
| Suffocation Effigy of the Forgotten | 3.0 |
| Afterlives A Ticking Clock I Couldn't Stop | 3.0 |
| The Black Eyed Peas The E.N.D. (The Energy Never Dies) | 1.0 |
| Lmfao Party Rock | 1.0 |
| Emmure Felony | 1.5 |
| VAST Music For People | 3.0 |
| Twilight Monument To Time End | 3.5 |
| The National High Violet | 4.0 |
| Sufjan Stevens Michigan | 3.5 |
| Joy Wants Eternity Must You Smash Your Ears Before You Lear | 3.5 |
| Talk Talk The Party's Over | 2.0 |
| Shining (SWE) IV - The Eerie Cold | 3.5 |
| Bohren und der Club of Gore Geisterfaust | 3.0 |
| Metallica St. Anger | 2.0 |
| Pig Destroyer Terrifyer | 3.5 |
| As I Lay Dying The Powerless Rise | 2.5 |
| Joy Wants Eternity You Who Pretend to Sleep | 3.5 |
| Devin Townsend Project Ki | 3.0 |
| Buckethead Enter the Chicken | 2.5 |
| Flying Lotus Los Angeles | 2.5 |
| Incubus (USA-CA) Make Yourself | 2.5 |
| Rosetta Wake/Lift | 4.0 |
| Shining (SWE) III - Angst, Självdestruktivitetens Emissarie | 3.5 |
| mewithoutYou Brother, Sister | 4.5 |
| Broken Social Scene Forgiveness Rock Record | 4.0 |
| Justin Bieber My World | 1.0 |
| Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band Lick My Decals Off, Baby | 2.0 |
| Between the Buried and Me The Great Misdirect | 3.0 |
| The Antlers In the Attic of the Universe | 3.0 |
| Cursive Domestica | 3.0 |
| Matisyahu Youth | 2.5 |
| Protest the Hero Sequoia Throne: Remixed | 1.5 |
| Brian Eno Another Green World | 2.5 |
| X Japan Art of Life | 3.0 |
| R. Kelly Trapped In The Closet (Chapters 1-12) | 1.0 |
| Nirvana Incesticide | 2.0 |
| Kayo Dot Dowsing Anemone With Copper Tongue | 3.5 |
| Kayo Dot Coyote | 2.5 |
| Ride Today Forever | 3.5 |
| Mono Under the Pipal Tree | 3.5 |
| The Smiths Strangeways, Here We Come | 3.0 |
| Negura Bunget Inarborat Kosmos | 2.5 |
| Ride Nowhere | 4.0 |
| Yes Classic Yes | 3.5 |
| Grateful Dead American Beauty | 2.0 |
| Devin Townsend Project Addicted | 4.5 |
| Black Mountain In the Future | 3.0 |
| David Bowie Space Oddity | 3.5 |
| The Ocean Heliocentric | 3.5 |
| Amon Amarth Versus the World | 4.0 |
| King Crimson Starless and Bible Black | 2.5 |
| Whitechapel This Is Exile | 2.0 |
| Burst Origo | 3.5 |
| Agalloch The Silence of Forgotten Landscapes | 4.0 |
| Bohren und der Club of Gore Dolores | 3.5 |
| Dark Tranquillity Character | 3.5 |
| Passion Pit Manners | 3.0 |
| Les Discrets/Alcest Split | 3.5 |
| Alcest Écailles De Lune | 4.0 |
| The Smashing Pumpkins Pisces Iscariot | 4.0 |
| Shining (SWE) II - Livets Andhallplats | 3.0 |
| Shining (SWE) I - Within Deep Dark Chambers | 4.0 |
| Immolation Majesty and Decay | 4.0 |
| Burzum Belus | 3.5 |
| Have a Nice Life Time of Land | 3.0 |
| Immolation Harnessing Ruin | 3.5 |
| High on Fire Snakes for the Divine | 2.5 |
| Bohren und der Club of Gore Sunset Mission | 4.0 |
| Blue Man Group Audio | 2.5 |
| Phoenix (FRA) Alphabetical | 2.5 |
| Brand New Daisy | 3.0 |
| Dark Tranquillity Fiction | 4.0 |
| Lady Gaga The Fame Monster | 3.0 |
| In Mourning Shrouded Divine | 4.0 |
| Burst Lazarus Bird | 3.5 |
| The xx xx | 3.5 |
| Sigur Ros Hvarf/Heim | 4.0 |
| Slint Tweez | 2.5 |
| Bang Camaro Bang Camaro | 1.0 |
| In Mourning Monolith | 4.5 |
| My Dying Bride Songs of Darkness, Words of Light | 4.0 |
| Between the Buried and Me Alaska (Instrumental) | 3.0 |
| Mono One Step More and You Die | 4.0 |
| Silversun Pickups Carnavas | 3.5 |
| Bohren und der Club of Gore Black Earth | 4.0 |
| Sonic Youth Dirty | 3.5 |
| The Mountain Goats The Sunset Tree | 3.5 |
| Between the Buried and Me The Anatomy Of | 2.5 |
| Animal Collective Merriweather Post Pavilion | 2.5 |
| Negura Bunget OM | 3.5 |
| The Antlers Hospice | 4.5 |
"I wish I had known in
that first minute we met,
the unpayable debt
that I owed you."
