| Frank Carter and the Rattlesnakes End of Suffering | 3.5 |
| Night Verses Every Sound Has a Color...: Part I | 4.0 |
| Sylosis A Sign of Things to Come | 3.5 |
| Polaris Fatalism | 3.5 |
| Hail the Sun Wake | 4.5 |
| Hail the Sun Divine Inner Tension | 4.5 |
| Vexes Imagine What We Could Destroy / If Only Given Time | 3.0 |
| Veil of Maya [m]other | 4.5 |
| Caskets Reflections | 4.0 |
| Queen Kona ALL HAIL | 4.0 |
| Johnny Booth Moments Elsewhere | 4.5 |
| A Lot Like Birds DIVISI | 4.5 |
| Sleep Token Take Me Back to Eden | 3.5 |
| Bury Tomorrow The Seventh Sun | 3.5 |
| August Burns Red Death Below | 4.0 |
| Manchester Orchestra The Valley of Vision | 4.0 |
| Chelsea Grin Suffer In Heaven | 4.0 |
| Caroline Polachek Desire, I Want To Turn Into You | 4.0 |
| thrown Extended Pain | 4.0 |
| Half Me Soma | 4.5 |
| Thrice The Artist in the Ambulance (Revisited) | 4.0 |
| Crosses permanent.radiant | 3.5 |
| Little Simz Sometimes I Might Be Introvert | 3.0 |
| Little Simz No Thank You | 3.0 |
| Dayseeker Dark Sun | 2.5 |
| Johnny Booth Storyteller | 4.0 |
| Vatican Ultra | 4.0 |
| Gatherers " ( mutilator. ) " | 4.5 |
| Chelsea Grin Suffer In Hell | 4.5 |
| Electric Callboy TEKKNO | 4.0 |
| He Is Legend Endless Hallway | 5.0 |
| The Offering Seeing the Elephant | 4.0 |
| Native Construct Quiet World | 4.0 |
| Nothing More Spirits | 4.5 |
| August Burns Red Thrill Seeker | 3.0 |
| Boundaries Burying Brightness | 3.5 |
| Architects The Classic Symptoms of a Broken Spirit | 3.5 |
| Lorna Shore Pain Remains | 3.0 |
| Counterparts A Eulogy for Those Still Here | 3.5 |
| The Devil Wears Prada Color Decay | 4.0 |
| Stray from the Path Euthanasia | 4.5 |
| The Wonder Years The Hum Goes on Forever | 4.0 |
| Reliqa I Don't Know What I Am | 4.5 |
| Destrage So much. Too much. | 4.0 |
| Void of Vision Chronicles II: Heaven | 3.5 |
| Everything Everything Get to Heaven | 3.5 |
| Ben Quad I'm Scared That's All There Is | 4.0 |
| Wet Leg Wet Leg | 3.5 |
| JID The Forever Story | 4.0 |
| headcave 3 | 4.0 |
| The Callous Daoboys Celebrity Therapist | 4.0 |
| Parkway Drive Darker Still | 2.5 |
| Stray from the Path Internal Atomics | 3.5 |
| Megadeth The Sick, the Dying... and the Dead! | 2.5 |
| Onslow Onslow | 4.0 |
| Vildhjarta Måsstaden (Forte) | 4.0 |
| Bjork Vespertine | 4.0 |
| orphantwin Future Classic | 4.0 |
| Wage War Manic | 3.0 |
| Norma Jean Deathrattle Sing for Me | 4.0 |
| Dragged Under Upright Animals | 3.5 |
| Everything Everything Raw Data Feel | 4.0 |
| Spiritbox Rotoscope | 3.5 |
| Nova Twins Supernova | 4.0 |
| Alexisonfire Otherness | 3.0 |
| Blood Command Praise Armageddonism | 3.0 |
| Coheed and Cambria Vaxis II: A Window of the Waking Mind | 4.0 |
| Great American Ghost Torture World | 3.5 |
| Lizzy McAlpine five seconds flat | 4.0 |
| Don Broco Priorities | 4.0 |
| Unprocessed Boy Without A Gun | 3.5 |
| Bleed from Within Shrine | 4.5 |
| Four Year Strong Four Year Strong | 3.5 |
| Jack White Fear of the Dawn | 3.5 |
| The Dear Hunter The Color Spectrum | 3.5 |
| The Dear Hunter Act I: The Lake South, the River North | 3.5 |
| Malevolence Malicious Intent | 3.5 |
| Windwaker Love Language | 4.0 |
| Wolf Alice Blue Weekend | 3.5 |
| Northlane Obsidian | 4.0 |
| Monuments (UK) In Stasis | 4.0 |
| Silent Planet Iridescent | 3.0 |
| Greyhaven This Bright and Beautiful World | 5.0 |
| Knocked Loose Pop Culture | 4.0 |
| Movements Feel Something | 4.5 |
| Laura Stevenson Laura Stevenson | 4.0 |
| Denzel Curry Melt My Eyez See Your Future | 3.5 |
| Gang of Youths Angel in Realtime | 3.5 |
| Manchester Orchestra Hope | 3.5 |
| A Lot Like Birds No Place | 3.5 |
| Agnes Obel Philharmonics | 4.0 |
| Susanne Sundfor Ten Love Songs | 3.5 |
| The Wonder Years Sister Cities | 3.5 |
| Lil Nas X Montero | 3.5 |
| Comeback Kid Heavy Steps | 3.0 |
| Currents The Place I Feel Safest | 3.5 |
| Dave We're all alone in this together | 2.5 |
| Drug Church Hygiene | 3.5 |
| Bjork Homogenic | 3.5 |
| Arcane Roots Melancholia Hymns | 3.5 |
| Arcane Roots Heaven and Earth | 4.0 |
| Omerta Hyperviolence | 4.0 |
| Arcane Roots Blood and Chemistry | 4.0 |
| Structures None of the Above | 3.5 |
| Enter Shikari Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible | 4.0 |
| Pinegrove 11:11 | 3.5 |
| Aurora (NOR) The Gods We Can Touch | 4.0 |
| Viscera (UK) Obsidian | 4.5 |
| Underoath Voyeurist | 3.0 |
| Caskets Lost Souls | 4.5 |
| Enterprise Earth The Chosen | 3.0 |
| Shadow Of Intent Elegy | 4.0 |
| Fit for an Autopsy Oh What the Future Holds | 5.0 |
| Opeth Watershed | 4.0 |
| Lorna Shore ...And I Return to Nothingness | 3.5 |
| Circa Survive A Dream About Love | 3.0 |
| Vildhjarta Måsstaden Under Vatten | 3.5 |
| Twelve Foot Ninja Vengeance | 3.0 |
| Ice Nine Kills The Silver Scream 2: Welcome to Horrorwood | 3.5 |
| Don Broco Amazing Things | 4.0 |
| Whitechapel Kin | 4.0 |
| Mastodon Hushed and Grim | 4.0 |
| Limp Bizkit Still Sucks | 3.5 |
| Hollywood Burns The Age of the Saucers | 3.5 |
| Silk Sonic An Evening with Silk Sonic | 3.5 |
| JID DiCaprio 2 | 3.5 |
| Humanity's Last Breath Välde | 3.0 |
| Archspire Bleed the Future | 5.0 |
| Every Time I Die Radical | 5.0 |
| Inferi (USA) Vile Genesis | 4.0 |
| Spiritbox Eternal Blue | 3.5 |
| Mother Mother Eureka | 4.0 |
| Anathema The Optimist | 4.0 |
| Knocked Loose A Tear in the Fabric of Life | 5.0 |
| clipping. There Existed an Addiction to Blood | 4.5 |
| Leprous Aphelion | 3.5 |
| Phinehas The Fire Itself | 4.5 |
| Turnstile Glow On | 4.5 |
| Born of Osiris Angel or Alien | 3.0 |
| DC Dark Nights: Death Metal Dark Nights: Death Metal Soundtrack | 3.0 |
| Turnstile Turnstile Love Connection | 4.0 |
| Tyler, the Creator Call Me If You Get Lost | 3.5 |
| Dvne Etemen Ænka | 3.0 |
| Urne Serpent and Spirit | 3.0 |
| Backxwash I LIE HERE BURIED WITH MY RINGS AND MY DRESSES | 4.0 |
| Neutral Milk Hotel In the Aeroplane Over the Sea | 3.0 |
| The Beach Boys Pet Sounds | 2.5 |
| Madvillain Madvillainy | 2.5 |
| Radiohead OK Computer | 3.5 |
| Judas Priest Screaming for Vengeance | 3.5 |
| AFI Bodies | 3.0 |
| Bjork Post | 4.0 |
| Kendrick Lamar good kid, m.A.A.d city | 3.0 |
| The Dali Thundering Concept Savages | 2.5 |
| White Moth Black Butterfly The Cost Of Dreaming | 3.5 |
| Weezer OK Human | 3.5 |
| Weezer Van Weezer | 4.0 |
| Gojira Fortitude | 3.5 |
| Greta Van Fleet The Battle at Garden's Gate | 3.0 |
| Tired Lion Breakfast for Pathetics | 3.0 |
| Bilmuri Eggy Pocket | 3.5 |
| Martin Grech Hush Mortal Core | 3.5 |
| Brockhampton Roadrunner: New Light, New Machine | 3.0 |
| While She Sleeps Sleeps Society | 4.5 |
| Evile Hell Unleashed | 2.5 |
| Perturbator Lustful Sacraments | 3.0 |
| Korn Follow the Leader | 3.5 |
