| (G)I-DLE I burn | 3.0 |
| I Burn does not offer anything new, but they do what they do best pretty well. |
| (G)I-DLE I am | 2.0 |
| One of the more boring and mediocre kpop Eps I have heard, one good track cannot save how mundane this feels |
| Olivia Rodrigo Sour | 3.0 |
| The punk stuff was great, the other stuff not so much. |
| Love and Death Perfectly Preserved | 3.0 |
With a wait of nearly 10 years, their is
no way this album was ever going to live
up to the hype after the underrated debut
album "between here and lost" which is one
of the best albums In the nu metal cannon.
This album commits no sins but does not
stand out as it shows the group going in a
much more radio friendly alt rock
direction. It's a safe but enjoyable
album. Let's just hope it's it's another
decade wait for the next album |
| Kanye West The College Dropout | 5.0 |
Kanye was really ahead of his time with the sampling on here. Kanye proved in 2005 that you
not need to be "hard" to drop some fire. I do not think their is a single bad thing i can
say about this, and it might be one of my fave rap releases ever (i know, not an uneque
opinon here) |
| Lecrae Rebel | 4.5 |
| on his third outing, lecrae makes the nearly perfect christian rap album (would be perfect if not for the weak beat on the closing track), the album is full of absolute bangers and some of the best lyrics of lecraes early realises. the album hs more personaity then his first 2 albums and has aged pretty well. |
| Snoop Dogg Doggystyle | 3.0 |
| This is a pretty fun album, their were too many d*ck jokes though that it got old and Tireing after track 5. |
| 50 Cent Get Rich or Die Tryin' | 1.5 |
| Does 50 cent sound board or like he is about to fall asleep to anyone else? "Go shawty it's ya birthday" *collapses* |
| Lecrae Anomaly | 5.0 |
| "Anomoly" is one of those albums I did not have a good first impression of. Sure I liked it but I felt fidsappinted by it as a whole and thought it was a pretty significant step down from gravity. But then the more I listened to it the more it would grow on me, their would be something new I would find to appreciate. At first I only liked the back half and "welcome to Amarica" and then I started to like more and more of the front half tracks to the point where my least favriote song on the album, "say I wont" which I outright disliked at first i actully enjoy quite a bit. The thing that through me off with "anomaly" compared to "gravity" is that this record is not nearly as cohesive, in fact their are some weird mood shifts, but like thsts the point on this album, when you go from tracks like "nothin" to "fear". One common complaint about the album is the CCM songs "messangers" and "give In" and as someone who usally very strongly dislikes those kind of songs, I really don't mind them here, in fact "Give In" is one of my personal favriotes on the record. I also really found the direction of particer tracks to pay off in the instrumental, beat and delivery on cuts like "anomoly", "timepiece", "fear" and "runners". Is this album as Good as gravity? No but it is still really good in its own right and at least deserves to be mentioned as one of his best albums. |
| Lecrae Gravity | 5.0 |
| No matter how many listens I give of this album, I never get tired of it. And when I do find myself wanting to hear a track from it, I usally end up doing a full spin of the album or at least half of it. The production on this albums quite amazing, this is is start of lecrae including some conteveresal topics that would later see him hated by alot of Christians like police brutality, or working with non Christian artists and it is a welcome addition to his style. This is the album that took lecrse out of the neshe of being that one christan rapper 3 people heard of at the local youth group. "Gravity" deserves every bit of praise it gets because it's an album that does so many things right that sometimes the things it does right is not even what the album was neesisarly attempting to do (like the entire album having such a strong althsteic that you would think this is a concept album), This album has aged so unbelievably well that in 2021 it sounds brand new. This is one of those albums where every feature really does bring some heat, and where the album artist is able to match that such on tracks like "fakin" and "power trips". Hooks on this album are another great standout like "free from it all", "tell the world", and "walk with me". The beats and instrumental on this album is just another aspect I cannot give enough praise. This honestly is my favriote rap album, and rediscovering it over the summer was definitely a treat. |
| Lecrae After the Music Stops | 3.5 |
| Lecrae's sophomore album, while containing alot of the same issues of his first release (like the album sounding rather dated and a product of it's time) does showcase some great storytelling like on "death story" and is overall an improvement all arround |
| Lecrae Real Talk | 3.0 |
| Lecrae's debut while being very much of a product of its time, is filled with many great hooks and moments to be enjoyed like it's secular counterparts. "The church" is a pretty weak cut and the album does get significantly weaker past the 5th track mark compared to how hard the first 5 songs are, it's not enough to say the songs are bad or that they ruin the album. This is just more of a 'if it isn't broken don't fix it' sorta thing which is why the album works more for a fun casual listen and not a serious sit-down listen. Also the percussion mix on the last song was kinda rough. Other then that Lecraes debut is actully pretty solid and at least worth hearing on the first 5 songs. |
| Architects For Those That Wish to Exist | 3.0 |
| Alright hot take here: I actully kind of like this. Its radio friendly metalcore but not done as yet another that's the spirit copy. However, that being said this albums biggest problem is that it is bloated as hell. This album has no business being 15 tracks and having a hour long runtime. The album did not need the filler when their is already about 11 strong tracks and it really does sour the listening experence. Listing to this album goes from "this is the stuff" to "okay please can this song end so we can get to the next one" over the course of this albums runtime. Honestly this album would of been much better if tracks 11-14 were cut, that would be a 4.5 record for me. |
| Icon For Hire Amorphous | 3.5 |
| right now my opinion is kinda split on this one, one one hand the rock tracks have way more punch than they did on "You can't kill us" and are one of the biggest strengths of the album sounding right out of the Linkin Parks "the hunting party", on the other hand, the ballads on this album do leave a lot be desired and are inferior to past albums. this album is going to take a few spins and some time for me before i know where to set it but as it stands, 3.5/5 is a fair place to evaluate my current feelings on it, all things considered |
| The Pretty Reckless Death By Rock and Roll | 2.5 |
| its CW rock, so its serviceable but their is a lot it leaves to be desired |
| Loathe The Things They Believe | 2.0 |
| What is with the trend of metalcore bands (or rather metal associated artists) doing bad ambient albums. Have we not suffered enough with music to listen to and screeeeeeeeem (or what ever that poppy one was called) this is not as bad as those albums but still... |
| Soen Imperial | 2.0 |
| I did not know that the "evolution" album by disturbed counted as progressive metal, good to know |
| Five Iron Frenzy Until This Shakes Apart | 3.5 |
| May not have been worth the 8 year gap but it's still alot to enjoy here. |
| Weezer OK Human | 3.5 |
| Hey this is actully pretty great! Is it corny? Yes but its corny in a good way. |
| Lexie Liu Gone Gold | 3.5 |
| nostalgia that slaps hard m8, this is the kind of 80s/90s synth inspired pop stuff I can get behind! |
| Dreamcatcher (KR) Dystopia : Lose Myself | 4.0 |
| All the other songs are pretty solid, definitely b-sidy though. However what makes this more then worth it is the single "BOCA" which is honestly one of the best songs of 2020. So many dynamic elements going off yet again how unique of a group dreamcatcher can be. The vocal chemistry is just something else, and the transitions on the sections are so seamless but each section is so interesting. So yeah if it was just "BOCA" I would have 5ed this with no hesitation. But as I said, other songs are pretty solid too |
| Unlucky Morpheus Unfinished | 4.5 |
| "Unfinished" is the heaviest album from unlucky Morpheus, and it a real treat too. Even the most 'raw' release from this band sounds epic as hell! |
| Blood on the Dance Floor Haunted | 1.0 |
| I really wish i could give everything this band ever put out a 0.5 |
| Jeff Williams RWBY Volume 7 Soundtrack & Score | 4.0 |
| the soundtrack side may be one of the most cohesive rwby soundtracks so far, and it overcomes the shortcomings of having 2 rather mediocre cuts this time around that do drag the album as a whole down slightly. Not to mention "trust love" is the weakest RWBY theme song so far. the score side is just fantastic, there is a lot of tension on that side. So i would reccommend spinning the score before going to the soundtrack |
| Danzig Danzig Sings Elvis | 1.0 |
| As someone who has listened to nearly all of the catalog of Elvis (i am just missing a few compilation albums), this album is absolute heresy. It's worse than giving an album to the drunk guy at the bar who got kicked out on karaoke night, who then decided to get some studio time because he was that impressed with himself. If this is the first impression someone had heard of Elvis they would assume that the 50s and 70s had very low standards for music and that rock was dead before it was born. also how your recording quality gonna be worse than something 50 years old, because the mixing is abysmal, from just a production standpoint this is easily a top 3 for worst albums of 2020. There was not even anything to meme here like with "Skeletons", this is as horrendous to sit through as it is to listen to. this is "Elvis greatest Sh*t: volume 2 Electric boogaloo washed up covers version" |
| Danzig Skeletons | 1.0 |
| "I........was.......BUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUHHHHHHHHHHH" |
| Vistlip No.9 | 3.0 |
| Visitlip have had a reputation for being one of the most hated vk bands out there. and here, this wont do any of the people who detest them favors. and while it is taking part of my least favorite subgenre of visual kei Onshore Kei, i can say it's fine. I will always have a soft spot in for this band for giving us "-OZONE-" at least, that song was fantastic, man it's hard believe "Ozone" is over 10 years old now. |
| Nightmare iNK | 3.0 |
| So nightmare's comeback for their 20th anneversy is......ok |
| MUCC Aku | 4.0 |
| Half of it sounds like gauze era DIR EN GREY and the other half sounds like Untouchables-Take a look in the Mirror Era Korn, So in short, it is freaking awesome! I will say i prefer the more Korn leaning stuff here, the breakdowns really do hit! |
| VOID (KOR) AKASHIC | 3.0 |
| Visual Kei from south korea, I honestly did not know that such a thing existed. Regardless it exists now and it is honestly a solid effort. Not particularly memorable but I would say it did at least peak my intrest in these guys a little |
| Nocturnal Bloodlust The Wasteland | 3.5 |
| When compared to the singles release earlier in 2020, "The wasteland' is a bit a disappointment. To be fair that would be a very high bar to clear. It is still another strong outing from NB. Welcome Back, boys. |
| PassCode Strive | 4.5 |
| PASSCODE has put out easily one of the most enjoyable albums of 2020. It's bouncy, it's fun, and it comes with a rush of excitement when heard like someone having ice cream and candy right after drinking an energy drink. I really cannot say enough how just downright incredible this outing is. PASSCODE is indeed striving and it is obviously paying off. |
| YUNGBLUD Weird! | 4.0 |
I went in not sure what to expect and I was very pleasantly surprised. It is a rather enjoyable
listen and YUNGBLUD does a great job vocally. In some cases, it was like the mid-'00s in the best
possible way. "God save me, but don't drown me out" is one of those songs that just connected with
me on the first listen. Their is also a ton of replay value with this one which is a bonus. |
| Kamijo Persona Grata | 3.0 |
| Kinda weird way to express this, but it is somehow epic but at the same time slightly mediocre. the last track was amazing from here. |
| Hollywood Undead New Empire Vol. 2 | 1.5 |
| With part 1, I was impressed to see how they actually matured it felt like a band going in the right direction, and then they pull this... There is no way nice to say it this is absolutely horrid. These Rap verses are so predictable, corny, and outright baffling bad that it makes Thousand Foot Krutch look like Kendrick Lamar. Like it gets "Anderson. pack 2016 Freshmen XXL freestyle cipher bad". There is even a track that not so blatantly rips of Macolmore of all people. The musical side is the band chasing the current arena rock trend which like everything else in the trend, does not sound distinct at all, it's just another group playing follow the leader. There are 2 reasons this is not getting a 1. first is this is not worse than their debut album ( I would say they are about the same) and second, their is alot of nu-metal that is still much worse. make no mistake avoid this like the landmines they rap about. |
| Dadaroma MR. TERROR MAN | 3.0 |
The Final release from the circus-themed VK act, shows why the band is at the very least going on
a hiatus (though it seems more like a break up) they are just not into it, "Mr. Terror Man" lacks
the power of previous singles and feels more like the band getting a farewell song over it, "Point
of no return" Plays more like a song to satisfy the fans who miss the metalcore stuff of the bands
very early catalog and its decent, and again it just felt like they were not that into it. There
is, however "OTO NO NAI MORI" which is an absolutely fantastic balled and easily the one that
resonates the most emotionally. It is the track that elevates this above just an average slightly
underwhelming farewell release where one can clearly hear how burned out everyone was. It kinda a
Shame DADAROMA is calling it quits right as arguably their career was starting to take off outside
of the VK neshe. |
| Jesu Terminus | 3.0 |
| Much better than the EP they dropped earlier in 2020. |
| BUCK-TICK ABRACADABRA | 1.5 |
| Ummmm... hope the title of this album is apart of a magic trick to make this album disappear. This album can be summed up in one word: boredom. There is not really anything to can reflect upon positively everything here sounds like other but better goth dark-synth albums. One of the most dissapointing albums of 2020 |
| Corey Taylor CMFT | 2.0 |
Aside from the weird rap song that sounds a bit too inspired by Kid Rock for my liking "CMFT" adds
to the collection of forgettable Solo albums from Metal vocalists and commits many of the same
problems of those albums (being all over the place, coming off as out of touch with what is cool
with the kids, a lot of self gloating lyrics)
Giving this album an extra +.5 for the BABYMETAL and Maximum the Hormone cameos but a -.5 for the
Ms. Otep and Asking Alexandra cameos in the music video for "CMFT Can't be stopped" |
| A Crowd of Rebellion Zealot City | 3.5 |
| reminds me a lot of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas but without the electronic element and some math-rock influence here and there, I like it. |
| AC/DC Power Up | 3.5 |
Yes, I know this is nothing new for the band, and it can be seen as just basicly the same song
eleven times, but gosh-darned! I have to admit that I really enjoyed this one, AC/DC knows if it
ain't broke, and how to make that same style never sound boring. |
| Six Feet Under Nightmares of the Decomposed | 1.0 |
this is one of the most glorious things I have ever heard, during this 45-minute session I was
enlightened by the mantra. an idea and a thesis, one that shook open the confines of my mind,
awakening a revelation I had never known before, Dead Girls do indeed not scream. Nothing in
music, let alone metal could ever be as masterful or tastefully written. This is all portrayed
beautifully and majestically by a heartfelt and intense performance by the cookie monster
sponsored by the letter of the day, the letter "E". |
| 21 Savage Savage Mode II | 1.5 |
| 21 21 21 21 21 21 21 21 21 21 21 21 21 21 21 21 21 21 21 21 21 21 21 21 21 21 21 21 21 21 21 21 21 21 21 21 21 21 21 21 21 21 21 21 21 21 21 21 21 21 21 21 21 (yeah i have a lot of problems with this album, from headscartching rhymes to rather dull beats. At least morgen freemen and the second to last track were cool though) |
| Bring Me the Horizon Post Human: Survival Horror | 5.0 |
| Bring Me The Horizon add to their rather impressive catalog with their best album since sempiternal (obligatory comment about loving Amo and That's The Spirit too.) It's like Amo, That's The Spirit, and there is a hell fused together. I know for sure this is going to be pretty high on my albums of the year for 2020. all the singles were fantastic and KINGSLAYER is one of the best collaborations ever, and yes the song was so awesome it needed its own interlude. All the features work fantastically on this album (unlike on Music to listen to...).Bring Me The Horizon gives music to survive 2020 too. |
| Taylor Swift Evermore | 3.5 |
| I agree with the sentiment that it is the less memorable sequel of folklore, which is why to me this feels like the b-sides from those recording sessions. Don't get e wrong this is still good, like very good it is just compared to folklore it is clearly inferior. It's the movie sequel that is a good movie but nowhere near as good as the original. |
| Miyavi Holy Nights | 2.5 |
| One of the most forgettable releases from Japan this year. |
| Little Glee Monster Bright New World | 3.0 |
The first few tracks (including a guest appearance from Earth wind and fire) are absolutely
fantastic. Unfortunately after that, the album becomes rather forgettable and mediocre. There is a
nice Christmas track as the second to last song but at that point it's a bit too little too late.
The first 5 or so tracks are really what is holding me to give this a (barley) positive rating on
an album with 40-60% filler. Thankfully though the back half is at least inoffensive so it's not
the worst experience when it comes to filler. I am a bit disappointed in ways unmeasurable because
a few songs in I was sure I had an AOTY candidate. |
| DEXCORE [Metempsychosis.] | 3.5 |
Quite The sized album, a double album with both discs being a little over an hour.
Disc 1 is absolutely fantastic, a very rare case for a band to sound this unique and not like
"very clearly influenced by X band" on their first album much less in the genre of metalcore. The
softer tracks here are fantastic too and do not halt the album. One of the best releases all Year
4.5/5
Disc 2 is a mixed bag, its a re-recording of older songs, which are decent to solid, there are a
few good ones like "I'm President" "black pig" (though I prefer the original version still), and
the last two songs. though the new "Brainwashing" is just...yikes. The new chorus is way too
compressed and the changes on the new version were not for the better. a few other cuts have this
problem of being underwhelming. the second disc is also where the fatigue of this Mammoth double
album really hits like a truck and can feel a bit like a trudge to get through 2.5/5
So if you want one of the best metalcore albums of 2020, stick with disc 1 |
| lynch. ULTIMA | 3.0 |
| There is no denying the heavy tracks slap hard, and the 2 ballads work in being sentimental. but the standard j-rock Vk tracks dominate the album (at least half the album is this) and it is the glaring weakness of the album especially with how forced they sound (very obvious GazettE influence that is a bit of a mixed bag). "Aster" is an example of this by being a very stereotypical J-rock song that bores one to tears. With all of that out of the way, the moments where this album is able to pull punches it succeeds in landing them on the listener. This may grow on me, but as of right now i see a decent-slightly above-average j-rock release that is at least worth your time if you like Lynch's heavier stuff or looking for something to fill that GazettE ich in 2020 |
| Loona 12:00 | 3.5 |
| It is not much of a change from their style, but it is fun proof of "if ain't broke... don't fix it". There is an increase of rapping which works very well in favor of 12:00 and is one of the highlights here. |
| exist trace Ambivalent Symphony | 3.5 |
'Ambient Symphony' is an underrated VK gem that is the start of ExistTrace's change in sound.
there are heavy songs like "RENESONCE" and the start of the out of left field tracks like the
strangely titled "Wrath" (being its the softest song on the EP) There is a lot of this that falls
under some older VK tropes, but it does it so well |
| exist trace The Only Garden | 2.5 |
"EXISTENCE" is absolutely fantastic and is a great mash of their older style and the current
direction the band is in, it is sure to make old and new fans happy. Then you have the rest of
this EP, which if I am going to be 100% I was disappointed by. The rest of the songs here just
sound like B-sides or cuts on an album that are to the middle back end, making the whole thing
just seem like a one really big maxi single. do not get me wrong, the other songs are not bad or
anything like that, just they seem to be so played safe, even the 'oh look we are doing something
out of style' track is like this. There is even a song here that sounds more like a song from
CYNTIA's "WOMAN" era. I just really wish they committed to the old and new blend on that first
track, because man, this could have really been something special. Now I am not going to give this
album a negative rating, but I am not giving it a positive rating. |
| Soko ni Naru 超越 (CHOETSU) | 3.0 |
| It sounds nice, and the last few songs are the best here. I just wish this was a bit more memorable then it ended up being |
| GUNIX WIRED | 3.0 |
| formed during the COVID-19 pandemic, GUNIX shows immense promise on their debut wearing influences of the likes of Fear, and loathing in Las Vegas and blood stain child on their sleeve, with a nu-metal twist. There is a lot that needs to be developed and ironed out, but on this debut, GUNIX has its direction down. Looking forward to how this group's career trajects! |
| Tricot Audiotree Live | 5.0 |
| this might be one of the best live session performances of all time, it is also really entertaining watching them too (especially the ending). I am just absolutely amazed by this (and how insanely amazing the drummer is on his timing). |
| the GazettE Hyena | 4.0 |
"hyena" itself is a pretty great Nu-metal anthem, But "Chizuru" is the main highlight and is one
of the very rare cases of a b-side absolutely outshining a strong single. "Defective tragedy" has
a Linken park influence that works well though the song itself does feel more like the band had 2
different song ideas and mashed them together, as it did not all blend together smoothly (though
for the most part, it did). |
| the GazettE Filth In The Beauty | 4.5 |
| I mean filth in the beauty by itself is a 5/5 song, it is a j-rock/nu-metal classic for a very good reason. The B-sides are also strong tracks too though "Crucify sorrow" is just slightly the weakest link here. Still to have two B-sides that would make for strong singles is an impresive feat. |
| BRATS (JP) Karma | 4.0 |
| Anyone else feel a strong band-maid influence here? regardless this is a rather strong outing with a rebellious punk spirit to make this one of the best Indie J-rock albums of the year |
| Urbangarde TOKYO POP | 3.0 |
| "TOKYO POP" is an album that feels more like a mix of ideas rather than a cohesive project, though those ideas that the album are built on are strong enough for an overall positive auditory experience |
| the GazettE REGRET | 2.5 |
| "Regret" is one of the band's weakest singles in their post-debut album era. The B-sides do have some moments (like the guitar solo of "Psycodellic heroin" or the rapping and the acoustic guitar intro) they ultimately cannot shake how mediocre his release was. Sure I do not "Regret" hearing this, but their is nothing here worth going back too, especially with how much better tracks there are during the band's Nu-Metal era. |
| Ariana Grande positions | 3.5 |
| I mean it is sadgirl bang jams, but they are good sadgirl bang jams. (their is some cuts on here though that are very clearly filler) |
| Tricot 10 | 4.0 |
this is so happy and sweet, and I still remember the chourses off this album, for math rock that
is a really impressive feat. I wonder if this album would of been called "White" at one point. |
| Psycho Synner Torch The Faith | 1.0 |
Forgive me father for I have sinned by hearing this.
This is what a high school incel would write and think qualifies as sexy lyrics. Everything's
so uncomfortable that it would make bands like Steel Panther turn into devout monks to atone for
their sin of being in the same style (cock rock) as Psychosexual.
It's hard to have instrumentation fail so miserably at sounding uninspiredly bland. Pitch
correction effect to sound 'demonic' is terrible and is one of many mixing issues (one case
where someone IS hiding behind audio effects because they can't sing for squat).
Chorus's on this album are so lazy of any effort, to the point where every alt. rock band
currently putting out moderate hits could sue for copyright. Speaking of, repeating the title
of a song over and over again does not make your chorus automatically good.
This is proof why fanfiction was a mistake because now we got horny Wannabee Ghost with their
sexually assaulting woman fetish (and apparently giving internal and external 1st-degree burns
too). On that topic, Devil Daddy just screams "Self insert OC". This is the "MY IMMORTAL" of metal
in every possible way.
This will not go away, oh no, I am calling it now it is going to have a cult following based on
its putrid awfulness. It will be something to be heard out of the morbid curiosity of "it can't be
that bad? can it" and then they will laugh, they will cry and they will stare in utter disbelief
losing their faith in humanity knowing they live in the same universe where "torch the faith" was
able to exist. |
| Mariya Takeuchi Variety | 4.0 |
| I dunno why the way the songs were arranged reminded me of the 70s output of Elvis (in a good way of course) and Mariya's vocal delivery is a little on the tender side. Short version: it holds up as an essential listen in the J-pop cannon |
| Poppy Music to Scream To | 1.5 |
| There are some elements on the last track that I will admit that I did like, but hot damn was this album outright painful for me to get through. I never thought an album would make me look at "Underground Big" fondly but here we are. |
| Bon Jovi 2020 | 3.0 |
scariest album cover of all time hands down.
the album itself is okay, it is very much boomer rock, which will be a turnoff for a lot of
people. the lyrics are kinda head-scratching though. Very light 3. |
| Machine Gun Kelly Tickets to My Downfall | 1.5 |
| what is with the trend of rappers making terrible pop-punk albums? at least this one was somewhat competent instrumentally |
| Scandal (JPN) Scandal Show | 3.0 |
| I mean its a decent compolation, but it feels like it came out away too soon in the bands career |
| King Gnu CEREMONY | 2.5 |
King Gnu's "Ceremony" is a not so blatant carbon copy of other
successful mainstream J-pop/J-rock that is not worth celebrating ((I am honestly shocked this
sold platinum in japan) |
| The Birthday Massacre Diamonds | 3.0 |
| I did not expect to be punched in the face by an album in this style, but here we are. |
| Dir En Grey MISSA | 3.5 |
| the first release from DEG lays perfectly the blueprints of what would become their debut release (it does take a massive page of inspiration to Luna Sea too). People who know them from their post-Vulgar output are going to be surprised though) |
| Dir En Grey Gauze | 4.0 |
| Is this album overrated? slightly, the first half can be slightly unmemorable, however the album really picks up with "Tsumi to Batsu" and oh man is the rest of the album from that point really damn good, like really really back good. The Polished production from X-japans Yokashi really helps this album in a big way and helps makes songs like "mazohyst of decadence" even more unsettling. It is hard to say you will hear something like it at the time it came out and i can see why many VK bands tried to use the sound from this album at one point or another in their career. |
| Fit for a King The Path | 4.0 |
| I do not get the hate for this one at all, yes it has a more mainstream rock formula to it but that is not a bad thing, and this is no where near as mediocre as the new wage war (in fact this album is much heavier then that one). It does what it had set out to do and very well succeeds in that |
| Picturesque Do You Feel O.K.? | 3.0 |
| i honestly do not know how but i ended up liking this overall, do not get me wrong, this album has problems alot of problems, and is really generic. But their is something about this that i feel overall more positive with in the end result |
| BLACKPINK The Album | 3.5 |
BLACKPINKS debut LP is one that (for the most part) plays to the strengths of the
remembers in the group. their is no denying that is a fun LP, the highlight of the album
by far is Lisa and Jennie, who carry the album with a self-confident swagger and is one
of the main appeals of BLACKPINK (and also both are really good rappers, which is
something BLACKPINK at least seems to do better then a lot of their K-pop Peers). Even
Jusoo steps up and the members have really fantastic charisma throughout the whole album.