Well, Hospice, now I know. |
| The Smiths Meat Is Murder | 4.0 |
| Alanis Morissette Jagged Little Pill Acoustic | 3.5 |
| Penguin Cafe Orchestra Music from the Penguin Cafe | 3.0 |
| Alanis Morissette Jagged Little Pill | 4.0 |
| King Crimson In the Wake of Poseidon | 3.0 |
| Pixies Surfer Rosa | 2.5 |
| Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra Horses in the Sky | 2.5 |
| Immortal Sons of Northern Darkness | 4.0 |
| Broken Social Scene Feel Good Lost | 2.5 |
| Them Crooked Vultures Them Crooked Vultures | 3.0 |
| Gorgoroth Pentagram | 3.5 |
| Talk Talk The Colour of Spring | 3.5 |
| Neutral Milk Hotel Everything Is | 2.5 |
| Phoenix (FRA) Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix | 3.5 |
| King Crimson Red | 3.5 |
| Flight of the Conchords I Told You I Was Freaky | 2.5 |
| Slint Spiderland | 3.5 |
| Negura Bunget Maiastru Sfetnic | 4.0 |
| Burial Untrue | 3.0 |
| Do Make Say Think Other Truths | 3.5 |
| Moonsorrow Verisäkeet | 4.0 |
| Between the Buried and Me The Silent Circus | 2.5 |
| The Shins Chutes Too Narrow | 2.5 |
| Moonsorrow Viides luku - Hävitetty | 3.5 |
| Pain of Salvation Remedy Lane | 2.5 |
| Led Zeppelin Physical Graffiti | 4.0 |
| Between the Buried and Me Alaska | 3.5 |
| Drudkh The Swan Road | 3.5 |
| Anathema Judgement | 3.0 |
| Moonsorrow Tulimyrsky | 3.5 |
| Sarah Fimm The Vanishing Sessions (B-Sides Part I) | 3.5 |
| The Jesus and Mary Chain Psychocandy | 4.0 |
| A Place to Bury Strangers Exploding Head | 3.5 |
| Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra Pretty Little Lightning Paw | 1.5 |
| The Smashing Pumpkins Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness | 4.0 |
| Kansas The Best of Kansas | 2.5 |
| Modest Mouse Everywhere and His Nasty Parlour Tricks | 3.5 |
| Between the Buried and Me Between the Buried and Me | 3.0 |
| Sufjan Stevens Songs For Christmas | 1.5 |
| Electric Wizard Come My Fanatics... | 3.0 |
| Emperor IX Equilibrium | 3.0 |
| Mazzy Star So Tonight That I Might See | 3.5 |
| Oceansize Frames | 3.5 |
| Buckethead Colma | 2.5 |
| Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin | 2.5 |
| Deftones White Pony | 3.0 |
| Beirut March of the Zapotec/Holland | 3.0 |
| This EP seems to be the tale of two discs. While March of the Zapotec doesn't come close to living up to the expectations set by Gulag Orkestar or The Flying Club Cup, the Realpeople Holland portion (Condon's electronic side-project) does a remarkable job innovating on Beirut's classic sound. Tracks like "Venice" and "No Dice" capitalize on the haunting vocal melodies Beirut fans know and love, but wonderfully introduce electronic beats that give the music an entirely new feel. Luckily, the captivating second half of the album fully compensates for the stale and unimpressive first half. |
| Agalloch Tomorrow Will Never Come | 3.0 |
| Agalloch The Grey | 3.0 |
| Burzum Burzum/Aske | 3.5 |
| The Stone Roses The Stone Roses | 3.0 |
| The Killers Hot Fuss | 3.5 |
| Immolation Unholy Cult | 3.5 |
| Tearwave Different Shade of Beauty | 4.0 |
| Silversun Pickups Swoon | 3.5 |
| Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra This Is Our Punk-Rock, Thee Rusted Satellites Gather and Sing | 2.0 |
| Dinosaur Jr. You're Living All Over Me | 4.0 |
| Kings of Leon Youth and Young Manhood | 2.5 |
| maudlin of the Well My Fruit Psychobells... A Seed Combustible | 3.5 |
| Explosions in the Sky The Earth Is Not a Cold Dead Place | 3.5 |
| Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra Born Into Trouble As the Sparks Fly Upward | 4.0 |
| The Decemberists The Tain | 3.0 |
| Slowdive Souvlaki | 3.5 |
| Mazzy Star Among My Swan | 3.0 |
| Immolation Failures for Gods | 3.5 |
| Satyricon Nemesis Divina | 4.0 |
| Kayo Dot Blue Lambency Downward | 2.0 |
| Slowdive Just for a Day | 3.5 |
| High on Fire Blessed Black Wings | 2.5 |
| Have a Nice Life Voids | 4.0 |
| Deadsy Commencement | 3.5 |
| Wale Attention Deficit | 3.5 |
| The Decemberists Picaresque | 4.0 |
| Talk Talk Spirit of Eden | 4.0 |
| My Bloody Valentine Isn't Anything | 3.5 |
| Incubus (USA-CA) S.C.I.E.N.C.E. | 2.0 |
| This album isn't groundbreaking, nor does it represent the best of 90's music. Even by 1997, the ideas employed by Incubus were stale and outdated - exhausted by the Beastie Boys and the Chili Peppers, and perfected by Rage Against The Machine in 1992. And while Incubus introduced the pop-funk-rap-rock scene to the masses, they certainly didn't improve upon an idea that was flawed to begin with. Filled with weak songs and stale concepts, S.C.I.E.N.C.E. may hold nostalgic value for some, but that doesn't make it good. There was plenty of good music made in the 90's, but, sadly, Incubus made none of it. |
| Immolation Dawn of Possession | 3.5 |
| Foo Fighters Foo Fighters | 2.5 |
| Anathema A Natural Disaster | 3.5 |
| The Pack Based Boys | 1.5 |
| The National Alligator | 4.0 |
| Fabolous Real Talk | 2.5 |
| Drudkh Forgotten Legends | 3.5 |
| Moby Play | 3.5 |
| Thirty Seconds to Mars A Beautiful Lie | 3.0 |
| Goo Goo Dolls Dizzy Up The Girl | 2.5 |
| Year of No Light Nord | 3.5 |
| TV on the Radio Dear Science | 2.5 |
| Immortal At the Heart of Winter | 3.5 |
| Drudkh Anti-Urban | 3.0 |
| Talk Talk Laughing Stock | 3.5 |
| Jethro Tull Thick as a Brick | 3.5 |
| My Dying Bride Turn Loose the Swans | 3.0 |
| Oceansize Effloresce | 4.0 |
| Mono Walking Cloud and Deep Red Sky, Flag Fluttered and the Sun Shined | 3.5 |
| The National Boxer | 4.0 |
| Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra He Has Left Us Alone But Shafts of Light Sometimes Grace the Corner of Our | 2.5 |
| Pelican What We All Come to Need | 3.5 |
| Trespassers William Having | 4.5 |
| Agalloch Of Stone, Wind and Pillor | 3.0 |
| Mono You Are There | 3.5 |
| Voxtrot Mothers, Daughters, Sisters and Wives | 3.5 |
| TV on the Radio Young Liars | 3.5 |
| Primus Pork Soda | 2.0 |
| Primus Sailing the Seas of Cheese | 1.5 |
| Iron Maiden Powerslave | 3.5 |
| Foo Fighters The Colour and the Shape | 3.0 |
| Dan Swano Moontower | 3.5 |
| Immolation Close to a World Below | 4.5 |
| Grouper Dragging a Dead Deer Up a Hill | 3.5 |
| Jeff Buckley Mystery White Boy | 3.5 |
| Panopticon Collapse | 3.5 |
| Satyricon Dark Medieval Times | 4.0 |
| Trespassers William Different Stars | 5.0 |
| Sigur Ros Svefn-g-englar | 3.5 |
| Drudkh Songs of Grief and Solitude | 2.0 |
| Built to Spill You in Reverse | 3.5 |
| My Morning Jacket Z | 3.5 |
| Fleet Foxes Sun Giant | 3.0 |
| Pavement Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain | 3.5 |
| TV on the Radio Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes | 3.0 |