| O'Brother Endless Light | 3.5 |
| Manchester Orchestra The Million Masks of God | 4.0 |
| Katahdin No Longer Room For Us | 4.0 |
| Genesis Owusu Smiling with No Teeth | 3.5 |
| The Devil Wears Prada ZII | 3.5 |
| Highly Suspect Mister Asylum | 2.5 |
| VOLA Witness | 4.0 |
| August Burns Red Leveler (Anniversary) | 4.0 |
| Cannibal Corpse Violence Unimagined | 2.5 |
| Chevelle NIRATIAS | 3.5 |
| Pressure Cracks This Is Called Survival | 3.0 |
| Jessie Ware What's Your Pleasure? | 4.5 |
| ERRA ERRA | 3.5 |
| Evergrey Escape of the Phoenix | 3.0 |
| Sleep Token Sundowning | 2.5 |
| Quicksand Slip | 3.0 |
| Architects For Those That Wish to Exist | 3.5 |
| Brand of Sacrifice Lifeblood | 4.5 |
| Teenage Wrist Earth Is A Black Hole | 4.5 |
| Whitechapel The Valley | 3.0 |
| Christine and the Queens La vita nuova | 4.5 |
| Unprocessed Artificial Void | 3.5 |
| Steven Wilson The Future Bites | 3.0 |
| Chloe x Halle Ungodly Hour | 3.5 |
| The Dirty Nil Fuck Art | 3.5 |
| Behemoth The Satanist | 4.0 |
| Dirty Loops Phoenix | 4.0 |
| Bellevue Days It Can’t Possibly Go Wrong Ever | 4.0 |
| Denzel Curry and Kenny Beats Unlocked | 4.0 |
| Busta Rhymes Extinction Level Event 2: The Wrath of God | 3.0 |
| clipping. Visions of Bodies Being Burned | 4.5 |
| Nothing The Great Dismal | 2.5 |
| Within the Ruins Black Heart | 3.5 |
| PUP This Place Sucks Ass | 3.0 |
| Vulkan Technatura | 3.5 |
| HAWK (USA-PA) Tolerance's Paradox | 4.5 |
| Cytotoxin Nuklearth | 3.5 |
| Haken Vector | 4.0 |
| Sunny Day Real Estate Diary | 3.0 |
| Reuben Racecar Is Racecar Backwards | 4.0 |
| Electric Six Bride Of The Devil | 3.0 |
| FEVER 333 Wrong Generation | 4.0 |
| Unleash The Archers Abyss | 3.5 |
| Deftones Black Stallion | 3.5 |
| Nova Twins Who Are The Girls? | 4.0 |
| Animals As Leaders The Joy of Motion | 4.0 |
| Pixies Beneath the Eyrie | 2.5 |
| The Hell JORIS (A Hardcore Opera), Pt. 1 | 4.0 |
| The Hell Brutopia | 3.0 |
| Former Wrestlers Champion of the World | 3.5 |
| Voices from the Fuselage Odyssey: The Founder of Dreams | 4.5 |
| AngelMaker AngelMaker | 3.5 |
| Enterprise Earth Luciferous | 3.5 |
| Biffy Clyro A Celebration of Endings | 3.5 |
| Orbit Culture Nija | 3.0 |
| Neck Deep All Distortions Are Intentional | 2.5 |
| Oliver Tree Ugly Is Beautiful | 3.5 |
| The Ocean Phanerozoic I: Palaeozoic | 3.5 |
| Caligula's Horse Rise Radiant | 4.0 |
| Haken Virus | 4.0 |
| Lamb of God Lamb of God | 2.5 |
| Make Them Suffer How to Survive a Funeral | 2.5 |
| Jeff Rosenstock NO DREAM | 2.0 |
| Aversions Crown Hell Will Come For Us All | 3.0 |
| Poison the Well The Tropic Rot | 2.5 |
| The World Is a Beautiful Place... Harmlessness | 4.0 |
| I Am Abomination The Passion Of The Heist | 4.0 |
| I Am Abomination Passion Of The Heist II | 3.5 |
| Igorrr Spirituality and Distortion | 2.0 |
| Katatonia City Burials | 2.5 |
| Daughters You Won't Get What You Want | 3.0 |
| Tellison Hope Fading Nightly | 4.0 |
| Thornhill The Dark Pool | 4.0 |
| Microwave Death is a Warm Blanket | 4.0 |
| Touche Amore Lament | 2.5 |
| Dool Summerland | 4.0 |
| Tallah Matriphagy | 4.0 |
| Palm Reader Braille | 3.5 |
| Palm Reader Sleepless | 3.5 |
| Killer Be Killed Killer Be Killed | 3.5 |
| Intervals Circadian | 3.5 |
| Grade Under the Radar | 2.5 |
| Protest the Hero Fabula & Syuzhet | 4.5 |
| Inferi (USA) Of Sunless Realms | 3.5 |
| Inferi (USA) The End of an Era | Rebirth | 2.5 |
| Bring Me the Horizon Post Human: Survival Horror | 4.0 |
| Protest the Hero Palimpsest | 5.0 |
| Grave Pleasures Motherblood | 2.0 |
| Alpha Wolf A Quiet Place to Die | 3.0 |
| The Ocean Phanerozoic II: Mesozoic | Cenozoic | 4.0 |
| Deftones Ohms | 3.5 |
| Pain of Salvation Panther | 4.0 |
| Her Name Is Calla Animal Choir | 2.5 |
| Dangerface Get Loud! | 2.5 |
| Faith No More King for a Day... Fool for a Lifetime | 4.0 |
| Born of Osiris The Eternal Reign | 4.0 |
| Good Tiger Raised in a Doomsday Cult | 4.5 |
| Drain (USA-CA) California Cursed | 3.5 |
| DMX It's Dark and Hell Is Hot | 2.5 |
| Bury Tomorrow Cannibal | 4.0 |
| Team Sleep Team Sleep | 3.0 |
| The Living End The Living End | 2.0 |
| Backxwash God Has Nothing To Do With This Leave Him Out Of I | 4.0 |
| Bleed from Within Fracture | 3.5 |
| Run the Jewels RTJ4 | 4.0 |
| END (USA-NJ) Splinters From An Ever-Changing Face | 4.0 |
| Rush 2112 | 3.5 |
| Biffy Clyro Infinity Land | 3.5 |
| Spanish Love Songs Brave Faces Everyone | 4.0 |
| Vader Solitude in Madness | 3.0 |
| Havok V | 4.0 |
| Warbringer Weapons of Tomorrow | 4.0 |
| Malevolence The Other Side | 4.5 |
| Kadinja Super 90' | 2.5 |
| Johnny Booth Firsthand Accounts | 4.5 |
| Misfits Famous Monsters | 2.5 |
| Brutus (BE) Nest | 3.5 |
| Children of Nova The Complexity of Light | 4.0 |
| Hyborian Volume II | 3.0 |
| Cult of Luna and Julie Christmas Mariner | 3.5 |
| Three Trapped Tigers Silent Earthling | 2.5 |
| The Black Dahlia Murder Verminous | 3.5 |
| The Contortionist Clairvoyant | 3.5 |
| Between the Buried and Me Automata II | 3.5 |
| Between the Buried and Me Colors | 3.0 |
| August Burns Red Guardians | 3.5 |
| Havok Conformicide | 3.5 |
| Dragged Under The World is in Your Way | 4.0 |
| Polaris The Death of Me | 3.0 |
| Polaris The Mortal Coil | 2.5 |
| The National I Am Easy to Find | 3.0 |
| Dogleg Melee | 2.5 |
| Four Year Strong Brain Pain | 4.0 |
| Invent Animate Greyview | 2.0 |
| Loathe I Let It In And It Took Everything | 4.0 |
| Code Orange Underneath | 4.0 |
| Ocean Wisdom Wizville | 3.0 |
| Pixies Doolittle | 4.0 |
| Slipknot We Are Not Your Kind | 3.0 |
| BATS Alter Nature | 3.0 |
| Gideon Out of Control | 3.5 |
| Counterparts Nothing Left to Love | 3.0 |
| Led Zeppelin Physical Graffiti | 4.0 |
| Motion City Soundtrack My Dinosaur Life | 4.0 |
| Black Futures Never Not Nothing | 2.5 |
| Sick of It All Built to Last | 2.5 |
| Humanity's Last Breath Abyssal | 3.0 |
| Killswitch Engage Atonement | 3.5 |
| Dealer (AUS) Saint | 4.0 |
| Failure In The Future Your Body Will Be The Furthest Thing From Your Mind | 4.0 |
| Sylosis Cycle of Suffering | 4.0 |
| Jeff Buckley Grace | 4.0 |
| Fucked Up Dose Your Dreams | 3.0 |
| Will Haven Carpe Diem | 2.5 |
| Dealer (AUS) Soul Burn | 4.0 |
| Silent Planet The Night God Slept (Redux) | 4.0 |
| Can't Swim Foreign Language | 4.0 |
| Basement Beside Myself | 4.5 |
| Scott Walker The Drift | 2.0 |
| Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds Ghosteen | 1.5 |
| JPEGMAFIA All My Heroes Are Cornballs | 2.0 |
| Moon Tooth Crux | 2.5 |
| Otoboke Beaver Itekoma Hits | 3.0 |
| Cokie The Clown You're Welcome | 2.0 |
| Power Trip Nightmare Logic | 3.0 |
| Dayshell Mr. Pain | 3.0 |
| Gatecreeper Deserted | 3.5 |
| Leprous Pitfalls | 4.0 |
| Northlane Alien | 4.5 |