The only main knock i have against this is "Bet you wanna" which is a painfully stale
track that proves Cardi B ruins everything she touches.while their are two other cuts
which sound very much dated ("lovesick girls" is right out of 2012) it does not knock the
fact that this is overall a really great listening experience. Though BLACKPINK if you
were trying to westernize yourselves, wouldn't it make sense to put past hits like "Kill
this love" and "DUU-DU-DU-DU" on the album too, i mean at least you would have a proper
album, and not a glorified mini-album?
My recs: "How You like That", "Pretty savage", "Crazy over you", "Love to hate me","You
never Know" |
| Deftones Ohms | 4.5 |
| This is like the best aspects of Diamond eyes and Adrenaline mixed in with the weird experimentation of the early 2000 deftones albums. |
| Deftones Gore | 3.0 |
| while it is their softest effort, does not man deftones put out a lazy effort by any means |
| Deftones Koi No Yokan | 3.5 |
| sounds like "Saturday night wrist" but a way more focused effort. |
| Deftones Diamond Eyes | 4.0 |
| a back to roots album that is better then the roots, well if anyone could do it, its defiantly deftones. |
| Deftones Saturday Night Wrist | 2.5 |
| feels like a massive step back, and comes off as rather pretentious. even the heavier stuff does not leave much of an impact. their is a lot here that just feels simply underdeveloped |
| Deftones Deftones | 3.5 |
| deftones just seems to get weirder and weirder, though sadly this does not have the same effect in that department that the previous album "white pony" did. |
| Deftones White Pony | 4.5 |
| woah, am i the only one who feels this album is...trippy as all hell. it also does a hell of a job of sucking the listener in. the opening track here is kind of the weakest link and will keep me from giving it a 5 (no not talking about 'back to school', the ORIGINAL opener) but still this album is oddly calming and its one that really deserves all the hype it gets |
| Nothingface Skeletons | 4.5 |
| dispute having a few moments of the bands weakest songwriting and some obvious filler ("Scission") Skeletons presents nothingface in a introspective but melancholic light but with unhinged and uncompromising anger (come on guys, there is a song called "Murder is Masturbation" and another called "I Wish I Was A Communist" that should tell you what your in for) in a blend of the melody's of "everyday guide..." and "Violence" to create a timeless nu-metal album that stands as one of the best metal releases of the 00s. (If only we got the follow up album, the demos for what would of come out later slap so hard.) |
| Deftones Around the Fur | 3.0 |
| this is a sophomore slump, alot of it is repeated ideas in the first album, do not mistake my words though, this is quite a the record |
| Deftones Adrenaline | 3.5 |
| while it does get a little samy, the Debut from Deftones does really pack "adrenaline" , and of course this album inspired so many for years to come to 'borrow' the style of this album for a reason. |
| Nas King’s Disease | 3.0 |
| I mean it does get much better once you get past the first 6 songs, but however their are references that someone should really explain to Nas... |
| BiSH LETTERS | 2.5 |
| While their is nothing bad on it, "Letters" is as underwhelming as it is frustrating. The whole thing really just sounds like generic anime music at best. How on Earth do you make a Musical-jazz like song not only sound uninteresting, but have zero charisma? I've been wrestling between a 2.5 and a 2 on this, for now i think i will keep this as a 2.5 because this is perfect textbook mediocrity |
| Mary's Blood Azure | 3.0 |
| the final ep before Mary's blood debut is rather underwhelming when compared to what came after it. However on its own it is more then serviceable, their is some impressive playing and all the songs on here practically scream "Anime OST". It is fine for what it is, its the closest Mary's Blood has come to putting out something that was below a 3 for me |
| My First Story IV | 4.5 |
a great fusion of other genres including j-pop? Yes.
A compelling an emotional vocal performance? Yes.
An album where very few complaints even if I were to be nitpicky? Yes.
An album that blows away every other album in it's genre from the last few years out of the water?
Yes.
An album that far exceeded my expectations for it? Yes
Lady's and Gentlemen i present to you... The Best Emo album of the Year! |
| Mary's Blood Fate | 4.0 |
| "Fate" is another strong output from Mary's Blood that takes a lot of inspiration from Metalcore and uses it quite well. though its not as good as "Bloody palace" as their are 2 songs on here (especially the final track) which do feel kinda redundant, so now i completely understand why Mary's Blood wanted to change their sound after this. Do not get me wrong this is more then a good album, its an amazing album, but their is no denying that if they kept on this course, the next album or even the one after that could of been really rough.So yeah, As i will say again, this is still a very good album, and is (currently) the last cohesive album in mary's blood's catalog. |
| Mary's Blood Bloody Palace | 4.0 |
| A Lot more cohesive then the debut, "Bloody Palace" is one bloody good time, "I'M DEAD" rips hard. may bump this up higher when i revisit it (Which will happen) but now, this is a VERY strong 4. |
| Mary's Blood Countdown to Evolution | 4.0 |
| high octane and off the rails, mary's blood outright fantastic debut is full of interesting moments in which the band has a (mostly) consistent sound through. While their are some out of place moments, those are few and far between during this "countdown to evolution" |
| ZOMBIE-CHANG TAKE ME AWAY FROM TOKYO | 4.0 |
| while sometimes it feels weird for the sake of being weird, their is no denying the artistic merit "TAKE ME AWAY FROM TOKYO" has |
| Charli XCX How I'm Feeling Now | 3.5 |
| Metalhead here, and i can say 100% without a doubt this is a bop. |
| PVRIS Use Me | 3.5 |
| alright i do not get the hate for this at all. Sure the album does kinda go really "Meh" in the last three songs, but everything before that is really good. The singles were all pretty good and their are some really good deep cuts here and "Use Me" has vibe to it that i really dig. Plus the vocals here are pretty solid too. |
| THE ORAL CIGARETTES Suck My World | 4.5 |
"SUCK MY WORLD" is a vibrant and colorful album, it really does feel like its own world with
how rich it is. The Oral Cigarettes don't just bring you into their world, they suck you in.
Their really is not a moment of boredom during this vibrant albums near-hour long runtime. I
was expecting this to be good (i knew them previously from the Noragami second OP and from
the Revisions OP, the latter of which is actually a full song here) but i was not expecting
it to be THIS good, nor was i expecting it to be a potential 2020 AOTY candidate |
| Eleventyseven Basic Glitches | 1.5 |
When a irrelevant ex-christian band things they can just replace religious wording with profanity
and suddenly it will make them good you have "Basic Glitches". It does not change all your crappy
and forced pop-culture references that make little to no sense. their is some rather bad EDM here,
and some of the more decent melodys here are a straight up ripoffs. Eleventyseven, you were
irrelevant as a christian band in that clique (which is really sad when you consider some of the
bands we let get populer), and now your irrelevant as you try to pull the Underoath shift. this
title fits perfectly as the album is more basic then medicordy and a glitch because it was a
mistake. |
| TK From Ling Tosite Sigure sainou | 3.5 |
| "Sainou" is as emotional as it is fun. |
| lie and a chameleon JUGEM | 3.0 |
| your enjoyment will depend on how much you like anime OPs. as this does not really offor anything outside of that sound. most of "JUGEM" sounds like decent anime ops. and form the score, you can see that i do indeed enjoy anime. |
| Survive Said The Prophet Inside Your Head | 3.5 |
| i know this is gonna be kinda a dumb remark on my end (given the band's name) but honestly i was next expecting the album to be THIS uplifting. also it has the benefit of being rather versatile in style and sound through its runtime. |
| Scarlxrd FANTASY VXID | 3.0 |
| sure their are some cool moments here that are enough to satisfy his fans, however people who criticize quantity over quality as a problem for scarlxrd now have a full album to prove their point with. this is his most safe album so far |
| Stryper Even the Devil Believes | 3.0 |
| while the album does feel softer as it goes into christian contemporariness it at least does more then speak vague and only ever use the three same scriptures because those are the easiest. |
| Silent Planet Everything Was Sound | 3.5 |
| i am gonna disagree with yall on this being better then the debut, this was a bit of a sophmore slump and a letdown, "everything and sounds" does suffer a bit from trying to do so many different directions and as such it losses focus. that being said their are some really damn good cuts on here "Panic Room", "Orphan" and the opener and closer. Also Just as good as "The Night God Slept" from a lyrical standpoint |
| Glass Animals Dreamland | 2.0 |
| i was just here for denzel curry, should of left after denzel curry |
| From Ashes To New Panic | 2.0 |
| from ashes for new for better or worse continue their linkin park worship, and on their third album, its worship of "minutes to midnight". The title track is a good song, like really (never thought i would say that about an From Ashes To New Song) however the rest of the album...falls flat. their are some really weak and minimal effort hooks here. their is not much to offer outside of them being a glorified linkin park tribute band. However i can see the appel of this and it is not even the worst nu-metal out in 2020 right now |
| 6ix9ine TattleTales | 1.5 |
| yes this sucks, it is horribly produced and more nurtured then a domestic pet. you know how artists in the past that were shocking in the past are trying to be shocking but it come off more like their being out of touch, that is what going on with 6ix9ine, his own whole thing has always pissing everyone off and relying on a Nicki Minaj feature to get him #1 on the hot 100 because mikki stans will do anything to support their queen (this goes for any artist on twitter with a significant following to be a fair), does not matter if they are a Ephebophile or not. also reggotone sucks and will never be a thing, stop trying to make it a thing, i swear it is the new crunkcore. anyways alot 6ix9ine attempts to song vulnerable and it is about as fake as his tough guy act. The autotune on the song where they try to make it sound like he is talking on the telephone is so bad. zillakami is what made him relevant in the first place, and mark my words he will fall into obscurity, in 5 years perhaps even less, a forgotten relic of the late 2010s.this is not even bad enough to be a worst AOTY contender, "tattletales" is an mild inconvenience, not a life threatening disease. Folks this is a clear example why solely relaying on controversy without much thought in the art itself will kill your career. |
| (hed) p.e. Class Of 2020 | 2.0 |
this album is like the person who got failed to graduate for half a decade, so the school
gives said person a diploma out of pity. because this is just sad, if the state of hed p.e
could be summed up in two words here: Washed Up |
| SiM Thank God... | 3.5 |
While it has some filer and is a bit of a bloated release SIM still prove their ska-
reggie like nu-metal fusion still works quite well in 2020. sonicly this is the bands
most consistent release yet! |
| Silent Planet The Night God Slept | 4.5 |
| "The Night God Slept" serves as one of the strongest debuts in metalcore. Fresh instrumentation and a rather uneque concept (with most the songs here being from the POV from a woman) with some really balsley themes throughout. Silent Planet debut shows this californian band can write a half an hour of compelling, thought provoking music. |
| Silent Planet Lastsleep (1944–1946) | 3.0 |
| the intrumunetals feel like time padding to make it an EP, rather then a single. still the single songs here are VERY good |
| Powerman 5000 The Noble Rot | 2.5 |
| very dated, someone tell Power Man 5000 we no longer use VHS |
| Katy Perry Smile | 2.5 |
| i mean whole album kinda just sounds like her trying to recreate firework, while i never really cared for katy perry, i gotta say the best song here was "Firework" and the worst was "firework". also am I the only one who finds her vocals too dreary? |
| Silent Planet Come Wind, Come Weather | 3.5 |
LORD DID YOU SEE ME AS I WAS DREAMING?
this is one of the best EP debuts from a metalcore band i have heard so far |
| Seether Si Vis Pacem, Para Bellum | 3.0 |
honestly, even though i am not exactly what you would call found of Seether, but i thought this
was fine. "beg" is the best song here, but part amount of the album is kind of forgettable, still
decent stuff |
| Underoath Erase Me | 2.5 |
| I am not against a band changing their sound, but..aside from the two singles here the rest of this album is somehow "meh" personified, even Chris Dudley has so few highlights here. "Erase Me" is somehow tame but at the same time trying to force going darker in their most Edgy album (no not referring to cussing). while none of the songs are bad, none aside from the singles and "I gave out" really stand out. I know some will say that I don't like it because it's not like the Underoath I knew, but counterpoint: if the name Underoath was not attached to it, not as many folks would have cared for it and it would, quite frankly, have a lower average score. this is yet another example of a weak sauce comeback album where Underoath return with no more then a wimpier |
| Underoath Ø (Disambiguation) | 5.0 |
| Underoath release their darkest and heaviest album in 2010. this album a decade later still stands tall as arguably one of the best metal albums of the decade. Spencer pulls of cleans really well and gives them is own spin, setting himself apart from Aaron's poppy cleans. This album is one hell of a game changer through and through |
| redveil Niagara | 3.0 |
| you gotta give the kid props for being able to put out such a solid produced album, and yes he has a lot of growing to do in terms of as producer and an artist but jeez Fantano, telling him to just quit and come back a few years later? your snobby entitlement is getting really irritating to deal with and you never even gave it a fair shot. |
| Agust D D-2 | 3.0 |
| so i guess the members of bts sound better solo then in a group |
| LONGMAN Just A Boy | 3.0 |
| sounds like a throwback punk album, and i think if you craving some of that 90s punk style, I recommend this to you. Their is a lot of great energy here and you can honest tell they were just having a really fun time recording this |
| Flaw Through the Eyes | 2.5 |
| if nothingface was mediocre, then this would be what they sounded like |
| The Killers Imploding the Mirage | 3.5 |
| this is a rather pleasant listen, i really liked the atmosphere of this one |
| Bright Eyes Down in the Weeds, Where the World Once Was | 4.0 |
| do not know about everyone else, but i got some 80s vibes with it, and honestly that is what makes this so good. |
| (G)I-DLE I trust | 3.0 |
| fun and vibrant, even if 2 songs here do scream B-side |
| Lecrae Restoration | 4.0 |
aside from some questionable features (*cough* YK Osiris *cough*), Lecraes "Restoration" restores
hope and faith in these uncertain times at the same high level of quality we have come to expect
from him |
| 12 Stones 12 Stones | 2.0 |
| well another regret album of mine, well at least even back then half the songs were a pass. Hearing it now, i can say the instrumentation while bland has it's moments to step up as above average, though those are few and far. Paul can give emotion in his performance but for 85% of the album he chooses to the half asleep yawn that plagues Post-grunge. Only song worth checking out is "soulfire" one of the better worship rock songs out there |
| ITZY IT'z ME | 4.0 |
| I am really really impressed with this, it starts out solid and gets even better. Their are a lot of different sounds here and the are pulled off quite well. They already have really good charisma and work off each other well. These girls have a lot of potential, and are now on my radar |
| (G)I-DLE I made | 3.5 |
| this was chill but at the same time fun, a lot of good fun vibes with this one. also i found the south american element to work quite well here |
| Underoath Survive Kaleidoscope | 4.5 |
Note: this sound off/rating is for the DVD, not the CD.
The performance here is outright fantastic. Underoath really do know how to put on a live show and
this performance is the best representation of the "Define the great line" era of the band. the
passion from these guys is on full display here. the setlist is perfect to, while some will be
upset about songs like "reinventing your exit" or anything from the Dallas era being present,
those do not fit with the representation of this era, much less underoath from this point forward.
Their are so many highlights here and their really is not a dip of fatigue from the band
throughout the whole set. a majority of this album sounds just as good live (one would argue in
the case of the "TOCS" they sound better) just an outright phenomenal performance |
| Underoath Define the Great Line | 4.0 |
| "Define the great line" was not just a defining album for the band, but of the metalcore landscape. the electronic elements hold up really well...and unlike alot of other acts between 2007 to now, they have aged like fine wine. Spencer sounds more comfort zone here and his tag team with Aarron helps to make an album that is as reflective as i is catchy (while it is NOT as catchy as "TAOCS" some of you saying that this is not catchy at all really are getting ahead of yourselves). the only weak points here is the interlude track goes on for a bit too long, and the first of the longer tracks could of been shortened slightly. This is the moment when Underoath cemented their place as one of the GOAT's of not only metalcore, but modern metal |
| Monsta X Fantasia X | 2.5 |
Monsta X fails to stand out from its male counterparts in the k-pop landscape, giving in a dated
but harmless effort that will not offer much to even the most hardcore of k-pop fans |
| Underoath They're Only Chasing Safety Special Edit | 4.0 |
| "I've Got 10 Friends and a Crowbar That Says You Ain't Gonna Do Jack" is one of the best songs of the band's whole career (remember when this song was a pain to find? lol) the rest of the bonus songs are ether just gutarless versions of songs on the album or early demos. The said song mentioned is what makes getting this worth it though. same rating as the regular edition here. |
| Underoath They're Only Chasing Safety | 4.0 |
| while it is clear spencer joined the band last minute to replace taylor as he spends most the album with high screams, this album is the sequel to "the changing of times" but superior in every way, every single song, even the weak cuts like "Down, Set, Go" are memorable. While my nostolgia of this really wants to give it a 5 their are a few points here there are some dips on this album here and there, this album still holds up really really well.rRecommended Tracks: "Young and Aspiring", "A Boy Brushed Red, Living In Black And White", "Reinventing Your Exit", "It's Dangerous Business Walking Out Your Front Door" and "I'm Content With Losing" |
| Neurotica Neurotica | 2.5 |
| Guns N' Roses cover band tries nu-metal, to meh results |
| Underoath The Changing of Times | 2.5 |
| I am sorry, but no matter how many spins i give this one it does not click with me. this the worst album of the dallas tayor era. their are some good cuts but overall their is not much staying power. this 'screamo' style (using the term screamo because i feel this album qualifies under that genre) does not go with taylor very well. overall this could be seen as an inferior version of "they're only chasing safety" at least the synths and drums are cool |
| Underoath Cries of the Past | 4.0 |
| Underoath's second effort goes Christian black metal and it works quite well. Taylor vocals work pretty well in this style and Chris Dudley gave the group a massive bump with the atmosphere presented. the album is surprisingly dark for a Christian album at the time, apparently dealing with Taylor guilt of causing the death of his then girlfriend in a car crash. regardless this album is a massive step up from their debut (and a really exceptional black metal album) |
| No One No One | 1.0 |
| A James Headfield impersonator attempts nu-metal and with instrumentals that are basically royalty free, that goes as well as you thoght |
| Kid Rock Devil Without a Cause | 2.0 |
| you know the ad that has been shared around about a band who wants to be a conservative version of Rage Against The machine..well i think they were too ashamed to say "Kid rock cover band" as this is what that would soundlike. |
| Underoath Act of Depression | 3.0 |
Underoath's debut has the issue of nearly every song being identical to each other, and Dallas
Taylor's screams are not suited for the Death metal style, that being said, "innocence stolen" is
the highlight and I appreciate a Christian band handling that subject matter, especially in the
late 90s. you can also tell how much passion these kids had throughout the album's runtime |
| Avatar Hunter Gatherer | 4.0 |
| "Hunter Gatherer" from start to finish claims its trophy as a rather exceptional record |
| 6LACK 6pc Hot | 2.0 |
| 6lack fails to stand out in an already over-saturated style |
| Elvis Presley The 50 Greatest Hits | 4.0 |
| One of the best Elvis Compilations so far, it is a solid run of most of his best stuff |
| AB HIMOTHY | 1.0 |
Oh jeez, just when you thought another former Pittsburgh Steeler player could make music
worse than le'veon antonio brown comes along. AB has no rap talent he has no grasp on how to
make any sort of melody, flow is nonexistent and he cannot even grasp on the basic concept of
writing 2 verses that are at the very least subpar. This is an album of utter incompetence
relying on skirts and the letter A every other word.
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| Dreamcatcher (KR) Dystopia : The Tree of Language | 4.5 |
| Rap + symphonic metal + stadium rock Kpop? SIGN ME THE HELL UP! This is a real treat folks, like this album is fun but at the same time never gets stale. I could very well bump this to a 5 when i revisit this at the end of the year. Dreamcatcher see you on my Best of 2020 list. I think i may have found my favorite K-pop group. seriously guys big recommend from me |
| 3rd Strike Lost Angel | 3.5 |
| a rap fused nu metal album from a group that only made one album? well this is way better then i thought it was going to be |
| Issues Issues | 1.0 |
| who knew one of the Jones Brothers was the singer for a nu-metal/metalcore band lol. but yeah this album is just really really bad, i do not even see how metalcore kids or nu-metal fans would enjoy this |
| Vanilla Ice Hard to Swallow | 2.0 |
| A neopolitan blend of 90s cheese, 90s edge, and Ice Ice baby |
| Loona [#] | 3.0 |
| their is a bit of style hopping here, though it is a rather light kind. as a whole it is the rest of the songs are not as good as "So What" but that is okay, their is nothing bad (except for the annoying vocal hook of "Oh (Yes I am)" |
| Loona [X X] | 2.5 |
their was really nothing here that caught my eye, and as a whole this project was rather mediocre.
at least it was harmless though. execution is decent too |
| CLC No.1 | 3.0 |
| No.1 serves as an enjoyable and fun extended play from CLC, the rap moments are the best here. |
| Reveille Bleed the Sky | 3.0 |
| stereotypical rap-rock album with above average lyrics. while it is very of the times it has not aged too terribly (aside from that one song which sounds like the music ripped from the "you wouldn't steal a car" paracy ad from the mid 2000s) |
| In Hearts Wake Kaliyuga | 2.5 |
| some of the industrial elements here are really dated, and not in the "oh cool throwback way". i guess some of the riff were cool though? definitely more of a singles album though |
| Reach 454 Reach 454 | 1.0 |
| you know an album is really awful when you feels like you have already trudged through the whole thing,with every singe groan worthy problem that shows up, and its like an ant infestation, one right after the other...they just keep coming. only to find out your only halfway through the album... |
| Darwin's Waiting Room Orphan | 2.5 |
| "orphan" is nether the fittest to survive, but its not the weakest link ether. it is an album that just exists in limbo in the nu-metal cannon, in a void of indifference where nether positive or negative feelings exist for me. |
| Bolt Upright Red Carpet Syndrome | 1.5 |
Me:"hey mom can we have Limp Bizkit"
Mom:"no we have Limp Bizkit at home"
Limp bizkit at home |
| Amalee Unity | 3.0 |
the 12th album from amalee is a collaborative effort with many other relatively well known faces
in the anime english vocal cover community. However the collaborations like this project overall
is kinda underwhelming, with the features have very little presence here (one feature is just here
to shout "hey" in the background, that is it), also Amanda using autotune for a lot of songs here
sounds really out of place and awkward. Their are some of the weakest songs in her whole catalog
here. however that is not to say this project is a misfire or bad, as there are more hits than
misses. the last 3 songs (which balleds is something Amanda excels at), and the opener are all
really good. there's something here which feels off to me, do not know what it is but there is
something else that did not sit quite right with me. Regardless their is still enough to enjoy
where i can kind of recommend this. this is a very light 3 (close to a 2.5). Recommended tracks:
"Black Clover", "Weight of the world", "Don't think twice", and "orange" |
| Stryper God Damn Evil | 3.5 |
| the album does lose a bit of its steam and momentum during the last leg, but regardless the 2018 release is a solid offering that will satisfy longtime fans of the band |
| Korn Korn III: Remember Who You Are | 1.5 |
| "WhY dOnT yOu LeAvE mE aLoNE" is such a unintentional parody of the genre. Ironically Korn III's biggest crime is how unmemorable it is. in fact this is a Korn album i bet a lot of people forgot even existed and for good reason. Korn here sound as washed up as the producer of the album |
| Staind Tormented | 4.0 |
| their is so much potential on Staind's debut effort, and it is nice to hear aaron lewis put effort in for once. |
| Korn The Serenity of Suffering | 4.0 |
| Korn returns to picking up where they left off right after 'untouchables' here, even the songs here that would qualify as filler like "the hating" and "Next in line" are really enjoyable. this is still one of my top albums of 2016. also Ray>David. |
| Scandal (JPN) Yellow | 3.5 |
| While the standard fare tracks for the band are weaker here, "Yellow" shines in it's experimentation, bet ya never saw Japanese Reggie working("love"). also "Love me Do" is one of the most wholesome and adorable songs i have ever heard (and one of my all time fave songs) |
| Taproot Blue-Sky Research | 3.5 |
| this is kind of an overlooked gem in the nu-metal sphere, with the second half being fantastic. could do without that really cheesy cover song though |
| Taylor Swift Folklore | 4.5 |
| feels like a marriage between "Speak now" and "lover", will need some time to sit with me but i can see myself raising my rating of this in the future. This is an excellent folk album with some great use of lyric storytelling |
| the GazettE Cassis | 3.5 |
Thoughts on the B-sides
Toguro: Has a bit of a nice seductive undertone to it, really like the punchy riffs and the
triplet vocal flow on the verse (also start of inclusion of female vocals from the band) 3.5/5
Bite To All: leftover from disorder, sounds like a worse version of "Maximum Impulse" 2.5/5
Giving it a 3.5 because Cassis is a fantastic balled, regardless of how 'meh' "Bite to all" is |
| Adema Adema | 1.0 |
| when the spoiled younger child tries to replicate the success of his humble older brother you get this. the agnst on this album is some of the most stupid agnst in the whole nu-metal genre |
| Lollipop Lust Kill My So-Called Knife | 2.5 |
| While the album sets out to with its serial killer aethstetic, the albums biggest crime is how quickly it gets old. |
| Lie Or Liar LIE OR LIAR | 1.0 |
| A glorious miscalculation of the genre's tropes results in "The Room" of metalcore, also the lyrics i wrote when i was 12> this |
| Of Mice and Men Cold World | 2.0 |
| combining lazy metalcore and lazy nu metal led by a piece of s*** frontman, with your powers combined I am Captain Mediocrity |
| Deadsy Commencement | 3.5 |
Nu-Metal fans will be disappointed with this, however dark wave fans will enjoy the fresh and
aggressive spin on the genre. If only this genre hybrid worked better though... |
| Fat Fat | 1.5 |
| if Nu-Metal had an after school special, this would surely be it. |
| Korn The Path of Totality | 2.0 |
| Combining dubstep and Metal is not a bad idea, but aside from the admiralty excellent "Narcissistic cannibal" and the solid "Get Up" and "Tension" this is a rather lazy tame effort. for the dubstep-metal combo done right, check out Crossfaithrhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cg9sCRzbvHY |
| (hed) p.e. Only In Amerika | 1.5 |
| just because you can be as offensive as possible does not mean you are any good. Also pedo nu-Metal? hard pass |
| Papa Roach Infest | 3.0 |
| while whiney, shadex's vocals do not ruin papa roaches finest hour |
| Methods of Mayhem Methods of Mayhem | 1.0 |
| pretty sure this album is a DJ khaled album if it came out in the late 90s, all these features with below bare minimum effort. imma throw this in my "Reasons Motley Crue are overrated hacks" |
| Spineshank Anger Denial Acceptance | 2.5 |
| i mean, it may be heavy but the album does no offer more then that, and their are other albums in both Nu-Metal and Metalcore that do that better. also NGL this kinda sounds like a Killswitch Engage knockoff at points |
| Hollywood Undead Swan Songs | 1.5 |
| 2008 edge lords do Linkin Park karaoke. |
| Otep Kult 45 | 1.0 |
| The fact she needs fans to stroke her ego on a 30 minute track alone warrants this a 0/5. Holy sh*t is this album bad |
| (hed) p.e. Stampede | 2.0 |
"Dio was gangsta as heck yall!"
