| Ed Schrader's Music Beat Riddles | 4.5 |
| Marilyn Manson Heaven Upside Down | 2.5 |
| Manson has stagnated as an artist. It's not unlistenable, but a lot of the lyrics are cringeworthy, like something you'd find in a high schooler's diary. His persona will need to evolve, and he'll need to find some new material to draw on for inspiration, if he hopes to have any staying power, |
| Harry Styles Harry Styles | 1.5 |
| Nope. It's embarrassing how pretentious he is - he is not Bowie. Never will be. |
| David Bowie Blackstar | 4.5 |
| This is the return that "The Next Day" was supposed to be. His most experimental effort since 1995's "Outside" is not without flaws, but is an overall more satisfying album than its three predecessors. |
| Marilyn Manson The Pale Emperor | 3.5 |
| The most shocking thing about it is how much it didn't suck. Manson's most solid effort since his early period. |
| Oliva Raise The Curtain | 4.5 |
| David Bowie The Next Day | 4.5 |
| Easily bowie's best since "Earthling." Might be on par, or slightly below, the Berlin years. |
| Circle II Circle Seasons Will Fall | 1.5 |
| A surprisingly unremarkable slosh pile of bad lyrics and pedestrian songwriting from a talented group of musicians. |
| Black Veil Brides Wretched and Divine | 1.0 |
| Generic garbage. Nickleback vocals. Motley Crew image. Gross. |
| One Direction Up All Night | 1.0 |
| Good review of an awful album. My sister is right in the target demographic. Bieberfever has died down for her, but now she's all about these five corporate-manufactured goons. |
| Marilyn Manson Born Villain | 1.5 |
| The lyrics are awful ("Do you think I asked for this/let me show you what I think of your lips?" And not even all the processing on the vocals can make up for his trashed voice. It's pretty painful to listen to. |
| Alice Cooper Welcome 2 My Nightmare | 2.5 |
| I overrated it initially, because I'm a fanboy. But if I'm completely honest, it's a pretty bad album. |
| Heaven and Hell Neon Nights: 30 Years of Heaven and Hell - Live at Wacken | 4.5 |
| Meat Loaf Bat Out of Hell III | 1.0 |
| "Bad for Good"rNo. Just bad. I don't get why people call Meat a powerhouse either. Maybe he used to be, but he's just awful now. |
| Meat Loaf Bat Out of Hell | 3.0 |
| It's good, silly, schlocky fun, and in some ways a forerunner of sleaze rock. |
| Elf Carolina County Ball | 3.5 |
| Hooverphonic Presents Jackie Cane | 3.0 |
| "Jackie Cane" has some great songs and a lot of filler. |
| Living Colour Vivid | 5.0 |
| David Bowie Diamond Dogs | 3.5 |
| Owl City Of June | 1.0 |
| Fantastic review, but the album is awful, in my opinion. Maybe it was just killed for me by repeated play on the radio... |
| Leo Sayer Silverbird | 4.0 |
| Doctor Butcher Doctor Butcher | 3.5 |
| Nine Inch Nails Pretty Hate Machine | 3.5 |
| Nine Inch Nails The Downward Spiral | 4.0 |
| David Bowie The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars | 5.0 |
| Great review of a great record. This album displays Bowie's vocal versatility; despite his deep baritone, he can alter his voice so that it resembles a thin tenor. In addition to being an underrated songwriter, I think Bowie is an underrated vocalist. |
| David Bowie Outside | 3.5 |
| Nirvana In Utero | 5.0 |
| Soundgarden Badmotorfinger | 3.0 |
| Soundgarden Superunknown | 3.5 |
| Soundgarden Down on the Upside | 4.0 |
| Alice in Chains Black Gives Way to Blue | 3.0 |
| Alice in Chains Facelift | 4.0 |