| Spiritbox Singles Collection | 3.0 |
| Powerwolf The Sacrament of Sin | 3.5 |
| Cattle Decapitation Death Atlas | 3.0 |
| Blood Incantation Hidden History of the Human Race | 3.0 |
| Dinosaur Pile-Up Nature Nurture | 3.5 |
| Municipal Waste Hazardous Mutation | 4.0 |
| Municipal Waste The Art of Partying | 4.0 |
| Municipal Waste The Last Rager | 3.5 |
| Defeater Defeater | 3.0 |
| Desert Sessions Volumes 11 and 12 | 2.0 |
| Norma Jean All Hail | 4.5 |
| Fit for an Autopsy The Sea of Tragic Beasts | 4.5 |
| Green Day Dookie | 3.0 |
| BABYMETAL Metal Galaxy | 3.5 |
| Spirit Adrift Curse of Conception | 2.5 |
| Thank You Scientist Terraformer | 3.0 |
| Vitalism SY | 4.0 |
| Visigoth Conqueror's Oath | 3.0 |
| Cynic Traced In Air Remixed | 4.0 |
| Sufferer Sufferer | 4.5 |
| The Menzingers Hello Exile | 4.5 |
| The Holly Springs Disaster Motion Sickness Love | 3.0 |
| He Is Legend White Bat | 4.5 |
| Infant Annihilator The Battle of Yaldabaoth | 4.0 |
| Sum 41 Order In Decline | 3.5 |
| Emery Eve | 3.5 |
| As I Lay Dying Shaped by Fire | 4.0 |
| Structural Metacognition | 3.0 |
| Knocked Loose A Different Shade of Blue | 4.5 |
| The Contortionist Our Bones | 4.0 |
| Tool Fear Inoculum | 4.0 |
| Shadow Of Intent Reclaimer | 3.0 |
| Shadow Of Intent Melancholy | 4.0 |
| Touche Amore Dead Horse X | 4.0 |
| Thy Art Is Murder Human Target | 3.0 |
| Sabaton The Great War | 3.0 |
| Dinosaur Pile-Up Celebrity Mansions | 4.0 |
| Coheed and Cambria The Color Before The Sun | 3.5 |
| VOLA Applause of a Distant Crowd | 4.0 |
| Bruce Springsteen Born to Run | 2.5 |
| Cane Hill Kill The Sun | 3.5 |
| FEVER 333 Strength In Numb333rs | 2.0 |
| The Dirty Nil Master Volume | 3.0 |
| PUP PUP | 4.0 |
| Destrage The Chosen One | 3.5 |
| Fuming Mouth The Grand Descent | 3.5 |
| After the Burial Evergreen | 3.0 |
| Heart of a Coward The Disconnect | 4.0 |
| The Used Lies for the Liars | 3.0 |
| Devin Townsend Empath | 3.0 |
| Unto Others Mana | 2.5 |
| Allegaeon Apoptosis | 3.5 |
| Cursed Earth Cycles of Grief: The Complete Collection | 2.5 |
| Blood Command Return of the Arsonist | 4.5 |
| Rico Nasty and Kenny Beats Anger Management | 3.5 |
| Death Angel The Evil Divide | 3.5 |
| Dio Holy Diver | 4.0 |
| Amon Amarth Berserker | 3.0 |
| Black Tongue Nadir | 5.0 |
| Nothing More The Stories We Tell Ourselves | 3.5 |
| La Dispute Panorama | 4.0 |
| Periphery Periphery IV: Hail Stan | 3.0 |
| Psycroptic As The Kingdom Drowns | 3.5 |
| PUP Morbid Stuff | 4.5 |
| My Chemical Romance Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge | 4.0 |
| Pissgrave Posthumous Humiliation | 1.5 |
| Rico Nasty Nasty | 3.0 |
| The Menzingers On the Impossible Past | 4.0 |
| Within the Ruins Halfway Human | 4.0 |
| Blaqk Audio Only Things We Love | 2.0 |
| Andrew W.K. I Get Wet | 4.0 |
| A Wilhelm Scream Partycrasher | 3.5 |
| Skeletonwitch Devouring Radiant Light | 2.5 |
| While She Sleeps So What? | 4.0 |
| HEALTH VOL. 4 :: SLAVES OF FEAR | 2.5 |
| Maylene and the Sons of Disaster II | 3.5 |
| Mad Caddies Duck and Cover | 3.5 |
| Mad Caddies Keep It Going | 4.0 |
| In Flames Come Clarity | 3.0 |
| Manchester Orchestra A Black Mile to the Surface | 4.0 |
| Born of Osiris The Simulation | 3.0 |
| Ice Nine Kills The Silver Scream | 3.0 |
| PUP The Dream Is Over | 4.5 |
| The Dear Hunter Act V: Hymns with the Devil in Confessional | 3.5 |
| Coheed and Cambria Vaxis I: The Unheavenly Creatures | 3.5 |
| Rivers of Nihil Where Owls Know My Name | 3.5 |
| Monotheist Scourge | 3.5 |
| I AM Hard 2 Kill | 3.5 |
| Brand of Sacrifice Interstice | 3.5 |
| Nothing More Nothing More | 4.0 |
| Kadinja Ascendancy | 3.5 |
| Unearth Extinction(s) | 3.0 |
| Gama Bomb Speed Between The Lines | 4.0 |
| AFI The Missing Man | 4.0 |
| AFI AFI (The Blood Album) | 3.0 |
| Blakfish Champions | 3.0 |
| Architects Holy Hell | 4.0 |
| White Moth Black Butterfly One Thousand Wings | 2.0 |
| Silent Planet When the End Began | 4.0 |
| Every Time I Die Gutter Phenomenon | 3.5 |
| Every Time I Die Hot Damn! | 2.5 |
| Kublai Khan TX Nomad | 3.0 |
| Pig Destroyer Head Cage | 3.0 |
| Soen Tellurian | 2.0 |
| Polyphia New Levels New Devils | 4.5 |
| Intervals The Way Forward | 4.0 |
| Black Peaks All That Divides | 4.5 |
| Counterparts Private Room | 3.5 |
| ERRA Neon | 3.5 |
| Brockhampton Iridescence | 3.0 |
| Greyhaven Empty Black | 4.5 |
| Direct Hit! Wasted Mind | 3.5 |
| Monuments (UK) Phronesis | 4.0 |
| Revocation The Outer Ones | 4.0 |
| Alice in Chains Rainier Fog | 3.5 |
| Silent Planet The Night God Slept | 4.0 |
| The Armed Untitled | 4.0 |
| Vein.fm Errorzone | 4.0 |
| Leeched You Took The Sun When You Left | 2.5 |
| Pusha T DAYTONA | 4.0 |
| Your Demise The Kids We Used To Be | 3.5 |
| Bury Tomorrow Black Flame | 3.0 |
| Code Orange The Hurt Will Go On | 4.0 |
| Tribulation Down Below | 3.5 |
| Ghost (SWE) Prequelle | 3.5 |
| Fire from the Gods Narrative Retold | 3.5 |
| Oceano Revelation | 2.0 |
| Kendrick Lamar To Pimp a Butterfly | 3.0 |
| Harm's Way (USA-IL) Posthuman | 3.5 |
| FEVER 333 Made An America | 3.0 |
| The Wonder Years Suburbia I've Given You All and Now I'm Nothing | 5.0 |
| Underoath Erase Me | 3.0 |
| Dance with the Dead Out of Body | 3.5 |
| Hollywood Burns First Contact EP | 3.5 |
| Hollywood Burns Invaders | 3.0 |
| Turnstile Step 2 Rhythm | 3.5 |
| Trivium The Sin and the Sentence | 3.0 |
| Bokassa Divide and Conquer | 3.5 |
| Skindred Big Tings | 2.5 |
| Malevolence Reign of Suffering | 4.0 |
| Breaking Benjamin Ember | 3.0 |
| TesseracT Sonder | 4.0 |
| A Perfect Circle Mer de Noms | 4.0 |
| A Perfect Circle Thirteenth Step | 4.0 |
| A Perfect Circle Eat the Elephant | 4.0 |
| Weezer The White Album | 4.0 |
| Bleed from Within Era | 4.5 |
| Turnstile Time and Space | 4.0 |
| Gorod A Perfect Absolution | 4.0 |
| Creeper Eternity, In Your Arms | 2.0 |
| Turbowolf The Free Life | 4.0 |
| Carpenter Brut Leather Teeth | 2.0 |
| Detonation Emission Phase | 2.5 |
| Cane Hill Too Far Gone | 3.5 |
| Marmozets Knowing What You Know Now | 3.5 |
| Joyce Manor Cody | 3.5 |
| Jamie Lenman Devolver | 4.0 |
| Incendiary Thousand Mile Stare | 3.5 |
| In Vain (NO) Currents | 2.5 |
| Get The Shot Infinite Punishment | 3.0 |
| Earthside A Dream In Static | 3.0 |
| Dyscarnate With All Their Might | 4.0 |
| Don Broco Technology | 4.0 |
| Counterparts You're Not You Anymore | 3.5 |
| Bury Tomorrow Earthbound | 3.0 |
| Bolt Thrower Those Once Loyal | 3.5 |
| Barkmarket L. Ron | 2.5 |
| Aversions Crown Tyrant | 3.0 |
| August Burns Red Messengers (Remixed) | 4.0 |
| The Zenith Passage Solipsist | 2.5 |
| The Wonder Years The Greatest Generation | 4.5 |
| Joe Satriani Surfing with the Alien | 3.0 |
| Breaking Benjamin Phobia | 3.0 |
