| Exivious Liminal | 4.5 |
| Exivious Exivious | 4.5 |
| The Ocean Pelagial | 4.0 |
| The Ocean Precambrian | 5.0 |
| Ever Forthright Ever Forthright | 4.0 |
| The Contortionist Exoplanet | 4.0 |
| The Contortionist Intrinsic | 4.0 |
| Gorguts The Erosion of Sanity | 5.0 |
| Gorguts Obscura | 5.0 |
| Gorguts Colored Sands | 4.5 |
| Fredrik Thordendal's Special Defects Sol Niger Within V3.33 | 4.0 |
| Agalloch Pale Folklore | 4.0 |
| Agalloch The Mantle | 4.5 |
| Agalloch Ashes Against the Grain | 5.0 |
| Agalloch Faustian Echoes | 4.0 |
| Agalloch Marrow of the Spirit | 4.0 |
| TesseracT One | 4.0 |
| Meshuggah I | 4.5 |
| Gojira The Way of All Flesh | 3.0 |
| Gojira L'Enfant Sauvage | 3.5 |
| Gojira From Mars to Sirius | 4.5 |
| Meshuggah Chaosphere | 4.5 |
| Meshuggah Contradictions Collapse | 3.0 |
| Meshuggah Destroy Erase Improve | 5.0 |
| Meshuggah Nothing | 3.5 |
| Meshuggah Catch Thirtythree | 4.0 |
| Meshuggah Koloss | 4.0 |
| Meshuggah obZen | 4.0 |
| Liquid Tension Experiment Liquid Tension Experiment 2 | 4.0 |
| Blotted Science The Machinations of Dementia | 4.5 |
| Art By Numbers Reticence: The Musical | 3.5 |
| Thrice Major/Minor | 4.5 |
| Periphery Periphery II: This Time It's Personal | 4.0 |
| Born of Osiris The Discovery | 3.0 |
| Veil of Maya Eclipse | 3.5 |
| Veil of Maya [id] | 3.0 |
| Scale the Summit The Collective | 4.5 |
| Nevermore Dead Heart In A Dead World | 4.0 |
| Nevermore This Godless Endeavor | 4.5 |
| Cynic The Portal Tapes | 4.5 |
| Animals As Leaders Weightless | 4.0 |
| Cynic Carbon-Based Anatomy | 4.0 |
| Portal (Cynic) Portal | 4.5 |
| Stevie Ray Vaughan Texas Flood | 5.0 |
| Anthrax Among the Living | 4.5 |
| Koji Kondo The Legend of Zelda 25th Anniversary Symphony | 4.0 |
| Vildhjarta Måsstaden | 4.0 |
| Morbid Saint Spectrum of Death | 5.0 |
| Iron Maiden Brave New World | 4.5 |
| Dance Gavin Dance Downtown Battle Mountain II | 3.5 |
| Megadeth Killing Is My Business... and Business Is Good! | 3.5 |
| Megadeth Countdown to Extinction | 3.5 |
| Blotted Science The Animation of Entomology | 4.5 |
| So yeah new Blotted Science, why the fuck aren't more people excited about this? |
| Morbid Angel Blessed Are the Sick | 4.5 |
| At the Gates Slaughter of the Soul | 4.5 |
| Latterman No Matter Where We Go...! | 4.0 |
| BREAK THE HABIT, CUZ SELF-DESTRUCTION IS OH SO ROMANTIC! |
| Jeff Loomis Zero Order Phase | 3.5 |
| Evile Five Serpent's Teeth | 3.0 |
| Oh hey guys look it's Metallica. |
| Haken Visions | 4.5 |
| Evile Enter the Grave | 3.5 |
| The Human Abstract Nocturne | 3.5 |
| The Human Abstract Digital Veil | 4.0 |
| Anthrax Worship Music | 3.5 |
| Machine Head Unto the Locust | 3.5 |
| Animals As Leaders Animals as Leaders | 4.5 |
| Atheist Elements | 4.0 |
| Atheist Piece of Time | 5.0 |
| Atheist Unquestionable Presence | 5.0 |
| Aliases Safer Than Reality | 3.0 |
| Corelia Nostalgia | 4.5 |
| Dream Theater A Dramatic Turn of Events | 3.5 |
In a certainly "Dramatic Turn of Events", without Mike Portnoy at the helm shoving metal
influences into the music; Dream Theater revert to a safe haven of pure Progressive Rock.