| Children of Bodom Trashed, Lost & Strungout | 2.0 |
| Sigur Ros Heima (DVD) | 4.0 |
| Muse HAARP | 3.5 |
| Sunn O))) Black One | 3.0 |
| Interpol Turn on the Bright Lights | 3.0 |
| Muse Showbiz | 3.5 |
| Sigur Ros Takk... | 4.0 |
| The Ocean Precambrian | 4.0 |
| dredg Conscious | 1.5 |
| Portishead Dummy | 4.5 |
| James Taylor Greatest Hits | 3.5 |
| Mayhem De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas | 2.0 |
| Built to Spill Perfect from Now On | 4.0 |
| Immortal Pure Holocaust | 4.0 |
| Lady Gaga The Fame | 3.0 |
| Portishead Third | 4.0 |
| Jethro Tull Stand Up | 3.0 |
| Darkthrone A Blaze in the Northern Sky | 3.5 |
| Built to Spill There's Nothing Wrong with Love | 4.0 |
| Feist Let It Die | 3.0 |
| Emperor Anthems to the Welkin at Dusk | 3.5 |
| Sonic Youth Daydream Nation | 4.0 |
| blink-182 Blink-182 | 1.0 |
| Buckethead Electric Tears | 3.0 |
| Spoon Girls Can Tell | 3.5 |
| Ulver Nattens Madrigal | 4.5 |
| Franz Ferdinand Franz Ferdinand | 3.5 |
| The Shins Oh, Inverted World | 3.0 |
| HORSE the band Desperate Living | 3.5 |
| All the Empires of the World Last Rites | 3.0 |
| The Decemberists Her Majesty the Decemberists | 3.0 |
| Alcest Souvenirs D'Un Autre Monde | 5.0 |
| Cocteau Twins Treasure | 4.0 |
| Ulver Bergtatt - Et eeventyr i 5 capitler | 4.0 |
| Burzum Det Som Engang Var | 3.5 |
| Drudkh Autumn Aurora | 4.0 |
| Soundgarden Down on the Upside | 3.0 |
| Ill Nino One Nation Underground | 3.0 |
| Godsmack IV | 2.5 |
| Disturbed Indestructible | 2.0 |
| Novembre Materia | 4.0 |
| My Morning Jacket Evil Urges | 2.0 |
| Korn MTV Unplugged: Korn | 1.0 |
| Raekwon Only Built 4 Cuban Linx... Pt II | 3.5 |
| pg.lost It's Not Me, It's You! | 4.0 |
| Massive Attack Blue Lines | 2.5 |
| Broken Social Scene Broken Social Scene | 3.5 |
| Fair to Midland Fables From a Mayfly: What I Tell You Three Times is True | 3.0 |
| Buckethead Population Override | 3.5 |
| Muse The Resistance | 2.5 |
| Porcupine Tree The Incident | 4.0 |
| Velvet Revolver Contraband | 2.5 |
| Sting Brand New Day | 3.0 |
| Eagles Of Death Metal Death By Sexy | 1.5 |
| Drudkh Blood In Our Wells | 4.0 |
| Kings of Leon Because Of The Times | 3.0 |
| The Mars Volta Octahedron | 3.5 |
| The Velvet Underground The Velvet Underground & Nico | 3.5 |
| Feist The Reminder | 3.5 |
| GZA Liquid Swords | 3.0 |
| Peter Bjorn and John Falling Down | 3.0 |
| Sufjan Stevens Seven Swans | 4.0 |
| Exivious Exivious | 3.0 |
| Massive Attack Mezzanine | 5.0 |
| Wu-Tang Clan Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) | 4.0 |
| blink-182 Enema Of The State | 2.0 |
| Drowning Pool Sinner | 2.0 |
| Bon Iver For Emma, Forever Ago | 3.5 |
| Devin Townsend Terria | 3.5 |
| The Smashing Pumpkins Siamese Dream | 4.5 |
| The Decemberists The Crane Wife | 3.5 |
| Burzum Filosofem | 4.0 |
| Broken Social Scene You Forgot It in People | 4.0 |
| From Monument To Masses The Impossible Leap in One Hundred Simple Steps | 4.0 |
| Eminem Relapse | 2.5 |
| Fleet Foxes Fleet Foxes | 3.5 |
| A Perfect Circle eMOTIVe | 2.5 |
| MGMT Time to Pretend | 3.0 |
| Closure in Moscow First Temple | 3.5 |
| dredg The Pariah, The Parrot, The Delusion | 3.5 |
| My Bloody Valentine Ecstasy and Wine | 3.5 |
| Agalloch From Which of This Oak | 3.5 |
| Iron Maiden The Number of the Beast | 4.0 |
| Manowar Louder Than Hell | 1.0 |
| Animal Collective Feels | 2.5 |
| Animal Collective Strawberry Jam | 1.0 |
| Gates of Winter Lux Aeterna | 3.0 |
| Emperor In the Nightside Eclipse | 4.0 |
| Electric Wizard Dopethrone | 4.0 |
| ISIS Wavering Radiant | 3.5 |
| maudlin of the Well Leaving Your Body Map | 3.0 |
| maudlin of the Well Part the Second | 3.5 |
| Metallica Kill 'Em All | 3.0 |
| Metallica ...And Justice for All | 3.0 |
| Atheist Unquestionable Presence | 3.0 |
| Cannibal Corpse Tomb of the Mutilated | 2.0 |
| Death Symbolic | 3.0 |
| maudlin of the Well Bath | 4.0 |
| Atheist Elements | 3.0 |
| Opeth Still Life | 4.0 |
| Agalloch The White | 3.5 |
| King Crimson In the Court of the Crimson King | 4.0 |
| False Awakening Living Legends | 2.5 |
| False Awakening Dreams Are Gone EP | 2.0 |
| Nirvana MTV Unplugged in New York | 3.5 |
| Jedi Mind Tricks Servants in Heaven, Kings in Hell | 4.0 |
| Evanescence The Open Door | 3.5 |
| Enslaved Vertebrae | 3.5 |
| Woods of Ypres Pursuit of the Sun & Allure of the Earth | 3.5 |
| Woods of Ypres Against the Seasons | 3.5 |
| Califone Roots and Crowns | 3.5 |
| A Perfect Circle Mer de Noms | 4.0 |
| My Bloody Valentine Loveless | 5.0 |
| Elliott Smith Figure 8 | 3.5 |
| Bel Auburn Lullabies In A & C | 3.5 |
| Elliott Smith Either/Or | 3.5 |
| Rosetta The Galilean Satellites | 4.0 |
| Jesu Pale Sketches | 3.0 |
| Yndi Halda Enjoy Eternal Bliss EP | 4.0 |
| Yndi Halda Enjoy Eternal Bliss | 5.0 |
| Radiohead Go to Sleep | 1.5 |
| Radiohead COM LAG (2plus2isfive) | 2.5 |
| Jesu Why Are We Not Perfect? | 3.0 |
| Jesu Jesu | 3.5 |
| Pixies Doolittle | 3.5 |
| Rachael Please Repulse and Devastation | 3.5 |
| Wolves in the Throne Room Malevolent Grain | 4.0 |
| Mastodon Crack the Skye | 3.5 |
| Arcturus The Sham Mirrors | 3.0 |
| Wolves in the Throne Room Black Cascade | 4.5 |
| The Smashing Pumpkins Rotten Apples | 4.0 |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor Slow Riot For New Zero Kanada | 4.0 |
| Nine Inch Nails The Downward Spiral | 3.5 |
| Solstafir Köld | 3.5 |
| My Dying Bride The Dreadful Hours | 4.5 |
| ISIS Oceanic | 3.5 |
| The Decemberists The Hazards of Love | 4.0 |
| dredg Orph | 2.5 |
| dredg Leitmotif | 3.0 |
| Mastodon Blood Mountain | 3.5 |
| Oasis (What's the Story) Morning Glory? | 3.5 |
| Enter Shikari Take to the Skies | 1.0 |
| Racer X Technical Difficulties | 2.0 |
| The Devil Wears Prada Plagues | 2.5 |
| Jaga Jazzist What We Must | 4.0 |
| Machine Head The Burning Red | 2.0 |
| U2 All That You Can't Leave Behind | 3.0 |
| U2 The Joshua Tree | 3.5 |
| U2 How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb | 3.0 |
| U2 No Line on the Horizon | 2.5 |
| Devin Townsend Ocean Machine: Biomech | 4.0 |
| Death Cab for Cutie Plans | 3.0 |
| Diecast Internal Revolution | 2.5 |
| Aghora Aghora | 3.0 |
| Death Cab for Cutie Transatlanticism | 2.5 |
| Burzum Hvis Lyset Tar Oss | 4.0 |
| Dreamerion The Pain Without Name | 3.5 |
| Peter Bjorn and John Writer's Block | 4.0 |
| Sed Non Satiata Le Ciel De Notre Enfance | 3.5 |
| Dream Theater Falling into Infinity | 2.5 |
| Weezer The Red Album (Deluxe Edition) | 2.5 |
| Weezer Make Believe | 2.0 |
| Weezer Maladroit | 2.5 |
| Weezer The Green Album | 3.0 |
| Weezer Pinkerton | 3.5 |
| Senses Fail From the Depths of Dreams | 2.5 |