| Brockhampton SATURATION | 2.5 |
| Brockhampton SATURATION III | 3.5 |
| Good Tiger We Will All be Gone | 4.5 |
| Good Tiger A Head Full of Moonlight | 3.5 |
| Soilwork The Panic Broadcast | 3.5 |
| Descendents Cool to Be You | 4.0 |
| Fellsilent The Hidden Words | 4.0 |
| Against Me! Transgender Dysphoria Blues | 3.0 |
| Agnostic Front Riot, Riot, Upstart! | 2.5 |
| Tyler, the Creator Flower Boy | 3.5 |
| Glassjaw Material Control | 3.0 |
| Devil Sold His Soul Belong/Betray | 4.0 |
| Queens of the Stone Age Villains | 3.5 |
| Dying Fetus Wrong One to Fuck With | 3.5 |
| Fightstar Behind the Devil's Back | 3.5 |
| Converge The Dusk in Us | 4.0 |
| The Dear Hunter Act IV: Rebirth in Reprise | 4.0 |
| Manchester Orchestra Simple Math | 4.0 |
| Converge Jane Doe | 3.5 |
| Perturbator The Uncanny Valley | 3.5 |
| Perturbator New Model | 4.0 |
| Brockhampton SATURATION II | 4.0 |
| Circa Survive The Amulet | 4.0 |
| END (USA-NJ) From the Unforgiving Arms of God | 4.0 |
| August Burns Red Phantom Anthem | 4.0 |
| The Black Dahlia Murder Nightbringers | 4.0 |
| White Moth Black Butterfly Atone | 4.0 |
| Mastodon Cold Dark Place | 3.5 |
| Rage Against the Machine Evil Empire | 4.0 |
| Archspire Relentless Mutation | 5.0 |
| Septicflesh Codex Omega | 4.5 |
| Make Them Suffer Worlds Apart | 4.5 |
| Neck Deep The Peace And The Panic | 4.0 |
| Thy Art Is Murder Dear Desolation | 4.0 |
| Brand New Science Fiction | 4.0 |
| '68 Two Parts Viper | 3.5 |
| Polyphia The Most Hated | 4.5 |
| Slayer Reign in Blood | 3.5 |
| The Faceless Planetary Duality | 4.0 |
| Warbringer Woe to the Vanquished | 4.0 |
| Malevolence Self Supremacy | 4.5 |
| Amazing record. Some of the best guitar work you'll hear this year. The song writing and performances are so good, you'll easily forgive the weak lyrics. |
| Danny Brown Old | 3.0 |
| Danny Brown The Hybrid | 3.0 |
| Danny Brown XXX | 4.0 |
| SikTh The Future In Whose Eyes? | 4.5 |
| Tremonti Dust | 3.0 |
| Weezer Weezer | 4.0 |
| Papa Roach Crooked Teeth | 3.0 |
| Three Days Grace Three Days Grace | 3.0 |
| Three Days Grace One-X | 4.0 |
| Invent Animate Stillworld | 2.0 |
| Wage War Blueprints | 2.5 |
| Blood Command Cult Drugs | 4.5 |
| While She Sleeps You Are We | 4.5 |
| Kendrick Lamar DAMN. | 3.5 |
| Coheed and Cambria From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness | 4.0 |
| Earl Sweatshirt I Don't Like Shit, I Don't Go Outside | 4.0 |
| Twelve Foot Ninja Smoke Bomb | 4.5 |
| Devin Townsend Project Z2 | 2.5 |
| Devin Townsend Project Transcendence | 2.5 |
| Wovenwar Honor Is Dead | 2.5 |
| Wovenwar Wovenwar | 3.0 |
| King 810 La Petite Mort or a Conversation With God | 3.0 |
| King 810 Memoirs of a Murderer | 2.0 |
| The Menzingers After the Party | 4.5 |
| Fit for an Autopsy Hellbound | 3.5 |
| Fit for an Autopsy The Great Collapse | 4.0 |
| Mastodon Emperor of Sand | 4.0 |
| Blood Command Hand Us The Alpha Male | 3.0 |
| Mastodon Remission | 2.5 |
| Black Tongue The Unconquerable Dark | 3.0 |
| Alkaline Trio Maybe I'll Catch Fire | 3.0 |
| Baroness Purple | 2.5 |
| Counting Crows August And Everything After | 4.0 |
| Oh, Sleeper Children of Fire | 3.5 |
| Code Orange Forever | 4.0 |
| Aversions Crown Xenocide | 4.0 |
| Mastodon Once More 'Round the Sun | 3.5 |
| Be'lakor Vessels | 2.5 |
| Breakdown of Sanity Coexistence | 3.0 |
| Kreator Gods of Violence | 3.0 |
| Twin Atlantic Great Divide | 2.5 |
| Allegaeon Proponent for Sentience | 4.5 |
| Gideon Calloused | 2.5 |
| Heart of a Coward Severance | 4.0 |
| Fleshgod Apocalypse King | 3.5 |
| Trap Them Crown Feral | 3.0 |
| The Bronx The Bronx (II) | 3.5 |
| Filter Crazy Eyes | 2.5 |
| GRiZ Mad Liberation | 3.5 |
| Skyharbor Guiding Lights | 3.5 |
| Run the Jewels Run the Jewels | 4.0 |
| Run the Jewels Run the Jewels 2 | 4.5 |
| Run the Jewels Run the Jewels 3 | 4.0 |
| Upon a Burning Body Straight From the Barrio | 2.5 |
| Twelve Foot Ninja New Dawn | 3.0 |
| The Smashing Pumpkins Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness | 3.5 |
| Protest the Hero Pacific Myth | 3.5 |
| Green Day American Idiot | 3.5 |
| Destrage A Means to No End | 4.0 |
| Balance and Composure Light We Made | 4.0 |
| Avenged Sevenfold The Stage | 3.5 |
| BABYMETAL Metal Resistance | 3.0 |
| AFI The Art of Drowning | 2.5 |
| Black Peaks Statues | 3.5 |
| Metallica Hardwired...To Self-Destruct | 3.5 |
| Dangers The Bend In The Break | 3.5 |
| Brand New 3 Demos, Reworked | 4.0 |
| Danny Brown Atrocity Exhibition | 3.5 |
| Gojira The Link Alive | 4.0 |
| TesseracT Errai | 4.0 |
| Nirvana Nevermind | 4.0 |
| Thy Art Is Murder Hate | 3.0 |
| Knocked Loose Laugh Tracks | 4.5 |
| Every Time I Die Low Teens | 4.5 |
| The Black Dahlia Murder Abysmal | 3.5 |
| Make Them Suffer Old Souls | 4.0 |
| Norma Jean Polar Similar | 4.0 |
| Neck Deep Life's Not Out To Get You | 3.5 |
| Touche Amore Stage Four | 4.5 |
| Intervals The Shape of Colour | 4.0 |
| Chevelle The North Corridor | 3.5 |
| Chevelle Sci-Fi Crimes | 3.5 |
| Chevelle La Gárgola | 3.0 |
| Chevelle Hats Off To The Bull | 3.5 |
| Thy Art Is Murder / The Acacia Strain / Fit for an Autopsy The Depression Sessions | 2.5 |
| Twelve Foot Ninja Outlier | 3.5 |
| Twelve Foot Ninja Silent Machine | 4.5 |
| Zoax Zoax | 2.0 |
| Revocation Great Is Our Sin | 3.5 |
| Revocation Deathless | 3.5 |
| Periphery Periphery III: Select Difficulty | 4.0 |
| Billy Talent Afraid of Heights | 3.0 |
| letlive. If I'm the Devil... | 3.0 |
| Biffy Clyro Opposites | 4.0 |
| Silent Planet Everything Was Sound | 4.5 |
| Katatonia The Fall of Hearts | 4.0 |
| Fit for an Autopsy Absolute Hope Absolute Hell | 4.5 |
| Pierce the Veil Collide with the Sky | 3.5 |
| Architects All Our Gods Have Abandoned Us | 3.5 |
| Biffy Clyro Only Revolutions | 4.5 |
| Nails You Will Never Be One of Us | 3.5 |
| Killswitch Engage Incarnate | 2.5 |
| Gojira Magma | 4.0 |
| Deftones Gore | 4.0 |
| Heart of a Coward Deliverance | 4.5 |
| SikTh Opacities | 4.5 |
| Born of Osiris Soul Sphere | 4.5 |
| Destrage Are You Kidding Me? No. | 4.5 |
| Between the Buried and Me Coma Ecliptic | 3.0 |
| Parkway Drive Ire | 4.0 |
| Cattle Decapitation The Anthropocene Extinction | 4.0 |
| Blood Command Ghostclocks | 3.5 |
| Defeater Abandoned | 3.0 |
| Soilwork The Ride Majestic | 4.0 |
| Fear Factory Genexus | 3.5 |
| Black Breath Slaves Beyond Death | 3.5 |
| TesseracT Polaris | 4.5 |
| Lamb of God VII: Sturm und Drang | 3.5 |
| August Burns Red Found in Far Away Places | 4.5 |
| Ghost (SWE) Meliora | 4.5 |
| Voices from the Fuselage Odyssey: The Destroyer of Worlds | 3.5 |
| TesseracT Odyssey/Scala | 3.0 |
Tesseract's studio material isn't as well reaproppriated on Odyssey/Scala as it could have been.