Falling back on what they do best with their recently regained ability to cut back on a bit
of excess technique, the unit feels more comfortable playing as a group as ever, without the
collective crash and burn mentality that plagued albums like Systematic Chaos when things
got out of hand.
Unfortunately, the music isn't always groundbreaking throughout and doesn't give newcomer
Mike Mangini thorough creative control to show everything he's got, but as a band in
transition out of a sea of turbulent times; I'm pretty excited to see what will be in store
when they all go at it with Mike included.
Highlights: Outcry, Breaking All Illusions, Bridges in the Sky |
| Opeth Still Life | 5.0 |
| Periphery Icarus | 3.0 |
| Symphony X The Divine Wings of Tragedy | 4.5 |
| Obituary The End Complete | 3.5 |
| Obituary Slowly We Rot | 3.5 |
| Obituary Cause of Death | 5.0 |
| Death Spiritual Healing | 4.0 |
| Trivium In Waves | 3.0 |
| Not really sure what to think so far. There's nothing particularly wrong with it but god damn is there a lack of punch that would propel it from being anything really good. Also, it's long as hell. |
| Periphery Periphery | 4.0 |
| Yasunori Mitsuda Chrono Cross Original Soundtrack | 5.0 |
| Symphony X Iconoclast | 4.0 |
| Protest the Hero Fortress | 4.5 |
| Haken Aquarius | 5.0 |
| Cynic Traced in Air | 4.5 |
| Cynic Focus | 5.0 |
| Job For A Cowboy Gloom | 3.0 |
| Coheed and Cambria Neverender | 5.0 |
| Glassjaw Our Color Green (The Singles) | 4.0 |
| Glassjaw Worship and Tribute | 5.0 |
| Ling Tosite Sigure Inspiration Is Dead | 4.5 |
| Protest the Hero Scurrilous | 4.0 |
| This album showcases a different Protest than we've grown accustomed to, instead of embracing full on growth in their songwriting a la Kezia to Fortress, the band takes a step to the side and allows Rody Walker a bit more freedom in what appears to be their most comfortable album yet, jam packed with all the original (if overbearing) technical wank you could ask for. Top Tracks: C'est La Vie Hair-Trigger Sex Tapes |
| SikTh The Trees Are Dead and Dried Out, Wait for Something Wild | 4.5 |
| SikTh Death of a Dead Day | 5.0 |
| Children of Bodom Relentless Reckless Forever | 3.0 |
| Will probably be viewed by a lot of Sputnik users as the album that tries to pick up the pieces of the disaster that was Blooddrunk. Alexi and co. thankfully do not overplay the atrocious stadium rock found in their poorly chosen single "Was It Worth It?" and even deliver some fucking kickass pieces with "Not My Funeral" and "Shovel Knockout" . Unfortunately "Relentless Reckless Forever" doesn't keep up with CoB's previous title tracks and ends up the weakest one so far. |
| Protest the Hero Kezia | 5.0 |
| Dance Gavin Dance Dance Gavin Dance | 3.5 |
| Dance Gavin Dance Happiness | 4.5 |
| Times of Grace The Hymn of a Broken Man | 3.5 |
| Cephalic Carnage Misled by Certainty | 4.0 |
| Just Like Vinyl Just Like Vinyl | 3.5 |
| Atheist Jupiter | 4.0 |
| Deep Purple Burn | 4.5 |
| Ko Otani Shadow of the Colossus: Roar of the Earth | 4.0 |
| Slayer Haunting the Chapel | 3.5 |
| Circle Takes the Square As the Roots Undo | 3.0 |
| DragonForce Sonic Firestorm | 4.0 |