| Jesu Conqueror | 4.5 |
| Modest Mouse The Moon & Antarctica | 3.5 |
| dredg Catch Without Arms | 4.0 |
| Jesu Silver | 4.0 |
| Arcade Fire Funeral | 3.5 |
| Ikuinen Kaamos Closure | 3.5 |
| Six Red Carpets Nightmares + Lullabies | 2.5 |
| Radius System Escape/Restart | 4.0 |
| Sarah Fimm White Birds | 3.5 |
| Pink Floyd The Division Bell | 2.5 |
| The Paper Raincoat Safe In The Sound EP | 3.5 |
| The Pax Cecilia Blessed Are The Bonds | 4.0 |
| Tyler Bates 300 | 3.5 |
| Wolves in the Throne Room Diadem of 12 Stars | 4.0 |
| Sigur Ros Agætis byrjun | 4.5 |
| A Day To Remember Homesick | 2.5 |
| ISIS Panopticon | 4.5 |
| Jessica Simpson Sweet Kisses | 2.5 |
| Celine Dion Falling into You | 3.0 |
| Wintersun Wintersun | 2.5 |
| Brand New Deja Entendu | 2.5 |
| Kings of Leon Aha Shake Heartbreak | 3.5 |
| Gustav Holst The Planets, Op. 32 | 4.0 |
| Johann Sebastian Bach Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 in G major, BWV 1048 | 3.5 |
| Ludwig van Beethoven Symphony No. 5 in C minor, Op. 67 | 4.0 |
| Beirut The Flying Club Cup | 4.5 |
| After thoroughly enjoying Beirut's previous releases, "Gulag Orkestar," "Pompeii EP," and "Lon Gisland EP," this is precisely the album for which I had been waiting. The album flows seamlessly and Condon's forlorn and beautiful voice perfectly fits the haunting, eastern-european-inspired folk melodies. This album is definitely a keeper and leaves me anxious for Beirut's next release. |
| Beirut Lon Gisland | 3.0 |
| Subterranean Masquerade Suspended Animation Dreams | 3.5 |
| If you think you've heard genre-redefining music, you might have to reconsider. The product of members of Novembers Doom and Agalloch, Subterranean Masquerade is an extremely unique and experimental progressive metal band. "Suspended Animation Dreams," Subterranean Masquerade's first full length release, typifies the band's style: employing death growls, spoken doom vocals, and clean singing layered over any instrument imaginable, from acoustic guitar to clarinet to harmonica to violin to trumpet. The fact that the album is unorthodox doesn't inherently make it a success, however. What impresses me is the seamless transitions between, seemingly, completely unrelated sections. Well done, guys. |
| Radiohead The Best Of | 2.0 |
| Anthony Hamilton Ain't Nobody Worryin' | 2.5 |
| Flipsyde We the People | 2.5 |
| Modest Mouse The Lonesome Crowded West | 3.0 |
| Darkspace Dark Space I | 2.5 |
| Radiohead Hail to the Thief | 5.0 |
| While most fans consider Radiohead's best album to be OK Computer or Kid A, Hail To The Thief is my choice for the top spot. You want me to defend this claim? I can't. I don't know why, but without hesitation I place this album just ahead of OK Computer in Radiohead's prestigious discography. Hail To The Thief. |
| Sufjan Stevens Illinois | 4.0 |
| Aaron Neville Bring It On Home... The Soul Classics | 3.5 |
| Vampire Weekend Vampire Weekend | 2.0 |
| The Flashbulb Soundtrack to a Vacant Life | 4.0 |
| Orphaned Land Mabool (The Story of the Three Sons...) | 3.5 |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven | 4.5 |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor can, in my eyes, proudly proclaim to have created one of the greatest post-rock albums ever with "Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas To Heaven." GY!BE have perfected the ability to show utmost restraint while building a sweeping soundscape, and still reward the listener greatly with powerful and inspirational crescendos. For this reason, this album transcends post-rock and could be considered as one of the best pieces of music ever recorded - no exaggeration. |
| The Beatles Revolver | 3.5 |
| Mogwai Come On Die Young | 3.0 |
| Mogwai Mr. Beast | 3.5 |
| MGMT Oracular Spectacular | 4.0 |
| A Perfect Circle Thirteenth Step | 4.0 |
| Uaral Lamentos A Poema Muerto | 3.0 |
| An interesting folk/doom metal band in the vein of Agalloch, Uaral develops some very enthralling soundscapes with prominent latin influence. The only downside for me is the vocals - especially the clean vocals. While Agalloch enhances its music with fantastic clean and black metal vocals, Uaral fails to achieve the same effect and the music suffers somewhat as a result. |
| Kayo Dot Choirs of the Eye | 4.0 |
| Girl Talk Night Ripper | 2.5 |
| Beirut Gulag Orkestar | 3.5 |
| Have a Nice Life Deathconsciousness | 5.0 |
| Coheed and Cambria In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3 | 3.0 |
| Zion I Mind Over Matter | 3.5 |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor F♯ A♯ ∞ | 4.5 |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor have created an utterly breathtaking concept album in "F# A# ∞" This album truly defines "post-apocalyptic rock" and illustrates a beautifully devastating soundscape that depicts the end of the world. I hope to live to see the end of the world, someday. Then, I will listen to this album and everything will be right. Just right. |
| pg.lost Yes I Am EP | 3.5 |
| Tool Ænima | 4.0 |
| sleepmakeswaves Sleepmakeswaves | 3.0 |
| sleepmakeswaves In Today Already Walks Tomorrow | 4.0 |
| Bruce Springsteen Greatest Hits (1995) | 3.5 |
| Modest Mouse Good News for People Who Love Bad News | 3.5 |
| Jethro Tull Aqualung | 4.0 |
| The Beatles Help! | 2.5 |
| Daddy Yankee Barrio Fino En Directo | 1.0 |
| Kanye West 808s and Heartbreak | 2.0 |
| Bring Me the Horizon Suicide Season | 1.5 |
| Attack Attack! Someday Came Suddenly | 1.0 |
| brokeNCYDE BC 13 | 1.0 |
| The Mountain Goats Tallahassee | 3.5 |
| My first venture into The Mountain Goats, "Tallahassee" is an extremely entertaining album from many perspectives. From a lyrical perspective, the story John Darnielle tells is twisted and nuanced, but grounded in reality. From a musical perspective, the compositions are simplisitc and minimalistic for the majority of the album, and additional instrumentation is added only during the most crucial parts of the album. In addition, Darnielle has a captivating voice that perfectly suits the nature of the music. Overall, this album is an entertaining listen that exceeded my wildest expectations and deserves a listen from all.r |
| Brand New The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me | 4.0 |
While I really didn't enjoy either of Brand New's previous releases, I was definitely able to connect with "The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me." It's always refreshing to see a band moving in a positive and more progressive direction, breaking out of the molds of a given genre. "Sowing Season," "Jesus Christ," and "Limousine" are standout tracks.