Pros:
+ Musicianship
+ Overall Tracklisting
+ Live Ambience
Cons:
- Mix
- Dan's performance on Altered State material
- Guttural Vocals |
| Symphony X Paradise Lost | 2.5 |
| Unearth Watchers of Rule | 4.0 |
| A Wilhelm Scream Career Suicide | 4.5 |
| Nails Two Song Flexi | 3.5 |
| Turbowolf Two Hands | 3.0 |
| While She Sleeps Brainwashed | 4.0 |
| Sylosis Dormant Heart | 4.0 |
| Rishloo Living as Ghosts with Buildings as Teeth | 5.0 |
| Carcass Surgical Steel | 3.5 |
| Bury Tomorrow Runes | 3.0 |
| Monuments (UK) The Amanuensis | 4.5 |
| Every Time I Die From Parts Unknown | 4.5 |
| Archspire The Lucid Collective | 4.5 |
| Thrice The Illusion of Safety | 4.0 |
| Thrice The Artist in the Ambulance | 4.0 |
| Thrice Vheissu | 3.5 |
| Alaya Thrones | 3.5 |
| Alaya's sonic stamp lays somewhere between Djent and the Tech Metal scene. The vocal ability is the standout feature of the Album. The frontman's clean's are expressed passionately and retain a level of grit that many progressive singers lack. The instrumentation is no doubt played with precision and executed skillfully, but further refinement to their songwritting and structure would go long way to improving their craft. |
| XTRMST XTRMST | 2.5 |
| Children of Bodom Halo of Blood | 3.5 |
| Toxic Holocaust Chemistry of Consciousness | 2.5 |
| Skeletonwitch Serpents Unleashed | 2.0 |
| Shining (NOR) One One One | 2.5 |
| Shining (NOR) Blackjazz | 2.5 |
| The Safety Fire Mouth of Swords | 3.0 |
| Magrudergrind Magrudergrind | 3.0 |
| Gojira Terra Incognita | 2.5 |
| The Ghost of a Thousand New Hopes, New Demonstrations | 2.5 |
| ERRA Augment | 3.0 |
| ERRA Impulse | 2.5 |
| Death Angel The Dream Calls for Blood | 2.5 |
| Dangers 5 O'Clock Shadows At The Edge Of The Western World | 3.0 |
| Cynic Kindly Bent to Free Us | 2.0 |
| Clutch Earth Rocker | 3.0 |
| Circles Infinitas | 3.0 |
| Doomriders Grand Blood | 3.0 |
| La Dispute Rooms of the House | 3.5 |
| Architects Lost Forever // Lost Together | 3.0 |
| Caligula's Horse The Tide, the Thief and River's End | 3.0 |
| Chthonic Bu-Tik | 3.5 |
| A Lot Like Birds Conversation Piece | 4.0 |
| Comeback Kid Die Knowing | 4.0 |
| Destrage The King Is Fat'n'Old | 2.5 |
| Intervals A Voice Within | 4.5 |
| Archspire All Shall Align | 4.5 |
| Benighted Carnivore Sublime | 3.5 |
| Shokran Supreme Truth | 2.5 |
| Crosses Crosses | 4.0 |
| Skindred Kill the Power | 3.5 |
| Steel Panther Feel the Steel | 3.5 |
| A Life Once Lost Hunter | 3.0 |
| Fear Factory The Industrialist | 3.5 |
| Dying Fetus Reign Supreme | 4.0 |
| Black Sabbath 13 | 3.0 |
| Uneven Structure 8 (Re-release) | 2.5 |
| Karnivool Asymmetry | 4.0 |
| Dead Letter Circus The Catalyst Fire | 4.0 |
| The Black Dahlia Murder Nocturnal | 4.0 |
| Balance and Composure The Things We Think We're Missing | 4.0 |
| Warbringer IV: Empires Collapse | 3.0 |
| Breakdown of Sanity Perception | 3.5 |
| Protest the Hero Volition | 4.5 |
| Alter Bridge Fortress | 4.0 |
| Touche Amore Is Survived By | 3.5 |
| The Devil Wears Prada 8:18 | 3.5 |
| Katatonia Dethroned & Uncrowned | 3.0 |
| Born of Osiris Tomorrow We Die Alive | 3.0 |
| All Pigs Must Die Nothing Violates This Nature | 3.5 |
| Brand New Daisy | 3.5 |
| Warbringer Waking into Nightmares | 2.5 |
| Newsted Heavy Metal Music | 3.0 |
| Misery Signals Absent Light | 4.5 |
| Norma Jean Wrongdoers | 3.5 |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Ire Works | 3.0 |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan One of Us Is the Killer | 3.0 |
| The Dillinger Escape Plan Option Paralysis | 3.0 |
| Defeater Letters Home | 4.0 |
| Revocation Revocation | 4.0 |
| Nails Obscene Humanity | 3.5 |
| Defeater Empty Days and Sleepless Nights | 4.5 |
| Coroner Mental Vortex | 3.5 |
| Battlecross Pursuit of Honor | 2.5 |
| Fair to Midland Inter.Funda.Stifle | 3.5 |
| letlive. The Blackest Beautiful | 4.5 |
| Swain Howl | 3.0 |
| Havok Unnatural Selection | 3.0 |
| August Burns Red Rescue & Restore | 4.5 |
| Palms Palms | 2.0 |
| The Black Dahlia Murder Everblack | 4.0 |
| Dagoba Post Mortem Nihil Est | 2.5 |
| Megadeth Super Collider | 2.5 |
| Filter The Sun Comes Out Tonight | 4.0 |
| Evile Skull | 3.5 |
| Alice in Chains The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here | 4.0 |
| Queens of the Stone Age ...Like Clockwork | 4.5 |
| Feed The Rhino The Burning Sons | 3.5 |
| TesseracT Altered State | 5.0 |
| Karnivool Themata | 3.0 |
| Death Grips The Money Store | 3.0 |
| Death Grips Exmilitary | 3.5 |
| Voices from the Fuselage To Hope | 4.0 |
Upon first exposure, listeners will be immediately reminded of One era TesseracT.