| Yes Close to the Edge | 4.5 |
| Cryptopsy Blasphemy Made Flesh | 4.0 |
| Cryptopsy None So Vile | 5.0 |
| Steve Vai Passion and Warfare | 4.0 |
| Guns N' Roses Chinese Democracy | 3.5 |
| Iron Maiden The Final Frontier | 4.0 |
| Fleshwrought Dementia/Dyslexia | 3.5 |
| The Last Felony Too Many Humans | 3.0 |
| Machine Head Through the Ashes of Empires | 3.5 |
| Megadeth So Far, So Good... So What! | 3.0 |
| Thrice The Illusion of Safety | 4.5 |
| Children of Bodom Tokyo Warhearts | 4.0 |
| Children of Bodom Hate Crew Deathroll | 3.5 |
| Children of Bodom Hatebreeder | 4.0 |
| Children of Bodom Something Wild | 4.5 |
| Avenged Sevenfold Nightmare | 2.5 |
| Between the Buried and Me The Great Misdirect | 4.0 |
| Koji Kondo The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time OST | 4.5 |
| Darkest Hour Deliver Us | 4.0 |
| Amon Amarth Twilight of the Thunder God | 4.0 |
| X Japan Vanishing Vision | 4.0 |
| X Japan Art of Life | 5.0 |
| Avenged Sevenfold Waking the Fallen | 3.5 |
| The Replacements Let It Be | 3.5 |
| The Replacements Pleased To Meet Me | 4.0 |
| Black Veil Brides We Stitch These Wounds | 1.0 |
| Shadow of the Colossus Shadow of the Colossus | 3.5 |
| I'll admit it, I first clicked on the review on sputnik's front page because I thought it was a review for the video game soundtrack of the same name. I wasn't expecting a tightly knit package of deathcore with a tasteful presence of melodic passages littered throughout the album. Even if it's not enough to single-handedly change the face of deathcore, these guys do a helluva job trying. |
| Mastodon Remission | 4.0 |
| Orianthi Believe | 3.0 |
| Iron Maiden Somewhere in Time | 4.0 |
| Iron Maiden Dance of Death | 3.5 |
| Owl City Ocean Eyes | 1.0 |
| John Petrucci Suspended Animation | 4.0 |
| Eric Johnson Ah Via Musicom | 4.0 |
| Between the Buried and Me Alaska | 4.0 |
| Kevin Federline Playing with Fire | 1.0 |
| Mastodon Crack the Skye | 3.5 |
| Dream Theater When Dream and Day Unite | 3.5 |
| Atreyu Lead Sails Paper Anchor | 1.0 |
| The Black Dahlia Murder Deflorate | 3.0 |
| Despised Icon Day Of Mourning | 3.0 |
| Deftones Diamond Eyes | 4.5 |
| Converge Axe to Fall | 3.5 |
| Converge Jane Doe | 4.0 |
| Metallica St. Anger | 1.5 |
| Metallica Metallica | 3.5 |
| Testament Demonic | 2.0 |
| Testament The Formation of Damnation | 4.0 |
| Testament Souls of Black | 3.5 |
| Testament The New Order | 4.5 |
| Testament Signs of Chaos | 2.5 |
| Testament The Ritual | 3.5 |
| The Mars Volta Frances the Mute | 4.0 |
| The Mars Volta De-Loused in the Comatorium | 4.5 |
| Death Individual Thought Patterns | 5.0 |
| Death Human | 5.0 |
| Death Leprosy | 4.5 |
| Whitechapel A New Era of Corruption | 2.5 |
| Whitechapel This Is Exile | 2.0 |
| Carcass Necroticism: Descanting the Insalubrious | 4.0 |
| Carcass Reek of Putrefaction | 3.5 |
| Necrophagist Epitaph | 4.0 |
| Necrophagist Onset of Putrefaction | 4.5 |
| Arsis We Are the Nightmare | 2.5 |
| Abnormality 2007 Demo | 3.0 |
| Deftones White Pony | 4.0 |
| Trivium Ember to Inferno | 2.0 |
| Dance Gavin Dance Downtown Battle Mountain | 4.0 |
| Five Finger Death Punch War Is The Answer | 2.0 |
| Black Tide Light From Above | 2.0 |