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| Brand New Your Favorite Weapon | 2.0 |
| Girl Talk Feed the Animals | 3.0 |
| blink-182 Greatest Hits | 2.5 |
| City High City High | 2.5 |
| Fort Minor The Rising Tied | 2.5 |
| Tony Bennett Duets: An American Classic | 3.0 |
| T-Pain Rappa Ternt Sanga | 1.0 |
| Uncle Kracker Double Wide | 1.5 |
| Third Eye Blind Third Eye Blind | 3.0 |
| Third Eye Blind Blue | 2.5 |
| Sublime Greatest Hits | 2.5 |
| Staind 14 Shades of Grey | 2.5 |
| Scary Kids Scaring Kids The City Sleeps In Flames | 2.0 |
| Pink Floyd Animals | 3.5 |
| Radiohead Amnesiac | 3.0 |
| Dispatch Bang Bang | 3.0 |
| State Radio Us Against the Crown | 3.0 |
| Nickelback All the Right Reasons | 1.0 |
| Nickelback The Long Road | 2.0 |
| Nickelback Silver Side Up | 2.5 |
| Porcupine Tree Signify | 3.5 |
| The Allman Brothers Band Eat a Peach | 3.0 |
| August Burns Red Messengers | 2.5 |
| dredg El Cielo | 5.0 |
Dredg's "El Cielo" is a simply wonderful album. Never has an album managed to be simultaneously depressing and uplifting, but somehow "El Cielo" repeatedly breaks down the emotions of the listener, only to build them back up again. While each individual track is fantastic, this album really needs to be consumed as a whole for full effect. Enjoy "El Cielo" responsibly.
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| Linkin Park Live In Texas | 3.0 |
| Linkin Park Reanimation | 2.5 |
| The Beatles Yellow Submarine Soundtrack | 3.5 |
| The Beatles Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band | 4.0 |
| The Beatles Yellow Submarine | 2.5 |
| The Beatles Abbey Road | 4.0 |
| Fall Out Boy From Under the Cork Tree | 1.5 |
| Protest the Hero Fortress (Instrumental) | 3.0 |
| Opeth Burden | 3.0 |
| Pink Floyd The Wall | 4.0 |
| Porcupine Tree Lightbulb Sun | 4.0 |
| Converge Jane Doe | 3.0 |
| Various Artists Phenomenon: Music From The Motion Picture | 3.5 |
| Jack Johnson Sleep Through the Static | 1.5 |
| Jack Johnson In Between Dreams | 2.5 |
| Jason Mraz We Sing, We Dance, We Steal Things | 2.0 |
| Lynyrd Skynyrd Skynyrd's Innyrds | 3.5 |
| Nick Drake Pink Moon | 4.5 |
| Everclear Songs From An American Movie, Vol. 2 | 2.5 |
| Winds Reflections of the I | 3.5 |
| Foo Fighters In Your Honor | 3.0 |
| Jeff Buckley Grace | 4.0 |
| Weezer Weezer | 4.0 |
| Draconian Turning Season Within | 3.5 |
| Sigur Ros ( ) | 4.0 |
| Agalloch Pale Folklore | 4.5 |
| Nirvana In Utero | 3.5 |
| Slipknot All Hope Is Gone | 2.0 |
| Porcupine Tree Stupid Dream | 3.5 |
| Pete and J Plenty Good Reasons EP | 3.0 |
| Pete and J Dressed for Conversation | 2.5 |
| Tool Lateralus | 4.5 |
| The tribal drumming gets me every time... Maynard's voice and Tool's innovativeness come together to form the MJK masterpiece. |
| Estatic Fear A Sombre Dance | 4.0 |
| Estatic Fear's "A Sombre Dance" is a beautifully breathtaking album. Though it suffers from stagnation in some places, the vast majority of the album effectively captures the listener in epic, symphonic metal soundscapes. The stark contrast between the satanic male vocals and the angelic female vocals is marvelously highlighted by the meandering violin, flute, and electric guitar-driven passages. This album is a must for fans of Draconian or My Dying Bride. |
| Modest Mouse We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank | 3.5 |
| Radiohead My Iron Lung | 3.0 |
| Neutral Milk Hotel On Avery Island | 4.0 |
| Neutral Milk Hotel In the Aeroplane Over the Sea | 5.0 |
| This really shouldn't be any good. Yet, for some absurd reason, it is amazing. |
| Led Zeppelin Early Days/Latter Days | 3.5 |
| Led Zeppelin Best Of, Vol. 2: Latter Days | 4.0 |
| Led Zeppelin Best Of, Vol. 1: Early Days | 3.0 |
| Tool Undertow | 3.5 |
| Fleetwood Mac The Dance | 3.5 |
| Emmy Rossum Inside Out | 3.0 |
| The Phantom of the Opera The Phantom of the Opera(Original 1986) | 4.0 |
| LL Cool J The DEFinition | 1.5 |
| John Legend Get Lifted | 3.5 |
| Lil Wayne Tha Carter | 2.5 |
| Ludacris Word Of Mouf | 3.0 |
| Ludacris The Red Light District | 2.0 |
| Eminem Infinite | 2.5 |
| Rise Against Revolutions per Minute | 3.5 |
| Rise Against The Unraveling | 3.0 |
| Guns N' Roses Appetite for Destruction | 3.5 |
| Tool 10,000 Days | 4.0 |
| Bloc Party Silent Alarm | 2.5 |
| Jay-Z The Black Album | 3.5 |
| Jay-Z The Blueprint | 3.5 |
| Jay-Z Vol. 3: Life and Times of S. Carter | 3.0 |
| Jay-Z Vol. 2: Hard Knock Life | 3.0 |
| Jay-Z In My Lifetime, Vol. 1 | 3.0 |
| Kings of Leon Only By The Night | 4.0 |
| Musically, I love this album. Lyrically, though, Kings of Leon's "Only By The Night" leaves much to be desired. When these boys grow up and stop singing about trivial and immature concepts, they have the potential to be an excellent band. Until then, this album proves that they are at least ready musically to make a significant impact. Highlights on the album include "Manhattan," "Closer," and "Crawl." |