| Brett Dennen So Much More | 3.0 |
| Circle II Circle Watching In Silence | 3.5 |
| Circle II Circle The Middle Of Nowhere | 2.5 |
| Circle II Circle Burden Of Truth | 2.0 |
| Circle II Circle Delusions Of Grandeur | 2.5 |
| Circle II Circle Consequence Of Power | 2.0 |
| Jon Oliva's Pain 'Tage Mahal | 2.5 |
| Decent, but not one of Oliva's stronger releases. |
| Jon Oliva's Pain Maniacal Renderings | 3.5 |
| Jon Oliva's Pain Global Warning | 4.0 |
| Jon Oliva's Pain Festival | 2.5 |
| The problem with this album is that it doesn't do much to distinguish itself from the rest of the Jon Oliva catalog. You've got heavy metal song, ballad, heavy metal song, ballad... Come on, Oliva. You're better than that. |
| The Alan Parsons Project Tales of Mystery and Imagination | 4.0 |
| Murderdolls Beyond The Valley of the Murderdolls | 1.0 |
| Murderdolls Women and Children Last | 1.0 |
| Jimmy Cliff The Harder They Come OST | 5.0 |
| Crimson Glory Transcendence | 3.5 |
| Crimson Glory Crimson Glory | 3.0 |
| Deep Purple Machine Head | 5.0 |
| Deep Purple Burn | 4.0 |
| Deep Purple Purpendicular | 3.5 |
| Frank Zappa Civilization, Phaze III | 3.5 |
| Frank Zappa Joe's Garage | 4.5 |
| Frank Zappa Jazz From Hell | 3.0 |
| Frank Zappa You Are What You Is | 3.5 |
| Nick Drake Five Leaves Left | 3.0 |
| Nick Drake Pink Moon | 4.5 |
| Beautiful, melancholic, strangely uplifting. Drake was a genius with a very distinctive voice. |
| Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds Abattoir Blues/The Lyre Of Orpheus | 5.0 |
| Tom Waits Heartattack and Vine | 5.0 |
| Tom Waits Franks Wild Years | 3.0 |
| Tom Waits Mule Variations | 5.0 |
| Tom Waits The Black Rider | 4.0 |
| Tom Waits Alice | 3.5 |
| Tom Waits Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers and Bastards | 5.0 |
| Ozzy Osbourne Scream | 2.5 |
| To be fair, it's his best album in a long time. Not saying much, though. Tracks like "Let It Die" and "Scream" are catchy, though generic, and the rest of it is a hodge-podge of stuff we've heard before from Ozzy. |
| Alice Cooper DaDa | 3.5 |
| Alice Cooper Brutal Planet | 3.5 |
| Alice Cooper The Eyes Of Alice Cooper | 3.0 |
| Alice Cooper Dirty Diamonds | 3.0 |
| Alice Cooper Along Came a Spider | 2.5 |
| Alice Cooper Hey Stoopid | 3.5 |
| Alice Cooper Billion Dollar Babies | 5.0 |
| Alice Cooper School's Out | 3.5 |
| Alice Cooper Trash | 3.0 |
| Alice Cooper Love It To Death | 4.0 |
| Ozzy Osbourne Diary of a Madman | 3.5 |
| Ozzy Osbourne Blizzard of Ozz | 4.5 |
| Ozzy Osbourne Speak of the Devil | 3.0 |
| Black Sabbath Sabbath Bloody Sabbath | 4.0 |
| Black Sabbath Heaven and Hell | 3.5 |
| Heaven and Hell The Devil You Know | 3.5 |
| Savatage Gutter Ballet | 4.0 |
| Savatage Streets: A Rock Opera | 4.5 |
| Savatage Handful of Rain | 3.5 |
| Savatage Dead Winter Dead | 2.5 |
| Savatage The Wake of Magellan | 3.0 |
| Savatage Poets and Madmen | 3.5 |
| Savatage Edge of Thorns | 3.0 |
| Meat Loaf Bat Out of Hell Live | 1.0 |
| The reviewer must be a die hard Meat Loaf fan. Anyone else listening to this album would hear an old man who lost his voice in the 80s. Seriously, this is embarrassing to Meat Loaf. |
| Avantasia Angel of Babylon | 2.0 |
| Certainly not their strongest effort. The only memorable song is "Death is Just A Feeling", and that one is only saved because of Jon Oliva's terrific performance; the song itself is just a retread of The Scarecrow's "The Toymaster." |