| Pantera The Great Southern Trendkill | 2.5 |
| Pantera Cowboys from Hell | 3.5 |
| Dream Theater Falling into Infinity | 3.0 |
| Dream Theater Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes from a Memory | 5.0 |
| Behemoth Evangelion | 3.5 |
| Behemoth Demigod | 4.0 |
| Jeff Beck Wired | 4.0 |
| Jeff Beck Emotion & Commotion | 4.0 |
| Jeff Beck Blow by Blow | 5.0 |
| Joe Satriani Is There Love In Space? | 4.0 |
| Joe Satriani Professor Satchafunkilus and the Musterion of Rock | 3.5 |
| Joe Satriani Surfing With The Alien | 4.5 |
| At the Drive-In In/Casino/Out | 4.0 |
| At the Drive-In Acrobatic Tenement | 4.0 |
| At the Drive-In Relationship of Command | 5.0 |
| Killswitch Engage As Daylight Dies | 3.0 |
| Jones and co. make the disappointing decision of staying on auto-pilot for As Daylight Dies which is truly disheartening, given the outstanding quality of their previous works. |
| Killswitch Engage The End of Heartache | 3.5 |
| Job For A Cowboy Doom | 2.5 |
| DoomThrone Skeleton Veiled in Flesh | 1.0 |
| Waking The Cadaver Perverse Recollections Of A Necromangler | 1.0 |
| August Burns Red Messengers | 2.5 |
| August Burns Red Constellations | 3.5 |
| Avenged Sevenfold City of Evil | 3.5 |
| Avenged Sevenfold Avenged Sevenfold | 1.5 |
| Bullet for My Valentine Fever | 2.5 |
| Bullet for My Valentine Scream Aim Fire | 2.5 |
| Mastodon Blood Mountain | 3.5 |
| Mastodon Leviathan | 4.5 |
| Opeth Blackwater Park | 5.0 |
| The culmination of all their music to that point, Blackwater Park is the epitome of atmospheric Death Metal that relishes in its successful combination of style and substance. Congrats, Mikael and co.; you've done a damn fine job. |
| Cannibal Corpse The Bleeding | 4.0 |
| Morbid Angel Altars of Madness | 4.5 |
| Rush Hemispheres | 4.5 |
| Rush Caress of Steel | 2.5 |
| Rush 2112 | 4.5 |
| Rush Permanent Waves | 4.5 |
| Rush Moving Pictures | 3.5 |
| King Crimson In the Court of the Crimson King | 5.0 |
| Hawthorne Heights Skeletons | 2.0 |
| Megadeth Risk | 3.0 |
| Megadeth United Abominations | 4.0 |
| Megadeth Endgame | 4.5 |
| Megadeth Peace Sells... but Who's Buying? | 5.0 |
| Megadeth Rust in Peace | 5.0 |
| Slayer World Painted Blood | 2.5 |
| Slayer Diabolus in Musica | 2.0 |
| Slayer Seasons in the Abyss | 4.0 |
| Slayer Christ Illusion | 3.0 |
| Slayer Reign in Blood | 5.0 |
| Slayer Show No Mercy | 3.5 |
| Judas Priest Screaming for Vengeance | 3.5 |
| Judas Priest Painkiller | 5.0 |
| Judas Priest Jugulator | 1.0 |
| Judas Priest Angel of Retribution | 2.5 |
| Iron Maiden Virtual XI | 2.0 |
| Iron Maiden Piece of Mind | 4.0 |
| Iron Maiden Seventh Son of a Seventh Son | 4.0 |
| Iron Maiden The Number of the Beast | 3.5 |
| Iron Maiden The X Factor | 2.0 |
| Iron Maiden A Matter of Life and Death | 3.5 |
| Iron Maiden Powerslave | 5.0 |
| Machine Head Burn My Eyes | 4.0 |
| Machine Head The Blackening | 3.5 |
| Coheed and Cambria The Second Stage Turbine Blade | 4.5 |
| Coheed and Cambria No World for Tomorrow | 3.0 |
| Coheed and Cambria Year of the Black Rainbow | 4.0 |
| Killswitch Engage Alive or Just Breathing | 4.5 |
| Killswitch Engage Killswitch Engage (2009) | 2.5 |