| Imogen Heap Speak For Yourself | 3.5 |
| Radiohead Pablo Honey | 2.5 |
| Wolves in the Throne Room Two Hunters | 5.0 |
| The Beach Boys The Platinum Collection: Sounds of Summer Edition | 3.0 |
| Lamb of God Ashes of the Wake | 3.5 |
| Lamb of God New American Gospel | 1.5 |
| Lamb of God Sacrament | 3.0 |
| Lamb of God As the Palaces Burn | 3.0 |
| The Flaming Lips Transmissions From the Satellite Heart | 2.5 |
| Radiohead The Bends | 4.0 |
| Radiohead Airbag/How Am I Driving? | 2.5 |
| Nachtmystium Demise | 2.0 |
| Linkin Park Minutes to Midnight | 2.5 |
| Linkin Park Meteora | 3.5 |
| Linkin Park Hybrid Theory | 3.5 |
| Sky Eats Airplane Sky Eats Airplane | 1.5 |
| What a let down. "Everything Perfect on the Wrong Day" was such an outstanding album - a catchier and more accessible form of electronicore than HORSE the Band produces - and I was a big supporter. This album, perhaps self-titled because Sky Eats Airplane wanted to begin to recreate themselves, sees SEA regress into the shadows of dozens of other decently talented, cookie-cutter post-hardcore bands. Not only does this album fall short in every way of the leading post-hardcore and tech-metal albums of today, it lacks everything that made their debut album such an innovative step for hardcore music. Nothing about the electronic accompaniment in this album is mature, whereas at the least the prior album had something memorable to offer. Instead, this sophomore album features more of the generic, industrial hardcore high school bands across the country have been producing for years. In fact, I'm sure several high school bands producing music in obscurity are more talented and have more to offer than what Sky Eats Airplane has become. |
| Oasis Don't Believe the Truth | 2.5 |
| Oasis Standing on the Shoulder of Giants | 2.0 |
| Metallica Death Magnetic | 2.5 |
| Amon Duul II Phallus Dei | 2.5 |
| Agoraphobic Nosebleed Bestial Machinery: ANb Discography Vol 1 | 1.5 |
| Novembre The Blue | 4.0 |
| Novembre's "The Blue" is a rare album that is so flawlessly assembled that individual tracks are effectively meaningless. Without being redundant, this album is united under one picturesque theme that paints a panoramic landscape for the imaginative listener. Standout clean and growled vocals thrive in the environment created by walls of electric guitar riffs and mesmerizing drum patterns. Novembre has certainly made a name for themselves as genre-redefining innovators with this ambient release. |
| Cynic Traced in Air | 4.0 |
| Swollen Members Black Magic | 3.0 |
| Pink Floyd A Saucerful of Secrets | 2.5 |
| Pink Floyd Ummagumma | 2.5 |
| Pink Floyd The Dark Side of the Moon | 4.5 |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor Yanqui U.X.O. | 4.0 |
| Santana All That I Am | 2.0 |
| Santana Milagro | 4.0 |
| Often overlooked, Santana's earlier works were outstanding albums! Without the pop-stylings and big-name artist accompaniment on these albums, the focus shifts to the rightful place - on the beautiful guitar work of Carlos Santana. While Abraxas and Supernatural were great albums, I firmly believe Milagro is Santana's greatest work and is deserving of much more attention. Those seeking a few tracks to sample, "Saja Right On" and "Somewhere In Heaven" are standout tracks on this standout album. |
| Metallica Reload | 2.5 |
| Shadows Fall Of One Blood | 3.0 |
| Shadows Fall Fallout From The War | 1.5 |
| Shadows Fall The Art of Balance | 3.5 |
| Pink Floyd Wish You Were Here | 4.5 |
| Static Colours Sun Swells | 4.5 |
| AFI Decemberunderground | 1.0 |
| Alexisonfire Crisis | 2.5 |
| Alkaline Trio Crimson | 3.0 |
| Deerhunter Fluorescent Grey | 3.0 |
| Agalloch The Mantle | 4.5 |
| Bury Your Dead You Had Me at Hello | 2.0 |
| Bury Your Dead Cover Your Tracks | 2.5 |
| Bury Your Dead Beauty and the Breakdown | 2.5 |
| Dashboard Confessional A Mark, A Mission, A Brand, A Scar | 1.5 |
| Flight of the Conchords Flight of the Conchords | 3.0 |
| Flight of the Conchords The Distant Future | 3.0 |
| Four Year Strong Rise Or Die Trying | 1.5 |
| Korn Greatest Hits Vol. 1 | 3.0 |
| Korn Issues | 3.0 |
| Korn Untitled | 1.5 |
| Korn See You on the Other Side | 2.5 |
| Korn Untouchables | 2.5 |
| 3OH!3 Want | 2.0 |
| Santana Shaman | 3.0 |
| Santana Abraxas | 3.5 |
| Eagles Hell Freezes Over | 3.5 |
| Pink Floyd Obscured by Clouds | 3.0 |
| Pink Floyd Meddle | 3.0 |
| Rise Against Appeal to Reason | 3.5 |
Rise Against succeeds once again with the release of "Appeal To Reason." However, this album seems to lack the level of frustration and angst that made "The Sufferer and the Witness" such a powerful album. While not Rise Against's best, this album is nonetheless an excellent release.