~(hed) p.e 2019 |
| The Mountain Goats Songs for Pierre Chuvin | 4.5 |
| Yes, Yes, YES.. this is stripped down throwback recording done right. The little in between dialogue here or there help give the album a more 'live' feel. |
| Drake Bell The Lost Album | 2.5 |
| It is a fine classic rock n' roll record. However it feels more like a novel tribute then anything else. |
| Trivium What the Dead Men Say | 4.0 |
| It is a more melodic direction, but it is an enjoyable one. Still, do we call Trivium a Metalcore band with thrash elements or a thrash metal band with metalcore band? |
| Asking Alexandria The Irony of Your Perfection | 2.0 |
| With the debut, i am questioning what AA's problem is, is it the band or the vocalist? before they were copying BMTH and TDWP, they released this genari-core album. One postive i can say about it is it does not get AS BAD as some of the worst albums in their catalog. |
| Mamamoo reality in BLACK | 3.0 |
| the second full length from Mamamoo again showcases the promise of the unit with its incorporation of latin elements, however one could argue that it may be a bit too complacent in its own box. |
| Hayley Williams Petals for Armor | 3.0 |
| While I do really like the sort of 80s aesthetic being used here, some of the hooks can be rather annoying (mainly the first 4 songs), however overall it is enjoyable enough |
| Hayley Williams Petals For Armor II | 3.0 |
| Poor releasing strategy aside, the second part of Hayley's debut LP is much more enjoyable then the first |
| Hayley Williams Petals For Armor I | 2.5 |
| while I do like the arrangements, the hooks are way too obnoxious for me |
| Mamamoo Melting | 3.0 |
| While it does feel a bit lacking, Mamamoo deliver an overall enjoyable R&B and jazz fusion debut record. Second half is better then the first here |
| Blood on the Dance Floor Hollywood Death Star | 1.0 |
| the worst and lazy swan song of all time to a pathetic musical career. |
| The Chainsmokers Memories...Do Not Open | 2.0 |
| this is one of the most unmemorable albums to have been spammed on hot100 radio in the last decade. at least the back half of this album was kinda nice? |
| Kittie Spit | 2.0 |
| One thing i will give some positivity about is you can tell that these girls were rather passionate and one could argue they broke ground for woman in metal, however this debut is rather poorly played. the ballads are a misfire and the screams on this album are not got at all, sounds more like karaoke. the instrumentation is decent but in the end, i really really wanted to like this album after everything i have heard about this group but i just cannot say i enjoyed this album, sorry. But i really do appreciate the effort |
| Coal Chamber Rivals | 2.5 |
| well the good on the final coal chamber album is they all cringe traces of their early output is gone, however the album as it stands is really unforgettable and the songs do kinda blend together. The bass here is lacking too, which is a disappointment since bass is usually one of the things this band has going for themselves. Coal Chamber moved from wanting to impress their big brother Korn to living with their uncle Pantara (one could argue the album sounds like Nothingface b-sides). On a positive note, Dez does bring a good amount of aggression and his songwriting has improved a lot, and the album is the band's aggressive to date, what is with those pointless interludes though |
| Crazy Town The Brimstone Sluggers | 1.0 |
| yes from an instrumental point, it is fun even though it is dated. so you may be wondering why i am slapping this with a 1. well that is when i bring up THE LYRICS! oh where to I even begin, most of this some of the worst edge stuff written by 40 year olds trying to sound 18 like "Bruh i wanna kill myself, wanna join my gang we super lit fam *DABBING AND FLOSSING INTENSIFIES" so many lyrics on her are tasteless and really boil under my skin, the line about robin williums, who recently took his life at the time of this album, the "we are trying to sound badass" line about wanting to start a shooting like the one that happened at my HS, and so many other moments really pissed me off. This might seriously be one of the worst albums ever written by a lyrical standpoint, and giving this band's catalog before hand that is saying alot. yes this makes the lyric writing of "Butterfly" looks like Relient K's "Deathbed" in comparison |
| Crazy Town Darkhorse | 2.0 |
Me: Hey Mom, can we have Linkin park?
Mom: No we have Linkin Park at home
Linkin Park at home
But hey, at least its an improvement from the debut. Still, it is proof Rivers pretty much has a
knack for making poor life choices |
| Crazy Town The Gift Of Game | 1.0 |
| this is where Nu-Metal reached a new low that would plague the radio for years to come with everyone doing the bare minimum on a whole album, and writing a glorified pop song for the 'big hit'. Even the one hit song from here is so terrible, yes i said it "Butterfly" sucks, big time. their is little flow on much of the rapping here behind some of the most barebone basic chords present. Coal chamber may have made the blueprint in laziness in the genre, but Crazy Town Perfected it. I blame this album for giving bands like Trapt and Saliva a big hit on the radio. You know we live on a bad timeline when THIS is the band that got any sort of popularity while Nothingface got no recognition. and yes, this album is so bad that rather then going "listen to this, its so bad lol" i am gonna say, go listen to Nothingface instead, they deserve your attention way more then these 2 garbage ass hacks. This album is the reason people hate nu-metal, even with durst at his worst sounds better then these two. (yes i just said 'results may vary' is better then this album) |
| Coal Chamber Dark Days | 2.0 |
| Dark-Day's is sort of a step up from the first 2 albums as their is not song that sticks out as cringe inducing. However "Dark Days" was made in a time where the band hated each other, and unlike other albums with this sinaro like "IOWA" the album as a whole suffers a lot from this and as a result. also Dez's lyrics are stupid and cheesy but that is a staple of the band and part of their aesthetic so i will not neg him for that. However I can neg him for being a songwriter with no variety. |
| Coal Chamber Chamber Music | 2.0 |
| coal chambers second effort is not a memorable one, as the album itself 'borrows' a lot from Korn's "Life Is Peachy" however at least most of the effort is inoffensive, will minus the absolutely horrendous shock the monkey cover, which is gloriously bad. Who knew hearing Ozzy try to sing on acid behind Power chords and one of the most pathetically low budged music videos he took apart of in the 90s would be so entertaining? |
| The 1975 Notes on a Conditional Form | 1.0 |
| Right from the intro, We all knew this is going to be pretentious as hell. When you try to use 'homosapians' in your generic 'Save The Earth" speech to sound smart, that is already a massive flag. I heard some mixed feelings on this album, and honestly...even with some of the most negative thoughts of on this I did not think it would be THIS BAD (seriously, this will probably make my Worst albums of 2020 list). this is has got to be the most pretentious and 'fake-deep' pop album of 2020. "BuT tHe AlBuM iS sO dIVeRsE, LoOk At AlL tHe GeNrE cHaNges" well that is not so hard to do when your 'album' or this case 'product' is so vapid of passion that those changes do not catch any sort of interesting musical shift. Those shifts are few and far through the album, and it all sounds like royalty free music, regardless of the genre the song is being played in. Not to mention their is just 80 minutes of hearing this stock music. |
| Crown the Empire 07102010 | 1.5 |
| this is acoustic album just feels like an excuse to make bad pop music of their songs. So now you get to hear your "2DEEPSADME" Metalcore songs with the same amount of genuine singing as Emma Watson in beauty and The Beast |
| Coal Chamber Coal Chamber | 1.5 |
| Alright their is no denying that "Loco" is a great song, yes it only has six lines of lyrics, but the song is such a fun bop...however the rest of this album is really bad. like this album may have been the blueprint for all the other bad nu-metal bands to copy the formula of doing the bare miniumum to get angsty frat boys to chest pump in the late 90s. one bright spot on this album is the bass,but it does not help that the album after "Loco" is the same song copy and paste for 13 tracks. |
| Logic No Pressure | 3.0 |
this is a BIG improvement over the 2019 albums. I do like the sampling of O.Wells throughout the
album and the beats are all really good. Logic does have better flows here and the album does
start well...however he does fall back into some of those bad habbits in he middle, thankfully his
final project is able to pick back up within the final 3 songs. |
| Static-X Project Regeneration Vol. 1 | 4.0 |
| This definitely sounds like static X we all know, and the distinct sound is still there...however for anyone expecting anything different from static X, you will be disappointed. that being said, it is a good Static-X album, and if you are in the need of that industrial Metal adrenaline, this is a solid offering in 2020 |
| These Hearts Yours To Take | 2.5 |
| Yes this is a massive improvement, especially the vocals which no longer sound like he is holding his crotch to sing the high notes. some of these ratings of 3.5 and higher though i feel is because the first album was so bad, it exceeded their expectations. Not only has the singing improved but so has the musicianship But as a whole this album is the textbook definition of average post-hardcore. the two songs i recommend here are"the inconvenience" (which as a heads up is an anti-abortion song, so that may not sit well witch quite a few people) and the soft but heartfelt closer "Never Mind Me" |
| Mike Shinoda Dropped Frames, Vol. 1 | 3.5 |
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| Boris NO | 3.5 |
| Reverse Uno Card, Boris addition. Seriously though the unexpected hybrid of drone and punk works really well, would love to hear more in this style from them |
| Run the Jewels RTJ4 | 3.0 |
| It is fine, i do like some of the beats here, but as a whole i just felt this project was...for a better word lacking. But overall their was nothing here that was outright terrible, and i did like it. |
| Neptunian Maximalism Eons | 2.5 |
| while I do enjoy the atmosphere the album had, the album is way too one note to justify its over 2 hour runtime, and the second half does become a real slog to get through. |
| The Ghost Inside The Ghost Inside | 3.0 |
| Who does not love a feel good story of a band coming back strong after trajady? Not AOTY materal for me but fans of the band will be more then estatic |
| END (USA-NJ) Splinters From An Ever-Changing Face | 3.5 |
| getting the ever loving life beaten out of you in metalcore form |
| The Devil Wears Prada Patterns of a Horizon | 2.5 |
| While their are some somewhat interesting slight diffrences in some of the songs, this overall is an slightly inferior version of the debut album, one of this albums biggest problem is the snare drum. |
| mildrage K.M.S | 4.0 |
| Short, agressive, and all the memes from 2015. Also The melodic part that is only there for 10 seconds is such an earworm, that is pretty damn impresive. I understand sampling the old "Rap battle" meme video from years ago may rub people the wrong way, but this is an agressive track that is at least worth hearing, will only take a minute of your time. |
| mildrage ROM | 4.0 |
| bosting some rather impressive instrumentation, Indie Metalcore band Mildrage gives a rather melodic but enjoyable 5 track EP. Meg steals the show with her cleans on the album, one of Mildrages strengths is the chemistry between her and T.e.p.p.i on cleans and screams. |
| These Hearts Forever Ended Yesterday | 1.5 |
talk about regretting the past, I have to admit this is an old shame of mine, back during my
freshmen days when I was a sheltered Christian kid I ironically bopped to this and thought it
was the hardest sh*t because of CHUG CHUG CHUG. Looking back, this album is a near-complete
trainwreck, the instrumental is worse than subpar and the vocals sound like someone was
holding the singer by the balls the whole time. What the hell was I thinking when I thought
"Apology Rejected" was so badass? Anyways I still can listen to "She would like to wear the
pants, but she can't fit into mine" as the song has a rather nice charm to it and I am a fan
of the lyrics of it, "live to the point of tears" is also another song that I think is one of
the better ones on the lyric department (but damn the lead and backing vocals are terrible).
but other then that, this album is a massive and I mean MASSIVE avoid. I wonder if this is
what BMTH and old TDWP sounds like to the elitists of the site (and in general) who are all
"MeTaLcOrE bAd" |
| Neil Young Homegrown | 3.5 |
| well this was a plesent listen, Their is a underlying folk touch to this whole album that works. Also Neil still can sing pretty good too |
| Protest the Hero Palimpsest | 3.0 |
| A little too much prog. wankery for my taste, also is the singer holding his crotch the whole time cuz holy hell that is some rather high singing, kinda impressive. Overall if you are a prog. person then this might be regarded way higher to you then it was to me, but all and all I thought it was good. |
| And So I Watch You From Afar Successors | 2.5 |
i mean its boring, overly repetitive and their is nothing really interesting about it...but at
least it can serve as semi-decent background music to distract you from a midlife crisis? |
| m!sa ALL IN VAIN | 4.0 |
| While it may be jarring for those who know her from her Story Of Hope (do not let those somewhat edgy song titles fool you!) , ALL IN VAIN serves as a rather enjoyable experiment into the direction of pop. |
| Jesu Never | 1.0 |
| This is outright annoying, and very repetiive with the same loops over and over and over and over again, start menus screen music on DVDs have more viraity on this. This is both very lazy and at the same time trying way too hard to be artsy. You know how to sum up this album? "For you, for you,For you, for you For you, for you For you, for you For you, for you" those are pretty much all of the lyrics minus the ones which don't know if they want to be sung or spoken word. What an absolutly dreadful EP |
| BLACKPINK SQUARE UP | 2.0 |
| "Du-Du-Du-Du" is fantastic and I am behind the hype of that track, however, the rest of the EP is rather stale and bland, there really is not much to note other then it sounds very dated (this would be mediocre if it came out in 2011, and that is being nice) |
| The Devil Wears Prada Audiotree Live | 4.0 |
| This was a really great live performance! Sounds almost identical to the album versions but with some minor changes. definitely makes up for the shortcomings of "Dead and Alive" |
| Bob Dylan Rough and Rowdy Ways | 3.5 |
| may not offer much in terms of vocal performance, but it complements the poetry of the lyrics quite well. The blues instrumental is serviceable too |
| The Streets None Of Us Are Getting Out Of This Life Alive | 2.0 |
| This was just way too corny, and it is hard to tell if he is being tongue in cheek or serious |
| Dream Wife So When You Gonna... | 2.0 |
the instrumentals are decent, and the closer is solid, but the lyrics, melodies, and vocals
are just terrible. The backing vocals are trying way too hard to be "cute but angry" |
| BLACKPINK Blackpink | 3.5 |
| Fun listen that if nothing else, should satisfy Japanese fans of the band. the energy from BLACKPINK is bilingual |
| Massive Attack Eutopia | 1.5 |
| oh, this is just a political PSA with boring and bland beats behind it. It litterally felt like I sat through a 10-minute campaign ad in audio form |
| Nothingface An Audio Guide to Everyday Atrocity | 3.0 |
| while it a sophomore slump, there is simply no denying the raw power these guys have. seriously this is some top-notch arrangements with a nice bite to them |
| NNAMDI LIL' DICK NIGGAS DRINK CAMPBELL'S SOUP | 2.0 |
| would this be considered Nintendocore? Well, It does feel like NNAMDI is trying too hard to be over the top to be weird, to cover up the fact over half the album is just chicken noodle soup commercials. |
| NNAMDI Black Plight | 3.5 |
| really dig the instrumentals of this one. NNAMDI seems to have caught on with people and found his momentum with a math-rock direction |
| Covet technicolor | 3.0 |
| It is beautiful, it just fails to live up fully to its potental |
| Juice WRLD Goodbye & Good Riddance | 3.0 |
| A pretty solid debut, "Lucid Dreams" is fantastic, though i agree it can be a little 'limited' in its songwriting |
| Juice WRLD Legends Never Die | 4.5 |
| This. was. incredible. It is a shame I never checked him out sooner. There is so much more he had to offer. |
| Carly Rae Jepsen Dedicated | 3.0 |
| fun pop music from the "call me mayie girl" seriously though, I do appreciate this given the well...current horrible trends in pop music. this album is rather straightforward and simplistic in it just being, well several fun pop songs. there might be no depth to it other than that, but that does not change the album succeeds in what it sets out to do |
| Mushroomhead A Wonderful Life | 1.5 |
Nu metal with an orchestral flare, on paper this should be my thing. on paper, I should
be giving this a 5. But this really does feel like a band with no life just trotting on
in limbo. new member Jaxie has some nice moments, but she is barely on the album, just a
glorified feature. I can understand why the fans are not responding well to this. I will
do a dialog. run of them in the near future, and my rating could drop further as this is
just the perspective of someone who only knew a few singles from them before going into
this release. the orchestral tracks were the best, along with the bread boy's inspired
"THe Heresy" |
| Nothingface Pacifier | 4.0 |
| this is slipknot before slipknot. holy hell this is just so good. nothing face must be one of the most underrated nu-metal bands out there. Their whole catalog is a goldmine so far. |
| The Devil Wears Prada Transit Blues | 4.5 |
| A rather experimental shift for the band that is really firing on rall cylinders, Also "Daughter" and "Key of evergreen" are still fantastic songs. TDWP is transitioning, but they never lose sight of who they are. What the hell are old-school fans rabout? this goes harder than their first 2 records |
| Make Them Suffer How to Survive a Funeral | 4.0 |
| "Bones" slaps, also I really love those harmonies,this is some grade-A dejent |
| Emery White Line Fever | 3.0 |
| Emery appear to be feeling lovesick. with that being said, I would lie if I did not admit found this underwhelming, and my rating could dip in the future |
| Lamb of God Lamb of God | 3.5 |
| I feel compelled to chug monster energy to this |
| Nothingface Violence | 5.0 |
holy freaking crap this was just beyond amazing. It is nu-metal aggression in the best possible
way, who knows, I may bump this into a 5 once I give it more spins (and listen to the rest of
these guys disog.) IT. IS. THAT. GOOD
UPDATE: it is that good and this is without a doubt the best album these guys ever put out, and
that is saying something seeing as how ridiculously strong their catalog is |
| Snot Get Some | 4.0 |
| Nu-metal with a hardcore edge, with such a fantastic debut, the tragedy after the release makes this one of the biggest what-ifs in the genre. As it stands this is one of the most unique albums in the genre, and an underrated gem worth checking out! |
| The Devil Wears Prada 8:18 | 3.5 |
| a more emotional sound that works quite nicely, though its rather simple song structure does hinder it a little bit from the potential of raw emotion the album is going for |
| The Devil Wears Prada Dead & Alive | 3.0 |
| even though you can clearly tell mike is tired, I prefer the vocals here over whatever the hell that mixing was on the "Dead throne" vocal tracks. it is a solid live LP all things considered. |
| John Legend Bigger Love | 2.0 |
| I mean there were some good moments here, and I did enjoy the closing track, but the constant use of regatone is a yikes from me. |
| BLACKPINK Square One | 3.0 |
| Fun and great chemistry, this is a pretty satisfying taste of what would come from these girls. |
| BLACKPINK Square Two | 2.0 |
| this second ep from BLACKPINK was rather boring, something about these songs just feel really weak, like something was missing. i also did not really feel the group dynamic worked well here. at least the acoustic whistle was good though |
| Emmure Hindsight | 2.5 |
| well at least it seems Frankie is somewhat trying, Emmure move from being loathed to being just average. If you all heard the 2019 King 810 album, then you know this could of been a WHOLE lot worse. |
| Chris Brown and Young Thug Slime and B | 1.0 |
Thank god it is not yet another 3 hours long Chris Brown album. but yeah this is still
very much a very, very hard pass. just because it is shorter horrendous R&B Smut does
not win it any brownie points in my book |
| The Devil Wears Prada Dead Throne | 4.5 |
| Apon re-listen this album is rather deep in has a lot going for it and is a great step forward in mature songwriting, The Asking Alexandria diss track Alone warrants this higher then a 4 |
| The Devil Wears Prada With Roots Above and Branches Below | 4.0 |
| This album took what made plagues enjoyable and really refined it to make one hell of a fantastic record, I would love to give this a 4.5, heck I would love to give it a 5, but the album should have ended with "Louder than thunder", "Lord Xeno" is the worst song on here, and might be one of the bands weaker songs in their whole catalog. |
| The Devil Wears Prada Plagues | 4.0 |
| while I did find part of the second half did take a slight dip down, does not change how much this album exceeded my expectations, I was expecting a singles album but instead, I got one where the electronic elements were used way better then most metalcore band's even 5 years into present day with some rather solid melodies. There are some solid deep cuts here and as a whole, this was a really enjoyable listening experence |
| Elvis Presley The Home Recordings | 3.5 |
| who would not enjoy hearing some rare recordings from Elvis, this is one of the more unique compilation albums, so it is one worth hearing. |
| Trapt Shadow Work | 1.0 |
I was thinking of writing a review just so I can give it a 0.5, but this album gives nothing to
even to warrant a review, even to be outraged by. It is so lifeless, and autopilot for its 42-
minute run time, because of how little i can really say about this, is it really worth it? By the
way this right now is the worst album of 2020, so you know it is really, really bad. i was
expecting terrible d-tier nu metal but getting a second 'theory of a deadman' album in 2020 is not
much better
EDIT: now staff are flexing that they can give a lower grade then a 1. |
| Rage Against the Machine Rage Against the Machine | 4.5 |
| Aggressive and in your face, Rage against the machine sure due to a good job in getting listeners to rally by their side against the system, thanks to the benefit of laying down what would become the blueprint to nu-metal. |
| Behold... The Arctopus Hapeleptic Overtrove | 1.0 |
sounds like a recording from a jam session where the whole band was off, and what the hell is
with that cowbell, jeez. At best this is a jazz improvision gone wrong and worst it's..a jazz
improvision gone wrong. Calling it now some of the more snobby folks are gonna give this 4s
and higher under the guise of "ItS AvAnT gArDe" and write a meant-to-be-taken-serious-essay
about why the cowbell is the most essential instrument that needs to be used in metal. |
| Machine Head Civil Unrest | 2.5 |
| Well I can say it was not as bad as we expected it to be, so that is a plus |
| The Black Eyed Peas Translation | 1.0 |
WHO ASKED FOR MORE REGATONE IN 2020!?! EVERYTHING ABOUT THIS ALBUM IS AGERVATING, FROM
USING THE SAME BEAT 14 TIMES, THE FEATURES, OR THE LYRICS...OH MY GOD, THE LYRICS, IT IS
SO STUPID, SO SHALLOW, AND SO STUPID (like encouraging people to break quarantine, and
yes I said stupid twice, that should tell you the level of dumb we are getting) THAT IT
REALLY IS RELIC OF THE LATE 00s CRAPPY DANCE ANTHEMS, AND EVEN WITH THAT BEING SAID, THE
"Melodies" (every song pretty much only has 4 lines) ARE SO FORGETTABLE THAT YOU CANNOT
REMEMBER THEM RIGHT AFTER THE SONG ENDED. EVERYONE, LETS KEEP BLACK EYED PEA'S IN 2008,
BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE. |
| G-Eazy Everything's Strange Here | 1.5 |
| hey kids, what do you get when you mix boring indie with boring hip hop, background music that even makes the background fall asleep. |
| Icon For Hire Still Can't Kill Us: Acoustic Sessions | 4.0 |
| Icon's Acoustic album has some arrangements that are not only just as good, but also better than the original versions. |
| Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band Trout Mask Replica | 4.0 |
| Chaotic and weird as hell, this is an album that is a grower and will require several spins before one can come to their definitive opinion on the album, I like now more then i did on my first listen, but I would lying if I did not say I feel all the acapella tracks do feel a bit tacked on |
| The Devil Wears Prada Dear Love: A Beautiful Discord | 3.0 |
| A debut which is straight forward metalcore, the synths here while having not aged perfectly is still better than those found in its peers at the time |
| Lady Gaga Chromatica | 3.0 |
| Gaga's return to synth-pop is welcome, in an album that does use a bit of it's blueprint from "born this way". The BLACKPINK collab was lowkey a disappointment though |
| Lady Gaga Joanne | 3.0 |
| A more soulful approach that in the end works as "Joanne" stands as successful departure from her synth-pop sound. |
| Tony Bennett and Lady Gaga Cheek to Cheek | 3.0 |
| It is a fun Jazz duet album, i got what i wanted out of it. |
| Farrah Abraham My Teenage Dream Ended | 1.0 |
| WHAT IN THE HELL IS THIS! The beats/synths are generic reality tv stock sounds and the autotuned vocals...oh my god where do I even begin, they do not even have the decency to sync up her "singing" with the beat. this is why we should stop giving attention to reality-tv trash, what good has ever come out of it? this is an album that should not be referred to as music but as "Music" |
| The Enemy (UK) Streets In The Sky | 1.5 |
| Generic and overly repetitive D-Teir Pop punk ahoy |
| Lou Reed and Metallica Lulu | 1.0 |
| well aside from the memes the biggest issue here is the bland instrumentation, it is like trying to get your drunk uncle's 80's heavy metal cover band to improvise a prog. song, and it just comes off as rather boring and tedious. the project overall feels disjointed as it seems both party's had a different direction they were gonna take it in...also Serj Table and Headfeild table mashup plz make it happen. |
| Eoghan Quigg Eoghan Quigg | 1.0 |
| what in the heavily pitch-shifted and overly whiney..tweeny bop covers from terrible reality tv competitions is this? |
| Guns N' Roses Chinese Democracy | 3.5 |
| In retrospect, this should of not really reserved the paddling that it got, it holds up decently well and there was quite a bit of creativity in the project. I understand that the constant turmoil ruined what could been but it is still a pretty damn good album all things considered |
| Supersuckers The Smoke of Hell | 3.0 |
| It was decent, solid 3/5 on this, *insert melon memes here* |
| Kevin Federline Playing with Fire | 1.0 |
This dude thinks he is so badass and acts like he is Eminem, and he cannot rap for sh*t,
no he literally cannot rap or write lyrics for sh*t, constantly "rhyming" the same word
for whole verses "I'm loony, all these model chicks wanna do me Tabloids tried to screw
me, magazines do me" and some lyrics so bad, that is is very discouraging they have not
caught on as memes, such as this... "She calls me daddy, but she's not my daughter, And
I'm not her father, I'm just the mack" was he over-explaining because he thought some
people would take it as incest? we will never know the truth behind such a radical hip
hop masterpiece. |
| Elvis Presley Jailhouse Rock/Love Me Tender | 3.5 |
| some sweet blue-grassy rock-N-roll fun here, oh and 2 iconic songs are here too. |
| Duran Duran Thank You | 2.0 |
| HOLY CHEESE BATMAN! This Totally sounds like it is apart of the "TMNT II: Secret of the ooze" soundtrack. |
| Soundtrack (Film) Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band | 1.0 |
| this was a lifeless void, no one wanted to be involved in the project and it shows with everyone doing under the bare minimum. Everyone has since wanted to distance themselves from this as much as possible and I do not blame them. The only semi-decent cover is Aerosmith's "come together" but that is a song so easy to cover decently you have to TRY to mess up. This has nothing to do with being anti-disco (what the harsh comments of this album usually boil down to) but with this level of reluctance in an obvious cash grab, it would fail badly in any genre you try to do this in. Sucide Squad and Daredevil soundtracks, all is forgiven |
| Lou Reed Metal Machine Music | 2.5 |
| ah yes, the greatest Drone metal album of all time |
| Attila (Billy Joel) Attila | 2.5 |
| It is generic Prog. Rock, but it is nothing terrible, just kinda meh. I would take this over the OTHER Attila any day of the week. That is some cheesy cover art thoguh |
| Screaming Lord Sutch Lord Sutch and Heavy Friends | 1.5 |
| It does have a decent start if I am going to be truthful, however it goes on a downward spiral of wasted potential. Near the halfway point, it just gets a little daunting to finish, the performances here feel so phoned in too |
| The Shaggs Philosophy of the World | 2.0 |
Is this objectively terrible? yes, but there is something just enjoyable about it. I
think that this album prooves how pretensions a lot of people are. By the logic of the
reasoning as to why publications like pitchfork gave this such high scores (with some
snobby BS about the essence of art) every single audio recording of infants with 'Fisher-
Price' music sets should go down as the greatest auditory achievements mankind has ever
done. You can say you have a guilty pleasure, no need to hide it by making up nonsense to
convince yourself its good |
| AJR The Click | 1.0 |
| every time i hear "Sober up" i consider the choice to become an alcoholic |
| Elvis Presley Heart and Soul | 2.5 |
| a rather mediocre and pointless compilation, their really is not a reason for this one to exist. |
| Elvis Presley A Valentine Gift For You | 3.0 |
| a rather pleasant valentines day mix that does not have much value outside of the day, making it a bit situational |
| Elvis Presley Elvis' Gold Records Volume 5 | 3.5 |
i would not call "US male" gold but.. I mean this compilation series is still pretty good. It is
about time their was one solely on his 70s output. |
| Elvis Presley Elvis' Greatest Shit | 1.0 |
| Alright we all know why this bootleg was made and why it lives in infamy, made to show the low lights of his career. On that front it is a 5/5. To achieve this, we get predominately outtakes and Songs from his soundtracks (which are at best, mediocre or decent) which already has a reputation of being rather lowly, even hated by Elvis himself (for every "i can't stop falling in love with you" there will be an "Ito eats", "He's your uncle not your dad", and "Confidence") Their is also the fact that we get some from "Having fun on stage", aka the most cash grab album to end all cashgabs here. This basically what Doug Walker's "The Wall" would be if it came out in the 80s. I guess giving this 1 might be a bit of a complement to the bootleggers intent but it deserves it. |
| Elvis Presley The Sun Sessions | 4.0 |
| Quite the start to his career. It is a shame their are some songs that are completely lost so we will never hear every single song from this session. |
| Icon For Hire You Can't Kill Us | 3.5 |
| Now competently Alternative, Icon For Hire's third studio album is a crowdfonded one which sees them hammering down in the direction they went in on the "now you know" ep, though their are some elements of rock sprinkled here and there With Ariel now using quite a bit of rapping for her verses (which helps to add quite a bit of personality to the album as a whole) . The Entire album centers around Mental health and depression and how sometimes we do not wanna get better because we like the way the pain feels. we like being in negativity. For the most part, this is done really well. Their are a few duds, like obnoxious "the magic" or the filler tracks "here we are" and "invincible", however the tracks on the album that are good are outright exceptional such as "Supposed to be", "under the Knife", "War" and "You Can't Kill Us". |
| Icon For Hire Now You Know EP | 3.0 |
This first release from Icon For Hire post Tooth and Nail sees them going all in the alternative
direction and shedding the rock side of their sound almost completely. The first song "Now You
Know" which is a very blunt attack on the sexism in the music scene. It is pretty good too, aside
from the rather annoying loop that makes up most of the instrumental, which is a bit of a big neg.