| All That Remains The Fall of Ideals | 4.0 |
| All That Remains Overcome | 2.5 |
| Trivium The Crusade | 1.5 |
| Trivium Ascendancy | 3.0 |
| Trivium Shogun | 3.5 |
| While this album is definitely a step in the right direction, Heafy's vocal abilities are still sub-par and the musicianship has an unsettling feeling of "been there done that" even with the standout moments factored into the equation. |
| Between the Buried and Me Colors | 4.0 |
| Between the Buried and Me The Silent Circus | 4.5 |
| The Black Dahlia Murder Nocturnal | 4.5 |
| Job For A Cowboy Genesis | 3.0 |
| Job For A Cowboy Ruination | 3.5 |
| DragonForce Valley of the Damned | 3.0 |
| DragonForce Inhuman Rampage | 2.5 |
| DragonForce Ultra Beatdown | 1.5 |
| Children of Bodom Follow the Reaper | 4.0 |
| Children of Bodom Are You Dead Yet? | 3.0 |
| Children of Bodom Blooddrunk | 2.5 |
| Shaimus The Sad Thing is, We Like it Here | 4.0 |
| Silversun Pickups Carnavas | 3.0 |
| Napalm Death Scum | 4.5 |
| Napalm Death From Enslavement to Obliteration | 4.5 |
| How the hell does this NOT have a review? Ridiculous. |
| Nujabes Metaphorical Music | 4.5 |
| Disturbed The Sickness | 2.0 |
| Disturbed Indestructible | 2.5 |
| Slipknot Vol. 3: The Subliminal Verses | 3.5 |
| Slipknot All Hope Is Gone | 2.5 |
| Dream Theater A Change of Seasons | 4.5 |
| Dream Theater Score | 4.0 |
| Dream Theater Images and Words | 5.0 |
| Dream Theater Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence | 4.5 |
| Dream Theater Awake | 5.0 |
| Dream Theater Train of Thought | 3.5 |
| Dream Theater Systematic Chaos | 2.0 |
| Dream Theater Octavarium | 3.5 |
| Dream Theater Black Clouds and Silver Linings | 4.0 |
| Cannibal Corpse Butchered at Birth | 3.5 |
| Cannibal Corpse Vile | 3.0 |
| Cannibal Corpse Tomb of the Mutilated | 4.5 |
| While at the time of its conception, Tomb Of The Mutilated was considered by Death Metal fans as a quintissential release, Chris Barne's "one-trick pony" vocal range and a few weak tracks prevent this overall excellent album from being a true classic among the likes of those such as Morbid Angel's Altar Of Madness and Death's Scream Bloody Gore. |
| Cannibal Corpse Eaten Back to Life | 3.0 |
| Cannibal Corpse Evisceration Plague | 4.0 |
| Death Scream Bloody Gore | 4.0 |
| Death Symbolic | 5.0 |
| Death The Sound of Perseverance | 5.0 |
| Dethklok The Dethalbum | 3.5 |
| Dethklok Dethalbum II | 4.0 |
| Carcass Heartwork | 5.0 |
| Van Halen Van Halen | 4.5 |
| Metallica ...And Justice for All | 4.5 |
| Metallica Ride the Lightning | 4.5 |
| Metallica Kill 'Em All | 5.0 |
| Metallica Master of Puppets | 4.5 |
| Metallica Reload | 2.5 |
| Metallica Death Magnetic | 3.0 |
| Nobuo Uematsu Final Fantasy VII: Original Soundtrack | 4.5 |
| Nobuo Uematsu Final Fantasy VIII: Original Soundtrack | 5.0 |
| Nobuo Uematsu Final Fantasy X: Original Soundtrack | 4.0 |
| Nobuo Uematsu Lost Odyssey OST | 4.5 |
| The Fall of Troy Ghostship Demos | 5.0 |
| The Fall of Troy Phantom on the Horizon | 4.0 |
| The Fall of Troy The Fall of Troy | 4.5 |
| The Fall of Troy Doppelganger | 4.5 |
| The Fall of Troy Manipulator | 3.5 |
| The Fall of Troy In the Unlikely Event | 2.5 |