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| Will Smith Big Willie Style | 2.5 |
| Praxis Transmutation (Mutatis Mutandis) | 2.5 |
| Pearl Jam Ten | 3.0 |
| Senses Fail Let It Enfold You | 2.5 |
| Senses Fail Still Searching | 3.0 |
| The Rolling Stones Forty Licks | 3.5 |
| The Nightwatchman The Fabled City | 2.5 |
| The Nightwatchman One Man Revolution | 2.0 |
| System of a Down Steal This Album! | 2.5 |
| Paris Hilton Paris | 1.0 |
| Evanescence Anywhere But Home | 3.0 |
| Blue Oyster Cult Don't Fear The Reaper: The Best Of | 3.0 |
| Blue Oyster Cult On Flame With Rock and Roll | 2.5 |
| Stevie Ray Vaughan Greatest Hits | 4.0 |
| Black Sabbath We Sold Our Soul for Rock 'n' Roll | 3.0 |
| Black Sabbath Paranoid | 3.5 |
| Shadows Fall The War Within | 3.0 |
| Shadows Fall Somber Eyes to the Sky | 3.0 |
| Shadows Fall Threads of Life | 2.5 |
| Killswitch Engage Killswitch Engage | 2.0 |
| Atreyu The Curse | 2.5 |
| Atreyu A Death-Grip on Yesterday | 2.5 |
| Backstreet Boys Black and Blue | 1.0 |
| Backstreet Boys Backstreet Boys | 2.5 |
| Backstreet Boys Millennium | 2.5 |
| Snoop Dogg Paid tha Cost to Be da Bo$$ | 2.0 |
| DMX Grand Champ | 2.5 |
| DMX The Great Depression | 3.0 |
| DMX It's Dark and Hell Is Hot | 3.0 |
| Lloyd Banks Rotten Apple | 1.5 |
| Lloyd Banks The Hunger For More | 3.0 |
| Various Artists (Hip Hop) 8 Mile OST | 3.5 |
| Various Artists (Hip Hop) Eminem Presents: The Re-Up | 1.5 |
| Kanye West Graduation | 2.0 |
| Kanye West Late Registration | 3.5 |
| Kanye West The College Dropout | 3.0 |
| YoungbloodZ Drankin Patnaz | 2.0 |
| Ying Yang Twins Chemically Imbalanced | 1.0 |
| Soulja Boy Souljaboytellem.com | 1.0 |
| Job For A Cowboy Genesis | 2.0 |
| Draconian Arcane Rain Fell | 4.0 |
| Draconian is one of the most severely underrated bands in the metal world today. Seamlessly intertwining doom, death, and gothic metal, Draconian stands out in that they feature two vocalists - one male and one female. And when Lisa Johansson's beautifully transcendent vocals are used in harmony with the brutal death growls of Anders Jacobsson, heaven and hell become one on Earth. Developed by the same producers who worked with Opeth and Katatonia, Arcane Rain Fell is Draconian's most compelling album to date. Also deserving mention, "Death, Come Near Me" is the album closer and a supreme chef-d'oeuvre of epic proportions. |
| Slipknot Mate. Feed. Kill. Repeat. | 1.5 |
| Slipknot Iowa | 3.0 |
| Stevie Ray Vaughan In Step | 3.0 |
| DragonForce Inhuman Rampage | 1.0 |
| Stevie Ray Vaughan Couldn't Stand the Weather | 3.5 |
| Cream The Very Best Of Cream | 3.5 |
| Radiohead Kid A | 4.0 |
| Radiohead OK Computer | 4.5 |
| Most likely a product of the ridiculous hype surrounding this album, my first few listens left me quite unsatisfied with OK Computer. I was impressed by a few tracks, but the album didn't quite make the impression I had expected. Every time I listened, though, I found a new track I had missed recognizing as a solid track the previous time around. Where did that leave me? Over the course of a month, my rating for OK Computer slowly climbed from a 3 to its current standing as a 4.5. It took time and an open mind, but I now view OK Computer as Radiohead's second greatest album, one of the top alternative records of all time, and, most surprisingly, capable of living up to the tremendous hype. |
| System of a Down System of a Down | 3.0 |
| System of a Down Mezmerize | 3.0 |
| System of a Down Hypnotize | 3.0 |
| Zion I True & Livin' | 3.0 |
| Zion I Break a Dawn | 2.5 |
| Zion I Deep Water Slang V2.0 | 3.0 |
| Coheed and Cambria From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness | 3.5 |
| Stevie Ray Vaughan Texas Flood | 3.5 |
| He doesn't play particularly fast. He doesn't make his guitar sound like any instrument besides a guitar. He doesn't do anything technically that has never been done before. Hell, he's not even in a metal band! Yet, he's one of the greatest guitarists of all time - Stevie Ray Vaughan. And his ultimate album, "Texas Flood," is a prime showcase of a musician who injects more feeling into every note than most guitarists manage in entire careers. |
| Santana Supernatural | 3.5 |
| At the Drive-In Relationship of Command | 3.5 |
| All That Remains Behind Silence and Solitude | 2.5 |
| Damian Marley Halfway Tree | 2.5 |
| Nachtmystium Eulogy IV | 2.5 |
| Between the Buried and Me Colors | 4.0 |
| Agalloch Ashes Against the Grain | 5.0 |
| The haunting masterpiece "Ashes Against the Grain" by Agalloch is epic in every sense of the word. The layered guitar riffs and timely clean vocals set an eerie, atmospheric scene, while the perfectly contrasting black metal vocals are the most beautiful and disturbing I have heard. Pale Folklore and The Mantle were outstanding, but Ashes Against the Grain is utterly flawless and a major achievement for Agalloch. |
| The Fall of Troy The Fall of Troy | 3.0 |
| The Fall of Troy Doppelganger | 3.0 |
| The Sound of Animals Fighting Lover, the Lord Has Left Us... | 2.0 |
| Atreyu Lead Sails Paper Anchor | 1.0 |
| Porcupine Tree Deadwing | 4.5 |
| I often find anything labeled "progressive," be it rock or metal, to be inconsistent. This is inherent in the nature of the style as the musicians strive to experiment with new sounds and blend genres and there's usually something with which I don't connect. However, one album stands out in my prog catalogue: Porcupine Tree's "Deadwing." An ideal proportion of mellow atmosphere, heavy riffage, and melodic composition keeps this album consistent throughout. What drives this album to the top of the progressive rock heap? Those familiar with basic algebra will understand when I say that the ratio of killer to filler on this album is simply "Cannot Divide By Zero." |
| Brain Drill Apocalyptic Feasting | 1.0 |
| Killswitch Engage Alive or Just Breathing | 3.0 |
| Killswitch Engage The End of Heartache | 3.0 |
| David Gilmore Unified Presence | 3.0 |
| Nirvana Nevermind | 4.0 |
| All That Remains Overcome | 2.5 |
| Winds Prominence and Demise | 3.5 |
| Winds The Imaginary Direction of Time | 3.5 |
| A fairly unknown metal band, Winds features a style of neo-classical metal that makes for an entertaining listen. While the vocals and song structures can be somewhat pedestrian, it all seems worth it when the electric guitar interrupts the strings, drums, and acoustic guitars and executes some of the most beautiful sweeps and solos ever composed. And I say composed because this music more closely resembles classical music than metal. "The Imaginary Direction of Time" is Winds' best album to date and features several standout tracks, such as "What is Beauty?," "Theory of Relativity," and "Visions of Perfection." |
| Unexpect In a Flesh Aquarium | 3.0 |
| High on Fire Art of Self-Defense | 2.0 |
| Cynic Focus | 3.5 |
| Opeth Deliverance | 4.0 |
| Protest the Hero Kezia | 4.0 |
| A Day To Remember And Their Name Was Treason | 3.0 |
| All That Remains This Darkened Heart | 3.0 |
| As I Lay Dying Frail Words Collapse | 2.5 |
| As I Lay Dying Shadows Are Security | 3.0 |