Later, it becomes evident that slight stylistic differences exist between the bands, but
measuring those deviations almost seems over-analytical. Like TesseracT, Voices from the
Fuselage are more focused on ambient passages and songwriting than the average polyrhythmic
band. Voices from the Fuselage have crafted four excellent songs that TesseracT fans will
feel right at home with. |
| Karnivool Sound Awake | 5.0 |
| Nails Unsilent Death | 4.0 |
| Ghost (SWE) Infestissumam | 4.0 |
| Killswitch Engage Disarm the Descent | 3.5 |
| Enabler All Hail the Void | 4.0 |
| "All Hail The Void" has one of the best riffs I've heard in a while. |
| Soilwork The Living Infinite | 3.5 |
| Benighted Asylum Cave | 4.0 |
| Indian Handcrafts Civil Disobedience For Losers | 4.0 |
| The Strokes Comedown Machine | 2.5 |
| Bleed from Within Uprising | 4.5 |
| Sum 41 Does This Look Infected? | 4.0 |
| Kvelertak Meir | 3.5 |
| Sum 41 Half Hour Of Power | 3.0 |
| Sum 41 All Killer No Filler | 4.0 |
| Sum 41 Chuck | 4.5 |
| TesseracT One | 4.5 |
| Nails Abandon All Life | 4.5 |
| RAWR! |
| Darkthrone The Underground Resistance | 2.0 |
| Foo Fighters Wasting Light | 3.5 |
| Corelia Nostalgia | 2.0 |
| Bring Me the Horizon Sempiternal | 3.5 |
| Gojira The Link | 4.0 |
| Black Breath Razor To Oblivion | 4.0 |
| Bullet for My Valentine Temper Temper | 2.0 |
| This or the Apocalypse Dead Years | 2.0 |
| Upon a Burning Body Red. White. Green. | 2.5 |
| The Interbeing Edge of the Obscure | 3.0 |
| The Royal Origins | 2.0 |
| Unearth The Oncoming Storm | 4.0 |
| This or the Apocalypse Haunt What's Left | 4.5 |
| Balance and Composure Separation | 3.5 |
| Opeth Still Life | 3.5 |
| Opeth Ghost Reveries | 3.5 |
| Brand New The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me | 5.0 |
| Brand New Deja Entendu | 2.5 |
| Faith No More Angel Dust | 3.5 |
| Newsted Metal | 3.5 |
| Coheed and Cambria The Afterman: Descension | 3.5 |
Original Score: 3
Although there are standout moments on the record, the latter half is plagued with average
instrumentation and somewhat forgettable songwriting. The dialogue intermissions, are
largely devoid of musicianship and seem tacked on.
Lyrically, the album is guilty of both pretentious tendencies and triumphant story telling.
A coherent and admittedly interesting story can be followed here, but the vocalist awkwardly
and tirelessly forces "love"(the album's theme) down the throat of the listener.
While Coheed and Cambria have crafted a decent collection of songs, I hesitate to
reciprocate the same appraisal for the entire album experience. This record is heavily
predicated on story telling. Musically, the weaker content should be left off. Conceptually,
that practice would gape the story experience. |
| Holy Grail Ride the Void | 3.5 |
| Cattle Decapitation Monolith of Inhumanity | 3.5 |
| Expire Pendulum Swings | 3.5 |
| Dangers Anger | 4.5 |
| I Am Abomination Let The Future Tell The Truth | 4.0 |
| Soundgarden King Animal | 3.5 |
| Sights and Sounds Monolith | 3.0 |
| Crossfaith Zion | 3.0 |
| Brutality Will Prevail Scatter the Ashes | 2.5 |
| Deftones Koi No Yokan | 4.5 |
| Koi No Yokan - Roughly Translates to "Love at First Deftones" |
| Rings of Saturn Dingir | 2.5 |
| Blood Command Funeral Beach | 4.5 |
| Coheed and Cambria The Afterman: Ascension | 4.0 |
| The Haarp Machine Disclosure | 4.5 |
| Parkway Drive Atlas | 3.0 |
| A Life Once Lost Ecstatic Trance | 1.5 |
| The Tony Danza Tapdance Extravaganza Danza IIII: The Alpha - The Omega | 1.5 |
| Uncle Acid and The Deadbeats Blood Lust | 3.0 |
| Vision of Disorder The Cursed Remain Cursed | 3.5 |
| Converge All We Love We Leave Behind | 4.0 |
| Converge Axe to Fall | 3.5 |
| BATS The Sleep of Reason | 4.5 |
| Dethklok Dethalbum III | 2.5 |
| System of a Down Steal This Album! | 3.5 |
| System of a Down System of a Down | 3.0 |
| AxeWound Vultures | 2.0 |
| Sylosis Monolith | 4.0 |
| KILL you're stupid. r |
| August Burns Red Sleddin' Hill | 3.5 |
| Dangers Messy, Isn't It? | 5.0 |
| Revocation Teratogenesis | 4.5 |
| Between the Buried and Me The Parallax II: Future Sequence | 4.0 |
| Between the Buried and Me The Parallax: Hypersleep Dialogues | 2.5 |
| Devil Sold His Soul A Fragile Hope | 2.0 |
| Devil Sold His Soul Empire of Light | 3.5 |
Edit: I have revisited this album a year later and have come to conclusion that my original
soundoff should be complete redacted. I can't believe how wrong I was about this record.
___
ORIGINAL SOUNDOFF
Despite the lad's input, the outcome is uninteresting. Devil Sold His Soul's previous
outings displayed a masterful blend of ferocity and beauty. Empire of Light still
retains many of the band's trademarks, but is watered down to the point of no longer
adequately representing their aforementioned "yin and yang" like qualities. The root of this
misstep is the lack of balance. Meandering vocal melodies, tame atmospherics, and monotonous
guitar work, litter the majority of the album's duration. Although these cleaner passages
had proven to be an asset in the past, moderation was the foundation of that success.
Unfortunately Devil Sold His Soul have focused all of their attention on the poorest aspect
of their sound and consequently have alienated their uniquity. |
| As I Lay Dying Awakened | 4.0 |
| Original Score: 3.5rA disappointing but still valiant effort. The only issue with the record is the songwriting rhas taken a small step backwards. The majority of Awakened can't replicate the rheights that the instrumentation and vocal hooks achieved on their two previous releases. I rLay Dying have by no means crafted a bad record but in comparison to their best work, rAwakened falls short. rEdit: Album has since grown immensely on me. |
| Gallows (UK) Death Is Birth | 3.0 |
| Gallows (UK) Orchestra Of Wolves | 4.0 |
| Gallows (UK) Gallows | 2.5 |
| Billy Talent Dead Silence | 4.0 |
| 3 Inches of Blood Long Live Heavy Metal | 2.0 |
The band have gone way downhill since they lost their harsh vocal counterpart. The balance
is gone. Although it's obvious the boys are making a conscious effort, the music has become
too ridiculous for its own good. |
| Trap Them Darker Handcraft | 4.0 |
| Ribozyme Presenting the Problem | 3.0 |
| Katatonia Dead End Kings | 4.0 |
| The Chariot One Wing | 4.0 |
| Hawk Eyes Ideas | 4.0 |
| Periphery Periphery | 2.0 |
| Monuments (UK) Gnosis | 2.5 |
| Monuments (UK) We Are the Foundation | 4.0 |
| While She Sleeps This Is the Six | 4.0 |
| This abso-lute-ly RIPS! One of the most exciting upcoming bands in modern metal. |
| Death Angel Relentless Retribution | 3.0 |
| Tremonti All I Was | 3.0 |
| The Safety Fire Grind the Ocean | 3.0 |
| Lou Reed and Metallica Lulu | 1.5 |
| Testament Dark Roots of Earth | 4.0 |
| Heart of a Coward Hope and Hindrance | 3.5 |
| The Contortionist Exoplanet | 2.0 |
| Trivium Shogun | 3.5 |
| Trivium Ascendancy | 4.0 |
| Strapping Young Lad Alien | 4.5 |
| Skyharbor Blinding White Noise: Illusion & Chaos | 3.0 |
| Shadows Fall Fire From the Sky | 3.5 |
| Marilyn Manson Antichrist Superstar | 3.5 |
| In Mourning Monolith | 2.5 |
| In Mourning The Weight of Oceans | 3.5 |
| La Dispute Somewhere at the Bottom of the River Between Vega and Altair | 4.5 |
| Bury Tomorrow The Union of Crowns | 4.0 |
| Be'lakor Of Breath and Bone | 3.5 |
| Baroness Yellow and Green | 2.5 |
| Deftones Deftones | 3.5 |
| All Pigs Must Die God Is War | 3.5 |
| Gideon Milestone | 2.5 |
Gideon conform to become even more generic =(. Unfortunately the infectious choruses found
on Costs were stripped out. The melodic leads have been dumbed down resulting in
the (often mindless)chugging as the only distinguishing factor between songs. An abundance
of breakdowns desensitizes what could have otherwise emphasized the impactful production
value of the instrumentation. Ultimately the band's lack of variety makes for a forgettable
listen. |
| Periphery Periphery II: This Time It's Personal | 3.5 |
| Havok Point of No Return | 3.0 |
| Aerodyne Flex Transmissions | 2.5 |
| La Dispute Wildlife | 4.5 |
| Parkway Drive Horizons | 4.0 |
| Memphis May Fire Challenger | 2.5 |
| Gojira L'Enfant Sauvage | 4.0 |
Original Rating: 4
L`Enfant Sauvage unfortunately falls JUST short of its predecessors. While the songs here
are magnificent, Gojira`s mannerisms are starting to wear thin. Often you will hear the
familiar pick slide, pinch harmonics, and their distinct tapping style. This familiarity, at
times, can make certain riffs/structures seem formulaic in nature. On top of that, the riffs
and overall guitar work is less memorable than what they`ve conveyed in the past.