"Bam bam pop" shows that Icon was prepared for the backlash they would get for the direction
change, and they fired back preemptively. The Rap flow sounds pretty great and I do like the way
She fluctuates her voice here. The beat here while nothing extraordinary does fit well with
Ariel's Delivery.
also, remember when the entire Christian fan base freaked out because Ariel cussed? |
| AJR Living Room | 1.5 |
| I mean, i can say it was not AS HORRENDOUS as their next 2 studio albums, but my god does this band make a case for giving everything they put out a 1. I think just the fact that its not AS BAD as its next 2 albums goes to show anyone reading this that AJR has not "High points" only low points, and then somehow going lower. |
| Onision Flucking Blitch | 1.0 |
| Flick tlhis alnd fluck ylou olnision |
| Onision Bipolar | 1.0 |
| And another album that brings up the case of allowing 0/5 ratings.... |
| Onision Explicit | 1.0 |
| The worst of the worst popular youtubers is also among the worst of the worst in music |
| Onision Onision | 1.0 |
| "Shut up onion boy" ~Leafy 2014 |
| Elvis Presley Moody Blue | 3.5 |
| Lady's and Gentlemen, Elvis Presley has left the building |
| Elvis Presley From Elvis Presley Boulevard, Memphis, Tennessee | 3.0 |
| For those that do not know as a fun trivia, this album was recorded live from his home. |
| Plastic Neesound 5uhnake5 | 1.0 |
| HOW MANY DAMN TIMES ARE YOU GONNA CALL A SONG "UNTITLED"!!!!!!!! |
| Plastic Neesound suhnakes the last | 1.0 |
| You call it the last and then release another sequel in the same year, i have seen more bands from the 80s on "Fairwell tours" be more truer to their word. |
| Elvis Presley Elvis in Concert | 4.0 |
| Even in the end of his career he is one hell of a performer on stage |
| Plastic Neesound suhnakes IV the quest for peace | 1.0 |
| The Superman movie (aka one of the worst movies ever made) was better |
| Plastic Neesound 2suh 2nakious | 1.0 |
| sure...just keep reusing the same song titles... are you that uncreative you cannot come up with 12 titles? |
| Plastic Neesound try'rd | 1.0 |
| "Do or do not, their is not try" ~ Jedi Master Yoda |
| Plastic Neesound The Gaga Singles | 1.0 |
| "GA GA OO LA LA LA WANT YOUR BAD ROMANCE" oof wrong Gaga |
| Plastic Neesound "Avant Garde" | 1.0 |
| Isn't that cover art an image from sword art Online Gentai? Like I swear ive seen that image while scrolling down twitter when some anime youtuber likes a lewd anime pick someone drew |
| Plastic Neesound Cali Remembered Me | 1.0 |
| having 2 songs called "untilted' kinda lazy if you ask me. |
| Plastic Neesound suhnakes | 1.0 |
| cover art is a bootleg Amalee mascot. |
| Plastic Neesound NIGHTcorePOP | 1.0 |
| what kind of title is that? and why i core lowercase? Their is more problems with this debut then just the title |
| Plastic Neesound Why and How and Why Again | 1.0 |
| if only the music could not be heard like how the artwork cannot be seen..... |
| Plastic Neesound Art Comedy | 1.0 |
| This is nether art nor is it comically bad. It is a painful kind of bad |
| Plastic Neesound サーカスツインズ | 1.0 |
| The only good thing about this is that It can boost Objectivity ratings |
| Crossfaith Species | 4.0 |
| Interesting to see some Ghostemane influence on "Digital parasite". This is a step in the right direction after the missfire of "EX MACHINA" and it does feel like the band is evolving in sound here. the inclusion of some rap elements sparingly works well for them. Crossfaith, welcome back |
| Crossfaith Ex_Machina | 2.0 |
their is no denying the first 5 tracks really do rip (seriously "Perfect Nightmere" is so heavy it
will not be literally impossible to lift what ever listing to the track) however the rest of the
album is just.. a lesser and pale imitation of the bands last full length, "XENO". Their is also
the fact that the album is too electronic heavy, Even as someone who enjoys their electrocore it
did not mesh well here and really felt like it overtook everything. It is the opposite problem of
"Apocalize" (which had too little of it) The bass is not really present here and the new mix of
"Wipeout" is not very good. One positive is to hear Kenta's Gutturals here, they are pretty sick,
and the "Faint" cover is actually pretty great. Sadly, overall this is rather lackluster effort
and on paper a crossfaith concept album should really work well, they do have the sound for it, it
just was not executed well here |
| Anthrax Worship Music | 4.5 |
| Anthrax had a fantastic 2010s, and hot damn was this album really amazing. I can see why they are the most underrated of the big 4. |
| Blue October The Answers | 3.0 |
| Talk about an underrated gem. |
| Lady Gaga Artpop | 1.5 |
| "ArtPop" is pop, but it is in no way artsy. the last album had more creative variety then this one. It really blends together and gets really tedious to get through, even the singles for this album were not very good. "Swine" is the only song worth checking out here |
| Seether Disclaimer | 1.0 |
| Why did seether even get popular in the first place? |
| The Smiths The Queen Is Dead | 4.0 |
| Holds up pretty damn well i would say, I just wish i liked it as much as everyone else seems to. |
| Crossfaith Wipeout | 4.0 |
| "Wipeout" is really enjoyable and has a great melody (something crossfaith does not get enough credit for, is how good their hooks are), and the EP does not loose it's steam thought, "Vermilion Gold" is a B-side beloved by the fans for a reason. |
| Icon For Hire Scripted | 4.0 |
One of the better albums of the early 2010s christian rock groups (though Icon protests they were
ever christian) even the filler songs like "pieces" and "Up in flames" are enjoyable enough |
| Crossfaith Freedom | 3.0 |
"Freedom" is pretty great, it has a simple crossfaith formula, but it is effective, and I do like
Rou's Feature here
"Rockstar steady" Not a fan of this one, it is a lesser version of "Wildfire" and more of a
formulaic and by the numbers track for them
"Diavolos" really dig the drum work and the blast beats here, this is the heaviest song on the EP.
The chorus is really enjoyable and the Millennial whoop works well for it. Sick Break down too. |
| Elvis Presley Today | 3.0 |
| It is pretty cheesy, but its kinda sweet too..their is something enduring about this. Though "Woman without love" would receive a ton of backlash if it came out today, #Elvisisoverparty trending and all. |
| Crossfaith New Age Warriors Remix | 3.0 |
| I mean...its a solid remix ep. not much else to say here |
| Crossfaith New Age Warriors | 4.0 |
| A rather fun and enjoyable EP, and does feel like a DLC for Xeno. |
| Crossfaith Madness | 3.0 |
| Just testing the waters for the sound that would eventually become Xeno, so it makes sense that this sounds like b-sides for that album (and these are bonus tracks on the U.S version of xeno). "S.O.S" is the best one herer |
| Crossfaith Xeno | 4.5 |
| Crossfaith return with the electronic sound more in the forefront thought and they are blended with the instrumentation quite well. eve weaker cuts like "Dystopia" are really fun, and does feature more variaty then any past full length from them thus far. This i can still gladly jam to after buying it around release day back in 2015. |
| Shihad FVEY | 2.5 |
| unmemorable and inoffensive |
| Elvis Presley Having Fun with Elvis on Stage | 1.0 |
| I mean, this might be the first On-stage banter compilation well before the days of you tube, with that being said, it is a disjointed mess that is more confusing then anything, and very clearly a cash grab by the record label (one of the the things RCA is notorious for doing with Elvis, much to his displeasure) |
| Elvis Presley Recorded Live On Stage In Memphis | 4.0 |
| Elvis live, no further reason to explain my positive rating |
| Elvis Presley Aloha From Hawaii Via Satellite | 4.0 |
| Hawaii will always be the second home for Mr. Presley. This was honestly a rather wholesome concert. |
| Crossfaith Apocalyze | 3.0 |
| A fun, albeit a flawed release from crossfaith, where they electronics element is more in the background and the album plays a more groove metal influence in the metal core style. the biggest issue with this album is half the songs feel like filler, or weaker retreads of past songs. the albums biggest strength is how aggressive it is. |
| Crossfaith Zion | 4.5 |
Ah yes the album that has the J-metalcore classic "Monolith" and for the most part the rest of the
EP is just as amazing. I do need a few more spins with this before i can be 100% sure, but this
honestly might be a 5 for me, just need it to sit a little. their really is not any weak points
present thought "Zion" and several songs here are live staples to this day. very glad to have this
as my 700th rating |
| Lady Gaga Born This Way | 3.5 |
| "Born this Way" biggest strength is how diverse and versatile of an album it is, while it's biggest weakness is the album think it is bolder and grander then it actually is. |
| Crossfaith The Dream, The Space | 4.0 |
| A rather great improvement on a band that already found a solid sound on their debut |
| Crossfaith The Artificial Theory For The Dramatic Beauty | 3.5 |
| One of the few band's that got how to combine electronics with metalcore right, and on first try too. Impressive. This is one of the better metalcore records from that late 2000's era |
| Forever Still Tied Down | 3.5 |
| pretty great debut i gotta say |
| Forever Still Breathe in Colours | 2.5 |
| feels like a band going through the motions more then anything, also why does this album sound very simmiler to Stitched Up Heart? |
| Killswitch Engage Atonement II B-Sides for Charity | 4.0 |
| Toondude is right folks, this album has the bite that "Atonement" was missing, also the mixing is better too but everyone has said that. |
| Elvis Presley Promised Land | 4.0 |
| Saturday Night Elvis |
| Asking Alexandria Like a House on Fire | 1.0 |
| Here we Have Asking Alexandria, most known for being an at best D-teir Metalcore band try their hand at following in the direction and theme of Bring Me The Horizon's "That's the spirit" (5 years too late) but if those themes were done very poorly in trying so hard to be edgy and nihilist but also being so shallow on mental health. The album is a combination of Walmart country (nearing on the bro variety), WWEcore, retro-style Indie rock. But, i feel this description might be too nice..Asking Alexandra, see you in my worst of 2020 next year! |
| Elvis Presley I Got Lucky | 2.5 |
| OOF the soundtrack era rears its ugly head again. At least its tolerable B-sides though |
| Elvis Presley You'll Never Walk Alone | 3.5 |
| *southern Church service intensifys* |
| Elvis Presley Elvis' Gold Records Volume 4 | 4.0 |
| well, this is another great compilation album from him. |
| Elvis Presley Elvis' Golden Records Volume 3 | 3.5 |
| is this another golden compilation indeed |
| Elvis Presley A Date With Elvis | 3.5 |
| man, so many compilation albums of him in 1959, though with him being drafted, I can see why |
| Elvis Presley For LP Fans Only | 3.0 |
| i mean... it is what is say's on the title...not much to say other then that |
| Elvis Presley 50,000,000 Elvis Fans Can't Be Wrong | 3.5 |
| the Elvis fans were (Mostly) right, so i guess the title was not missleading |
| Elvis Presley Good Times | 2.5 |
| even the best moments here are done far better on his other albums put beforehand during the 70s, but at least nothing here was bad. |
| Arch Enemy Will to Power | 2.0 |
| more like..."The will to mediocrity" lol, but seriously the songs here are so generic and the album is full of cheesy self-empowerment anthems that i heard more subtly in christian contemporary music. The lyric writing is the weakest point here. this is the kind of album where if you took all the worst aspects of Skillet and threw that in a melodic death metal blender, with an anti-relgion line here or there (cuz why not). the only positive I can give is the vocals, which even I feel wasted potential from. |
| Lady Gaga The Fame Monster | 3.0 |
| this one i would recommend taking the singles from this one and calling it a day. "teeth" is a song that is way too cheesy it comes of as a bit cringe. |
| Elvis Presley As recorded At Madison Square Garden | 4.5 |
| their were some interesting funk renditions of his material here, this is a live album that is worth seeking out |
| Elvis Presley Raised on Rock | 2.5 |
| and...the curve down to being "Just okay" for Elvis has returned |
| Elvis Presley Elvis in Person at the International Hotel... | 4.0 |
| Elvis was really something in live performances |
| Vehemence God Was Created | 3.5 |
| yeah...i can see why this is regarded as one of the most disturbing concept albums of all time |
| Lady Gaga The Fame | 3.0 |
| kinda weak in the middle and has dated production. other then that, this is a solid debut album where some of the singles here do still hold some staying power here |
| Palaye Royale The Bastards | 1.0 |
| The vocalist sounds like how he is trying to emulate Trent from NIN on a lot of the tracks, the guitars are just goes have one trick and that is being granny. the best i can say about this album is that some parts resemble BMTH's "That's the Spirt". This album was really monotonous and soulless. This is one of the low lights in music this year. this band is "emo AJR" complete with trying to pander to a demographic and being so tone depth it would be like middle aged people going around to this demographic and ironically saying the likes of "RAWR XD". the mental health angle here is just so self absorbed and only there to hone in on their demographic. the fact they are cashing in on "Mental health" in the "look kids, we are suicidal too" really makes this album boil under my skin. with everything going on in this year, last thing we needed were some rich boys to write about how they hate life after listening to MCR once. |
| Elvis Presley Elvis (The Fool) | 3.0 |
| good first half,decent closure to the album, the filling in the middle does leave a bit to be desired though |
| Elvis Presley He Touched Me | 3.0 |
| the weakest of the gospel trilogy, however i still enjoyed this listen |
| Drowning Pool Hellelujah | 1.0 |
I have nothing but apathy for this album, fill of static generic "heavy" Alt. metal riffs with a
bass missing from the mix, with a terrible singer doing a horrible static-X impression. That is
not going into the worst part of the album the lyrics. This is just edgy bullshit "LeT mE LiVe
WiTh A FuCk To GiVe" that loves to thing suicide and self-harm are so cool to the point where most
of this album glorifies it. Their is also an anti religion-song here that is as well written
as the horrid grammar in the song, and when the album is not going "I love shooting my self,
suicide is hot" drowning pool are throwing in trying to be satanists for extra EDGE. Every single
chorus here is poorly written chocked full of nonsensical edge. This album was an endurance test
to get through, with every minute passing hating this album even more. This album is spit in the
face of everyone who is battling depression and a piss on the grave on everyone who has ever taken
their life. DROWNING POOL, SCREW YOU!!! |
| Elvis Presley Elvis Now | 3.0 |
| "Elvis now" get three shrugs of approval out of five. |
| Elvis Presley The Wonderful World of Christmas | 4.5 |
| Elvis is 3/3 on Christmas albums, and this is the best of the three! I will be using this album around holiday season for sure! |
| Elvis Presley Love Letters from Elvis | 2.5 |
| kinda scraping the bottom of the barrel of the "elvis country" sessions, at least "Life" was neat in hear Elvis give us a recap of the Book of Genesis. |
| Elvis Presley Elvis Country (I'm 10,000 Years Old) | 4.0 |
| How the King found his groove again, one neg of this though is the constant abuse of fade-outs. |
| Elvis Presley C'mon Everybody | 3.0 |
| a compilation album that is one of better soundtrack ones, however still nothing too special |
| Dazzle Vision Shocking Loud Voice | 4.0 |
| Pretty solid compilation album, the new versions of songs are better for the most part, and the two new songs are a fine addition the band's quality catalog. |
| the GazettE Madara | 4.0 |
| This is pretty fitting album for my 666th rating. this is the most consistent pre-disorder release and the sound that would shape that debut can be felt here. |
| Elvis Presley That's the Way It Is | 3.0 |
| while it is good, this album feels more....like an in between piece then anything else |
| Dazzle Vision Live In Pittsburgh | 3.5 |
| Their is a ton of reverb on the vocals for what ever reason, and the mixing quality is not the best, but it is the highest res we will ever get of the band live. the set lest is pretty good, as it incorporates every release (minus "Camila Japonica" and "Origin of Dazzle"), and includes "Circle" which would not be on an album till a year later and "STEP", a song i cannot track down anywhere for a studio version. Maiko sounds absolutely fantastic thought. I have no idea why they end the live CD right before the encore starts, it is very baffling and anti-climatic. Dispute the very glaring flaws of this, it is hard not to really enjoy and the passion from the whole band comes through. I am still glad i spend around $40 on this a few years back (when if you wanted to by a Japanese CD in those times, you had to shell out 40-90 USD) |
| Elvis Presley Let's Be Friends | 4.0 |
| This is a fantastic combination of the best of Elvis, the inclusion of another great gospel song from him makes it better |
| Elvis Presley On Stage - February, 1970 | 3.5 |
| a pretty entertaining Live covers album, also agree with what Mitridates said. |
| Elvis Presley Elvis' Christmas Album | 3.5 |
| slightly better then the Christmas album 13 years prior, a bit of an old school elvis flare here |
| Elvis Presley Back in Memphis | 3.0 |
| I am digging this new direction of Elvis |
| Elvis Presley From Elvis In Memphis | 4.0 |
| say goodbye mediocre soundtrack albums, and say hello to a new Elvis |
| Elvis Presley Elvis: TV Special | 5.0 |
| The King has returned! |
| Elvis Presley Elvis' Golden Records | 4.0 |
| The first greatest hits album, is home to some iconic songs of his that are not found on any studio album (Ex. "jailhouse rock") |
| the GazettE Hankou Seimeibun | 2.0 |
| there is a reason this EP is forgotten in their catalog, the production overall is bad even by Pre-disorder GazettE standards(minus "Kore de Yokattan Desu..." ). First half is forgettable and the second half starts really bad with "THE MURDER'S TV" where Ruki sings with the most cringe inducing and forced performance in arguably the whole GazettE catalog.One positive i can give is the guitar work on "Kore de Yokattan Desu..." |
| the GazettE Spermargarita | 3.0 |
| oh yeah, we got some good stuff here from the (Bi-yearly) anniversary concerts. though I do feel they might be a...bit overrated (Linda in particular). |
| the GazettE Akuyuukai | 3.0 |
| the mix is good minus the drums here. If not for that i would of said this is a step up from "Cockinine soup" |
| Elvis Presley Speedway | 1.5 |
| "He'S YoUr UnClE nOt YoUr DaD!" this might be his worst soundtrack album. |
| Elvis Presley Singer Presents Elvis Singing "Flaming Star" | 3.0 |
| one of the better soundtrack albums to be sure |
| Elvis Presley How Great Thou Art | 4.0 |
| Gospel Elvis is fantastic! |
| Elvis Presley Double Trouble | 2.0 |
| some of these soundtrack albums of his are getting tiresome... |
| Rina Sawayama Sawayama | 4.0 |
| Rina takes the listener on personal journey that those who were youth during the early-mid 2000s will find nostalgic on her debut album |
| Elvis Presley Clambake | 2.5 |
| Elvis goes western with a silly children's song thrown in there |
| Elvis Presley Paradise, Hawaiian Style | 3.0 |
| Elvis in Hawaii will always be a combo that works |
| Elvis Presley Frankie And Johnny OST | 2.0 |
| Elvis goes to Broadway..with underwhelming results |
| Elvis Presley Spinout | 3.0 |
| one of his softer albums, this one is relaxing and sweet |
| Elvis Presley Harum Scarum | 2.0 |
| another recycled album of his for a movie that has nothing worth talking about...yay |
| Elvis Presley Girl Happy | 2.0 |
| just recycled and lesser quality songs that you have heard before from Elvis |
| Elvis Presley Kissin' Cousins | 2.0 |
| well aside from a few terrible songs, the rest of it is just boring |
| Elvis Presley Roustabout | 3.0 |
| hey it might be simple, but the king knows how to make it fun |
| Elvis Presley It Happened At The World's Fair | 3.0 |
| is...this Elvis making a children's album? |
| Elvis Presley Fun In Acapulco | 3.0 |
| The Mexican flare here works quite well, another enjoyable listen from the king |
| Elvis Presley Girls! Girls! Girls! | 4.0 |
| Such a fun vibe on this one, "The walls have ears" is so good. |
| Elvis Presley Pot luck | 3.0 |
| another solid album, though I do feel the amount of filler is increasing. |
| Elvis Presley Blue Hawaii | 3.5 |
| so many great hits and hidden Gems here, that being said, "Ito eats" is an absolute abomination that is so bad it prevents me from giving this higher then a 3.5 |
| Elvis Presley Something for Everybody | 2.5 |
| the King experiences mediocrity |
| Elvis Presley His Hand In Mine | 4.5 |
| FACTS: gospel Elvis > Hillsong United |
| Elvis Presley G.I. Blues | 3.5 |
Fun Fact: Elvis was not happy with the film or the soundtrack, and demotivated during the making
of them. That being said, this is decent and has a few gems in here. |
| Elvis Presley Elvis Is Back! | 4.0 |
| Elvis combined with doo-wap makes for an album with fun energy, and a bit of diversity and variety. |
| Elvis Presley King Creole | 3.0 |
| It's okay |
| Elvis Presley Christmas Album | 3.0 |
| Elvis is singing you the blues this Christmas |
| Elvis Presley Loving You | 2.5 |
| Defiantly lacking the same energy of the first 2 albums. But its fine |
| Elvis Presley Elvis | 3.0 |
| Even the king can fall victim to a sophomore slump |
| Elvis Presley Love Me Tender | 3.0 |
| Simple but fun, nothing really special about it though |
| Elvis Presley Elvis Presley | 5.0 |
| A fitting start to an icon and a legend of his stature. |
| Black Sabbath 13 | 4.0 |
| Ozzy returns in the band's swan song as they give a fitting sendoff the the band's legendary but quite bumpy career |
| Heaven and Hell The Devil You Know | 4.5 |
| Oh man, what a final album for Diosabbath, so much of this just kicks ass. Not really much else to say, check this one out! |
| Black Sabbath Forbidden | 1.5 |
just when I thought the band found there stride... aside from the odd cash in on trying to make
another DMC "walk this way" for the opening track, the rest of the album is nothing but filler.