| As I Lay Dying An Ocean Between Us | 3.5 |
| Young Buck Straight Outta Cashville | 3.5 |
| The Game Doctor's Advocate | 2.5 |
| The Game The Documentary | 3.5 |
| Lil Wayne Tha Carter II | 3.5 |
| Smash Mouth Summer Girl | 1.0 |
| Smash Mouth Get the Picture | 1.5 |
| Smash Mouth Smash Mouth | 2.0 |
| Smash Mouth Astro Lounge | 3.0 |
| Children of Bodom Hate Crew Deathroll | 3.0 |
| Children of Bodom Are You Dead Yet? | 2.5 |
| Children of Bodom Follow the Reaper | 3.0 |
| Bullet for My Valentine Scream Aim Fire | 1.0 |
| The Black Eyed Peas Monkey Business | 1.0 |
| The Black Eyed Peas Elephunk | 2.5 |
| Alien Ant Farm ANThology | 2.5 |
| Radiohead In Rainbows | 3.5 |
| Coldplay Parachutes | 3.0 |
| Coldplay A Rush of Blood to the Head | 3.5 |
| Coldplay Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends | 3.5 |
| Coldplay X&Y | 3.0 |
| Rage Against the Machine Renegades | 3.0 |
| Rage Against the Machine Live at the Grand Olympic Auditorium (DVD) | 4.0 |
| Slayer Reign in Blood | 4.0 |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers By the Way | 3.0 |
| Ill Nino Confession | 2.5 |
| Dr. Dre 2001 | 3.5 |
| Dr. Dre The Chronic | 3.0 |
| Damian Marley Welcome To Jamrock | 2.5 |
| Creed My Own Prison | 1.5 |
| Creed Human Clay | 2.5 |
| Creed Weathered | 2.5 |
| Chamillionaire Ultimate Victory | 3.5 |
| Chamillionaire The Sound of Revenge | 3.0 |
| Porcupine Tree Fear of a Blank Planet | 4.0 |
| Opeth Ghost Reveries | 4.0 |
| Opeth Morningrise | 3.5 |
| Opeth Orchid | 3.5 |
| Opeth My Arms, Your Hearse | 4.0 |
| Opeth Damnation | 4.0 |
| Sky Eats Airplane Everything Perfect on the Wrong Day | 3.5 |
| Evanescence Fallen | 3.5 |
| Dream Theater Octavarium | 3.0 |
| Every Time I Die Gutter Phenomenon | 1.5 |
| Underoath Define the Great Line | 3.0 |
| Underoath They're Only Chasing Safety | 3.5 |
| Rise Against Siren Song of the Counter Culture | 3.0 |
| The Mars Volta Frances the Mute | 3.5 |
| The Mars Volta Amputechture | 2.5 |
| The Mars Volta The Bedlam in Goliath | 4.0 |
| Muse Origin of Symmetry | 3.5 |
| Muse Absolution | 4.0 |
| Porcupine Tree In Absentia | 4.0 |
| Disturbed Ten Thousand Fists | 2.5 |
| Disturbed Believe | 2.5 |
| Disturbed The Sickness | 3.0 |
| 50 Cent Curtis | 1.0 |
| 50 Cent The Massacre | 1.5 |
| 50 Cent Get Rich or Die Tryin' | 2.5 |
| D12 Devil's Night | 1.0 |
| D12 D12 World | 3.0 |
| Kid Rock Devil Without a Cause | 2.0 |
| Eminem Curtain Call: The Hits | 4.0 |
| Eminem Encore | 2.0 |
| Eminem The Eminem Show | 3.5 |
| Eminem The Slim Shady LP | 3.0 |
| Avenged Sevenfold Sounding the Seventh Trumpet | 2.0 |
| Avenged Sevenfold Waking the Fallen | 3.5 |
| Rightly criticized for devolving as a band from a solid metal outfit to a mediocre pop-rock band, Avenged Sevenfold should be given credit where credit is due. Waking the Fallen features solid technical ability, a refreshingly unique vocal performance, and fairly consistent quality throughout. In essence, this is an excellent album, puts most modern metalcore to shame, and deserves significant kudos from the metal community. |
| Avenged Sevenfold City of Evil | 3.0 |
| Avenged Sevenfold Avenged Sevenfold | 2.0 |
| Chronic Future Lines in My Face | 2.0 |
| The Fall of Troy Manipulator | 3.5 |
| Metallica Metallica | 3.5 |
| System of a Down Toxicity | 3.5 |
| Wolfmother Wolfmother | 3.5 |
| Immortal Technique Revolutionary Volume 1 | 3.5 |
| Immortal Technique The 3rd World | 1.5 |
| All That Remains The Fall of Ideals | 3.5 |
| Audioslave Revelations | 2.5 |
| Audioslave Audioslave | 3.0 |
| Audioslave Out of Exile | 3.0 |
| Slipknot Slipknot | 3.0 |
| Slipknot Vol. 3: The Subliminal Verses | 3.5 |
| Eminem The Marshall Mathers LP | 4.5 |
| Kim is almost certainly the most emotionally-charged rap song ever composed. I never "felt" a hip-hop album until this one came out. |
| Immortal Technique Revolutionary Volume 2 | 4.0 |
| Bullet for My Valentine The Poison | 3.0 |
| The Mars Volta De-Loused in the Comatorium | 4.0 |
| Rise Against The Sufferer and the Witness | 4.0 |
| Metallica Ride the Lightning | 4.0 |
| Metallica Master of Puppets | 3.5 |
| Muse Black Holes & Revelations | 4.0 |
| Killswitch Engage As Daylight Dies | 4.0 |
| A Day To Remember For Those Who Have Heart | 3.5 |
| Rage Against the Machine Rage Against the Machine | 4.5 |
The pinnacle of modern, mainstream music. Plain and simple. Musically, Rage Against The Machine's self titled marks the apex of rap, punk, metal, and funk at a single point in time. Never has a band so seamlessly blended such contrasting styles of music and infused such passion into the mix. What sets this album apart, however, is the gravity and power of the message and the importance to our current society. Rage Against The Machine singlehandedly took on the task of acting as the opposing force to a corrupt government and a propaganda-fueled media. When music of great quality has a message of great importance, it is untouchable. "Rage Against The Machine" is untouchable.
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| Rage Against the Machine Evil Empire | 3.5 |
| Rage Against the Machine The Battle of Los Angeles | 4.0 |
| Opeth Watershed | 4.0 |
| Opeth have certainly mastered their trade. For 7 years Opeth tried to replicate the perfection achieved in the form of Blackwater Park on one single album, but to no avail. Finally, Watershed has accomplished the once-believed-impossible task of matching BwP in beauty and brutality. The clean vocals are haunting and poignant and the death growls are equal parts grating and soothing - just what every Opeth fan expects. However, Opeth continues to innovate musically, to the surprise of many. The jazz interlude in "The Lotus Eater", the detuning of the guitar to close out "Burden", and the beautiful female vocals featured in "Coil" are sure highlights on the album. Only Opeth could release such a masterpiece album and have it considered routine. |
| Opeth Blackwater Park | 4.5 |
| Widely considered Opeth's magnum opus, Blackwater Park is the epitome of one of the world's greatest and most innovative bands. Flawlessly uniting progressive rock and death metal, Blackwater Park's sound might possibly be the most unique and captivating ever recorded. |
| Protest the Hero Fortress | 4.0 |
| Both highly acclaimed and highly despised, Protest the Hero's "Fortress" has stirred up much controversy in the metal community. I fall clearly into the camp that supports the album as an enjoyable and intriguing composition worthy of high praise. While the constant fluttering of the guitars can be slightly gaudy, it's a guilty pleasure I thoroughly enjoy. The highlight of the album, however, is Rody Walker's vocals. The drastic switches from falsetto wails to piercing screams to the occasional guttural growl match perfectly the schizophrenic changes in song structure. The only feature of the album that keeps it from achieving a classic rating in my eyes is the lyrics, which are mostly about goddess worship. Although, many proponents of the album consider the lyrics a guilty pleasure as well (I do). |