Mostly gone are the guttural vocals found on "From Mars to Sirius". Joe now favors a style
somewhere in between shouting and singing(comparable to choruses found on "The Way of All
Flesh"). Whilst Joe's vocals carry more impact than ever, I would have liked to see more of
the range he explored on the aforementioned album. The drum work is interesting as always.
As a result of the toned down guitar work, Mario's technical prowess moves even further into
the forefront. "Mouth of Kala" is proof that he has never sounded more massive behind the
kit.
Gojira have created an album that new fans will gush over. Older Gojira aficionados will
notice trademark consistencies that may hinder their experience slightly. The band have
sacrificed a small amount of their brutality and technicality with each release in purpose
of crafting more dynamic music. Despite your feelings on the bands direction, the material
found on L'Enfant Sauvage is no doubt some of the best of 2012! |
| Kreator Phantom Antichrist | 4.0 |
| I second the EPICNESS of the leak! |
| Djerv Djerv | 3.0 |
| Animal Alpha Pheromones | 5.0 |
| Brutality Will Prevail Sleep Paralysis | 3.0 |
| Korn The Path of Totality | 3.0 |
| Fear Factory Demanufacture | 4.0 |
| Slash Slash | 3.5 |
| Dead Letter Circus This Is The Warning | 4.0 |
| Architects Daybreaker | 3.0 |
| Not as similar to Hollow Crown as Architects would lead you to believe... |
| Testament The Formation of Damnation | 3.5 |
| TesseracT Perspective | 3.5 |
| Reference: One - 4.5rElliot's voice takes center stage here due to the toned down nature of the instrumentation. rWhile Elliot proves he is an excellent vocalist, he falls short of Dan's ability. Elliot has ran awkward cadence about him when he lets his voice get out of control. This flaw is most revident on the beginning of "Perfection" and ending of "Dream Brother". Elliot shines on r"Origin". His voice soars over the superb musicianship, adding a depth to the song I haven't rexperienced before. As a whole, I find this interpretation of "Origin" surpasses the quality rof the version found on One. Unfortunately Elliot lacks the impact needed for more rchaotic sections/songs. Moments of "April" and the Majority of "Eden 2.0" exemplify this rissue. The replacement did a fantastic job with Dan's work, but we will see Elliot's rpotential come to fruition with new material. |
| Meshuggah Koloss | 4.0 |
| Deftones Adrenaline | 4.5 |
| Vektor Outer Isolation | 4.0 |
| Cancer Bats Dead Set on Living | 3.5 |
Liam's vocals are uncharacteristically good on this release. He uses a ton of variation and
has created many fun, catchy, choruses. The guitarist writes some pretty awesome riffs, but
I'd like to see him inject more complexity into his playing. The drum work is passable, but
nothing overly interesting. It's a shame because the percussion is extremely well produced
and punchy. Although "Dead Set on Living" is a continuation the same record written their
entire career, the refinement and song writing on this release keep the experience from
becoming stale. No filler here; Best Cancer Bats album to date!
(High 3.5)- 4 |
| Halford Resurrection | 3.5 |
| TRC Bright Lights | 3.0 |
| In Flames Whoracle | 4.0 |
| Killing Joke MMXII | 3.0 |
| Soen Cognitive | 3.0 |
| Black Breath Sentenced To Life | 4.5 |
| Slayer World Painted Blood | 4.0 |
| Rise To Remain Bridges Will Burn | 3.5 |
| Rise To Remain City of Vultures | 2.5 |
| Parkway Drive Deep Blue | 4.0 |
| Underoath Ø (Disambiguation) | 3.5 |
| Black Breath Heavy Breathing | 3.5 |
| Beheading of a King Quasar: Preserving Legacy | 3.0 |
| Black Spiders Sons of the North | 2.5 |
| The Dear Hunter Black | 4.0 |
| The Dear Hunter Red | 3.5 |
| Crosses EP | 4.0 |
| Crosses EP II | 3.5 |
| The Ghost of a Thousand This Is Where The Fight Begins | 4.5 |
| Stam1na Nocebo | 3.0 |
| Pulled Apart By Horses Tough Love | 3.5 |
| Every Time I Die Ex Lives | 4.5 |
| Hope For The Dying Dissimulation | 3.0 |
| Cynic Re-Traced | 3.5 |
| Avatar Black Waltz | 3.0 |
| Megadeth Th1rt3en | 3.5 |
| Lamb of God Resolution | 3.5 |
| Protest the Hero Kezia | 4.0 |
| Protest the Hero Scurrilous | 4.0 |
| Queens of the Stone Age Queens of the Stone Age | 4.0 |
| Queens of the Stone Age Lullabies to Paralyze | 4.0 |
| Queens of the Stone Age Era Vulgaris | 3.5 |
| Queens of the Stone Age Songs for the Deaf | 4.5 |
| Queens of the Stone Age Rated R | 4.5 |
| Strapping Young Lad City | 4.5 |
| Glassjaw Our Color Green (The Singles) | 4.5 |
| Glassjaw Coloring Book | 4.5 |
| As I Lay Dying Decas | 3.0 |
| Cynic Traced in Air | 4.0 |
| SikTh The Trees Are Dead and Dried Out, Wait for Something Wild | 3.5 |
| SikTh Death of a Dead Day | 4.0 |
| System of a Down Toxicity | 4.5 |
| System of a Down Hypnotize | 4.0 |
| System of a Down Mezmerize | 4.5 |
| Tool 10,000 Days | 4.5 |
| Tool Lateralus | 5.0 |
| Tool Ænima | 4.5 |
| Tool Undertow | 4.5 |
| While She Sleeps The North Stands for Nothing | 4.0 |
| Pulled Apart By Horses Pulled Apart By Horses | 3.5 |
| Fair to Midland Fables From a Mayfly: What I Tell You Three Times is True | 5.0 |
| BATS Red In Tooth and Claw | 4.0 |
| Krux III - He Who Sleeps Amongst the Stars | 3.5 |
| CiLiCe Deranged Headtrip | 4.0 |
| Trapped Under Ice Big Kiss Goodnight | 3.5 |
| Revocation Existence Is Futile | 4.0 |
| The Chariot Long Live | 4.5 |
| Defeater Travels | 4.5 |
| Defeater Lost Ground | 5.0 |
| Protest the Hero Fortress | 5.0 |
| Warbringer Worlds Torn Asunder | 4.0 |
| Vektor Black Future | 3.5 |
| Breakdown of Sanity Mirrors | 3.5 |
| Artillery My Blood | 2.5 |
| Symphony X Iconoclast | 4.0 |
| Born of Osiris The Discovery | 4.0 |
| Skindred Union Black | 3.5 |
| Vildhjarta Måsstaden | 4.0 |
| Gojira The Way of All Flesh | 5.0 |
| Exit Ten Give Me Infinity | 4.0 |
| Skeletonwitch Forever Abomination | 3.0 |
| Scale the Summit The Collective | 3.0 |
| Five Finger Death Punch American Capitalist | 2.5 |
| Arch Enemy Khaos Legions | 2.0 |
| The Human Abstract Digital Veil | 4.5 |
| Anthrax Worship Music | 3.5 |
| Evile Five Serpent's Teeth | 4.0 |
| Fair to Midland Arrows and Anchors | 4.5 |
| Machine Head Unto The Locust | 3.5 |
| Dead And Divine Antimacy | 4.0 |
| Mastodon The Hunter | 4.0 |
| The Devil Wears Prada Dead Throne | 4.0 |
| Toxic Holocaust Conjure and Command | 3.5 |
| Havok Time Is Up | 4.0 |
| Revocation Chaos of Forms | 4.0 |
| Trivium In Waves | 2.0 |
| August Burns Red Leveler | 4.0 |
| The Black Dahlia Murder Ritual | 4.0 |
| Malefice Awaken The Tides | 3.5 |
| The melodies and choruses are stronger this time around, but guitar work and growls are significantly less inspired. |
| Sylosis Conclusion of an Age | 5.0 |
| Suicide Silence The Black Crown | 3.0 |
| Of Mice and Men The Flood | 3.0 |
| Benighted Identisick | 4.0 |
| Benighted Icon | 4.0 |
| Unearth The March | 3.0 |
| Unearth Darkness in the Light | 4.5 |
| Opeth Blackwater Park | 4.0 |