the one prop I can give this though is that the drumming on this one is fantastic, and is the sole
reason this does not get a 1 from me. |
| Black Sabbath Cross Purposes | 3.0 |
| Okay, this album does pale in comparison with the last one, but it is still pretty good. The start of the 90s felt like a bit of a revival for sabbath |
| Black Sabbath Dehumanizer | 4.5 |
| Oh yeah Dio is back and so is the band, this is a really fun listen and Dio alone makes this worth the listen. |
| the GazettE Cockayne Soup | 3.0 |
Well I am not sure what is wrong with the drum mix on the first song, but the rest of this EP is
solid with the back half of this being the highlight |
| Dazzle Vision Origin of the Dazzle | 3.5 |
| Their is a notable lack of bass in the mixing (as it feels a lot like Metallica "and.. Justice for all" in that regard), and it feel a bit rough to hear, but man does this EP have great songs thought, the outro is one of the most unsettling things i have ever heard in music too. |
| Black Sabbath Tyr | 3.5 |
| A notable improvement from the whole band's output after Dio left, it does feel a bit too safe of an album from these guys though |
| Bring Me the Horizon Live at the Royal Albert Hall | 4.0 |
| their is a bit of a wasted opportunity hear, particularly with the lack of "There is a hell" (aside from one song) due to how orchestral that album was, replace "Follow You" with "Don't Go", "Go To Hell For Heaven's Sake" with "Crucify Me" and i guess "Throne" with "Suicide season" if you want something from the 2000s. Also Oli just talking all of the lyrics (Mainly on what is supposed to be the screaming parts) is just really underwhelming. With that being said, everything else is great and the orchestral arrangements are fantastic. |
| Black Sabbath Headless Cross | 2.5 |
| The gold ol Christian bois from the last album go through a phase where they like to talk about THE DARKNESS, so i guess it feels slightly more like a black sabbath album. |
| Black Sabbath Seventh Star | 2.0 |
| why does the cover make it look like a country album? |
| Black Sabbath Born Again | 2.0 |
| A boring album that was a bit of a slogfest that shows when Dio quit the band, so did the bands creativity |
| Black Sabbath Mob Rules | 4.0 |
| the sequel to "Heaven and Hell" and like most good sequels, its solid but no where near as good as the first installment |
| Bring Me the Horizon That's the Spirit | 4.0 |
| Their is a slight dip at the end of the album, however the album has so many strong tracks that make this a great outing in the bands transition to a more commercial friendly rock band |
| Bring Me the Horizon Sempiternal Remixes | 2.5 |
| 1 Good remix, 2 bad remixes of "Can You Feel My heart", and 1 good cover of "sleepwalking". so yeah it is a bit of a mixed bag. |
| Black Sabbath Never Say Die! | 2.0 |
| Sabbath lose themselves and find them selves being a trendy carbon copy cat of the times. |
| Flyleaf Much Like Falling | 3.0 |
| their is some problems with the mixing here and there, other then that decent EP |
| Flyleaf Who We Are | 2.5 |
| "Something Better" is nothing more then radio filler. Kristen sounds decent solid live though |
| Black Sabbath Technical Ecstasy | 2.5 |
| Sabbath get complacent, but I do not think I would call this the bands first dud though |
| Black Sabbath Sabotage | 3.5 |
| Oh no big deal, just yet another solid outing from sabbath. |
| Bring Me the Horizon & Draper The Chill Out Sessions | 3.5 |
| Chill beats to relax and study too: Brought to you by Bring Me The Horizon |
| Bring Me the Horizon Sempiternal | 5.0 |
| Not only an expansion from There is a Hell, but is a well crafted organic send off for the band's Metalcore era, from front to back, this is one of the most essential albums in the metalcore cannon for a very good reason |
| Black Sabbath Vol. 4 | 3.5 |
| their is a bit of a significant decline in creativity from the band, however the Sabbath have not lost momentum. |
| Black Sabbath Sabbath Bloody Sabbath | 4.0 |
| So, is this where we got the start of Prog. Metal? |
| Black Sabbath Master of Reality | 4.5 |
| just because the album is a slight dip from the bands massive first 2 albums does not mean it is short of quality by any means |
| Black Sabbath Paranoid | 5.0 |
| this album is an expansion on the bands mammoth debut that creates 2 mammoth releases to start this bands legendary career |
| Black Sabbath Black Sabbath | 5.0 |
| An album that birthed a new genre that would have staying power for decades alone is enough to give this a 5. Not to mention the content in the album itself is truly amazing and well composed, with a bit of an eerie tone thought. I imagine with the time period, this album was extra nightmare fuel back then. |
| Plastic Neesound 大きな層 | 1.0 |
| you are not buckethead, stop it |
| Plastic Neesound Blanched Superfine | 1.0 |
| how...could any one like this, even the people who are into nightcore? |
| Plastic Neesound ✫ | 1.0 |
| copy and pasting the same sound off in every album of theirs i have heard because that is the same amount of effort they put into their albums |
| Plastic Neesound \\\\\\\ | 1.0 |
| copy and pasting the same sound off in every album of theirs i have heard because that is the same amount of effort they put into their albums |
| Plastic Neesound Suhnakes Forever | 1.0 |
| copy and pasting the same sound off in every album of theirs i have heard because that is the same amount of effort they put into their albums |
| Plastic Neesound Blackwood | 1.0 |
| Just because you can make a new album every week does not make you a good artist ya know |
| Plastic Neesound スノーミントヒルズ | 1.0 |
| i...have no words..... |
| Plastic Neesound Hollow | 1.0 |
| Did I.... just listen to Pokemon sprites boning each other in one long orgy for 16 minutes? |
| Nav (CAN) Good Intentions | 1.0 |
the song "extra" is a prime example of how bad this album is, terrible rhyme (or not rhymes)
thought and really dumb ass and cringe inducing lines such as "Said she want a threesome, when
she sexual, she bi", also "Said she never sucked a dick before, I made her try it" bruh I am
pretty sure that is Sexual assault |
| Blood Incantation Hidden History of the Human Race | 4.0 |
| Well...this just kicks all kinds of ass |
| Rina Sawayama RINA | 3.0 |
| this has me looking forward to hearing her debut album |
| Dance Gavin Dance Afterburner | 3.0 |
| People seem to be on ether the extreme critical or extreme praise of this.rMe: its alright |
| Flyleaf Between the Stars | 2.5 |
| Kristen May does a solid job as the bands new front woman, however the songs here i kinda just background noise. It really feels like a band going through the motions on an album and a wall between the singer and the rest of the band. |
| Flyleaf New Horizons | 3.5 |
| Lacy goes out in a strong final record in her swan song with the band |
| Flyleaf Remember to Live | 3.0 |
| It is an acoustic album that used their B-sides. while the arrangements are nothing special, the use of lesser known material makes this one stand out a little more. |
| Red (USA) Gone | 3.5 |
| now THIS is what release the panic Should have sounded like! though It is kinda clear Sony wanted them to sound like starset (having bates have a few writing credits. and "Still alive" sound very close to Linkin parks "faint" or Bring Me The Horizons "throne" |
| Red (USA) Of Beauty and Rage | 4.5 |
| an epic journey from start to end, in the bands most bombastic release to date. |
| Red (USA) Release the Panic: Recalibrated | 1.5 |
While I do appreciate the sentiment of this apology, its still not very good "Glass house" is the
only good one here. The mixing here is rather poor and the string additions range from barley
audible to unnecessary. I guess release the panic is an unsalvigable record |
| Red (USA) Until We Have Faces | 4.0 |
| The album does take a small dip in the backhalf, but this is a strong outing from Red Still. |
| Soundtrack (Film) Alvin and The Chipmunks | 1.0 |
| *INTENSE PTSD AND SELF HATING FROM LIKING THIS AS A KID INTENSIFY'S* |
| Red (USA) Innocence and Instinct | 3.5 |
| An improvement over the first album that balances both the "innocence" and the "instinct" |
| Paramore After Laughter | 3.0 |
| this album has one trick and its in that 80s niche and nothing more really. With that being said, it does that niche quite well |
| Paramore Paramore | 4.0 |
| Man this album was a real treat to hear, and the band does go in a new direction here that works quite well for them |
| Kesha High Road | 3.0 |
| this is a remaster of "animal" but with a bit of maturity to it, and at least it is not nearly as obnoxious, and it does get better in the second half. This Barley gets a 3 from me |
| Paramore Brand New Eyes | 4.0 |
| Honestly this is "Riot pt 2" but that is not a bad thing at all |
| Paramore Riot! | 3.5 |
| An improvement over the debut in every single way |
| Limp Bizkit New Old Songs | 1.0 |
| oh geez this was just abysmal,all the remixes sucked. and all sound horribly dated to. Also WHO ASKED FOR 5 REMIXES OF "MY WAY" as you hear the same song THREE TIMES to end this album, their is not much distinction between the remixes here and they all sound the same. I WOULD TAKE HEARING RESULTS MAY VERY ANYTIME OF THE WEEK, and that is saying something |
| Limp Bizkit Gold Cobra | 3.0 |
| Huh? a good LB album in the last decade? you don't say |
| Limp Bizkit The Unquestionable Truth - Part I | 3.5 |
| who knew rage against the bizkit would sound this good? lol |
| Paramore All We Know Is Falling | 3.0 |
| Limp Bizkit Results May Vary | 1.5 |
| while not as bad as everyone says it is, this is still bad, it is rather boring and falls into the LB problem of being wayy too long. also that columbine line makes this album even less likable |
| Limp Bizkit Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavored Water | 2.0 |
| There were some good highlights here, but man does this album get sam-ey and go on for far too large. |
| Sam Hunt Southside | 1.5 |
| This is basically just pop music for rednecks and people who chew tobacco |
| Dehumanizing Itatrain Worship μ'sick | 4.0 |
I liked the part when he said BREEEEEE
and when he said WEEEEEE i felt that
I really do not like that he kept calling me a WEEEEEB though |
| Drake Dark Lane Demo Tapes | 2.5 |
| If i am going to be honest, this is rather mediocre. their are some flashes here and there though |
| Bring Me the Horizon There Is a Hell, Believe Me I've Seen It... | 4.5 |
| Oh my, this is so good, this feels like a great evolution from "Suicide season" while keeping the best of that album intact here. |
| Taylor Swift Reputation | 2.0 |
| This was rather underwhelming, I don't have an Issue when a pop star goes through a bad girl/bad boy phase. But this album was rather boring. the production is not very good and their are some fart synths on several tracks. This is also her weakest album from a lyric standpoint too. |
| Taylor Swift 1989 | 5.0 |
| Taylor goes full Pop in one really exceptional album. the synth elements here are really good and their is not a single dull moment or cut on this album. Everything about this album is so fantastic as I really did enjoy my listen of this from start to finish. |
| FAKE ISLAND CELL DIVISION | 4.0 |
| This is some strong metalcore, and the trance elements work very well here. their are some rather interesting moments thought, and this song does a good job of wearing its influences like Fear, and loathing in Las vegas on it's sleeve. Fake Island give a strong debut that showcases a strong chemistry between the bands two front woman. |
| Taylor Swift Red | 3.0 |
| I did enjoy the experimentation on this album and the blend of different styles, however I do need to address the elephant in the room, the Co-Writing is not very good. That aside, this is a another solid album from T. Swift. Ironically I am heard this album (and am posting this sound off) on my 22nd birthday, so i guess i am feeling 22 after all. |
| Bring Me the Horizon Suicide Season Cut Up! | 3.0 |
| This is going to be a hot take, but the remixes are actually above average. their is some creativity and diversity in them! Of course their are some weak remixes here, but their are others here that are pretty damn great! |
| Taylor Swift Speak Now | 4.0 |
| The singles here are great! Their is also a great deal of verity on this album. This album also does get better on every listen too! |
| Bring Me the Horizon Suicide Season | 3.5 |
| The singles on this album slap so hard, and while the rest of the album does not, their are some pretty good cuts like the titled track and "no need for introductions" |
| Laura Marling Song For Our Daughter | 3.0 |
| This is a rather nice. calming, and relaxing listen to be had. |
| Thousand Foot Krutch Exhale | 2.0 |
| The First 2 songs are great, and "Lifeline" is a great cut, but the rest of the album is bland and sub par, but at least it has much more of a bite of it then "Oxygen", I would take this over "Oxygen" any day of the way, truth be told. It is still not good album by any means, and some of this album has some of the more cringe worthy moments of past albums like "Phenomenon" for example show up front and center. |
| Thousand Foot Krutch Oxygen: Inhale | 1.5 |
| The first 2 songs are pretty decent but after that it goes downhill. "Born this way" has lyrics so bad you would swear Family Force 5 have a writing credit on it. "Set Me On Fire"is a coldplay knockoff. several songs on here sound more like FM Static and not TFK like "I see red" and more notably, "In my Room". "Light Up" sees them trying and failing to copy Taylor Swift. Let's be real, this is not a rock album, its a pop album with 3 rock songs that happen to be in it. That would not be a bad thing, if it was not for the fact the only interesting song on that front is "Oxygen". Did you ever wonder what TFK would sound like if they watered down "Flame In All Of Us?" (an already mediocre album) then this is the album for you. |
| Taylor Swift Fearless | 3.5 |
| Some really strong country-pop here. The arrangements here are great and the innocent love tone thought is solid. their is some filler. Btw platinum version would actually bring this down to a 3/5, the bonus songs didn't do anything for me |
| Thousand Foot Krutch Metamorphosiz: The End Remixes, Vol. I & II | 2.5 |
| for a remix album, it is mediocre. but for a christian remix album, it is solid |
| Thousand Foot Krutch Metamorphosiz: The End Remixes, Vol. 2 | 3.0 |
| the remixes here are a bit more bolder and creative than on the first one. their I still a bit of a mixed bag on the quality of the remixes though |
| Messgram Cheers for the Failures | 3.0 |
A promising debut album that shows this band has a lot of potential, the one big thing though that
hurts this album is how underwhelming, hollow and rather inconsistent the mixing is through its
runtime. |
| Thousand Foot Krutch Metamorphosiz: The End Remixes, Vol. 1 | 2.5 |
| the remixes were nothing special, just the kind of stuff to play at a dance for the Christian schools. |
| Thousand Foot Krutch The End Is Where We Begin | 4.5 |
| The band sees them bringing back part of that Nu metal sound of "Set It Off" and "Phenomenon", thankfully this is a great improvement over those albums, plus their are some songs on here that are more in line with the band's last 3 albums. The balled on this album are fantastic too. This is the most complete and best effort the band has put out, and where they peaked. Aside from a few corny or cringe-worthy lines here ("P.S DoNt PlAy Me LiKe A 3Ds") this album is one that is a fantastic listen, and still holds up quite well from when it came out nearly a decade ago. |
| Comethazine Pandemic | 2.5 |
| slightly disappointed with this, i was expecting more after I first heard his freestyle in the freshmen cipher. |
| Taylor Swift Taylor Swift | 3.0 |
| A pretty solid debut, and a damn great country album. It has not aged too well though |
| Thousand Foot Krutch Welcome to the Masquerade (Fan Edition) | 4.0 |
| In regard to the addition tracks, they are great "Take It Out On Me" being the definite best one of the three, "anyone else" is one of the albums stronger ballads with "look away" and "Already home" and "Shook", while the weaker of the three is still one of the albums decent cuts and in no way weakens the album. |
| Thousand Foot Krutch Welcome to the Masquerade | 3.5 |
| This is a strong outing, though "E for extinction" and "Watching over me" are rather weak cuts, and "Fire it up" and "Foward motion" are just okay, the rest of the album is pretty damn good though |
| Lifer Lifer | 1.5 |
| yeah this is at best a forgotten relic that should be left in obscurity |
| Joyner Lucas ADHD | 1.5 |
| oh man, we have "everybody"(the logic album) 2.0. |
| The Used Heartwork | 1.5 |
| clockandagger nailed it with his review of this |
| Oranssi Pazuzu Mestarin Kynsi | 4.5 |
| yeah, what Tw1ster said about this in their sound off |
| NNAMDI BRAT | 3.5 |
| Rap and Math Rock is kinda a combination that should work together, and here it does. |
| Lovebites Electric Pentagram | 5.0 |
On the band's most aggressive album to date, the band masterfully compose an epic top tier thrash
metal album! Lady's and Gentlemen, this is the metal album to beat for 2020! |
| Pictures of Vernon bug | 1.5 |
| Ugh just what in the hell is this? Someone call an exterminator |
| Grimes Miss Anthropocene | 4.5 |
| I mean its Grimes, so its gonna be weird as hell, but...it is pretty damn good too |
| Fiona Apple Fetch the Bolt Cutters | 4.0 |
| Welp...since I did not give this a 5/5 twitter is gonna cancel me.... #DavezillaMP3isoverparty *insert k-pop fancams here* |
| DaBaby BLAME IT ON BABY | 1.5 |
| STOP TRYING TO SING, YOU CANNOT FREAKING SING! and the rapping is not much better... |
| The Strokes The New Abnormal | 3.0 |
| I may not like it as much as other people here seem to, but i still dig it. |
| Incubus (USA-CA) Trust Fall (Side B) | 3.0 |
| Hopefully this is a start to a redemption arc for them...fingers crossed on "9" |
| Scarlxrd SCARHXURS | 3.5 |
| man, SCARLXRD is just killing it and shows no signs of slowing down |
| The Weeknd After Hours | 4.0 |
| Yeah, I can see this being one of those big albums down the road that everyone talks about being one of the "great pop albums", being a concept album is also a plus |
| The Black Dahlia Murder Verminous | 3.0 |
| Well....Its a Black Dahlia murder album, that is for sure |
| Aseul Slow Dance | 3.0 |
| Experimental K-pop was something I did not know was a thing, and honestly I dig It. |
| Nightwish HUMAN. :II: NATURE. | 3.5 |
| fantastic first half, the second half does drag it down tho |
| Amalee Nostalgia VII | 4.5 |
| A covers album with a personal touch, Honestly a lot of the arrangements her surpass the original. |
| Alkaline Trio E.P. | 3.0 |
| ah yes, It is indeed an EP |
| Mac Miller Circles | 4.0 |
| a Posthumous album that is a bittersweet sendoff rather then a cashgrab, how refreshing |
| Haru Nemuri LOVETHEISM | 4.0 |
| Haru is officially on my radar now. This Really Impressed me |
| Yumi Zouma Truth or Consequences | 3.0 |
| truth is that is it good, but the consequences is that it kinda...just meh in a sizable amount of the runtime |
| Testament Titans of Creation | 3.5 |
| oh yeah, we got some strong Thrash in 2020 from one of the OG band's in the genre |
| Enter Shikari Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible | 4.5 |
| Oh man, this was fantastic, it goes a bit off the rails and is all over the place genre-wise but the transitions are soo good that the transitions are not clunky or off-putting. This album gets better with every listen and is one that for sure does require several listens. I could bump this up to a 5 depending on how I feel on it later on. |
| Nine Inch Nails Ghosts VI: Locusts | 4.5 |
| Really put me on edge a while after the record stopped spinning |
| Nine Inch Nails Ghosts V: Together | 4.5 |
| sucks you in, and is utterly captivating. The score album 2020 needed. |
| Destroyer Have We Met | 2.0 |
| I am sorry, I just found this to be obnoxious and rather annoying |
| The Night Flight Orchestra Aeromantic | 4.0 |
| This is a great workout jam. It also feels like it came right out of the 80s too |
| Childish Gambino 03.15.20 | 3.0 |
| a rather ambitious album that (mostly pays off) it is a bit pretentious though |
| Halsey Manic | 1.5 |
| Despite a decent start, the album goes on a decline to mediocrity that makes this release very tedious to get through. |
| Blueface Find the Beat | 1.0 |
| Holy hell this was abysmal, the production was awful and is grainy. This sounds like a very lowgrade SoundCloud rap album. No, This sounds like discount Soulja Boy, and who the hell asked for diet Soulja boy in 2020? lets not even go to how way off blue faces flows are on every beat. the features are not any better either. |
| Spanish Love Songs Brave Faces Everyone | 4.5 |
| I remember at the start of 2020 I was riding the same high as everyone else, I even said that this for sure would be on my best of 2020 but I think it might at best barely miss the cut. Here is what I have found retrospectively, is that while yes a lot of the album does resonate personally (like with everyone else, this is the Emo album for everyone in Gen-Z who are in their 20s and dealing with the various struggles in that) there are just some moments on here that do come off as a bit too whiny. Perhaps it might just be that I am in a completely different mindset than when I heard it at the beginning of the year. "Brave Faces Everyone" is an album that relies so heavily on Being an emotional gut punch that when the jab does not land it will stagger slightly. I also found the first half to be way stronger than the second half, though the second half was still pretty good too. This is still a pretty high recommendation from me, it is just something I was a tad too high on the hype train for in retrospct. |
| Dzo-nga Thunder In the Mountains | 3.5 |
| this is some well-done folk-inspired black metal, the atmosphere of the album is really good too. |
| Hollywood Undead New Empire Vol. 1 | 3.5 |
| honestly, I was dreading listening to this. but I am honestly very pleasantly surprised by this. good job undead, you grew up |
| Stone Temple Pilots Perdida | 2.0 |
| this was a slight slog to get through as well as a rather bland album. I have no problem when a band changes their sound and wants to experiment but...this does not feel like going in a bold direction, just feels like being lazy |
| Polaris The Death of Me | 4.0 |
| Woah man, Australian Underoath sounds real dope. Talk about a blast to the past |
| Body Count Carnivore | 2.0 |
| The screams on some of the tracks are kind of hilarious, also the songwriting is rather weak, aside from a few humorous moments. other than that there is really nothing to say about this release other than there is a great Amy Lee (evanescence) feature on the record. |
| Eminem Music to Be Murdered By | 2.0 |
| There are some bangers on this album. but this album drags on for too long and there is a great amount of filler that drags the album down and makes it a bit of a slog to get through |
| The Dear Hunter The Fox & the Hunt | 4.5 |
this was a really pleasant listen to hear. The arrangements and composition is very well done
|
| 5 Seconds of Summer Calm | 1.5 |
| Bleh, generic pop-rock ahoy! only somehow lower tier then that |
| Ozzy Osbourne Ordinary Man | 4.0 |
| really pleasantly surprised by this. this is a reflective record on someone knowing their imminent time is coming, but that does not mean they are any less afraid. not to mention Ozzy gives a solid vocal performance throughout |
| Pop Smoke Meet The Woo 2 | 3.0 |
| this was a fun listen, though some of the lyrics are a bit nonsensical. The beats on this are really solid too |
| Silverstein A Beautiful Place to Drown | 3.0 |
| This album sounds like it came out of 2006, but I am not complaining |
| $uicideboy$ Stop Staring at the Shadows | 3.0 |
| a Solid release, though the quality of the album is inconsistent at points. though thankfully there is more good consistency then bad |
| The Word Alive Monomania | 1.0 |
| holy crap this was freaking abysmal. Even by the watered-down, metalcore album but more the direction of radio rock standards. |
| BTS Map of the Soul: 7 | 2.5 |
| this is fine, nothing is terrible, but nothing her aside from a few cuts really stands out. |
| EDEN no future | 2.0 |
| this was a boring listen, on the bright side ill slept better during the night I heard this |
| August Burns Red Guardians | 2.5 |
| It's fine. there is really nothing else I can say about this. |
| Red (USA) Declaration | 4.5 |
| sometimes shotty mixing aside, this is a really strong outing from Red. The album is the marriage of their sophomore album "Innocence and Instinct" and their 5th album "Of Beauty and Rage". This album is a celebration of the best parts of RED. |
| Green Day Father of All Motherfuckers | 1.0 |
| This is "Ok Boomer: The Album". now I am just adding more so I meet the sound off requirement. |
| The Amity Affliction Everyone Loves You... Once You Leave Them | 2.0 |
| Ladies and gents..we have our first bland, vanilla, by the numbers metalcore album of the year |
| Super Whatevr don't you wanna be glad? | 1.5 |
| yes I do, but after hearing your album i cannot be glad |
| Days of the New Days of the New II | 4.5 |
| This is the band's best album, I really dug this one. really good acoustic Rock |
| Thousand Foot Krutch The Flame in All of Us | 2.5 |
| This album is a step down from The Art of Breaking, and it feels like a watered-down version of that album. aside from some cuts like "Falls apart" this album is kind of just one big fact "MEH" |
| Porcupine Tree In Absentia | 3.0 |
| An album that masks its dark undertoning concept in beautiful instrumentation excellently. though it can be pretty boring |
| Thousand Foot Krutch The Art of Breaking | 3.0 |
| This is a massive step up from the Nu-metal Discount Limp Buskit days of their sound. The guitar work on this album is rather impressive too. |
| Boris Love and Evol | 3.5 |
| It is captivating, though if at times it does get a little boring |
| Alice Cooper Alice Cooper Goes to Hell | 3.0 |
| really bizarre but at the same time really enjoyable. The album does feel like it is trying waaaay to hard to be weird at points though |
| In This Moment Mother | 1.5 |
| "The in-between" is actually a really great song that might be the sole reason this album does not make my worst of 2020 list. The more I think about this album, the more frustrated I am by this. WHO ASKED FOR THIS ALBUM? ITM said it would be their heaviest album in a while but it is their Second softest one only behind "The Dream". Maria's performance for most of the album is contained. The instrumentation is subpar at best, the features are not very good (minus we will rock you cover, which has so much wasted potential.) Take the opening song "fly like an eagle" copy and paste for 11 songs and you get this album. Why does this album have an interlude right AFTER the intro song! YOU COULD HAVE HAD IT AS THE INTRO FOR "THE IN-BETWEEN" WHAT IS THIS LINKIN PARK'S "A THOUSAND SUNS"!. I do not have a problem with interludes on an album, what I do have a problem with is having an intro, having an opening track, AND THEN DOING ANOTHER INTERLUDE. Lets not even get into the lyrics on this album which for the most part makes no sense, you have a better chance understanding a pothead on LSD. if you want Heavy ITM goes listen to "beautiful Tragedy" or "Starcrossed wasteland". If you want more "Ritual" then just listen to fucking "Ritual" or "black widow". IF you want more industrial electronics, listen to "Blood". This album is In This Death Punch. Complete bad covers. If this album is their "got your Six" then I am terrified when we get their "and justice for none.." next. |
| Yousei Teikoku the age of villains | 3.5 |
This is album has some amazing highlights, but there are several songs that are just okay. This
ultimately, while a great album (which sees Yui's vocals rawer on a few areas) ultimately being a
bit of a disappointment(and even though it was a disappointment, it's still a pretty damn good
album) |
| Fate Gear Headless Goddess | 4.5 |
| Due to it being..a rather weak year in the all-female-metal scene in Japan, Fate Gear really had the chance to break through and put out something special, and man did they deliver. |
| Trapt Trapt | 1.0 |
| "BACK OFF ILL TAKE YOU ON, HEADSTRONG TO TWEET AT ANYONE" |
| Stitched Up Heart Darkness | 3.5 |
| kinda a terrible marketing strategy to release 75% of the album on an EP months before release |
| Shinedown Us and Them | 3.0 |
| I donno but anyone else feel like...something was missing from this one but cannot quite put a finger on it. |
| Stitched Up Heart Never Alone | 4.0 |
| While there really is not anything special or unique about this album, the band does play to their biggest strengths which make it an enjoyable listen. |
| King's X Gretchen Goes to Nebraska | 4.5 |
| I am not gonna lie, weather or not you call this a christian album, the thing absolutely slaps |
| Stone Sour House of Gold and Bones - Part 1 | 3.5 |
| House Of Gold and Bones Duology> 5. The Grey Chapter |
| Stone Sour House of Gold and Bones - Part 2 | 3.0 |
| ARE YOU LADYSMAN 4486!!!! |
| The Winking Owl Thanks Love Letter (Thanksラブレター) | 4.5 |
| This album had such a profound impact on me personally, if you need something to help you smile, give this a spin.It is being injected with high doses of optimism, "NEW" is also catchy as all hell too, and one of the most cathartic songs for me personally |
| Yumi Nagashima My Name Is Yumi | 4.0 |
| you know, if you need a good laugh, give this a spin, she is a pretty good comedian |
| Thousand Foot Krutch That's What People Do | 1.0 |
| Yeah...TFK was not off exactly to a great start... |
| Thousand Foot Krutch Phenomenon | 1.5 |
| it's better than "set it off" but that is not saying that much. the only reason my score is not lower... I have too much nostalgia with this album to be harsher then I should be. |
| Family Force 5 El Compadre | 2.0 |
| Just retire already, the writing is on the wall...oh wait this band is blind |
| Family Force 5 Business Up Front, Party In The Back | 4.0 |
| Still the best album in crunkcore, it's not even a contest. |
| Family Force 5 Dance or Die | 2.5 |
| The album starts out strong for 3 songs, but man is most of this rather underwhelming Except for 2 songs near the end |
| Family Force 5 Keep the Party Alive EP | 1.5 |
| *Autotune screeching* KEEEEEP THE PARTY AAALLLLIIIIVVVEEEEEEE |
| Family Force 5 The Third | 1.0 |
| You can't fix an album that is God awful by throwing in other God Awful songs in them |
| Family Force 5 The Family Force 5 Christmas Pageant | 1.5 |
| GET YOUR CHRISTMAS CRUNKED UP, ON CHRIST YALL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
| Family Force 5 III.V | 1.0 |
| the best part was Leceres verse and its one of his weaker ones |
| Family Force 5 Time Stands Still | 1.0 |
| Holy crap this is like...AJR with some of the worst rapping you will hear(and an occasional Lil John impersonation)...even by Christian song standards, and a second-half loaded with generic Christian contemporary BS that has not stopped being played to death since 2011. and these electronics are terrible. the guitar is just awful too. not a single redeemable or remotely "decent" thing I can say about this album |
| Hoobastank The Reason | 2.0 |
| "I aM nOt A pErFeCt PeRsOn" also having an Ian feature is just all kinds of cursed |
| FM Static What Are You Waiting For? | 1.0 |
| Only FM static could compete with themselves for the worst pop-punk album of all time. |
| Thousand Foot Krutch Set It Off | 1.0 |
| part discount limp biskit, part "Thats what people do" remake, part christian edited covers, all 100% Trash Teir Canadian Rock |
| Thousand Foot Krutch Set It Off (Remastered) | 1.0 |
| "Intro" and "puppet" were the best on this album, and those songs are guilty pleasures. the album just keeps finding new ways to get worse as it goes on. "breather" has some of the worst drums I have heard in a while with how completely off-tempo they are, "everyone likes me" is every other alt. rock song slight more polite.Do not even get me started on "the alterntive song" |
| Nine Lashes World We View | 1.0 |
| terrible by the numbers Christian Alt-metal ahoy! they completely waste Ryan's Clarks feature was the only good part of this album, and even then the instrumentation falls flat there too. |
| Aldious All Brose | 4.5 |
| RE:no goes out on a strong swan song. This album does not include any out of genre moments and instead focuses on what the band has done best in their sound since the "Raident A" era. Marina absolutely steals the show on this album with all the complex work she does behind the kit. the balled "All of you" in a lot of ways is "I don't like me pt. 2" and "Fragile pt.2" but it is a strong balled and has great use of strings. "Monster" is a great high energy track. the only downside to this album is the guitar is mixed a little too quiet on "Monochrome" but every song on this release is fantastic. |
| Aldious We Are | 4.5 |
This album shows not only how talented they are as musicians but as songwriters, and how well they
work to flesh out each other's ideas (the songs have been written individually by the band
members. we also get the band trying some new styles with the Progressive rock travelers, as well
as the 80s like motivational "never give up".The title track is a fantastic metal anthem and a
strong thrash metal offering. the only reason I am not giving this a 5/5 is the kinda unnecessary
15-second intro. Aldious somehow deliver 2 really amazing albums in the same year that are the
best of their carrer so far. |
| Kansas Point of Know Return | 4.0 |
| I can see why some of the older folks love this so much |
| Damn Yankees Damn Yankees | 1.5 |
| Pedo Dad-Rock sucks. |
| Aldious Unlimited Diffusion | 5.0 |
| This album is such an underrated gem, and my 2017 album of the year(in general might be one of my all time favorite albums, if that was not obvious). this is a great show of Aldious expanding their now crafted sound on a much grander scale, and it never stumbles from the pressure. Every song is memorable and has great replay value, and really goes above and beyond "Raident A", to the point where it makes that album (in which "Raident A" pretty strong album) feel rather insignificant in comparison. |
| Code Orange Underneath | 4.0 |
| and of course the anti-metalcore bias on the site is well and strong. |
| Aldious Radiant A | 4.0 |
| "Raident A" sees the band go in a more commercial and mainstream sound, and it works, there are trickles of nu-metal from their last album and other stylings (Pop-punk?!). the melodies on these songs are fantastic and Marnia fits right into the band. this is a fun album |
| Megan Thee Stallion Suga | 2.0 |
| you know, this EP is quite a letdown after the mix tape from last year |
| Aldious Dazed and Delight | 4.0 |
| after a bit of a complacent sophomore slump, and the first Re:NO album being a bit of adjustment period. the band is able to rediscover the core concept of the band and take it into an interesting direction. this album is a Nu metal album dressed up as a power metal album. there is also some western inspiration from Evenesscene and skillet present too. The only drawback of the album is the snare is a little too punchy in the mix. other then that, this is a excellent album. |
| DIMLIM Kidoairaku | 4.5 |
| HOT DAMN this is amazing if it was not for the mix that is so loud it's clipping, I would have given this a 5/5. on the second disk, the acapella arrangements of "Aijou ni Tsuki" and "Vanitas" is really unsettling |
| Aldious District Zero | 3.0 |
| The band does go through some growing pains on this album with switching vocalists, however, the band does deliver a solid new direction in their sound. This album does inject some speed metal influences and has some nifty bass work in a lot of moments on this record. It is the same concept of the band, "Ultimate Melodious" but in a different way. RE:no's deep and melodic vocal style allows the band to have more agressive intrumental. |
| Aldious Determination | 3.0 |
| Aldious hits a bit of a sophomore slump with their second album. there is some filler, and the drums a, for the most part, are so basic that it hurts (and does the album no favors when some of the songs kinda mesh together) however the great songs on this album are really great and do stand out. the guitar riffs on this album are killer, and Remi's vocals are the best part of this album. also "Spirit back" may be iconic (and for good reason) but the best track on here is the album closer, the fantastic balled "yasoukyoku". |
| Megan Thee Stallion Fever | 3.0 |
| Glad i choose to check her out after catching one of her freestyles |
| Chris Brown Heartbreak on a Full Moon | 1.0 |
| The only heartbreak here is the fact is the fact I chose to listen to Chris Brown |
| Aldious Deep Exceed | 4.0 |
| Even though the first few songs do feel more like slightly more polished tracks that did not make it onto "Dear slave" slapped onto it (especially with the drum mix for the first few songs) this album gets better as it goes on. On the revamped songs from the "Dear Slave" EP like "ultimate melodious" see a lot of the idea, they had on that Demo that did not reach their full potential due to production limitations paying off greatly and not only feel more polished but those concepts are played into their full potential. The Melodic guitars are really fantastic to hear. This album sounds like something straight out of the 80s metal scene. Remis vocal performance is strong too from her ability to be soft, low and soothing to belting out in a more traditional metal style. "DEEP EXCEED" marks a strong start for the Ultimate melody (pun intended) that is ALDIOUS. |
| Avenged Sevenfold Diamonds in the Rough (Remastered) | 3.0 |
| What the title says, It is like it reviewed itself. |
| Avenged Sevenfold Avenged Sevenfold | 4.0 |
| A shift to radio rock that works well. While it is the band's softest album it is not soft in enjoyment. |
| IRONBUNNY IRONBUNNY ~Iron Hammer Alternative~ | 3.0 |
| Another Idol-Metal band, and it is a solid album, though does not really stand out in the market |
| Aldious Dear Slave | 3.0 |
| This is a solid demo. The mix is solid for a demo (though the drum mix is the weakest point on it.) also the piano balled to close out the EP has a bit too much reverb on the vocals. I understand they are making the best of what they have available to them though |
| Bring Me the Horizon Count Your Blessings | 3.5 |
| "SHE STARTS HER NEW DIET WITH LIQUER AND DEICK!" |
| Bring Me the Horizon This Is What the Edge of Your Seat Was Made For | 3.0 |
| quite a promising Demo from these guys |
| Slash Apocalyptic Love | 3.0 |
| Seems Like Slash is able to work well on his own, good for him |
| Bring Me the Horizon The Bedroom Sessions | 2.5 |
| Its a demo that only hardcore fans would enjoy |
| Avenged Sevenfold Waking the Fallen | 3.5 |
| Even In their metalcore era, you can still hear the sound that would become the AX7 that everyone would come to know |
| Christina Aguilera Stripped | 4.0 |
| oh hey, a early 2000's pop album that has aged quite well. Christina can belt quite nicely too. |
| Britney Spears Circus | 1.0 |
| This Brittney albums sucks, b*tch |
| Kamelot Haven | 3.5 |
| is it cheesy? yes. Does it kick ass though? Absolutely! |
| Theory of a Deadman Savages | 1.5 |
| you cant make a good song, no matter how much daddy Nickleback endorses you |
| Five Finger Death Punch F8 | 2.5 |
"F8" is a step in the right direction and is a better effort than the band's last two albums.
however, there are still a lot of things that need improvement. Such as falling victim to
retreating into some old habits. |
| Tricot Makkuro | 3.0 |
| Tricot gives an enjoyable fun album full of some great rhythms and melodies, that does fall victim to an odd mixing choice that makes a lot of the album feel uneven. |
| Flyleaf Flyleaf | 3.5 |
| this Christian-emo album holds up pretty well. though I can understand why the vocals might be what deter people from this album as it is a bit of a required taste (lacy does improve on later releases) and the shock of her screams lose a bit of power when you are no longer shocked by "oh wait..girls can kick ass in rock/metal" (ahh the joys of being 11). however, there are some good lyrics on this thing and solid riffs as well as a fantastic bass line throughout |
| Flyleaf Flyleaf EP | 3.0 |
| their could be a debate here on weather or not the EP versions of these songs are better then the original |
| Not My God Not My God | 2.5 |
| slightly boring, but nothing outright bad |
| SiM i AGAINST i | 3.5 |
| A pretty fun and fitting album to hear for my 420th rating. also "GUNSHOTS" is a really messed up song (look at the lyrics for it) but I really enjoy the song, I dunno why. I guess the best comparison I can do is that one sublime song "Date R***" |
| Tame Impala The Slow Rush | 3.5 |
| The synth pop, psychedelic rock combo works quite well surprisingly. |
| Justin Bieber Changes | 1.5 |
Ironic title considering how stagnant, complacent, and vanilla this album is. could have been
worse though |
| Suicide Silence Become The Hunter | 3.0 |
| After a missfire in their last outing, Suicide Silence play it safe in an apology record |
| Dream State Primrose Path | 4.0 |
| I got some Old ITM vibes in this thing, so yeah, considering how much I love Metalcore ITM I am all over this |
| Scandal (JPN) Kiss from the darkness | 4.5 |
One of Japan's most popular rock bands, SCANDAL successfully experiments with electronics in an
impressive feat of not losing their own sound in the process.
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| Amaranthe The Nexus | 3.0 |
| this is a bit cheesy, but it does work well enough. |
| Big Thief U.F.O.F. | 4.0 |
| Might be my favorite folk album from 2019 |
| Sepultura Quadra | 4.0 |
| Holy. Crap. Did anyone else have Sepultura making a kickass comeback on their 2020 bingo card? Talk about a dark horse. |
| Poppy Choke | 3.5 |
| And just like that, we all were looking forward to her next full length |
| GHOSTEMANE Fear Network | 3.0 |
| well..I do not regret my 4 minutes of hearing this |
| GHOSTEMANE Opium | 2.0 |
| acusticmane is boring |
| GHOSTEMANE Human Error | 4.5 |
| his best ep from 2019, and some very well spent 9 minutes of my life |
| Iron Maiden Somewhere in Time | 4.0 |
| Lovebites Battle Against Damnation | 4.5 |
| such a great in-between studio releases EP. I wonder which album session these recordings belonged to |
| Denzel Curry and Kenny Beats Unlocked | 4.5 |
there is a massive influence on 90s hip hop on this project, the samples on this thing are on
point, and the bass hits hard and is crisp. Denzel just kills it with his flows and his intensity.
The album is a bit too short, and as such, it feels like in the end does not quite reach the full
potential this regardless is a fantastic album that takes influence from "boom-bap" but hits
harder. |
| Big Thief Two Hands | 3.0 |
| Not as good as their other 2019 album, but it is still solid enough |
| Opeth In Cauda Venenum | 2.5 |
| Honestly, this album is rather forgettable, and i really wanted to like it. |
| Infant Annihilator The Battle of Yaldabaoth | 4.5 |
| this is just really really nuts...but i like deathcore that is crazy |
| Theory of a Deadman Say Nothing | 1.0 |
the sampling of the shooting on whiteboy (where is the Tom McDonald feature LOL am I rite!?) alone
warrants this a 1. this is an album on a whole is even worse the discoback("No fixed address")
this album also features horrendous lyrics "Monkey see monkey do monkey you" "if you need me ill
be ASMRing" and even after all that. it's just mind-numbingly boring, can't even be bothered to
give any response, even outrage. I feel nothing from this |
| Meghan Trainor Treat Myself | 1.5 |
| This may be her best album. but It is still rather horrible |
| Alexandra Savior The Archer | 2.5 |
| Indie rock that try's to use psychedelic rock, but is too scared to commit to that change that the inclusion feels rather shallow. |
| Wild Nothing Laughing Gas | 3.0 |
| *shrugs* Its good, i mean this is one of those Releases that does not give one much to talk about |
| FIDLAR Almost Free | 2.0 |
| this could of (almost) been good |
| Xiu Xiu Girl with Basket of Fruit | 3.0 |
| this was...really strange but I guess it was a good kind of strange? |
| DIMLIM MISC. | 4.5 |
DIMLIM's 2020 album is one that sees the band going in a 180 in sound and completely abandoning
their deathcore and Visual Kei roots, but DIMLIM intern offers a Beautiful and ambient album that
masterfully sets up the band's new status quo and unique style.