| The Offspring Greatest Hits | 4.0 |
| The Offspring Rise and Fall, Rage and Grace | 3.5 |
| Norma Jean Meridional | 4.5 |
| Mustasch Latest Version Of The Truth | 3.5 |
| Mose Giganticus Gift Horse | 3.0 |
| Monster Magnet Powertrip | 4.0 |
| Metallica Ride the Lightning | 4.0 |
| Metallica Master of Puppets | 4.0 |
| Metallica Kill 'Em All | 3.5 |
| Metallica ...And Justice for All | 4.0 |
| Metallica Metallica | 3.0 |
| Metallica Load | 2.5 |
| Metallica Reload | 1.5 |
| Metallica St. Anger | 2.5 |
| Metallica Death Magnetic | 3.0 |
| Megadeth Youthanasia | 4.0 |
| Megadeth Countdown to Extinction | 4.5 |
| Megadeth So Far, So Good... So What! | 2.0 |
| Megadeth Peace Sells... but Who's Buying? | 4.5 |
| Megadeth Killing Is My Business... and Business Is Good! | 3.0 |
| Megadeth Rust in Peace | 4.5 |
| Megadeth Cryptic Writings | 3.0 |
| Megadeth The World Needs a Hero | 3.0 |
| Megadeth The System Has Failed | 3.0 |
| Megadeth Risk | 3.0 |
| Megadeth United Abominations | 3.5 |
| Megadeth Endgame | 4.0 |
| Mastodon Leviathan | 3.0 |
| Mastodon Blood Mountain | 4.0 |
| Mastodon Crack the Skye | 4.0 |
| Malefice Dawn Of Reprisal | 4.0 |
| Machine Head Through The Ashes Of Empires | 4.0 |
| Machine Head The Blackening | 4.0 |
| Lower Than Atlantis Far Q | 3.0 |
| letlive. Fake History | 4.0 |
| Lazarus A.D. The Onslaught (Re-release) | 4.0 |
| Lazarus A.D. Black Rivers Flow | 3.0 |
| Lamb of God As the Palaces Burn | 4.0 |
| Lamb of God Ashes of the Wake | 5.0 |
| Lamb of God Sacrament | 3.5 |
| Lamb of God Wrath | 4.5 |
| Kylesa Static Tensions | 3.5 |
| Kylesa Spiral Shadow | 4.0 |
| Kvelertak Kvelertak | 4.5 |
| Kreator Enemy of God | 4.0 |
| Kreator Hordes of Chaos | 3.0 |
| Killswitch Engage Alive or Just Breathing | 4.0 |
| Killswitch Engage The End of Heartache | 3.5 |
| Killswitch Engage As Daylight Dies | 4.0 |
| Killing Joke Absolute Dissent | 4.0 |
| Judas Priest Painkiller | 4.0 |
| In Flames A Sense of Purpose | 4.0 |
| Holy Grail Crisis In Utopia | 3.5 |
| Helmet Size Matters | 3.5 |
| Helmet Monochrome | 3.5 |
| Heathen The Evolution of Chaos | 2.5 |
| Hatebreed Perseverance | 3.0 |
| Gojira From Mars to Sirius | 5.0 |
| Ghost (SWE) Opus Eponymous | 3.5 |
| Gama Bomb Tales From the Grave in Space | 2.0 |
| Gallows (UK) Grey Britain | 4.0 |
| Five Finger Death Punch War Is The Answer | 3.5 |
| Filter The Trouble With Angels | 4.0 |
| Fear Factory Mechanize | 4.0 |
| Evile Enter the Grave | 3.5 |
| Evile Infected Nations | 3.5 |
| Every Time I Die The Big Dirty | 4.0 |
| Every Time I Die New Junk Aesthetic | 4.5 |
| Eagles Of Death Metal Heart On | 3.5 |
| Eagles Of Death Metal Death By Sexy | 3.5 |
| Eagles Of Death Metal Peace Love Death Metal | 3.0 |
| Dream Theater Octavarium | 3.0 |
| Dr. Acula Slander | 3.5 |
| Doomriders Darkness Come Alive | 4.0 |
| DevilDriver The Last Kind Words | 3.5 |
| DevilDriver Pray for Villains | 4.0 |
| DevilDriver Beast | 3.5 |
| The Devil Wears Prada Zombie | 4.5 |
| Devil Sold His Soul Blessed & Cursed | 4.0 |
| Dethklok The Dethalbum | 3.5 |
| Dethklok Dethalbum II | 3.5 |
| Deftones Around the Fur | 5.0 |
| Deftones White Pony | 5.0 |
| Deftones Saturday Night Wrist | 3.5 |
| Deftones Diamond Eyes | 5.0 |
| Deep Purple Machine Head | 3.5 |
| The Damned Things Ironiclast | 4.0 |
| Daath Daath | 1.5 |
| Daath The Concealers | 2.0 |
| Corrosion of Conformity Blind | 3.5 |
| Corrosion of Conformity Deliverance | 3.5 |
| Corrosion of Conformity In the Arms of God | 3.0 |
| Comeback Kid Symptoms + Cures | 4.0 |
| Coldplay A Rush of Blood to the Head | 4.0 |
| Coldplay X&Y | 3.5 |
| Coldplay Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends | 3.0 |
| Children of Bodom Hate Crew Deathroll | 3.5 |
| Children of Bodom Are You Dead Yet? | 4.0 |
| Children of Bodom Blooddrunk | 2.0 |
| Children of Bodom Relentless Reckless Forever | 2.0 |
| Chelsea Grin Desolation Of Eden | 2.5 |
| Cancer Bats Birthing the Giant | 3.5 |
| Cancer Bats Hail Destroyer | 3.5 |
| Cancer Bats Bears, Mayors, Scraps & Bones | 3.5 |
| Bullet for My Valentine Hand of Blood | 4.0 |
| Bullet for My Valentine The Poison | 4.0 |
| Bullet for My Valentine Scream Aim Fire | 3.5 |
| Bullet for My Valentine Fever | 2.0 |
| Bring Me the Horizon Suicide Season | 3.0 |
| Bring Me the Horizon There Is a Hell, Believe Me I've Seen It... | 3.0 |
| The Bravery The Bravery | 3.5 |
| The Bravery The Sun and the Moon | 3.5 |
| Brad Sucks I don't know what I'm doing | 3.5 |
| Brad Sucks Out of It | 3.5 |
| Bleeding Through The Truth | 3.0 |
| The Black Keys Brothers | 4.0 |
| The Black Dahlia Murder Deflorate | 4.0 |
| Baroness Red Album | 4.0 |
| Baroness Blue Record | 4.0 |
| Baptized In Blood Baptized In Blood | 3.0 |
| Avenged Sevenfold City of Evil | 3.5 |
| Avenged Sevenfold Avenged Sevenfold | 3.5 |
| Avenged Sevenfold Nightmare | 2.5 |
| Austrian Death Machine Total Brutal | 2.5 |
| Austrian Death Machine Double Brutal | 2.0 |
| August Burns Red Messengers | 4.0 |
| August Burns Red Constellations | 5.0 |
| Audioslave Audioslave | 4.0 |
| Audioslave Out of Exile | 4.0 |
| Audioslave Revelations | 3.5 |
| Atreyu Lead Sails Paper Anchor | 4.0 |
| Atreyu Congregation of the Damned | 3.5 |
| Atheist Jupiter | 3.0 |
| As I Lay Dying An Ocean Between Us | 4.5 |
| As I Lay Dying The Powerless Rise | 4.5 |
| Architects Ruin | 3.0 |
| Architects Hollow Crown | 4.0 |
| Architects The Here and Now | 2.5 |
| Arch Enemy Anthems of Rebellion | 3.5 |
| Arch Enemy Rise of the Tyrant | 3.5 |
| Arch Enemy Doomsday Machine | 3.5 |
| Arcade Fire The Suburbs | 3.5 |
| Anthrax Among the Living | 4.0 |
| Annihilator King of the Kill | 3.5 |
| Annihilator Never, Neverland | 3.5 |
| Annihilator Alice in Hell | 3.5 |
| Animal Alpha You'll Pay For The Whole Seat But ... | 4.5 |
| Anew Revolution Rise | 3.0 |
| Anew Revolution Anew Revolution | 3.0 |
| Amon Amarth Hymns to the Rising Sun | 3.5 |
| Alter Bridge AB III | 3.0 |
| All That Remains The Fall of Ideals | 4.0 |
| Alice in Chains Dirt | 4.0 |
| Alice in Chains Alice in Chains | 3.0 |
| Alice in Chains Black Gives Way to Blue | 4.0 |
| Alexisonfire Alexisonfire | 2.5 |
| Alexisonfire Watch Out! | 3.5 |
| Alexisonfire Crisis | 4.0 |
| Alexisonfire Old Crows / Young Cardinals | 3.5 |
| Adversary Singularity | 4.0 |
| 36 Crazyfists Collisions and Castaways | 2.5 |
| 36 Crazyfists The Tide and Its Takers | 3.5 |
| 36 Crazyfists Rest Inside the Flames | 4.0 |
| 36 Crazyfists A Snow Capped Romance | 4.0 |
| 3 Inches of Blood Advance and Vanquish | 3.5 |
| 3 Inches of Blood Fire Up The Blades | 3.5 |
| Gideon Costs | 3.5 |
| Billy Talent Billy Talent III | 4.0 |
| Billy Talent Billy Talent II | 4.5 |
| Billy Talent Billy Talent | 4.5 |
| The Strokes Is This It | 4.0 |
| The Strokes Room on Fire | 4.0 |
| The Strokes First Impressions of Earth | 3.5 |
| The Strokes Angles | 3.5 |
| Sylosis Edge of the Earth | 4.5 |