EDIT: while this album is no longer a 5 for me, it is still a rather enjoyable album where i think
the ambient elements work well and add a unique angle to the Nu Metal/ Math Rock Hybrid sound they
are going for |
| Bad Wolves N.A.T.I.O.N. | 2.5 |
| a slight sophomore slump from the better FFDP, or the "Zombie" bro-Metal cover band |
| Lovebites Awakening From Abyss | 4.0 |
| One hell of a start to the band. Which might be a bit of an understatement |
| Scandal (JPN) Hello World | 4.0 |
| Oh man, what one hell of a record, the songwriting here is pretty strong and the whole album in the general play's out like this wholesome coming of age tale. As my first SCANDAL album, I do have a bit of nostalgia for this but my gosh is this album not cute and catchy |
| Norma Jean All Hail | 4.0 |
| Great to see another longtime Christian Metalcore band going strong, and this album really does slap, i can defiantly understand the high amount of 5s with this one |
| Copeland Blushing | 5.0 |
| absolutely beautiful, this might be the best concept album about Love ever written. |
| Whitechapel The Valley | 5.0 |
| unrelenting and forgiving, and with an unexpected message in deathcore that revenge will not satisfy, and the pain never goes away |
| Gideon Out of Control | 3.0 |
| Gideon may Axe their christian roots, but they are still able to put out some pretty decent stuff |
| blink-182 Nine | 3.0 |
| For me, this was nether best of the year material, but it was not worst of the year material. their is still a bit to enjoy here that Blink Fans will say is a "return to form" |
| Staind Break The Cycle | 2.0 |
| Aaron Lewis does not care about making something good, and will I not about his album. feel bad for the rest of the band though. |
| Hollywood Vampires Rise | 2.0 |
| Johnny Depp and Co. Doing drunk Karaoke for 70 minutes |
| The Who Who | 4.5 |
| The dark horse of 2019, and proof your grandpa's bands can still kick ass |
| Trivium Shogun | 4.5 |
| I would say this is more on the thrash side with metalcore elements, but regardless it is still a pretty damn great album |
| JPEGMAFIA All My Heroes Are Cornballs | 5.0 |
| Short version: funny and experimental well thought and presented political commentary. short short version: its a JPEGMAFIA album |
| Spoon Hot Thoughts | 2.0 |
| Well I know I am in the minority on this, so I am sorry but I personally found this to be rather boring. |
| Woes (UK) Self Help | 1.0 |
| Yikes.... |
| Scarlxrd INFINITY | 3.0 |
| "I SAY NO TO VIOLENCE CUZ IT'S NO ENOUGH" just wish the rest of the album could be as good as the opener |
| NF The Search | 4.5 |
| A great introspective on fame, "The search" packs a huge run time and tracklist that (rarely) leaves one underwelmed. |
| Okilly Dokilly Howdilly Twodilly | 1.5 |
| oh jeez the growls on this album sound terrible. and the snare is mixed poorly |
| Weezer The Black Album | 2.0 |
| not sure this was a good choice for my first weezer album, but it was a 2019 release when i was doing my 2019 disog. run so.... |
| Weezer The Teal Album | 2.5 |
| an okay covers album |
| Switchfoot Native Tongue | 1.5 |
| Worst christian album in 2019, hands down. also contender for one of the worst "Comeback albums" |
| Scarlxrd Acquired Taste Vxl. 1 | 3.5 |
| Man, SXARLXRD you are killing it, but just do not burn yourself out. |
| Scarlxrd IMMXRTALISATIXN | 4.0 |
| oh hell yes! 2019 really spoiled us with three strong SCARLXRD releases |
| Journey Frontiers | 4.0 |
alot of the songs are really fantastic, what bogs it down is there are 2 tracks here that are
rather lackluster |
| Sukekiyo Infinitum | 3.5 |
| starts off strong, then looses its steam as it goes on, just can not keep that "wow" factor |
| Nav (CAN) Bad Habits | 1.0 |
| Nav is just D-teir Drake. |
| Chance the Rapper The Big Day | 1.0 |
| this album about marriage makes me want to get a divorce. |
| DJ Khaled Father of Asahd | 1.0 |
Partway through song 4 I just started to count "WE DE BEST MUSIC", "DJ KHALED" and "ANOTHA ONE"
here were the results:
WE DE BEST MUSIC counter 23
ANOTHA ONE counter 18
DJ KHALID counter 24 |
| Cokie The Clown You're Welcome | 1.5 |
| the lyrics on this album are soo bad, its painful MAKE IT STOP! |
| Oh, Sleeper Bloodied/Unbowed | 3.0 |
| this album feels like it's trying to be "holy hell" but falls short of the emotional merit of that album and despite that and inconsistent vocal performance. this is a pretty okay album |
| Blood Stain Child Amateras | 3.5 |
| Good to see the band has not feel apart after the drama with them the past few years. (though Ngl they did Sophia Dirty) |
| As I Lay Dying Shaped by Fire | 3.5 |
| If we can be honest, this is pretty solid if slightly dated. |
| Scott Stapp The Space Between The Shadows | 2.0 |
| It is scott stapp, do you really have high expectations for this? |
| I Set My Friends On Fire Astral Rejection (OG) | 4.0 |
We were robbed of such a fantastic one, but I am glad it finally could be heard in the light of
day. |
| King 810 Suicide King | 1.0 |
| this is "The room" of nu-metal if we can even call this nu-metal. this is just mostly southern rock with a trap drum machine while David pleasures himself by talking about the Guns found in the latest hunter magazine catalog |
| Algiers There Is No Year | 3.0 |
| The title is how everyone feels about 2020. |
| Delain Lucidity | 4.0 |
| Solid symphonic metal, I mean while it is not reinventing the wheels by anytime, does not change how well done the arrangements are |
| Selena Gomez Rare | 3.0 |
| I was honestly pleasantly surprised by how good this was. especially when Selena Gomez is a regret artist of mine. |
| Papa Roach Who Do You Trust? | 2.0 |
| Not you, a D-Teir nu metal band that got bit by the imagine dragon |
| PassCode Clarity | 3.0 |
| Passcodes "Clarity" is full of promise and is off to a great start, and while the album is solid, in the end, It does not live up to its full potential, and it leaves some to be desired |
| 93Punx 93Punx | 1.0 |
| this album is a glorious tire fire of what not to do with songwriting 101. everything about this album is a mess and its unintentional entertainment. it's like Tommy Waisau himself made a punk album. |
| Logic Supermarket (Soundtrack) | 1.0 |
| somehow a failed rock crossover album from a terrible rapper that's one of the worst albums of the 2010s is NOT the worst logic album of 2019, huh? |
| The Beatles Abbey Road | 4.0 |
| Maxwell's hammer is pretty brutal bruh. |
| Fear, and Loathing in Las Vegas Hypertoughness | 4.0 |
| Good to see Fear, and loathing still pulling strong after the adversity they had the last 2 years. |
| Attila Villain | 1.0 |
| Attilas fratboy gimmick wore off albums ago as the band continues to beat a dead horse |
| R.E.M. Green | 3.0 |
| Kero Kero Bonito Civilisation I | 4.5 |
| One of the best EP's of 2019, if the outro for the final track did not drag for too long, i would give this a 5. |
| Nostalgia Critic The Wall | 1.0 |
| This is a "Parody" album that spits on the original album while at the same time ironically building up the walls of the disillusionment of its creator. |
| Tori Kelly Inspired by True Events | 3.5 |
| the coffee shop like setting in the atheistic of "Inspired by True Events" works quite well |
| Rhapsody of Fire The Frozen Tears of Angels | 3.0 |
| I like me some good ol cheesy fun for my power metal |
| Story of the Year In The Wake Of Determination | 2.0 |
| King Diamond Abigail | 4.0 |
| This is the album those pastes warned us about but I do not care. their is so much to enjoy here from how well the concept of the story is executed and king's high shreeking performance, though i am expecting backlash for low balling such a deservedly critically acclaimed record. |
| Green Day Dookie | 3.5 |
| yes, "basket case" is as good as it is iconic and the album as a whole is a strong output, though it is a bit overrated. Regardless it is a really good punk album |
| Green Day Kerplunk | 3.0 |
| While eariler greenday is pure punk, their is not much hear that really sets itself apart. remove the name attached and is its just a decent punk album. |
| Shinedown The Sound of Madness | 3.0 |
| Its a fine mainstream rock album, that is better then what a lot of it's peers were putting out at the time that is for sure. |
| Seether Disclaimer II | 1.5 |
| the best song here was the subpar track from the Daredevil soundtrack, this is just a formulaic Korn knockoff. |
| Every Time I Die Low Teens | 3.0 |
| decent metalcore album |
| Switchfoot The Beautiful Letdown | 3.5 |
| honestly, this album does feel mellow. that that its a bad thing |
| Soilwork Steelbath Suicide | 1.5 |
| starts out promising, but man does this one just get played out fast |
| Drake Bell Ready Steady Go! | 1.5 |
Sounds just Like a Karaoke session with some B - sides from the Hairspray musical reboot, and
nickelodeon exects.who don't know how to write swearing in music |
| DIMLIM CHEDOARA | 5.0 |
| This is an amazing debut. this is a mix of Prog. metal, Jazz-rock, power metal, and deathcore and it all works rather well. My best new artist for 2018 for good reason. it's even better that they made this after the controversy with their former drummer (F*** YOU ISSEI!) |
| Rush Moving Pictures | 5.0 |
| a classic that pretty much needs no explaining for the 5 |
| Denzel Curry 13lood 1n + 13lood Out Mixx | 4.0 |
| Short and sweet, feels like a bunch of B-sides thrown together but rearranged to flow like one 10 minute long track |
| Stabbing Westward Dead & Gone | 2.0 |
| talk about being washed up |
| Poppy I Disagree | 3.5 |
| Pretty damn great Kawaii Metal album, even if i am not AS hot on it as I was when it first came out (for reference, my OG. score of this was a 5). this is a high Great that is a hair short of being an Excellent. |
| Demon Hunter Peace | 4.5 |
| As suggested from the title, softest Demon Hunter album to date, if you count it as its own album separate from war. The little industrial elements, which was most notably previously something present on the Self-titled Debut Demon Hunter album, do work here. the melodies on these tracks are strong. The lyrics here are to the forefront and they are fantastic throughout.The second half is stronger than the first half. Due to the outside-the-box nature of this CD compared to other Demon Hunter albums, this album allows for a bit of experimentation though it is subtle enough to not throw people off. its still Demon Hunter.T he best parts of the more melodic Demon Hunter songs, for the most part, is here. This album is also a whole lot better if you spin it right after the war, further submitting my thoughts of this being a double LP. The song structure here is a lot simpler and more on the basic side, however, that is a benefit to this album and its tone. This is a strong offering from the band |
| Demon Hunter War | 4.0 |
Ryan Clark gives a great vocal performance, Clarks screams are reminiscent of the Demon Hunter
self-titled debut album. the riffage and guitar melody present on this album is fantastic. the
album does take a small dip in the second half, a few songs being rather underwhelming(but not
bad). this album showcases demon hunters' really impressive ability to blend melody with
aggression on songs. |
| Limp Bizkit Significant Other | 3.0 |
| The Agonist Orphans | 3.0 |
| it is a solid and decent album, that sometimes gets in its own way. also the "HUSH LITTLE GIRL" on the title track I just found to be hilarious for some reason. |
| Iron Maiden The Number of the Beast | 5.0 |
| An iconic record where Iron Maiden punched their ticket in the legacy of music. this album holds up perfectly and seems to get better with every re-listen |
| Fight The Fury Still Breathing | 3.0 |
| John Cooper doing Slipknot karaoke actually sounds pretty good! |
| LEDGER LEDGER | 4.0 |
| LEGDERS EP is a solid first offering from the skillet drummer, though some cuts like "Warrior" are just too cheesy for my liking. "Forgiener" is a power anthem with teeth to it, and "Ruins" is for sure a tearjerker. "Ironic" may be on the cheesy side but the verses are solid and the chorus has a good amount of power to it. "Not dead yet" and her first single is another great cut too. |
| AFI Sing the Sorrow | 3.5 |
| Iron Maiden Killers | 4.0 |
| While It is not a classic, iron Maidens second offering continues the momentum they built from their debut with electrifying results |
| Yellowcard Lights and Sounds | 4.0 |
| Lingua Ignota Caligula | 5.0 |
| An album so unsettling and tragic, most will only be able to stomach one listen. However it is an album that is so impotent because of the themes it carry's and it is translated masterfully in the drone-like classical-eque sound of the album |
| X Japan Art of Life | 5.0 |
| A masterpiece of a song/album that everyone needs to hear at least once in their lifetime, yes it is THAT good, regardless of genre preference. |
| FM Static Critically Ashamed | 2.5 |
| this mediocre pop-punk album was brought to you by LIFE ALERT. "TONIGHT IVE FALLEN AND I CAN'T GET UP!" |
| Fuki Million Scarlets | 5.0 |
| This such a fun listen. Fuki is one of the best vocalists of our generation. |
| Death Grips Year of the Snitch | 3.5 |
| while I do like it, It felt like their was something missing and the sheer weirdness was sort of masking it. Kinda expected a bit more tbh |
| Stryper Against the Law | 4.0 |
| Breaking the law, christian edition (joking aside, this album does kick all kinds of ass) |
| Dead by April Incomparable | 1.0 |
| "I see a lot of metalcore as boldly as being a boy band" ~mike from The Devil Wears Prada. That quote will tell you everything you need to know about the quality of this album |
| Ghost (SWE) Prequelle | 4.5 |
| campy but very well put together. |
| Panic! at the Disco Pretty. Odd. | 4.0 |
| an album that advertises itself with the title, "pretty odd" contains no shortage of charm. |
| Chevelle La Gárgola | 4.0 |
| Ah yes, the Alt. Rock version of "The Silver Screen" |
| Powerman 5000 Tonight the Stars Revolt | 4.0 |
| Is it 90s? yes. Is it Nu metal cheese? Yes. But is it Entertaining? YES |
| A Day To Remember Homesick | 3.5 |
| a simple fun album, it is not trying to be anything else. Is the songwriting for it by the numbers? yes but "homesick" has a deal of personality that saves it from being generic |
| Architects Holy Hell | 4.5 |
| this is definitely going to be one of the staple /definitive albums in metalcore for sure. |
| Basement Beside Myself | 4.0 |
| Thank god this is a nice and present, unlike that hideous Microsoft paint cover art. Also deceptively catchy too. |
| Pink Floyd The Wall | 5.0 |
| After revisiting this, it had such a profound effect on me, this album in a way was a domino effect for me in helping me realize how i had built my own wall for years and years, and i grew so comfortable inside. this is an album that is so important not only as a landmark album in history but i think is relevant to every generation epeculliny in the times now, where laying bricks to protect ourselves are much easier, it definitely got the effect for me to look at myself. An album that inspires this kind of reflection in a listener is a 5 in my book. not to mention this is like...lowkey the best rock opera of all time |
| Unlucky Morpheus Change of Generation | 4.5 |
| some fun fast paced power metal, with a bit of a unique anime OST-esque edge to it. The composition is top notch and Fuki gives her standered exceptional performance |
| Mary's Blood Revenant | 3.0 |
| a solid, albeit an inconsistent album. this album feels like a transition period |
| Dream Theater Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence | 4.5 |
| while I did enjoy the whole album, i found the second half with the hour long song to be much better then the first half here |
| Nightwish Dark Passion Play | 3.0 |
| looking back at "Dark Passion play" aside from the opening track the rest of the album is..just fine. it is a whole lot more "pop" then i remember. |
| Nightwish Once | 4.0 |
| one of the more iconic symphonic albums that is nearly just as good as as it's reputation. |
| The Pillows Happy Bivouac | 4.5 |
| one of the better and definitive alt-rock releases of the late 90s. This album has what a lot of those albums of the same era lack and that is the staying power to not be a doomed late 90s One-Hit wonder playing in Wallmart |
| Gojira From Mars to Sirius | 4.0 |
| The length does bog it down bit, but regardless this album is one mammoth of a release, as to be expected from Gojira |
| Band-Maiko Band-Maiko | 4.0 |
| The traditional Japanese re-arrangement of some of the band's biggest hits make this a remix EP that is very enjoyable. (Basically this is Band-maid if they were like Wagakki Band) |
| The Warning XXI Century Blood | 3.0 |
| solid debut from this young girls, their is a bit of a dip in the middle though |
| Dadaroma DADAISM #5 | 4.5 |
| this album is not in the same Industrial metal (and sometimes deathcore) flare that people may know from the band in the past. but the band delivers on one fantastic Rock OPera. when the weakest song is the lead single, which is a good song, it goes to show how fantastic of a release this is |
| Electric Light Orchestra Time | 5.0 |
| Holy crap I did not think i would enjoy this as much as I did. Their is so much to love even if you are typically not a fan of this stuff. very high recommend from me. |
| Rage Against the Machine The Battle of Los Angeles | 4.0 |
| A rather powerful and unapologetic album, though I would be lying if I did not say I felt the middle portion of it to be a little underwhelming, with that being said, It is one hell of an album, which is to be expected from RATM. |
| Rush Clockwork Angels | 5.0 |
| A fantastic outing in the twilight of a legendary bands career. |
| Evanescence Fallen | 4.0 |
| The album really goes of to a fantastic start and really keeps that momentum thought the middle, it does dip a little during the final leg with tracks 8-10. Other then that, this is a solid debut album that was more then deserving of being the phenomenon it became. |
| A Perfect Circle Eat the Elephant | 3.5 |
| at a few points, it is trying way too hard to be weird and the album does decline with it's last 2 songs, but the middle of the album is pretty strong. Saying that about the middle of an album is actually quite rare too |
| Opeth Sorceress | 3.5 |
| quite the journey this one is. also this has gotta be one of the more toxic sound of pages |
| Tenacious D Tenacious D | 5.0 |
| Lots of replay value here, and one album that i had a laugh for an hour with when revisiting this one. |
| Radiohead In Rainbows | 3.5 |
| Disc 1 is a 5. Disc 2 however is a light 3 to a heavy 2.5. while it is beautiful and vibrant, their is a lack of memorability |
| Iced Earth Horror Show | 3.0 |
| who does not like a little bit of cheese in their Sp00ky power metal? |
| The Cure Pornography | 4.0 |
| yes it is a rather atmospheric experience that in the presentation of the instrumental and the dreary lyrics, the vocals are a bit of an acquired taste, that is to not say they are bad, just might not be everyone's cup of tea |
| Seventh Wonder Tiara | 2.5 |
| This one did not have as much replay value as i thought...and it does blend together a bit |
| The Mountain Goats Tallahassee | 4.5 |
| one of my personal favorite concept albums |
| Karnivool Sound Awake | 3.5 |
| prog. nu metal, hey it works. |
| Linkin Park Minutes to Midnight | 4.5 |
| Linkin Park Meteora | 4.0 |
| this album does take a few tracks to get rolling, but once "Hit the floor" starts is where the album really gets great. That is not to say everything prior is bad or any means. the start of showcased the band's softer side and is a departure from "Hybrid theory" or even the album it is apart of. |
| Linkin Park The Hunting Party | 4.5 |
| Hot damn, this album just kicks all kinds if ass, it might be my favorite Linkin Park album. Who Knows, perhaps I move this up to a 5 in the future |
| Linkin Park Living Things | 4.0 |
| You know, Mike's rapping sounds way more punctual here, seems more like a back to basics release, but it works well in that department |
| Linkin Park 8 Track Demo | 3.0 |
| pretty interesting look at the band before Chester joined. |
| Linkin Park Reanimation | 3.5 |
| Now THIS is a pretty great remix album, the only downside is there is only one album to work with here, so some of the remixes can feel a little repetitive |
| Jay-Z and Linkin Park Collision Course | 3.5 |
| Linkin Park One More Light | 3.5 |
| alright here is the deal, does it sound nothing like Linkin Park? yes. Is it a pop album? Yes. But is it good? Yes! honestly, while I can see why people do not like it (Or critically pan this) I can't say I am in that same boat honesty, this is a pretty good pop album so I will give credit to LP where credit is due. |
| Linkin Park Hybrid Theory | 3.5 |
| Is their some filler and similar sounding songs? yet but as a whole this 20 year old landmark album for a whole generation holds up well, and still goes hard ("Point of authority","One Step Closer") with of course some nice dabbling into contemporary with "In the end". There is a good reason this album is remembered fondly even with the current popular disdain for nu-metal on the internet |
| Linkin Park A Thousand Suns | 2.5 |
| This album is too Interlude heavy for my liking, but some of the songs themselves are good. |
| Black Sabbath Heaven and Hell | 4.5 |
| After a bit of a downward trajectory Dio brings Sabbath back to their glorious return, welcome back boys |
| Within Temptation The Heart of Everything | 4.5 |
| This near perfect album is also a top teir effort in symphonic metal. |
| Def Leppard Hysteria | 4.0 |
| "POOOUUURRRR SOOOMMMEEEEE SUUUGAAAR OOON MEEEEEEEEEEEE" |
| The Smashing Pumpkins Siamese Dream | 4.5 |
| well..its a staple in the genre for a reason |
| The Crazy World of Arthur Brown The Crazy World of Arthur Brown | 4.5 |
| This was such a treat, Let me back into your crazy world Mr. Brown |
| Descendents Milo Goes to College | 4.5 |
| An enjoyable fun ride, right to the point. this album has well earned its status as a essential album in the punk cannon |
| Joy Division Unknown Pleasures | 4.0 |
| Pretty damn great, even if I do feel it is slightly overrated, it was still worth hearing. |
| Avenged Sevenfold Nightmare | 4.0 |
| could really feel their grief on this one. |
| No Doubt Tragic Kingdom | 4.0 |
| One of the more enjoyable ska albums that is more then just "ArE yOu HaViNg FuN yEt?" |
| Celldweller Celldweller | 4.0 |
| pretty good, though the softer moments are slighty too melodramatic |
| Days of the New Days of the New | 4.0 |
| The Debut album showcases how acustic group Day's Of A New proved that Grunge after 1996 is not all bad. |
| Bad Brains I Against I | 3.5 |
| an underrated gem that is a odd but well done combination of a few genres |
| Iron Maiden Powerslave | 4.0 |
| When I revisit this, i may bump this up to as high as a 5 |
| Soundgarden Badmotorfinger | 4.0 |
| I can understand why this is one of the most essential Grunge album. |
| Failure Fantastic Planet | 4.0 |
| a weird case where the second half is the strong half where the lesser songs are in the first half. |
| Static-X Shadow Zone | 4.0 |
| Breaking Benjamin Phobia | 4.0 |
| I would say this is like if three days grace did not suck, but i feel that would being a disservice to these guys. |
| Ghost (SWE) Meliora | 4.0 |
| Has a nice classic metal flare with a bit of pop sprinkled in and it works really well. Of course, the sp00ky camp really does add to the charm |
| Between the Buried and Me Colors | 4.0 |
| this is prog. metalcore done right. |
| Static-X Wisconsin Death Trip | 4.0 |
| HHHEEEEEEESSSSS A LOOSSSSSSSSEEERRRRR SHE SAID (am i the only one who finds the telephone voice goofy on that song?) |
| Queen Sheer Heart Attack | 4.0 |
| well this was a start of a shift for the band, but as far as adjustment albums go, this is one of the better ones. |
| Kero Kero Bonito Bonito Generation | 4.0 |
| "FIRST YOU FALL DOWN AND THEN YOU GET BACK UP AGAIN!" so upbeat but at the same time so well put together, love the childish nature combined with subtle maturity here. |
| Periphery Periphery II: This Time It's Personal | 4.0 |
| Thankfully unlike the Jaws movie the album title got it's tagline from, it is enjoyable and not an embarrassment |
| Yellowcard Ocean Avenue | 4.0 |
| pretty damn great and one of the better pop-punk albums of this era |
| Misfits Famous Monsters | 4.0 |
| pretty campy put at the same time it is a fun record. |
| Husker Du Zen Arcade | 3.5 |
| while its significance cannot be denied, it did not really age the best. that being said, it is not unlistenable by any means and is still quite good. |
| Korn Untouchables | 3.5 |
| their are some fantastic tracks here (the singles, "bottled Up inside") but man is "Make believe" an absolute abomination of a song. |
| George Harrison Cloud Nine | 3.5 |
| album cover looks like he is about to steal your mom. |
| Thirty Seconds to Mars 30 Seconds To Mars | 3.5 |
| Isn't pre ego great? |
| Wings Band on the Run | 3.5 |
| not a bad start to Paul McCarty's post Beatles career |
| Dimmu Borgir For All Tid | 3.5 |
| While i am not a Black Metal fan, this was really enjoyable, and I can see alot of black metal junkies having this as a 5. |
| Angels and Airwaves We Don't Need to Whisper | 3.5 |
| vocals will not be everyone's cup of tea, but regardless it is well composed. |
| Alice Cooper Hey Stoopid | 3.5 |
| its fun, that is all that needs to be said |
| August Burns Red Phantom Anthem | 3.5 |
| metalcore with some impressive guitar work, got some minor BMTH vibes here |
| New Radicals Maybe You've Been Brainwashed Too | 3.5 |
| Quite underrated, one of the better late 90s alt-rock albums |
| Violent Femmes Violent Femmes | 3.5 |
| i never thought a combination of folk and punk would work well |
| Days of the New Days of the New III | 3.5 |
| while not as good as the other efforts, days Of a New's Red album is still really good. |
| The Rolling Stones Sticky Fingers | 3.5 |
| Enjoyable bluesy fun, though it does loose some steam near the end |
| Emigrate Emigrate | 3.0 |
| has a strong second half, and a pretty good rammstein side project |
| Chevelle Vena Sera | 3.0 |
| Good but slightly boring hard rock. |
| Devin Townsend Physicist | 3.0 |
| if this is his worst album, then this dude has one impressive discography. May have to do a disog. run of him sometime |
| Mudhoney Superfuzz Bigmuff | 3.5 |
| some great early grunge on show here folks |
| Limp Bizkit Three Dollar Bill Y'all | 4.5 |
| Hot damn this slaps so hard, If it was not for "everything" dragging on a bit too long, i would of given this a 5, no really i am being dead serious, I enjoyed this THAT much |
| Bad Wolves Disobey | 3.0 |
| band shows they have much potential, however this debut also contains much inconsistency |
| Jamie Lenman Devolver | 3.0 |
| this was pretty bizarre, but it was a fun listen |
| NOFX Punk in Drublic | 3.0 |
| good, but overrated, especially with the filler and how one dimensional it is. |
| Taking Back Sunday Happiness Is | 3.0 |
| going to a more straightforward rock direction worked here. |
| CHVRCHES Every Open Eye | 5.0 |
| One of the best pop albums of the 2010s, if not, then THE best. |
| Steel Panther Balls Out | 3.0 |
| the jokes do get a bit stale near the end of the runtime, other then that good glam metal parody |
| Coheed and Cambria Vaxis I: The Unheavenly Creatures | 2.5 |
| waaaayyy too long of a disc, shame because if it was shorter this would be great |
| Wolfmother Wolfmother | 2.5 |
| who else remembers "woman" from Madden 08, that aside this is decent and just barely misses on being a 3 from me. |
| Ghost Bath Moonlover | 2.5 |
| Shoegaze, and nothing else, so your enjoyment of this will depend on your opinions on the genre |
| Gorillaz Plastic Beach | 2.5 |
| yeah, i just found this to be okay. I know i am in the minority on this one |
| FEVER 333 Strength In Numb333rs | 2.5 |
| Another shallow RATM copy, but with a bit of a LP influence, but it is at least one of the better ones |
| Simple Plan Simple Plan | 2.5 |
| Simple plan just simply do not have a plan for growing up |
| Ariana Grande Sweetener | 2.5 |
| Its Quantity over Quality, not Quality over Quantity Ariana. |
| The Birthday Massacre Nothing and Nowhere | 2.5 |
| this demo is alright |
| Bleeding Through The Truth | 2.5 |
| kinda by the numbers metalcore, but at least it holds up decently. |
| Battles Gloss Drop | 2.5 |
| i mean its decent...i just do not think this one is for me personally though |
| Billy Talent Billy Talent II | 2.0 |
| Look, I am sorry but the vocals are really grating to me |
| Three Days Grace Three Days Grace | 2.0 |
| Overrated debut album from an overrated band |
| The Doors Full Circle | 2.0 |
| Post Morrison Doors did the best album they could, but this should not exist. |
| Red (USA) Release the Panic | 1.5 |
when a band releases a redux version of the album as an apology not even a year after the album
came out, it's never a good sign of the quality of the album. The poor mix does not help, and this
album has the effect of getting worse and worse on every re-listen |
| Portugal. The Man Evil Friends | 2.0 |
| Pretty forgettable and rather boring. I am having a hard time seeing why this is as highly regarded as it is. |
| The Struts Young & Dangerous | 2.0 |
| wanna hear a joke? these guys think they are the next Queen |
| Oasis Standing on the Shoulder of Giants | 2.0 |
| overly pretentious |
| Sublime 40 Oz. to Freedom | 2.0 |
| the only song here worth hearing is "Date Rape" |
| Avril Lavigne Under My Skin | 2.0 |
| I mean its not good, but at least it is inoffensive? |
| The Wombats Beautiful People Will Ruin Your Life | 2.0 |
| Bland, with a capital B. |
| Three Days Grace Life Starts Now | 2.0 |
| Yet another formulaic radio rock album. |
| Korn Untitled | 1.5 |
| Johnathan Davis Bitching about Brian "Head" Welsh leaving the band for around 50 minutes: The Album. this album has also not aged well now that he rejoined Korn in 2013 |
| Black Sabbath The Eternal Idol | 2.0 |
| I Can't Believe It is not Christian Rock! Black Sabbath edition |
| Unwritten Law Elva | 1.5 |
| Hands Like Houses Dissonants | 1.5 |
| I was not really following them so I cannot vouch for this being a disappointmen llike everyone else's sound off here seems to say, but yeah to put it lightly this is a rather lackluster post-hardcore output. |
| Three Days Grace Transit of Venus | 1.5 |
| umm, its another 3DG album, and it is a lackluster swan song for Adam |
| Velvet Revolver Libertad | 1.5 |
| Smile Empty Soul Consciousness | 1.5 |
| Will make you unconscious if ya know what i mean ;) |
| Waterparks Double Dare | 1.5 |
| I double dare you to not just re use the first page in the "How to make pop-punk" booklet for a full album. |
| Five Finger Death Punch Got Your Six | 1.5 |
| NOTE: Enjoyment can go up depending on how much Monster Energy you consume |
| Nickelback No Fixed Address | 1.5 |
| who asked for Nickelback to do disco? |
| Motionless in White Reincarnate | 1.5 |
| These hacks plagiarized Family Force 5 of all bands (if you do not believe me, skip to 2:08 in "Contempress" in this album, and then to 0:48 in Family Force 5s "The first time"), they also plagiarize Breaking benjermens "I Will not bow" on this album too. this is Hot topic edge. that acts like its all dark and hip and mysterious when they had to take notes from the hyperactive Christian kid sitting next to him. HARD PASS |
| Asking Alexandria The Black | 1.0 |
| one way to make a notably terrible album is to make it irrelevant 6 months after release, by completely dropping any songs from the album from the live setlist after that 6 month time, by bringing back the same vocalist your trash on the whole runtime on the album. but at least the cover art is good? |
| Emmure Goodbye To The Gallows | 1.0 |
| Guitar tabs for every Emmure song, 0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-1 |
| Sons of Texas Baptized In The Rio Grande | 1.5 |
| who asked for a band that sounded like the combination of Five Finger Death Punch and Kid Rock? |
| Logic Everybody | 1.0 |
| this album honestly is as bad as chance the rappers "the big day". this album is a slog and tedious. which features some really hypocritical moments, like having a song where he tells someone to go themselves right next to one of the worst anti-suicide rap songs I have ever heard. this album at several points also completely rips off "DAMN" By Kendric Lamar |
| KISS Rock and Roll Over | 1.0 |
| their was a reason part of this was recorded in the bathroom |
| Kesha Animal | 1.0 |
| oh jeez, this is just one drunken mess of pop album, everything from the beats to Ke$has vocal performance. |
| Britney Spears Britney | 1.0 |
| bleh why did we ever let spears be a thing? |
| Cold 13 Ways to Bleed On Stage | 1.0 |
| and the award most mind-numbingly boring nu-metal album goes too... |
| 3 Doors Down Seventeen Days | 1.0 |
| ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ |
| Fall Out Boy M A N I A | 1.0 |
| Who asked for Alvin and the chipmunks to collab with FoB? |
| From Ashes To New Day One | 1.0 |
| "YoU sInG mY nAmE, lIkE a BiRd EvErY tImE yOu TwEeT i ToP yOuR fEeD, bUt It'S nOt FoR mE" |
| Motley Crue Saints of Los Angeles | 1.0 |
| I hate this band, and the fact they bragged about raping unconscious women during the title track is just all kinds of messed up. and by the way, said song opens with the lord's prayer!rby the way, the album is supposed to be a companion piece to their autobiography book, the dirt, so yeah...makes things much worse. and even with glam metal, this band was NEVER that good. Screw this band! |
| Blood on the Dance Floor Scissors | 1.0 |
| this might be the worst album on the whole site due to it having the most 1s out of any album i have seen, and it deserves this, in fact every BOTDF album deserves it |
| Blood on the Dance Floor Cinema Erotica | 1.0 |
| I need bleach, therapy, and holy water after hearing davhine climaxing |
| Megadeth Dystopia | 5.0 |
| This album honestly i feel is a bit misunderstood(in terms of its lyrical content. people just really wanted to come to the worst conclusions about it. however i am not going to get political in the sound-off), i feel this album might be honestly underrated, and i will go so far to say its a thrash masterpiece |
| Megadeth Th1rt3en | 4.0 |
| Megadeth start the 2010s rather well in a 13th album that slaps |
| Megadeth Endgame | 4.0 |
| This kicks ass, Such a great comeback from one of the big 4. |
| Megadeth United Abominations | 3.5 |
| A really solid release from them, this was the point where megadeath really did return back to form |
| Megadeth The System Has Failed | 3.0 |
| In This Moment A Star-Crossed Wasteland | 4.0 |
| the best ITM album, slightly odd pacing aside, it is one adrenaline filled ride i recommend |
| In This Moment Beautiful Tragedy | 3.0 |
| The debut album from In-This Moment is a 100% Metalcore affair that has some truly great highlights, ("Daddy's falling angel) among a decent amount of "okay" cuts. it is all an all an above-average Metalcore album |
| In This Moment Ritual | 2.0 |
| I get they were going for a western feel, but this was pretty.boring. This is just the kind of generic rock that play's in the background on edgy Netflix originals. "black wedding" is pretty good though at least |
| In This Moment Blood | 3.5 |
| "WHORE" still slaps! It is still a very good album even though my opinion on it has lessened, and "Adrenaline" was not a good song, let alone single. |
| In This Moment Black Widow | 4.0 |
| The band continue their stride on this nu-metal/industreal metal-like sound and it works well for them. the use of trap beats on "Sex metal Barbie" works well too. while it does not have as High of highlights as past releases, it is still worth checking out |
| In This Moment The Dream | 3.0 |
| A bit of a sophmore slump here from them, and one of the band's softer albums |
| Disturbed The Lost Children | 3.5 |
| an enjoyable B-side album. the first half is pretty strong, and it kind of declines near the end |
| Disturbed Evolution | 2.0 |
| Why the hell did I ever give this a 5? this is just trying to re-create "the sound of silence" cover for 43 minutes straight. their are some decent cuts here, but most of it is nitequil. (at least we get some energy near the end with "the best ones lie") |
| Disturbed Asylum | 3.5 |
| A more melodic take on the band's sound works well with the album being "Believe 2.0", but better in every way compared to that album. |
| Disturbed Immortalized | 4.0 |
| A rather fun and enjoyable comeback album, that can sometimes be way too cheesy for its own good. It also does sound quite different from the other albums in the catalog so that is a plus |
| Disturbed Indestructible | 4.0 |
| MASTA OF WAAAAAHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR |
| Disturbed Ten Thousand Fists | 3.0 |
| Now this is where Disturbed started to get promising. |
| Disturbed The Sickness | 2.5 |
| Some songs still slap("Voices", "The Game", "Down with the sickness", "Stupifly") but man has this not held up well, and some songs are outright comedy gold ("Dropping Plates", "Meaning Of Life") |
| Disturbed Believe | 2.0 |
| Aside from "Prayer", "Liberate", and "Darkness" this album is dull, boring, and Vinella. |
| Dir En Grey Uroboros (Remastered & Expanded) | 5.0 |
| Both Melodic and unhinged. Theis is one prog. metal emotional experience that really needs to be heard by every J-rock fan. This is also the best starting point for getting into DIR EN GREY |
| Dir En Grey The World of Mercy | 4.0 |
| Honestly this song might be the anthem of 2020 (though it came out near the end of 2019), the song just gets more an more relevant with every new crazy event...was this an omonus prediction? |
| Dir En Grey Uroboros | 4.5 |
| Really great album. but GO LISTEN TO THE REMASTERED VERSION OF THIS! that album is PERFECT! |
| Dir En Grey The Insulated World | 3.0 |
| So the first few tracks really do rip, but man does it get mediocre for most of the second half, with a few bright spots here and there (Like the start of "Values of madness") but at least it ends on a high note with the beautiful balled "Ranunculus" |
| the GazettE Gama | 3.0 |
| "COCKROACH" is outright iconic and fun, one of the best Nu-metal anthems ever the bass is fantastic throught. the next 2 songs however are kind of "just okay". "Sugar pain" does hit hard and i can see being played as the state anthem of alabama (since the song is about mother-son incest). As a whole, feels less like a EP and more like "COCKROACH" and some 'disorder' leftovers |
| the GazettE DISTRESS AND COMA -Auditory Impression- | 5.0 |
| the GazettE Ninth | 5.0 |
| This is a great reflection of the band leading up to this point. there is an underlying theme of contentment throughout this album I can get behind. not to mention the album has banger after banger after banger. this is my AOTY for 2018 for good reason. |
| the GazettE Dogma | 5.0 |
| The GazettE sound pissed. In their anger they created a Metalcore masterpiece |
| the GazettE Division | 5.0 |
| the GazettE Beautiful Deformity | 4.0 |
| the GazettE Toxic | 4.0 |
| the GazettE DIM | 5.0 |
| the GazettE Disorder | 3.5 |
| "Carry?" might be the most underrated song from this era |
| the GazettE Stacked Rubbish | 4.0 |
| the GazettE NIL | 3.5 |
WE ARE FXXING JAPANESE! BUY OUR TEE SHIRT!
~What everyone hears when listening to "Discharge" |
| The Devil Wears Prada Space | 4.0 |
| The Devil Wears Prada go to space in a gripping and emotional short story. |
| The Devil Wears Prada The Act | 5.0 |
| with some of the mature (and bleak) songwriting on this album, it is easy to forget they are a christian band. TDWP do quite a bit of experimenting on this album, and it all pays of very well. This is A genre defining release in Metalcore. |
| Band-Maid Ai to Jyonetsu no Matador | 3.0 |
| Well, I think if "thrill" had not been the sudden hit that it was, BAND-MAID would end up as a SCANDAL Copycat |
| Band-Maid Maid in Japan | 3.0 |
| good but not recommended as a first album from the band. this does not represent what the band sounds like. the best way to describe this album is a Scandal cover band in maid outfits |
| Band-Maid New Beginning | 3.5 |
| Right after the unexpected popularity of the B-side "Thrill" New beginnings in a way is a Debut album with BAND-MAID shifting to that new direction, with some of the hiccups of a debut album along the way. |
| Band-Maid Brand New Maid | 3.5 |
| Continued improvements, their is still quite a bit to iron out, but It is defiantly a step in the right direction (though the band was always heading in the right direction) |
| Band-Maid Just Bring It | 4.0 |
| And now almost all the pieces are in place, their are only a few odd moments here (like the autotune in "cross" that does not fit very well) but all and all, the stage is set for BAND-MAID's next full length to really make an impact. |
| Band-Maid World Domination | 5.0 |
| An album that really took everything from "Just bring It" and cranked it put to 11 without any of the minor head scratching moments of its predecessor, this is an album so good, it makes the rest of the band's output prior to this album feel vastly inferior in comparison. Not a single dull moment on the whole disc. |
| Band-Maid Conqueror | 5.0 |
| the bands most dynamic release yet, this is a bold album that still feels like band-maid, this and world domination stand as the band's magnum opuses |
| OK Goodnight Limbo | 5.0 |
| The Most beautiful album of 2019 for me. this is a strong AOTY CANDIDATE for me Personally |
| Nocturnal Bloodlust UNLEASH | 5.0 |
| a would be perfect comeback....if their new guitarist did not go to jail for smocking pot. STAYYYY OFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF THHEEEEE WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEED |
| BABYMETAL Metal Resistance | 4.5 |
| A bit of a transition into a more mature sound, with a bit of that youthful energy from the debut. |
| BABYMETAL Metal Galaxy | 4.5 |
| Now adults, babymetal (minus one member) set out the various musical galaxy and expand their sound in several different styles from around the world to impressive results |
| Slipknot We Are Not Your Kind | 4.5 |
| the comeback album of 2019, after having ".5" the bands weakest album, the WANYK (Wank lol) combines all the best parts of each slipknot release and adds a bit more of a new flare into things |
| Jeff Williams RWBY Volume 6 Soundtrack | 5.0 |
| Diverse and a fun ride thought. both the soundtrack section and the score section are fantastic. btw if you wanna hear what the soundtrack section would sound arranged as a studio album here ya go https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4oAkvQYu59pW4sG3xtCdX0 |
| Sabaton The Great War | 4.5 |
| Very catchy while at the same time highlighting the scope, calamity,and hopelessness of a pointless war |
| Korn The Nothing | 4.5 |
| Their best album in a while (and i liked "serenity of Suffering"), might be their most personal since the debut too. |
| Deviloof Oni (鬼) | 4.5 |
| the most brutal release from japan in 2019, holy crap this is such a mammoth of a blackend-deathcore album. big recommend from me. |
| Blind Guardian Legacy of the Dark Lands | 4.5 |
| pretty strong chance this is your local theater kid's album of the year for 2019r |
| Taylor Swift Lover | 4.5 |
| take "you need to calm down" off the album and this moves up to a 5, no seriously, this album is that good. |
| Lizzo Cuz I Love You | 4.5 |
| The best R&B album of 2019 folks. |
| Coldrain The Side Effects | 4.0 |
| The Linkin Park influence that dominates the album works quite well, even the weaker moments on here have their charm. |
| Dream Theater Distance Over Time | 4.0 |
| I mean...it sounds like a dream theater album, more back to basics after a bit of an ambitious record. |
| Starset Divisions | 3.0 |
| In Retrospect, this album I have not come back to as much as the last 2 albums of theirs when i heard them. still good though |
| The Almost Fear Caller | 4.0 |
| Aaron is quite the underrated songwriter and composer. |
| Gary Clark Jr. This Land | 4.0 |
| good songwriting a guitar work, glad to see the blues is alive and well |
| Within Temptation Resist | 4.0 |
| Umm..Why does this sound like a Skillet album? (Not that i am complaining) |
| Narumi The Seed | 4.0 |
| A strong Fantasy setting instrumental EP |
| Crystal Lake Helix | 4.0 |
| More of a nu-metal album with a metalcore atheistic and it works, "just confusing" is like the title says, quite a grower and i really do dig that song now. |
| The Raven Age Conspiracy | 4.0 |
| this honestly kinda slaps ngl.. |
| Otoboke Beaver Itekoma Hits | 4.0 |
| Really does a good job building you up for the first few songs before everything just drops and goes off the rails |
| New Years Day Malevolence | 3.0 |
| Underwhelming first half, fantastic second half. |
| New Years Day Diary of a Creep | 4.0 |
| this is actually..a pretty solid covers album |
| New Years Day Unbreakable | 4.0 |
| while Meh at times, New Years Day really have come into their own finally as a solid alt.-metal group |
| New Years Day Epidemic | 3.0 |
| I would say it served as a pretty solid appetizer for what to expect on their next release. |
| New Years Day Victim to Villain | 3.0 |
| While it very much screams "Hot Topic", it is pretty decent all things considered. It does feel a bit...uninspired to put it lightly at moments though |
| New Years Day My Dear | 3.5 |
| It really is interesting how 00s NYD sounds completely different from Present Day NYD |
| New Years Day The Mechanical Heart | 3.0 |
| The start of their transition to a hot-topic rock band. It was alright but...It can be background noise at points |
| New Years Day New Years Day | 3.0 |
| this is a pop-punk album filled with cheerful nihilism |
| Denzel Curry TA13OO | 4.5 |
| everything about this album is great. even the ingenuous way to end the album the same way it starts. symbolizing the album's theme on the cycle of life. my sole neg is "Mad I got it" is the weakest link here. |
| Denzel Curry Zuu | 4.0 |
| This Florida tribute succeeds in its one goal, being fun. This is insanely catchy too |
| Billie Eilish When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? | 3.5 |
| I mean its a well done debut, I can see Billie putting out material that blows this out of the water later on...but i can also see her moving to try too hard with EDGE.... |
| Skillet Alien Youth (Limited Edition) | 4.0 |
| Skillet Comatose Comes Alive (Deluxe Edition) | 5.0 |
| Live Free or Let Me Die is one of the best Skillet songs ever Written |
| Skillet Victorious | 3.5 |
| even though this was a disappointment, and their is a dud or to here ("This is the kingdom") It is a fine release, though it is pretty obvious that this is now Corey's band now as Jen and John have other projects now to focus their attention on. |
| Skillet Alien Youth | 4.0 |
| Skillet Unleashed | 3.5 |
| Honestly this is some solid stuff here, it is not as good as rise and is more of a revisit of the "Alien Youth" era, which works here. |
| Skillet Unleashed Beyond | 4.0 |
| The bonus tracks (minus the nonsensical "You Get Me High") really do add to make the original album better |
| Skillet Ardent Worship | 4.5 |
| Honestly, this is better then most christian rock band's attempt at a rock album, and way better then I had expected it to be. I would not mind hearing a second Skillet worship album tbh |
| Skillet The Older I Get | 4.0 |
| Skillet Feel Invincible Remix EP | 2.5 |
| Why would I want to hear the same song 5 times? they are all decent remixes though, but we all know this will mainly be used for christian school dances |
| Skillet iTunes Session | 3.5 |
| An live session that is actually quite solid. skillet always puts on a good performance |
| Killswitch Engage Atonement | 3.5 |
| It is a killswitch album, take that as you will. |
| BLACKPINK Kill This Love | 3.5 |
| a fun EP that i still come back to, "Kick It" is the best one here |
| Bring Me the Horizon Music to Listen to... | 1.5 |
| An album made from the scraps of what did not make "amo" so do we just call this "Amo Cut up"? This really i not something that can have several listens, the only 3 songs worth checking out are "A Devastating Liberation", "?" If you wanted to hear the OG version of "In The Dark", and "Underground big" if you like Rap and 10 seconds of metal in your AMSR session |
| Bring Me the Horizon Amo | 4.5 |
| Honestly, this album really gets better on every listen. It is a bit of a grower but after even a feel listens, even the weaker cuts, like "Fresh Bruises" is pretty solid. This album includes electronics fantastically and is not just "band got bit chasing the imagine dragon trend". Welp time to edit this onto my Album of the year for 2019 list |
| Tool 10,000 Days | 4.5 |
| While not as good as its predecessor, 10,000 Still is a strong powerhouse of an outing from a band who one could argue more than half of their albums are 5s |
| Tool Ænima | 4.5 |
| Absolutely fantastic! I mean, it is not as good as the album that would follow, but that album is a masterpiece few records can match or exceed |
| Tool Undertow | 4.0 |
| Tool Lateralus | 5.0 |
| Remember that pitchfork review where Brent complained about the drum set-up being "too complex"? LMAO, btw this is by far the best TOOL album |
| Tool Fear Inoculum | 3.0 |
| decent album, but man did we overhype this on our first listens of it. |
| Badflower OK, I’M SICK | 3.0 |
| Their is some a feel cringe lyrics here, but all in all it is a good debut |
| Mary's Blood Confessions | 3.5 |
| This album is a step up from the previous effort, things feel more ironed out. though there are some moments on here that are a little "Meh" |
| Queensryche The Verdict | 3.5 |
| It wont blow away anyone who already is familiar with the band, but a solid effort nevertheless |
| Rammstein Untitled | 3.0 |
| well another strong album that was a bit disappointing with in 2019 |
| Sum 41 Order In Decline | 3.5 |
| Pop-punk goes Metal, and it works much better then it sounds |
| Cane Hill Kill The Sun | 3.0 |
| Quite a pleasant acoustic album. |
| Wage War Pressure | 3.0 |
| It is a decent but not really note-worthy metalcore album, what else can I say? |
| Saint Asonia Flawed Design | 3.0 |
| Decent post 3DG outing from Adam might be better then the whole 3DG catalog |
| Red (USA) The Evening Hate | 3.0 |
| a teaser of what is to come... |
| Jinjer Micro | 2.5 |
| this teaser feels like incomplete and a bit rushed. |
| Jinjer Macro | 3.0 |
| Something feels a little off, I think it might be the combination of prog. and metalcore slightly clashing here (not saying the 2 genres cannot mash, just saying it feels a bit odd here) |
| One Ok Rock Eye of the Storm | 2.5 |
| I do not think it is as bad as everyone else, it just exists. |
| Death Angel Humanicide | 2.5 |
| Mediocre thrash nominated by the Grammy's so they can pretend to care about genres other then pop |
| Thank You Scientist Terraformer | 2.0 |
| This album is way too bloated and full of itself. and these songs do not need to be as long as they are. seriously, the songs in the second half could have been cut in half. It just trots on because "it's prog. the songs have to be long" well it does not work here, not one bit.Seriously second half of this album is a slogfest |
| Deerhunter Why Hasn't Everything Already Disappeared? | 2.0 |
| YAWN |
| After the Burial Evergreen | 1.5 |
| the first track ("Behold the crown")is great, the rest of the album, however, is s subpar, bland, and rather boring. the first track is the only song I would say to listen to, the rest of this is a no go. |
| Kongos 1929. Part 1 | 1.0 |
| this is boring, and i am going to take this time to say part 2 is so boring I am not even gonna bother adding 'part 2' to give a 1. |
| Puddle of Mudd Volume 4: Songs in the Key of Love and Hate | 1.0 |
| this whole album is a slog to get through, the only enjoyable moment, is the so bad its good "Hooky" if giving 0s were an option, this album would get it from me |
| Puddle of Mudd Famous | 1.0 |
| let be real, was Puddle of Mudd EVER good? of course, the answer is a resounding no |
| Puddle of Mudd Welcome to Galvania | 1.0 |
"UH-OH, They fucked it up again. Oh shit, where do I begin? Uh oh, they fucked it up again. they
did a really bad job" |
| Buckcherry Warpaint | 1.0 |
| the drunk rock scene somehow hit an even lower point |
| AJR Neotheater | 1.0 |
| I would rather walk on legos for 100 days then hear this again |
| Woes (UK) Awful Truth | 1.0 |
| The Awful Truth is the trend you hacks are riding on died a while ago. And The Green Screen in the music videos is equal to the quality of this album |
| Logic Confessions of a Dangerous Mind | 1.5 |
| Logic is a biracial rapper. you may think that info is unnecessary, but that's all logic wants you to know during this albums runtime (and a really roundabout way of coming out of the closet by saying he would suck a D*** to prove he is not homophobic.) also what's even sadder is that, is he used his dad as a feature where he talks about how biracial his D*** is. |
| Chris Brown Indigo | 1.0 |
| Screw you Chris brown for making me sit through 3 hours of R&B Stock music. Now how about you get hit by that bus you wanted CHRVCHES to get ran over by? |
| Slipknot All Hope Is Gone | 4.5 |
| In retrospect, this album is a bit underrated, it is more straightforward heavy metal, and it works quite well here. RIP Paul |
| Cyntia Limit Break | 4.5 |
| Red (USA) End of Silence | 2.5 |
| this album has aged Horribly. The vocals also sound way too nasally for my taste here. |
| Icon For Hire Icon for Hire | 4.0 |
| Competently different from the debut, but this does kick so much ass, the alternative elements work well and is a band not being eating by "the imagine dragon" in the posses. The filler here "I think I'm sick" and "Counting on hearts" is solid too. While It is no longer a 5 for me, It is still an underrated album that I was glad to revist. |
| Love and Death Between Here And Lost | 4.5 |
| A Nu-Metal classic and Head makes a better album then KoRns whole catalog without him. This is also a massive improvement over "Save Me From Myself" too, the wait for the new album has been killing me |
| Dazzle Vision To the Next | 4.5 |
| their first outing in Metalcore is extraordinary, and we get some left field turns like the orgasmic (yes their is a climax in the song) jazz number "Miss Cinderella" and the closing track is brilliant, it starts out hard like a metalcore track but then mellows out into this really beautiful melody for the rest of the song. |
| Dazzle Vision Camellia Japonica | 5.0 |
| Honestly this is one of the most vibrant and bittersweet Nu-metal albums I have heard. this is one of those albums that always always gets me personally deeply emotional when ever I hear it. The performance from everyone on this album is just outstanding, it is hard to say a Nu-Metal album has ever wrecked me emotionally quite as this |
| Dazzle Vision Crystal Children | 4.5 |
| This is the band's softest album as they go for a more mainstream rock sound right from "HERE" (fantastic opener btw) , and it works fantastically. the Bass on this album is so thicc too. "crystal" and "Hana" that close the album are both beautiful, and like the rest of the album contain emotional weight even on the heaviest song on he album, "Orb" |
| Dazzle Vision Kirari | 5.0 |
| I may have to do a proper review of this album sometime in the future. but this album is not only perfect (IMHO) but if i can be frank, it is one of the top 3 best albums I have ever heard, if not then THE best. Yes, it is that good. this album feels mellow and melancholic but at the same time has an snaring aggression that will bite at any moment. the bass on this album sounds so crisp and thicc here too. |
| Dazzle Vision Final Attack | 5.0 |
| This album still kicks ass and is the perfect swan song for the band, DAZZLE VISION wanted to put out an album with no slow moments and it works (slowest song is an up tempo j-pop number near the end) I know that this might be my most controversial 5, but i do not see myself going lower to even a 4.5 on this. They really took a big number of risks for their final album and it payed off (as with recording this, the band knew this would be their final album, hence the title) also electronics and dupstep hold up rather well. I think this is a great contrast/companion piece to Kirari |
| BABYMETAL BABYMETAL | 4.5 |
| the most wholesome and endearing babymetal album, and it surprisingly holds up quite well. |
| Skillet Rise | 5.0 |
| I know this may be a hot take but... I think this is the best Skillet album |
| Flyleaf Memento Mori | 5.0 |
| second album I ever owned, and honestly I think i like it even more on revisiting it. it is matured effort and sees a more melodic approach. this album is one that sounds like the band's own identity and contains no week moments during its run-time. also am I the only sheltered christian kid who got nightmares from the album booklet and the "Melting" interlude? |
| Family Force 5 III | 1.0 |
| TURN UP AND CRUNK FOR CHRIST YALL (seriously these songs are so vaguely horny its very uncomfterble) |
| P.O.D. Snuff the Punk | 1.0 |
| this anti-abortion ad is brought to you by funk metal with worse production then St. anger (seriously this album gives me a massive headache) |
| P.O.D. When Angels and Serpents Dance | 1.0 |
| This was the first album that i ever hated, to the point where not a single song i would play again after my first listen. Seeing how I was a sheltered christian kid, that is saying alot |
| The Devil Wears Prada Zombie | 5.0 |
This kicks all kinds of ass, one of the best metalcore releases not just of the last decade, but
ever. I would say this is an essential must-hear EP. This was the start of the brilliant but bleak
songwriting of the band. also
"I WILL *CHUG CHUG* NEVER *CHUG CHUG CHUG* SEE THROUGH *CHUG CHUG* THIS NIGHTMARE" goosebumps
every time |
| Underoath Lost in the Sound of Separation | 4.5 |
| Underoath gives one hell of an ambitious album that is as heavy as it is ambient. this album is home to some of the most catchy songs in Underoath's catalog. in an album that deals with the drug addiction spencer battled (remember when Christian sites said it was a concept album about the end of the world?) in an album that gets bleaker the more that time passes on it. might be one of the best albums that are solely about drug addictionrRecommended tracks: "Breathing in a New Mentality", "Anyone Can Dig a Hole but It Takes a Real Man to Call It Home", "The Only Survivor Was Miraculously Unharmed", "The Created Void", "Coming Down is Calming Down", "Desperate Times, Desperate Measures", "Too Bright to See, Too Loud to Hear" |
| Skillet Awake and Remixed EP | 4.0 |
| Honestly, the remixes here are pretty good, "Awake And Alive (The Quickening)" is my personal highlight here |
| Skillet Comatose Comes Alive | 5.0 |
| a pretty damn phenomenal live album, also great setlist. this live version of "best kept secret" is better then the album version from "invincible" too |
| Skillet Awake (Deluxe Edition) | 4.0 |
| "Dead Inside" and "would it matter" are both fantastic and improve the original album |
| Skillet Hey You, I Love Your Soul | 3.5 |
| I hated this as a kid, but now many years later I gotta say, this is actually quite nice, It is completely different from anything skillet have ever done and it is the band's softest album though (and their most underrated) |
| Skillet Collide | 4.5 |
| This is such an underrated gem in Nu-Metal alot of folks sleep on. If not for the st. anger mixing with the drums on the last song, this would of been a 5. This is a nu metal album that is that good, Honestly might be in the top 10 for the whole genre. |
| Skillet Invincible | 2.5 |
| the album really has not aged the best and only has 2 tracks worth mentioning, "Best kept Secret" and "Angels fall Down" |
| Skillet Skillet | 3.0 |
| Pretty good debut, even though they were riding the Grunge trend, this album is still pretty solid today. |
| Skillet Comatose | 5.0 |
| the first album I ever owned, and all these years later it holds up fantastically. Defiantly one of the best Christian albums of all time. |
| Skillet Awake | 3.5 |
Honestly, looking back at this all these years later. I can defiantly see the appeal of this.
However I did make an improved version of the album (re arranging the track list and taking songs
out, that sorta thing. here is the track list for the redux if you wanna try it
1. Hero 2. Monster alt. radio version (awake deluxe ed.) 3.Would It Matter (awake deluxe ed.) 4.
Awake and Alive the quickening remix (Awake and Remixed) 5. Awake and Alive 6. Dead Inside 7. It's
Not Me It's You 8. Believe 9. Live Free Or Let Me Die (Comatose Comes Alive Bonus Track) 10.
Sometimes 11. Never Surrender 12. Lucy (if this version of the album was the official i would of
given this a 4 or higher) |
